Evening Star Newspaper, January 14, 1929, Page 27

SPORTS. CLAIMS HE STAKED NETTED HIM $50.000 fex Then Opened Gambling House and Lost Every Nickel of Fortune. This is the only autobiography written by Tex Rickard. It was pre- pared in collaboration with Bozeman Buiger, for publication exclusively by The Star and the North American Newspaper Alliance. Shortly before Rickard's death he discussed with Bulger plans for publication of these ‘memoirs in book form. Following is the sirth installment of the auto- biography, which is appearing in daily chapters. BY TEX RICKARD. (In Collaboration with Bozeman Bulger.) (Copyright, 1929, by North American Newspaper Alliance.) E were sitting around a stove one night in a combination hardware, grocery, feed, clothes and liquor store in Henrietta wk’len m.l!im of n?ll)o cattlemen got a letter from - erts, who lgld left his ranch in 1890 to up to Alaska. 'ox gns the town marshal of Henrietta then, wearing a blue uniform, broad- brimmed hat, gold star and everything. And, let me tell you, I was ggmng mighty tired of the job. We hadn't any excitement for a month. “Listen what Jim says,” said the man who had got the letter; “so cold up there that he wanted to climb in the stove on top of the fire, but one feller said it wouldn’t do no good ‘cause some fool'd come along and leave the door open.” - “Yes,” said one of the old menin the group, “and they tell me whisky freezes up there so hard that you can carry it around in your pocket like a plug of tobacco and bite off a drink whenever you feel like it.” Tells of Gold Strike. “Wait a minute, fellows,” begged the reader, “oI' Jim says he was in on a gold strike, and they dug out. more’n $50,000 worth of gold in a week.” The crowd then went into a lengthy discussion of what they’d do if they had a million dollars, like they thought Jim had. “Wal,” decided an old man named Td it on my 3 Thpe.};ld fellows talked on about the money, but & young fellow, named Will Slack, and myself got to thinking about Alaska. The upshot of it was that we decided to hook up together and go after gold. It wasn't long before we were on our way. o In 1895 we landed at Juneau, Alaska, but found we hadn't really got started. To begin with, we had to get & year's of grub and take it over the Pass to the lakes on the other je—about 40 miles. moue mt Slack came in after talking a -3 ml:ee we got to hitch oursegv;‘u up and pull a sled more'n 300 miles? They Hesitate, Then Act. That .made us think. But being young and full of pep, we planned to prospector. “ " , “do know that g dmlmbu,fhn ountain over all | istered in PARTICULAR ABOUT Armour Is After By the Associated Press. - T LOS ANGELES, Calif, January 14, — MacDonald Smith, who was reared not far from St. Andrew’s course, famous Scottish stronghold of golf, has written with his iron and wood a place in Western golfing rec- ords of which the wearers of the plaid may well be proud. The tall Scot, one of the Carnoustie Smiths, ‘won the $10,000 Los Angeles open, after as mighty a golfing battle as the West ever has seen. It many star golfers. Smith came from behind at his never- house. We were headed ty, 50 named because it is just inside Arctic Gescribe that trip would take & or two, and men like Rex Beach Stewart Edward White have done lots better than I could expect to do. Slack Killed in Gun Fight. ' wil Slack stuck until his help was mo longer needed and then told the world that we could have Alaska and ihe'd take Texas. Will Slack was one jof the best fellows in the world, but he liked his_comfort more than Klon- ,dike gold. I don’t know but that he was sensible, at that. Still, he went back to Texas and was killed in a gun fight. 