Evening Star Newspaper, February 19, 1928, Page 70

AGolf Bodies Scanning Amateurs : Lough WHAT THE YOUNG BALL PLAYER WANTS TO KNOW FEAR SOME IND. . NOT “SIMON PURES Midatlantic and District Meetings Expected §p Examine Status. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. IV—The Drop Ball and Its Effect on the Pitcher. DVICE to young pitchers should | include a warning not to use the drop ball #o0 assiduously. 3f a boy has a tendency to throw aenatural drop, all well and good. If the drop must be ac- | quired and after & season does not | scem to have been acquired. the young | pitcher_should not push his arm too f BY W. R. McCALLUM. ! o3 o THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. NAMES G00D MEN INMICKEY'S CLASS Thinks Welter Should Meet Them Before Seeking Light-Heavy Go. arm of a right-hand pitcher quicker than it will end the usefulness of the arm of a left-hand pitcher. There is a natural reason for that. The chest muscles seem to give more freedom to the use of the drop ball by the left- hand pitcher. The muscles may not do so, but that appears to be the case. The “fade-away” of Christy Mathew- son was in reality 2 complex drop ball, and there is no doubt that it took the strenath out of his wrist and shortened his pitching days. BY TOMMY LOUGHRAN, ‘Two weeks in advance of the annual| long. Some day there will b2 one twist A left-hand pitcher who uses the yweight Champion of the W FEBRUARY 19. 1928—SPORTS SECTION. Rosenbloom and Kaplan, the latter an- other hard hitter, have been going along at a fast gait, so Walker can't com- plain of lack of competition among men of his own poundage. Aslde from Courtney, I don't belleve any of the challengers are likely to be- come bifigor than middleweights. Rosen- bloom has fought a number of 175- pounders, among them Jack Delaney and Jimmy Slattery. He's a windmfil | fighter, strong, tough, but not a likely | champion. The others are veterans not form. I never could quite understand why a champlon doesn't want to fight the leaders in his class. We're in this game for the money. It's our living. We have a short time at best, and have to make all the hay we can. You can’t make anything by putting a | title in cold storage. You have to fight likely to improve over their present | MEET AT VIRGINIA U. DRAWING BIG FIELD UNIVERSITY, Va. February 18— Track teams from 10 South Atlantic colleges and 11 leading secondary schools will compete in the fourth an- nual invitation indoor games of the Uni- versity of Virginia, which will take place next Saturday night in the mpmorial | gymnasium. | "Duke, George Washington, Hampden. Sidney, North Carolina State, Ran- dolph-Macon, Richmond U., Theological Seminary of Alexandria, Washington and Lee, Willlam and Mary, and Vir- ginia are among those to have entries, | making the coilege field the largest | since the games were established in too many and the arm will drop limp and strained for a lifetime. This warning is prompted by the fol- | lowing questions received in a letter | from a young pitcher. 4 “How Is the drop ball pitched? Is it a good dclivery? Is it considered than any other | Is it trying to mestings of the two organizations which govern golf in and near Washington it seems assured that further inquiries ave | to be made into the amateur status of one or two men now playing amateur golf around the C: The Middle Atlantic Golf Association il meet the night of March 3. with the annual meeting of the District of| (o tehine? Columbla Gol Asociatiqn scheduled e two days later. A mesting of the execu- | = 4 i tive committee of the District associa- | h’l'h‘; '(lirm) lbl:tlx ,{‘n‘;“:?’,;',?, :ay th;}d“rég‘ ! tion will be held February 27 at the | the ball in the hand ai as T | d ; o of Preident. Steiem. At this| an outcurve. if the pitcher is right | T“"‘I‘pfiée‘r“’,":“l(},’"{ll‘;:rh,‘:'sg:f:’“‘:;f; preliminary mecting it is virtually cer- | handed: and as if it were for an ou(-;*‘;‘:{‘m ks 'hI\‘*nw % drop. without | that the standing eligibility com- | curve to a left-hand batter. if the W 10 W | mittee of the association again will re- | pitcher is left handed. The ball is de- | HXIDE G0 sume consideration of the amateur rule livered by an overhand motion more | drop