Evening Star Newspaper, November 13, 1929, Page 35

SPORTS. THE EVE) NG STAR, WASHINGTON; D. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1929. SPORTS. - National League Waiver Under Fire : Big Money Asked for Fields-McLarnin Go RO |[STeasrt e e e WANT §7.500 PRICE Say $4,000 Valuation Now in Use Apt to Cheapen Circuit’s Players. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. DISCUSSION is going the rounds about whether the Na- tional League should increase the amount of its waiver price to clubs of its own circuit. The present sum is $4,000, that of the Amer- ican League is $7,500 and for inter- league waivers the sum is also $7,500. Some National League teams con- sidering whether to ask waivers on cer- tain players contend that the price is an undervaluation of players and apt to give a false impreseion as to the worth of National League players. On the other hand, it is argued that the waiver price between clubs of the same league should be merely nominal. Clubs should not seek profit in these transactions, runs the contention, buv should be willing to help each other out. The tendency elsewhere than the Na- tional League has been to call for & high waiver price. The American League lifted its price at the request of clubs that were advancing large sums to obtain new players. Minor Prices High. In the American Association the ‘waiver price is $3,000 and in the Pacific Coast $3,000 also. The International League is $3,000, with a time limit of 10 days in off-season transactions and 48 hours during the season. In other minor leagues of high classification the ‘waiver price is usually $1,000 to $2,000. ‘The object of the waiver sum is to give the selling club some return for permitting the player to go. Occasion- ally the waiver price will cover a large amount of the expenditure in securing a new player. Af other times it is only a small percentage of what is spent in getting new material. A suggestion that the waiver price be made uniform for each league of & certain class interferes, of course, with the individual rights of the leagues. A minor league has player rights sim- ilar to that of the major leagues. The minor league can nams a walve valua- tion to suit itself. Naiurally if it is too high there are not likely to be many players claimed by walver. Little Leagues Hit. ‘This agitation in regard io the waiver regulation between leagues is presumed to have been started prior i the minor league meeting in Chattanooga Ly those who are seeking to have some reduction made in the number of players who are under reservation. The minor league will again make B Club” was a misnomer. location on Georgia site near Bethesda, gun. Country Club. Joseph Morton J. Lucas as club were re-elected at meeting. Other E. Steinem, treasurer; year term as follows: Pischer and Jack Schulman. Still another comes from the Washingto: fifteenth hole. Three Cardinal great teachers, few of tempt to put over. it. Let's us get at it. 1-GRIP 2-ARM SWING ECAUSE its name has been an anomaly for more than a year and was ndt truly descriptive of the organization, the Town and Country Club has changed its name and will be known in the future as the Woodmont Country Club. The club property, just north of Bethesda, Md., is located in a suburb which is known as Woodmont, and from this | suburb the club drew its new name. ‘The change was made at the annual | meeting of the organization last week at the clubhouse, after many members had pointed out that inasmuch as the club no longer maintains a town club- house, the name “Town and Country For many years, after the club moved from its old avenue to the new it maintained a clubhouse near Eighteenth street and Columbia road. But this was abandoned more than a year ago, and shortly after its abandonment the move for a change in the name of the organization was be- By formal action of the club the name has now become the Woodmont D. Kaufman, who succeeded resident of the club two years age, will serve another term at the head of the organization. Kaufman and the other officers of the the annual | officers are: % Goldsmith, first vice president; David A. Baer, second vice president; Albert Stanley H. Pischer, financial secretary; D. B. Gus- dorf, recording secretary. Members of the board were elected for the three- M. Behrend, Harry Hahn, A. C. Mayer, Dr. M. B. ball-in-a-tree yarn n Golf and Country Club, with the added fillip that in addition to the ball being stuck in a tree, it ended in a bird’s nest. all happened to Robert A. Lacey on the Playing with his wife and Charles A. Roesch, Lacey played his third shot across the ditch toward the Points in Golf BY SOL METZGER. It strikes me that one of the best ways of getting golf is to ha star players, explain what they at- I just talked with Arthur Goss, pro at the Ever- Flldes Club, Palm Beach, along these ines. He knows his stuff and proves “There are three fundamentals to green. of the line, disappeared in the assume that playi time will use it, it to others in advance. the committee points out. around Christmas. C. A country. spiring,” Thorn says. beating all of us.” very fine year this year. R sional. been for the past two years. for each round and the live turkeys, Those Wil net scores between November November 24 will win prizes. green at Columbia. leading to the spring is to be over and made into fairway. The ball, struck on the ht tree and could not be found. Clamber- ing into the tree, Lacey found his ball