Evening Star Newspaper, November 17, 1927, Page 40

40 SP ORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 17. .1927.° 'SPORTS.’ Flowers Dies With Prayer On Lips : War Against Syndicate Base Ball Looms FIGHTER FAILS TO RALLY AFTER MINOR OPERATION Heart Collapses After Tiger Had Been Thought Out of Danger—Negro Who Had Held Middleweight + Title Was in Nearly 200 Bouts. ciated Pross. SW YORK, November 17.— With a praver on his lips, Theodore (Tiger) Flowers, the Praying Deacon” of the prize ring, died in a private hospil . last night after a minor operation. Clad in the “Tiger” bathrobe ber the huge vellow head of a jun; across the shoulde familiar in rings all over the count taciturn Georgia negro who on the world middlew mpionship went to the opera 2 in the sanitarium of Dr. Fralick undergo an ope for a growth over his right eve. As the anesthetic ministered the Tiger church at Atlanta, Ga “If T should die bef pray thee, Lord, my soul to take. Without regaining more than semi- consciousness after the operation, per- formed by Dr. Fralick, Flowers died suddenly at 8:30 p.m., when his heart collapsed after he had been thought out of danger. ,The surgeon pro- nounced his death due o status Iymphaticus. Little more than a vear ago, Tlarry ho lost his title to Flowers in jon bout son Square Garden February died under similar circumstances after an opera- tion for removal of bone from his Flowers lost his crow v Walker on a 10-round dec December 3. 1 was being ad- deacon In his murmured re 1 wake d Came Suddenly Dr. Fralick said that Flowers’ death was “1 case in 100,000.” He said the boxer was in splendid condition before_the operation and had rallied well. Death occurred o suddenly, Dr. Fralick said. that he was unable to reach the patient’s side from another Toom at the call of a second physi- cian before the d come. The cojorful whose fistic eareer extended over nine been a unique figure in A clever, speedy Attack that never once slackened, de- “spite setbacks, he fousht 120 f before winning the 160-pound title. {He was 32 years old and fought all #the leading middleweights of his time, ny light-heavyweights and a few vyweights. = In the last year he fought 19 times Swithout Joss in a campaign to force #Mickey Walker back into the ring “for another title match. Only yes day, Madison Square Garden autho fties served notice on Mickey Walker that he must agree to meet Flowe _under® terms of an old contract or al measures would be taken to . v ing about the match. at the tifle that the “Tiger” under- paigning had left bunches of hard- ight ear, which were reduced by erating room,” Miller d, “and he —was in splendid shape, but quiet as 'mle that he had carried in his grip over his eves hurt when he was hit, mow ?” I asked him before he took the “That was the third remark this and tid. rlier in the day, Flowers made his will. leaving property val- ued at about $100,000 to his wife and f-vear-old daughter, Vera Lee, in Atlanta.” In Nearly “200 Battles. born in Camilla, Ga., ; ring career that stretched through almost 200 battles he meat defeat frequently, but al- came back to battle harder for advancement. Twice he suffered ockouts at the hands of Jack De laney and Mike McTigue won a de »n_from him hefore the title fight with Greb, He retained the title in 1 _second fight with Greb in Ausust, 1926. In his entire career, Flowers suffered eight knockou owers wound up his career la Saturday night here with a_four. round knockout of Leo Gates, Indian heavyweight. Only a few nights bhe- fore he had fought Maxie Rosen- hloom, New York middleweight, to a INTERCITY SOCCER GAMES ARE LISTED| t ccer games have | local flelds on Five intercity been scheduled for Thanksgiving d; All of the invading elevens will | come from Baltimore, one of the lead- rcer centers of the ¥ v Con- cord and Capital elevens will meet teams representing the Wingfoot Club, Army Medicos will battle West ¥nd: another strong team from the Ma land ¢ The latter game will he plaved at Walter Reed Ilospital field, while the other 4 games will be staged on the Monument Grounds. Arrangements call for return games at Baltimore on Christmas day. “BARLEY” ]EAIN IS DEAD. RICHMOND, Va., November 17.