Evening Star Newspaper, March 3, 1927, Page 36

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 0., THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1977. SPORTS. - All Nationals Excepting Neis and Carroll Now Are Signed for 1927 Campaign MARBERRY LAST REGULAR _ PIRATES HAVE A GREAT TO ACCEPT CLUB’S TERMS! = BACKSTOP IN PROSPECT" Unsigned Players Not Apt to Be With Harrismen at| SPORTS. TOCKY TARHEEL HURLER FIGURED TO BECOME GRIFF REGULAR THIS YEAR 185-Pound Arkansas Yumh Has Wonderful Pair of ason Qutset—Tris Likely to Raise Morale of Tes THOMPSON, Ry DENMAN of s who reached wita the who, 1 secr v lnd E o team score athletes on t or now ave legaily bound fur et Speaker Worth Much to (Iuh Just how much the presence of Tris Speaker in the iine-up will mean to the Nationals in the dete: hid they are go make 3 their thir ably is not 1ans who zre tion bey probably have s general concept.on of h cent worth as a gate at know that a player who of the brightest siars the game ever produced over a stveich of nearly a tully S Lthe seasort Muddy over his acquisi- | | score of years cannoi fail to prove a | magnet at the turnstiles. Jjust that and nothing more. Furthermore, they re aware of the fact that ‘the reams of publicity he received throughout the long and, for him, period, when his integ- rity was called into question. followed | by a complete and convin vindica. tion. has enhanced his box ofiice value many times over Familiarity with his record on the fleld convinees them that in the former luminary of the Boston Red Sox and erstwhile pilot_of the Cleveland In- dians the Griffmen have acquired a performer who, for all-round capability | has had few equals and fewer supe- | riors in the entire history of the sport. They recosnize that with Cobb alone excepted there probably never has heen an outflelder who combined to such a superlative degree all the es- sentials of greatness and that in at Jeast two departments, ground cover- ing and throwing. he exceeded even the celebrated Georgian. Great Batting Record. As an attacking force, Speaker has & lifetime record of .347, covering parts of the seasons of 1907-8 at Bos- ton and all of the campaigns from 1909 through 1915 with the Red Sox and 1916 to 1926, inclusive, with the Indiays, to attest to his prowess. His collection of bingles includes a gener- ous allotment for extra bases, espe clally two-baggers, in the manufac- ture of which he he.d the recédrd for any one season with the 59 he evolved in 1923, until George Burns contrived to amass anz year. On defense Tris has established a reputation second to mnone, with the ability to play in oloser and go back farther for a fly ball than any gar- dener in the annals of the pastime. At throwing, too, it is doubtful if he ever had a peer, not only in the speed and accuracy of his heaves, but in the judgment he displayed in picking the bases for his targets. How close he has approached to the end of his string. a question that has eaused considerable speculation in the Capital, can best be answered by cit- fog the fact that he participated in all but a quartet of the 154 games scheduled for the Indians last season, when he was at bat 540 times, a total | which in that respect he has exceeded in but 7 of the 1% full campaigns he hias spent as a performer in the big show. There 18 110 testimony of weak legs or falling stamina to be found there. Is Shrewd Fielder, Granting on the evidence of his rec- ord that Speaker should bat heftier, fleld better and throw stronger than any one elge available to team up with Goslin and Rice in the garden, this still is not the sum total of strength he is calculated to add to the Na- tionals. There are the finer points of pluy to be considered. These may be overlooked by average “run of the mine"” fans, but not so with Stanley Harris, who has to shoulder respons| bility for the results attained by the | team. 3 Says Bucky: “Speaker is going to mean a lot to us out there in the pas- ture. T find that I've got all I can do and more attending to defensive meas- ures in the vicinity of the base lines. and, not having how things are going in the outfield. Many a good bet had been overlooked. “With Spoke holding forth in be. tween Goose and Sam we will be as- sured that they will be placed to best possible advantage at all times, for there is no one in the ecircuit who knows the rival players and their bat- ting characteristics better than Tris. With him calling the shots on chances where some doubt exists as to which should make the catch, wi have fewer mixups, and a: have the entire picture before him he can tip the others off as to where throws showld be made. “Many a ball game is lost through a bit of indecision or guesswork in the outfield and with Spoke on the job to coach his fellow fielders while they are in action, our defense will be tightened up more than a our outfiel functioning them to th vear, lots of wha ordinaril would prove sloppy hits will be converted into pulouul and | in the course of a campaign that will make considerable ll(flmorue in the won and lost column.’ Helps Club Morale, All of which sound reasonable enough, but vet does not tell the en tire story of Speaker's value, for the tonic reaction of his teammates to his mere presence and the reverse effect 1t will have on the opposition also is an ftem of primary importance. Having Tris plaving with instead of against them will add greatly to the | confidence of the entire sguad—the pitching staff included—and it may ho ventured that the morale-strengthen. | ing prescription he embodies tran- scends as a single factor all other con- siderations >f his acquisition. Spoke didn't get a much work in his first in the uniform of the ) appearance tionals, due cloudy and high wind t day. Tt was the worst weather the Griffmen have experienced in all the eight vears they have been using Tampa as a conditloning base and 'hll. despite the fact, rain, As a result no bat RADIATORS FENDERS L 1533 14th 8¢ sw, A s in the back of | my head, T can’t always know exactly | Joe Pate, the only holdout of the Ath- g practice was if he were | SEWELLS NOT | | i a situation has arisen in the | Myers, Fla., but he had not yet signed past where second sight disclosed that | his contract. | chance to do; there was no | By the Associated Press. LEVELAND, March 3. e dent E, S. Barnard of the Cleveland Indians has received Jack McCallister. | day, completing the Indlan roster, ex- .| cepting Smith. { ficient wor] am as Well as Add te Punch. held, the pl o hustling about huddled up in sweat- ers and windbreakers trying to kepe warm. Like the others, Tris tossed a bit as an armcloosener, wielded the bat for a spell in bunting practice flelded a few and then joined the other regulaps in @ rough and rapid-ive ses | sion of volley bail X-Ray Heals Pitche Crowder and Jones both reporte infection on their feet a improved over the day before, du te the Xoray treatment they suh mitted to, and with Lisenbee contrived to et in enough toil to maintain their | pitching edge for the onener of the | Spiing exhibition sevies here Saturday | when they are listed to face the Bos ton Braves. : Although likewise handicapped by | the elements in his initial workout of | Ruel succeeded in | limbering up weil and asserted he would not need a long perlod of toil to get in shape. The disciple of clstone has no weight to lose and erts he has been in the best of health. He frequented a gym in St. Louis throughout the Winter, playing hand ball and basket ball, and for ast couple of weeks has been ! | wa s with the \Washington | | University lamond hopefuls, warm- | ing up the pitching candidates, so| hat he {s not starting from seratch | with his_training. | the skin vers confining themselves GEORGE MURR This purchase from Mobile last sea- son is showing promising ferm in training at Tampa. HOLDOUTS; | WILL JOIN TRIBE QUNDAY“ Smith Now Only Cleveland Player Who Is Ralking. | Moriarty Not to Hurry Tigers——Yankee Camp Elated Over Ruth Signmg March 3.—Presi. word- that neither Joe nor Luke Sewell are holdouts, and that the two men will arrive in the Lakeland, Fla., training camp Sunday, when they will report to Mlfll‘” All the ngulara now have reported but “Sherry” Smith, whose ho!flflut was unexpected. Outflelder Woeber arrived yester- Manager McCallister has a new wrinkle in working out his pitching staff, sending them In at 10-minute intervals, DETROIT, March 3 (P).—While put- ting his charges at San Antonio through limbering-up exercises de- signed to take the kinks from Winter- bound muscles, George Morlarty, Tiger pilot, has announced he doesn’t want his men to get into condition too quickly. Rushing ahead in the training sea- | son, he believes, makes it harder to hold condition in the heat of the Sum- mer's campaign. Present plans, however, call for suf- to get the hurlers in faic condition by the time the remainder of the outfielders and inflelders reach camp next Monday. Fotherglll and Manush present the biggest problems in getting rid of Win. ter poundage. , . NEW \ORK. March 3 (®).