Evening Star Newspaper, May 14, 1931, Page 47

SPORTS. ‘'THE 'EVENING —fi’/—olf Is Shooed From Jim Thorpe’s Door After Famo STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, ILL-STARRED HERO APPOINTED COACH School Berth in Oklahoma! Rescues Jim From Pick- and-Shovel Gang. BY JOSEPH M. PARK. 0OS ANGELES, May 14.—May- be the long, tortuous, uphill trail across barren lands that it has been the hard fate ¢. vim ‘Thorpe, international- ly famous Indian athlete, to fol- low for the last three years will lead to happier huntings grounds. For Jim, once recipient of the favors of kings and of the world of sports, will trek across what he hopes is the last barrier between him and the land of his dreams. Thorpe, whose winnings for United his stocial redman’s heart with pride. So he is going to try it and next Winter the world may hear something of what a particular group of Oklahoma school boys and girls are doing in the fields of sports. When after a g'orious athletic career that began when he was 1\; Cm’fllsll; ll‘l-I dian School, Thorpe turned professional - N. and contintied to do well on the base| BY FRANCIS E. STAN. ball diamond and foot ba'l gridiron. He‘ NE of the Washington sandlots’ came to an end of it in the cloce of the it ‘bR prosuets, “Raiph | 1928 season. For a year he more or e less wandered about. When C. C. Pyle, 'y";:” "‘5“’: conlrmpo::my, sports promoter, staged his disastrous of ng Purdy, Bottle Cox, transcontinental foot race from New | Denny Sothern, Walter Beall et al, k to Lon Angeles in 1928, the red- | still follows sandlot doings, but can't | n came slong as a cort of MASeT| .o them as compared to days gone by. ceremonies with the runners for Pyle. Tre doghty warrior came to the | Monk, who hung up his spikes and to become manager of John Sandlotters of Other Years Tougher Than Now, Says Monk | the best fielders in the business even | opposed Washington in the 1924 world series. He spent a couple of weeks with the Birminghem Barons, but was on crutches with an infected foot. Sammy West, the Nats’ crack gardener, was outfielding for the Barons then. | “Anybody could see West was one of | down in Birmingham,” says Monk. Alexandria Notes end of that trafl with the crash that|glove 1;’;’,;‘,‘;5,2‘(;:““; n !',‘\P Cfl‘:f“;“{zm'r;':?f\Buck's Arcadia pin plant, says: »‘x’u} by “,“f?,(;;"lr“g"m“h{; i pay, | say one thing about the old sandlot ball When the national amateur goif [players. They had more nerve than | ehampionshin contest was held in Del | the kids now-a-deys. | Monte in 1929, Thorp> was on hand as| .. v y oL assistant on the entertalnmuent program, | Did You ever see any of the Inde-, | There he told his story of hard luck | pendent Series’ games? They battled | [to the boys and that September Paul |then. If we needed a runner on hase | Lowry, sports editor of the Los Angsles bad enough, the batter would let one | Times. told th> wor'd of [be fact that |of Walter Beall's drops hit him in the Jim Thorps was financially down and | head. And slide! Head first, feet first, nearly out. |any old xn,v ‘nat long 2s we got, thers. | IR Do they do that now? Not by a long 1 |7 “ag v " | Apparently it mattered nct, for be-| “And did you ever see a uniform | tween then end last March Thorpe did | cleaned and pressed then? I should { what he could find to do. ife camo to |say not. | Los Angzles from Del Monte and worked with a Standard Oil Co. paint crew in land Gold “PTTWO out of three sandlotters today | ALEXANDRIA, Va, May 14. “Buck” Freeman and George Ortell, | former members cf the St. Marys Cel- tics nine, will appear against the Green when_the locals entertain the Washington Red Sox in a doubl Leader here Sunday afterncon in Bag- gett's Park. “Lefty” Jewett, f:rmer Pledmont League hurler, or Ben Speigel, former Tech High ace, will pitzh for the Red