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Sports News @he Foen [ 4 WITH SUNDAY MORNING. EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, A’s Have Plenty to | Grove—St. Louis Good, by Law of Averages. BY WALTER TRUMBULL. HE major league champions within a week we should know whether the Mack-| champions of the world, or| whether the St. Louis Cards will| in themselves and crash through| to victory. law of averages, and the fact that they | Natfonal League flag in many seasons. That is demonstrated by the manner no dub in their circuit which gave them much of a contest. experience. From Frank Frisch, who has been in seven series, cn down the | They probably have more spaed than the "Athletics. They have a flock of A's Loom as Winners. Taking all that into consideration, | to win the serles in from five to six games. | the champion until the champion is beaten. In that fashion, the percentage is to say, the champion generally wins several times and only loses cnce. This I shall keep on picking them until they do as if they were the entire Philadelphia team. Simmons and Cochrane are fair- ler might just hit a couple. And did| it ever strike you that Bishop is one| one of the hardest men to whom to| pitch in the game? Well, it’s so. And| couple of hits, but those hits are likely to win games. Williams is a great young player, but, if the Athletics lose this series, they | position. Boley has always been an infielder who pulled a couple of helpful Connie Mack's big bets, naturally, are Grove and Earnshaw. Pitching is two, going right, are 100 per cent pitch- | ers. Grove is perhaps the greatest | Cards hit him any more effective than those American League batt tically none whatever? (Copyrisht, 1431, Much Behind Earnshaw and | are off in St. Louis, and men are to remain base ball| justify their undoubted confidence The thing in favor of the Cards is the | are the best team which has won the in which they won it. There was really The Cards have had plenty of series line, they have a seasonsed ball club. fine pitchers and some good hitters. I belleve that the Athletics are likely It is a pretty good rule to stick with | generally is strongly in your favor. That may be the Mackmen's turn to lose, but Persons talk of Grove and Earnshaw ly valuable. and Foxx or Haas or Mil- | of the great lead-off men of base ball, | Dykes is & man who may make only a Williams Uncertain, may lose it through the shortstop’s miracles in a world series. 70 per cent of a world series and those southpaw of all time. Why should the have been hitting him, which is prnc-s ewspaper North American e, Inc.) | HOCKEY TO CHRISTEN PARIS SPORT PALACE| ¥y the ‘Allianc: “Garden” Built by American Will Be Opened Tomorrow—Varied Entertainment Planned. By the Associated Press. PARIS, October 1.—The Parisian | imitation of New York’s Madison | Square Garden ‘will open here to- | morrow. | Bullt by an American, the promoter, Jeff Dickson, the new “Palais du Sport” will run a string of sporting events the year round and throw in a few art shows, banquets and theatrical per- formances. The first attraction for the costly sport palace is to be an ice hockey match between the French Racing Club and the London Grosvenor House Canadians. That will be tomor- Tow night. On Saturday Frankie Genaro, the American fiyweight champion,, will de- fend his title against young Perez, and Pete Nebo, the Florida Indian, will fight Henri Dewancker. Shifting the scene again, the Tilden ‘Tennis Tours, Inc., is to bring its troupe of racquet wielders here October 11 and 12 for the debut of professional tennis in Paris. Bicycle racing is to be an- other feature sport this Winter. Connected with the sport arena is a club. containing a restaurant, large ic halls, moderni in design; art exhibition room and Earber shop. FIGHT IS POSTPONED. BOSTON, October 1 ().