Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1929, Page 53

e e e DL "SPORTS. THE EVENING ST R, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, MARCH 22. 1929. SPORT St Griff Looks for Tight Pennant Race, With Nationals a Factor From the Start EXPECTS JOHNSON - TOBEFIPLOT " Looks for Toughest Opposi- tion From Yankees, Macks and Browns. BY WALTER TRUMBULL. AMPA, Fla., March 22.—“I have an improved ball club and a 5 good manager,” said Clark Grif- $ fith. Griffith went on at length to give his views regarding the ability of Johnson as a_manager and the pros- pects of the Washington club in this year's race for the American League pennant. “Some persons think that Walter Johnson is too amiable to make & man- ager,” he began. “But they are all wrong. Walter doesn't bluster, as some < of them do, but that doesn’t mean that he doesn't know his own mind. He is > quiet, but he also is firm. The men « know that when Johnson says some- * thing he means it. “I might have made Johnson man- i ager some time ago, but I didn't think 1t would be fair either to him or the i club. He was carrying plenty of load as it was. I do not believe that a great star ever should be a manager during his playing days. It doesn't work out. It usually is much better to take a less talented player and train him as a leader. Playing Managers Fading. “Moreover, the day of the playing manager in the big leagues is about over. A manager has to stand for a lot of criticism. Every time the bat boy ° makes a mistake the manager is blamed. There is no use giving the mob a chance + to blame him for physical as well as T mental errors. And he gets a better view of the game as a whole from the = bench. “One thing I wish to make clear is - that Walter Johnson is manager of the ‘Washington club,” Griffith went on. “He alone will direct the players and the style of play. He will be responsi- ble for results. I shall never intérfere. I never have interfered with any man- ager of mine. I always am ready to give any assistance I can, but only if they ask it. I don't even sit near the + bench. I always watch games from o the left field stand. “When it‘comes to trading, selling or ‘buying players, I feel that I have a i right to be consulted, because such « transactions involve property rights, but my manager runs the team. “There is no doubt in my mind that my club is stronger this season, both in infielding and pitching. I was per- fectly aware of the price I was paying for Myer. It was a high price, but I was willing to gamble because I needed one man worse than I did five. The trade permitted an arrangement which made the club more formidable and gave it an added punch. Hardest Hitting Club. “I have the hardest hitting club in the American League. Given equal glumrng, my team will outhit New ‘ork's. Fans around the circuit don't give enough credit to the Yankee pitchers. But Washington doesn’t fear the Yanks. We have three or four &tchzrs who are pretty effective against em. “As I told you,” continued the owner of the Senators, “my team is stronger. Myer is a fine ball player and his play- ing at third leaves Bluege free to go to short. Bluege is the best shortstop the Washington club has had since Peckinpaugh. Hayes is a great fielding - second baseman and a good hitter. Joe Judge should be even better at first than he has been. “One big_disappointment has been the loss of Boss. When I bought him he was just out of college, fast as a streak and he could hit. If anything happened to Judge, I had a great youngster to put on first. Then Boss had the flu and he never has got over it. I don’t know whether he will ever play ball again. As a result it has been necessary to take Gooch, a third base- man, and drill him as a replacement for first base. Among other. infielders, we have Stewart from Birmingham and PTVPRERTN ETHOLIN THE WONDER_MOTOR FUEL EX-STAR OF GRIFFS This honest Irish face belongs to receiver of the Nationals. BACK TO STAY e B s ————— Ed Gharri prior to 1923 first-string After a 5-year absence he is back with the squad and if his throwing arm proves sound he will do some backstopping this season. In any event he will be around, for Pat, as he is best known, and Zeb Milan are Manager Walter Johnson's chief counselors on the Washington board of strategy. young Cronin. There are half a dozen former Birmingham players on the squad. Terms Ouifield “Great.” “For the outfield Johnson will have Goslin, Rice, West and Barnes, who, like Hayes, came from the University of Alabama. Barnes was captain of a famous Alabama foot ball team. Thcre is a gerat outfield. The catchers will be Ruel, Tate, Spencer or Bool. “Jones, Marberry, Braxton and Had- ley are fine pitchers and they will have Burke, Brown, Campbell and Liska to help them out. I am not worried about our pitching staff. We have no Walter Johnson in his prime—I wish we had— but we have some splendid pitchers. “I think that this is going to be a tight race,” Griffith said in conclusion. “I also think that Washington is going to be in from the start. The Yankees, the Athletics and the St. Louis Browns look strong again, although Dan How- ley's pitchers may not go as well as they went last year. “Many of the teams have shifted their