Evening Star Newspaper, September 17, 1927, Page 13

SPORTS.” THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. (¢ SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. 1927. SPORT S. 1 Fight Atmosphere Blanketing Chicago : Giants Go to Second Place in N. L. Race NAMING OF REFEREE ONLY SCRAP DETA IL UNSETTLED Lawsuits, Ticket Speculators, Invading Horde of Prize Ring Fans Give Battle Color to Windy City—Tunney Nursing Black Eye. N E LOR, BY MASC N W TAY A R © emphatic 1 arou today T d the s N wound wsed train unc W ne n Na Jack a his L ne mor prospect coln Fields rac 10k t and, hard ht dy. with only one camp s ing Bey h worked out and said he more i round « « un. aware, man who \ Tunr D 1 is public 1 rais mpsey s D out 10 o' clock allk Over Referee, Tex Rickard the acti the fis chairn letic cret conferenc wominal_promo John . g e Hiinojs . have held s wi n Commissio long s h each fighter an > past few days, of various freque en that ire Chic a T mentioned e Lut mer- v of of € » clothin amatenr b ble skill. He has often ateur matches, but neve professional contest. 10 Dempsey’s 12, the public slimpse for ton, mil chant and consider ereed condition and s had not a per k. and the - invited to view rring sessions have expressed mixed opinions. tut thete has bee: neral anxiety the serionsness of the injury | to Punnex’s right eve, which beran 10 days ago when Chuck Wiggins jaid open a 1 inch Ic the cham pion’s evebrow. Jack Ams stuc nb in the optic yesterday and landed several left hooks on o that it was rather inflamed | when Gene finished what may be his last sparring before the hig fight. Jack Sharkey, whom Dempsey swept | | from hix path te a comehack match two months ago. was in town today, in swdance with Rickard's plan to use 18 a substitute for Gene or ck nything happened to ¢ Sharkey expressed surprise at ney’s hulk when he got a close loo vday, but withheld an opinion on possible outcome of the match I he has another look at Dempsey. The latest injunction suit, intendes to halt the hout. only widened Rick- smile_a today. The Itev L. Will well known Chi- reform we was the instigator ction in Federal Court ! it | 1 ms, ker filed Ard's duled for preliminary hearing today Attor for Rickard, d others have received notification B. E. Clements will renew his netion suit Monday in the State secking to prevent the fight hecause of his claim to a prior con- Dempsey for a Dempsey- | s battle, Clements’ action viunction was dented in St and he made pl t for a_permanent fore Judge Fisher, Mon for a preliminary te courts to bring injunc- last week nother st tion b Suit Not Annoying Tunney. law suit s quiescent the invitation of Sheriff | don_ of Cook County to me in | m Lake County for a visit and re- ceive the summons in the $15.000 sal- : suit of Thomas McHale of New vk, who said he used to be Tunney's social secretary. The Loop hotel situation for next week apparently will be just as seri- ous as the hotel men predicted sev- eral weeks. ¢ Only one or two hostel with unusually extensive facilities, had any rooms left today. The bungalow atop the Hotel Sher- man is being held for Tunney, who has planned an “after-the-fight” part there Thursday night. A similar r home on the Hotel Morrison is re- | served in Demps name, but he has announced no plans for fight night except that he intends to regain his titl ¥ who s Mrs. Jack Dempsey, has made no change in her plans to stay in her North Side Hotel suite while her hushand fights. She has arnounced that she will not even listen in on the radio. There is a tentative arrangement to give her the news by flares heneath her window— “rved, If he wins,” she explained, “and it he should lose, why, blue—oh, so hlue." Tunney’s only nupon just mow | until he CUT OVER TUNNEY’S EYE IS OPENED By the Associated Press. 1 AKE VILLA, IIL, September 17.— | injury would in no w Gene Tunney 1o a world | champion with k eve. | A gash cut in his right eyelid ten days ago while working out | with Chuck Wiggins, his chief | ring partner, was reopened yvesterda by Jackie Williams, Chicago hea weight, during the champion’s fi heavy ‘drill before the championshiy fight. The original hurt had nearly healed, but the sharp jab from Wil- Hams’ glove started trouble all over | again. ‘Although this happened at the start of his workout, Tunney finished six rounds of boxing. The sudden aggres- siveness of Wiggins, who followed Williams in the ring, added to the damage, several left hooks landing on | The bit of tape cover- | ing the wound was not knocked from | its place, but the lid began swelling and the eve was discolored | when the champion Cut Not Serious. Dr. George Musgrave, an eve spe- | elalist, was given a motor cycie escort | to speed his trip from Chicago to Lake Villa for an examination of the | injured eve. The oculist spent half an hour with the champion, and said afterward that there was absolutely no danger of serious complication. It's just an old-fashioned black eye,” Dr. M ave said. “There is no danger of infection. If Tunney cares to, he may box tomorrow with- out fear of injurious consequences. By Sunday there will he no trace of his present ailment. There is noth- about. 