Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1929, Page 27

SPORTS. Lively Ball Is Making Play Dangerous : Loughran Gives Braddock High Rating DOWN THE LINE ' LY 18 —~WITH W. O. McGEZHAN. On Artificial Alds MARBERRY'S CASE AN ILLUSTRATION Moriarty Cites Incident in New York—Heavy Scores: Also Tell Tale. | BY ORGE MORIARTY, Bis League Umpire. HERE seems little doubt players that the base ball is| livelier. 1 have discussed this with about 20 players in the last month, and all agree that the ball carries more dynamite than the first type of 1 ball. The ball cannot possibly be made any faster wilhout ruinous effect. In a recent nine-inning game between | Rrooklyn and Philadelphia, 10 pitchers | saw service, seven for Brooklyn. A few | days later the St. Louis Cardinals piled | up 28 runs while their cpponents made six. ‘The Chicago Cubs won eight | straight games from the Cardinals, | making a total of 76 runs, or an mnr-‘ age of 91 a fracas | The Cardinals made 39 runs, an average of nearly five a game, yet they | failed to win a single contest. Five | runs a game in the old days was con- | sidered a pennant gait. | | among Marberry Ts Cannonaded. At the Yankee Stadium recéntly. Marberry, speed ball merchant of the Wasnington staff, barcly escaped reri- ous injury. In the first inning Combs | and Gehrig shot back line hits at the | flinger, and in each instance the game was suspended to allow Marberry to Tecover The other day at Cleveland a batter | hit one back at Red Faber of the White | Sox, with injurious effect. The fact | that infielders are also complaining | about the speed of the ball as it streaks through the diamond recalls a story | about Rube Lutzke, former third base- | man for Cleveland. Lutzke, by the way was one of the best defensive third basemen ever in major ranks. A few years ago two of the Yankees' heavy artillery rifled successive hits off Lutzke's shins. To show it was not accidental Meusel came up and slashed » third bone-breaker through Lutzke's helpless defense. On the way to the | bench after the inning the (‘!r‘\l‘!and; piteher. in a sympathetic ven, said to utzke You're not hurt, are you., Rube?” “No." responded Lutzke, “but I was | safer in the w. | Brings New Plays. | if not absolutely compulsory for sprint- Regardless of criticism, the lively bal has been the means of introducing a few new features. One is the “tag-up” plav. When first base is occupied and an exceedingly long fy is hit, the alert | runner returns to the bag and sprints to second after the ball is caught. It is usually close and affords plenty of speculation and excitement until” the play is finished. The play was not pos- sible in the old days when outfielders safely could play closer to the infield. The other play is the “squeeze” when twn are out. It is feasible with the lively ball bacause the unsuspecting third baseman plavs unusually deep at this stage of proceedings. Of course, these plays lack enough merit to offs various other scientific features the “electric” ball has eliminated The livelier ball may eventually re- sult, in a revision of the rule that now bars spitball pitchers. Almost all man- agers and players I have talked with | about this favor the spitters coming back into the pitching fold. It is thought that a fresh crop of spitball artists should aid materially in stopping the murderous batters who now swing the bludgeons with such ruinous effect. | This opinion is based upon the un- usual success of the few remaining damp flingers in _the majors, such as Grimes. Quinn, Faber and Mitchell. | The minors have many ordinary pitch- | ers who might become consistent win- ners over night by adopting the wet | delivery as a specialty. l (Copyright, 1929.) THE SPORTLIGHT By GRANTLAND RIC OMMY LOUGHRAN, the light heavyweight champion, believes that he will be able to show nearly always beat a better puncher. The idea is that a hard puncher has to be set, as a rule, before he can punch. It is extremely difficult to be a hard puncher and a clever boxer at one and the same time. “I could slug and hit with any Corbett once said, “but when it came to a choice between boxing skill and the old wallop T decided to work for the speed and skill that I believe is more important.” Braddock is a good boxer, hetter hitter. Loughran ecan outbox | Braddnck, but Braddock ean outhit | Toughran. On the general run of things this would give Loughran an edge, as the befter boxer always carries an edge. But