Evening Star Newspaper, March 5, 1929, Page 37

s PORTS.” 1929, . Wilson Expected to Help Cubs Greatly : Browns to Try Rookie Third Baseman THE SPORTLIGHT Y GRANTLAND RICE FLASHY GARDENER SHINES IN TRAINING Seems Better Than He Was| Last Year—Chicago Team Powerful at Bat. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. VALON, Catalina Island, Calif., March 5.—Much history has been, made in the little town of Martinsburg, W. Va., the most important item of which was the birth there on April 26, 1900, of Lewis Robert Wilson. Shortly after the present major league base ball season Lewis Robert will celebrate his twenty-ninth birth- day. At this particular period, prior to its beginning, he shows inclinations of doubling back on his birthday trail. He is both younger looking and younger acting this Spring than he was last. Rogers Hornsby has done that. Hornsby has been very quiet since he has been with the Chicago Cubs, stand- ing around as he did in the old days, thinking and looking out of those sharp eyes, but there is a sense of conscious pride in having Hornsby with the Cubs and it has affected Wilson. ‘Wilson seems to be the spryest man on the team. He much resembles one of the medicine balls that the players lug around the field, but in action no squirrel flitting over a fence can move faster. He is familiarly known as “Hack” because of a fancied resemblance to Hackenschmidt. He is on his way to better base ball than he played in 1928. If Wilson bats as well as he should; if Cuyler will bat for the fun of the thing and not to establish any scientific principle, and if that stern-faced son of toil, Riggs Stephenson, accentuates his thump, the outfit of the Cubs will step heavily all of the Summer. It will be a serious matter for any oppos- ing pitcher to think in anything but terms of apprehension. Much Batting Strength. Batting by the Cubs in 1929 will be something to be printed in capital let- ters. If they riart off with English as the first batter, Cuyler second, Wilson punch, wallop or anything similar. ‘This Chicago club will enter into each game with an attack stronger than any it had on tap last season. Any time they start hitting from the top of the list they are apt to make a run and hey are also apt to make one when they start a little farther down. Wilson, Hornsby and Stephenson, bunched to concentrate their mie. will shell many is the keynote of the “We have Hornsby with us Jow,"y T ” ¥ b -~ sright. 1920. U. S., CANADA NET PLAY IN MONTREAL IN MAY TORONTO, March 5.—Canada and the United States will play their mmr&-v:u‘puuh?m' courts ount Royal Tennis Club, Montreal, May 16, 17 and 18, has been announced by Garnmet H. Meldrum of the Canadian Lawn Association. Yes- \SN'T, AT ABSURD AS THousH WE CouLdN'T HAVE You BEEN READING Tars Sy STUFF _ABoUT Do6S THAT Tauw —n \_1']~\fl‘—/ (L ALWAYS TaLy| PEOPLE ARE 30 RIDICULOUS . (TS _HARD Te UNDER STAND THEM AT Times| ol | THOUGH T FOLWS KNEW WE TALKED- ? SHOWS LATELY! IS'T TeaT Buz DE sauLles! WITH W. O. Power of imagination, produce anything remarked after the bout: “Jack exhibition itself was terrible. success from the monetary view. It preliminary workouts. ments. The gathering was a great that those hardy beings can and will the modern breed of gladiators. They are talking now of holding immediate vicinity. the winner is to meet Max Schmeling for event the principals will have to be this the Battle of What of It, and Paulino And after that—what? Herr Schmeling is now in Germany, will delay the eliminations. this thing to a conclusion—not when a Newspaper Tournament Bowlers On Drives Tomorrow Afternoon paper men's annual duckpin|C OTH championship and consola- B tion flight bowlers in the news- | 53 singles tournament are to be on | £70e tomorrow afternoon. Ten the title division and 16 of the » tion class are to start their second elimination round rolling at 1 o'clock. Alley assignments will be made at reporting time of the bowlers in the following afternoon squads: Championship flight—W. C. Darnall, Post: ."J. Desper and Lester A. Worch. Heral Bubbles Cahoon, Times: Gordon Scott, Post Alvin J. Gulll, ‘Times-Herald: Walter Han- cock and_Jesse B. . Her: George Bergling, Post, and Ed Lowery, Star. Consolatien fight—Ray Jergens. Star: Oli- ver J. Smith, Post;_Arthur C. Baur and R. u; b a4 Butler, Star; J. 'W. Morris, Times-Herald; Short Clip Is Much Like Putting Stroke MINGLH CHIPPING NO HIP @ PIVoT ) BY SOL METZGER. One putts and plays the short chip and run-up golf shots from a Solid pedestal secured by placing both feet firm on the ground, usually with the bulk of the weight on the left. These short chips and run-ups are played as the putt. When elevation is desired a lofted iron is used for them instead of the straight-faced putter. But the stroke is the same. Beyond the distance of the chip or run-up shots, or the short pitch over a rd to the green, the golfer encounters the pivot shot Sarazen is here sketched at the top of a mashie pitch or approach, Minsch at the back limit of his swing for a short chip. Note that Minsch's feet are firm on the turf, and that he has not turned his body. Sarazen has. The reason for this pivot of Sara- sen’s is that he has to gain distance. To do so he must get his weight into the stroke. 