Evening Star Newspaper, July 19, 1929, Page 19

SPORTS. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (o/8 FRIDAY, JULY' 19, 1929 SPORTS. 19w Base Ball Missionaries Carrying America’s Game to Far Corners of World THERE’S AT LEAST ONE IN EVERY OFFICE. UNITED STATES MARINES MAKING MANY CONVERTS Report Pastime Is Growing in Island Posts and in China—College Nines Also Doing Part in Spreading Diamond Sport. HILE the American Legion, the National Federation and other progressive associations are working to make base ball more popular in its native land, the colleges, big leagues and Marine Corps are taking the national game of the United Btates to almost every corner of the globe. And the converts are many; base ball missionaries are reporting success on every hand. The United States Marine Corps, for instance, is playing base ball and teaching it to the natives in Cuba, Haiti, Santo Domingo, Hawai, Guam, the Philippines, China, Nlcarag\xa, the Vlrgln Islands and Panama. “These people take to th» game very readily and are very apt,” says Maj. Fegan, athletic officer of the Marine TpS. “We have three teams in China play- ing against the natives, British and Japanese. “In Nicaragua we have two tecams Sandlot Almanac RESULTS. YESTERDAY. League. Cool N\GHTS _BREEZE ". A FAM... "WHERE | LVE-1T'S So I HAVE To HAVE COVERS OoVER ME, IN FACT \T'5 ALMOST Tao CHILLY+ VM ON THE RooF WHERE | GET A GREAT You NEVER SEE ME USE 1 THINK You FEEL " |"DoN'T BELIEVE IN THESS ELECTRIC FANS...ONE IS APT.To.TAKE A TERRIFIC COLD. ..gVVE HEARD oF SUCH THINGS.: PERS'NLY IM AGAINST. IT." 7 fuE WINDOW ou‘\' o co- ne ™M .,\s OUTs The window —BY BRIGGS MOORE OF YANKEES 1T WOULDN'T DRINK ICE WATER IF I WERE You..7 IT'S BAD FOR THE HEART. MANY' A MAN HAS KEELED - OVER AFTER DRINKING - A LOT OF \CE WATER " Pitching Sensation of 1927 Apparently Has Regained His “Sinker” Ball. GEORGE MORIARTY, Big League Umbpire. ID-JULY possibly has contrib. uted a_double base ball mir. acle. It centers around Wilcy Moore and Herb Pennock, | ‘Yankee pitchers, who. counted | out of the picture for the last ynr or more, seem back on the job Wi the stuff that made them famous. I surpose you recall that Moore was | tching sensation of 1927 and | made it possible for the Yankees to walk in under the October wire. ing intervals for the last two weeks | Moore has been sent to the ‘mound by You musT4GO - Manager Huggins and has responded | STAGES COMEBACK and the natives have two. The same is the case in Haiti, Panama, Cubz, Hawaii and other countries. “The Marines have encouraged the natives of all the West Indies to play bas2 ball and the game is popular with these people.” Collegians Go to Orient. University of Michigan is on a trip | to Japan to play a month or more against the best of the college and amateur teams. Nearly every year an American college team goes across the Pacific and the Japanese look forward with keen anticipation to these inter- national series. The Japanese in turn send their colleg> teams to America and manage to win many games. Of all foreign countries the Japanese have taken to hase ball most readily. ‘The game is popular in Japan, though in an amateur way, as was the case with its start in America. Great crowds attend the games over there and big parks have been built. A crowd of 25.000 is not unusual when an Ameri- can college team is playing the best team of Japan. Mexican Trip Planned. Now that the religious war of Mex- ico has ended, minimizing the possi- bilities of rebellions, organized base ball has its eyes on further invasions during the off season. Two big league teams may tour Mexico the coming Fall, start- ! ing after the world s Ban Johnson always had an idea that base ball could be popularized in Mex- | ico and spent much of his own money to that end. There may come a time when four nations will compete in organized base ball. Canada already