Evening Star Newspaper, January 24, 1928, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, DT TURSDAY, TANUARY 24, 19%8. SPORTS. ‘Huggins Has Greal Respect for Nationals : Scrappers Hot on Tunney’s Trail 25 YEARS OF BAN JOHNSON GRIFFMEN TO BE FEARED, YANKEE PILOT BELIEVES Expects Club to Give Champions Trouble He Tells Washington President—Griffith Shows More Skill at Archery Than at Golf. Special Dispatch to The Star. TAMPA, Fla., January 24 clash of the year between the and their arch enemy, the Yan, h been staged. No actual base ball w involved. however. in this scrimmage, in which the principals were Clark Grif- fith, Washington president. and Miller ger of the world m cason fray ws ‘The first ionals pe champion New York The locale of the pr the Rocky Point golf course clubhouse, and the time the noon hour. President Grifith and a party of Washington golfers, including Ed_Eynon, secreta the club, had wandered into the clubhouse lobby between rounds, when Huggins hove into view. The meeting tween the manager of the champions and the president of the club which is | generally picked to be the Yankees' most formidable challenger the coming season was typical of their encounters. Half serious, half bantering, their con- versation had progressed but a few min- utes when the fireworks starte Sees Griffs as Real Foes. Griffith. “Oh, just a week or two” replied Huggins. “But I'm going back to New York Thursday. Got a big deal on I've got_to complete.” “Yes, I guess you have a trade on, all right, as you need so much more strength. Why.” Grifith declared. *you can trade all of the team but Ruth and Gehrig and then have enough. “Is that so?” asked Huggins. ‘That's about the same line you handed me four years ago—and I have a grim recollection of what happened then.” “You've a good team this yvear, Griff,’ ‘Huggins continued seri ¥ “Your outfit is one of the few which have strengthened between seasons. I look for Washington to make plenty of trouble for us.” “Then for the next half hour the two engaged in & deep and apparently earn- est converstaion apart from the re- mainder of the party. Huggins Hurls Golf Defy. ‘Huggins leaves for New York Thurs- day, his return to the big city being caused primarily by an accepted invi. | tation to attend the annual dinner of {the New York sports writers. 'he will not attend the base ball meet- {ing in Chicago, but will return to | Florida the latter part of next week. Huggins is suffering with an old ail- ment in his left leg. which at the pres- | clared itself on an eq | the National League and established | 1901 | four clubs in the East before the start|ing By John B. Foster. VIII—American League Grabs Players From the Enemy | League had de- After the American ual footing with of the 1901 season, the players entered conspicuously into the mancuvers in the base ball war. Ban Johnson and his advisers and| backers in the new league had more courage than any promoters who had - | undertaken to fool with .he base ball £ | situation since 1890, when the Players’ He said | League flashed like a comet and as suddenly disappeared. Johnson —and | his associates determined to pick de- | sirable players out of the rival Na tional League clubs. The plan was to take players here | ent time is swollen quite a bit and and there from National League clubs | causing him no little concern. are evidences of infection an | having violet rays applied to the limb His ailment has not kept him from regular golf. however. He hurled a challenge at Griffith as thelr pow-wow i d. and_hostilities—along this line | at least—will be renewed at a later date {in St. Petersburg. where the Yankee | manager is staying. The champions are reporting a bit | carlier this year. and will remain in Florida until the 1st of April only. One {of the Yankees is at the training camp | now. Pitcher George Pipgras checking | ! st week with his wife and daugh- They motored from Minnesota. Trainer Woods is on the grounds. too. Rabe Ruth is reported as having had a { very successful gunning trip to North | Carolina recently, and is_expected to be at St. Petersburg for golfing duty in two weeks. | Tries Hand at Archery. | President Grifith and Secretary | Eynon are giving scant attention to| base ball, apparently. the main thought |in the club president’s mind at present | having to do with the correction of a | budding_slice, while the genial secre-| | tary desires most to devise some method | to drive them farther and straighter. From his workout vesterday, Eynon needs no instructions along either line, as Griffith and the others in the golf- ing party discovered. The Nationals’ president took a little time from the links yesterday to give to the ancient game of