1 had taken a chance, though, and ‘was going through with it. ‘We wintered in Circle City and work- ed out from there in the Spring. I was lucky enough to buy out the No. 3 and 'No. 4 claims of the Bonanza strike. ‘This, however, was after I left Circle City and got into the Klondike. George Cormack, who had an Indian wife, discovered the Bonanza lead. That was the first time I ever heard of a squaw man. That is what everybody called Cormack. The squaw man had been on a moose hunting trip. On his way down a little river, which he afterward named the Bonanza, he stopped for water. Right on the edge of the stream his eye fell on a piece of gold. The rocks and sand in the swift water had worked at the gold until it was exposed. No use for me to tell you what ex- citement there is over a gold strike. The odd part of it is that Cormack, even with millions in front of him, had not struck the richest part of gold at all. ‘There were many fortunes in what he found, but on a little branch of the stream a little further up, called the Eldorado—well, it was simply studded with gold. It wculd be difficult to count the millions of dollars taken out of there. g it Got “a Lot of Money.” Anyway, I staked out those two Bo- nanza claims and had a_half interest. They brought me in a lot of money. When we got back to the Circle City in May we heard some big news. “A man named McKinley was elected President last November,” an old miner told me. “Ever hear of him?"” To tell the truth, I hadn’t. Then we got the details of the campaign with Bryan. The talk of 16 to 1 had fixed the price of gold in Alaska. We usad gold dust for money and it was always worth $16 to the ounce. I sold out my Bonanza interest and had about $60,000 in gold dust. Just like the others, I went in for a good time. Then it was that I first got the gambling fever. A man named Tom Turner had come in from the outside with news of how badly they needed a gambling house at Dawson, The miners wanted amuse- ment and also wanted some fellows with whom flll;: could leave their gold for safekeeping. ‘The proprietor of a gambling house was much like a hotel or innkeeper. It was no éinch, There wasn't any graft. Nobody preyed on suckers. There were reach. He was six strokes ahead of his nearest competitors and seven ahead of san as Smith kept his unrufiled gait. Darkness forced Armour to “pick up” on the eighteenth tee, with 284 strokes up to that point. He, together with a dozen others, who saw the pall of night block out chances of finishing, will com- plete his 'jhln:.l hole this ai prof a “garrison” fin- tervened yesterday, and it appeared that he might nose out Golf’s Vital Plays BY PHILLIPS FINLAY, Former Nstional Semi-Finalist. Mr. Finley, one of the finest of the younger golfers in the United States, has been a consistent performer in the last few national championships. He is known as the longest driving amateur in America, and hits a ball off the tee as far as the most powerful professionals. He formerly was a_member of the Shinnecock Hills Country Club, and mow is @ student at Harvard. RIVING has a tendency to be over-emphasized. Long tee shots have paved the way for many a championship, but too much stress can be placed upon them. Though my drive has attracted more attention than any other part of my game, it also is my most trouble- some shot. T always hit the ball with nearly all my strength, for whenever I try to ease up the shot is a faflure. The whole secret of my distance lies in the accurate timing of weight shifting with the de- layed wrist snap. I use a long, arched swing. taking the club head back slowly. The left arm is kept unusually straight no suckers, to tell the truth. A gam- bling house was sort of social headquar- ters. Opened a Gambling House. T went in with Turner and we opened up a gambling house, drinking and eat- ing place. We lasted about four months. One night a lot of fellows came in to bet on the middle column and Nos. 17 and 23 of the roulette layout gnd hit us hard. If they won they'd simply pile on more gold dust in small stacks and tell us to roll. We rolled ourselves right out of house and home. At the same time they were taking us hard on faro. As I say, the gambling house was no cinch. Later I will tell of a more ex- citing gambling adventure—of my rise to wealth in that country. This time, though, the finish is sad. I started in with $57,000 that I had left out of the Bonanza strike and lost every nickel of it. I was flat broke, and it was getting colder. “Don’t worry, my boy,” a friendly old miner whispered to me the next day. “They're striking it rich down at Rampart.” (Next—The Fourth of July, 1899.) } WHY 1S5.