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Sports News he WASHINGTON, D. L Foening Star, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1931 Golf Makes Griffs Forget Base Ball : Five New Men Expected to Aid Red Sox TALK 1S OF LINKS,. * NOT OF OWN GAME Scottish Pastime Will Be Banned When Nats Start | Flag Camqaign. BY DENMAN THOMPSON, Sports Editor, The Star. ULFPORT, Miss., March 18. —Whether golf helps or hinders a ball player long has been a moot question and probably will continue to be. There are those who stoutly con- tend that the swing used with the varfous sticks on the links is so | fundamentally different from.that | employed with a bat at the plate | that it makes fcr bad habits, such as the overdevelopment of muscles not needed by a diamond devotee, | whereas champions of the Scottish ‘ pastime stress the benefits to be | derived from the hours spent in the sufishine and the leg-strength- ening exercise involved in tramp- ing around a course. Walter Johonson is numbered among | the latter. He plays golf himself and encourages his men to do llkewise on days when there is no ball game sched- uled or when it won't interfefe with | practice at the park, and spoofs at the | so-called deleterious effect on the eye of whacking & small, stationary pellet as against walloping a fast-moving target. As a result a majority of the Grif- fithian regulars, including Sam Rice, the club champion, and probably as good a golfer as the league boasts, can be found whenever the opportunity is afforded digging in sand traps and «climbing bunkers in quest of pars and birdies, but more frequently register- ing buzzards. And there is little ques- tion the walking and ozone involved in the process is better for them than lolling around in easy chairs or cooped up inactive in a motor car. UT the extent to which indulgence in the royal and ancient_ game serves to get their minds off base sorbed does & gol come he seldom talks of anything ex- cept driving, approaching and putting and in consequence he devotes little thought to the thing that should be uppermost in his mind—base ball. | An insight into how it works out | was furnished in the lobby of the | Nationals’ hostelry at Biloxi following the evening meal yesterday when an animated - conversation occupled a large of players. The new ball was the subject. Not the one with | the heavier stitching which has sup- planted that with countersunk seams, ‘but the larger and lighter gutta percha sphere decreed au fait by the U. 8. G. A. this year. One veteran regular listoned for a time to the chat which was studded with such expressions as “shorter off the tee” “fades In a wind” and “putts better” and then disgustedly arose with the announcement he was going to| hunt up some one to talk base ball to. | LAYING golf in itself probably is/ good for a ball tosser, the harmful part being the manner in which it completely absorbs those who fall under its spell. With an aggregation such as the Nationals, runner-up for the Amer- dcan League title.last season and con- ceded to have an excellent chance to cop this year, one would suppose they . would be talking, sleeping and eating base ball, considering the financial re- % | with the National were it not for the | letics three games out of four. A’s Need Arousing, Leaders Declare 'ORT MYERS, Fla, March 18 ().—The Athletics, twice world champions, need to be stirred up, in the opinion of Capt. Eddie Coi- ;:E;. And Manager Mack agrees with Excepting Hank McDonald, big pitcher obtained from the Coast League, there isn't a rookie ‘in the camp who Mack thinks will help the A’s this season. Recruits who make two stabs at a grounder and swing blindly at tamo pitching aren't kid- ding their boss. “They don't impress me much,” Mack said, “except, maybe, McDon- old. The rest don't look like any- thing. Butcher may come along, possibly Cain, too. But if we get one prospect out of the 21 we Awill maintain the average.” MACKS ARE WEAK TRANING CHAMPS Showing Is Not So Good in| Exhibitions—Yanks Move | at Fast Pace. BY HERBERT W. BARKER, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, March 18.