archery. posed for several pictures while he was receiving instructions in the bow-and- arrow game. and to show that some of the tricks of the Indians from out Mon- | tana way were not entirely out of his | line, plugged one of the little arrows right in the center of his target. Second Guessing Fascinating ¢ Practice and Is Aid to Sport BY GEORGE MORIARTY. Manager of the Detroit Base Ball Club. ECOND guessing is a habit and privilege of sports followers. If the customers were deprived of second guessing, their interest would dwindle. However, this is not an attempt to show up Mr. Fan. Managers and players also indulge in The world series is supposedly & para- dise for second guessers. But in the last one the boys had little chance to second guess either Miller H ) the victorious Yankees, or Pirates. situation in the ‘Yde, run- From the long range of nearly eight months it appears now that at least and possibly six Washingion | four women golfes are looking forward to playing in the national women's cham- e\nnfihm 0 be held next Beptember at irginie Hot Springs Marking the seccnd time the ¢ has been played in the Bouth, times in Virginia, the women golfers of the Capital already are plan- ning o compete. The leading women players of the city, of whom all may enter the championship, include the following: Dorothy White of Washing- ton, women's District champion; Mrs Alma Von Steinner of Beaver Dam, rusi- rict of a Most Astonishing Golf Occurrences BY MAURLEN ORCU wen's Wetrop ot ¢ Vaoters Wormas e Two extremely asion have happened v me yeer, Neither was They smazd me, bowe 1 Rave been equally amszing W e gal- Jeries 1n oy final round matc Mirias Burns Horn for champlonstip last Fall at C ey, T was one down on the eleventh nole of the morning round. 1 had been Urying Gesperately o get Alter Qubbing my uird shot, 1 Iy mashie spproach of about 120 yards Miriam wae 40 yards from the pin, with & tricky, downisll surface belore her. Bhe had W sink the putt 1o halve e hole snd remwn 1 up on mutcn Nobody thought she could do It pertcularly folowing my shot, Bt pre @3d. Had 1 wou thet bole 1 thiuk Usre might have been w different story v i of Ui final round Ihe most sstonishing fnish 1 ever sav wes by Olenna Coliett in her Mis\echs wgminet me i the finls it 53he ot Y26 Gienna had been put ting bedly, wnd sl the thirteenth e 1 wiss 4 up 6nd 6 10 go, The MALH bovked priatically over Glenne won the thirteenth Afver taking three putis un the where 1 guined & hislf in slead of a win, J wae sUll 3 up und 4 Vs play. Then the wstonishing thing Lsppened Glos tecded off four per Jsiet 1 6 vow. A0k best T could do wes e over on each. ‘Try ws 1 owould 1 could nt belve s single one Glenhs Crieated me on Ve €ghLecnlh grecn e E a n par b Lext green ot Cuusnput Jvid webii A | eriticism. the | lead-off batter to bunt. He did, most artistically, Barnhart then hit a single, driving in_both runners and tying the score at 3-all. Bush's plans worked perfectly. When Lloyd Waner came to bat Pittsburgh was two runs behind. Those who opposed the sacrifice contended Lioyd should have been allowed to hit straight away, figuring he could not be doubled on a ground ball to the infleld. | for * | other. | secret that it didn't leak out until Counting on a hit, a sacrifice fly or a possible error was too much of a gamble at that critical time. Bush did the proper thing in playing safe. Prove Right Moves. edly would have been 2 The sacrifice turned out per- fectly. With Lazzeri on third and Pat Col- lins on first in the eighth inning of the final game, two out and a tie score, A to bat at criti stage. Suc! criticisms would have bordered on the second guess. While the Pirates hit Moore hard in thunmz,uwylulzdmpa-uu Yanks, except temporarily with one run in the first inning. 1 think Huggins aid the right thing in stringing with Moore, Pittsburgh had scored on him in only two mnmr and Huggins wisely figured a relief pitcher would | have to be extremely lucky to better Moral: ‘The second guess conven- | fently follows the first thought and therefore involves no risk. (Copyright, 1928 hy North American News- paper Allisnce ) | of Columbia, Mrs. E. R. Tilley of Indian | Spring and several others In addition, Mrs. E Boyd Morrow, women's title holder of the Middle At- Jantic Golf Association, and Virginia | Holzderber, runner up, both of Baiti- | more, probably will enter. The women's champlonship was last | held south of the Potomac in 1922, | when Glenna Collett won her first vic- {tory in the tourney played at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. The situation {at Virginia Hot Bprings with regard o | mecommodations 15 fully as favorable a5 it was at White Sulphur Springs more than