Evening Star Newspaper, February 19, 1930, Page 24

THE EVENING STAR,- WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2088 SPORTS. Griffs Balk as Reporting Time Nears : Scott Triumph Would Wallop N. Y. Gardens CLUB APT 70 GALL HOLDOUTS' HANDS ‘Washington President Not| Disposed to Dicker With Hurlers, Catchers. B manager, 10 pitchers, 5 catchers and 3 coaches of the Washington base ball club are scheduled to report here for the start of the 1930 training campaign. Walter Johnson, of course, is to to head this contin- gent of the club he again is to Eilut, and he is to be assisted by is ‘coaches, Nick Altrock, Al Schacht and Ed Gharrity. Last, but not least, Mike Martin, the club’s trainer, will be present to lend a most helpful hand. tch to The Star. ILOXI, Miss., February 19.— One week from today the Whether all the players listed to re- | Ty port here next week will be in attend- ance when the first ball tossing starts is a matter which at this time is not definitely known, hqwever. Two of the Nationals' veteran pitchers—Fred Mar- berry and Sam Jones—Have yet to affix their signatures to 1930 working agree- ments_with their club, nor have Gar- land Braxton or Adolph Liska signed | contracts, although Liska has told President Clark Guiffith he will report here as ordered. The pitchers who already have come | to terms are Lloyd Brown, now here for early workouts; Bob Burke, Irving Hadley, Carlos Moore, Herbert Pyle and Myles Thomas. Of the catchers, but | bal one of the regulars-——Muddy Ruel—has BUSTING INTO BASE BALL “How I Broke Into the Major Leagues.” BY BABE HERMAN, As told to John F. McCann. NLY two years after I started out as a professional ball O player, I was sold to a major league club. If had been the unamln(m.ymemdmnnm —so early in my career. Whn:sen-} satioh it was for me! Only those 'DBJ spend practically their entire wyhoodj days dreaming and longing for thel life of a big leaguer can know this! - great feeling of joy of being purchased and given the chance In the majors. But there was much more to it! Be- fore I eventually found success, I went through many disheartening moments, times which almost taxed my courage.| And I owe much to those older players who helped me, for they had gone} through the mill and they knew. | Artie Krueger, the former Cleveland | player, started me off in 1919, and just | two years later, at Edmonton, where | Manush and I were playing. Scout | Eddie Herr bought me for the Detroit | ers. | %'he sudden jump higher was of short duration and soon I found myself back in the minors again, facing another | fight to reach the top of the profes- | Killefer, the old National , helped me more than any one which took me over the greater part of |else in the minors and after I was the United States. Finally, in 1926. made a member of the Brooklyn team Scout Spencer Abbott came across my | the rest of my success I owe to Man- trail and bought me for the Brooklyn ager Robinson and Max, Carey. Nationals. This was the end of my| "It setbacks had discouraged me, I sojourns as a traveling ball rllm' | would have been out of the game long It was a five-year struggle to get ago, for I had more than my share. back and stay and the next Spring | But the happiest moment of my life? while the Yanks and the Robins came | That thrill, that sensation, the day North from the Spring training camps, | when I first was sold up! I got my first chance to play big league . paper Alliance.) signed. The rookies—Nelson Jester and Gordon Phelps—are in line, but Bennie ‘Tate and Roy Spencer differ with their boss as to what they are worth for the coming season. No Signature, No Training. Following his usual custom of steer- ing clear of any talk concerning players’ salaries, Griffith is loath to discuss the situation created by this list of non-signers. Technically, they will not be holdouts until the season though Griff moved this Winter and still is a weak from the operation. Griffith has recently written the lanky lefthander suggesting that he come here with the first squad and take it easy for a week, but Garland will not be compelled to Teport before March 6. Marberry always is a tough customer for the Nationals’ pilot to dicker with and it looks as though Fred will take old Tom Zachary's place as the prize “hoss trader” on the team. Zachary, it will be recalled, always put off sign- ing until he arrived at Tampa. He then | would hold several sessions with his| buss and smoke a box or so nf Grif-| fith's best cigars hefore putting his | John Hancock on the dotted lines, Serious trouble, though, is not expected | the berry is as far as Marl At least two of the catchers appear % firm in their victions as to their worth, though. te and Spencer have returned their contracts unsigned—and in further punishment. welterweight” title contest, but Calla- han no k pound champion, either by the New | York State Athletic Commission or. the National Boxing Association. | BERG SHOWS HOME FOLKHE CAN FIGHT So Badly Batters Callahan That Bout Is Stopped in Tenth Round. ITALAN BOWLERS IN SWEEPSTAKES Class B Section Entry List Closes Tonight—Event for Odd Fellows. I : tonight at 12 o'clock. The class A lists will remain open until starting time next Friday at the North- east Temple. All with averages of 98 or less will be placed in class B, the entry fee of which is $3, includes cost of games. The class A bowlers will pay five ycks apiece, games cost included. Perce Ellett, in charge of the Odd Fellows' three-ball tournament to be held at the Lucky Strike Thursday and Friday nights, looks for enough entrants to ‘raise the cost of entering several teams in the National Duckpin Bowling Congress championships. “Three-ball play is fascinating. Duckpin balls are shot at tenpins in this game and the dub who is accurate in hitting the head maple has as much chance as the By the Associated Press. ONDON, February 19.—Jack (Kid) Berg apparently is just as effec- tive a battler in his native Eng- | land as he has been in the United States. The White Chapel scrapper stopped | Mushy Callahan of Chicago, in the tenth round of a 15-round bout here last night. Callahan’s seconds tossing | the towel to save the American from NTRIES for class B of the Italian bowling sweepstakes will close The battle was billed as a “junior | 15 T¢ ized as the 1 Berg's tireless punching had Calla- han_ bewildered and a heavy left hook to the chin staggered the American in | seventh. He never had much in ‘'his last appearance in defeated Tony Canzoneri for the right to challenge Sammy Mandell for the lightweight championship. Spencer intimates the team will agree to his terms or else do without his services this year. Griffith evidently is equally determined to exact his terms | or_let Spencer make good the threat. Whether Tate has enough confidence in his stand to make a serious issue of the matter is not so certain. The fact remains that he is still ouf the fold with only a few days left before he is due to leave his home in West Frank- fort. Ill, for Biloxi. The balance of the team has & full | week more of grace before failure to sign a contract becomes a matter of serious consideration and Griffith ap- parently is giving scant attention to star. Cash prizes will be given. The entry fee will be only two bits a game and there is no limit to the number of games one may shoot. g McLARNIN IS TRAINING. CHICAGO, February 19 (#)—Jimmy | McLarnin, now bl into a full- fledged challenger for the welterweight title, begins today for his 10- round ent with y Man- dell, lightweight champion, at the Chi- cago Stadium March 1. STADIUM HEAD RETAINED. CHICAGO, February 19 (#).—Sheldon Clark, millionaire s , will con- tinue as head of the Chicago Stadium Corporation for another year. He yes- terday was re-elected to the position ‘The King Pins got their maples in a bunch in the second game when they shot 653 against the Arcadians and lost the other two with the result that their lead over Northeast Temple in the Dis- ly half a game. The King Pins have won 40 and lost 17 and the Temples, 41 and 19. Slicer's 387 set and 152 game fea- tured the Arcadians’ performance while Dutch Weidman led the King Pins with a total of 375, slightly increasing his these men. Now You may have Cigar Quality he assumed last December. top average in the District loop. (Copyright, 1030, by North American News- | trict League pennant race approximate- | Queen SHIRES EXPECTED Unsigned, but Manager Bush| Has Made Preliminary Gestures to Him. | By ‘the Associated Press. | AN ANTONIO, Tex., February 19.