Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1930, Page 51

SPORTS. Three Big Minor Loops SPLIT COMES OVER MATTER F OPTION AA Circuits Think They Can Reach Top Class Within Three or Four Years. BY HERBERT W. BARKER, Associated Press Sports Writer EW YORK, December 12.— N Definitely alienated from the majors, the three big minor leagues, American Association, International and Pacific Coast circuits, hoped to- day to build their organizations to the point where they can chal- lenge the base ball supremacy of the National and American Leagues. Charles H. Strub, president of the San Francisco club of the Pacific Coast League, s the m . in three or four year: 1 50 develop their cireu s to compete on equal terms with the two major leagues. What They Plan To Do. The program thet the mino follow to achieve this is fourfold as Strub sces it First, the minors sort of court of fir as is represented must tion such oW BACK IN FORM. N\ < must | have soie | ust adopt | the same the past in rship and help. Thirdly, ig min in order to protect their own invest- S y ffer financial and, material assist: n classifications. Fourth, tlarly the class AA must build them- selves up in the t three or four years to the point where they can cffc themselves to the pul league circuits. Strub pointed out that the three cl: AA organizations have a far wider dis- tribution than the majors, covering as they do the country from the East Coast to the West. ~He believes that the big minors, by keeping their st: instead of selling them to th can develop within leagues of major classi if not in name He added that it the majors. with their stars growing older and no longer replaced by sters who used to come in steadil the class AA minors, will have drop- | ped so in standard of play that they will not be able to compete with the class AA teams, who will, in the mean- time, have hung onto their stars and developed them. Most cities represented in tk big minors, he went on, are plenty large enough_to support major league bese ball. He hopes eventually to world series recognition for class AA organizations, believing the public will come to demand it. Course Majors May Take. ‘The majors, on the other hand, per- haps will see to it that certain class A leagues are strengthened to AA standards and then select these cir- cuits for developing their players, The majors still Will be able to draft play- ets from the smaller minors just as they have in the past. but the fact re- mains that most major league ball players have had tc have the benefit of class AA competition before they were ready for the majors. The wide-open split between the two groups came over the question of option- ing out players for scascning and the price to be paid for athletes s>lected the draft ed to be able to draft p! who had had four ears’ experience in the minors any- where. The Class AA minors insisted they be allowed to hold a player three years, regardiess of what previous minor league experience he had had. As for the draft price, the majors offered $7,500 where $17500 had been cffered at the recent Cleveland conference. The big minors declined to accept any sum less than $10,000. When the conference reached an impasse the big minors suggested that e three ic as new major | secure | the three | s must see that | s of smaller | — WALKED OFF" WiTH TRE. T(TLE AND - MOST OF THE CASH INTHE RECENT SAN FRANCISCO QPN / THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1930. SPORTS. D3 Break With Majors an LasT SepTemsee— N THE PROFESSIONAL TITLE MEET LEQ COULDNT SEEM TOo Do A THING RGAT ~ BOT #E CAME - B wite A FLOCK OFf DIRD/IES / ONE OF HE BEST PUTTE INTHE GAME— ~ BUT DONT Yoo TRY AS STANCE (S as his belief that | THE LISTENING POST BY WALTER N the early days of his career, when he was managed by Doc Bagley, | Gene Tunney was match=d to box | Jack Burke. The latter was a tough fellow who had a great punch in his | right hand, had done well as an ama- | | teur, and had knocked out a long string of opponents in professional fights. Burke was supposed to be a light| heavyweight and the men had an agree- | ment to come in at 175 pounds. ‘Tunney | weighed 172 for the bout, but Burke | scaled just a little under 183. ‘This| | aroused Bagley to considerable indigna- | | tion. | We agrced to box a light heavy-| ght.” he said, “and you arrive with | an elephant” “I know,” said Burke's manager, “but what could T do? He's growing.” | It didn't make much difference, as Tunney stopped Burke in a couple of rour He m:t him again later and | had more_trouble with him. _Although this time Burke came in at 175 pounds, he stuck around for seven or eight rounds. | Later, Burke—that was his nom de ring; his real name was several syllables long—was a sparring partner for Jack Dempsey | Maj. Tunney has been measured for | the uniform he wear as a member of th: military staff of Gov. Cross of | Connecticut. No governor in the United | States is going to boast a better-looking TRUMBULL LL American League base ball players will wear numbers on their shirts next season. This is a big step in the right diraction, enable all the new pitchers, and of the older ones to know when Bai Ruth, Lou Gehrig or Al Simmons comes to bat. Frequently pitchers have identified these men until it was late, an din consequence, many b balls have been lost and the home club put to added expense. It also will enable the Babe, by the use of a score card, to tell some of the players with whom he has been osin- ciated for several years. The Babe knows them all by sight, but he rare! remembers their nams They really should change the num- bers from time to time, as there a ne )only 25 men on a ball club in mids son, and some Scotch fans might memorize the numbers and so decrease the sale of programs. 740-YARD HOLE PLANNED. MANHATTAN, Kans, December 12 (P).—A par six hole is planned in a new nine to be added to a golf course here, It will measure 740 yards. | GIANTS OBTAIN BENDER 0ld-Time P:c‘;‘r-x . NEW Will oG th Squad as Mentor. YORK, D 1, one of t South cember 12 tuff, but his cor John McGraw think: aults. BABE RUTH LEAVES CAMP Departs With Deer Pagged on Ten- Day Hun | up bo coach Disposes of Ei top price bu Hyattsv Spencer Backstop ing the two youngste: behind him, held in the catcher’s Spepeer in Order to Cut His Overstocked Farm. december 12 (). —Al- m of brea ocas Stabl of race mbers less Rar sinclair's st d brood stock 0- to two well ago and bring the the honor old stallion. He h Pons of New York 1 John A, man, a more expecied to sold to Adol $300 ew Y $1,000 for Sim. , while EIGHT SOCCERITES GO le High 2.