1 washed the treatment from me.” Billy Gibson, Tunne manager, | mid the cve specialist was called in as a precaution: me The | doctor’s examination, Gibson added, | | ercise will BY SPARRERS L confirmed his own helief that the eye y affect Tun- ney's chances against Dempsey. Giene blamed his comparatively poor showing in vesterday’s workout to the pain _his eve =caused . him after the rounds with Williams. “I harely could see from my right eyve,” Gene said. “It was just as if I had a severe case of astigmatism. My vision was distorted, I had no judg- ment of. distance and the pain at times was intense. However, I ex- pect the damage will have heen re- paired entirely hefore I meet Demp- sey. If it has not, I believe I can fight and whip him with only one ey he champion also appeared wor- ried about his general condition. The heat of the past few days forced him to take a three-day vacation at Lake Forest. During that time his weight jumped to 193 pounds, almost 6 pounds above his normal fighting | weight. . 'Now Is Overweight. “I feel slow and sog, " Gene said. “However, a good stiff session on the road probhbly will lighten me con- siderably, and will bring my general condition to the ‘edge’ I had when I left Speculator, N. Y. My heavy work now is over. Roadwork and light ex- omplete the training pro- gram.” The feeling appeared general about the camp that Tunney is showing signs of approaching staleness, de- spite the many lay-offs he has taken ince coming West to finish training. The opinion was expressed, however, that this could be averted by cancella- tion of further ring work and re- liance on long walks and jogs in the early morning. Tunney's handlers de- clared that the champion’s program would include just that and nothing more. DEMPSEY ABOUT THROUGH Py the Assoi INCOL: Septembe power Dempsey have been strated for the critical writers i1 odlight worko the former champion was about re today to hanz up his traini wait the gong next m ching of Jack demon sport nd 17 3 the speed nd Thurs: night nE experts some: But Ma mpion did not show ng One more workout tomorre Monday will finish Juck’s prepa Fiynn said. He grumbled some appa v o of to write home about. FI tism ers 1o np at Lake Vil and none 1o Der < quarters, about , miles to the south to nizht whiy workouts, beneficial to He has been is training with ated Press, , Ariz.—Ace Hudkins, Ne- ked out Arizona Joe Rf By the Associ PHOENIX braska, ers, Phoenix CHICAGO—My knocked out Kewr 3). Bil N Billy O TAMPA, Fla.—Bobby M timore, won over Anth Columbus, "\h.lv) U:y L n, New York, knock B0 i, Tampa. ). TATIA, Nebr. Tommy Gr 0:8:1..‘, knocked out Bob Duff: Paul ). BAN FFRANCISCO x'“ y isco, won a technic 3 Dynamite Murphy, Sacramento, inocked ocut Patsy Sweeuey, St “aul O18). T Sullivan, St. Paul » Tremhle, Chicago Paul, knocked out ) (2). rriott, B: Downi Green Wild lie 4 out n, r, San knockout £ | titleholdes | {survey by Chic | out risking the broiling effect of the unse Jle afternoon heat, and his Leye become accustomed to the |tricky shadows of the floodlights. | Mrs. Flynn, who arrived at the {camp yesterda greatly pleased {When she was presented with a $9,000 Dempsey’s gift to She tried it on, | noved it and had it taken deposit vault while she command of Dempsey's om now on all the former »d will be prepared un- ider h ion. | Jack’s program today called for an- [other day of rest, with perhaps some t uwl.w-m:.n;: from an improvised tee t the track K 1eft his quarters vesterday only ssumed itchen, @ | for a short stroll with Jerry Ludavis, {his trainer. He intends to keep close to the track from now on to avoid curl- | ous crowas. ) Dr. W, vo Lynott, Jack’s phy him wther examination :ht and reported that five minutes after Lis evening workout his pulse and respiration were back to absolute normal, and that he was in splendid condition $250 NOW IS DEMANDED FOR $40 FIGHT TICKETS CHICAGO, September 17 (P).