Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1929, Page 37

5 PORTS. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. . WEDNESDAY, MARCH G. U. Base Ball Still in Eclipse : Old Guard Facing Loss of “Big Ten” Pin Honors 0.0 ALEYRATI HOYAS HAVE POOR DIAOND OUTLOOK Veteran Observers Fail to Share the Optimism of Coach O'Neill. rowful eyes on the bas Georgetown University “A splendid_lot of boy gald he, “but I'm afraid they wi very far as a ball team. We didn't do well last year, and if we do any better will be because Bucky there is a wonder-working His mate- is ot at all promising.” The revered dis- ciplinarian, who for 12 years was fac- ulty director of athletics at George- town, a record for e in that role, sunning_on a nch with John D. ATHER VINCENT J. McDON- OUGH, whose long, hard years as a soldier of the church have been leavened somewhat by a love of athletics, gazed with sor- | ball squad of O'Reilly, the coach. | mured he, if there ever was a better college ball team than yours of 1922 and '23." The coach munched a straw Father McDonough. in silence. ‘Then: “Yes, it was a great team. I've been king of how many of those boys went along in professional ball. Nearly every one of them.” O games and_was well advanced into the next season before meeting defeat, win- ning more than 40 games in succession. “Have you observed,” continued the priest, whose memory for athletic facts somtimes is quite uncanny, “that our good teams have come along periodical- y, every five or six years? But we're overdue now. We haven't had a really first-class team since '23.” The Georgetown campus until this season was a happy hunting- ground for major league scouts. Of late years half a dozen Blue and Gray players have had a look at the big time. Bisso- nette, an_outfielder, is now with the Brooklyn Dodgers. So is Ty Tyson, a gardener, but a broken leg may mean his finish as a big leaguer. Sukeforth is catching for the Cincinnati Reds. Until recently Tony Planski was a Bos- ton Brave. They've sent Tony to Prov- | idence for seasoning as a pitcher or catcher. He's versatile. But for Paul Florence's foot ball knees he probably would have made good as a catcher for the New York Giants, and his old gridiron mate, Bill Kenyon, failed by little to land as a catcher for the New York Yankees. The present Georgetown coach, O'Neill, had a brief trial with the Giants last season. Yes, the Blue and Gray has turned out more than one college’s share of big league material in the last several but its record before that was even better. Scme Brilliant Names, “You'll find some brilliant names in | Georgetown base ball history if you go | far back,” ventured Father McDonough. “There was Doc White, for instance, who was a great left-hander for the ‘White Sox for ten years. Did you know that Arthur Devlin, the old Giant third baseman, was a Georgetown boy? “Charlie Moran, who was athletic di- rector at Catholic University for years, was a good shortstop for the Pirates after he learned his base ball at ‘Georgetown. “Then there was Eddie Dowd, who pitched for Washington in the 90s, and Red Morgan, who played third base for the Red Sox. Ol timers will remember these names. “Of comparatively modern times I guess Billy Martin was the best George- town man to play in the majors. He would have been a great shortstop with the Braves if a leg he broke in college hadn’t given him trouble. “A pair of shoes two Sizes too large for him wrecked Billy's base ball career. They were the only ones he could bor- row when we went up to play Prince- ton, something having happened to our stock. Believe it was late arriving. “Well, Billy attempted a slide in those shoes and got tangled up. He broke ‘his leg. Ever after he was unable to go to his right fast, and this was dis- covered by the Braves’ manager. Billy was tried at third base, but the bad gh’s pessimism con- ar’s team is shared by most of the Hilltop leaders. A notable exception is Bucky O'Neill. “We had a good team last year,” says Bucky, “but somehow we couldn't get going. Give us some pitching and we'll step out this time.” Pitching apperently is the team’s greatest need. Burch and Gillespie were dependables a year ago, but they have gone and the present candidates are of uncertain ability. Dunn Works Impressively. hing the Hilltoppers practice npressed by the shortfielding of | Dunn, who covers an uncom- mount of territory. Ralph Mc- Carthy and Ralph Duplin look like oul both are hitters, y is the romance of the garded sub who fought his ¥ to the front. Two seasons ago he ved little attention in the training s An_injury removed a regular during the championship campaign and Duplin was given a chance. He per- | formed unusually well. But he was scason Given an_emer- . Ralph pounded the ball | | CoacH pucky O'NelL— JOHN DunNN- Shortstop C. U. LOSES OPENER; PLAYS AGAIN TODAY Catholic University is off to a losing start in its basé