Evening Star Newspaper, January 27, 1930, Page 24

WESTERN, LEADER, T0 FACE EASTERN Central and Business Also Meet—Six Other Clashes Are on Program. BY EDWARD A. FULLER, Jr. \WO of the first three teams in the public high school championship basket ball series will get action tomor- row in the regular Tuesday double-header in the Tech gym. Western, place in the pennant parade Fri- day without going through the motions of a game, will face East- ern, while Central, which former- ly was setting the pace and now 3 is tied with Tech for second place, will come to grips with Business. The Blue and the Stenogs will open the program at 3:45 o’clock. Both games are expected to be keenly contested. Their outcome is certain to be _of vital importance in the race. You can take your choice when it ng simply no go in this series. Comparative scores have meant abso- lutely nothing. The series has been stu with upsets. In their first-round meetings Central conquered Business, 24 to 22, and West- ern overcame Eastern, 36 to 32. There was little to choose between the teams in these games. There is not expected to_be much choice tomorrow. ‘Teams beaten in first-round engage: ments came back to defeat their con- querors in opening matches of the sec- ond round Friday when Eastern and . Tech came through with triumphs over Central and Business, respectively. Who can say that Business and Eastern will not contrive to even their first-round setbacks against Central and Western tomorrow. Such a result would cer- tainly scramble the flag parade. But then it is now badly scrambled. Perhaps Western now is the choice of most observers to win the champion- ship. The rangy Red team, led by Capt. Jimmy Thompson, sharpshooting forward, and Bob Freeman, highly capable center, is of championship class in the opinion of many. Supporters of Central and Tech, and Eastern for that matter, are, however, by no means lack- ing, while Business, though in the cel- lar, has unquestionably a formidable team, but one which has been consist- ently given the well known “ha, ha” by oud Luck. All l;lm;l}. it is some nflt!!dlefl";. with every le game cramms dra- matic possibilities. Our-tip to you is to take in all these games if you possibly can. Aside from the puyblic high matches, six tilts are listed orrow in which :;numu of the District schoolboy group figure. These contests will bring together Ben Franklin and Gonzaga in the Langley Junior High gym at 8 p.m., Strayer wiil Tenew its old rivalry with Strayer of Baltimore in St. Martin’s gym here at 8:30 o'clock and Emerson will go to , Va., to meet the Fred- ericksburg at 8 pm. A game 1 sextets of between gir] the Washington and Baltimore Strayer ing starting at 7:30 o'clock, will Precede the boys’ match. Afternoon Bym, ward at the Central Y. M. C. A. and Woodward and Episcopal Juniors at Episcopal. Headlining today’s schoolboy court card was the battle listed this afternoon between Eastern and on the Eastern SWEEPSTAKES VICTOR IS HONORED BY RIALTOS A rousing testimonial was given Max Rosenberg, winner of the Howard Campbell sweepstakes, by the Rialto Club, of which he is a member. The weekly meeting of the club was turned into a celebration of Maxie's triumph, which he declared was the most relished of his career. The club "oted to give him a medal. TURNER AGAIN ON MAT. Joe Turner, veteran middle- ‘weight wrestler, Virginian, in the main go of the weekiy mat card Thursday night at the Strand, PRINCE GEORGE LADIES' LEAGUE. Team Standing. L. Hilltoppers rwyn 31 17 Mohicans 26 19 Arcades Records. . Hiser, 93-6: Gude, -24 Waldrop, 90-18; M. P o 16; Pro: 90. High individual games—C. Hiser, 128; Cul- igh individual sets—C. Hiser, 341; Cul- bertson, 323, 0 S team games—Co-Eds, 499; Chillum, 1.434sh team sets—Co-Eds, 1,399; Chillum. PRINCE GEORGE MEN'S LEAGUE. Team Standing. Company Dixie Pig N 1e High averages_Kessler, 119; R. Ward, 116: Hilliai individual =sets—W. Kessler, 395; Boots Halloren, 392. team games—Collegiates, 651; Com. F." 620, eam igh 't sets—-Company “F." Dixie Pig, 1.731. took three games from | Company “F,” it being the latter’s first | coat of whitewash. SECTION 2. i 2 W. 8 8. D. Office.. Penobscotts Barbe; os £3~=t B High avera: Beaumont ¢ .8, (Sioux), 106: Miller (Sligo (Company F). 108. pish k) 2 n Ensiand | sames—Baker (College i W. Taslor (Company F), 1 individual ~sets—Rateliffo’ (Dixie 73; Beaumont, (W. S. 8. D. Office), team zamos—Dixie Pig. 588; Sioux, which assumed first| ally. Harva that Walter Yale in the 70s and 80s. Still all that Harvard can claim in the reviving the fear among that she mlgn regain her peflodalwtb(ethzr“mflln‘ 35 years in all, 5 3 District , Will meet Dick Gravely, | them, ‘empl ay Princess Thea'r 22 26 Mandley, 116-13: Heffelfinger, 115-10. | High “How I Broke Into BY PAUL WANER, As told by John F. McCann. atmosphere long before was & boy my family lived Okle.,, and my father, who was & ball player with the Oklahoma City team, used to take a lot of interest in playing with my older brother, Ralph, and me, but he didn't seem to care much about us playing profession- However, after I went to the East e