Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1927, Page 39

- BOTH LOOMING AS LIKELY “ FIRST-DIVISION OCCUPANTS Each Deemed to Possess Class to Remain Pennant Contenders Till Late in Campaign—Question of Endurance May Decide Their Fate. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. N ROUTE EAST FROM SOUTH- ERN CALIFORNIA, March 10. —The two National League teams training in California resemble each other in many particulars. Both finished in the first division in 1926, when Pittsburgh did not do as well as was expected and Chicago achieved the unexpected. Both are likely to finish in the first division in 1927 and the problem is the same for each—to attain a higher mark this year. Tt would not be unusually surprising to find these two teams contenders late in the season. Then comes the test as to which has the most en- durance. As both are made up of young players and as Pittsburgh in- dicates being a better fighting team than it was in 1926, speculation as to their probable success this season can be unlimited. Both Have Good Pitchers. Both teams are more apt to have . 8ood pitching than some of the other ‘National League outfits. Chicago is blessed with an abundance of young material which was good last Summer and which will be better this Summer unless the ers are victims to Pi'‘sburgh pltchers are in much better condition than they were last Spring, and they realize they will have to go some for Pittsburgh this year. Last season some Pittsburgh pitch- ers fafled to meet expectations. Ex- cuses will not avall them anything this year. Not only does the owner of the Pittsburgh club expect more than he received in 1926, but the manager will be likely to ask it when the task of melting down to Spring condition is followed by that of winning balt games. Two or three of the Pitts- burgh hurlers will have to make the grade this year, or be demoted. Both teams have good catchers. Earl Smith, with his picturesque Arkansas persifiage, is much more of a live wire on the Pirates than some accredit him with being. No mule driver could surpass his fluency of language, but it has a good-natured ring to it. Cubs Strongest at First. = base, Chicago is a bit strong- er than Pittsburgh on the face of things. At second, Chicago is better unless & very unusual young man de- velops for Pittsburgh, which is not out of the question. At short stop and third Pittsburgh is better off collective- ly than any other team in the National League. In the outfield if Hack Wilson is as good he was last year, the Chi- will go on its way with fife playing. The Cubs as _good a youngster in Webb as the Pirates have in their young outfielders. The Pirates have better hitters as a whole and they have one player to help them who was the most promis- ing voungster of 1926. And he is so taken up with base ball that he will be likely to develop into one of the great personalities of the game. Paul Waner is the best young man out of the Pacific Coast this long time, Cubs Possess Team Work. The team work taught by Joe Me- Carthy is as good as is taught in any league. The more that one sees of McCarthy, the more one learns of this manager’s real knowledge of the game. He gives his players a reason for everything he wishes them to do and his theory of what con- stitutes real base ball rates him as one who will never lack success. Both the Cubs and Pirates are strong enough to be in the first divi- sion all season. When that is said, 50 per cent of the argument is stated, At four of the clubs in the first division, there may not be a difference of more than five games at the end of the race. It is the club that gets the benefit of the five games that will be up in the first place, when the season ends. (Copyright, 1927.) With the Bowlers RONSON QUAITES, president of the Washington Ladies’ Duckpin Assoclation, an- nounces. that there will be & meeting of the organization on March 20 at 11 a.m., in the Board of ‘Trade room (room 504) of The Evening Star Building, to make arrangements for the association’s annual tourna- ment. President Quaites urges that all women interested in the game attend, u the association needs their and co-operation in putting the tourumont across. L. Ebersole, secretary of the n cuy Duckpin Mlochuon. “that tlro” reconl m 3 rhen 15 teams entered the tion’s annual betered by more than a score of ‘combinations in this yur‘-mn!thumhrflun ghe e, i ghn S 5 om0 m ”b Merchants, Bankers, Dis- m. um. odfl Fellows and other loops. ln the final two of the Pollack are expected a few days duln( of the lists at mid- '%u Yecelving- entries at 1408 of Baltimore squeezed over tho Hub Furniture Co. ecity by a lone pin on the turned in by Kindsfather of the Hub leu: was th; 1!,’#" ‘:‘r't the brush, and his game of 127 also was the ‘highest. Scheel’s