Evening Star Newspaper, March 20, 1931, Page 46

e Yankees RUTHHOPES T0 SET NEW HOMER MARK McCarthy Confident Batting Will Keep Team in Race. Big Four in Shape. Note: This is another of & series of Associated Press stories on major league base ball prospects. BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. T. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 20—In common with most of the other major league ball clubs, the New York Yankees are not interested in the movement to apply the brakes to the steamroller, power-plus type of games. Marse Joe McCarthy’s men are slug- ging the mew ball with old-fashioned Vehemence and results. Marse Joe ex- pects them to flatten as much of the oppositicn as possible with base hits, while he is (.lnkenn“‘ "11:}‘ threkplt/chlng machinery to make work. Ruth, down to playing weight now, is intent not only upon regaining the home run leadership he lost to Hack Wilson in 1930, but in cracking his own major league record of 60 circuit clouts. The new ball and the new sacrifice fly rule may, over the season’s stretch, cut down the batting ave ‘but power, McCarthy believes, still will play a dominating part. Marse Joe, having managed the National League's monarch of maul, Wilson, with good results, ex- pects to bear down in new: surround- ings with the clouting. cast headed by Ruth and including Gehrig, Lazzerl, Ccmbs, Dickey and others. All Developing Attack. “Defensive base ball, whether it is in the b2x or in the fleld, continues to be an important factor in the success of any club,” remsrked McCarthy, “but can you show me any club in either league that is not trying to get more punch in its attack? “The fellows coming up for the first time still are swinging from the heels and you don’t see any of these cld- timers trying to become choke-hitters. Maybe we have had too much freak slugging. Maybe the ball has been 16 lively for the good of the game, but I think the majority of fans still like to see men like Ruth and Gehrig and Wil- son give the ball a long ride. “Any one who thinks they are not going to do it with the new ball will find he is mistaken. “Qur hitters will keep us in the race this year, just as the Athletics, much as they depend on Grove and Earn. shaw, will count on the decisive dam. age being done by such hitters as Sim. mons, Foxx and Cochrane.” If All Click, Zowie! The trouble with the main cogs of the Yankee attack in recent seasons has been the tendency of one or more to have an off-year, due to injuries or every reason to ‘Yankees will win & concluded McCarthy, JONES LOOKS TO GRID Former Army Coach Has About Completed Fort 8ill Duty. By the Associated Press. Imagine a great foot ball coach for- saking the gridiron completely for a year! It's the old Army game. When Capt. Lawrence E. Jones, known to the nation's foot ball fans as “Biff” Jones, completed his term of duty as head coach of West Point grid teams in 1920 he was sent to Fort Sill, Okla., to learn to be a better soldier. His course of-study will be completed in June, and thep, although his plans are not definite, it is thought likely he will join an R. O, T. C. unit in some outstanding university where he can return to the business he loves—teach- ing young collegians the ramifications of foot ball. MANGAN AT NET MEETING. Tom Mangan, District tennis doubles champion, is representing the Middle Atlantic Tennis Association at the meet- ing of the Executive Committee of the United States Lawn Tennis Association today at New York. be | his daddy's, says Poole. SPORTS. Now Are Slugging as of Yore in Spite of New Type of Base Ball THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON Walter Johnson’s Boys Figur To Be “Chips ONVERSATION among sandlot- ters, like & sandlot game, might produce anything. A group of hot-stove leaguers were buzzing it up the other day in the back room of a well known sport store. Grift recruits were the first topics. Then & trail was wound throughout the Southland, consuming the better part of an hour, and winding up on the local sandlots. It started over again with a bit of rag-chewing regarding unlimited nines, then senior, and finally stopped at promising prospects in the midget | and insect ranks. There are two youngsters who, it was agreed, are bright prospects. Walter and Eddie Johnson are the boys, sons of Walter Perry Johnson, manager of the Nationals. ROBABLY there is nomore enthusi- astic supporter of the Johnson boys than Willlam Warner (Zip) Poole, manager of the self-styled “Won- derful Wonder Boys.” Zip sees a coming pitching