Evening Star Newspaper, November 3, 1927, Page 38

SOXARE PLACATED WITH JORNSON OUT Comiskey Again Co-operat- ing With League, Now That Ban Is Gone. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, November incident with the retirement of Ban Johnson as president of the American League and the election of Ernest S. Bar- nard of Cleveland as his successor, the Chicago American League club again will return to active participa- tion in the league’s counci For some years the league has been divided on a seven-to-one basis. Any- thing that was proposed by Johnson or that had to do with Johnson would find the Chicago club either not vot- ing or opposed. It was this severance of relations between Johnson and Charles A. Comisk the owner of the White Sox, that gave the American League more than one anxious mo- ment when it was fighting for posi- tion. There was little danger that the league would be injured so far as its circuit was concerned, but the league always was jealous of its prestige and some of its members snorted with indignation more than once when Johnson's policies and politics were so balked that the American League =eemed to have been left in the back- ground while the spotlight was shifted to others, United Front Due Now. From this time forward there is apt to be less of that. The league is ex- pected to be united as an organiza- tion and not to dread that its policies may be embarrassed because of the Johnson-Comiskey feud. When the National League passed its famous resolution pledging itself to the re-election of Commissioner Landis some two years in advance of the expiration of his term of office, some American League members fairly tore their hair in rage. They thought the National League was guilty of discourtesy while Judge Fuchs of the Boston Nationals, who engineered the matter, thought the National League had shown itself four times a better politician than the American League. Politics is mostly the business of Mr. Fuchs. ‘The American League learned that Comiskey would go with the National and would do anything to keep Ban Johnson under foot. Then some American Leaguers criticized Comis- key about as freely as they had criti- cized the National League. The re- ®ult of the Comiskey-National League alliance, however, was the re-election of Landis last Winter. With Barnard now president of the American League Comiskey will go on in harmony with his other club mem- hers. And as likely as not it will be the “Old Roman” who will lead the van for the American League—for he is a very touchy gentleman when his dignity is trodden down too heavily. Announcement by the Athletics that Ty Cobb will not play with them in 1928 was foreshadowed back in Sep- tember. It will be observed, however, that the Athletics will have to obtain waivers on his services, as they would do on any other player. Cobb cannot gt his unconditional release unless waivers are obtained. Despite his great reputation, it is very doubtful if any club in the American League will pay the waiver price to get him. The engagement of Jack Slattery, Boston College base ball coach, to manage the Boston Braves, carries with it nmot much hope that Boston will get out of the second division next year. Experiments by which an out- =ider is brought into the major leagues to manage a ball club have a remark- able record of running true to form— they almost never succeed. - Among the oldest college foot ball rivals in the Middle West are Drake and Grinnell, which have been clash- - 33 SPORTS. T, IF PAID ENOUGH, WILL PLAY IN 1928 By the Associated Press. By the Associated Press. | "PHILADELPHIA. — Jack _ Gre Salem, N. J., defeated Young Bob Fit simmons, Nutley, N. J. (10). Battling ‘ Y Levinsky, Philadelphia, won from | PHILADELPHIA, November 3.—1f | George Gemas. Philadelphia (10). | Ty Cobb gets an offer large enough, NEW YORK—Izzy Grove, New |ha will play base ball another vear.| York, outpointed Jimmy Goodrich.| gy ne thinks he cannot play every Buffalo (6). e 1 o AL T sviation Tight.| alvers on the great outfielder will | hna‘\'ywoléht champion, won by a tech- be asked by Manager Connie Mack, | | nical’ knockout from Murray Gitlitz, | \po snid after a conference with Cobb P vesterday that the Athletics could not PARIS—Faugeres, France, out- arord to renew his contract, which pointed Tom Moore (10). Ramon as reported to have called for §£0,000 tillo, Cuban, and Durocher, France,|smq o honus, and that he felt it be- Irew (10). neath his dignity to offer him leas. SAN FRANCISCO—Speedy Dado.| “I'm not saving I'm through.” saic Manila, scored a technical knockout|Cobh. “Base ball, you know, has been over Snowey Johnson, Australia (). |a hiz part of my life for so many OAKLAND, Calif.—Johnny Farr,|veal. that I realiy can't say offhanc Cleveland, and Benny (Kid) Carte v»(]\‘4‘(“]‘:';l:‘:l\lll\vipll‘\)"‘ same. e Phoenix, Ariz., drew (10). | vear. I rate my services, considering T e, the risk 1 am taking to play ball at T HFORM | my time of life and the other things |1 would like to do if my Summers were free, at a certain figure. It may attery, Buffa- {to turn it down. In that case I will | be out in uniform again.” ANDRIA, Va., November 3.