in this case Tommy has been around for some years, while Braddock | is younger and improving. Loughran | has shown no improvement in his last few fights, It may have been that weight making took away some of his | stuff, but he will have to make weight | for Braddock. | Braddock is a first-class prospect. | In addition to his punching he has a | cnol head and a stout heart. He will | find Toughran the hardest target to nail he has fought to date. There will | be more than average class on both sides in this meeting, and if the winner decides to take his shot at the heavy- | weight apple he will be something to consider in the reckoning on ahead. but a| The Winning Touch, ¢JRORM." wrote Hughey Keogh, “is the brief interval between get- | ting ready and growing stale.” - This_applies to golf and foot ball | more than it does to any other game. | It explains in foot ball why a team may be three or even four touchdowns | different from one Saturday to another. It explains why a team can look like & world beater one week and like a second rater the next week. It explains in golf why a Hagen can win the British open one month and finish around twentieth in the United States open the next month. In the recent United States open at Winged Foot Bobby Jones was just coming tp his top form when the championship ended. He was barely ready after a long lay-off from golf. Most of the leading pros came to the championship approach- ing staleness. They were beginning to lose the keen edge of egrlier manths. Of the two positions Jones was in the better one. It is much better to be underworked than over- worked. The former at least has his nerve reserve to call on. The latter has not. All_the nerve in_the world, as it is Auto Bodies, Radiators, Fenders Repaired; also New Radiators Harrison Ra ors and Co in Steek | Wittstatts, 1809 14th th‘nnr 13th, ) - TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats | EISEMAN'S, 7th & F: | shooting of the | quickly than Simpson coulg | this won't do the damage that wrecked | ] hole in the final round, not so much VENING STAR. WASHINGTON. HE question as to how far an athelete may go in applying arti- fical aids will come up when the records committee of the A. A. U. meet to consider the record for the 100-yard dash | made by George Simpson of Ohio State. sprinter used the starting blocks, while the previous record was made without this aid. \ There will be much chattering pro and con before a decision is| | reached. Some of the experts maintain that the starting blocks give | the runner no more advantage than the system of using holes dug | into the cinder path at the starting point. have been regarded as an “improvement.” | There are those who insist that if the starting blocks are legal- | ized it will not be long before some enterprising sprinter will have| springs behind the starting blocks. get away as rapidly as possible and with as much momentum as can be accumulated. If the blocks with the springs start- | ing device are permitted the boys will | not stop there. The Ringling Brothers | | Circus, at its opening here, had a much | brighter idea for a quick get-away for | sprinters. One of the acts was the| “human _cannonball” | into a net. The acrobat who starred in | this performance got away mugh, more fave done | with his blocks. RY Of course this sort of start would add thrills to the sprints and the possibility of any false starts would be eliminated. As it goes today the starter signals by firing a pistol. The sprinters start with the detonation of the pistol, but there have been oc- casions where some of them have beaten the gun by a small fraction of & second, which counts in 100 yards. With all of the sprinters starting by Yeing shot out of cannons the false start would be eliminated. The starter | would hald all of the lanyards attached to the cannons in his hand. When all were ready for the start he would jerk them all with one motion. Of course it would be necessary for the referees to watch the loading of the sprinters into their cannons. Be- hind each sprinter should be piaced | a set amount of powder. This would be necessary to prevent runners overcharging their cannons and get- ting the stronger start, which would give them the greater momentum. If this were not regulated to the grain | of powder here are sprinters who would | use s0 much powder that they would f shoot themselves through the alr for | the entire distance. The trajectory of ‘a human being