— | Word slipped into the White Sox training camp today that the Great Charles Arthur Shires, | battling first baseman, will burst into town Sunday. | He still is unsigned, but Manager Donie Bush has made preliminary ges- | tures to get the spectacular young man | into line. | Only three players, including Shires, | were missing as the White Sox dashed | through their workout yesterday. | ‘The players are suffering from aching muscles, but Manager Bush plans to have them speed up the work. He has ordered the batterymen to start their grind today. | SAN ANTONIO, Tex. February 19| (#).—The first casualty in the New York | Giants training camp is Ralph Judd, right-handed pitcher. ; Judd drifted into the camp yesterday with a blister on his right heel and was_promptly excused from practice. The continued absence of Karl Hub- | bell, able southpaw, is beginning to worry the boys. He was due three days | ago. CHICAGO, February 19 (#).—The Chicago Cubs, 1930 champions of the | National League, are speeding ‘West- | ward today to their Catalina Island training camp. | The advance squad, consisting of | eight players in charge of Manager Joe McCarthy, are due to arrive in the balmy sunshine of California Friday | | morning. The balance of the squad will report March 1. | [on the Alleys Tonight | | sl ) District g Le: Palace | ini vs. Motors vs. Bliss ver Spring. orth. of Washington Ladies’ American Legion ‘Auxiliary “vs. wililam F. | Redman Auxiliary. at Silver Spring. | King Pin Business Men's Le | rison Toy Shop_vs. Chestnut Qlympians vs. E. B.” Adams, 0. 2. - | . Buburban League—York Auto Supply vs. Call Garl: at Petworth. surance League—Peoples vs. Gontinental | gasualty, Prudential vs. Travelers, at King n No. Electrical League—D. H. E. Companv vs. | . E. 8. Company, Central | . 8. Jullien, O. R. E vs. E; Ba Pepco vs. X Crawford vs. Benning Pe ), H. | v Bros gue | Wa tion ans jon Triangle_ Moto; Electrical School, at 8t uden| C. Hoberts ontractors g onve HAll ngt Realtors’ Hagner vs. District Titl vs. Finance Co.. & Luchs_vs. Co- lumbia Title Co. Wardman vs. National | | Mortsage & Investment Corporation, at Ar- o - adin; | “"Kniehts of Columbus League—Columbia | vs. Genoa, Nina vs. De Sota, Pinta vs. Ral- | bos ‘quette vs. Salvador. Santa Maria | | ¥5.” Christopher. Ovando vé. Trinidad, at | Convention il Wautical League—Washington Canoe No | vs. Potomac Canoe. Potomac Woodchop- | pers vs. Bee Hi Dorado’ No, v No. 1 vs. Washington Canoe No. ington_Canoe No. 2, Washington Canoe- No. 1 vs. Bonzai, at Convention Hi | poebrew lub gue—| Pals, Friends vi Arory Coli League—Randall | e Co., Boss & Phelps | hannon oung Priends’ Club. Les Amis Theta Sigma Gamma vs. Moseans, | _ Georgeiown Church League—Christ | Calyary M. E. 8. Congress M P vary' Baptist Kinnear, | Wasnington Baptist v, Mt. vernon M. E. 8. | Bek Chapel No. 1 “ve. ‘Grace Episcopai! ‘alvary Baptist Draki <k ghapel No. % Qeorsetown, Presbyterian vs. Park View Ladies' District- League—King Pin vs. reation. at King Pin 1: Arcadia vs. Lucky 8t adia: le Vs, 3 Davis._at nple: Bi ve. | John Blick, at Pin Silver Spri i, at Arcad CUEISTS PLAY TONIGHT. Ray Leonard and N. L. Sauls will meet tonight in the pocket billiard tournament at Horace Elmer's estab- | lishment. Last night H. G. Grantham | defeated P. A . 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The first time you try one, you'll understand why the Cortez trade- mark has been for half a century “Cigars for men of brains.” Other sizes in the new Cortes, 2 for 25c, 15c and 3 for 50c [ Taking It on the I Ever Got. BY JACK “KID” BERG. 'RED GREEN hit me the hardest smack I ever got. I picked up the details from my seconds after- ward. My think tank wasn't working when it happened. ‘We fought a 15-round headliner in London. It was in®1923. Green and I both had fine records. Fred was the pride of the Blackfriar district. He had scored 12 straight knockouts over some tough babies. I had won 18 matches. My nineteenth was with Green, It looked even. The house was choked. In the first round we battied toe to toe and the crowd yelled like Indians.” I wouldn't give an inch, for I knew Fred was a great counter fight- er. There was very little clinching. We broke instantly at the command of the referee, who sat outside the ropes. The noise was so loud neither