ball campaign, having dropped a 6-to-4 decision to Washing- ton and Lee at Lexington, Va., and the outlook wasn't encouraging when the Cardinals were to face Virginia Military Institute at Lexington toda: Lou Hurley pitched a full game for Catholic University and his performance on the whole was commendable. He fanned eight and walked only two, but the Generals managed to bunch hits in the first and seventh innings for run clusters, poor fielding helping the Generais in the seventh, when they scored three times. Hurley, with a dgug.lf and single, led the Cardinals at bat. ‘The first college game of the season here will be played by Georgetown and Penn State tomorrow at the Hilltop. Georgetown's lineup will be: Bozek,yb; Scalzi, 2d; Dunn, ss; Morris or Leary, 3b; Captain Duplin, McCarthy and Wholey, outfield. The battery is un- decided. Gallaudet is playing & practice game today at Kendall Green with the United Typewriter team. Maryland will play base ball on a temporary diamond while Byrd Stadium is undergoing improvements.- The la- crosse game with New York University Monday will be staged on a field back of the east stands. Bleachers for 3,000 spectators wil be erected, All of the Terrapins’ track meets have been listed away from home, their own track being out of commission. SANDLOT DIAMOND LEAGUES TO MERGE Merchants’ and Industrial Base Ball Leagues may be merged this season. A meeting of representatives of both cir- cuits will be held tonight at 7:30 o'clock at French’s Sport Store, 721 Fourteenth street. However, if sufficient interest 1s manifested both leagues will be con- tinued. A strong six-team loop ¢ 'd be formed should it be decided to consoli- date the leagues. Bond Bread base ballers, who plan a spirited bid for unlimited class base ball honors this season, are seeking games, particularly with leading nines in nearby Maryland and Virginia. Business Manager J. Gubisch is list- ing for Bonds at Atlantic 4127 after 6:30 p.m. To reorganize their diamond outfit pirate A. C. will meet tonight at the home of Harold Beall, Cherrydale, Va. All candidates, new and old, are asked to attend. % Collegian A. C. nine, which will drill tomorrow afternoon at 5:30 o'clock on the East Ellipse and meet Saturday night at 7:30 o'clock at the home of Mapager Don Grist, 655 B street north- east, will open its season Sunday at 1 o'clock against the Colonials on the East Ellipse. Manager Grist is receiving challenges at Lincoln 8618 after 5:30 p.m. Unlimited class teams are defied by National Press Building Cardinals, who and this time he Moreover, he ¥ as a ball is n | | MANHATTANS TACKLE | EASTERN TOMORROW cniors will play latter’s diamond he following Man- | quested to repoit: Stone, | Wade, R. Jarman, ! Larner, Crentz and { d Lucas are new Man-| 2 games should | manager, at Sil- ‘The Eastern F 10mOrTow hattans are Reid, J. Wade. | | ver Spring RIOT RESULTS IN BAN ON MIXED RING BOUTS | ) —Mixed | hoxing matches will not be permitted after at the Coliseum, Charles Hall, | ident of the Coliseum Corporation, | announced tod | One person was dead and two others | were reported dying today as a result of the panic and stampede of specta- tors at the bout Monday night between i Fields and Young Jack Thomp- 3, California Negro. CHICAGO, March | League. ' plan to enter the Capital City Base Ball Coach Charles Harrington is arranging games at Cleveland 4831 after 5 pm. The Cards will meet Friday night in Room 1170 of the National ss Building. Jefferson D e Department base ballers of Virginia Highlands, Va., are_planning for another busy season. R. F. Beckwith, who will again manage the ‘team, is_arranging his schedule at Clarendon 240-W-2. Sam Rice PMidget class diamonders, who are seeking several players, will meet tonight at the home of Manager Robertson, 1346 D street northeast, at 8 o'clock. A practice game for Sunday with a senior division nine is wanted by Whoopee Athletic Club. Call Manager Donaldson at Franklin 1845 after 6:30 pm. Former Tremont and T. T. Keane players will make up the new Avenue Valet Shop nine to be organized tonight at a meeting at 313 Thirteenth-and-a- half street at 8 o'clock. BOATMEN WILL FEAST. Potomac Boat Club basket ball team will plan for a banquet and a dance to b2 held soon at a meeting tonight at 9 o'clock at the clubhouse. PACI;‘XC COAST LEAGUE. Los Angeles, 15; Seattle, 4. Missions, 7; Oakland, 4. Portland, 3; San Francisco, 2. Sacramento, 8; Hollywood, 6. PauL DONOVAN- k N MCaomuy- - CenterField MEGAW IS BIG STAR AS HALL TRIUMPHS The Convention Hall team today glories in its third consecutive District League pennant triumph and one of its members, Red Megaw, holds the sea- son's record for a game as the result of a clean-sweep victory over the Tem- ples at Convention Hall. Megaw's 421-set was marked by a game of 164, which topped by 4 pins the previous record established by Charlie Lyons of the Meyer Davis quint. Red was 9 maples under the high set rolled by Bus Prevost of the Temples early in the season. Convention Hall is the only team to win the District pennant three seasons in a row. While Megaw was “going crazy,” Ber- nie Frye of the Union Printers was scorching a nearby drive. Bernie rolled a set of 421 and a game of 166 against the Manhattans, both scores being high for the Athletic Club League this sea- son. A score of 1506 fails to land The Evening Star team of the Commercial League in the money of the National Duckpin _Bowling Congress at Rich- mond. Phil Heflelfinger led the team with a set of 343. ‘The scores: u THE EVENING weldman 5 . Holbrook Whiteford . HefTelfinger Baum 93281 103322~ f 12 Chapin 288—640 Hefferfinger . 