Sox, while “Shout” Taylor, “Doc” Dreifus and Pete Ball will divide the Celtic ass.gnments. Johnny Travers, manager of the | virginia Juniors, has called an imp:r- NO SET-UPS IN SIGHT, SAYS YANKEE PILOT McCarthy Agrees With Connie That His Club Should Be Feared by Athletics. By the Assoclated Press. ST. LOUIS, May 14—If there are any set-ups in the American League this year, Joe McCarthy, new skipper of the New York Yankces, hasn't seen them yet. Marse Joe, paying his first visjt to St. Louis as an American Lesgue pilot, explained today he had not yet' seen the Cleveland Indians and ~ Detroit Tigers in action, but called the other clubs “good ball teams.” An _interviewer reminded McCarthy that Connie Mack revently picked the Yankees to give the Athleiics plenty of | trouble before the season is over. | “I have the greatest respect for Mr.| Mzck’s jucdgment,” he replied with a | smile, “and’ T'll take his word for it | especially as I am quitg ~ sure he's| | right.” McCarthy said the Athletics were the team the Yankees would have to beat to| win the pennant, “and that's not just| paying_bick Mr. Mack for the nice| | things he has said of us, either.” MAY 14, 1931. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. 'EORGETOWN UNIVERSITY'S ball team tied the score with a run in the ninth and then went on to win in the tenth over its old rival, Fordham, 4 to 3, yesterday. O’C:nnor, G. U. pitcher, was stingy with hits in the pinches. He also slammed a_homer. In the District duckpin tourna- ment just closed on the Palace al- leys the winners were the Y. M. C. A. and Pearls among the teams; Carroll and Ricketts and Gunde- schimer and Eiker in the doubles, and Hawksworth and Crampton in the singles. Lee McClung won the men's sin- gles title in the Chevy Chase Club closed tennis tournament, defeating J. Upshur Moorhead, defending champlon. John J. Campbell, Memorial A. C., was the first Washington runner to finish in the marathon yesterday from Laurel to Washington. He was third. J. B. Bolac, H. G. Hullfish, Warner Gurley and Milton Groome, ‘Washington Cross Country Club, also were among the leaders. Henry C. Elphinstone, Baltimore Cross Country Club, won the race. Marshall Low, Friends School, and Capt. Fritz Reuter, Goodman and Blackiston of Central, were Wash- ington schoolboys to show well in a track meet yesterday at Baltimore. H. E. Dcyle is the men's singies States at the Olympic games in Sweden, its Hawthorne ands El Segundc fields. 1912, placed the sports world at his [&[';Thpn he worked as a day laborer with is to be given an opportunity, after hav- |pick and shovel for excavation con- ing been torced by misfortune to dig | tractors. got $4 a day. ditches for a living for himself, wife |2lly he got¥a job at $7 a day delivering and babies, to take a bunch of Okla- | telephone books to Los Angeles offices, homa high school boys and girls and | unknown to all where cnce his name make of them what he can in an ath-| ¥as spoken as a. great national sporis way. er e "will leave & bare little house,! Last March an Assciated Press man hardly pretentious enough to be called |found him digging ditches for a Los a cottage, in the rancho edges of Haw- | Angeles contractor and told the story thorne, a village near here, for the Put- |again to the world. pam City school district near Okla-| “It's a far ery from big money in homa City, where he will be athletic di- | professional base ball and foot ball to rector of the schools. Until school|day labor, but I've got to o it. I have opens next Fall he will work in the | to take care of my little family and beg- IJumber offices of Moore C. Hess of the | gars cannot be choosers,” Jim said. Board of Education, who heard of Jim's| His story went across the country, & plight and sent for him. | tale of woe where scores of times before Jim frankly believes