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SPORTS, o5 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1929. SPORTS. Two Training Camps for Griffs Likely : Cuyler Hopes to Shine in Series Again HURLERS TO GET ONE SITE, FULL CLUB OTHER, IS PLAN Chattanooga May Be Field for Assembly of Entire Squad—Birmingham Favored for Conditioning Ground of Nationals’ Batterymen. BY JOHN B. KELLER. WO training sites are likely to be used by the Nationals next Spring if their lone scout, Joe Engel, successfully completes ne- gotiations for the purchase of the Chattanooga franchise in the Southern Association. Engel now is in Chattanooga and so is Secretary Edward B. Eynon, jr., of the Washington club. Aided by the Washington official, the scout hopes to get possession of the Lookouts soon. It is understood by those in close touch with the Washington club office that Engel has been assured by the officials of the local base e training of the club next Spring will be ball organization part of th done on the Chattanooga grounds, should he procure the franchise. However, it also has been stated that if Chattanooga is selected as a training site the Nationals’ batterymen will begin training earlier on some field farther South than the Tennessee city. President Griffith has said it IhTheh“t’}?slt‘llnfinltonl;{cs“:m“ z;:l:nlcndm : v in | though. tha o 18 tussles with major would mot be warm enough in| G5 0 cjuns during the training Chattanooga for the proper condi- | tioning of his pitchers at the time they would have to begin prepara- tion for the 1930 campaign in the AmericaniEcague SEEROUI 1o played too many exhibitions for their A e aine t{‘%{,"u"?fill;l‘::r%;: | good in recent years, and believes a cur- he Tennessee city un Y had | jajieq schedule in the Spring might bad at least two weeks of train- jeave them in better trim than for- ing in a milder chmatle. 5 merly for the opening bell. Griffith has declared the Nationals' training season next Spring will not be Griffith Likes Birmingham. A< long as it has been in the past few | While no site has been sclected for feare.® He has intimated that the bat- | the training of the pitchers and catch- ferymen will not be asked to report for ers, it is known that President Grifith conditioning work until about March 1| her favors Birmingham. Ala. The S that the full squad probably would | Barons have a fine plant there, and on 0t be assembled until about March 15. | the average the weather in the Ala- st buma metropolis during the first two Would Cut Training Games. weeks of March is mild enough for the Such a curtailment of the training ' work that would have to be done. season would, of course, reduce greatl Then, too, the Birmingham club {he number of exhibition games for the would be pleased to offer its quarters Nationals It probably would mean the | to the Nationals for training purposes. club would mnot swing into contests | it is understood. And this readiness of With other outfits until near March 20. | the Barons to co-operate with the Na- That would make the training-tilt list | tionals might influence the local offi- at least a dozen games shorter than it | cials in the selection of a training camp has been in the past few Springs. for the Washington hurlers. period would be sufficient to perfect team play and have his club in readi- ness for the opening of the American League championship season. Griffith has about concluded the Nationals ball managers can be judged- DOWN THE LINE WITH W. O. McGEEHAN. J ball managers. Miller Huggins. York Yankees that team w three world championships, two straight games. It was Wilbert Rol manager in a rival leag pliment. He was frank enougl 1927 and 1928 were the most formida The legend alwa: tory of base ball. Orioles of the days of Robinson, Mc the greatest team of all time. In disparagement of Huggins it had unlimited funds at his comman To this Huggins, man, with no eye for the theatrical, but concen when he needed them. made the best retort. After the Yankees won their first | world series of four straight games somebody asked Mr. Huggins what wete | the chief requisites for a successful manager. Mr. Huggins replied laconi- cally. “Players.” It was said that anybody could man- age a team like the Yankees. with Babe Ruth and an array of sluggers and some first-class pitchers. But there is where they made a great mistake and underestimated the modest little man who (ook the Yankees out of second | division and made them the most spec- tacular and successful base ball team of the latter days. I am convinced that no other znager could have handled the strange collection of temperament that made up the great Yankee base ball team., Huggins had the patience and the understanding to manage the strange and wild mentalities that were on the team. Ruth, perhaps the greatest modern base ball player and certainly the greatest