Evening Star Newspaper, February 10, 1930, Page 23

. Speedy Skinker Eagle Quint To Face Paterson Basketers SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1930. SPORTS. B—-7 Second Place Contest Tomorrow Ends Public High School Basket Ball Series BUSTING INTO BASE BALL 'WESTERN CAN HOLD POST ONLY BY LICKING CENTRAL Loss for Red Would Create Triple Tie for Runner- up Berth—Many Other Scholastic Contests. Blue’s Tank Team Shows Strength. INIS will be written tomorrow afternoon to the 1930 public high school basket ball championship series when Central and West- ern take the hardwoed in t wind up in a tie with Central and Western, which finished secon to down Central. up post with four wins and three make each team’s record read fo which has finished series play, also has captured four games and dropped as many. In their first series meeting tvgestem drubbed Central, 36 18. An interesting sidelight on the game will be the efforts of Capt. Wilbur Cross of Central and Capt. Jimmy Thompson of Western to gain individual series scoring honors. Everett Russell, Tech’s sharpshooting forward, now is heading the pack with a total of 67 points, but Cross and ‘Thompson have each scored 60. They are tied for third. Joe Robey, Eastern’s fine guard, stands second with 63 markers. Aside from the Central-Western game four court contests involving schoolboy quints of the District area are carded tomorrow. None will be played on a floor in the city proper. Eastern will go to Garrett Park to meet Georgetown Prep, Emerson will travel to College Park to try conclusions ‘with the Maryland Freshmen, St. John's has an engagement with Leonard Hall at Leonardtown, Md.. and Episcopal and Woodward are to mix at Episcopal in a Prep School Lightweight League match. St. John’s will entertain Leonard Hall tonight at 8:30 o’clock on the St. John's court. In games this afternoon Eastern was to play host to Gonzaga, Landon was outcome of the game will determine whether Western is to fin- ish a clear second to Tech, which has retained its championship, or Coach Clff Moore's boys are now in the runner- he Tech gym at 3:45 o'clock. The Eastern for the runner-up post. d to Tech in the 1929 set, is favored defeats, but a win for Central will ur wins and four losses. Eastern, | to meet Episcopal at Episcopal, Tech and Hyattsville High were to face at Hyattsville and Business and St. John's College Junior Varsity had a date at Annapolis. George Walker, former Western High athlete, plans to complete his course at | Milford, Conn., Prep School the coming | Spring and enter Yale in the Fall. He | will be following in the footsteps of the famed Albie Booth, the little Blue star [hnvmg graduated from Milford. | Walker is a stalwart performer in | foot ball, base ball and track. In holding Yale freshmen to a 37-to- 25 victory in their tank battle Satur- day at New Haven, Central swimming team acquitted itself with decided credit. Though the schoolboys won only two events, they scored in every test, giv- ing the freshmen a battle all the way. Particularly noteworthy was the work of Central's relay team in vanquishing the Yale Cubs at 200 yards. Gordon, Hickey, Leverton and Rote made up ahead of its rival by 5 yards. Lyman’s victory in the fancy diving, the fine race put up by Rote before succumbing to Lapham of the fresh- men in the 100-yard dash, in which the latter won in the near-record time of 56 1-5 seconds, and the performance of Leverton in scoring in the team race, i features from the Central standpoint. KINKER EAGLES will entertain the Paterson, N. J., professionals Sunday afternoon in the Silver Spring Armory, and while the Jersey boys, led by Bob Grody, former member of the Washington pro team, are said to be good, they will, it appears, have to be that and more to down the Eagles. ‘These Skinker fellows have been overcoming stout opposition Sunday after S\ln&y, and there is no question about them possessing real strength. They apparently now are at the top of their game