—Glee over the signing of Babe Ruth, sock- ing outfield king of the New York Yankees, echoed through the training | camp at S8t. Petersburg, Fla., today. Babe arrives there Monm “I'm glad it's all settled,’ * sald Man- ager Huggins, “If any one deserves big money, it's the Babe.” The signing of Ruth was quite a blow to Elias Funk, young outflelder from Oklahoma City. “I'd have playved in the Babe's place for less money,” he sald. ‘The Glants collected much dust on their trousers in sliding drill at Sara- ota. Then the boys buried Heinie Muller in a sand pit just for exercise in the cold. At Clearwater Harvey Hendricks, former Yankee outfielder, arrived at the Brooklyn camp and nearly broke up a scrub game with two singles and a double. PHILADELPHIA, March 3 (®).— letics’ squad, has arrived at Fort Several fielders have joined the Phillles’ _battervmen at ~Bradenton and the full squad is expected by the last of the week. Pitchers have shown progress In conditioning. PITTSBURGH, ch 3 (P).—With the entire club roster ready for dia- mond duty at the Paso Robles, Calif., training camp of the Pittsburgh Pi- rates, Manager Donle Bush today ordered the first general workout for moundsmen, infielders and outflelders. Reports last night announced the arrival of 13 players headed by Coach Bill Hinchn among them being many regulars. A dozen or more pitchers, who have been limbering up for a week, were ready today to offer their wares to the bats of the newcomers. The hitting drill was to be comparatively light, it was indicated, until “batting eyes' become adjusted. Two workouts for twirlers and a | session in base sliding kept the squad busy vesterday. CHICAGO. March 3 (®).—Joe Mc- Carthy had his usual methodical pro- gram doped out at Catalina Island today, but the Cubs manager had to make allowances for a string of cas- ualties cropping up among the rookies and veterans. Clyde Beck and Frank Wilkie suf- fered when grounders took bad hops, a bouncing foul gashed the forehead of Earl Gilpin, Three-Eye catcher, and | Gubhy Hartnett was feeling his way | — S e ie N WY * Tont x| SALFS & SERVICE HANDLEY 3730 Georgia Ave. /| velous. around as a result of an unusual sight Impairment. Hartnett had been prac- ticing without a cap and suddenly discovered his cheeks so swollen by A nhurn that he was limited to idlel ball-tossing. | Down at Shreveport, the big figure in the White Sox camp was the official ] rubber, who found plenty of work | after the Sun at last broke through the coulds yesterday and permitted Ray fehalk to hustle his squad through their first real workout. The pitchers were out in force' and Joe Brown caught the managerial eye with his filnging to the long batting order. BOSTON, March 38 (P).—Lance Richbourg, an outflelder with Mil wauvkee last vear, who has been coaching the University of Florida nine, has reported to the Braves at St. Petersburg, Fla. Pitcher Bab Smith is another arrival and the team roster is about complete. In Nev: Orleans. Manager Bill Car- rigan is greeting the advance guard of the Red Sox. CINCINNATIL, Ohlo, March 3 #) ~—Managerial enthuslasm is strong in the Orlando, Fla., camp of the Cin- cinnati Reds and Jack Hendricks, who is helmsman of the team, already has sicked it for a championship contender, Kloquent atter watching his athletes go through a snappy round of prac- tice yesterday, Hendricks, had this to say: ""Ths morale of this outfit s mar- This is the most willing and ambitious set of ball players I have | handled tn all my experiences. The club looks stronger to me than that| of last year, and I am very confident y. | that it will be a prominent contender in tha champlonship race from the start B TWO NINES TO HOLD MEETINGS TONIGHT Two base ball meetings are to be held tonight by independent clubs, with others scheduled during the re- mainder of the week. Candidates for the dhmond combi- nation of Isherwood A. C. will gather tonight at _the Rosodnlo gym at 7:30 o'clock, Base ball practice will be held Sunday at 10:30 at the Rosedale playground. Players of the Boys' Club Standards are to meet tonight at the club at 7:30 o'clock. Corinthian Midgets will gather to- morrow night at Immaculate Concep- tion Hall, Elxhlh and N streets, to talk base Candidates for the Moose A, C. nine will meet Tuesday night at the home of Manager Nalley, 1254 Elev- enth street southeast, at 8 o’clock. Manhattan Juniors met last night and elected the following officers: Bill Rice, president; Rudy Jarman, secre- tary-treasurer, and Marvin Brown, manager. Manhattans are looking for games In their class. Manager Di Bella of the Jolly Ant. lers A. C. is looking for base ball candidates for his team. He may be reached at 21 H street. Rex Peéwees are loulllnx for base ball games. Call Manager Himmel. farb at Adams 4026. Charles H. Mayo, jr., 14 ear-old son of the noted pro, thinks his game of xoll is poor if he hits in the low _!