Evening Star Newspaper, November 15, 1927, Page 40

C. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1927. SPORTS. SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. Major-Minor Base Ball Scrap Soon On : Tunney Is Not Under Rickard’s Thumb STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE | CHAMP DECLARES RIGHT ’wmn NOT ALWAYS AGE RULE AT oxmno' TO ARRANGE FOR FIGHTS BAD FOR LINKSMEN ~ MAY HIT AMERICANS lar at Congressional and elsewhere £ throughout the city and Congressional . . Tex Cannot Dictate Terms to. Him, Asserts Holder of . | according to a statisticlan who has sports, which hitherto has been fre- | just eompleted a study of all the quent and considerable, is seriously officials will think a long time before letting him go. In addition, Armour has virtually a free hand in disposi- H 9 World Title—Wants to Know of Dempsey’s | Scores made over the fourth courea (hreatened by the new. athletic age |of the Olvmpla Fields ountry Club !limit rule which came into force with the opening of the present term. tion of his time, as the national open champion should have. He has had | lurirg the professional championahip in 1925 and the Western Open last! According to H Wiley. LITTLE LEAGUES TO TEST CONTROL BY BIG LEAGUES Will Again Challenge Divine Right to Boss Great| National Pastime Assumed by Major Circuit T won't be long now before the van- guard of the professionals and amateurs who Winter in Florida and California—the snow dodge: —start traveling South to p are for the rich pickings that await the professionals, and the multitude of tournaments offered for the amateurs. Again this year a traveling troupe of professionals will make the big swing around the circuit through California | By the Associated Press An il | OXFORD, England, November 14.- | wind blows ‘even a golfer some good. ' American participation in Oxford an eminently. successful year since June, when he won the national wpen, Owners During Dallas Convention. Business Relations With Promoter. chair- BY GEORGE CHADWICK. EW YORK, November 15 —When the minor leagues assemble in annual convention at Dallas, Tex., next month and once again challenge tha @ivine right of the major league owners to boss the great mnational game, a test of strength will develop which will illustrate the truth of that neat old wheeze about the big fellow eating the little fellow. The minor league: will greater freedom to get players v they probably will find that they can’'t get a unanimous vote on the very points which they declare are so vital to their future well-being. And why? Well, the m: within the past two years have been gradually eating into minor _I@ugu!' territory. They have been biting off a chunk here and a chunk there—not any of the base bail Delongs to the smaller circuits, but by buying club stock among the minors when the buying emed o be good g "o instance. there is the Pacific Coast League, where major league in- fluence is powerful. The Los Angeles Club is owned by Willlam Wrigley, who also owns the Chicago Cubs and the Reading Club of the International League. Mr. Wrigley has built a beautiful base ball stand for Los Angeles. His young men plaved pleasing politics in the league until they reduced its mileage by eliminating Salt Lake City and putting two clubs in Los Angeles and two in San Francisco. Los Angeles Balks. ed. It will not it should, to say jor leagues Tos Angeles has ba support one club a nothing of two, and for a city that has produced so many good ball players and has splurged all over the map with its growing population, it returns less base ball enthusiasm than any other city in the United States. So base ball men say, at least. San Fran- cisco seems to have done quite well with its two clubs, but Frisco is essen- tially a city of athletes and athletics. Go ask Golden Gate Park. The American Association major league capital invested in it even when it was denied that this was #0. The Toledo club was backed by the owners of the New York Giants, despite assertions to the contrary. The ownership of the ball ground was re- corded in the county office of Toledo in the name of New York -National | League men. ‘The £t. Paul club denles that the New York Yankees own a penny’'s worth of its stock. It was said the Yanks did own the club or some part of it because Bob Connery, the Yankee * scout, bought an interest in St. Paul But Connery is said to be there on his own, although he will give the Yan- kees first cell on a player. Minneapolis has no major league in its club. hor has Kansas nor Louisville. Indianapolis has e y close (6 the majors, and the Columhus Club i