128 92350 AMATEURS VS. PROS. Maurice J. McCarthy and W. R. Mc- Callum, golfers of the Washington Golf and Country Club, will meet J. Monro Hunter and George Diffenbaugh of In- dian Spring in the first of a series of home-and-home exhibition matches at Washington on April 14. They will play the following Sunday at Indian Spring. TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats (EISEMAN'S, 7th & F| 6 100[ |ALL TITLISTS OUT OF S. A. RING EVENT Not one of the boys who won titles in the South Atlantic boxing champion- ships last year will be on hand to de- fend them in the annual tournament which will’ be held in Baltimore next Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Joe Proctor, the Washington lad, who won the South Atlantic heavyweight title last year and later went to the nationals at Boston, now is fighting professionally. Louis Herman and Hector Mendez, the flyweight and welter champions, respectively, have given up boxing; and Richie Collins, | bantamweight ; Danny ‘Weintraub, featherweight; Jack Charlson, light- welght; and Harry Henderson, middle- weight; and Hap Lyons, light-heavy- weight, all title winners for the Navy, are on duty at sea, and won't be able to defend their honors. All of these boys fought at the na- tional championships at Boston last year, as will the winners this time. Entries close March 31, with Capt. Willlam R. Hamby, 306 East Baltimore street, Baltimore, Md. DOWNTRODDEN TIGERS MIX WITH CUBS AGAIN PHOENIX, Ariz, March 27 (#)— Still secking a training season victory over a major league,team, Bucky Har- ris Detroit Tigers were to try again against the Chicago Cubs today. ‘The Pittsburgh Pirates proved too much for the Bengals yesterday, al- though poor pitching and six errors in the field contributed heavily to Detroit’s defeat. Owen Carroll was to start against the Cubs today. éUE STARS UNDEFEATED. MILWAUKEE, Wis.,, March 27 (#).— | Three of eight angle stars remain in {the undefeated class as the third day of the national amateur three-cushion { billiard tournament began today. | Auto Bodies, Radiators, Fenders Repaired; also New Radiators Harrison radiators and cores in stock, Wittstatts, 1809 14th North 7177 Alse 319 1ith. ': Block Below Ave, STARTER TROUBLE? WE REPAIR ALL MAKES CREEL BROS. 1811 14th St. N.W. Dec. 4220 Representing 48 Leading Mfrs. of Auto Electrical Equipment and Metor Parts _ =% C atcher /' caor | DUEFOR SHAKE-UP RALPH- DupLIN- . LeftField Crum’s Job Undecided at G. W. HETHER Maud Crum will re- main at George Washington University as foot ball coach James E. Pixlee as athletic director was undecided today. It is understood that Crum’s plans for the future will depend on the out- come of a meeting this week of the George Washington faculty athletic committee. A Pixlee comes highly recommended from Westminster College of Fulton, Mo., where he turned out winning teams in several branches of sport. In the last two years his foot ball players following the appointment of | As Pixlee Is Appointed Chief|’ Pixlee was a foot ball and basket ball star at the University of Missouri, mak ing the All-Missouri Valley eleven as end in 1909. He also was a fullback. On leaving college Pixlee played pro- fessional foot pall with the Multnomah Club of Portland, Oreg., and coached this team when it won a Pacific Coast championship. From 1914 to 1917 he was athletic director and coach of Missouri Wesleyan College. Then he joined the Army to do similar work. After the war, until 1920, he coached at Oklahoma A. and M. Followed two years of private busi- ness. He went to Westminster in 1922. By 1926 Pixlee had coached 16 cham- pion teams in four major sports, his grid teams winning. 