— [ Cobh is the third \’Ncr:;n r?lmsrtz z cer by Manager Mack since the close o ebiE L Y laas Baby Doll' Jacobson and | , will play for the Colum- ;2% SCEE C0 Y he others | bia Engine Company this season. | it Avaanaris e senoet ne wite SLATTERY 1S NAMED ier.menes tor ine Nt | MANAGER OF BRAVES | ball club of the Virginia State League. | Charles Corbett is arranging five | By the Associated Press, boxing bouts for the joint business and | BOSTON, November 3.—John T. social meeting of Alexandria Post, No. | Slattery, former hig leazue star. scout 24, American Legion, at the Armory |and more recently coach of Boston Hall Friday night. The boxers who | College. is to he Dave Bancroft's suc- will show in the matches will be se- | or as manager of the Boston Na- | | | lected from Fort Humphreys and League base ball team. Washington, while two of Alexan- | President Emil E. Fuchs in making dria’s colored fighters also will hook tlh:; announcement _expressed the be- 5 ief that Slattery would bring new B strength to the trailing Braves. The Manager Dick Carne of the Alexan- | arrangement for one yea g s dria Gazette Newsbovs' eleven has | Slattery broke into big-time base booked a game with the Chevy Chase | ball here 25 years ago as catcher for A. C. of Washingion for Saturday |the Red Sox. From Boston he went morning at 11:30 o'clock in the Dread- llo ll;le ‘}" d_r fox ar;ud (lhen u:i(he ?' naught Park. Louis Cardinals and afterward to the e Washington Senators, where he caught Mike Goldman, former Alexandria | Walter Johnson when the latter was High School student, is proving a bul- | at his heyde: wark in the front line of the un-| He took to college coaching in 1916, defeated George Washington foot ball | when he guided Tufts College nine team this Fall. chrough two successful seasons. Later e 4 he served as head coach of the Har- Coach Buck Beach has ordered all | yarq nine for five years and for three ofl the Virginia A. C. gridders to re- | years™ 12 een” at- Boston College port for the practice tomorrow night | kor five vears he has coa i 790 0 4 i ) oached and at 7:30 ocl‘fk at the intersection of | i.outed for the Braves King and Lee streets, = George Mason High School will fur- TRAPSHO'I; ]’(fiqg FiNED. nish Alexandria scholastic fans with < an _attraction tomorrow afternoon | SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, Novembher 3 while Alexandria High is idling. The | #.—Charles A. Young. winner of suburban vouths are to play the War- | the 1926 grand American handicap renton, Va., High School eleven in |trap shooting competition, has been Dreadnaught Park. fined T‘)r.’ and costs hecause his prow- 2 —_— ess with a gun led him afoul of the Episcopal High School faces Vir-|game laws. He was charged with ginia Episcopal School of Lynchburg. |possessing song birds and game killed Va., here Saturday. The game will |out of season, and was said 1o have be played on Hoxton Field at 3:30. shot a robin and a rabbit, WOMEN IN SPORT “BY CORINNE FRAZIER 71!¢SON NORMAL SCHOOL Basket ball ' practice will be held | basket ball teams are put-|next Tuesday night at the Eastern ting the finishing touches | High School at 8:30 and each Tues- to their games preparatory | day thereafter until further notice, to the opening of the inter-|according to Becky Kronman, public- sectional series on Wednesday, No;|ity manager. vember 9, i ie O 1, E ity ot anaser T noDael | vrkdiaa leb i orss IWastington 0AL- junior manager. - Five teams are entered, represent. |Versily are organizing an athlstic as-| ing the following sections: 13A-1,|S8ociation whigh will include the ath- 13A-2, 13A-3, 13B and 14A-3. letic council rnow in operation. Pre- Opening the series on November 9, | liminary plans were laid at a meeting | 13A-3 and 13A-1 will clash, The complete schedule follows: of the council last night. Mrs. Virginia Hopkins Russell, di- rector of the physical education de- .| partment, is heartily in favor of the | | new organization seeing in it a means | of encouraging greater participation in sports and an opportunity for rais- | |Ing “the standards of women's ath.| letics at the university. Under the | will meet Thursday night at Walter | new system, George Washington will | Reed Hospital at 8:30 for the purpose | adapt methods of developing co-ed ac- | ing on the gridiron regularly for 30 years. Everybody Happy as Barnard Takes American I‘eague Reins sports as follows: Elizabeth Clark, By the Associated Pres today started his first year as president and treasurer of the Ameri- can League surrounded hy friendship, | co-operation and prosperity. Unlike the former “czar” of the Junior circuit, Ban Johnson, who reno- vated a poorly-paying Western League into the American I8ague in 1900 at a rhaky =alary of $5,000 a vear and amidst threats of ruin from the haughty National League, Barnard began office with a three-year contract 2t a salary