—The Andy Caliahau-Lou Brouillard fight scheduled for tomorrow night ot the Boston Gai den has been indefinitely postpon: Callahan suffered a cut J'p in a train- ing bout. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. | EORGETOWN UNIVERSITY'S foot ball team opened its season yesterday by drubbing Seaman Gunners, 39 to 0, but its showing ogether pleasing to Blue and Gray fcllowers. G. U. players included Bergen, Jamieson, Hart, | Heiskell, Dailey, Kreft, Stohiman, Cunnif, Bryant, Greer, Wymard, | Rheimschild, Hegarty, McNamara, | Sitterding, Costello, Quinlan, ‘White, Dzugherty, Fury and Murray. Gallaudet drubbed Tech High, 21 to 0. The Kendall Greeners used the following: Battiste, captain; Ren- dall, Keeley, Miller, Decker, West, Roller, Rockwell, Moore, Foltz, Cles- sen, Jacobson and Hedhill. Tech’s players included McKinney, White, Sturmann, Lewis, Eckendcrf, cap- tain; Knight, Heine, Haight, Thomp- son, Nelson, O'Connell, Stead, Davis, Fraser, Lewls and Putnam. Maryland Aggles and Richmond College tied, 0-0, as Parker, former Eastern High player, starred for the Farmers. Maryland was repre- sented by Johnson, Posey, Koehler, Williams, Augustus, Kemp, Perker, Trax, Whitz, Shipley and Bowland. Eastern High walloped Virginia A. C., a team ccmposed mostly of for- mer schoolboy luminaries, 28 to 0. Eastern's players included Cremer, Leonard, Hughes, Fisher, Duvall, Mc- Coy, Manning, Wells, Cohill, Weaver and Baker. V. A. C. used Wilcox, Mann, Chase, C. Colwell, Williams, Henderson, ‘Perrin, Tebbs, Weltzell, B. Smith and R. Coiwell, | ‘Wisconsin Michigan v Minnesota vs. Oklahoma A. and M. Michigan State vs. Cornell (Iowa).....East Lansing . ©Ohio University vs. Butler | Seuthern California v: California vs. St. Mary's Stanford vs. Santa Clara. Washington vs. Montana. Oregon Arizona vs. Utah vs. College of Idaho Nevada vs. Utah Facts on Series By the Associated Press. Contenders—Philadelphia Athl:t'cs, nine-time winners of the American League pennant and world cham- plons for the past two years: St. Louis Cardinals, four-time National League victors® and world cham- plons in 1926. Managers—Connle Mack, over 50 years in base ball and now 68, pilot of th: Athletics since they entered the American Lesgue in 1901; Charles (Gabby) Street, 49 years old yesterday, old-time catcher and bat- tery mate of Walter Johnscn, man- ager of two straight pennant winners in his big come-back. Series schedule—First two games, today and tomorrow, at Sports- mav’s Park, St. Louls; next three at Shibe Park, Philadelphia, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday; last two, it needed, in St. Louis, Friday and Saturday, Octcber 9 and 10. All games start at 1:30, Central Stand- ard Time. at St. Louis, Eastern Standard Time at Philadeiphia. TONEATS MAT 0 TRAL FOR SHIT |Gets Match With Steele if He Makes Good Showing Against Katan. HILE Sandor Szabo and Dr. Ralph Wilson will bask in the mat spot- light tonight when they oppose in the feature bout of the wrestling card to be presented at Griffith Stadium, no little interest | will be attached to the Dick Shikat-John Katan match. It was learned from Promoter Joe Tur- ner this morning that shodld Shikat make a creditable showing the local matchmaker has prom- ny Star. / | | Features and Classified l 1931. PAGE D-—1 se Against Cards : High Prices Check Drafting by Majors WHITE SOX SCORE - IN CRICAGD SERIES Pound Root and Beat Cubs 9 to 0—Faber Slab Star in Opening Tilt. By the Assoclated Press. | HICAGO, October 1—There was great joy and shouting in the camp of Donle Bush's oft- | manhandled White Sox today | for & change. They were 1 up on | their North Side rivals, the Cubs, in | the battle for the Chicago City series | championship. | Clicking