Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1928, Page 31

ON THE SIDE LINES With the Sports Editor By DENMAN THOMPSON: N the career of Al Reach, pioneer base ball man and one of the few players to reach the estate of a mullionaire, can be found a lesson for modern day ball players. Reach, who founded the firm that makes all the base balls used by the two major circuits as well as by a majority of the minor leagues, was gifted with ideas—initiative and enterprise—but he also was possessed of that most essential of all qualities for success—industry. It was because Reach, who started the career which earned for him the title of the Babe Ruth of his day was not afrald of work that he passed on a few days ago possessed of securities valued at more than ten hundred thousand dollars. BOTH SCORE K 0. VICTORIES IN RING Jack Drops Montgomery in 20 Seconds—Keeley Is Stopped in Round 2. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, January 17.—Knock- out victories had boosted the stock of Jack Delaney and Pau- lino Uszcudun in the heavy- weight market today. Delaney furnished an unusual feat in ring performances last night by landing a single haymaker on Sully Montgom- ery’s chin in 20 seconds of the first round of a 10-round bout. At about the same time Uzcudun eliminated Ed Keeley from the picture in little more than two minutes of mauling in the second round of another 10-rounder. The referee stopped the bout. Starting a campaign for recognition as a challenger for heavyweight honors, Delaney struck but one blow, a right to the chin, to bowl the giant Texan on the canvas. | Montgomery. with the ponderous | poundage of 216, against the Bridge- porter’s 180%, rushed on his rival after | they shook hands and missed a vicious | swing by about two fect. Delaney step- | ped forward nimbly and caught Sully ‘with a solid smash. ending the fight. It was minutes before Montgom- ery was revived. with the aid of restora- tives. Some 5.000 fans were jammed in the St. Nicholas Rink as Delaney flash- ed the form of the days when he was the world light-heavyweight champion. Basque Wins Decisively. ‘The mystery over Paulino's antics in twice evading a bout with Keeley re- mained unsolved after the basque de- cisively whipped the Bostonian at the New Broadway Arena in Brooklyn. | About 5.000 persons saw the tussle. Worked 12 Hours, Then Played. It is set forth by his chroniclers that he started in life as a newsboy and abandoned that for the trade of an iron moulder at which he worked 12 hours a day. during which he devoted his spare moments to developing his base ball ability on the vacant lots of Brook! ‘When he shocked sports followers by frankly admitting he was a pro- fessional and accepted the high salary of $25 a week to play base ball for a living with the old Athletics, he was not content with that then princely wage, but opened a cigar store which he attended in the mornings before games and again at nights. After he had perceived eed for a place at which athletic goods could be purchased in Philad(§ia, 2nd had established a retail store, later to branch out into the manufacturing end his habit of industry remained in evidence, and by the dint of stri~t attention to business involving long hours, he gradually accumulated the fortune he left when the Umpire-in- Chief called him out last Saturday. Players of Today Are Different. How different from the average ball player of this age! Nowadays a diamond performer wants to jump from the campus or sandlot right into the big show at a fancy salary, and with a bonus for signing, and seeks to dodge training in the Spring. He pouts when required to play two games in one afternoon, feels he is being imposed upon, when asked to appear in an exhibition and accepts de Iyxe traveling accommodations and quarters at sumptious hotels as no more than his due. He considered his personal liberties are being invaded if called on to observe a midnight curfew, or if prevented from lolling in bed until noon. And after the close of the season he takes a rest of four or five months, broken only by the amount of hunt- ing, fishing or golfing that meets his fancy. ‘This doesn’t apply to all ball players of today, but it's true of a greater number than might be imagined. Embroyonic Al Reaches are few and far between, and if verification is sought any club owner or manager is sug- gested for reference. THIRD GENE-JACK Fights Last Night MULLEN STILL HOPES TO STAGE TUNNEY GO By the Assoclated Press, CHICAGO, January 17.