Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1927, Page 37

SPORTS.® THE FEVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, -D. €. TUESDAY,- NOVEMBER 29, 1927 TS, Golf of Vardon, Jones Not Comparable : Piicher Deals May Interest Huggins BATONiASGREAT [P T TEE ] [ oW, THE WISUNDERSTOOD GOLFER | s wit s <ttt TRBE HS TLENT Thres Washinglon amateurs. con OVER PALACE PROS ! tributed notable bits of golf deeds lo-| FREDERICK, Md., November 20.— | | cally during the season which is pass- | Yyou PLAY YOUR Jack Smith and Lar ing into obscurity and will he nn] s GAME AND I'LL |DOESN'T GET W ! NEW YORK, November 29.—Wash-| Washington high school and r | | % e PLAY MINE ington’s professional basket ball team, | basket ball and stars, ha | move within a_week or two. Another, | ‘ v in any local compe- | which dropped its second straight [signed to play with the Cresaps Rifle- | game last night to the Celtics, 40 to[men basket ball team, representing | ct played little golf of | ol ; P Nas A | 48, for its fifth successive defeat in [the local Natonal Guar units, | the American League, will appear in| Smith was a star with Anacosia Champs Would Bolster Box | who did not y | tion, and in any kind around Washington, carried Harry Quite Accurate, but NO the fame of the capital far afield and did something no other amateur from {an exhibition tonight in Hoboken. Eagles rm| sn\;‘r.\! season, l'.;‘m-nm[», c 2 Washington has done in two decades League games will be played in |formerly played with the Knights o ; Scorer Like Bobby | ; semi-final in the ama Philadelphia Thursday and In Roches- | Columbus five and had a trinl with the | orps After Letting | no Rel [t championshiy i on Links Today. | Georse Voigt's' remarkable record | | is the outstanding piece of golf of the Sunday and | Baltimore pro team last Fall. Both ! ved on the local Blue Ridge League | Out Two Vets. and were with nia League last ter Friday and Saturday. Monday the locals will entertain the Celtics at the Arcadia in Washington. | base ball team in 1921 In the only other league game last | Norfolk in the Vir ———— | local vear. as his showing last year| i & merited th me statement night, Chicago scored its first win of | s2ason. | BY JOHN B. FOSTE! BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. Coming up from the South with the season, nosing out Detroit, 15| B ST Al VARDON is the undis:|three Winter erowns resting on his ok 14 EW YORK. November 20— puted hero of the old davs in! black locks, Voigt proceeded to go Superior passing and snappier play C Ve idently under the impres- golf and Bobby Jones of the ::w»w-h x)hr» local field as a hot Knife | generally carried the New Yorkers to Joncs l\(‘eps Lyt‘s | sion vl;)u they have ‘;x‘mw of new. -And 1 some future | throv hutter, winning five rna- | their win over Washington in Madi- | . . | enzth to win another pen- Miar’ comes alans 1o eclipen | mants dn a vow. without being ex. | e tines Garadn lase mEHE: Tot 14| Over Putting Line | | [0 0" 0w o the deeds of the tv B tended. Only in one event did it ap-| starts, Washington has been unable | | Yankees have dropped Bob Shawkey land Dutch Ruether from their list BY SOL METZGER. of pitchers. No doubt the Yanks are |fisurinz on some trades later, but areu- | pear as if he might take a trouncing— abilities | the Indian Spring final, where Pag to beat the Celts. Dave Banks was the big gun in the the st ments parativ of the two will 1 the locker Hufty had him on the run, only tc home team's attack on the cords. 4 Fooms of America Great Britain. wilt re the racy of Voigt" Rusty Saunders, though oft color, and ””i", See Caluceatime s ey il See The old-timers « professional | game 9 Red Conaty. were best for the visit- y lot of good pitching from the re- e e | * 31 the o Clery Chwes it | maining old-timers and the young re- 5 ors. TN otland, usually are en-| more, Columbia and Maryvland—were The score: il wh won without even the hollow pretense Y. (48), Shawkey is the type of pitcher who the side of Va eds and yo their Wash. (40). G Conaty. ri. | Passon. 