Evening Star Newspaper, June 27, 1929, Page 44

44 SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1929. SPORTS. REJAU'i)JgETgiENT NE“%]%?%ES RETURNS TO DIAMOND South Atlantic Head Says Attendance Is Good in Minor Circuits, But That Expenses ENERALLY about this time every year there are a few blow- outs in the little leagues, class B and under. But despite torrential rains of the early season total at- tendance to date has been generally good in class B ranks— and this class, it has often been stated, is the “backbone” of base | city and environs. That's what the “B” stands for. One city, the second largest in class B ranks, Syracuse, has quit in favor of Hazleton in the New York-Pennsylvania League. But that does not mean that it is & bad year for base ball. was in the International League, class AA, and the fans wpuld not | had a deal of sandlot experience, is an- | ball. Rapidly Eat Up Income. turn out for base ball two grades lower. i ¥ 5 § % ;§ i seating capacity. shape. rhaps, | cently Jfl& double-header. the| There is an players majors. weather of the tire No. 4 rtstop; Ross or McDonald = will i g on Shipyard Pleld. : H Hige iz il i STATE DEPARTMENT After an absence from the diamond | of more than a decade State Depart- | ment this year has a base ball team.| And it is a good one, too. Backed financially by Secretary of State Stimson and other officials of the department, the nine, after a rather mediocre start, is now shewing to much better advantage. and Manager David | Crenshaw, who plays the outfleld and | third base and in an emergency can get away with & mound sssignment in 0od | style, believes that it will not be long | before the Diplomats can take the measure of just about any club in the Diplomats is not altogether a mis- nomer, as the team's star pitcher, John Farr Simmons. is the chief of the visa | Syracuse formerly LUNCEFORD TO PILOT ALEXANDRIA FIREMEN | "f5act ore g It was the intention originally to plly; ALEXANDRIA, Va, June 27.—Har- vey Lunceford, coach of No. 4 Engine the smaller base| Company base ball team Has been named field manager of the Alexandria Fire Department nine, wheth will face the Alexandria police Saturday at Bag- gett’s Park in a benefit game for the e Lunceford said that virtually the en- line-up. il "be. as follows: ‘Wingfeld left Neld; Bennett, sccond base; Rob- Cabell, right Aewa; Travers, center Reid. 3 vers, center 5 N\fi% first base; Darley, catcher; Pa , Horne or Bradley, pitcher; West, Latham, Dawson, utility. Ray Peverill, Billy Weod and um) which will start at 3:30. ‘Yankees have banded together one o ; | be John Travers, Robert Nugent, Hugh dd. ¢ Coach Earl Cronin and Capt. Ken- neth Mumford have slated a workout for tomorrow afternoon at 5:30 o'clock | ,G: L. ITALIAN BEHEMOTH WINS SUPERHEAVY RING TITLE University other dependable hurler. Other leading members dedicated a fine new park with a large m;i]:‘:de John gm‘:ux. 1;},“‘,, the first- | | string catcher, an nti, a reserve | Montgomery, in the Southeastern, re- | receiver, who also can play in the out- | d 5,398 paid admissions for & field; Tom Kennedy and Ralph Gibeaux, | | first basemen; Lioyd Case, who holds unusually good crop of | f in all of the class B a dozen games and has State. only Sunday ball, but Sundays as well as oth much work Is effecting provement in the team, pects they will be, State back-seat to no .. His Robert contest, has been Baltimore & Ohio diamond here. the tournament. of the Term! Y. M. 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It is a purer, finer, more delightful beverage. Have you tried it? “CANADA DRY” _ The Champagne of Ginger Beg. U. 8. Pat. 8. Ales forth at. :;I‘e midway aufllou: - young | Markham, shortstop: Tom Valenza, who | leagues, and veteran scouts predict & | patrols the far corner, and Dick Doolan | large number of purchases by th | y offset the bad mber “of the | and Joe Zoeller, outfielders. Spring. BSo far the team has played more than jority of them. Several of the contests ave been lost by the closest of margins. Such teams as Scaggsville, Md., and the Indian Head, Md. service nine hi many rainy Sabbaths early in the sea- {son that the team started scheduling | engagements during the week and now is seeing action on Saturdays and Crenshaw asserts that if the same play- ers are at hand next year, and he ex- TERMINAL PLANNING FOR ALL-STAR TEAM | nine i mm'.hm‘:". e Ter- minal circuits to hook up with an all- Railroad team game Saturday afternoon at Halethorp Md., at 2 o'clock. The tournament, cording to plans, will be staged latter part of August or in early Se) tember and several of the gam played on the Union Station Several other contests are planned by land | both the Terminal and B. & O. squads, at the conclusion of which the combi- nations which show to the best advan- tage will be chosen for participation in llel‘:l:lm-n. activity secreta League’s entry in been picked lo! tahl, Pullman Co. third base: . Fowler, can W Tess, P&mfl Co.; American Railway of the team | John | won the ma-| ave | Te were 80 | er days. So a steady, im- | and Mawhger | will have to ry A., will man- & O. tossers: = oT. Elmer left fleld; Roy Potomac on a temperamental Hudson being the perfect eight-oared crew. There can be no alibis for | the Californians, seven of whom made up the wonder crew of last year and the round-the-world victors. They rowed in practically the same stretch of choppy water where the Columbians showed thelr masterly watermanship. The water was rough in those outer lanes, but it was quite as rough for the Columbians as it was nellians. shipped no water. The answer is that the Columbia crew was the best crew under | f{‘:",‘:;‘,;‘e;l’i‘,:w:ngg‘f“:n“ Y niman. | those conditions and under any conditions. am. Bill Burke, who has fectly by young Dick Glendon, and the sttess and strain of the race. the dogged determination that kept them to their perfect synchroni- zation from start to finish. There were on splashing oars in the | Columbia shell becsuse the men did not weary and they did not get excited. | It may be a little cruel to say, but I think that the foundering of the other shells was due to the desperate anxiety of the oarsmen and perhaps