—The Philadelphia Athletics may be champions of the base ball world during the regular sea- son, but they're just “cousins” to other clubs now playing the “Grapefruit” circuit in Florida, California and other tralning camp States. There's just a possibility that Connie Mack and his title holders prefer to hold their fire until it counts. Be that as it may, the champions have won only three games out of eight in the Spring training exhibition pro- gram, and the American League might well be in a bad way in its conpetition New York Yankees. Yanks Keep A. L. Up. The Yankees have won six games out of seven with National League opponents 2ng thus enable the American League show a slight margin over the older circult in games played so far. Th wctual count is nine victories for ths American against seven for the National. The St. Louis Cardinals have helped the National’s cause by whipping the Ath- In games of all d>scriptions, whether against major or minor league opposi- tion, the Cleveland Indians set the pace with five successive victories, all against New Orleans of thie Southern Associa- tion. The Pittshurgh Pirates have won three straight and the Boston Red Sox | *“Tne Bosten Br e Bost aves, perennial cham- plons of the “Grapefruit” league and | down among the tailenders in th> regu- lar season, have won only 4 games out of 10 this year, and their supporters l.;roenll::kl;m &artklcforg!hnfly. They're or victories in the regular Na- tional League campaign. el How They Stand. Here's the way the National vs, Amer- | ican League rivalry has gone so far: w. s Boston (N.) “; LE 1 3 Phila. (A). 2 8 1 | Cincinnati (N7 0 3| New York (A). 8t. Louls (N.) New York ( Chicago (A. The general records, showing game: won and lost against all opposition and | also against major league opposition | only, follew: All L i 1 Major opp. | only, | Tl 8 2 Cleveland (A) Pittsburgh (N.) turns as well as glory accruing to pen- nant winners, but it's golf that the | minds of most of them are centered | on now. | Of course, it will be different once | the championship campaign gets under | way. for then all golf will be taboo | until next Fall, main_business 'at hand—training for | base ball—could be better accomplished | if there were no such attractive a side issue such as the wielding of brassies | and niblics to divert their attention. | HIS was one day of the Spring con- ditioning sojourn that golf was in the | To Quit Unless He Gets It, Card now, and not only is fielding up to background, however. as all of the Griffis, with the exception of a few veteran pitchers and green rookies who took their customary exercise at Biloxi Stadium, this morning boarded busses for the half-hour run over here, where | the Baltimore Oricles were to be en- | countered this afternoon in the third | ©f the series between the two clubs. Lynn Griffith, Walter Tauscher and Carl Fischer, the trio of youngsters who opposed the Birds in the initial en- counter which resulted in a 7-to-6 vic- tory_for Baltimore due to costly errors by Dave Harris and Harry -Rice, wer siated to split up the hurling again, with both regulars and subs once more see- ing service in the field. Russell Reed, the 18-year-old protege of Ed Gharrity from Shawano, Wis., failed to make much of an impression in his initial workout with the Nation als. So pea-green is the lad he didn't| even know how to climb into his uni form. Just out of high school, he ni urally was nervous, appearing on a field | with big leaguers for the first time and | probably will show to better advantage | when he becomes more accustomed 1o his surroundings. REDS COMPLETE DEAL | Get Bherlock of Phils to Send to Hollywood Club. SFAMPA, Fla, March 18 (#).