Oklahoma City under O. A. Green, the manager. He was & very good man at correcting faults, and after three years with him, he sent me to join the San Francisco team. I didn't impress the owners very much. They planned to release me, but after Manager Jack (Dots) Miller of- fered to pay my salary if he could own is | my contract they decided to hold me | tp, a bit longer. After the season started though, and the time came to cut down ;.he player list, they decided to turn me loose. Good luck came to my rescue when two of the outfielders were injured. So, during a double-header with Seattle, the Major Leagues.” ~OUTFIELDE| PITTSBURGH PIRATES “Dots” sent me to the outfield. The owners that very afternoon had given my name to the press as being released, but immediately changed their minds when I made 8 hits in 10 times up I played regularly for three years, and en was sold to Pittsburgh. “Dots” Miller saved my career in base ball and gave me the confidence I have never lost. Otherwise I would have gone home to be a lawyer, as my father wished me to do. (Copyright, 1930, by North American News- paper Allfance.) THE SPORTLIGHT By GRANTLAND RIC Group “Momentum” in Sports. HAVE invented this title to de- scribe something which is llus- trated by the following example,” writes J. R. Finlay, whose son, Phil, is one of the best golfers in the country. “In the first 20 years of foot ball con- tests between Yale and Harvard the record stands, 1875-1894, inclusive, an- nual games omitted, 3, leaving 17 games played, out of which “Yale won ... Harvard won “Harvard started by winning the first game; after that Yale won, at first by close scores, but afterward more and mfiz‘: decisively for about 10 years, then with cl margins _again. “In the following 15 years, 1895-1909, inclusive, in two years, there were no games, leaving 13 played, of which “Yale won .. Harvard won Tie games . “In this period the ascendency still patently belonged to Yale, although in the earlier part of it Harvard, with two wins and two ties, made look (11 pretty even for several years, and slip- ped in another victory by & thin toward the end of the era, in 1908. “In the following 20 years, 1910-1929, inclusive, 2 games were omitted dur- the war, leaving 18 played, of which 5 beginning of the period Percy Los Haughton got his coaching ning at Harvard and gained tories in some ties, so that Yale had to wait quite system run- several vic- succession, interspersed with a while for a win, thus gaining for rd a suggestion of the ascendency Camp had established for matter is that during the last 20 years she has en- joyed a slight over Yale. There was a_time, not long ago, when Yale I believe, four games in a row, Harvard men old-time su- the last two we find a “Yale won . Harvard won Tie games .. Games omitted .. Serious Rivalries. “‘EVBRYBODY knows that student bodies take these rivalries very seriously. When I was at Harvard, 40 years ago, we took the long series of defeats from Yale, not only in foot ball but in other sports great I8 | and this again should men'—a state of affairs had better that would right itself in time. At this NORTHEAST LEAGUE. Jimmy Baucom and the Allied Roof- . | ing Co. hogged almost all the spotlight during the last week. Baucom, with games of 131, 152 and 137, shot an all- time record set of 420 for the league, Allied Roofing Co., with high game of 637 and set of 1,788, also set new marks, Lovett was the other record breaker, rolling a game of 162. strengthened their lead on first place by inning from Princess Theater while Curb Cafe was losing two to Olive Cafe. Temple Southpaws won three from Sears Lunch. Allied won three from the Red Streaks and Burkhalters | won the odd game from the Plumbers, Team Standing. oy uu Burkhalter's Ex. 17 31 9 Red Stre 15 30 Plumbers’ Locai 12 36 Records, High individusl averages—Slyman, 118; Tndividual "gameFovett, R inaividual ‘serBancom: 4 spazes—Honey. 138! . feam set-—aliica Roaing. High team game—Allled Roo EASTERN LEAGUE. The Trojans dropped from first place 82, 420, 1.788, 5. 637, | by losing three games to the Miller Furniture Co., Lovett's 362 being the big shot. Hasneys went into first place by taking three from the Freeman All- Stars. Isherwood A. C. went into a tie for second place by taking the odd game from the fast-traveling Holy Rosary team, Honey's 360 and Brill's 347 being the winning punches. Bureau Phar- macy won three from Congress Heights and Nights Owls won three from Baum- gartens. Team Standing. 31 3117 HYy gh individual a igh iz s :l‘fl:—?flub 113-13; o= kL spares—Hone High 5 Hig asney. 1.e19. Rosary, 608, fich tepm rete Tomehawks, 1,654 W. 8. 