Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1930, Page 42

TZIE EVioanGg N LAR, WADLiulUN, D. C Lauwoba Major League Managers Are Busy With Job of MANY CLUBS NEED INEW GOLF BALL IS GIVEN MORE YOUNGSTERS National Circuit Outstrips American in Employing New Talent. to Carry Just as Far, if Hit Fairly BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. HE boys are playing the new ball, and how! Realizing that they will have to play the 1.68 pellet BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, December 16.— In the season of 1031 in base ball there will be less tendency to retain veteran players any length of time if it appears they do not possess enough skill to be of decided ad- vantage to the major league club with which they may be con- nected. If ‘they are released, it may be an outright release. There is little chance that they will be sent to minor league clubs below Double-A. They will be permitted to find employment for them- | selves wherever they can. There will be chances for them to play with Dou- ble-A if they wish to do so, because, at the present moment the Double-A leagues seem to be those which will be most solicitous to find players. ‘The major leagues realige that at Jeast one-half of their teams have ar- rived at the point W\i\!‘re the%omllst be bolstered by young players who are on the upgrade. Several old-time pitchers have been carried who have had a cer- tain degree of effectiveness. They will have to do & little better than that next year. Quinn’s Release Example. The Athletics showed what is in mind when they permitted Jack Quinn to §1o He has pitched well for them, and he pitched with a certain de‘m of skill in 1930. He can do as well under cer- tain conditions this coming season, but his spitball has lost its terror to the batters. The breaking point came when the Cubs knocked him out of the box n the world series of 1929. “ American League batters were con- fident the past season that if the Cubs eould force Quinn out of a game, SO could they. He was batted harder in 1930 than he had been before, but he fought dieu%rmmedly. for he is & per- sistent pitcher. If the Pacific Coast League permitted spitball pitching, Quinn should do well out there for & time. If he went to the National League he might do well. But if he is engaged by a major league «¢lib he will haye 0 be at least & 50-50 | again ‘winner to hold his own. Vets in American h‘fl&w The American League has e - mented less with young players in the season than in previous years. Once the difference between the two major leagues rested in the willingness duck to water and only rarely now- adays will a first-class player be seen using the old ball. Sometimes he can- not get the small ball, but more often than not, he plays the big ball as & measure of getting used to the pill he will have to use next year. A week ago the distributors for the largest selling golf ball in this territory advised the professionals that the entire supply of small balls was exhausted at the factory, which meant that the only peliets com- ing through for distribution would be th= big ones. 2 So the boys have been stepping out with the new ball and from their ex- eriénce over the past month they have gb'm: to realiz: that if this big, light ball is hit fairly it will go just as far as the small ball, even against the wind. Let us cite a few examples, to show how true this is, after the yarns we have heard of the lack of length of the pill into the wind. Mcleod Has the Floor. Freddie McLeod, keen observer of the game, a man who has as great a knowledge of shots and conditions as any man living, was the spcaker. | “] was playing with Harry Pitt and J. B. Murphy at lumbia,” Freddie said. “And we agreed to play the new ball. You know what a cut Harry takes at the ball and how it goes if he hits it right. Well, he finally got one right on the nose, at the ninth holz where the wind came across from the northwest and the tee shot was played almost into the tecth of the wind. You know that bunker at thes left. Well, Harry's