line-ups. Much will depend upon how seme of the youngsters stand the strain of the race and, as always, upon the breaks of the game. But Washing- ton is a good team and it should do well.” (Copyright, 1929, by N. A. N. A) SOCCER MATCH SUNDAY. English and German soccer elevens will meet at Silver Spring, Md.,, Sun- day, and Scotchmen and Americans will battle the following Sunday in the all-nations tournament, it was decided at a meeting last night of the Wash- ington and Southeastern Soccer Asso- ciation. ‘WOMAN PINSPILLERS MEET. To discuss plans for final activities of the season Washington Women's Duckpin Association will meet tomor- row night at 7:30 at the Arcadia. All the various leagues are asked to be represented. HARRIMANS BEATEN BY WOLTZ, 33 T0 19 Led by Joe Sweeney, who scored 15 points, Woltz Photographers triumphed over Harriman & Co, 33 to 19, and won the Washington City Basket Ball League title last night at the Y. M. C. A. The teams had been tied for the league lead. Forney was high scorer for the losers. Montrose A. C. quint took the meas- ure of Stewart Bros., 26 to 21, last night in Central High gym. Herbie Thompson and Baer were aces of the winners’ attack. Wallace Memorial 130-pound basket- ;;s'i:'ant a game for tonight, Call Adams Manager Ted Otte of Kennedy Red Stars has announced that his team will be unable to play in the Silver Spring Armory Sunday at 1:30 and against the Kanawhas Monday night in Central High gym. ONE EASTERN TEAM LEFT IN CAGE EVENT By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, March 22.—The East's last bid for ‘honors in the National Catholic High School basket ball tour- nament was made today in one of the two remaining first-round games. The St. Michael quintet from Union City, N. J., was paired with Marquette University High of Milwaukee for the first game of the day. The three other Eastern entries fell by the wayside yes- terday. In the other first-rouné game, St. Am- brose, Davenport, Towa, was paired with Baraga High, Marquette, Mich. HiILLS seem to flat- ten out before the mighty onrushof a Betholine-fueled motor. The ftamous benzol blend makes your engine pick up and knocks out the knock. And it costs less per mile! Try a tankful today. E COACH SIMONDINGER IS BACK AT GONZAGA Ken Simondinger, Gonzaga althletic coach, has just resumed his duties after a lay-off of several months because of an attack of pneumonia. He has taken charge of the base ball squad. Orrel Mitchell has been doing most of the coaching at Gonzaga during Simonding- | er's absence. Mitchell may be retained as Simondinger’s assistant. Emerson’s crack basket ball team won its opening match in the Eastern States tournament at Glen Falls, N. Y. yvesterday, vanquishing the Glen Falls Academy in the private school division, 33 to 16. It was a keen battle all the way, with Emerson scoring heavily in the late going to win. Emer- son was in front, 15 to 11, at the half. Alton Buscher and Nelson Colley with 13 and 9 points, respectively were high scorers for Emerson. The score: Emerson. Totals. .. TIE FOR ALEXANDRIA TITLE HOFFMANS’ AIM ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 22.—Their | rush toward the city title halted by the St. Mary's Celtics after amassing three consccutive triumphs, the Hoffman Clothiers will give battle to the Old | Dominion Boat Club tonight at 8:30 o'clock in Armory Hall in an Alexan- dria Basket Ball League contest. The Clothiers will be assured of at | least a tie in the final standings if they cop the verdict tonight, while victory tonight and another over the Celtics in the final game will give the Hoffmans the banner. Catholic University of Washington has been scheduled by the St. Mary’s Celtic base ball team for a game in the Catholic University Stadium at Brockland April 3. The Celtics take Dartmouth’s place on the collegians’ schedule, the North- ern institution canceling its Southern trip. and, incidentally, the game with C. U. The Celtics’ practice game with Washington-Lee High School at Balls- ton, Va., this afternoon was called off because of the Generals’ diamond not being ready for play. A. W. Grimm, former No. 5 Engine Company diamond star, will perform with the Alexandria Police Department E‘TE this season. Grimm plays the out- eld. . ‘Troop 146, Boy Scouts, of Del Ray, defeated Troop 144, 8 to 0, yesterday afternoon, Fenwick Gardner turning in a no-hit, no-run contest. The winners are seeking more games. Phone Robert McCauley at Alexandria 1964-W. St. Xaverian Brothers’ School and the Bulldogs will play tomorrow morn- ing at 10:30 o'clock on the South Royal street diamond. ‘The All-American A. C. and the Wal- lace Memorial five of Washington will meet on the M. E. Church basket ball court Monday night at 8 o'clock. BIKEMEN IN TRIPLE TIE. CHICAGO, March 22 (#).