Evening Star Newspaper, March 20, 1928, Page 28

SPORTS. ‘Newark to Have Colorful Minor League Club : Lone Bout for Tunney This Year" HUNTER AND DIFFENBAUGH JOHNSON LUCKY MUTT AND JEFF OF LINKS McBRIDE FOR ASSISTANT Walter Must Conquer Attack of Illness in Order to Take Turn on Mound—Team Has Batting Power and an Infield of Possibilities. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. ZST PALM _BEACH, .. March 20.—The Ne lud of the International League when all dressed up for the season Wwill be the most col- orful minor league outfit in base ball. There is & heap of batting strength to this Newark team, and the batting power will show more two months from does at present in the train- The infield has speed and to every base ball fan in | the country is the fact that Walter Johnson. pitching ace of the Washing- ton Senators for a score of years. will this year be at the healm of the New- ark team in his first fling at the managerial game. Walter has been quite ill at St. Augustine for several days. The chances are that his physi- cal condition has been more run down than most of his friends realized. His trouble started with the “flu” which has made so much trouble for other Nletes Now the “big train" is recovering and in a week or so hopes to be back to form. As manager of the team Walter s named George McBride to act as coach. That is a fortunate choice be- use McBride is a mighty well versed mer. n's illness may deter him from d then, as he thought he gets back on his feet found on the plate some g for his team, for it is possible to believe that the “Big r" can keep away from base ball all of one season when he really has the call to pitch a game. Outfield Appears Strong. In the outfield for Newark there are Carlyle, Lee and Johnny Conlin. Carlyle can hammer the ball a mile, Lee al- ways has been a clever batter, and high-class outfielder, who be bat better. At first base Fournier plays about as usual and will bat home runs about as usual. He has not been working very long in Floride, but his batting skill is evident now. In the Interna- tional League. Fournier may be a com- petitor for the batting championship and that will help Newark immensely. The infleld has a barrel of strength in flelding on the left side. Kingdon at shortstop and Lutzke at third will give Newark a defense that is not likely to be excelled by any team in Lutzke is sure death on DECIDE ONE TITLE TODAY IN S. A. BASKET TOURNEY LAY in the South Atlantic Ams- wur:ammt at @tvision. The title will be decided in that class todsy, going to the winner of the Sena- tor Whirlwind-St. John's Victors clash. Commt Cen- Bond's i class survived contests last night. SCHEDULE TODAY AND TONIGHT. 450 'K, 100-POUND _CLASS— ip) Senator Whirlwinds an O'CLOCK. 145 POUND CLA! und) Fusell-Young ve. O'CLOCK. UNLIMITED nd) Centrai ve. Mount S ook " ENLTED round) Southern A. C (2 Vern CLA! ve. Wood. TOMORROW'S GAMES. 130POUND | CLAS— dria Geltice. (e Y 13550 :31; CLass— siness H v renc " NIMITED (LASS— o ¥ e Central "&uumm. CLASS— ond s hiriwinds ve. winner u-Southern A. C LAST NIGHT'S RESULTS. 100-POUKD _CLASI Semi-final ” s Vicwors, 19: Bo Club Elke, ‘ SPOLSD (LR (Becond round) T i3 hasy, 6 o S e ok By LASS— (Second round) - ST D 30; Bond's Whirlw Knights of Columbus cagemen are Mary's Celtics af | All Casev | orry w ecall Samoset and Crescent quints are carded 1 battle tomorrow night at Cen tral High at 8:30 o'clock. Commercial National towers defeated Riges Nationals lest night, 36 10 23, in Bankers' League. R. McVean led Pirates to victory over Northerns last night, 28 1o 6. Petworth M. E. won over Gunton- Temple, 40 ¥ 19, and Arrows, 38 10 10 in & Gouble bill last night Dixle Plgs dropped & hard-fought n Jast night st Laurel, e and Bennie starred Jewish e v Ber 28w B Museums dropped & fenio Corm Center league Temple Alumn) jast night, 10-53 District Nationals nhumbled Wash sugion Lo 17 w 18 Corinthian Midgets Gefeated Lmmor wis et night, 16 W 19, while the 1n et fve defeated White Esgles, 37 o “u Carlisies, colored chism, ‘NASH Leuds the World in Moter Car Value Hard to believe — but s fact a 7-bearing, G-cylinder car at $545 o.b. f Hawkins Nash Motor Co. Conveniently Located in Our New Home 1509-11 14th Main 5780 De 34 vdlotbiene, s 7R ne W & Trust Co. busketers in & | feud st Central High last night, ons _defested TO HAVE | The pitching staf? is yet to be strength- ened when the majors begin to let their| players go. Mammaux and Bentley are | with the team, and both of those old | and experienced pitchers should win | many a ball game for Newark this year | with' the batting