Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1931, Page 51

— Majors Decide on Squad Salary Cuts : Von Elm’s Tieing WEAK CLUBS AIDED BY REDUCED LINIT Outfits to Carry Only 23 In- stead of 25 Players—No Set Pay Slash. the Associated Press HICAGO, December 11— ‘ There will be less wear and tear on major league benches and uniforms next season and salaries will not be quite so robust, club owners have decided There will be less wear and tear because the magnates, at the an- nual joint meeting of the Ameri- can and National Leagues yester- day, voted to reduce the player 1limit from 25 to 23 pl tri ming the of ben warmers yers that cent $10,000 nually reductions of sa. Reduction Agreed. That by tendance at our ga essary that penses players of both major leagues stantially reduced The only moot question over reducing the player limit was how much they should be cut. American League own- 22 men, while the 1al held out fo The question ckly decided by Commissioner untain Landis, who cast his r of the National League should doub e past by moving up attractive bargain bills, the consent or the approval of presidents of both leagues Seasons Start April 12. e schedules for both leagues again 154 games. It was voted to seasons on April 12 and close September 25 of the leaning toward reduced the leagues again voted to write the American Legion’s junior ball champlonship tournament up 000, and to contribute $7,500 for of needy ns of base the ete a Branch Rickey, vice president of the Louis Cardinals, and Billy Evans, neral manager of the Cleveland In- s, were appointed to work with bers of the “Big Pive” Committee or league base ball, to study the | of the latter branch of the JONES-FIRPO BATTLE FOR SHOT AT PIAZZA Meet Tonight in Semi-Final Bout of Middleweight Tourney. Title Go in January. By the Associated Press. LWAUKEE, Wis, December 11.— ege of meeting Oddone Plazza, | mpion, in the final round National Bowing Association's eweight elimi n tournament will be the prize of a 10-round boxing match scheduled at the auditorium nes, Akron Firpo of New npete in the which was arranged Plazza went to a draw Ohio, Negro, Castle, Pa al match F and the tourney n 8-t0-5 wer bout will be held er to receive rec- e N. B. A. as the suc- key Walker, retired mid- msists of ular track. - A complote ¢ train, ready t rs, station an ul outfit Headquarters for the new tive, tender, two pullman cars, and cor THE EVENING AR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, DE( "EMBER 11 1931. Alexandria Notes ALEXANDRIA, Va, Alexandria High Scho combination will open its seas meeting the Manassas High Armory Hall at 8:30 o'clock | Gtrls teams of the appear in a preliminary 7:30 o'clock Five members of last will perform for the locals wit Lewis Schreiner, Jimmy Bruir Hudson, “Reds” Jackson and | in action. in R sck he | John watt's Virg tain the District ent tonight Lez-Jackson High Sct nary will be arr, St. Mary's Lyceum Fi games. ‘Telephone M Lucas at Alexandria 2783 between and 4 pm Crusaders are anxious to book a with a sextet in Wast for December 16. Carne at Alexandria Number 5 kins' Furn v second meeting for the 150-pound foot ball title for & 2:30 Haydon Field to a eless tie in the FRACTURED WRLST SHELVES COLF ACE Horton Smith, Hurt in Freak Auto Mishap, Out After Winning Medal. December 11 the ranking fa- Smith of Mis- sidelines with a and other top- pectators due to tional mplonship one of Horton on tk wrist bone in the role of vorites, fractured Play Open der way her s, the dashing, a a huge field > wire at the close e 3 e qualifying trials yester- A few hours later he was the vic- tim of & freak accident. With his friend and w professional, Joe Kirkwood of Chicago, Smith returned to the Lake Merced Country Club as a dinner guest. Kirkwood, driving the automobile, backed into a parking space. Smith stuck out his right arm and his wrist was med between the car and a post. . X-ray photographs revealed a fracture of the radius bone. Dr. Bert Frohman said Smith would be out of play for several months Diegel Starts Defense. Outstanding matches in the first round of match play brought the de- fending champion, Leo Diegel of Agua Caliente, Mexico, into action for the first time. As_winner of the tournament last_year Diegel was exempt from the gualifying. He paired off today with |Sid Harmon, Salt Lake City youth making his first appearance “big time” competition. Harold McSpadden of Kansas City drew R. Asami of Yokohama, present open champlon of Japan, as his first round opponent, while the American title holder, Burke, also opposed & Japanese professional, T. Miyamoto of Osaka. Gene Barazen of Great Neck, Long Island, a former national ope champion, prepared to match strokes with Al Zimmerman of Portland, Oreg. RING CARD COMPLETE Alexandria to Have 30-Round Show as Day Nursery Benefit. ALEXANDRIA, Va.,, December 11— The card for the 30-round ring carnival scheculed to be presented at Portner’s Arena Tuesday night under the auspices of the Alexandria Day Nursery Athletic Association was completed yesterday Supporting the 8-round main go be- tween Sailor Landers, slugging Norfolk towhead, and kie McKenna of Washington eight-round semi-final Irving and Prankie V: former Georgetown Uni- versity boxe be the main prelim If dozen round: and Roddy Davis the short-dis will be provided ontown, Pa., and George down prelims, while t by Marino Marini Buck Reed of Was Unusually strong— 9 8 and This $5 “Yankee Clipper’’ Express o run with a circle of track d a transformer with speed $3.95 offering loads of fun. December 11.— and Jack IVES TRAINS WINTER BASE BALL MARKETING HEAVY | 1 Exceptional Number of Big Deals Made at Minor and | Major Meetings. HICAGO, December 10.