ball bored right through the breeze and wound up in the fairway up | to that bunker, and that is a good shot | in calm weather with hard ground. He knocked the ball so far that he reached the gresn with an iron club, and I hit two of my best wooden club shots and e up and told of the new ball, made hit the ball so to the green,” Murphy 5 ball must have traveled 320 yards and the fairway was not hard.” Freddie then related how lucky he was on the putting green the other day, and said the new |all putts better for him than the o. bhall. “I was| holing them and played .ae back nine | at Columbia in 33 strokes,” Freddie | said. “I was lucky to have a putt for a 32 on the eighteenth, with | the aid of a few birdies. .But that big | ball ) conservatism of the ayers to the very e ot thelr e R e B T umwhm it mflm“;t American League goes in the hole well and if it is hit from the tee I don’t think anyone will notice any difference. n I d_ th and o, the 'Mr'emfl . jor Jeagues cannot ‘the dbuble-A leagues, they By The biggest handicap the ball will have for the fine golfer is its tendency t0 soar high in the air from a hard-hit tee shot. But the golf club manu- facturers have attempted to solve this problem by sending through _their . ‘That is another reason Wi n players who cannot keep the pace will drop out. | pwooden clubs with deep faces without | a great deal of loft on them. All the | wooden clubs that come through from the factory nowadays have deep faces, designed to correct that soarin FIRST BAPTIST ON TOP Has Three-Game Lead on Brookland Jead in the B. Y. P. hich rolls at Lucky Strike. 29 out of 36 NG e Every one recalls many putts that hit almost squarely in the back of the cup, b4 ¥ Akl SEEREREREE wERsEREREgr IR R SRUSRLSRY 2 2t 2, S SR SR SR SR SRS S SRS . Metro. Records. team game—First No. 1, 601 Ben et entennial; 1605 8. vidual mnh), 398, . Jentennial) HiEh [oAfdua eame—Pellows (First No. | verams— i Hodgw (O wrey D, 165, | é%’. B, Teliows S 007 (First DEL RAY QUINT VISITS Will Play Strayer's Business Col- lege—Whirlwinds Beore. ALEXANDRIA, Va., December 16.— Del Ray A. C. will travel to Washington tonight for a game with Strayer’s Busi- ness College and on Priday night is to | entertain the Mercury A. C. of the Capital City, at 8:30 o'clock, at Armory | Hall. Manager Carroll Rush is after other unilimited games at Alexandria 2053-J, between 5 and 6 p.m. Alexandria' Whirlwinds defeated the Fort Humphreys Juniors, 48 to 14, yes- terday. Moore shone for the locals with seven fleld goals for 14 points. St. Mary's Celtics will practice tonight at 8 o'clock in Baggeti's Park for Sun- dey's game with the Mohawk A. C. at Washington. The Arrow A. C, Richmond cham- plons, will be plaved on New Year day st Richmo Va., while Manager Charles Corbett is also taking into con- sideration an_invitation to play the Irvington A. C., title holders in Balti- more. ' 409 11th St. N.W. (Pet- 107 | | GOLF BAGS COMPLETE LINE IN CANVASS AND LISTS EIGHT GRID TILTS LEATHERS North Carolina Has Six Games ‘With Conference Rivals. RALEIGH, N. C., December 16 (P).— The North Carolina State 1931 foot ball schedule calls for eight games at sent. The schedule was anncunced by Dr. Ray Sermon, athle ic director. Six of the games scheduled will be with Southern Conferenc: rivals. ‘The schedule: September 26—Davidson at Raleigh or Greensboro. | October 3—Florida at Raleigh. | October 10—Clemson at Charlotte. | October 15—Wake Forest at Raleigh. ’ October 24—Open. | .