Evening Star Newspaper, February 4, 1930, Page 34

Cc—2 BIVEN 2 HOLIDAYS, 17 SUNDAYS HERE —; Open and Close Season at| Home—West Comes Here First in May. AJOR league base ball will not carry over into the foot ball season this year, as it did last, for finally the schedule makers have ar- ranged compact lists of games. In | fact, the championship campaigns | will finish so early that there will | be little likelihood of the world! series conflicting with more than | the earliest gridiron Saturday in October. As announced today, the American League pennant race will begin Monday, April 14, and end Sunday, September 28. In the schedule-making the Nationals have been well treated. As usual they are to open their season at home, being down to meet the Red Sox in Griffith Stadium on April 14. They also will wind up their activities here in a game with the Athletics on September 28. During the campaigning Walter Johnson's charges will have 24 Sun dates, 17 of them at home. All Sunda; dates abroad will be on Western fields. The Sabbath engagements here are six Wwith the Athletics, three with the Yankees, two with the Red Sox, as many with the White Scx and Browns and one each with the Detroit and Cleveland clubs. A dozen Saturday tilts are listed for Griffith Stadium and the Nationals are to have as many abroad. All, excepting | the Indians and Red Sox, are to play as many as two Saturdays nere. The Nationals have two Saturday dates in Philadelphia, two in New York and one in Boston. Two Holidays Here. ‘Two big holiday dates are assigned to Griffith Stadium.” The Yankees will be here for a double attraction on July 4 and the Red Sox on Labor Day. May 30, Memorial Day, will find the Na- tionals in Philadelphis for two games. Western clubs will invade the East before entertaining the sezboard lot &t home. The first stand against the West will open May 2, the nex: June 19 and last August 8. The Nationals start i the West the first time on June 3, beginning July 12 and open their final Western swing September 9. Only twice will the Nstionals be called upon to make the long Wash- ington-St. Louts :umg].‘ They will make Jé,;ltnt :lflghulfh tial tour of the an t again when ths West for the last time. The Nation 80 once from Boston to Detroi; and m‘;‘k: ;nu trip in mr,evergwg once. The other jumps are from Washington to Detroit and Chicago to ‘Washington. ring the Nationals have ys listed, but six will be given over to travel. Of the 11 others seven will find Johnson's charges at home, unless exhibitions are scheduled for them. qldies 20 BY LAWRENCE PERRY. ASKE? BALL rules suthorities, the writer-learned from a mem- ber of the national committee, . are taking serious cognizance of the stalling féndency, which in many sections has settled upon the sport like a blight. N6 one is ready to say just | what can be done, but it is generally admitted that something certainly ought to be done and by the time the current season is on its wene it may well be that remedial measures will have been devised. Examples of stalling? There are lots of them. , for instance, Wiscon- 14 to 9, recently, the Badgers at one stage in the second half kept the ball for five minutes while the players conversed with co- eds gathered in the stands and had a nice easy time. Officials did not seem to know what to do about the situa- | tion. It was not an unusual incident. In games between evenly metched fives the last half contains as much stalling as it is possible for the leading man to inject. One Northwestern-Wisconsin _game was even until near the end, North- Wwestern then leading. The Evanston five decided it would be good tactics to stall to hold the lead. Dr. Meanwell, the Badger coach, became impatient and ordered his players to smash in and break it up. Doing this, they dis- Tupted their five-man defense and the Purple outfit shot two baskets before Wisconsin knew what had happened. In the case of the Illinois-Wisconsin game cited above, the Illini were trail- ing by one 2 points, hence they re- | fused to be drawn ito an attempt to | smash the Madison team's Fabian tac- tics. If Wisconsin, in the Northwest- ern game, had been as cagey as Illi- nois was, the Evanstonians would not have rung up two extra baskets and the Badgers would have come into the final stage of the contest still in the run- ning. Several fives in the Middle West have developed this stalling stuff to the point of amazing artistry. But no good sport likes to see & game won thus, even if it is his own college that wins. BOWEN BROUGHT HERE. Johnny Bowen, one of the well-known boxing family of this city, who was recently seriously injured in an auto- mobile accident in Florids, has been brought to a hospital here. Fights Last By the Associated Press ST. LOUIS.