Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1929, Page 50

SPORTS.’ BOB REEVES LOOMS IAS REGULAR AT 30/ "Gillis Bidding With Gerber “for Job at Shortstop. Pitchers Plentiful. BY BRIAN BELL. Associated Press Sports Writer. RADENTON, Fla, March 14— The Boston Red Sox, last .in the American League, but try- ing to do better, have blasted one base ball superstition—that the rich become richer and the poor get poorer. The Red Sox have more players in camp than any club in Florida. Manager Bill Carrigan during the course of two daily workouts looks at more than two score earnest, perspir- ing athletes in Boston uniforms. If half of them are major league players the manager will be very happy. ‘The red legs are well in the first division in siz More than half the members of the big squad will measure 5 feet, 11 inches or more. Billy Bayne, who has been a wanderer upon the face of the base ball carth, looks like the batboy in this company of giants, although he is 5 feet, 9 niches and scales 160 pounds. Most Players Are Strangers. What the new edition of the Red Sox will be bale to achieve in a base ball ‘Way, remains to be seen, but the fact that most of the players are strangers in Boston may be helpful. They have not become steeped in losing ways. President Bob Quinn or Manager Carrigan, or both, must have aroused 8 touch of jealously in the ranks of the horse trading fraternity when they sent Buddy Myer to play third base for Washington and took five players in exchange. Bob Reeves, one of the quintet, seems certain to become regular third base- man for the Sox. Grant Gillis, a shortstop, while he may not be able to displace the veteran Wally Gerber The Battle of Mississippi City. EFORE the recent Sharkey-Strib- ling encirclement at Miami Beach these dispatches carried brief memorandum, entitled “From Richburg to Miaml Beach.” This brought from Dr. De Garmo Gray of the Southern Florida Boat Racing Association one of the most in- teresting pugilistic documents yet re- ceived in this corner, since it comes from an eyewitness of one of John L. The letter follows: Dear Mr. Rice: iiberty of suggesting that your title is not correct for the first big prizefight held in the South. It should read from “Mississippi City to Miami Beach.” The first big heavyweight prizefight was held there between John L. Sulil- van, almost unknown, and Paddy Ryan, the Trojan, the unbeatable citizen of Troy, N. Y. The only fight of any consequence that John L. Sullivan had previous to this was with a Mr. Flood on a barge on the Hudson River. After which he was taken West by Parson Davies, the greatest promoter of his di He matched him with Paddy for a fight in the South. It was then a penitentiary offense to hold fights in many States. He promoted this fight with the co- operation of the following big gamblers of New Orleans: Charlie Bush, Bud Reno, Dick Richards, Pat Duffy, with Dick Roach of New York and a young millionaire lumberman, Charlie Rich, who owned the hotel at the resort at Mississippi City, Miss. The fight was held on the lawn of this hotel, within a few hundred yards of the Gulf Stream, on as hot & day as Mississipp/ could produce. New Orleans was filled with the sport- ing fraternity of America. Also many undesirable citizens from ail over the country were there. So the managers sent out a phoney train, with many of these people aboard, up to the interior of Louis| . Another train was or- ganized with theatrical celebrities, such at Nat Goodwin, William Crane, Stew- art Robson, Ed Rice and many others, with & number of the most famous altogether, probably will share the as- gflunem th the former Brown and ott Bigelow, who can hit, has only to demonstrate an nhultytto throw to in the transaction, aston and Horace Lisenbee, have not had sufficient opportunity to qualify, but both have :fiol‘n indica- tions of returning to form, which was lost last scason. Boys Get Plenty of Work, Bill Carrigan is giving every candi- date plenty of chances to work. He brings half the squad out in the morn- gamblers, newspaper men and sports- men of every description. Hundreds of citizens, male and fe- male, from Troy and Albany, N. Y., ‘were there and willing to bet every dol- lar they had, including their Troy Laundry shirts. They took every bet in sight, at any odds they could get, and tiey would spit in your eye or start & fight if you dared to insinuate that there was & man on earth that could whip Paddy Ryan. Red Kelly, another Trojan, was the 1300 class by a hair, are back from the ing and the ohter half in the after- noon and sends them through extended fielding and hitting practice. There is s fight for every tion with no elec- tion indicated until all the rel are At first base Phil Todt, an able per- former, again will serve, but Jerry Standaert, from Memphis, has shown something. Bill should have an advantage at second, but another Bill, | ing Nar] irom Mobile, has done well. A pair of Bobs, Reeves and Barvett, an- other former major T, nhmlla and in addition to and Gillis short, Hal Rhyne, who seems a much better player than when he was with Pittsburgh, is showing as much am- bition as any man in camp. With 11 outfielders roaming all over the place for fiy balls and grabbing & bat as soon as ope is dropped by & hitter, the problem of getting five or six rmanent_fixtures promises to be vex- . Ira Flagstead, safe from attack, Jack Rothrock, former infielder and one of the fastest men in the league, Ken ‘Williams, , 8 .300 hitter in any company, S Dovgies Talth who missed the select ~ i : i | PISTRIBUTED BY GEORGE W. COCHRAN & CO, INC,, 912 14th ST. N. ’ Iy e e 1928 team. Bigelow, who hit nearly 400 in the Southern Association; Rus- sell Scarritt, St. Paul graduate; Otto Dumas and George Loepz, tried last and farmed to Pittsfleld, have been impressive at times. Berry Leading Catcher. Charlie Berry, who did well in 1928, leads the rae for the first string catch- assignment, but Alex Gaston, former Giant snd once with these same Sox has shown great spirit in the training and may remain to make up a ther battery with Milton doing the pitching. A nnu:tlonAl g;ospect II'RA)D- ert Asbjornson, not yet 20 years of age, but displaying a convincing ability to hit. Before it is over Manager Carrigan may be drawing names of pitchers out of his cap. In addition to Gaston, nd Bayne, big Ed Morris, g:n pitcher last year; Dan Macfayden, bespectacied youth Charlies Ruffing, Jack Russell and Pat Simmons, were ex- empted from the house cleaning at the close of 1928 season. There are as many bidding for places. I fa s I read with interest | your axticle, and I am going to take the | THE EVENING STAR" WASHINGTON, D. €, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1929.° THE SPORTLIGHT BY GRANTLAND RICE. trainer of Ryan. Billy Madden was the trainer of John L. Sullivan. More About It. HE second train arrived at Missis- T sippi City about 8 a.m., when the guests of the resort hotel had net finished breakfast. But when the train pulled in with this extraordinary crowd they made a rush for the lawn, to wit- ness the erection” of the stakes for a section or two of “circus blues,” which were soon filled. Our mutual friend, Sullivan’s most memorable encounters.+-Otto Floto, who was a messenger boy, like myself, made a forage into the hotel dining room, to help ourselves to two tables, and placed them on the edge of the ring, near Sullivan's corner, with the sun beaming down at a tem- perature of about 100 in the shade! Paddy Ryan entered the ring a tre- mendous favorite, with old Joe Goss and Tom Allen and Jim Mace of England with him. Billy Madden and Sullivan kept the ring waiting for 30 minutes, letting everybody stew in this Gulf Stream heat. Sullivan finally arrived and created a sensation with his cos- tume, a big check English hunting cap and a piebald bathrobe, the first ever seen at a prizefight in America. He received a small ovation. which was drowned out with the jeers and catcalls of Ryan’s admirers. Sullivan tossed his cap in the ring, climbed over the ropes and went to his corner. He dropped the bathrobe from his shoulders and pivoted around, stretching his arms into the air, showing the finest speeimen of physi- cal man ever seen before by any one. A groan went up from the crowd and Ryan turned whiter than the long-sleeved undershirt that he was wearing, and he was whipped before he left his seat. It was a bare knuckle fight and was over in nine rounds, 11 minutes and some sec- onds, with Sullivan the champion of America. A manager of a theater in Chicago by the name of William Emmett, who had money, took Sullivan away from Parson Davies and showed him for a short while through the country. But Sullivan tasted the fruits of his sucress and dropped the show business for a time and went under the management of Dick Roach, and afterward with Jimmie Wakely of New York and Pat Sheedy of Chicago. These are facts that can be verified by the few oldtimers who are left, in- cluding our mutual friend, Otto Floto, who, T am sorry to hear, is lying very ill in & sanatorium in Chicago. Having read with interest many ar- ticles written by yourself, I am taking the liberty of sending you this in- formation. DR. DE CARMO GRAY. 8.