Evening Star Newspaper, July 16, 1929, Page 26

2 ORT Spirited Dueling Is CAPT. ALBRIGHT IS FACING BUSY TASK AS CHAIRMAN Keen Rivalry Among Leading Citizens of Nearby ity Promises to Enliven Competition 6 P Communi In The Star’s Forthcoming Event. OT the least important duty of Capt. J. C. Albright, as chair- man of the Culpeper, Va., section of The Washington Star's | horseshoe tournament, may be the settlement of disputes. The horseshoe editcr visited down there the other day | and got an earful from the citizenry anent the respective barnyard | golfing capabilities of Dr. H. B. Lacey, prominent dentist, and D. C. | Weaver, auto dealer. | Most of the information was supplied by the principals. i e ‘!;Xé"‘gverred Dr. Laccy, forefinger jabbing an expanded chest, “am | st | “But you,” returned the auto merchant, “seem to forget that I (with cmp.hamsl am around.” | wn..And L" observed George M. Jameson, towh photographer, | haven't had one of those things in my mitt for nigh on to 20 years, but I'll bet neither cf you can beat me.” 4 A slz;‘agle]portlon of the popula- | e ‘ tion o ‘ulpeper, we hear from | | Chairman Albright, is quite as| CULORED PchHERS | much ccgu;i;‘ne‘;l towr the forth- | coming battle between Dr. Lacey and Merchant Weaver than over | HAVE MATCH TODAY th“pI gutco{me |ol' th}? tkcurnnment. R | ope to get ‘em hooked up in the | first_round.” writes the captain, "andfm-,r"é,:!,‘,:'b;fid il ;:{Lb'x}r”“; PN Supervise the | today on the courts of the Rareback RNk tiavie o 5 | club” in a warm-up meet preliminary Hhoe: twirlers, ‘Dut 1 wouldn't.oe sur- | {0, The Washinglon Star's Metropolitai Prised If one of those chaps from the | District Horseshoe Champlonship Tour- nament for colored pitchers. hills Stepped in and grabbed the local| “Arthyr A, Greene, chairman of the 3 | colored _tournament, ~has _appoint= Time Limit Extended. | Jullus Wheeler to take charge of the News of The Star's tournament | Brentwood, Md., preliminary in which hasn't percolated Into some of the | a large entry is expected. back-country places, and a number of | Over at Falls Church, Va. the | chairmen have requested more time to| director will be Charles L. Tinner, as- | Tout out the horseshoe flingers. There | sisted by his brother, Melvin M., while | is no objection to entries belng held “their sister, Mrs. Frances Coates, will | open up to the day of play where it is | organize the woman players. | practicable. | “One of the warmest contests among | Some of the larger firms dealing in ' the colored pitchers of Fairfax County regulation pitching shoes and stakes will be at Hall Hill, according to Chair- | are doing an' unprecedented mail order | man Greene. | business. The official slippers are un-| “They can hardly wait for the action obtainable in most of the small towns. | to start out there.” he reports. and it is possible that the blacksmiths| — The colored Y. W. C. A. is organizing in some places will be given jobs turn- 1 group to compete in the championship ing out shoes not meant for horses. | tournament. To conform with regulations. a| All of the colored enteries should be | smithy-made shoe should not exceed sent to Chairman Greene at the Twelfth | 715 inches in length, 7 inches in width, | strest Y, M. C. A. | nor weigh more than 21, pounds. with | | the opening between the heel calks not | to exceed 3!, inches. No hecl or toe calk should project more than threc—‘ quarters of an inch. FOR CANZONERI FIGHT | Keen Competition Due. CHICAGO, July 16 (#) —Sammy | Tively competition is promised for the | Mandell was to go on display before champlonehip of Allentown, in Prince | the public today at his camp at the Georges County. Md. The tournament | Washington Park race track, where | there will be held as a feature of a (:h’} he will finish training to defend his | en the grounds of the Allentown school. lightweight title against Tony Canzoneri | Dell V. Padgett has been named chair- | at Chicago Stadium August 2. | man. : The champion arrived yesterday and | Four regulation courts are being in-| gas to take his first workout in the «talied on- the recreation field of the | ean Goday Canzoneri will establish roughs community and will be'his camp at the Garden of Allah on , with equipment, by Saturday.) Thursday, having been granted per- | Faymond Gilbert, chairman of the rec- | i CerA% A otar Paddy Harmon | reation and plavground committee of |45 remain in the East an additional two | the Burroughs Citizens' Association. will | f o1 have charge of the equipment. He runs © Gl e { arage out that way. 082 | 2 Bnie Fhe courts should apply to him.