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S * Mack Thinks Speaker Will Do More fo PORTS.’ TRIS IS SLATED TO PLAY AS REGULAR IN OUTFIELD Condition of His Legs Will Determine Whether He Will Succeed—Tigers Get Much-Sought Pitchei®™n Landing Sorrell. BY JOUN B. FOSTER. T base ba leading 1 ‘Where ather the avound Ker to pls and permit- with an un- in 1927. It wasn't so much that he won | that many, as was the manner in which he won them. Old ball players who hit | against him in exhibition games told other old guys that they had better watch that Sorrell kid. Soriell's earned run average Was not but this was due to his habit »f insorting bases on balls where they did him the least good. If a pitcher ~an’t control the ball and runs up A long record of bases on balls, his earned run y Average suffers. pt shift from the he opening of the on, when the Athletics nearly with elation at getting Cobb and agton Senators were the first the ground to sign Speaker Too Righ for Washington. ashington alar T! will find m to back them oy center ficld for C n in 1927 and could not D to the needs of the ad been selected. Cobb pert in the outfield as s with the greatest sc of his ability to and to field ground ack of second base base ball will consider Welch and Speaker to be the center fielders in base could cover more ground e others. but he could 1 as Speaker. nor could fudges of ost games for the Athletics, are some plavers on the team the same thing Legs Will Determine. s legs and knees will deter- Y 928 season will be ng for Wash- v good trim. but the Senators he before the sea- proposed by Mack n center. Simmons right field—should e Athletics n 1928 than t year in the outfleld. If 15 unable to keep the pace this s base ball plaving career will thear taps in all probability, unless he wishes 1o amuse himself by playing in one of the big minor lcagues. There are ] t would take him for manager her minors. He did expect to be taken back as manager at ot . but Roger Peckinpaugh. a son. g0t the job against Speaker, by ad-ption. ne Detroit Tigers traded Rip Co s pitcher. to the Toronto club of the Internatiopel League. for Victor Sor- pitcher, ey got a ball player con- | ng whom there has been as much 2 around as any who pitched in rs 89°1927 major league club had a man g Borrell somewhere. Some ma- sent their scouts to Toronto. s who went over to Canada not get much encouragement. They rted back tnat the pitcher was all t the owner of the Toronto ifferent t3 their bland- then was that De- U up. It seems %0 and Detroit dating back an. » Cobb and v, When H went from Louis to manage the ar and George Moriarty ader of the Tigers, onto continued to Club by chumming [ succecded C Bl O 5 636 per cent of his games sbb was not chosen | The thing that got the old timers | when they watched Sorrell at work was | the unmistakable grit he showed when | he got in bad, and aiso the speed that {he had when he wasn't in bad. What he needs most to make him a success, | according to those who have looked him {over. is experience and a little change of pace that will permit him to let up ‘on his arm when he feels like it. He hasn't been able to combine change of | ) pace with control of the ball—a little jon that befalls almnst all young vers. They needn’t feel badly about it. because Walter Johnson did not have a change of pace when he began to pitch and he got along very well. Correlling Good Staff. | getting together a staff of pitchers who | should be effective in the coming sca- son. Carroll must show something this vear if he is going to do it'at all. Gib- son looked exceptionally promising in the Spring of 1927 and then coagulated. Hollway is an enduring boy who got | th | his share of work in 1927. Staner and his curve ball worked a lot. Whitehill had a season that did not turn out as 1 some folks thought it would. Lefthand- ers are queer in their temperament and it may be that the great year for White- hill is in the offing. Van Gilder, who has been taken over from the St. Louis Browns, is a steady pitcher, and Detroit needed one like that Moriarty has made changes toward crystallizing team strength, and if he has succeeded the Detroit team will do Little by little the Detroit team is|| THE FEVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 7, 1928 WOMEN 1 WSTERN HIGH SCHOOL bas- bet ball tossers, who opened their interclass series yester- day with a double-header in the school gymnasium, will play through a double circuit round- robin schedule in three sections, in ore der to give the exceptionally large num- ber of tossers who have turned out this season an equal opportunity for play. First, second and third