competes, having two teams in the International League, Toronto and Montreal. At varicus times other cities in Quebec, Ontario and the western provinces have been | represented in American leagues. Havana May Join Loop. Next year, says Cliff Green, president of the Southeastern League, Havana very likely will be added to his circuit. ‘This will necessitate travel by airplane. If Havana comes in, then Miami will be added to complete the circuit. ‘Then later on Mexican cities may likewise compete, with four flags flying over America’s national game. Last year members of the American Legion in the Canal Zone paid all the expenses of a boys’ tcam to compete in the junior world series tournament. ‘These boys from Panama traveled sev- eral thousand miles. So base ball's expansion program i ‘being carried on all over the world, and the game is finding favor everywhere it is played. Also Working at Home. But the big effort is being made right here at home. The big leaguers are watching keenly the work of the American Legion and that of the Na- tional Federation. It seems to win converts in foreign lands. For here at home there is such | a variety of sport offered the boy that he often turns from base ball. A quarter of a century back the boy played base ball in the Spring and Sum- mer and foot ball in the Fall. In the ‘Winter he didn't play at all. Then came basket ball as a Winter sport. Soccer took some of the boys from the foot ball fields for a time. And in the Summer the boys found golf &ind tennis avallable. ‘The natives of many foreign lands do | not have facilities for golf, tennis and many of the other games so popular in America. And the good old game of base ball, carried to them by American | missionaries, is therefore making rapid progress, HOOVER NINE AHEAD IN INSECT SECTION OOVER PLAYGROUND nine to- day is heading the race in the Insect Section, Division B, in the Vacation Base Ball League as the result of swamping Nelghbnrhnod House tcssers yeswrdav,‘ Gevinson, Schwaner and Mad- | dox hl! hard for the winners. Hoovers | now have won four games and lost nene in the league race. Pullman and Express, arch rivals, were to face this afternoon on_the Terminal Y diamond in a game hav- ing an important bearing on the flag in the second half series of the Termi- nal Evening Loop. The game will start at 4:30 o'clock. H Pullman ncw is-in first place with four wins in as many starts while Ex- press, standing second, has won four | games and lost one. Post Office scored over Southern, 7 11 to 3, in the Terminal Morning Loop contests da) Lincoln Post squeeled through to a 2-1 victory over Victory Post in the opening game in the second half series | in the American Legion competition of { the Capital Cl!y u-‘ue. Lynch, for the winners, shaded Peregoy in a pretty pitching duel G. P. O. routed Treasury, 18 to 6, in the Departmental League. ~ The winners Hic hard benind the five-hit. pitching | of Helss. Calvary Baptist scored over St. Al- ban’s, 6 to 2, in the Georgetown Church | League. Chestnut Farms red consistently in the late inni Mc, 6to2in the Government League, Navy Y-ni routed Navy, 13 to 4. Two interesting games and two one- sided affairs were 's‘faged yesterday in drubbed Shapiros, 17 to 4. m‘-now:m:’or: o!'.hahrns TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN'S, 7th & F 8CO! to defeat Western | Industrial League. TERMINAL MORNING. Potomac Yards, 11; Union Carmen, 3. TEEMINAL EVENING. Post Ofice, 7; Bouthern, 5. DEPARTMENTAL. G. P. O, 18; Treasury, 6. INDUSTRIAL. Chestnut Farms, 6; Western Electric, GOVERNMENT. Navy Yard, 13; Navy, 4. GFORGETOWN CHURCH. Calvary Baptist, 6 St. Alban's, VACATION. Insect Section—Division B Hoover, 23; Nelghborhood House French Insect. Ruels, 17; Shapiros. 4. Benators.’ 1; Wonder: ebcar, 25: Nehi. 2. Corinehians, &; Hess, 5. CAPITAL CITY. American Legion Series. Lincoln Post, 2; Victory Post, 1. INDEPENDENT. District Piremen, 8; Army Headquarters, 8. District ‘Policemen. 