Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1931, Page 56

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. .C., JAN JARY .25. e e 2ART FIVE. Griffith Rapidly Getting Nats in Order : Midatlantic Golfers Get Shot at Title Campbell Will Again Ram Danger’s Shield In Speed Mark Attempt at Daytona Beach ENTRY PLAN SOUND ONLY TEN OF CLUB REMAIN UNSIGNED /At Least 15 Pitchers to Toil at Biloxi—Several Go to Lookouts. BY JOHN B. KELLER. DDS and ends of business connected with the Wash- ington base ball club are to be disposed of within the next few days. Next week President Clark Griffith plans to head for Biloxi, Miss, the Na- tionals’ training camp site, and he wants affairs in order here be- fore transferring headquarters to the South. Following a deal of work yes- terday, Griffith seems to have the situation pretty well in hand. He|y. lopped from the Nationals’ re- serve list three players, sending them to the Washington farm at Chattanooga, recorded the sign- ing of five of his athletes and at the end of the day announeced that only 10 of his 32 Nationals are yet to be signed for the 1931 campaign. Latest to get down on the dotted line are Joe Kuhel, first sacker; Ed Kenna, catcher; Wally Dashiell, second base- man, and m.h pitchers. Latest sent to the Look- outs with no strings attached are Harry Child, pitcher; Ray '.l‘reld“y. infielder, and Tom Banks, outfield ler, 'O of the five players whose signed contracts were received ye.!md';z g vs Bob i : gs i LR § i 5 5 _E i B i ¥ & £ a : | E ! : ; | EE I | | § ! . § L2 o i ] i i i ! 8" Rp ke g Gflmm also is dickering for a young marvel uncovered by Sam Jones out in Woodsfield, Ohio. Sam says the boy worth over and that's recom- mendation enough for the Wi 'ASHINGTON has been very good CAPITAL’S “WORST” TEAM RECALLED BY OLD SCRIBE MecAleer’s Nationals of 1911, When Wooden Stands |25 Burned and Johnson Was a Hold-Out, Had Recruits That Only Kid Elberfeld Praised. BY WILLIAM PEET, Sports Editor, Honolulu Advertiser. J ONOLULU, H. IL—“You left the most beautiful city in America for the most wonderful climate in the world—you lucky dog.” “You don’t remember me—but I used to know you in Washington—the last time I saw you was in 1911. Did any- thing happen during the year of 1911 that stands out in your memory?” These questions were fired at me 8o quickly that I had to stop and figure what it was all about—as I looked in- to the eyes of a stocky, little round- faced chap, & trifie bald, but well dress- ed and apparently a mdln!.nL as new- comers are termed by the Hawailans. My itor is a governmml ll!nt sent here to investigate something, and mz::)ne'w me when I slaved for a Wash- n_newspaper. But the year 1911—I will never for- get that year as long as I live. mlntlio no} believe that any ball club e major leagues emflmb«d a season as did the Nationals in lnll, md things began to almost the first day the san arrived in Atlanta, where the club Sp) trained, for the first and probably the time. Jim McAleer Was Manager. Jimmy McAleer was the Nationals’ manager, an old timer, & former great gxt.%elder. now ?) huwmed business man ‘oungstown. Of all the misfit major league squads in training, the Nationals of 1911 were that—and then some. A mixture of veterans who had seen their best days, of youngsters who were too green to be of any use at all, and four newspazd men, one of whom became so disgust with the outlook that he wired his paper hewuccmmcnomemdmemod the threat. The late Tom Noyes, president of the ‘Was club, arrived in the old Kiml ‘House one brlzht morning and lost no time going into a huddle with y McAleer. Jimm; wum Johnson, Washington's great pitcher, had not signed his contract. It seems that Ty Cobb or somebody had told Walter he was a sucker to pitch for such a small salary and advised hld come to Washington, fresh from | Gariin Boston _Traveller, and Sols was & m%{y fresh in ‘:‘hose glrw.flllso a good base . ‘He never overlooked a bet. The late J. Ed Grillo was on deck, as was Joe Jackson, Who now works in Sacramento. The rookies with the squad were per- haps the most interesting. The best looking recruit was a big chap from the Pacific Coast named Charley Swain. He could hit and he could fleld, but he had a bum arm and more than 200 pounds. Two in Atlanta and Swain was on his way to t.he Coast. He wouldn't do. ‘Then there was “Rubber Shirt” Eul Cunningham ‘Iho had joined the N: flon.ls late in the season of 1910, b\lt who had taken on something like 40 pounds during the Winter lay-off. “You won't draw any salary from the ‘Washington Club until you get yourself into the proper physical condition to play,” snapped McAleer as he reached for his room phone and ordered two Tubber shirts from a sporting goods store. Bootlegger Among Recruits. Among the recriuts was Fred Corbin, who had been caught in a moonshine raid and was sentenced to serve a jail term by some judge in West Virginia. ‘When Corbin told the Jlldle \‘-hl! he had been ordered to go Sou th the Wi n ball club, the Judze Te- lented and gave him a suspended sen- Corbin was a card. McAleer left him behind, and turned him over to the At- lanta club as part payment for ground rent. But the Crackers later relened him for conduct unbecoming & player. It appears that he almost wrecked the Aragon Hotel one night. ‘Then there was another big fellow from Youngstown, who had muscles like Sandow, and knew how to box. We got him to pose for a picture one day, and ‘Tom Akers of the Atlanta Journal syn- dicated a story about this “bear cal of & ball player. He was muscle-bound all over and failed to make the grade. I was particularly friendly with Kid Elberfeld in Atlanta, and frequentiy went to him for advice about the re- l’lhefleld praised them all, said they wire Erest Jrospects sad that some Gay they would be real big leaguers. He never knocked a ball player in his life, and I should have had more sense than to have tried to get any dope from him. Ten years later I saw Elberfeld in Little Rock, Ark., and chided him about Thl! about all for the Spring train- ing period. hnl Panned the Team. fans, men lke Harry n the mpm O'Shea_and others, well remember what happened to the Na- | H little incidents that are vividly. xny;unedwm:mmm.mnu unnll.l that year. 'z. were terrible. So bad, in fact, that fans started writing letters to the newspapers, and the only newspaper that letters was the one on that If he caught any one of | Melten talking to me, the player would | Goubeat $50 fine. Late in the Summer of 1911 Ed Grillo §%% broke ln exclusive story in The Wash- ington Star that McAleer and Bob Mc- Roy had bmxgm the controlling interest in the Boston Red Sox, and that the za&tgf;h wuuld have a new manager “We didn't get unnx very well this year, did we, Bill,” McAleer chirped one ’s office. admitted as much, but offered no or “Well, we uiflll friends, eh wot?” in’ chmmesvme during March marked the dawn of a new ‘base ball for the Washington of 1912, era in club. e I consider Clark Griffith one of the | Moo, smartest LOYOLA WINS, 28 to 26 Keeps Slate Clean by Defeating ‘Washington College. BALTIMORE, January 24.—Loyola's blsket bl ulln m its sllte clean in race by defe colhu, Zl to 23. in l Mcfic battle at vergreen ton! Ev Loyola was ouucvnd 11 to 10 from the floor, but gained shooting from = —aiae.ee.c Rfevster 8 wolSumn® mnplre—lln Vol OFFICIALS SELECTED FOR BASKET EVENT Mitchell Brothers and Ford to Handle Games in A. A. U. Title Competition. Fi Orrel and Joe Mitchell, brothers, and Tommy Ford will referee the men's games in the District A. A. U. Associa- tion championship basket ball tourna- ment which gets under way March 9 in the Tech High School gymnasium, it was announced last night by Winfreq Johnson, chairman of the committee in charge of the tourney. Entries will close in all classes Feb- ruary 27, but registration of players of unlimited and 145-pound teams must be made before February 7. In all other classes registration can be made until February 27. Indications are that the tournament will be the biggest in the history of the event. Both registration and team entry blanks may be secured at the Post sports department by the middle of this week. Meanwhile registration may be n}ad;l with fifiél;nm Russell, chairman of e assoc n's tration Com- mittee. Russell's lddll};‘e‘sh 1503 North Capitol street. ELDBROOKE VICTOR Downs Calvary Baptist in Sunday School Floor League. Eldbrooke Methodist defeated Calvary Baptist, 32 to 26; Petworth vs Trinity, 21 to 17, and Mount Vernon walloped Atonement, 39 to 14, I.n Sun- day School Basket Ball League last night at the Central Y. M.C A Line-ups: Calvary Bav,_ (26), ol vosoous; 8l vonaniih ST. ALBAN’S FIVE AHEAD Has No Trouble