five years ago, and the tourney should have u fine entry list. More than 300 members from An- | napolis and the country nearby have been. promised the new Annapolis Yachting and Country Club, according lw A. L. Houghtn of Manor, who is secretary of the new organization, An- | napolis business men are taking great sterest in the project, Houghton says, for mugmenting the golf facilities of the town on_Chesapenke Bay near the Bevern. Bherwood Forest 1s the near- lest avallable golf course to Annapolis, although the Naval Academy has & short layout on the naval reservation. | George Volgt is_well along in his Winter campaign, Yesterday the Ban- nockipurn amateur registered 8 72 over the Palm Meach course in the Lake Worth wurney qualifying round to win + medalist honors by four shots. Voigt's Winter campaign brought him three j | ttles Jast Winter, one of them the im amateur | portant North and Bouth lrhnmmmrluu which he will again de- tend in March at Pinehurst The indoor schools of Washington ve been rather hard hit by the con- 4 warm weather fayorsble for the outdoor gume, While the Sndoor schiools buave done s suUSTctory bisiness so far iring the Winter, the proprictors teel continued ol westher would ariven the golf by closing dow 6f L at the end of Janusry an nerease in e ndoor school business s expected [ RAPIDLY RISl.NG ZWICK | FIGHTS TAYLOR TONIGHT MILWAUKEE, Wis., January 24 (A) Swo ot wgo, when Lom Andrews, Milwaukee matchmaker, wis looking for & featlerwelght W replace @ boxer who | demunded » gusrantee of $2000, Phi Zw Lok Wik mabch for 760, kiocked put bids opponent and since has develobed into & capuble pertorier T :mxw.f wick will get his hig chance hie meets Bud Taylor, bantem- champlon, 1 & 10-r6und no- b ut, Ahe welghte will be 143 b when welght pounds indoors. With | public courses | ¥ Clevelnnd, was recommended, He | | There | with contracts so alluring that the bait d he is|could not be resisted. The Am | League plotters met in Chicago and erican named the National League plavers to whom they were willing to pay bonuscs jumping” from one league to an- They kept the proceeding so more than a year after the meeting had been held. Blocked by Players’ Body. Just as the new league ready to make its drive to sign up the de- sired players, its plans were blocked by the Players’ Protective Association, which issued an order to all its mem- bers that no player could sign a con- tract with any.American League club except those who had played in t league during its first season the p! vipus year, 1900. The players' asso- ciation made this move because it wanted to get in the good graces of the National League and obtain cer- tain concessions from it for the players It really was another phase of the old fight of the players against the Na- tional League, but the ruling happened to come at a time when the-National League stood to benefit at the expense of the American League. It was sald that the directors of the players' organization, evidently expect- ing an eventual falling out with the National League. covertly informed the American League men that they might go ahead and grab players from the National. Whether this was true or ® | not, the American League did go ahead with negotiations to sign up National League players. The invaders didn't get all the players they wanted, but enough of them went to the American League to make the National Leaguers denounce Ban Johnson and his back- ers bitterly and strenuously. None was more furious than Col. John I. Rogers, who owned some stock in the Philadel- phia Nationals, and from which the great Napoleon Lajoie was enticed into the American League. Rogers went to law to fight his case and although he got a decision in time which prevented Lajole from playing in the State of Pennsylvania, he never got Lajole back. The defection of La- joie was the worst player blow that was struck at the National League in 1901 because he became one of the great stars of base ball and for a time was the bright star of the American League. He was asgsured by the American League promoters that no matter what the courts might do, they would take care of him—and they did. ‘The National League, after having held aloof from the Players' Protective | Association for some time, finally made & compromise with it on February 9, . Then the league got busy sign- its players to head off the invasion lof American Lengue cofn, but it cost |some National League men a pretty | penny to hold their players | The American League boasted some skilled players. with Lajole, Jimmy Col- lins, Eibenfeld and others who had heen taken from the National or signed |from the minors. The league was ready to start the 1901 season with double |the