‘ll)cmbet 31 — North Carolina at leigh. November 7—Mississipp! A. and M. at | Starksville, Miss. November 14—Duke at Durham. November 21 — South Carolina Raleigh. TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN’S, 7th & F '# Complete N at| 1 Spalding 1 Spalding T Spalding after January 1, the local ama- | % teurs have gone to the new ball like & o |with 1 and 4 $1:85 $G02 0. K. BY LOCAL AMATEURS| TAKE LOOP OPENER Larger, Lighter Pellet Putts Bétter and Is Declared Even Againet Wind, Off the Tee._ going a little bit too strong, and flirted out from the hole. Those putts, hit the same way with the new ball, are more than likely to stay in, if they are not hit out of all pmggmon o the distance be covered. e new ball, being & shade lighter, hits the hole and fre- uently stays in where the heavier ball would :m. nnt.d t‘r‘:: those strokes saved on and aroun putting greens are the important strokes in any golf game. One Serious Defect. But that new ball one serious de- fect, from the t of the duffer. It exaggerates his slices and hooks to a considerable degree. ‘The player with & consistent slice or hook must aim many more yards off the line with the new ball than he did with the old ball, for that same soaring tendency will get in its work where a cut is imparted with the big ball. Many shots that would stay in bounds with the small m;}wmn(moxbwmnwlmmm Well, 1t will be official on January 1 notwithstanding the fact that it will be mandatory for use only in tournament play after that date, golfers generally will play the new bali even though they may have a supply of the old pellets. For golfers ly are honest chaps. —_— RUDOLPH SETS PACE -IN BILLIARDS EVENT Sweeps Through Five Games in| National Title Tourney, but Must Meet Greenleaf. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 16.—If any one is to stop the triumphant parade of Erwin h_through the field | in the world championship pocket bil- llards t, apparently it will have to be Ralph Greenleaf, the de- fending titleholder. , Who hails from Chicago, nosed out the New York “dark horse,” Onofrio Lauri, 125 to 124, in 21 innings last night and thereby earned his fifth successive tournament victory. He has yet to meet Arthur Woods, another New Yorker, and Greenleaf. Greenlehf as runner-up with 4 victoties and 1 defeat. Lauri is third with 4 and 2, Woods fourth 3 and 3, Frank Taberskl of Schenectady, N. Y. fifth with 2 and 3, Bennle Allen of Kansas Cig sixth with 2 and 4, Pasqualie Natalie, Chicago, seventh and 'Thomas Boatman, Portland, Oreg., flwth with 1 and 6. Rudolph plays Woods tonight, with Natalie meet:fi Allen and Boatman playing Tabe: this afternoon. Greenleaf gave further evidence that he is back in form yesterday when he trounced Woods, 125 to 2¢, in 18 in- nings. Greenleal led at one time, 79-0. —_——— RED SOX START EARLY Pitchers and Catchers Will Go South on February 10. BOSTON, December 16 (#).—"Shano” Collins, newly appointed manager of the Boston Red 8ox, will lead his first squad of players to the training camp at Pen- sacola, Fia., on February 10. This vanguard will include all of the pitchers antd catchers and recruits: ‘The veterans will not report .umtil PLAY AT MOUNT RAINIER. STAR RADIO CO. 1350 F St. N.W. SPORTS DEPARTMENT SUGGESTIONS Cogar, Peewee Bassford, Dutch & dance to be held under the auspices of Eagles for Sunday afternoon. Both con- The with Che fl.u follow the Prince zcorgu County ague | Southern Methodists and Mount Rain- ! GRIFFITH-CONSUMERS Teams in Prince Georges County Basket Ball League Name Eligibility Lists. - HYATTSVILLE, Md, December 16. | ~In the opening game of the Prince | Georges County basket ball league at the armory here last night Griffith- Consumers triumphed over Dor-A Boys' Club, 28 to 18. | Brentwood Hawks were scheduled to take the floor against Company F, Na- tional Guard, in the second game of & double-header, but through some mis- understanding failed to appear. A for- feit will not be charged against them, but Chairman Hugh McClay especlally wishes the management of the Hawks to call him at the armory tonight, Hy- attsyille 378, after 7:30 r,m. After the first few minutes, Griffith- Consumers always held a safe lead over D:A;Aa The score at the half was 1 A Bob Lyles was the leader of the win- ners’ attack, dropping three floor goals end two free tosses through the cords | for eight points. Frenchy Cohan, with the same number of points, was high for the Dor-A team. Eligibility lists for league Blay, which were submitted last night, follow: Griffith-Consumers—Del Zahn, Sam- my Hook, Al Nicholson, Blackie Adair, Bob Lyles, Charlie