12300 . G. Hawkins, J. D. i Sl R i Sixteen of the consolation flight did their second round bowling last night. Joe Bush of the United States Daily with a five-game total of 527 led the squad. The lowest total, 426, was re- turned by 8. L. Lynch of The Star. ‘The scores follow: Bush, U. 8. Daily Ralston, ¥el. Fo! Fel._Foi n, US. H. P. Tl 132 110 90 98527 1103 92 122 108—526 9 118818 1 88—5) 104 107496 5 100 100—494 Rinaldi and Temple Italians will re- sume battling tonight at 8 o'clock on the Convention Hall drives. The Rinal- dis will enter the concluding five-game block of the 10-game home-and-home match with a 35-pin lead gained last Friday on the Temple alleys. With 80 entries, substantial prizes will | be awarded to the five high bowlers in { the Bill Wood sweepstakes that will end { March 16. To the winner will go $150. | Second money will amount to $100, | {third to $75, fourth to $50 and fifth Ito $25. | o { DULLER TO QUIT RIDING. | LONDON, March 5 (#).—Sporting | | Life announces that the famous Eng- { lish steeplechase jockey, George Duller, | { will quit the saddle at the end of this | season to become private trainer for ( Victor Emanuel in the United States. SULLIVAN VS. CHASTAIN. CHICAGO, March 5 (#).—Ny Sulli- van, St. Paul welterweight, has been | matched with Clyde Chastain of Les Angeles for the 10-round semi-windup of the Tom Heeney-Otto Von Porat { show at_the Colise h [FiiAwKins NASH Still “conveniently lo- cated on 14th street” and the same set slogan of @ “Satisfaction Plus” from smiling sales and serv- 1529 14th St. ABOUT A KID LKE BUZ2Y- HE wnsw wi Courp TALWK- Buz FOR FIVE YeaRrs- A GREAT LITTLE LAD LET'S Go overR AUD PLAY WiTH Him - YeP! HE_SEES, xt] WE'LL ALL HAVE A UTTLE CuaT ToGETHER, - DOWN THE LINE McGEEHAN. Ballyhoo. HE Battle of What of It at Miami Beach did not, by any stretch of the remotely resembling a contender for the heavyweight championship. As the referee, with refreshing frankness, Sharkey (Josef Paul Cukoschay) was bad and young William Stribling was worse.” He might have added that the Pinanciers of the caulifiower inddstry insist that the thing was a mild certainly was for Mr. Joseph Paul Cukoschay, who was paid $100,000, or one hundred grand, as the boys say, for doing about as much boxing as the average fighter used to do in one of his Neither did Young Mr. Stribling do badly. A pleasant time seemed to be had by all concerned in the arrange- demonstration of the power of the ballyhoo. It seemed to indicate that always there would be customers and take more punishment than any of one of these things every year for a period of five years in the vicinity of Miami, but that is hardly probable. The late Tex Rickard, who knew his customers, said that you can do this to a city only once. Philadelphia took its punishment, then Chicago, then New York and finally Miami. It probably will be a long time before the Miamians will be cultivating caulifiowers along with the palm trees. The next one of the so-called big fights probably will be held in the To mean anything, the ballyhoo will have to read that the heavyweight championship. In that same Josef Paul Cukoschay, winner of Uzcudun, the Rabbit of the Pryenees. There was a Senegambian in the palm trees at Miami Beach while the Battle of What of It was proceeding, the same being George Godfrey, known as the Black Shadow of Leiperville. George will be around challenging constantly, but it seems hardly probable that George will be noticed. They have not as yet invited him to any of these eliminations. ‘pursued by a pack of hungry managers, and it looks as though it might be some time before he returns. This, naturally, Again, the promoters want to spread out the elimination as far as possible because it is obvious that if they were rushed to a quick conclusion the caulifiower crop would run out. The market would be glutted and the gate receipts would dwindle. That would be bad business, and the financlers of the caulifiower industry are far from being bad business men. At the current writing it looks as though the custodians of the Muldoon- Tunney trophy, which is to go to the next heavyweight champion, need be in no hurry to get that work of art completed. The boys are in no hurry to rush bout like the Battle of What of It can draw something better than $400,000. It was not, of course, a million-dollar gate; but still it was what the boys would call “serious money.” SANDLOT