awned by the Cin- einnati Reds. That gives the National League entry into American Associa- ton affairs. In the [nternational League, the Reading Club _is owned outright by Mr. Wrigley. Toronto toses on its own account and so do Buffalo and Roches- ter, aithough Buffalo does plenty of dim demand | bat | | for_hase ball. | |and it is that very thing which pro- business with major clubs that desire |1 to option players. The new Montreal | f Club kas no affiliation and Newark is absolutely Independently owned and | s0 is Baltimore. The Syracuse Club is controlled by the St. Louis Nationals, and St. Louis 1ls0 trols the Houston Club of the Texas League. It owns the Danville Club of the Three Eye League and is said to he grounded in the Western | Association. Once it had its fingers on tie pulse of the Fort Smith Club. The St. Louis Club's policy is not popuiar with the minors and the Texas League virtually has served notice on it to ge' out of Houston and permit local capital to control the club. Yet the Texas League men will branch out this year by going into a lesser league to be formed in Ohio. They will con- trol the Akron Clib. The territory | around Akron once was very strong t dl v de i The majors say they take up the|* minor clubs to develop players and to have a place where they may transfer their surplus, That keeps the surplus out of the common market, as it were, duces so much dire part of the minors. They accuse the majors of hogging everything. | Both the majors and the minors | must have players and in the scramble to obtain them there are devious methcds and processes of manipulation and trades involved so that they look like a crazy quilt. All this notwith- standing the eagle eve of Commis- sioner Landis that surveys all the base ball world. complaint on the (Convright. 1927.) TEAM TWO LAPS AHEAD | IN SIX-DAY-BIKE GRIND| DETROIT, Mich., November 15 (). | —The Belgian-American team. of | Beekman and Debaets, with 536 miles, | held the lead today in the thirty fourth lap of the six-day bicycle races which got under way in Olympic Arena here Saturday. Two laps behind was the American team of Hanley and Gaffney. The French duo of Faudet and Marcillac held third position, one lap behind the American team. SINGING GRID TEAM. By the Associated Press, APPLETON, Wis., November 15 Lawrence College’s foot ball team en- xages in lusty singing as a regular part of practice sessions. Coach Mark H. Catlin says it's a great builder of morale. Anything is warbled, from jazz to classics. SRR BOXER'S JAW BROKEN. NEW YORK, November 15 *(#).— John Indrisam, 21, Boston lightweight, suffered a fracture of the jaw last night in his battle with Clyde Hall of South Dakota, in the amateur houts at Madison Square Garden. He was *aken to Polyclinic Hospital. PTOMEY WHIPS SHAFER. CUMBERLAND. Md., November 15. —In a 10-round bout here last night Willie Ptomey, all-service champion, of Washington, D. C., handily out- pointed K. O. Shafer of Pittshurgh. yearly in Janu Armour picked up the national open and C: brother Ale: ficial Tommy has a lu Conaressional, which gives him leave of absence from the club on Dec 15, but picks 1 and back to Florida ebr pping oft in Texas, Ouisi; jeorgia to pick up ‘ew money plums on the way. Tommy of Congressional, who has adian open titles since last Winte: will be one oi the traveling troupers Meanwhile his in open up an in- ew York City, the the trip, will a; col in 0 make oor golf scl same location he had last vear Rumor has it that Tommy may not |be with the Congressional Club’ next ear, although there Hhs been no of- indication that he will leave. ative contract with mber his services again on arch 15. He has already turned lown a number of tempting offers rom other clubs to remain with the Washington organization and the ru- mors that he is to leave shortly prob- bly amount to nothing. Expert Says Pivot Matter of Strength FULL PIVOT IF STRONG ARMS GHORA PivoT BY SOL METZGER. There is a deal of argument among golfers over the matter of pivoting. If you watch Mac Smith or Willie Macfarlane drive or pla: a brassie you will be convinced that a full pivot is the trick. But if you happen to See Tommy Armour follow, as T did at the recent U. S. open, and lace one off the tee some 260 yards without any pronounced body pivot, you will have all of your conceptions of pivoting knocked into a cocked hat. Golf is sometimes a matter of contraries. This is true of the pivot. Why is it, you wonder, that players as splendid as Smith and Macfarlane pivot fully and a star like Tommy Armour has a much more abbreviated one, yet gets jusi the same distance? Macfarlans