Evening Star Newspaper, February 4, 1931, Page 28

S PORTS THE EVENING " J0BS GALORE OPEN, ALL CLUBS IN NEED Champion Macks Take Doz- | en Young Twirlers South. Yanks Shy Hurlers. BY PAUL MICKELSON, Ass ted Press Sports Writer. HICAGO, February 4 —There will be no depression this year for the rookie hope-| fuls who seek bigger and | better pay days in the ranks of the American League. Help wanted signs, dangling from every club office in the league, have attracted 130 appli- cants cf all shapes, sizes and rec- ords. Al} of them have been wel- comed with cpen arms. Opportunity is everywhere for those able to deliver. unsuccessful ones are certain of | thorough chances and wbsequent‘ employment with minor leagues. Although team captured the Americen Lezgue pennant for the sec- ond \ght year and then added | another vorld championship, Connie | Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics will take a dozen or more young pitchers | to the White Elephants training camp. | He admits he needs better support for B'b"Grove and George Earnsnaw and | opportunity will bz plentiful. He doesn't need any outfielders, but he s | taking a trio of rookies along for ob- | servation anyway. Yanks Need Flingers. Pitchers are the crying need of Joe McCarthy and his New York Yankees, | too. Eight experienced hurlers will try | cut with the Yanks, including four | from the International »eague and one each from the Pacific Ccast League and American Association. Two young outfielders of great premise, Myril Hosg of Sacramento and Fred Walker of Jersey City, also will get a chance and are expected to stick. Detroit, seeking more punch at the bat, has grabbed off ceveral fence- busting ou:flelders depending on its 1930 staff and optional players for pitching largely. Ciricago and St. Louis needed in- fielders and went after them. The Browns picked up three young sensa- | tions from the Texas League, Burns, Storti and Levey of Wichita Falls, and two g-od minor league catcher pros- pects in Young of Milwaukee and C=nuch of Wichita Falls. The White Sox, experimenting with fnooa -looking youngsters for a change stead of writing out six-figured checks | for established stars, have a flock of | young talent that brings a smile to the | face of the “Old Roman,” Charles A. Comiskey. Griffs Try a Few. Cleveland needed first-string pitch- ing ald and bought Fay Thomas of Sacramento and Craghead of Oakland, | both with experience. The Indians also | picked up two third basemen, Detore | of New Orleans and Winegarner from El Dorado, one of whom may replace | Joe Sewell. Washington had a great| pitching staff last year, but will try out | a few youngsters and give three in- fieldérs, including First Baseman Joe Kuhel of Kansas City, a chance. Bos- ton, celiar team last year, will take most a score of rookies to Pensacola. Three of them—Catcher Muddy Ruel, Pitcher Wilcy Moore Johnny Brillheart—can hardly be classed as roakies, as they have been up before. Of the 130 recruits, many have been up before, but most of them are new BALL IS DEADENED Even the| ‘ and Pitcher | OFFICIAL NATIONA lBI:rk Figures Denote Sundays and STAR, WASHINGTON, Hnlh‘h)s, the Latter in Parentheses.) L LEAGUE SCHEDULE, 1931 | AT BOSTON BOSTON .. April 14, 15. 16. 18 | Juiy &0, 11 Aug. 6, 7. | BROOKLYN | 1 PHILADFLPHIA . | 865:. 25, 26. May 1F, 15, 18 T 29,90, w2 | ug. 16, 20, 21. 32 ‘Pl'l"l“fll 'RGH ... CINCINNATI onl ST. LOUIS . New*fork April 27, May 2. 4, May 13, June 18. | Avs: 1. rriaBELPmA rirTdBuRGH crveiinaTt l “cmithco AT ST. LOUIS 28,20 (a0, 30) June 10 1508 July 22."33," 94, PR TR June 1 12 ne 11, July 27, 28; 29; 30 | July 22,23, Bept. 10, 11, 12 Sept. 13, 14. 15, 16 June 2. 3 July 18, 19, 20. 21 June 6. 7. 8. July 14, 15,16, 17 Bept. 20, 21, 22 Bept. 17, 18, 19 June 2.3 4.5 une 8, g 13,14, 15, 16, Sept. 21, 22," 23 June 107 11, 3 uly 26, 27, pt. 19, 11, 12 7 June 1¢I5, u = May 19, June 25 Aus. 19! T May a8 | 4 28050 Fuiv'1, 1| A 06 1 6, | Jun. 29,30, Aug. 11,712, 18, 1¢ May 4. 5. 