ball is more apt to have control of that type of delivery than a right- hand pitcher. The latter when he pitches the drop ball brings his arm | forward over his shoulder, lets the ball get away from between the thumb and the first finger, as if it were an out-| curve, and-adds an extra snap to the | wrist as if endeavoring to put reverse | Inglish on the ball. That brings the | drop to the curve after the ball has | rotated and traveled a certain distance. | to be more effe than by a side-arm motion. The side- | (Light-Hea 1 T'S always well for a champion in| to make money, and no one draws big one class to watch the stars in the | pates meeting third raters. Just as n:x Among the secondary schools entered division just ahead and the one|example, Joe Tiplitz, a lightweight | are Augusta Military Academy. Cen- below. You can't tell when a fol-| slugger, was a big favorite back in 1921. | tral, Western and Devitt and Fork low will put on weight and (‘(‘ml""l‘h v tell me Joe mad 125,000 that Union Military Academy, Hargrave raring in to challenge you, or when ar because he fought often, and never | Military Academy, John Marshall High yowll get bigger ‘yourself and go after| turncd down an opponent. Yet he|of Richmond, Staunton Miitary another title. o | wasn't even close to being champion. | Acaderay, Stuyvesant School, Suffoik I've studied the heavyweights so My dope is that a real one can beat | High School and Woodberry Forest years, and it's my ambition now to everyone in his class.. If he can't he | School. ;‘g;fd 0]:2!3“"\“!)'- _Onh'he other hand. 1sn't a champion,'and he'd better find it| D. E. Brown, graduate manager of mlgdlaw : hr& aSO\\catdmj xc.w nnh“-!‘ | ut. | athletics al the university, expects that T s, o Some qay I may have| Howeyer, some of the other title- |many other schools will compete in the e Tl cal WD the welter. | holders seem to have different ideas. | mect, both in the college and in_the ey Walker, w eld the we! vor-‘ ‘That's their business, not mine. | preparatory school - classes. Tuesday | 1925. &s it affects one or two prominent ama- vashington. a closed incident. t recent developments ed members of the com- mittee to wonder whether they have gone far en 2 in their wish to keep game clean around the Capital | arm motion, as part of the drop-ball delivery. is very hard and trying to the arn the sheulder and a twist also of the wrist, 5o that the muscles are likely to be wrenched by it ractically. ve again cau Tt makes necessary a twist of | The drop ball is apt to use up the' drop ball. The batter can gauge curves | after a fashion because they twist on | { a plane that is hori ontal, but when the | | ball comes almost to him and then | | bogins to drop suddenly his eyes fol- | Jow 1t indifferentiy. dog, but there doesn’t seem anything | PITTEBURGH, February 18 (#)— for me to bother about there. It ap- | The undefeated University of Pitis- pears to me he has all he can do 10 burgh basket baill team rallied in the take care of himself in his own divi-|cecond half of its game with Notre | slon. Except for his victory over Tom- Dame here tonight after trailing by | my Milligan in London. and Millizan | seven points at the half and won from e name of no individual has been mentioned for publication—but it is somewhere there is a dark woodpile, and that of hiding | ments are apt to be m-! Fal‘m to Live teresting, although nothing more than | & hiy dropped concerning a certain_advertisement in a newspaper which has boen fraced to a prominent | and which members of the com- mittee believe places the individual on the Associated Press ANSAS CITY, Mo. February the border line of professionalism. K Falls City, Nebr., pnr{ \n( t;:s Out at Washington Goif and Country '8 Jeghcy. WAL Caim Ahe Club the greens force has succeeded in | attention of Lioyd Hahn, Bos- by digeing a qecp cut through the hin | Uack spikes in July, he told friends which ran back of the old tee. The | here toda new tee adds some 20 yards to the hole |, _Hahn. + Wash. | tive State and eity, perhaps back to cperat Wash-| the “old home place” where he was born end become a dirt farmer after A coaching post doesn't iriterest him. He believes he could hang on in major track competition another four years, 18.