Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1929, Page 51

THE EVEN NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1929. SPORTS, - Major Base Ball Organizations Are Afraid to Loosen Their Grip on Minors BUSH TOWNS TIRED * OF CASTOFF VETS Big-Time Moguls in Too Deep to Let Go Control at Source of Talent. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. NCE more the time has come | for proposals toward any rad- ical departure in the system of base ball government—the time of the Winter base ball meetings. There seems to be among minor league base ball fans a still latent rankling against the parading of worn-out major league players on | minor league teams. Any remedy for this lies in bringing it up at the minor and major league meetings. It is scarcely likely that the majors will pro- | .pose any departure from the present | system of control of ball players in the | minors. | For the first time in many years the | annual Winter meeting of the National | League will be held at another hotel in New York than the famed old Waldorf- Astoria, which is being torn down to make way for a great office edifice. Meet at Commodore. ‘This year the National League moguls will meet at the Hotel Commodore, often a hostelry for base ball leaders, on December 10. The American League, 1t 18 likely, will also meet in New York, either on December 10 or 11. while the annual joint meeting of both leagues will take place on December 13, with Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Lan- dis 2] e National e has no im- portant business to be considered. Like the American League, it is awaiting the results of the National Association meet- ing of minor Jeagues in Chattanooga. If the minors should adopt something that would need major league consider- ation attention will be given to it, first | at the separate major league meetings | and then at the joint session. ‘The major league control of ball players in the minors has been expand- | ed to such an extent by the major organizations that the latter realize | they are involved too deeply to lessen | this control. The overhead that is be- lngoocln’led to maintain minor league schools for major players, who cannot be used during a certain season, is con- cededly tremendous, yet the majors have gone so far that they do not see how they can withdraw frem present arrangements without a loss to them- selves and their chances for putting champlonship teams before their public. ‘The present method by which some minor gue clubs continue to refill their teams with major players, some of them of long service and some with- out service, is the drawback that seems | to prevent any readjustment of present | conditions. g % Want New Faces. “The minors take over old players at high salaries to manage their clubs and | those managers take their old ball play- ing friends to help them out,” said a pi t major league man. “‘The fans in the minor leagues resent the fact that they must pay to watch old ball players after their time of efficient | gport, service is over, believing that they should be given new faces to look at and younger players to watch. It is my belief that any community, minor league or major lufluc becomes m attached to‘base ball as it observes a younger element attaining skill on its | ball park Mathewson was_ a great pitcher. He became a New York idol because he started as a youth at the, Polo Grounds here and became .better and better as the years passed on. “Babe Ruth was a ball player before he went from Boston to New York, but the best part of his splendid career was onsf before the fans of AR ol as tty was their pi - ing 1dol.” WILLAMETTE WINS TITLE IN GRIDIRON CONFERENCE WALLA WALLA, Wash., November 28 () —A new champion reigns in the Pacific Northwest Foot Ball Conference, ‘Williamette having defeated Whitmar College here, 40 to ¥3. ‘The Oregon school’s forward passing attack overwhelmed its rivals for con- ference honors. Pive of six touchdowns ‘were made from passes. WRESTLERS :I'OO ROUGH SO POLICE STOP MATCH the wrestling match Preddy Myers and Bull Martin when the battling became to brisk last night at the Strand Theater. It was the feature encounter. Joe Turner.defeated Billy Wolfe and Dick Gravely scored over Bull Ricco in other matches. ON THE ALLEYS TONIGHT AND TOMORROW. burban League—Rock Creek vs. North- ern, Capital Cigar vs. Patent Attorneys, at Petworth. District_League—Convention Hall vs. Pro- @ressive Printing, at Convention Hall | putt for the winning birdle. Rice said | clubs and they have been barred in the ACK in 1921 Jim Barnes, who, was quite a famous fellow on golf links, secured an eagle 2 on the second hole at Columbia. That. deuce brought the Barnes of that day back into the race for the niational open championship, gave him new life to fight a battle that seeme slipping away as his rivals sought to overcome a long lead piled up by the Cornishman. For Barnes had taken a 6 on the par 4 first hole and put his tee shot at the second in a bunker. From this spot he holed his niblick pitch for a deuce. About that time there was another Barnes, also an Englishman, and as tall as his more famous golfing name- sake. The latter of the Barnes name was then champion of the Washington Golf and Country Club and a most formidable gelnyer—-mona the ama- teurs—becauSe of his uncannily accu- rate use of a wooden cleek. Time went on and Barnes' game fell back, even as that of his professional namesake, and in late years Barnes has not figured ex- tensively* in events at the Washington club. But yesterday Barnes did a stunt that brought back erowding memories of the shot that won the other “Jim" a national championship. He holed an eagle 2 on the 305-yard first hole at ‘Washington. A moderate drive down the middle of the fairway gave him an open shot at the hole, and he played it so well that the ball found the tom of the cup for one of those rare things in golf—an eagle 2 on a par 4 hole. ‘Then there was another record set yesterday at Washington. At least Dr. ‘Thomas J. Rice said it was some kind of record for golfers who are not acknowledged to be among the amateur leaders. Dr. Rice, Dr. C. E. Kelly, Charles Cherry and E. J. Swift were playing* in a four-ball match at Wash- ton yesterday. Al are ordinary players and the lowest handicap in the quartet was the 11 impost claimed by Rice. But on the second hole, which