BASE BALL CLUBS NOW ACTIVE ‘With the official opening of Spring, March 21, just a little more than two weeks away, sandlot base ballers are showing increasing activity. Industrial League will hold its first meeting tomorrow night at the new French’s sport store, 721 Fourteenth street, at 7:30 o'clock. Officers will be elected and other business transacted. Loefflers, Holmes Bakery, Washington Gas Light Co., Judd & Detweiler and ‘Western Electric teams, which made up the loop last season, are expected to enter teams again. Capitol A. C. diamonders will gather tomorrow night at 8:30 o'clock ,at 270 Fifteenth street southeast. All candi- dnrt:sflmw and old, are expected to re- port. John Cumberland has been elected president of the Addison A. C. nine, with James Hance, secretary and treasurer. R. L. Ingram has been named manager and Charles Groody has been re-elected captain. A special meeting will be held tonight at 220 O street at 8 o'clock and a benefit supper will be held tomorrow night at t‘;\e home of Percy Finescey, in Addison, a. Miller Furniture Co. base ballers will gather tonight at 8 o'clock at the home of David Hardester, 3411 Fifth street southeast. The team will compete this year in the senior class. To organize for the campaign, Ta- koma Tigers, who showed strongly in diamond ranks hereabout last season, will meet Wednesday, March 13, at the home of the manager, 6903 Fifth street. GEORGETTI-DEBAETS BIKE TEAM LEADING By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, March 5.—The Geor- getti-Debaets team clung to the lead in the six-day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden today after a night of wild riding, marked by numerous jams. This veteran combination had ped- aled 601 miles and 9 laps. Letourner and Brocardo were one lap to the rear. Three teams—Belloni-Beckman, Cug- not-Blanchonet and Walthour-Deulberg were tled for third place with 601 LANDIS TO START TOUR OF CAMPS NEXT WEEK CHICAGO, March 5 (#).—Base Ball Commissioner K. M. Landis opens his Spring training camp tour next week. Camps of the teams conditioning In Texas, Louisiana and Arizona are the first on his itinerary. The commissioner had originally planned to visit all of the camps, but he has since scratched the Pittsburgh and &hicago Cubs. off his program. th ed Eekliticlomn A Come in and get & free copy of the “Ars of Dressing Well.” ice men. N.W. Decatur 3320 miles and 7 laps. The rest of the fleld was scattered. 2 TEN TEAMS TO COMPETE IN 200-MILE DOG DERBY THE PAS, Manitoba, March 5 (#).— ‘Ten teams were marshaled by the coun- try’s noted mushers, including Emile St. Goddard, fer the start of the. Pas 200- mile dog derby today. B Among those driving against God- dard, who has won the derby four Ken-. will be Leonhard Sappala, Alas- an, who defeated him this year at the New England championship and the « international derby. HOW WILL YOUR SUITLOOK IN THE EASTER THRONG? Will your appearance set you definitely apart from the crowd? Will your clothes show unmis- takably they were tailored to your individual measure? They should +..when Edward cuts out middle- men’stollsand offers these prices— $2875 ana $387 Be measured today . .. only 26 days left The Edward Tailoring Co., Inc. 719 Fourteenth St., N. W, ‘Washington Made for You” 0’Rourke Likely to Move to Middle Sack, Brannon to Bench This Year. BY BRIAN BELL. Associated Press Sports Writer. EST PALM BEACH, Fla, March 5-—Manager Dan Howley of the St. Louis Browns believes that what has been done in base ball can be done again. Last season he tossed two untried youngsters Mto the very heart of his infield and they made good, one brilliantly. Now he is seri- ously considering repeating the experi- ment with stlil another lad who has never heard the roar of big league guns at close range. If he decides to gamble again with willing but inexperienced talent one of the young stars of 1928 will have to retire to the bench for a time. Eddie Grimes is the boy who may be given the acid. test on his first trial. He is a third baseman and batted .334 for Tulsa in the Western League last year. If he gets the assignment for the Browns, Frank O'Rourke, one of base ball's energetic performers, will move over to the second base, temporarily forcing Otis Brannon to the bench. Grimes has shown that he can field. If he can hit he is in. 5 The infield will be completed by Lu Blue at first base and Ralph Kress at shortstop. Kress was good last season and will be better this year, says How- ley. Kress and his colleague, Brannon, after getting away to great starts, lost some of the ground, but were still going strong when the last curtain fell. . ‘The Browns, who finished third in the last campaign, to the surprise of the base ball world, are confident that they can do better, even in the face of the strong American League opposition