2."D. omce, 1.633. strikes—Hones. Red Grange, the once “galloping Artie Bells | Sorine distance I would put the thing dif- ferently. It is perfectly true that the stream of students that flows into a college carries with it a proportion of outstanding athletes that is by no means “uniform, less and less so the more outstanding the individuals, just 8s not every class contains a future President of the United States. Still Yale and Harvard have been general- ly well matched in intelligence and personnel, drawing both students and faculty’ from the same type of people, even from the same schools. I think it highly probable that if the men who playd foot ball at Yale had gone to Harvard, and those who played at Harvard to Yale, but leaving the ‘sys- tem’ at each college the same as it was during the 70s and 80s, the results would have been about the same as his- tory declares. The organization of groups on a given basis for any pur- pose is not easily changed, and if one group is more efficient than another 1t is likely to remain that way for a lo time; the organization that is ahea learns as fast as one that is behind and thus stays ahead, and this ‘mo- mentum’ persists freqhently after the man who created it or contributed most of it has disappeared. In such a case it requires usually something of a genius to set an inferior organization to learning fast enough to catch up to and pass the superior one. “While this principle of group mo- mentum displays itself in sports, it is far more pronounced, of course, in other . For instance, Detroit excels in producing automobiles and Los Angeles motion pictures. Who can think of any reason why Chicago should not make automobiles as well as Detroit, or San cisco make pictures as well as Angeles—that 1s, in the general na- ture of things. But now that things are established as they are, who thinks it at all likely that they will ever do s0?” Interesting Statistics. THE statistics Mr. PFinlay presents showing that Yale and ‘Harvard have broken even in the last 35 years are among the most interesting we have seen. It had also escaped general notice that in the last 20 years Harvard had the jump on Yale by 2 to 1 in the mat- ter of winning games. With Horween's star list of sophomores back for next Fall—Wood, Mays, Devens and White being four of the cast, and with others, such as Ben Ticknor, on hand—the Blue doesn't face any soft situation next Fall, despite the presence of Booth, who will give Harvard a lot more to ‘worry about, if he is in shape, a factor which a lighter man always has to gamble with. One of the jobs Yale must face is finding a field general who can cope with Wood in directing an at- tack, and this won't be any too easy, as fleld generals are always scarcer than rosebuds in the Arctic Circle. Both Yale and Harvard will have better than average material next Fall, other great game. It m tioned in this connection that Yale will run into early trouble next October, Wwith an unusually strong Georgla team to look after, .1 v, Gold North “of washineton. Tadies Lo ashington = Ladies' o— Yynnewood Park vs. Woodside, ot Bilver ing. North of 3—Wynnewood Park vs. Silver Spring Dyveing and Cleaning, ‘st Silver King Pin Business Men's of Commerce vs. King Pin No. Pin Suburben League—Mutual Stella Maris, at Petworth. Eastern _League—Bureau Pharmacy vs. Miiler Furnjlure Co., Trojans Life Snsualty, | Isherwoods s, Freeman’s - Al Stars, Night Owls vs. Holy Rosary. M. J. Hasney "'vs. Baumgarien, at Northeast mple. fayy Yard vs. South- Capitol Hill. Cleaning vs. Mount . Mizpah, Bankers' Lealne—l)vflkrm vrl ;il 5. Amer- fean ‘Security No. 1 vs._ Natlonal Bank of :‘umnnnn‘ No. V. Typothetae National Capital ress, ng! raphers vs. judd & Detweiler, Big Print ¥s. Lew Thayer, Potomac Eectrotype vs. Co- lumbian Printing, H-K Advertising vs. D. O, Paper Manufacturing, M. Joyce Engraving vs. Charles H. Potter, Ransdall, Inc. Standard Engraving Tipothetae ve. Nailonal Publishing, Model Printing vs. Gibson Bros., EBarker-Brawner vs. Casion Press, at Lucky trike. Merchants' League—Stern vs. Thompron's Dairy, Winslow vs. Edward W. Minte. Barber & Ross vs. Hugh Reflly. Pern Elec- trie vs. Skinless Pranks. Thompson Bros. Furniture vs. Sunshine Yeast, National Bis- gult Vs Soithern Datries, at Convention a) ate vs. City Post - O- Gollections, c 5 . G. P. O. Merchants eet” va. Bufeau, Freasury vs. Navy, Tnternal Revenue s, Post Office, at readia ~§|‘"m|£'"' Industry }:nfige—(trvel » i ingham rris, E. G . Roland, A R. & B. B ve. Muste: Elumbers No.' 1, Mahufac vs. Master Plumbers No. 2.'at Luck ke, vs. Rice, C Men's League—Athletics vs. Phillies, Browns vs . Robins, Nationali Cubs vs ral® Gounsel Whit nis: raves vs. Econc High individ: ®a) High Individus] ‘set—J. Nicior Hien 0. h tes t—M. High,team game-Holy ghost” of college foct ball, &5 now man- |aging boxers, les, Cepter at Bing Pin ANTILLON, EX-NAT MANAGER, IS DYING Picturesque Figure of Base Ball Suffers Another Paralytic Stroke. EATH was expected to claim Joe Cantillon, former manager of the Washington base ball club, at any time today in the home of the veteran diamond figure, at Hickman, Ky. Suffering a second stroke of paralysis, Pongo Joe, as he was affectionately known in the game he loved so well, has been critically ill o aauon Wb of the Na antillon was manager - tionals for two years, heading the club in 1908 and 1909. Prior to that time, Joe was an umpire in the American League and throughout his life has been associated with professional base ball. After his service with the Wash- ington club Cantillon owned and man- aged the Minneapolis