Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1928, Page 36

SPORTS. Goslm Outbats Manush by.0017 Points : 1928 Proving Year of v THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 0, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1928. SOSERAST | (Eooes s o serevo s ONLAST TIME UP Griffs Land Fourth Among Clubs in Hitting, Official Figures Reveal. WO strikes ainst him in his last trip to the plate, and a hit, walk or sacrifice necessary to get the batting championship of the American Leage. That's the position Leon Allen Goslin was n at Sportsmen’s Park in St. Louls on Sunday, September 30, when Nation- als and Browns were 8 the final game of the season and Goose Heine Manush, stalwart slugger of the Browns, were con uctln‘ a private war for the swatting crown. The league lead had shifted from one to the other twice during the fray and in the ninth inning it was up to the Goose to sock the ball to safety to pre- serve a slight advantage over his rival if a time at bat was to be charged. And sock it Goslin did. The ball soared tovard right center, was just nk McGowan, the Browns' a desperate 3 hington batter was credited with & t\m-bu}er that gave him a batting average of .379 for the season of 1928, the best in the lu.ue. In the offctal .records, made pul today, Manush is placed second to ooo lin, with an average of .378, but the Goose finished with more than & point edge over Heinie. Run down to four figures, the averages are .3794 for Gos- lin and .3777 for Manush, a matter of 40017 in the Was! n batter's favor. Another Feat by Godln. Batting feats of the season complished by Goslin, m hu l.! 25 consecutive games, and Ha: LEON ALLEN GOSLIN. mann of the , who, on u.ly in' 8 runs. ting. The Yankees .296, a point better . The first the National ‘The Gusrd Armory court here. goldier’ first ~“team mumphnd over Washington Grays, 31 to. 28, in a bitter struggle, and the douihbcy second-stringers Brentwood viewed the eonum in order here Sunday now on. ‘m Six games are carded this week in the Pr{: rges County Basket Ball League, v.hree here and three at Laurel, All eight teams of the league are to see action d Compapy F No. 1 and the Hawks mh have won two games and Cobpany F No. 2 its only start. Company ¥ No, 2 and Dixie Pig will clash tonight on the armory floor here. Tomorrow night Hyattsville Comets wili come to l: with Mount Rainie A. C. at the h\lnl National Guard Armor Foll & night of idle- ness Wednesday, {wo encounters are listed Thursday,- when Company F No. 1 meets Berwyn and Company F No. 2 and Brentwood Hawks try conclusions, ‘The latter game is especially attractive in view of the clean record so far o both combinations, Two games Frida night will wind up league play un December 26, Laurel Guardsmen and Comets and Mount Rainier and Dixie Pig A.'C. will mix in Friday's clashes at Laurel. Dixie Pig No, T team still is semnx the pace in the flag chase in section 1 of the Prince Georges County Duck- pin Association, whi Siloux rollers continue to head the parade in sec-. tion 2. Dixie Pig No. 1 cleaned up with Chillum to advance last weex, while Sioux dropped two games to the ninth. place Internationals, but nm 1s out in|® front by eight . University Park and Co-eds are tied for first place in the Prince Georges County Woman's League. Each took %lnrre fi:msp u;k th:\rnmlwh- last n?k versity Park sco over Triangles and Co-eds aver Arcml PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY. Springfield, 2; New Haven, 2 (over- n'e'c}m Olympics, 0; Buffalo, 0 LL college basket ball teams of the District area are to see ac- tion this week except George- town and George Washington. American University, C: University, Gallaudet and Maryland to in the five games carded. which will play two con- the only team which will figure lhln one game. The week’s will wind up college activities after the holid: wn has fin fnlahed its pre-holi- and George Washington started um.ll after the first teams to play this week their wares against nlmdty'l nmew combination face William and Mary tomorrow night on the Brooklanders' floor in the of the week. The Indians’ the Oardinals will be their second on & four-day trip to this sec- tion, "l'auli‘dll they are to meet Johns | the team here. | Of_Columbus five lt ter the . F IVE GAMES THIS WEEK from the Old Dominion are apt to find the om Liners smutd opp%nen: ufill regular rd, who bothered by an h{]u:ry received in the recent foot ball season, will not start, Evans and Radice, at forwards, and Dean, guard, appear as the only sure starters for Maryland. Just who will be at center and the other guard post has not been determined by Coach Burton Shipley. Gallaudet will entertain Maryland sm: r?ormul School in the Kendall e e Sniaicts gy, A, 1 udet’s gym, another t Maryland will be up vm.hm;enn at Phila- del) h beaten by American Univer sity in its opening match the Kendall Gmm lnl.uvlfl-heless showed consid- c! "iwhu is sure to find Pennsylvanis a rugged foe. Georgetown’s basketers who have won three games in as many starts will re- sume their schedule A er'.