—Eight gh School past season will be E Walter Fred Baird, McChesney, Mostow and are Elmer Univer vill be John for the past all came to 1 School > played foot ball CKEY RESULTS. 1; Philadelphia Ottawa MARVIL WILDCAT PILOT. for two ELEVEN IN A ROW. IKE an obstacle that looms in front of a distance runner and | he of nd as group | by Maurice J. | half years ago, alwa n the hope they will have a putt shatter that sub-par m former Georgetown Un | . Out at wash bers admit t just about | ever rep | point to | the Irish name who k Elm in this year's tonship, that ak and k made by the y_student of the mem- ked off George Von national as were a shining f the that 66 | been any, v times cotch pro at the c first ni holes i hopes rise to the pof : a 32 on the last nine would shatter the . But each g gra record last year ed two greens, and Frank K. Roesch, amateur champion, has been up there a number of times, with only a few holes bety 1 him and a 65, but each time failed. One or two others had the same ex: perience, and stil stand: What with the f soft greens of the hance but he finished w the District scoring @ Thom: had about | chance he will have this yea | romped around the in 69 strokes, again | bust. the 6 | different gol needed to t Dave a wee putt for a deuce on the second hole, and the ball hung | right on the lip of the cup. He three- no_better. the when he ing son e to > of in- 1 spots where he hten up. putted the fifth green for a 5 and was ' foot | STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE || | car | Tk last out in 35. And he three-putted the [ third green for another 5. He stood | on the soventeenth tee needing two 4s | for a 68, even with those three lost | shots behind him, and he took & 5 on | the seventeenth, finishing with & 4 for | a 69, That chance may have been Da last one for this year, for the | little Scot is planning & trip to his | home in Scotland in January, to be gone ugh most of January and February. will come back full of good golf, and all rested up, and he may bust the record next year. Meanwhile he will in there trying, as have most of the teurs of the club over the last two | professional at _the | y Chase Club, and George Diffen- | baugh, stant pro at Indian Spring, are going to hop into Barnett's little Thursday and start out on the long trek to Miami Beach, Fla, where Barnett will hold down the professional | berth during the Winter at the Indian | Creek Country Club. Diffenbaugh will | as_co-assistant to B bh Beach, now_professio urban 1b of Baltimore. Washington about Ap ocal professionals have been of absence by their clubs for | | the Winter season. The Argyle Country Club has joined | e clubs which have relaxed the re- | ictions on g during the Winter. | The ed today that the for guests during the Winter I 1s has been changed to one dollar for guests on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays and 50 cents on week days initiation fee for membership in club will be raised to $50 on Jan- ry 1. | Suppoes you top your tee shot |nln‘ ker A at the first hole at the Wash- | on Golf and Country Club? Sup-| you do, asks Dr. Thomas J. Rice? | neans nothing, or so Rice claims N t it is just as easy e spoon shot from | and as a niblick shot from the fairway. And he demonstrated that thy ua | fact by laying a wooden club shot from | the sand within six feet of the hole. d_the putt for the birdie, but ainly gave V. C. Dickey a jolt y had knocked his tee shot middle and expected o win d Plan to Rival Big Leagues ‘377717%“71;(] W(V;ruh f\l:l&e when the winners of today were little more than mere infants is demonstrat- ing that age does not mean oblivion in the game of golf. The veteran is E. P. Brooke, who won the Middle Atlantic title back in 1912 and was one of the finest golfers in this section back in the heydey of Ed Eynon and Dr. Lee Harban. Brooke has been knocking the ball around the Washington course reg« ularly below 80 and sometimes slips below 75. He putts with a cross-handed grip, and how he knocks them in the hole with that unorthodox method. BY SOL METZGER. Check and double check your ad- dress i{f you are slicing your golf shots. One cause of a slice is reach- ing for the ball. The correct swing is & compact one with relaxed muscles. When we place the ball too far away we have to reach for it. That is a strain. The position is uncomfortable at the start. Now when we swing through to strike the baH in such a position the clubhead exerts a pull forward. To avold toppling forward we auto- matically pull against it. This pull REACUING ~ STANDING 1 FAR Frgm 0 oaLL B = (R NE brings the clubhead in and across the ball at contact, the one way we must not hit a ball if we are to avoid slicing it. Look over your stance. See if you are not reaching for the ball. Any pro will tell you that if you are you are bound to slice. Why contiriue to slice when the fault can be absolutely cured by fol- lowing a few simple instructions. Write Sol Metzger, care of this paper, and request his illustrated leafict on “Slicing.” In writing in- close stamped, addressed envelope. (Copyright. 1930.) aide. | 1 cannot see that the former cham. piop is not in as good physical shap as the day he retired from th: ring. H: hasn't grown much. He looks fit to climb back inside the ropes at a moment’s notice, but he never will. | If ycu are interested, Tunney's chest | measurement is 4312 inch % _inches and his w. 0 wonder y y one who has youth, health, plenty of | money and a host of friends hasn't| much of which to compla the whole matter be referred to Com- missioner Landis fo arbitration and decision, but the major league repre- sentatives turned down this offer. Most observers fe a costly base ball war was in the making, with both parties to the dispute sure to suffer 1 through increased e pages abcut our thousands of CVERCOATS with that “million dollar” look. But what’s the use? Only by seeing the expensive cloths and tailoring with your own eyes can you fully appre- ciate these overcoats. Seeing is believing! It takes one of the country’s biggest clothing insti- : fResy ‘ NG R ‘ tutions selling clothes at one price. to sell them for = . 4 : v ; ' only $17.59! 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