understood to be $40,000 a Year and with the well wishes of those who control professional base ball in America. When Johnson and his coterie of edventurers started the American league, it was the National circuit | that owned the bigger parks and the contracts for base hall's greatest satellites. Today, the American J.eague sports the largest parks, the world championship and probably the greatest drawing card since base ball e Ruth, Like Johnson, the new president is a former Ohio newspaper sports editor, and, in accepting the league presi. | dency after a unanimous vote by the league’s hoard of directors yesterday. promized to adhere to the general principles. | “The American League has a rich | ball captain: Judith Steele, swimming, HICAGO, November 3.—1In| vivid contrast to the begin.| . s ning of his predecessor's long | {F it by a great leader,” he said, “and | Holton Arms and Madeira hockey reign, Ernest Sargent Barnard | the organization must keep these |teams will clash in their annual tiit | of electing officers. A full attendance | tivities similar to those used at the | is urged. foremost universities of the country with the aim of fulfilling the require- ments for membership in the Athletic Council of College Women. Members of the executive hoard of the Athletic Association appointed last night include managers of the various rifle; Alice Adams, hockey; Florence Merriam, fencin; Julia Demming. baeket ball; Louise Omwake, basket inheritance in the high ideals created | "0 Margaret Loeffler, tennis. | {ideals constantly in mind as a guide | ©0 Friday, November 18, on the El- {to the successful conduct of its affairs. | lipse field, according to an announce- | The rise of the American League to | ment just received from the respective its present strength and influence has | Coaches, Miriam Faries and Hazel | been largely due to Mr. Johnson's|Sayre. | demand for clean, sportsmanlike con. | A new costume consisting of dark | duct on the playing field, and his vig. |blue tunics with wkite blouses will be {orous handling of every situation |adapted by the Holton Arms eleven. that menaced the inte ity of the |These should form a striking contrast sport. 1 have always been In thor- |to the scarlet and white of the Ma- ough accord with these principles, and | deira_squ as long as T am head of the American League, there will be no change in | this general policy.” The new president is 53 years old |and a former foot ball coach. He went to the Cleveland Base Ball Club | a8 secretary in March, 1903, and has since been with the organization as vice president, business manager and, finally, president. He still holds the latter title as the sale of the Cleveland club to a group of millionaires had not been completed today, However, he has handed in his resignation, and | will dispose of his stock, an action necessary to serve as American | League president | Willlam Harridge, for 15 years pri- }\'nla Recretary t Johnson, was ap- | pointed secretary of the league, a | newly created position. His contract also reads for three years. Champion Dundee Is Favored To Win From Hudkins Tonight By the Associated P )8 ANGELES, November 3.—A blond thatched youth of Hudking, long ranked the top-notchers and possessing a record encompass- ing seven years within the pugilistic ring, tonight will have his first fling at_a world championship. The youth, who came here three vears ago from Nebraska an un- known., will challenge the right of |@0ubledly would tip the scales some Joe Dundee, Baltimore Italian, to the [three pounds below the required welterweight title the latter snatched a few months ago from Pete Latzp, the Scranton miner. The bout {s|Mickey Walker, present middlewelght &cheduled to go 10 rounds. the rite among those who did their backing with money. Both Hudkins and Dundee were| Hud! equa confident. Dundee xaid that While he expects a tough battle from| Dundee, the taller of the two, also his “wildcat” foe, there is littla douht in his mind but that his defense of |semsing a pan of 70 inches, compared the crown would be successful, The fight will bring together two| Dundee has heen guaranteed $60,. tingmen whose styles are similar in|000. Hudkins will get 1213 per one respect—both are masters at the [cent of the gate, which, Promoteg, lnflgh'lg‘l game, Hudkins usually | Dick Donald exnects, will be more #tarts his charging tactics with the | than $100.000, wilh some 30,000 fans in ©pening bell. This he counts in his|attendance, u.‘ " As usual the fistic monarch reigned |MONths ago, and battled Latzo. Hud- favor, hoping to batter Dundee into submission before the slow-starting champion has time to warm up. Both scemingly were in top-notch physical condition, the result of rigor ous conditioning they have undergone for several weeks. = They ed 1o make 147 pounds or less at weighing. in time at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon, Dund his retinue believed, un- poundage, his best fighting weight. 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