‘- ts th’?u l\llnt.ln i ,.n"m”"’,‘,.. - Ywms..wme nament, st New Haven, being sched to meet the .lll : mm ihlflh and New York U‘g!nfll lfiflwflln‘et 'nng Maryland will not be able to place its strongest team on the against Willlam and Mary, the invaders In Basket Ball Game Tomght . huket ball encounter is ulien Eastern High gym- ntico Marines and te are to siart at/8 McGowan and Ward Harri- w '&. routed St. Martin's, uwu.yuumymmexosm gym. gt e s e rothers es, for- u‘:fly les, and defending from | ynlimited class basket ball champions of the city, routed Army War College, ” to 0. in the Birds’ o&enlng match of He,?.h‘? A Nk lq‘les will engage the Hdlhl‘. Co. five at Congress membership in the Wuhln‘ton ho’l‘t‘fluket Ball League re asked to be ng:mnmed at a spe- clsl menun to be held mmght at 8:30 o'clock o . A e Because of & heavy schedule tba re mainder of the week Potomac club basketers will be unlbln to w heir num Vnn with _the Bclllnl drubbed National olrclu ‘ w 1, yesterday. Washington All Stars are to vngne the erack Newark Pleasure Club five of f | Baltimore wm.m at the 104th Regi~ ment Armory in the Maryland city. Defeating Nusbaum Pharmacists, 26 !A 12,"Gompany E quint, District Na- ional Guard, yesterday registered its llxth straight win, Northern A. C. senior class .basket ball team wants games in the 140~ d Ceall Adams 763, Northerns mm 8t. Martin's Wednesday and Peer- | and less Thursday. Marines and St, Martin's quints will cluhmnumlnmmrlno gym at 7:30 8t. Stephen's courtmen pre lofmme ‘basketers in .'56'-'?3 game yesterday. tanley A. C. quint which downed Central Reds, 20 fllS lllfltlfilyllht. after more games and espe Wi n; ary’s un':is L:E:fl National Guards. Call Co- | nen! lumbia 9333 after 6:30. Regular basketers of Company F, Na- tional Gunrd of Hyattsville will enter- tain Prench A. O. basketers ton! htcm (overtime). New York Rangers, 3; Detrolt Cou- 0, o’ !urk Americans, 1; Chicago 4 Blackhawks the armory floor in the Marylane at 8:30 o'clock. victory Saf French players m tn H streets north- rth Dakots, "p‘m“‘ai""m‘ stree! 5 the Blue and bas- Harry Councilor, ‘Werber. floor | Oroson, all of here, will be wltgr%w Games for Saturday n! o E.?.La““‘a“f. lmm" ts are Sought. n] 3’01 after 5 pm. Jewish C Center tossers om-lnlly Wit Ricangria Bostmen fonight, W with _Alexan: ! dnun H. West Wednesday and Clothiers for December 33, Absence of team during several members of the the holidays make the necessary. Tremonts routed Company K of ‘Washington, 31 to 9, last nl L Tl'!- monts are games with having gyms lumbia 9314-W, BIG TEN BASKETERS FACE SEVERE TEST CHICAGO, December 17 (#)—Big Ten basket ball teams receive another rigid preliminary test this week when they clash with several of the fastest- scoring combinations in the Middle | West, Nine games are on the program, topped by Notre Dame's attempted con- [qwuh of Northwestern and Indlans at South Bend. Pittsburgh, detnud b{ Northwestern tand Wisconsin last week ends its dis- | astrous Big 'hn lnvulm tonight against ‘The weel w in addition to \he Pmaburlh-o tate nml. cancellations Big Ten teams re- reversal of form and 3 Ponnl lvlnh which wn conq umd bym-" e and Michigan, Pitts- Was mted and all other oppo- were vanquished. rdue won & moral victory over In- defeating Washington Univer- t. 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O'hlcun' 150 Ilflm cmc R:l e i s ';;m Chlcuo , e 191 0 SO A0 2 0 S b OO D Y ©ccosoooo~esoosscococ0000d Horton Smith of Joplh;. Mo, and Loos ht in scores of 207 each to share fourth place, and each received $187.50. Mort Dutra Tacoma, Willard Hutchison of Pasa- dena and Ed Gayer of Chicago fol- lowed with scores of 300 each. On a somewhat turned in a 74 for Loos and to | next 18 hndldh“:rl:ehlfiwflnethn course record of of the champi flight saw “him turn in another 74, He was troubled somewhat on the final 18 gy his put- but came in with & 7! “Wild Bill” Mehlhorn, winner of the recent $2,500 Honolulu open, quit on first round start | the seventeenth hole of the first cham- onship round yesterday morning. He ad a score of 71 for the round and @« total of 219 for the 53 holes when he dropped _out. John w Dawson of Chicago won the amateur first pr?e with a score of 304, 7 | been sent to Minneapolis of the TEN OF 6 MAIR CLUBS PULL DEALS Great Activity ‘Is Recorded Within Two Months of Play- ing' Season’s End. —— By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 17.