—In spite of the detaled plans of Tex Rickard for promoting two championship matches featuring Gene Tunney this Summer, Promoter Jim Mullen remained uncon- vinced today that he had been brushed out of the heavyweight championship picture for 1928. Mullen repeated that both Tunney and Manager Billy Gibson had promised to fight under his management this Summer in Chicago, and would not sign for any other matches before Feb- ruary 1, the zero hour under the terms of the previous contract with Tex Rick- a rd. “I am taking Tunney at his word,” sald Mullen. *I am not convinced that Gene has signed with Rickard for two fights, for I have every reason to believe that Tun- ney would have consulted with me be- fore he took any such action.” WITH THE R. MES F. MARTIN of the Bureau of Plant Industry in the | Agriculture Interburcau League, | who puts aside his scientific in- | vestigations now and then to | shoot a few games at anchor for the Blister Rust outfit and does a mighty fine job of it, too, not so long ago had one of those experiences that cause duckpin shooters to go wild. He started the third game of a match | with three strikes and then with a| count of 75 for the three frames could not mark a single time in the remain- | ing seven. So he finished with a total of 139 instead of the 160 or better he | had hoped for. Outwardly, the doctor was quite com- posed. But inwardly, wow! Tetworth Baptists, who seem to have about everything their way in the North | {lead in the second series of the Depart- JOE DUNDEE SIGNED TO DEFEND HIS TITLE By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, January 17.—Joe Dun- dee has signed a contract to defend his world’s weltertveight title against Ace Hudkins or the logical contender, Matchmaker Jess McMahon of Madi- son Square Garden, announced today. McMahon has notified Thomas E. Don- ahue, president of the National Boxing Association, of this action. McMahon proposes to stage the match as soon as the New York State Athletic Commission lifts the ban on Dundee. The national boxing body served notice that Dundee, Mickey Walker, middleweight champion, and Sammy Mandell, lightweight titlehold- er, must defend their crowns within 3¢ days or vacate the top of their respecs tive ranks. Donahue also was informed that Mc- Mahon was ready to match Walker against George Courtney, Oklahoma cowboy. In addition, McMahon said he was prepared to pit Sid Terris, New York lightweight, with Mandell in a title affair, BOWLERS while the scventh-place War quint bagged three games from Commerce. Three teams are in the thick of the running for first place in the District Government circuit. Purchasing now leads with 36 wins and 12 losses, but the second-place Water Registrars outfit has won 35 games and lost 13, while Chief Clerk quint, in third place, boasts a record of 33 wins and 15 losses. Highways, fourth in standing, is far back of the front-running trio, having won but 27 games and lost 21. The six other teams in the league appear hope- lessly out of the race. Bureau of Mines team maintained its ment of Commerce League by taking two of three games bowled with Patent Office No. 1. Mines now has a record THE EVENING BTAR, WASHINGTON, D. ©, TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1928. HEN Charley Comiskey was holding a christening party in 1899, in association with Ban Johnson, to change the name of the Western League to the American League, there was a threat on the base ball horizon of no mean significance. «The old American Assoclation was being formed. From the day that the National League had been made a circuit of 12 clubs there had been a group of base- ball men who were annoyed and exer- cised because the American Assoclation had been squashed. They contended | that one big league was not good for the country because it extinguished rivalry and retarded the development of base ball In 1899 the American Association re- vivalists began to get busy. They at- tracted capital here and there to start ball clubs. But every time they held a meeting one of their newly created clubs developed cold feet and withdrew. ‘Thus there soon were more meetings than ball clubs. Both John J. McGraw and “Cap” Anson were involved in the American Association. Anson was to have been president of the circuit—which was no position for him, although he did not know it—and McGraw was to put a club in Baltimore. McGraw was the last to get out of the new organization, and when Anson found that McGwaw would not go on, the former Chicago manager refused to call another meet- ing 3( the association. Then