Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1927, Page 38

L 38 "-SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. €. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 20. 1927.° SPORTS." Major Clubs Plan for Spring Training : Belanger Wins N. B. A. Flyweight Title HALF DOZEN SHIFT CAMPS THIS YEAR Majority of Big League Box-| men Will Be in Action by February 20. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK. December 20.— Major league teams now are engaged busily in winding-up preparations for Spring train- | ing and most of them plan to bé in action by February 20. Not all of the players will be at the training camps by that date, but the pitchers will be there and enough catchers to| help the pitchers work at least once a day. | Some managers are not very enthu siastic about sending pitchers to the training camps to work-out in advance. Managers also change their opinions with the changing of the vears and the changing of their player: The New York Giants’ pitel go to Hot Springs in February, but previously they did not go there be- cause Manager McGraw thought Sarasota, a hot enough for| them W inks it is too hot | for his team Dope on the Camps. at the Pacific Coast and the major league train ing camps line up s follows: Chicago Cubs, at Avalon, Island. There is no other training | ground in the world like it. It's so good that it is likely to spoil a ball team that must afterward play on something less perfect. ! Pittsburgh, at Paso Robles. This camp is second to Catalina. It turns sut a team in high-class condition very year. . Detroit, at San Antonio, Tex. A od training field. which the players cAh have all to themselves. The soft- est air to breathe that hovers over any city in the United States. Chicago Americans, at Shreveport, | La. Pretty good ball fleld, and the White Sox have had good luck with the weather there for two seasons in succession. Evans Likes New Orleans. Cleveland at New Orleans. A dis- tinct_change for the Cleveland club, “but Billy Evans likes it. New York Giants at Augusta, Ga Much cooler than Sarasota and with | no better field, but with some im:| provement in lodgings perhaps. Brooklyn at Clearwater, Fla. The Brooklyn boys are better fixed up than " ever in one of the prettiest towns in lorida. New York Yankees at St. Peters- burg, Fla. The Yanks have been Jucky ever since they have been going there. Boston Nationals also at St. Peters- burg. Chacinnati at Orlando, Fla. A good field and next door to all the activities of central Florida. Philadelphia Nationals at Winter Haven, Fle. This is new for the Phillles. Tt is right next to the orange groves and & beautiful place. Washington Nationals at Tampa, Fla., as usual. Boston Americans at Bradenton, Fla., where the Phillies used to go. Pretty good in many ways—especially the fishing. Macks Well Situated. Philadelphia Athletics at Fort Myers, Fla. A very good training ground. The Athletics have come out of Flor- ida in capital condition ever since go- ing there. i St. Louis Cardinals at Avon Park, Fla., near Winter Haven. They liked it there last Spring. St. Louis Browns at West Palm Beach, Fla., jumping all the way from ‘Tarpon Springs. It is much hotter at ‘West Palm Beach, and Phil Ball thinks the climate will make some of his players wake up. TAYLOR, ALTHOUGH HAND STILL SORE, WILL FIGHT CHICAGO, December 20 (#).—Bud Taylor, generally recognized as ban- tamweight champion, is winding up hard training, preparing to leave for New York the latter part of the week to meet Tony Canzoneri of New York in Madison Square Garden Decem- ber 30. ‘Taylor’s injured hand, which forced eancellation of a previous match in New York several weeks ago, still is sore. ers will | W he th Beginning coming East Catalina Approach Needs BY SOL METZGER. As 1 pointed out in my article two days ago, the leading golfers stand pretty well over the ball for iron shots. For the short pitches wish mashie, mashie-niblick and spade-mashie, clubs which have shorter shafts than your No. 1 and 2 irons and your midiron and cleek, the stars get right over the ball, as Jim Barn doing in the sketch of him playing his mashie. Jim gets right over the ball pur- posely for this short pitch. and his feet are closer together, This shot needs little body pivot to carry it off. It is not a long swing in order to get distance. For long hits one spreads his feet for the purpose of bracing his body as he pivots and hits with all his power. On a pitch the idea is accuracy—a ball that goes for the pin. The less body ac- tion the better chance of hitting the ball on such a line. All of which is depicted in the two sketches of Barnes. At the top with the wood his feet are farther apart and the body pivoted more than when he is at the top for his mashie shot. Note, too, that Barnes JIMMY REESE. Yankees have obtained option on these two Oakland, Pacific Coast League. MUCH SOUGHT-AFTER PAIR OF BALL PLAYERS LYN LARY. , stars for delivy for whom it is reported that William Wrigley of the Cubs was willing to pay $250,000. Reese Lary plays short, and they are said to be a great keystone duo. OUTPOINTS JARV IN FIERCE BATILE lzzy Schwartz, New York| State Champ, Offers to Fight Victor. | | i | By the Associated Press. ORONTO, Ontario. 