box-office attraction that base ball ever knew, had to be “handle He could not be driven. If the Yan- kees had a manager who was less self. effacing than Huggins there would have been plenty of trouble on the Yankee | base ball team. Huggins, who was a| keen and quiet student of tempera- ments, made this collection into a co- | herent machine and, according to the | admissions of unprejudiced students of | base ball, one of the most powerful base badl teams in the game, if not the | most_powerful. Huggins always avoided the lime- light. Where other managers sought it and always were ready to take a bow for the success of the team, Huggins rarely had anything to say. When asked for predictions in ad- vance of a base ball season he always was modest. When the Yankees were not in first place, where the fans seemed constantly to expect them to be, Huggins took the change of fortune_ philosophically. So far as I can remember, Miller Hug- gins never advanced an alibi for himself | or his team. If criticism ever even an- noyed him he never let it be known. Because he was what is known as a| graceful loser, there were some Who labored under the misundersginding that he lacked the fighting spirf. He had plenty of that, but he never blustered. There was as much of the real fighting base ball spirit in that nar- Tow chest of his as there was in the breast, of any member of the old Orioles, | who were famed for the fighting spirit | of base ball. Player and Manager. ILLER HUGGINS was one of the tribe of hardy old ball players de- spite his apparently frail physique. ‘When he played in St. Louis he was one of the great infielders of his day, and he remained actively playing until an age at which most of the ball players are | tired or chased back to the minors. Huggins was not for the minors. He had too much in the way of base ball brains and business brains. He was a qualified attorney, but he liked the game and wanted to stay with it. They dis- covered his capacity for management m 8t. Louis and they made him a manager in a<ountry where there were no mil- Wons behind him. Huggins used to tell one story that showed what a fight it must have been to keep that St. Louis team go- :ng from season to season. There was a time when one of his scouts came to him and told of a wonderful base ball player, an infielder, he had seen in Texas. Huggins saw this particular player and agreed with the scout on first glance. But there came up the question of money. The owner of the minor league club that owned the player wanted what Was a tremendous sum for a St. Louls | base ball club in those days. He de- manded $500 in cash. There was not that much in cash in the assets of the St. Louis club, and the opportunity and the player were almost lost forever fo Huggins. Finally they raised that huge sum. That particular player happened to be Rogers Hornsby, for whom, some years later, Charles H. Ebbets offered $275,000 in cash. It was in the St. Loluls setting wh:l'e Huggins kept a big-league team to- getggr, with practically no backing, that e showed his force as a manager. And yet his task in controlling the weird temperaments on the expensive Yankee team was the more difficult. UDGING from the results—and that is the only way in which base —Miller Huggins. the little manager as one of the greatest of the base In the 12 years in which he managed the New on six American League pennants and of the latter being won in four | binson, former member of the old Orioles and a | ue, who paid Miller Huggins the greatest com- h to insist that the Yankee teams of | ble ever got together in the his- vs had been that the ancient Graw, Keeler and Jennings formed always was pointed out that he d and that he got the players always a self-effacing little trated on the results, An Understanding Man. HE rule of Huggins over the Yan- with the temperamental Babe Ruth. In these emergencies Huggins exhibited an infinite patience and considerable quiei dignity. He never nagged the Babe, for that would have caused an ir- reparable breach, but when it was time for him to remind the Babe that the conduct of a base ball club required a certain amount of discipline he could act with considerable firmness. After the last clash Huggins and Ruth became great friends. The lit tle manager always had a great ad- miration for the huge Babe, and it was because of this admiration that he was able to study him, to under- stand and to sympathize. And that is what a manager of stars is sup- posed to have, especially when the stars are temperamental. In this re- gard Miller Huggins was the most successful of managers, not only of base ball teams but of all aggrega- tions that require sympathy and un- derstanding, with firmness only when firmness is required. Huggins was so completely self-effa ing that, despite his diminutive size, which might have made somebody el: conspicuous, fans