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SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €. TFRIDAY, Phillies Strengthened for 1928 Race : Rickard’s Elimination NEW BLOOD GAINED BY PLOT SHOTTON First Baseman Kelley Is Most Notable Addition—Boxmen Aligned Number 17. Re the A HIL A P ADELPHIA. January 20— ith « raft of new players, a seasoned first baseman and add- itions to the pitching siaff, not to mention the inspiring influ- ence of Burt Shotton. the new manager signed for two vears. the Philadelphia Nationals {ace the 1928 base bali cam- paian looking through rose-tinted spretacles, Winding up in eighth piace last sea- #on. the Phils switched managers dur- ing Winter. made a few advantazeou swaps. shook up their personnel changed traming quarters and an- nounced Spring practice would start two weeks earlier this year. . The most notable addition to the team is first baseman George Kelicy. bought from Minneapolis. although I laved at Newark. N. J. last vear. Kel- jev has been & successful minor league first sacker for five years and compiled 44 _homers two years ago with Bu.alo. Despite conflicting reports. Fresco Thompson will be back on second base. He is one of the most agile keystone tenders in the National League. The veteran Heime Sand will return to his ©ld position at shortstop. Hal Dietrich of Portsmouth, Va. will be Sand’s understuc; Fight on for Third Base. Struggle for third base will take place aetween Barney Friberg. a near vetrrar and A C. (Ace) Whitney, erst- wnile New Orleans player and voted the best infielder in the Southern Asso- ciation last year. Whitney comes highly recommended to the Phils. He sports a .333 batting average, is a base stealer and possesses & rifie throwing arm One of the best all-around utility men n the National League. Regey Wright- stone, a handy man with the bat, will be ilable for emergency duty in almost position and will act as pinch hit- At the last base pall meeting. the Philiies dicposed of Outfielder Johnny Mokan, Catcher Bubbles Jonnard ar Ehortstop Jimmy Cooney. in exchan for Pitcher Jimmy Ring and Catcher John Schulte Ring was eager to play in the East and his experience should be an asset to the Philadelphia team. The twirling corps is stronger than in recent vears. It consists of Prank Ul- rich. a right-handed ace: Claude Wil- loughby. Alex Perguson. Art Docatur, wveteran right-handed slingers. Clarence Mitchell, Herb Pruett and Lester Sweet- land southpaws. it There is a flock of impressive new- eomers, Walsh and Taber from the Eastern league; Benge from Waco: Greene of Portsmouth and many other lesser lights. At Jeast four of the Rook- fes are said to possess enough stuff to remain in ihe big league Cy Williams on Job Azain. In the outfisld, Cy Williams, who tied with Hack Wilson for home-run honors Iast year with 30, probably will alternate with Denns Sothern. a Washington. D C. boy. If he does not care to play through the entire season. Cy is a real veteran. but he still retains the knack ! clouting homer: be guarded by Pred Center field wil; Leach. a deadly hitter in the pinch while Dick Spalding will hold forth in jJeft Both led the leagus in fielding their positions last season. Al Nizon #nd Hoiman will be substitutes. giving the Phils two outfields. The caichirz department is led by Capt. Jimms n. with Schulte and O'Donnell serve Maznager Shotton will be assisted by Preé Hunter. formerly of Syracuse. The pitchers and catchers will arrive in eamp Pebryary 20 This year the Phils have shifted thelr training site to Win- ter Haven. in Centrzl Florida. Seven- teen pitchers will take the Spring con- ditional jsunt, assuring the Phillies plenty of batting practice. -——— SMITH SHOOTS A 66 FOR COURSE RECORD the Aswriated Press Ei. PASO. Tex. January 20.—Pro- fassional zolfers who have arrived from 8 series of tournaments on the Pacific Coast to participate in the eoond ay nual El Paso open Saturday snd Sun- @ay. woday had & 1ecord-breakinz 66 o shoot at Macconald Smith. Great Neck 1sland. professional, who won this year's es and Palos VeiGes open record for the ) Paso course yesterdey with ds of 32 and 34. Starting & hole. he made five straight birdies, and an eagle 66 broke par er record of y Tommy Armour hold- iocal long fe8510; Armou open with initial who won the a ozl of 288 d h ? Lo 6 boles tomerrow number Bundsy. with 83200 the slars who yirns men's g A « Eapinosa of Chicez rui of New Yore win open. Bevr enties have been Lurned in practice rounds here BUSH SIGNS WITH CUBS, MAKING