—Benny Bass, junior light- weight champion, stopped Davy Abad, | Panama (4); Johnnie (Pee Wee) Kaiser, | St. Louis, stopped Kid Woods, Indian- SPORTS.’ ¢y OFFICIAL AMERICAN LEAGUE SCHEDULE, 1930 (Black Figures Denote Sundays and Holidays, the Latter in Parentheses) AT CRICAGO AT ST. LOuIs AT DETROIT CHICAGO ... The AT CLEVELAND AT WASHINGTON AT PHILADELPHIA ’ wew Tork April 23, 29, 30 Aug. 1 4 Slept. 25,26, 27, 28 April 18, 19. 20, 21 i i May May 9. 10, 11, 12__ | June June 19, 30, 31, Aug. 12, 13. 14° % 13, 14, 18 23, 24, 25 May'2.3. 4.5 e ‘S0, July 1. 2 Ree i6, 15 16, 19 April 15, 16, 17 oy 17 i Yo 20 Aug, 7081, May 21, Bept. 4. 6 7 Bept. 3 July ‘6, 7. May 2. June 29, Aug. 20, , 23, 3.4 May 5.6, 7, 8 o 30, July 1, 2 |June 36, 37, 27, 6, 27, 28 132,33 % [Aus. 16, 16, 1 May 9. 10. 1y, June 19! %!'5,12 Aug. 12,13 14, 15 . 28 |Aprit 2 Ma: Every June 1 July 28 y (30, 5, 26. 27 ) 303, 31 . 29 .30. 31 May 5. 6, June 36,2 Aug. i, | | May 1. 2, 3 June 30, July 1.1.2 Aug. 20, 21, 22, 23 | I |May 13. 14. 15 June 22, M 9, 10, 11, 12 3tie %o %or 5 |Aug. 12, 13, 14, 18 April 18, 19, 20, B! )T 20 28 9.5 July 10, 11 Aug. 5,6 Day {qune 11. 12. 13 July 3¢ 25, 36. = [Sept. 12, 13.14.15 June July WASHINGTON . Bept. 16,20, 21" [Sept. May 9. 10. 12 June 18, 19, 20, Aug. 12, 12, 13, 8 28. 20 23, 24 21 it 7. 8. 9. 6. 17, 1 10 18. 19 16, 17, 18 lA}rII 18, 19, 21 hy 1 MaY o, 30, 3 Aug. 6, Aug. 25, 26 2829 56 June Tuly Sept | [June 7. 8, 9. 10 PHILADELPHIA . [guly 16, 17. 18,19 18l pt. 18,17, 13 g"{‘ 2 "l‘i 18 fept. "9, “10 . |May 3 June i e ne 27 July a4, 25. 26, 27 Bept. 13, 14 April 25, 26, 27 May 1 July 30, ug. 24 |Sept. 1 11,12, 13 3 7. ‘18, ‘June 1 3r + Sept. 28 Best 22, 23, 2¢ 24, 8010 Aug. {8ept. "0, 1 June July | NEW YORK ’ ity 1 Bept. Sept 7. 8 9. 10 16, 17. 18. 19 16, 17, 18 ‘a8 36, 9 14 A A o Bept. 12,13, 14, 15 Sept. June 14, 15. July 20, 21, 2 April 20 16, 1 2, 2 0 7 3 9, 10, July 38, 29 uly 28, Bevt. ‘25,226, 2 e Ji 3 |April 18, ¢ May 17, 18, rts July 30,31, |Sept. 28 7 Sept. 9, 10, 11 BOSTON ..... June 7. 8. 9. 10 July 16, 17, 18, 19 Sept. 16, 1,9 Sept. June 3. 4. 5. 6 July 12, 13. 14, 15 April 14 April 22, 23, 2¢ May 21,2224, 19, 20, ug. 3 |Sept. (1, 1) 21 May 26, 27, 28, 25 [Aug. 2, Sept. 3, 4. 5. 6 |April 25, 26, 27 fay (30, 307, 31 June 1. Aus. 6, Bep! Se, 29 12 Saturdays 12 Sundays y 4. Labor day |Confticts. 'Aug. 51 1 AT HOME ...... b Decoratio; Labor | |13 Saturdays 15 Bundays July. 4 ays n day y 12 Saturdays 17 Sundays |July 4 Labor day 12 Saturdavs Decoration day 12 Saturdays 12 Suni Decoration day Labor day - “HOLDOUTS” ANNOY BIG LEAGUE CLUBS Yanks, Giants, Dodgers, A’s and Pirates Troubled by Balky Players. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, February 4.—“Hold- out fever” has struck the three metropolitan major league base ball clubs. Babe Ruth thinks the Yankees should pay him $85,000 annually for the next three years. The Yankees have coun- tered with an offer of $75,000 annually for two years. The Yankees are having difficulty also with Tony Lazzeri, second baseman, and Wailte Hoyt, the one-time boy wonder right-handed pitcher. Giants who dislike terms offered are Bill Walker, left-handed pitcher who | led the league in effectiveness last season; Third Baseman Freddie Lind- | strom, First Baseman Bill Terry and | Outfielder Ed J. Roush. The Chicago Cubs would like to buy Lindstrom, but the Giants would not sell him, as he might assure the Cubs another pennant. This makes Lind- strom anxious to do as well as he can with the Giant paymasters. Reports have it that Roush is the victim of one of the biggest cuts in salary in their history of the game. Roush, a veteran, finished a three-year UOSEIS ISE] SIUVID Y} UM JIwIIU0D at $21,500 & year. It is understood that | the Giants offered him a one-year con- | tract for 1930 at $7,500. | It has been whispered that a number | of the World Champion Athletics are dissatisfied with the terms offered them. | Vance probably *will not be | anxious to take a cut in salary and Burleigh Grimes, accor to reports, will give Pittsburgh lots of trouble be- fore he consents to toss up spitballs, WILSON GETS IN LINE, FILLING LIST OF CUBS CHICAGO, February 4 ().