converting himself in‘o a cannonball would be flatter than it could be made by any other means. Perhaps they will come around fo the starting of sprints by artillery methods in the very near future. Various other improvements have contributed no little to the bettering of records in the sprints. For in- stance, the cinder path itself aided the first sprinters who used it to clip some fractions of seconds from the former records. Then the spikes helped no little, too, and the spikes are now thoroughly iegal, ets. The crouching start, invented by Gen. Charles Sherril, helped the sprint- ers, too, though this could not be classed as an artificial aid. Sclence soon will aid in the breaking of all records. The chemists will dis- cover some fabric for soles that will turn the sprinters’ shoes into modern seven-league boots, Driven Out. JOW that Martha Norelius, known as the greatest of the woman swim- mers, has turned professional, the A. A. U. officials who suspended her from am- ateur competition without rhyme or reason will say, “ah, you see, she want- ed to turn professionall all along.” It will be used as an excuse for the petty tyranny shown by the A. A. U. toward this particular athlete and toward the Women's Swimming Association, which she has represented. The A. A. U. officials will be relieved at this action of the swimmer. They would like to let the matter drop as they would like to find a way to smooth over the matter of Ravmond A. Barbuti, who has furnished the name of an A. A. U. official, who, he claims, has been profiteering on amateur athletics. For making this charge Barbuti, an Olympic champion, is under suspension. Ap- parently the suspension of Barbuti was less embarrassing to the A. A. U. than making a sincere investigation of the charges, From what I hear, the reason for Martha Norelius feeling the “heavy again that a good, fast boxer can of them when I started out,” Jim called, won't help a eompelitor whose nervous system is shot to pleces, The Mental Side. N both foot ball and golf the chief pressure comes from the mental side, or the side of nerves. Foot ball | also has its heavy physical pressure, but nerves will bring about through two or three hard games. There is no great physical pressure in golf. But the nerve strain, which often starts at 10 in the morning and Iasts until 5 in the afternoon, can wear any one down if overdone. Knute Rockne could slip through a killing schedule two or three years ago because he had 30 or 35 good foot ball players to call on, shock troops who could let his stars rest a big part of the game. Last year he had no such reserves and the result was a badly worn outfit by the end of the season. Al Espinosa was a far better golfer than he looked to be through the play- off. But Espinoza had started a hard campaign back in Midwinter and he was still in the midst of heavy com- petition all through May. He was close to a keen edge when the championship started and this edge was beginning to wear away down the streich. He showed that when he took an 8 on the twelfth that he took an 8, but the way he got it. His recovery and his final spurt. where he finished the last six holes 2 under par, just about removed all the nerve reserve that he had left. He had no keenness in his system to face the pressure which Jones applied after the third hole, where he started on a march of pars and birdies, where it looked as if he would never miss another shot. SUR-TAY fo » greaseloss liguid dresing which holds the hae in place snd helps i grow. Villions use 1¢ for i tonie efect, and because @ few drops will control stu uneilyor shampood i, SURLAY gives appesrance which h elps bring ruccess. 50c AtAny with the A. A. U. announced her retirement amateur ranks at this time when seemed that there might be a showdown as far as the A. A. U. is concerned. But she may be right when she announces that it is impossible to receive or expect fair treatment from that organization. Onl: leluih Drug Store In the sprints it is necessary t hand” of the A. A. U. is the same reason that brought about the su pension of Barbutl, The petty bu- reaucrats of the A. A. U. have been articularly harsh with the mem- rs of the Women's Swimming As- sociation, of which Martha Norelius 18 a member. The Women's Swimming Association | as an organization has done much more for amateur athletics than the A. A. U, and all of the organizations affiliated It is & pity thay she | the from Comparatively