6; St. Elizabeth’s, 3. Connecticut Cardinals, 12; Young A. Review and " Herald,' 9; State Depari- ment, GAMES SCHEDULED. ‘TODAY. Leasue. GOVERNMENT. TUnlon Printers G. P. O. TERMINAL MORNING. Rallway Malil Service vs. Capital Traction. TERMINAL EVENING. Pxpress vs. Pullman, DEPARTMENTAL. Naval Hospital vs. Ariculture. INDUSTRIAL. Thompson's Dairy vs. Big Print Shop. DEPARTMENT (Colored). @. P. O. vs. Veterans' Bureau. VACATION. et e s, o1 ave- e Tnd Third ‘sreet, 5o oo ave Peewee Sect Buddy Myers vs. Johnso nue and Third street, 9:15. TOMORROW. CAPITAL CITY. Insect Sectl Clyde Milans vs. Gallagher A. C., - | ment Dismond No. 4, 11 °E{°'=| c‘ s Th tars ’ vs. "Broo | Ciub. “Monument *Disiond, * No.© 3. %1 Corlnthln s va. Lionels, Monument Dia- ock. / , Missourl ave- mond SUNDAY. Unlimited. Brown's Corner vs. Brentwood Hawks, Bren w00 Miller kA:tea oo Bixte Pizs, Bladensbure. Press Cardinals vs. 5 Perk 3 oelock, s St. Joseph A. C. (diamond Tremonts (diamond to be THE HEAT MORE THAN EUER) WHEN You STOP FANNING " in a valiant and convincing manner. Recently there have bcen mild claims that Moore had regained his SECOND BASEMEN LEAD INFIELDERS Three and a Shortstop Have Accepted 14 Chances This Season. I 14 chances in a nine-inning game this season. That is high | mark for this year. It is not a high | mark for all years, but it is good. ‘The players who hold the 14 record, | good thus far for 1929, are Andy Reese, | New York, National: Hughie Critz, Cin- | cinnati; Oscar Melillo, St. Louis, Amer- BY JOHN B. FOSTER. OUR infielders of the major leagues other than first base- men hold a record of accepting | ican, ail second basemen, and Horace | Ford, Cincinnati shortstop. | _There are major league inflfld!fl who have bsen nimble in other ways | but these four are the king pins in ground covering to date. Drop one peg lower to 13 chances and one finds Gelbert, St. Louis Na- famous “sinker ball,” but his support- | ers were afraid it was only a flash in | tionals, who has pocketed 13 twice; the pan. But the claims have grown | Jimmy Dykes of the Athletics, ‘who College | e ©1919 MY RISt wiC .. stronger the last week, Shows His Old Stuff. | Though Moore had been looking bet- | ter each time on the rubber, it was in | the recent 14-inning game against Chi- | cago that he rose to his old heights. In the eleventh inning, with the score | §-5; Moore was acked to save the con- | st One was down, Kerr was on third base and Lyons on first. Moore faced Hoffman, a hard hitter, and struck him out with his “sinker ball.” Cissell | next slashed at the “sinker ball” and | rolled an easy grounder to Moote, Who threw him out to end the inning. It was against these batters that Moore | started to look like the Moore of 1927. | From then on to the end of the game, | which the Yankees won 6-5. Moore | turned in an exccllent piece of relief pitching. It was easy to note the re- PLAYGROUND BOYS Hayes and Cook Teams Are Winners. HREE track meets, preliminary to the city championship games to be held Wednesday, August 21, under the direction of the Municipal Playground department, were listed today. Emery and Wheatley were to face at Wheatley, to clash at Ketcham and Tenth and Evarts and John Burroughs were to meet at Tenth and Evarts. Conference meets will Tuesday when teams in the Eastern section will battle. In the championship games a boy may enter in only one event despite that they have been allowed to com- pete in more than one in the dual and triangular affairs which have been in progress the past several days. In meets yesterday Hayes drubbed P josph Al P A C. awarded forteit over Senlor. odEzMe Aces vs. Bostonians, No. 3, 1 ' Kakimans ve. Montrose. No. 3. 3 o'clock. , Brookland Boys' Club vs. Roamers, Nor & lock. an Furniture vs. Hartfords, No. 4, 3 eloc © Eifmans va. Aces, No. 3, 11 o'clock. Junior. Calhouns vs. O'Briens, No. 10. 