strength they will find {back of them. Of course, Bentley, with | his sug:rlnr batting, can help win any ‘game which he takes part. Mam- maux is in fine condition. and antici-| | patas a more successful season than he | | had in 1927, | Players Hopeful of Pennant. | The Newark club believes it has| strength enough to win a pennant| | against the odds that it will have to face in the International League, and the Fh)‘em also are of the opinion that the nternational this season will be one of the strongest minor league organiza- tions that ever has been put together. They look for opposition from the new Montreal team, from Rochester, Buffalo and from Toronto. The Newark players | | | fourth session, but the Frosh soon tied | THE BY CORINNE FRAZIER. IGHT scores and breathless mo- ments have featured many of the struggles for victory in the Women in Sport Western High School interclass basket ball series this season, but it was left to the Junior and Fresh- man third teams yesterday to furnish the most thrilling finish yet recorded as the referee and timer's whistle blew almost simultancously, the one charging a foul which spelt victory for the Juniors by a single point at 11-10; the other ending the game. While every eye watched the basket with anxiety, and every rooter held her breath, Virginia Tolson tossed in the final that unknotted the 10-10 tie. Juniors nosed ahead at 10-8 in the the count. The last few minutes of | play saw a desperate struggle, guards on both teams defending their goals with such success that neither forward combination was able to break through. Then, just as the timer raised the whistle ' to her lips, two Freshmen boxed up and the referce called the foul on which Miss Tolson made good. Although defeated by that one point, | the Freshmen played the game of their | brief carcer, their teamwork being noticeably botter than in any previous exhibition. Sophomores defeated the Senlors in a less spectacular but more significant contest, as the victory of the former placed them on even terms with the '28 squad, which had been leading by seem to think that Jersey City will be less strong. That might be expected of | Newark, for there has been no Newarl club within the memory of man that sver has been known to admit that Jer- | sey City can defeat it. For that matter, |the same sentiment is entertained by the fans of both citles. | Paul Block has been new Newark ball club in Florida, and |he is proud to think that he has been able to put together such a represen~ tative team in his first y in_the International League. He may well be | proud {most famous of old time pitchers for a {manager and a home run hitter like Pournier. Some owners are unrble to| get a combination like that ia five | years. | (Conyrieht, 1028.) | PRINCETON FAVORED TO BEAT PENN FIVE PHILADELPHIA, March 20 (®).— the Pennsylvania Palestra tonight in a | play-off game for the championship of | the Eastern Intercollegiate League. Princeton’s 29-12 triumph over Penn on March 10 threw the race for first | place into a tie in the final standing of the circuit. Each team had won seven league games and lost three. ‘The Tigers ruled a slight favorite to- day, although there were many who believed that Pennsylvania would emerge the victor. Penn supporters were confident the Tigers would not be able to stop Joey Schaaf the way they did in their last encounter. Schaaf, who this year shattered the league's modern individual sco: rec- ord, was bottled up 10 days ago by Ed ‘Witimer, Princeton who was placed at forward to play Schaaf. Witimer, a brother of the Princeton in be at forward tonight. Athenians of Baltimore last night at watching his | } It is quite a feat to get the| ) | Weaver, Camerol | Pennsylvania and Princeton meet at|in | miniature series, which is being staged 2 points in the race for the title Seniors and Sophs now have 22 poinis apiece, Juniors 18 and the Freshmen 0. Juniors (11). Posttions. Freshmen (10} Henrietta Hobson, . Ethel Hritt v Marisrie, M : < ..Virginia "Car J\‘hrflr Helston r i Helen Walcot Daviv.. .G, Margarct F: Field zoa (3). Macaf | - | niors Pos | es (10) 1t N ¥ P 1 . "Gleason. ~One point— (4). Weaver Seniors overwhelmed the Sophomores, 58 to 4, in a one-sided contest on the Central High School circuit yesterday. Wild passes and a lack of teamwork between the center and forward flelds proved the Sophs’ undoing. Tone Whaler played a strong defen- sive game in guard position on the Senior six during the opening half and gave an equally impressive performance | the forward field in the second part | of the game. Helen Jones was the | heavy