seldom were aware of his presence on the ball field. But if he did not make his presence felt physical- Iy he certainly made it felt in the achievements of the Yankees. Retiring always, making his journeys with Charley O’'Leary, a player of his own time, Miller Huggins was the “little man with the little bag.” He was so re- tiring that, like other absolutely com- petent men of his disposition, it seemed that he had to die to bring to the at- tention of ‘the superficial-minded that he was one of the very greatest in his chosen work. Big League Leaders By the Associated Press. AMERICAN. Batting—Simmons, Athletics, .371. Runs—Gehringer, Tigers, 129. Runs batted in—Simmons, Athletics, | 150. Hits—Simmons, Athletics, 209. Doubles—Manush, Browns, 44. Triples—Combs, Yanks; Gehringer, Tigers; Miller, Athletics; Scarritt, Red | Sox, 15. Homers—Ruth, Yanks, 46. Stolen bases—Gehringer, Tigers, 26. losl:flg:hinx—(}rove, Athletics, won 20, NATIONAL. Batting—O'Doul, Phillies, .394, Runs—Hornsby, Cubs, 148. Runs batted in—Wilson, Cubs, 152, Hits—O'Doul, Phillies, 244. Doubles—FPrederick, Robins, 52, Triples—L. Waner, Pirates, 19. ‘Homers—Ott, Giants, 5 Philiies, 42. Stolen bases—Cuyler, Cubs, 40. Pitching—Bush, Cubs, won 18, lost & Klein, HOME-RUN STANDING By the Assoclated Press. Home Runs Yesterday. Klein, Phillies, 1. American League L>aders. Ruth, Yankees . Gehrig, Yankees . Foxx, Athletics . owe Simmons, Athletics . Alexander, Tigers .. National League Leaders. ~ Ott, Giants ..... . 42 Klein, Phillies . 42 Wilson, Cubs . .39 Hornsby, Cubs . .38 O'Doul, Phillies oo 81 League Totals. National American . Grand total ... AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Columbus. 1; Kansas City. 7. Indianapoliz, 1: St Paul ol Milwaukee. 7 Louisville, 8 Minneapolis, 10. kees was marked by several clashes | THE OLD FOX | Connem AND NO SMALL REASON THIS SEASON | | HE man behind the gun and the power behind the throne, so to speak, with the Phila- delphia_ Athletics this season has been Edward Trowbridge Collins, alias Sullivan, coach of A's and Connie Mack’s right<hand man, Imagine the combined brain power ' of the Philadelphia board of strategy —Connie, Eddie and Kid Gleason! There isn't much in base ball that those three wise men don't know about! But weTe getting off the subject. Eddie Collins played for Connie in the world series of 1910, against the Cubs, which was won by the A's, four games to one. Eddie batted 429 in that series, stole four bases SUCCESS OF “THE ATHLETICS —BY FEG MURRAY \\\\\\ \ [\ /%///l [ o N HAVE A Foxx ON FIRST BASE, BUT THE! HAVE ONE OF BASEBALL . FOXIEST OLD b??/j IN THE ) DuGgouT, 100, | “THE PERSON OF EDDIE COLLINS, ACKS RIGHT-HAND MAN/, FOR THE | and scored five runs, and is liable to be a thorn in the side of the Cubs again this Fall, but not in so prominent a fashion. _Altogether it will be Columbia Eddie’s seventh world series, and what an ovation the old boy would get if he should step up to the plate and rap out a timely bingle while pinch-hitting for some_youngster half his age! Col- lins is in his forty-third year now. He broke 1nto base ball in 1906 while a student at Columbia, using the alias of “Sullivan” in order to con- tinue with his fot ball at the Morn- ingside institution. That was before Jimmy Foxx was born! American League fans of the 20 EDDIE ths PLAYED (N & WORLD SERIES,, (4 with THE A5 AND WITH THE WHITE SOX)AND HOLDS NUZFEROUS imo%os Metropolitan lewspaper Service years or so following 1906 are fa- miliar with Eddie and his deeds on the diamond. They know how, when a pitcher got two strikes on him, he would reach up, take the wad of gum off the button of his cap, put it in his mouth, and then more often than not get a hit. His average for 21 seasons with the A’s, White Sox and A's again was .333, and he be- longs to that select group of veter- ans who have made 3,000 hits. He managed the Pale Hose from De- cember, 1924, to November 11, 1926, and acted as second baseman and pinch-hitter for Connie Mack in 1927 and 1928. In his prime he was one of the greatest of all at the keystone sack. HUGEIN ‘ESSENCE | OF SPORTSMANSHIP' Umpire Moriarty Lauds Him and Cites Examples of His Fairness. i 1 BY GEORGE MORIARTY, Big League Umpire. ILLER HUGGINS was the essence of sportsmanship base ball. IL was not sui prising that he harbored the utmost consideration for | others. |~ Whether the situation was wild or intense, he was always fair. Rather | than attempt to disparage the Athletics fhis Summer when the Yankees were | trailing them in second place, Hunginsi was first to admit that Connie Mack | had a potential machine and a possible pennant winner. | Following that memorable five-game | series when the Athletics met the | Yankees at the stadium last June, I| found the little manager in a receptive | mood. He spoke of an article in which I had highly praised the performance | and caliber of the Mackmen. | “So you think the Athletics have 8| great team,” he said with a meditative | smile. “Yes, you are right. They have a wonderful club, and they will be dan- gerous all the way, because they l'mvil great pitchers, outfielders and a grea catcher as well as an infield of capable performers.” “What I need most is pitching,” he concluded, reflectively. It is doubtful if any manager ever had a keener conception of a base ball player's worth, yet he was always will- ing to listen to the other le]low'&l appraisal. Some managers like only the seasoned player, but Miller Huggins could nurse along a rookie in fatherly | fashion. He derived a keen pleasure in super- vising the development . f Sam Byrd, one of his new outfielc vs, and Bill | Dickey, the great young catcher, this | Summer. Also I heard him pay his | high tribute to Cook. an infielder, and | Chapman, an outfielder, who are soon | to join the Yankees. Perhaps he saw | in these new players the raw material | for rebuilding the Yankees into pennant | winners. After disastrous years in 1924 and 1925, Huggins, by plugging up several gaps, won three consecutive pennants. | He took Tom Zachary into the fold| when everybody thought the veteran | southpaw was burned out. Zachary showed prominently in the world series last Fall and has pitched magnificently this year. ‘Three months ago the Yankees were playing the crucial series of the year against the Athletics at the stadium. It was a.smashing series. During an exciting moment a sample of Huggins’ sportsmanship came to the surface. The ball game was at stake on one decision. Bing Miller, outfielder of the Athletics, had raced diagonally down the right-field incline in pursuit of a line drive. His feet slipped and he went sprawling, but recovered in time to| | clutch the ball just inches off the grass | and end the inning by doubling a run- ner off first base. The Yanks contended bitterly that the ball had been trapped. Manager Huggins left the pilot’s seat on the bench and walked across the diamond to the umpire in charge, “Was it a clean catch?” he asked. “I am positive the ball was Dot trapped,” answered the umpire. “That settles it,” said the Yankee L“l?" in a tone of finality. ‘“Let’s play ‘The Yankees lost. (Copyright, 1929. by North American News- paper Alliance.) LITTLE MASTER TO MILLER HUGGINS. BY GEORGE MORIARTY. You ruled a base ball empire with ydur wand, Then dropped it for a penmant just SERIES INTERFERES - | | | | beyond. Three pennants in a row; a mammoth scheme, | The smaliest pilot and the biggest dream, "Little Master. The stadium, three decks of skyward stands, A tiny thinker held within his hands, A midget, you have heard the loudest cheers, And fashioned rookies into great careers Little Master. Your Yankees leaped and plunged along their course, But lo, behind it all, you were the source: » More than the bludgeon making foemen weak, By genius you pushed power to its pea Little Master. In silence you had built a super clan. What leader dares to dream across that span? Your trail bedecked with gatlands for each race, You were the mite who set a mighty Little Master. Copyright, 1929. by North American News- paper Alliance.) BUCS LOSE GROUND INRUNNER-UP RAGE By the Associated Press. HE base ball stage was left vacant | yesterday except for the per- St. Louis. The Phillies defeated the Braves by 11 to 5 in the first game of a three-game series, cementing their position in fifth place, and the Cardinals made it two straight over the broken Pirates by 4 to 2. The Pitts- burgh defeat left the Buccaneers only two games ahead of the Giants, with a week of the season to go. The clan McGraw has eight games to play; the Pirates have six. If the Giants can win six out of eight, the Pirates must take four out of six to prevent a tie. The task of the Giants, however, is by no means negligible. A deficit of two games is no mean handi- cap at this season. Ray Koupal held the Braves fairly well in check at Baker Bowl as his mates_pounded Messrs. Leverett, Perry and Delaney. Chuck Klein got his forty-second homer in the first inning with one on, and moved into a tie with Melvin Ott of New York for the league lead., Klein’s drive also tied the Na- tional League record set in 1922 by Rogers Hornsby and equaled this week by Ott. Frank O'Doul, the reformed pitcher, had a perfect day at bat, with three safeties and a pass. He lifted his av- erage from .391 to .394 and virtually clinched the National League champion- ship. Babe Herman has only .384 and has just six games in which to make up the deficit. FredFrankhouse and Sylvester John- son outpitched Ervin Brame to give the Cardinals their second straight over the Pirates. Bunched hits in the first inning settled the issue. The other National League clubs were not scheduled, and all of the American League entries remained idle because of the funeral services of Miller Hug- gins in New York. formances at Philadelphia and | | | | \ | | i | home here. WITH MACK'S SLEEP Connie Will Not Be Able to Take 30-Minute Nap as in Regular Season. By the Associated Press. HILADELPHIA, September 28.