\T | ANA ALWAYS THE LAUGHTRIE STock OF EVERY.BODY 1? CAN t HELP \T_IF. 1 LOOK, RIDICULOUS 1 DON'T THINK SO MUCH OF MY HAT.... IT GIVES ME SUCH A “DRUNKEN LOOK....l! WISH THEY'D BE A LITTLE MORE THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Id Strike Lured Rickard to Alaska : Trio of Men to Guide Des THERE'S TwE sTYLE EomLcies Ve Second Money In Golf Meet Mac Smith Wins Norton Smith, of Joplin, Mo, for third place money, $875. Horton Smith's 71— 715—172—176—294 left him in second place last night, but Armour urparently had him beaten, and Diegel was going trong. Diegel Has Chance. Diegel left off play on the sixteenth with a 63 for that distance. Par on the remaining two holes, & 5 on the seven- teenth and a 4 on the eighteenth would give him cards of 77—69—74—T72—292. Others who were to complete their 72 holes today included George Von Elm blonde amateur from Detroit; Ed Dudley of Hollywood, Calif.; Al Waltrous of Detroit, Henry Cotton of London, Frank Walsh of Agalewn, Wis,, and Ben Stupple of go. Von Elm, who picked up on the seventeenth hole when he had 70 strokes, led Walter Hagen, British open champlon, R e, oven champke on -~ alf famd Toue of diia. s four o fow Sy o S r Al ] - Fred Morrison of of 105 A’ s cumpied 0 15 ness. mm TM—14—19—16 “4**|BUCKY GETS ON THE JOB |sexiei” IN DETROIT TOMORROW | sxpecca DETROIT, Janu: 14 . —The reins of Detroit Tigers will be taken over im earnest Tuesday by Stanley Harris, new Tiger boss, when he arrives to discuss training season plans with Frank Navin, president of the club. He has indicated he plans to move his family from Washington with- in a few weeks. ‘The Tigers are to begin their training jaunt to Phoenix, Ariz, the week of February 10, with 40 men. CHISOX DROP McCURDY. CHICAGO, January 14 ' (#)—Harry McCurdy, former University of Illinois star, who has been a second-string catcher for the White Sox for three As Told by Masters seasons, has been released outright to ‘Toledo. Phillips Finlay _Longest Driving Amateur in U. S. Tells How He Does It. Accurate Timing of Weight Shifting, With Delayed Wrist Is Secret. Snap, with very supple wrists, club to swing back .a little below horizontal. The shift is caused by throwing the whole body weight on to the right foot at the top of the swing without moving the head, and then swinging that weight on to the left foot just before and during the impact. Right Wrist Does Work. - _This should not be construed as sway. ‘The. left arm is perfectly straight, right up to the finish, guiding the stroke. The right wrist does most of the work. My right hand is slightly under the shaft and the left rather on top, making that HOW ABOUT SOME OF THE, FUNNY LOOKING FoLks | SEE' HUH - HUH, THEY AIN'T SO HOT_AMND HANDSOME = I'M BEGINNING To MELT- I'M LOSING WEIGHT BY TuE SECOND A SHORT LIFE BUT NAWFUL MERRY ONE FOLWSH =+ D. C. MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1929. WONDER WHAT A SNOW MAN THINKS ABOUT? GIVE EN SUN 0UT AND GooD- LOST AN ARM L wisn GooD BY- BY" BLuH - BLY~ B3 —' = Tiist SHISH SHAWFUL SHING ANYWAYS THE KIDS THAT FASHIONED ME LIKE THIS'HAD ‘A LOT OF FUN AND ILL BET/ A LDT OF You RUMMIES NENER JOVYMENT To NOBODY BY FOREVER - Goob BY By-v--' Brun 1 COyYLD LOOSH SHAT lié'l‘- G 'BY- DOV’ l. Look SHILLY- POSH-1-Tiv SHILLYs ~=~ WHA' MESH =~ 'D. C. NETMEN SCORE IN INTERCITY PLAY BALTIMORE, Md., January 14— Making its initial appearance in the Intercity Indoor Tennis League here yesterday, Washington team defeated the highly rated Mount Washington team, 5 matches to 4. Mount Wash- ington had previously defeated the ‘Washington team in the Winter Indoor League. Bob Considine, captain of the Capi- tal City team, won the feature singles match over Alec Keiles, 6—8, 7—5, 6—4. Considine and Frank Shore com- prised the only victorious Washington doubles team. Results: llnslelrocon!ldlne (W.) defeated Kelles. 68, 7—5, 6—4; Mitchell (W.) defeated Rob- erts, 64, 6-2; Shore (W.) defeated Skrent- ney, 0—0, 8—6, 6-—3; Andrews (M. W.) de- feafed Bichanan, 6—3, 6—3; Yeomans (W.) defeated Hogan. 