Evening Star Newspaper, February 17, 1928, Page 41

"SPORTS. «~ THE EV G STAR, WASHINGTO! D. O, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1928. SPORTS." Indians Arranging Startling Deal : Hudkins Picked to Defeat Baker Tonight EHANG[—MHMAKE Billiards Starts New Regime With Chicago Surgeon as Czar CLUB FLAG FAGTOR Tribe Has Likely Pitchers, but Needs More Speed in the Infield. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. NEW YORK. Febru when it is least expected, and perhaps league teams are in the mps, the Cleveland club will e a deal that will amaze the base world. It will stir up such a big at wavelets will roll toward e for about a vear. deal is completed Cleve- will be on the high road to & win- Just where the deal I‘lllibe n- elders, is the factor that vstery in the case. land won the champion- 0 the team backed down the of obtaining confined to de-| That | ungsters. John J. Me- | vear, and ecially d vear e esteemed C paugh, has de-| trong bid for the | American League pennant. While (he‘ deal is in the offing. the Cleveland management has sent word to a young et ready for the| g base ball in id not throw | J He isn't worth i mes from Oklahoma. and | maybe the Oklahoma boys are getting| 9 up” e of the success of lhel ‘Waner brothers at Pittsburgh. But the ‘Waners, oddly enough. do not ask !Ol" more than they are worth | Levsen should be a Cleveland star and | is a mile away from it. He is from Towa. Buckere is never going to be a| great pitcher until he gets command o{‘ from Detroit. a product. is 100 | ¥ he big pitcher he | nould be. Cleveland has an assortment of kid| Base ball went to the judicial bench for its Landis, but billiards has found its own “Czar” in the medical profession. Chosen president of the National Billiards Association, Dr. Ralph H. Wheeler (above), Chicago sur- geon, was given arbitrary power, which he expects to administer as gently and firmly as he does his medicines. Frank Taberski (below) pocket billiards champion, will be the first to defend his title under the rule of the doctor-czar, playing in the national tournament at Chicago, March 5 to 17, By the Aseociated Press. HICAGO. February 17.—Bil- liards now has its czar like base ball and the movies. The cue wielders' “Landis” is Dr. Ralph H. Wheeler, well known Chicago surgeon, who is president of the National Billards Association. ‘Tabersk! will be the first to de- fend his crown under the new state of affairs, participating in the March competition. The N. B. A. tourna- ment committee is choosing as his opponents the 10 leading players of the last season. Ralph Greenleaf was winner of the title in last year's tournament and, through challenge SUBURBAN BOWLING Petworth is running away from the seven other teams in the race for the championship of the Suburban Bowling League. It enjoys a four-game lead over the second-place York Auto Sup- plys and is seven games in front of the Lincolns. Team Records. A 11 15 8 ] Ha 61 o1 BN Petworth York Aut Lincolne rk View ard O ° Warehou D e Marbie Tile | King' Lumber Co. 41 Individual Records. H. Rothgeh | Clamme Pratt | L. Rothged "~ | Heltman Warman . Rinaldy F. Sull o Ascost . Vita F. Ferra Cardinale Vitello ... KING Kenneiore Pope .10 PETWORTH LEADING |D. C. DAIRYMEN TO BOWL AT RICHMOND TOMORROW OUTHERN DAIRIES bowlers of ‘Washington and Richmond are jumping into the intercity bowl- ing business. They are to strug- gle on the drives of the Virginia capital tomorrow. The local squad will include the Douglas brothers, Harry and Charley; Clements, Jacobs and McProuty. These men are the high average duckpinners of the Southern Dairles 12-team league here. Rich- mond also has & Southern Dalries League that will send its high average bowlers into action. A band of seventy-five rooters will accompany the Washington bowlers to the RFchmOnd battlefield. Another of those intercity bowling matches with which the alley program has been filled this Winter will be con= cluded tonight on the Convention Hall drives. The town team of Martins- burg, W. Va., headed by Reggle Rawl- ings, one-time sandlot base ball star of the District and since the leading slugger of the Blue Ridge League for a decade, is due to end its 10-game, home-and-home battle with the quint of Quentin Roosevelt Post of the Amer- ican Legion. If the Quentin Roosevelt bowlers do no better here than they did in the opening block of the engagement at Martinsburg they are in for a sound licking. Messrs Campbell, Imirie, Daly and company certainly did not burn