to Lhe‘ weariness of men who were not ob- solutely it for that grind. The Columbia crew was not made up of elghl oarsmen as it flitted through the dusk. It was one perfect machine, the parts of which eo- ordinated perfectly, and it worked like that, smoothly and rhythmic- ally. It was geared for the work, and every cog fited correctly. _That movement could have mastered much rougher water than the Hudson churned up that evening. That was the tert of a erew. | Others might have been as carefully trained, but might have lost what they learned in the turmoil and the el’l:lu-J ment. The Columbians rowed in the boiling waters in the heat of the race | as they would have rowed in practice | with their coach in his launch behind them counting the beats and watching for those fractional errors of wrist or ba k. ‘The Columbians showed everything that a crew should have—the power, the stamina, the training, the tempo and the rhythm. Other crews may have been stro; in any one or two of those essentials, but the Columbians had them all synchronized into a machine that could not be beaten that day or any other day. s It was no weather for the men San Fran they started. But then there were men from the cool waters Puget Sound, the Washing- ores. passed the Navy, which set the pace, and a grueling one it was, for that sticking, stewing eve ning. But while the others were flounder- and splashing or in ivate water fights, the Columbia shell, ar out in the shadows, was i smoothly along_through the almos opaque mists. It was as though the c’ol‘:mhum were oblivicus to everything | DOWN THE LINE WITH W. 0. McGEEHAN. Columbia’s Great Crew. TH‘E Columbia watermen who beat eight crews from many waters | The shell from San Francisco Bay and the shell from | Cayuga shipped water and splashed, while the Columbian shell kept | | true to its course, with the cars working irt perfect unison, and it | the matter of starting these races. On | over. and the leisurely manner in which some of the crews arrived at the starting line carried the thing well into the dark, with the evening breezes blowing up stream and churning the mid-channel of the river, where the three crews con- sidered to be the best were set. ‘The delays were hard on the spe- tators, but, of course, this is no ar- gument in favor of reform in the matter of starting. In rowing they take nothing into consideration but the convenience of the crews, which is fair enough. But as it turned out Monday the system in vogue did not wn'r"k. for the betterment of the re- gatta. The starts that were classed as false starts seemed to be satisfactory enough, excepting for one particular crew, Wit River Monday came very near to | for the Californians and the Cor- Campaign to Reduce Base Ball Salaries Is Started by Class B President nine of them in line the unfairness to the well trained and efficient ones was emphasized. To the landlubber it' cer- tainly seemed unfair that one crew should be able to inconvenience eight. But it hardly is probable that any- thing will be e about it. The tra- ditions of the water game permit this sort of thing, and you are not going to change traditions simply be- cause the biggest regatta on the Hudson was turned into a weird but very interesting spectacle because of | the ancient rowing customs. | If there are three or four more crews | in the Poughkeepsie regatta next year, | and the number of false starts is not limited, the varsity race 1 start around midnight—with any sort of | starting luck. ' HARD GAMES ARE AHEAD OF CHEVY CHASE GRAYS Chevy Chase Grays have engage- ments for snurdxi-lnd Sunday on the Chevy Chase playground aiamend, meeting Hess A. C. Saturday and Mon- roe A. C. Sunday. Both games will start at 3 o'elock. Stevens and Phelps will form the bat- tery for the Grays Saturday, while Chase or Knlg:c will pitch for them Su;d-y. with Phelps on the receiving end. Municipal golf in Atlanta now costs twice as _much. All greens fees have been doubled. They were trained per- they held to their training under They had the stamina for it and || else on the cluttered river, rowing their own race as it had been plume! ‘when || young Glendon organized his crew. | Those False Starts. ARDON the denseness of a land- lubber, but it seems to me that there might be room for reformation in the Hudson it seemed that when a crew was not satisfled with the break from the stakeboats it would signal through the coxswain and the race would start This seemed to work as a penalty for the crews that were ready. In the freshman race, for instance, the eager Californians rowed a fairly fast mile before the race actually started, due to the ineptitude of some of the other crews in -rfi'""" away from their stake boats. ese false starts and delays on the part of some of the crews in get- ting to the e were responsi- ble for the varsity race being held in :1’;: dark two hours after the sc! ed e. ‘The system of allowing crews which get away badly to force all the oth- ers to come back for another start is punlln! to the followers of any other sport. In horse racing, | if a horse is left at the post it is | too bad, but the horse is left and has to make up the distance. If a stroke oarsman slips in the getaway he is llvu:. u"m}ay keh-:luul as he :}e’- | quests, & jockey slips out of the saddle because of & mount, | that also is too bad, but the race is || on. If the same system of sta that | | is used in boat racing were applled to || horse racing a Jjockey would good horses blown and ir- signaling for other starts, while he kept his own mount fresh and under control. I do not wish to make any insinuations against the ethics of intercollegiate ro , but it seemed to me that some of the coxswains cer- tainly were trying to beat the gate just as a jockey does. “On Account of Darkness.” the varsity race had been rowed on schedule the river would have been about as ideal as it was for the Junior varsity, which was rowed under perfect conditions. But the false starts arge prices in the city. 906 Penna Ave N.W. 10th & H Sts. N. DOWN FOR HOLIDAYS! Don’t let your old worn-out tires spoil your are offering FEDERAL TIRES at unheard- of LOW PRICES. 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