in Beating Christ Church by 21 to 6. CHRIST CHURCH, V.. January 24. —St. Alban’s School anuwn overwhelmed the » e Gunk or 4 game butoneotfllelocflmnhmm Capt. E&r{gr, center, who accounted for three G.P P 00 base ball men the game has | Freem ::‘e; produced. He always treated me | G¢ and squarely, dealt his cards from of the deck, and I hope that in & few years he can retire, having made first million. STRAIGHT OFE THE TEE NSPIRED by the success of the in- itial tournament, the Golf Com- mittee of the Columbia Country Club plans to hold another sweep- stakes next Tuesday. In the one held last week more than fifty played. Although most of the contestants were members of the club, & sprinkling of guests played, and one of them tied for the first net prize. D'Arcy Banagan, the club pro, is in charge of the events, | been and believes that given even fair weather the events planned for each Tuesday throughout the balance of the . | Winter will show a large entry. nooga outfit Mike Meola, Jimmy Wal- lace, Carlos Moore mfl Jnmu Bos- well, teher; ‘Harley Boss, Dick Go!dm ‘nd Walter Cazen, infielders, and Gordon Phelps, Al Powell and Tommy Thompson, out- elders. _ All but _Boss, Moore, Phelps nnd Powell went with no strings attach Other than the pitchers mentioned earlier, Nationals who have yet to sign are Spencer, catcher; Judge, Hayes and McLeod, infielders, and the outfielding d . Griffith said to make an early start for training camp, but will acco: small squad of gl:;:mu, catc] coaches leaving February 24. COLLEGE GOLFER WINS Dann Easily Defeats MacGovern in St. Augustine Final. ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., January 24 Duln. Rollins i and ~medalist, Wom _the ucnu-m im& ment here O in the Last Tuesday the weather overhead was perkct bm underfoot the course was soggy and the ball went exactly where it el.rfied unn no farther. conditions cannot be expected for all the coming tournaments. “There isn't any doubt that the golfers ‘Washington nk!n(g Goldberg, | around new ball like a duck '.lkel to vvnr. Here and there may be scattered few who play the old blll but generally they all are playing the new ball and the sur- prising part of it is that those who figured not u':h‘do z.&y wemlt hu'ue do better n e wl m who hailed the new as a ‘While there is little activity m a com- petitive way outdoors at this time of year, competition at the indoor schools goes on just the same. R. CUff Mc- Kimmie, proprietor of the Hollywood School on New York avenue, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, comes to bat with the declaration that Charles Gardiner, a frequenter of the golf school, has set a world record for an indoor putting course with a mark of 26 for rnx 54 course. Which leads to one of t.houzbu—emm' ‘Gardiner must have inspired, or the par of the course is much too high. McKimmie submits the following re- mll,!:o:n the two leagues operating at his school: Pro-amateur League—Charles Gard- lner defeated V. Gardiner, 451 to 479; V. Gardiner defeated M. Godstein, 474 to 489; R. C. McKimmie defeated V. Gardiner, 4068 to 501; McKimmie de- Ielted M. Goldstein, 468 to 510. National Capital League—A. G. B ding defeated McKimmie School, . McKimmie leads in the ‘with 6 wins and no loses. Wmhm Keyser is second with 3 wins and 1 I Up at !:lgh'zenth street and Columbia !\)Mt where Henry D. Miller presides over the L'Alglon pitch and putt course and Lionel Walker gives lessons at the driving nets, Miller is organizing a bankers’ pitching and putting league and alre: has teams entered from three well wn financial institutions in the city. He hopes also to organize another ) CENTER LEAGUE IS BUSY Has 11 Games for Week—Poto- macs, Clovers in Feature. program of 11 games with a battle Thul'ld-l’ night in the Central High School between Potomac Boat, Cluh and Clovers as the feature area |is in order this week in the Community Center Basket Ball League. , | vs. Drakes; Central, 9 pm, Eastern H 9 p.m., Clovers vs. Pontiacs. Wednesday, cam-l, 8 nm Monroes Crescents vs. Company E; Mmhr nd _ Junior High, 8 pm., Tremonts vs. Potomac Boat Club. , Eastern, 9 p.m., De Molays s, ‘Whirlwinds; Central, 9 p.m., WMCIubv&.clmm Mets vs. Mount Vernons. L.“""" e Consumera ¥a, it (N LEVY-QUIGLEY WIN Lose Second Set but Take Series With Smith and Whalen. mrjmu Bradt Bum.h lndmrlerrm ‘Whalen Ievz Catherine Qlli(!!