— It's pretty well understood out around Shibe Park that this world series fracas between the Athletics break in on C napping hour. Newspaper men who have the run of Mack's tower offices at the ball park have known the veteran manager's | daily routine for years, hence they can foresee how the' series will interfere with his sleep. Every day during the home games| Mack leaves for the ball park, ac- companied usually by Mrs. Mack, at 10:30 am. Formerly he would enter through the press gate. but not now. | This is world series ticket time so he dodges through a side entrance slips along the catwalk over a boiler room | and reaches the iron stairway leading to the tower unobserved. ‘There he takes care of his corres- pondence and receives the reports of his scouts. ‘Then, every afternoon at 2:45 p.m. the 66-year-old manager takes a nap on a red leather couch in his office suite. For 30 minutes he relaxes completely. But at 3:15, 15 minutes before game time, he awakens—has a sandwich and a glass of milk, then goes to the club- house and prepares his line-up. From there he takes his place on the bench, gets his famous wig-wagging scorecare in working order and directs the play of his team by a series of signals evolved years ago. A small black notebook in a vest pocket is part of the equipment carried to the bench. In it Mack jots down every player's weakness, and he can tell you why Brown can’t hit a high ball inside or why Jones goes better to his right side for ground balls than to his left. DEATH TAKES GOCHNAUR, OLD-TIME BALL PLAYER ALTOONA, Pa., September 28 (#).— John P. Gochnaur, old-time major league- base ball player, is dead at his Gochnaur played short- stop for the Brooklyn National League clubi n 1899. In 1900 he signed with Cleveland. Later he played with San Francisco and Los Angeles, Pacific Coast League. He umpired in the Interna- tional, Kitty, Three Eye, Middle At- lantic and York-Pennsylvania leagues. CUBS TO TAKE PRACTICE CONNIE DENIES MACKS CHICAGO, September 20 (#).—Connie Mack’s decision not to permit his Ath- letics to work out on Wrigley Field be- fore the opening game of the world series has not altered Manager Joe McCarthy's plans for the Cubs. e will take his men out to Shibe Park in Philadelphia October 10 to give them a chance to line up their sights. The Cubs will reach Philadelphia at noon the day following the second game of the series, giving them time to accept Manager Mack’s hospitality at Shibe | Park, PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. San Prancisco, 2: Los Hollywood. 8: Missi SHARKEY T0 FIGHT INNEXT BG EVENT Series to Be Held to Find Foe for Jack in Miami Ring Next March. BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS | | American League NO GAMES YESTERDAY. ST’ANDINVG’OP THE TLUBS. i | | hiladelphia S New York Percentage. [ | By the Assoclated Press. | EW_YORK. September 28.—Jack | Sharkey's spectacular knockout victory over Tommy Loughran N has established the Boston gob as one-half of the next “battle GAMES TOMORROW New GAMES TODAY New York at Wash. (2). Phila. at Boston Chicago at Detroit. St. Louis at Cleve! York at Wash. hila. at Boston. Chicgo at Detroit, ouis at Cleve. National League YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Pittsburgh, 2 Boston. 5: Philadel STANDING OP Square Garden, which has the sailor under contract for a bout at Miami, an- nounced he would not be used during the Winter eliminations, Instead he will be saved for the “big shot” at | Miami, when he is to be pitted against | want to share in the fun, { s Present plans are to match Loughran | New York against elther Scott, Maloney or von Porat at the Garden November 22. | Phil Griffith already has been booked to meet, | Broo<ly: an unselected opponent at the Garden | Cincinna November 18. 2 | Boston oMax Schmeling, the Téuton menace, | _Lost loes not figure in the Garden's plans at | ODAY this time. As soon as he has settled his | piieputen a5t L differences with the various boxing | Bosion at s, " ginunngtly o : . & fiyn at N Y. Ph New Chough Wiiliam B Casey. president of | Ciacianati at Chicigo. Boston at Broo the Garden, has declared he will have b ———_ nothing to' do with Schmeling until ! ;Fe;r Mocks” gets rid of Joe Jacobs,* CANZONEnl CLASSY s American manager. = | BY JOHN J. ROMANO. ! IN STOPPING MACK oNEW YORK, September 20—Phil e e | Scott is being considered as the Op- | py the Associated Press ponent for Jack Sharkey in the second |~ CHICAGO, = September 28.