club of the American Association for several years and later operated the Little Rock Club of the Southern Association. After his first stroke of paralysis he retired from active participation in the game, but was given an honorary position as supervisor of umpires in the American Association. Probably no man in base ball is bet- ter known than Cantillon. He numbers among his friends virtually every man who has had to do with the uplift of the professional game. And probably no man in the diamond sport today knows more of its history and its in- timacies than Cantillon. His knowledge of base ball is indeed profound. News of his latest illness was given yesterday to Kenesaw Landls, commis- miskey, owner of the Chicago White Sox, with whom Cantillon played in his younger days. Judge Landis imme- diately after hearing of the critical con- dition of his long-time friend com- municated with Mrs. Cantillon over long-distance telephone and expressed the deep regret and sympathy of the entire base ball world at the serious iliness of the loved veteran. OKLAHOMA SEEKING FIRST BIG SIX WIN By the Assoclated Press. KANSAS CITY, January 27.—A final, despairing attempt by Oklahoma to wrest a single victory from the first round of Bix Six basket ball play will furnish the most dramatic point of Con- ference warfare this week. Only three games are on tap within the Big Six circle in the next seven days and they offer small promise of any important change in Conference standings. ‘The Sooners, champions of the 1929 race. have only the most pessimistic outlook in their effort to avold a white- wuhlnzelns.t{:e first, ‘:m’l’m mbln';l];h:g: opponen urday orman 1, co-leader with Kansas of the Big Six race. Nebraska holds the individual scoring center, who has 50 points in four Con- ference clashes. Resulf week: Nebnlz?. c’)ou ohghlwm’; :% Kansas Aggles, 24; Oklahoma, 23. Oklahoma, 25; Betheny, 27. Nebraska, 32; Iowa State, 22. Iowa State, 34; Creighton, 40. Nebraska, 41; Iowa, 26. NNOUNCEMENT is made that I. 8. Turover will present a silver loving cup to the winner of the forthcoming tourney for the title of chess champion of the District, which begins next Saturday night in the chess room of the City Club. ‘Turover is a former champlon of the District, having won the title in an open tourney. He voluntarily relin- quished it three years ago in the in- terest of local chess. He again has shown his desire to advance the in- terests of the game here. The cup is to be held by the winner of the present tournament until an- other tournament is held, when it goes to the possession of the winner of the sioner of base ball, and Charles Co- | Du leader in the person of Don Maclay, | succeeding tournament. I to win the trophy three it becomes the permanent property of the holder. ‘The committee in chusl of the tour- nament, F. T. Parsons, C. H. Mainhall and C. W. Stark, have drawn up addi- tional regulations and posted them in the City Club. One of these exempts the present title holder from the pay- ment of the tournament fee. This is in harmony with the previous regulations, which provide that the winner in the present tourney will not have to pay an entrance fee to the next succeeding tourney. By a new rule the committee will designate for each evening of play one of its members as tournament director. He shall have charge of the play, and of the starting of cl . If both play- ers are present and ready to play at 8 r.m‘ the match shall be started at once. f only one player is present a leeway k| 0f 15 minutes will be granted, at the end of which time the absent player's clock will be started. If neither player is present at 8:15 p.m. the clock will be started as soon as the first Phyer ar- rives and is ready to play. If either or both players still are absent at 9 the game will be declared forfei drawn, in accordance with the pr rules of play. Anpther rule which needs revising re- lates to adjourned games. The rules provide that adjournment may be had after 30 moves have been made and that a game shall be completed before playing the succeeding one or the game m, or ious No: shall be adjudicated, but definite regu- lations are not made for fixing on a date resuming play. 9 There is a good deal of talk about the prospective competitors, but nothing definite is known as this is written. New names are mentioned, and it is be- lieved the cup feature will result in an enlarged entry list. In a letter received from Mr. V. Sournin, dated January 14, 1930, United States Engineer’s office, United States fleet, Vicksburg, Miss., it is stated that he has been transferred from this city to the office mentioned. Sournin made his first acquaintance with chess cir- cies in Wa ton in 1898, while on his way to Cuba to serve for Uncle Sam in the Spanish-American War. His transfer removes him as a contest- ant in the prospective tournament. Clark and Davis are playing off their tie for first place in the C-D class tour- two games to be victor. advantage in the first enough for victory, an agreed upon. ‘The Star of January 5, 1930, an- nounced a proposed radio match be- Clark had an ame, but not a draw