set of 602 Was the best rolled by the visitors. Mwfln team, one of the best combinations in the Baitimore area, will engage the King Pins on the th street drives Saturday in the last 5-game block of their 10-game merles. The Monumental City rollers will come here with a lead of 53 pins mngm as the result of a strong of a great amount of en- ergy and I am sure it is not out of place to sug- gest the advisability of a rest be- UCKPINS {s & game re- ‘ D quiring the expenditure tween frames. Naturally, the bowl- er who i8 in a tight match not only is expending all of his phys- ical power toward getting the high* est score of which he is capable, but his nervous energy as well. Try to learn to relax after each delivery, make your motions more deliberate and by all means take your ‘time before delivering each ball. It may not be noticeable at first, but if the ball is left on the return rack until the pins are set up by the pinboy and you are ac- t ready to shoot, your arm will mnot have that weary feeling after three or four 5 Duckpins Is the only game I %now of that has no defense. ‘Therefore conserve your strength when bowling and the crucial game will find you fit and ready. In con- mection with this conservation of energy, let me bring to your at- tention one great fault which is apt to creep into your game. Bach ball you roll has an equal bearing on the résult, so do not fall into the habit of slacking in one deliv- ery and pressing in another. Try to roll each ball in cxactly the same manner, using the same nnd the same speed. You find that in the long run a 120 and then one of 80 are penrly e good as two srmes of finish in the first block that was bowled in Baltimore on February 26. Death of the mother of J. W. Wood, manager of the King Pin, resulted in the final engagement being nxvaneed to Saturday night from March 5, the date originally set for its rolling. With Ross Clark bowling a 317 set, Revises compiled a team count of 1,497 to gain first honors in opening play of the Washington Post Preferred Le‘gue Makeovers, with a total of 1,470 for three games, were next, Haw- kins set of 315 ud!n‘ their cause. There was some right nifty bowling flashed in Southern Rallway League games, With Zobel leveling the pins for a set. of 362, Auditors took the first two games of their set with Con- struction, but lost the third by 5 an matches P In other three-game triumph over it A.c eounu. Disbursing took over the bumps in a trio of enmemonu. Passenger Accounts twice bowed to Operation, and suflon bagged two of three from Law. A game of 149 by Bcrivener of Law was the best indi- yidual effort. PRINCETON IS JOLTED BY COLUMBIA QUINTET NEW YORK, March 10 (#).~Co- lumbia, defeated Princeton, 36 to 23; last night in the home team's final ARMY TENNIS EVENT T0 BE STAGED HERE Army racketers will compete iif the annual championship ' tennis tourna- ment in Washington this year, agcord- ing to an announcement made by Maj. Gen. R. Allen, chalrman of the Army Tennis committee. Pllywulluheulumltoll.ln clusive, Both and doubles titles will be deurmiud Capt. R. C. Van Vliet, holder of the Bheridan trophy as singles champion of 1926, is expected to defend his laurels. Following play in the Army tourney, a team will be selected to compete with the Navy for the Leech cup. This match is scheduled for June 18, Performance in the Army title event will determine eligibility for the Leech cup team, according to Gen. Allen. Try-outs will be held immediately after the tournament is completed. JONES GETS FRAT MEDAL. Ga. March 19 w)— bfi' Jfllu for his the anni fraternity here last n TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN'S, 7th & F v oewvanaas Q8 SALES & SERVICE HANDLEY Smcmlu Ave. HAWKINS NASH MOTOR CO. C-mmuamly loed-d on Fourteenth 1333-31 14th Ste Inh.. Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND—Johnny Farr, Cleve- land, defeated Babe Herman, Cali- fornia (12). Frankie Genaro, New York, beat Tommy Hughes, Cleveland 8. TOLEDO—Joe Rychell, won over Luis Carpentero, (10). SAN FRANCISCO—BIily Adams, New Orleenfl won on a foul from Johnny Preston, New York (6). FIGHTS TONIGHT. CHICAGO—Pete Latzo Simonich (10). VARIETY OF SPORTS AT NAVY SATURDAY ANNAPOLIS, March 10.