—The signing of Lewis (Hack) Wilson, pugi- listic outfielder, to a Chicago Cub con- tract fills out the National League champions’ roster for 1930. Wison yesterday came to terms with €re»;ldent Willlam L. Veeck, in New ork. | WELTERWEIG;HT HONORS TAKEN FROM CALLAHAN CINCINNATI, Ohio, February 4 (&). —Mushy Callahan, New York, has been dethroned as junior welterweight box- ing champlon ‘by the National Boxing aalocllflo for failure to defend his e. The champlonship was declared open. | | | RISKO WILL ENGAGE CAMPOLO IN FLORIDA CLEVELAND, Ohio, February 4 P). —"“Little” Johnny Risko, who, accord- ing to the New York Boxing Commis- sion, is “too small” to fight Vittorio Campolo, the big South American heavyweight in the Empire State, has been signed in spite of his mere 196 pounds to fight Campolo at Miami, Fla., February 27. No. 4—The First Team to Win 26 Consecutive Games. I insuccession in 1916, but when they started on that invasion of HE New York National League team—the Giants—won 26 games recordland they had no idea they were on their wa; Rice Spurns Sore Digit To Play Golf at Springs HOT SPRINGS, Ark, February 4.—Edgar C. Rice, veteran fly chaser of the Griffmen, who arrived here vesterday for & course of sprouts preliminary to reporting for Spring training a¢ Biloxi, Miss., is on the casualty list, but his disability isn't serious—merely an infected finger. Sam, still spry enough to top all the Nationals last season in hitting, with a mark of .323, in addition to taking the baths, plans to do most of his conditioning here on the golf course, and his injured digit didn't prevent him from warming up his southpaw clubs soon after he checked in at his hostelry. % GRIFFS’ 1930 DATES AT HOME AND AWAY CARNERA N AT HOME. Asri 1 ton. Avrt P Y April 22, 23, 24—Roestos April 26, *i—Phil il 29, 30—Ne 20, y 24, 25, st 2, 4. & September 18 13, 1heg) r September eptember 0T PRESENT AS BOUT INVESTIGATE DOWN THE LINE WITH W. O. McGEEHAN. “Base “Ball’s ‘Biggest “Firsts” Series Describing the First Records of the Biggest Plays By John B. Foster CHICAGO, February 4 (#)—With the presence of one of the principals, Primo Carnera himself, unavailable, the in- vestigation into the circumstances lead- ing up to and surrounding the Italian goliath's 47-second knockout of Elzear Rioux, at the Chicago Stadium last Friday night, was before the Illinois State Athletic Commission today. Primo spoke his piece before the com- mission at a special meeting of the com- mission last Saturday, but was not on hand for rebuttal—if any—today as he was in the East preglring for his meet- ing with James “Battling” Owen, at Newark, N. ‘Thursday night. ‘The investigation was ordered by Frederick Gardner, member of the com- mission, after Rioux, French-Canadian heavyweight, failed to survive the first round in his share of Primo's Chicago debut. The purses of both fighters, around $16,000 for Carnera and $3,000 for Rioux, were held up by order r.f the commission, to be held in escrow until the commission is convinced the contest was “genuine.” when they began to be investigated they were found to have flaws. It was a fact, however, that the Providence club had won 20 games in succession, s0 when the Giants won their twenty- first, New*York let out a screech of joy. Even with 21 straight the Giants could not win the season's pennant, but lit- | tle they cared. They were on a typical | l Nome to chase rumors of new mine in this section of the gr for miles around it was staked ouf town of Goldfield, with a sp overnight. Mixed with the prosp chance men were some promoters