{ 1 058 to 130, It the Lucky ‘night in the final block of a 10-game duckpin series, but Miss Levy and Mrs. Qulgley came out 9 sticks to the grand total. ‘They had 2,097 to 20M fnr Mfl. Smith and Mrs. Whalen. Mrs. Smith was h!lh hlt B‘Bhl 'lf.h 571. Her partne er got_48 Toliea 376 Smd"Mre Quigley, S14. Pointers on Golf BY SOL METZGER. Getting down to cases there are two principles of iron play. First the clean hit. Second, the down hit where a divot is taken. lhob one knocked into the air wit in to make it stop whm it alights. The illustration clearly shows how the clubhead meets the ball ln elch shot. Words are unneces- in describing such shots. Counle this ln(ormnum with that ONDON, January 24 (#).—The bright shield of danger fasci- nates Capt. Malcolm Camp- bell and soon he will be rush- ing toward it again on the sands at Daytona Beach, Fla. Already he has traveled 225 miles an hour in his racing car. Now, at 46, when most racers are burned out, killed, or retired, he wants to go faster, pass the world mark of 231 miles an hour. Unomch.\ly his mark this time is to be 250 miles an hour, but Camp- bell himself will not say so. He only remarks that he has 500 more horse~ power than ever before. Even if he does set up a new world record, the chances are that he won't quit racing. “I may be 60 with a long white beard before I retire,” he said last Spring. His life has been a series of ad- ventures with speed—as a pioneer motor racer, motor cyclist and air- man. And he has had some tight In 1912 he had his narrowest escape, three years after he began Driving & 60-horsepower at mhmeedmo(_ml:.mum came off. “I went on on the rim,” Campbell relates. “Then the off-side rear wheel flew off, bits of the car flew all over l::d & Iooke(kl like the end. Somehow car_kept straight on two wheels and pulled up in front of the Even at Daytona Campbell has had close shaves. In 1928 he was racing there and dm‘ll:ml;uflv morning sprint the car a sand hump left by the It leaped 30 feet into the air, crashed down sideways. But instead of roliing over tnmthelulz nzhud itself -nd went on. Campbell was only few days later, during the lew actual test, the car struck another BALTIMORE CHAMPS VISIT SKINKER FIVE St. Wenceslaus Lyceum Basketers Expected to Put Up Strong Battle Here Today. Skinker Eagles, Washington's out- basket ball team of 1930 and i.n the St. Wenceslaus Lyceum Baltimore. ‘The mlu will be hot for thelr fifth consecutive victory local enemies. The St. Wenceslaus quint flashed first under the wire in the Baltimore C-thellc League, correspond- ing to 's Independent League, -nd is rated as one of strongest in the Monumental City. —_— RIFLEMEN OF EIGHT COLLEGES COMPETE hump going 223 miles an hour. was thrown half out of the 'y again got it on an even keel. Even stranger accidents have troubled him. Once, going 115 mues an hour, a bird flew against his wlndahuld smashed it and scattered glass and bird around his head. He was uncut. Again, traveling 120 miles an hour, the hood of the car ripped loose, swept back and hit him on the head, e H.:wwea the within a few cn.r feetu(aflvulrlnk and for two ‘weeks knew what He is nervously quick, speaks a clipped British accent and has a military bearing. He is slender, well knit and always goes into t.rll.nl.n‘ before a race, liquor and smoking but little. IN CHESS CIRCLES y FRANK ‘Two more matches have been played in the five-team tournament, held under the auspices of the Washington Chess League, _Agriculture winning from George Washington, and Bureau of Standards from Friendship Heights. sundlrds ‘won every game in its match. vlnnlu stride e _an Mutchler and mm have not yet lost a game. over other than Shepard . Chevy Chase Falls Churecl iddle Atlantic League to Start|Mount Pl Shooting February 7—National Meet on March 28. Rifle teams of eight institutions, in- including Georgetown, George Wash- Maryland, Columhua University, lopkins, Western M d | Association ty. are the New England, Eastern States, lvania, West Virginia and Ohio and Missouri Valley Leagues. ‘The course of fire is 10 shots for each of the 10 team members from prone, kneeling and standing positions, the five high scores to count as team total. Saturday, March 28, has been set for the mt.lannl collegiate rifie champion- ‘Teams will shoot at any of ranges: Navy, Annapolis; West Virginia