resting in the hollow of a bird’s nest. 3 ar The golf committee of the Washing- ton club has requested members who engage starting time for Saturday after- noon or Sunday morning—or bothi— | and who find later that they cannot use the time, to promptly notify the club so the time may be assigned to players who can use it. The committee explains that the starter has no choice than to s who have engaged nd he cannot assi Engaging time on the chance that one may be able to play, and failing to give notice that the time will not be used is unfair to others, Gene Larkin, the popular young as- sistant pro at Chevy Chase, who holds the Maryland State open titlc, has se- cureé a Winter job in Florida and will rt for his new t at scme time oo pf:rkin will hold down the professional berth at the Highland Park Golf Club at Lake Wales, Fla., and will take with him as his as- sistant Elwood Poore, who has been one of Bob Barnett's aides in the golf shop at Chevy Chase fcr the past two years. Arthur B. Thorn of Town and Coun- try believes that Larkin is destined to become one of the finest golfers this part of the country ever has produced. Thorn is quite enthusiastic about young Larkin's future, believing that the slim, red-headed lad will soon become a threat for even the finest golfers in the “His calmness under fire is in- “He has all the shots and knows how to play them. With a little more experience and a lit- tle more campaigning Gene will be Gene_has had a He was one of the two qualifiers from this sector in the national open championship (al- though he didn’t play well at Winged Foot) and he won the Maryland State open at Elkridge a few weeks ago, fol- lowing this victory with a win in the assistants’ championship at Congres- We agree with Thorn that Larkin has a great golf future if his development over the next two or three years is as steady and fast as it has Bannockburn golfers are in the midst of the Cabin John special tournament— an event which started on November 3. An entry fee of 50 cents is charged rizes will be the lowest and A change is to be made duri the Winter in the approach to the ate | pec The grass-covered swale immediately in front of the green covered KENNEDY WILL HANDLE HIGH GARDEN WALL . SCALED BY FUGAZY Fight Promoter Makes Good Deal With New Yorkers, Once Enemies. BY EDWARD J. NEIL, Assoclated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, November 13.—The old order changeth, giving place to the new in such strik- ing fashion that the late Tex Rickard, if he could ever visit again the boxing scenes he once dom- inated, would hardly know them. Humbert J. Fugazy was once Rick- ard’s business enemy, his rival for su- premacy in the field of caulifiowers, and when the tall Texan fought he buried the knife to the hilt. In the end Tex conquered humble Humbert, drove him to Brooklyn to promote his Summer shows and lifted Madison Square Gar- den to such successful heights that the little Itallan could never procure the necessary backing for an indoor arena. Today Fugazy is the toast of the “600 millionaires” of whom Rickard was so proud. Through his pleasant associa- tions with Bill Carey, successor to the presidency of the Garden, and Frank Bruen, the general manager, Humbert came to dicker with the Garden, and ended by turning over to them two of the most precious caulifiower chattels in the heavyweight sock market. Makes Good Sale. For a_sum generally estimated as $65,000, Fugazy sold to the Garden the one contract for Max Schmeling’s serv- ices recognized by the New York State Athletic Commission as taking precedent over all others. He further gave up his contracts with Victorio Campolo, the glant gaucho of the Argentine, and bought off the three-year contract of Gustave Leneve, the manager whose squabbles with his charge sent Victorio limping back to South America, deter- mined never to come North again. ‘The deal not only gave the Garden a monopoly of the major heavyweights, but indicated that Fugazy himself has come to the end of his bitter, single- handed struggle to get somewhere in the fight ess. Indications are more than strong that some new reorganiza- tion of the Garden personnel will ulti- mately find Humbert in the driver’s seat that once was Rickard’s. Bruen is ex- ted to become president of the or- ganization, with Carey stepping back to thewchllrmumhlp of the board of di- rectors. Making Money Now. “I'm getting smart,” sald Pugazy. “Where once I was stubborn, I'm now just hard-boiled. I'm finding out how to make money. “Every Summer through the past halt dozen years I've taken big, raw heavy- weights, given them their chances, de- veloped them and then moved into Win- ter quarters without getting a chance to reap the financial harvest. Some other circus, with a Winter circuit, took my pachydérms and left me holding the bag. That happened with Jack Sharkey, Campolo, Paulino Uzcudun, Roberto Roberti, Paul Berlenbach, Jack Delaney and Joe Dundee. “It won't happen again. I'm going to sell them when they ripen in the Fall because they're always gone by Spring- time. Maybe I'll end up weéalthy after all.” Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. = DES MOINES, Iowa—Bear Cat Wright, Omaha, Nebr., knocked out Cowboy Owen, Guthrie, Okla. (2). FLINT, Mich. — Johnny Ciccome, Schenectady, N. Y. outpointed Eddie “Kid” Wagner, Chicago 10). NEW YORK.—Georgie Goldberg, New York, outpointed Johnny Dundee, New York (10). BETHLEHEM, Pa.