strength it had possessed in_1900, and with new clubs in_Boston, Phil | delphia. Washington and Baltimore. Not | these clubs were -howling 'suc- cosses, but_the lea skillfully handled by President’ John. ceeded in keeping its well concealed and if the National League had wished to stampede any of the club owners it could get no clue [t help it. | The Chicago club won the 1901 cham- | pionship in the American League race and when its su had been_defnon- strated in & pronounces National |League city, Charles Comiskey re- |marked to a personal friend: "“This |league of ours may be fought by the National League until doomsday but we've got a hold on the public that can't be lost.” | President Johnson had a faithful ally in the East in Charles W. Somers, the |league’s vice president. Somers was unflagging in his energles in Boston and Washington. These were consid- cred to be the weaker points of the circuit at first. The Philadelphia Ath- letics wera well taken care of by local capital. |all of (Conyrigh UZCUDUN LOSES PURSE 1928) MEXICO CITY, January 24 (#).— | Paulino Uzcudun’s first experience on | arrtving in Mexico City for his fight | next Sunday with the Chilean heavy- lose his pocketbook. "The pocketbook containing $200 ap- chopper’s pocket as the enthusiastic Mexicans who greeted him at the sta- tion attempted to raise the fighter on their shoulders to carry him to an | automobile. immediately to accustom himself to the high altitude of the capital. Rojas has already begun to train for the 15- | bull ring here. The promoters term it | the heavyweight champlonship of Latin America. DAVIDGE IN CUE MATCH. willlam “Davidge will meet Robert Talbutt in the pocket billiard tourna- ment tonight at the Mayfair Academy. Edward Tindell, District champion, bowed to Gene Newlin, 88 to 100, last night. Each player had a high run of 24. GRID TEAM MEETS. Kennedy A. C. foot ball players will meet tomorrow night at the home »f Manager Ted Otte, 5213 Georgia ave- nue, at 8 o'clock. NAZIMOVA, brilliant actress, writes: “The Russian lady—ah, how she delights in the fragrant cigarette! sian 1 have tried X‘uff of a a Rus- them all— the cigarettes of Cairo, Paris, London, Madrid—but her ein mfi'aado})tcdcoumry, America, 1 have found my favorite ciga- rette ‘The Lucky Strike’ In addition toits lovelyfragrance and wonderful flavor it has no bad effect upon my voice —s0 even when I go abroad I carry with me my little trunk of Luckies—and enjoy a puff from America.” / AS MEXICANS GREET HIM | weight, Quintin Romero Rojas, was to parently fell out of the Spanish wood- | Uzcudun expects to begin _training | round fight, which will be staged in the | | | | | SHARKEY, DELANEY SEEK TILE BOUTS Latter, However,' Will Not Press Matter Unless He K. 0.’s Heeney. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 24.—T} heavyweight plot aimed at Gene Tun- ney’s crown thickened today with a possibility of three champions at large in the event the present title-holder is not signed for the defense of hi treasure by early Summer. Matching Jack Sharkey's challenge with the New York State Athletic Com- mission, Jack Delancy has issued a like defi at Tunney through the Natlonal Boxing Association, which has a mem- bership in 26 States. Delaney’s challenge; however, accord- ing to his manager, Joe Jacobs, will be effective only on_condition that De- laney knocks out Tom Heeney during their 15-round bout at Madison Square Garden on March 1. TheNew York State Athletic Commis- sion -Tequires champlons to fight at least once every six months and Tun- s period of idlene: Its First Step. As for the National Boxing Associa- tion, this is the first time it has stepped into the affairs of the heavyweights. The body has accepted Delaney's chal- lenge, Jacobs said. Jacobs stated he would confer with Tom Donahue, president of the N. B. A. within a few days in respect to the time limit which would be imposed on Tunney to accept Delaney as a chal- lenger in case the Bridgeporter sends Heeney down for the count. “Delancy is in fine condition and is confident of packing a knockout wallop when he steps into the ring against Heeney,” Jacobs said. “A knockout would make Delaney the logical chal- lenger for Tunney without the formality of engaging the winner of the Sharkey- Risko battle.” Help to Rickard. Incidentally, Delaney’s challenge with the N. B. A. is regarded as favorable o the interests of Promoter Tex Rick- ard. Previously, Sharkey's challenge with _the New York solons would com- pel Rickard to respect the rulings of the Empire State body. Now, if Rick- ard should find it to his advantage to shift his heavyweight stage to another State he could call on Delaney. The Massachusetts Boxing Commis- sion has a working agreement with the New York board. The N. B. A. juris- diction includes Illinols, which would permit Rickard to transfer his activi- tles to Chicago if expedient. In spite ¢f the clamoring by Heeney's handlers that Delaney is running a risk of injuring his hands by his “fight a week” program, Jacobs asserted the Bridgeporter would continue with the competition and announced two more bouts for Delaney in addition to his tilt with Battling Levinsky at Pitts- burgh on February 6. Delaney will tackle Leo Gates in Rochester on Feb closes in March. | ruary 13 and Jack McAuliffe, 2d, of Detrolt, in New Haven on February 20. Sharkey Is Dictator. BOSTON, January 24 (#).