| POLICE VS. FT. WASHINGTON. Next Saturday has been set 8% the| 1, wi) be police versus soldiers at | nominal_deadline for entries, but t Idlers, - e veral days Fort Washington tomorrow when the P)::’;e:rlxgrfimlfiscm‘n13”:‘3;‘1, at the |Dine representing the bluecogts of the iy | the trip for a'battle on | eat of & number of chairmen. many | District. make ) e Tequest of & e O el tourna. | the diamond of Lhe down river reserva- | ments as large as possible. | tion. MANDELL WILL TUNE UP By GRANTLAND RIC Not Much Choice. Champion Vs. Champion. least three National ¢ just a chort while now C:rrltil -!gm- | Has ev, amateur golf cham- . HL!m% TGOX‘]:TJ! %rlfi,n‘n, g‘i]l bs on down the stretch for the last four years. ! : to the United States.| There will be no change this season | Teller will be accompanied by |when the Cubs, Pirates and Giants hit l League T Eustace Storey, Lord Charles Hope and ' the old September road with world Campbell, three famous teurs, who hopebmunt !\:;ln I r.n vith Bobby Jones for the bitter medi- | :m: he grs handed British amateurs in ' the final standing. the last few years. he is due again. beat Tolley by 12 and 11 at St. | McGraw_believes Doney Bush figures about | last ten races. There three fine Andrews CHe malled E e leaders in this pennant struggle, and margin in the Walker Cup |l 1 g:meiLr:::gChlcaxo Golf Club, lnd} it would not be surprising to see the on at Braeburn. But Tolley has oo Siaying & lot beiter golf this fea- son and no one ever has questioned his gameness, You couldn’t question the gameness of a. youngster who would drive a tank two miles through the | race closely tied up to the final week. The early dope favored the Cubs and there has been no reason to change it, except for the loss of Hartnett, & star catcher and a hard hitter. A gocd catcher means THE SPORTLIGHT ‘4 clube have been pounding together fweight, will meet Baby Sal Sorio, San Bernardino, Calif., Mexican puncher, in series money only a short hike onfone and drawing in the other. These three clubs are so well jSal was defeated decisively by Morgan atched that the breaks should decide jin a championship match here a few TH EVENING STAR, WASHI Promise THE GIANTS EAGLE CENTER-FIELDER OF & GIANTS, VIHO, THOUGH MORE THAN 36 YEARS OLD, APPEARS TO BE HAYING: THE BEST SEASON OF IS LONG AND ILLUSTRIOUS CAREER. Mtropotitan Newspaper Service Fdd J. Roush, Giant center fielder, seems to get better as he grows older. Certainly he has come out of his slump of the last two years, when his batting average slipped from .323 in 1926 to .252 in 1928. He was out of the game a lot with various ail- ments last season, but you'd mever know it to watch him playing ball this year. If Roush isn't the best center fielder in the National League then Hack Wilson is a_pacifist. In the first place, Eddie’s batting would keep him in any man’s out- field, even if he couldn't fleld or throw. But, man, what a fly-chaser he is! Surely nobody but Tris Speaker in his prime could go and get ‘em as old Eddie Roush doest He's on the job every minute, he's a er ‘at knowing how to play and he's one good, big v the Gilants may yet win nal League pennant. record since 1916, when he traded with the immortal * end Bill McKechnie to the for Herzog and Wade Killifer, not do him justice. In 10 does straight. vears with the Reds he bat- ted as low as 321 only once. and that vear he led his league in hitting for the second time. The figures show that he batted .350 for four straight vears with Cincinnati, but they { don't show that Roush finished sec- , ond or third in batting on three oc- 1 casions, once losing the leadership { of the league to Zack Wheat only because & game in which he had made three hits was thrown out of the records, : The great size of the Reds' park didn’t help Edd get any hits, either. ; He had to play half his games there ! tor 10 yeurs, while many other star 1 batters” were greatly alded by the % short flelds in their own home parks. i Now he’s benefiting, as & man should in his “old age, few