—A farm or two up near making a new tee for the twelfth hole | ton A. A. flier, after he hands up his nar 4. | track records, is going back to his na- the Olympics. perhaps make another Olympic team. ew days Jast waek arranging for transfer of jurisdiction of the shop from the hanas of Tony Sylvester, who | his third, but the Nebraska farms are will become the Bannockourn profes- |calling and the lure of scorching the sional March 1. Armour operates a | boards, winning races and hanging up golf school mm New York during the | world records is not what it used to be e | "rhe i nas_pated hat 1 g B e thri as_pal somewhat for Austin M. Porter of Wilmington, for- | the Nebraskan after winning 31 con- meriy a well known golfer of Colum- |secutive races and cornering most of bia, has jomncd Fred D. Paxton of | the middie-distance championships. ;Halm to Go lllack to Nebraska i:b)dtr of four world indoocr had alréady been licked by Jack Zivic | tho Somth Bend Z and Georgie Levine on this side of the | The score at The. natf oy 13,4 10 22 ?'nlgr. Walgor hn]sn't n':qde :n;’, mn‘;a g o defend his title against high-grade = - opponents. | GUNTHER SKATING VICTOR. Try These First, | LAKE PLACID. N. Y., February 18 Before he can talk Serlously about | /) Holding 3D points more than his ‘nghnng me, 1 think he should Sits;)nfi_“‘"m' today won' the Gold Cuy P of George Courtney, Jack McVey, Dave | .o ckating tourna: va eur | Shade. Pete Latzo, Maxie Rosenbioom | SP¢¢d S 8 tournament here, ! indoor seascn so that he can return to or Phil Kaplan at his own weight = | Nebraska and rest awhile before the| Those fellows have all been begging for| | Olympics. Hahn made his first Middle | the chance, but Mickey seems inclined | | Western appeara since high_school | to give it to none of them. | days in the Kans City A. C. meet Courtney is probably th» best of the | here tonight. | Tt was the ho! folks' first opportuni« vea®s. After Olympies Rapidly bringing to a close his present WEBER WINS AT GOLF. ST. AUGUSTINE. Fla.. Febr 18 —Skill in judging a high wind ades: | middleweight contenders. Some day he iHarold Weber, Toledo, Ohio. to defeat | Harold Mayo, 15-vear-old Pchomok, N 10 and 9, in the 36-hele ;m"h‘m;l lnt‘n a u:;mh light heavy s - weight. e's fast and a hard puncher. ty to see him in action in recent | As & welterweight, Shade gave Mickoy xfa('“_d :h::lfl;‘;,{;i S;‘\,**s;;fl;’:;‘m’fs“,‘h; !a terrific tussle, and Latzo beat him home town folks recalled it was their first chance to sec Hahn in action since the time in 1925 he raced a horse as part of the baliyhoo for a Falls City rodeo. Mabel Strickland. the feminine rodeo star, rode the ho Y na of golf in: | no new world records before next Sum- | mer. He is holding himself i reserve | for the Olympics, inasmveh as he ic ! America’s chief hope in the 1,000 and 1,500 meter events. ‘Washington 20d Aicert R. MacKengzie | end Miiler B. Stevinson of Columbia in | South Carohna for a few days' golf. ‘Th- quartet 1s expocted back in Wash- ing'on a forinight henc Northwestern Quint Breaks Its Defense Announcement that Congressional | wiil not hold a tournament this Spring | takes one more worry from the brow | 2 of President Steinem of the Disirict| . BY SOL METZGER. = Goif Association and the men with - ¥ 3 ” | has placed Nerthwestern in the race ¥hom he has oeen trying to find & WAY | ¢or Conference honors after many o Sieve the Sonsesteds lournament | years of failure, i built around an Dot to hold s tournament was made,| 28gressive and tall center, Waiter, according to Charman Mason of the who was one of the stars of Indi- g0l committee, because the members| 202 high school basket ball. That did not care 1o give up their course| SPeaks for itself. This center, No. 1, Sor a full weex for the event. gf;“‘s ffilJll;"he basket with No. 3. . 