scorer, registering 32 points. Second team Seniors romped on the | Sophomore seconds, 23 to 2, in the | between halves of the championship games. Players who figured in this contest were: Senjors—Miss Goding and Jean Rey- nolds, forwards; Marion Eadie, center; Hilda Haves, side center; Elizabeth Franzonia and Jacqueline Edes, Virginia Michaeles and Prutia Plerce, guards. Sophomores—Elise Oberlin and Marie | Rosinski, forwards: Virginia Jordan, | center; Harriet Behrend, side center; Mary Solomon and Edris Dodge, guards. Summary of Senior-Soph game: Seniors (58), - Position, . (4) n0§ U) 2 Sg}:fil Grifith izabeth Sutor Eukenia ave Burke. . Tone Whaler Katherine Pagan. . Field goals. . Dorie i Ll Arigeliva’ Smith . Audrey Turner Niriam Auerbach two vpoints—Jones . ighnessy (9). Whaler (3). Sulor One noint—Jones, Whaler, Foul goals o8 (4). Shanghnemy, Substitutions— | ucine® Strocker for 1. Whaler, v | for H. 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The Washi n Nznp%l Golf Associa- tion not hold a event last year, the first time in seven years it not held such a tourney. small when his shoulders are col ment in the way of wrists and hands | Hunter holds to a peculiar theory about | this game of many theories and second | nmzorythnn.hebodyhuudomyu: end of the lever, in fact, and that the more dissimilar views could hardly be the other day what he thought of the EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., BY W. R. M'CALLUM. AMON had his Pythlas; Walter Hagen his Sarazen; Napoleon his Waterloo. And Monro Hunter has his George Diffen- baugh, the mighty little man who socks a golf ball the proverbial mile, as far and sometimes farther than the player with the oversized shoulders who holds down the professional berth at the club where Diffenbaugh serves as caddie master and assistant profes- sional. Which is by way of saying that the mere matter of size has little to do with the business of smiting a golf ball far and true. Out in the wind-swept reaches of the Indian Spring Golf Club two profesisonal golfers hold forth; one a glant of a man, with the assurance and ease of manner of one who has made himself a niche in the world; the other a stocky stripling. short and wiry, barely coming up to the top button on the big man’s vest, on his toes all the time, anxious to got ahead in the line of work he has chosen and doing it. Is Unusual Contrast, Seldom is such a contrast afforded between two good golfers as there is at Indian Spring today between J. Monro Hunter, towering 6 feet 5! inches, and George Diffenbaugh, who measures only a mite more than 5 feet from the bottom of his spikes to the top of his head. Hunter comes to In- dlan Sprinz with quite a reputation as a long hit reputation acquired in the heat of combat with the best - fessional golfers of the West. Diffen- baugh has acquired more than a local reputaticn as a punisher of golf balls by the simple expedient of putting every pound of his 130 behind the pel- let and every inch of his height back of the clubhead. Indian Spring members are looking forward to the day when the course is dried and this pair get out to see who really is the longest hitter. And not a few lean to the little man who winds up so far and lets go like a coiled spring. Hunter is an unusual man in many ways. A natural athlete, holder of sev- eral track records in his native Scot- land, he is & man of perfect propor- tions, notwithstanding ~his abnormal height. His waist is astoundingly nsidered and his hands are the size of two of those of a normal man. Notwithstanding his unusual equip- esses. He claims that the wrists and | ands have very little to do with driv- ing a golf ball; that the body does work and that the hands and wrists function only because the body pulls them around in its roll or pivot, or twist, or whatever it may be called. Now Bob Barnett of Chevy Chase has the central point in a fulcrum, wrists and hands do the work. Two found. Yet when Barnett was asked he replied: “Perhaps Hunter theory, an explanation his theory is as good as any other.” Diffenbaugh Hits "Em. George Diffenbaugh has other ideas. He hasn't expressed them verbally, but he shows them in every line of that splendid swing that sends the ball so 0 d | Played April 3, 4 and 5, over the Glen- the | 8iven hi tar. He uses everything in that stocky body of his to punch the ball. We recall one when & of fessionals vrd" playing “(m Em - “TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats s | EISEMAN'S, 7th & F There’ll be another one along in a minute... but never another cigarette like Piedmont! P1E the cigarctz‘ of . al—good ones, too. George was the only one near the sixth green—385 yards—and he was over it in the rough beyond. Some of his other long wallops are equally as well known. Away back in 1921 wee Fred McLeod of Columbia staged another one of those ,llnt and midget things in the final of the Professional Golfers' Asso- clation champlonship, and big Jim Barnes, who towers some 6 feet 2 inches above the sod, didn't beat Freddie so badly. Nor did he outdrive him so far. Probably the big point in this driving business is that the big fellow doesn’t have to swing so far or put so much behind the ball as the little man. So when the time comes to let out he has something left, and, to make the situa- tion better, he is less apt to play his second shot from the rough tfnn the man who puts his all behind the tee shot. ~But size has little to do with actual distance. If you don't believe it watch Hunter and Diffenbaugh when they get together. Three deuces in a three-ball match on one hole is quite unusual, yet thwe is what C. A. Fuller and Frank P. Reeside, amateurs and Bob Barnett, professional, secured at Chevy Chase the ay before the snow. nci of the three sank his putt for a 2 at the 155- yard fourth hole. Barnett's putt was shortest, four feet from the hole. Chevy Cl and Columbla we closed yesterday, the only local cour::: which were not in use, even though wcw lay in scattered patches in the 'fufol"‘dw mac Park was open all day, despite the fact that thepez llndd‘ sF courses were soft. Only 15 or 20 per- sons used the courses, however. 1 “Brick” Wood, assistant professional at Washington and chump?on of the assistant group around the Capital, views with growing trepidation the | forthcoming tourney for the title he | ::::lds.na'vvvood won the dtfllle last year wears a medal which he bought with the money he won. This| year, with an influx of new competi- tors in the event, he is training hard for the affair, hoping to repeat. D'Arcy Banagan, assistant pro at Columbia, g:zrnot compete in the tourney last Robert A. Augustine, sponsor for the Richmond open tourney, is to go to Pinehurst next week to obtain a grou of competitors In the North and Sout! n for the Richmond tourney, to be wood course. Fred McLeod is the only | Washington entrant who has definitely | word that he will play. Bob | Barnett of Chevy Chase is to undergo | a_tonsil operation next week and prob- | ably will not be able to play in a tour- ney the following week. Under the plans for the new course ' at Congressional, the lake immediately south of the tenth tee is to be utilized as a water hole, and it may be cleaned out and made over into an outdoor swimming pool. The carry from the tenth | tee across the lake is an interesting | one for the long hitters, somewhat like the carry the old twelfth tee at Shawnee across the Delaware River. ‘The proposed water hole will be a one- shotter across the eastern end of the e. Although Chalrman Mason of the TUESDAY, MARCH 20, golf committee announced two weeks ago that work on the courss will bs ImMp I BETTER CIGA FOR YOUR MONEY L 1928. started within & month, Peter Jackson, the green keeper, is noncommittal. The ?lum have been prepared and every- hing s in readiness for the beginning of construction work, according to Ma- son, to build a course of about 6,600 yards in length, fully as difficult present :l.-’louru and about of the same QUINT WITHOUT COACH, GYM GETS TOURNEY BID CHICAGO, March 20 (P).—Carr Creck, tucked away In the Kentucky Hills, has been invited to its high school basket ball team to the University of Chicago’s national tour- nament April 3 to 7. Teaching themselves the game without either a gymnasium or a coach, the Carr Creek boys went to the finals of the Kentucky State tournament and lost to Ashland 13 to 11 only after four overtime peri- ods. Ashland also has been invited. State champions from Pine Bluff, Ark.; Jacksonville, Fla, and St George, Utah, made known their ac- ceptances today. At the same time invitations were sent to Ottum Towa; Iron Mountain, Mich.; Bris- tol, Conn.; Stivers High of Dayton, Ohio; Seaford, D Grand Forks, | N. Dak.; Couer D'Alene, Idaho; Ore- gon, M nd kton, S. Dak. SPORTS. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK.—Phil Scott, Great the | Britain, defeated Plerre Charles, Bel- glum (10). CLEVELAND, Ohio.—Eddie Shea, Chicago, technically knocked out Bobby Garcla, Baltimore (11). Joey Ross, New York, won from Jackie Powers, Youngs- town (6). CHICAGO.—Dave Shade, San Pran- cisco, defeated Del Fontaine, Winni- peg (10). LONDON.—Johnn: Hill, England, won the European filyweight champion- ship from Emile Plabner, France (15). LANCASTER, Pa.