Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1929, Page 45

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1929.": Cincinnati Hopes for Extra-Base Hitters : 93 Inter-Big League Games Listed HENDRICKS 70 TRY | SLUGGING RODKIES Reds Handicapped in Past | Year by Inability to Hit for Distance. BY RAY C. WILKERSON. (Associated Press Stafft Writer.) INCINNATI, Ohio, January 17. —Advent of 1929 marked the tenth year the Cincinnati Reds have lavored without a pennant, And speaking of the numeral “ reminds Jack Hendricks, Red pilot, that if the proposed 10-man team idea was a reality it might provide a batting punch his team lacked last year. Hendricks needs batters who can travel farther than 90 feet on their hits— and to the uninitiated 90 feet is the distance from the plate to first base. Hendricks needs sluggers who can pro- pel doubles and triples. Last Summer the Reds had a one- base complex, the proof of which is in the figures—they ranked at the bot- tom of the league in total bases. It ‘was not only Hendricks' pitchers who failed to hit; his regulars likewise were guilty. Pid Purdy, outfielder, had the highest regular mark, and he just edged into the .300 class by a scant 9 points. s In order to strengthen the club with | sluggers who can run 180 and 270 feet in safety on their hits, the Cincinnati management has secured several long- distance swatters from the minors and ‘was favored with drawing hitting talent in the draft. Hard-Hitting Minors. In Earl Crabtree, Oklahoma City; Evar Swanson, Mission, Calif., and Walter Shaner, Chattanooga, formerly with the Red Sox, the Reds obtained a hard-hitting minor league outfield. They will argue it out with Walker, Allen, Zitzmann, Purdy and Callaghan. last Summer's regulars. Hendricks said six gardners will be carried. Third base offers an unsolved prob- lem. “Jersey” Joe Stripp, purchased from Columbus last year, is the only candidate who is a natural hitter. But Walter Lutzke, formerly with Cleve- land, obtained in the draft, is & more polished fielder. Chuck Dressen, last year'’s mainstay, must hustle to ward off the Stripp-Lutzke threat. If Stripp is crowded off third, Hendricks has in- dicated he may use him as an under- study to George Kelly at first because the “team needs the sadvantage of Stripp's long-distance hits. Wally Pipp also is available at first, but the Red leader would like to trade him. Ford headed the league fiefders at short last year and is slated to retain his post, but is not looked upon to aid the offensive, since he batted only .241 Clarke Pittinger will be called upon if PFord continues the light stickwork. Critz a Fixture. Hugh Critz—second base. No worry there. Critz is a dependable hitter and & great defensive player. The Reds lost strength behind the plate when “Bubbles” Hargrave was named to manage St. Paul. Picinich is the only veteran receiver on the roster, Three youngsters, Clyde Sukeforth, Reds: Ed McMullen, Minneapolis, and Leo Dixon, Baltimore, seek the runner- up position to Picinich. Numerous pitching additions in Ash and Meeker, from Columbus; Gudat, Dayton; Johnson, Rock Island: Pile, McCook, and Smith, North Platte, will be looked over by Hendricks at the Or- lando, Fla., training camp in hopes the veteran mound corps of Lucas, Rixey, Donohue, Kolp and Luque can be bolstered. - STAGE BOUTS AT SMOKER. Peewee Shannon knocked out Slim Simpson and Nick Repoli and K. O. Kelley fought a draw in the boxing card that featured the weekly smoke: of Paramount Athletic Club last night in the Ninth street hall. Dutch | men_tomorrow night at 8:30 o'clock in THE SPORTLIGHT By Grantland Rice ‘ The Great Mile. AAVO NURMI once ran the mile in 4:10 2-5, setting a world record in some British meet. But that mark wasn't near the top of his form. Nurmi in practice had run the mile around 4:07 more than once, I have been told, and it sounds reasonable enough. Now the chances are that he will never run the great mile that many had looked forward to seeing him run. For the Finn today is talking about the record for the hour and about entering the next marathon. As one gets older speed passes, but stamina seems to increase—up to a certain age. Most of the great marathon runners are between 30 and 40. The best two sprinters of the year have been Williams and Wykoff, both under 22. Nurmi has lost at least a flash of the speed he had