—The last Chicago, Toledo Joe vs. of the large and varied programs of | § sports which have been weekly fea- tures during the winter will be pre- sented at the Naval Academy on Satur- day. ThPre will be varsity contests in wrestling, swimming, water polo and gymnastics at Annapolis, with several plebe events, but the chief interest centers in the boxing with Yale, which will be at New Haven. On the showing up to this time, the Naval Academy boxers should win from Yale, but the latter is expected to make a special effort and a Navy victory is not being taken for granted. Yale's insistence. upon eliminating the heavyweight bout has turned out to be something of a joke on the Elis, as the Navy is weaker at this weight than any other this season. The match with the Dartmouth gymnasts is expected to practically decide the collegiate supremacy in that branch. Both teams have clean rec- ords and Dartmouth has indicated greater strength than any of the Navy’s opponents this season. The swimming match is with Rut- gers, champions of the Eastern Inter- collegiate Swimming Assoclation. Rut- gers is believed to have an excellent chance of winning from the Navy, particularly as Coale, the crack middle distance swimmer of the latter, is il with the mumps. ‘The wrestlers oppose the hardy mountaineers from the University of West Virginia. The hgvy grapplers have not done very Il this season and will make a epec! eflon to make :lnfam showing against West Vir- The other varsity event is water Solo against the New York Athletic lub, while the Plebes meet the Fresh- man boxers of the Virginia Military !n;tzslne and the swimmers of Tome ARMOUR-CRUICKSHANK BEMOAN MISSED PUTTS MIAMI, ¥la., March 10.—~Tom Armour, Congressional Country Club professional from Washington, and Bob Cruickshank of New York, cast their chagrin behind them today and again matched skill with Walter Hagen of New York and Jock Hutch- ison of Chicago in another 36-hole match for the four-ball professional championship they threw away yes- terday when both missed easy putts on the final hole. Darkness interfered with further phluel.nt: most of the way yesterda: Y, Armour watched Cruickshank miss a four-footer to win the match on '.ho 86th hole and then blew one of equal distance himself. Armour and Cruickshank were 2 up at noon, but Hagen secured birdies on the third and fourth holn of the Tnoon round to Armour won the 15th to put hll ulm 1 up, but they lost the last hole. TRAPSHOTS T0 HOLD MATCHES SATURDAY e Satuldly will be a full dlv for tI scatter gun artists of the gfl.:; Gun Club. Three ma.u:be- have been carded for the nning l“g'vnh preparation for the Orloln Gun CIW Two handla. matches are listed, the first at 60 birds for th' three month’s trophy, and the other for a new trophy, a silver cup to be contested for during the year, Y:rdue in the latter event are based on last year’s average. The program will be rounded out with the customary club singles. Each club has won two matches in the Washington-Baltimore series and the local shooters are looking forward to taking the yubber contest. B WILL COACH HASKELL. LAWRENCIJ Kans., m 10 )~ F. C. McDonald has been appointed | yqce athletic director at Haskell Indian Institute, su who recent University. McDonald has bwn & member of the Indian school athletic staff for the past seven years, CAPABLANCA WIDENS HIS LEAD AT CHESS By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 10.—Jose R. Capablanca, world chess cha on, widened the breach that holds Nimzowitsch of Copenhagen in second place in the International Masters tournament by defeating Rudolf Spiel- mann of Vienna, in 26 moves. Nimzowitsch adjourned his match with Frank J. Marshall of New York. Capablanca, in brilliant form, played the white pieces in a queen's gambit declined and, after sacrificing a bishop on the eighteenth move, established a passed pawn in the seventh row. The Austrian's position then became hope- less and he resigned. Dr. Alexander Alekhine, Parisian master, agreed to a draw with Dr. Milan Vidmar of Jugoslavia, after 22 moves. The standing: Capablanca . Nimzowitsch' " Alekhine . idmar Spielman; arshall . The pairings for today, all ad- Journed games, are: Alekine and Nim- zowitsch, Capablanca and Marshall, both from the eleventh round; Mar- shall and Nimzowitsch, thirteenth round. R. W. MOORE CHOSEN HEAD OF GOLF CLUB Three officers were elected by the board of governors of the Washing- ton Golf and Country Club at a meet- ing held last night at the clubhouse, at Rixey, Va., and two of three new members of the board took their seats. Representative . Walton Moore of the eighth congressional district of Virginia was elected president of the R. WALTON MOORE. club, succeeding Gen, James A. Drain, who has left Washington to engage in business in the Pacific Northwest. Moore is the third man to head the Washington Golt and Country Club since its organization, in 1008. Previous presidents were Dr. Joseph Tabor Johnson and Gen. Drain. Moore, who has been a member of the club for many years and was a charter member of the Virginia omnmtlan. wlll preside over the t board meeting. Ha lives at Fairfax, Va., and has been prominent in Congress for many years as an advocate of development of Washington and surrounding ter- ritory. He has been promineiit in all matters touching on development of that section of Virginia near the Na- tional Capital. Charles H. Doing, jr., who has served many years as treasurer of the club, was elevated to the vice Albert 'W. Howard was Rice took office as members of the board. Another new member, Col. C. B. Garnett, took office at a previ- ous meetin, COACHING TRIP ABROAD IS DECLINED BY STAGG By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 10.