Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1929, Page 76

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, . JANUARY 13, 1929—SPORTS SECTION! Griffs to Train on “Big League” Fields : Hornsby Thrilled by Sale to Majors Ball Gone, Dog-Gone, Golfers’ | SARAZEN ANNEXES NEW TAMPA PLANT PLANNED FOR ¢LUB Florida Camp Will Be Well Equipped—Four More Men Sign for Season. BY JOHN B. KELLER. HEN the first squad of Na- tionals reports at Plant Field: in Tampa, on February 25 to begin training for the Amer- ican League’s 1929 cham- pionship campaign, it will find ready for use the best playing ground ever provided for the Washington club since the city on the West coast of Florida has been the conditioning base. Not only will the playing field be entirely new, but the stands will be so enlarged that more than twice as many seats than before will be available and there will be_other improvements that should make Plant Field about the best base ball establishment in the Gator State. None other than Clark Griffith, pres- ident of the Washington ball club, is authority for this. And the prexy will be on the scene many days ahead of February 25 to see that the rebuilding of Plant Field is done properly. The ‘Washington chief is to head for Flor- | ida this week, being scheduled to en- train Saturday. A week from tomor- row morning, the Nationals’ headquar- ters will be established in the hotel at Tampa which will house the players during the training season and from then until camp is broken on April 3 | all the club's business will be trans-| acted there. | ‘Accompanying Griffith to Florida Saturday will be Mrs. Griffith, Edward B. Eynon, jr., secretary of the ball club, and Miss Mildred Robertson, the club president's personal secretary. Making Field Big Job. The prexy will have much to occupy | time in Florida before the first| squad of players arrives for training.| What with conducting _negotiations with athletes who are inclined to balk at accepting terms offered, arranging for the conduct of the exhibition game series and generally supervising the con- struction of the playing fleld, his club will use, Griffith may even be pressed for time to be given over to golf. The business of making a new playing field 1s no small matter. Fortunately, however, $here will be available this year more labor and better equipment Tor the work. In addition to the labor provided by the Tampa city authorities, there will be crews and machinery from the road construction company headed by J. L. Cone, the president of the ‘Tampa base ball club of the Southeast- ern League. With such equipment and extra labor the fleld should be more easily and better constructed than here- tofore. In past seasons the playing ground at Plant Field has been so laid out that those in the grandstand watched games from the third base side. The new dia- mond, though, will be so constructed that the line running from the home plate through the pitching box to cen- ter field will be at a right angle to the | front facade of the grandstand. This| will necessitate such a shift in the posi- tion of the diamond that the home late will be about where third base gu been at Plant Field in other years. Big League Diamond Planned. Tt has been customary to put a layer of clay over the infield annually so that now a greater part of the playing ground is well covered with this heavy earth. This year, Griffith insists that the infleld be built after the style of those in big league parks. So steam shove]; wi.lll:e usded t;‘o sc00p o&l’t ;11 zl;v.- clay de) ant e area e oc- cugied %‘;s the new diamond will be excavated to a depth of at least two feet. New soil will be used for filling, drainage will be provided and a top dressing to be sodded will be laid. A steam roller will be used for packing the infield properly and smoothing the outfield. All details of the work will be per- fected here this week and Secretary Eynon will carry to Tampa plans and specifications to be turned over to the engineers. 