at Paris in 1924. This means that he will have to concentrate on longer marches, something from the two-mile to the hour run. When you figure that he was a high-class Olympic entry nine years ago, the wonder is that he has as much left as his stout legs carry today. He used up less effort than any middle or long distance runner in track history. He apparently | knew how to run and rest at the same time—which can be done to a certain | extent, if one can find the inner secret of true balance. i True balance never comes with a fixed object, but with an object in motion. A swiftly spinning top has far greater balance than a steel post planted in solid rock, since the latter has no balance whatever. The greatest track picture that any one recalls who saw it is Nurmi win- ning the 10,000-meter race in the Paris Olympics—500 meters in front of the second man—finishing strong, with the termometer at 101, and running from the track apparently as fresh as ever, while the others were reeling and stagger- ing across the line—at least the few who didn't flop or fall unconscious some- where back along the blazing road. Most of them needed an ambulance in that run, while Nurmi wasn't looking for a glass of cold water or a chair to sit in after the race was over. ! Foot Ball Changes. | Dear Sir: If the foot ball rules committee wants to make a constructive change in the rules, why not this | Start the second half with the ball in play at the point where the last | down was made at the end of the second quarter. Why divide one foot ball game into two distinct contests? Why should a team that has worked the ball down, say to its opponents’ 10-yard line, late in the second period, lose all of that advantage because of a time limit. Let's abolish the kick-off at the start of the third period and start the game where it left off in the second. That would make for & more interesting game and do away with a lot of fluky wins. BUCKEYE BELL. Dear Sir: When the United States Golf Association held the first national open championship in 1895 there were eleven entries. Last year there were 1,056 competing in the sectional qualifying rounds. A growth of 975 per cent in 35 years. Golf has become a big fellow in our sports world in a;hortpume. The New Golf Ball. Dear Sir: I note you favor the new idea in golf balls, somewhat. But what would happen in a big championship if there was a howling gale? The larger and lighter ball would sail around the fairways like a kite and the scores would resemble those of fifth flight duffers. And why a new ball any way? If the big guns can play a 400-yard hole with a drive and mashie niblick now, the new ball would only make the same hole a drive and No. 4 iron. The stars still would be putting for their birdies except in a high wind. I have talked to quite a few | professional players and none of them are eager to see a change in the ball. ‘WAYFARER. Not_having tried out the new golf ball and knowing nothing whatever about it, I am neither for nor against it—except on the general proposition that one has to prove the need of a change beyond all question before it should be brought about. I doubt a lot that the great mass of golfers will take to a ball that loses any considerable distance, or any distance at all. Certainly not | unless it can be shown that a larger and lighter ball has other compensating | qualities that will lead to better scotring. | The best ball to decide on is the cne that will give greater pleasure to the | greater number of players. Champions and Their Chances for 1929. NO. 7—GLENNA COLLETT. Glenna Collett, the best woman golfer the United States has yet developed, won her third title last year. She scattered the fleld at Hot Springs, Va., in the last championship, with golf that the best male stars would have found hard to beat. Miss Collett has improved the steadiness of her play by a big margin in the last year. Her iron game is more compact than it used to be. Her putting is far more consistent. She is still a wicked hitter from the tee, with a stout, straight, long game. Her play in the early part of the present ‘Winter down South has been spectacular. She has now built up a dependable style with every club and it will take fine golf to beat her when the next cham- pionship opens at Oakland Hills. a course that doesn’t give the big hitter any the worst of it. Competition amgng women is getting keener every year, so it will be no easy job to repeat. Buf the type of golf Miss Collett has been playing for a year now will be good enough to win again. (Tomorrow—The Yankees.) “500” CLUB BOXERS |RACING DATES APPROVED IN INTERCITY BOUTS | FOR NEW YORK TRACKS By the Associated Press. Boxers representing the “500” club NEW YORK, January 17.