—A night of jams and spills had turned the six-day bike race leadership into a three-way affair today. the American team, were the actual leaders, because of their point advan- tage, but they were tied in laps covered by the French “Red Devils,” Letourner and Brocardo, and Grimm and Lands, the New Jersey pair. THE HecaTt Co. Kroydon Matched Woods a ¥25% to *108 If the truth be known the big difference between good players and erratic players is the matter of clubs. Cor ers know the value of anced . . . with the same feel and harmony in each club. Kroydon been the answer to many a golfer's prayer. They improve one’s game . . . cut down the number of strokes . . . and keep the temper at normal, McNamara and Horan, | Dartmouth has severed foot ball relations with Brown University, in- sists that the breaking up of old foot ball rivalries is due to a desire on Navy game would fill the largest stadium in the United States at the same prices charged for one of those “battles of the century.” Harvard-Princeton games the part of colleges to gather gate receipts and ballyhoo. This might be never lacked for patronage, and the gate receipts were whatever they chose to WITH W. 0. McGEEHAN. College Commercialism. ! WRITER on the Browr Daily Herald, waxing bitter over the fact that in some instances, but not in all. For instance, a foot ball game between New York University and Columbia would pack either the Yankee Stadium cr the Polo Grounds. Another Army- make them. The indignant Brown writer says: “While I wasn't going about throwing around rumors that Dartmouth and Brown were about to break, the announce- ment did not take me wholly unawares. The present trend is to discard old grid- iron rivalries. Dartmouth, anxious to follow up its late success in getting into national newsprint, wants to be better known out West. The games with Cali- | fornta (which wili 'replace the Brown games in 1930 and 1931) will give Dart- | mouth all the newspaper attention it wants. “I cannot say, however, that T approve of this wholesale slashing off of old rivals that seems {0 be the rule at a good many colleges. Harvard be- gan it by dropping two such age-old rivals as Princeton and Brown, and now the Brown-Dartmouth game, one of the most famous of the big rivalries, is to be no more. | “It is nothing more, I believe, than another indication of the profession alism in collegiate sport, and it is more or less surprising to see the evidence com- ing from a college whose president created such a furor a few years ago with his bitter attack on overemphasis of foot ball. “Dartmouth wants intersectional games. It wants to create through the medium of its foot ball team and its games with California and other Coast teams the attention of Western students, particularly athletes and the loving eyes and the money of Western alumni. In other words, a Dartmouth-California | game means more financially than a game with Brown. “I do not wish to let this thesis be an attack on Dartmouth, however. The recent move is just an example of what many of the colleges are do- ing. Headed by Notrc Dame, they all are striving for intersectional games, together with the headlines and the money.” The writer may not have wished to have the above construed as an attack on Dartmouth, but one would be inclined to feel that it is not exactly in the nature of a compliment. In fact, it seems to be an accusation that Dartmouth is guilty of what the boys call “sordid commercialism.” | That is something else for the Carnegie Foundation to consider: Just how much the matter of gate receipts figures in the drafting of foot ball schedules. Foot ball is an expensive show, and in most colleges it supports all the other sports. And.the high cost of maintaining college sports seems to be rising every year. So it seems that there must be gate receipts or no college sports. ‘Unpopular. T SEEMS that Gene Tunney, the former heavyweight champlon, is very un- popular with burglars, which will not displease him greatly. 1 read: “For the sake ot European photographers we trust that Gene | Tunney never hears that robbers stole everything movable from the top floor of the Everlast sports goods store on the Bowery last night, with the exception of a large autographed photograph of the former heavyweight champion. “The uncouth bandits broke the glass of the frame, mutilated the likeness of Tunney and then placed it against the wall, face downward. It will never hang in the Louvre of the Hall of Fame now.” Some of the boys insist that Tunney was an unpopular champion. This incident is cited to prove in just what quarters he was most unpopu- lar. It seems that thieves, yeggs and ring parasites never could learn to like him. This piece recalls the faux.pas made by the earnest Mr. John Arnold Heydler when he was extoliing the virtues of the national pastime of base- ball. Mr. Heydler declared that for the duration of a world series there was a marked decrease in crime all over the Nation. 