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54 ; yitle EARLY SEASON END | LEFT 10 LEADES No.Action Against Chain Base Ball—Trades Few—New Farm Plan. BY WILLIAM 'J. CHIPMAN, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, December 13.—The annual Winter meetings of the two major leagues and their | joint session have come to & close with a minimum of action | in the matter of business transacted. | The question of a September closing, | the matter of greatest moment to fans | along the big league trajl, failed to come up for official consideration after the magnates discovered that the two league presidents and not the club owners had jurisdiction in the situation. Since both John Heydler and E. S. Barnard favor a season running from April 15 to September 28, however, it is safe to assume that such will be ide 1930 dates. Trade talk was rife in every quarter, but actual deals, as , were scarce. Grover Cleveland Alexander, Cardinal hero of the 1926 world series, did return to the scene of his earliest major league conquest—Philadelphia—in a deal more important from a sentimental angle than from any other. Harry McCurdy, former University of Illinois star, also became a Philly with old Alex the Great, and young Homer Peel became a Cardinal again in the same trans- action. The only other swap returned Wally Schang to the Athletics in ex- change for Sammy Hale, who became a Brownie. Pass Chain Base Ball. At the joint meeting at the Bilt- more yesterday the chain-store system of base ball ownership was discussed at length. Sam Breadon, the most ex- tensive dealer in live and dressed ivory, produced telegrams from presidents of a wide range of minor leagues indorsing major league ownership of the smaller clubs. These messages included word from the heads of such circuits as the Western, Texas, Central, I. 1. I,, Pied- mont, Blue Ridge and Eastern Carolina Leagues and the South Atlantic and ‘Western Associations. President Breadon’s action in speak- Ing frankly regarding the chain-storc system doubtless had much to do with the failure of the joint session to adopt the regulation ner Landis suggested—one requiring clubs to make known officially to the various base ball headquarters any transaction by which they gained control of a smaller fran- chise. All hands, including Commis- | sioner Landis, seemed satisfied to let | the matter rest on the table. | To Clarify Scoring Rules. { While no general gathering of the base ball rules committee will be held | this Winter, the joint session did au- thorize the clarification of certain the two leagues issue to their official scorers. These instructions now vary in several items, notably the one which re- | quires a starting National League pitcher to work five innings to gain a victory when an American Leaguer | meed go but four. | The committee appointed by the base ball writers to do this work includes John B. Foster, James R. Harrison and Al Munro Elias of New York and Harry Bullion of Detroit. The league presi- dents also wiil appoint official scorers henceforth, in accordance with another suggestion from the writers. The club owners also voted to ask the minor leagues to agree to permit each major club to farm 15 pilayers rather than 8 and to allow the same man to be sent out three times instead of two. A committee of four men from each circuit will treat with minor league heads on this qumton.“.preplred to grant concessions to obtain favorable ' action. Aids Junior Base Ball. ‘The joint session also appropriated 450,000 for American League junior base ball, $10,000 for National Amateur Athletic Federation base ball and $5,000 | 203 to the organization which alds needy ex-players. To meet these expenditures the commissioner will deduct 15 per cent from the gross of the next world series rather than the customary 10 B per cent. PO A | SCHOOL CHILDREN TO SEE ’ GAMES IN CHICAGO FREE| CHICAGO, December 13—Chicago school children who lack the price of admission to see the Cubs and White Sox play base ball will not have w search for peep holes next season. M They will be admitted free to three | g games a week, President William Veek of the Cubs and Secretary Harry Gra- biner of the White Sox have announced. A charge of 25 cents will be made for other games, except those played cn Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. . BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FIVE EASILY DEFEATS STBAYER‘M Benjamin _Franklin_ Accountancy School five defeated Strayer College last night by a score of 36 to 18. | This was Benjamin Franklin’s first | game of this season and Coach “Buckey” | B DeBoskey used the opportunity to ex- periment with different combinations. All members of the squad were given a chance. Strayer produced a fast game but could not cope with the superjor teamwork and shooting of their opponents. Tomorrow night Benjamin Franklin will be up against more difficult opposi~ gon when it plays Gallaudet at Kendall reen. MYERS AND TURNER WIN IN GRAPPLING MATCHES Freddy Myers and Joe Turner won their matches in the weekly wrestling program last night at the Strand Thea- | J ter, the former over Bull Martin and the latter over Jack Olsen. Nazzarini Poggi and Abs Kaplan grappled to a draw. CHANGE FOR TAB}{—}EELS, CHAPEL HILL, N. C,, December 13.