like champions, the White | Sox staggered the Cubs, 9 to 0, yes- | terday in the opening battle \for the "lnle and were smiling for the first time this year. “Red” Faber, 43-year-old veteran of the downtrodden pitching staff, was the hero of the first game. Faber held the National Leaguers to five scattered hits. Blanked by Root in a chagity game recently, the White Sox bats ex- ploded so loudly and effectively in the sixth that they blew Root off the mound with seven runs. They added two more in the seventh. Vic Frasier was Manager Bush's pitching selection for the second game today, with Guy Bush named as the starting pitcher for the.Cubs. The atiendance of the opening game was somewhat disappointing. Only 16,641 watched the battle. The gross receipts were $18,603.50, of which $9,487.83 will be split up among the players. HOME RU AKS UP N BRE Roettger of St. Paul Clears All Bags to Beat Rochester, 4-0, Slab Aces Face. ised to match Shikat and Ray| Steele for next Tuesday. ‘Turner advised that Shikat is all set, negotiations having been made with his manager, Toots Mondt. Steele, how- ever, is sald to be holding out for $5,000, but with prospects of a record- breaking crowd, Turner intends to close the match. Szabo and Wilson will wrestle tonight in a finish match at the stadium. ‘Though both are more ncted here for their profiles than for their wrestling, théy should put up a good exhibition. Szabo, at around 10:55 p.m. tonight, however, should be sitting on Wilscn's futilly protesting chessis, Other bouts in addition to the final and semi-finzl include: Pat O'Shocker vs. Ivan Vacturoff, Tiny Roebuck vs. Don Le Laun and Carl Pojello vs. Floyd Marshall. ‘The first bout will o'clock. Women with escorts will be ldn&llted free to all except ringside seats, SH-H-H! FARRELL TO WED Catherine Hush Will Be Bride of Golf’s Beau Brummel. NEW YORK, October 1 (#).—Johnny Have Same Birthday—Both Have | Parrell, dzndy of the fairways and United States open golf champion of 1928, is to be married this Fall, friends revealed today, to Catherine Hush of Greenwich, Conn. They met last Fall at an exhibition match in which Johnny was a partici- pant and Miss Hush an onlooker. Hush s 20 years old, Farrell is 30. For years Johnny Farrell has been frequently called “the best dressed golfer.” Leading Grid Teams. Geoigetown vs. Western Maryland. Maryland vs. Virginia.... George Washington vs. Elon. Catholic University vs. C. C. N. Y. American Umyersity vs. Lynchburg. Gallaudet vs. Loyola. .. Navy vs. William and Mary. Princeton vs. Amherst Army vs. Knox. Harvard vs. Bates Dartmouth vs. Buftalo. Coiumbia v Cornell vs. Niagara. Colgate vs. St. Lawrence. ... Davis and Elkins vs. South Dakota. Carnegie Tech vs. Wash, and Jei Fordham vs. West Virginia. Holy Cross vs. Providence. New York U. vs. W. Va, Wesl Syracuse vs. Hobart. | By the Associated Press. LEXINGTON PARK, ST. PAUL, Minn., October contest between rignt-handers was in prospect today as Rochester sought to | come abreast of St. Paul in the junior | world series of base ball, |, Manager Bill Southworth of the In- | ternational League club, which took & | 4-t0-0 trimming yesterday after a home | |run with the bases loaded by Oscar | Roettger broke up the game, selected | Herman Eell to do the flinging. Fo Paul, participating in the interleague competition for the first time since 1924, Manager Lefty Leifield selected John Murphy, who goes to the New York Yankees next season. | Yesterday's opening game was a twirlers' battle between Carmen Hill | and Walter (Huck) Betts, \ | Yesterday's paid attendance which $3,490 was the players’ share and $1,454 the clubs’ division. George Sisler, Rochester first base- man, was forced out of the game yes- terday when he strained groin muscles sliding irtto first base. . | HOYT, FRISCH KEEP PACE | Played in Six Series. ST. LOUIS, October 1.