Honorable. ASING one's notion of amateur ath- letics conducted under the auspices of the A. A. U. on the allegation by amateur meets seem more like cering than sports. Certainly this of amateur athletics, | formers are paid under cover, is not to | |be compared with | honest professional sports Ramond Barbuti and othe where the pe the comparative stand C. C. Pyle As matters is | frank and honest person as compared | to some_of the promoters of amateur meets. openly—when he does pay them—and Mr. Pyle pays his performe: It seems that this But the starting blocks; made D. C, FRIDAY. JULY. 12, 7929 always is ready to permit his certified check to pose for its photograph when he has a certified check. Also the professional athlete has his independence. He can compete The athletes who submit to the petty tyranny of the A. A. U. cannot. There was the case of the girl swim- mers of the Women's Swimming As- sociation who went to England to enter into competition for which they were recelving no money. The A. A, U. ruled that if they competed they would be barred from partici- pation_in the Olympic games. The A. A. U. reserved the right to make their bookings for them, The A. A. U. annoyed Dr. Peltzer, the German runner, by arbitrarily select- ing his meets for him, There was some- thing & bit sinister about this, some- thing that is in line with the allegations made by Barbuti, the same allegations which the A. A. U. has been evading | all year. Now it seems that the price of Barbuti's restoration to the sort of amateurism fostered by the A. A. U. is a guarantee of silence. Apparently it might be a blow to | the amateur athletic racket if the A A. U. were forced to follow through on the charges. l when and where he pleases. 0| 'PAIR OF OUTDOOR RING SHOWS FOR NEW YORK NEW YORK, July 12 (#).—Two out- it | door shows are on the metorpolitan cal- endar tonight. At the Long Beach Stadium TLeo Mitchell and Dave Shade, rival Califor- nia light-heavyweights, clash in the feature 10-rounder. | At Rorkaway Playland Stadium Ruby Goldstein, former lightweight con- tender, and Billy Drako are to provide the principal entertainment. MASTRO TO SHOW SKILL IN HOME RING JULY 18 CHICAGO, July 12 (#).—Earl Mas- tro, Chicago’s contender for the world featherweight champlonship, will make his first appearance in_his home city as a headliner July 18 at Mills Stadium, Mastro, who recently defeated Fidel Labarba, will meet Billy Shaw, Detroit vetera r- ly a TS | partners—I have that touch. SEES JULY 18 FOE AS COMING HEAVY Thinks That He Will Become Contender in Top Class in Another Year. BY TOMMY LOUGHRAN, Light-Heavywelght Champion of the World. OOSICK FALLS, N. Y, July| 12—My training up here has been perfectly satisfactory so far. 1 have never been more pleased with my work. Of course, there are still some pounds to | get off, and that is always bothersome. The job is getting harder all the time, but when I go into the ring July 18 | against Braddock I am convinced 1| will have enough strength and speed to | retain my title. You know a man gets the feel of himself when preparing for a fight in much the same manner that a golfer gets that vaunted “touch” when he is in & tight match. In boxing with the boys up here—and I have good, strong I'm hit- I feel ting straight for right, What a difference the last time T de- | fended my championship last month in Chicago against Mickey Walker! I was suffering from a cold and partly con- gested lungs, and when the bell sounded I felt Mke anything but a fighting man This match with Braddock means more to me than any I've ever had.| In the first place, I'll be plaving to my biggest gate. In the second, If T beat the great Jersey slugger no one can deny that I have cleaned up the light- | heavyweight field. No one can deny | my right to be in the thick of the struggle for the title Gene Tunney left vacant. 