of us remained standing as we were being Jack “ | sponged off before the second round. The next thing I remember was wak- ing up in my chair and asking what round it was. My seconds were wash- | gards ing my head and face with champagne. | Some of it trickled down my throat. I thought it was the third round. They said it was the seventh. I gathered that I was losing, so I pitched in. I punched Green all over the lot, had ‘li\lm on the ropes and knocked him lown. The crowd was in an uproar every second, we were flailing away. They let out a final burst of cheering when I got the decision. . After we reached the dressing room one of my pals told me I had been | dropped by a right-counter to the chin | near the end of the second round; that | I got to my feet after a count of eight and began to fight on all cylinders. It sounded like fiction to me. 1930, by North American News- paper Alliance.) (Next: Tommy Loughran.) TROXELL IS SECRETARY OF ILLINOIS BOXING BODY | CHICAGO, February 19 (#).—Capt. William N. Troxell of Chicago is to be the new secretary of the Illinois State Athletic Commission. He will succeed Walter M. George, who resigned yesterday, effective Febru- ary 28. Capt. Troxell has served as assistant ‘¢ | secretary’ since October 1. He is a veteran of the World War and his friendship with Chairman Clinnin has extended over a period of years. SEVEN DODGERS SIGN; 15 NOW “OUT IN COLD” NEW YORK, February 19 (/). —8Seven more members. of the Brooklyn Dodgers have signed on the dotted line, bringing the unsigned list down to 15. Adolfo Luque, veteran pitcher re- cently traded to Brooklyn by Cincinnati for Doug McWeeny, was the most | prominent player to sign. ‘The others were Hal. Lee, Clise Dudley. Rube Bressler, Max West, Jack Warner and Luther Roy. at a day, but it is not_likely cision will be reached just yet. ot ston is on a fishing trip, and so will not e i R foxs e Mt for y who offlglkd in &¢he Sharkey-Stribling it last year. Jimmg Johpston’s first choice, we ha NO BIG TITLE MILL IF SHARKEY FLOPS World Battle.Would Move to London, With Carnera Facing Phil. JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—Eddie Burl, Savannah, Ga., and Harry Forbes, Chi~ cago, drew (10). INDIANAPOLIS.—Spug _ Myers, Po- catello, Idaho, and Billy Rose, Cincin- nati, drew (10). NEW YORK.—S8id Terris, New York, | outpointed Gaston Charles, France (10). MINNEAPOLIS. — An Snyder, Wichita, Kans,, stopped Duke Horn, Min- neapolis (9): My Sullivan, St. Paul, out- pointed Al Van Ryan, St. Paul (6); Al Konze, Los Angeles, outpointed Honey- boy Conroy, St. Paul (6). LEWISTON, Idaho—Don Fraser, Spo- kane, Wash., stopped Jack Kenworth, Portland, Oreg. (9). PORTLAND, = Oreg.—You Burke, Idaho, outpointed Winnipeg (10). tle for the world title. ng _Pirpo, | Del Fontaine, SEATTLE, = Wash.—Harry Dillon, ‘Winnipeg. outpointed Tony Fuente, Los Angeles (6). ats Carnera before Midsummer. See and his giant boxer stopped here between trains to New Orleans where Carnera meets Jack McAuliffe next Monday. RUTH:AND THREE MORE “NOT SIGNED BY YANKEES NEW YORK, February 19 (#).—Ed Barrow, secretary of the New York Yankees, admits that four players have yet to sign contracts, but promises that | all but one of them will have come | to terms within the next few days. He declined to descend to alties, but the best guessers vent the opinion that Babe Ruth would be the last to capitulate. There's still a matter of $10,000 in a thrill Sund: up on the sidewalk and right up the BY WILBUR WOOD. . . Fights Last Night If Phil Scott gets | in his joust here with| By ihe Associated Press. the garden corporation for a|land, stopped Mushy Cillahan, Chicago championship fight in June be-| (10). Miami winner will be wrecked. | ama, outpointed Johnny Canzoneri, i1l go home and | Alpha, N. J. (10). L e | 5T BURG, Pla—Big Jeff | 1l, St. Petersburg, ley Stadium, London, in a bout | Ao th};t wiil 80 ncceptledhgn ’tlhe o:'h!r‘flnch, St. Petersburg (10). side as a heavywelght champlon- | .o ™ Gutpointed Jimmy Mahoney, ship affair. | Ricao Tep .