them George Graham Advertisement was necessary, and was hard to get. Some genius of the cam Rice—suggested a way by w initial cost. At the time the Gans-: world would be on Goldfield. There was plenty of loose money in camp. The leaders of Goldfield met and raised the sum of $30,000 as a guarantee for the Gans-Nelson fight. | The fighters, their managers and the | sporting world in general were skeptical. | It sounded like too much real money | for a prize fight in those days. But | Billy Nolan, the manager of Battling | Nelson, went to Goldfield on anltonn‘ to investigate. They showed him in a bank window two pyramids of $20 gold pieces. One of $20,000 was for Nelson, the other of $10,000 was for Gans. 1t did not seem proper that the event should be conducwl:lv & committee, so the leading spirits of the camp who had raised the purse settled on Tex Rickard as the ostensible promoter. Rickard never had seen a professional prize fight in his life, but he was senior partner of the Northern, the biggest saloon and gambling house in the camp. and he had occupied the same pos tion in a bar of the same name at Nome. He had the reputation of ru; ning square games, which was sensible, because the percentage in the square games always is in favor of the house When the guidi spirits of Gold- field planned the fight they figured on charging the expenses to adver- tising. ey might well have done that, for. as was predicted, the name new: T ‘There -was “Mm 830 worth of advertising for $40,000, and fresh money began to come into Goldfield. But that was not all. The fight was held and showed a slight profit, not a great deal compared to the latter days of million-dollar gates. But the profit at Goldfleld was gratifying, especially when the backers of the event, were counting on a loss. After that boom Goldfleld, as they say in the West, petered out & min- ing . Tex Rickard had not yet become quite convinced that there m:sht be millions in eaulifiowers. He was trying to unload some copper shares on a certain magnate. The magnate was not interested in Nevada copper properties. “But I'll tell you what I will ds he satd. “1f you will get Jeffries and Johnson to- gether for a heavyweight champion- ship fight I will underwrite you.” THE results of the second fight fol- lowing so rapidly on the heels of the first convinced Rickard that there was more gold in the caulifiowers than there was in the tundra of Alaska or the wastes of Nevada, and that it was much more easily and pleasantly ex- tracted. So Rickard went East to bat- tle a horde of hostile promoters with only petty larceny imaginations. There was the Willard-Moran fight, in which the profits were small, but in which Rickard began to see the vis- fons of “nice people” at the ringside. Mr. Rickard’s notion of nice people were persons who wore evening dress and were ready to pay $50 and upward for a ringside seat far removed from the ring. The Dempsey-Willard fight was a losing venture, if the truth were known, but it brought about the combination of Rickard and Demp- sey, which was to develop the bat- tles of the century and the million dr(‘:;llr %I'AIA r the Dempsey-Carpentier bout Rickard drew gate receip'r‘;elo the ex- tent of $1,600,000, and he built up this spectacle without putting up a dollar D Gold From Caulifiowers. in cash. So The Premier Promoter. T STARTED in 1906 in the mining camp of Goldfield, Nev. The prospectors and the take-a-chance men drifting down from ur track from the main line, sprang up ectors, the real miners and the take-a- Rice, who has served a few jail térms for overpromoting. The settlers of Goldfield wanted to sell their claims. p—it might have been George Graham hich the name of the town, Goldfield— and & most alluring name it was—could be gotten into the news- papers of the United States and Europe of in the sporting world. Promoters in v: for it. The camp genius suggested that the men of Goldfield offer a bid higher than any sum mention | camp days back.” gold strikes had found one fair eat Nevada Desert. The country t into claims and the mushroom of the Wallingford stamp, among advertising for new gold strikes overnight at a very small fight