1 olclock. O'Briens vs. Calhouns, No. 10. 3 o'clock. Vics vs. Lionels, Plaza, 3 o'ciocl Langlevs vs. Poiomacs No. 9. 1 &'clock. Murphy-Ames Ty Cobbs, No. 9, o'clock. American Lesion. Fight and Forty ve. Victors, Plazs, 11 Delano Vs 3 “m; V. Walcott, West Ellipse, 11 Washington vs. Spengler, West | EilpeeC] octor” Linco Eicht and Porty, Plazs, E vs. o'cloc! Bam West o'cioek. o' Tnseet. - | vs. Georgetown, No. 4, 11 | INDEPENDENT. TODAY. DO ol e oo v, Fort George Meade, Fort GQO!' O'R XHMC‘I Vvs. Meridian, Monu- -shlnncnak-':a Sox ' wofi te Oak, | ericksburg, Va. i TOMORROW. D. C. Police eris Helkhis! £ 2" ici A"f“:'"' b tate "!.ih”!nt’l .nd DH! streets ;'o‘r?he :Hl’ terer g hlx Pl']d. ’ N o Il vs. Phoenix A. C., Phoe- mA;my Medicos vs. Ross Counell, Walter 8te Gravs vs Buudlnx Shtinnd Ehevs nase Saserons, rox-u A C. vs. Friendship, Foxall Fleld, eloc s SUNDAY. irginia it Balless Crom!o:d:o Va2 odockr A O . V. Alexandria Piremen, Hay- Vi 3 o'cl fico Marine ot s. Guan 5. Friendehip Friends f":" ”5114". v:u onsin avenue near o'c] Washington douhle-hude,:. umon!%‘n:x’, ? 50 0'clock "™ Hiser's All-Siars, kl(eehmiuyllle. en nds, 3 ulx,;":" n Pire- e o'c] vs. Fewonn.ru'ke-. Pirel, 5o Naval Hospital vi sett's Fleld, Alexlxzdr!l‘ NaTS Oitlocy, B €., Clinton, Md., : co!lun als'vs. Clinton A ll),ylerm sprm-. mo a&i’" :: ';":: u:nu. double-header. Fori Washingion, GAMES WANTED. neclm Tolon . Blasterers (unlimited), m"m ) A“x"?n (untor). Atlantte 1902 §m F Netional 4305, grll":cl:‘m" 1 and Bond Breadmen pre- o row—Bolkvme A C. ; Ville (33T during the’ day or ‘Reckedts » { coln 4164, ‘;’““‘- Lcc. (unlimited), Lin- coln "“uu.:" ::: . (unlimited), Lin- coln 8158 i afier 6 pam. O '(unlimited), Lin- —Anacostia luu- unitmited). Fleld, % eress. S between 6:30 and 7 p.m. w—Corinthians > insect), Lincoln snungly—cablll #{m .hlnlflrr Order (un- BndayoMontes. A Go Cunimi Me- Con- Jefferson District _Pirem A C. Vi iy églnh Highia: e 176 G 8t. N.W. l‘bg’ | b | Peabody representatives, 1081, to 6625 points. Buchanan girls held an affair | among themselves "and Cook colored | athletes scored over Bruce, 50 to 35, | on_colored grounds. Summaries of yesterday's meets: HAYES PLAYGROUND vS. PEABODY GROUND. S Lo 50-yard dash—Won by Vermillion (Hayes): second, Babbineton (Haves): nira Abera (Hay Rinine broad jump_Won by B. Bole (Haves): gecond, Vermillion (Hayes); third, | Bosle' (Hazes 230-yard relay by Haves (J. Boyle, Babbington, Vermitiion, "B, "Boste); second, | Peabody. 85-pound Cla: 60-yard dash—Won by Eslin (Hayes): sec- gna. Lassise (Peabody); third, Murry (Pea. unning beard jump—Won by Glaze (Per 0dy); second. Strickland (Peabody); thire Sardo (Haves) Running high jump.-—Won by Hollis (Pea- Busher (Hayes) and Glaze (Peabods) Dok Tor second T e s v, Jenkins. Eslin) and Pea- body (Lassise, Yeager, Hoilis, Glaze). 100-pound Class. 60-yard dash—Won by Smith (Hayes): sec- ond. ~ Lassise (Peabody); third, Grant THiaves: unn brosd _ump—Won Smith (Haye): “second, Hoills (Beabody): third: Barber (Have: Running high Sump—Won E. Glaze (Pea- body) and L. Glare (Peabody), tle for first; second, Smith (Haves). 260-yard relav—Won by Havex (Buscher), Eslin, Barber, Smith): second, Peabody. us-pnnl 70-vard Aash—Won b: senskl (Haves): second. Sullivan CHyeny; hiedr Murrs CPen: Running_broad inmp—Won hy Rebernski (Haves): second, Mahoney (Haves); third. Smith (Haves). ool pning his h_inmp—Won by Yeager (Pan- dy): second, Miller (Hayes): third. Sulli- d relay—won by Hazes (Rebernskl, Sullivi second, Peabody. rd dash—Won by Fisipser body): “second, Rybeynski (i Jes Blanco (Peabody): Running__broad _jnmn—Wan by (Hayes): ‘second. Nuthall (Hayes); Rybeynski (Haves). otayen dm‘;h“"s Haves), e Tor aves) and He: ayes), Blanco (Pex Yeager (Peabody) (Pea- third, Gleger third, first: ek (Havess, md for third. and | ricke o le on by Eisinger (Peahody): T enoney CCHaves)s third, Ready e 440-; Jay—Won by Haves (Rybeynski, Mahones. Nuthall, Egan): second, Peabody. COOK PLAYGROUND VS. BRUCE PLAYGROUND. 