—Jack Sharkey will box Gene Tunney or Jack Dempsey, but no one else, it was an- nounced this morning after a six-hour conference between Sharkey's manager, Johnny Buckley, and Jess McMahon, Madison Square Garden matchmaker, n which an offer to match the Boston | saflor with Johnny Risko, Cleveland heavyweight, was definitely turned down. Buckley told McMahon that his man was through with eliminations of the type of the proposed Risko bout, and, in additton, rejected the possibility of a fight with Jack Delaney. The bout with Risko was to have been staged in New York on March 12. - McMahon at once dispatched a tele- | gram to Tex Rickard in Miam, Fla., in- | forming him of Sharkey's demand. Buckley said that since Tunney had been reported anxlous to defend his title twice next Summer Sharkey was will- |ing to take him on in June, leaving a September date to Dempse: “Jack wants to meet Gene first of all, but if that is impossible he is ready to meet Dempsey in June or any time, but he is not going to go over the ground he has already covered.” TRIS WILL NOT STATE TERMS FOR JOB HERE By the Associated TAMPA, Fla. January 24—A Win- ter of startling base ball events, bring- ing wholesale redistribution of many brilllant players now seems to offer new flelds of speculation concerning Tris Speaker, who last year played I center field for the Washington Griff- | | ™ he apparent tendency of base ball | big business to rearrange its valuation on stars seems to have entered into | Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, George Sisler | and others who have switched their af- | filintions, or had them switched, since last. season closed. | ington club, announced here yesterday that unless Speaker voluntarily reduced his own salary on or before February 1 he would be given his unconditional re- lease. Tris, | South in Birmingham, en route to ~arolina for a hunting trip, sald | Griffmen with regard to cutting his own pay. “Unless Grifith sends me a contract by February 1,” he said, “I will automatically become a free agent.” Griffith countered to this news with the opinion that if Speaker did not make the overtures chances of playing next season in a V:r;ashlngton uniform “were mighty slim.” . ‘The Washington owner declared that he told Speaker at the close of last season he could not again pay him his present salary. out and look for a job and that I would help him.” he added. Montreal and Jersey City have made advances to Speaker regarding a managership, Griffith said. ¢Until February 1,” he said, “T am the property of the Washington Base Ball Club and am not at liberty to negotiate with any other club.” the Speaker case, as it did with Ty| | he would make no overtures to the| suggested his | “I told him to go| | WITH THE Popularity of the duckpin game often puzzles those who have not, tried their hands at it and do not realize its fas- cination, says an ardent admirer and student, of this form of bowling. How- ever, this popularity can be illustrated rather well by a little story, he asserts. He tells of a kindergarten teacher ques- tioning a small boy in his first day at school, attempting to learn his name. She could not get him to tell her, as he appeared to be extremely bashful. Finally she had an idea. “What does your mother call you,” she asked, “when dinner is ready?” The little boy just 'She doe: beamed. to call me,” he declared. “I'm already there.” That’s the answer to the duckpin pop- ularity question says the follower of the sport. Duckpins are already there—and they are always there, waiting for you. Other games are dependent upon day light or require good weather. Some must be played out of doors and so can enjoyed only part of the year in a imate such as this, and they have to be postponed when it rains or snows or is uncomfortably cold. For golf, for example, you sometimes have to travel a good distance and fight for your turn on_the course. But duckpin! have Any day, any evening, rain or shine, Summer or Winter, and bowling alleys right at hand. The worse the weather