ace in) Walter, jr. He has everything, if not more than any other midget or junior twirler, including a temperament like ‘And young Eddie, kid brother of Wal- ter, jr., comes in for his share of pre- season prais:. Eddle is a second base- man, PEAKING of sandlot gabfests, the boys will have to dig up another topic to replace one of the old favorites which used to crop up late € Off Old Block” every Summer, about how the team Fee Colliers played with in the city series d the advantage in Terminal Park because Fee knew the backsto] caroms like Willie Hoppe knew ths bil- liard rails. Fee had the audacity to let a ball go past him, carom off the catcher’s backstop about four feet behind and then pick off base runners between the sacks. tried, but few succeeded in this trick, but it won’t happen any more—because the Terminal Park and the four-foot backstop is no more, By the way, Colliere set up a mark for the boys to shoot at this sandlot season. On August 20 Fce struck out in the Pullman-D. C. game. It happened to time he whiffed during the entire season. 'HOUGH the Unlon Printers will gain a couple of players expected to ald them in their quest of the Government League pennant, it is a unanimous inion that the loss of Benny Schnelder, who will perform in the G. P. O. outfield this season, will hurt plenty. Schneider, a fair sticker, is one of th: fleetest gardepers on the sandlots and a sure judge of fly balls, Anacostia Eagles, Electric Power Co. and Spengler Post diamonders will con- fab tonight in preparation for the open- ing gun. The Eagles gather at the home of Manager Norman Murphy, Fourteenth and Savannah street southeast; the Pepcos meet at the Tenth street and Florida avenue office, and the Spenglers confer at 662 G street northeast. STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE ON'T let any one kid you into thinking that Washington does not have a good Winter golf climate. While the balance of the country North and West was blan- keted by snow, high winds and frost, golfers about the Capital have been able to play practically every day through- out most of the Winter. John F. McCatron and Sandy Armour, the latter the Congressional profes- slonal, set something of a mark for con- secutive days of play during January, February and March when they both played golf on 42 consecutive days. They did not necessarily play together, although they frequently were oppo- nents, but both were on the course play=- ing golf for 42 consecutive days until 1ast Monday, when'a snowstorm stopped them. Even on that bad day McCarron rang up Armour on the phone and inquired about the weather. But Sandy replied it was a little too bad for golf, that the snow was laying on the ground and it would be uncomfortable. So their streak was broken. Tommy Armour, formerly at Con- gressional, who is located at Boca Raton, near Palm Beach, Fla,, during the Win- ter, will not play in the North and South, “Too many lessons,” Sandy ex- plains. Arthur B. Thorn of Woodmont and Mel Shorey of East Potomac Park plan to play in the tournament. James M. Meigan, member of Con- gressional, is the hero of a golf yarn coming from the big club out Rockville way. “Jim,” be it known, considers it an occasion when he breaks 90 and is far from an expert golfer, But how he loves the 'fnme. ‘The other day he was playing with Armour and knocked his tee shot into the bunker at the right of the third green. He then proceeded to skillfully propel the ball an inch for- ward with his second stroke. Nothing daunted, Jim remarked, “Well, I'm gaining on it, anyhow,” took his stance and n“ui knocked the ball in the hole from the bunker for a par 3. At the sixth he was bunkered from the tee, barely out in two, on the green in Uzree, and holed a 25-footer for a par 4. GIANT DEFIES CENERA Pettifer of England Rivals Bulk of Famous Italian. LONDON, March 20 (#).—Backed by MesTDonald, veteran ‘anager” of Sack , veteran er "of Jac) Pettifer who is hailed as the British Carnera, has isstied a challenge to Car- nera to meet Pettifer in London. the Italian over 10 two-minute rounds in a 20-foot ring and suggests the lat- been | ter part of May as the time for the — Sandy Armour ef Congressional and Fred McLeod of Columbia are planning to leave Washington Monday for Pine- hurst, N. C., where they will play next Thursday and PFriday in the North and South open championship, where a purse of six grand has been put up for the pros to shoot at. Alexandria Notes ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20.