85-Pound Class. - by Carter (Cook): sec- | g et d:bfiw’”th{r‘v McClecd (Bryce) on m't'"""\ o D ana " Watts (Bruce), tied for second. v ited Class. -1 sh—Won by H. Carter ’BMIX). ugn’dl.mlgo.:n ooy a8 ce). 4 Sump—Won by 8. Jackson M‘“&"' E R ong, Berry (Bruce); ihird, ams R ning high Jump—Won upping e e Y eBon) "srgxlu“ny d n‘unfv‘v'o"" 5 Sara dash- (000K3; ancond, Armatesd m (Bruce). UNLIMITED CLASS. ‘Won by Bryant (RTINS ProRd otmes | Bruce); third, Ailier tcoek) hlh jump_—Won__b; WEYERS Three More on Card Today. | Congress Heights and Ketcham were | start mext | |in the first of a series of dual meets | - BUSY WITH MEETS =& : ! | |the United States, (Cook); (Cook); third, Brown '(Coo Coo%) Tio%vard’ Selay—Won by Cook _(Carter, Brown. Johnson, Miller); second, Bruce. MEET AT BUCHANAN (GIRLS). und Class. dash—Won by Audrey Money: pieen Thomas, inird, Marserch Frilling. Fotato race—Won by Audrey Money; sec "Won by Audrey Money eutier; third, Margare ng. Novelty event (kangaroo relay)—Won by Jean' ‘Beutier: second, Margaret Prilling: ihird, Audrey Money. 85-Pound Class. second, Johnson W caro; second, Mary West; third, iey. High Jump_Won by Catherine Blanchard y West: dna Hi econd, va R Catherine Blanchard; third. u-ry West. "TOLAN ASSERTS HE WON CANADIAN RACE By the Assoclated Press. WINDSOR, Ontario, July 19.—Eddie ‘Tolan of the University of Michigan, 100 and 200 yard sprint champion of today charged he was. the victim of a “home-town de- cision” when he was adjudged beaten by kl’ercy Willlams in Vancouver last week. Tolan made the statement while passing through Windsor. He is en route to Europe with other athletes who are to tour the Continent. He sald he had pictures which show him leading Willlams by close to a foot at the finish. At the conclusion of the race, he said, the judges went into a lengthy conference, from which they emerged to announce that Williams had won by a close margin. “I have been beaten before” nld ‘Tolan, “but never have felt that I was pickeg second when I actually finished 'MANGIN MEETS DOEG IN NET SEMI-FINAL Gregory Mangin, Georgetown Univer- =ity net ace, is one of the four sur- vivors in the thirty-seventh annual Long- wood Bowl singles championship, as a | result of his victory yesterday over | Frank X. Shields of New York, national junior champion, in five sets, 6—0, 6—3, 6—8, 0—8, . Mangin came ‘within a few points of maklng it a straight- set victory and then had a hard time pulling out the match. Pritz Mercur, No. 7, national netman; John Doeg of Stanford University, and J. Gilbert Hall of East Orange, N. J., national clay court champion, are the other three survivors. Mangin will meet Doeg, while Hall faces Mercur in the battle for position in the title round. Mercur eliminated Sadikozu Onda of Japan, 6—3, 9—7, 6—2 in the quarter- finals; Hall scored over H. H. Hyde of Hartford, Conn., 6—2, 3—8, while Doeg coasted through hl.! ‘mateh with Weller B. Evans of Orange, N. J., 6—2, 6—2, 6—2. One upset marked the women's quar- ter-final_singles play. ;guareel of Kansas City, who had surprised by de- feating Sarah Palfrey in an earlier round, bowed to Mrs. Lawrence Harper by vm-rlnt San PFrancisco, 6—4, 6—2. | 'HERE must be few golfers whosz minds are at once so well regu- lateu and so intolerably prosaic nat | hey do mnot believe certain cou! be for them lucky or unlucky, Bernard Darwin in the London Times. “The bellef that a course is lucky is one to be cherished, but I only know ne way of doing so successfully for ny lergth of time, and that is never |to play there. It is akin to the faith which some of us have, though we may y | Keep it to ourselves, in a certain tie or | pair of stockings. 