Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1933, Page 11

SPORTS. AND NOTHING CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT. Plenty of Action In Hockey Clash OETON, January 25 (#).—Eddie Shore, the Boston Bruins’ pug- nacious right defense, was poorer by $25 today after a fracas that stole the uwnuo?“o! the fans at last might's Bruins-Les Canadiens hockey game. Thirteen hundred saw some beau- titul hockey as the Boston team took the measure of Les Canadiens, 3 to 2, but they cheered and jeered their loudest during a free-for-all between :&ore and Sylvio Mantha, big Cana- n. PREFERS T0 STAGE TOURNEY N SPRING Not to Promote $2,500 Meet Should Kenwood Move Up Its Annual Event. Referee Cooper Smeaton rolled on the fce with Mantha bcfore the fight was over and Judge cf Play Ag Smith was down on his back as the fracas ended. The fight got Shore and Mantha five-minute penalties and in addition cost Shore $25, it being his third offense. BY WALTER B. McCALLUM. ROMCTION of the proposed P open tcurnament slated to be held by Manor Club this year has progressed to the point where the club actually is seeking favorable dates for a $2,- 500 event for the professional golfers, to catch them as they re- turn to their jobs from the S8outh shortly after the Pinehurst North and South open tourney. D. L. Thomson, chairman of the Golf and Greens Committee at Manor, and the man on whom most of the work CRONN TOPS LT Fes s NALSTIRNN TINT g o Kemuoed O 424 Vote I Almost Unanimous. third Nctional Capital open tourney & before ‘progeeding with plans for the| Ruth Left Off for First Time in Eight Years. Manor Club affair. The situation. as it stands tcday, as explained by Thomson, is lfke this: It Kenwood changes its dates from Fall to Spring this year, Manor will not stage a tourney in 1933. But if | Kenwood holds its Nationai Capital | open in the Fall, Manor will proceed with plans for its' tournament in the | fl)rlng. ‘Nat}:xrally‘ since the Kenwood urney is the original big open event News' major ieague all-star team held about Washington annually, Manor will await definite settlement by Ken- | {0F 1932, but George Herman Ruth is wood on the dates for the tourney of A not among them. that club, | For the first time in the 8-year his- “WE have not definitely decided to | tory of the base ball publication’s poll. hold the tournament because the big Yankee slugger loses his place of the indecision regarding | in right fleld to Chuck Klein, youthful dates” Thomeon sald. o DUt the SUE-| all-around sensation of the Phillies. about a good deal at Manor and we| Of the 191 votes cast for right fleld find such a favorable response that if | in the poll of members of the Base Ball we can have a good date for the tour- | 4 Rament, preferably Cscon _ afier e | Writers' Assoctation, Kleln received 111, Pinehurst event, we probably will go 8gainst 63 for Ruth. Klein also polled ahead and stage it.” | 16 votes for center fleld and 8 for leni Meanwhile Bob Harlow, manager of for g grand total of 135 votes. Ruth's the Tournament Golfers’ Association, | has written Thomson at Manor, giving total of 94 was made up of 63 for right him an outll)r‘w of the tournament sit- | field, 29 for left and 2 for center. uation and the possibility of drewing a | Kiein, Harold (Ple) Traynor of Pitts- strong fleld. The field probably wculd ‘ burgh, Frank (Lefty) O'Dml of Brook- include most of those professionals | jyn and Lon Warneke of the Chicago Wwho competed in the 1932 National | Cubs are the four National Leaguers Capital open at Kenwood. | who gain places on the mythical team. Harlow is working toward the end | The American Leaguers included Jimmie of securing the promise of most of the ' poxx and Bob Grove of the Athletics, | By the Associated Press. T. LOUIS, January 25.—The American League furnishes 6 of the 10 players on the Sporting THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1933. Haw! HAW! THAT MAN CANTOR'S FUNNY, ILL HAVE TO TELL LILLIAN THIS NEW GAG OF HIS . —HE SAID HE PILED ON SO MANY BLANKETS THE OTHER NIGHT HE HAD TO USE A BOOK MARK N ORDER TO FINO HIMSELF WOULD YoU MIND REPEATING THAT, OSWALD Y, | GUESS | WASN'T - PAYING _ ATTENTION LISTEN TO THIS, LILLIAN, (T'S* A WOW.