66 games, losing 25 and tying 6. They scored 1,282 points against 546. won 13 games, tied 2 and lost 2, and the basket ballers won 25 out of 32 games. Nine of a possibles12 champion- ships were captured by Westminster during the last three years. i | |ALEXANDRIA QUINTS LEXANDRIA, Va, March 27— One of the two remaining games of the Alexandria Basket Ball League will be played to- night with the St. Mary's Celtics meeting the Old Dominion Boat Club at 8:30 o'clock in Armory Hall with an opportunity to gain an even footing with the league leading Hoff- man Clothiers. The Celtics, one-half game behind the leaders, would throw the series into a deadlock by winning tonight and, in that event, the final game between the Clothiers and Celtics on Saturday night would determine the championship. However if the Boatmen cop tonight's game and the “Saints” trounce the Clothiers the series will end in a triple- tie. In a preliminary game tonight, at 7:30, the St. Mary's Celtic Juniors will play the Schreiner Brothers' for the local junior title. Everett Scott, former captain of the New York Yankees and holder of the world’s record for participation in con- secutive contests, will play here Sunday with the Reading, Pa., International League team in the exhibition contest with the St. Mary’s Celtics at 3 o'clock in Dreadnaught Park. Tommy Sewell, third baseman, a brother of Joe, and Luke Sewell of the | Cleveland Indians, also will appear in | the Reading lin George Mason High School will make its debut in the third District series tomorrow afternoon, opposing Wash- ington-Lee High School of Ballston, Va,, at 3:15 on Edward Duncan Field. The dual meet between Alexandria High School and Washington-Lee High School of Ballston, Va., has been tenta- tively set for April 20 on the Haydon Field track. Juste It/ Smeil 1t/ ENTIRELY AMERICANS CLASH FOR HOCKEY TITLE TORONTO, Ontario, March 27 (®).— Experience has triumphed over youth and brought about the first all-Amer- ican final for the world hockey cham- pionship. The New York Rangers, pres- ent holders of the Stanley Cup and veterans of two play-off campaigns, out- lasted the young Toronto Maple Leafs last night to take an overtime en- counter that put them into the final round of this year's champlonship series. Starting tomorrow night, the Rangers will battle their leading American rivals, the Boston Bruins, in a series of the best three out of five games for the title, Boston reached the last round by three successive victories over Les Canadiens of Montreal in the play- off between the first place teams of the National Hockey League. This weeks UNITED FEATURE | 'ORE and more you notice it— | successful men today are smok- ing cigars. Latest reports show an in- crease of 20% in our cigar business, Andhere’sthereason whyexperiencee smokers choose to buy their cigars at United—nationally advertised cigars in their best condition! Experts in- spect all cigars before they leave our epots—perfect conditions in our stores keep them just right. Find out today how good a cigar can really be. CINCO ‘The Greatest 5c Cigar Of All Time WEBSTER CIGARS _ The Friend Of Man This Week At All UNITED -CIGAR STORES and WHELAN DRUG STORES Wiatch for Next Week's United Feature | | 'Dixon, Whose 445 Record v Fell to Phillips’ 458, Nom- inates Latter. BY R. D. THOMAS. | HE man who carved the greatest duckpin set in the game's his- tory here, Charley Phillips, has been overlooked entirely in_the powwows of guessmen whose duty will be to select the Washington City Duckpin Association’s “big ten” of 1929. the best of all time until Phillips paled it with a 458, brought up the question of Phillips’ rank today. “I haven’t been lobbying” Dixon laughed, “but I've chatted abcut the matter with members of the ranking committee, and so far as I could learn none had seriously considered Charley, if they had thought of him at all.” Dixon and Phillips are teammates of King David Lodge in the Masonic League. The official dopesters for the last two seasons have based their reckonings on league and tournament play, with inter- city matches given some consideration. The brilliant showing of Glenn Wol- stenholme in national singles matches weighed the scales in his favor last season, when otherwise he probbaly would have been dropped from the starry list. Phillips’ Average Is Low. Phillips is one of the leading bowlers of the giant Masonic League, but his average is well below those of many other candidates for the “big ten.” Considering this, Dixon went on: “If only his average is to be considered, Charley plainly is out of it. But when vou figure he's done something un- equaled in nearly a quarter century of duckpins he can't be passed up logi- cally without recognition. “Which would you prefer—a 118 av- erage for the season, like some of the boys are shooting now to make the “big lten” grade, or the distinction of having in the bowlingest duckpin city in the country?” Dixon made his famous score (in the Agricultural League) before the “big ten” was introduced, but the case of at least one other bowler parallels that of Phillips’. The duckpin world was as- tonished last season when Howard Ryon, a member of Naval Lodge of the Masonic League and a pin-shooter of modest average, shot a game of 190, that beat by seven pins the long-lived record of Tip O'Neill. The ranking committee passed him Y. For three years or more bowling honors have been