Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1929, Page 52

m HE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, > D. C. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY SPORTS. Griffith Declares He Will Make No Concession to Three Natio BALKING PLAYERS ANNOY CLUB PREXY Hayes, Marberry and Jones Spurn Offers—Liska and Gooch in Line. 28 —Wash- ness should week whi principle. however, AMPA, Fla., February ington base ball pick up here next ers arrives and the of preparing for a real g under w The Tampa So Grape Fruit League o) March 10. Fifteen players dered to report, these ing staffs and all the fielders excepting Joe Ju Buddy Myer and Gox will show up, however, as B due have yet to go through the triflin: formality of signing a 1929 contract be The actions of this trio—Pitchers Pred Marberry and Sad Sam Jones and Inflelder Jack Hayes—are causing Pres- both he and Manager Walter Johnson were particularly anxious to get all of their players off to a good start this As a matter of the national owner Ppay out more in sz players are worth, so athletes chanz> the 15, when noses are counted here n g they sing. Chance for S.ewar:. As an indication that G what he says in tho ca: port next Sunday instead of the follow- ing one, as called for in original plans. “Manager Johnson planned to give Griffith, “but, if Jack wants to cut off his nose to spite his face it's up to him. Stewart will get first crack at the job fast clip that Hayes won't be able to displace him when he finally makes up his mind to report.” Special Dispatch to The Star the second consignm Leaguers are to b2 met in the remainder of the pi Indications are that fore being welcomed ident Clark Griffith no little worry, as season. can afford, nor t probably will be among the m Stufly Stewart has been ordered to re- | Hayes first call at secod base,” said now and he is likely to travel at such a Manager Johnson, who spent the first two days here directing the work of his | men from the side lines, was out in uni- form for the second time this morning | and gave the impression that he was taking his conditioning work just as | seriously as he ever has. He indulged in a long pepper drill and then snowed | } 5 plenty of pep in taking the prescribed laps around the running track. One workout has been just the same as arother during this first week, with | the young pitchers getting call-downs at the slightest sign of showing any speed in their warm-ups. No sore arms have shown up yet cxcept that all of the players have reported a slight stiffness, which was only to be expected following a long lay-off. Diamond Is Ready. Groundkeeper Emil Haisman reported to Manager Johnson this morning that the diamond was ready for use, and he plans to leave for Washington tomor- clares he will not THE DAY OF REAL SPORT. —BY BRIGGS OH BUCK - OR BU s STUCK on | | | | The | WAS EVER S THE STREET WITH A NEUN SCHWANDER FIRST TiME Buck N WALKING DOWn. DAME WOMEN IN SPORT BY CORINNE FRAZIER. Freshman I tossers of Wilson Normal School, playing a consistent game, | sccred over the Junior Class team, 40 | to 29, yesterday in the interclass series. Had the Frosh lost they would have been eliminated from the championship race. As it is, they are just one game | behind the Freshman II six, which has not been defeated, but has one more game to play, a tie play-off with the Juniors, scheduled for early next week. Should the Juniors win that play-off the Freshman I and Freshman II teams | will have to play an extra contest to | decide the title. Juniors were outplaved in floor work. Freshman 1_(40) Juniors (29) 221P. T, 2P.1 Godinf, { o a3 M O'Daniel 1" Witherite, M.Johnson, f A Whaler, { E. Carlson, ¢ L. Woods, ¢ G. G.Truscott, & J. Roome. 'g. E Lambert, g Totals.....13 Time of quarters— o20000mme | w| osocosancuy! 8| Totals:....16 8 40 -Miss Kreiner. Basketeers completed their schedule in the intermediate division of the Washington Recreation League loop last night with a decisive victory over Strayer's Business College six, 40 to 20, in the Epiphany Church gymnasium. This win clinched the title in that AUTO DUCKPINNERS ENTER TOURNAMENT | | | _ HYATTSVILLE, Md., February 28.