— Charles E. Kain, better known to the public as “Barley” Kain, for many vears a_well known base ball player, died at his home here vesterday after n illness of several months. He was 59 years old. In his heyday Kain play- ed on the the teams that had such | stars as Chesbro. Kid Eberfeld, Lefty “lynn and “Pop” Tate. NET BODY TO DIifl'E. Washington Tennis Association hblds its first annual supper-smoker tonight at 8 o'clock at the Racquet Club. Many notables of the tennis world will "attend. Prizes won in tournaments here the past season will be distributed GALLAGHER GETJS BOUT. John 8. Blick, manager of Marty Gallagher, local light heavywelght, has announced that the latter will make his debut at Madison Square Garden December 1 in a six-round pre- liminary to a main event not yet an- nounced. Gallagher's opponent has not been named. ROCKVILLE SOCCER VICTOR. Upper Marlboro High School soccer team, Prince Georges County, Md., champion, vesterday was eliminated from the State title series when de- feated by Rockville High, Montgom- Had Suffered Headaches. Tt w preparation for this shot want yesterday's operation, Walk Mil- Jory. his manager said. Years of cam- fl cartilage over Flowers’ eves, he i as well as a slightly caulifiowes %F‘ lick. ™1 went with Flowers into the op- acted just as thouzh he were going Tinto the ring for an easy fight. He wtver. He took along the little black Z¥Xherever he had gone. He had had “headaches lately and the bunches “but we expected no trouble. * “Have you anything to talk over anaesthetic. *'No, sir,’ he replied. fellow, who talked but rarely, had made to me in the whole day. Once ery County's representative, in a 2.0 game on Rosedale playground. STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE The year 1929 will probably see the leading amateur golfers of the East nd Midwest turning their faces to- ward the setting sun and San Fran- =cisco to ¢ompete in the first national = ehampionship ever held on the Pacific #Coast. Out of the New Yo of the United States Golf Association - Comes the word that it is virtually set- led the San Francisco Golf and Coun- ¥try Club will get the amateur plum in the association’s first great experi- ment of holding the national title chase on the West Coast. stern golfers who hold that their eourses are far and away superior to those of the land of the setting sun are in for a surprise when they see % the many magnificent links which dot A California and the Pacific Coast up to nadian border, according to men “ who have played over most of them & From the splendid Pebble Beach c: Monterey to Waverley at o M. Standifer developed his game, the coast is dotted with courses that compare favorably with the best In tha East. And the quality of golf played in the Far West is not behind that of the Kast, barring the impeccable Bob . Jones, whose lone defeat in the ama- - teur classic in four years of comp tition came from a Pacific Coast golfer —George Von Eim. The West has its Bob Stein, the Western open cham- pion; H. Chandler Egan, twice a na- tional amateur title holder; Rudolph . Wilhelm, Dr. O. F. Willing, Jac & Neville, H. A. Flaeger and the great * Von Elm, who stands in second place £ In the official national ranking of the #» United States Golf Association. kast- orn entrants in tha 1929 title chase will be certain to find ample competi- tion from the men who_have grown ! up with the game on the Pacific Coast. Never before hax a national cham- . pionship gone West of Minneapolis and St. Louis, and the forthcoming transfer of the amateur is decidedly in the nature of an expergnent, but &n experiment that in the view of 4] A. ofticials s ¢ ain 1o _turn DECATUR headquarters POTOMAC TIRE CO. 28R &M Sts. — 2417-14%St. Speedometer Trouble? We Repair All Makes CREEL BROS. 181117 14th St. Pot. 473 Representing 48 Leading Manufacturers of Auto_Ei BOWIE RACES Nov. 14 to 26, Inc. First Race 1:00 Special trains leave White House Station, W., B. & A, every 15 minutes after 11:13, out to the advantage of the game. For many years the powers that be in Western golf have clamored for a big championship in the far West— fruitlessly—until George von Elm trounced Bob Jones and won the ama- teur title last at Baltusrol. a, the 1. S, . turned Dtive ear to the urgent requests of the Pacific Coast delegation and virtually promised the 1929 champion- ship to California. Now, according to word from the parent body, the wheels are all greased to place the championship two years hence in the land of the setting sun. It may fe low that the open championship m: be held in California or another far Western State in future vears, for the professionals of the West are indeed not inferior to those of the Iast. Harry Cooper of Los Angeles tied for the national open last June, losing in the play-off to Tommy Armour and Mortie Dutra_of Seatile has been a consistent winner against = Eastern professionals at match play. . Alec Taylor, professional golfer at the Suburban Club of Baltimore, has resigned his post, effective about Janu- ary 1. His successor has not been named. nor has it heen disclosed with what club Taylor is to be associated only. Dux Back Utiea Coats $3.50 Western iy Shells Open Until Direct to grandstand. 