—Jose Diaz, Cuba, won on a foul from Henri Dewancker, New York (4). Mickey Blake, Los An- geles, knocked out Charlie Matz, Beth- lehem (1). LOS ANGELES.—Goldie Hess, Ocean Park, Calif., outpointed Gaston Charles, Paris (10) SONNENBERG AND LEWIS WILL WRESTLE TONIGHT LOS ANGELES, November 13 (#).— Ed “Strangler” Lewis, former heavy- weight wrestling champion, again will seek to regain his lost laurels in the ring here tonight in a bout with Gus Sonnenberg, titleholder. The match, with the championship going to the winner, of two out of three falls, follows one staged here sev- eral weeks ago when Sonnenberg won the deciding fall after seconds for both grapplérs had jumped into the ring. The dispute which followed brought about the rematch. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE TO NAME HEAD MONDAY BALTIMORE, Md., November 13 (#). —A meeting of club owners of the International League, for the avowed gurpose of electing a new president, as been called for Monday at the Hotel Commodore, New York, by Charles Knapp, president of the Balti- more club, who has been acting as president of the loop since the death of John Conway Toole. Knapp made it known last Summer that he would accept the post of league president under no consideration, and named a committee for the purpose of selecting some one for the o&u. APT T0 KEEP BOUT 00T OF NEW YORK Welter Champion Demands $75,000—Intended Foe Seeks 50-50 Split. BY JOHN J. ROMANO. OM McARDLE would like to have Jackie Fields defend his welter- weight title against Jimmy Mc- Larnin at the Madison Square Garden in New York. Fields is ready, but he will not risk his precious crown for a major percentage of the purse. According to Gig Rooney, man- ager of the champion, nothing less than $75,000 will be considered for the risk Jackie will be taking in crossing gloves with the Vancouver wizard. Chicago and Detroit are in the field for the match, and as guarantees can be given in those cities and not in New York, the match will be staged in the Middle West if anywhere. The seating capacity of the New York Garden is limited and the interest centering on such a contest means that it would be staged more profitably outdoors. Foster Rates Boxer Highly. Rooney’s demand for & big guarantee is not the only hindrance placed in the way of the match. Pop Foster, manager of Jimmy McLarnin, his own ideas about Jimmy’s worth. Pop wants nothing less than an equal division of the Eur!e, despite the fact that his boy not the title holder. Pop says he is doing well enough without the title and that his boy is a better draw- ing card than the champion. This is true in New York, but Pop must remember that a title counts for something and according to the law in New York State a champion is entitled to 37% per cent of the receipts. But Foster will have none of that. He says he can carry on without the title and make just as much money as the champion. One of the surprising things about McLarnin is that he can retain his form without the use of capable sparring partners for his gymnasium drills. In none of his fights in the East, or else- where, for that matter, has Jimmy ever had the benefit of good sparring mates Pimlico Autumn Meeting November 1 to 13, inc. First Race, 1:15 p.m. Admission, $1.50 B. & O. R. R. Special Lv. Union Sta. (Washington) 11:40 A.M. Due Camden Sta. (Baltimore) 12:30 P.M. Frequent Trains Penna. R. R. and W, B & A. Electric Line. and how he gets by is a matter that puzzles other ringmen. McLarnin is undoubtedly one of the cleverest and headiest boxers in the game today. One wonders how much more improved his boxing would be if he had the benefit of boys who could make him step faster and use more of his natural stuff in training drills. It will be recalled that in preparing for the Sammy Mandell bout last year Jimmy worked with a youngster just out of the amateur ranks gnd oge of Mac's sweeping blows broke the young- ster's jaw. Again, training for his re- cent bout with the lightweight cham- pion, McLarnin kayoed his own brother. Ring sharps looking Jimmy over in the gym are unable to get a line on him because of the poor quality of sparring fnates. Jimmy tackles Ruby Goldstein December 13, and despite Ruby's tendency to hit the floor when the going is too tough, Jimmy may be in for a surprise, as Goldstein is a good boxer with a dama right cross. oy TS MEUSEL BECOMES COACH. NEW YORK, November 13 (#).—Emil B. Meusel, one-time star left fielder with the Phillies and the Giants, has signed to serve as second corgh of the Giants. STONEHAM RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT OF GIANTS NEW YORK, November 13 (#)— Stockholders of the National Exhibition Co., a New Jersey corporation, operat: ing the New York“Giants of the N \tional League, met yesterday to elect a president and board of directors. Charles A. Stoneham was re-elected president and the following directors named: Charles A. Stoneham, John J. McGraw, Leo Bondy, Ross Robertson, Horace Stoneham, Henry Ferguson anc W. G. Kendall. e PIRIE AGAIN WILL LEAD PRO GOLF ASSOCIATION ATLANTA, Ga., November 13 (®).— Alexander Pirie of the Old Elm Club, Chicago, has been re-elected president of the Afiofeuhmll Golfers’ Associa- e Ogg of the Worcester Country Club, Worcester, Mass.; Bertie Way of the Canterbury Country Club, Cleveland; Frank Minch of Sacramento, Calif., and J. R. Inglish of the Fairview Country Club, Elmsford, N, Y., were named vice presidents. 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