-CANTOR WAS TALKING ABOUT THE COLD WEATHER ALL RIGHT; (F You DONT ' WANT | see F1 care, WHY DID You TELL ME (N T TeLc, DoN‘I THE FIRST PLACET | NEVER ASKED You —By WEBSTER GENARO FINDS FINO SOFT PREY IN RING Young Mexican Is Unable to Extend Ex-Fly Champion. Young Van Wins. OUTH could not catch up with | Frankle Genaro, former world | fiyweight champion, at Port- | ner’s Arena last night as the | veteran Itallan breezed through an eight-round workout with Joe Fino, | young Mexican flyweight, but Father Time seems to be dogging the footsteps | of the one-time ruler of fistiana’s | “mosquito fieet.” | Genaro showed flashes of old-time form and expertness based on a 14| years of boxing, but it was apparent | the 32-year-old Frankie, even though | he encountered the mildest sort of com- | petition from the willing, but crude, | Fino, will never again have the drive, | speed and color of the Genaro of years | gone by. The clevereness he still re- | tains, as was atiested by the case with | which he disposed of his young opponent | from the land of hot tamales and chili | con carne. HE bout was achingly remindful of | the recent Pete Sanstol-.nmmvi Mack affair. PFino never was in the running, hoiding his own only in | the third round. Genaro continuously | kept him off balance and, on several | occasions, Fino's rushes and attempts | to sidestep were so futile that he stum- | bled to the canvas. Genaro won every round but the third, which was about | even. Young Van, Washington middle-| weight, marked his return to the ring after a six-month lay-off by knocking | out Billy Vermillion of Baltimore in the | third round of a scheduled six-heat 2f- | fair, but there was little glory in Van's{ victory. Vermillion was woefully out of | condition and an easy target for the| boxing-rusty Van, whose own punches, | especially that once-potent right, lacked steam and snap. In the second round Vermillion stuck a left to Van's jaw which dazed the young stereotyper, but Vermillion lacked the drive necessary to follow up the blow. Puffing and blow- ing in the third, Vermillion ran into a succession of lefts and rights and went down for keeps. 'HE two opening preliminaries Iur-‘ { nished most of the acticn when SPORTS. A—I11 Golf Analyzed LL swings ars alike except as regards their lepngth and the amount of force put into them. Fundamentally the pivot for every :h:n in golf is the same—except in legree, ‘The, pitcli shot does not require nearly so much effort as the wood shots, ‘nor the long jron shots. In making it the extreme limit of the backswing is three-quarters, most VET HURLER STILL SHREWD AND WISE Held Worth Addition to Staff, Making Pittsburgh Strong Contender. BY SAM MURPHY. EW YORK, January 25.—Al- ready regarded by many astute base ball men as the strongest contender in the 1933 National League race, the | Pittsburgh Pirates added experi- ence to their pitching staff by the signing of Waite Hoyt. Hoyt hasn't been more than a fifty- fifty winner since he left the Yankees, but other managers can't forget the fine glab work he did when the Yanks were winning pennants for the late Miller Huggins a few years ago. And | he still is in his early thirties, though | he has been pitching several years. He |is & shrewd and brainy mound worker. Manager George Kibson of the Pi= | rates has ordered his pitchers and catchers to report for preliminary | training in California on February 22. | It looks as t Gibson is going to meke the pennant fight with nine pitchers. Besides Hoyt he has Larry | French, sierling left-hander; _Steve | Swetonic, Heinie Meine, Ervin Brame, | Eill Harris. Hal Smith, Leon Chagnon |and Bul Switt. | e | AL SMITH, obtained late in 1932 ‘ from Kansas City, began his cae reer with the Pittsburgh team by de | livering a shutout. He is a right-hand= er, powerfully built, and equipped with | everything that makes a big league | sharpshooter. He is destined to play | an important part in the campaign of |the team, with French, Swetonic, | Harris and Swift of equal importance. Gibson will give Brame a fair trial, although he seemed to have lost his | grip on the ball a year ago. Msine. who held out for a raise in salary until the 1932 race was more than six weeks o'd, revorted in poor shape and was of little hely to the |team. In fact. the Pirates’ fallure to { win the chaTpionship last year was at- tributed to experts consider. For a large pro- porticn cof pitch shots it is less. I saw Horton Smith play a 60-y; pitch shot at the North Shore Club, Chicago. where the next United States open will be played, with a quarter-swing. Naturally, the pivot must fit the swing. The sketches of Gene Sara- zen and Johnny Farrell above show what happens when a pitch shot of 125 or 130 yards is being made. The hips turn slightly, the shoulders more. But the latter do not, as in the wood club swing, reach a point where they are at right angles with the line of direction. At shorter disances. the body turn may amount to practically nothing Practice pitch shots with your backswing curtailed. Fistic Battles By the Assoctated Press. DETROIT —Weslev Ramey, Grand Rapics, Mich, outpcinted Eddie Ran, Poland (10); Varias Milling, Los An- geles, outpointed Dario Moreno, Kala- mazoo, Mich. (10). ded by Manager Bill Terry BARCELONA, Spain—Paulino Uz- to the Pirates last Fall, signed a con- g;dun. S Im, k";"fked out Giacemo tract the other day after a short con- ergom: ). ference with President Bonswanger of COSHOCTON, Ohio.