1f we wear them too often the magic departs. I possess a drawer full or these faded disillusion- ments. At long intervals I turn them over with fingers at once sad and rever- ent, remembering how the mighty A ! bowed the knee before th= knitted one, | while those garish stripes were too much | for B. Alas! the end of the story is always the same; the pitcher went once Straight Off Tee Sherwood Forest's golf course was in | excellent condition for the large field of golfers who started play in the ! fourth annual tournament today. Nearly | {60 players from Washington were among the entrants in the tournament, | which began with an 18-hole qualifying | round. The customary twin rounds of | match play are scheduled for tomorrow, and the event will end on Sunday, with the semi-final and final rounds. ‘Woman golfers of Washington are to | | gather Tuesday at the Beaver Dam | Country Club to compete in a miniature | tournament arranged by the Woman's District Golf Association. Mrs. William S. Corby, president of the association, has requested all entrants to be at the first tee ready for play at 9:30 o'clock. Two golf events open to amateurs | in this ucthn of the country are to be | held at the Bedford Springs Golf Club, | Bedford Springs, Pa., early in August. An_smateur-pro best ball event is to layed on August 4, while on August 6 the annual invitation tourney of the club will be played. Several Washington | golfers are at Bedford Springs at pres- | rm and some of them may stay at the esort to play in the twin tournaments. Officers on duty at the Naval Academy downed a team of officers representing the Navy Department in a team match at Sherwood Forest yesterday, 1072 THE SPORTLIGHT y GRANTLAND RICE action of the Yankees with Moore side- arming his wicked “sinker” past the knee-line of the Chicago batters. They | were the Yankees of old and played like demons, spirit and all, when they sensed that Moore had his old stuff. Moore's every pitch reflected confidence in himself. After enjoying a banner year in 1927 Moore, for some unaccountable reason, showed a reversal that puzzled the' base ball world. Evervbody wanted to | know what was wrong. Even Moore could not explain how he had lost the “sinke® ball.” He didn't complain of a sore arm, still his effectiveness had left him in a strange manner. Credit Is Due Huggins. Players observed that Moore was pitching high across the plate, entirely | contrary to his pitehing policy. Often he was wild, and when he did get the ball over he was hit unmercifully. Next, he lost his chance to pitch regularly, and later he became a forgotten hero merely an occupant of the bench. If Moore now really has regained his “sinker ball” the Yankees must be ac- counted dangerous foes all the way to the wire. Not the least of the credit | for Moore's apparent return to form be- | longs to Huggins. There are managers who would have said good-by to Moora by the waiver route. Huggins. true to | | his conservative style, just sat back and took the outside chance Mcore might | Now it looks as if | too often to the well, and C, an utterly | ignominous person, with a chronic half- topped slice and a faculty for jumping bunkers, consigned stripes to a per- | petunl retirement by a matter of | 6 and 5. “There is a difference between a belief in a lucky course and a belief in a lucky tie. It is capable of a rational explanation, though often an unflattering one. If we are short we shall find as likely as not that our lucky course is short also; if we are long and erratic misfortune dogs our steps where the fairway and the rough are clearly defined and there is plenty of heather. A course where all the out-of-bounds hedges are on the left gives the slicer a strange sense of happiness and well-being, for which he may bes at a loss to account, but which his kind friends will be ready to explain to him. Like Mr. Blotton of Aldgate, they