team sched- ules have been arranged, each team playing every other in its section twice. First teams clashed yesterday in the openers. Senfor Firsts defeated the Freshmen Firsts, 16 to 5, while the Sophomore Firsts registered the same count against the Junior Firsts. ‘The work of Sally Abel and Jane | Mapes, Sentor center-fleld combination, was the outstanding feature of the Senior-Freshman tilt. Betty Hartman and Betty Shipp, Sophomore forwards, exhibited some scientific team play. Freshman guards, Catherine McClan- | dish and Mary Lee. put up a game fight | to check the Senior scorers, succeeding repeatedly in halting a count under the basket. Summaries: Gonls—Fas a1 two, 1 fouls Grady ane. 1 foul ¢ Pric Wilson shipp. 3 { Herzog. 1 one Hartn fouls Refaren—Miss C. Belle Meyers Mrs. Trenfs. George Washington University and e Y. W. C. A. each have entered squads in the Washington free throw tournament, a part of the world free- throw event now in progress. Eugenia Davis, basket ball instructor {at G. W., reports that she hopes to have her entire basket ball group of 150 tossers trying out for goal throw- ing honors. ‘The Post has offered a 100 per cent participation trophy to be awarded the school. club or organiza- tion having its entire group of basketers | or members entered in the tourney. The Colonials hope to win this cup. Marion Melgs will conduct the tials Colby, 1 two, Umpire— ‘Basket Ball Speedy on Coast . With Work of Officials Good | BY “NIBS” PRICE, Rasket Ball Coach. University of California. ASKET BALL is much improved this season on the Pacific Coast, and the officials are doing bet- ter work, due to closer study of the rules. Their improvement | may also be attributed partly to the | fact that there have been no vital | changes in the code. | This gives the officials a surer attl- | tude on the floor. The crowds seem to | understand what they are calling and | have let up in unsportsmaniike booing. | But it seems we can't get away without | some booing. The game is so fast and the crowds get excited. They don't mean it the way it sounds, sometimes. | You can hardly blame them when the games have been going as they have. | " In the Far Western Conference St. | Mary's played St. Ignatius, 32—31, in' | the first game. St. Ignatius was ex: pected to win, due to its previous re ord. St. Mary's, with a good team, was ! trailing one point with only seconds left | to play. Simas, a sophomore at St. Mary's, was in the middle of the floor with the : ball. He let it go. It was hard to tell | just what he intended, but the ball hit a St. Ignatius man and was deflected in a high arc. The ball went through | the basket, and as it hit the floor the | gun sounded. So St. Mary's won. I | call that some finish! | The last game between Southern Cali- fornia and the University of California in the Pacific Conference had the ple | on their feet most of the time. If you | wanted a substitute the latter part of the game you had to go get him. Call- | ing his name did no good. He couldn’t | hear because of the noise. | U.8 C. started out well. The first | half ended 17—15 in U. 8. C.s favor. The second half opened with California | catching them and going ahead. The game was tied, 23—23, the middle of 25 YEARS OF BAN JOHNSON By John B. Foster. XVIII—The Eeginning of the Johnson-Comiskey Break occurred the fore- e | owner. e between Ban Johnson and A Co and were Jally ¥ cause an open break e 1wo men who had done A League & 3 s “0Oid Roman” of the 5% been ser of the trom the Comisiey coess of gue betore Jol n might be orga “"had been in jong be- of the een the | American As- ght be- the Na- ough the fire The seorching when the sagit thir would be in orisl daayue years, Come- i Chicugo n v whrit Vhe U e of biase tali fights re maae on Chi A N & when he entereq i Crusgs Vensvedly Lehing Frerican | eagie il Laag vt Giflerent e P hi Lnson s make the “The Na- st s Bght sy orher dn which fud been engaged Jonnson | Umpire HAVE YOUR Headlights Adjusted wnd srieinsnd ol CREEL BROS. 1811-17 14th St. NW. Pot, 413 Glliel Kletite Bessles the | Kelly and reprimanded the Chicago “Commy” was at white heat over this occurrence. It might have been ed along by both of them if, later in the year, Johnson had not sus- pended Holmes, an outfielder of the Chicago club, on the charge of abusing Umplre O'Loughlin. Comiskey broke with Johnson at once, On the eve of the annual meeting of the American League in Chicago, Com- iskey made public a statement in which | he asserted that Johnson, in company | with Garry Herrmaun, was endeavor- ing to consolidate the rival major leagues, This raised a furore in the | West. | i Side With