THREE IN LINE g i Abe a) on the pivh the (e o by apearing st the o of gned contract S gned IOBET B LW YeaY who signed +4 it trade b 20 Guy o Junary [ Chicago CHICAGO RBorh nicknamed of the Wso eafl of e s Willliam Veeck with Only 'wo other Weondy English who is contraet and Kkl Cu 81 the time he Wi e Pitarargh uy from COLLEGIANS WILL HOLD CONFAB IN BASE BALL Collegiun s bailers gre 10 m morrow night st 7 30 K home of Don Grst 12} 1 portiesst W plan for the coming sea o Ater the meeting thie Collegian bow g eam will engage e Liberty Flashe B Convention He 9 30 o clock NORTHERN A. C. GRIDMEN T0 CELEBRATE AT FEED font busll whirh Joome. tomaoprow uight &L 8 o clock Gola fuot balle will e awarded the slarting st AL ol Northern won e Ca Wiy Crrenging en elliastive progiem WITH THE OUNDER socking of the duckpins | than was noticoable last Satur- | day at the Coliscum alleys is| anticipated tomorrow night when | the field of 23 star and near- star bowlers take the drives at Con- | vention Hall for the sscond five-game | block of the 15-game Howard Campbell sweepstakes. Although heavy counts were 1egis tered last week by several of the duc pinners striving for the bigzest money prizes at stake in a strictly local bowl- | g event this Wnter, gencrally the to.als of the first block of the sweep- stakes cannot be considered high. But eight of the 23 entrants managed to broak an average of 115 per game at the Coliscum, and in such a_coutest. where much depends upon a fine get- a pace of 115 per game or beiter vy must be maintained in the I block to put the bowler in the running. Those bowlers who bettered such a ace last week and their five-game totals Walter Megaw, 653; Bert Sheehy Howard Campbeli, 616. Hen: Hiser, 615: Jack Whalen. 611 Al Work. 606. Bradley Mandley. 593, and Glenn Wo'stenholme, 582. Back of these cight the scores drop from 371 to 513 Upsets are frequent in th duckpin game. but it does seem safe to assume that one of the group of eight duck- pinners now leading the sweepsiakes field will be at the top when the fif- teenth game is concluded. Several of the cight may be supplanted tomorrow night by contestants who failed to aver- age 115 in the initial block. That is to expected, but it is pretty safe to say that all of the leading eight will ot be off form in the shooting on the Convention Hall alleys An editorial in the latost issue of the Recreation News. a Baltimore publica- tion devoted to the promotion and de- velopment of duckpinning. offers food for thought. Here it is “One of the first results of growth and | expansion in any sport or business ac- | tivity is organization. an element essen- tial in carrying to a successful conclu- sion the issues at hand and reaching the_goals sought “Were it not for organization. many things would never come to pass. The choicest fruit would be lost in the shuf- fle. routed by the discord of t00 many small scattered efforts and not one really big effort “Realizing these truths. certain lead- ers have interested themselves enough to bring about organization of th» bowl- ers. They foresaw tho unlimited field ot possibilities and benefits to be de- rived, especially the opportunity to bet- | tion over the sport of duckpins BOWLERS ter the game and put it on a firmer competitive basis. “As a result, the United States today has two organizations claiming jurisdic- he Na- tional Duckpin Bowling Congress, with headquarters in Washington, and the American Duckpin Congress. launched in Pittsburgh. “Primarily, the National Congress aims to control the all-wood game Aas| prevalent in Baltimore and Washington. while the American group predominates in the rubber-band pin element of Pitts- ourgh, New York and Philadelphia. “This point, however. never has been made clear to the bowling populace, thus leaving the situation most confusing. “Duckpins, in its general sense, is the smaller pin game. The all-wood pin is one type of duckpins. the rubber-band | pin_is another, “Each organization is planning to stage a national tournament, designed to crown the United States #hampions. thus donating your Uncle femuel two sets of duckpin titleholders. As matters stand. both organizations give the impression of being national in scope. while the fact of the matter is that neither is that. Being trulv na- tional is a goal lying somewhat in the ture “It strikes us. though. that while the two congresses are really groups of the same stripe and should be helpmates, they actually are rivals and just so long as they remain rivals will we be