—The| Cincinnati Reds have obtained Pirst| Baseman Sherlock from the Philadel- plia club 1o send to Hollywood of the acific Coast League as part payment for Mickey Heath, also a first baseman. The refusal of Pat Crawford, who originally figured in the deal, to report 1o Hollywood, made the acquisition of Sherlock necessary. A, BASE BALL AT G. W. fix-Team Intramural League Will Start Play April 1. . _ Students of George Washington - Wersity will show their wares the c‘«’fi- ing season in & six-team intramural base ball league. Max Farrington, as- sistant athletic director, has organized the league. Play will open Arfll 1 and close May 23. Each team will play 10 mes. Except for the Pharmacy group, all six nines have named their captains, as 1ollows: Law, John B. Wick; Columbian Col- lege, William Sterrett; Engineering, Frank Bovey; Junior College, John Suraci; Premedical, Prank Bowman. t games will be played on the L Ellipse. but it does seem the |B; New Orleans (8. A, Boston (A.) Brookiyn (N, New York ( 8t. Louls (A 8t. Louis (N.) Chicago (N.) Chi w n (N Philadelphia (A Detroit (A.) Cineinnati (N Philadelphta (N ) [ TN P 259vas-msnoanses) YN N— NDS $15.000 | HAFEY DEMA Outfielder Declares. BRADENTON. Fla.. March 18 (#).— | Chick Hafey's thriftiness today caused Manager Gabby Street to start a search | for a capable left fielder with a _punch in his bat. Chick is demanding $15,000 | for 1931, which President Sam Breadon | says is too much. Hsfey's friends say he has a safety deposit box which is far from sans gilt-edged securities and that he is in a position to enforce his demands or quit base ball. Right now Ernie Orsatti appears to have the inside track for left field should Hafey fail to come into the fold. LEADS“STANFOBD ELEVEN. ‘ STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Calif, | March 18 (#)—Harry Hillman, 21, a| junior in engineering, yesterday was elected captain of the Stanford foot ball team for 1931. He has played with the | team two years as quarterback and ‘ull- | back. | Training Games By the Associated Press. Yesterday's Results. At Oakland, Calif.—Pittsburgh 5; Oakland (P. C. L), 1. At San_Francisco—Detroit (A), Missions (P. C. L), 2. At Austin, Tex.—Chicago (A), 9; Uni- versity of Texas, 4. At Bradenton, Fla.—Brooklyn (N.), 12; St. Louis (N.), 7. At Palm Beach, Fla.—8t. Louis (A), 7; Buffalo (I. L), 2. At Lakeland, Fla—Columbus (A. A), 13; Philadelphia (N.), 9. At St. Petersburg, Fla—New York (A), 5; Boston (N.), 2. At Los Angeles—Chicago (N.), 9; Los ‘Angeles (P. C. L), 5. Today's Games. At mmfi)m.—ac. Louis (N.) vs. New Yo ). ‘At St. Petersburg, Fla.—Boston (N.) vs. Cincinnati (N.). rt Myers, Fla.—Philadelphia (A) vs. Brooklyn (N.). At Winter Haven, Fla.—Philadelphia (N.) vs. Oakland (P. C. L)). At Los Angeles—Chicago (N.) vs. Ids Angeles (P, C. L.). At San _Prancisco—Detroit (A.) vs. Missions (P. C.L.). At Gulfport, La.—Washington (A.) vs. Baltimore (I.'L.) | | | (N, | 6 Squad of Outfield Stalwarts Training for Nationals’ Campaign HEINIE MANUSH. REGULARS AND EXTRAS IN THIS LOT, VETERANS ALL, LIKELY TO PACK PUNCH APLENTY. SAM WEST. SAM RICE. DAVE HARRIS. HARRY RICE. YANKS DISPLAYING | ®gcke, Npuepere POWERFUL PUNCH Surpassing Palmiest Days of “Murderer’s Row” in Ex- hibition Tilts. T. PETERSBURG, Fla, March 18 (®).—Not even in the palmiest days of “murderers row” have | the New York Yankees shown | so powerful a batting punch as lhty're‘ exhibiting this Spring training season. | In their last six games, all of which | they've won, the Yanks have pounded out 83 hits, good for 54 runs. That's an average of nine runs and a fraction under 14 hits a game. | | PENSACOLA, Fla. March 18 (#).— | Acting_on_advice of coaches, Eddie Connolly, Boston Red Sox catcher, has switched his batting activities from the right side of the plate, where he | enjoyed but mediocre success last sea- | | son,” and is whanging the ball With|and Francis X. Shields, New York extreme gusto from the port side. | Connolly started in base ball as a | natural left-handed hitter but changed | over when some misguided adviser told | him he would never make the grade as a big league catcher if he did not bat right handed. SAN FRANCISCO, March 18 (#).