—Good | | | { | 1 | i '$40 seats for the Tunney-Dempsey | fight, September 22, were available at ia downtown ticket agency for $250, & ago newspapers showed. other agencies and pri- vate scalpers revealed that all $40 {tickets in thelr possesslon had been | boosted from $20 upon the location, L Tickets Ltained for from $40 to $60. One agent }iscked 240 for a §25 seat high up under |the pillars on the east side of the stadinm, & Other agenc £850; $10 j Prices 1 e tickets, s for § Dempsey | to $210, depending | mirked $30_could be ob- | 'ARMOUR AND BEACH GET INTO TOURNEY Turning in the two hest scores in the sectional qualifying play over the | new Baltimore Country Club's course | vesterda Tommy Armour of Con- | &ressional Country Club, national open champion. and Ralph Beach of Burn- ing Tree Club. of this city, earned the right to represent the Middle Atlant section in the national pro champion- <hip tournament late next month in Dallas, Tex. | Armour with 74, 73, 147, | Beach, with a 71, 78, 149, topped | group of 22 pros from the District of Columbia, Maryvland and Virginia the 36-hole medalplay test. Bob Barnett of Chevy Chase Club was fourth and Fred McLeod of Co- | lnbia, seventh, Summaries: 5 RE—168 Jimmy Kenneth_Alie Jimmy Donu Alex Tavlor. Willie Dunt” 81 Russell Holleb: Vanquishing William Brawner on the fourteenth green, 5 and 4. Thomas P. Jones, jr. 17-year-ld Columbia member, yesterday won the club’s junfor championship. Bones won the thuteenth with a birdie & and the fourteenth with a birdie 3 to end the match. . Dicked up 80, meked up. Ked up. ked, up. 02, picked up, n 12, Mrs. Warren L. Heap yesterday gained the woman’'s championship of Indian Spring Club, overcoming Mrs. Steele on the eighteenth green, up, fine battling. Mrs. €. 1. Put- am won the consolation flight over Mrs. Perry B. Hoover, 1 up. JOHNSTON THROUGH AS NET CUP PLAYER NEW YORK, September 17.—Little Bill Johnston, an outstanding figure in American tennis for the last decade, has played his last Davis Cup match. The flery little Californian, beaten |in the international series last week by both Henri Cochet and Rene Lacoste of the French team, and eliminated in the semi-finals of the national championships yesterday by Lacoste, announced his retirement last night at a dinner given aboard the liner France by the victorious French team. With Big_Bill Tilden, Johnston brought the historic Davis Cup back from Australia in 1920, and was until this year one of the two chief factors in keeping it here. Tilden and John- ston_established the miost powerful tennis monopoly in history. In all his_Davis Cup campaigning Johnston had lost only one match until his game collapsed this year. The announcement of Johuston's re- tirement was received with regret by both American and French players at the dinner. Little Bill explained that business affairs in California were occupying almost his entire time. He had _little opportunity to practice, he said, and was unable to put himself into the condition re- quired by the international matches. Duwight F. Davis, donor of the Davis Cup, told the players he had been hoping for three years that the French would take the trophy home. ow we can go ahead and develop new players,” he said. ‘““Tennis is a young man’s game, and we have been depending too long on our veterans. I believe it will prove a good thing for the game to have our monopoly broken.” Asked if he thought America would win back the cup next vear, Davis sald that depended entirely on how young players came along. FRENCH INSECT TEAMS TO GET PRIZES TONIGHT Prizes will be awarded at a meeting of French Insect League teams to- night, at 8 o'clock, at French's Sport Store, 424 Ninth street. Plans for an insect basket ball league will be discussed. Russells and Boys' Club Elks were to face today at 3 o'clock on West Ellipse in a game to determine Capital City League insect class honors. Moose Juniors can win their section,* Capital City League, title by defeating Mon- telios in another game today. Cooper’s Pitch Good’ Enough to Win Open BY SOL METZGER. “Light Horse” Harry-Cooper lost the United State open champion- ship at Oakmont on the seven- teenth green, after playing one of the finest pitch shots I have ever seen. The hole, 302 yards uphill, demanded a straight tee shot. Cooper's was a bit to the right, but almost pin high—a tremendous He was some 33 feet from near the cdge of a deep s pit and in the rough, with the pin on the near side of the green on a slope away from him. He used a niblick. “The ball ros high in the air and dropped just over the rim of the pit with plenty of bite. Unfortunately, the slope of the green carried it 10 feet be- yond the pin. He had almost holed ont. Cooper missed his put for a birdle 3, and then missed his return putt. He took a 5 on the hole, al- though I think, had the geen heen level at this polat, he would have had an eagle 2. That putting lapse caused him to score 301, and a few moments later Armour tled this mark with a birdie § on the last hole, forcing the play-off, Cooper went back but halt wa on this niblick pitch, and delicately lofted the hall over the chasm. It was one of the greatest shots plaged at Oakmont, drive. the 1 nd i i and | a| in | By the Associated Press. W YORK, September 17.