—The writer issued the first scorecard for time of rounds of any prize fight ever held in America. BEYMERS T0 START PRACTICE ON SUNDAY Beymer A. C. will start base ball practice Sunday morning at 10 o'clock on the club fleld. The team is mow booking games through Manager P. V. Donovan at 4451 Conduit road. Dono- van's telephone is Cleveland 6071, Hartford senior class dlamonders will gather tonight at 7:30 o'clock at 704 B street southwest. Games with unlimited class teams hereabout are sought by Indian Head Cardinals. Call Business Manager Sprague at Indian Head 101-K-3. Washington Gas Light Co. base ball candidates are to meet tonight at 7:30 o'clock at the company's office, 413 Tenth street. The nine will again com- ] | | pete in the Industrial League. \ I MAIN 1782 _ el More D. C. Rollers to Contest In Richmond Tourney Tonight ASHINGTON, Alexandria and Clarendon bowlers will show their wares tonight in the second annual tournament of the National Duckpin Bowl- ing Congress in pra on the Health Center drives at Richmond, Va. Call Carl, Inc, rollers of this city will take the alleys tonight. Capt. Ed Carl and J. W. Gress will compete in doubles and singles, and the team will hook up in a five-man match later in the evening. In addition to Carl and Gress, the Carl combination will in- clude Williams, Thurston and Langley. r Teresi also will make the trip. So far as District bowlers are con- cerned, there will be no action tomor- row night. Richmond and Pennsylvania duckpinners only will perform. Saturday, however, will find the Rich- mond drives thronged with Washing- tonians, bowlers from this city, men and women, being listed to have the alleys to themselves from 2:30 o'clock until late at night. Washington bowlers, appearing in the tournament last night for the first time, showed impressively. Turning a 1,653 set New Jerusalem team of the Masonic League achieved second place among the teams and S. H. Jacobs and william Smith of the same quint came through with a 657 set to gain the run- ner-up position in the doubles. Leaders | 8 in all the various elasses retained their places. Leco combination of Danbury, Conn., is heading the team with 1,687. Quinn and Sturdevant are in the van in the doubles with 68! Joe Bitunyac, big Australian from Pittsburgh still holds the singles lead at 411, In the women's rolling Mollie L. King of Richmond, with 263, is ahead in the singles and Haskins team No. 1, also of the Virginia capital, holds the team edge with 1,365. Here is how the District duckpinners did last night: | Schedule for next two nights: TONIGHT. Doubles, 6:30. E. Furr-E. Miller, Clarendon, Va. J. W. Gross-E. 0. Carl, Washington. Teams, 8. George H. Rucker, Realtors, Claren- don, Va. Health Center, Alexandria, Va. Lucas Auto Supply, Richmond. Athletic Center, Richmond. Call Carl Co., Washington. Rotary Club, Baltimore. TOMORROW NIGHT. Doubles and Singles, (All of Richmond.) H. F. England-W. L. Johnson. Houchens, jr. Brown-Ed § R. Holladay. r. Luther Crosby-J. L. Stansbury | o C. (Croshy_only). R. C. Harper-Bill Byrne, Singles, 7:30 Charles Decker, Loganville, Pa. Edward Heyn, Glen Rock, Pa. James H. Sledd, Richmond. C. E. Almond, Richmond. 8:30. C. H. Hamilton, Richmond. G. B. Caldwell, Richmond. STERRETT & FLEMING. 24, Henigsmith 93 tafiord . Kirksley Stunkel Long Total Litchfield Powell Wells .. Bowles Goldstei Totals. . C. Purdy. S Jacobs. Evans Jacol Smit Totals...... WASHINGTON DOUBLES TEAM. 2d. 3d 8. H. Jacobs 118 108 W. Smith.. 100 96 Johnson-H. W. Moist (Johnson | 28 201 6 WITH THE OMPETITION District Bankers' Duckpin tour- nament has been ecompleted with the following results: C Singles. Class A--Brooks. Riges National Bank, 366; Reeley, American Becurity, 349; Keene, Riggs National Bank, 345, BSouder, Ameri- can Security, 340. Clas Baltz. Perpetual, 350: Winstead. Metropolitan, 347, Lochte. District, 330 Palmer, Washington Loan, Class C—Burton, District, 336; ford. American _Security, ~333; tman_Dillon. 