—It may be that 1928 will become known in base | Wesf ball circles as the year of the “big trade winds.” The playing season is no more than two months past, yet already some clubs have so radically revised their rosters that a fan may be excused for being a bit bewildered as he sees ap- t fixtures shunted off to some other major league team or else into the minors. 1t has beevma an snnual feature for ers Hornsby to go on the market Emil Fuchs of the Boston Braves dbdn'c disappoint a waiting public. He gracously gave “the Rajah” to the Chi- cago Cubs for Percy Jones, Freddy Maguire, several rookie players and a fat bundle of cash. Red Sox Active, Too. Not to be outdone by their National League rivals, the Boston Red Sox have consented to let Washington have Buddy Myer, crack third baseman, for the trifling consideration of five play- ers. the league’s leading exponent of the art of stolen bases, Bill Carrigan, man- ager of the Red Sox, will have to find room for Horace Lisenbee and Milt Gaston, pitchers; Bobby Reeves and Grant Gull& infielders, and Elliot Bigelow, a Southern Association out- t\eld.er who clouud minor league pitch- g with abandon. Pmabur'h needed left-handed teher, the Pirates sent Glenn right to thc Brooklyn Robins for Jess Petty and Harry Riconda, the latter an infielder when he's not sitting on the bench. George Uhle, who has had his ups and downs at Cleveland, - will see whether the weather at Detroit is any better for his pitching arm while Jackie Tavener aud Ken Holloway are doing their infleld}ng and _pitc] as the case may be, for the India These have been the major deals of the off-season, but there hlvz been a number of other changes of more than a little interest. Rhem and Aldridge Gone. There are & number of clubs who could make use of the pitching of which Flint Rhem and Vic Al are capable, yet both these right-handers find themselves in the minors. Al to the New York Giants h Grimes by Pitts- burgh a year been sold to Tris spn.kers club of the lnumlucnu R em, & great pitcher in ma, bls can Association, Both were waived out of the majors chiefly because of & repu- tation for being hard to handle. Aldridge has a disinclination for sign- ing contracts when they are first ofllrod him. 1t took months of di get him into the Giant fold last year and he um showed anything un his c form., After his trade to Pitts| by the Cubs in November, 1924, Al was & bit late in signing he contract Barney Dreyfuss offered | other changes since t’hn clou of the season have seen Lefty O'Doul go to the Philadelphis Nationals while Freddy Leach was p: to put on & Ohnt uniform; Jnhnnv leun of Detroit back to Toledo and Arnnlfl sm- of Brooklyn to Los Angeles of the Pacific Coast League. —_— —— COLUMBIA A. C. TO MEET. fect a permanent athletic ctpacialy boxing, & mect: , 8 meet- ? the ts of Columbus Ath- lefic Association will be held tonight at 8 o'clock A the K. of C. Hall, Tenth and K streets. BASKET BALL RESULT. Havana Yacht Club, 34; Georgia Military Academy, 33. PRO BASKET BALL. wml” Visitation, 21; Fort Wayne, Bu an additional link in the chain_ bf your friendship. Choose the cigars he would choose for himself—give him Manuels this Christmas PERFECTO 10c PANETELA 10c PRESIDENT 2 for 25¢ IMPERIAL 2 for 25¢ AMBASSADOR 15¢ In Attvactive Gift + Packages for Christmas Standard Cisar & Tobace: Distributors. 635 La. Ave. N.W,, Washinston, D. C. In place of Myer, who was the | Red Sox's best batter last year and | SPORTS. SCHOLATSIC BASKET SCHEDULE FOR WEEK Today. Alonndrh High vs. Eastern at East- llllhll High vs. Catholic U. Fresh- men at C. U. Tuesday. é !