11 unders, ¢ nks, rg rey. I 1 strug Voigt failed to of the | qualify for the open and in failed in the amateur, hut he came back from in September in time to a his superiority over the i the Distriet amateur can go into a class AA league and pitch zood ball. His delivery is apt 1o baffle the batters who are fust a little weaker than those of the Amer- n League. He has a wide sweep- curve and a round arm motion ¥ Ba argument. this old and new. Var er stylist of his day 1 comparison o don was the ma Jones of the pr nt-era Both play 4 time with a score of 202 Hafors (st e e ATE f r e i hid P PRSI before the hall leaves the hand of &hows hut mperfections. 1t e Referee r. Snider. Umpire—Mr. the pitcher. B e Sk same tournament another LT ki k : v R | Tima of halves—=0 minut Ruether pitched some good hall for Jonger ball than Vardon ever e T | | the Yanks in 1927 uble with ut he is not qn Y accurate . 5 9 | him too I v 4 Lyt el of Columbia, winner e e Mo, A | PRO COURT FIGURES e T e s Sl Vardon is reputed 1o have been more ;u‘m‘ itive light ‘u s m’J»\nl\ has been | A nd often \\1!(‘!\(::\:“'\ol'\"h‘ps";\\l.e‘.m 5: Frdion tn his das won six £ Coars. Stevingon moved ot over pocien et series Dicher since rdon in his day won six SR A hLEed T | | TOUCHED first Cincinnati, when epen championships; Jones in a short- | 1 Spring 4 "'-]H and POINT OF he won a iinst the Chicago er span of tim won four open | par on the third Rochester White Sox. only world series IMPALT stured | A0d_fourth holes. proceeded to shoot | 67, shattering the course record all titles, tied fo wother and ¢ the United States amateur three times. ¥rom a competitive standpoint he | (0 Dits and breaking par by four already has eclipsed the Englishman, | strokes. Five birdies came the way and with his best vears ahead. prob. of Stevinson. who was in one of the ably pang up o chamnionship | BAPDY putting moods the Columbia | record that never will be equaled. imatenr sometimes enjoys. But his New York..... | Philadelphia Washington Cleveland same with the Yankees was pitched in St. Louis in 1 nd he did not pitch at the same tempo as the other ( New York pitch There is an impression in the East o that some of the Cleveland pitchers some of the older pitchers better t other teams n eve- ars ago,” continued this veteran. |0f and putting with the fin 25 2 romped around the W late, or even Iust, to avoid | cluttering me for his greatest yvear, was | [N Fols i Wd preparation for each shot. in fortieth 1 Why 5 ” s W bit un- | <core the following da ovel . X ayne. . v be traded or sold bef Comparison of the two is @ bit un ve the following day moved up in B : e o tt. Then he |Fort Wayne.. It you were to drop a plumb | HaY or sold hefore the fair (e writer was told by a veteran | the neighborhood of 85, and \ois BY 0. B. KE - S L R L putt, | Then he |eniease . e s il U Hawever: clave professional who grew up at W stepped in to win the championship, YRIL. WALKER, I have Dierids open, In @ foursome of | vour game, and 1 |Detroit ....... e L 000} e ‘“;" ‘}“ end of Bobby Jones' | land has not lected a new manager o, and s 3 s a s- LG Japer, 5 S S hata 4 Bl | s | nose when he prepares to putt, the !as yet. and until he is na iy Caotitions et s qimerent | ice J. McCarthy of Washing- A mig | \hich Gene Sarazen, Paddy Doyle he said distinctly. | _GAMES TONIGHT. | Dumb itself would come mighty | Wil not he easy vvv‘fi’l‘llr:1::’|'\e‘ll|\|: ay. Conditions are vastiy different | o {0, G Glorgatonn Lny © . | and the ultimate winner, George | 12 old age doesn’t get you first,” | New York at Philadelphia. | Pl e ns of the team i 3 |T<L‘ M"'ff"'mw‘l ' moli. and while the | Versity. and the lad who gave Bob v Cim | Kerrigan. were the other membe! id Gene. And the incident was Detroit at Fort Wayne. | near to touching the ground at e A rorads etk game | Jones hia only scare in the Mintkahdn | 1rnament arsanFements and stich | ooy iK I Lo ion. anyaay closed GAMES TOMORROW. | the spot where his club is to make |, 0 AmETican League team is hetter Ba Bian miads easier o plar. hampionship. contributed the other | \oUTRAMEIL MEARETITL L T coars | e I Iede e taking his time. But Walker, as T found out later, Detroit at Fort Wayne. | contact with the ball. In other |stam’ than Clevelind. & The 'Indiang Former Conditions Poor. i e e °0e %! he indubitably was u very slow Hadly was IoOKIBEan welth2ah, - IS ILICtd it aeedorsisiomach Cleveland at Chicago. i words, Bobby's eyes are right over |have some voung pitchers who should rmer 3 courses hitting the tre: - i omeiala e 2 e LR s rouble which was keeping his i S L Sl s sl “Courses are vastly improved over mendot s eapat i o e AMmost | amused and philosophic air and | 002 o, wndt dhis wuk Ei REES 1 a0s SmYY. | the ball and the line of the putt. [Uf HAT I the o (ha It S T Slate ardzbn. Justihen comvng, on main reason for his painful slow- | This is a marked feature of ‘th L | | | shot he always is AJ]\‘llllni stance of most great putters. of the circuit. If € the old days they were not given | [rave not ace in the He finisk up the field, they | grettir | ton Golf and Country Club cou; the careful attention one finds today explained | Toward the end of a round that R e TR Miat ot na e + |land could get some of the voung in- s S fiva 4 . oward the end of 3 at | aligpe bt Shiolie Most of us have played pool or | e e_young in The fairways were not well groomed strok five under bre | Now Cyril was pretty slow | required 3 hours and 20 minutes, nation: ! oven the t year at Sk kie, [ T & ke o fielding material on the New York and even. and bad lies were frequent. [he best previous amateur score by |3 Yo% GG 10E "R e HHGhiD K eantiiC and was (wenty-third next year at | | billiards. In order to stroke the |ieam and the Yankees could zel some The greens were not the smooth, vel- |three shotx, and going one under | what a case of givin was putting last, the others having ;,',',‘,‘,OU"," inen. -‘I'!‘n[l;fi:;:l‘:';nmlwu ; | cue ball to the ohject hall we do | of the Cleveland pitchers, it would be i Vety surfaces of today and usually | 67 recorded two or three times br were filled with plantain that would | by Dave Thomsop, the club profe holed out. He lined up a four- footer with extreme c name Everyhody about how slow C. ster than ever hefore, friends PRAYS CAUDNIY DB, >, = oo beilie ne (o, Bty O ety e playing f: £ alon; ine that we | will seem fo make the team all the d better. A few el throw a swell aimed putt off the line. | sional. McCarthy bagged six birdies ok oA Both ‘whye Tt altected SEred ille: Alite’ aNcEaRGOD 3 ; A B e has Ubunicer ‘af. fon his) edoRiibiening “roind. L and | o o e esiand it | Taen be ned It up aguin ani took LA L R RS N | Nave previously decided is the right | stronger for the 1928 season. fords the player a chance (o get clear|went one over par at the difficult | got Cyril's back up. and caused the | his stance. Then he stepped hac and spectators paid him littls or no ALEXANDRIA, Va. November 20.| onme. But our ranze of vision is The Yanks have a notion that without a severe penalty. In the old|sixth hol | pugnacious little Englishman, in | and lined it up again. A e D N a ronrin | —Alexandria’s newest basket ball out: | confined solely to that line. So it | Henry Johnson will pitch well for many of the traps were a I few weeks before Roland R.| sheer defiance, to take even more Over at one side. Gene Serazen | [0RRIOR, U IS L Sing wind, |fit, Columbia Engine Company, will| is with putting them’ next season. Johnson was tried able and they were not MacKenzie had won his way to the | time over his shots than he really tossed his putter in the air and | JOURTs WRET TR B 8 e cafds | Step out in jaunty red and blue togs| ~ The late Walter J. Travis often |with the team and then sent out to game.