4 follows. e, 1 % Two of golf's longsst hitters—and | No. 1 reversss and comes back to s2nking amatcurs of the present day-- | at one time oppored each other on the foot bail Sleld, playing for two of the B:g Three coileges. Arthur C. Yaies, who whips a golf ball astouding dis- tances with steel shafts and 240 pounds of man, played in the line for Yale, and Eddie Driggs was a slar fullback for Princeton 12 years ago. Yates i3 the present New York State champion, and Driggs at one time held the titie. Merger of the Maryland Country Club and the Hillendale Club of Bai- } timore, is practically assured with th: | addsd probability that the Maryland | club_will move out to the Hillendale | property on the Hillen road, and give | up its location on Parz Heights ave- nue. Hillendzle has a splendid 18-hole | course, possibl of much better devel- 34 the foul line, where he takes a pass from No. 2. As E rushes him, at- tempting to bat the ball down over his shoulder. No. 1 makes a low pass to No. 4, who dribbles and shoots. One of the schemes that helps in making such a play a success is the action of the dribbler, No. 2. He feints to penetrate the first line of defens: between B and C. This feint ocecupies the attention of each one momentarily. permitting No. 4 |t break free down the court. 1 But the best laid plans of mice | and basket ball mentdrs often are committee 2t Indlan Spring, and his committez acsocietes, are working on | @ sizte 1o be presented to the club on | March 1, and are canvassing the clud | yorter for availzhle candidates for the four officerships. The eommittee is anxious 1o avoid any appearance of | hanc-picked candidates, and has given | no indieation as o its choice for the | presidency or other offices. crossed. When this play is stopped DISTRICT GIRLS BEAT | H3" S i £ BALTIMORE ROLLERS “* N i INFIELDER HILLIS SOLD. NEW HAVEN. Conn. February 18 ‘. —Bale of Mack Hillis, an infielder and Harry Moger, a piteher, 10 the Co- O AR team of the Ladies compieted its duckp. meteh on t ntion Hall drf jumbia team of the South Atiantic yesterday Regent gils of Bal-| Lezgue has been announced by New timore with the soore for wtal of Haven of the Eastern, League in the Mary- mes bowied here 2nd ing ¥ v 2.741 seoond three-game block yes- | Corvention Hell hunch, Jed with = set of 308 L of 131, outscored w0 139, The three Baltimove went 1o Con- 1.440 0 1427 f yesterday's COXYEXTION M y » trat inclubed the Regents b R o Wugler stk aiso Fume Wi Y1 s o, Barher i 3 and 1. ND M'KENNA i ¥ IN ROCKVILLE SCRAP are §14 P b Do Gaepa Abbott ¥laets of the Rock- ent 16 be heid ight. Virtually e Weshing- | i Py Mo w Town. 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FILLER grace Panatela Shape 10¢ For those who preter the ran Tells Walker to Defend Own Title’ ANOTHER SESSION LISTED {FOR WOMAN DUCKPINNERS Washington Ladies’ Duckpin Asso- clation endeavored to arrange affairs | for the year in its annual meeting Iast night at Convention Hall, but after considerable argument among members, adjourned until next Sat- urday night at 8 o'clock, when it will convene at the Arcadia. Following general discussion, the association last night decided that the next ssesion shall have balloting by individual members, at least at | the outset. An effort will be made, | hewever, to°so amend the rules thag voting will be by league members onty. 0. C. TRAPSHOT TEAM | WINS OVER TWO FOES | GETTYSBURG, Pa., February 18— | Trapshots of Washington Gun Club i Won their third 10-man team match in | four starts in their seven-match sories with Baltimors and Get gunners here today. The Capital C shots scored a total of 904. Getiys- burg was sceond with 394 and Balt- more third with 378. vs. Other scored | : iams. 93: i Stickle: L Welsh, 99: Hillidz~, 86: Dr. Parsons, 84. Wiison, 34. Bel 95 was high gun for Gettysbu Lee, Chapman and Greut, all were Baltimore's hest Gettysburg won the 5-man doubies contest at 50 targ with 2 total of 7 inzion was with 174 imore third w . Williams were hiza for Wash- ingten each with 37: W. Wilson was next with 35. follow=d by Sheiton with 34 and Stickley with 31 P. P. Williams was Washington's leading performer. He shattered 130 of 150 with 33 in the singies and 37 in the doubirs ‘Washington will be the scene of the next team match of the series March 31 A fine ©. The distance was | é |50 yards and Hahn won. | “Unless he can recapture the indoor | mile record, which Nurmi teok from r : | him in 1925, Hahn expects to develop O 1 e " guard. They must know of every leaf they buy. can give the sweet, mild sweet, just as fragrant. 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