—Waite Hoyt, Athletics’ pitcher, and Frankie Frisch, second baseman of the Cardinals, both | born on September 9, have a private | score to settle in-the world series. | "Botn piayers have taken part in six | played against each other. Each player has been on & winning team twice. | Both were born in New York, Prisch |in 1898 and Hoyt in 1899. Tilts Saturday Central Stadium Brookland . -Lynchburg “Baltimore ST. Annapolis JIthaca New Haven . Philadelphia . Providence - Hamilton . Elkins .. Pittsburgh New York ... Worcester New York Syracuse (night) 0 SOUTH. Tulane vs. Texas A. and M. Tennessee vs. Clemson... Georgia vs. V. P. I.. . North Carolina State vs. Florida. Georgia Tech vs. South Carolina. Vanderbilt, vs. lilol’&h Carolin: ssippi. Washington and Lee vs. Davidson. Maryville. Kansas &late vs, Tulsa U. vs. T¢ Arkansas vs. Southern Methodist 1s. Simmo Towa vs. Pittsburgh. . Indiana’ vs, Notre Da Illinois vs. St. Louis U. Purdue vs. Coe..... Purdue vs. Western Reserve...... (Two Purdue games scheduled.) . North Dakota State...... Michigan State Normal. Idaho... Pomona Brigham Young.. vs. Montana State. Denver U. vs. Colorado Téfchers Oregon State. . .T.« Berkeley . Palo Alto . New Orleans . Minneapolis ngeles ...oove y 0 morrow. The C: JUNIOR SERIES DUEL 1.—Another pitehing | was start at 8:30 | 4344. Gross receipts were $5817, ol}whlch Grove and Earnshaw offered 6 mage to the last count. . |like 1930, both base balls have "nhefl “Farmer” Bill Neléon, 210, St. CRYING OUT LOUD “HE BREAKS INTO A | CHEER OF TEARS AT THE_MERE. MENTU OF FOOT BALL o T. LOUIS, October 1.—Until some set of world series hitters paddle Earnshaw, or rival pitchers sup- press the batting eyes of Co>chrane, Simmons and Poxx, I expect to keep on picking the Athletics to arive in front of the annual parade. When you | keep on picking a champion you can go wrong only once. You may recall the baffling defense last Fall after Rube Walberg had | stumbled into a somewhat spotty year. | Well, Grove and Earnshaw have been even better this season, and Walberg | has been right on their heels, with the old soupbone exuding steam from every pore. “All that might not mean anything at all,” some one might offer in re- buttal. This is true enough in any short series. ming up. Connie Mack can pitch Grove and Earnshaw in six games if he cares to without overcrowding their left and right arms. He may not care to call on thom to any such extent, but there they are just the same. Just 26 years ago, back in 1905, Con- nle Mack saw one great pitcher domi- | Miss | world series, in four of which they have | nate the situation and stop his Ath- | His | | letics with a resounding thud. | name was Mathewson. Now Mack has Grove—with Earnshaw and Walberg to back him up—just as Matty had Joe McGinnity to stand at his side. Mack that year had Bender and Plank, but there was only one Mathewson on the lot. There is only one Grove in base ball today, whatever happens to him the next few days. Closer Series. had a seven-game series and this may be the vear for another scrim- Any ball club good enough to win three pennants out of four starts can't be chucked over- board without being given a chance. It might be remembered that the Car- dinals also have some pitching to bank lon. There are few better trios than By the Associated Press. T. LOUIS, October 1.