3—6, 6—4, 6—3; Shaw (M. W) defeated Simons, 61, 6—4. Doubles—Roberts and Andrews _defeated Mitchell ‘and Buchanan, 6-—3. 6—4: Consi- dine and Shore defeated Keiles and Skrent- ney, 6—8, 6—3, 6—4; Hogan and Shaw de- feated Yeomans and HOCKEY GROUPS LED BY NEW YORK TEAMS By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 14.—The first half of the season is over for six of the 10 National Hockey League teams and drawing near for the others, but only vague indications of the outcome of the race can be found in the standings. The two New York teams still lead by good margins, but among the con- tenders there is plenty of room for argument. The standing: INTERNATIONAL GROUP. Ve r Americans Maroons ! valea ®acma] 8 AMERICAN GROUP. .12 10 The Sportlight By Grantland Rice. The Next Heavyweight Champion. H next boxer or fighter to be listed as the heavyweight cham- pion will have to do something more than merely eliminate the leaders now left hanging around. He also will have to do some fighting and prove that he is a fighter. No heavyweight exhibition given by any of them in the last year would qualify in the ' championship class. If Dempsey decides to return there is at least no question of any loafing or hanging on or holding back in his case. Whatever he has, good or bad, it will be about all he has. But no fight that Sharkey, Stribling, Heeney or Paulino has put on in the last year could be rated as anything like a championship offering. The one that will get most of the public backing for any claim he may offer will be the one that does most of the fight- ing. But those who expect to wrestle their way into the vacated kingdom may be in for a shock. “If Sharkey and Stribling,” writes L. D, “can only make up their minds that they are not second Strangler Lewises they may put on a good show. But every time I have seen them in the last year they seem to have had ambitions to prove they were great wrestlers. Some one should whisper into their caulifiowers that, while they apparently know every wrestling hold, they are sup- posed to be fighters.” That whisper undoubtedly will be forwarded. They have a great chance to get somewhere at Miami with & boxing act. If either introduces a wrestling act it should be 23 | his last appearance before money that means anything, Mat and Ring. Rane wanan w1 H Chicago . WOMEN IN SPORT BY CORINNE FRAZIER. Feminine basketers of Washington will see the opening of the first official league circuit for 1929 tonight when the teams from the Columbia Federation, Baptist Young People’s Union League get into action on the Wilson Normal School floor. Three games are scheduled. At 7 o'clock the Second Baptist Church and Fountain Memorial teams will inaugu- rate the series. This game will be fol- lowed by a meeting between Fifth Bap- tist and Bethany Church teams. The third game in the trio will see First Baptist and West Washington sextets clash, Calvary, the seventh team in the league, will play its opener next week, according to Frances Cooper, general gnnamser of girls’ sports for the fedcra- n. All ?ames in the league series are scheduled to ‘be played on Monday nights in" the Wilson Normal School gymnasium, and will start each week at 7 o'clock unless announcement to the contrary is made in advance. The schedule will continue throu“’x March, the team with-the high average at the close of the circuit will be award- -ed the B. ¥. P. U. challenge - team now held by First Church toss- ers. t Church has two legs on the cup, and as they were won in successive years, a this season would give the present champions permanent Second Baptist and West Washington sextets both have shown to good ad- in preseason contests and are to give the champions a stiff fight for the trophy. Almea and Marcia Adkins, former playground stars, have proved the mainstays of a strong Sec- ond Baptist six in early workouts. Capitol Athletic Club will play Roxy A. C. tonight in the fourth game on its schedule. The meeting will take place in the Hine Junior High School gym- nasium at 8 