was tween the District Chess ue and the Providence Chess Club. Radio practice is in progress along chess lines, and it is believed the match will be played early in February, % WEEK'S RING CARD HAS TWO FEATURES Carnera Takes on Rioux and Singer Tackles Loayza on Friday Night. By the Associated Pre; EW YORK, January 27—A heavyweight battle at Chicago with Primo Carera, mammoth Italian, as a featured per- former, and & lightweight duel at New York between Al Singer and Stanislaus Loayza of Chile provide | pj fistic fans with their outstanding at- tractions this week. Carnera makes his second American start against Elzear Rioux, Canadian heavyweight champion, at the Chicago Stadium Friday night. Singer and Loayza will meet in Madison Square Garden the same night. Both bouts are scheduled for 10 rounds, but Carnera is expected to finish Rioux long before the last round is reached. Other bouts on the national schedule include: ‘Tonight—At Philadelphia, Billy Jones, Philadelphia Negro, vs. Pete Latzo, Scrantton: Tiger Jack Payne, New York, vs. Yale Okun, New York, light heavy- weights, and Gabey Babdad vs. Pat Haley, Philadelphia, welterweights, each 10 rounds; at Kansas City, Young Jack Dillon, Louisville, vs. Chick Rains, Tulsa, and Tiger Johnny Cline, Angeles, vs. Billy Atkinson, Scam- mon, Kans, all middleweights, each 10 rounds; at Baltimore, Gaston Charles, Prance, vs. Sidney Lampe, Baltimore, featherweights, 10 rounds, and Charles Ernst, Prance, vs. Joe Raymond, _Baltimore, lightweights, eight rounds; at Louisville, Jackie gan, Louisville, vs. Babe Peleco, New York, junior lightweights, and Bill Thomas, Louisville, vs. Mickey Berry, Louisville, middleweights, each 10 rounds; at New York, St. Nicholas Arena, Izzy Grove, New York, vs. Gorilla Jones, Akron, Ohio, middle- weights, and Tony Vacarelli, New York, vs. Steve Gotch, welterweights, each 10 rounds. Tuesday—At New York, Lenox 8. C, Freddy Lattanzio, New York, vs. Victor Ferrand, Spain, flyweights, six rounds; at Los Angeles, Fidel Labarba, Los Angeles, vs. Johnny Torres, Los An- geles, featherweights, and Al Gordon, Philadelphia, vs. Rita Punay, Los An- geles, lightweights, each 10 rounds. ‘Wednesday—At Cincinnati, Bushy Graham, Utica, N. Y., vs. Preddie Mil- ler, Cincinnait, lightweights, 10 rounds. ‘Thursday—At dena, Cecil Payne, Louisville, vs. Dud Eades, Pasadena, Junior lightweights, 10 rounds. Friday—At New York, Madison Square Garden, Harry Ebbets, Free] N. Y., vs. Doc Conrad, Newark, middle- weights, and Dom Volante, England vs. Louis Quadrini, Italy, lightweights, each 10 rounds; at Chicago, stadium, Bruce Flowers, New Rochelle, N. Y., Negro, vs. King Tut, Minneapolis, lightweights, 10 rounds; at Boston, Garden, Ace Hudkins, Nebraska, vs. Arthur Flynn, Lawrence, Mass., light-heavyweights, 10 rounds; at San Francisco, Frankie Stet- son, San Prancisco, vs. Eddie Murdock, Tulsa, lightweights, 10 rounds; at Hol- lywood, Frankie Campbell, San Fran- cisco, vs. nny Ross, Buffalo, N. Y., heavyweights, 10 rounds; at Seattle, ‘Wash., Dodge Bercot, Monroe, Wash., vs. Cecll Geysel, Seattle, heavyweights, six rounds. Saturday—At Cincinnati, Babe Ruth, Louisville, vs. Sammy Williams, Martins Ferry, Ohio, lightweights, 10 rounds. IN CHESS CIRCLES BY FRANK B. WALKER. During the holiday season Capablanca played & tournament at Hastings, England, where Pillsbury came to the fore. None of the other outstanding layers took part. A tournament now is P at San Elmo, Italy, in whicn ‘most of the leadi: ‘ph&:‘r‘l. iltpa\:hn;a exct are partic 3 e e of mmmdl. Al e, world cham- plon, is in the lead, with five wins and a draw. Tartakower is second, and Bogoljubow, whom he defeated last year, is third. Other players include ubenstein, Vidmar, Maroczy, Spiel- man, Niemzowich, 16 in all. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1930. THE GAMEST ACT SPORTS. School Fives in Keen Scraps Tomorrow : Carnera’s Worth Yet to Be Tested. 'BUSTING INTO BASEBALL As Told by I EVER SA VWillie Sherdel To J. P. Glass. WV Weary Alexander Facing Yankees for World Championship Without Warming Up. 'VE heard Yankee players say that Grover Cleveland Alexander was a bit liquored up that October after- noon in 1926 when he went in against them and beat them out of a world champlonship. ‘Well, I doubt it. Anway, it doesn't detract a bit from the old boy's per- formance. Three men could have pinioned the story. One was .Willie Sherdel of the Cardinals. Another was Herb Pennock of th;:’ Yankees, The third was Alec imself. Willie Sherdel was warming up with Alec in the bullpen just before Jess Haines to give in before the Yankee batting assault. Herb Pennock wanted to be ready for anything that turned up. He could left-handed hitter and right-handed one, if ne “Well, things leantime, down in the bullpen, I had been warming up. But Alexander hadn't. After throwing a ball or so he had gotten into s conversation with Herb Pennock, who had beaten us in the fifth game. “Now you ean't eriticize & pitcher like Alexander for a thing such ‘gi that. Nobody ever needed to tell him what to do. I guess that after he threw one ball N Avec was sTiL. Tieo