—Headed by the transaction which sent Hack Wilson, the erstwhile home-run champion of the| major leagues from the Chicago Cubs to the St. Louis Cardinals in exchange for Burleigh Grimes, veteran pitcher, activity in the Winter base ball mar- | ket has been unusually brisk this year In addition to the Grimes-Wilson trade, in which the Cubs also sent (Bud) Teachout, a southpaw , to the Cardinals, the following ant deals were made during the league meeting at West Bade: and the annual major league se: at Chicago which closed yest The Chicago White Sox traded Carl Reynolds, outfielder, and Infielder Johnny Kerr to Washington for Pitch- ers Irving Hadley and Sam Jones and Infielder Minter Hayes. The Sox also traded Pitcher Bob Weiland to the Bos- ton Red Sox for Pitcher Milton Gaston. Cincinnati purchased Third Baseman Andy High from the Cardinals, The s purchased First Baseman Harry Taylor from Seattle of the Pacific Coast League. The White Sox purchased Outfielder Harold Anderson from St. Paul of the American Association. The Boston Braves purchased Third | Baseman Pritz Knothe from Seattle and sold First Baseman Earl Sheely and | Gatcher Bill Cronin to Los Angeles of ‘mc Pacific Coast League for $15,000. ARMY WAR COLLEGE " QUINT FACES EUCLID Team That Beat Eagles Has Date Tomorrow—Government Loop Meets Monday. | P — | Army War College basket ball team, | which walloped Anacostia Eagles, 39 t0 19, in its opening regular game last night, on the War College court, will | face Euclid A. C. there tomorrow night. | With cl T newcomers in Ertel and Kline the Soldiers are looking to & bright campaign. A final meeting of the Government Basket Ball League for the convenience of late entries and for the purpose of making a draw-for opening-game op- ponents will be held Monday night at the Vic Sport Shop | ., Wilson Avenue Baptists of Colmar | Manor, Md., will face St. Martin's quint tonight on the latter's court, at 8 o’clock. | — | Washington Cardinals and Petworth Mets will face tonight at Macfarland Junior High, In s double-header Sunday at the| | Boys Club, Delaware & Hudson Coal | Co. five will meet Capitol Awning Aces and Saks Cl ers and Chevy Chase Grays will battle Delaware & Hudson | will’ meet Clifton Barbers tonight at 7 o'clock at the Boys Club. lyrp.koma Park Business Men and M. C. A. fives will meet tonight at 7:30 o'clock &t the “Y. Virginians of Alexandria and m.smn‘ Firem:n will come to grips tonight at | 8 o'clock on the Lee-Jackson High | School court. | St. Martin’s, 45; St. Stephen's, 39. 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That putt gave Von Elm a tie with Billy Burke and started | the longest recorded play-off in Change Program | the history of the game. b | There's nothing very spectacular to any putt. The ball drops or it doesn’t. But such a putt as Von Elm dropped is one of the great feats of the sports world. There can be no more testing situation than that faced by the blond Uhlan. A 12-foot putt separated him from a tle for the naticnal open cham- plonship that had been his goal for many years. The " eighteenth green at Inverness offered a true putting surface, but how many things can happen to a golf ball over a span of 12 feet—maybe it was & bit more former | championship, otherwise why do star died 8t | players miss two, three or four footer: his home here yesterday | But here was one upon which the cham- A | plonship depended. " To make it & player must have supreme nerve control, a WILL BROADCAST FIGHT. | {Fitt Pave judging the texture of the A blow-by-blow_description of the | green and a smooth putting stroke. The Bat Battalino-Al Singer match tonight | tiniest fault would mean & miss. in Madison Square Garden, New York, | Von Elm holed it, and more than ever will be broadcast by Station WJSV,|he deserved the name of ~Uhlan starting at 9:45 o'clock | tagged to him in his early days as an BALL PLAYER DIES. DENISON, Tex., December 11 (#). W. “Tex" Covington, 44, major league base ball player, Any putt is difficult in a big | Lmateur when he was the most swash- buckling player in the field. | Stnce his retirement from the ama- | teur ranks Von Elm has made a tre- mendous improvement in his play, ex- | |actly as did Tommy Armour, Willle | Hunter and Bob Cruickshank after | turning professionals. The greatest de- velopment in Von Elm’s play has been | his increased ability with a putter. For years George had been a good putter, but during the past year he has de- veloped & new steadiness, which par- tlally explains his ability to become one of the leading money winners of the 1931 campaign. One of the other great shots of the year and more spectacular than Von Elm’s putt was hit by Ed Dudley, tall professional, from Wiimington, Del. It, t00, came in the final hole of a cham- | Pionship—the $10,000 Los Angeles open. There were a half-dozen crack shots closely bunched as the final round of that tournament started — Tommy Armour, Eddie Loos, Al Espinosa and several others. | Dudley climbed into the lead on the | back nine of the concluding round, and | as he left the last tee it was figured a | four could give him at least a tie for the big money. Dudlefi started off with | a good drive, but he hit a bad second | that came down behind a tall, live oak tree to the right of the green. That looked Big Ed’s finish. If he played | safe, a five would be the best he could | hope to get, and a five was not what he wanted. | | Dudley took a chance—the only | chance open. He pulled out a heavy | niblick and with the face well opened | | cut under the ball with all of his tre- mendous strength. The ball cleared | the high tree, dropped on the green and | | stopped 8 or 10 feet from the cup. That putt was nothing easy, but after the shot over the tree Dudley was not oing | to be balked by any other situation. So he calmly batted down the ball, and when he picked it out of the cup it was the same as reaching for $3,500. | | from rains Armour’s approach shot | deeply into the turf and then ped back, leaving him a perfect “stymie formed by the ind Of course he could not putt the ball and had te take an extra stroke. There was one event in which too much backspin cosy the blach\Scot a large piece of cash. 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