297. Hibbs, 339; Rosaly. Bank Ruther- Hammill, Class D—Reesh, of Washington, Moore, American Se- ty, 303. Sl Double: al Re- J Eastman Dillon, 664 Park, 640. 5 C —Rutherford-Rea, American Se- 616; Hammill-Ornsdorf, Eastman ‘Class D Moore-Perley, American Security, 621; Lewis-Cissel, American BSecurity, 691. All_Events. A—Souder, American Becurity, 1,020. ‘B—Pumphirey. Eastman_Dillon. '§58. C—Hammill, Eastman Dillon, 941. 4 Teams. A American Becurity, 1881; Per- 1.57 B -Eastman Dillon, 1.564; District, Class Class Class Class petual. Class 1.530. lass C—Northeast Savings, 1,446; Second National, 1,421 LUTHERAN LEAGUE. Team Standing. Reformation . St. Paul's High individual sets—Prediger (St. John's No. 1), 364: A. Crow (Reformation), 360. High' individual games—Steinmeyer (Ta- koma), 130; Prediger (St. John's No. 1), 128. High averages for the season—Barnard, 147 Zanner, . 109: Thornburg. r, 110: Heim. Miller, 107; Polkinhorn, 106. Hap Burtner’s Convention Hall duck- pinners todgy are heading the District Bowling League race by two full games, in the annual|and have virtually clinched the cham- SPORT BOWLERS plonship for the third straight season. Burtner's crew gained the league lead last night when it drubbed the King| Pin team three games on the latter’s| home drives. Convention Hall has a| total pinfall advantgge of more than| 700 over King Pin. Until last night's| match the King Pin team held a one- game edge in the race. After rallying to take the first en-| gagement Convention Hall won the last two encounters handily. Jack Wolstenholme, Convention Hall, with 379, was high scorer of the match, | with Capt. Burtner, with 374, second in | this respect. N.D. B. C LEADERSI ‘"5|ll‘|El—JOG Bitunyac, Pittsburgh, Doubles—Quinn Sturdevant, Danbury, Conn., 68! William Smith, Washingto Men’s teams—Leco, Danbury, Conn., 1,687; New Jerusalem, 1,653. Ladies’ singles—Mollie L. King, Richmond, 263. Woman's team—Haskins team No. 1, Richmond, 1,365. BT 5 NEARLY 40 ON SQUAD AT HYATTSVILLE HIGH HYATTSVILLE, Md, March 14.—A squad of nearly 40 has turned out for base ball at Hyattsville High. More than a dozen are trying for pitching jobs and half a dozen would be catchers. There are about 15 infleld asprints and the remainder seek outfield berths. The Quail-Hiser combination holds a slight lead in the Prince Georges County Men's Doubles League race. Team Standine. Quail-Hiser Waldrop-Hiser Bassford-Venezk: Snowden-Bowi Trott-Belt ....... P. Wolfe-H. Woife Bresnahan-O'Nezl Deputy-Lanhardt Reid-Garrison Gude-Crandell S. BABE, COAST YACHT, WINS TITLE EVENT By the Associated Press. SAN PEDRO, Calif., March 14 —Owen P. Churchill's Babe, flying the Burgee of the California Yacht Club, captured National eight meter sailing champion~ ship and the King of Spain yesterday. The craft, skipped by Conant, battled a heavy sea to win the final race of a 5-day series which gave her the honors. The Babe sailed to an easy victory over the Marin of the Seawanhaka- Corinthian Club of Marblehead, Mass., with the veteran Ralph Ellis of New York, at the stick. The victory was the third for the Babe in the series. ‘The Marin won the other two races. Conant sent the Babe over the 10%3- mile course in the fast time of 3 hours, 36_minutes and 22 seconds. National honors in the R class were taken by the Alert IV, umnT‘ under the colors of the Corinthian Yacht Club, of Marblehead, Mass. The Alert IV finished second yesterday, but had stored up sufficient points in the four previous Taces to win the title. O. H. Hunsaker'’s Trim Pirate wen the fifth race in 2 hours, 36 minutes and 17 seconds, but was relegated to third place in the point standings. The Heather, of the Los Angles Yacht Club, | annexed second place. GLASS HIGH BALL TEAM SCHEDULES 9 CONTESTS LYNCHBURG, Va., March 14.— Though 49 are striving for berths on the Glass High base ball team, the squad includes only four letter winners. The candidates are practicing at the city stadium, where the team will play its home-games. Coach Funk has announced this nine- game schedule: April_6—Randolph-Macon. April 10_Hargrave Military Academy. April 13—Virginia Episcopal April 17—Virginia, Episcop 'y Academy, away. way. 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