—Scalpers were asking from $8.50 to $15 for a $5.50 reserved seat for the | game between the Athletics and | Cardinals. Seats priced at $8.50 were located beyond the first and third base lices. Internal revenue agents were circulating through hotel lobbles, cigar stores and other places where tickets might be sold to see that enly registered scalpers were dealing in them. The world champion Athletics were quoted at 1-to-2 favorites to defeat the Cardipals by Tom Kearney, St. Louis ketting commissioner. The Athletics also were held by Kearney as 3 to 5 to win any one game and 6 to 1 on fcur straight. | is umpire in chiof of the world scries. | Klem s entering his fiftecnth series, 8 {rezord unequaled by any other umpire. Since the two major leagues use base balls that are slightly different, the Na- tional League ball will be in play in the games at St. Louis and the Ameri- can League ball at Philadelphia. Un- seams.” The National League base bal also has a slightly thicker cover than ir 1930, whereas the American League cover is similar to a year ago. Kenesaw Mountain Landis, commis- sioner of base ball, was a busy individ- ual trying to satisfy the demands of | serles tickets. He ran out of tickets |last night and was glad of it. Four special trains will carry .the O‘bsse ball_piayers, sports writers and | fans to Fhiladelphia for the games to be played there, The Athletics will re- turn to Philadelphia on & special train immediately after the second. game to- , however, will not depart for Philly until Sat 6 | noon. . the padding out of Grove and | But it is at least a fac- | tor no one can overlook in any sum- | TT has been some time now since we | Willizm Klem of the National League | minor ~ league club owners for world |j WITH HAP HARDELL. THE SPORTLIGHT BY GRANTLAND RICE | Derringer, Grimes and Hallahan hap- pen to be, and if Jess Haines were in | shape it would make an even nicer pic- ture. * As it is Derringer will be on hand to fill the gap left by the Buckeye vet- eran. and to fill this gap he will have to stop the Athletics at least once, which Haines did a year ago. There is much talk about what Jim Bottomley will do. This doesn't make |it any easier for Bottomley, no matter how much nerve control he has. Re- | calling the avalanche that struck him a year ago won't make it any softer | | for him this time, and if he has a big | week it will be a triumph of mind over matter. As Don Marquis once wrote, "'Mmd is always superior to matter— when there is nothing the matter.” It |isn’t any light load to have the bulk of the series thrown upon one’s neck, The Champions Meet. 'O one can question the fact that two champions are fighting it out, the two best without any argument. Most of the Cardinals have been in three pennant-winning years out of four starts. This last season they won in A common canter, taking it on the loaf. The Athletics have made it | three straight, and now hope to make it three straight series championships to take their place as one of the great ball clubs of all time. No matter how many words are used up in dissecting the subject, it all gets back to the pitching of Grove and Earmn- shaw and the heavy artillery of Sim- mons, Cochrane and Foxx. As there are no supermen now inhabiting this some- what bewildered globe, these may all fall away as Mack’s great team did in 1914, when one of the most brilliant of all line-ups suddenly looked to be a fifth- place club trying to finish out a season. If the Athletics flop it will be, in the main, because some of the old flame has faded through too much success. The Cardinals have the advantage of buck- ing & head wind, which demands all they have to give. They have a high- class ball club, and while they have a good chance the Athletics must be given | the edge in what should prove to be the best series of many years. (Copyright, 1931, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) | 450 feet into the center-field bleachers. The distance from home plate to left field is 360 feet and to right fleld is 320 | feet. There is a screen, however, in right fleld and he will have to clear it. | Babe Ruth cleared the screen twice | three years ago, once driving a home run through a plate glass window across the street. World series time is always a gather- ing for the old-timers in base ball. The hotel lobbles were flooded today. Clar- ence Rowland, once manager of the Chicago White Sox, had the hand- shaking privilege of greeting old asso- ciates. e Kelly, manager of the Minneapolis club, was on hand. So was Jack Ryan, president of the Peoria Three-Eye Leaguers. Mat Matches | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK.—Joe “Toots” Mondt, | 227, Colorado, threw Ivan Vernyhora, 210, Russia, 57:10; George Calza, 218, Italy, threw Benny Ginsburg, 220, Chi- cago, 20:12; Gino Garibaldi, 210, Italy, threw Abe Kashey, 202, Syria, 16:45; Frank Speers, 220, lahoma, are: uls, Al Pierotti, 212, Boston, threw Wanka Zelesniak, 213, Russia, 8:32. BOSTON.—Arthur Flynn, Lawrence, Mass., defeated Sehib Sebeg, Turkey, 2 out of 3 falls (heavyweights). ST. LOUIS.—Jim Londos, 205, Greece, threw Hans Kampfer, 220, Germany, :11:00;, George Zaharias, 229, Colo- rado, threw Paul Jaones, 208, Texas, 32:02; Ernfe Dusek, 215, Nebraska, threw Jack Burke, 205, Davenport, Towa, 9:05. QUEBEC, = Quebec.—Henri Deglane, 218, Montreal, defeated George Zary- noff, 200, Russia, 2 out of 3 falls (first, Deglane, 21:45; second, Zarynoff, 4:51; +levee chanty? STeve FOR HANOLY HIGH * poor —By TOM DOERER WALIKED DOWN THE. FIELD 70-Y05 SATURDAY AGAINST T~ “says Hig coacH STEVE CAN % PASS INTO YOUR VEST POCKET STANDING ON A DERBY, “AWFULY CHIRES HAP = 7, ‘s — N Seve Haros WHO, MR.HARDELL SAYs IS Y0UST FAIR® WEEPS HAP \t? JoAN GORMLEY ASwWEET, TEARING BACK., WHO N CARLTON RUNS WITHOULT ALL\SON MEIKELJONN, EDWARDS, AQUARTER. ,UPON WHOM TECH PLACES PLENTY | OF CONFIDENCE . | “AH,' 50Bs HAP,'MAYBE HE WILL BE ABLE TO PLAY THIS GAME SOME. DAY = ON2uerer, op e PP A CAN PICK OFF A PASS AND DATE vP A LINEMANS GIRL AT THE SAME TIME ... Needs a Carload of Sponges Hap Hardell Tearful Talker But Delightful Fellow. BY- TOM DOERER “Oh, I'm going down th’ road, Just a totin® my load— And there’s misery all ‘round.” Remember that old Carolina No? Well, maybe I don't either. Maybe there isn’t a levee in the Carolinas, at that. Anyhow, levees and mammy songs and the plaintive pleadings to come back to that old Carolina home always enter my mind when I'm blue and tearish. It isn't my home State. But it is somebody’s and that's enough leeway for me. But I'm sad. I have just re- turned from an assignment meant for a sob sister. A gal who can shake a handkerchief of tears into every paragraph, put a sob into every semi-colon and dot her I's with weeping tremors. Gentlemen, I've been crying on the same tear towel with Hap Hardell, Tech High School’s ever- smiling foot ball coach. Yessir, fellows, it was the most delightful sad time I've ever had. I'm all broken up. There wasn't an thing to look at out there on Hap Field but a few carloads of the finest high school foot ball talent I've seen | since they've stopped playing men over | 40 at the institutions of learning. And wouldn't you be lugubrious, m 11::‘ :;r Hap? Just unle:v hun; young men galloping ou! each Fall crying to play foot ball and all that you could get out of them ‘was four consecutive years of cham- plonship play, s reputation as a smart coach and an ever-present sudience of scouts peering at your “I see,” sald I, passing the weeping towel back to Hardell after hav- ing had my cry, “that you have a fairly good backfield, with young Mr. Gorm- ley. little Carlton Edwards, Allison Meikeljohn and Steve Hatos out there doing tricks I notice Hatos is passing in three languages and without shifting gears.” * “Isn't it & sad sight,” wept Hap, sobbf and ing. “Just look at him? He ran 70 ards against andley High last Saturday. But he was slow and awk- :'lrd.. ‘They shouil have brought him own.! Shrieking and weeping Hap left me with the towel to my eyes as he raced onto the fleld to berate Hatos for his poor kiel . Steve couldn’t get any more than 40 yards out of his punts. “Why,” he cried, b his _face in third, Deglane, 8:10). PORTLAND, Oreg.