20.—Frenchy Belanger yronto today had the fly weight championship of the | ational Boxing Association | away after fierce 12-round | Ernie Jarvis of Londen, | December of | | tucked tle with ngland. In the opening round, floored Jarvis with a right heart and a left to the jaw. rang as the count reached two. Englishman nearly his Water- They rushed Jarvis rked aw Belanger caught him with a| wild left hook to the head. Jarvis was down while nine was tolled over him, anger to the The hell | The | met jon. clinch as into a nin i | ceeded was du STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE are those scattered, ments which are being held up through the bunkered land |down the coast. He will win a few, b who think that because Tommy | he won't win them all. And there pr Armour holds the: national ly isn't a golf in the world——b: open title he should forthwith |ring the peerle: Jones proceed to wade through every ¢our-|through a season with more wins nament he enters other men win [a bunch of medal play tourneys th events, in which the defeats. ven if Jones tried it the tered, the amazement of these people [is no assurance he wouldn't fail incréaden. for they cannot how | While there F been rumors th any man who is good enongh to win | Armour would not be the national should not keep on win- |next year, these are apparently lac in truth and there every pre ability that he will be attached the when he defends his title at Chic in June F the terms of Armot champion iz en Few of them realize that champion- <hip golf, in these days of the mc intense competition, is like anythi else of big league championship nature, [ contract he is given three mo a matter of being right at the right |leave from December 15 to Marc time: of feeling that keenness and |But this year the golfl committee sense of touch that often means the |the Congressional Club, realizing difference hetween winner and a |Champion needs much more freed loser. Nor do they recall how Tommy |than a pro, who does not hold a Armour had pointed for more than a |tional title, virtually gave Armc month for the national open title tilt,[carte blanche to make his own practicing daily over his home course |§agements. A proposition ing Tree as he had never [more money for the efore, with one thought in [Peen made to him.and mind, to win the open. That he suc- | the middle of March will as much to those days |28ain performing in his usual {around Washington. t is likely find T fa tice, drilling himself in a con- are of swing, and n accuracy as it was to anything he did | at Oakmont, K o1t competition | WILL L in the big time today is fierce and | keen, and no man can win unless | ENGTHEN COURSE Rising, Jarvis retreated to a neu tral corner and covered with Belangei | pouring rights and lefts to the head | | and hody an effort to end the scrap. | | Although Belanger kept up a savage | attack, Jarvis weathered the lightning hail of blows and carried th fight to | his_oppoment in the eleventh. He | landed with a left hook to the body | which rocked the Toronto lad and | followed with a hard right to the he: that sent Belanger to the resin. Bel | anger arose at once ard took the de- | fensive, bhut was reeling groggily | when the bell clanged Belanger still was shaky when he | came out for the last round. but he fought furiously, backing Jarvis to the ropes. They were fighting toe to toe when the strugsle ended. | Corpl. Tzzy Schwartz, winner of the ew York State Athletic Commis. n's championship in a bout with Newsboy Brown, last week, has of fered to meet Belanger in a bout to |clear up the flyweight muddle. The | bout probably will he heid in Madison Square Garden, New York, next month. Frankie Genaro of New York, for- | mer wearer”of the fiyweight diadem, seeks a returun bout with Belanger In a meeting here recently, Belanger | was vietor by a close margin. ST. PAUL KEEPS ALLEN. ST. PAUL, Minn., December 20 (#). —There will be no change in the man- agement of American Association Saints next season, Nick Allen heing vetained for another year. Oscar Roettger, obtained from Brooklyn, | will be used at first base. has abandoned that plan and is utilizing another. Not long after the close of last season Mack signed die Collins, a member of his original “$100,000 infield,” as reserve infielder, pinch hitter and coach; followed that by bringing back a discard in the person of Bing Miller, who used to grace the outfield at Griff Stadium, and now he announces the acquisition of Joe Bush, another of his old-time array and who also had a term of service here, followed by brief sojourns last season with the Pittsburgh Pirates and New York Giants. It should occasion only mild surprise if Connie mnext lures ‘rank Baker from his farm at Trappe, Md., and digs Jack Barry and Stuffy McInnis from ob- scurity. The old boy is deserving of credit, however. He certainly is trying. On the Side Lines With the Sports Editor L—By DENMAN THOMPSON. FFICIAL cognizance of the threatened severance of athletic relations be- tween the military and naval academies already has been taken and more may be expected to_follow. In a resolution - introduced in the House