'The building program will have to be filled hurriedly for the South Florida Fair held annually on Plant Field will not end until February 9. Construction of the new playing ground will start February 11, giving the en- gineers two weeks in which to complete it before the first squad of Nationals | Jumps into the training grind. One-fourth of the lot of 32 players on the Nationals' roster are in line for the | 1929 campaign. After Joe Judge penned | his name on & Washington contract | yesterday, the signed papers of four other Nationals arrived at the club| headquarters. The contracts came from Stuffy Stewart, second sacker, and | ‘Melbern Simons, outfielder, both bought | back from Birmingham; Sam West, who last year led the American League outfielders, and Herold Ruel, veteran catcher. ‘With Judge and Ruel already in the fold, Griffith expects to have about half the number of his players under contract, before he departs for Florida this week. In past seasons, both Judge and Ruel generally were among the last of the players to sign. Neither showed any signs of holding out this time, though, and both had good seasons in 1928. = 2 Lloyd Brown, young left-hander who came up to the Nationals last year from | King. Memphis of the Southern Association, will become a regular turn pitcher for the Nationals if he shows in his train- ing that he has lost the wildness that made him ineffective most of the time the past season. g In 1928, Brown revealed much hurling ability. He showed speed, strength and stamina. There was plenty of zip to his fast one and he could uncork a decep- tive curve, too. But always he was inclined to be wild and so he was start- ed infrequently. Now those in charge of the Nationals believe that what Brown needs is a deal of work to rid him of his wild streak, and work he’ll get at the Tampa camp. Should the southpaw’s control im- prove curing his intensive training, he is virtually certain to be reckoned a mem- ‘ber of ihe regular mound crew. Man- ager Walter Johnson wants another man to shoulder the left-hand pitching bur- den with Garland Braxton and what the pilot has heard of Brown leads him to believe the Memphis product may be just the one he is looking for. Unless Clyde Milan finds another base ball berth more acecptable to him, he will continue as a coach with the Na- tionals. Although Ed Gharrity, former- ly catcher with the Washington club, has been added to the coaching staff, there still is room for Milan as long as he cares to remain, President Gritfith has announced. Gharrity’s main job, it seems, will have to do with the tutoring of recruit pitching talent, while Milan is to assist Johnson with the grooming of the in- field and outfield talent and specialize at teaching base-running, which is to be a part of the morning drill program to be_instituted this year. Both Griffith and Johnson value high- 1y Milan’s coaching ability and will be pleased to have him at hand. How- ever, should Clyde find a managerial job in the minors he might care to assume, the Washington club will not stand in hi; way. It's a trifle early to announce the erganization of the Washington outfield for 1929, but when the season starts the Nationals may have in the gar- qens three players, each on the sunny @ide of 30 years, All of which means that Sam Rice, who has been patrol- ing a pasture for Clark Griffith’s club for lo, these many years, is likely to be accounted a reserve instead of a regular. Although the veteran Samyouell was the second best batter of the Nationals during the past campaign and moved around right field and the bases in speedy style, he wasn't the fleet Sam- youell of other years. Which was to be expected. Sam has been around | base ball some time in so far as out- { flelders, or those occupying other posi- tions, for that matter—are concerned Since 1915 Rice has been with the Na- tionals and in 12 of his 15 seasons of actual service with them has worked his legs overtime. Naturally the under- pinning isn’'t what it used to be. Rice conserved his running stren considerably last season and it didn't help his game any, even though he did sock the ball well. Now Samyouell isn't growing any younger, and with such brilliant youngsters as Sammy West and Emile Barnes at hand to toil with the hard-hitting, hard-playing Goose Goslin, it is difficult to see how he can retain his regular job in the garden, despite the fact that he is a tried and true outfielder. Manager Johnson hasn’t even inti- mated that Rice is to be counted out of the regular outfield, but circum- stances are such that it is reasonable to believe the new pilot will look to Goslin, West and Barnes as the regular garden trio for his club. As a matter of fact, it is not yet cer- tain that Rice will be in base ball this year. Before Sam left for his vacation on the Pacific Coast it was rumored he was about to retire from the game. ‘When questioned about this by Griffith, Sam said, “Wire me at San Diego on February 1.” So Griffith is waiting. The prexy is rather sure, though, that when the Nationals are rounded up at Adds Spectacular 67 to Youthful Stup By the Associated Press. IVIERA COUNTRY CLUB, WEST LOS ANGELES, January 12.