breaks he * never got when he was younger. = st ¢ MACK AND SORIO FIGHT. LOS ANGELES, Calif. July 16 (®). Eddie Mack, highly touted Denver, Colo., featherweight and junior light- a 10-round bout here tonight. Mack twice fought Tod Morgan, junior light- weight king, in non-title bouts, winning Baby months ago. few in business can't be easily re- placed. Both Campolo and Braddock, these two especially, can start a lot of chat- ter by winning their battles this week against De Kuh and Loughran. Both run up against much greater experi- ence, and experience is a big part of the fight game. If Braddock can beat German lines and then open fire l.l close range on a dugout holding part | he had enough bad luck last year 101 more to & ball club than a backstop |Loughran decisively 1t will be more to handle a pitcher. There are not so many good ones around and the Tunney all along the line. than any other fighter has done, from | of the general staff. The British _contingent will be taken West to Pebble Beach, under the careful guidance of H. H. (Tack) Ramsay of the United States Golf Association, as competent an official as any amateur association ever had. They will arrive in time to learn the links, for Pebble Beach is a links and not a course, as it happens to be a seaside affair, That 15, it is seaside if you care to give the Pacific Ocean ranking among the seven seas. If the Pacific Ocean isn't seaside, then the Atlantic is a sand trap. | The Brit sh are much botter at seaside | golf and they are sure to like the great test awaiting them on the Monterey | Peninsula, where California intends to | ut on a golf show that will never be ?m’gntten, ‘And when California steps out to put on a show you can gamble your last cigarette that a show will be | put on worth remembering for & long | time. Especially so with one Roger Lapham hanging around the wings and directing part of the sccmery. What California _wants is a final between Jones and Von E'm or Jones and Tolley. | It may get its wish. About 50-50. HE United States of America hasn't | s0o much to reve absut when it| comes to amateur golf championships | in comparison with the British. Waiter | J. Travis, born in Australia, whose goll | was entirely American, won the British | amateur in 1904. Harold Hilton cam® | over and made it all square by winnin~ | our championship in 1911, Jess Sweetser put the United States 1 up by winning the British tit'e in 1926. | So United Sta‘es golfers have won : Name (print) .ceececcscccsnse Address (print) ciceceseescees Phone,-if any (print) ..ceeee. If in Washington, state the playground nearest your home ment in which you desire to, participate (print)...... British amateur title in ¥ In that time Bobby Jones Entries should be mailea twice, Travers _twice, Chick Evans three times, Ouimet munity tsurnament. three times, Sweetser twice, Gardner, Marston, Fownes, Gunn, MacKenzie nd many others, But with the exceptions named they were all killed off. usually early in action. Johnny Dawson had a great chance when he reached the semi-final round 3 up and 3 to play. But he couldn't quite make it, even with that funning start. i Seaside golf is different. pros of the country discovered that fact at-the National Golf Links -last Sep- tember, when the best they could do was to tie at 302. And most of them HUPMOBILE R R ve ot the National WILLYS the back tees, s good for anybody. ; Seventy-five hwul “:e finkeeexxlol( at Pebble Beach, w! a ing. The wind is the greatest :}°:11 'hlnrfls and the finest test 5§ control. of all-around i Pritish invaders will have tions the P ¢y notify my friends end the c Q ‘There a | others might enter from or P. E. England. But two of the hardest men Jones | will have to face will be George Von Eim and Johnny McHugh. Xx’ can | play a lot of golf and w, Peb- Sterrett & Flem: Washington Star Horseshoe Pitching Tournament (Championship of District of Columbia and nearby Maryland and Virginia) Entries Close July 20. Play Starts July 29 ¢ If in Maryland or Virginia, state town or community tourna- to the Horseshoe Editor of The Star, or delivered to the chairman of your town or com- Announcement generel public that I 10 er reughly modern plant for the repair end servicz cf KNIGHT WHIPPI1 n Thursday, July 18th t 1909-11 M St. N.W. WISE formerly service ‘manager with ing for 6 yeers iTON. D. €, TUESDAY. JULY 16, 1929.