— | Base ball scouts predicted last Fall | that Marvin Owen, Pacific Coast | League infielder, would be good on de- fense but a weak hitter among major leagues. | Owen is with the Detroit Tigers ' standard, but also has stepped out in front with brilliant stickwork. | ‘WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, March 18 (#)—Phil Ball, whose large bank | roll didn't get that way from ownership of the St. Louis Browns, will give his 1931 squad the once over for the first time today. Ball had been reading conflicting re- | ports as to what the team looked like, |80 he decided to come to camp to see |for himself, the trip from St. Louis re- quiring less than nine hours the way he travels—by airplane. NEW ORLEANS, March 18 () —Ed- die Morgan is the kind of a guy who can make two positions automatically stronger just by walking into camp. Re- gardless of whether the erstwhile prod- igal cr Lew Fonseca plays first base for the Cleveland Indians, there will be nothing to worry about there, and now Bob Seeds can forget about understudy- ing Fonseca and go back to the oulfleld‘ where he belongs. | SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 18 (P). | —Unlike most of the other members of | the holdout colony, Carl Reynolds kept in training during his arguments for more pay with the White Sox. Reynolds joined the White Sox squad two weeks late because of salary dif- ferences, but has been hitting the ball hard from the first time he stepped up to the plate. In yesterday's game against the University of Texas he crashed out four hits in four trips to the plate. And it was with the Uni- versity of Texas team that he kept in training this Spring. HYATTSVILLE FIVE HIT of State Semi-final Outfit Graduate in June. HYATTSVILLE, Md, March 18— Four members of the Hyattsville High School basket ball team, which was eliminated in a semi-final game in the State championship series, arc slated to be lost b -aduation. ‘Tossers u-’u': to recelve the sheep- skin in June are Warren Evans, center and high scorer; York (Tody) Hollings- worth and Alvin (Dutch) McChesney, farwards, and Curly Byrd, jr., guard. Despite these heavy losses, Coach Stanley Jenkins does not figure that the squad next season Wwill by any means be lacking in capable talent. Coleman Headley, guard, is the lone regular to return, but Burdette Cogar, who also will be back, was used so fre- Four HICAGO, March 18 (#).—Talk of overemphasis in foot ball has | made a silent man out of the one and only Knute Rockne. | ‘When a reporter spied the famous Notre Dame coach in Chicago this week he rushed up to find out the reasor. “I cAme up here to buy a foot ball,” Coach Rockne said. nd I'm going back to South Bend to show |- it to the boys later this week. I'm | not going to speak above a whisper | during Spring practice lest I get ac- cused of overemphasis.” BOROTRA AND SHIELDS SHOW CLASS AT NET| Advance to Fourth Round Play in| National Indoor Tennis Cham- pionships. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 18—Step by step, Jean Borotra, Prench veteran, youngster, march toward a clash in | the final round of singles of the na- ticnal indoor tennis championships. Shields and Borotra, along with Per- rine Rockafellow of New York and Cliff Sutter of New Orleans, were in the fourth round today, a step ahead of the rest of the field Borotra had lost only nine games in turning back three successive rivals in straight sets. Shields’ three cpponents had succeeded in winning only five games all told. Borotra meets the winner of a third- round match between Frank Bonneau and Frank Bowden late today. Shields will not play his fourth-round match until tomorrow, when he will race either Pierre Landry of France or Her- bert L. Bowman of New York. | Doubles play got under way yester- | day with eight teams, including the four seeded combinations, advancing | to the quarter-finals. THREE VETS IN TIE FOR 18.2 CUE TITLE Appleby, Fessenden and Collinsi Score Two Wins Each—All in Matches Tonight. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 18.—The three veterans, Edgar T. Appleby of New | York, Ray Fessenden of Madison, Wis., | and Percy Collins of Chicago, still were | locked in a triple tie for first place| in the National amateur 18.2 balkline | billiard_championship tournament_to- day. Each had won two straight games. Appleby, the defending champion, defeated Charles Connor of Phila- delphia 300 to 115 yesterday, Collins whipped D. H. Goslin of Los Angeles 300 to 139 and Fessenden conquered H. T. Galey of Tulsa, Okla, 300 to 127. Today Fessenden was matched with Goslin and Appleby with Galey, and tonight Collins will meet Connor. SR LONDOS TOSSES BAUER. INDIANAPOLIS, March 18 (#).