that when it |had gone a tale of glory about the same eomes to the field of sports he can lead [man. When it reached Hess in Putnam, outh o victorious glory that will swell |Okla., it touched a responsive heart. Occasion- | won't even slide going home,” accuses Monk. ’ {tant practice and meeting of his “Maybe times have changed, but Y'll |charges for 5 o'clock this afternoon on take that old Independent Stries to any |Shipyard Pield. Travers has arranged sandlot stuff now.” a schedule, including the following Monk might have been in the majors | games: today had not an accident—he was hit May | on ',l‘n’f arn'{’ by bl“f?sl kbnll—puv, hil’r‘ll ;;!K,‘m out of fast base ball for keeps. On the | Helkhts Seniors: : sandlots he played first base and caugh | dune. §Crioie &G 13, Cavallers; 0, but after playing a couple of years in | Spengler Post Ak |the minors, he was bought by John | Jul¥ 4 Brentwood. awey; 11 Fairiawn, at MCGra:‘ hfj(!l’ the New York Giants as | ton: 25. Cavaliers. at Washingt an outfielder. Avugust 1, Methodist Emscuglnln Cubs, at Monk was with the Giants when they Nation-Wide Stores, at Washing- Brentwood Midgels: 24. Capitol | 30" (double-header), Fair- Washington! Billy Schwartz, lccal youth, and “Soldier” Burk> of Walter Reed Hos- Negotttions were begun and now Jim |pital. both members of Prankie Mann's is to have another chance, stable, boxed four rounds in an exhi- On it he is staking his hopes, not oply | bition at the Lyceum Club's smoker S, ) imse! B v | last night. {:Tbl‘e‘s, a2, for his LtHe wife and |18, Ker Bros’ Eagles of Washington _ | will meet the Alpha Delta Omega team g ":Dll'vlr’ry Aorsh American News- \ore Saturday. NOW. .. the BIGGEST TIRE T0 SELL NOTED SIRES LEXINGTON, Ky., More than 200 thoroughbreds went on the auction block at Col. Phil T. Chinn's | Himyar Stud today in the second dis- | persal sale of the week. The blue grass | stable of Jchnson N. Camden was dispersed at Hartland Stud. Four famed stallions were at the Chinn sale, receiver High Time, Flittergold, Noah and Imp. | Donnaconna. The price for High Time | was expected to reach $100.000. Tonight the Lexington Sales Co. will | sell 60 thoroughbreds ccnsigned to its Spring sale. estate of the late Gifford A. Cochran and Sorrell. will be sold. champion and the Doyle brothers are the men’s doubles title holders in the Middle Atlantic States tennis tournament, which starts at the Bachelors' Tennis Club tomorrow. Miss Marie Wimer will be among those striving for the cup offered by Lawrence O. Murrav, controller of the currency, and Bachelcrs’ Club president, to' the woman's singles | champ. H. E. Doyle and Hildegarde %o be sold| Turle are the mixed doubles title Ois| holders. were g VI 1 s 1 RT3 SPECS BECOME COMMON. Once upon a time a ball player wear- ing glasses was unusual. But Mead- ows, Toporcer and Hill have been fol- lowed by Koenig, Hafey, MacFayden And Ple Traynor may have to use them soon. 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D3 us Indian’s Hard Struggle Age Improves Mickey Walker Hayes Hopes Middleweight, Now 30, Will Be Given a Shot at Heavies. ICKEY WALKER,” [ ‘Teddy Hayes, “is a better fighter at 30 than he was He knows & lot He doesn’t throw as many punches, but, when he does punch, he lands. You can't leave ‘Walker any openings now. . “I hope they will let Walker meet the heavyweights, When we were in Miami I took Jack Dillon around to see Mickey work out against ‘He is big enough for anybody,’ Jack said. fellows always were easy for me and they'd be easy for Walker." “Walker has the punch of a 200- If you had seen him hit Bearcat Wright you'd know he could is no set-up for is nobody ‘Walker’s class for him to fight, and there is no money in being idle. at 25, more, some heavies. pounder. punch. 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