with- out a truly national duckpin body. be- cause each prevents the other from tak- ing full control. “Since they both have the same pur- pose at heart, would it not be wise for the two to join hands. merge their in- terests. pool their resources and march arm in arm down the path of progress’ “Then the bowler would have one big congress. comparable to the American Bowling Congress in tenpins. He'd know where his allegiance belonged and all rg:grusion would symmarily be eliminat- Sy Mischou's fine anchor bowling for Government Printing Office helped that team to a three-game victory over Meyer Davis in the District League Mischou shot a set of 405 with high game of 154. Hugh Reilly Co. put over another win in the Athletic Club League. It took the first game of a match with the Nation- als. 495 to 492 In the Commercial League. The Eve- ing Star team was beaten by a single pin by the Carry Ice Creams im the first game then proceeded to loose the next two by much heavier counts. STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE ILLER B. STEVINSON of Co-| lumbia, former club champion and twice winner of the clu invitation tourney, is playing “hot golf” these cool Winter | days. Undeterred by heavy clothing and slow fairways. Stevinson is romp- ing around most of the local courses brlow 75—and with comparative case Yesterdav Stevinson and Albort R MacKenzie moved over to the Wash- ington Golf and Country Ciub. where they played with Fred D. Paxton and W. F. Roberts of Washington. Stevin- | <on. who has always found the Wash- inglon course to his liking. breezcd around in 7% shots—a 36 and a 35 mak- ing up the total MacKenzie. who h: completely recovered from an fllncss which confined him to his bed last Sep- tember, was around in 7. | —_ | Members of the Congressional Coun- try Club are to gather tonight at the | clubhouse for the purpose of electing | officers and to fill 13 vacancies on the membership of the board of governcrs At the same time a complete reorgani- zation of the financing of the club and an increase in membership dues is to | e laid before the members i Joseph H. Himes. former member of | Congress from Ohio and president of the club for two vears. is understood not to be a candidate for re-election. | At the same time Himes relinquishes his grasp on the active leadership of the club, J. Raymond McCarl, controller general of the United States, will resign rom the chairmanship of the golf com- mittee. McCarl has been chairman of the golf committee for the past two years and has been very active in pro- moting a series of club events, as well as supervising the golf course. At the same time the club is expected | to be made acquainted with the nezo- fations between McCarl and Tommy Armour. holder of the national opn | championship. who is expected to be | back with Congressional during the | coming sezson { Plans for the new 18-hole course to be laid out east, south and west of the clubhouse, as well as the proposed scheme for an airplane landing field, will be laid before the club. The plans for the course have been drawn up and. with minor alterations, have been in- | dorsed by the golf committee. The | project now awaits the word w start | work. as much of the surveying has | been done Public links golfers are getting their last few games of the Potomec » the two big public courses “ in_rehabilitstion. Both | rsch have had unusually | heavy play this Winter. because of the | omparatively warmn weather. More than 1.000 persons played over the coursss at East Potomac Park last Sunday and Rock Creck Park was crowded to capacity all day. The courses will close at the eonclusion of play January 31 0 be reopened about e middle of March While they are closed, two of | e courses at Potomac Park will g0 *hrough an extensive bunkering pro. gram. while Rock Creek Park will be put through & cose of improvement Chairman Perry B Hoover and his special committee will meet Sunday to azaln go over a selected Lt of names out of which i expected W come the new golf professional at Indlan Bpring Eddie Towns 1 ation us professionai at Indian Spring is effect Fehruary ay in the Bouth dur- | Winter Rumor Joh will not go 1o any profeisional a nis receled upsard of 100 sppiicaions st least one of them from #4 far west @z the Pacific Cons The st was reduced ty w few more than & meeting of the speclal com- nee of the the ne loval The commities Grorge Moward of Washinglon Claimes that even though 'he mechandeal ena of Whe grme se portrayed by (he shols, I8 quite Important, the