—The nnual tournament for the ional tennis championship was in its final round experts inclined to be- nee would against tod with lieve Rene Lacoste of {defend his title successtully Big Bill Tilden " A year ago Tilden went down in {the fourth round at the hands of { Henri Cochet, while Lacoste went on to win the title that bhelonged [to Big Rill for six years, in_an all- | 1*vench final battle with Jean Borotra That memory remained with Tilden today and rankled with the [ vecollection of a se | feats at the hands of the French, in- cluding their sweep of the Davis Cup ast week | Big Bill faced the task of succeed- here Little Bill Johnston, his Davis Cup teammate for eight years, failed. Johnston was beaten by coste vesterday, 6—2, 2—6, 6—4 while Tilden defeated Francis LLE. MY RY,” the dark horse in the Presiden Cup regatta, who was ex- pected to pilot C. Roy Keys' Curtis Wilgold to. day in the ladies’ race, has been re- vealed as no less a_pel an Helen Hentschel of New York, ungest | woman driver in the country and hold- ler of two world r s, established | this season. She is just 21 years old. | Miss Hentschel comes to ‘Washing- ton representing the Regatia Circuit Riders' Club. She is one of the few | woman members. Mrs. J. H. R. Crom- well (formerly Delphine Dodge) and | Mrs. W. J. Connors_also are members. On September 16, at Detroit, Hentschel shattered all previous ** outbpard records;-establishin average of 30.156 miles over the |course, in a regatta held under the auspices of three national and one in | ternational body of timers. Her other notable achievement this season was her record-hreaking race at Albany, N. Y., on July 5, when 13 LACOSTE PICKED TO BEAT TILDEN IN TENNIS FINAL |Frenchman Plays Machinelike Game in Disposing | of Johnston, While Big Bill Has Plenty of Trouble in Downing Hunter. doubles with Johnston, La- coste showed the same machine-like game that has carvied him to the | peak of the world's tennis, which |Tilden so recently eccupied. His | step springy with youth, the stolid Prenchman bounded about like a {boxer in his m with Johnston, | winning on speed of foot asawell as skill and strengih of racket arm. Tilden was at set point 10 in the first set before he could sum- | mon power enoush to win it. | Lacoste and Tilden had met three | times this year prior to today's bat- |tle. Tilden won in the neo n matches at St Cloud while Lacoste beat him in in the Irench hard court soon after and downed ntown last week in the Davis Cup challenge round. Today's match is at 3 pm., Isaving time. Tunter, his —1, 4 In his match 17 partner, |14 France, five sets daylight WOMEN IN SPORT BY CORINNE FRAZIER |she set the mark for class B out- boards at 29.316. Customarily, Miss Tlentschel pilots ecrafts she owns he olIf, two of her best known boats being Baby Whale and Miss Circuit Rider, both of which she has down here with her and was to drive tod: resterday she | did not pilot h She drove fted Devil In several races for the lighter craft, but did not win any of |the heats. Today her performance in her own eraft, expected to be much more spectacular. Miss Hentschel is easily distinguished in’ the races by the jaunty green tam-o”-shanter which she wears over her golden hair. Lacking this di tinetly feminine touch, her boyish fi ure clad in white ducks might easily be mistaken for that of one of her masculine opponent In addition to her mother boating achievements, this courageous young |miss is an excellent swimmer and ranks high among the mermaids of New York, direction of C. W. Hecox, veteran rowing coach, candidates for Central and Western High crews will lose no time getting down to Fall | work. Roth squads will assemble for | the first time when school opens Mon- day and will likely be on the water | by Tuesday or Wednesday. Through hard and patient work on the part of Hecox, rowing is begin- ning to gain recognition and a con- siderable following in local schoolboy circles. Both Central and Western appear ave sturdy combinations NDER | | s season. This will he only the second cam- paign in which the West End boys have taken part in the water sport. but Centrgl has had more experience. Five members of lst season's West- ern crew are available. They are Capt. Garland F. Smith, rick | Hume, who, besides occupying a place |in the boat, manages the team: F. | Price, P. Porter and F. Doyle. Other TWO HIGH SCHOOL CREWS TO PRACTICE THIS FALL will