was the most talked arious cities were bidding Nelson ed. Then all eyes in the sporting | part he gambled with other people’s money. Still, he realized one dream before it was over. He put the prizefight game on a business basis. He made the world understand that it was a business and not a sport when he contrived to have Madison Square Gardan stock put on the New York Stock Exchange, where it is known as Caulifiower Common. He boasted that at one prizefight at Madison Square Garden there were 600 mil- lionaires present. The last drop in the stock market altered some of these beyond mofmuon. In times of trouble he would say to me, “If we could only pull out of this and have the old Nevada mining ‘Then he was wist- ful and lonely. For the Rickard of the later days, the Rickard with the gold-headed cane and a touch of rouge in his cheeks, I did not care much. But for the Rickard behind the Northern bar in the roaring camp at Goldfield, or presiding over the faro tables, where they used $20 gold pieces for chips, I have some pleas- ant and respectfy of the desert was real. caulifiowers turned to BERG WOULD RULE AS JUNOR WELTRR English May Give Title to Him Should He Defeat Mushy Callahan, The gold in the BY FAIR PLAY, LTHOUGH England never has recognized the junior welter- | welght class, it will do so in | the event that Jack Kid Berg I beats Mushy Callahan in London next | month. There can be no other reason | for this match, as Berg outclasses Cal- | lahan in every départment of the game and is a sure bet to win on points if not by a knockout. idea of sporting a -title, synthetic though it may be, is evidenced by his trip home at a time when he is the most-talked-about lightweight, in the world. Berg's one-sided victory over Tony Canzonerl two weeks ago has made him the outstanding contender for Sammy Mandell's lightweight crown, ‘The junior titles, lightweight and welterweight, are practically meaning- less at the present time. Callahan’s unwillingness to meet a good man and the sour reception attending the Benny Bass-Tody Morgan contest have in- curred the disapproval of governing bodies, so that the synthetic titles are empty_ones, ngland, creator of the cruiserwelght or light-heavyweight class and the fly- weight class, is taking up what the new world 1s casting off. Back in the old days, when Jimmy Barry and Johnny | team named for him memories. The gold | That Berg thinks pretty well of the | HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1930. Nationals Are Well Treated in Schedule : SHTURDAYNIGHT STAKES POPULAR Arcadia Will Hold Event for Girls Modeled After Men’s. BY R. D. THOMAS. ILL WOOD thought he had B Pin Saturday night sweep- stakes, and now he knows it. Influenza never spread faster than the epidemic of bowling sweepstakes pervading Washing- ton and its suburbs, and before the season is out it is probable every establishment will have one weekly. Wood started it. Bowling promoters let pride of indi- stake. When one discovers a way to increase business the others attempt first to offset it with something slightly different, and, falling in that, swipe | the enterprising promoter’s plan in toto. | The competition along these lines in a big way has been mostly between ‘Wood, who directs the Lucky Strike and | the two King Pins, and John Blick, who heads the Arcadia and Convention Hall. They and Harry Carroll control the bulk of the bowling business of ‘Washington. . Carroll has stayed in the background as a promoter, both of his plants, the Recreation and Coliseum, being downtown and depending much on transient trade. They Watch Each Other. Wood and Blick obviously keep close tab on each other. Rivalry between them has produced the John Blick| Sweepstakes, the Meyer Davis Sweep- | stakes (Wood is vice president of the Davis enterprises), the Wood Sweep- stakes and several other specialties, and for advertising purposes each has in the Ladies’ District League. Last Saturday night Wood put on the first weekly sweepstakes at the big King Pin. ager at the Arcadia, Ralph Frasier, will stage one for women. An_event for men, like that at the King Pin, across the way, undoubtedly would draw more