—Sen- ator A, C. junior base ball team, has organized for the diamond campaign with an array of talent with which it hopes to win the city and Northern ‘Virginia championships. “Rip” Payne, manager of the Sen- ators, is seeking games for Saturdays and Sundays. He may be reached at 329 North St. Asaph street. ‘The Senators will make their debut tomorrow at 10:30 on Haydon Field, meeting the Friends A. C. Larry Kersey, who has been out of the Alpha Delta Omega line-up for three weeks with an infected foot. is expected to return tomorrow*night when | the Fraters play Del Ray A. C. e final game of the City Basket Ball | League at the Armory at 8:30. France Weakening in Tennis Handwriting on Wall Is Seen in Showing of Visitors in U. S. BY J. P. ALLEN. EW YORK, March 20 (CP.A) ~—Any one wishing to read prophecy into episodes on the indoor lawn tennis courts of the 7th Regiment Armory, especially with the Prench defense of “the Davis Cup in mind, may do 0. To take & coldly prosalc view of the surviving trio that balances between the final end semi-final round is to relate unemotionally that Jean Boratra is in the final round. There, as the lone repre- sentative of the Prench invasion, he awaits either Prancis X. Shields or Berkeley Bell—whichever may win the semi-final battle. ‘There were moments during the clash between Boratra and Perrine Rockafellow when it appeared a speculation hether G. matter of as to Wl the would not join his , Boussus and Pierre Landry, as of the group of forlorn 3 nvlr; yul:;;a year of late Ameri- cans have from Paris reports that the Prench defense of the Davis Cup was shot to Each time, however, it's jer_instance of“the old cry of “Wolf! Wolf!” for the Frenchmen miraculously recover to_the dismay of America. Nttz.lnnmwme lu‘: & way of re- pea “secings o oft’n as true as not—which par- ticularly spplies to the French per- formance on the famous armory eourts. from the position that Mmmuum Indoor Tourney. Henrl Cochet, to the American champlonship then the proof of the competitions is that the quality is not what it used to be in the great days of Rene Lacoste, Cochet, Bo- rota and Jacques Brugnor. Take the tournament record. It speaks for itself. Boussus, rated No. 3 in France, only gets as far as the third round, where he bowed to Willlam ‘Anydelam who has no national rank- 8. Turning_to Plerre Landry, rated No. 7 in France, we have a player from overseas who is tamed by speed. Probably this dapper young man from the boulevards of Paris awakens in terror at night—a sort of nightmare—dreaming that Fran- cis X. Shields is hurling cannon balls at him as the Germars did at Verdun. Whatever his dreams may be, the stern reality stands that Shields, in ths quarter final, blasted Landry off the court. TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN’S, 7th & F S Prest-O-Lite Batteries T fcoording to MacDonald th nal e grouj sponsoring the challenge has an nmmp; en a site which would accommodate 80,000 spectators in the open air. 13th St. NW.,, Bet. M & Met. 0764 L. S. Jullien, Inc. would have Pettifer meet | Breaks U. S. Hurdle Mark BECOMES AMERICAN CHAMPION AT SAME TIME. MRS. EVELYN RUTH HALL, Winner of 50-yard event cver barriers in A. A. U, title games at Newark. Her Chicago. APPLEBY HAS CHANCE T0 TIE CUE LEADER {Would Share With Collins First Place in 18.2 Tourney if He Beats Fessenden. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK; March 20—Four sfraight victories left Percy N. Collins of Chicago in front of the field in the national amateur 18.2 balkline billiard championskip tournament today, but Edgar T. Appleby of New York, defend- ing champion, was only a behind. Collins took advantage of Appleby's i idleness yesterday to whip Ray V. Fes- senden of Madison, Wis, 300 to 276 in 26 innings, for his fourth atraght win. Appleby, with three victories in a row to his credit, will go into a tie with Col- lins if he defeats Fessenden in tonight's match. Fessenden has won three games nd lost only ol LEETH BROS. SAID A CUSTOMER— “I thought that DUNLOPS cost much more than they do, and I bought cheaper tires which I hesitated to take to my tire man for service.” N Drive In No Parking Troubles | time was 735 seconds. She is a member of the Illinois Women's A. C. of 'HARVEY TO TRY AGAIN FOR WIN IN U. S. RING English Middle Champ to Meet Jeby Tonight in 12-Rounder in New York. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 20.—Len Harvey gets his third chance tonight to show American fistic fans why he holds the British middleweight championship. He battles Ben Jeby of the East Side in the 12-round feature bout at Madison Square Garden. 