— The battle of the Everglades, to take place | (humping fists of Tony Canzoneri, for- el e TN DU M e jestBarwelght champlon. leve B ary AoTer yittorlo Cambolo| thrust (back theibld of Eddie Mack of gives him the call unless the local box- | penver for the right to challenge for T8 comssion decldes to forgive Max | ine world lightwelght championship. 3 Mack, rated as one of the best light- . SCott, a boxer, surprised the fans and | yeight prospects the West had produced Bl by standing up i, years, became a_technical knockout e o o {he bady and | vieiiu of tie New York Mdlins I the powerful blows to the jaw. Instead of aighth round of the main bout in the [ the British champlon being in danger : [ of ‘ knockout, it was the giant from the | Chicag0 Stadium last night . ihe the outstanding heavyweight available. 5 8 | This “outstanding heavyweignt” the % s | Garden hopes to find this Winter from = g £ | among Loughran, Phil Scott of England, | Egut Jimmy Maloney of Boston, Tufly Gri : ESes fith of Sioux City, Iowa; Otto von Po- | __ x Ers e G rat of Chicago and any others who may | Chicago_ 12115.16 17.10.15.94 50, | Pittsburgh 8 11113114184 63 ~13 7141 [] 41212 81 64559 kiyn. and Cubs is going to| F ‘onnie Mack's regular | Argentine who was in danger of listen- | ing to the chirping of the birdies. | Not a little credit for Scott's changed | tactics belongs to the resourceful Jimmy | Johnston. Little Jimmy certainly earns |the title of being the rejuvenator of | passe fighters. Johnston took Scott |away from the bright lights and laid the law down to the dour-visaged Eng- |lishman. Jimmy was the boss and made | this known to Scott before the fighter was in training 24 hours. Talking to Scott was not the full ex- | tent of Johnston's strategy. He had to | dope out some way to nerve the Eng- lishman and make him stand up under fire. What did Johnston do? He sim- | ply went out and dug up the roughest, lmughest fellow he could find for a spar- | ring partner and promised him $50 | | each time he knocked Scott down. Big | Bill Hartwell, the giant Negro, was the | | sparring partner Jimmy hired and the | | sessions Hartwell and Scott had were | fights every day. To the credit of Scott it must be said that he stood up man- fully under the rough stuff used and managed to stay erect during the two eeks he was in training. Y The thought occurs. what could Jim- my Johnston do with Young Stribling? 0’DOUL HAS A BIG DAY AS RIVALS TAKE REST, | With all the other members of the | big six idle through gaps in the sched- | | ule yesterday, Frank O'Doul enjoyed a perfect afternoon against Boston pitch- | ing, lifting his mark 3 points to .394 and virtually clinching the championship of the National League and the big six. | Babe Herman now has only six games | in which to make up a deflcit of 10 points, The standing : O'Doul. Phillies.. Herman, Robins. Hornsby. Ci Athletics. . Ruth, Yankees. HEENEY KEE;’S PROMISE AND QUITS FIGHT GAME NEW YORK, September 28 (#).— Tom Heeney, brawny New Zealand | Ting. Dissatisfled with his showing against George Hoffman, voung New York | heavyweight, in their preliminary bout | on the Loughran-Sharkey card Thurs- day night, “Honest Tom"” has Heeney, recently stopped by Victorio Campolo, said before his fight with Hoffman that if he failed to knock out the youngster he would retire. As it turned out he was hard pressed to eke out_an extremely unpopular decision. Heeney has been decidedly on th down grade ever since his crushing d feat by Gene Tunney in the heavy- weight champion’s last bout a year ago. |PIRATE OWNER DENIES TRADE OF PAUL WANER PITTSBURGH, Pa., September 28 () —Barney Dreyfuss, owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates, issued a statement today denying reports that Paul Waner is to be traded to the St. Louis Card- inals for Jira Bottomley, Card first base- man. Dreyfuss said no deal involving Waner was contemplated. KANSAS CITY ON TOP. CHICAGO. September 28 (#).—The official American Association standing follows: Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. CHICAGO.—Tony Canzoneri, New York, stopped Eddie Mack, Denver (8); Johnno Datto, Cleveland, defeated Ben- ny Bass, Philadelphia, foul (4); Jackie Brady, Syracuse, N. Y. outpointed Roxie Allen, Camden, N. J. (8); Paul Pierrone, Cleveland, outpointed Joe | Bezenah, Cincinnati (8). COLUMBUS, Ohio. — Irish Jackie Dugan, Louisville, Ky., and Jimmie Reed, Columbus, drew (10). ‘TOLEDO.—Babe Keller, Toledo, out- x:g:'r)md Soldier Dombrowski Detroit DENVER, Colo.—Mickey Cohen, Den- \55) outpointed Mike Vasquez, El Paso HOLLYWOOD. u;c.m' e ewsboy Brown, igeles, outpol Erni Peters, Chicago (10). W. L Kansas City 10 54 St. Paul . 101 62 Minneapolis 81 T Indianapolis 6. 88 Columbut . 75 89 7 | Louisville 74 88 Milvaukee . 61 98 Toledo .. 