| told me that he took no chan work for a day's wages and learn Pomatce evir Koeh Intthe United Reds | remembering this line. because he ‘more about control. ikme consideration o | States open. He outfinished Jones |0f Washington. selected a certain blade of grass Hoyt. Pennock and Shocker are still or a_beautiful home Washington amateu || Jjust in front of his ball on this |retained hy the New Yorkers. The : A s \un un . fon | 2 and Mehlhorn and led the field by 0ld Dominion Boat Club hasket b: “Clubs ‘ave leen jmproved; they | felds, even though Voigt won at Balt- | T RS I‘ OR BI‘ : l EA‘ : l ES hco ciear atvokes. Y eam would like (o arrange a game| line and stroked the hall over this |great white hope is George Pipgras. are more delicately balanced and the |more and Maryland. Roland’s show- with some fast unlimited class team | blade. All good putters keep the |The fine showing of that young man elc »f the different irons has [ing in the s SRRl has 1 saw that round, and Cyril had A Ing. development of the different irons has [ing in the amateur probably has won no special luck, but, on the other [for Friday night. Phone Manager line in their mind, remember the nd during the :ml_y‘yin‘(’i‘r:h‘:;p:: ‘«‘;.‘u»’d’ n_x':mmm:x\)N ‘i‘:: ‘h"lm‘;lwpl ;:;i(?)r:u:he(:‘ .x.l‘l;:o’r :'I.:x‘n‘w;eul: M Y COME FROM C Q N DL\ hand, two very fine putts rimmed |Jack Allen at Alexandria 424. distance 4|4)'r:n! mov "\vhe hm]} and |} :Ilchl n«;vx«;he\\d:nry:;;—r:guarx_\%;e‘:figq et Thowr: pikond With. Benr Srens 10 | Chickge, Aaguet R AL« 1‘ A and stayed out on him. The clinch- t. Mary’s Celtics and Woodside A, | Firoke the ball straight along thin | O P e 3 5 ing point of the champlonship was | of Silver Spring, Md., meet here| "] knesses | Sure-fire right-hander, and figurss that the kit instead of seven or eight vhi re One of the riking wi Then the modern ball that carries = | the dangerous sixteenth, which had" |tonight in a basket ball game. | of a great woman golfer in Amer. |he has found that person in Pipgras. h stopped Hagen's final bid for first | of a gre mA, Soltes iu o Wiley Moote: fo ‘cant great distance has had a lot to do PARK VIEW TOSSERS hened with Walter Johnson as| place—a severe second shot across Virginia A. C. is striving to book a| ica who has not recently won u | There is , n base bail players| strer With helping the piayers, Vardon ! 4 X AR WARN O ADRChEeI AL O e b Bcan upon, and Myles Thomas may pitch } ; 3 A e and Canadian men of me b Nake to . sl Ereen with \pache A. C., newly | national championship is her puti- | PDOT. And, as may a1 e p $or 101 put Mantreal it e e o icvej] [crowned foot ball champion of Wash-| ing. She fuls to gt her eves over |ietler In 1028 than he did inst season. plaved his best vears with the old | | 3 SLEAE R Sl FAC'NG BUSY PEB'OD 5 few years, for the f puy on a modern basis, the Inter-| might well have ruined him. But | ington. | the iine of the putt. She plays the |CSiard will get work enough to show _ | | when the archi- {tound before the final in the nat not at all as if he JIf course is given the |amateur title chase at Mini a skyscraper | contributing the biggest bit of | =aid: “Ha- ance at Jack- was amused. tomorrow night to play its fir Its opponent will be the Calvar wanted. 1 remember 74, in the most consistent per- n in tecture of a tes in the ne er_than the one in play today.” backers he new Montr lub of | natic is viewed wi i reapa s o AT Gxatiduin P e bt e e pehdsas; whether he can ever obtain control, rs of the n Mon clu national is viewed with more respe he banged a at iron firmly on Alexandria Fire Department Preps| ball off from some distance in front. | 14" there are some kids whose fate In winning his six-open champion the Intermational Leazue will make | This goes for base ball men outside| to the gzreen and canned a Is-putt |will tussle with the Mohawk Preps| Her puttinz has been her most it s . ships Vardon averaged 76% strokes| < r By i P amenn, o it g Mg P Y ey - phcting: Haw Hosn bs will be settled in the Spring training " und. Such scores today would| Park View basketers face