1 think so highly of Braddock's abil- ity that I believe that within another | yeer he will be among the leading the target. heavyweight contenders, and that T may | have to meet him again in that ca-' pacity. There would be nothing bet- ter than for me to get the bulge by whipping him this time. | Among the things I've been working | on here is perfecting my defense | against a right-hand wallop. Some | folks may think me overconfident. I'm not. It isn't my intention to let Jim | get a free shot at my chin. There is too much dynamite in that right fist | of his to try any such thing. If he does get it over Tl accept the blame | and the punishment. Incidentally, as golf has become one | of the assets of a boxer, I'll have to | admit that my game is improving. | Though the course at Hoosick Falls is | not a difficult one, as there are no | traps or water, it is hard to score on | because the greens are small and slope away from a second shot. From my point of view the advantage lies in the fact that it is very hilly. Eighteen holes over that layout are a good test for legs and lungs. If you hurry along between shots you get the | advantage of several miles of fairly strenucus road work. (Copyright, 1920, by the North American Newspaper Alliance.) | PITCHER 1S SOUGHT. | A capabie pitcher is sought by a good midget class base ball team. Call Wav- erly at-Potomac 1487 before noon to- morrow. Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. DETROIT.—George Courtney. Okla- boma, outpointed Matt Adgie, Philade!- phia (10): Teddy Sandwina, Sioux Cits lowa, stopped Benny Touchston: Tampa, Fla. (7); Gene Stanton, Cleve- land, knocked out Tiny Grove, De- troit (2). BRIDGEVILLE, Pa—Sergt. Sammy Baker, New York, knocked out Cudd De Marco, Charlerof, Pa. (3). KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—W. L. (Young) Stribling, Macon. Ga., outpointed Jack Demave, Jersey City (8). GREENWOOD, Miss.—Joe Cook, New Orleans, andd Chico Cisner, San An- tonio, drew (10). CREAT TURF ARRAY ri N 50000 STAKE Victor in Big Race May Earnf 3-Year-0ld Title for 1929 Season. By the Associated Press. HICAGO, July 12.—The richest event of the 1929 racing season, the American classic at Arling- ton Park, will be decided to- morrow. The prizes for the winner probably will be the 3-year-old championship of the season, and $60,000 in added money—with the greatest field that has lined-up this year ready to go to the post for the mile and a quarter test Rain_yesterday promised a heavy track at best, but there were no indi- cations that any of the outstanding thoroughbreds would be_scratched for that reason. Col. E. R. Bradley, owner of Blue Larkspur, the favorite, said the winner of the Withers and Belmont stakes would start on any kind of a track. Supporters of Clyde Van Dusen, winner of the Kentucky Derby, were cheered at the prospect of a heavy or cven muddy strip, for it was in the nud and rain the son of Man o' War on the Kentucky event. Windy City, which won the American Derby in the rain, also was ready for wny kind of going. Preparations were being made to han- die a crowd of 50,000 or more, the advance sale of seats indicating the crowd would be the largest of the | Chicago season. The track’s day of days | will start with a luncheon tomorrow | noon, at which Vice President Curtis, Gov. Emmerson and Lieut. Gov. Sterling | will be guesis of the American National | Jockey Club. i MILLER AND VICENTINI TO BATTLE AUGUST 2 CHICAGO, July 12 (#).—Ray Miller, Chicago’s left-hooking lightweight con- tender, and Luis Vicentini, rugged Chilean battler, have been signed by Promoter Paddy Harmon to meet in the 10-round semi-final to the Sammy Mandell-Tony Canzoneri _lightweight championship match August 2. The winner of the Miller-Vicentini bout has been promised a championship meeting with the winner of the titular serap, Harmon holding contracts with both Mandell and Canzoneri binding the victor to defend the title within 60 days after the-August 2 fight, EIGHT POLO TEAMS IN JUNIOR TOURNEY By the Associnted Press. NEW YORK, July 12.—FEight teams including twn from the Middle West have been drawn for the first round of the national junior polo championship tournament which will get under way July 17 at the Rumson County Club Rumson, N. J. A team from Chagrin Valley, in Cleveland. will be composed of two pairs of brothers, Thomas H. White and W Holden White, the former Harvard cap- tain, and Leonard and Raymond Fire- stone. “The Midwest team” will include William Blair and Blarney Balding of Chicago. Nelson S. Talbott, Dayton Ohio, and Seymour Knox, Buffalo. First-round matches are scheduled for four successive days, starting on Wednesday, when the strong Roslyn team will meet Rumson The Greentree quartet will play Chagrin Valley ot Thursday, the de- fending champion Old Oaks of Rumson will meet Old Aiken a week from to- morrow and the United States Army plays the Midwest team the next day. Semi-final matches are scheduled for day and Monday, with the final a or two later. 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