° SPORTS.” in Horseshoe Pitching Tournament at Culpeper BY FEG MURRAY I ATZ NOW IS REPORTED AS WHITE SOX MANAGER CHICAGO, July 16 (#).—The often | recurring rumor that Russell “Lena” | Blackburne, is to be relieved of his | duties as manager of the Chicago White | Sox, again has been revived. | It was reported yesterday that Jakie | Atz, who recently resigned as manager | | of the Fort Worth club of the Texas League, was on his way to Chicago to diseuss business with the Sox manage- | ment. TWO CLUBS NEEDED 10 STOP MACKMEN Percentage System Reveals | Way Flying Club May Be Beaten Out. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, July 15.—In mid- July, as the pennant races | grow hotter, it is of interest 10 record that a major league team or a team of any other league could win a pennant simply by defeating each team in its circuit by one game on the series of 22 games played with each rival in the arrange- ment of 154 games in a season. Each team plays 11 games at home and 11 away from home with every other team, ‘To win on that basis a team would have 84 victories and 70 defeats, with a percentage of .545. No major cham- pionship ever has been won by a per- centage as low as that. The St. Louis | | Nationals won their pennant in 1926 | with a percentage of .578. That is the lowest figure on record. It is 33 points above .545. In winning a major pennant there are times when the championship team of & Jeague loses one series to a certain club. There have been times when it lost two series. In a red-hot race, what a team may get from the tail-end teams, against which it may be specially | | strong, it can lose to teams that are higher, Percentage System Sound. If it is very strong against the sec- | !ond division, stronger than any other | team in the circuit, it has a fair chance to win. That is where the percentage system is sound in determining pen. nants. There would be endless con fusion if it were attempted, as it was in the old days, to award a pennant on the number of victories that a team | might have, regardless of the percentage | of the whole. A team would assert that it won 15| games from one club, 15 from a third and claim the championship on the strength of that, regardless of the fact hat it had lost three series, 9 to 13, ‘good work, by losing more than a fifth to three other clubs. Those are the kind of claims that were made in for- mer days when percentage was not in effect. It is a fact that the National League was last of all leagues in adopting the percentage system, the owners seem- ingly not being good at figures. When they did adopt it the wiser men in the league drew a big breath of relief. ‘The Philadelphia Athletics have al- ready won about one-fifth of {%¢ cham pionship of the season of 1929 from the Washington and Boston clubs. They ean lose a _championship despite that to two strong clubs. Just now the league is waiting to locate the two n"‘c:‘nz clubs that are to do that little | 8. ‘The closeness of the National League | race and the changing of positions in the American League race will, from present indications, bring about the ‘most prosperous season that major base ball ever has had. The Athletics are whooping things up with a percentage of above .700. To those who calmly predict that the Ath- letics can win by such a percentage attention is called to the fact that only | one club in the American League ever | won a pennant with .700 or better, and | that was New York, in 1927, with .714. | In 1909, when the National League had an unbalanced circuit, Pittsburgh won a pennant with .724, which was great, but there has been nothing like | .700 since then. In 1906, Chicago won | with .763, and the next year dropped | to .703. In the year following, 1908, Chicago slipped down to .643, and wouldn’t have won then if an extra game had not been tossed into the hopper by the National League directors when they dipped into the Merkle mat- ter. | MARTIN, FIGHTER, AGAIN- 1S IN HOSPITAL HERE Bob Maitin, heavyweight boxing champlon of the A. E. F.. is again un- dergoing treatment at Walter Reel Hospital. He has a muscular trouble, but his_condition is not considered se- | rious. Physicians expect him to be HL‘ the hospital in the past in efforts to get in the best condition. JONES TO FIGHT MAHAN. | LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 16 (@).