explai it clearly He claims that players like himsel who lack power in hand and fingers have to use a full pivet to get di: 4ance, whereas golfers like Tomm)y Armom, with powerful hands and forearms, can get distance without s0o much pivot, their strength giv- ing it to them. =1 K- and although his earnings cannot be accurately stated, they are said to he in the neighborhood of the $60,000 mark since he hecame the national open champion. On this basis, he should pick up somewhere in the neighborhood of $100,000 from his twin titles, Standing ont from the hackground of the Fall season is the record of Fred McLeod, diminutive Columbia Country’ Club mentor, whose ‘“come- back," after several seasons of com- parative ohscurity as a tournament | winner, has been one of the sensa- tions of the vear. Although he did not annex a major title, McLeod won the Maryland open at Hagerstown and tied for the Middle Atlantic open, only to lose in a play- off before the crushing strength of Leo Diegel's game. It has heen sev- eral years since McLeod figured prominently in open tournaments, and his showing has been extremely grati- fying to fhe friends of the man who held the national open back in 1908. A muscular ailment which both- ered him considerably over the last two years has virtually heen con- | quered, and McLeod has regained the putting touch which made him one of the hest putters in the game a few vears agn. This, combined with his ac- curacy from the tee and through the fairway, has hrought the Columbia instructor again into the winning ranks. 'PHILS HOLD RECORD IN AVOIDING BLANKS No new mafor league record fnrl avoidance of shutouts was established | by the Yankees this year when they | were only kept from the plate once, and then by Lefty Grove after they had plaved 129 games. Tn 1894 neither the Boston nor Phil adelphia National League clubs was blanked. that heing the year Hugh ! Dufty piled up his batting average of .438." The next four leading hitters belonged to the Phillies. ‘The Phillies own a non-shutout rec- ord that may endure for all time, since they were only whitewashed onc in 1893 and once in 1895, a total of two |blankings in three seasons. The pitchers who turned the trick were Kid Nichols of Boston and Theodore Breitenstein of St. Louis. Detroit in 1886 was the first club to be shut out only once in a ¢hampion- ship season. Seven years later the Philiies and Pirates had a vecord of this kind. In their defeat without tallies the Corsairs went 10 innings before accepting it. The last team to be whitewashed only once prior fo the Yankees was Cincinnati in 1896, - The Reds went {along getting runs in cach game un. il August 11, and then Adonis Rill { Terry of Chicago dumped them into | Whitewash Creek. National League teams that did not |issue a single set of ciphers in a sea json were Cleveland in 1899 St. Louis and Brooklyn in 1898, Washington in | 1898, 1895 and 1894, and Chicago in 1894, By the Associated Press. EW YORK. November 15. smiling Gene Tunney who left two weeks ago for an outing at Racquette Lake, N. Y. was back in town today zhting ‘mad” and ready to declare war on Tex Rickard. The reason was business activities with Jack Demp- sey” and its result was a new type of Tunney, whose eves flashed angrily as he talked with jaw tilted pugna- ciously “I have no definite statement to make at this time,” Gene said grimly, “pending the result of investigations I am making in regard to Rickard's business activities with Dempsey. But you can het everything you own that things in the heavyweight champlon- ship fight situation in 1928 will not turn out the way Mr. Rickard hopes and thinks they will Tunney declared that although he wishes to fight three times in 1928, he will not see the promoter for some time, and then only to arrange for the single battle Rickard's contract calls for in the coming yea “If I only fight once it will be be. ~The “Tex Rickard's canse T get licked in the first hout and retire,” he said. “After all, 1| am heavyweight champion of the world and the champion should have something to say about where and ! when and whom he fights. | I have lost money and put myself | in embarrassing and critical positions | |bofore by being too trustful and be- | | lieving every one to be fair and abso- | |lutely honest. From now on 1 am | | looking out for the best interes | |three persons only—and they are |Gene Tunney. Billy Gibson and Bill McCabe. “Rickard claims to have an iron- | {bound contract with me that allows | | him to dictat~ to me about whatever | [ do in my hoxing career. Rut my | contract, drawn by capable lawyers, | protects me and gives me the legal | right as well as the right of the cham- | pion to say something about what I | shall do in my profession. Rickard can dictate to Dempsey and a lot of | other heavyweights, but he can no longer dictate to me. The title holder said he plans to visit Detroit and Cleveland | several weeks nere. About tne middle |of December, he will leave for | Florida for an extended stay. after | BASE BALL BOARD AGAIN FUNCTIONING By the Associated Press, CHICAGO, November 15.