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GOLF STARS STRIVE TO CATCH SARAZEN Beats Par by Three Strokes With 68 in First Round of Rich La Gorce Open. - By the Assoclated Press. MIAMI BEACH, Fla, March 20.— ‘The Winter golfing legions, with Gene Sarazen in the van, moved today to the second 18-hole round of the $15,000 La Gorce open championship. Sarazen's par-shattering 32—36—68 for the first 18-hole tour yesterday put him at the head of the field and won the prize of $100, for the low score on the first round. Gene was 3 strokes under par. Craig Wood, Deal, N. J., and Joe ‘Turnesa, Elmsford, N. Y., had scores of_69. Walter Kozack, North Hills, Long Island, was next, with 70, Thwmm the 71s wer:c Walter Hagen, ; Harry Cooper, Chicago; Bob ve, Cleveland, and Joe thk- ‘wood, New York. Another quartet finished with scores f 72 each. They were George Christ, o wl;&}; ¥.; lyh guldlh’,gflllu, L , Brool and B Weichman, Ashland, Ky.yn. o ‘The defending champion, Wild Bill Mehlhorn, ended the 18-hole round with Johnny Farrell, 1928 titleholder, and llll ozl;lers,iwuh 74. Horton Smith, champion in 1929, came in with 75 along with 5 others. NET DOUBLES FINAL INTERNATIONAL TILT By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 20.—Three Frenchmen and a lone American are involved in the doubles final of the Na- tional Indoor Tennis Championships to- day, while two more American stars are slated to clash in the semi-final of the singles for the right to tackie Jean Bo- rotra, leader of the French cohorts, in tomorrow’s singles final, Only Clifford Sutter, young N2w Or- leans player, is left to_represent Amer- y opposes Bo- rotrs and chrlmnnc;ouum of Prance for the champlonship. Yesterday Sut- ter and Landry were carried t five sets, three of them deuced, to beat William Aydelotte and Perrine Rockafellow of New Yorf. Borotra and Boussus won in three éets from Berkeley Bell of Dal- - | las, Tex, and Merritt Cutler of New York. 2 In the singles semi-final, Bell, the third seeded American player, meets Frank Shields, who tops the list. They won their quarter matches handily yesterday, Shields ting Landry and Bell beating Aydelotte. Borotra, & round ahead of his rivals, went into the final by a three-set tri- umph over Rockafellow. When you'’ve im suits SPORTS. BY R. D. THOMAS. H!Nthodfmplmx!n‘l’ln’ team of the District League swamped Hyattsville the other night they dealt the equivalent of a solar plexus blow to a feared foe, for the suburban team was making a brave bid for the pennant. The King Pins “rose in all their might” in a crisis and what they did was cruel. Tonight will bring an opportunity for them to prove their championship met- tle beyond peradventure. They will meet the Rendezvous team at 7:30 o'clock at the Rendezvous and first place will be the stake, At present the King Pin and North- east Temple bowlers are deadlocked for the lead in a beautiful race which in- cludes four crackerjack teams—King Pin, Northeast Temple, Hyattsville and Rendezvous. Here's how they stand: L.|they established a Northeast Temple . King Pin ... Hyattsville Rendezvous . Rendezvous was to have met North- east Temple last night, but the match was postponed. If it is held off until the last week, which is not improbable, the District League season likely will come to an_explosive finish, for during that week Rendezvous has a regularly scheduled joust with Hyattsville and in the final match Northeast Temple is booked with King Pin. ONIGHT King Pin will meet the “hottest” 4eam 1in the Rendezvous having made a steady | climb, with a spurt here and there, for weeks. Jack Whalen, Al Work, Red Morgan, Mag Wood and Carroll Daly have been shooting together consistently well and eagerly await the clash with the defending champions, The King Pins emerged from a slump to stop Hyattsville with an 1,800 set and the victory had a salutary effect on the team’s morale. It remains to be damaged the spirit of the Hyattsville rollers. A walloping such as that at this stage of calculated to depress even the stanch. ‘The second round of the Bill Wood Sweepstakes will open tomorrow night at the Pin No. 2, but not more than half of the 150-odd participants will have a chance to shoot. The re- mll:der of the field will roll early next wee E fleld for the second round of the Suburban Sweepstakes, scheduled tomorrow night, will C. J. Deputy, W. Weaber, Crawley, H. Crawly apd When G. Isemann, G. Webb and L. Earl. 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