— Strud Nash, captain-elect of the Tar- heels for next year, will be the first ‘Tarheel backfield leader in nine years. Election of Nash broke a continuous regime of line pilots that dated back | 10 1921 TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN’S, 7th & F Freezeproof Your Radiator Harrison Radiators New and Repaired FORD SPECIAL FLAT TUBE RADIATORS Winter, Freezeproof Summer, No Boiling Wittstatt's Radiator and Fender Works 209 14th_St., befween § and T Sts. R P Bleck below Pa. Ave. SPORTS. TN 'l? |V ¥ V] A through action or motion. Ask any foot ball player how he feels while walting for the first kick-off. His nervous system is in a snarl. Every pulse he has is jumping in & number of directions at the same time. This all disappears, or most of it does, after the kick-off has been run back, which means the beginning of action. Tennis is largely motion and ac- tion. For that reason there is much less tension in tennis than there is in golf. Moving muscles respond more naturally and with greater freedom. hey act almost auto- matically or through instinct. They are not tied up. But golf is another problem. The very lack of motion creates tension be- fore the swing is started. It is for this reason that the waggle came in as a partial relief. No golfer should ever get the idea that he is planted or set in his stance while addressing the ball. There should be a preliminary waggle with some sort of body motion to break through the increasing rigidity. There must be at least the thought of motion before the clubhead is started back. But with most golfers the stance is about as flexible as a straitjacket. They have put themselves beyond any possible hope of good timing even before the clubhead is started. They have locked the door by locking their hands, wrists, hips and necks. Easy to See. 'HIS is all easy to follow when you check through. Balance, for exam- ple, is not & post stuck in the ground. 1t is motion under control. A beginner gets on a bicycle and as it starts away both he and the machine fall. His body doesn't blend with the motion of the machine. Another gets on and rides away easily and smoothly. This is balance, for it is motion under control. ‘The more action there is the less there is of tension. There is far less & Son are tied for first place in the 14-team Jewelers’ Bowl- ing League. The competition G only five games difference between first place and eighth. Grasso of R. Harris & Co. is the leading individual with an average of 105. The averages, including those of all who have rolled in at least nine games, follow: Team Standing. Limon & Records. o ish average—Graso (R. Harrls & Co. 4 igh ‘game—Van De Koolwsk (Goldsmith siel—Van De Koolwsk (Goldsmih & rikes—Grasso (R. Harris & Co. s1.). 16, High spares—Deuhring (Goldsmith & Co.), 2, Wright ... Koppieman . Violland Martin Preller Alverson Jontiff . win Stanley Mitendor’ Eilis ... Grasso olden herrer May Smith . Pompilio: Brennen . 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He stood at the plate as if he was half bored, swinging a bat lazily back and forth, often with only his left hand. His body was in motion, but it was lazy motion. There was no hurried bat-swing back and forth under the pressure of a tight two-handed grip. For this reason he was always in com- mand of himself, with flexible muscles and relaxed nerves ready to respond instantly at his demand. With greater foot speed Lajole would have batted above .400 year after year, probably up s high as .450 through several years of his career. Go't and Polo. Devereux Milburn will tell you there is far more tension in goM than there is in polo, even in international polo. For polo is practically all motion and action—the last word in action. Mil- burn will tell you that, in his opinion, golf is the hardest game to learn—and stay put. Yet golf would be much simpler if the average player would give more time and attention in the direction of curb- ing or curing tension. This doctrine has been advanced in these dispatches more than once, but it is something that will bear repeating, as it not only has a vital effect upon the quality of performance in any game but also upon the condition of one’s nerves, which, in turn, have a direct bearing upon one's Jewelers’ Bowling Race Tight; Grasso’s 105 Is High Average ALT & BRO. and C. Schwarts|. is tight all down the line, with | C. 36 | closing August 2. |SCHALK SIGNE 2 New York Giants’ coaching staff last | South Carolina and Auburn will meet health. PEARSON & CRAIN. Siedenberg. 3 Burke ... GRID COACHING SCHOOL FOR D. C. IS PLANNED John (Ox) Da Grossa, assistant Georgetébwn University foot ball coach, and Jim McNamara, director of ath- letics at the Jewish Community Center and Devitt School foot ball coach, are planning the first foot ball coaching school in the history of Washington. According to plans the school will be held at Devitt, opening July 7 and D TO AID IN COACHING. THE CUBS CHICAGO, December 13 (#)—Ray (Cracker) Schalk has signed a contract as coaching assistant for the Chicago Cubs. He will take the place of Grover Land next season. Schalk, former manager of the Chi- cago White Sox and a member of the year, may catch -a few games for the guh‘u if Leo Hartnett's arm does nct eal. BOOK HOLIDAY CLASH. AUBURN, Ala, December 13 (#).— in a Thanksgiving grid battle in 1930. The site of the game was not an- nounced. Auburn also has closed nego- tiations with Georgia, Tulane and Mis- sippi A. and M. Lionel Electric Train Marvelous railroads! —so life-like!— 80 colorfull —realistic in detail and performance —so close to every boy's heart. The first gift you select for that boy of yours should be a Lionel electric train. Let him enjoy the thrill of model railroading. See the new flashing sig- nals, tunnels, switches, crossing gates, semaphores, and all the other acces. sories that make model railroading so delightful to every boy. 