— For a man who for several years faced the dangers of World War battle and carries upon his person scars of that conflict, the terrors of this hazard-strewn course mean nothing. Tommy Armour, who fought under | the colors of a Scottish regiment during the strife of some 10 years ago, is the man. The tall, husky Scot who now hails from Washington, D. C., tonight had so decisively “licked” the well bunkered course of the Riviera Country Club that little doubt remained as to who would be the next Los Angeles open golf champion. ‘With superb wood shooting and un- canny iron work, Armour today length- ened his lead over the fleld of sixscore professionals and amateurs in the tournament to six strokes. His par- crushing 68 for yesterday's 18-hole round, was relegated to the background today when the Washington profes- sional clubbed his way past yawning | sand traps and over other hazards of | the course to a magnificent 67, four the training base Rice will be among them. strokes under perfect figures. His amazingly low aggregate,of 135 | N.A.A.F. AND | ing meets, which is nothing more nor | less than giving one of its member | clubs a sanction to hold a set of games | in which only those who Were regis- tered amateur athletes could take part. | Track athletics in the clubs and asso- | ciations were built up in this way, and | the A. A. U. became the recognized au- thority determining the amateur status | of an athlete in such competition. Andi when the clubs and associations began to take up other sports it was only nfl!:ral that the same principles be ap- plied. Thus it came about that when the Olympiads were revived in Athens in 1896 the Amateur Athletic Union was the only body of recognized standing in the United States with-which similar bodies in foreign countries could deal. The body that has since controlled the Olympics was then organized and the A. A. U. given a voice as representing amateur athletics in the United Stafes. Since that time the A. A. U. has held that control and it is not beyond rea- son that it fights to retain what it es- tablished over long years of effort. From the time of the organization of the National Amateur Athletic Federa- tion here several years ago, the real in- side of the struggle between it and the A. A. U. has largely centered in this question of control of the Olympic teams. The A. A. U. does not and never has, so far as the writer knows, ever interfered with the Army or Navy or the colleges or the Y. M. C. A, or- ganizations in_controlling competitions of their own. Nobody ever heard of the A. A, U, questioning about teams from one Army post meeting in competition teams from another Army post; nobody ever heard of the A. A. U. questioning anything concerning one college track and fleld team meeting another college track and field team, but when Army athletes are sent out into competition in meets sanctioned by the A. A. U. with athletes whose ama- teur standing is vouched for by the A. A. U. then the A. A, U. has every right to demand that these Army athletes certify their amateurism and have it vouched for by one of their of- ficials through proper registration forms PETWORTH TOSSERS WIN LOOP THRILLER Petworth Methodist Episcopal tossers defeated Calvary Baptist, 13 to 12, in the most interesting game played last night in the Sunday School Basket Ball League at the Y. M. C. A. In other contests Calvary Methodist Epis- copal downed United Brethren, 20 to 20, and Trinity swamped Hamline, 35 to 6. Petworth (13). Calvary Baptist (12). G.FPts G.F.Pts Jasper, i Heinrick Starns, c Buchanan, " § Benham, ¢ Beaham, § »l conooow! ol onnoors 5l osuwooral Totals ... § 313 Referee—Mr. Joynes. Calvary M. E. (29). G.F.Pis. Proctor, 1. Mitchell, Totals .... United Brethre 1 £ ). Q: lcesiit gy Gottwals, ol woeww Totals ... Referee—Mr. Joynes. Trinity (35), G.F. Totals .... Hamline (8). G.F. [] iy 0 0 0 0 ts. lack, ¢ McDowell, Rose, €. ' Watson, §. ooommol Wyatt, Higgins, Totals ... Referee—Mr. Harbin, R C CLUB PLANNING TO MAKE MEET BIG It is the plan of the Alumni C Club of Central High School, which annually conducts the C Club track meet, to make the tenth annual