Evening Star Newspaper, February 11, 1930, Page 30

8 aing it heips to make base [ Hennessey Likely Davis Cup Doubles Aid : BETTER AS TEAM PLAYER THAN IN TENNIS SINGLES Foot Trouble Made Indianapolis Racketer Hard-Luck Man of Game Last Ye hand Stroke:Is Difficult to Handle. This is ome of a series of stories in which Vincent Richards is analyzing the playing ability of th States Davis Cup squad E BY VINCENT RICHARDS, International Tennis Star HE hard luck man of tennis Johnny had played brillian his feet, which have given Andianapolis immediately, laying For two years they have been saying Hennessey is through be- cause of the trouble with his feet. as though Johnny would have to give up tournament play, but he fooled everybody in 1929 by playin And I am informed that far from dropping out of the game|man for any of them to beat, just the he plans to come back this year and show that he is far from through. His physical condition was none too good upon his re- turn from France last August, but he has taken the best care of him- self and is rounding into fine shape. During the interzone matches last year Hernnessey was the outstanding man on the team. Against Canada, Japan and Cuba he won every match, and he showed best of all in the hardest test the team went through. That was the tie with Japan. After John Van Ryn had lost one of the first two singles and the score stood 1-1, it looked as though the United States might have a terrific battle to avoid elimination. But in the doubles Hennessey rose to brilliant heights to give the United States & 2-1 lead, and in_his match with Yoshiro Ohta, who had beaten Van Ryn, Johnny smeared the Japa- nese, tying him in knots at the net and running him all over the court with ground strokes. His Unorthodox Backhand. Hennessey's stroke technique is not +4n accordance with the standard con- cept. His backhand in particular has come in for a lot of ridicule, but any one who has ‘p iyed him will tell you ©of his respect for Johnny's backhand. Hennessey makes the shot with a spiral or corkscrew motion, like Gerald and you wonder how he the ball from going over the backstop. But the pin makes it drop, and it has a habit of dropping where you don’t expect. That back- hand has undone many a player who thought he had only to play it to win. ‘There isn’t any player in the country Who gets the ball back more consistent- ly than Hennessey. His control can be heartbreaking for his opponent, and although his feet aren't in such good shape, Johnny can get back shots many players w 't think of going after. back court is where Hennessey makes his stand, but when he comes to the net, he puts his Voll!él away cleverly and with little effort. He times his advances just right, and as a result he isn't passed nearly as frequently as habitual net players. Hennessey's game lacks the force and sggressiveness of that of some others, so 1 deubt whether he can ever hope to and he was through for the year. Hennessey went abroad with the team, but he didn't get into the Davis Cup play, and when he came back he returned to his home in SPORTS. ar—Unorthodox Back- e men chosen for this year's United and Former Davis Cup Ace. in 1929 was John Hennessey. After tly all through the American zone, him trouble for years, failed him away his rackets. . It did look after the 1928 season g better than the year before. g0 much farther. “But he is a tough same. He hes beaten Borotra more | zmr?‘ once, and even Tilden has ylelded { im. Get Only What You Earn. Hennessey keeps the ball decp, a cardinal principle of the game, and he | | gets it back, which is even more funda- | mental. The only way you can beat | him is by taking the bit in your teeth and going out to earn your points. You certainly won't receive them on a plat- ter from Johnny. Although he probably can beat Lott or Hunter as often as they beat him, I doubt whether he will make the team unless the committee is convinced he is in prime shape and that he can be counted on to be in shape for future years. If the committee feels that Hen- nessey has only another season or two of championship tennis, and that his feet won't be able to carry him any longer, they probably will decide it is better to use one of the younger play- ers, who can put this year's experience to_profit in the future. There is no_better-liked player than Hennessey. His unfailing sense of humor and his amusing remarks have made him a big favorite, and it is fine fos the esprit de corps of a team to have him along. If he doesn't make the grade this year as a singles player he might re- ceive consideration for the doubles. ‘There