—Mori- bund for six years, the major league advisory council has come to life with surprising vigor and formulated a long list of surprising additions to the diamond code, to be submitted to the club owners, both major and minor, at their annual meetings next month Kenesaw M. Landis, base ball com- | miseioner, discussed matters President Hevdler of the National League and E. 8. Barnard, fiew presi- dent of the American League, for many hours vesterday and still there were problems unsettled, carried over to to- day’s session. The frio went over the problems arising since the Ban John- son-Landis dispute caused the virtual dissolution of the council, after 1 . and formulated a rule calculated to block such controversies as las Win- tec’s dispute between Rogers Hornsby transferred to the New York Ciants, and his retention ef St. Louls Cardi- nals stock. No player could own stock even in his own club except under the express approval of the council, the new rule and when transferred he must dispose of his stock or become in- eligible, Clubs or their officers or league offi cials must not loan money or assist in ohtaining loans for another cluh, and loans to umpires by clubs, play- ers or other hase ball chatacters came under the han, Cash presents to umpires for unof. ficial seouting also were forbidden. Players who have heen in the majors for three years cannot be sent back to the minois under option. The new rules will be ready for adoption hy the club owners at their Decomher sessions, with | IMARTY GETS DRAW WITH JOE LOHMAN; | BALTIMORE, November 15.—With | three stirring rounds, Joe Lohman of | | Foledo and Marty Gallagher of Wash. | |ington wound wup their battle last| | 1ight before the Olympia Club, at 104th | Medical Regiment Armory. | 1t was called a draw because the { youngster from the Nation's Capital had taken all that his rival could send | |in seven sessions and retained enough |stamina to force the milling during |the whirlwind periods when the spec- tators stood on their toes and yelled | their_approval. Lohman proved himself to be an ex- | perienced boxer. He bounced Gal- lagher around with unusual speed for 2 heavyweight. But Marty was game | to the core.” He always came back for |more. As a vesult of his willingness |to mix with the veteran. Marty fur | | nished a lot of the action, and. when | ie started his drive he kept Lohman busy The semi-windup also was a very isfactory affair, for Eddie Buell of Washington gained the decision over Joe B:lmont of Baltimore in eight rounds, These little fellows made the tur fly Sailor McKenna ‘of Washington gained the verdict over Andy Kelly {of Baltimore in eight stanzas._. This |bout was the least interesting of the | evening. In the opening setto the only knock out was scored. Ray Bowen delivered | the haymaker on the biscuit of Sailor | Oden in_the Afth round. The sailor | hit the floor once in the third session and fwice in the fifth. Bowen." how aver, was the first to got acquainted with the feel of the floor. He took a count of nine in the opening period, but when he regained his feet he | quickly turned the tables. | | qifenit thy ‘I Summer to determine what effect wind had on scor While tne composite scorss show that playinz Into the wind increased the total some three strokes to the round, the short holes wore m in a lower average mgainsi the hreeze, as the adverse air held the pitched hot on the greenm and prevented overshooting The comparison was made poss ble through the fact that ihe win blew steadily from the North in 17 ana just the epposite this year. al- lowing a compilation of ~aver: scores of the country's leading golfers on every hole, hoth with and against the wind. While there was nota heavy wind in either tourney, a hrisk breeze was at every hale The average rence between playing against nd and with it ranged from .04 3 stroke, except on the short where it reversed the advan- with an average of approx ately .15 stroke gained by plaving inte the breeze. There was only one long hole, the vard fifteenth, where the adverse effect of the air did not show a loss against the wind, and only ort one, the 190-yard eighth. and full iron distance, on Aiff the v | which an adverse wind did not help the score. Both these holes were changed hetween tourneys. The statistician estimated _that ordinary players would have suffered a far greater handicap than these stars and that a strong wind would bly triple the disadvantage to experts. Fights Last Night Bs the Associated Press. NEW YORK.