affair, which will be held during May at a date to be an- nounced, the biggest in the history of the fixture. A committee to handle arrangements for the meet will be appointed at a meeting of the club to be held Thursday night'at 8 o'clock at the Racquet Club. | Officers will be elected and other com- | mittees will be named at the meeting. Plans for a bowling tournament for cluby members, to be held in March, will 1 be_discussed. . | Efforts are being made by the C Club | basket ball committee to schedule a game for the Central team with Staunton Mil- | itary Academy, to be plaved the night | of March 3 here. Harrison Dey, former | Central High athlete, is coaching the | Staunton basket ball and base ball | teams. | Joseph A. Marr is the present presi< | dent of the C Club. Dr. Louis M. Cuv- illier is vice president, Robert E. Newby luepreury and Eugene Casey treasurer, iVIRGINIA U. LACROSSEMEN | HAVE STARTED PRACTICE | UNIVERSITY, Va., January 12.—La- | crosse practice has been started at Vir- | ginia and whenever weather permits the | stickmen will drill on Lambeth Field | under the direction of Dr. Allen F. | Voshell, who is coaching this sport. | A quarter of a century ago lacrosse was one of the most popular sports at Totals ... § | 8% secon A.A.U.HAVE LIKE AIMS DESPITE WAR £ and according to the standards o(‘ amateurism set by the A. A. U. | As far as the Olympics are concerned, | the activities of the United States must be controlled by some body. If the Government has no desire to make competition in the Olympics official, then the A. A. U. probably is just as good a body to control the entries from the United States as any other. If the A. A. U. control has not been what it should be, if it now is falling short in some particular, it might be possible for the colleges and the other organiza- tions to give some real help, especially in financing. In all probability, most of the men who have been behind the A. A. U, are high-type business or pro- fessional men, who have just as keen interest in seeing that the United States is well and creditably represented as any other group. Certainly no better leadership co ever have been asked for than that vested in Col. Thompson, who for years was the backbone of Olympic endeavors in this country. What the A. A. U. has been trying to do for many years is to advance the | interests of amateur athletics in the, United States. Perhaps at times its | efforts have not been as perfect as they might have been, but it has accom- plished a good deal. On the other hand, no one can doubt the sincerity of such men as Maj. John A. Griffith, Amateur Athletic Federation, in their efforts to accomplish even higher and with such men seeking the same end and the same result, some neutral ground might be found on which every- body could work together in harmony to attain that end. It would seem that the only aim would be, as far as the Olympics are concerned, to see that the nanced, properly trained and efficiently | And with everybody having in mind of the question entirely who is to be the titular or actual boss or what group is to have the greatest voice, it should not be so very, very difficult to find a harmonious and satisfactory solution for the problem, if problem there is, VARSITY TRACKMEN BEATEN IN 6. U. MEET Several stars of the Georgetown Uni- versity track team were berlgun by ath- letes holding advantages in the first of a series of handicap interclass track r‘l‘l’k;f;rsw%fd y&;ug:;{oon the Hilltop. ‘muth an v th(gg defeated. R mpetition was interesting and gen- erasl:l);n xmlper(‘ol,lmm:)? were turned in. maries follow, the handicaps be- ing indicated in parentheses: e 50-yard dash—First 3 len, Sophomore (0. {eel) ;. second. Whelan lfl‘\’lor (scrateh). third, s. 1-mile run—Won by Kennedy, more (scratch); second, Augustine, sophomore (20 “yards); third, Chornack, . Time, 4 minutes 35 Nolan. Time, sopho- el 523 sec ds. . "’\;mfi‘e’?m‘-mrf- sophomore seconds. sophomore (15 yar senior (scratch); yards). ‘Time, 523 seconds. won by Cosh, sophomore (15 yar arlin, freshmen (8 vards): third e, jor 5 Sardn rds); (scratcn). Time, men (scrateh). * Tim nutes 14 'seconds. ond heat. tie among Julicher, junior (13 ards); Kelley, freshmen (7 yards): Carney, unlor | (scraich). Time, "2 minutes 4 seconds, High jump—Won by Bonniwell (5 inches): second, Corrigan (4 inches); third, Sexton (scratch). Height, 5 feet 11 inches. Shotpui—Won by Adelman (scratch): (1 