shared by 10 or a dozen stars. It was remarked often that any five, chosen at random, would be quite as strong as any other com- bination. But this condition prevails no longer. There will be a number of new names in the honor list this year. Trio of Vets May Fall. It is far from certain that at least three of the old guard of duckpin greats will be included. Glenn Wol- stenholme has had a moderately suc- cessful year. Howard Campbell, with whom Wolstenholme several seasons back was challenging the world to doubles play for record stakes, has fallen behind almost weefully, with an average of 112 in the mighty District League and 115 in the National Capital, though he appeared to advantage by taking third money in the testy Camp- bell Sweepstakes. Harry K. Burtner, captain of the champion Convention Hall team of the District League, which has just cilnched its third straight pennant, is averaging below 110 and needs a sensational come- back promptly to regain his place in the big standing. It is accepted for granted that Brad- ley Mandley will receive the highest honor that comes to a Washington bowler—the No. 1 ranking. Besides winning the Howard Campbell Swee] Justto “settle the argument” to your satisfaction — try out the Harry Dixon, whose 445-record was| rolled the highest league set on record | 'BALTIMORE BOXERS | SHOW HERE TONIGHT Jewish Community Center's boxers will entertain_Baltimore Y. M. H. A. pug- lists tonight in the Center gym in a serles of bouts that will be a feature of |a program which also will include & | wrestling match for the Center heavy- | weight title and other features. Jocko Miller of the Center and Charles Gomez, French amateur star, are expected to provide the feature bout, in the 145-pound division. Ben Bortnick and Babe Silverman will grap- ple in the mat match. Allie Wolff of Penn State, 160-pound intercollegiate_champion, may box with the Jewish Community Center team next season. He plans to take up a law course at Georgetown University after his graduation from Penn State in June. 'MAX STILL IN DARK | ASTO HIS MANAGER By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. March 27—It looks as though Max Schmeling will have to start fighting before any one will find out who will manage his next cam- | paign. With the “German Dempsey"” still in his homeland, his affairs took another complicated turn yesterday when Joe Jacobs, the American half of Max's managerial duel, returned from Europe with the announcement that Max was under contract to the Madi- n_Square Garden Corporation and would appear under Garden auspices against Paulino Uzcudun here June 26. ‘While Jacobs is trying to guide Schmeling along the road laid out by the Garden corporation, which gave him his first chance in America, Arthur Buelow, his German manager and the only one recognized by the New York States Athletic Commission, is trying |to lead him in addition to a_ bout at | Boston contracted for before Max left. —— COLLEGE BASE BALL. At Lexington, Va.: Washington and Lee Catholic University . | 693 47383 stakes, Mandley has in hand an all- time District League record for average. For 72 games with the Stanford Paper Co. team he has averaged 120.5, which is more than a full point above the mark established last season by Jack ‘Whalen, This young fellow, who recently rolled 430 to take the singles lead of the National Duckpin Bowling Congress at Richmond, has almost made good an early season boast that he, too, would beat his old record, which was 118.25. His present pace is nine pins short of a 119 average. Friend Makes a Spurt. A wild spurt by Georgie Friend of the Curb Cafe team, District League, may land him a place. For 27 games with the King Pins early in the campaign Friend averaged only 113. He was out of the game for two months and came back to join Curb Cafe, for whom he has rolled 21 games for an average of 121 and pulled his team well up in the standings. One of the season’s new stars is Sam Simon of Progressive Printing Co., whose average of 115 in the District League is an important matter to the ranking committee, particularly in view of his excellent bowling in other leagues. Nor can young Ted Lyons of the Meyer Davis team he overlooked. Lyons is leading the National Capital League with 119, and has 115 in the District, besides, having shot the District’s sec~ ond high game of 160. If Maundley wins the District title, he will be the only bowler in 24 years of District League history to triumph twice. He was the champion two sea- Your OLD HAT MADE NEW Again Cleaning, Blocking and Rem s by Exverts N 2 1] odel + Vienna Hat Co. 435 11¢h Street Reach fora KING EDWARD YOU’LL get real tobacco—in its most enjoyable form. a five cent piece! A ing SATISFIES like Foil-wrapped — to You'll pay outonly nd, after all, “noth- a good cigar.” preserve freshness. Try King Edward today! D. 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