Johnson. Al the American league meeting, a {majority of the owners sided with | Jubnson. Resolutions were adopted ch related the fact that Johuson | nad worked night and day for his | icagie and that “in view of the unex- lampled success of the American | teague sesson Just closed, the league | herehy tehders to iis president, B. Johnson, s very sincere congratula- {tons snd offers W him its earnest thanks for the able, conservative und business-like manner with which he hius conducted s affalrs, with sbsolute {eonfidence in his loyalty snd judgment, 1t has no doubts of the future und louks forward W Iany prOSPErous sen- suns under his guidance and in mondly competition with the Natlnal League.” ‘The breach had been begun bhelween Juhinson end Coraiskey and it never en- tirely healea (Convivht 1678 ) re Way to Get Ihere us one sure wiy that never 14 fails 10 remove dandruff completely and thit is 1 dissolve it Then you destioy it entirely, 16 do thie, just get abour four ounces of plain, ordinary liquid arvon ; apply it at night when retiring; use eniongh 1o moisten the scalp aid rub o genrly with the finger tips, By morniug, most, of nov all, of your dandvafl will be gone, and 1wo or thiee more applications will come pletely dissolve and entirely destyoy every single sign and trace of W0, no | matter how much dandraff you may | Yo will find, o0, that all itching and diggig of the salp will stoy instantly, and your hair will he Justrons, glossy, silky and soft, and the second half. The rest of the game was little advantage to either side. It just depended upon when the gun ended the game. ‘The gun came when the score was 27—27. This meant an extra period. Again, at the end of the first overtime riod, the score was 29—29. The U. . C. got two buckets from the middle of the floor and California let defense go to the winds to try to get them back. But U. 8. C. won, 39—20. Mortinson, a mighty good forward, broke the tle with a fine, side-court, long shot. (Conyright 1028 by North American News. vaver Alltance.) . EPISCOPAL TO ENTER GAMES AT RICHMOND + ALEXANDRIA, Va, February }7.— | Cench C. V. Tompkins has named the | Episcopal High track team, which he will send into the University of Rich- mond games. 2 ‘The Maroon and Black will also be represented by a 1-mile relay team which will be nemed after time trials | ‘Thursday. Following are the Episcopal entries: 45-yard dash—Gasson, Hand, Wilson. 45-yard low hurdles—Cauthorne, Okle, Bryant. 880-yard run—Owen M. Cary. 1-Mile run—Nevius. High jump— Moreman, Williams, 8. Nelson. = Shot- put-—Hand, Bryant. Alexandria High will engage Wash- intgon and Lee High of Ballston, Va. in two games on the Armory Hall court here tonight. The boys' game will start at 8:30, preceded by a girls’ con- test between the sextets of the insti- tutions. 0ld Dominion Boat Club, which split even in Its games with the Virginia Medical College, at Richmond, and the Atmospheric Nitrogen Corporation, at #etersburg, last week end, will hike to Quantico tonight for a game with the Marine Aviators of the East Coast Ex- peditionary Forces, Alexandria Amateur Base Ball Fed- eration will meet Friday night at 7:30 In the Alexandria Gazette Bullding, 317 King street. ‘The meeting has been called by President Edward A. Sweeley, 8t. Mary's Junlors are after games. Phone Manager Tommy Lucas at Alex- andrir 1635, Annoucement has - been made that the Packard basket ball club would en- ter the local unlimited field next Win- ter. ‘The new outfit will give a dance in the Potomac Town Ha'l Bullding on Pebruary 15, Columbla ¥ngine Co. basketers will workout In Armory Hall tonight at 6 o'clock. DAVIDGE PLAYS NEWLIN IN CUE MATCH TONIGHT Willlam Davidge meets Cene New- L {lin tonight at 7 o'clock In the pocket billiard tournament &t the Mayfair Academy, With high runs of 19, Rob- ert ¥oulz defeted Fd Reynolds, 100 o 61, in lnst night's league match George Clark, clever visiting billlurd- ist, defeated Greeklow, 100 to 64, at Curths’ Academy yesterduy, but Jost Lo Kelley 1n u 100-10-84 mutch. Clark, u cuelst of considerable repu- tation, gave un exhibiion of fu shots after cach match. Te meets die Tindell, District champion, There Is 0o wdmission chaige Rid of Dandruff L. b Lok and feel a hundred times hettey You can gt liquid arvon at any drug store and four ounces s all you will need. ‘This simple remedy has never heen known to fail, L Andover N SPORT BY CORINNE FRAZIER |t the Y. W. C. A. Entrics for the con- test through that organization should be sent or reported verbally to Miss Meigs. February 25 is set as the closing date for all trials in Washington. Results must be reported to Dorothy