plenty | determined effort to hring out some O the majors, too. for and was on his way to [of Washington, Sunday, on Haydon | noticeable weakness. ~Next, puit: . amp, = > 7 . Youngsters from the Dominion. (Conyright 1927.) zlor I Field in,a foot ball g ers themselves will be discussed not win many titles, and Jon of activity. Tomorrow night they en- age in his championships is consider- | gage Calvary in Calvary gym, Friday :\Yi‘l:'“lu\}:':x “‘:‘\“ar“zuinn)“Inl:\z\'ex"hk;m;“ 3;'"1‘“)‘«\' will take on Bond's Whirlwinds, open, while only once in the last |at Macfarland Junior High; Saturday | ers are Canadian born. If the Mon eizht United States opens has the|they will face Knights of Columbi treal club goes forward with the s victor scored so high as that. |and Monday will mix with Woltz's | €S8 expected of it Canadian p photographers in the preliminary to | MaV be developed who will Marvelously Accurate. the Palace-Celtics game, at the Ar.|their reputations in major Varden achieved v no | cadia. base ball by and by. The Toronto| has been able to Siher ‘plaver &ver e : club rever has done much to br . ving over | Anacos Eagles, District cham. | out young Canadian players bec 1. Oftenti I pibe | [J (] equal. Oftentimes, when p 4 s s oonnat, e woull Wend i | ready to book games with | the ream has heen content to 5o along | Eadde o ahead with instruetions to | Stron quints having floors. Call Lin- | with the help of major league | &tand on the spot where a drive could | coln 4366. optional players, | be most advantageously placed. Then Judging by the plans made for | Montreal i surrounded by a lot of amateur base ball and a number of | small leagues in which all the play-| N accu he Would drop his ball within a few | yafter meeting St Mary's Celtics 40} Montreal's new ~club, the natlon foet of that spot. His control over | conmtmen of Silver Spring, Md.. wili | E2me at last is to be given more | the ball was marvelous and he Drob- | coanen Army Megical Gonier, o6, than bush league recognition in the N o e metropolis of Quebec. The new con- Putting wa don's wi it is Jones' ably used fewer recovery shots than | ey Reed gy o v B O T gy | crete stadium will be built during the | < Vi kness and | gy, Sl IPODLS | Winter, despite the rigors of. the Can- | enptit. Vardon i said| ooay nieht at 730 3n the BIUVEr |adian climate, but it will be bulle of | had a jumpy nerve in his ¥, 5 concrete blocks instead of poured con- | arm that often caused him to flinch Woodlothians routed Washington | crete. The former stands in Montreal any man of his day or any other. gl e to hav when making a putt. Collegian tossers, 26 to 8, last night. | were only s compared with the The arzument on Jones and Vardon Ry stands that will be provided this time. never will be decided nor ended. But| National Circles eked out a 25:23| ‘The president of the Montreal club | it's one of those things that breed in. | Win over Crescents last night. is the Hon. L. A. David, provincial secretary and member of the Dominion.| terest in the zame and tend to make . B g g : 4 the heroes mors herol oo easy victories wete Bunpion b7 capingt . \The “Right: Hon, ' ‘Baron] : vl L . k i ¥ hl 3 Shaughnessy is chairman of the exec- | scored over Lightnings. 57 to 18, and| iive committes and the directors are | Sioux A. C. courtmen are hooking|over Twin Oaks, 40 to i8. Hiari ot b1 pGRiance HnEhasclty, -?rxu-| [J Call M : 5 mper Fiel-| gia practice zame at the armos new club will not be operated as a| Attsville, Md. last night, Woltz| market for trading and speculating | tossers dbwaied Compmny i in players, hut will try to develop a winning team. Previous administra- | tions of base hall in Montreal were | 120 pound teams are | more or less enterprises to make deals | niors, who play | for players with clubs in the United . - o s e B o [ e With a FULL Havana filler, se- d Miller, Adams 5348, is the Kana-| Major leazue men two years ago| manager. were deriding the International | League as a