it evapo- rated. | he started something. SPORTS.” While the association remained as a threat, Comiskey and Johnson used it to admirable advantage—showing the political perspicacity of both of them. Comiskey had left St. Paul and invaded Chicago with his team on the strength of permission sald to have been given by James A. Hart of the Chicago Na- tionals. Hart declared that he never had given such permission. Comiskey went right ahead and moved down from | St. Paul with a chip on his shnuld»r—i the same size as the chip that Hart car- ried on his shoulder. ! Comiskey was beginning to have vi-| sions of a rival to the National League. | When the American Association was threatening to stir things up in the East, Comiskey sald to the National League bosses, in substance: “Let us start this American League of ours and we'll put the American Association be- neath the daisles before Spring comes around.” Tom Loftus was the diplomatic angel | who escorted Hart and Comiskey within the same sheltering walls. And when | Tom Loftus had finished his work with | the diplomatic salve, Hart had wel- | comed “Commy” to Chicago with open | |arms and the American League had a | grip on its Western end which shut down as firmly as Comiskev's jaws when | The “American | League thus got into Chicago—which it very much needed to be in—and there | | it still s, | (Convright. 1928 ) 3T .Delaney and Paulino Boost Stock : Browns Are an Unknown Quantity for 1928 25 YEARS OF BAN JOHNSON By John B. Foster. T—How the American League Slipped Into Chicag ST LOUIS HAS FEW VET PLAYERS LEFT Remodeled by Replacements, Manager Howley’s Team Is a Question Mark. By the A ed Preas. T. LOUIS, January 17.—Remodeled venated by replacements, Louis Browns of the American League, under the guiding hand of Manager Dan Howley, will enter the race this season an untried and entirely unknown quantity in the junior circuit. Gone from the ranks is George Sis- ler, 1926 manager and star first base- man. Gone are Williams, Gaston, Har- ry Rice, Vangilder and several other veterans who last season performed in the spangles of the Browns. In thewr places will be untried youngsters, many of them new to the majors. The task of replacing Sister at first base at present stands petween Lu Blue, obtained in a trade with Detroit, and Guy Sturdy, a heavy hitter from Tulsa of the Western League. Otis Brannon and Oscar Melillo, will try for the | keystone assignment, while Ralph Kress and Walter Gerber, the latter the only veteran infielder back, are sci 0 patrol shortstop. Frank O'Rourke will be pressed hard by Billy Mullan for the | opportunity to hold down the'hot cor- Dearth of Shortstops Shown By Robins Grabbing Bancroft BY GEORGE MORIARTY. Manazer of the Detroit Base Ball Clun. T the close of the 1927 season i throw across the diamond. It is really a clever method of covering territory | according to the catcher’s signals, mov- Dave Bancroft slipped off the | Ing left or right to the most profitable | tne pat managerial yoke and signed as a | 8r0 und. ner. At present, Heine Manush, Earl Me- Neely and Fritz Schulte are the only outfielders on the roster, but the ad- dition of another before Spring training season rolls around, is expected. Stur- dy, should he be crowded off of firs§ base by Blue, is a likely candidate for the outer garden. Three Good Catchers. team should be strong. behind with three good receivers on the ‘The A i list. Keeley's southpaw tactics failed to | By the Associated Press. ashingtn Church League, established |of 5 wins and I loss. rivate with the Brooklyn | _ I was surprised when McGraw allowed | Clyde Manion t e make any impression on the Spaniard. | "NEW YORK.— Paulino Uzcudun, |two season records for the circuit in their | Patent Office No. 2 took three games P | Bancroft o foin the Braves a few years | Gone Srace the Mot ot S Keeley landed some hard body punches | Spain, knocked out Ed Kelley, Boston | last appearance on the drives. They |from Coast and Geodetic Survey to| To the average fan there is little | 380. but I learned that Jackson's bril- | *‘Wiih determined youth on which to in the first round, but missed frequent- rolled high team game of 586 and hizh | boost its standing to 4 wins and 2 10853 | interesting about the signing of a faded | liant showing prompted McGraw to part Iv. Paulino rapped his foeman time and #gain with terrific right-hand smashes to the head. Shortly after the second stanza was unfierway Paulino bore in furiously with a swift two-fisted attack to the body and