outside, the bigger the kick at a bowling match indoors. And the game is one that can be en- joyed as “solitaire” even, if you can't dig up a running mate. Added to all this is the element of chance. Every box offers all sorts of possibilities, and even a perfect pocket shot does not guaran- tee a strike or even a good break. Of course, in the duckpin game in particular, there is no such thing as good or bad luck. But it is a little difficult to explain a situation like the |one here detailed. The other night a bowler registered two counts of 2 pins each on his first two spares, his team losing the game by a margin of 5 pins only. This sort of thing is to be expected, however, and the bowler gave it no particular thought, profane or otherwise. But he had fol- Jowed the marks by blowing two spare Clark Griffith, owner of the Wash-|breaks in the remaining boxes. Follow= ing the first missed break, he hit for a strike. After the second miss he top~ pled 9 pins.. Well, what have you? On the two marks he made, he counted a total of 4 pins; on the two he blew he would have registered 19 pins. And there are bowling alley managers who have the nerve to paint on the walls of their establishments: “Bowlers never get the blues. Undaunted by the 159-pin licking handed it by the Bowling Center All- Stars of Baltimore in a 10-game match early this season, the King Pin team 1s to tackle the Mounmental City duck- pin aggregation in another 10-game battle. Tonight the first half of the match will be rolled on’the Bowling Center drives of the foe. Manager Bill Wood will head the King Pin party leaving for Baltimore at 5 o'clock this afternoon. The last half of the match will be bowled here early next mont, The King Pin team probably will i clude Joe Toomey, George Friend. Clem Weidman, Arthur Logan and Howard Campbell. Bowling for Baltimore will be John Ruppel. Ed Smith, Roy Von Drelle, Ed Dunnock and George Lang. Bradley Mandley, who topped the BOWLERS Big Ten of Washington duckpinners selected last season by the Washington City Duckpin Association, again is bang- ing the Hitle maples in great style. On the King Pin drives last night while rolling for the H. B. Denham team, Mandley established a National Capital League record by socking a set of 427. His games were 143, 129 and 155. In this first. 400-set of his bow! career, Mandley toppled 11 spares a 5 strikes. The total sent hnis le: average close to 118. His heavy couht- ing helped the Denhams to take thfee games from the Tompkins teaz. Meyer Davis got away with the firs: game only of its District League mateh with King Pin. Howard Campbell, & anchor for the winners, shot & set of 382. Arthur Logan. another King Pin- ner, rolled high game of the match at 140. King Pin hit for a set of 1,785 against 1696 for Meyer Davis, losing the first game by two pins. Tn a brotherly contest the six Donald- son boys took the measure of the five Frye boys in two of three games. Mel, vin Donaldson bowled in the first and second games only, Will in the first and ::il’g and Rhett in t second and rd. ‘Washington Centennial grabbed two of three games rolled with Bethlehem in the Eastern Star League on the Crmven‘,ion] Hall drives. Bethiechem scored its lone tory in the roll of a tied third b : - Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA —Joe Dundee, Balti- more, defeated Joe Simonich, Montana 10). Babe ‘Gorgary, Oklahoma, n a technical knockout over Bobby | Brown, Atlantic City (10). Buster Brown, Baltimore, outpointed Wilbur Cohen, New York (6). NEW YORK.—“Cannonball” Eddie | Martin, Brookiyn, defeated Dominick | Petrone, New York (10). Rene de Vos, Belgium, knocked out Sidney Priedman, New York (1). Pierre Charles, Bel- gium, and Jack Demave, Hoboken. N. J, drew (10). Lou Barba, New York. won from Marco Polo, Pitts- burgh (6). Ted Sandwina, Sioux City. %x!polnted Johnny Urban, Pittsburgh ). by MIAMI, Fla—Young Stribling, Ma- con, Ga. knocked out Martin Burke, New Orleans (1). MOBILE, Ala—Jimmy King, New Orleans, knocked out Pete Stamaty, Boston (4). TORONTO, Ontario—Willle Davis, Pittsburgh. won from Ernie Jarvis, England (10). NEWARK, N. J—Willie Greb, Scran- ton, defeated Jackie Horner, St. Louis (10). Harry Goldstein, Pittsl ‘won | from Jack Charity, Newark (10). CHICAGO.—Teddy Esterbrook, Niles, Ohio, outpointed Howard Bentz, Mil- waukee (10). Billy Bortfleld. Milwau- kee, won from Billy Showers, St Paul (6). MEMPHIS, Tenn—Red Herring, Utr- {ca. N. Y. defeated Frankie Dugan, Memphis The Cream of the Tobacco Crop “When I am selling tobacco, I average over six sales a minute. This, of course, is a terrible strain on my throat. To protect that, I smoke LUCKY STRIKES. 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