o'clock. Strayer’s Business College tossers are booked tomorrow night by the C. A. C. squad, which is playing an independent schedule this season and will not affiliate with any league for the present. Park View School dodge ball and basket ball teams will be honored Wed- nesday morning at a special assembly of the school called for the of ings, physical training director at Park vlew’,J will present the awards in the name of the Playground Department. / Aloysians, the girls’ basket ball team of the St. Aloysius Club, will practice tonight in the St. Martin's gymnasium at 7:30 o'clock. All who are out for the team are urged to be on d at least a quarter of an hour in ad- the | vance of the scheduled time in order to be ready to take the floor promptly. TWO RECORDS MADE IN DUCKPIN DOUBLES LeRoy McCall and Hugh Waldrop { recorded two new doubles records for local duckpin circles Saturday night on the Hyattsville Arcade Alleys, when they hung up a 796 set and 305 game. Mc- wrist strike at the ball ‘This gives the maximum distance, though it is rather difficult to control. I use a wide stance, playing the ball off my left toe, tee the ball high, and hit on the upswing, with a slightly lofted driver which weighs 13%; ounces. The swing is flat, rather than upright. Bobby Jones is the most_consistently long and straight driver I ever have seen, with Gene Sarazen a close second. Jones hooks the ball when off form, but never enough to put him out of the running. The greatest tee shot I ever saw was the one Bobby played in the final of the national championship at Minni- kahda against Chick Evans. It came on This hole is 519 yards long, slightly dog- leg, and with the last hElr l‘fi: ayalggn grade. It must play pretty close to 600 yards. His Eagle 3 Unequaled. Jones proceeded to t:rrlncgglstnlwe gp ut’lu fairway, and ccurately places avold an out-of- bounds on the right bang a spoon shot to within two feet, of the cup for the only eagle 3 ever made on that hole. Most of the praise was given that beautiful second, but that drive of over 300 yards put Jones in a position where he ‘could make it. A drive 30 yards shorter than the one he had there would have made it impossible to reach the green with a spoon or brassie, and he would have had to be content with a par 5. Jones hits shots like that when they are necessary. There are several pro- fessionals and amateurs who can bat as far on a given shot, but under pres- sure there are few who can equal Jones day in and day out. (Copyright, 1929, by North Amerf i Copyrisht, 192, by Nortn mmerfi‘n News: (Wednesday—Al Espinosa on' Driving.) the ninth hole of the morning round. | Waldrop. 136 127 136 Call totaled 169 in his last game while Waldrop was finishing with 136. Their set mark tops the 785 score registered by Paulle Harrison and Maxie Rosenberg at Convention Hall this sea- son. Howard Campbell and Happ? Burtner had previously held the local record with 763, recorded in the W. C. D. A. tournament three years ago. McCall and Waldrop topped the game record set by Glenn and Jack Wolsten- holme this season at Convention Hall. The previous }“,lflh mark was 301, The Hyattsville pair defeated Trott and Belt in a Prince Georges County Doubles League match. Scores; McCall. . 100 112 105 97 105 116 Totals. 197 317 221 Grand ‘total, 635. TO STAGE 110 118 160 Totals. 248 245 305 Grand ‘total, 796. PARAMOUNTS Shou _bis b“"s;l FOUR BOUTS WEDNESDAY Paramount Club has announced three that he was able to | boxing bouts and a wrestling match for its weekly athletic program Wednesday night at 426 Ninth street. Kid Grove and K. O. Kelly, welter- weights; Peewee Sherman and Slim Simpson, flyweights, and Harry Sands and K. O. Stewart, lightweights, will clash in the ring encounters. Dutch | Green and Flying Gray are listed to! meet in a heavyweight mat clash. HEENEY TO COME BACK. NEW York, January 14 (A.