up the alleys in the West Virginia place and came back to Washington tratiing by a good number of pins. Plenty of lively discussion is_likely to fill the annual meeting of the Wash- ington Ladies' Duckpin Association to- morrow night at Convention Hall. The girls always discuss freely their views at these sessions, and this year with a radical change in the conduct of the affair prommed there should be some good arguing. It has been announced that voting at the impending meeting will be by leagues only instead of by indlvidual members as has been the case formerly. However, some of the members of the association contend| that there is no provision in the con- | stitution for such a vote and that the & minutes of the previous meeting when balloting was done individually cer- tainly will fail to show that any such amendment ever was considered. ‘This argument may cause some trou- ble. Furthermore, the girls are not in accord upon the selection of a site for this year's championship tourney. In| 1927 they abandoned the Coliseum, where they had been holding their meet for some years. and patronized the Con- | vention Hall drives, where the men had | held their event. Now some of the| woman bowlers favor the King Plni alleys, where the 1928 men’s champlon- | ships are to be staged. There probably ' will be much discussion of this ques- tion, too. Arlington pinners of the Athletic Club | League last night completed their 10- - In the latter part of the doubles, Henry Hiser and Francis Holloran outrolled Paul Harrison and Jack Wolstenholme, 682 to 660, to add to.the 30-pin advan- tage they had picked up on their home drives. Rollers of the Agriculture Interbureau League are to wind up their 15-game sweepstakes affair tomorrow night at| the Coliseum with a five-game block. | Lindstrom is leading the competition with a total of 1,137. With Anna Williams hitting the little maples for 328, Meyer Davis took all| three games from Convention Hall in| the Ladies’ District League. Anna hit for 123 in her last game, and it was well she did, as the Musicians won by only six pins. In the Commercial League The Eve- ning Star team took two of three games rolled with Peoples Drug Stores. The Star men lost the first game, 502 to 557, then took the next two without breaking any records. REDS, GREENS IN TIE | FOR BOWLING LEAD Reds and Greens are running neck and neck for the First Brethren Sunda; School Interclass Bowling League lau- rels with records of 28 wins and 17 iosses. League statistics, compiled er Preston Campbell, follow: Team Standing. by Scor- Individual Records. REDS Am Rrumbaug Hal i i Mo Len PR Fights Last Night By the Associated Press, CHICAGO. — Ted Esterbrook, Lima, Ohio, won from Mike Rozgall, Omaha out Billy Bortfield, Milwaukee (6). MEADVILLE, Pa.—Johnny Ryan, Boston, defeated Young Irish, Akron, Ohlo (10). Knockout Lee, Akron, Ohlo, and Joc White, Moblle, Ala, no con- test (3). FORT THOMAS, Ky.—Gypsy Wil- llams, Toledo, knocked out Willle Yap, Indianapolis (5). McKEESPORT, Pa—Lynn Gordon, Johnstown, Pa., defeated Jack Q'Con- nell, Cleveland (8). LAFAYETTE, Ind.—Vincent Ham- bright, Cincinnati, and Tony Sanders, Chicago, drew (10). CHEYENNE, Wyo.—-Kid Cerrion, Fort Rllasu:ll. beat Tony Caponi, Loulsville 10). GALLAN BEST ROLLER OF ST. STEPHEN'S LOT Records of the St. Stephen's Club Bowling League, including games of the third series, recently ended, show J. Cal- lan of the Yankees to have the best av- erage of the circuit, 106-39, for 44 games. League statistics follow: Standing (10). Jack McCarthy, Chicago, knocked , MEET IN NEW YORK INTEN-ROUND BOUT Each Has Scored Win Over Other—Weight Bothers Ace, Is Rumor. | By the Awociatea Press ! NEW YORK, February 17.—Ace Hud- { kins and Sammy Baker tangle In a 10-round bout at Madison Square Garden tonight to determine the chal- lenger for the welterweight crown mow guarded by Joe Dundee of Baltimore. Although the ace of Nebraska has been quoted as an 8-to-5 and a 2-to-1 1 favorite throughout the week, quite | a flurry has been occasioned with re- | ports that he is having difficulty in making the weight limit of 147 pounds. Baker, the soldier-boxer of Mitchel | Field, concluded light training yester- | day below the regulation poundage, tip- | ping_the beam at 146. On the other Hudkins was said to 1487, h a peund and 2 half of the formal wel w York State A the 1 ds Should he excezed r. it will mean th figure in the rol tivities to the middleweights, in which realm Mickey Walker is king. The winner of tonight's