brainy wngle of golf - on \he pulting greens ds the most nportant parnt of W Becently Howard was sround \he Yingun Golf and Country ub Wirse dn 32 putis i k5 siroke 1 putts vere 4 under PULLY par o) W end his dong she were 17 above L « Howerd 1 ususlly death 1o all putls under 6 teet and so 1L was yesterday He i probsbly the only player who has | been within & half inch of making | e maane hole 1 Gne stroke o two con secutive days. One day lust Summer he holed bis mashie tee shot at the 150 yurd second hole st Washington The TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN'S, 7th & F ——————— following day his ball from the tee struck the flagpole. went around the cup and came to rest not more than a halt inch from the hole. Although he didn't win any prizes in tournament competition he claims & hole in one Is the best prize that can be won. “Al- most every day some manufacturer sent me something after I had scored the ace.” Howard said a move | JANUARY 20, 1928.° SPORTS.’ Program Is Revised ]PLAYER-OWNER PLAN |HUDKINS IS PICKED ! 25 YEARS OF BAN JOHNSON By John B. Foster. V—The American League’s Declaration of Independence FAILS IN ST. PAUL [ By the Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn.. January 20.—The player-owner plan has been discarded by the St. Paul club of the American Hockey Association after a dismal early season showing. Three members of the team had been with the Saints so long that they were given the privilege of purchasing stock. An_outside manager was signed. When the team failed to come up to expectations. reports of dissension de- veloped. The plan was criticized and soon all stock owned by players was called in by the club. A clash growing out of the disagreements resulted in departure of one of the erstwhile player- owners, an old favorite who had been with the Saints since the first days of league hockey. N Princeton’s Offense Depends on Dribble " SX\ BALL N FRONT NS " p FaonT FOO1 FLAT ON FLOOR POINTING AT BASKET TZGER. As Princeton depends largely on th~ dribble to place its men in shoot- ing position. it is necessary to under- stand this effective weapon if one is to get much value from this style of attack The dribble is made by bouncine the ball forward with either hand. the tap of the hand being applicd from the wrist with fingers spread and with just enough power to have the rebound reach the same height each time. The tap is forward so the ball will advance at the same spred as the dribbler. The latter goes at top speed. The ball is played rectly in front of the center of the body and the eyes employed in watching the court, the ball being seen from the corner of the eyes A dribbler gives the ball a reverse English spin when stopping When he stdps to shoot he plants his front foot flat on the floor facing the braket. If he drives in for a one-b'nd push shot he seizas the ball shoulder high with both hands before starting his leap The Cream of the Tobacco Crop “Here in the Southland we knowgood Tobacco. Itis born in us and it is the livelihood of most of us. ‘The Cream of the Crop’ is LUCKY STRIKE. bought for I know for it has been my duty to purchase it on the markets for years for this brand.” A Polarcay Buyer of Tobaceo . TO DEFEAT TENDLER| | | By the Associated Pross. 1 | NEW YORK, January 20.—Ace Hud- | kins, Nebraska welterweight, rules a| 2-tol favorite for a victory over Lew Tendler, veteran Philadelphia southpaw. in their 10-round feature bout at Madi- son Square tonight. | | The victor has been promised a matcl | against Sergt. Sammy Baker next | | month with the survivor to be desig- | | nated as challenger in a_championship tilt_with Joe Dundee in March. The Nebraska wildcat whipped Tend- ler in a 10-round affair in Los Angeles ,last year. Shortly after that scrap, | Hudkins was knocked out by Baker when the referee stopped their bout in the seventh round. | IS 'LAUREL TO IMPROVE ITS RACING PLANT | | fhavtis ace i | Race fans hardly will recognize the Laurel plant when the annual meet opens at the Maryland $tate Fair As- sociation plant on’ October 2 next. Ac- cording to plans for improvements sub- mitted to the Maryland Racing Com- mission, Laurel will have an_entirely new grandstand, clubhouse and pari- mutuel plant. | Andrew J. (Cy) Cummings, president | of the Maryland State Fair Association. <aid last night that he was not ready to give out all the details embraced in the plans, because there are certain matters connected with the project still hanging fire. These loose ends will all be gathered @t a meeting of the di- rectors to be called within the next few weeks. In addition to the new grandstand, clubhouse and pari-mutuel plant, it is planned to construct & covered walk- way from the train landing to the grandstand, Cummings said Construction work is scheduled to be- Rin on April 1. ILLINOIS RACE TRACK T0 MAKE SETTLEMENT CHICAGO. January 20 (#).