6 99 former featherweight ruler were wrecked almost as soon as the fight started, when he sprained his right ankle. He fought gamely and managed to give Canzoneri trouble with his_left, but could not withstand the Easterner’s assault in the later Tounds. The bout was stopped in the eighth after a right to the jaw had dropgped Mack for a nine count, Referee Phil Collins halting the bout to save the Westerner needless punishment. A crowd of more than 11,000 paid $38,000 to see the card. DIAMOND FOES MEET | IN SECOND OF SERIES Georgetown A. C. and St. Joseph's nines will play the second of a proposed series of three games tomorrow after- noon on Friendship Field at 3 o'clock. The outcome of the series will have much bearing on the sandlot unlimited class title here. Georgetown, Which | | has ruled supreme in this class for the past several seasons, again is claiming the title, while St. Joseph's recently won~the championship of the unlimited | section in the Capital City League. | Last Sunday Georgetown drubbed the | Saints, 16 to 6, and another victory to- morrow, of course, will give the West End boys the series. St. Joseph's, how- ever, may have Dick Hughes on the mound and. if so. Georgetown may find the going not so good. Lefty McIntyre. Georgetown's mound dependable, will again perform. Friendship A. C. base ballers will close their campaign tomorrow with a dou- ble-header with the Chevy Chase Gri on the Chevy Chase playground, start- | ing at 1:30 o'clock. 'THE S The Ten B “Anybody,” writes L. P., “can pif | | the starts?” In the first place, nobody can STARRED IN 1905 ON BENCH IN 1927 | Anxious for Chance to Show Stuff and Says He Is Fit for Test. BY PAUL R. MICKELSON, Associated Press Sports Writer. HICAGO, September 28.—World series Tepresent a changing world for the greatest base stealer of present-day base ball, Hazen “Kiki” Cuyler. Alternately, they have brought him fame and broken his heart. In 1925 this steel-muscled star batted and field- ed his way to world series glory with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Two years later, because_of differences with Manager Donje Bush, he was forced to warm | the Pirate bench during the entire_dis- astrous series with the New York Yankees. But the impending Autumnal classic between the Cubs and Athletics affords “Kiki” an opportunity to more than square accounts. As one of the out- standing stars of the starring Cubs. he is expected to play a leading role against Connie Mack's men. And Cuyler is ready. ‘What I didn't get a chance to do in 1927 I hope to do this time,” Cuyler ad- mitted. “All season I have feit right, and I feel right now. 1 am going to play to win, and this time when the fans yell for me I'll be swinging.” In the 1927 classic the refusal of Bush to permit the speedy, accurate throwing outfielder to play even as a pinch-hitter when a hit might have won for the Bucs created almost as much | talk as the onesidedness of the series, All the cheers of the fans fell on deaf ears in so far as Bush was concerned, and when trading season opened again Cuyler was traded for cashl and players to_the Cubs, Base ball, in general, has been that way to Cuyler, now one of the most dangerous members of the vaunted Cubs “murderers’ row.” It took him four years — 1920 10 1924 — before he finally became a regular on the Pirate team. Then in 1928 an injury and some unkindly criticism from Cub fans, who expected too much of him, threw him into a mental and batting slump. This season, however, has found “Kiki” in the same form he was in 1925. He has pilfered more bases than player in either major league—40 in all, and his batting has ranged from 315 to .370. In addition, his throwing arm has been stronger. On only rare occasions has a player gone from first to third on a single to his right field garden. If the Cubs fail to get to Athletic pitchers during the coming series Cuyler will prove more invaluable to Mc- Carthy. The Bruin manager invariably plays a bunting, hit-and-run game when pitching is the least difficult to hammer. POLO TEAMS T0 STAGE FINAL GAME TOMORROW Second Corps Area poloists of New York will meet War Department Blues in the final match of the annual low-goal polo tournament which is being conducted by the War Department Polo Associ; tion tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock on the Potomac Park oval. To gain the final the New Yorkers yesterday overcame 3rd Cavalry Yel- lows of Fort Myer in a 7-6 extra-period thriller. A goal by Lieut Kornblum gave the 2d Corps Area team victory in the last two minutes of play. FAVOR ROLLED STOCKING IN MARQUETTE FEATURE CHICAGO, September 28 (#).