9PM, something 1| Parker V. H., 16-ga ge >, Parker Trogan; formerly I NN = $5150 ............. ! f Winchester Pump; for- merly $43.30....... formerly $29.00 formerly $12.00.... $10.00 25 in box FRENCH’S 424 Ninth St. N.W, PRO BASKET LEAGUE OFFICIALS SELECTED William “Chuck” Salador of New- LN, Dr. Louis Sugarman of hiladelphia _and William “Buck” Snyder of Pittsburgh have heen ap- pointed official referees for the Amer- ienn Basket Ball League, aceording to information received today from the office of the league’s president, Joe . Carr of Columbus, Ohio. assignments for the opening & have as vet been made, but it is likely t Sugarman, who starred a pro baskeler for vears hefore taking up officiating. will handle the the local 1 Sunday night at the Arcadia when Washington clashes ith Rochester. “Littla s known by fans of Amer- ican Basket Ball League cities about Suyder, but as he comes from a city where pro basket ball has heen in existence many vears, it is presumed that he will be thoroughly fitted for his_position, s The addition of Howard A. Meyers, rd _and guard, to 19-year-old forw the Washington squad gives Manager Ray Kennedy some much needed re- serve strer The voungster, as <oon ns he reported vesterday from his home in nton, Pa., jumped into @ uniform and literally burned up the Ar court with his flashy plaving, Kennedy and Rusty Saunders to- morrow afternoon will settle their £30 het that the latter cannot catch 1 basket ball dropped 200 feet. Roh- ert Funkhouser of the Capital Air- ways, Inc. has offered a plane and pilot to drop the sphere over the Airwavs flying field on the site of the old Arlington race tr stunt is scheduled for 3 p.m. WALKER-BERLENBACH GO IN ILLINOIS APPROVED CHICAGO, November 17 (#).—The Tllinois State Athletic Commission has approved a 10-round catchweight hout between Mickey Walker, middleweight champion, and Paul Berlenbach, one- time holder of the -pound title, for the Coliseum on November Promoter Jim Mullen said the match v was set for Los Angeles, but ck Kearns, Walker's manager, refused to go through with it on the Coast after the Dundee-Hudkins flasco. My Sullivan of St. Paul and Tommy Freeman of Cleveland, welterweights, have been matched for the 10-round semi-windup. S HILADELPHIA.—Battling Levin- sky, Philadelphia, won from Matt Adgie, Philadelphia (10). Harry Blit- man, Philadelphia, ed San San- chez, Mexico (10). Will Matthews, Bal- timore, knocked out Gunboat Wil liams, Norfolk, Va. (4). Al Gorman, Philadelphia, knocked out Jack Black- burn, Baltimore (4). Plays in 70’s Using Only His Right Hand BY SOL )IE'_IZGER WITH Hi% | 100 WITH RIGHT HAND | HIS LEFT EAT BOBBY JONES o gmm BOTH When Willie Macfarlane defeated Bobby Jones for the United States Open title in their memorable play- oft at Worcester under a sweltel ing sun, few knew that he was one of the keenest students of the game in the world. Macfarlane, tall but not robust, quiet and unas- suming and with a keen love for golf, has few theories about the game. What he knows he has learned from experimenting. There is a theory that the left hand is the controlling one in play- ing our strokes. .Jones says that if he has the feeling that his left is doing the hitting his irons work perfectly. But Macfarlane knows the right must do the stuff that ball behave and travel, for plays rounds with either his exclusively. Not only that, but with his right hand he shoots in the 70s, whereas with his left he makes the course in 100, Maybe that does not prove any thing. On the other hand, it is better than circumstan evidence as testimony of the fact that our hitting is done very much with the right hand. — TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN'S, 7th & F AROUND 11y of High-Grade GUNS 35 4.50 542.50 53 8.50 B. 38.50 Excell, S. B.; formerly 57.00 Leather Hunting Boots—15inch $8 to $22.50 Formerly $64 Iver Johnson, D. B.; Iver Johnson, S. Expert 85¢ too much. Since the stock was in another name, base ball investigators would have had a hard time getting to the bottom of things There are also instances in the minor leagues in which the stock holders of one club have heen com- pelled to back another club to a ain extent to keep the league in tence. No league sound all its clubs are independent v 1d able to car on with In the major clubs that have