feet); Trembla: ‘inches. ow—Won by Sexton (scratch); third, Distance, 44 feet 4% nches ng3sy hurdles—Won by Kijellstrom (scratch): second, Farrell (scratch): third, Harriss (scratch). Time, 6% seconds. D. C. NETMEN ENTER NEW INDOOR LEAGUE Undaunted by finishing third in the | Winter Indoor Tennis League of Balti- | more, which ended last Sunday, the | District team has entered the newly formed Inter-city League and will in- | vade Baltimore today for its first match, against the strong Mount Washington | aggregation. Six singles and three dou- ibles will be played, starting at 2:30 | o’clock. All matches will be played in Balti- more at the 5th Regiment Armory. ‘With the exception of Maurice O'Neill, who will be unable to play because of business, the local entry retains the same brilliant coterie who carried Washington’s standards in the Winter league. .B‘:b Considine, G. W. luminary and Maryland indoor ehn.m& is again ufl- tain of the team. Clyde Yeomans will also carry on as manager. Dooly Mitchell, Frank Shore, Bill Buchanan and Clyde Yeoman’s are still mainstays. { O'Neill’s vacancy will be filled by either | Stam, Simon, Deck or Shepard. Competition is expected to be con- | siderably hotter in the Inter-city loop than it was in the Winter league. Only four crack teams have been allowed entrance. Clifton Park, winner of the 3! (3 feet); second, Tremblay (15 feet). the university, for the team was'su- preme in the South, Winter league, Mount Washington and Racket Club are the other three teams. executive vice president of the National | Mepo, better things, and it does seem that, | Ral and capably managed by high-type men, | B! this fundamental aim and leaving out My " | Stoudard, ARMOUR, WITH 135 SCORE, LEADS IN $10,000 EVENT First Day’s 68 to Top Los Angeles Open by Six Strokes. ple Is Second. considered doubtful that he would be headed in the final 36-hole drive to- morrow. On only one hole did the masterful iron play of the veteran Scot falter. ‘That was on the par 4, 445-yard eighteenth. Armour left the seventeenth with 13 pars and 4 birdies on his card. Reaching the eighteenth green in 2, he was forced to 3 putts to hole this shot. Amours card: 4363 45343 A 21-year-old came in for a share the day's honors when Bob Stupple, registered from the Exmoor Country Club of Chicago, carved another par- breaking trial over the difficult Riviera course. Stupple was two strokes under perfect figures with a 69, which, with his 72 of yesterday, gave him an aggre- gate of 141 and second place at the end of 36 holes. The defending titlist, MacDonald Smith, seasoned Scot from the links of Carnoustie, was forced to step aside for 571 3. night in third place with 142, Smith, located at the Lakeville Country Club, Great Neck, Long Island, played his usual deliberate, calculating game. Stuppi | Smith . Von Elm Has 144, Flaxen-haired George Von Elm, De- troit amateur and former national ama- feur champion, and Frank Walsh, black- haired Appleton, Wis., pro., deadlocked at 144, nine strokes behind Armour. Von Elm's putter sputtered on three holes today, and he was forced to take & 73, two strokes more than he needed yesterday. Walsh, who had a 73 yes- terday, broke even with Old Man Par with a 71 today. The veteran Al Watrous, now of De- troit, followed this pair with 145; then came Leo Diegel of the Agua Caliente Club of Mexico and national profes- sional champion; Ed Dudley of Holly- wood, Calif., and youthful Horton Smith of Joplin, Mo., each with 146. Diegel slipped par a hard jolt when he round- ed the layout today in 69, but his 77 for yesterday kept his aggregate up. Horton Smith made the turn in even par figures, 35, but his wood clubs on the incoming nine would not behave, and he saw 40 posted for that distance. Walter Hagen played “all over the course” today, but turned in a beiter card than~he did yesterday. The “Haig,” with 77—74—151, was dead- locked with Al Espinosa, stocky Chi- cagoan, with 74—77, and Thomas H. Cotton of London, England, 75—176. Scores of the qualifiers: Tommy Armour, Washi 68 67135 69141 Horton Smith. Joplin, alph 8. Miner, Newber: T1—147 Billy Burke, Port Chester. N.'Y..' 77 71—148 Bobby_ Crulckshank, - Purchase, o M T—148 74149 70149 71150 United States squad is adequately fi- [ 7)o, imsford, N. Y. seport, Gonn VIRGINIA BEATS HOPKINS ON LAST-MINUTE GOAL CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, January 12.