—The stew- ards of the Jockey Club have approved of the WashingtongKnights of Columbus will meet Baltimore Y. M. H. A. glove- a.racing schedule for New York State which covers 170 days of racing. The regular Spring and Fall meetings will be held at the Jamaica, Belmont the K. C. gym here. The Casey boxers had scheduled Baltimore Y. M. C. A. | for the date, but the latter canceled. ‘The Y. M. H. A. team, however, is said to be as formidable, if not more so, than the Y. M. C. A. team of the Maryland metropolis. The card follows: Lewis Garanza (Ba Hafris (Caseyrenywehtro" ke Morris Burlowitz (Baltimore) vs. Barber Nevins (Casey)—bantamweights. Heimach Bressler ~(Baltimore) Billy Jahnke (Casey)—featherweights. Ray Ashley (Baltimore) vs. BIff Harrison (Casey)—lightweights. Harry Miller (Baliimore) vs. Leo Cove- 5. o leskie (Casey)—welter: Unnamed opponent (Baltimore) vs. Char- vs. vs. Green and “Flying” Gray battled to a draw in a wrestling match. ley Ryan (Casey)—middleweights. Sundenburg (Baltimore) vs. K. O. Rob- erts (Casey)—heavyweights. Park, Aqueduct and Empire City tracks, with the annual 30-day session at Sara- toga through August separating them. ‘The schedule: United Hunts—April 18 and 20 and No- T Amaiea ADFiL 23 to May 18 2 Jams o May 16 and October Belmont Park—May 1 !'R"’“g"'i;; o yw 4 lt«‘.mm 10 and queduct—Jun 5 b 2 ;m ] t";’l 2. i e City— ol ber 17 to No:emb!\" 1. P Saratoga—July 29 to August 31. PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY. Kansas City, 3; St. Louis, 1. "n:’!;flndelphh, 1; New Haven, 0 (over- e). ith BETHOLINE in your tank your motor will snap out of it with a qué:ll&, smooth start on momings and Keep its summertime winter. Jry ETHOLIN THE WONDER MOTOR FUEL pep Z all E TOURNEY LINKSMEN TURN TOWARD EAST By the Associated Press. PASADENA, Calif, January 17— Prize-seeking golfers who have followed the gold trail over Far Western fair- ways from Portland to Honolulu and back to Lower California since early December turned Eastward today, where two Texas tournaments offer further reward for low scorers. The jump across the continent will be broken for the El Paso open, Janu- ary 19 and 20, and again at San An- tonio, where $6,500 in cash awaits win- ners of the Texas open, January 24 to 27. The South Central open, at Hot Springs, Ark., January 31 to February | 2, will carry the golfers on Eastward. | 7' The last West Coast tournament, and | one of the most successful, ended here yesterday, with division of $4,000. Craig Wood of Newark, N. J., took first | prize of $1,000 at the conclusion of the | 54-hole competition. Prizes aggregating more than $35,000 were distributed among the money fin- ishers in the nine major events, the | first of which was held at Portland, Oreg., early last month. Oniy two champions successfully de- fended their crowns. They were Mac- Donald Smith, Great Neck, N. Y., who repeated in the $10,000 Los Angeles open, the major event and the one which held the richest reward for first- prize winner, and Leo Diegel, P. G. A. champion, who retained the San Diego crown he won in 1927. List of tournaments and first-place winners: Events. Total purse. Portland open, $5.000 o. Hawaiian open. $5.000 ~:Bill Sacramento open, $2. Tommy Armour Catalina Island open, $2,500..Horton Smith Long Beach open. $5.000 Walter Hagen La Jolla open, $3,500. . San’ Diego open. Los Angeles open, Pasadena open, $4,000 *Amateur. Winner. F. Wiliing *B: A Mehihorn $2.500 .Leo Dieg £10,000. . Macdonald Smith ‘ieseoes..Craig Wood BOXER 1S EXONERATED. PITTSBURG, Kans., January 17 (®). —Steve Salina, Pittsburg boxer, has been cleared by a coroner’s jury of any criminal liability in connection with the death of Frankie Civella of Kansas City, following a bout here Monday night. Herbert © 1929, The Union Tobacco Co., New York City » men smoke Tareytons,” Pilot Nace said. any sort of flying, especially at night. That is why I always smoke Tareytons.” Fiéhts Last Night By the Associated Press. PONCA CITY, Okla.