aren’t many doubles players any- where who have anything on him. Ask the players whom they consider the best doubles man of all and you will be surprised to find how many give Johnny the call. He never fails you in the back court and his return of service is as sure as death and taxes. It may be that Hennessey has only a | year or {wo more of championship singles in him, but you probably will be hearing about him as a doubles player for years. (Next: John Doeg.) « t, 1930, = (Copyright ””v m"nht ..A)umlen News. e s BOUCHER TOP SCORER. MONTREAL, Quebec, February 11 (#)—Frank Boucher, star center of the New York Rangers, continues to show the way for all the scorers in the Na- tional Hockey League. | | Hotel, Theater, Farm, Billiards And Golf Keep Kling on Toes Note—The accompanying story, another of the Associated Press series on with Jnhm Kling, famous catcher with the chgmpionship Cubs. Associated Press Sports Writer. ANSAS CITY, Mo., February 11. plate for the cld Chicago Cubs Johnny Kling was dificult to cate, for on any given day he may be found on the links, operating his bil- theater or inspecting his farm. At the age of 54, Kling, instead of being in mctivities than a college youngster. It's called pocket billiards now, but @ago, Johnny Kling had an interest in a Kansas City “parlor” and played #hip of the world.” This was at the time he also was renowned as a mem- and one of the smartest catchers in Dbase ball. has branched out in business to the ex- tent that he cperates a hotel and mo- and specializes in the breeding of pure Holstein cattle at his farm, near Kan- His hobby now is golf. He admits he scores in the 70's occasionally, usually be on the links than in the grand- stands, although the attraction of the A Series Describing the First By John NCE upon a time in base ball base running was a very polite ond base from first, and if Gaston caught the ball before Alphonse form for Alphonse to dodge or try to evade the man with the ball in his stood still while he was being touched out. the base path, and duck for the next base, the Lpectators who sat on the top their protests and complained about “cheating.” ber of the Keystone Club of Philadel- phia, upset all base ball etiquette by 'to second, taking a look at the second 'baseman, and dl?'i.n. head foremost into “You idiot!” yelled the - man, “you'll break your darned neck, This was the first “slide” in base stealing. Much research has been made It is probable that bascs were stolen before Cuthbert took his plunge between 1865, but no good elue esm Be found the identity of the first man who veterans of sport, is an interview BY J. H. ANDERSON, —When he played behind the outguess. Now he's evenh harder to lo- liard hall, running a 'hotgl, managing a \semi-retirement, is engaged in more when it was just plain pool, 25 years “Cowboy” Weston for the “champion- ber of Peerless Frank Chance’s Cubs Since retiring from base ball Kiing tion picture theater in Chillicothe, Mo., €as_City. in the 80's. He says he would rather No. 10.—The First Sliding Base Stealer. art. Alphonse started for sec- got there, it was not considered good hand. He ran right up to him and 1f he made an attempt to get out of boards of the nearest fences howled In 1865 Eddie Cuthbert, then a mem- running down the line from first base second base. if it 1s worth anything to you!” to try to discover the first stolen base. feet of a startled second baseman & stolen base scored ’s ‘Biggest “Firsts” - | phia and stole 156 bases, He was good national game finds him usually in at- tendance at the home games of the ‘Kansas City Blues. “Golf seems to be taking the atten- tion of the young fellows,” said Kling. “People want to play themselves rathe than watch others . And you can’t blame them. .I'd rather play a round of golf than watch a ball e.” A native of Kansas City and a product | of the local sandlots, Kling began his | major league career with the Cubs late | in 1500. After eight complete and suc- | cessful seasons (1901-08, inclusive) Kling obtained a leave of absence in | 1909 to look after his billiard hall, | which rapidly was requiring more at- | tention. That season he managed a semi-pro club in Kansas City. Despite pleas of Cub fans and efforts of the management, he would not play and when Chicago traded him to Brooklyn late in 1909 he would not report and became a holdout. In April, 1910, Kling was reinstated to professional base ball and signed a three-year contract with the ‘Cubs at $4,500 a season. He found it hard to regain his hitting prowess and the accurate peg to second that caught so many base runners. The s2ason of 