Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1929, Page 34

34 SPORTS. THE EVENING FEW DETROIT MEN SURE OF POSITIONS| Bucky Proposes to Revi‘sef Team Greatly—More Slab Power Needed. STAR, WASHINGTON, D._C,. FRIDAY, ONE MUST TRAIN THESE DAYS, EVEN TO BE A BASE BALL COACH Here's Ray Schalk, former White Sox Manager, as he appared in a Chicago gym to start his conditioning for the next campaign. New York early next month to join the New York Giants, with whom he will serve as coach this year. i “Cracker” will go to —Underwood & Underwood. BY WILLIAM H. BEATTY, ETROIT, January 18.—In_the spare figure of Stanley Ray- mond (“Bucky”) Harris—who thing—rest the hopes of Detroit base ball fans that an ailing Detroit ‘Tiger this season will receive a stimu- Harris, who takes George Moriarty's place as manager of the Detroit Amer- ican League club, at present is engaged hauling. He has refused, however, to make any predictions regarding the ani- mal’s health during the coming season. fewer of these will be certain of their places, Bucky has announced. Charley Gehringer, Harry Heilmann and Marty and Harry Rice, outfielders; Owen Car- 1oll and Vic Sorrell, pitchers, are among those 1airly certain of appearing in the Weakest in pitching. the Detroit club, which finished in sixth place last year, | will have a revised staff. Heading the land in a trade which took Ken Hollo- | way, pitcher, and Jackie Tavener, | shortstop. | From Toronto of the minors comes | Johnny Prudhomme, a right hander, who is expected to develop into a head- Earl Whitehill of last year's team will be available, while Lil Stoner and Sam Gibson are on the doubtful list. No ing staff to date. Larry Woodall, Mer- vin Shea and Bill Hargrave are on the roster, and Ed Phillips of Toronto, who ing last year, is a possibility. The Coast League has been drawn upon to furnish Roy Johnson of San berth. Johnson is a slugger, hitting close to .400 last year, and Bucky has high hopes for him. Fat Robert Fo- troubles, probably will be utility out- fielder. Heilmann may have to stage a battle ander, International Leaguer, who was acquired this year. Schuble New Shortstop. shortstop candidate, replacing Tavener. Chick Galloway remains to give Schuble ‘competition. George McBride. When Bucky was Lolding down second sack at Washing- ton, McBride was his manager. Now troit, is working for his old employe. With President Frank Navin, a new half owner of the Detroit club appears tomobile body' manufacturer. Briggs, however, 8 not expected to take an ac- tive part in the club’s management. Detro Ariz, for the training season. BADGERS IN BIG REGATTA. ity of Wisconsin has- definitely deci to’send its crew to the Pough- keepsie regatta this year, Athletic Di- Associated Press Staff Writer. says he isn't promising any- lating tonie. in giving the Tiger a thorough over- Few cegulars will be back, and even McManus of the infield; Jonathan Stone line-up. list is George Uhle, brought from Cleve- Prudhomme Promising. liner. Carroll, Sorrell, Josh Billings and changes have been made in the catch- worked out with the club during train- Francisco, designed for the right-field | thergill, who is having his poundage for first-base position with Dale Alex- Heinie Schuble, from Houston, is the Tables are reversed for Bucky and McBride, 85 coach this year for De- in the person of Walter O. Briggs, au- ‘The it club will go to Phoenix, MADISON. Wis., January ‘18 (#).— rector Gearge Little has announced. TATE ACCEPTS GRIFF CONTRACT FOR 1929 Henry Bennett Tate, or just Benny, if you would, is the latest of the Nationals to sign on the dotted line. The contract of the stocky little catcher for the 1929 campaign, with signature appended, was received at the Washington base ball club head- quarters this morning. Ossie Bluege, veteran infielder, who is to be shifted from third base to the shortfield this year, dropped in the club office yesterday and ac- ceglfll terms. ident Clark Griffith was busy today up odds and ends of club affairs. With his official staff, he leaves tomorrow for Tampa, and from next Monday until early in April the Nationals’ business will be conducted at the Florida training PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY. New York Rangers, 1; Chicago Black- hawks, 0. Boston Bruins, 1; Detroit Cougars, 1 New York (overtime). Montreal Maroons, 0; Providence, Montreal Canadiens, 1; Kitchener, 2; Hamilton, 1. Minneapolis Millers, 0; Tulsa Oilers, 0. Maple Leafs, 1. PRO BASKET BALL. Rochester, 26; Chicago, 21. Clevelan New York Hakoahs, 17. | '| Blazing the BY ALAN J. GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. | PORT is far from being & modern | invention. They played tag and | tossed rocks in the neolithic ages, but the big concentration and