—Babe Hunt, Oklahoma, knocked out Tom Pivac, St. Louis (8). RICHMOND, Ind.—Johnny Curtain, Dayton, Ohio, outpointed Jimmie Brow:, Cincinnati (8); R. Merrill, Dayton, out- pointed Harry Kreindler, Cincinnati | (6); Bulldog Fisher, Richmond, out- pointed Phil Flint, Dayton (6). ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—Louis Gon- zales, Tampa, knocked out Andy Cohen, Newark, N. J. (5). GREAT FALLS, Mont—Al Rossberg, | fornia, drew (12 S [ILLINOIS RACE MEETS WILL LAST 158 DAYS CHICAGO, January 17 (4)—Tllinois’ 158-day racing program for 1929 will | open and close on the Aurora track. Two of the eight meetings were awarded to the Aurora track, the first starting May 21 and running until May 25, and the second running from Octo- ber 14 to 31. Other dates were announced as fol- lows: ‘Washington Park, May 27 to June 29; Fairmount, May 25 to July 6; Arling- ton Park, July 1 to August 2; Haw- thorne, August 3 to August 24; Lincoln Field, August 26 to September 28, and Hawthorne, September 30 to October 2. THREE $50,000 RACES FOR CHICAGO COURSES CHICAGO, January 17 (#).—Three $50,000 stakes may be offered at Chicago race tracks during the 1929 season. Officlals of three tracks, Hawthorne, Arlington and Washington Park, today intimated they each would offer that sum in their various blue ribbon events. Arlington Park, taken over recently by a group of business and civic leaders, is expected to stage its $50,000 stake race the latter part of July; the Ameri- can Derby, to be run_at Washington Park June 15, and the Hawthorne Gold Great Falls, and Henry Felegano, Cali- | Cup are the other events in which purses of $50,000 are anticipated. 'S FACE 0LD LOOP CLUBS IN 2 TILTS Griffs Next in Line With 20 Engagements Booked in Other Circuit. THE moot question of which of the National League clubs clash in lead the American League clubs in will be played with the Phillies, two in games, the Boston Braves in six and the scheduled, five with the Cardinals, three The champion Yankees tangle with ing West to play Pittsburgh once in Detroit, which Bucky Harris is taking The Tigers and Cubs mix in nine games, two major leagues plays the 93 exhibition games prior to the opening games scheduled with teams of the Florida and five at Philadelphia, for the St. Louis Cardinals in four. All will be each with Brooklyn and Boston, two the Boston Braves seven times at St. Texas. They are to play the Dodgers to Phoenix, Ariz, for the training sea- five at Los Angeles, one at Phoenix, and Phoenix and five in Texas and Louisiana. ‘The Boston Red Sox play eight games with Natfonal Leaguers, three with the | Braves, two with Philadelphia, two with St. Louls and one with Cincinnati. The | St. Loliis Browns, training at West Palm | Beach, Fla., take on Brooklyn in threc| games and the Phillies in two in Florida | and wind-up their pre-season engage- | ments at home, meeting the Cardinals n a two-game series. Cleveland, which again returns to| New Orleans for the training season.| has scheduled but six contests with the | senior circuit. The Indians clash twice | each with the Giants, Brooklyn and Cincinnati. | ‘The Chicago White Sox have sched- | uled the least number of big-time exhi- | bitlon games, meeting the Giants in two games in Texas before starting| north for a series of games with minor league clubs. DEMPSEY T0 GUARD | AGAINST SCALPING By the Associated Press. There will be no tickets to the Sharkey- | Stribling fight sold to scalpers, and Jack | Dempsey, doing what he terms his first | bit of road work on the promoting angle of a prize fight, will brook no argu- ments to the contrary. The former heavyweight champion, filling the position of promoter for the Sharkey-Stribling go, decreed yesterday that not more than 10 tickets to the battle will be sold to one person from the newly opened ticket office at the Miami Beach Kennel Club. He narrowed the possible list of pur- chasers of 10 pasteboards further by declaring that only individuals known personally to the representatives of the Madison Square Garden Corporation, which is behind the fight, would be per- mitted to buy that number. In an address last night before the combined Miami, Coral Gables Real Estate Boards Dempsey asserted that the arena, with its 30,000 seats, will be filled as nearly By the Associated Press. better base ball may be partially settled when the American and of the championship season April 16. Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics senior circuit, meeting the Heydler league teams in 22 games. Seven games city championship. The A’s also en- counter the Cincinnati Reds in five played in Florida. Washington has 20 league games with Cincinnati in Florida and seven with the New York Giants. Petersburg, then meet the Cardinals twice and Cincinnati once before head- twice at Brooklyn. Tigers Go to West Coast. son, confines its inter-league activities to the Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh. three in Texas. Pittsburgh will be the Tigers' opponent in one game at as possible in the way Rickard would have done it. ‘Where Steady NCI’VC S MIAMI BEACH, Fla, January 17— | LOTT AND HENNESSEY RULE WESTERN NETS By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, January 17.—George Lott of Chicago and John Hennessey of In- lHanapolis, national doubles champions and members of the United States Davis Cup team, again have been awarded one-two honors in the 1928 Western Lawn Tennis Association rankings just released. ‘The leaders: MEN'S SINGLES. 1—George Lott. Chicago —John Hennessey. I 3—Emmet Pare, Chi -Kirk Reid, Cleveland. 5—Leray Weir, Evanston, IIL MEN'S DOUBLES. 1-Lott and Hennessey. 2— 1'8."‘ and C. Cndrr:'n. kCl)elvfllnd.cm —Klingemann and Jack Harris, Chicago 4 Paul Kunkel and R: Kunkel, Gneinnat 5—Ralph Rice and George Jennings, Chi- cago, ‘WOMEN'S SINGLES. 1—Clara _Louise Zinke, Cincinnat!. 2—Mrs. Ruth Riese. Saginaw, Mich, 3-Mrs. Barbara Duffy. Cleveland. 4—Helen Cansfield, Detroit 5—Ruth Sexman, Cincinnati. WOMEN'S DOUBLES. —Zinke and Sexman, Cincinnatf. Leighton, and Mrs. Saginaw Cansfield and Mrs. Tree. Det | 1-Adams and Miss C. Woife, Tndis 5—Miss Williard and Miss Hofs Chicago. | JUNIOR SINGLES. 1—Carl_Dennison, Youngstown, Ohio. | 2—W. shrommer,’ jr. Milwaukee. 3—John Sheldon, Glencoe, IIl. 4—John Wilson. Lake Forest. TI. 5—William Irvin, Grand Rapids, Mich. JUNIOR DOUBLES. 1—Sheldon and Shrommer. | 2—Demmary and Lowery. Indianapolis. | Eomaty e e, 4—Irvin and Ryan, Grand R 5—Faden and Kaplan, Chic: BOYS' SINGLES. | 1—Frank Parker. Milwaukee. 2—Harry_Jens, Milwaukee Earl Tetting, Milwaukee. 4—John' Baumann, Oak Park, Tll. 5—Max Gumman, Detroit. | BOYS' DOUBLES. 1—Jens and Tetting, Milwaukee. 2_Baumann, Oak 'Park. and Robert ind. } and C. Russell, 8t. | John's Military Academy, Delafleld, Wis. 4—Burns and Crowley. Chicago. 5_Barclay Fleming and Earl Shlinger, ! Chicago. ianapolis. | i smashed all endurance flight records Crew of Question Mark got extra Tareyton supply in mid-air “We smoke Tareytons— flying takes steady nerves,” WHERE HUMAN LIVES DEPEND ON STEADY NERVES- Pilot Nace of the Air Mail Service photographed on the Mineola flying field. “You will find that most air- “It takes nerves under steady control to do aviators everywhere say 150 HOURS IN THE AIR! Motors roaring—winds howling—six days, six nights of it! The bite of night air high above the earth—five men straining through the dark- ness for a record. Only steady nerves could survive—bring those men through “in excellent condition.” They watched their nerves! An extra supply of 1000 Tareytons was taken aboard when the Question Mark refueled in mid-air. The first cigarettes delivered by plane to plane—Tareytons for men whose work de- manded steady nerves! Los Angeles— Chicago— Portland—New York —check up after check up shows the same thing . . . “Tareytons are the choice of busy, active people. People whose work requires steady nerves.” If you haven't tried Tareytons, please do. People say they can smoke two and three packs a day . . . and still keep nerves in fit condition. Test them for 7 days. Smoke all you want . . . but smoke nothing else. You’ll like the mild, full-bodied flavor. Then see if you don’t notice a very marked improvement in the steadiness of your nerves. THE FIRST CIGARETTES DELIVERED IN MID-AIR —The Question Mark (underneath) after breaking endurance records for heavier than air craft took on fuel and 1000 Tarey- tons from an assisting plane. The crew were taking no chances with their nerves—and were pronounced “in excellent con- dition” by a board of four army surgeons upon landing. AREYTON The twenty-five cent cigarette - - - now I :j(: for twenty « 1. Humidor Package. 2. Heavy Foil. 8. Quality Tobaccos. 4. 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