1911 | found him finishing with the Boston | | Braves. In 1912 he managed the| | Braves, who ended at the bottom of the | | National League race. In 1913 he| played his last professional base bnlll with Cincinnati under Joe Tinker, who played with the Cubs when Kling was in_his prime. Kling's business judgment and his thrift are further evidenced by a recent announcement of a plan to begin a leisurely tour of Europe next Fall with | his wife and two daughters, Virginia, 24, | and Jerre, 13. Records of the Biggest Plays. B. Foster tific, which greatly relieves the minds of !lhose who l‘l;: to believe that the na- tional game is based in some way on mathematics and fixed principles. From the head-first stealing of Eddie | Cuthbert in 1865 there developed & school of base ball players who became | adept at that sort of thing. Nowadays the head-foremost steal has gone out of | fashion. Managers are favorable to stealing bases with the feet in advance, and the most practical way is by means | of the “hook slide.” That slide is so | designated because the base runner | sticks his feet in front of him and en- | | deavors to hook one of them around the base. The other foot may wave menac- ingly in the air, with its shoe-carrying | spikes, frightening timorous basemen who are not partial to having their legs slashed. Some legs have been slashed and none was slashed with more exciting de- tail than that of Charles Herzog of the Glants when Ty Cobb dug into the flesh of the Giant ‘'second baseman at Dalls, Tex., one afternoon. Cobb was chal- lenged the same night by Herzog and thrashed the latter in a battle in the hotel, and he refused to play any more games in the Spring series between New York and Detroit. By so doing Cobb failed to make himself hflop“‘" either with Hughey Jennings, his manager, or Joolhnl J. McGraw, manager of the ants. Continuing in this matter of stolen | bases, the first player to steal 150 or more bases in one season was Harry Stovey, in 1888. He was with Philadel- | h to keep up with any ball player #eience. Combined with scien- ® |any time after that. It is interest! to note that base steal had its l;‘m- States. has been working at bargain prices. ‘The Baltimore Orioles picked him up at & bargain, then sold him to the Bos- ton Red Sox for a sum that would be paid without question these days for a cross-eyed, | Babe Ruth still with the Yankees or TO. COME HERE T ME- YouRE NOT GoInG To GET INTo BED UNTIL 'VE MADE AN INVESTIGATION ’ In response to many requests, some of the late Clare Briggs' famous drawin reproduced in the sports pages of The Star. BRIGGS HONEST | ©1330 NyTRIBUN,we gs are being must be on at home. P at all if he did not get it. dissatisfaction of all concerned. It seems to me that the Babe always red-headed, left-handed pitcher in’the sticks. ‘The New York Yankees paid the Red Sox something like $150,000 for Ruth, and that caused a loud and raucous squawk at the time, but it proved to| 2 the biggest bargan ever made in ivory traffic. When the Babe got as| high as $50,000 a year some of the old- timers in the neational pastime started | to wonder whither we were drifting., But Col. Jaccb Ruppert did not need a guardian in financial matters. The fact | that he paid the Rube that money meant that he was worth about five times as much. As I recall it, the Babe at the end of last season finished a three-year con- tract that paid him 1,750,000 francs a year. He signed this contract with re- luctance, and with some feeling of humiliation, because it was a smaller salary than that paid to the President of the United States. At that price Babe Ruth again was one of the great- | est bargains in the ivory industry. Naturally, the Babe likes to feel that he is advancing in his profession, and feels that the salary he asks is reason- able enough, even though a lot of the| paper millionaires of yesteryear are| doing with_considerable cuts in their | incomes. Then, too, it may be the last | contract the Babe will sign as an active | player, for the old dogs do not hold out forever, as your correspondent can testity. . It sounded very serious when it ap- peared in the French papers in francs. A French gentleman who has been a companying this tour had a solution that might appeal to Col. Ruppert, so I set it down for what it is worth, be- cause I am always offering constructive suggestions. After much pondering the French gentleman said: “As I understand fit, Monsieur le Babe asks of the gentleman who owns the club to pay him 2,500.000 francs a year. Why not make the com- promise? Why does not the gentleman who owns the club offer to