_________ SPECIALIZED SERVICE On Starting, Lighfing, Ignition Carburetor, 'Speedometer Auto Parts CREEL BROS. 1811-17 14th St. NW. Potomac 473 Kl AT N7 MOTOR (0. 133357 14t8 5t Mein 5780 Photos By CaaLTTuonER RUTH’S $70,000 SALARY JUST PART OF EARNINGS By the Associated Press. EW YORK, March 3.—In earn- ings as an athlete Babe Ruth now apparently is second only to Gene Tunney. Tunney's earnings are estimated at $1,- 000,000 a year. Babe is to get $70, salary from the Yankees. He says he received $75,000 for the movie he made in Hollywood recently and he plans several more in the future. Syn- | 000. dicate base ball yarns during the com- ing season will add to’ his purse. Ex- hibition games and vaudeville jumped Ruth’'s earnings during 1926 to ap- proximately $225,000, inclusive of his $52,000 salary with the Yankees. Recent annual incomes of other athletes are estimated as follows: Farle Sande, jockey, $100,000; Wal- ter Hagen, golf professional, $76,000; Gertrude Ederle, first woman to swim the English Channel, $76,000; Reggle Mc\nmlu. six-day bike racer, $75,000; nr rofessional foot ball sur u«o uzanme Lenglen, pro- fessional tennis player, $50,000; Jack FOUR EVENTS LISTED FOR THE TRAPSHOTS e Four events are carded for the scatter gun ex of the Washington Gun Club in its regular weekly shoot on Saturday afternoon. ‘The first half of the program will be made up of two 16-yard contests of 25 birds, for which the high guns, one scratch and the other high gun, under the added bird system, will receive club trophies of a new design, The second part of the program is optional with the shooter. It is two events of 25 birds, the high gun win- ning legs on the trophy offered for a three-month period. This -is the tourney in which a win handicaps the zhtl)tl)ler a yard each time he tops the eld. R Dr. A. B. Stine is leading at this stage, having won two legs on the trophy on Washington's birthday. Walter Kwok. an Australian-born Chinese, is captain of the boxing team t Massachusetts Tech 0 lary of $75,000 for a i PINELLI GETS IN LINE. NAPA, Calif, March 3 (#).—Ralph| (Babe) Pinelll, infielder for the Cin- f “A vinnatl Reds, has announced he had| Bush, the Pirate boss, i\ndl Le is put up for that job.”" patched up Covo.rulls | Crowder, Alvin | Hadley, Irving D. Johnson, Walter P. ’Juna-, Decatur . | Lisenbee, Horace | Loftus, Frank . Mangum, Leo A. Thurston, H Hobbs of Clrut Briulu, world cricket champlon, (] o Base ball m n dl-eo\lm the financial | rivalry of Tris Speaker and Ty Cobb | R Tat g in Babe's own aphere. y point out "lh that the Georgia Peach lreporud wn{'::' gle year the Philadelphia Athlatics has never m'ho"'fld L. been confirmed and probably is ex- aggerated to the extent of some §15,- $60,000_from the Washington Sena- tors. Rogers Hornsby will recelve|yy .. $40,000 l!‘:m;:‘ tt;'e Siants, (;:r‘:lamu E sioners ndis, head ol 56 l, re- 3 o b wil ‘reccive. $4G4.55 1 h suwm. il will receive .55 for eac of Ure 134 scheduled games in the Cullop, Henry N. eoming season. e bats an average of foup times & game he can count| g Leon A. $113.64 added to the bankroll after each trip, Ruth plans to head for the South next Saturday with the main body of the Yankees. His plans hinge on the early recovery of Mrs. Ruth, who has the grip. WORLD SWIMMING MARKS ARE BROKEN By the Associated Press. NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 38— George Fishler of the New York Ath- letlo Club lowered the world record for the 100-yard back stroke in a swimming meet in Carnegie pool here. Swimming against J. A. House, Yale star, Fishler co?ered the distance in 1 minute 42 seconds. The former rec- ord of 1:433-5 was held jointly by House and Wnltar Laufer of the Cin- cinnati Y. M. In the 400-m0!er back stroke, E. G. Cahill, Yale freshman, -wtmmlns against R. G. Greer, Yale '28, shat- tered the world record, held by G. Blitz of Belgium, Cahill's time being 6:65. Blitz's record was 5:59 1-5., The distance was covered by S, Mfla of the Illinois A, C. sometime ago in 6:56 4-5, but this record has not yet been accepted by the record commit- tee of the Amateur Athletic Unio: , Charles S. For the First Time on E-Z Payments MillerTires GEARED-TO-THE-ROAD They wear slow and even. Why take chances on tires of doubtful quahty? i< Our Terms Allow You Over Three Months to Pay Miller Factory Dealer MillerTires GEARED-TO-THE-ROAD H. C. RICHTER, INC. 1405-9 V Street N.W. salary would leave at once for the Florida . Stanl y Thomas, Clapenc i ax .flrl!lnm R Van Alstyne, cn.mn' Catche 'aer.lohn =RR RE B is, Stanley R. ST Rl et B 2 JF™ IpRRIN TREX X AN RUAEI= SAFETY <@=RAZOR Hands—Bartell, infielder, Is Second Edition of McGraw, When Latter Started. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. ROBLES, Calif.. March 3 aude (. Ldnton, of Emerson, Ark.. a free ag is here with the Pittsburih base ball team He is a cateher by nationality, and he possesses probably the most artistic pair of catcher's hands ever born into the world and developed un- | consciously by nature and their owner. They are large, capaclous hands, | like the side pockets of one of those | old-fashloned Buffalo overcoats. The | lall can’t get way from such extrem-| ities. There is not a knock on them. | They are shapely and proportioned, | and would win every|blue ribbon in | the annual exhibit of hands adapted to the purpose of base ball | Ts Middleweight Boxer. Linton is the amateur middleweight | boxing champion of (he Rocky Moun- | tains. The abnormal muscles in his body are ribs of steel that look like frame work on a battleship. Other physical attributes are associated with forearms that would make the village | blacksmith walk right out of the poem in despair. little said Donie hut, boy, how awkward,’ And so he is. If he has the fire | of genius in him there will come a | | Played with in 1926. Yankees ... i Liftle Rock (Sou. As.). Little Rock (Sou. As.). C tanooga (Sou. As.). = 9 | 3! 9 50 | 560 | 810 | 636 667 000 ¥ rmlnxlum (Sou. As.). 28 Griffmen Birmingham (Sou. / Griffmen . Griffmen Chattanooga (Sou. As.). Griffmen . Memphis (Sou. Assn New Haven (l'.uter = e EE L UL T Y et P o PPt P Chattanooga (Sou. Griffmen Mobile (Southern sriffmen Bi (lrll As) Nnnln |lllll (Sou. As) l.oh-ter {lms) I | WETSueTan L, . Alim ummm New Haven (Eastern). Friffm 1l L time when he will be standing behind the bat for some base hall team catching them with one hand, for it {8 inconceivable that the ball can et out of either of those paws. Al the star catchers that can be named, from Johnnie Kling, or Roger Bresna. han up and down, never owned such mitts as has this Arkansas youth Of G feet of sinew and 185 pounds of avoirdupois and an excellent appe- tite. If he were Buck Ewing with that pair of hands he would be catch ing when he was 50 years old. A Reminder of MeGraw. Turn the pages back and look at a sketch of some years ago wher {a diminutive figure started to play third base for Baltimore at Colum | bus, Ohlo. “When did this fellow drop in” asked the derisive fans The fellow was John J. MeGraw essaying to be an infielder. There Is a duplicate of him here at Pas Robles. ~ Tts that little Bartell of Almeda, Calif, about whom se much has been written. He is a few ounces heavier than MeGraw, when the lat ter started. but that is not against him. He is a better thrower than McGraw was. He probably is met 80 good a batter, but he will hit simply because he will say to him- self that he can hit—and there is another reason why he is like Me- Graw. That and his pepper. He is 5 feet 9 and weighs 145 pounds. If McGraw had Bartell, he would | light up with admiration and bubb.s over with enthysiasm. If the young man progresses physically, there will be a day when he will be asking the ers of the Giants if they haven't ing better to show him than a curve down with heof disease andf bowed tendens. Aldridge Ts Ready. Vic Aldridge pitched a drop and broke the ball six inches in practice Wednesday. 1f Aldridge ever did that before at this time of year, he did it in the secret of his own wood- shed. Tt is a tradition of base ball that veteran pitchers do not come around very rapidly in the Spring. Except for two, Donle Bush has a staff that could play major league ball tomorrow afternoon if there were any occasion for it. Joe Bush is brulsed and not quite fit, and Kremer has had a time of it 600 | because he caught a feverish cold on the way down here. Aldrfll'. Joe Bush, Kremer, C Speece, Songer, John unrrnnn ()rmn Hill, Meadows, Yde and Mahaffey are likely to inhale the Pittsburgh smoke and ®as in April. If they can pitch es well, then, as they can now, and some !‘ better, the Pirates will not be easy marks for the other Western teams a8 they have been so often in the past. e st dre, B S by v HAGEN BEATS CRUICKSHANK. ORLANDO, Fla., March 3 (@.- Walter Hagen, dean of professiona! golfers, defeated Bobby Cruickshank. 1 up, in their 18-hole exhibition match over the Sanlando Golf and Countr: Club course near here. A IHNAEE . -ssumu:u_ ENGLISH OF OUBS RELENT. CHICAGO, Matgch 3 M).-—~Elwood English, star ann top, purchased by the Chi reported deserted ranks of the holdouts. English advised President Willlam Veeck of the Cubs that he would report today, sign and leave immediately to join dm club a Catalina Island. 1 must remember to get some Gillette BLADES with the finest edge that steel can take OLD BY ALL DEALERS THE WORLD OVER