6 7 July (6 8 Al uly 1, 2/ A T e o 35 46, 27 BY MAIOR LOOPS Pitqhers Will Be Helped by| Bigger Seams— 1,566 Home Runs Hit in 1930. By the Assoclated Press. EW YORK, February 4.—Major | league batsmen who slugged 1,566 balls over the fences or into the bleachers last scason with have a new and “deader” ball to swing at this year. Both the National and American Leagues have decided that the home run barrage has gone far encugh and a change in the ball's physical aspects is the resuit. In the National League the ball will | | have a thicker cover and heavier stitches. 1In the American League the | cover will be the same, but the stitches | will be heavier. Not onl will these changes take scme of tho liveliness out of the| ball, major league officials confidently expect, but also will give the pitchers a better grip on the ball and thereby increase their effectiveness. The pitchers, hampered continuously | by all sorts cf restrictions, have com- pained for several years that the smoothness of the ball's cover has made it extremely difficult to control. The thicker stitches planned on the 1931 ball should go far toward solving that difficulty. Changes Not Drastic. Proponents of the lively ball and the | frequent home run need have little fear that these changes in the ball's con- structicn will- bring about a return to the days when a dozen home runs were gg?d enough to win a league champion- ship. The changes are not drastic enough for any radical decrease in hitting. | Officials of both leagues do believe, however, that the changed ball will re- sult in greater pitching efficiency, a | decrease in number of “trick” home runs hit and a slump in the inflnled batting averages of the last few years.| Last season, for instance, 10 players in the jgajors hit 35 home runs or more. Hack Wilson of the Chicago Cubs led both leagues with 56 and Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees | was runner-up with 49. Other lead-| ers were Gehrig, Yankees, 41; Klein,| Phillies, 40; Berger, Braves, 38; Foxx, | to the majors. Only 12 are more than 25 years oid, while 38 are less than 22. Most of them are huskies, too. six(y-l four stand 6 feet or better in height. | while 40 lack but an inch or two of 6 Zeet. TENNIS PROS ARE BUSY Playing in Tourney and Sign for Additional Matches. MIAMI, Fla., February 4 (P).—F. A. Roberts, m\ml:l]‘ll sports director, has announced a series of professional | matches between Big Bill Tilden and | Emmett Pare, to be played next Mon- | day and Tuesday. Roberts sald the two would play at the Surf Club at the beach Monday and at the Miami Country Club Tuesday. PUNTA GORDA, Fla. February 4 ().—"Big Bill" Tilden played in mid- season form to win two tennis matches | here yesterday from Francis T. Hunter and Emmet Pare, recently turned pro- fessional along with himself Tilden beat Pare, 7—5. 6-—4, end later turned Hunter, 6—3, 6—4 Hunter and Pare, however, paired to beat Tilden end Charles Peterson in the doubles competition, 6—1, 6—3. Today's play will consist of rcund robin matches. The newly recruited pros are competing for a $1,000 cash prize DUNBAR ADDS A GAME Defeats Cardoza to Gain Third Con- ference Victory. Dunbar High School's basket ball team defeated Cardoza High, 33 to 13, 1z night in the Garnett-Patterson gymnasium. ining an early lead, the Poets were | never headed | recently won the Athletics, Hartnett, Cubs, and ‘Goslin, Browns, 37 each; Bimmom Athletics, | 36, and Herman, Robins, 35. | 11 L League hit | 892 home runs, '.he American, 674. EX-CENTRALITES SCORE McGinty Victor at Boxing, While Eicholz Wins on Mat. George McGinty and Bob Eicholz, pals and linemen together on the Cen- | tral foot ball team of 1929, today are | z orting crowns in sports brand-ney to em. | McGinty, who forfeited his title of %x}gnm-clm of the 1930 Blue and ite grid team b; Jomml the vay.