give| Monsieur le Babe the club on the con- dition that he pay to him 2,500,000 francs a year. With that the gentle- man could have himself a nice chateau in a good neighborhood and a villa in the south of France, and he would have | no more to worry.” It sounds alarming, but your corre- spondent on his return expects to find the Yankees still with Babe Ruth. Pour le Championnat. ‘The French journal Le Matin has an authoritative dispatch from Lon- don to the effect that Jack Sharkey and Phil Scott will meet this month at Miami, Fla,, in “un match de boxe pour le championnat toutes categories.” The notion of Jack and Phil fighting it out for the champlonship of all classes would have. seemed highly humorous some time back, but it seems to be true at the current writing. Le Matin is very reliable, understand. Another French journal received a dufimch from London to the effect that Phil Scott expressed himself as being very confident that he would beat Sharkey. When Phil expressed his vote of confidence in himself he was in London, England, while Mr. Sharkey robably was in Boston, Mass., in the ts Unis. Phil can be depended upon to be confident at that distance. I felt that something like a Scott- Sharkey bout was pending this Winter and that feeling brought on the temporary illness which necessitated putting some miles of sea between mg- self and that bout. I saw Sharkey fight once at Miami, and an overtaxed heart hardly would stand the repetition of that strain. It would produce sleep! sickness or some other unpleasant an incurable ailment. ‘These dispatches rather indicate that town, DOWN THE LINE WITH W. O. McGEEHAN Figuring in Francs. ASSING through Lyons, the home of Henri Cochet, the tennis champion, I gathered that the hold-out season in base ball One of the journals announced that Monsieur le Babe Ruth was demanding a salary or emoluments of 2,500,000 francs a year under the threat of not playing base ball I gathered further that Cousin Egbert Barrow, the secretary of the club, said that 1,750,000 was enough for any base ball player. Monsieur le Colonel Jacob Ruppert is said to have offered to com- promise with the Babe for an annual salary of 1,875,000, which is the same number of francs as are paid to the President of the United At Lyons, one could live comfortable on the difference be- tween what the Babe is asking and what they want to give him. By the time this arrives it probably will be settled to the mutual | McTigue by the same process. | shores of Biscayne Bay. Touring Abroad- Miami the claiming privileges to the heavyweight chances. f Phil Scott comes out of Florida in & vertical posi- tion you can rely on his manager, James J. Johnston, the Boy Bandit, to do some vociferous claiming. He once got the ‘welterweight championship for Kid Lewis by the simple process of claiming and later the lflhl hea lfim‘: championship for Michael Methuse! How About Schmeling? BSomehow I gather that this news grevlously had come to the ears of abe Ruth and that it might have been a factcr in moving him to ask the good Col. Jacob Ruppert for the salary of | 2,500,000 trancs a year. If Sharkey is paid on the same basis as he was paid for the “Battle of What of It” at Miami Beach he will get that sum for stepping around lightly on a balmy Florida eve- ning for fifteen rounds. It is not unlikely that Phil Scott will get about the same amount for doing Just the same thing, Babe Ruth has to prespire for 154 days in the course of & base ball season and it must be re- membered that dally the Babe swings at a base ball with more earnestness and energy that ever will be shown by Phil Scott or Jack Sharkey when they are swinging at each other by the I noted that Max Schmeling, who is | the best of the heavyweights today, 1s | left out of the calculations when the | promoters announced that the dance of Phil Scott and Jack Sharkey will decide le champlonnat du monde, tout cate- | gories. It must be because Schmeling was _unconventional and impulsive enough to knock Risko, the rubbery one, cuckoo and to mess up Paulino Uzcudun. He seemed to be precipitate and impulsive. If he had been allowed to continue he might have eliminated all of the contenders in the heavy- | weight division. This never would have done. There would not enough heavywelghts left to supply the demand of the Six Hundred Millionaires of Madison Square Garden. Conservative business men like Sharkey and Scott seem to be needed with the present precarious state of the cauliffiower market. Last year at Miami Sharkey showed that he was | ultra-conservative. HOCKEY GAMES LISTED. NEW YORK, February 11 (#).