the high- | powered stuff is of more recent origin. Nineteen twenty-three, for an exam- ple that is fresh in memory, had a thrill in every stage of its competitive whirl as it touched off the biggest boom that sports have ever had. Five years may not mean so much when you're talking about the careers | of Ty Cobb or Cy Young, Walter Hagen or Harry Vardon, but the last five have been the most significant in athletic history. The passing show of 1923 featured the flashing episodes of Dempsey and Firpo, Zev and Papyrus, Tilden and Johnston, Wills and Mallory, Ruth and McGraw. It quickened the pace, start- ed professional values shooting sky khigh and overthrew a flock of old- fashioned stalwarts and ideas. Many, if not most, of the sensational developments of sport, the changing times and the new order of things may be traced directly back to the impetus of 1923. Tex Rickard put boxing on a spec- tacular big business in 1921 when he staged the Dempsey-Carpentier “battle | of the century” at Jersey:City, but 1923 was a bigger year for the ring. brought to a smashing ¢limax by the “battle of the ages” between Dempsey and Firpo at_the Polo Grounds. Nineteen twenty-three was the year that saw Bobby Jones scale national championship goif heights for the first time, after many a disappointment, and Sports Trail - launch & triumphant march that is now without parallel in the royal and ancient domain. When Jones, then just become of voting age, beat Bobby Cruickshank in the play-off for the national open at Inwood, the Georglan shook the jinx that had beset his youthful trail and began the par-beating parade that has carried him to victories here and abroad The same year witnessed the ascend- ancy of Helen Wills, just out of pig- tails, to the national tennis peak, end- ing at the same time the long reign of Molla Bjurstedt Mallory. “Little Miss Poker Face” they chris- tened the California girl who accom- plished the seeming impossible at the age of 17 and started a career that has carried her to world championship heights. Look over a few of the other bright ?:2‘;5 of that significant campalgn of On ofie there’s the story of Bill John- ston's first Davis Cup defeat, at the hands of Kangaroo Jim Anderson of Australia. On another Zev's triumph over Papyrus, the English Derby win- ner, in the $100,000 turf classic at Bel- mont. A third reveals the Yankees, not yet the super-team, but world champions for the first time at any rate, after their third straight clash with the Giants. Red Grange was a sophomore sensa- tion. Gene Tunney was just a strug- gling light heavyweight. Benny Leon- ard was the ring master and king of lightweights, Jess Willard was trying a dramatic comeback. War-scarred NEVER BEFORE-— Have We Cut the Prices of University Clothes, Inc. The established price. of $22.50 represents the utmost in clothes values to be obtained anywhere. These suits, tuxedos, overcoats and topcoats are manufactured to sell at $35 and are the equal of any at that price in Washington or elsewhere. due to OVERPRODUCTION AND UNUSUAL CONDI- TIONS IN THE CLOTHES MARKET, we find it expedient to cut our price for this period to No = .90 (from factory to you) Every garment strictly hand tailored througk- out, 100 per cent wool materials. Overcoats are blanket silk lined, silk piped seams and all-wool plaid back. We Specialize in TOPCOATS ) ¢ d C CLUB DISCUSSES PLANS AND ELECTS Plans for the Winter and Spring ac- tivities of the C Club of Central High School were outlined at a meeting of the club last night at the Racquet Club. Staging of a basket ball game between | Central and Staunton Military Academy in the Central gym March 5, a bowling teurnament and subsequent selection of a team to meet the T Club rollers of Tech High and the tenth renewal of the C Club track meet were discussed. Norman Opyster, class of 1915, was elected president. Other officers chosen were: Irwin Porter, '10, vice president; Robert New- by, '20, recording secretary; Eugene Casey, '23, treasurer, and Edmund Rheem, '09, permanent secretary. It was the second successive election of Newby and Casey. LISTS $3,500 TOURNEY. PENSACOLA, Fla., January 18 (#).