include W. MacMillen, G. Franklin, J. Wilr R. Mickey aspirants R, M. | Paine | others | Central is not quite so well off as to experienced material, havi three rezulars on ihe job. They | Capt. Parker. Managér Dodge and | Hammona, 1 aptain. The {and White will attempt to form a 6-foot crew. Both Parker and Dodge are more than 6 feet. Abby, whi while he did not make the first crew last season, showed much, also over the oot mark. Central and West their annual Fall ber 15. In 1926 Western had only v movice crew and though Central did not enter its regular combination the Blue and White won. the rac | event Though defeated Ia developed rapidly pring race, the eason. It was an fousht contest. a, H. and n will meet in race about Octo- | will be a real championship t Fall Western won the spot of the unusually hard- BUSINESS GRIDDERS TO START TUESDAY Business High Scho grid candi- dates will begin practice probably Tuesday on either the Tidal Basin or Eastern High soccer grounds. Coach Lynn Woodworth has just returned to the city after more than a year's leave of absence. Emerson's Institute foot ballers will be led by Raymond Mealy, end, who was named captain yesterday. Devitt School gridders turned out esterday for the opening practice on ieorgetown .freshmen fleld. Morty Wilner, former Central High athlete, is making a fine bid for a backfield post on the Penn varsity. e COSTS ABOUT $2,000,000 TO STAGE HEAVY SCRAPS CHICAGO, September 17 (). When ticket sales f the Tunney- Dempsey championship fight Septem- ber oared above the $2,000.000 ark a_couple of days ago Tex Rick- ard could breathe a sigh of relief be- cause the promotion effort then be- came selt sustaining. Here is the outlay: Federal tax, 10 per cent of gross, $220,000. State tax. 10 per cent of gross after deducting Federal tax, $198,000. Tunney's guarantee, $1,000.000. Dempsey’s guarantee, $437.500. Soldier Field rental, $100,000. Preliminary boxers’ guarantee, $18,- 1500, Total, $1,974,000. U GUARDSMEN FORM QUINT. Members of Service Company, 1st Infantry, Maryland National Guard, at Silver Spring, have formed a basket ball team and will drill Tuesday and Friday nights after October 1. Officers chogen Sergt. J. A. Glover, man- ager: . 1. Purcell, business manager; Sergt. D. D. Jones, gecretary and tre rrggt. Joseph Allen, Sergt. Alfred Saun- and MANY WORDS ON FIGHT. CHICAGO, September 17 (#).— Telegraphic ' facilities for the trans- mission of 2,000,000 words throughout the United States and to foreign cou tries describing the September {fight between Tunney and Dempsey ( Stadium. YOUNGBLOOD CHANGES. George Youngblood, who has co: more championship playground ath- letic teams here than any mentor, will become physical nstructor at Stuart Junlor High School. RICH_BACING PROGRAM. NEW YORK, September 17 (P).— Three features aggregating urwlrd of £160,000 n prize money, furnished the drawing power at Belmont Park today. It was the riefyest racing program in the history ‘ef thoroughbred com- petition, i {will be installed in the Soldier Flel«lJ | hed {G. W. AND AMERICAN ELEVENS MAY CLASH American University and George hington may meet on the foot hall fleld October 8. Both Coaches Springs- ton and Crum want to play the game and need on the sanction of the school authorities. G. W, defeated the Methodists, 28 to 7, last year. George Washington gridders were to scrimmage with Georgetown's var- sity ' plavers on the Hilltop today. Coach Little is hustling the Blue and along these days, despite the humidity. Coach Springston plans to start his American University grid squad at heavy work Monday, following a week’s conditioning. WASHINGTON F?EFSOX ALEXANDRIA, Va *harley Corbett's St were to_entertain Washington Sox in Dreadnaught Park today 3:30 o'clock. nber Celtic: Red at Members of Belle Haven Country Club were to drive off in the qualify ing round for the Belle Haven Bowl today. A benefit dance for Ashby Snellings, pitcher for Sarepta Lodge, No. 46, Odd Fellows, will be held tonight in Odd Fellows' Temple. Snellings has lost his jectalists still hope for i SMASHES AUTO RECORD. CHARLOTTE, N. C., September 17 (#).—The new record for the Charlotte Speedway, established by Peter de Paolo, lasted only for a day. Frank Lockhart of Dayton, Ohio, catapulted his tiny racing car around the saucer to clip onefifth of a second from De Paolo’s mark by attaining a speed of 138.8 an hou CHESS MATCH ADJOURNED. | BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Sep i tember 17 (P).