they. face. They base their optimistic pre- dictions on increased reserve strength, likely additions to the pitching staff and a never-say-die spirit. Outfield Material Good. At this time last year the Browns had only two outfielders, for Harry Manush, who was later to fall only one point shy of the league batting leadership, was in- jured. Now Manush, Schulte and Mc- Neely are all ready with Prank Mc- Gowan, who finished in sensational style with the club, threatening to make a regular place for himsel.. Morris Bad- gro, former University of Southern California star, up from Tulsa, probably will get his major league experience at first hand. Another Tulsa recruii, Leon- ard Dondero, has a chance to qualify as an infield substitute. ‘Wally Schang, still a great catcher in spite of the approach of the base ball goblin “fat and forty” and Clyde Man- fon, who hit a home-run as a pinch hitter, although his batting average was insignificant, will tutor young Dick Fer- rell as the freshman member of the catching staff. Ferrell, who does not look the 170 pounds with which he is credited, has much to learn, but is willing. The outstanding pitching recruit is Warren “Rip” Collins, a 32-year old veteran with numerous major league service stripes. The big Texan, who had a great year in the International League last season, seems certain to succeed in | his comeback effort. Likes Young Pitchers. Manager Howley expects two of his youngsters, who did Mttle active pitch- ing last year, to be ready to take their turns in 1929. Dick Coffman and Ed Strelecki worked less than a dozen games between them in 1928, but every indication points to more activity to come, ‘Strelecki did not win a game but he lost only two. Alvin Crowder and Sam Gray, who won 41 games between them in the Browns’ wild dash to third place, may not do so well in the new season, but Manager Howley hopes he will not have to look to his two aces for averages of .808 and .625 respectively. Walter Stewart, a promising left- hander for two years with the Browns, was sick & part of the last season and has never reached the heights his boosters claim await him. He has put on much needed weight and may justi- fy the expectations of his friends at any time. The only other left hander in the Browns' camp is Oscar Estrada of Havana, who pitched for Shreveport. The Browns cannot be classed as a great team, but few aggregations can out-hustle them and they might be right in their claim that a team that will not be beaten can't be beaten. In Manager Howley and his two coaches, Bill Killifer and Jimmy Austin, the club has a trio of great coaxers to ex- tra effort. FDWARD CLOTHES PHILADELPHIA . .. NEW YORK . .. WASHINGTON . . ATLANTIC.CITY NORFOLK . . . NEWARK, N.J. . . . WMINGTON, DEL. . . . READING, PA. The German Menace. FTER a lapse of several cen- turies, or possibly longer, the German heavyweight menace is getting more pronounced than ever. There has never been a Ger- man heavyweight near the champion- ship division and now, almost overnight, as time skids, there seems to be no less | than a pair of Teutons. One is Max Schmeling, the most sensational of all new heavyweights. The other is Schaaf, the 20-year-old entry from the East, who has been coming on like an express train lately Eddie Mack, the Boston promoter, who knows his part of the leather game, figures Schaaf the most dangerous young heavyweight now around. “He can hit,” says Mack. “He is strong and aggressive, he can take it, and he is a rough, ripping type, who will make & lot of trouble in less than a year. For example, he had a Con O'Kelly out in a punch, groggy and barely able to stand up, but in trying to hurry the knockout he hit low. “In my opinion, Schaaf will be a great fighter in less than two years. By the time he is 22 he will be the toughest of them ail. He weighs 190 pounds now, and he will be fast at 200. There are only one or two now who can handle Ernie, and they are no sure shots against him.” With Schmeling already arrived and Schaaf near the top, only about a year: away, the German section seems to be the strongest of the lot in the heavier division. It is not an impossibility that two Germans will be scrambling for the last jump in the next year or so, and this might mean a big pugilistic party for Berlin. Schaaf was a promising youngster over a year ago. He has been coming along in the right way, without being hurried, and at 20 he has plenty of time ahead to get all set for the big shot. And when the time comes, | Eddie Mack isn't the only fight expert who thinks he won't miss. Flying Time. FEW days ago & gray-haired, A slightly bald ball player dropped into the room. He still looked to be in fine condition, but time had col- lected its evidence around the knob. As he came in I recalled my first sight of the same athlete. He came to Nash- ville, in