weakling outfit consist- | TIGERS CAN GET SISLER | i i b | LY e R R S BY GIVING SOME TALENT Meh e " Cuba grows, the Rob! Burns 4 e N Panatela is unsurpassed at its ten . < easy for| A 58 practice shington Marines in a t night. Y. M. C. A. Comet basketers, who |« will compete in the Washington City | League, will drill tonight at 7 o'clo i at the “Y." S S SOCCER CHAMPS CLASH Two American League clubs are|team who paid no attention to train- LOR SECTIONAL TITLE, willing and eager 1o acquire the serv- | in rules or to any other rules. Some of them amused themselves in wi fees of George Sisler, star first base-| 1t cyggested the anties of country Lous Browns, but a| clowns. Some of the pls _Peabody. junior Northeast cham pions, and Smallwood, Southeast and Southwest champions, were to face today for the Eastern section title of WUy ated | 10023 of | ers who treated| (o clementary school championship || ive | Sisler more shabbily than othérs are 5 pecauss neither club wishes to give | 1 0 soccer series. Other games this week beokuse Jigither iclubwisty BIVe | not with St. Louis now. The man-| g | St. Louis what it wants in exchange. | sgement ridded the team of some of | > momorrow— Detroit can make such a trade. The | the clownish element a year ago and | (ju 4 e to|the job is still going forward. |'roug welud- | Perhaps if Sisler got aw: cent price. man of the St. deal involving Sisler is hanging fir illmore vs. Park View | rsday. John Bur- 3 k View (senior series), | v from St. [ and Friday, Pierce vs. Lennox (senior | e something in exchang : fr:\v a first baseman, according to in- | louix it w ould prolong his base I | sevies). i I (e comes from St. Louis, | Uselulness. e has heen in that city B O e ‘ e ik . s rom the start of major league Ll it g iapns the Breat | career, and his experiences in base SANDLOTTER WEDS. ouble he had as manager at 0] " * ! :nra: due to v').n unwillingness of Presi.' Pall have heen depressing more than Cards are out announcing the | N vin 10 give anvthing in ex.|eXhilerating. When at the top of hix | marriage Thanksgiving day of Charles | G Korplhgers. | skill hix eves became afflicted and he | Jfuss, catcher for the Geor; n | th-a';'r: he P thawed out a little I)hecame half blinded. During the past) Fagle base hall t B Mi ro- @ b Waner,” said | £eason it is said his eves bothered him | thy Strother. Detroit management would S e less than 6. 1f he could leave v. “But he n't thaw." i i d g \‘f,‘, e ow manages | 1 atmosphere of St. Louis behind e Detrolt team, says he can't wip | him and join a team making a fght o oy g for the pennant, he might step livelier. . ant with his outfit if it is mot | ¢ When You Think of a pennant with his outfi e remantnei s B LEE TIRES | Remember to Call “JOE” JUDGE || FICKLING & JUDGE, Inc. 1600 14th 8t. NW, North 9458 & 0434 strengthened. He might have added | e Mhneky 10 do s well in | P2seman named Sturdy who plaved ing at Detroit that will surpass Mil- he the regular first baseman for the Jor Huggine collection of swatters, | “J™ 0 pie outelder of Do N e B rht & wood con. | (e Brown, We for transfer. Sisler s story I8 bt or o B rme has | 1€ 8.2 find ball player. but the boss A different shape of equal i 'y\i“ SO e S A;um‘xn\ :hmk he is solemn enough— peen unkind. For two {and it there is anything Phil Ball is i hon i the ! iluing !I\xml pf it B8 solemnity, Ball took quality . . . sTAPLEs, I0¢ e St. Lonis pl : 1 the MeNeeley from Washington by trade i fidence of Sisler unm Ly e o | and_evidently MeNeeley s to play « . or the foil protected was their m: - s center field for St. Louls. Tt is also ¢ 1 afftiction of his eyes that he | i ed with an afi :l“n”'“" ”“,“ Sroi (‘l1\5(|xlll(' likely that Ken Williams will be | were players on_his | {ransferred by the Brown: — | v | EXPERT SERVICE on “}\' Q'.;ngg | Carburetor and [gnition PERFECTO GRANDE, 2 for 25¢ your [ —— CREEL BROS. | sjAr sEryicE STATIoN 1811-17 14th St. N.W. 12t e ¢ A, ok betos Potomac 473 Benananrs dis s . : a . [