—Abe Kaplin, 218, polls, 212, , 212, 21 my vest, “should I have to suffer with such poor talent?” We passed the towel and wept some "lb."xlu. hoping we had dug up a happy note out of the gloom, *ou have a new stadium. Great, wonderful! Surely that must be & help in your hours of sorrow?"” “Please, don't,” begged Mr. Hardell, “Am I not sad enough? You will no- | tice there’s no fence around the field. How can we play upon it? Maybe next year. So far we have had to go from meadow to pasture to practice and play. Now we have a field but no fence. Look at that terrible line of mine? And we cried together as about three teams of linemen belted one another around, chased four sets of backs into a state of curvature of 'l.)l(l’ew shil’}:s and dué)llyed no more er than a powder works I its temper. s i “It looks like rain, maybe about next Tuesday,” I said, leading him away from the sad sight and trying to make him forget. “Nope, it rains on Satur- days, when we play,” he sobbed. “That' because our system of play calls for a running line.” ‘We cried for hours about the terrible situations which confronts Hap. And when I sobbingly bid him good by, and staggered limply into the arms of my | taxi driver, life seemed but an inky | gob of goo. But as I turned around to flick my | sodden handkerchief to Hap, in & sad farewell signal, there was that baby down there on the field patting the boys on their backs and gesticulating appre- And the piping voice of old Hap was _ sa down there on that field: “Attaboy, Steve, we're going to make ‘em all look silly this season; that's the old stuff, Gormley, tear ’em loose; smack ‘em down, Edwards, it's our. big year again!” I hope somebody swipes his crying towel, Hap came into foot ball through an accident, but it is no accident that he has corking good teams. He has never played the game, but he knows how it should be played. And he sanely argues that condition contributes 90 per cent toward vic- But don't go out there and talk foot ball with him without your rubbers, umbrella and a desire to have a good ery. Minor Leagues Pacific Coast League, Sacramento, :. 15 MINOR PLAYERS ONLY ARE CLAMED Number Smallest in Recent Years—None Is Sought by Nationals. | By the Associated Press. T. LOUIS, October 1.—The higher draft price for class AA and A players and busi- ness conditions in general have caused major league club owners to select only 15 players, the smallest number in recent years, from the mincers this sea- son. The draft price for class AA leagues—the American Associa- tion, International League and Pacific Coast League—is $7,500 |under the new agreement, while 1$6,000 must be laid down for play- |ers from class A leagues, such as the Southern Association, Texas League and Eastern League. The old prices were $5,000 and $3,000. Of the 15 players culled in the 193 draft meeting last night only 3 wil have trials “with American League teams next season and of the remain- ing 12 the Boston Braves got 4. Six 3&‘&“}3" 4 3nflelders. 