and it probably will take a mighty good club to trim them. Showing general superiority, the Birds yesterday won handily over the vaunted West Virginia Paper & Pulp Co., of Piedmont, 47 to 22. Joe Sweeney and Duke Allen led the Eagles’ attack, scoring 18 and 10 points, respectively. Woltz Photographers their second recent win over Stewart Pholographers. They defeated the Stewart outfit, 40 to 28, yesterday in the preliminary to the Eagles-Paper & Pulp Co., game at Silver Spring, putting on a spurt in the closing %o clinch victory. Carl MacCartee, captain of the public high school championship Tech team, | made an impressive debut with th2 ‘Woltz outfit, scoring 11 points. today boast | _Woltz Photographers and Mount | Vernon M. E. Church quint will meet | |at 7:30 o'clock, and United Typwriter Grays and Skinker Eagles will clash | an_hour later in Independent Basket | Ball League games Wednesday night in | the Silver Spring Armory. Jewish Community Center tossers won | their eleventh straight yesterday, | swamping Wilson A. C., 61 to 9. Potomac Boat Club basketers, 58 to 39 victors over the Fort Meade Tanks meet Stewart Photographers Wednesday night at Silver Spring and Crescent A. C. Thursday night in the Central High gym. A benefit dance will be held boathouse. | seventh win in 28 starts when they meet. the Central quartet which plunged in | ¢, the 50-yard dash and fancy dive were |y, Astecs will be Seeking their twenty- | G Abe’s Feet Deep in Sand At Address BY SOL METZGER. Abe Mitchell takes his niblick back on a line outside the line of flight. His straight left arm_ con- trols this backswing. Like Bobby Jones and Jimmy Johnston he does not overswing. Just about three- quarters of the way back is his limit for this blow. Of course his weight comes pretty much over to his right leg as he reaches the top. Any one’s will if they do not lose body balance in HARRY COOPER EXPLOOING 0 SCAR IN SAND PROVES THAT HE CUTS ACROSS BALL RIGHT TO LEFT My 2-6 this movement. That's why Abe sees to it that his right foot espe- clally is deep in the sand at stance. But where Abe differs from most American stars in blasting from sand is in the downswing. Unless you understand the pivot you cannot hope to shoot good golf. Sol Metzger has a new illustrated leaflet which he will send to any one Wwishing it. Address Sol Metzger, in care of this paper, and inclose a stamped, addressed envelope. (Copyright, 1930.) APPEALS GIRLS LEAD IN GENERAL COUNSEL amnRRe] Appeals .. Administrat, Injunctions . ivil Individual Averages. (Nine games or more.) . APPEALS. Butrimawich 51 10 43 116 alaguer ... 48 4 3 Shannon’ Murray . Stanley . Stock Fries Lockwood . Halbfinger .. | stinnet wi jem; Stillwell Richards . Ryvder Corps team yesterday at the fort, will |Dob! by the Boatmen Saturday night at their 18 de Hamline tossers tonight at 8 o'clock in | the Hamline gym. Pontiacs are seeking games with 85- pound quints. Melvin Best is booking at Atlantic 1963. i | Games are wanted by the Woodlawn | A. C. unlimited quint. Manager Pop | Wood s hanaling challenges at Claren- on 925. Rallying in the second half, Knights of Columbus basketers squeezed through to a 33-32 triumph over the St. Ste- | phen’s quint. | Base ‘Ball’s Biggest “Firsts” A Series Describing the First By John . 9—The Original “Whitewash” Game. HERE is a base ball legend that the first game with no score for one side was played in Brooklyn on November 8, 1860, and that it was won by the Excelsiors of Brook- lyn over a picked nine from St. George’s Cricket Club by the score of 25 to 0. No doubt it happened. The man who unearthed it was indefatig- able in running down records. The Excelsiors were one of the fine teams of Brooklyn. It is not well known , that in the early days of base ball Brooklyn turned out good ball players to exceed almost any city in the United States. There was plenty of ground on which to play, and all Brooklyn citizens were born base ball fans. On the St. George team there were * Harry