Greene, chairman of the local committee, on or immediately after that date. Records made locally will be filed with the world committee to be com- pared with those made by girls of other citics and countries. World records will be announced on March 15, according to Miss Greene. Entry blanks may be secured by ad- dressing the Washington committee, world basket ball free-throw tourna- ment, the Washington Post. First Baptist Church tossers romped on the Second Baptist squad, 24 to 9, at Wilson Normal School last night in a Columbia Federation B. Y. P. U. League game, featured by the work of Ima Stegist, First Church forward, whose accurate eye was responsible for the bulk of the scoring. Fifth Baptist sextet succumbed to the consistent passing of the Columbia A. C. aggregation, 18 to 11, in a second B. Y. P. U. tilt last night. BASKET BALL PROBLEMS BY 0SW TOWER, Member Joint Rules Committee wer I vou W R query. with Wil M sl atamied cnve ” Wows " Question—Team A, having a lead, are stalling by forming a small circle and handing the ball to each other. Team B cannot reach the ball with- out personal contact. Can Team A kill time indefinitely this way? Answer—Players of Team B ought to get as close as possible without fouling to the players with the ball, whereupon the referee should call a held ball because closely guarded players are withholding the ball from play. Although Rule 7, Section 3, mentions one closely guarded player, it makes no difference in this case whether the ball is withheld by one or several closely guarded players. The effect is the same. Convright 1928 i ountries by Americnn Newspaper Alllance ) il North GOPHERS SEEM SURE OF CELLAR POSITION By the Associated Press CHICAGO, February 7.—Although final leadership of the Big Ten basket ball race remains something for future games to determine, the cellar today seemed, barring upsets, to belong to Minnesota. The Gophers sank deepr last night, when they lost a hard game to Iowa, 30 to 27. Out of six games played, Mi; nesota has won only one. The Towa vic- tory put that team in seventh place leading Ohlo State, Illinois and Minne- sota. Chicago's off-and-on-again team pulled to the head of tiv sccond division last night by beating Ohlo State, 27 to 24, in a ragged game. Two of the contenders for the Big Ten champlonship practiced shots and won non-conference games last night. Pur- due, leaders of the race with three victories and no defeats, won from Franklin College at Lafayette, Ind., 46 to 33. It was the first game for the Boiflermakers in two weeks, and it gave their substitutes a chance at the basket. Michigan, whose three consecutive conference victories are worrying Pur- due, Northwestern, Wisconsin and In- diana, conquered Coe College of Iowa, 31 to 25. The majority of the Wolverine regulars sat along the sidelines during the game, resting for the important game with Purdue Saturday. After a three-week rest, Wisconsin will take the floor tonight, Notre Dame at Madison. The Badgers sngthened considerably be- 'rexaminations, ‘enhopen, Mil- cause of tF |three former in |ter and CI i, ‘having satisfied the facult; astically. They are not expected (o get into tonight’s non-con- ference game, however, but may break into the Minncsota-Wisconsin game Saturday. CHICAEO HOLDING FREE TRACK AND GYM MEETS CHICAGO, February 7 (#.—So as to popularize track and gmynastics at the University of Chicago, Coach A. A. Stagg has adopted a free admission pol- fey for meets of those classes of sports. The policy brought a crowd of 2,500 to the Chicago-Indiana mect last week, the largest that has ever seen an indoor meet at Bartlett gymnasium. Most Astonishing Golf Occurences S BY MAURICE McCARTHY, JR. ieorgetown ty atudent, winner of P amateur tournuments in 1027 and & Guatifier in national amateur ehampionship As my father is a professional golfer, I have always been interested in pro golf and get a lot of pleasure playing in open golf tournaments, Having done so frequently, I have seen many surpris- ing things on the links. Probably the one that made the great- 4t smpression on me was a feat achleved by Willle Kleln, blond young pro from Wheatley Hills. It was in the Shawnee open in’ 1925, just about :hweckdzllr:’x; Willle MacFarlane won e na open after a great play-off with Bobby Jones. uMnanrlnnc was “hot.”” With the greatest prize In American golf in his possession, he felt he had to put his best foot forward. He played fine golf, and being among the early finishers he sat by the eighteenth green watching the others come in and feeling pretty cer- tain that he had the tournament won. Klein, who had been up among the leaders, slumped on the