Zimmerli, Shorty Harris, El Lambert and Jack Hickey. Dor-A Boys' Club—Charlie Bailey, Edgar Heflin, Buddy Beall, Jack Shank’ lin, Al Lewis, Jack Willlams, Stanley !':Wil. Frenchy Lewis and Joe Hamil- n. Mount Rainier—Nelsou_Colley, Perry Wilkinson, John Owen, Jimmy Miller, Norman Venning, Rohert Bellman, Al- fred Bellman, Henry ZBellman and Clay- ton. Hyattsville Southern _Methodists— George Thomas, Truston Cannon, Rolph Jarrell, Ardley Hart, Howard Smith, Willlam Burdick, Walton Arnold, Bur- dette , Vernon Clark, Pis- tol and Herbert Compton. Compi F, National Guard—John Costinett, Bernard Troy, Bob Shanklin, Mandy Lauer, Sam Crosthwait, Fenton Richard, Don_Burroughs, Jeff Dix and Moore Fauntleroy, ¥ A basket ball game has been schedul- ed for the night of December 27 on the National Guard Armory floor here be- tween Prince Ge County League All-Stars and Tri-County League All- Stars. The contest will be followed by the Prince Georges loop. Company ¥ has booked with Chevy Chase Greys of Was for Thursday night and with Anacostia tests will be play ‘ed on the armory court here. Chase Qreys match between _Hyattsville ler, while the Anacostia Eagles contest will be preceded by a tilt in which Com- pany F Reserves will face a team to b announced. Company F Reserves, which have wor two contests in as many starts, have listed 8 e for PFriday night with | Boys' Olub Standards of Washington, to be played at the armory. They are l.o::lx;g tc: games for tomorrow nlght or Sunday. Call Hyattsville 378 after 7:30- tonight, LONDOS TOSSES ROMANO. CHICAGO, December 18 (#).—Jimmy Londos, heavyweight wrestler, defeated Mike Romano of New York in straight falls last night. COLLEGE BASKET BALL. Purdue, 34; Notre Dame, 22. Bradley, 17; Iowa, 16. PINEHURST Washington’s Finest Indoor Golf Course Connecticut Ave. at R I | 3218 14th St. N.W. | SPECIAL!! ONE DOZEN PiONEER GOLF s BALLS NEW SIZE MESH! Xmas Special Regular Price, $6.00 per dozen 500 GOLF TEES $1-3° All-Leather Tee Carrier 39c with tees A. G. SPALDING GOLF BALLS In Xmas Package 1 Doz., $4.50 Doz. ..$9.00 KROFLITE & SPALDING Very Special A. G. Spalding Golf Outfit 5 Spalding Clubs and Bag 1 Spalding Driver 1 Spalding Midiron Mashie Niblick Putter 1 Canvas Bag $15 value 95 Complete heads. All- Burr-Key Matched Irons 16 $35.00 Value Set of Five Black steel Shafts, chromitim-plated leather grips. Every set purchased him for an outfielder. and George Kelly. BASKET BALL TIPS ‘There are many ways of throwing & basket ball, whlchysi.sojult ‘what R e} ire o dl it situa- tl‘nmna lnI w)luch one mn H:‘-II either closely guar oppo- aent or he is g‘u - When guarded the stunt is to from ent, $pring in the air and make the one- USE OveR HAND HOOK PASS WHEN GUARDED hand overhead hook pass here des- oribed, a whip upward from the hip with the arm fully extended. It is W sure way of getting off the pass, and it's an accurate way to pass if one will but practice it. You see that pass used a lot in Indiana, Where they go in for basket ball per- haps more than in any other State of the Union. CUBS’ —— FIRST-SACKER Barton, Bought From Baltimore, Will Be Given Chance to Play at Base. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, 'December 16.—After hunting all over the base ball land- scape for ancther first baseman, the Cubs discovered they bought one from Baltimore Igst Summer, al h they Vincent Barton, a 22-year-old pros- pect played in the outfield because Bal- timore had a capable first bascman and needed an outfielder. After the Cubs failed to obtain Jim Bottomley from the St. Louis Cardinals, Manager - ers Hornsby and President Willlam Veeck wondered if Barton might not be converted into a first sacker. Investigation revealed that Barton played all his base ball at the initial corner until the Orioles moved him ln: these the outfield. Hornsby says he will iven plenty of opportunity to to understudy Charlie 10YOLA FIVE T0 START. GENERAL DEPRESSION | tween now and the Spring, the club SEEN IN OUTFIELDER| OHICAGO, December 16 (#).