—The first game in the world championship chess match be- {tween the title holder, Jose R, C: {blanca of Cuba, and the Russian chal- lenger, Alexander Alekhine, was ad- surned after 42 moves with Alekhine in a favorable position. JOCKEY IS KILLED. HAMILTON, Ohio, September 17 Jess Sylvia, riding in a -o meeting at the fair grounds, was led when his horse went down. Syl via, who was 19, was a native of Cali- fornta. MISS ZINKE TENNIS VICTOR. PHILADELPHIA, September 17 (®).—Clara Loulsq Zinke, Cincinnati, today won the women's Philadelphia and "dlstrict tennls championship by defeating Dorothy Andrus, New York, 6— 2 el It requires 65 different operatfons to make a good tennis racket. Iight dif- ferent men may work on it, each spe- clalizing on & different part of the task, _ times | IN ALEXANDRIA CLASH| GRIFFS RENEW FIGHT TO HOLD THIRD PLACE Nationals and Indians were to meet this afternoon in the opening game of their last series of the year with the former making every effort to cling to the third place in the American League standings that they now hold with one and one-half games advantage over the Tigers. Bucky Harris® athletes idled yes- terday, the schedule not calling for | also wi loeal agare; s Hubert Atkinson er the Na Log young outfleld- | uited from th 20 ner and farmed to the Mill Valley Leagzue in Massach setts, has rejoined the club and wa ake part in today’s pre-game drilling. s, ADDISONS TO PLAY | SILVER SPRING NINE, A | | | | Addison C. nine will journey to ver Hill tomorrow to engage the team representing the Maryland towpn ‘ at 3 o'clock. Addison players will N port at 1205 K street at 1:30 o'cloc A _senior or unlimited foe is sought by Rommers A, C. for tomorrow. Call Lincoln 4254, . is without a game for Out-of-town foes ¢ sought. Call Atlant Juniors ave after a game le Juniors for to ntic” 2330-W Manager of Petworth A. C. would like to hear from the Jefferson Fire- men manager. Call Columbia 8740. with morrow. George Burns Insects added a 3-to-0 win over Lionels yvester Call Cleveland 5833-J, for games with the winners. __1:- Rover Peewees action. Call, Lincoln 1944 for gan FAN RESTRAINED FROM “RAZZING” BY ATHLETICS PHILADELPHIA, September 17 (8). —Connie Mack, manager of the Phila- delphia Athletics, has sought to legally restrain a fan, whose alleged nz and taunts from the stands, he id. broke up the morale of the team and resulted in one valuable player being traded. The fan, Harry Donnelly, %, ar- rested while the Chicago White Sox- Athletics game was in progress, at the request of Mack, was held in $500 bail to keep the peace. “There are several persons,” Mack |said at the hearing, “who come out |to the park just to ‘ride’ the players | 1nd the umpires and get their ‘goats. " SHIFT TO CONTINUE T0 WORRY OFFICIALS BY LAWRENCE PERRY. Everything one hears from foot ball centers indicates that those coaches | who have made much of the shift in past ons will_continue to empha- B it. Knute Rockne, for one, is | quite positive on this point and as long as he employes it, it is certain the Army will. And it may be predicted right now that as much will be heard of players | This Fall [ in motion at the end of the shift as|RBoston |ever has been heard. There alwa | has been a rule against this and it has heen the duty of officials to de- termine whether it was being violated. It will still be their duty to enforce the injunction and they will be bul- warked by a stiffening of the shift rule. which now requires that pl: shall come to a stop of pproxi- | mately” one second after they have shifted. Well, in so short an interval it will still require eagle eyves to determine | whether or not feet are moving or | bodies swaying—whether or not, in short, the spirit as well as the letter of the rule is being met. In the past there is no question that officials have not dealt with the shift with utmost rigor. They have, to be sure, imposed occasional penalties but never, so far as the writer noticed. | has a’ penalty fallen after a score or |an important gain. and they never were consistently imposed. It would | have taken a pretty brave official to| {be consistent in this respect, inas- much as it would have involved the | practical breaking up of big games | | which tens of thousands had paid $2.00 | or more per head to see. | In one extremely important contest | two years ago the writer followed | play in which backfield men were in | motion as the ball was snapped | throughout the entire contest, and not more than five penalties were called. It officials are lax this season, shifting players can he in motion in | | spite of the second’s pause for which the rule calls. ASSISTANT SPORT HEAD IS SIGNED BY MICHIGAN | Courtwright, fd iversity of Oklahoma foot ball E was named tant _athletic director of the University of Michigan. Courtwright, who in 1911, 1912 and L selested halfback on the all-Western team, for the past three years has been head of the hletic department of the Colorado School of Mines, He will coach in all_branches of competitive athletics at Michigan and axill_teach in the fouryear course of physical educ MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS. ! SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. Atlanta. 