— | Gorilla Jones of Cleveland and Fred | Dummy” Mahan, El Paso, Tex., deaf | mute. have signed for a 10-round bout at 148 pounds here August 20. i AUGUST 12 SELECTED FOR LEGION PLAY-OFF| August 12 has been set as the date for the play-off between the first and second series winners of the American Legion base ball tournament here. One of the finalists will be Lincoln Post, which won the first series. Originally it was planned to play twice around, but the split series was instituted instead. Lincoln Post romped through the first section of the schedule. Saturday, Sunday and some midweek contests will be scheduled by Director W. W. Watt. The tournament must be concluded before August 15. Victory and Lincoln will clash in the second seres opener on Thursday at 5 | o'clock on one of the Monument lot diamonds. quired to play two games a week. The Vic Sport Shop and will_meet_Sunday in a pl nel teams y-off game for the first section championship or' the Capital City League juniors. Competition in the second section will get under way Sunday. The Mard- | feldts and Corinthians have withdrawn, leaving eight clubs to fight it out. RUTH AND OTT DO MOST OF HITTING FOR BIG SIX By the Associated Press. There was a general downward trend in the big six batting averages yester- day with two notable exceptions. Babe Ruth went to bat five times against | Detroit and got three hits, including | his twentieth home run of the year, for an increase of five points. His mark now is .347. Mel Ott got two out of four against £t. Louis for a rise from .326 to .328. All the others lost ground, the big- | gest decrease going to Paul Waner, who dropped five points by faliing to hit. Jimmy Foxx lost four and held first place only through the one-point loss by Heinle Manush, The standing: G. AB. Foxx. Athletics.. 83 295 Manush, Browns. 83 341 Hornsby, Cubs... 88 308 RUCh. Yankees .. 63 236 60 P. Waner. Pirates 79 310 74 Oit, Giants 308 85 TY MAY BUY. Ty Cobb, the reports state, wouldn't mind buving_either the Brooklyn or Philadelphia National ball clubs. < Gillette bats 800 in Was?hingtqn Look for the store with the Gillette Barrel Window Display — it’s your headquarters for shaving comfort. GENUINE Gill In order to complete the schedule on time each team will be re- ‘BLACKHAWKS GET HOME FOR HOCKEY CONTESTS CHICAGO, July 16 () —The Chi- {calo Blackbawks, the orphans of the National Hockey League last season, | will have'a home next Winter, | Maj. Prederic McLaughiin, owner of | the club, and C. R. Hall, president of | the Coliseum Building Corporation, ves- | terday reached an nagreement under | which the Blackhawks will play 22 | games in the Coliseum between No- vember €1 and March 18. |~ An option for additional dates, de- | pending on_whether the team reaches | the play-offs, was obtained by Maj. | McLaughlin. 2 The Blackhawks beceme homeles: | Inst season when the Coliseum was re- quired for other purposes and finished | their schedule on the road. BROWN CAN GO THROUGH WITH HARTFORD BATTLE CHICAGO, July 16 (#).—Al Brown, | Panama bantamweight, who recently was suspended by the National Boxing | Association, will be permitted to fulfil | & contract at Hartford, Conn., Jiily 25 before the suspension becomes effective. | President Paul Prehn of the N. B. A, yesterday ruled that Brown might meet Young Battalino of Hartford, the con- | tract _having been signed before the | suspension was_imposed. | _Brown and his manager Dave Lu- | miansky, were suspended for not fulfill- ing a contract for a bout in Copen- hagen, Denmark, and for advertising Brown as N. B. A. bantamweight cham- pion. The body has recognized no one as champion of the division. BASE BALL SALES DECLINE. Julian W. Curtis, president of the biggest sporting goods makers, has this to say abour the falling interest in base ball: “Where our sale of equip- ment in ether sports is going up in |leaps and bounds, our base ball sales are steadily falling off.” MOHAIR SUITS $18 Open & charge account EISEMAN'S, 7th & F PROTECT YOUR SHAVING COMFORT INSIST ON GENUINE GILLETTE BLADES AN AMAZING AVERAGE butit’s a fact that eight out of every ten men who shave in this town shave with Gillette Razors and Blades. 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