—Henry FIrPO. | the pitteburgh club. Lindstrom is ex- pected to increes> the batting attack RECDY LINDSTROM, who played nine years with the Giants and outpointed Sunny Jim on won f! hr ]‘FLY TO MATCH HERE; WIN | neadcason and Vouns Geltile whipped | Lovisalis, K., o | Bammy Romano in four-rounders. Gen- | Willlams, New York (10). top-notch pros associated with the | Tony Lagzeri and Bill Dickey of the | ‘u“ch Field Aviators Seek Own |tile, local taxicab driver, sent Romano| ALEXANDRIA, Va—Prankie Genaro, new organization to appear and play | Averill of the Cleveland in the tournaments sponsored and ar- | Lonkee ' ba" yon Gronin of the Wash. | cf Gibson's progressive team tremend- ovsly, assuming that he will hit the In the Squared Circle ranged by his association, believing that their appearance will not only | build up the game of golf. but also will redound to the benefit of the pro- fessionals. His idea is that if the appearances of the' American open and Eritish champions and a few other stars can be guarantesd, any open tournament is certain to be a success, and he hopes to be able to guarante for fu- ture tournaments sponsored by the ‘Tournament Gclfers’ appearance of notchers. “Until we can guarantee from four to six of the stars we never can win this battle,” the rotund and affable Bob says. “It can be done.” C*IN places where tournaments are hopeless I offer my list of mem- bers for exhibition purposes, making no selection, but permit- ting the clubs to name the one, two or four or more players it wishes. This most of has worked out in six Florida clubs| to cbtain | where 1t was impossible tournaments, but where work has been obtained for members of the T. G. A." Harlow announceh that two new tour- naments have been promoted by the association—one of them a $5,000 open in Miami for March 3, 4 and 5, and the other a $2,500 open in Charleston, 8. C, with the dates yet to be named. In addition, individuals and commit- tees are working in other sections toward promotion of tournaments in which members of the T. G. A. will appear. Al Houghton of Kenwood, only mem- ber of the T. G. A. in this section, plans to leave Washington for Florida early in February to play in the in- ternaticnal four-ball tournament at Miami and the other Florida events. THE boys were jusi not good enough. Sam Rice and Nick Altrock, vet- eran warriors of the Washington Babe Ball Club, who have taken up golf with considerable success, took a licking ycsterday at the hands of Mel Shorey and Al Price, public park professionals, but not before the base ball stars had put on a gallant show and had gone down fighting. Shorey, who is the pro at East Po- tomac Park, and Price, who holds down the paid berth at Rock Creek, were just too good. They slipped around Rock Creck before a small gallery with a best ball of 67, finishing the first nine 1 up and ending the match on the sixteenth, where Shcrey canned a short putt for a birdie 3. One of the featurese of the match was the hilatity Nick Altrock got out of winning the eleventh with a birdie 2. The deuce came from a thunder- ing putt which roll:d across the green and found the boticm of the tin. Shcrey had an 68, while Irice is nobedy's set. at around the ccurse in scored a 73. One for the BOO —It happened on the diamond BY CHARLIE WHITE, HE largest number of base hits by a club in one season is 1,783 made by the Philadelphia Na- tionals in 156 games, 1930. Detroit holds the American League record, Wwith 1,724 in 154 games, 1921. ‘The mcst homers by one club in tWo cOonSecutive puu— mes is 10 made y Pittsburgh, June 20 (4) and 22 (6), 1925. American League record is nine, made by the Yankees, first game (4), second game (5), May 22, 1930. ‘The most strike- outs by both clubs, in one game, is 29, made by Boston, N. L. (19), vs. Providence (10), June 7, 1884; Bos- ton, A. A. (19), vs. Chicago (10), July 7, 1884; St. Louls, A. A, (18), vs. Boston (11), July 19, 1884. Since 1900, both major leagues have had 23, Boston, N, L. (16), vs. Cincin- nati (7), May 22, 1901, and New York, A. L. (14), vs. Washington (9). September 24, 1914. The sll-time record, most chances accepted by an outfielder in one e, is 13, made by Earl Clark, ton, N. L. (12-po., 1a), May 10, . The next in iine are Oscar Felsch in 1919 and John A. Mostil in 1928, playing with Chicago White Sox, with 12 chances accepted in a vidual card of Altrock. who golf, 122 71, while Rice game. The New York Yankees set an all- time record of having no passed balls by catchers, in 155 games, in Association _the the top- | | ington Senators. | Cronin, the Senators’ manager and | shortstop, polled the greatest number | of votes, 158. ERE is the voting, by positions, for the leader and his closest rival: | Left field—O'Dou!, Dodgers, 101; | | Ruth, Yankees, 29. | | ~Center fleld—Averill, Indians, 61;, | Lloyd Waner, Pirates, 46. i Right