—Joey Williams, Philadelphia, technically ocked out Jack Portney, Baltimore (3). SARASOTA, Fla.—Bobby Marriott, Philadelphia, knocked out Lou Carpen- ter, Charlotte, N. C. (1). MIAMI, Fla—Johnny Flynn, Chat- tanocoga, Tenn, and Todd Smith, Akron, Ohlo, drew (10). TRENTON, N. J—Bobby Brown, Cuba, won a technical knockout over Johnny Haystack, Binghamton, N. Y. 9). HOLYOKE, Mass.—Bobby Brown, Lowell, defeated Jimmy Finley, Louis- ville, Ky. (10). COACH MOORE HUSTLING WESTERN RACK preparation is under way at Western High School under direction of Coach C. R. Moore. Indications are that the boys from across the creek the com- ing season may garner their :hare of poims in the field events, but, perhaps, will not set the world on fire in the runing department. Moore, like some other high school track coaches, is handicapped by lack of facilities. Right now he has his boys working in the gym and corridors of the building and once the weather is warm enough will take them outside. Though there is a squad of more than 40 drilling it appears that Bell, who showed his wares last season, is just about the only one who now can be figured as a possible point-getter in the running events the coming season. However, Moore says he really cannot tell what he has until he has seen the boys working outside for a while. There is considerable material of tried worth available for the field events, however, including Cook and Park, weight heavers; Steel, high| jumper, and Fouts, pole vaulter. Buck- | ley, who scored the only points West- ern counted in the 1927 Spring title meet, is now at Devitt. Buckley placed | second in the broad jump. Gilman Country School is the latest of the Baltimore group to announce that it will be represented in the na-' tional interscholastic track meet to be | conducted by Devitt School here April| 21. Gilman, which will appear in the | prep school competition, will have 10| performers in action. | Leading the Holy Cross College bas- ket ball team next Winter will be John- ny Morris, graduate of St. John’s Col- lege here. Morris, who played a for- ward position on the quint the past season and was leading scorer of the n, has been chosen captain. is making a strong fight for < « N Q_1 N ORTED INEWTON OUT OF RACE TRACK SQUAD an outfleld job with the Holy Cross base ball team. Quality of pitching talent of the pub- lic high school base ball teams last Spring which was nothing to rave about, promises to be a little better the com- ing season. Larry Schneider, Western pitcher, | graduation, was just about the best | hurler developed among the grou | Spring. There were others who doub! less possessed latent ability, but Schnei- with appreciable consistency. a single seasoned moundsman on the job and Tech, Eastern and Western fiinger of a season it a) the slabbin, g 50 good during the 1928 series. All the public high diamond squads, with the possible exception of Business, were expected to get outdoors today. Business has had considerable difi- culty getting a diamond. The other squads, however, all have done consid- erable work in the open. WITH SPRAINED ANKLE WINSLOW, Ariz, March 20 (P. ~Arthur Newton, leader of the parade in the 3.400-mile foot race from Los Angeles to New York, was forced lead hours on the basis was six miles along 24.1-mile Jaunt when elapsed time, on vesterday’s his luck failed FROM © without the services of their leading | not he Jack Dempsey, rs that |as “retired,” despite feell as & whole is apt to be not | Manassa Mauler will even! i | 048 l RICKARD T0 PICK FOFFORJULY GO . Heeney Will Be Opponent, if Champion’s Wishes Are Followed. By the Asmociated Press. NEW YORK, March 20.—Apparent there is to be one heavyweight chamt! plonship fight this year. So much has come out of conferences at Miami be- tween Gene Tunney and Tex Rickard. The situation is complicated by the New York boxing authorities asking Tunney to name his opponent forthwith. Gene Tunney and Rickard have agreed upon a title affair to be held in July at a place not yet decided upon. In the event Rickard abides by the wishes of Tunney, Tom Heeney, the New Zealander, will be the challenger. The New York State Athletic Com- mission _yesterday wired Tunney at Miami Beach notifying him that his six-month period of grace to settle upon an opponent would expire on Thursday, and asked for a reply. The commission informed Tunney that challenges of Jack Sharkey, Tom Heeney and Johnny Risko were on file in that order. June Plan is Dropped. Meanwhile, at Miam! 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