entries, but the steal would be a trifle too- baldfaced. As at the King Pin, an entrance fee of $2 will be levied, and each partici- pant will roll three games, but as a gesture toward being different the Ar- Clndll will have four prizes instead of three. will go to the winner, with 30 per cent for second, 15 for third and 5 fourth. Forty-five took part in the first King Pin event, and this was reckoned a promising entry. A larger fleld is ex- pected next Saturday night. King Pins Barred. As a matter of fact, there were 50 entries in the opener, but five were withdrawn, and for an odd reason. The entire membership of the King Pin team was_protested, and the squawk allowed. The King Pins, opposing the Recreation five of Baltimore in a five- game match at the King Pin, thought to have their first three strings count in the tournament and posted their entry fees. The other entrants were almost unanimous in agreeing to this, pparently scheming to increase his of the city's best bowlers, raised such a howl that the King Pin captain, Howard Campbell, requested his men draw to keep the peace. Jack Wolsten. home of the King Pin team would have n first prize with lots to spare with s VI a_clicky idea in the King| viduality go hang when shekels are at | SPORTS. Bouwling. Pilots Swipe Wood’s Idea | a score of 4 | the first 15. | It was altogether a matter of lpofl-l-’ manship. The King Pins would not| ave been favored by conditions, More | | probably they would have been handi-| capped. | Speaking of sportsmanship, the Bos- | ton representative in the grand finale {of 'nngvunmmm Star-Boston Herald- | | Baltimore Sun tournaments, Manuel Sllvei®, won the high regard of his rivals, Tony De Fino of Washington and Lea Vulgaris of Baltimore. He strove.desperately to outbowl them, but he was convincingly sincere when he applauded the others’ exceptional shots | or decried their ill Juck. Encouraged His Foe. When De Fino was suffering split after split with excellent hits, Stlveira— a big, hearty chap—patted little Tony on the back and encouraged him to keep plugging. % trying.” he grinned, “They'll 05. The kicker wasn't among “Keep trying, start dropping if you do.” He was right—De Fino won. “I liked that guy from Boston,” Tony | said later. | It was the first major victory for | Janette Killgren of Boston, who won | the: women’s championship, and it came much earlier in her career than such things do in the lives of most stars. | This is her second season on the drives. ‘The newspaper championship will be |an outstanding title in another season or two, according to George Isemann, N. D. B. C. secretary, who promoted | this year's tricity finale. “Other newspapers are planning to | promote tournaments like The Star's next season,” said Isemann today, “and have asked the National Duckpin Bowl- ing Congress for all information avail- able on it. We will f!ve every assist- ance possible, and will try to bring all | the winners together. I look for 8 or 10 | cities In next year's grand final.” At least one major change.will be | made in The Star's 1930 event. Instead | of stipulated merchandise prizes; either cash or orders on department stores | will ‘be awarded. On the Drives Tonight SRODKLYN BATILE BEFORE . L. BODY Landis May Help to Settle Dispute—AA Leagues to Hold Meeting. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, February 4.—Na- tional League '6lub owners had & few chores to perform today before allowing the players to take over the base ball reins for 1930. The league's Spring meeting gener- ally is devoted to adoption of the sched- ule for the coming seasom, and advance indications were that there wnllillle | else to be done at the current get- | together. | There was a possibility, however, that | efforts would be made to settle once | and for all the internal dissensions that | have torn the Brooklyn club for sev- eral years. Suggestions were made that K. M. Landis, base ball commissioner, might act as mediator in the long bat- tle between Wilbert Robinson, president- manager of the club, and S. W. Mc- Keever, a heavy stockholder. Robinson’s contract as manager has expired, and, strictly speaking, the | Dodgers