yesterday by Repre- sentative Hamilton Fish, jr., of New York, a Republican, who represents the district in which West Point is located, the Sec- retaries of the War and Navy Departments are “requested” to endeavor to effect a compromise “satisfactory to both institu- tions.” Another resolution, introduced by Representative Fred Britten, likewise a Republican, the rank- ing member of the House com- mittee on naval affairs and who principally was responsible for the shattering of precedent in having the 1926 Army-Navy foot ball game staged in Chicago, “directs” the department heads to promulgate regluations for the annual grid meeting which will not conflict with rules “governing the playing of foot ball by the principal Ameritan universities.” Additional resolutions along similar lines may be expected, and if they fail to heel the breah “suggesting” and “directing” may be supplanted by an “order” that the two schools meet an- nually on the gridiron “that the best interests of the services” may be served, or words to that ef- fect. Even the “stubborn Army mule” and the “belligerent Navy goat” are subject to discipline. JDRNELIUS McGILLI- better known as Connie Mack, the veteran of three-score years and more who directs the activities of the Philadelphia Athletics, is a firm believer in the old adage of trying again, “if at first you don't succeed.” Time was when the lean leader had a team that won pennants in the American League with such monotonous regularity that the fans of Quakertown became bored stiff with seeing it win and ac- quired the habit of staying away from Shibe Park in droves, much to the distress of the club owners’ feelings and the embarrassment of its exchequer. To remedy this situation the a0 gn geonmdarad. o8 canny Cornelius scrapped his fa- | it 13 nands mous team and set out to build up n h) ehiidren” 13 1o 16 3 all over again with new blood, on andout” o the theory that the fans demand- ; Parade of Winnere ed fresh faces, etc. Prizes and ribbons will be awarded He strove for seven seasons be- | in all events fore he could lift his entry out of | The entry fee in all events will be last place, but was rewarded in |31 and all seats for the afternoon per- the process h® considerably in- ance willibe $1. creased activity at the box office. Finally he rounded up a_bunch of athletes that were hailed as likely to give Philadelphia another title winner and for several se sons it started out in the Spring touted as a potential champion and finished in the Fall below that state, not far below in a couple instances, but still below Then last year Mack took the rubber band off the old b. r. and | g stepped out to snare such high- | time), priced talent as Ty Cobb and Zack = Wheat, again his outfit $50,000 IS NETTED IN BENEFIT FIGHTS By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 20.—Two Eu | ropean heavyweights clashed in a Chicago ring for the first time last night, and Ted Sandwina of Germany, in hig second American appearance, by Otto von Porat of Norway. They topped a boxing program which raised $50,000 for Christmas baskets and t for the poor, and many of the society, Sandwina never {agains von Porat, in the first round and twice in the second, when Sandwina's seconds tossed in the towel. Von Porat swung a right to Sand- wina's jaw in the first round, sending him down for a count of three. An. other right to the chin stretched {Sandwina for a nine count in the sec- ond round, and as he arose von Porat floored him again. Benny Kid Carter of Phoenix, Mex- can featherweight, won over Tony Mandell of Boston in the fastest-of the seven matches on the card, 'HORSE SHOW LISTED TO AID SERVICE MEN Mrs. Cary T. Grayson, chairman of the afternoon_performance of the So- clety Horse Show, to be held at the Riding and Hunt Club Janua v 6, for | the bhenefit of the Soldiers, Sailors and Marines’ Club, announces the fol- lowing events: had a chance going down once Best rider under 10 years. —Family' class, parent” and child of riders 10 count vider 11 ‘10 16 Pair waddle horses nd_way of going (o be Saddle’ horse. ridden over 16 vears: marners and hands open’ to MACKLIN LEADS CUE PLAY. INDIANAPOL 20 (P). —Dr. L. E. Macklin of St. Louis, Mo., asily won the first 50-point block of 150-point match with Frank F. Lem- ing of Champaign, Ill., here, in de. | fense of his national amateur three- cushion billiard title, 50 to , December PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY. Paul, 2 o Kansas City, 1 (over- goes back only three-fourths as far for hisp itch shot as for his wood Reason. not so much power necded He's after direction, not distance. To insure his pitch sticking to the green, Barnes tries to and does play his pitches with elevation The higher he hits them the more certain it is they will stick, as they drop directly down on the green without run. Keep over the ball for a pitch, and let the club head epen go it will fly high. ccomnine. 