— Heeney, the “Hard Rock” Gene Tunney blasted in his last heavyweight title defense, has heard the call of the ring Mandley Now Rated Generally Best All-Around Bowler Here HO is the best all-around man bowler in Washington and vicinity? That is a question which often arises when bowlers congregate and it always is good for plenty argument. = There is one star who generally gets more than any other. He is Bradley Mandley, the Stanford Paper Co. anchor man. Brad once more revealed his consist- ency Saturday night by leading the largest field ever to compete in the 15- game Howard Campbell sweepstakes for the first five-game block. Mandley has the distinction of shoot- ing more sets over the 400 mark this season than any other pinman afliated with the Washington City Duckpin As- sociation. His first three games Sat- urday night were over that coveted mark. Brad plays no favorites so far as al- leys are concerned. He is apparently as good at Convention Hall as he is at Petworth, Arcadia, Lucky Strike or Coliseum. His record attests to this fact, as he has shot 400 sets at practically every establishment in the city. His 635 total of Saturday night gave Mandley a good lead over most of the stars, but Tony Santini, Center Market merchant, trailed him closely with a 624 total. Tony shot consistent games and if he can repeat next Satur- day at King Pin he should finish among the leaders, as the finals block will be rolled at Coliseum, where Tony is well acquainted with the boards. Bowlers who won prizes in the re- cent Evening Star individual duckpin tournament and who were unable to procure thelr - prizes -Saturday night, may get them at Lucky Strike of today and tonight. ‘The majority of the prize winners re- ceived their awards Saturday night, but several of the high scorers then were Another collegian has rammed his way to the top of the wrestling group o tinies of Garden HAMIMIOND, CAREY, MEARDLE ON 10B Denial Is Made That Mayor Jimmy Walker Will Get Rickard’s Old Post. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, January 14—For the next two or three months at least the destinles of Madi- son Square Garden will be in the hands of a trio that in- cludes Willlam F. Carey, Col. John 8. Hammond and Tom McArdle. This has been made clear by Richard F. Hoyt, chairman of the board of the Garden corporation. The responsibilities Tex Rickard laid down in - death will be distributed among Carey, first vice president and treasurer of the corporation; Hammon a vice t and acting gene: manager, and McArdle, matchmaker. On the eve of his departure on & cruise of more than a month Hoyt out- lined the situation at the Garden as he and his associates saw it. “The men in ¢! now are perfect- ly capable of handling the business,” e dec] = , Hi d McArdle constitute a combination which is satisfactory from every stand- point, reports cir- ganization as it is at present consti- tuted. It is only a matter of loyaity that we give the men in control now a chance to direct affairs. Good Business Men. “Both Mr. Carey and Col. Hammond 5 : B g 4 § s to prove the after value of foot ball in certain fields. represented the college school in wrest- ling better than any of the college boxers have represented the boxing school. The collegians still are scarce along the heavyweight road, where none of them has yet assumed a threatened aspect. I still believe one or two college box- ers will suddenly emerge in the next year or two with enough in their reper- tory to take over the main title. It may be longer than & year or two, but the time isn't so far away. Al Lassman would have had a great chance if foot ball hadn’t broken up the big tackle. Within & year or two he might have been ready for the big shot. He had and a natural boxing and punching knack which belong to only a few. Tough Marching for Ilinois. Dear Sir: Don't let any one say Illi- engaged in the Howard Campbell sweepstakes. All Pitchers Easy for Goose, Analysis of Batting Reveals By the Assoclated Press. o Had it CHICAGO, January 14—Right or Genrig left hand pitching, it all looked alike to tricate, and he hit them for .381. not been for left of the Yankees might have been first instead of third in the final in- Leon Goslin, Washington outfielder, in | dividual batting ratings. He was a .402 his successful drive for the American League batting