—Jim Londos won from Hans Bauer, German “strong_man,” in straight falls last night. Both falls were airplane spins. Fistic Battles By the Assoclated Press. INDIANAPOLIS. — Ray ‘Tramblie, Rockford, 1., knocked out Joe Feldman, Chicago (4). MINNEAPOLIS.—Pierre Charles, Bel- glum, outpointed Paul Pantaleo, Chi- cago. (10). PORTLAND, Me.—Jack Willis, Port- ll’gfl. outpointed Joe Zelinsky, Boston a2). 10OS ANGELES.—Andy Divodi, New Al New Orleans—Cleveland (A) vs. - quently that he was virtually a first- stringer. He also is a guard. York, won on foul from Paulie Walker, | New 'york (4), KLEIN WONT TALK OF PAY WITH PHLS Declines Confab, Insisting Terms Be Met—Other N. L. | Happenings. | By the Associated Press. INTER HAVEN, Fla, March 18.—Chuck Klcin has turned down three invitations to come to the Phillies’ train- ing camp to confer with officials of the club concerning his salary. This was revealed today by President L. C. Ruch, who said he had gone to the “end of the road” with the slug- ‘gin[ outfielder. Ruch said Klein replied to the bids | that he would not leave his home until his demands are met. Phil Collins has also refused to sign and has not reported at the training | camp. LOS ANGELES, Calif., March 18 (/). —To satisfy the demands of the cus- tomers, the Chicago Cubs will engage only major league clubs during Spring training exhibitions next Spring. President Willlam Veeck said that arrangements would be made to play Pittsburgh, Detroit and Cleveland dur- ing the 1931 training grind. “The fans seem to want all-major league shows and we've been in favor | of that for several seasons,” Veeck said. | OAKLAND, Calif, March 18 (#).— The biggest smil>s worn today among the Pittsburgh Pirates are those of Jim Mosolf, the versatile Tacoma, Wash., man, and Ben Sankey, Crichton, Ala- bama’s idea of a sweet shortstop. Mozolf, who can play the outfield and also do a little pitching, has been catching the eye of Manager Ens with | his fine batting. Sankey is of the newl, Sankey, jr., down ol' Alabam’. BRADENTON, Fla., March 18 (#)— At least one member of the Brooklyn Robins thinks the team is much stronger at this time than it was a year ago. Listen to Wally Gllbert: “We had a strong attack in spots last season, but this year I'm not afraid to say we'll be stronger and in more spots, too. Fellows like O'Doul, Herman, ‘Wright and Bissonette are as dangerous as dynamite when they're at the plate.” SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 18 (#).— Even with Bill Terry in the training camp, John McGraw is going to have lots of trouble keeping Sam Leslie out of the New York Giants® line-up. Sam has been the Glants' firse base- man in Terry’s absence and has rapped out three doubles. three singles and a triple for .500 batting average so far. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 18 (#).—Manager Bill McKechnie of the Boston Braves likes this training camp for many reasons. One of them is the effect the climate has on the Braves' mascot. Three years ago the latter was a chubby little fellow, just big enough to wear one of Rabbit Maranville's cast- off uniforms. Now he finds George Sis- ler’s old uniform a bit too tight. sing the cigars in honor FIGHT MANAGER DIES . Little, Once Prosperous Pilot of Johnson, Was Broke. CHICAGO, March 18 (#).—George Little, once the prosperous manager of Heavyweight Champion Jack. Johnson, died here today virtually penniless and alone. He became ill several days ago. In his prosperous heyday Little boasted that he owned $500,000 worth of diamonds. His cafe in Chicago’s loop Q:.r:x l:y rendezvous for the sporting fra- LEESBURG I-:lVE VICTOR LEESBURG, Va., March 18.