—A fleld 1 in the last minute of play gave Virginia a 22-to-21 victory over Johns Hopkins tonight in an ex- were 1 point ahead at the intermission and held the lead through most of the second half, until the visitors jumped in front near the finish. i The final shot by Merle, substitute guard, gave the Cavaliers the edge. Scor _Virginla (22). « Hyde, t 2 3 Johns Hopkins Parasew, {. Lang, { Jones, Millen (¢), Merle, . ogel, §. Roberts, Peyton, Totals Referee—Mr. P. 1 1 i 0 0 1 3 Horst, =l soosacront Bl oomwuasasal Totals ... T 131 ard, 5, H o1 The point has been made here and there that golf is taught backwards— that in place of starting with the drive and the full swing the golfer should first be taught to putt and to play short approaches. This might seem to be the reasonable theory at first thought. One might think it would be much simpler to play the shorter shots than the longer ones. This is possibly true of the putt and the short .chip shot, but there is much argument due about the other. The easiest and simplest stroke in golf is the full shot. The easiest shot in golf ought to be the drive, where the ball is teed up and where there is no problem of a certain range, a certain restricted distance. One doesn't have to figure on hitting the ball approxi- mately 140 yards or 165-yards. The idea is to let the ball travel as far as it will, and the longer the better. So there is much justification for teaching the drive first. It might be better to start the b g golfer, away with a spoon or a brassie in p&me of the picture of having to lift the ball. Fre- quently one has this feeling with the straight faced club. ‘There is no question but that the | full stroke in golf is the easiest to play. Where one can hit the ball firmly, without attempting to spare the stroke, at least one problem has been solved. The golfer then has only to think of direction. One of the hardest shots in the game to play is the short pitch— from 40 to 60 yards—over trouble to a guarded green. This calls for greater control of the clubhead than wallop- ing a 220-yard drive down the course. To attempt to teach a golfer this stroke before he had learned to drive or fo hit the full shots would be a mistake. The introduction of numbered clubs— 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, T—was made to let the fi:{" play a full stroke wherever pos- e. In place of sparing a mashie, or a No. 6 and hits the ball firmly. In place of easing up slightly with out a No. 3 or a No. 4 and uses a full swing. There is a ;ren_z_fidency to quit on | was so far ahead of the fleld that it was the youthful Chicagoan, but stood to- | citing basket ball game. The Virginians | driver, where he would have no mental | No. 5, the golfer merely takes out a | Hon, 1 a midiron, or No. 2, the golfer takes | pad WEIGHED ONLY 130 YEAR OF HIS DEBUT ;:“Might Learn to Play Some| Day,” Manager Told Him | at End of Season. BY ROGERS HORNSBY. (Copyright, 1929, by North American News- paper Alliance.) Chapter IV. NLY a young ball player with | ambition can realize the thrill one gets out of a chance to play in the big leagues. When the manager of the Denison Ciub in Texas handed me a railroad ticket and told me I had been sold to the St. Louis Cardinals I was so excited I couldn’t sleep. My dreams were coming true. I was to go into the big show, and perhaps be rfamous some day, like Ty Cobb and Hans Wagner. 1t didn't take me any time to pack my things. I was ready for the train hours before it arrived. I never for- got that long ride to St. Louis. I pictured what it would be like in the big city in the big league. I won- dered if I might have a chance to meet Ty Cobb and some of the other stars. I saw myself getting into the game and perhaps_hitting a home run with the bases filled. I thought about the chance to make big money and wear swell clothes. I figured that maybe some day I could get more than $5,000 a season playing ball, and then I could buy a nice little home for my mother and make her proud of me. I can't say I slept much on my ride to St. Louis. In the first place I wasn't used to sleeping on trains, and in the second place I was too excited. I thought out everything carefully, and determined to make good. I wished I| was bigger and heavier and older. I weighed only 130—my weight now is 178. It required all the courage I had to prepare myself to join that club of big leaguers. His Sympathy For Rookies. Miller Huggins, present manager of the New York Yankees, managed