5: Nashville. 4 Chattanoog: Rirmingham, New Orleans, 6. Mobi AMERICAN ASSOCIATION, Toledo, 7: ' Kansas City Only three sl 8. st Only thiea play WOMAN STARS GATHER. | NEW YORK, September 17 (P).— {The vanguard of the competeing field |of approximately 130 woman golfers jthat is to set out over the Cherry Valley course at Garden City next Monday, with the national champion- ship at stake, is on the scene and get- ting the range of a difficult layout. M;NDELL HAS SON. Sammy Mandell, wife of the world lightwelght champion. He weighed §13 pounds and has been named Rich ard Samuel. An athletic stadlum, 200 feet wile In | had an infield that dovetailed. ROCKFORD, JIl., September 17 (). | —A son was born lst night to Mrs. |, WIN ODD FROM CARDINALS. BUT BUCS TRIUMPH AGAI™ Pirates Sweep Set With Braves, Maintaining Le:: of 4% Games—Cubs Lo by Ruth, Moore By tha Associated Press. UT of a grueling serfes with | St. Louls, the New Y Giants had emerged today in second place in the Nation: League, but how long they | can hold their pace and whether th can cateh the speeding Pirates are | matters for speculation After dividing three double-headers | with the Redbirds, the Manhattan | entry vesterday snatched the de ing contest of t t. 3. Burleigh Grimes h world champions to 8 hits his mates got to Sherdsl and John- <on for Harper's home run in the eighth put the concluding touch | on_the victory. | Meanwhile * the Pittsbursh club, pennant bound with a lead of four and one-half games, belted the Bos- ton Braves for the sixth time in a row, the score being 4. It was the | {ninth successive win for the Bues and | | the thirteenth straight sett for the Braves. Lee Meadows Ban- | croft's men to 8 hits. Joe Mctarthy's Chicago Cubs | but passed out of the pennant pi when they lost their third to Brooklyn, 4 Charlie . ace of the Ch » pitchin | staff, set ont for his twenty-sixth | vietory of the season, hut he lasted |only seven inni Timely hitting hy Jimmy Partridge gave the Robins | their vietc The Yankees rapped the hall for 13 safe hits in their 7-2 victory over | the Chicago White Sox blasted out his fifty-third home run of the vear and is now only_six hom- ers away from his 1921 récord. A home run by Wiley Moore, who did the flinging for the Hugmen, ma { Ruth’s clout seem puny. It w a the | whils 6-3 held all | Two of these hits he made in one game. 3abe Ruth | Al Moore's fourth safe hit of the season. | se Another—Homers as Yanks Score. lator The maniy of the “sinke ball was credited with his seventeer victory of the He held th x to seven hits and scattered the Lou Gehrig was held to one hit three tries—a doubl The first hageman is now e home ru behind Ruth. Mack's Ath ht win in down 63. Ty season N Conni ored the's sixth str Louis Brov of in <afeties in the “Jing™” J mound the Brow: Ha over the Bos out three with one on Holloway g Results Yesterday. A summary of yesterd AMERICAN LEAGU route and on t Philadelphia allow es only v Iy s w He pok home run double and a single anted Boston seven h games: REH." 00100001—411 F00000001—3 7 Detroit Bostan e Loughran St Lonis Philadelnhia Winzard rane and Schang 000100100 To1T1100%x New ¥ 4 i and Cr Moare | e | NATIONAL o V20001000—3 & O 51000000x—411 1 and Gibson: Meadows anit [ B | Pitgshuri Wertr Gooch. ) s | Merrison a 111000120612 1 100001100—3 8 3 v Sherdel, Johnson and L000211000—4 8 0 D 0000110—310 1 | ¢ 3 and Henline: Root. Nehf Eiliott neft | | BY JOHN B. FOSTER. Donie Bush has been a smart man- ager for the Pittsburgh Pirates all of the on and more particularly in the last week. He has stacked the very best that he had on his team to win from Philadelphia and Boeston, both second division clubs. The re- sult is seen in the standing of the teams in the National League today with the Pirates holding a substantial lead. An overcautious double-headers confronting him as they confronted Bush, would have monkeyed with kid pitchers a little in order to save the regulars for some emergency of which nothing was | known. That was one trouble with Pittsburgh in former years. The | manager played too much for what might happen a week from now and too little for what was likely to hap- pen today. They seem to be doing something of the kind in St. Loui where the Cardinals have been moi keving with their kid players, occa- sionally getting away with a game, | but_in_reality_ getting nowhere, be: cause they