—Lees- burg High School's basket ball team de- feated Purcellville here, 43 to 40. It took an extra five minutes to decide the winner. ‘Thurmont All-Stars of Thurmont, Md., will play the Leesburg Independ- ents here tonight. The girls’ team of ‘Thurmont, also will play the local sextet. arrived Benjamin Turner | Some Outlines of Sport. ROBABLY the United BStates spends a billion dollars a year for sports. This is a formidable figure and there are no avail- able statistics. You can do a little estimating m ‘ake the golfers to start. t 37900, 000 of them in the United States, ac- cording to estimates that are fairly authoritative, ‘When you count the cost of golf in dollars you readily can see that it would reach a startling amount per year. Of course there are golfers and golfers, from the wealthy club member to the public links player with his few | worn clubs. But when you start to strike an average you will come to the conclusion that golf costs the in- dividual player close to $100 a year. Probably the next most expensive sport is intercollegiate foot ball. The P l‘lor the brief period of eight days a year is almost as great as the attend- ance at professional base ball games, | which are played on an average of 154 | days a year. | In some of the greater universities | the receipts for foot ball in its season run close to $1,000,000. It is explained | that this sum is expended for the up- keep of other sports and athletic ac- | tivities connected with the university. | It can be seen that college sport comes | very high indeed. This makes the idea of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, seem highly impractical. | His theory was that the alumni of the university should produce the money for the maintenance of foot ball so that | the detail of the gate receipts might | be done away with, Dr. Butler's theory apparently being that the vastness of foot ball's gate receipts was responsible for overemphasis and all the evils charged against the game. Big Bite for Alumni. UT it would be something of a tax on the alumni of the wealthiest university in the world to dig up a million or so a year to support the sports of the old college. It looks as though intercollegiate and collegiate sports would have to remain self-sup- porting while their maintenance runs that high, Expanding Dr. Butler's idea to take in the Nation, I am wondering what the Secretary of the Treasury would say to a plan to do away with gate receipts generally and have the United States finance all of its own sports. ‘This, as I have computed in a hap- hazard way, would run to about a billion a year. Under Government supervision ~ it probably would run higher. All enterprises under Govern- ment supervision séem to run higher. ‘The matter of improving the breed of the thoroughbred is another highly expensive sport. Just how many mil- lions go into this sport alone would be hazardous to attempt to compute. One cynic who has followed this game for years says that all who follow it seri- ously go broke. It burns up a vast tonnage of oats and hay and bales of bills every year. There never was a horseman who went into that game for profit who took anything out of it. In spite of the sums that are spent for sports I do not think that we are an extravagant nation in that regard. Perhaps we spend more than our pro rata for sport, as compared to other countries, but it probably is not so much more when the general scale of living is considered. Our sports expenditure might be offered as a refutation of the charge that we are a dour and serious money- chasing people. On the contrary, we are spendthrifts for sports, or what we consider sport. ‘The Million-Dollar Gates. the major part of America's annual million-dollar sport bill can be charged to persons who are active participants in sport, much of it is spent by persons whose interest is entirely vicarious. The majority of the “spectators at base ball and foot ball games are not base ball players or foot ball players. ‘The biggest “gal receipts for sports anywhere in the world was at Soldier Field, Chicago, when nearly $3,000,000 was taken in for the heavy- weight championship prizefight be- tween Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey. Of that crowd very few were boxers or persons who knew a straight left from a ht uppercut. ‘This 1 invite the criticism that Americpns really. are not sportsmen or attendance at college foot ball games | IDOWN THE LINE BY W. 0. McGEEHAN. players of games, but merely potential spectators for a gladitorial show. But wait & minute! As I pointed out in the first instance, the largest item in the sports bill of the United States may be charged against the golfers. Now