will ‘presume to state a ‘view of the case as degrading as ridiculous.’” All of hiwch is undeniable true. A short | while ago a certain chronic hookerino | pronounced a certain mild course as| one of the hardest and one of the worst | Teturn to greatness. and one of the unluckiest golf courses he ever saw. I played there a few days | later and discovered there were three or four out-of-bounds and three or four | patches of deep woods to the left of the course, all perfect targets for a brisk hook. If these hazards had been to the | right of the course to catch a slice what a difference of opinion! The same golfer, knowing his inbred faults, should select’ a course 1o match them. Why | not, you may ask, cure the faults? Why not—and again, why not? It can be done, but it so rarely is. Only one golfer in a hundred has the patienc to attend to such a job. That is why opinions | concerning “goif courses are so often different. It often depends on how a | course fits the player's game—or doesn’t | fit it. 1 Same for Ball Parks. MODERN ball parks work out in the | same way for modern hitters. ball players were switched around there would b2 a big change in home run records. Mnnv might do better and | many others do much worse. Ruth hasn’t been particular about where he | hits his homers in the past, but you will find that many others pile up most | of their home runs on certain home grounds. Given the modern ball and certain short right field barriers Sam Crawford would have averaged 100 home runs a $30,000 Stock of OUR LOSS IS points to 7%. The Spalding Top-Flite Racket is the game’s fastest r head gives perfect |balance and allows tighter stringing. The openthroatgivesextrawhip!” $15. Other Spalding Rackets bat. The lighter, Jfrom $3. up. The Spalding Feather-Lite is lighter by 4 ounces than any other sneaker made. It gives you extra speed to get to some of those balls that used to aces. 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In the 13 class as well as in the 14 class the second basemen have ex- celled and the truth is that the second basemen, as a group, have been playing better base ball this year than the shortstops. FORMER FOOT BALL STAR HEADING FOR MAJORS By the Associated Pre:s. “Phoney” Smith, one of the greatest foot ball heroes ever produced at Mer-~ cer University, appears to be making & name for himself in base ball on the Huntington, W. Va., Club. Smith was said by some sport scribes to be among the South’s greatest foot ball and basket ball players in his day at Mercer, but he took his base ball lightly. Now it appears that sport writers in Huntington and elsewhere regard “Phoney” as a likely major league base ball prospect. They say Smith is a good fielder, & good hitter, has 2n excellent throwing arm and he goes around bases like fire around a celluloid collar. the Yankee manager might reap mani- fold dividends. Southpaw Pennock has stepped back into the limelight with a consistent showing of his old form. Pennock’s arm went dead last year and made him | of little use until recently. Both these stars can start games and serve as relief men, and if they are as right as indications lead one to believe the Yankees' mound staff may have re- covered about 30 per cent of the po- tency it once enjoyed when Moore and Pennock were at their peak. (Copyright, 1929.) Auto Bodies, Ra Repaired; also New Ra non Harrison Radiators and Ci statts, 1809 14th Nonh 7111 15th, 1% Block Bel ST-N- Auto Accessories Tlres and Tubes to Select From YOUR GAIN SALE NOW ON All Fixtures for Sale’ 9th Near H St. NW. WhiteDuckTrousers'designed Jor playing comfort. Care- fully made of sturdy duck. 3.50. Spalding Flannel Trousers in the new English model with pleated front and higherback. Better fitting and Tennis Shirts of finest white oxford. Take many a tubbing and come back smiling. 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