NN FROM DITCHING THE R DAy BEFORE, AND: - WITH A WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIO DEPENDING ON HIM, HE WAS UD AGAINST A NEW was there, too, gossiping with Alexan- der. They knew the facts. As for Alexander, it wasn't like him to ever care what any one said about him. He was willing to let his record on the field speak for itself. ‘The gossip is only brought up here for one reason. Willle Sherdel says that Alexander's act in relieving Haines and winning the seventh game and the championship was just about the gamest and the most sportsmanlike act he ever saw on a ball fleld. If the great old pitcher had steadied his nerves by arti- ficlal means some fools might have the bad sense to question his gameness. But the Yankees wouldn't ever be among these latter. They respected Alec for what he did and gave him every credit in the world. Excepting Alexander, nobody could tell the story of that historic episode save Willle Sherdel. Of course, Alex- ander would never talk about himself. Here is Willie's account: “The reason you have to give Alec credit is that he had pitched against New York the day before and won, 10 to 2. That victory put us all even on the serfes. “Manager Hornsby sent Alexander and me to the bullpen at the start of the seventh to warm up. The sco®™ was 3 to 1 in St. Louls’ favor, but he S Ifl//// /s AWl N he knew whether he had his stuff. There was no sense in him wasting his strength after having pitched a whole game just 24 hours before. “When Haines walked Gehrig, he and Hornsby consulted. Then Hornsby went to the dugout. A moment later the telephone in the bull rang. “I answered. Hornsby must have thought it was Alexander, for he said, ‘All Tight, come in. “I hung up the receiver and started for the pitcher’s box. But I'd only taken a Xlel:l steps when the telephone rang again, “ “It’s Alexander I want,’ said Hornsby. ‘I_want him to ‘pitch against Laszzeri. *So Alec went in. “Well, it certainly wasn't a soft spot. It is true that Alec had done well against Lazzeri in the other games, but then Tony was about due to get a break. Also Alec still was tired from pitching the day before. And, experi- enced though he was, what with a world champlonship depending on him, he was up against a new experience. “I don't believe he had a second’s fear. He struck Lazzeri out on his third pitched ball and stopped the Yankees: dead for the rest of the game. “Yes, that was the gamest thing I've ever seen on a base ball fleld. At least I never saw anything {lmel’." (Copyright, 1930.) CARNERA POURS TEA, TAKES ART LESSON By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 27.—Primo Car- nera and his retinue, including two sparring partners, his manager, and a drawing instructor, today were here to prepare for the Italian's Western box- ing debut, with Elzear Rioux at the Chicago Stadium, Friday night. Primo’s first workout in Chicago was on his schedule for today, the giant having spent_yesterday afternon after arrival from New York, in pouring tea for a delegation of his countrymen, looking over his training quarters, and taking & lesson from his drawing teacher. Carnera, who conquered Big Boy Peterson in less than a round, in New York Friday night, is on the same bill with Bruce Flowers, New Rochelle, N. Y, lightweight, and King Tut, rough Minneapolis puncher, who meet in a return match at the Chicago Stadium. . ) BOWEN HAS BOUT. DAYTONA, Fla, January 27.—A 10-round boxing bout has been arranged between Andy Bowen of Washington and Oscar Hewell, Tam light- ‘weight, as part of a show in the Armory here Thursday night. Bowen is here with his brother, Johnny, also a boxer, who is recovering from injuries received in a recent automobile accident. Runner-Up Post Is Guards’ Goal In County Loop Clash Tonight YATTSVILLE, Md, January 27.— Company F, National Guard, and Dixle Pig A. C, and Hyattsville Southern Meth- odists and Maryland Colleglans will meet in Prince Georges County Basket Ball League games tonight at the Na- tional Guard Armory. The Methodists and Colleglans will start play at 7:30 O ompany ¥, which is ted for second ipany F, wi place in the championship race with the Dor-A quint, will be out for a win to the runner-up post. Dixie Pig, which won the pennant last Winter, stands fifth, Though neither is among the leaders in the race, there is keen rivalry be- tween the Methodists and Colleglans and a spirited battle doubtless will ensue. A win for the Collegians would enable them to tie the Churchmen for sixth place. Brentwood Hawks all but clinched the pennant yesterday when they con- quered Dor-A, 19 to 13. The Hawks, with nine victories in as many starts, now have a three-game lead over Dor-A and Company F. In the other half of the double bill in the armory yesterday Company F chalked up its ninth straight win out- side of league play, scoring over West- ern Electric Co. basketers of Washing- ton, 34 to 18. Dor-A led the Hawks, 2 to 0, for the first five minutes, but then the Brent- wood boys gained the lead and held it thereafier. At half time the Hawks' margin was 10 to 6. Johnny Wanley and Wiler, each with 7 points, led