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It is a well understood fact that one of the best ways to handle tension is LIBEL SUIT FOR $50,000 DROPPED BY VON PORAT CHICAGO, December 13 (#).—A libel suit for $50,000, filed by Otto von Porat, Norwegian heavyweight boxer, against Promoter Mique Malloy has been dis- missed by Judge Joseph Sabath. Otto failed to appear in court yester- day when the case was called, which grew out of remarks Malloy was al- leged to have made in which he belit- tled von Porat's fistic prowess. Von &)rnt l'tl.s given the option of renewing e suit. FIELDS DEFIES JINX IN BATTLE TONIGHT By the Associated Press BOSTON, December 13.—Jackie Fields, welterweight champion, will defy the jinx that trails titleholders in this city tonight in a clash with the hard- punching “Gorilla” Jones of Akron, Ohio, in a non-title bout at the Boston Garden. Five champions have come to grief in this city during the last year, but this series of mishaps has not worried Fields. It has, however, caused consid- erable thought among those who wager on boxing contests, as there are enough Jones admirers hereabouts to shorten the odds to 10-9 on the champion. Fields is confident that his terrific left hooks, which won him the title from Joe Dundee recently, will be as ef- fective against the Akron negro. e latter has an idea that the champion is a bit weak against a short right hook, his favorite blow. A victory for Jones would add greatly to his prestige and rudely disrupt a Chicago promoter's plans to match Fields and Jackie Thompson, another Negro welterweight, for a title bout in that city next month. POLISH STAR IN U. S. MAINLY FOR STUDY By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, December 13.—Stanis- law Petkiewicz, great Polish distance runner, who has beaten Paavo Nurmi of Finland, among others, has arrived in the United States to run a little and to investigate American educa- aonll. judicial and legislative institu- ons. A law student in the University of Warsaw, Petkiewicz sald his visit to this country was planned largely out of curiosity to discover how American colleges, law courts and political insti- tutions are run. Holder of every Polish running rec- ord from 800 to 10,000 meters, the in- vader said he was at his best at dis- tances from 2.000 to 3,000 meters. It was at the latter distance that he con- quered Nurmi in Warsaw a few months ago. Although he never has competed in- doors, the big Polish star probably will be invited to run in & number of meets here this Winter. He said yesterday that he was not in condition, but a few weeks of training probably will make him fit again. FIELDS-THOMPSON BOUT | LIKELY TO BE l"'ERMlTTED| CHICAGO, December 13 (#).—A rtule | prohibiting boxing matches between | Whites and Negroes, passed by the old | Illinois State Athletic Commission be- | cause of a riot during the Jackie Fields-Jack Thompson bout at the Co- liseum last March, must be rescinded befcre the pair will be permitted to en- gage in a title bout in the same arena for Promoter Jack Dempsey January 17. Dempsey has FPlelds, welterweight title holder, and Thompson, San Fran- cisco Negro, lined up for a champion- ship bout, and it is expected the new commission will repeal the ruling made by the commission headed by Paul Prehn. Prehn's committee mede the regula- tion after one man was killed and sev- eral were injured in the riot during the last meeting of the pair. The trouble started when a White man and a Negro came to blows over the merits of the fighters. 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It remains to be seen, however, whether the boys will perform as well as th> general public expects them. ‘The less optimistic of fistic observ- ers remember a certain night in March of this year when McLarnin and Ray Miller packed in $200,000 worth of spectators and then put on eme of the dullest fights most of the fans pres:nt ever had had the misfortune to wit- ness. McLarnin was a cautious worker that night and did not increase his reputation with the decision victory he received. Goldstein is just such another dan- gerous puncher as Miller and the Ghetto idol may force Jimmy to adopt some more safe and sane tactics. McLarnin's showing against Miller never has been adequately explained. New York fans have seen him knock | out Sammy Baker, Joe Glick. Phil Mc- | Graw and Sid Terris among others, and are confident he will beat ths “baby- faced” killer again. Goldstein ‘appeared headed for the lightweight title a year or so ago, but knockouts by Sid Terris and Ace Hud- kins sapped his confidence and came within an ace of sending him to the fistic scrap heap. A fast and brilliant boxer, with dynamite in _either fist, Goldstein has won 55 of his 66 'bouts | by knockouts. Granted confidence in himself, the Ghetto welterwsight might be a champlon. g McLarnin is a 9-to-5 favorite among the betting fraternity. Andy Callahan, Boston lightweight, meets Louis (Kid) Kaplan, of Meriden, Conn., former world featherweight champion, in the 10-round semi-final. Canada Lee, one of the best Negro welterweights in the East, tackles Andy Divodi of New York, in the first 10. LOYOLA ELEVENS CLASH. CHICAGO, December 13 (#).—Loyola University of Chicago will close its foot ball season Sunday, December 22, at New Orleans against Loyola University of the South, in a benefit game. 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