been I since the war and some of them have had to make fices to get along. It a major league were so hard hit that ene or two of its clubs had to ive funds, it is pretty certain that the league would see that they got funds, whether the advisory council knew about it or not. At one time in the history of the National League it was in such straits that it conld not meet certain payments and the money was advanced in the emer- geney by a well known husiness firm. e proposed legislation declares that loans or holdings approved by the advisor, permis ble, but th inst the litions of * the League has never permitted any other ion to learn sabout Nation gue busine: taken hefore the advisory coun- il. the American League would come | | TIGER DID HIS PRAYING AFTER FIGHT WAS OVER NEW YORK, November 17 (#). , the “Praying Dea- who died here last night after an operation, was fearful of the effects of pre-battle prayers upon his ring ecareer. He never prayed before a fight or never read the little black Bible | which he carried with him every- where, He explained this by saying: “I couldn’t pray to the Lord for vie- tory before a fight because T might meet a better man, a stronger man, and lose. Then I might think that the Lord hadn’t answered my pray- ers and I might be tempted to doubt Him. So I always wait, and when the fight is over T thank God for the strength that brought me afely through, and then I read v Bible.” EBERTS TO REFEREE ALEXANDRIA MATCH ALEXANDRIA, Va., November 17. —Dutch Eberts, former Catholic Uni- versity foot ball and basket ball star, will referee the court contest here turday night between the Palace pros of Washington and Old Dominion Boat Club. The game will be plaved in the Armory Hall, starting at 8:30 | p.m. Sergt. McBride, foot ba basket ind base ball star at t Hum- . who has been transferred to was given a farewell dinner ast night by officers and members of his regiment. FINANCIAL GYMNASTICS N MAJORS FROWNED ON A'dvisory‘Council Recommends Measure Forbidding Stock Juggling, Buit Measure Is Likely to Be Bitterly Opposed in Leagues. ‘ ball BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, November 17.— Stock _juggling _and various other forms of financial gym- nastics are at present occup ing the attention of the advis- ory council, which wields the big stick at times in organized base ball. So many toes are likely to be stepped on by the council's proposed correctiv measures that the resulting probably will be heard from coast to coast. The council has just closed its Chicago conference by proposing to set the player limit at 40 for any one cl other club without the_council, This action, it has been intimated, was intended as a rebuke to the poli: cies by which the Am stabilized itself under the tion of Ban Johnson. It is just as much a rebuke to the National League, whose history throughout has heen one of strong clubs ing weaker clubs At one time there were three men who were interested in four National League clubs, and without them the league would have stopped instantly. 1t is well known that one-club of the National League, which at one time possessed a policy that did not seem to make headway, not only con- trolled a' second club inside the league, but was on the way to buy control of a third. It is true that the club in question did not list the stock holdings in the name of the controlling corporation. That would have been the approval of . of Washington, has 4 its foot ball game for Sun. |day with Virginia A. C. and it is thought that the Reina Mercedes team of Annapolis, Md., will be brought | here. Herbert Knight, former Alexar High School athletic star, will offi in the Alexandria Fire Department Prep-Marion A. C. grid battle on Hay- don Field Sunday afternoon. SHARKEY TO BE HEARD. NEW YORK, November 17 ck key. Boston heav . will voluntarily appear before the | - New York Boxing Commission tomor- to possession of facts regarding the | row and submit his injured left hand finances of the National League. | for examination he new advisory council, composed 1 of Commissioner Landis and the pres- idents of the two major leagues, rec- ommends a measure which will forbid any league official or the owners of any club in any league to become stockholders in another club or clubs or become guarantes or surety for any Coach De Grossa of St. Mary's Celtic basket ball squad has named Eddie Gorman, former Georgetown fresh. one of the com- man plaver, captain. Men who per- The advisory council's main pur- | mission’s doctors,” his manager. 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