face. which sent Keeley spin- ning around the ropes. Paulino stag- gered the Hub boxer with a right to the jaw which would have dropped Keeley but for interference by the Teferee. Paulino leaves on Thursday for a 15- round bout against Romero Rojas in the gulj ring at Mexico City on Janu- ary 29. | | | | Most Astonishing Golf Occurences BY ARTHUR SWEET. (Star Chicaso Amateur) HE most astonishing thing I have seen in years of golf was | the finish made by Harrison R. | “Jimm; Johnston against | (“Jimmy”) Johnston ! of the Western amateur championship in 1924. There have been few if any last-ditch rushes to match it. Seckel, a veteran who had competed | in national championships for years, | stood on the fourteenth tee four up | 2zainst Johnston. Four up and five to | play is conclusive, all but once in a, million times. It meant Al had onl}'l to halve two holes to win the match. ‘Then Jimmy came through with five straight birdies. Now Appears That Dempsey Will Get Another Bout in June or July. BY FAIR PLAY. EW YORK, January 17.—Tex Rickard has been won over to Gene Tunney's demands for two fights this year,, but he is still arguing for his side of the ques- tion. Rickard does not like the idea of showing the champion more than once year, but as Tunney was insistent and threatened to bolt the Rickard banner, the promoter agreed to do his best to furnish two good opponents for the heavyweight king. Rickard harbors the idea that Jaci Dempsey will return to the ring for a third meeting with Tunney. Tex now thinks it would be best to stage the next Tunney-Dempsey fight in June or July and let his new elimination tourna- ment pick an opponent for Tunney—or for Dempsey if he wins against Tun- ney—for September. | New York would like to have the third Dempsey-Tunney fight and may get it. But Los Angeles is being con- sidered Dempsey is a hero on the coast and there is no doubt the bout | would draw big there. | Rickard has named Jack Sharkey, | Tom Heeney, Paolino Uzcudun, John | Risko and Jack Delaney to eliminate On the fourteenth he laid his mashie shot within ten feet of the pin, and dropped a ten-foot put. On the fifteenth, after a tremendously long | €rive, Jimmy's mashie niblick left him | * twelve feet from the pin. He canned | that putt, and was two down. { The sixteenth is a par five at Hins- | ¢dale, and Johnston rammed a full wood | £hot to the green to get his third con- | secutive birdie. He squared the maich on the seventeenth, another par five, | when a drive and a terrific iron again | put_him on the green » This sudden attack dazed Seckel, but | the veteran did not lose his nerve. On | the final hole, both reached the carpc | with their second shots, Al being away. He laid his putt dead to the pin for a eertain par four. Jimmy was twenty feet away. and downhill from the cup. He hit the ball firmly on the lne. It rammed against the back of the cup, bounced | at Jeast 8 foot in the air and dropped in for 2 win and the championship (Copyriznt. 1 X American News. | one another in the new heavy tourna- ment. It is possible that Jack Dorval may be included later. Dorval sur-| prised the talent by making an unex- pected good showing when he trounced Benay Touchstone two months ago. Rickard scratched his head in dis- as he watched the antics of Sh‘:}‘\: pair loaded him down with sorrow.| There was one interested spectator to | the contest who derived a lot of joy| from it. He was Lou Fink, Tunney's trainer. Lou was sizing up the pair| for his boss, who has been shooting | ducks in Georgia. Pink looks for an. sther profitable year of employment with the champion. | INJURY SHELVES WALLACE. | CHICAGO, January 17 (#.—Billy Wallace, Cleveland lightweight cham- pionship contender, will be on the shelf until March, due to a broken left thumb sustained in his match with Jimmy Mc- Larnin in Det; e Taxidermis Daughtér Shows Bowler She Knows Her Stuff BY JOHN A. FERRALL. oused from his reverie | r word for nap) by a | twuch on the shoulder and lool g up. w Old ner. ! as surprised W see the ‘ you for half an hour | ou fill your “Did y the bowling or 1 don't eal | was only & taxidermist’s he knew her stufl,” commen the Kiq. & repested the Old Tiner. | only knew it she did . But | 1 don't see | Low they have the nerve W charye “Wiere 638 you eat?” wsked the Kid The Old Timer oid him uded in Cover Charge. Ve 1o kck oumi declared the ¥ia phere n & oollege Oue of e Wy, and the check ¥ A Were D ned bim v the cern me, bul wiat ) that yo wrouna your nece” prised, bt mn swered & nbbon of cousse