the Cardinals then. I wondered what kind of a fellow he would be—if he would be rough with me and call me down if I didn't do everything correctly . right from the start. When 1 think of all the worrying I did, I feel a warm sympathy for any boy going into the big leagues for his first trial. I know just what he is thinking about, and how gratifying it is to get a word of encouragement from the manager now and then. ‘Although I felt shaky in the knees, I tried not to show it when I reported to Huggins. I introduced myself. He gave me a quick up and down. I thought he showed disappointment and he didn't seem greatly interested. Things were awfully cold. Huggins in- troduced me to a few_of the regular players. They scarcely noticed me. But I was going to make them notice me before the remaining few weeks of the season were over. Huggins had the trainer get me a uniform. It was miles too big. I felt awfully small and awkward in it. I wished I could fill it. And then I looked at Huggins and saw what a little fellow he was, and how, regardless of that, he had made himself famous as a player. I was a lot taller than he, but I didn't weigh | much more. My first day with the team Huggins sent me to work out at shortstop for a part of the practice. After I had handled a couple of groand balls I for- | got my nervousness. I went after every- | thing on each side of me, and thought 1 did surprisingly well, I knew I had a good arm. “All Right,” Said Huggins. “All right, kid, that’s enough,” sald Huggins finally, and that was all he | did say. I wished he would say some- | thing else, either good or bad, about | me. But he just seemed to forget I was there. It was about that way the rest of the season. I got into a few games. I hit the ball pretty well. But no one seemed to notice me. I admit I was discour- aged. One day in the hotel lobby in Chicago I overheard a remark by a re- porter traveling with us. He was talk- ing with a Chicago reporter. “We've got a great looking prospect in a young fellow named Hornsby,” he said. That was the first good word I had heard. ‘When the season ended Huggins came to me. “Well, kid, you look &s if you might learn to play ball some day,” he re- marked, casually. “I wish you were bigger.” I returned to Texas somewhat dis- couraged. * Kk X (Next—What a Farm Did for Hornsby.) Tales of a Wayside Tee BY GRANTLAND RICE a short pitch over a trap. The aver- age golfer, as a rule, carries the back swing too far for the distance to be played and, realizing this mistake, he then eases down on the swing—or eases up—and the result is often a complete flub. It isn't a bad Winter practice to work on taking the club baok a short distance with a short pitch in mind and make it feel comfortable and natural. I know many good golfers who depend upon laying the niblick well back for these short pitches of 40, 50 and 60 yards over trouble and then hitting hard to pump the ball high into the air. But this calls for the last word in accuracy. Just a slight mis- take in this stroke may send the ball anywhere. The niblick is a handy of- fensive weapon in the hands of a good golfer, but it is a somewhat uncertain instrument when wielded by the aver- ]aige player, at least along any fancy nes. After all, there are certain reasons for teaching the drive first—largely be- cause it is one of the simplest shots in the game to play. There is no other occasion where the player can tee up his ball and have little fear of topping or hitting the ground. He has no prob- lem of limited distance to consider. It is here that he has a good chance to pick up the basic fundamentals of the | swing, which begin by letting the | weight swing to the right foot as the body turns. And this is another form ! of indoor practice that can be turned ' into a habit through the Winter, (Copyright, 1929.) o ST. JOHN'S FIVE WINS. ANNAPOLIS, Md., January 12.