the Hawks' offense, while Harry Dobbs and John Troy, with 4 points apiece, did most of the losers’ basket sniping. Company F led Western Electric from the outset, gradually increasing its margin as the game progressed. Bernard Troy, with 17 markers, was the ace of the Soldiers’ attack, while Robertson, with 5, was most consistent for the visitors. League Standing. t £ Brentwood Hawk mpany F, . H Cos 6 Ber: nament at the City Club, the winner of | Motnt Coach Stanleigh Jenkins planned to send his Hyattsville through a snappy drill y in prepa- ration for game tomorrow after- noon against Woodward School quint on the Central Y. M. C. A. floor in ‘Washington. Hyattsville will be seeking its second win over Woodward, the Y. C. A. scholastics having fallen before the Elue and Gold here recontly. Hyatts- basketers | yesterda; ville's record for the season will be .500 per cent should they win. Company F’'s next game outside of the county league will be played on the armory floor here Thursday night, en- tertaining Columbus University bas- keters of Washington. The game will follow a county league match between Brentwood Hawks and Berwyn A. C. First Lieut. Hugh McClay, Company F athletic officer, has announced that the Guardsmen will enter the unlimited division in the District of Columbia A. A. U. Assoclation championship bas- ket ball tournament, starting March 10. Shipley's Midgets, 115-pound basket- ers, are seeking games. Their latest win was over the Boys' Band team of Washington. Burdette Cogar, Hyalts- ville 903-J, is booking for the Shipleys. PENN HAS AN EDGE IN BASKET LEAGUE By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, January 27—Play in the Eastern intercollegiate basket ball So far has been a triumph for home court teams. Eight games have been played so far and in every instance the invaders have been turned back on the short end of a score. Penn and Columbia, the leaders, have benefited most. Penn won two games, both on its home floor, and lost none. Columbia beat Princeton at New York in its only start. Princeton’s two Victories have been recorded on the Tigers' cwn court and its two defeats away from home. No games will be played this week. the next game being Columbia’s tangle with Dartmouth at Hanover February 5. _;I'ht standing to date: mb Princeto Dartmouth C i P.F. P.A. 50° 47 50 47 9 105 83 87 8 & 97 51 9% 307 ol rrapord ] wanmwost Totals. % | WORLD SKI RECORD SET BY YOUNG IMMIGRANT WESTBY, Wis,, January 27 ().—Alf Engen, a 20-year-old youth, who came to Westby from Norway six months l&:’. y set a new world record in the Snow-Flake Ski Club's annual tourna- ment when he jumped 187}, feet from a scaffold hill, Engen, who took first place in the tourney, surpassed the previous mark | by 52 fest. The old record was sot by Walter Bratlund, of Ironwood, Mich., in 1919, in an exhibition jump, Engen leaped 191 fe:t, i . OTTAWA ADVANCES IN HOCKEY LEAGUE By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, January tawa Senators moved up in the inter- national group of the National Hockey League last week. They started in fourth place by a one-point margin and moved into a tie with Les Canadiens of Montreal for second. They gave Pittsburgh a trounc- ing, 7-4, to take third; dropped a 6-3 decision to the New York Rangers, then beat the Montreal Maroons, 4 to 0, Sat- urday to tie Les Canadiens. In the American group the Beston Bruins continued their amazing pace with more victorles, making 2 games won out of 24 played, for a 48~ point total. The standing, including last night's games, follows: AMERICAN GROUP. ] l” 4 27—The Ot- Maroons Canadi 3 9 PRIMO NOT A JOKE, DESPITE DEBUT G0 Big Italian Must Not Be Judged on Engagement With Peterson. BY WILBUR WOOD. EW YORK, January 27— Primo Carnera has come and gone, temporarily, taking with him more than $17,000 of the burghers’ more or less hard-earned lucre and leaving behind a rift in opinion as to his future as a fighter. Primo’s 70 seconds in the ring with the amazingly . fragile Big Boy Peterson afford- ed very little chance to judge of the giant’s capabilities. Peter- son was in such a hurry to pass out that he even hit himself on the chin while on the floor. While it is hardly logical in any de- to predict that Carnera will becoms eavyweight champion on what he showed against Peterson, it is equally illogical to blast him as a bust. Some heavyweight champions have made miserable showings in their New York premieres. Jeffries was tabbed as 8 large jcke when he broke in here, Willard ‘was another big fellow who drew ridicule. Dempsey very seriously the night John Lester Johnson cracked a couple of his ribs at the old Commonwealth Club, Set-up for Carnera. Carnera’s debut differed in several respects from the introduction of Jef- fries, Willard and Dempsey to New York. Whereas they were given short money for facing reasonably strong opposoition, Primo was handed a small fortune for tipping over a soft one. However, what we are getting at is that it is not the part of wisdom to assert, flatly and with finality, that Carnera never will amount to anything. It is a little too early for that