—An invitation to go to Germany this Summer and instruct teachers in the methods and spirit of American sports has been declined by A. A. Stagg, athletic di- rector of the University of Chicago. 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Cooper incidentally won the first $10,000 Los Angeles Open in 1926 and thus sprung into fame. He comes from a golfing family and is young. He will go far as he has every shot in the bag, including mastery of length. Cooper’s putting method is worth studying, as it brings out a control- ling point; namely, the wrists do the work, as the three sketches of his putting stroke in the circles drawn above imply. All good put- ters depend entirely on the wrists. There is absolutely no movement or the arms or body or legs. They merely take a stance that is solid and prevents body sway. The grip is mostly with the fingers, too. Tight gripping spoils putting. Re- member that, Cooper has his little mannerisms. The first one is to place the club head directly in front of the ball. Then he carefully places it behind the ball and concentrates on the line. A slow back-swing with the wrist and a pendulum-like forward swing on through sends the ball home. (Copyright. 1027.) HYATTSVILLE TOSSERS PLAY BLISS IN FINAL Basketers of Company F, National Guard, of Hyattsville, will end their season Saturday night entertaining Bliss Electrical School on the armory floor. A number of spirited battles have been between the teams and a lively rivairy has developed. A dance will follow the game. Two fast Washington fives are to invade the Soldlers’ stronghold to- night. Yankees will meet the Com- pany F regulars in the main attrac- tion of the evening and the reserves will match baskets with the Mount Vernon quint in the curtain-raiser starting at 7:15 o'clock. SOME gasolinesgive you a flash- ing startand quick pick-up, but they short-change you on mileage. Standard Oil Company (N. J.) has ufacturing TRACK SQUADATC. U. TO BEGIN WORK SOON Coach Joseph Donahue will start track candidates at Catholic Univer- sity at outdoor training on Saturday, weather permitting. A squad of up- ward of 60 is expected to report. Al though most of the men are green, there are a number in the group who may develop into capable athletes. Some of those coming up from the freshmen appear of more than usual promise. A number of engagements have| been arranged for the Brooklanders by Athletic Director Charley Moran, including a dual meet with George Washington on May 7 and another with Delaware on May 11. George Washington and Johns Hop- kins will be encountered in a trian- gular meet on May 21 in what prom- ises to be one of the most interesting features of the track campaign here- abouts. A clash with Gallaudet, the date for which will be set later, and a number of other meets probably will be carded for the Cardinals, Norman F. Garton of this city has been elected captain of the 1927 soccer team at the Naval Academy. He is a_son of Capt, Garton of the Naval Medical Corps. Coach Charley Moran will use the well known ax on his diamond squad at Catholic University shortly to get it down to a size that can be handled properly. The mentor has been get- ting a line on his candldates for sev- eral days now and yesterday put them through a short game. WIDE ANTICIPATING HIS TWO BIG RACES By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 10.—Edvin Wide, Swedish middle distance running star, today looked forward to his two principal races on American board tracks. ‘The first will match him against Lloyd Hahn, America's oqutstanding miler, in a grind of that distance at the Knights of Columbus games in Madison Square Garden, March 17. Hahn already has cracked the world mark for 1,000 yards this season and is training to smear the 4:12 indoor record for a mile, held jointly by Paavo Nurmi and Jole Ray, in his match with the Swedish schoolmaster. Wide's second big race, probably the last of his brief American tour, will bring him against his foremost Scan- dinavian rival here, Willie Ritola, in & 2-mile jaunt at the United Swedish Socleties meet in the garden, March 26, The indoor record of 8:%58 1-5 for the distance, made by Nurmi here in 1925, will be under fire. Wide set a new outdoor 2-mile record of 9:01 2-5 last Summer in defeating Nurmi. Ritola, coming out of a Winter's track hibernation to meet Wide, twice whipped the Swedish star in distance tilts at the 1924 Olympics in Paris. In one of their two 10,000-meter duels, Ritola set a world record of 30 minutes 23 1-5 seconds. never considered man a gasoline that would be phenom- ennlmanyonzprtwnhb—ntthz ABE’S GOOD CONDITION PLEASES YANKS’ BACKERS Infield and Outfield of American League Champions All Set, Only Utility Jobs and Box Berths Re- maining to Be Decided. BY BRIAN BELL. By the Associated Press. T. PETERSBURG, Fla., March .