first nine holes of the last round, but coming in he shot Unive as superb golf as this world ever saw. f Shawnee is a pretty tough layout, with plenty of water hazards and Ilots of length. Despite that, Klein did the last aine holes in 29 shots, two over even 3s. He wound up with a birdie 2 on the last hole to get a tle with MacFarlane, but was beaten.on the extra 18 holes In the Metropolitan open in 1926 Tom Harmon, young Hudson River ace, card- ed 30 for the first nine at Grassy Sprain, #nd this course is also long and tough. He played grand golf, but it seems to me that Klein's, aside from the differ- ence of a stroke, was much more sur- | prising. Bill was making a finish against the American open champion, and his rally, after taking 43 on the first nine, is well worthy of being writ- ten into links history. (Copvright. 1078 by North American News- vaver Alliance.) o GAIN HOCKEY HONORS. VANCOUVER, British Columbla, Feb- ruary 7 (#).—Winning last night's game, 7 to 2, against the Victoria Capitals, the Vancouver Monarchs annexed the British Columbia coast senfor amateur hockey championship and the right to meet the Kootenay League champions in the play-off for the provincial title. SPORTS. CENTERS SET PACE IN BASKET SCORING By the Associated Pross. CHICAGO, February 7.—Several years | ago it was news when a basket ball center tossed In a field goal. Today it is news, especially in the Big Ten Con- ference, when a center fails to tally. So far in the present Big Ten title chase, the heaviest scorers are playing the pivot position and are far ahead of the forwards and guards in the number of fleld goal caged. Unofficial statistics complled by the As- soclated Press reveal that not only are the three leading point-gainers in the conference playing center, but that the pivot men so far have averaged a trifle less than 14. Five of the 10 leaders in the individual scoring race are centers, and their totals outnumber the remain- ing five, 218 to 131. The three leading centers are Mc- Cracken, Indiana, with 57 points; Wal- ters, Northwestern, with 47, and Foster, Wisconsin, with 43. The other two lead- ing centers are Gist of Chicago and Van Heyde of Ohio State. Conference guards, who in previous years spent most of their time watching the home basket, are also gaining on the orwards. To date in the conference they have averaged 17 points each against 22 for the forwards. ANOTHER TOSSER LOST TO THE ILLINOIS TEAM . URBANA, 11, Fcbruary 7 (#).— Coach Craig Ruby of the University ot Illinois lost his third basket bail star within a week today when Frosty Lind- say. towering center, was ruled ineli- gible for further competition because of scholastic shortcomings. Coach Ruby also lost Capt. Olson and Short, veteran members of the team, because of scholastic difficulties. THREE SCORE WITH CUE. NEW YORK, February 7 (#).—Alfred de Oro, Harry Wakefield and Otto Relselt turned in victories in the Ameri- can Billlard League's three cushion tournament. De Oro defeated Augie Kieckhefer, 50 to 47, in 63 innings: Wakefleld beat Clarence Jackson, 50 to 31, in 54 innings and Reiselt defeated Johnny Layton, 50 to 37, in 36 innings. rA’s in 1928 Than Cobb Did in 1927 G. U. BOXERS PREPARING FOR SYRACUSE INVASION Georgetown boxers are busy pre- paring for their meet with Syracuse here February 25. There is ne dan- ger of the affair being hampered through interference of the Ama- | teur Athletic Union, as that body, it was declared by Lou Little, direc- tor of athletics at Georgetown, has no control over collegiate boxing. No admission is charged to the ring program in which the Hilltoppers participate. OLYMPIC VISITORS NOT TO BE GOUGED By the Assaciated Pr AMSTERDAM, Holland, Pebruary 7. —Restdents who have registered rooms for Olympic games visitors have agreed to prices from 3 florins (about $1.25) to 5 florins for each person for bed and breakfast, says an announcement of the housing section of the Nether- lands committe An_official bureau has been opened at No. 109 Reguliersgracht, Amster- dam, for the convenience of persons who desire to make registrations in advance for rooms in private families in preference to staying at the more expensive hot For those ors who will have to | seek accommodation in surrounding |towns and villages ample means of | conveyance will he provided by the running of special trains and extra motor bus services Nearly all hotel rooms a have been booked for the dur: the meet, and it is llkely that many of the foreign athletes will be cared | for on shij FRITZIE STIFEL LEADS. CLEARWATER. Fla., February 7 (4. Fritzie Stifel of Wheeling, W. 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