—The racing situation fn Iliinois is expected to come to a sottlement next Tuesday after several postponements of the schedule arrangements due to the un- certainty of the operation of the Washington Park track. Officials of that course said today that they will report to the Illinois Turf Association imeeting they are ready to go ahead with their $300.000 improvement pro- gram and want to b~ assigned dates for a Summer meeting Under the new Illinois racing law the season opens on May 1 and must close on November 1. with not more than fifty days racing at any track WILL BARE DECISION. CHICAGO. January 20 (#) —Public announcement of the individual de- cisions of judges and referees of all wind-up bouts in Illinois will b> made in the future. Announcement to the effect was made vesterday by Paul Prehn. chairman of the State Athletic Commission HE base ball men who shaped the | policy of the infant American | League were diplomats. Before | making a formal statement in | 1900 as to the intentions of the | new league—or’ an open declaration of | var against the venerable National | League, as it were—these diplomats cleverly asserted that they preferred to have the permission of the National League before they took up territory in the East that had been occupied by National League clubs and was pre- sumed to be colonized by National League sentiment The soft-voiced Ban Johnson. presi- dent of the American League, and his colleague, Charles Comiskey, wanted the public to know that they always con- sulted their big National League broth- ers first. That was astute manipula- tion of ballyhoo for the American League. It was good ballyhoo, too. The American League men said they could not see why the fans of the cities which the National League affected to control, but in which it had no ball clubs should be deprived of their base ball simply by the ukase of an organiza‘ion of ukasers. Naturally this sort of ballyhoo made every fan in Baltimore and Washington a red-hot friend of the American League. The fans of Philadelphia seem- ed to be quite as glad that a second team was threatening to invade the Quaker City because they were accus- tomed to two teams there, the American Association was in Philadelphia before the National League. The American League might have left Buffalo in the lurch then except for the fact that the funds in the cup- board had been spread about as far as they would go at that time. An era of lurid conversation set in Evervbody connected with the American League was a highbinder in the eyes of the National League men. The new circuit was accused of violating every shred of base ball decency. Some of the National League men in the East also continued to criticize James A. Hart for letting the new league get into Chi- cago and thus obtain a fine start When the American League was the Western League. prior to changing its name in 1899, it had paid for National agreement protection. The national agreement at the time was a verv fine thing in principle but it was mostly National League by application. The newly organized American Leazue neglected to apply to the National League for protection. That was the first shell out of the field howitzer. Re- fusal of the American leaguers to apply to the National League for protection virtually told National League men to their disturbed faces—“We are going our own wayv. You have refused us con- sent to do some things which we would have liked to do. It is necessary for us to do what we consider essential to the future of our organization. We want to live and we are going to live.” Johnson intentional ving for protection his attention was called to the sub Nick Young. president of the Nai League. Thereupon Jok American League's declarat pendence in a letter to Yo read as follows The plan of the American Le ! national occupy Eastern territory has been well defined and I think the men of the Na- tional League thoroughly understand our position in the matter. For two vears we have been menaced by the possible formation of a league hostile to our interests and a_ detriment in many ways to organized base ball. This annual agitation is hurtful and we pro- pose