3 catchers, 1 elder and a combinatis - outfielder were selected. e Chisox Get Texas Star. In the American League the Chi- cago White Sox obtatned ' Inflelder Carey Selph, once a wearer of the St. Louis Cardinal uniform, from the Houston Club of the Texas League, a Cardinal farm. Selph had a batting | T:;k‘cagzzhmif season and last week Vi Vol e 't Vi P the league's most valuable e St. Louis Browns called in Short- stop Westcott Kingdon from the Gluars tancoga club of the Southern Associa- tion, “where he batted .278. The Yankees obtained a pitcher, Frank Nekola, who was picked up by that club from Holy Cross University. He spent most of last season with St. Paul of the American Assoclation and this year served with the Jersey City club gi; t'huanlixoremuoml League, for which es a u’xg‘eleau.m nd was charged with e Boston Braves headed the Na- | tional League, obtaining three pitchers and & catcher. Walker (Huck) Betts, 8 right-hander, was drafted from St Paul of the ' American Association, where he won 22 games and lost 13 with & champlonship club. Leo Man- gum.. another right-hander, who won 14 and lost 9 games, was taken {ftom Newark of the In:,emnioril League, and Frank Coleman, the third hurler. was selected from Scranton of the New York-Pennsylvania League. He had a record of 1 victory and 3 de_;e;usror the recent season. | e Braves finished up with }Wfllum (Red) Hnrgrxvg, fromc.stilh:?: |more of the International Leagu where he batted .353. Hargrave, a vet- eran, previously had been with the Nationals, Tigers, Yankees and Browns, The Phillies picked up _Shortstop George Knothe from New Orleans of the Southern Association and Catcher Al fi%%‘ih""g‘. tglan.i! of the Texas League. e or 283, W] y hitting mark was 270, "¢ Toads The Chicago Cubs added Pitcher Allen Newsome from the Little Rock Club of the Southern Association and Marvin Gudat, a left-handed pitcher |and outfielder, from Columbus of the American Association, also a Cardinal farm. Newsome won 16 and lost 14 games, and Gudat had a pitching rec- 2{21‘0(11‘ Llf:ttto:ées lll'!d 4 defeats. How- ever, he o o o ramiiea lose to .350 in more Pitcher Herman Bell, Cardinal, went from the Rochester Ine ternational League Club, & Card farm, to the New York Giants, who also obe talned Shortstop Eddie Moore from the g:lklh:ad ‘P:Cdiflculcolat League tea n lecisions and X Moore batted 321, e Shires Left in Cold. The selection of Catcher Clyde Mane jon by the Cincinnati Rcd.ICI!’mm Mile waukee .of the American Association ',cnuud Charles Arthur (the Great) | Shires to be left in the minor leagues | for another season. The Reds had first | call, and took Manion, wto batted .353. | As only one man may be selected from |2 class AA team under the new agree- ment, Shires and Outfielder Harold Anderson, who was sought by the Chie |cago White Sox, were left stranded. Pittsburgh snared Outfielder Dave Barbee, who once had a trial with the Athletics, from Hollywood of the Pa- cific Coast League. Barbee batted .333 and had 46 home runs to his credit, ace cording to recent averages. CHANCE FOR CHOCOLATE Gets Canzoneri Fight Offer on Eve of Scalfaro Battle. NEW YORK, October 1.—Tt is bered Kid Chocolate who will :!1”-!0 ihelgost wli!th b.‘!,oe‘y B;:al'!‘:ro tonight fo# -roun nsborq St;dlu‘gn. : ut a e Queer n the last 18 months the Keed been chastened both by the fists of opponents and the wear and tear of ille Ch‘n? .':cld?:; 1 ocolate’s cl ces for & itweig] championship bout with “‘.}ghcflx neri seemed brighter than ever before as he prepared to go to war with Scale faro. hl.-ulj: (})ll‘xxfiemftthe ll(eed's mane ager, has in pocket a telegram froi Nate Lewis, Chicago Stadium mnwfi‘- maker, offering Chocolate a Canzonert match on October 30. TIP FOR FISHERMEN. HARPERS FERRY, W. Va. October 1.—The Potomac and Shenandoah Rive ers were a little muddy this morning. Fistic Battles BY the Associated Press. GRAND RAPIDS.—Charlie Winnipeg, outpointed Tony m Detroit (10). CHICAGO.—] Levinsky, Chica outpointed Joe Sekyra, Dayton llfl')5 Carlos Herrera, El Paso, Tex., knocked out Mickey O'Shea, Chicago (4). PITTSBURGH, Pa.—George Panks, Pittsburgh, outpointed Roy Clark, Phile adelphia (10). OAKLAND, Calif.—Andy Divodi, New York, outpointed Gaston Le Cax France (10); Bermondsey Billy W!lln land, stopped Leory Borden, T G, SAN FRANCISCO. — San m 10). R%