10370 -\ i proved not good enough, so he Ride in Comfort With HEAT-RITE Hot-Water Heater For Automobiles No Odor—No Smell Watson Stabilator Co. 2018 14th St. N When You Think of LEE TIRES Remember to Call “JOE” JUDGE FICKLING & JUDGE, Inc. 1600 14th 5t. N.W. North 9438 & 9174 was knocked out in the second round | political and business leaders attended. | FTER a fine fight, of Standards came out ahead in the first series of the Depart- ment of Commerce Bowling League. It finished the series with a margin of two games over Secretary’s Office, while Bureau of | Mines finished in third place and Patents. No. 1 m fourth. Patents No. 2, headed the second | division, seven games behind the fourth-place team and Bureau of For- eign and Domestic Commerce Xo. 1, Coast and Goedetic Survey and Bu- reau of Foreign and Domestic Com- merce No. 2 followed in the order named. Bureau Twenty games separated the first and last teams in the circuit. Secretary’s Office established a new team set record of 1,660 in taking three games from Bureau of Mines in the last match of the first series and its second game of was second best for the season. Lansdale at anchor headed the secretarial attack with a | total of 366, only 2 pins shy of the season record. Jermane of Patents No. 1 rolled the highest game of the last matches of the first series, -when he got 152 in his second effort. He lost an oppor- tunity for a record game by plowing through the center on a strike in the tenth frame and then following through with his second shot. _Holy Rosary bowling team took the | measure of the Swampoodle Stars in |a special three-game match, 1,466 (o /1,368, Now the Rosarians plan to tackle Mike Demma’s Southwest bowl- ers next Tuesday night and are cast- ing about for engagements with all | other Italian-American bowling teams {of the District. The Holy Rosary | girls’ team also is eager to swing into | competition. Regina Lavezzo will hook dates for the latter aggregation at Franklin 9692-W. One of the most interesting (or irri- tating) things about the duckpin game is its uncertainty, according to an rdent follower of the sport. Often, ays he, when you have succeeded in taming the lion the lamb goes wild and bites you. Plant Bureau, strug- gling for a place in the first division of the Agriculture Interbureau I.cague, had a good fllustration of this recently when it met the lowly Blister Rust outfit and planned to use the latter as a stepping stone. It just happened that it was a night on which the and un- | | | i “The Gigarthat Wins™ RATIGN AD 42, CH WITH THE BOWLERS lambs were wild and the Biister Bu team, sporting a_ season average of but 479, proceeded to shoot games of 519, 561 and 538, winning two games from Plant and registering a set total of 1,618, which must be almost a unique for a first-year, inexperienced team, for which a 1,500 set would be consid- ered an achievement. Frank quint of the Aggies is back from a field ‘who owns the game, the animals, birds, insects, etc., on land when it is rented—the landlord or the tenant?” The landlord replied, “The landlord owns all that.” The tenant nodded his approval. “That's what I thought,” he sald, “And, of course, the owner is supposed to feed these things, I found out that it took just half of the cot- ton ecrop to feed the boll weevils, but ou own the weevils they ate your . So, I'm having the other half picked and ginned for myself.” King Pin yanked two of three games from Chevy Chase Athletic Club in the National Capital League with Joe Toomey cracking the maples for a set of 351, That Donaldson family again has top drives. This time it triumphed 1,596 to 1,496 in a three-game match. . CHICAGO BOWLERS LEAD. DAYTON, Ohio, December 20 (#). Chicago bowlers carried off honors in the ninth annual bowling tournament of the Central States. The Midcity Bank team of Chicago won the five's event with 3,109, and A. Peterson of Chicago won the singles, with 755, and also the all-events, with a total of 2,064. J. Baneia and F. Jaiecki of Cleveland were the best in the doubles, with 1,567, CUE PLAY CONTINUES. H. Tallman meets J. R. Leonard | tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the three- cushion tournament in progress at Elmer's Billiard Academy. ~ M. J.| Marcellino defeated Leonard, 110 to 69, in a_pocket billiard match, and George W. Harsin downed N. B. Hod- skin, 35 to in a three-cushion | handicap encounter. the gift that the "Merry?l:: Christmas! He will appreciate most a gift box of fine hand-made ADMIRATION Cigars. Goll of the Plant Bureau | trip with a story about a tenant farm- | er who came to his landlord and asked, | pled the Viehmeyers on the howling | he is right with that fine edge of con- | | fidence which alone from | practice. By the Assaciated Press. CHICAGO, 4 course at largest golf club open championship next Summer. ficult comes December Probably if Armour entered but four Fields, five tourn vear he might win them s o part of them provided they were ered. He | could practice and point for each one But this i2 Aromur's championship , and it is stri up to him ap the golden harvest while he may Some other plaver may come alon next year at Olympia Fields and wrest the championship from the Scot, and it is only good business that Armour make as much of his title as he can while he has it. do | To do this he has to join the barn-|of the eleventh fairway will he fill {storming troup now traveling on the'in. 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