the golf addicts all are players of the game. The golf tournaments do not draw an infinitesimal number of COLLINS REBUILDS - LASTALACE CLUB :Hopes to Get Hitting From Three Rookies, Hurling From Two Vets. (Note—This is another of & series of Associated Press stories on major league base bell prospects.) BY GAYLE TALBOT, JR. ENSACOLA, Fla, March 18. —A couple of slugging rookie outfielders, a young shortstop, who looks like he might hit, and a pair of pitching veterans salvaged from the minors form the foundation for an inten- sive rebuilding program in the camp of the Boston Red Sox. Forty-four athletes reported to Shano | Collins, the new pilot—but the five star newcomers are the ones who prom- ise to hoist the Sox:out of eighth place, if such a feat is possible. Collins, up from a successful managerial career in Des Moines, isn't predicting & penny’s worth. If the five live up to his ex- pectations, he thinks he might do pretty well, and so he might. ‘The pair expected to add batting pow- er to the outfield are Albert Van Camp, & .344 clouter from Des Moines last year, and Gene Rye, the diminutive one who hit .367 for Waco in the Texas League. Rye, who gained more or less lasting fame by poling three homers in one inning, is out for the time being with a broken wrist, but Collins is counting on his return before the cam- paign begins. 5 Marquardt May Help. A. L. Marquardt, a sweet fielding shortstop, who hit .324 for Nashville in the Southern, appears the best prospect for getting more robust hitting in the infield. It largely was the failure of the inner guardians to hit their weight that kept the Red Sox in the cellar last_season. ‘Wilcy Moore, one-time world series hero with the Yankees, and James “Lefty” Brillheart, a former Cub and National, come back from Minneapolis 'and St. Paul, respectively, to add s to an ll!;;fly up‘l‘:‘:t mound staff. Moore won es last season. to flt‘::lwell with the good one in the late timely hit behind them. Morris’ alling am is back in shape. Bill Sweeney, who hit & respectable .309 last year, at first; the veteran Bob Reeves at second; Marguardt at short, and Jack Rothrock, a converted out- those interested in golf to the galleries. | that has been favored by ‘When _you consider the est thas the n';"a.m.m golfers in the United States it means there are just that many active players of the one game. It is a strange commentary that the highest prices of admission are charged for the sport that is of the least benefit, gencrally speaking. This, of course, means prizefighting. But the glamor has gone from that game, as I show presently. There never will be another of those “million dollar gates,” preceded by the “billion dollar ballyhoo.” The Sport Madness. T is far from my intention to attempt even a brief history of American sports in these few columns. It would require as many volumes-as the ency- clopedia and a corps of experts far‘more studious and accurate than I have shown myself to be. My idea is to sketch over the ground, not too seriously, for we should not take our sports too scrious—no, not even intercollegiate foot ball. A serious his- tory of American sport might be such an appalling work that it would bring about the abolition of sport. You get some inkling of what happens when sport is taken too seriously in the diplomatic breaks in relations be- tween univrsities which have been tra- ditional rivals. One specific instance of a lack of a sense of humor was given when the alma mater of George Ade, the humorist, announced that the un- dergraduates would have to give up cross-country running, swimming and base ball because the receipts of the foot ball team were not up to standard. My idea is to trace very briefly the rise (particularly in cost) of American sports. H:re is our country, whose | forefathers had to employ all of their energles and what sporting proclivities they had in fighting the Indians and pioneering a crude country. The sports of the elder Americans wer> few enough. George Washington rode to hounds and Benjamin Franklin wrestled, according to_tradition. But what some call the sport madness of the United States is a comparatively recent deveJopment. 20. YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. NNOUNCEMENT is made that the old wooden stands at American League Base Ball Park, swept yesterday by fire, will be replaced by new concrete and steel stands, to be completed by April 1, W ien the Washington team opens its season here. It is planned eventu- .lly to make the stands of the doub! -decker type. Decision to build the new plant was reached by the directors . a meeting attended by Thomas C. Noyes, president; Ben Miner, E. J. Walsh, H. P. Blair, J. Miller Kenyon and Rudolph Kauff- mann. W. H. Rapley, who was in Chicago, was the only member of ' the bourd unable to attend. Departmente! Base Ball League has reorganized for the seaso Stevens has been chosen vice presi- went to succeed Weed, resigned. Secyetary Anderson does not antici- pate any trouble in getting the ‘White Lot for games. Mike Lips- comb has been retained as the league’s official scorer. Gray, Groom, Bussey and Moyer all .pitched well in a game between teams of the Washington diamond squad yesterday at the training camp at Atlanta, Ga. Coach Sprigman of the - town U. base ball squad has been unable thus far to get a good line on material because of the unfavorable weather. Maryland Aggies and Catholic University nines will open the Dis- trict diamond season next at Brool weel J. Harbin won stitute t"ree-mile nesing out Gallagher, bee, t] Carroll In- shall | will have Hal dt takes over short, he R e S e , Wl year, and Harold Warstler, another indiffe ent clubber obtained from Indianapolis last season. Rothrock is being groomed for the hot corner to succeed Otis Miller, a fair hitter, who likely will be kept in a utility role. Mudloff, Olson, Marshall and Creeden are a quartet of youngsters seeking infleld berths. ‘Teamed with Rye and Van Camp in a prospective outfield is Earl Webb, the only regular of last season to club over .300. Tom Oliver and Russell Scarritt, who hit .293 and .289, respectively, are the other holdovers. Winsett and Mc- Swain, from the Southern, and John Lucas, who hit .347 for McCook, Nebr., complete the outfield list. Collins finds the club well fortified behind the plate, with Charles Berry, Muddy Ruel and Ed Connolly ready to divide the chores. Berry, a hard-hitting backstop, will head the catching corps. FOUR MATMEN ADDED T0 BIG TURNER SHOW Dusek, Jones, White Feather and Kirelenko Will Be on Card With Londos, Hagen. It Four more wrestlers have been signed by Promoter Joe Turner for what the ex-middleweight champ declares will be his greatest show of the year at the Washington Auditoriygn Thursday of next week. 3 Already the recipient of the contracts of Jim Londos and George Hagen, who will provide the feature bout, Turner yesterday announced the addition of Matros Kirelenko, Rudy Dusek, Paul Jones and Chief White Feather. Kirelenko and Jones are to meet in the semi-final, while just who White Feather and Dusek will oppose has as yet not been decided. If the fans had their way they would meet each other. Both are great razzberry magnets be- cause of their roughhouse methods. ‘While the matches are more than & week off, Turner already is making res- ervations at his Annapolis Hotel office. Alexandria Notes ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 18.—Bllly ‘Travers, former Alexandria High School captain, will make his debut with Del Ray A. C.. in the City Basket Ball League tonight, when the Red en- counter the St. Mary's Lyceum five at 8:30 o'clock at the Armory. Alpha Delta Omega, leading in the league race, will meet some Wi n team in a preliminary at 7:30. Samuel B. De Vaughan has been re- named business manager of the Cardi- nal A. C. nine, now preparing.to enter its twenty-fifth ump-lgn. Ivester A. Brc“n' orlnzho( b.t-::: tg:“n eunm;me olld; es ory tion America,” is again Comet A. C. will stage its Saturday at 10:30 o’'clock mond at Payne and Duke ager John Nugent has signed lowln; p}l[fiym: Cflmm son, J. Harrison, H. Peyton, H. Floren pso; Leake, W. Foltz, J. Anderson, C. Lyons and L. Wood. Robert Vogt, manager of the newly- organized Alexandria All Stars quint, is after games with unlimited teams hav- ing gymnasiums. Call Alexandria 1498 between 6 and 7 p.m. .