—Hilario Martine: Spain, defeated Andy Divodi, New York (10). Clyde Hull, Dallas, Tex., knocked out Johnny Indressano, Bos- ton (1), Bruce Flowers, New Rochelle. N. Y., outpointed Sammy Vogel, Ne York (10). Joe Glick, Brooklyn, N. Y., defeated Jack Bernstein, Yonkers, N. Y. o). PHILADELPHIA — Tommy Lough- n, Philadelphia, defeated Pat e Carthy, Boston (10). Arthur De Kuh, Italy, knocked out Eddie Renson, Jer- <oy J. (2). Rocky Smith, Bat- tla Creek, Mich., outpointed Vie Brog. Pittsburgh () CHICAGO. — Ignacio Philippines, defeated Harry Forbe: Columbus, Ohio (10). Jack Silver, Francisco, knocked out Howard Lain, Louisville (2). BALTIMORT. — Marty Gallagher, Washington, D. C., and Joe Lohman, Toledo, Ohio, drew ¢10) die Buell, Washington, D. C.. defeated Joe Bel- mont, Baltimore (8). Sailor McKenna, Washington, D. C.. outpointed Andy < . Baltimore (8). Ohio. — Jimmy Jones wn, defeated Jack Britton, New York (10) COLUMBUS. Ohio.—Ter JeMul- lin, Sidney, defeated Mickey Forkins Chicago, on ‘a foul (1) e LOUISVILLE, Ky.~—Cecil Payne, Louisville, defeated Phil O'Dowd. Co- lumbus, Ohio (10). Young Firpo, Louisville, and Bobby Bridges, In- dianapolis. Ind., drew (10). Fernande; n Mc man of the Rhodes Scholarship Fund at Oxford. one-third of this vear's group of American Rhodes scholars | are barred by their age from partici pating in university track athletic an: cross.country runs, and another third may compete for 1 year only. | Under the new rule, which was pro. mulgated at an Oxford-Cambridge co | ference recently, students who are {or more on the day of matriculation— the date of their official admission intn the universitv—are prohibited taking part in athletic conte tween the two major univer ‘Thus far the rule applies to track ath. leties and ¢ untry running only | but 2 movement is under way to ex- tend it to the other sports of rowine rugger. lacrosse, hockey and soccer. in which Americans heretofore have :lnkfln a prominent part. The new rule resulted from scores of protests which followed Oxford s comparatively poor showing last year in sports competitions with Cambridge | Many persons argued that the age and | experience of Rhodes scholars in ath- | leties was driving English student- | athletics to Cambridge. where there was more chance of making the team. {and that Oxford's teams had suffered in_consequence. Wiley “says the regulations will probably have-the effect of inducing | State committees of selection to choosa | Rhodes scholars in the future who |are somewhat younger. American students, he said, are uniformly older than the Rhodes seholars of the do | minions, whose average age is “The new .rule” Wiley say | not at all directed against Americans, and it should not occasion any resent- | ment on the other side. It applies to all students, of whatever nationality. and will have the effect of barrins some excellent English and coloninl | prospective athletes as well. | ' MANDELL TO START SERIES OF BATTLES | By the Associated Press. | _CHICAGO. November 15.—Sammy Mandell, world lightweight champion, starts along the line of important con- | tenders tonight with Spug Mvers, the Idaho whithwind, as his ten-round opponent. although Myers is unahle I by twe or three pounds to make the | championship weight of 135 pounds and hence is ineligible for the crown. Ring experts figure Mancell as the likely winner, unless Mvers lands with | one of his crushing right-hand punch. “| es. The champion has been busy denv | ing that he is a fair mark for a hard right. 1t will be Mandell's first appearance in a Chicagu ring since he took the { title from Rocky Kansas in July, 192 by a ten-round decision. That venture | cost him some $15.000 to complete | Kinsas’ guarantee, and Mandell has [ $ince been touring the wide open | «pay where purses are fair and op- | ponents easy for a_ top-notcher. | The champion has heen developing A right-hand punch of his own, but | said he would rely mostly on his fa- | mouse lightning left jab to carry off | the victor. “ Yale has shut out Harvard 16 times and Princeton 15 times. utmost your cigar C Cadn The ten cents you pay for the Rob! Burns Staple gives youa FULL Havana filler, made from Cuba’s finest leaf. What cigar dime can buy you more ? /