Uni- Morgantown; Commonwealth Blg‘hm and University of 1CO] OPEN HORSESHOE COURTS These matches are played at the rooms of the Capital clty Chess Olub g:\wmnmdly evenings. The public Schedule for January 29: Church vs. Friendship Heights. B. W. here at the Press Club some lndthenmflhmmlsom Arthur Dake won won the championship of the Marshall Chess Club, New York City. h"flwre mt.hg 16 contestants. Last championship of New York (my lelDBmhofDe'nlb I blem ) <] Hu,wgflllo ‘mating with rooks. Score of Walker-Hesse gams club championship of the c-mm cny Chess Club: Openins—P to Q4. White. the champion chess player of the District of Columbia for |29 8-3 the :93": and (nc) until the championship lost through match or pi Dl-ly or under whatever con- |33 tourney ditions may be esf these | trict of Columbia CI All mfldenu of lumbh nnd Maryland and Vil'lillh suburbs, are :J:Ullod to Big Gallery Sees Peake Defeat|limit is Crane in Greenway Inaugural. With a larger attendance than its most optimistic backers expected, the Greenway indoor horseshoe pitching courts, first to be installed in this city, were opened last night. Many of the leading players in The Star's annual meuo;olf dhtncz championships “gave ’em a fling. In an mlllmu'nl contest, Millard E. ake, Southern Maryland champion, TURF VETERAN DIES Brinke, Who Attended 49 Ken- tucky Derbies, Heart victlm_ PRIMES FOR NAVY FIVE. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., January 24.— Dduudlnmnmnvenumdm State basket ball team The cup is to become the permanent possession of the winner of it three times in succession. Last year’s rules provided for an an- nual tourney and that the title was un- exempt from the payment fee, but that is not carried into the present AMATEUR TOURNEY Will Give Linksmen [PFair Chance to Qualify for' An~ nual Meet. BY WALTER E. McCALLUM. HE United States Golf Associ- I ation has done a good many brainy things in the 30-odd years it has been handling national golf matters in this country. And it has done a good many things that have been viewed as not so brainy. One of its newest moves—the changed method of selecting entrants tor the national amateur golf pionship of 1931—is generally re- garded as one of the most advanced changes the parent golf body ever has initiated. ‘What effect will it have on the ?f X'fi:‘h::mn and r:l‘ly t,hew)gdd At- antic itory gene it bring about recognition of this section of the Eastern United States as a sector which can and does produce golfers of na- tional caliber? In view of past difficulties of this sec- tion of the lnnd in ucur the mtxy of outstai B chnnplcms ), t] chl.nm mm of lection will be & great forward step. Not alone last year, but for several years previously, the Middle Atlantic -cun of the United States has had trouble getting applicants into ‘major amateur title event. Roland back in his formative m m the and 1924 because he traveled the S04 Harsy G, BiiL who played ang . m‘mrg“ outside v.hole ‘ashington, were not the glug“:;l golf lut.hoflu- section as outstanding wmms Seen as Fair Method. amateur t never has been true that the U. 8. G. A. showed undue favoritism, biased writers have lndluudu in no uncertain terms. champio a few loul r been .m"fl"m phy. but petlwn of l!nulne title murney. in th ham) lmcfl; oix Lhd:mm to outstrip 4 generally in DUNBAR QUINT WINS CONFERENCE GAME Defeats Howard High, 41 to 36, for Second Victory in South Atlantic Competition. Dunbar High School won its second South Atlantic Conference game yester- day in defelt.lng Howlrd High at Wi ton, Del., to 36. Dunbar & 17-t0-] lflltldlth..l( time. ‘Throughou was fast. was the big nolse for e Dunbar. forward, was outstanding for wnml.ng in the years 1914, 1916 and He also holds the title of Dis- LEGION HANDBOOK ouT Ball Teams May Obtain Guide by Mail From Director Here. Managers of sandlot base ball teams 'ho are cxpeeunx to enter their clubs Legion series next gles of the Ameri- Ball Hand. il- beld {5 it with enthusiasm. G. U. RIFLEMEN BEATEN Lose Match to Navy on Annapolis Range, 1,353 to 1,317, ANNAPOLIS, Md., Ji 24— Opening their indoor :mm;zn"m this afternoon, Navy riflemen defeated Gmewwn. 1, Sm 1,317. shooters had Moore of the Navy team was high gun with 281 points out of a possible N-vy | 23882 &| 2egsey LONG SHOT WINS GAME Kessler’s Seventh Field Goal Gives Landon 22-to-20 Tilt. Il