Why? The iy noaded "Well, b said ‘everytning s s high around here | “ Whought 3t Iighl be Your garier 1t pur s Lruth st sy 8amiten the Old Timer “Ob. well, Vi) AP U EXPErIn Just charge 3 “ Im Bure ke e Ui oing W hiend you ' agreed U Kid Lhe Tuner 610 1ot bear Bim. He wes devoling his sUention U, the pin buy Who hed slaried v respol Ui Gucks afier ie O Daner hed taken But iwo siote Afler several minutes Siie Loy tespolied Lhe pin correclly end Ehe Ola Tuner Wen proveeded v mise by b dewst u fool “Hanged 11 1 ¢ grumbied. Uying W hide Of mBeing s 1k fuss potting of & st snderstand | L e abrurdity re st be tome 1ule s o Uhe 1 Every v a Kid pioceen Jant the duckpin on No 5 ye w Aroused Pin Boy's Sympathy e “He just wanlea 1 make 3t easier for you,” cuggerted tie Kia He bine 1o Qiced Low wugh the going bas heen Cmonth and he knew you'd never pin, especially the No. 10. “Maybe you're right” admitted the Old Timer. “That right-hang corner bird sure is & tough one for me, espe- cially if the old hook is working."” He was reminded of the fact some time later when, after he and the Kid had won & game each, they battled to hit & corner found himself faced with the necessity | of ropping No. 10 for & spare to win. | He didn't | “Cheer up' urged the Kid. “You | admited a while ago that No. 10 was your hardest shot. Why worry over | the tenth box of the “rubber” and he “ | biowing it! It was like turning a wood- pecker loose in & petrified forest.” Not Much Chance, “You must Lke that woodpecker-pet- rified forest crack” said the Old ‘Timer 1Us clever stuff—if you know what a petnified forest 1. 1 guess you know shout woodpeckers; 1 notice you wear your hat most of the time " 1 know my petrified forest, o, sald the O\ Timer. “If 1" “What causes ‘em?”’ demanded the orms - high winds,” responded the “Limer, promptly The Kid went into hysteries hat's the best one I've heard for he howled o caure petnified forests! Ha! Well my doctor sald 1 should Ha ercie with dumbells, so T guess I've heen in e right spot Wnight. Where a h-wind stuff 7 ¢ Old ‘Limer ou Your lwughter Just show, ¥ ignorance IUs the high winds that meke the trees rock!” BERLY QUITS AGAIN NEW YORK, Janusry 17 (A, Barlenboch bas retired again. This Ume the former world Jight heightweight Clismpion Tis {riends sy, 15 debermined W Guit the ring and go b business as [ proprieor of w New York bowling and Dillerd academy Paul Central High Behool will biave a bovl Wiy e Ao acton on e Arcade diives Hyattsville Friday night. A junk it drewn from bowlers of the s arhy under 20 years of age will oppose U students The Mysttaville wam wil e selected from w group including B Lwssfora, ¥ied Porlon, Bernurd Vene sky. Ernest Davie, Karl Dorrelle, Lou's Norvie nd 1eo Kessler The mstch will get under vuy b 6 o'cluck, (2). Jack Delaney, Bridgeport, Conn., knocked otit Sully Montgomery, Chi- cago (1). Tony Ascencio, Spain, won by a technical knockout from Vic de La Cruce (2). Luis Vicentini, Chile, defeated Augie Pisano, New York (10). WINNIPEG. Manitoba.—Charlie Le- langer. Winnipeg, defeated Harry Dil- lon, Winnipeg (10). NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Bobby Mays, New London, won from Pete Petrolie, Fargo, N. Dak. (8). Elmer Ciconne, Schenectady, N. Y., and Pete Aguin- aldo, Philippines, drew (6). | NEWARK, N. J.—Joe Dundee, Bal- | timore. won' by atechnical knockout over Jean Mengenot, France (9). BUFFALO, N. Y.—Frisco Grande, Philippines, won on a‘ foul from Frenchy Belanger, Toronto (5). BALTIMORE —Buster Brown, Balti- more, defeated Jose Lombardo, Panama 12). MEADVILLE, Pa.—Johnny Ryan, Boston, outpointed Young Irish, Akron. 0., (10). Dick Anthony, Meadville, 'k)nockcd out Billy Foster, Conneaut, . (3). COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa.—Jimmie Malone, Detroit, won on a foul from Frankie Kohles, Council Bluffs (2). CHICAGO.—"Wee” Willie Davies, Charleroi, Pa, won from Ernie Peters, Chicago (10). NATURAL aptitude for sports has placed Jimmy Connolly, former star middle distance run- ner of Georgetown University, well up on the ladder which leads to dominance in golf. “Connolly, who three years ago was hailed as one of the great milers of the country and was one of Jole Ray's chief rivals, has taken up residence in Washington and has begun the prac- tice of law here. Four months ago some friends con- nived to get Connolly out at the Manor Club, where they iniated him into some of the mysteries of golf. Connolly took to the game like a duck to water. He joined the Manor Club, and by assidu- ous and diligent practice, aided by the keen eye and the well trained hand of the nataral athlete has become one of the leading players of the club in the short space of 120 days. Connolly reduced his score from well up in the 90s to the 80s within two months after he took up the game, and now he insistently scores in the low 80s, sometimes dropping down into the upper 70s. His advance In proficlency, according to the men with whom he plays at Manor, is nothing short of remarkable, Orcutt Sank Putt For Rival Player THE STYMIE SHOULD HAVE DonE .