— | | Lustine-Nicholson Motor Co. will be| | represented by a team in the annual | tournament of the National Duckpin Bowling Congress to be held in Rich- mond. Composing the team will be Francis Halloran, high average man of the Prince Georges County Duckpin Association; Oscar Kee, Bill Bowie, Dutch Whalley and George L. Isemann. Company F Regulars will entertain Skinker Eagles, District unlimited class basket ball champions, tonight in the | | armory here. In a preliminary Strayers | sextet of Washington will face Company | F Auxiliary lasses at 7:30 o'clock. Catonsville, Md., High basketers even- | ed scores with Hyattsville Higk for an | earlier season defeat when they won a | | 25-24 thriller. Hyattsville led at the | half, 18 to 7. PHILLIES PASS THROUGH. Eighteen members-of the Philadelphia Nationals passed through Washington today en route to their training camp at Winter Haven, Fla. They traveled over the Atlantic Coast Line to their Dixie destination. | | | * You RE SUCH 47 A GReaT i FienTeR As %1 You SAY You ARE WHY Dow T You Go BAcw ano| T TrHoSE By the Associated Press. MIAMI BEACH, Fla.—Jack Sharkey, Boston, outpointed Young Stribling, Ma- con, Ga. (10). Sid Terris, -North Carolina, knocked out Paul Hoffman, Holland (4). Charley Pond, Fort Worth, Tex., knocked out Chief Newberry, Asbury Park, N. J. (3). Andy Callahan, Lawrence, Mass., stopped Joe McKenzie, Norfolk, Va. (3). Rush Heise, Columbus, Ga., outpoint- ed Mike Firpo, Tampa, Fla. (4). Able Bain, Newark, N. J., knocked out Red Reily, Troy, N. Y. (1). ‘Tony Fuente, Mexico City, stopped Spike Webb, Ordando, Fla. (4). Pat _McCarthy, Boston, outpointed Sully Montgomery, Fort Worth, Tex. (4). Johnny Grosso, Mount Vernon, N. Y., outpointed Marty Gallagher, Washing- ton, D. C..(8). PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY. Boston, 2; Newark, 1. Hamilton, 0; Kitchener, 0, Tulsa, 6; St. Louis, 2, PRO BASKET BALL. Fort Wayne, 25; New York, 14. | division for the Calvary tossers unless the tie game between Company F and Gypsies should be replayed with a vic- |tery for Company F. This team has . | lost once to Basketeers and has de- | feated then on another occasion, with row to finish getting the field in Griffith Stadium in shaps. Two more Nationals have accepted terms for the 1929 campaign. Adolph Liska, pitcher bought from Minneapolis, who has been here from the start of th: training grind, signed a contract yes. |NO other defeats against it. terday, whle the papers of Chatley | Louise Larrick. captain of Basketeers Gooch, infielder draited from Little | 22d Fannye Myers, have been vital Rock, also were received. Gooch. due | TACtOrs in every victory scored by their to report here mext Monday, had |Sauad. Estelle Easternson and Helen spurned two contracts oficred pre- | Petrie have an accurate eye for viously. the basket but were given few oppor- tunities to make use of it by the Larrick- Myers combination. Basketeers, (40). 1P T. H. Jolliffe, 1.8 4 20 NEWSPAPER BOWLERS FINISH FIRST ROUND (i1 4 LLar'ck.g(c) 0 Meyers, €. 0 Totals.....18 Strayer's A. C. (20). PP, T, EEastersn, { 7 E. Gi 10 1 0 0 0 Newspaper bowlers will start the sec- | ond round of their annual elimination | championship tournament next Mon- | day afternoon at King Pin No. 1 drives | :3&\ prozpects of_lhca\'y ng in both le and consolation fligh First | night at 9 o'clock on th> center court round bowling revealed many good pin | in an independent game. Monday they shooters among the newspaper employes. | will go to Richmond, Va. to play the The initial climination round ended | y. W sextat of that city last night with more than a score of | — bowlers taking the drives. The best set Eagles clzim a victory by forfeit over of the sesslon was turned in by M. |the American Security & Trust Co. bas- L. Oberman of the United States Daily. | keters in the senior division of the In the championship fiight he hit 601 | Washington Recreation League, as that in five games. | tcam did not give sufficient notice of Pinal session scores follow: ;pos!pol:;men_:h 0§ th}:iirm game ;chfduled “ last night. eir cl is made in ac- e I FLIGHT. g | cOTdance with the ruling of the league, 127595 | the manager stated. 12i—576 | Eagles have not yet been defeated and 155330 | have issued a challenge to any inde- 96533 | pendent team of their class in the city. 502 | Games may be arranged in March, fol- 183501 | lowing the completion of their schedule 116436 | with the W. R. L. 5 | ; IROQUOIS IN 0 4 | so500ws 1 0 0 0 0 [ 0 5 »losssonou Totals 8 Jewish Community Center passers will play the Dixic Athletic Club to- SECTS NINE son, News | 8. D Quant. Hutehi| Thempson. ‘U Moltz, Times CONSOLATION FLIG Rebholtz. Times. ... Lynch, ‘Star. .. .. To discuss plans for the base ball season Iroguois Insects, formerly Jewish | Community Center Insects, will hold a | meeting_tonight at 8 o'clock at the | Jewish Community Center. McNamara's Midgets downed John- 38 | sons of Cooke School at base ball yes- 424 | terday, 13 to 5. 