to so shape our organization as to checkmate it in the future. ing Gur circuit to the Far East it is un- reasonable to assume we would continue along the old lines prescribed by the agreement. New conditions must alter in part our relations with the National League. The club owners of the American League are unalterably opposed to a continuation of the draft- ing system. We cannot renew our ob- ligations under the present agreement Should complications arise they will be of National League making. If fairness and common sense prevail there can never be any friction between the N: tional and the American Leagues.” And there never was anything else but friction between the two leagues from that time forward. so long as Ban Johnson ruled the American League. (Convnzat 1978 DELANEY WILL FIGHT HEAVY HOPE TONIGHT R BOSTON. January 20.—Jack De- laney of Bridgeport, Conn.. and Jack Humbeck of Belgium are to stage an elimination all their own when they meet over the 10-round route here to- night. Delanev Is a favorite but Humbeck, a 205-pound. blonde-haired protege of Tommy Burns, has a reputation him- seif. In 69 bounts he has never been flatiened. Delaney recently renounced his light- vweight aspirations and throne to rek heavyweight honors. Earlier in he week he scored a 20-second knock- Montgomery in New on the outcome of tonight's fray will depend to a large extent the future of both heavyweights as “logical con- tenders” for Gene Tunney's title. De- laney is conceding more than twenty unds to the Belgian “cyclone.” FERNANDEZ AND SHEA WILL BATTLE TONIGHT CHICAGO. January 20 (.—Ignacio Fernandez. Filipino teatherweight, and Eddie Shea. another contender for the -pound title. top a program of four round matches at the Coliseum to- ig Mvers of Pocatello and Frankie ~haefer of Chicago meet in the semi- final. Sammy Silverberg of Detroii has been substituted for Al t opponent of Otto von Porat. ) heavyweight. Jack Sparr of Los goles and Bucky Lawless. Svracuse = weight, come together in the first LEE MEADOWS Famous Pitcher of the Pittsburgh Pirates, writes: | In extend- | . 3T HEENEY WILL BOX DELANEY MARCH 1 Winner to Meet Sharkey- Risko Victor—Fugazy Also Planning Bouts. Re the Associated Press EW YORK. January 20 —Effer to produce a challenger for Gene Tunney's championsnip today again had assumed ¢ nite form with the matching of Jack Delaney and Tom Heeney for a 15-round struggle in Madison Square Garden March 1. After considerable dickering terms were agreed upon yesterday, with the contracts negotiated by John M. Chap- man. Tex Rickard's new assistant. wnn heretofore has been identified chiefl promoter of the six-dav bicycle races Under Rickard's new heavvweight elimination plan the winner of Heeney-Delaney affair will in tussle with the victor of a proposed between Jack Sharkey and Jol Risko. The Boston boxer and Ris have yet to sign for their prospective bout. which will be staged after the Delaney clash The poor showing of Sharker and Heeney in their recent tilt. which ended in a draw, caused Rickard to rearrange his plans. While the Sharkey-Heene encounter was limited to 12 ro Rickard emphatically left word pefore leaving for Miami that his coming elim- inations must be over the 15-round championship distance Rickard has hopes of matching the winner of the current elimination series against Tunney in June. Incidentally, Promoter Humbert Puc. azv. Rickard's chief rival. came o with an announcement that he negotiating to match George God! and Knute Hansen in a heavywi battle. He also said he plann bring Luis Pirpo or Victor Compolo here from South America for a bout agains’ Roberto Roberti. i R MOTHER ENTERS RACE. NEW YORK. January 20 () —Mrs Dorothy Wallace, 19 years old anc mother of a six months old babs. is one of the entrants in the 800-meter race to be run at the Norwegian Tu verein Society games in the secorc Naval Battalion Armory at Brroklym Saturday night. Fights Last Night Br the Associated Press PORT THOMAS. KY.—Vincent Ham- bright. Cincinnati won by a technical knockout from Glenn Nity, TTe Haute « LONDON. London. won Prance (14) England.—Len Harver from “Kid~ _ Nitram (Nitram disqualified.) “It requires splendid physical condition and steady nerves to take your regular turn on the mound scason after scason and in looking for my cigarette I was anxious to find one which could be smoked without taxing my wind or irritating my throat. I decided upon Luckics and I can safely say that I am never troubled with a cough and my wind is in splendid shape.”