tussle has been promised a bout with Dundee at the Garden on March 23, provided the Baltimor: list is reinstated by the Empire ons. Dundee is still under the ban e from his recent flasco in Los Angeles. Hudkins and Baker have met twice previously. In the first tilt Baker was victor when the referee stopped the bout in the seventh round at the Polo ; | Grounds last Summer to save Hudkins Te pummeling. Before the scrap Hudkins was the big favorite. | Baker ripped a deep cut over the Ne- | braskan’s Jeft eye which bied profusely blinded » i Al ting in Los Angeles after- | ward. Hudkins carried of a judges’ decision in a close struggle which saw the soldier drop to the canvas twice while the wildcat went down once. PTOMEY GAINS DECISION. 'UMBERLAND. Md.. February 17— lie Ptomey of Washington won the decision_over Bobby Richardson of Al- toona. Pa., in a 10-round bout here last night. Buddy Crass tock a close decision over Billy Hooe of Washing- ton. in another tilt. pitchers. Bolton was with Terre Haute last year. Bayne. who was with Toron- 10, promises well. Collard was with New Orleans, where the pitching was| tolerable in 1927. Ferrell is a free agent from North Carolin Some of these| original free agents have become rattling | Under his authority, the associa- tion will take over supervision of all professional billiards matches, begin- ning with the national pocket bil- liards tournament here March $-17, The impetus for the new regime in billiards came from the leading matches, Taberski succeeded to the homor. The latter has defended his title twice in challenge matches and faces & tournament for the cham- pionship for the first time. According to the petition of the pros. the competitive championship 'THREE TIE FOR TOP IN CHESS TOURNEY | game hfizlmei?ng-home scgapc with m«-«; Hyattsville Ali-Stars on the Convention | & Hall .{1“; hv]cu‘)rs byh 533 Jins in fi)}"—‘l. A TR Ib 1 e . i SCHAEFER BEATS COCHRAN. team clash, but losers by 30 pins in the | : 3 Aardr : CHICAGO, February 17 (.—Young doubles section. The Marylanders out- |, § . - Jake Schseofer.P:-hurm :nl.mégn .Y: 182 bowled the Arlington team in the sec- ;' : balkline billiards. wound up an eight- M good piichers as they grew older and nad to pay thejr own bills. Has Infield Problems. Harder is from Omaha. McKain| comes from Waterloo of the Mississipp: Valley League. the sanest league in base ball nderhill is from Tyler, Tex. It looks as though Cleveland will have] quite a number of pitchers on the op- mnal list in 1928. Cleveland also has an infield prob-| lem. It is & siow infield as it stands on its records and merits, although| composed of a number of merry gentie- men. Burns is never going to be any faster at first base. Spurgeon seemed 0 be on the ascendant in 1926, but he slipped in 1927. Fonseca is a most likabie Portuguese gentleman who can hit like a pile driver and run the; same way. § Luwkeyls gone. He had a striking | resemblance &t one time o the greatest | third baseman of all, but he got sun- burned and lost his complexion. Joe| Sewell tumbles around like an apple| dumpling. Jessee and Lind are recruit| shoristops. It is & hitting bunch, but| deliberate on its feet. i | | (Covyrieny. 19283 SCHWARTZ CONCEDES WEIGHT IN BATTLE| By the Amociated Press. DETROIT, Pebruary 17.—Corpl. lzzy Schwartz, recognized by the New York Boxing Commission &5 holder of the ¢isputed fiyweight U steps out of his class here tonight 0 et, Toronto fiyweight, of New York in an- Schwartz bouts are | place on the pro- headiined by a 10-round | contest beiween Clarence Rosen and Pete Firpo, who m for the fourth | time 10 settle local bantamweight feud. ' pros. themselves, 31 of whom signed & petition to the N. B. A. to take away from commercial interests the promotion of professional billiards matches. Welker Cochran, 182 billiards champion; Otto Reiselt, three-cush- don titleholder, and Frank Taberski, pocket billiards champion, headed the list of signers. conditions of the past have not al- ‘ways been satisfactory. They say the game has lacked that independence of action necessary if it is to ad- 'vance along with other sports, which long ago divorced themselves from commercial dominance and formed their own organizations to act as governing bodies and conduct the big championship meets. WHAT THE YOUNG BALL PLAYER WANTS TO KNOW Here ia the third of & mries of 12 #tories on_“What the Youne Ball Plaver Wants 1o Know.” written by John B. Foster BY JOHN B. FOSTER. III—Education Scores Often in Base Ball. Some