are without any gllot to guide | them from the bench, obinson has | the support of the Ebbets heirs and so | far has managed to defeat all of Mc- | Keever's efforts to oust him. The International League, meeting yesterday, named a committee to meet with similar bodles from the American Next Saturday night Blick's man- | Fifty per cent of the prize fund | M for | Motor. but one technical-minded fellow, quite | own chance to win by eliminating five to with- M | District League—Open d: | . National " [ 3 Joppa, ashing- armony Joseph H. Golumbia, u s. Hope, St. John's v: ton Centenrial, Gavel vs. Ruth, Hi ve. Bethlehem,' Treaty O v sbury. Acacia od ' vs. Whiting, St Johs ing, at Convention' Hall Capit gue_—Navy Yard vs. Moth: o arignehy At Capitol ML orthe, ague—Temple Sou Curb' Cafer Plambers Now3 va- Bed™ Sears Lunch_vs. Allied Roofi Princess Theater, at Nort] Leagy Joppn, " Brishiv Ve, Silver Bpr of Hill' Leagu ws vs. it , Birkhait ollve Cate v theast Tem —York Auto .vs. Stella iness ' Men's Leagu Ve. King " Pin "No. Leglo ilver Spring Dyeing and e 8 Motor Ve Triangle ver Spring. Norin'" o Wasingtin Ladies Lengue— American Legion Auxiliary vs. Blank, at Stiver Sprin 0odd League—8ection A: Mount Eastern, Pqfomac vs. Canton. mity No. 2 vs. Amity No. 1, Btuart vs. Columbia, at Lucky 1 v 3, eliot Rainier vs. ran e—Incarnation No. Grace, Reformation va. 8t Joiy Ghrist va, Incarnation N No. 3 v Trinity. St. Jon John's No. 2, Georgetow No. 1, Takom Ve St_Maithes 3%, League--0ld_Glory “M. Read’ No. vs. Reno No, Mol Z v John L -purnett, & 5. Reno No. 2, ‘Washington afes TeagueBhamrock e Teagus—8hnmrocks v, of "Taabells. v "Go. s, 1 1 v Epwo: s Ingram Unitea Brethreni, ul 3 i Lincoln Road. Fiftn land,” First Convention North Ind . 1 vs. Anacos inth No. 2, Waugh 3 aptist vs. Brook- Prethren va.' Second Baptist. at a] | vs. Guntor 1 ve. | Central Fi Association and Pacific Coast League in Chicago June 16 to discuss matters of interest to these AA circuits. The Chicago meeting, invitations to which will be dispatched to the American As- soclation and Pacific Coast organiza- tion, was suggested in view of the fact that the mwg-' v l:(;li agreement ex- ires September 8,° o ¥ Babe Ruth's threat to ‘quit base ball unless he was given a three-yeat con- tract at $85,000 anniially gave base ball men something to talk about, but there was no_disposition on the part of any one to take the slugger's statemvent too serjously. Most ervers felt that by the time the season opens, or before, Ruth will have adjusted his difficulties with the New York Yankees probably t | on a contract that will be a compromise between his demands and the. club's offer of $75,000 per year for two years. RS il 0 R A, MRS. PRESSLER LEADING. LOS ANGELES, February 4 (#)— Mrs. Leona Pressler, runner-up in the 1929 national women'’s tournament, to- day led the qualifying round of the Southern California midwinter golf :‘mz event, turning in a 77 for the 18 0] played yesterday. ( iod » ( ke IDEAL FOR.. STROPPING=-KEEN, SMOOTH AND READY FOR' USE WITHOUT | sTRopeiNG <+ - TRY THE HIGH-QUALITY ... NEW LET AutoStrop BLADEI |'VA LAST WEEK The Big Annual Florsheim wi first potent was the ballyhoo g Masssibog behind him that the prospective cus- tomers began to throw their money at him the moment Rickard announced that he had the two fighters signed. The arena at Boyle's Thirty Acres was built on the money collected for advance sales for tickets. That was| financial genfus of a sort, It is not | every promoter who could promote and | carry through a venture of more than | a million with no cash and with only | the signatures of two prizefighters and an entirely gratuitous newspaper bally- | hoo. I doubt that it can be done any | more. Newspapers have become wiser | and very sparing of the ballyhoo. apolis (4); Billy De Foe, Minneapolis, knocked out Pete White, 5t. Louis (4). PITTSBURGH, Pa—Sergt. Sammy | & Baker, New York, outpointed Joe Trippe, | 69 Rochester, N. Y. (10): Bobby Young, | Detroit, outpointed Ken Hargreaves, | New Kensington, Pa. (8) CLEVELAND. — Sammy Mandell, world lightweight champion, outpointed Joey Goodman, Cleveland ' (12), title. ROCHESTER, N. Y.