—Chico Cisneros, among promoters across_the '%| Mexico, and Al Donnelly, Chicago, drew comparable to the Iate Tex Rickard's| (i), set for a Scott-Carnera fracas in Au- gust and will make terms with the gate. All Scott must do to make the program stand up is to whip Sharkey. t ’:"xl‘he Sharkey-Scott contest, we are reliably informed, is universally re-| In fact, many boxing bodies were ready to declare | him so much as bothering to meet Sharkey. on the other side, but at least he is not an_ American, which means that the man. Don’t Figure Schmeling. European critics and fans do not fig- all. To them he is still the fellow who was flattened by Gypsie Daniels and a | A In the event of a Scott vietory sfi""‘f","' wtnuld ble completely out of BATJLi W|THAHDEMPS’EYA| the picture for a he is a big card over there and also Hope that Jack Dempsey, former heavy- cent slice of the Behemoth. Schmeling is popularly ,‘md to be | weight champion of the world, would T e. But 1t develops that this doubtful dis-| against Primo _Carners, 279-pound tinction really belongs to Carnera. <} After the various ';uu e tahie out | IR mtske, wa Sxpreessd: Bees by “We are nbelgunnunlgt % the fight u:d feel reasonably sure go through,” This is how he is pieced: Leon See, 15 r” cent; Paul Journey, 1314 Jeft| See said. adding that Dempsey g\xon. 10; Bill Duffy and an American a !mmspecn mlu:hmakuiy 't;u 7111 ng: name, that there is 80 iittls left, for hmur the TItalian giant so ferocious. How- ever, some of the boys have trouble collecting their pleces. Dixon, for in- for his bit of the American melons plucked by Carnera. Scott aiso has been cut up as neatly porch steps to the front door. IAMI, Fla, Febmla 19 M : Jack Sharkey the plans of | LONDON.—Jack (Kid) Berg, Eng- | tween Max Schmeling and the| ALLENTOWN, Pa.—Al Brown, Pan- 5| & box Primo Carnera in the Wemb. Phtesrs oo | | TULSA, Okla—Dick Danels, Mihne- Dixon, who holds & position | Jeft Fomuon | GREENVILLE, Miss 1 status in this country, has everything fighters on the basis of a million-dollar is no trivial task. led in England and Europe as a bat- | Scott champion of the world without | Scott is by no means a popular idol mob over there is with him to the last ure Max Schmeling in the picture at few other palookas. e. ~Carnera , Tex., Pel 19 — because Dixon 5 to have a 10 per SALLAR sy . the most “pleced” fighte: . |attempt a comeback next Summer Leon See, Carnera's manager. of Carnera’s earni he has onli 21:? per cent of the hgg: left for A associate, 20; Walter Friedman, 10, and the piece men get theirs is what makes stance, has filed an action against See as a Florida subdivision. Some fellows who did things for Philip years ago still are eligible to share in 'his earnings. Whether they can collect is somethin, else again, Fighters Take Rest. Ne of the heavyweights quartered in wicinity, with the exception of Victorio Campolo, did any work Sunday, ractically promised the fight if no one | tober 4. RISKO-CAMPOLO GO GETSTSBALLY-HO Miami Semi-Final Fighters Shift Quarters, Nearing Spotlight Center. By the Associated Pre IAMI, Fla, February 19.—The first move in a somewhat be- lated bulld-up for the semi- final battle between Johnny Risko and Victorio Campolo in the heavyweight show card February 327, was slated today with the shift of their training quarters from outlying pre- cinets to the main centers of activity. In the absence of any heated debate over the main go between Jack Sharkey and Phil Scott, who are paired for the benefit of thevsociety for ad- vancement of heavyweight champion- ship claims, the conviction has grown that Risko and Campolo may save the card. It packs all the possibilities of a spectacular scrap for 10 rounds or less, and substantial interest has de. pol fistic future in a fleld in which he is among the few sizeable rivals for gargantuan Primo Carnera is involved in the outcome. Likewise the prestige of rough and ready Johnny Risko, classed as too small to oppose the Argentine in New York, is at stake. ‘To put these rivals more in the - light, Campolo packed his training togs hift in the scene of his Coral Gables to a Miami not far from Sharkey's 3 prepared to hustle in from Hollywood to do his stuff in the | same ring that Scott uses, off the Bis- cayne Boulevard in Miami. th not so pronounced a favorite as Sharkey is over Scott, Campolo has been installed as the choice over Risk on the strength of the marked improvement in condition a: well as punching skill. 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