3 Naturally, this left the inference that all of the yeggs of the country dropped their tools and either attended the world series in person or spent the time listening in on their radios or watching the bulletin boards. When the enter- prising burglar wasn't burgling he was concentrating on the national pastime. Of course, Mr. Heydler did not mean it that way. Still— Quite an Innovation. LONDON is to have its first sports columnist, and there seems to be & notion of experimenting with the American style of sports writing. Trevor Wignall, internationaly known as a boxing writer, has resigned from the London Daily Mail to become a sports columnist for Lord Beaverbrook’s Express. Mr. Wignall is the one English sports writer who was in any way in- terested in the American ganie of base ball. A world series was his pet show, and because of his interest in it other English sports writers dubbed him “the Yank.” “The Yank” always was somewhat depressed over the horizontal state of | the British heavyweights he encountered in the course of his duties as & boxing | writer for the London Daily Mail, and always was hoping that something would | come of Phil Scott. He was here for the Tunney-Heeney bout, but was not opti- | mist enough to think that Heeney had a Chinaman's chance. His pet aversion is Joe Beckett. | One sports columnist probably will lead to others, and the time may come when all English newspapers will have one of those things. Which may or may not be all for the best. | Business Is Good. | ‘FROM all reports concerning the seat sales for the McLarnin-Miller bout at | I "Madison Square Garden, one of those things does not have to bave the ! championship flavor or odor, nor does it matter whether or not the boys have met before. The customers are roused, it seems. McLarnin had his chance at the lightweight championship, but could do | nothing with Sammy Mandell. He lost on & technical knockeut to Miller, but | he is still what the boys call a drawing card. The bout tonight means nothing | excepting that all concerned will make some money. (Copyright, 1929.) F Street at Seventh nd Irons XEXEXEXEXEX Kroydon Rust- proof Irons $6:50 Non-tarnishing, plated with chromium. Harder than any other club and are guar- anteed against nicking and denting. (8port Shop.) EEXEXLXXER nsistently good golf- clubs perfectly bal- Matched sets ‘have KX EXEXEXRX % EEXXETXETTENIH X (Sports Shop, Main Floor.) .crew Cambridge rules a slight favorite, O0XFORD-CAMBRIDGE CREWS ARE PRIMED 1 By the Associated Press. PUTNEY - ON'- THAMES," Englanc March 22.—Oxford and Cambridge con- clude the first century of their historic | rowing rivalry tomorrow morning. | One hundred years after their annual duel of oarsmanship was inaugurated. two gleaming, slender racing shells, one carrying the light blue colors of Oxford and the other the dark blue of Cam- bridge, will shcot from the shadows of Putney Bridge just before noon. The eighty-first Oxford-Cambridge boat race will be under way. Up the Thames on the crest of the tide, 414 miles to Mortlake, the eights from the Isis and the Cam will fight for rowing supremacy in a race unique in the chronicles of oarsmanship. Twenty minutes or so after the crack of the starter’s gun the winner should | be known. Another few minutes and the news will have girdled the globe to Englishmen waiting in Africa, Canada, Australia and in all the other British possessions scattered in the seven seas where “the boat race” stirs interest equalled by few other events on the ex- tensive and varied British sports cal- endar. The eightieth renewal of the rivalry started in 1829 finds the two crews ap- parently well matched. Neither crew has shown any marked advantage dur- ing the training period. Of the 80 races rowed to date Oxford has won 40, Cambridge, 39, and one, that of 1877, was a dead heat. With a heavier and more experienced but Oxford has shown marked improve- ment in the Jast two weeks. The Ox- ford crew averages about 166 pounds, compared to 170 for Cambridge. SfiLIGEN BEATS MANGIN. NEW YORK, March 22.—Gregory | Mangin of Georgetown University fell | before Julius Seligson in the national | indoor tennis championship tournament here yesterday. The scores were 6—4, 6—2. Seligson, with Jean Borotra, | Prank Hunter and William Aydelotte, | advanced to the semi-finals. . MARTIN TOSSES GARDINI. Bull Martin scored over Demon | Gardini in a wrestling match last night | at the Strand Theater, winning two | straight falls. Gardini previously had | defeated Martin. POTOMAC BOATMEN MEET. The March meeting of the board of governors of Potomac Boat Club will be | Ekld tonight at 8 o'clock at the boat- | ouse. MARK AS A SOLACE Goes After Mile Record to Assuage Motor Boat De- feat by Segrave. By the Associated Press. MIAMI BEACH, Fla, March 22.— Having lost the world's motor boat championship to Maj. H. O. D. Segrave of England in a competitive water classic here, Gar Wood today prepared for an attempt to surpass his own mile straightaway record, which he set in Detroit last Summer. With his powerful 12-cylinder boat, Miss America VII, tuned to perfection, and with ideal weather conditions pre- vailing, Wood hoped to break his own mark of $2.8 miles an hour over a straightaway measured mile. Under the rules, Wood must make six ‘rounds over the course, three with and three against the wind. He then is privileged to take his fastest lap each way for the highest average two- vay speed. ave, who nosed out the veteran n boat racer in a competitive race during the annual Biscayne Bay regatta, ending yesterday, had planned to make an‘attempt today to set a new world record for single-motored hydro- planes, but was forced to abandon the plan because of damage to Miss Eng- land during the regatta. Upon exam- ination of his craftstoday he found 18 cracks in the bottom of the boat, which caused it to leak like a sieve. 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