‘ vyweight boxing | championship of the bnn.leshlp Oregon. | Eicholz, bulwark of the Washington | nd Lee freshmen foot ball team last Fall, took a leaf from the books of Don George, Jim McMillan, Doc Wilson and | | Gus Sonnenberg by winning the intra- | mural® wrestling championship at the Lexintgon College. SWIMMERS HAVE TRIP Central to Oppose Freshmen on Saturday. Central High's swimming team will leave Saturday morning for New Haven, where it will engage the Yale fresh- men in a meet that night. A squad of about 12 will make the trip, with F. J. Brunner, veteran coach, and Manager Dave Bell in the party. Tenm Yale 'REMEMBER . . It was Dunbar's third conference uc-' tory and the second conference Rtblck for Cardoza. Robinson, Dunbar ace, ing with eight floor goals. Line-ups Dunbar (33 Cardoza (13) GF Weaver, { W. Haves, 1.. Payne Tolson. { Robinson, ¢ obinson, soonssy corococooy JOCKEY WOR'(MAN HURT Fractured Leg Will Keep Him From Riding Some Time. By the Associated Press. Ray (Sonny) Workman's jinx cnuahl up with' the popular Washington, D. C., Jockey yesterday, and as the result America’s 1930 ranking jockey will be | led the scor- | COACH or BUSINESS Recruit’s Candor Gets Him a Raise AKLAND, Calif., February 4 (). Johnny Verges, young third base- man purchased frcm the Oak- land Pacific Coast base ball club by the New York G , did not like salary terms offered by his new owners. So, it seems, Vergez wrote a polite letter to New York. He explained he thought he wes worth more moncy. but if the Giants thought differently, he would agree to terms without a fuss. Yesterday's mail brought a new contract. Vergez said it contained a salary increase, and was signed promptly. RN COAST MAY RETURN T0 “LITTLE SERIES” | Move Started for Triple Play-off | for Class AA Title—Hickey Sees Prosperity. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 4—The Pacific | Coast League may return as a competi- tor for the “little world series” base ball championship next Fall. For several years the series has been a match between the pennant winners in the other. two class AA leagues, the American ciation and the Interna- ticnal Leag! But with a shorter sea- son on the West Coast this year nego- tiaticns have been started to get the Pacific Coast League to enter the com- petition. “We are hoping that the Pacific Coast League will play the winner of the series between the Association and the Inter- national,” Thomas Jefferson Hickey, head of the American Association, said today. “They have shortened their sea- son and will not play a split schedule.” President Hickey issued a prospérity forecast for his league today. He said a closer race was anticipated and that with the acceptance of the universal draft the weaker clubs in the circuit were now able to obtain players to build up their forces. VIRGINIA HAS HARD ROW Plays Duke Quintet Tomorrow and North Carolima Saturday. UNIVERSITY, , February 4.— Two Tar Heel foes come to play Virginia basket ball week. Duke has a game in the mémorial gymnasium here tomorrow night and North Caro- lina will be here Saturday. The Cavaliers, whg have four vic- | tories over V. M. L, William and Mary, V P. I and Marylan@in a row to their credit, hope to contffiue their winning streal Virginia's defeat offMaryland was a general surprise Since Duke was addiitted to the Con- ference their quint Shas played two games with Virginia.f. The 1929 game was the first contest*in which a Blue Devil team took part-after joiring the Dixie organization. The Cavaliers won | that one, but lost last:season. North ‘Carolina has thad a jinx over Virginia's quint which the Cavaliers hope to break Saturday. UZCUDUN IN COAST GO LOS ANGELES, February 4 (#).— Paulino Uzcudun, Spanish heavyweight, has been signed to meet Les Kennedy, Long Beach, Calif, in & 10-round bout here March 10, Billy Gibson, the Basque's manager, telegraphed acceptance of the contract late yesterday. Radiator Service We Repair All Makes CREEL BROTHERS 1811 14th St. N.W. Decatur 4220 .The price is COUPE 7. ©. 