—Two games are on the National Hockey League schedule for tonight. The New York Rangers and Montreal Maroons cla:lg at Mgn:;enl ‘lgor n'xe last time this season an e Toronto Maple Leafs play at Boston. & Peer of Any ! U.S. Netman, Richards BY VINCENT RICHARDS, International Tennis Mtar. The victory of Frank Hunter in the national indoor champion- ship tennis tournament proved beyond a doubt that the “aged” star from New Rochelle still is good enough to hold his own with any of the younger players in the country—and this in spite of his 36 _years. ‘While no one will claim that the tournament held in New York was representative of the best young talent we have, nevertheless, Hunter's crushing defeat of Julius Seligson in the final was so impressive that it is doubtful whether any American El:yer outside of Tilden could ve beaten him. In fact, I don’t fzel any too sure that Big Bill, who now is playing on the Riviera, and who never was as good on board courts as he is Erun The way Prank Played way. played in the final. the various boxing comm! low the winner of issions will this “Wieat Is Is” at | (Copypight, 1930, by the North Amere McLARNIN AND MANDELL FACE IN NON-TITLE GO | VANCOUVER. British ~ Columbia, | February 11 (#).—Jimmy McLarnin, | Vancouver conwender tor the world | welterweight boxing title, will meet | Sammy Mandell, world ll?htwel.fil\t champion, Febnur; 24 at Chicago, in- stead of February 28, McLarnin's man- e ter, announced here Mandell's title will not be at The earlier date was re‘uelud over long-distance telephone by the Chicago matchmaker, Nate Lewis. consider the fact that within a I a mashie shot away. enough to close up the bi the strength of the two fo aders. camps. ‘The major league getaway i3 the opening bugle note of Spring. Even | those who are still snow bound can get a whiff of Spring fragrance by inhaling from far away the pleasant odor of new mown base hits, presented in the sporting pages. Hope springs eternal in the base ball breast until around the middle of May or the first of June, so for the next two months or more the optimistic imagination of the home town fan can run riot until the puncture arrives in late Spring or early Summer. The Foreign Legion. 'ACK SHARKEY, practically the lone home delegate left in the heavy- weight army, is now facing a_flank- inz movement by the Foreign Legion. The list includes Phil Scott, Max Schmeling, Carnera, Campolo and Uzcu- dun, representing Great Britain, Ger- many, Italy, South America and Spain. If Sharkey slips safely by Scott and Schmeling by early Summer he may | still have to account for one of the in- vading mastodons, such as Carnera or Campolo, who may learn enough in the next six months to be dangerous by next September. Outside of Sharkey the next leading American prospect is Tufly Griffiths, who has come quite a distance in the last 18 months. Schmeling has shown more stuff than any of the others, but his retirement from active campaigning just at the time he needed more work is not going to help his cause. He may have enough natural talent to overcome this handi- cap by a hard training siege, but he will miss the experience of one or two hard fights he might have crowded under his belt since last June. There are few substitutes for experience when one is shooting at the championship in any game. The Coming of Rugby. F any serious attempt is made to introduce rugby foot ball into Amer- ican universities it is almost sure to catch on. It will not remove the domi- nance of American foot ball, but in time it may divide attention and it is sure to attract a large following, both among the players and the P&Mtorfi. Rugby is many ways a faster game than Anierican foot ball. It calls for greater all-around speed and for more con- tinuous movement. An American foot ball game lasts two hours and in this two hours the ball is actually in move- ment_about 12 or 13 minutes. Those who have played both games insist that rugby demands better condition, just as basket ball does, because there are fewer resting spots. Rugby will also furnish fine training for the American game, since it de- mands smarter, faster and better all- around passing. A good rugby player isn't lupmd to have a ball thrown into his ds or arms before making the catch. He can take it off the ground, over his head, even back of him. A good rugby player would be a FREEZEPROOF rs for all makes Damsged Radiators ired, i WITTSTATT'S RADIATOR, FENDER AND BODY WORKS. | 10 13th St N.W. etrovolitan 8410. {800_14th _St.. 3 Doors from §. St. N.W TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats an Newspaper Alliance.) EISEMAN'E, 7th & F THE SPORTLIGHT By GRANTLAND RICE Only a Week Away. T may be snowing, blowing, freezing or storming, but when you clubs will be headed for the sun, Spring can hardly be more than Fourteen clubs are now nearly ready to I see what they can do about the Athletics and the Cubs. The A’s and the C’s have about the same people back who broke up both leagues last Summer and no one yet has discovered a club that has improved gap unless accidents or injuries cut away greatest infields that ever played, but they have good pitching, hard | hitting outfields, good eatehing and smart handling from both Neither is invincible, but they still look to be the class. N, D. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1930. A’s, Cubs Expect to Repeat Flag Wins SPORTS. SLATTERY SCORES WIN OVER SCOZZA Gets New York Light-Heavy | Title, but Is Pressed Late in Fight. By the Associated Press. UFFALO, N. Y., February 11.— | Jimmy Slattery of Buffalo is on | the top of the light-heavy- weights today, a champion in | the eyes of the New York State Athle- | tic Commission at least, and his reign is certain to last for 60 days. At the end of that time he must defend the crown against Maxey Rosenbloom, the Harle- quin of Harlem. o But for a round or two last night it seemed as though Graceful Jimmy, | whose third trial was successful, would | have no worrles as to title burden for | some time to come. In order to whip | Lou Scozza, the home-town rival nomi- nated by the commission to determine | a successor to the retired Tommy Loughran, Jimmy had to do things| within the squared circle he never has | been able to accomplish befcre. Jimmy, with a mile-long lead at the | end of the twelfth round, had to pry himself off the ropes in the thirteenth session of the 15-round battle. He had been hung there like a canvas dummy on a fence by the Itallan youngster's final desperate bid for victory. He muscled himself off the middle strand, eyes glassy, arms dungh? help- less, legs devold of their snap and speed. Only the fact that Scozza's frantic rally came late in the session and the over- | anxiety of the youngster when Slattery | reeled before him almost helpless saved the day for the veteran. | Makes Gamie Finish. | ‘When the battle was over and Slat- tery had survived the stormy thirteentn | round as well as a brutal fourteenth | session, to come back in the last round and beat Scozza all over the ring, the deciston and the plaudits of a crowd of 11,000, one of the largest in Buffalo’s history, greeted the new champion. Although one judge voted the con- test a draw, with the referee and other judge agreeing on Slattery, newspaper men at the ringside awarded the smiling Irishman nine rounds, with five for Scozza and one even. Slattery made a mark of Scozza, a game, plunging but ineffective young- ster, in the first 10 rounds, stabbing his face constantly with sharp left jabs | that closed the Italian’s right eye, ¢ his left cheek and opened a gash in his forehead. Until Scozza's despairing surge, when the youngster switched suddenly from a | body attack to slashing overhand swings to the head, the milling was an umn-‘ teresting fencing duel. i Slattery, a veteran, despite his 26| ears, bid for the light-heavyweight title | onors first in 1925, but was nockud! out by Paul Berlenbach in 11 round:. Two years ago Jimmy fought Tommy Loughran for the title, but lost the de- cision in 15 close rounds. | | | week the first of the major league ack and mobilize to These two clubs haven't the two great addition to lateral passing, a form of attack that will develop more and more in future seasons. Another of the high pressure from the emo- tional side of foot ball would be a wel- come addition. Those now working along rugby lines have great chance, not only to provide interesting competi- tion for the students, but also to build up another Fall sport that may help to decrease some of foot ball's steam. “To help settle an argument,” writes L. P, “who were the six greatest base ball batteries of all time?” Here at least are six worthy candidates to be considered—Mathewson and Bresnahan —Brown and Kling—Walsh and Sul- livan—Johnson and Street—Waddell and Schreck—Grove and Cochrane. They will do until some one else comes along. If any of these doesn't fit there are Alexander and Killifer—Young and Zimmer, who will also do in a pinch. “How can you get tension out of a golf swing?” asks a reader. About the same way you can get blood out of a turnip or gold out of a sponge. Or using the same method employed in re- moving spots from a leopard. i DUCKPIN RECORDS MADE | BY FEDERAL LEAGUERS °® Bowlers set season records for the Federal League last night on the Ar- cadia drives. Charles Barnard of the G. P. O. team set a game mark with a score of 169, and Oscar Swain of Treas- ury shot a set of 418 for a new figure. Swain's games were 148, 153 and 117. Swain’s set topped the former record | of 403 made by Carl Lewis. This record also was beaten by Barnard, who scored a set of 404. . DENTON HARD AT WORK FOR BILLIARD COMEBACK Tilford Denton, former world cham- pion three-cushion billiard player, plans | & _comeback. | Behind drawn curtains in a Kansas City billiard parlor Denton is practic- ing from four to eight hours daily. He prefers his individual method to com- petition as preparation for the naticnal championship tournament in New York in January. In 1919 Denton set two world records in his first year of professional com- petition. His high run of 17 stood until | two years ago when Johnny Layton broke it. Strain of competition rele- gated Denton to the background six years ago, but golf has helped him to regain_good physi condition. o oY ned VALET BLADES o <o° ame that would take some | | Fights.Last Night By the Associated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y.—Jimmy Slattery, Buffalo, outpointed Lou Scozza, Buf- falo (15). PHILADELPHIA —Charley Belanger, | Canadian light-heavyweight champion, | outpointed Joe Sekyra, Dayton, Ohio | (10); Young Ketchell, Chester, Pa., out- pointed Gaby Bagdad, Persia (10). JERSEY CITY—Tommy Crowley, Pittsburgh, otitpointed Leonard (Young) Zazzarino (10); Stan Porada, Jersey City, knocked out Johnny Mays, New York (1), | OMAHA, Nebr—Tommy Grogan Omaha, outpointed Lope Tenorio, New York (10). NEW YORK.—Ted Sandwina, Sioux City, Towa, stopped Knute Hansen, Ra- cine, Wis. (1); Primo Ubaldo, Italy, de- feated Joe Bonovic, Binghamton, N. Y. ). MIAMI, Fla.—Alex Sims, Cleveland outpointed Red Riley, Troy, N. ¥, (10) Bill Temmes, Silver Springs, Fla., out. pointed Tony Celmars, Akron, Ohio (10). NEW CASTLE, ‘Babe Ruth, Loulsville, outpointe mmy Maroen, Kansas City (10). SAN FRANCISCO.—Dave Shade, San | Francisco, outpointed Jack Willis, San | Antonio (10). | NEW ORLEANS —Johnny Cook, New Orleans, outpointed Ray Kiser, Tulsa, | Okla. (10). PITTSBURGH, — Jackie Pittsburgh, knocked out Schwartz, Baltimore (1). . LOUISVILLE.—Jackie Dugan, Louis- | ville, outpointed Al Rammy, Germany (10). Pa. d Tol Rodgers, Benny | Light or Heavy Sand Changes Shot BY SOL METZGER. ‘When Ted Ray led the last British Ryder Cup team to America the big fellow did not fare well in Oak- mont’s sand during the 1927 United States open. Up till then he had been sand’s master, Asked why the furrowed traps of this Pittsburg course bothered him, Ted replied, “I didn’t have time to taste it.” Ted always jokes. Once Wwhen asked why his pitches were so high, he answered, “There are no bloody bunkers up there.” So, you see, the stars like to avoid sand. But they do have to know it, even if not by taste. They follow this general rule: WHEN EXPLODING HIT THROUGH. WITH THE RIGHT HAND UNOER PLE WUEN 1% HEAVY NOT SO MU, When the sand is heavy or packed, they drive their niblicks into it about an inch short of the ball to explode. When light, they take as much as 3 or 4 inches. Another thing they do is to keep the rght hand as much und:rneath the shaf. | in hitting through as possible. Same | as in pitching. The idea, of course, | is to prevent the toe of the niblick | turning in and smothering itself in sand. It's a cut shot, you see, and in cut shots the blade is laid open and kept that way. Unless you understand the pivot you cannot hope to shoot golf. Sol Metzger & new illustrated leaflet which he will send to any one wishing it. Address Sol Metzger, in care of this paper, and inclose a stamped, addressed envelope. (Copyright, 1930.) . U. S. BOY IS COXSWAIN OF CREW AT CAMBRIDGE CAMBRIDGE, England, February 11 (P)—While the Cambridge varsity crew, now in training for the annual race with Oxford at Putney April 12, may undergo some changes, it seemed fairly certain that the Light Blue eight will be steered by an American, R. E. Swartwout of New York. Swartwout is one of the smallest coxswains of recent ye weighing barely 105 pounds. A graduate of the Middlesex School, in Massachusetts, he is an old schoolfellow of W. P. Mellon, | who stroked the winning Oxford boat | in 1923. Swartwout is now at Trinity College, Cambridge. | | S LEWIS SCORES ON MAT. SEATTLE, Wash,, February 11 (#). Ed “Strangler” Lewis, former world champion heavyweight wrestler, de- feated Howard ~Cantonwine of Iowa here last night. Lewis gained two falls and Cantonwine one. CANADA KEEPS TITLE. BERLIN, February 11 (#).