| -, BY KOL METZGER. Maureen Orcutt came near losing her chance to reach the final in the recent United States women's champlonship at Cherry Valley on the elghth hole of her match with Ada Muckenzie of Cannda when she lay close t the cup on her third stroke and faced @ stymie Jald by Mism Mackenzie on hier fourth. 1L wasn’t & hard stymie negotiate, Merely one which re- quires the player o chip his ball over the inlervening one and then et 1t run into the cup But Miss Orcutt didn’t do that Instead, she struck her bull on the side, propelied it forward and knocked Miss Mac- kenzie's bull into the hole for u 4, thereby conting hersell the hole Miss Orcutt made the same mi take that most golfers make in try- ing 1o loft the bull over the stymie, Bhe evidently tried 1o do the lofting with some trick of her wrists, in- stewd of letting the face of her lofted club turn the trick, ‘Thus, she ook her club back o much with her right hand. ‘That caused It W pise oo rapidly on the back- swing and forced her Lo strike her Lall with the cdge of the club on Vi Qownswing, instesd of with 1t fa To give this Wtle Jump to & ball ane must depend upon the face of the club used, whether it b mashie or mashie-nibiie or piblic. And 1o make use of (his face the club must he taken back very low wlong the wround wnd brought forward in the same way. ‘Thst is the sole way o make one ball Jump another, { team set of 1.636. Clampitt contributed high set with 347 and Seavers hich game with 130 in the match with the third-place Cclumbia Heights that went to Petworth, 2 to 1. | The Petworths lead the 10-team | league race with a record of 32 wins and 13 defeats. The second-place Em- ory Methodist team managed to take | but one of three games bowled with the tenth-place Gunton Temples in their last match. Both teams totaled 1533 Hobbs pulled the odd game out of the fire for Emory with spares in the ninth | and tenth frames In other league matches, Wallace Me- | morial took three from Petworth Meth- | odists National Baptists missed shutting out Central Presbyterian by a sinzle pin and First Reformed took two games | from Mount Pleasant Methodist. Agriculture bettered its hold on fi place in the Ladies' Federal League Ly taking two of three games rolled wih the second-place Marines. The Aggie girls now lead with 30 victories and 9 defeats, five games ahead of the Ma- rines and seven in front of the third- place Navy team. | Navy reached third place by sweep- | ing its set with Mines and dropping the | latter into a fourth-place tie with La- bor, that won two of three games bowled with Shipping Board. Interior held to sixth place by shutting out Interstate, STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE and they him in gol Spurred by the hope that he mig! reduce his score made 10 days a; when he played all his shots on one leg, A. L. Houghton of Manor again tried the stunt Sunday. * This time, driving with all his weight on his right foot, he romped around’ the Manor Club course in 76 strokes. F!‘Efllc‘ a bright future for Alex A. Armour, associate pro at Con- gressional missed the balmy atmos- phere of Washington. Armour tele- phoned the club a few days ago to in- quire about the weather in Washing- ton. He said the temperature in New | York was well below freezing and A. J Day, manager of the club, told him the temperature here was above 50 with embers ing in no more winter rments than a light sweater. < It now seems certain that Tomn Armour will be back at the Congre sional Country Club this year. Al- | though a contract for 1928 has not been signed by the national open cham- plon, negotiations indicate that Armour again will perform under the Congre: sional banner. Alex A. (Sandy) Ar- | mour. brother of Tommy, also probably | will be back. | | Indian Spring’s special committee to choose a professional to succeed Eddie | Towns 15 o meet today to consider lengthy list of names for the post More than 100 applications have been made. Arrangements are going forward