sort of g. The sour doughs of the sock market will recall that Jeffries was tabbed as 8 big ham by the experts when he broke into New York at the Lenox Cluh on August 5, 1898. Jefl contracted to box Bob Armstrong and Steve O'Don- » nell in the same ring in 10-round bouts that night. After struggling through 10 frames with Armstrong and eking out a victory on a decision "the Colifornia botlermaker called off the second bout, alleging he had injured his thumbs on Amwt.ron‘(!. ‘The Jeffries of that night was a 245- pound giant of tremendous strength, but lacking in speed and boxing skill. Lool at him many ringsiders re- called Bob Fitzsimmons’ famous remark that “the bigger they are the harder they fall.” Fitz Was Wrong. Fitz himself was in the crowd and he enjoyed many a hearty laugh at the clumsy movements of the Californian. “So that's the bloke they think will take the title away from me,” roared ’ Ruby Robert to his cronies. “Haw, haw, haw; he's a joke.” Pitz retained that opinion of Jeffries until the boilermaker knocked him out in the eleventh round at Coney Island, less than a year later. Boxing writers who saw Jeffries in training prior to his fight with Fitz Wwere amazed at the change worked in ?z Californian. under the handling of ommy Ryan. Ryan trained Jeff down to 210 pounds of bone and muscle and taught him 4 | how to throw his left hook out of a crouch. The newspaper sleuths car- ried reports of Jeff's improvement to them. " Ho sty red Jeflas. the . pictu Jef t lw‘kwnd glant he had AR I Ever Got. HONEST BATTLING CRISS MEETS SHIRES’ MASTER DETROIT, January 27 (#).—Battling Criss, Detroit heavyweight, whose claim to prominence consists in his alleged refusal to “take a dive” at the request of managers for Art Shires, was signed to meet George (Supergreat) Trafton at the Chicago Colliseum, February 7, ucordlnz to announcement by Leonard Sacks, business manager for Jack Dempsey's boxing club. The Criss-Trafton bout will be an added attraction on the card which Earl Mastro and Pete Zivic go. is the only boxer defeated Shires. W HENRY LAMAR MATCHED, Henry Lamar, former national ama- teur light-heavyweight boxlnfl.:hlm- pion and erstwhile Washingtonian, will meet Joe Banovic of Binghamton, N. Y., February 7 in Madison Square Garden, New York, in one of the 10-round bouts preceding the Risko-Victorio Campolo heavyweight match. Block Play May Be Legal or Illegal BY SOL METZGER. The block play, like the screened forward pass in foot ball, may be either legal or illegal. It depends upon how it is worked. Merely be- cause intentional block plays are barred is no reason why certain others cannot be legal. Here’s & common one in ball that is used everywhere. an attempt to break defense forward No. 1 rush down a sideline. His opponent guard, A, will place hi e covered, No. 1 the latter runs by. A, No. 1's op- ponet, cannot immediately follow, as No. 2 has not quite cleared him. Thus the pass is made to No, 1. This is the move that is the basis BY MAXIE ROSENBLOOM. AMBONE” KELLY, a tough mug from Boston, hit me the hardest punch I ever got, but it wouldn't have happened if some one had warned me the Irishman was a southpaw. ‘We met In a six-rounder at the Pio~ neer 8. C, in New York, March 3, 1925 The building was & barn, used by horss auctioneers, and was turned into a fight club one nl%ht in the week. ‘We were billed under Jimmy Maloney and Dan Bright, British heavyweights, and Kelly and I put up such a €é a rei fellow. He floored Berlenbach _ four times in Boston before Berly hit on the Adam’s apple and sepa- rated him from his evil {ntentions. Kelly sent Wolf Larson, Maxie Rosenbloom. 8ger. Frank Bach- man, was _criti- cized for sending a young prospect like me in with a_murderous puncher like “Hambone.” It was during my second year as a professional, after I had spent about a year in the amateurs. I have often been asked how I de- md tihe au‘mm that enables m(}‘w to oves from every angle when avuybdy and the fellow I am fighting exfiefl.l me to fold up. My sole pre] ration for the amateurs was driving a truck. A fellow naturally gets strong out in the open, hustling on and off the footboard of a truck. I also built my- -deu ug wurkmmmsmlt‘n New Lon; on, Conn., p! cultivating, an milking cows. I had to get up at 4 o'clock in the morning, and I was glad to go to bed early. Right off the bat in the first round against “Hambone,” and before I real- ized that he was a left-hander and stood with his right foot forward, Kelly parked his left glove in my right eye. When you get a little cinder in your eye it hurts, doesn't it? Well, a fist is bigger than a cinder. That punch s made me groggy for three rounds. In the fourth I took a chance by swinging my right. It landed and broke the bridge of “Hambone's” nose. He bled a lot, and it made things look good for me during the last half of the go. I took the fifth and sixth rounds by wide margins, and won the decision. Next—Armand Emanuel. « 930, - (Copyright, 1930, by North American News S R T TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats ::: All successful block plays on at- EISEMAN'S, 7th & F ] ‘M /