broke even too much with the Giants Pittsburgh played Philadelphia and if the pennant were to | | won in the series with those team and that kind of strategy shoved the Pirates ahead in the race. Now the St. Louis and New York teams mu: do some speeding somewhere to catch up. Bush has done a clever piece of work by good thinking. He is more than half a week ahead of his rivals, with two weeks and a little more to go. Cubs Are Out of It. The Chicago Cubs are out of it. All talk of a mathematical chance is merely something soothing to make the end easy. They hegan their down- ward career in the East, as they did in 1926, The second game the Cubs played in | Brooklyn on their last trip started them on a rout from which they never have recovered. It is easy enough to| see why. The players were milled around too much. Joe McCarthy is a mighty clever manager and has done | great things with his base ball team, but no manager can win a pennant without a “settled team, unless p sessed of pitchers of superlative skill. McCarthy has played a double out- fleld some ‘of the time and never has He was fortunate to do as well as he has with an interchangeable third baseman, no fixed second baseman and nothing stable at shortstop, The Cubs will have to get some overhauling and strengthening for 1928 because as a team they have just about shot their holt. They put out the best they had this yvear. The reaction has set in and the players are faltering. It is doubtfui whether manager, with | | | BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS AMERICAN LEAGUE. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS, New York, 7; Chieag Philadelphia, '6: St Detroit, 4; Hoston, ! STANDING OF THE * puvpaI) “asupuaag | GAMES TODAY. GAMFES TOMORROW. | i ton. Cleve. at Washington. | CRHEG e No u hicugo at New York. St. Louls at Pl NATIONAL LEAGUE. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS, Fittshrs 3 rookiyn: 4 New Yor LA “usprooig *uopsoy = TTT107 8 —1 6118 10107 68 496 11 DI—1 9[11180/80T.4%4 1811851841806 01 5111 31 0850 BUSH PROVES SMARTNESS IN WINNING WITH PIRATES the magnetism of McCarthy can ! bring these players next year to the | same degree of success they have had | this season. The outfleld cannot lat | hard enough to win a championship | nd has other faults. The infield | needs four players who are to start | there and stay there. The Cubs are the hest “near pen- | mant” team in either league. They | deserve a gr deal of credit. They are a three-week shy team, which tan )out in front at a good pace and then | lost lung power keeled over near the end of the race. Managerial Changes Due. | The National League may see thres | managerial changes in 1928 and one |of them in an important club. Donie | Bush of Pittsburgh is the first to be |re-engaged. That made him solid in the last days of the pennant race and it will make him solid in the world series. - He squelched a headstrong element in the Pittsburgh team that had talked and talked ever since the Pirates won the 1925 world series. It talked Bill McKechnie out of a job, | talked others off the club and still was talking this year. Bush proved | that he was the manager and that the team would be run by him and | not by the players, | When Kiki Cuyler told Bush that | he. Cuyler, was a better plaver than | Llovd Waner. Bush told Cuyler that | he wasn't. The best of the argument is with the manager. In the two Waner boys Bush has the greatest pair of run getters in the world. Cuyler is a splendid player, but he was headstrong with some Pittsburgh managers and Pittsburgh didn’t win, He couldn't headstrong Donie Bush— | and Pitésburgh is winning. — TIGERS BUY CATCHER. WORCEST! Mass., September 17 (®).—Eddie Phillips, a catcher of the hville team of the Southern As- ation, has been bought by the Detroit Tigers for 00. Three players ficure in the deal. In about 70 games he batted for 3. Yorktown basket ball team of Balti- { more would like to hook home-and- |home games with local 133-pound |teams, “Write Morris August, 2449 | Shirley street, Baltimore, 8 141 Il, Tigers. 132 493 89 RUN SCORERS. ankees Gehrig, Yankees . Combs, Yankees & HOME RU Ruth, Yankees.. Gebrig, Yankees. Wilson, Cubs Frisch, Carq Hendrick, Rol Carey, Robins . 0 PITCHERS. Hoyt, Yankees. .. Meadows, Pirates Shocker, Yankees. Pipgras, Yankees. Rommel._Athletic: TODAY BASE BALL 1324 American League Park Washington vs. Cleveland Tickets on Sale at Park at 9 A MARLBORO FAIR AND RACES SEPT. 12 TO 17 FIRST RACE, 2:00 eaves District Line at 1 and 370 feet long, is planned in Brook- lyn, N. Y. It is expected to cost §2,- 000,000 ang seat 50,000 persons, _ ot e Conveniently L. on Fourteenth n;l...rod‘ 9 37 14th St. Main 5788