is one of the toughest on the Washington course | and a very, fine one-shotter, all four balls were on the green from the tee, and Rice secured a bindie 2. And then on the eleventh, which is another good one-shotter with a water hazard in front of the green, all four balls were on the puttng surface from the tee again, and this time Swift holed the he never before had seen four men all put their tee shots on the green at both these short holes. Early yesterday morning James Pettit properly christened the new fifth hole at Rock Creek by holing his mashie tee shot for an ace on the 105-yard hole, which has just been opened up with a new putting green. Pettit was playing in a three-ball match with J. C. Hill and W. Chadwick. ‘The new green on the fifth hole was opened only last week. British golf authorities, under con- siderable pressure over the last three years, have at last yielded to public opinion and authorized the use of steel- shafted golf clubs in the British cham- pionships and minor tournaments. Word to this effect came today, after a meet- ing of the rule§ committee of the Royal and Ancient at St. Andrews. To those who think only in terms of the showing made by American players in British ped abandoning the use of their favorite steel-shafter wooden clubs. And to the goods dealer, it has a deep ‘significance. For to him is onened up an entirely new market—almost a vir- gin market—for only one or two firms in Bri have made steel-shafted sanctioned events to such an extent that the rank and file of British players would have nothing to do with them. It also means that almost the final step toward complete reconciliation of the playing rules of the American and British champlonships has been taken. The British bar against the Schenectady putter still remains, but the center- shafted putter has very little popularity these days and no potential winner of & major championship uses this style of club. The British ban against slotted or punched iron clubs also-still remains, but that edict also holds good in this Insurance League — Continental Casualty ve. 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With the lifting of the ban on the steel shaft the last barrier to a practical union of the rules of golf between the two countries has been broken down. —_——, ed| YOUNG LINKSMAN HOLDS LEAD IN $5,000 EVENT BERKLEY, Calif, November 29 (#). —Holding a three stroke lead over the field as the result of his score of 68 yesterday, John Rouse, 22-year-old professional of the Briar Gate Club of Chicago, today faced the second 18 holes of play in the Berkeley $5,000 open golf tournament. John Black, of the California club, Dewey Longworth, of Claremont, Calif., and Chet Beer were tied for second position in the tourney with cards of 1. Horton Smith, Joplin, Mo, profes- sional, one of the favorites in the play, was still within hailing distance of the leaders with a score of 74. $10,000 OFFER T0O LOW FOR STAR HOCKEY PLAYER VANCOUVER, British Columbia, No- vember 29 (#).—Frank Patrick, manager of the Vancouver Hockey Club of the Pacific Coast League, has announced that he had refused an offer of $10,000 from the Windsor, Ontario, team of the International Hockey League, for Bill Phillips, crack right-winger and captain of the Lions. Patrick said he also turned down an offer from the New York Americans for Phillips, including a cash consideration and a trade in which Clarence Boucher, defense man, now a hold-out, would come to Vancouver. e AWAITS QUINT PILOTS. Managers of the following basket ball teams are asked to telephone At- lantic 2924 or Lincoln 6763 between 5 and 7 pm.. McLean A. C. Mount Rainier A. C. and Company M of Fort ‘Washington. N. Y. U. PICKS CAPTAIN. NEW YORK, November 29.—Jerry Nemecek has been elected captain of the 1930 New York University foot ball team for 1930. Nemecek has been starring as left end for the Violet team for the last two- years. TALL GRIDIRON TIMBER. 1If there is a contest on for the tallest foot ball lineman in the country, three of the entries can be Ladd of Yale, Davis, Virginia Poly tackle, and Paul Jessup, giant University of Washington center. All are at least 6 feet 6 inches, ;’3: Jessup taped at closer to 6 feet 7 es. BOWIE RACES Nov. 18 to Nov. 30 Special trains on W. B. A. leave White House Station 11:45 a.m., 12:00 m., 12:15 p.m. direct to Grandstand. First Race, 1:00 p. 1928 Chrysler (62) Landau Sedan. or any one ortation, Price, $600 WALLACE MOTOR CO. 1709 L St. N.W. 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Bigger and more experienced, the Spaniard was an over- night 7 to 5 choice to wreck Griffiths. chances of being numbered among the outstanding contenders for the heavy- weight throne. Paolino, more impressive in training than he has been during the last two years, was confident not only of beat- ing the tough one, but he announced he expected to win by a knock-out by the seventh round. “Yo tengo la seguridad de knockear Tuffy Griffiths antes el septimo round,” was the y the gold-toothed Basque put it. “I expect to knock out Tuffy Griffiths by the seventh round.” Paolino will depend on his peculiar mauling body thumping style to take the steam out of Griffiths, and with a 15-pound weight advantage, was the favorite with the wagering gentry. Griffiths, a good puncher and willing fighter, staked his bid on superior speed and a heavier punch. He will weigh around 183 pounds, to 198 for the Basque, he is confident he can absorb an g Paolino throws at his body, he can connect often enough to win. ‘The show ranks as the outstanding heavyweight bout of the early indoor season, and an attendance of 15,000 or more, with a gate in excess of $75,000 was anticipated by stadium officials. Another pair of foreign heavyweight importations, Salvatore Ruggirello, glant Italian, and Hein Mueller, a Ger- man, making his American debut, are down for the 10-round semi final. [ S—— Bucky Harris, at 27, and Connie Mack, at 66, were the youngest and old- est major league managers to pilot a pennant-winning club. COOK TAKES TRAPSHOOT AT CONGRESSIONAL CLUB Parker Cook of Washington Gun Club led the fleld at the turkey shoot at Congressional Country Club yesterday with a total of 68 hits in 75 targets thrown, which included 10 pairs of doubles. In the second event Miles Taylor was victor. James M. 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