the old Southern League, as & Little Rock outfielder. It took no part of an expert to see in 15 minutes that a new star had arrived. He looked like a hitter and he acted like one at bat, with three hits that afternoon. He circled-all over the outfield lot, where he made the hardest sort of chances look simple and easy. He seemed to be waiting for the ball, wherever it fell. ‘The name is Tris Speaker. That first sight of the Texan goes back 22 years and at the moment he was on his way to handle a minor Ieazue. Speaker was mot only a great out- fielder and a great hitter, but as playing-manager he carried Cleve- land into a world serics champion- ship. Speaker was fo outfield play what Larry Lajoie was to infield art. Both were artists. Every move they made was effortless, smooth, free and as light as a flying bird. Speaker always had a rare knack of judging the next fly, frequently shifting 40 or 50 yards to handle a certain type of hitter. And he was rarely wrong in his diagnosis. 1 never saw a minor league ball player look as sure of big greatness as Speaker looked in that first game. Not even Cobb, who lacked Speaker's easy grace, Not even Shoeless Joe Jackson, who was another you couldn't miss. Many are called in their early years, but most of them are frozen. Once in a rare, long ‘while, a Speaker, Cobb, Jackson or Sisler pops out in some minor league engagement, and even & blind man can see a real ball player in action—one who can’t miss the nar- row trail to the top of the big hill. F attractive personalities than Tris Speaker. Few have made more friends. He has been one of those 1o one could help liking. Of the ‘old- timers now taking their stand again as leaders in the minor league game he will hav2 as many pulling for his success as any ball player known. It would be a great thing to see another Lajoie or another Speaker come along. They had something that even Cobb and Ruth couldn't furnish—a touch of high art in action, a certain grace that no one else has ever equalea in the modern game of 1890 on. “BATTLE OF SHELBY” REVIVED IN LAW SUIT By the Associated Press. GREAT FALLS, Mont., March 5.— Echoes of the Dempsey-Gibbons heavy- weight boxing match still resound in Montana, although it is five years since the “battle of Shelby.” The United States District Court here has been called upon fo decide whether George H. Stanton, then president of the Stanton Trust & Savings Bank of Great Falls, personally was interested in financing the bout. James A. Johnson, Montana oil man. chief financial backer, said Stan' /1 agreed to assume responsibility for half of a $40,000 loan made by the bank. The bank sued Johnson. Stanton de- nies any interest. EW men in base ball have had more PROCTOR SCORES K. 0. IN FIGHT IN PHILLY PHILADELPHIA, March 5.—After outclassing his opponent in the first two rounds, Joe Proctor, W: n, D. C.. light-heavyweight, knocked out Jack Carroll of New York last n’ght in the third round of. a scheduled bout of. sis in a card here. WALKER POSTS COIN . FOR LOUGHRAN BOUT By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, March 5.—Jack Kearns, manager of Mickey Walker, has signed a contract to assure the appearance of the world middleweight champion against Tommy Loughran, light heavy- weight title holder, for a 10-round con- test opening the new Chicago Stadium March 28. Kearns turned over to Paddy Har- mon, president of the stadium cor- poration, a check for $10,000 as a for- feit for Walker’s appearance. When the forfeit and contracts are handed to the Tllinois State Athletic Commission to- morrow, Paul Prehn, chairman of the commission, said, a permit would be is- sued for the match. Kearns then left for New York to get Walker down to training at his home in Rumson, N. J. They plan to return to Chicago 10 days before the battle. BILL TO PERMIT BOXING IN D. C. NOT ACTED UPON Because it was not brought up at yesterday's session “of the House the Watson-Updike bill which would have legalized the charging of admission and awarding of nominal prizes in con- nection with amateur boxing bouts here is dead at least until another session of Congress. It is hoped by its sponsors, however, that it will be passed at the next regu- lar session of Congress in December. Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. g NEW YORK.—George Courtney, Okla- homa, knocked out Nando TIIEB"‘ Italy (4). Sylvio Mireault, Montreal, out- pointed Joey Abrams, New York (6). Walter Peters, Germany, and Ted Moses, New York, drew (6). PHILADELPHIA.—Matt Adgie, Phila- delphia, outpointed Con O’Kelly, Ire- land (10). Midget Kilburn, Philadel- phia, and Tiger Taylor, Macon, Ga., drew (6). Joe Proctor, Washi stopped Jack Carroll, New York (3). BUFFALO, N. Y.—Jimmy Slattery, Buffalo, outpointed Le Darcy, Michigan (8). 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