—Loyola University, which compiled a sensa- tional basket ball record of 36 straight victories during the 1928-29 and 1929-30 | spaigns, will open its son tonight | nst the Arkansas Ag| l SR e EMERSON & ORME 17th and M Sta. N.W. Oakigna 100 er3l, Motors, pred STANLEY H. lo“fim. 1015 and 1111 14th St. N.W. Stanley H. Horner, 1015 and 1111 14th St. N.W. Fall 4 g eeding Out Veteran Players | Croueeas on corr | A grea many golfers, according %o such a fine instructor as Johnny Farrell, try to hit the ball instead of sweeping their clubheads through it. As a result they fail to follow through and a slice usually results. + The follow through is necessity SAYS PRO LOOP THROUGH Chicago Tribune Declares Basket Ball League Fatls to Draw. ), . December .~The Tribune says the American Basket Ball League will dis) :M week's schedule has beén plhyed. Lack of profitable crowds was given the reason. FORT WAYNE, Ind, December 18 By the Assoclated Press. () —Clarence L. Atler, manager of BALTIMORE, Md, December 16— | | Fort Wayne professional o bad Pointing to the business depression and | | oan, Saiq todey his wam Med'D e the high cost of horse racing, the Mary- tention of withdrs from the Amer- land Jockey Club has announced a re | A i‘°‘;‘;‘.‘€‘.§“‘,.‘.‘.é°':k:2 e e duction of $29,500 in the total purses ' of a break-up of the crganization fole for the coming Spring meet at Pimlico it track, 1n B T ‘; r-};fi it 'I::ll'g_'. the recent withdrawal of Cleve- been reduced from 100 to vond NEW YORK, December 16 (#).—The Brooklyn Visitations have mioved into the Jead in the Ameriean Professional o o Basket Ball League. They have had 01 GOING 6 victories and 2 defeats. ‘Fort Wxne 4 the Green Spring Tuaoven |15 runner-uj from 85,000 to b e e , diminutive Pater- the X the Pimlico Oaks from | Benny Borgeman, m;m ‘:.r(‘b‘oo;.rmm _:‘lgve son forward 1 leading 3 ey scorer with 48 field goals and 28 fouls, a‘;:l n‘g‘“:u vn:::m Handicap and the h!r; total of 124 polg:m‘xx: n’fm’- Track_officials made it clear the AN w5 i $50,000 Preakness, principal event of s QUINTS IN DOUBLE BILL the Spring meet, would not be dis- turbed. The race has been advanced, Tri-County League to Open Laurel Armory Tonight. however, and will be run May 9, the last day of the meet. The second LAUREL, Md., December 16.—] in the Tri-County Basket Ball Ty sponsored by Headquarters Company, ational Guard, of this place, will open m’mmwflnmflmmm Ellicott City Hoplites and ‘Western Electric Co, o?w-:filslum will face at 7:45 o'clock, and Come Pny andDe Molay will conclustons n the second game. FOOT B HITS PIMLICO TRACK Maryland Jockey Club Announces Cut in Purses for Stake Races Next Spring. as in playing a golf shot, except pos- sibly one type of explosion. It in- sures the face of the club through the ball on the line the in in reducing the amounts of the purses, Matt L. Daiger, secretary of the club, said if business conditions improve be- would consider raising the stakes cut and restore inated. The sec- retary pointed to & falling off in track receipts last Pall. For the Spring meet, under the new arrangement, there will be included six $2,000 races, ten $1,500 races and 58 for purses of $1,300. NAVY QUINT TO PLAY ‘Will Meet Lafayette Tomorrow and ‘Western Maryland Saturday. ANNAPOLIS, December 16.— With the foot ball season over, the interest in sports at the Naval Academy has shifted to basket ball. The Middy five, under Johnny Wilson, began its sched- ule last Wednesday with & victory over William and Mary, but only & handful of 3 h - SR I more interest. ‘The Tars have two more Get rid of your slice and you will improve your score by 10 strokes. Sol M has 1) VAN ALL DISCONTINUED WINCHESTER, Ky., (#)~Dr, C. M. Danelly, ‘Wesleyan Col (Copyright, 1930.) NEW CONFERENCE GROUP Members of 8 I. A. A. Organize Loop Within 0ld Organisation. MEMPHIS, Tenn., December 16 (). —The formation of & mew conference within the membefship of the Southern | Intercollegiate Athletic Association was announced to the 8. I. A. A. Convention here by Dean G. 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