— Organization of the greater Pensacola open golf tournament, to be held Feb- ruary 8, 9 and 10, is perfected, with prize money totaling $3,500 as a draw- ing card for professionals. The tourna- ment will be 72 holes medal play. Gene Criqui scaled the featherweight title heights. Furthermore, Yale ruled the foot ball roost in the East and California’s Gold- en Bears won their fourth straight Pa- cific Coast Conference title in. one of the greatest unbeaten marches of grid- iron history. ‘What a parade! And what a differ- ence five short years have made, but, like the song, the memory lingers on. JANUARY 18, 1929. THE S Sense of Direction. OB ZUPPKE, that lively breeze or B young gale from the Midwest, | blew in for a short address be- fore hitting the trail again. | Zupp still admits that he would like to have had that Illinois line {in front of the Stanford attack as it struck the Army, and he thinks there | would have been o large surprise. He was discussing the Roy Riegels episode in the Georgia Tech game, with this interesting comment: “Foot ball players frequently lose their sense of direction in a hard game. I've seen a number of players—smart play- ers—who, after being tackled suddenly, place the ball 3 feet nearer their onno- nent’s goal before getting up. They would admit later they had been turned around. The Riegels case was just an | accident, nct a matter of bad judgment or bonehead playing in any way.” Dr. Zuppke, coach, painter and phi- losopher, has one of his hardest sched- ules next year, including a battle with the Army. And it might be suggested here and now that any Eastern team that beats Illinois will have to play a lot of foot ball. For Zupp'e takes | keener delight in beating the East than anything else in foot ball. Even this far in advance, it might be suggested that not a vacant seat will be left in that big Illinois Memorial Stadium when the Army arrives for action. The Strongest Left Side. | 1t may be some ball club can show a stronger left side of the infield than the Giants, but where is it? Jackson and Lindstrom make one of the best | combinations base ball has seen for | years. For the right side, St. Louis can |claim Bottonfley and Frisch, as the | Cubs offer Crimm and Hornsby, or the | Yankees present Gehrig and Lazseri, {who will do well enough. But Jackson and Lindstrom are the class on the other side of the diamond. One of the greatest left-side combinations was that of Long and Collins—Herman Long and Jimmy Collins of Boston. This probably was the greatest—although there have been Barry and Baker, Tinker and Steinfeldt, Bancroft and Groh, Turner and Bradey, Wagner and Leach. Wagner and Leach of the old Pirates form another combination that might challenge Long and Collins. “Anchors Aweigh.” Sir: It may be interesting to your correspondent “Orpheus” to have one of the doubtful points in his letter, published in “The Sportlight” this morning, cleared up. ‘The Navy song, “Anchors Aweigh,” was originally the class march of the class of 1907. It was the custom of Bandmaster Zimmermann in the old days (I don't know whether it still holds or not) to compose each year a march which he dedicated to the new first class. It was 1907's good luck to profit by his happlest inspiration, and somebody in that class (if I remem- ber rightly, a chap named McClure) saw that “Anchors Aweigh” was not only an Al march but had the makings of a first-class foot ball song. So he wrote the words to it. ‘That was in 1906, and the new song was first sung publicly at Franklin PFleld at the Army-Navy game that year. That was a great Navy year— the first Navy victory since 1900—and that provided the final clincher to es- |tablish “Anchors Aweigh” as a lucky song. So it has been Navy's war song ever since. It is, you see, an original song, both words and air native to the Naval Academy, and yet it does not quite meet the specifications of “Or- pheus,” since the tune was composed, not by a midshipman, but by the Acad- imy band leader (and a grand old chap e was, t00!). Incidentally, that was quite a Navy team, that 1906 one. Jonas Ingram played fullback on that team and scored a touchdown on Army by catching a forward pass from “Bull” Norton, which had been intended for “Cracky” Dague. Forward passing was in a rather primi- tive state in those days. That was y Grantland Rice. SPORTS.” also the year Percy Northcroft place- kicked a field goal from the 42-yard line right near the sideline; kicked the ball at least 20 feet above the goal posts and clear up into the end stand. I can close my eyes and see that kick right now. NAVY, '08. For an all-around, homemade college song, they all still have “Lord Jeffery | Amherst” to shoot at as a target—and it will take some college song writing to head this melody off. ‘Tack Hardwick, the former Harvard end, Is to start soon after a record species of the killer-whale. All that Tack asks is to get in tackling distance. If that happens, we'll let you pick the killer-whale at your own price. In order to make the bet a surer pick-up we might slip on ahead and paint said whale a deep Yale blue. “What is the longest golf carry ever made?” asks S. F. No official tests un- der correct conditions have ever been attempted with the longer wallops around. This would call for level { ground, no favoring wind and the pres- ence of such long hitters as Gamber of