—Canada | retained its world’s amateur ice hookey chargpionship by defeating Germany, -0, in the finals. WEST T0 BE MARRIED. LUBBOCK, Tex., February 11 (#).— | Announcement of the engagement of | Miss Grace Cross of Rule, Tex,, to Sam | West, outfielder of the Washington base | bail club of the American League, was | made here. The couple plan to be mar- | ried February 23. s s MANDELL VS. McLARNIN. CHICAGO, February 11 (#)—Sammy | Mandell, world lightweight champion, and Jimmy McLarnin, Vancouver, Brit- ish Columbia, welterweight title con- tender, will meet in the rubber bout of their feud in the Chicago Stadium Feb- | ing leader and he has | to beat, CHAMIPIONS LIKELY 10 FIND FIGHT HOT Both Face Strong Foes- at Start—Few Clubs Grab Pennants in Row. BY WALTER TRUMBULL. HE major league base ball season promises a fair amount of excitement right * from the jump. The world champion Athletics open at home against the Yankees, and the | Chicagos, National League cham- pions, begin the season at St. Louis. Here should be some good ames. Base ball is an uncertain game. When I saw the Athletics in Florida last Spring, shortly before they started North, they didn't look like champions. Bishop hadn't reported; Foxx was being shifted from first to third; some of the men had sore arms, and things didn't appear too bright. At the same period the Yankees looked like a miilion dollars. I sat at the ball yard with Miller H\;qu"n: one morning waiting for the pla to come oug. and he freely A&utud that physically the Yankees appeared unbeatable, but said that what they did would depend upon their mental attitude, This season the Athletics will be heavy favorites to repeat. Yet, win- ners do not always repeat in base ball. Since 1900, when the American League started, the Giants are the only team in either big league which ever won four flags in a row. As a matter of fact no other club, from 1876 on, ever won four straight. Five Win Three in Row. The teams which have won three straight pennants are the Giants, the Chicago Cubs and the Pittsburgh Pirates, in the National, and the Detroit Tigers and New York Yankees in the American {fi-nxue. The Yanks had two strings of rees. Those winning two successive are the Giants, the Chicago White Sox, Washington, the Boston Red Sox and the Athletics. Boston and letics each repeated twice. them ever won three in & row. The Athletics won in 1910, 1911, 1913 and 1014, Connle Mack once told me that the 1912 team which finished third to Boston and Washington, looked to him the strongest of the lot. Probably the men thought they couldn't lose, played accordingly, and thereby did Connie out of the honor .and satis~ faction of five flags in a line. ‘The Athletics finished first in 1902, second in 1903, fifth in 1904 and first again in 1905. In 1008 they were fourth and didn't win again until 1910. ‘The White Sox finished first in 1908 and third in 1907. The Red Box ished first in 1912 and fourth in The White Sox finished first in sixth in 1918 and first again in 1919, but those were war years and the year of the Black Sox. Chicago second in 1920 and has never be¢en & first division club since. Some of the National League records ar. interesting. Brooklyn won in 1800, finished third in 1901 and didn't win again until 1916. In 1917 it finished seventh. In 1920 Brooklyn won an- other flag and in 1921 finish>d fifth. In 1924 it almost won, finishing second, and since then it has been the per petual occupant of sixth place, Cubs Wait Long Time. The Chicago Cubs won, in the famous play-off game, in 1908, won next in 1918, and didn’t win again until 1929. They, 00, expect to repeat this season. Cin= cinnati won in 1919, and never before r_since, It would not be surprising to see Cin- cinnati play good bt!ir this season, Howley is an accomplished and inspir made changes in since then. The Indians and Yankees are about the only teams the dopesters give a real chance against the Athleties, But the Mackmen are going to be tough They have their team intact, and it is a team with pitching, fielding and hitting of the highest grad Last year the Athletics appeared to get the confidence which they had lacked -the two previous seasons. The result of the world series made that confidence unshakable and secure. Nor has the team won often enough to lose the thrill of winning. It should still be mentally alert and of a disposition for victory. It looks as it the Chicago Bears in their league might encounter tougher opposition, although Chicago has a great team. 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