—In .tvhfm apex;h}g ge:mcsfl its schedule, St. ohn’s defeal ue Ridge College, 77 to 20. Score: sz St. Johw's (T0). McCartee, Lutb, f. Blue Ridge (2 8 R.Barnes, f.. G. Craun, ). L] osSvuoe! Hesson, Benedict, Sommmond Po——— nder, Carpenter, | Wolanski," &. Totals .. Totals Referce—Mr. Day (Indiana) Y " Tongues and Puppy’s Tail Wag| 1D the dog swallow the golf ball, and if he did, what is the pro- cedure to be followed to carry on the continuity of the game without breaking the rules? That is the problem James T. Barnes and several golfing friends at the Wash- ington Golf and Country Club are try- ing to solve today as they look back on an odd incident that happened re- cently on the eleventh hole of the Vir- ginia course, just down the hill from the spot whers a pair of playful Aire- dale puppies make their home. Jay Jerome Williams, prominent newspaper man is the owner of the pair of sporfive pups, which range through the woods of the Williams me- nage and in their travels run out on the golf course adjoining. Barnes was playing the eleventh hole with T. Tur- ner Smith and had the satisfaction of watching his mashie tee shot drop safe- 1y over the brook on the putting green, tearing up a little patch of the soft turf as it bit in and stopping 10 feet from Williams' playful pups, which stood on the green and watched the golfers playing their shots. Here’s Barnes® Story. Suddenly, Barnes says, one of the dogs ran to his ball, reached down and took it in his mouth, gulped and started off on a run for the woods, accompanied by his companion canine. Barnes and a caddie followed the dog a short dis- tance, thinking it would drop the ball, but the dog apparently liked the taste of the gutta percha, for he was not seen to lay it down. Barnes, who is a for- mer club champion and is not given to tall tales, belleves the dog swallowed the 1let. peAnd now, since the dog p icked up the ball while it was still rolling, Barnss doesn’t know just what rule covers the case. The discussion waxes warmer and warmer in the grillroom around the cozy log fire, but as yet no one has been able to give a definite answer to the question. Some claim that Section 2 of Rule 17 covers the case. This rule says that “if a ball lodge in anything moving, a pall shall be dropped or, if on the putting green, placed as near as possible to tie place where the object was when the ball lodged in it, without penalty.” Now, one faction claims s is & moving | object, while the other side says the ! dog is or was a fixed object until the | balP struck the putting green, when the animal became a moving object. Section 3 of the same rule says that a ball at rest, if displaced by any agency outside the match, shall be replaced without penalty. Section 1 of the same rule is thed by others, who claim it | to have a rub of the green. The Dog Tells Nothing. But the ball never was found and, as | far as any one knows, it never will be | found. " The dog may have swallowed it, or he may have dropped it far in the woods. Some claim that Barnes should have followed the pup and played the | ball from where it was dropped. if it | was dropped. Meanwhile, the discus- | sion wages furiously on and no one | seems to know just the right answer. | ‘anket Ball Problem: l BY OSWALD TOWE! Q. Team A brings the ball two-thirds of the way up the court toward its bas- ket, then the player with the ball holds | 1t for 5 or 10 seconds while his team- | mates are trying to cut in for a pass. | Under the new rule, could held ball be | declared? A. No. Team is clearly trying to get into scoring position. There is no rea- son whatever for calling held ball under | these conditions. This rule will rarely | ‘be applied: except in the back court. (Copyright, 1929.) .. SPAIN TO BE FINISH LINE FOR INTERNATIONAL RACE| MADRID, Spain, January 12 (®)— Spain again this year will be the finish | D line of an international regatta. This time, however, the craft will not start from the United States, as in 1928, but in Plymouth, England. The port | of Santander will welcome the yatchs- | men. | TOURNEY AT MIAW 30-Foot Putt for Eagle on Last Hole Enables Him to Win by Stroke. By the Associated Pre: MIAMI BEACH, Fla, January 12— Gene Sarazen, in a “garrison finish,” climaxed by a 30-foot putt for an eagle 3 on the seventy-second hole today, with a gross of 286, won tne Miami Beach open golf tournament, adding an- other title to the string he has acquired in Miami and Miami Beach events. He barely nosed out George Christ, Daven- port, Fla., and Rochester, N. Y., pro, who won second money with 287. ‘The 36 holes today were played over the La Gorce course. Christ reached the fifty-fourth hole with a lead, but on the next nine Sarazen flashed in front by one stroke. Christ held on determinedly and at the sixteenth of the lastgl8 holes had gained back the stroke and was one in the lead. At the home green. however, Christ was forced to take a 5 when he missed his putt for a tie. 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