championship last year, whereas Heinie Manush of St. Louis, who finished just a point back of the Goose, was slightly less effective against right-handers. Goslin’s _official record was 376 against left hand pitchers and .380 against the rights. Manush, on the other hand, banged the ball at a .388 rating when batting against portsiders, but hit ,374 at the right-hand offerings. Babe Ruth was under .300 against left hitter against right-hand tossers, tut the other kind of pitching held him to a 313 figure. Al Simomns, among the right-hand batsmen, slammed southpaws to the tune of .420, but the Athletics’ out- fielder was a mere .335 man against right siders. Tony Lazzeri of the Yan- kees was another who could succeed at bat if all pitching was from the first base side of the box, his figure being .417, but he was not even & .300 hitter against right-hand curves and handers, the figure being .296. There | speedballs. were 15 games pitched by southpaws in which the Babe was unable to hit safe- 1y at all. Right handers were not so in- Jimmy Foxx of the Athletics, like Goslin, was vicious against any kind of throwing. Joyce Keeps Putter At a Right Angle JOYCE. WETHERED PUTTS~ BALL REMAINS IN CONTACT WITH [487]-} Fflgfl BY SOL METZGER. A few years ago Glenna Collett cabled her family from England, following her defeat in the British Wwomen’s golf championship, “Joyce unbeatable.” Until Glenna arose to sublime heights in our women's title event in late September any one who saw Joyce Wethered defeat Glenna overwhelmingly that day or viewed her in any golf event over & period of a few years held the same view. She was the great- est player her sex had produced. Now Glenna ranks with her. Miss Wethered has definite theories about her putting. It dif- fers from Sarazen's in that she takes the club straight back from the ball, its face always gt right angles to the line to the cup! Hers is almost a squeezed putt in that she meets the ball on the downswing. This because she plays if off a point between her feet, in- stead of off her left heel. But Joyce overcomes the squeez- ing tendency by stroking her ball with a putter that has a slight loft, Her abject is to keep the head of the putter low and at right ul) lt,he line nu“throb’\;%h.d .{gu er clul never gef n( e per- pendicular during contact. (Copyright, 1929.) o SOUTH CAROLINA BEGINS SPRING GRID PRACTICE | it fosithan 14 @).—| & COLUMBIA, 8. C,, January Spring foot ball practice for the back- field prospects will begin today at the University of South Carolina under the tutelege of Coach Billy Laval. Twenty or more men are expected to rt. agaln. The New Zealand warrior is busy training for a come-back effort he pes will land him another chance to; win the title, £ » Practice will continue each day until February 5, when Coach Laval will call out the entire squad for daily rehearsal, to be continued until May, : DEAL LINKS MAY GET COLLEGE GOLF EVENT Maurice J. McCarthy, star George- town golfer, a member of the Wash- ington Golf and Country Club and one of the mainstays of Georgetown's basket ball team, may defend his in- tercollegiate golf title over the course of the Deal (N.J.) Country Club next June. McCarthy said yesterday the choice for the championship lies between Deal and the layout of the Rockaway Hunt Club. Deal is a famous layout, well known to many Washingtonians. McCarthy views the coming inter- collegiate individual championship and the team title chase as affairs in which any one may pick the winner. strong Princeton team, with Eugene Homans, metropolitan titleholder, as its ace, looms as the strongest of the inter- collegiate teams. In the individual ranks McCarthy is certain to find vigorous opposition from Homans, who beat him last year in the final of the metropolitan championship; Phillips Finlay of Harvard and John Dawes Ames of Chicago, son of the fa- Ames of Princeton foot nois will not have a tough schedule in November. & 1ot -of the-lads howled about the softness of his schedule. Maybe it is true that Ilimois did not play as tough a schedule as Ohio State or Minnesota or Michigan. But