Wright, one of the great old- timers; Daken, Gibbes, the two Robin- sons, Sadler and Bett. The first 1-to-0 score in base ball in 9 innings was made before the Na- tional League was born, but in the day of the National Association. The game was played on May 27, 1875, the Chi- cago club scoring one run and St. Louis none. It was the marvel of its time. If there had not been so many witnesses 1o it the score might have been scouted as the invention of a gentleman with a large imagination. It made New York 50 mad to think a 1-to-0 game had been played out West before one had been played in the East that the New York papers were very reluctant to give any credit to base ball nines who could be so scientific. ‘The longest 1-t0-0 game ever played Records of the Biggest Plays. B. Foster | was of 18 innings’ duration. It was on | August 17, 1882, when Providence de- | & | feated Detroit, 1 to 0. That_contest was the greatest thing in “whitewash” that ever has taken place. Since 1900 there have been two 1-t0-0 scores in the major leagues in 17-in- ning games, but there has been no game of 18 innings, and old-time base own in that respect. came more common as pitching grew bet- ter, and a score of that kind always was ball. For a long time base ball was not considered to be very scientific, but as scores were cut down, and the 1-to-0 score came into vision, it was suddenly bled over with science, and that any nine able to keep a team from scoring a run and just able to make one run itself must be engaged in something which was the height of athletic skill. When the shutout came into evidence there was a name for it that has since disappeared—the team that was shut out was “Chicagoed.” That term is scarcely heard in these days. The fans used to shout, when the game went on for six innings or so without a run, “Look out, you fellers, or you'll get fact that Chicago first shut out St. 1875. After "Chicagoed” came “white- washed.” That was easy enough. The scores were put up in whitewash on a blackboard. “How did Detroit come out today?” “Whitewashed. Not a darned figger on the board, jest whitewash and zeroes.” HAWKS GET CHANCE TO BAG FLOOR TITLE LAUREL, Md., February 10.—Brent- wood Hawks, pace-setters in the Tri- County Basket Ball League,” will have opportunity tomorrow night of just about clinching the pennant. They will meet, on the National Guard Armory floor here, Ellicott City Hoplights, who are second in the race, two games be- hind the Hawks. The léaders have won mnine games and lost one, while Ellicott City has won seven and lost Hawks and Ellicott City will face in the second game of a double-header, + with Headquarters Company, Nationai Guard, and Jessup A. C. m in the at 7:45 o'clock: Headquarters third, is just a half lights. discontinue Maryland. 18" also planned to select an all-| from among the players in Tri-County League, which combina- Montgomery loops. Leasue Standing. Brentwood Hawks & | Ellicott "City ... | Headauarters *Compi Berwyn o | Laurel Independeni | dessup A, . : | | Headquarters Company and Laurel | Independents and Brentwood Hawks and Berwyn A. C. will try conclusions o’clock. PENN AND COLUMBIA By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, February 10.—The first cruclal e of the Eastern Intercol- legiate et Ball season will find Pennsylvania clashing with Co- lumbia in New York Wednesday night. This game, involving the league lead, features the league’s three-game sched- ule for this week. Columbia will go to New Haven for a game with the last-place Yale team Friday night. On Saturday Dartmouth tangles with Cornell at Ithaca. ‘The l'.lndlnvg: H L Penn 0 Princeton olumbia’ Ci A 1-to-0 game in nine innings L>- referred to as the height of scientific | p! base Chicagoed.” “The term ‘came from the | ¥ Louls in the National Association in |8 G tion will challenge similar combinations representing the Prince Georges and De Friday night, the first two mentioned | 5! teams opening the program at 7;45‘M ner IN CLASH FOR LEAD|§ MORGAN STILL TOPS DISTRICT LEAGUERS Team Standing. Progressive Prg. 9 35 Arcadia ........ S Team Records. St. Sp. H.G. H. King Pin T4 88 et Yo Temple ... Cornell's"Lii Hyattsville eyer ball history still manages to hold its " discovered that the national game bub- | Thorpe Halloran . Wolfe o 38 CONVENTION HALL. 54 46 134 368 53 146 357 MYER DAVIS. ischer . Jolliffe . Goodall 155 421 127 369 138 365 90 | Bliineimé | Pantos " CARIDEO, THE RAMéLER, NICKNAMED “FISH EYES” ‘Tom Thorp, veteran official, says Carideo, Notre uarterback, is different: “I call him ‘Pish Eyes' He only quarterback I ever worked behind who didn't tip off his plays.” ‘There are now 24 colleges in the In- tercollegiate Lacrosse Association. New- comers are St. John’s, Western Mary- C 0 Cornell Dartmouth 3 Yale ... land and Princeton. Dame’s All-American 2 is_the | W'Y i “How I Broke Into the Major Leagues.” BY LLOYD WANER, As Told to Jo HE very first safe hit I made in Pprefessional base ball was the means of teaching me one of the biggest lessons in the game, and that is that you've got to be up and going all the time and plenty alert. Baseball is no place for dreaming and has no room for dreamers and I found that out, very, very early. Of course, it taught me that lesson, and I was fortunate in that it came so soon—on my first safe hit! I was only 18 years old when I left my home town of Harrah, Okla., to join the San Prancisco team of the Pacific Coast League in the Spring of 1925 and I played only about 21 games there, mostly pinch-hitting and running for pitchers, but being only 18 it was quite a sensation to get in even that much. So one day—I still remember it very well we were playing the Salt Lake club and I was called on to pinch-hit for a pitcher, this being the first time I had received a chance to get into the line-up. As it often happens with beginners, I took a good swing at the first ball pitched, and to my utter consternation I singled sharply to centerfield, and I almost flew down to first base. Here is where the big lesson came in, for I had hardly got perched on the bag and barely moved off of it when—bang!—I was caught napping. I thought right then and there I had better go home and go back to school. But I stayed HELLO FIVE BREEZES TOWARD GONFALON STANDING OF TEAMS. (End Second Series.) Shaa 8%3m 58528 §83 g8 High spares—Ulrich, 124. INDIVIDUAL AVERAGES. (Ten or More Games.) CHESAPEAKE & POTOMAC TELEPHONE. Smith Reinhart 308 5 120 313 11 STANDARD OIL. 139 371 144 121 132 43 Sprucebank ... Pearce 32 al 5 Edmonston Hamilton . Robinson . Bowen . Johnson Polvinale . Crane, C. Baird' | FALLS CHURCH TOPS ARLINGTON-FAIRFAX Cherrydaiz ‘No. 2 Falls Church No. Indi (9 GAMES OR MORE. FALLS CHURCH. . McReady . Loveday . Clark rcey Yeatman '| Johnson .. ¥. Rullman hn F. McCann. HEIDER— PITTSBURGH. PIRATES ¢ 11 on, and in 1926 I again started the| season with the same club, but was re- leased after a few weeks. I finally landed at Columbia, in the South Atlantic League, and missed only two games the entire season, coming out with a pretty fair average. I was called into the office one day and heard this glad news: “Lloyd, you have been sold to the Pittsburgh Pirates,” they told me. I didn’t expect to make good my first year, but after seeing a major league camp for my first time I soon found out that I had a chance, with good breaks, and I came through all right and had succeeded in busting into the big league, my first game being in the opener in Cincinnati, which I won't forget. Neither will I ever forget the surprise of that first bingle in Salt Lake, nor the shock of hearing that ‘umpire shout “You're out (Copyright, 1930, by North American News- peper_Alliance.) a spitter caught in theless, to accept more than half of country are made Certified Cremo ESPINOSA BAGS BIE MONEY AT HOUSTON Wins Open Golf Event With| Subpar Total of 281. Golden Second. By the Associated Press. OUSTON, Tex., February 10.