—Bucky Lawless, Giant rampage; the farther it went, | the better. One tie game intervened. On Sep- tember 18 New York and Pittsburgh played a 1.1 affair—eight innings, rain, | The Giants always said they would have won if it hadn’t rained. After the twenty-first game had been | won, the other victories came in order | until the second game of a double- | header on Saturday, - September 30, | | against Boston on the Polo Grounds The Giants had won the first game. In | | the second, Mnfee slapped a gmme Tun into the left-feld bleachers, with Sallee pitching for New York, and the Giants | began to hear the rattle of machine- gun fire in the rear. They lost that Coulon ruled the bantamweight roost, | 105 pounds was the official bantam- | weight poundage. The beam was grad- | ually lifted to 116, then to 118 pounds, | where it rests today. The flyweight class did not come into official existence until Britain produced the mighty atom, Jimmy Wilde, team of organized base ball to win 26 | games in succession. Cincinnati won when great-grandad was a lad. The Giants hadn't much of any con- cern at first as to how many they won because they never seemed likely to win the pennant, although they prev- | iously had won 17 games in succession {in the same year. non- | About the ‘time that the team had | climbed to its fifteenth successive vic- | tory of the second run, the players be- Syracuse, N. Y., outpointed young Jack | gan to wake up. ‘They thirsted to beat ‘Thompson, Los Angeles (10). | their record of “17 strajght.” The: DES MOINES, Iowa—Tommy Gro- | were a fighting team, that 1916 crowd, gan, Omaha, Nebr., knocked out Tony | yet they were & good-natured lot among Liggouri, Des Moines (2). | themselves. PHILADELPHIA. — Johnny Jadick, ed Al stylesinc! WRESTLE IN BALTIMORE. BALTIMORE, February 4.—Richard (Dick) Shikat, Philadelphia German, | claimant of the world heavyweight championship, will meet Jack Wash- burn, Pacific Coast husky, in the fea- ture match of a mat card tonight at ' the 104th Medical Regiment Armory ere. I He Thought in Millions. L Philadelphia, and Gaston Le Cadre, France, drew (10); Paulie Walker, New~ ark, N. J., outpointed Joe Dundee, for- mer world welterweight champion (10) KANSAS CITY, Mo—Mickey Cohan, Denver, outpointed Mike Dundee, Rock Island, Ill. (10): Ham Jenkins, Denver, knocked out Johnny Wright, Los An- geles (5). TULSA, Okla—Babe Hunt, Ponca City, Okla., knocked out Sandy Moir, Chicago (2). JOPLIN, Mo.—Nick Broglio, Herrin, ., oultpolnted Kid Peck, Little Rock, <7k (10), Christy Mathewson didn't get into the 26 victories because he had been traded to Cincinnati for Herzog, so that Mathewson might manage Cinéinnati and Herzog could brace up the Giants' infield. Matty was through with New York and Herzog was beginning over again. When the Giants had won their seventeenth victory they were steaming | high. 'n they got to the nineteenth | they were under forced draft and in | that temperature they remained until they fell down in the twenth-seventh contest. All kinds of records had been claimed for various cl@l in various leagues, but game, but what & run of fun they had had! President Hempstead gave each play- er & solid gold ring, and no base ball {rophies today are more highly prized. The players voted him one. ‘They alsc voted a ring to this writer, one to Manager McGraw and one to Edward Mackall, the colored trainer of the team. Players recelving them were Anderson, Benton, Burns, Fletcher, Doolan, Holke, Kauff, Kelly, Kocher, Lobert, McCarty, Perritt, Rariden, Rit- ter, Robinson, Herzog, Sallee, Schuy, Smith, Tesreau and Zimm: one man put it, “Not a PP, As THEN came the period when Rickard could talk of only millions. There was the Battle of the Sesquicentennial at Philadelphia—millions and & new champion. ~ After that the Battle of the Slightly Less Than Three Millions— nothing but talk of millions and more millions. But, like that mine at Gold- field, Nev., the caulifiower gold mine began to peter out. To his astonish- ment, Rickard faced a deficit in the Tunney-Heeney bout. He began to lose faith in his gold-finding destiny. 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