ambitious young ball tgllyel's are so eager to break into big | little jupon superior intellectual attainments do not amount to much as a rule—and if they do have some success in playing base ball, they never get beyond an or- dinary occupation when they are through with the game. There have been professional players who could neither read nor write, and leagues that they are willing to desert |they have been easily imposed upon. their school books at an early age in order to devote all their time to base ball. A typical American boy sends this letter of inquiry—and there are scores of a similar nature: “The height of my ambition is to be a big league ball piayer. I have tried all kinds of sport and like all kinds of sport, but seem to be best in base ball. What should I do to succeed in base ball> Is it advisable to give up going to high school in order to try to be a ball player?” The second question will be answered Under no circumstances ought a give up his high school studies 50 that he may become a ball player. A good education is worth all of the base ball in a professional way, or in any i that there is in the whole d States. er than that, the better a ball Flkyer is educated, the more he is like- y 0 succeed. Now and then profes- sional ball players pretend to ridicule other players who are better educated The players who affect to look down FIVE TEAMS ARE IN FIGHT FOR G. A. O Office and 4 in 22 Jomses eac & game back ahead of the 74 wam n front of 0. 2 sggregation . PIN LAURELS ‘Without exception they have been sus- picious of other ball players, and the more suspicious they have been, the easfer it been to fool them. Once s inent manager boasted that he did not care for men with high brow ideas. His bus‘ness ventures mostly were faflures. Some of these might have been avoided if he had cultivated the finer arts as closely as he cultivat- ed base ball. Success by a ball player is achleved by practice. It is true that a young man must have base ball intsinct and knack naturally. But he can develop both of these qualities. Assoctation with the game of base ball will give him & better idea of what it is all about and constant physical practice will make him skillful on the diamond. In that respect base ball is like any outdoor game which needs practice to im- prove it. - A batter may improve his batting by practice. He may learn to adjust him- self better at the plate. A pitcher al- ways can improve by pitching practice nd a fielder can learn how o hold ht Thi cigars BERLIN, February 17 (#).—The i tenth round of the international tourna- yment, contested at the Berlin Chess | Club, brought about the first defeat of {the leader, A. Nimzowitsch of Denmark, {2t the hands of L. Steiner of Hungary. | At the close of the day's play Nimzo- witsch was tied for first place with E. D. Bogoljubow of Germany and P Johner of Switzerland, both ‘of whose games were adjourned. ‘The other winners were A. Brinck- mann and K. Helling of Germany and G. Stoltz of Sweden. Three games werc adjourned. 'D. C. BOXERS SCORE OVER PHILLY TEAM I Jewish Community Center boxers | proved anything but hospitable hosts | to the Philadelphia all-star amateur | team in the center here last night. The local ringmen scored victories in three of the four bouts, though, in ac- cordance with the District boxing code, no_decisions were rendered. Joe Proctor won the feature bout of the evening when he put Bobby Schu- mann away in a little more than a minute after the start of their light- heavyweight bout. Bobby Goldstein of the Community Center team bowed to Mickey Morris of Philadelphia after three rounds of fast battling in a 126-pound tiit; Joe Lesser, local 116-pounder, bested Joe Christie in the 116-pound competition, and George Solomons, Washington middleweight, scored over Eddle Hough- ton in their bout. hands to catch fiies by continued prac- tice and how to step into, or to one side of a batted ball to field it. There is a great deal in gettin tion to field a ball in order to handle it well. The fielder must learn to start quickly, just as the sprinter learns to start from his mark. Practice is the best aid to t posi- So Smooth...So Cool.. .50 Satisfying because it's HANDMADE! HERES no substitute for expert workmanship in makin . and your first Admiration wi prove it! Note how freely it draws, how ond five-game block, 2,743 to 2,720, but | the Arlingtons had amassed a,9: lead in the opening block at Hy PURITY-Thars /. J .. 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