Detroit, Wood Craig, Bobby Jones, Harry Fisher and one or two others who would find the job of carrying 260 yards close to the limit. The average long hitter among the leading professionals can rarely carry 245 yards under the condi- tions named. A few years ago Bobby Jones won a long-distance hitting con- test from a big field of amateurs with | three carries that average 226 yards— | driving across a polo field with no fa- mean anything. Under certain condi- tions, over baked courses, only fair hit- ters have driven over 400 yards with a following wind. A following wind and a baked-out course can make almost anybody a long hitter. Both Johnny Farrel and Bobby Jones figure that a 250-yard carry on level turf is close to the limit for all except possibly one or two phenomenal slashefs. Copyright, 1929.) LEGION TITLE PLAY TO BE STAGED HERE It is planned to stage the Eastern series of the American Legion National Junior Base Ball program the coming season in this city. The Western com- petition is planned for Denver, Colo. Boys attaining their seventeenth birthday anniversary on or before Sep- tember 14, 1929, will be eligible to par- ;nclpnte in the American Legion pro- gram next season. This raises the age limit three and one-half months. The National and American Base Ball Leagues have again donated $50,- 000 to aid the Legion in putting on the tournament, and also have agreed to send the winning team to all games of the world series. Capital City League sponsored by ‘The Washington Post again will stage the games between local teams in co- operation with the District of Columbia Dehr;nrtment of the American Legion. T plan was followed last year with success. LASSMAN MAY ASSIST IN COACHING AT N. Y. U. NEW YORK, January 18 (#).—Chick Meehan, head foot ball coach at New ‘York University, hopes to have Al Lass- man, captain of the Violets’ 1928 team, back as assistant line coach next Sea- son. Meehan said he would ask the board of control to offer a position on the coaching staff to the giant tackle, who now is recovering from head injuries suffered in the Carnegie Tech gamo> November 24. Other Sports on Page 36, | voring wind. The length of roll dossn’t | Harris, Tiger Pilot, Makes No Promises : Grand National Has Record Entry PORTLIGHT 16 ENGLISH CHASE ORAWS 12D HORSE Billy Barton, Second Last Year, Is Among American Entries Again. By the Associated Press. IVERPOOL, England, January 18. —The Grand National Steeple- chase of 1929 will have a strong international flavor with crack jumpers from the United States, Ireland, France and Belgium to dis- pute the way with home-breds in the annual March classic, Although many of the 120 horses en~ tered will be scratched before race time, the probabilities are that none of the favorites wil! be withdrawn. The win- ner of the 1929 renewal probably wiil net £12,000. Chief interest for Americans is the entray of Howard Bruce's Billy Barton, American owned and bred, which put up such a great race last year, fell at the last fence, but was remounted and finished second. He is stabled in the same quarters he occupied in 1928 and is under the charge of Hon. Aubrey Hastings. Announcement of the weight allotments reveal that Billy Barton will shoulder 161 pounds, 10 more than last year. Seven other American owners have entered among them 11 horses, pur- chased in recent years with the dirsct hope of winning the Grand National. Attracts Big Owners. Gordon Selfridge again has entered Ruddyman, Stephen Sanford has Brights Boy, which will carry 172 pounds, and Mount Etna; A. C. Schwartz will be represented by Dar- raco, J. H. Whitney by Easter Hero, which drew down top weight of 175 pounds, and the French horse, Mague- lonne, which won last year's Paris Grand Steeplechase; J. B. Balding by Drinmond, Ralph Heaver Strassburger by the Ace II and M. D. Blair by Bally- hanwood. A comparative Newcomer to English racing is Victor Emanuel, a young American, who has entered three can- didates, Rhyticere, Phosphone and Royal Sport. Rhyticere ran second in the Paris Steeplechase. There are only two previous winners in the big entry list—the 1928 winner, H. S. Kanyon’s Tipperary Tim, and Mrs. %"' 1Piu'!rldge's Sprig, which won In | ‘The growing popularity of the gruel- ling steeplechase can be seen from che entries for the last five years. In 1925 they numbered 63, in 1926, 59: in 1927, 69; in 1928, 112, and this year, 120. i i FEDERAL A. A. PLANNED AT MEETING TONIGHT Representatives of various Govern- ment departments will meet tonight at 8 o'clock at the Arcadia for the pur- pose of organizing Federal Athletic As- sociation, which is to foster athletic leagues among Government employes. L. G. Schmidt, president of Potomac Park A. 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