for creation of two new subdivisions within & stone’s throw of th@ Congressional clubhouse. ~ One of subdivisions parallels the main road to the club while another 15 only a short distance away. When developed, these propertics wil ll to remove Congressio 2 former isolation RETSERIAR Preparations ure belng made at | Washington o convert the annual 8pring tourney from club Invitation aflair Lo one of individual invitations, MAT CONTESTS PROVIDE VARIED ENTERTAINMENT Much speechmuking, some wrestling and police uctivity marked the grap. png show held lust night at the Ar- cadia, The announ maelves we the verbal firewor Renal - Gardinl, Andy Brown, Dan Koloft, Juck ‘Taylor, Joe Tury nd Eddie Pope supplied"the mat work and Capt. Hugh Cornwell und his henchmen | of the tenth precinet stepped in to quiet everything “Turner, Washington veteran, gave the bhest Mt exhibition, when he won after punishing Pope for 27 minutes n middlewelght retto. Koloff, & henvy welght, tolled 47 minutes (W upset Tuy lor, then neither could get anywhere in a by for a second fall - Brown, after losing one fall to Gardint in_anoth heavywelght match, endeavored to mix Osticufts ~ with wreating, and Capt Cornwell had to step Inta the ring to back the referee’s dechalon agaliat the Michigan lumberjuck responsible fo) PLAY CUE LEADER. Fred Talbutt, who lant night howed o Fred Keynolds, 96 to 100, in the s triet pockel billird champlonship oo nament i the Aracadin, tonlght will meet Kd Tindell, undefoated lender The tourney When You Think of LEE TIRES Remember te Call “JOE” JUDGE FICKLING & JUDGE | as & toy salesman. ting man- | and get a second-place tie with Stand- | ards, that took two games from Foreign and Domestic Commerce No. 2, and| Secretaries, that won twice from For- | eign and Domestic Commerce No. 1. Mines. in beating Patent Office No. 1, | rolled 566 fgr the high game of the series and €stablished a set record at 1.595. A red-hot duckpin battle is expected on the Arcade alleys at Hyattsville to- night, when the select team of the First National Bank of Hyattsville les the team representing the town's Both bankers and barbers | claim to be sharpshooters on the drives. The quints will swing into action | promptly at 8 o'clock. | | Securities and Registers were three- | time winners in the Public Debt Girls'| League. The Securities girls defeated the Accounts and Audits team. while Registers took the measure of Sur- renders. : ing | With the veteran. National League shortstop. But it allows the receiving | ¥ 3 . gut manager to breath a sigh of relief. He | Plavers have told me Jackson's rapid realizes what a shortstop of experience | development was due to Bancroft's means. After watching the unnuu.'lsh“’“‘hg‘l while Dave was with the work of a rookie. a manager pictures n what a reltable veteran could do. & ‘l;*;; rflmegun luqazue has 'nm'h of Probably there is no big league pilot | Master and pupll’ in Art Fletcher. who has felt the shortstop shortage | Koenig. short for the Yankees. Koenig more than Wilbert Robinson. He has| was erratic until Fletcher joined the tried out a flock of short fielders since | Hunimdlor«ihes n( coach last Sum- Olson's decline and found them all|TMer and taught Mark to handle a grounder without fighting it. shy. Robinson knows Bancroft is about | - A reliable shortstop saves the pitcher. through the mill, yet he welcomes Dave. In some instances the absence of a Bancroft takes his place with modern | regular short fielder wrecks pennant shortstops, such as Wright, Jackson, | chances. Proof of this is offered in Thevenow, Peckinpaugh and Scott. | Thevonow's loss to the Cardinals in Besides being a great natural infielder. 1927. Schuble. a recruit, tried to fill the his manner of saving physical energy | bill, but was unequal to the task. Smart has always been one of his assets. Too | observers believe the O'Farrell crew many shortstops wait for the ball to be | would have had little trouble winning slammed at them. But Banny parked | over the Pirates and Giants if Thevenow himself where the apple was most likely had escaped injury. to be hit. He made his feet save his| e B I first saw Bancroft perform in the arm. and seldom had to cut loose with a | 1921 World Series between Yankees and Toys, Dahlias, Dogs and Suits Keep Umpires By tha Associated Press. Selling toys for Santa Claus-believing children, raising the delicate dahlia and fashioning men's suits and over-| coats are a few of the off-season activ- ities of “hard-boiled” big league um- pires Emmett (“Red™ Ormsby, American League umpire, who hitherto has work- ed at a two-fisted task as structural iron worker during the Winter, has Joined the list of strike and ball callers who are “in trade” by opening a Chi- cago toy shop. | Ormsby has five children of his own | and figures he knows enough about the ways of boys and girls to make & hit | George Hildebrand, American League arbiter, who lives on the Pacific Coast, | raises_dahlias for pleasure and profit, | and Van Graflin, one of the junior| league officials, plys a needle in his her's tailor shop in Rochester. | (“Brick”) Owens, another ¢ umpire, runs a flower go, and Bill Guthrie, who Wl ‘em in the same league, is d to his partne Other rough and ready umpires, who fend off abuse and sometimes brickbats in the Summer time, follow apparently incongru ways of carning a living when Winter rolls areund. | Clarence Rowland sells bonds. Nick | Nallin, also on the American League staff, is a breeder of high-class dogs at his home in Frederick, Md Bill Dineen, former American League pitcher and now an umpire on that circuit, is & bit of a politician around | Syracuse, N. Y. He has been mention- ed as # candidate for sheriff, Harry Geisel, who makes in Indianapolls, acts as a refe boxing matches and billiard tourna- | ment. Tommy Connolly, dean of the ' iis home 1 Togs] A Iy Ine 1000 14th B N North 0400 & 010 “The Clgar that Nins* DMIRATION ! Giants. His playing was amazingly | smooth. My early impression was that he was lucky. But as the series con- | tinued he trapped the most difficult | chances, as if he had piayed against | the Yankees for years. Bancroft was then a weaver of plays, shifting here and there according to the pitching pat- tern. His appearance in a Brooklyn uniform next season emphasizes the inferiority of the new shortstops trying to make the big league grade. Copyrizht 1978 by North American News- Daver Alliance. ) Busy in Winter staff of umpires, used to work in the sporting goods department of a Chica- g0 store, but now lolls around his prop- erty in Natick. Mass. making garden | and being & home man. i In the National League. Charlev| Moran spends his time as a fopf ball coach. Ernest Quigley is a basket ball and foot ball official, and Bill Kilem has Florida real estate. .. GOLF GROWS IN FRANCE AS NATIVES START PLAY By the Associated Press. Golf is catching on in the French provinces, according to word from aris. Two new courses were recently opened far from Paris and off the | tourist track, one at Grenoble and the other at_Monfontaine, in the | Meurthe and Moselle depariment. Until recently golf in France has been confined to the environs of Paris and the seaside resorts along the Channel and Atlantic coasts and the Riviera, in all of which places there are large numbers of Anglo-Saxon visitors and residents. Many Frenchmen have taken the game since the war. however, and its spread through the country has consequently begun. e AR TS HICKEY TAKES VACATION. CHICAGO. Januay 17 (¥ —Thomas J. Hickey, president of the American Association, left today for Los Angeles on two months’ vacation. ¢ Your OLD HAT MADE NEW Agai Cleaning. Wi Kemodeling N oeking and by Kperts na Hat Co. Vien 435 1ith Street S it cool — free and even- burning—comforting, not | hot and bitter to the taste? | but If not, take a tip from several | hundred thousand smokers | andswitchtoband-made qual- | ity! You'll enjoy the expertly ’ band-made Admiration Cigar because it's free-drawing, smooth and ceel. You'll relish the choice 1008 Havana filler, | too. you som Yes sir, there's quite a differ- | ence from machine-made cigars — yet the bewd-made | Admiration cost me more. On sale Everywbere—10¢c, 2 for 25¢, 3 for S0c. and wpuward. | build his hurling staff for the most part, Manager Howley faces his biggest | problem in grooming moundsmen to foil the opposition. Herein, close obe | servers insist, lies the answer to the question of whether the Browns wall | be able to elevate themselves from their | lowly position of 1927—one step out of | st Beck, Ballow. George Valter ‘Win Blaeholder. Richard Cofman, Alvin | Crowder, Chester Falk, Sam Gray, Er~ |nie Nevers. Walter Stewart, Jack Og- | den and James Wright are on the list. | Gray is the only member of the club ‘;holfler made good as a major league urler. | There is promise in the new blood, | however. with Ogden. recently from Baltimore. declared cne of the | Sreatest finds of the year. 'A. L. OFFICE, 29 YEARS | "IN ONE PLACE, TO MOVE | CHICAGO. 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