—The Marquette Handicap, carrying an added money value of $10.000. attracted a field of seven crack runners at Lincoln Ficlds_today. Withdrawal of Misstep left Rolled Stocking as the big favorite to capture” the sprint over the mile-and-one- eighth route. Other entries were Karl Eitel, Golden Prince. Blackwood, Lady Broadcast, Montanaro and Flat Iron. Rolled Stocking carries top weight of 114 pounds. A lightning-fast track was in prospect. PORT est Teams. ck the 10 best foot ball teams after season is over, but how about taking a chance before the season pick the 10 best teams even after blacksmith, is through with the prize |the season is over without running into violent disagreement with | something like ten millicn debaters, all set to talk your two ears off. | In fact, it is about as easy to name ber. Here are some teams that w! 10—Stanford, Pittsburgh, U. S. C., decided | Michigan, Army, Notre Dame, Georgia Tech, Florida, Oregon. that he has had enough of the game. |good enough to crowd some of these out will be Princeton, Harvard, them now as it will be in Decem- ill bear watching among the first West Virginia, Illinois, Minnesota, ‘Teams | Navy. Thinking the matter over at this point. it seems to be a mis- take to try to name the 10 best foot ball teams either in September or December. the list mentioned can forget these | Certainly two of the strongest teams | | in the East will be Pittsburgh and West Virginia. Carnegie Tech has a good chance to be included in this list. One trouble is that the schedules ar- ranged will make some of the best teams | look bad before the year is out. It will | be something of a miracle if Notre | Dame, Army and Yale, to mention only | three teams, can take the pounding they | will face from one Saturday to another. The luck of injuries and accidents is another factor. Dartmouth had a star team wrecked last Fall before the sea- son had barely more than opened up. Al Marsters limping on one leg was half | | a team gone to seed. and he wasn't the | only Dartmcuth entry rendered null and | | void. The break of the schedule and | | the run of injuries can make all the | difference in the world. A lot depends | upon the physical and mental condi- tion of a rival team on a certain date and no one can figure this out. A foot ball team can change its character by 50 per cent from one Saturday to an- other. | A Boost for Dykes. 0 3 EAR SIR: When the world series is over and the shouting's done | how about giving Jimmy Dykes credit due him for the victory of the Athletics in the American League? Foxx, Sim- | mons and the rest did their share, but Dykes was the man who plugged all gaps on the team. Jimmy played short, second, third and once in a while was at first. Had it not been for him Con- nie would have suffered when Hale, Boley and Bishop were out of the game. | Dykes is unquestionably the best utility man in base ball and Mack was lucky to have him, SAGON SAM.. A Misquetation. R. HAROLD PATTISON writes that it was not Shakespeare who | wrote, “Beware when men speak too well of thee.” The correct quotation should have been from St. Luke, vi.26, to this effect: “Woe to you when all men shall speak well of thee.” At least there is every proof here that at times a knock is better than a boost. The new tennis champion is 36 or 37 years old and the new golf champion is 34, These ages do not belong to old age. Neither do they belong to that rtion of youth which is always wait- fi" to be served. Apparently there are . Those inclined to write in disagreeing passionately with few lines were ever written. times when it is served with a fast one under the left ear. A Mackian Reflection. IONNIE MACK understands that the Cubs have Guy Bush and Hornsov. Hack Wilson and others, but he is just | as well satisfied. locking back 24 vears, hat a young fellow named Mathewson will not be out throwing a base ball when the show opens. Twenty-four years ago Mack saw Matty set his team dowr: for three shut- outs in three starts and it never looked as if they could have scored if the series had lasted three months. Beating Matty, when Matty was young, was all the job any team could handle. One seascn he beat the cham- pion Pirates eight times in eight starts. The Matty of 1911 and 1912 had had a block of the rubber worked out of his arm through winning and saving games others had about lost BOWIE, TAKOMA .TEERS TO BATTLE TOMORROW Takoma Tigers and Bowle Motor Co nines will clash tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in a single game on the Silver Spring diamond in the first of & proposed series of three civtests to de- termine the unlimited class base ball championship of Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties. 3 The Tigers hold the Monigomery County title and Bowie recently annexed the Prince Georges crown. A double-header is scheduled for Oc- tober 6 at Bowie, starting at 1:30 o'clock, to end the serie FIVE GOVERNORS TO SEE CHICAGO END OF SERIES CHICAGO, September 28 (P)—Gov- ernors of five Middle Western States will witness the Wrigley Field instal ments of the world series. President William L. Veeck of the Cubs has approved the applications f tickets made by the following Sty chief executives: 'Harry Leslie. I a) Emmerson, Il Wi . _Wisconsin: '‘Georg Shafer, North Dakota, and Clyc Reed of Kansas.