—Babe Ruth is in the line-up, all’s well with the Yankees. The slugging outfielder in practice promises to pick up his home- run_hitting where he left off in the world serles. and the other players be- lieve New York will ride to another American League pennant on the big bat of the Babe. Those who belleve “as Ruth goes so g0 the Yankees” find much to please them in the Spring training program as Ruth slams the ball to distant places. Only a few pounds above his abnormal weight for an ordinary ath- lete that places him in the proverbial pink of condition, the home-run hitter seems certain to be right at the top of his game when the season opens. To_sup the Babe, Manager Mil- ler Huggins will offer the same cast he used to win the pennant last sea- son. He will have some added start- ers in the reserves, but will stand pat on the regulars. Gazella Tops Substitutes. With Gehrig, Lazzeri, Koenig and Dugan enlisted for the duration of the base ball war, the infleld contest is for assistant to Mike Gazella, who again has first utility call. Ray More. hart, who came from the White Sox, and Julian Wera, up from St. Paul, have shown so much in the Spring camp that Spencer Adams may be pushed aside. There are several other young in flelders scampering about the fleld, but Wera has shown an edge among those trying to break into the majors for the first time. Playing third or short equally well, he gets the ball away quickly and covers much terri- tory. Close observers would not be surprised to see him win a place. A similar situation exists in the outfleld. Ruth, Combs and Meusel are fixtures, with Paschal no less firmly intrenched as extra man. Durst, ob- tained from the Browns In a trade by which Sam Jones went to St. Louls, is sald to have been brought on because he is a left-handed hitter. Elias Funk, whose release was purchased from Oklahoma City, has shown a great deal in practice and he, too, is a left- hand batsman, Grabowski Clinches Berth. Bengough and Collins, last year's catchers, have been joined by Gra- bowski, former White Sox, who won a place on the staff in short order. Jones and Braxton are missing from the pitching staff starting last season, but Ruether, who was with Washing- ton at this time last year, is on hand and Glard has taken off a St. Louls uniform to put on New York colors. It seems certain early in the game that Myles Thomas and Walter Beall, who spent most of their time in the bullpen last year, will be given more opportunity to do their stuff this sea- son. Thomas especlally has shown greatly improved form. Of the new men on the staff George Pipgras, bought from St. Paul, will be kept and may be a starting pitcher. ‘Wiley Moore, who won 30 games for Greenville of the South Atlantic As- soclation, last year, seems to have an excellent chance to remain under the big top. He is a big fellow with im pressi stuft” and a decided capacity for work. Rely on Box Veterans. Manager Huggins expects to again pin his faith on Pennock, Hoyt and Shocker as his shock troops on the mound. “We will be better than we were last year,” said Hug, in sizing up the situation, ut so will the other fel lows. We will have to fight hard all the way to repeat.” ‘The manager of the champlons said he conceded five clubs a chance to win the pennant. He did not name them. Sy s THREE FRAYS LISTED IN TOURNEY TONIGHT Only three games will be played to- night in the South Atlantic A. A. U. floor championships, which opened yesterday at George Washington Uni- versity gymnasium. Two contests tonight in the 115- pound class will find the tourney scene shifted to the Boys Club gym, wllh St. Pauls meeting Aztecs o'clock, while Kanawhas uCIII‘ Epiphany Chapel tossers an hour later. Wyomings will meet Calvary Reds in the 130-pound class at 8:15 o'clock. Five games are scheduled for tomor- row night at the university ) nasium, with the same number listed for Saturday night in the same gym. Calvarys trounced Columbia !{dn(n in the unlimited class game play last night, 48 to 17. St. &-flllfl downed St. John's Ceitics, 29 to 13 while Arrows belt Ae.l in the 145- pound class, 33 to 2 Boys' Club Etlndl.rdl defeated At- lantics, 27 to 4 in the 115-pound class and Boys' Club Optimists held mx A. C.: scoreless from sci in winning, 75 to 1. ot OTHER SPORTS ON PAGE 37. 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