5. Detreis It challenges the performance of any’ six, regtrdless of price, It introduces Super- Six smoothness to the lowest price class. It looks like a far more expensive car. It is bigger, wider and roomier than many | cars that sell for hundreds of dollars more. | It is’ the Value Sensation in a year MAJOR CLUBS BALK OVER NIGHT EXHIBITS Nearly All Have Refused to Put| on “Ghost” Contests in Spring Training. the Associated Press. CHICAGQ, February 4.— “Ghosts” haunt the major leagues. Almost every club president and manager this Winter has been besieged with requests and demands that his team play a share of “ghost,” or night, | games during the Spring exhibition | base ball season. And almost to a man | they have balked. The Cubs, Pirates, Giants and White | ox have had their share of worries over the requests, as have the rest. Re- | cently, the Pirates hcard the Cubs | planned to stage scveral night games | on the West Coast with the Piratcs as cpponents, and it took President Wil liam L. Veeck of th> Cubs some time to convince Barney Dreyfuss that it| was a false alarm. Other minor league clubs, operating in parks equipped with arc lights, have By attempted to get major leagus clubw to play night games, with little or no | success. BLAEHOLDER REWARDED Unexpected Boost in Pay Handed St. Louis Browns’ Flinger. SANTA ANA, Calif, February 4 (#). —Big George Blaeholder, one of last season’'s most persistent base ball hold- outs, signed a contract with a broad grin yesterday. He will pitch another yeer for the St. Louis Browns. An un- expected pay boost was responsible for the grin. Last year Blaeholder won 14 games for the Browns, and this season he will be out, he said, to make it 25. DIAMONDERS TO GATHER Mount Rainier to Make Plans at Meeting Saturday Night. MOUNT RAINIER, Md., February 4. | —Mount Rainier A. C. base ballers wili meet Saturday night at 7:30 o'clock at | Canvin's pool room to organize. All | candidates, new and old, are ssked to attend. Led by Rolph Jarrell, Mount Rainier’s et team walloped Imperial A. C. 52 to 2!! lnd St. Paul's quint, 51 to 25, last night in the Junior High School gymnasium here. ‘The Mounts now | New have won 14 games in a row outside of the Prince Georges County League. Jarrell scored 22 points against Im. perial A. C. and 27 against St. Paul's WINDY CITY BOXING HIT BY SOUABBLES Warring Local Promoters Prevent Staging of Big Heavy Battles. BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. HICAGO, February 4—Every one seems determined to give Chicago a heavyweight championship fight next Summer, although your corre- spondent has yet to see any pub- lic demonstrations in demand of such a luxury. But, according to numercus promoters, a heavy- weight fight is Jusc what Chicago needs to restore” prosperity and everything. Some months ago Jack Kearns in- formed every one who could be induced to read his publicity that Mickey Wal- ker, the middleweight, would meet Mex Schmeling, heavyweight champion of the moment, on Soldir Field some cvening when the weather was warm. But that icea died when Herr Schmel- ing refused to meet Walker, here or clsewhere, until after he had attended to an engagement with Willie Stribling, who ranks several files ahead of Mr. | Walker in the heavyweigit field. Another Bout “Out.” Then an effort was made to land a match between Schmeling and Strib- ling That bout was on the fire, after the New York Boxing Commission named Jack Sharkey ahead of Stribling as the logical opponent for the German. But that, too, was tossed out when George Getz of the Illinois Boxing Com- mission insisted that Chicago cRarities profit from the bout, rather than the York milk fund, which has Schmeling and Stribling under contract. In the m:antime the Chicago Stadium, that has more or less of a strangle hold on boxirg hereabouts, signed Sharkey and Walker for a bout on June 18. The Chicago Stadium vio- lently opposed the idea of the Madison Squar: Garden crowd coming into the Windy City to promote a Schmeling- Stribling fight and even threatened to have the law on the invaders unless they called off their plans. Fistic Battles By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS.—Phil Zwick, Cleve- land, knocked out Marty Fields, Chi- cago (2). PORTLAND, Me.—Cowboy Jack Wil- lis, San Antonio, Tex., outpointed Vin- cent Forgione, Philadelphia (12). WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.—Al Rowe, Philadelphia, outpointed Babe Herman, California (10); Jackie De Sante, Sag Harbor, Mich., outpointed Mickey Ge- nero, Waterbury, Conn. (10). LOS ANGELES.—Fidel La Barba, Los Angeles, and Claude Varner, Bakers- field, Calif., drew (10). several furlongs removed from & cham- plonship affair, but it looks like the best Chicago will be able to get. Mique Malloy, another Chicago pro- moter, has stepped into th: picture and will endeavor to prevent Sharkey from boxing for the Stadium. When Malloy, who weighs more than Carnera, steps into a picture there is room for nothing Ise including the frame and he may be a hard fellow for the Stadium crowd to_convince. Malloy claims to have had Sharkey signed to box Carnera at Comiskey Park, last September, and that Jack pulled out of the match, Consequently Mique claims th> Boston sailor will do no punching in Chicago rings until all obligations to the Malloys have been satisfled. Chances are Malloy will be ;p‘p‘;-md in some manner and the fight eld. If both the Schmeling-Stribling and ‘Walker-Sharkey bouts are held in June, the heavyweight situation will be con- siderably clarified. It then will be pos- sible to match the two winners and hav> a real champion by Fall. Which is what may occur unless boxing com- missions and managers engage in foolish bickering and squabbling as they too often do. DRAWS WITH LA BARBA Varner's Great Finish Staves Off Defeat in Ten-Rounder. LOS ANGELES, February 4 (P.—A terrific tenth-round finish gave Claude Varner, Bakersfield, Calif, feather- weight, a draw with PFidel la Barba, Los Angeles, here last night. At the end of the eighth Referee Jack Kennedy tolled off four rounds for La Barba, former flyweight cham- pion, anti two for his hard-hitting opponent. The ninth was about even. Dashing into the tenth, Varner opened a gash over La Barba's right eye and had him woozy with a rain gl”fllha and lefts to the head at the ell. The proposed Shark:y-Walker fight is La Barba weighed 125; Varner, 124. BARTUSH AND SHIKAT GRAPPLE 'IN FEATURE Winner of ‘Auditorium Match Will Seek Return Engagement Wtih Mat Champion. Both Billy Bartush and Dick Shikat, who grapple tomorrow in the feature clash of the Washington Auditorium wrestling card, intend to use each other. as a stepping stone to a return bout with Champlon Jim Londos. Bartush has been undefeated here with the exception of the Londos match, in which he fell a prey to the champion’s experfence. Shikat, who has appeared here less than Billy, was formerly recognized as the world title- holder until he lost to Londos. Both are itching for a return match. Chief White Feather, alias Tom Mar- vin, will mix with Paul Jones; Doc Wilson will take on Nick Nester, and Milo Steinborn willtangle with George Hagen in the preliminaries. SANTA, HANSEN FEATURE Get Star Spot When Canzoneri and Hess Become Il CHICAGO, February 4 (#).—The 10- round bout between Jose Santa, - gal's contribution to the oversize heavy- weight class, And Knute Hansen, Ra$ cmmelh Wis Dan' e, ‘I;:‘s worked its way e top of tonight's fistic program at the Chicago Stadium. i ‘Tony Canzoneri, lightweight cham- pion of the world, and Goldie Hess of Los Angeles were signed for the spot, but both became {ll and faded from the card. Three other 10-rounders are listed. Larry Johnson, sharp-punch- ing Chicago Negro lllhl-helvyvellht‘ will meet Marty Gallagher of Wash- ington, D. C.; Kid Francis, clever Ital- ian featherweight, will engage Georgle Nate of South Bend, Ind., and Willle Oster of Boston last night was matched with Harry Ebbetts, veteran Brooklyn lixht—hnvywekhl S AR Golfers are rare birds in most mm- pean countries. Spain has only ggl!r 51‘:oums. 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