look what Zuppke has taken for 1929, Illinois will open with Kansas, a tough baby from the Missouri Valley. Lou | Then comes & soft game with Bradley. But after that the Illinl must meet that batch of teams? Don't let 'em tell you Zuppke picks soft schedules. REUBEN RAYCRAFT. Out in the conference you play them and trust to good luck rob you of more weck be a number of different results. Southern teams usually come North from two or three weeks of heavy heat which prevails through September and early October. The same teams are stronger in November. And about the only N¢ team that will go South is Notre Dame. Playing in your own yard under your own weather condi- tions early in the year is a pretty sure way of insuring victory if the two teams are anywhere near the same class. Young Horton Smith of Joplin, Mo., is one answer to the loud cry for new faces in championship ranks, Smith ‘The | hasn’t bagged any major golf champion- ships yet, but he has been making a flogk of champions and ex-champions practice quick starts to keep up with Big Munn and then Sonnenberg have | know no usually two or three touchdowns |in Ihis stuff. He will be worth watching {in the next open at Wing Foot. It may all be along right lines, but selling a golf ball that gets less distance ball fame. BRAVES TO OPEN CAMP WORK ABOUT MARCH 4 BOSTON, January 14 (#).—Spring | training for the Boston Red Sox at | Bradenton, Fla., will get under way at about March 4, Bill Carrigan, manager jof the Sox, announced today. | _The nucleus of the team will leave Boston March 2, other members of the club joining the party at New York and at Washington. The full squad will consist of 37 players. The team will start north about April 1, spending the first week of the home- ward journey in Richmond and Nor- folk, Vat. | BIG LEAGUE CAMPS AMERICAN LEAGUE. . Tampa. 5. Fetersbure. | st Paim Beach radentor z T S I—Roger Peckinpaugh. i i Blackburne, Dallas. . NATIONAL LEAGUE. ndricks, Ginelanati_igck Wondricks: O BestonmEmi Fuchi Philadelphia—Burt — Shoi n.'h--—'m‘ New York-—Jol B b irrRDonnie Bush, Faso Hobies: ] to 3,000,000 duffers trying to get more = our idea of an all-time all-America salesman. Thousands of these - birds don't give & rap what their score is if they can tell you about the one they walloped for 270 on the eighth tee. “Which section,” asks D. H., “plays the harder foot ball schedule on an average?” The Midwest, with something to spare. And this includes the Far West, the East and the South. Western Conference teams think nothing of play- ing one of their big championship games around October 10 or 12. And Notre Dame, outside of the conference, doesn't lower the average. Ten thousand heel prints in the sand Orlehmmm‘uotwm Babe Ruth is now down to 232 pounds. As he must have put 400 pounds baclt of those three St. Louis wallops th: cleared the ball park, this means ¢ of the largest reductions on record, The Killer. ‘The putt that hangs upon the lip And will not drop Has caused four million souls to dip And then to drop; Has caused four million hearts to flip And then to flop. A (Copyright, 1929.) Sy sideration. be made.” If there is any definite plan to Mayor James J. Walker for the Hoyt said he knew nothing of it. “‘His name is just one of 500 or mentioned as likely successors to Rickard,” Hoyt said with a smile, CLAN SOCCERS WIN FIGHT-MARRED FRAY A free-for-all battlé, which involved G. William Arcadians moved, within striking dis- tance of Rockville, feader of the Capital City League, yesterday when Ge forfeited to the former. Aarcadians are but two points behind Rockville. These teams are to meet in the ‘the season. TEN-MAN TEAM TO GET TRIAL IN MINOR LOOP president of tged N‘”tfilfll £ to permit a bat- 3 the pitcher. A Heyder, ting line-up cing . GRANT NOT TO BOX. New York University's boxing team, which has engagements this season with wn and Catholic Univer- sity, has weakened through the loss of Calahad Grant, intercollegiate heavyweight champion, who will not compete in the ring this season because of pressure of studies. 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