{-euntown Prep vs. Central at Cen- ral. Eastern vs. Catholic University Freshmen at Catholic University (pre- liminary to Catholic Unlvmlty-“ illlam and Mary varsity gam ’luh vs. Woodward !ehool at Y. M. C. A. George Mason High vs. Western at tern. ‘Wednesday. Emerson vs. Business at Business. Western vs. Swavely at Manassas, Va. Hyattsville High vs. Oakton High at Oakton, Va. Friday. Central vs.. Hagerstown High at Hagerstown. Emerson vs. Old Dominion Boat Club at Alexandria. Saturday. Central vs. York High at York, Pa PLAYERS FOLLOW UP LONG SHOTS "FOLLOW LR O Game g€ ORIBBLE D LONG REGOUNDS AND USE ONE- HAND SHOT ° BY SOL METZGER. Sometimes you think basket ball hasn't changed so much. Rece'nuy- in talking with Ralph Morgan, a member of the omclal rules commn- tel: he cmmmeu“u ted on flzl‘l,l point. He P! e over 20 years ago told of his old coach shouting i, Sou guye ¥: Elr"‘ynv"“"n;'a"’“" n, YW guys, fol & you Ohlouo s last sea- {‘mn un oubtedly have t.hm that '.ha same coach was in there, for on about every lun( shot the Maroons tried two men “would drive in to take the rebound, or, failing in that, to worry the op- ponents. The systen varied but little, if the center (No 1 1 nthe diagram) made the shot, No. 3 would drive in from the right side and No. 2 from the left to get the rebound. That prin- ciple is as old as the game fitself. It's a fundamental every coach in- ‘sists upon, The trick in taking l ubmmd ‘cor- rectly is another Mest players leap too loon !{ they are late driving in the best ltum is to dribble and then use a one-hand gush shot so chey may just roll the all over the rim into the basket. But if they come in fast and play it right they leap as the ball starts down on_the rebound, take ‘it in both hands as they go up and again mraly glide it over the rim info the WEST POINT GRID GAME “Big Trade Winds” SCHOOL BASKETERS ACTIVE TOMORROW Four Contes.,t.s‘to 'Be Played, With Tech Making Its Season’s Debut. scholastic basket -ball teams of the District group. Four games are ‘carded, all on floors here, and every public high school quint- ex- cept Business is to show its wares. Tech will open its season by “en- glgmg Woodward School tossers on the C. A. floor, ‘Western W hnn to George Mason - High of Alexandria at Western, Central will have Georgetown Prep as its c\mz on the Central floor and Eastern vade the gym at Catholic Uu(vunuy -to battle the Cardinal yearling f‘ the prellm!m:{ to the C. U-W lliam and Mary varsity Ilme at night. Two encounters weré listed today. Eastern was to entertain Alexandria High in the Lincoln Parkers' gym and Business High was to visit Catholic University to. enj = the Cardinal first-year comhlnlt Business will nhy host to Emerson in the lone home” encounter Wednes- day. Western will travel to Manassés, ‘Vu to engage Swavely and Hyattsville | High and Oakton High quints are to | meet at Oakton, Va. Two matches are listed Priday fol- | lowing a day of idleness on Thurs- day. Both of Friday’s ‘games are set for alien floors, Central being down for an engagement with Hagerstown High at Hagerstown énd Emerson being booked to meet Old Dominion Boat Gub at Alexandria. Central will wind up = week end Tc‘monnow will be the biggest day so far this season for for a go against the high school there: It will be the last game of the week in which a Washington scholastic five will figure and the only m'ch of the day. Mike Goldblatt, center - or d, and Paul Brown, guard, are the tha Job and Tech probably will . to place a combination on the floor against Woodward tomorrow comparing favorably with most scholastic outfits hereabout. It will be the first game of the camj algo for the Woodward tossers. Jerry Parker, a Woodward coach, }lllmd.lu hdt by lu':tl comparatively emall squad, but ge: manages 5 gel the besc team “from’ ‘his Anlln from Tech and Woodward, :hnlaeecmere 'team:. eorgetown Preps, debut this week. - The make their bow agalnlt versity Freshmen show its wares for the fimz against | Business on the, latter's floor Wadnel day and Georgetown Preps will their bow tomorrow’ against Oemnl Clemson College is apt to get Bill: Wood, crack Eastern ml-l!(h.efihl 4 Wood;mwor on, mn&n was " of er during t n. He ed well at qulmx::ck, 'l.lzlfb-ck 'md end 3 i {PRO 'FOOT BALL TITL TlTLE | -GAINED.BY PROVIDENCE %?GLUME)I‘JS. Ohio, De('.e‘ mber. 17 (®). Foot Ball League closed yesterday with the 7-to-6 vlctmy of the Ngwaork Yankees over. the New York Giants. Providence won ,the title held. during the pnst year by the Giants. L Providence 1 4 5 7 Frankford IS LISTED BY DAVIDSON | ghiccso' DAVIDSON, N. C., December 17 A —Davidson College’s 1929 eleven will mee:‘:yheA t::m of the United States cs emy at West Point, N. Y., next October 12. sTehli .ichedule 28, Cl ) Wate Borest, (undecrded) > oo Cltage’: . M. I (undecided); 9, N. MANUE CIGARS 16, Universiey of ' Noreh arolina; 28, Dul TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats «| EISEMAN’S, 7th & F TG L S (ST foray by invading York, Pa. Saturday -