—Al Espinosa, Chicago pro, possess- ed the $600 first-prize money in the Houston open golf tournament today, after riding a margin of a few strokes over the field yesterday for a sub-par total of 281 on the Rio Rico Country Club course. Espinosa finished three shots in front of John Golden, Paterson, N. J., who traveled over the layout in 284, four shots under par for the 72-hole grind. Espinosa’s total for the two days’ play was 281, Harry “Cooper, unattached, finished in third place, two shots be- hind Golden. Espinosa, Golden and Cooper played together for the final two rounds of the tournament. Espinosa stood four strokes better than his rivals at the end of the first day with a 139. As the threesome left the first tee yesterday afternoon Espinosa had a five-stroke lead and though his opponents were pressing the Chicago pro kept the advantage. Golden’s second place was worth $400, while Cooper drew down $270 for third. Johnny Rogers of Denver finish- ed fourth; P. O. Hart, Wheeling, W. Va,, fifth; H. L. McSpaden, Kansas City, sixth, and Craig Wood, Bloomfield, N. J.; Mike Turnesa, Elmsford, N. Y.; Bobby Cruickshank, Purchase, N. Y.; Tom Creavy, New York, and Jack Burke, Houston, tied for the next five places. Whiffy Cox .and Hank Decker of Kansas City, respectively, took twelfth and thirteenth places. Tied for the last money places were Tony Manero, Elms- ford; Frank Walsh, Chicago; Jimmy Demaret, Houston; Clarence Clark, Tulsa; Herman Barron, Port Chester; Py Runyan d Mangrum. Hyattsville High to Send 10 ! Boys to Virginia Track Meet Hyattsville High School in the annual University of Virginia scholastic track and field meet Satur- day at Charlottesville. It will be the opening competition of the season for the Blue and Gold who, with its team of a season ago practically intact, looks to a highly successful campaign. Three ‘members of last season's fast mile relay team are available in Eddie and Donnie Bartoo and Vincent Fitzsimmons. Un- der Coach Paul Smith, former Univer- sity of Maryland cinder path stalwart, the Hyattsville squad has been drilling for several weeks. Among ‘those representing Hyatts- ville in the meet will be Douglas Mc- Chesney, captain of the team, who was third in the 50-yard dash in the 1929 Virginia games. Hyattsville'’s entries follow: 50-yard dash—Douglas McChesney, Ernest Michaelson. 50-yard hurdles—Vincent Fitzsim- mons, Dick Toole. 440-yard dash—Vincent Fitzsimmons, Eddie Bartoo. 880-yard run—Jack Kinney. One-mile run—Dave Torrance. One-mile relay—Eddie Bartoo, Vin- cent Fitasimmons, Donnie Bartoo, Jack Sheriff and Fred Baird, alternate. Company F, National Guard, of Hyattsville, will entertain St. Martin's basketers of Washington tonight in the National Guard Armory in the feature match of a double-header. In the first game of the program, starting at 7:30 o'clock, Brentwood Hawks, who have Just about clinched the Prince Georges County League pennant, will face the sixth-place Hyattsville Southern Metho- dists in a loop game. St. Martin’s will be striving to get back at Company P for a defeat handed it by the Soldiers recently. Hawks are heavy favorites to defeat the Southern Methodists. YATTSVILLE, Md, February H 10.—Ten athletes will represent A hard-fought game and a lop-sided contest were played on the armory court yesterday. Company F conquered Naval Hospital of Washington, 22 to 20, and Berwyn A. C. routed Mount Rainier A. C, 41 to 7, in a county league game. Baskets by Dix, Willlams d Shanklin in the last five minutes en- abled Company F to come from behind and vanquish Naval Hospital. Loftus with 15 points and Penn with 9 did the bulk of the scoring for Berwyn. League Standing. Brentwood Haw! Dor-A .. [ Hyattsville High School's basket ball team, which was to meet Tech this afternoon in the Armory here, has two other games this week, both in Wash- ington. The Blue and Gold will' meet Devitt Wednesday and Western Friday. Hyattsville High girls’ basket ball team will entertain the McLean, Va.. 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