81562 95482 Onyun, Times Baker,' Star. Gause, Star Feller. Post Fry. Sta B Rodrick, Star NEVER GETS ON YOUR NERVES TO MAKE PLANS TONIGHT |. DUNLOP offer the World’s most sweeping GUARANTEE? Simply because DUNLOPS are built to stand abuse DUNLOPS must be extraordinary tires. Other- wise they could not stand so drastic a guarantee as this new Surety Bond. Dunlops can stand the most sweeping guarante¢ simply because they are built to stand abuse. To remove all doubt, nai Hold-Outs MAYS BREAKS BONE INHIS LEFT HAND Giants’ Submarine Pitcher| Likely to Be on Shelf for | Three Weeks. By the Assoclated Press. AN ANTONIO, Tex., February 28 —The New York Giants have had their first taste of the twice- daily practice regime instituted by Manager John McGraw and | that taste wasn't so good for Carl Mays. | 'The submarine ball hurler was the | vietim of the first serious in jury in the | second of yesterday's sessions. He suf- | fered a broken bone in his left thumb during a brief batting practice. The injury probably will keep Mays out of action for several weeks. | CLEARWATER, Fla., February 28 (). | —Charleyhorses, sore muscles and gen- | eral aches and pains are prevalent | among Brooklyn's ball palyars after |two days of hard labor in the open- |ing training sessions. An hour and a | half of practice was enough for the | Robins_yesterday. | “The holdout question that has given | | them so much trouble has narrowed | |down to three men, Vance, McWeeny |and Herman. ! | —Nine regulars and 15 youngsters from | the St. Louis Cardinals Chain farm | system, went through a strenuous tw a-day here in the opening session of the | Cards’ Spring training season. | | Manager Billy Southworth showed no | mercy for an initial appearance and { has his charges out in the moriing and again_ yesterday afternoon. man Bell signed at St. Louis yesterday. | infielder, perked up yesterday's | while, Bell, former Card hurler, was recalled from Rochester. PASO ROBLES, Chlif.. February 28 (#)—Larry French, Portland, Oreg southpaw. has arrived in the Pittsburgh camp and handed in his signed con- tract. The Waners are the only hold- outs. Ervin Brame, husky right-hand pitch- er. will enter batting practice, Bush announces, it being his intention of using Brame as a pinch hitter during thec oming season. Brame hits left- handed, and Bush considers him a natural batsman. The arrival of Dick Bartell, reserve prac- tice session and aided materially in giv ing the Sheeley-Traynor-Stroner com- bination a snappy workout. Grimes is expected back for practice tomorrow | after having nursed a heavy cold. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., February 28 (#).—President-Manager Emil Fuchs of the Boston Braves has been using a novel and so far successful method in dealing with holdouts who arrive in camp determined to fight to the limit for better salaries htan their contracts offer. Pat Collins told his chief that he did not like the terms offered him, whereas Fuchs simply handed him a blank con- tract and told him to insert the amount he wanted if he really believed he was worth it. Collins thought it over for a and the contract came back signed for the original amount. Bruce Cunningham from the Los Angeles club blew in telling the world he was a holdout. He went into con- ference with Fuchs and came out half an hour later with the admission that he had signed on the dotted line. GRID CAPTAIN ELECTED AFTER THREE FAILURES AVON PARK. Fla, February 28 (#). NEW YORK, February 28 (#).—After | 7 three months of vain attempts to elect a foot ball captain, the letter men at Columbia University agreed unanimous- ly upont Malcolm S. Bleecker, pound tackle from Flushing, N. Y. 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Autry considered a good defensive man, whii | his stick brought in a .300 batting | average last season for the Indians. | Falk. who came to Comiskey’s park |in 1920, did not have such a good sea- |son in 1928. Cleveland is expected to | use him regularly in the outfield. | = Malicky and Breckenridge looked ex- 1,,ST. PETERSBURG. Fla. February ceptionally good to Mack and Gleason | 28 (#).—Miller Huggins, manager of the and they be greatly disappointed if | world champion Yankees, admits that | ihey do not mw »od. Malicky turned | some of his rookies may know a little | Gqown two minor league offers to accept about base ball. Ordinarily he feels e to go with the Athletics | reckless when he admits Babe Ruth is idge hung up a good record ood. y as a moundsman with the Dartmouth College team WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.. 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