fleild—Klein, Phillies, 111; Ruth, 63. | First base—Foxx, Athletics, 138; Geh- rig. Yankees, 40. Second base—Lazzerl, Yankees, 67; | Gehringer, Tigers, 51. | Third base—Traynor, Pirates, 129; ‘Whitney, Phillies, 2 Shortstop—Cronin, Senators, 158; | | Bartell, Phillies, 18. H Catcher—Dickey, Yankees, 118; Coch- | rane, Athletics, 29. | _Pitchers (two named) — Warneke, Cubs, 147; Grove, Athletics, 100; Gomez, Yankees, 95; Ferrell, Indians, 12. - 'WINDY CITY STADIUM | MAKES BOXING PAY| | Profit of $52,705 Turned Up on 14 Shows—Dempsey Card Is Most Lucrative. By the Associated Press. | ("HICAGO, January 25. — Boxing | turned up a net profit of $52,705 during 1932 for the Chicago Stadium Corporation, which went into frieadly receivership last week. Fourteen shows were presented and | i a.1 but four of them showed some kind |of & profit, with the four-round exhi- bition betwcen Jack Dempsey and King Levinsky setting the top mark of $16,637. Levinsky's bout with Walker ranked second, producing a profit of $16,108. ‘The t loser was the Baer-Ernie Schaaf ~offering, which cost the corporation $2,834, while a junior light- weight championship bout bstween Kid Chocolate and Eddie Shea, lost $1,949. ‘The welterweight title clash in which Jackie Fields lifted the championship from Lou Brouillard, put only $857 in the treasury. Eoxing is temporarily out of the stadium picture, but probably will bz rcsumed under a new arrangement. | The receiverchip forbids promo:ion of nts involving financial risk, but a | ing club, the membership cof waich | ill be selected from the corporation | board of directors, is being organized | to siag> shows, leazing the building for a | each event. | | VERGEZ IS GRATEFUL | FOR GIANTS’ TERMS Admits He “Was Not So Hot” | Last Year, Signs Quickly—Jack- son Seeks Reinstatement. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, January 25—Johnny Vergez. third taseman of‘the Ncw York Gients, had a-bad searon in 1922, which posipiv exp'ains why he rf;g;npuy accepted the club’s terms for “In view of the fact that I was nct 5o hot last season,” said a note which accompanied Vergez's signed contract. “I am more than sai with the fair way the club has treated me and will do e;gx;ythlnl I can to regain my form of The Giants announced st the same time that Travis Jackson, veteran short- stop, who was on the voluntary retired list because of an injured knee, had applied for reinstatement. | Otherwise the base ball contract market was at a standstill yesterday. Charley Devens, Harvard graduate, con- ferred with Business Manager E4 Bar- | row of the New York Yankees, bui failed to sign & contract. | CONWAY’S FIVE TO PLAY | Will Meet Aero Eagles Tomorrow | Night at 10th and U. Conway's colored basket ball team meets the Aero Eagles tomorrow night at 10 o'clock in the Masonic Auditorium at Tenth and U z A preliminary is carded for 8:30. - BY FRANCIS E. STAN. IME-TABLE RASSLING, this curious mixture of wrestling, | ice hockey, gymrastics and bar- | rcom brawling, has been in ex-| istence long enough to occasion little | further comment anent the remarkable stamina of the hefties who can rassle | by night and sleep at cdd moments on | Pullmans and airplanes as they travel from town to town, and even coast to| coast, As a matter of fact, the weakening | | of one of the grapplers is a signal for | attention and comment now, and, be- | lieve it or not, the most notable slump | since the mat renascence belongs to | Rudy Dusek, the greatest build-up | ever staged in Washington; the blond | Bohemian, who, with Londos, drew a | reported $23.000 “gate” at Griffith Sta- dium in 1931. same Rudy Dusek who squeezed enough faith from Capital rassling | followers in his ability to become | the world champion rassler, to meet| Londos four times here, now is run- | ning neck-and-neck with Tiger Nelson | for matches lost in the Londos league. Night after night “Rough Rudy,” the best rassling hero and villain ever to fall into a customer’s lap, is being Shadows of the Past BY 1. C. BRENNER. ERE is one of the strangest pictures of this entire series. Hcre is a Shadow of the Past, and yet this man is pitching in as high 'a company as class AA, with Hollywood in the Pacific Coast Leegue. Puzzling? Well, here is the explanation: The photograph shown above was snapped when Shellenback was with the Chicago White Sox, just after the World War. He was a spitball pitcher. Frank did not stay up and went back to the Coast League. the meantime action was taken to bar spitters from coming into the majors. Shellenback returned to the coast and developed himself into a great pitcher. But when he was ready to g0 back to the majors and claim his dues, Shellenback discovered that the restriction against spitters barred So, in so far as the majors are concerned, Shellenback is a Shadow of the Past. In so far as tae Pacific Coast e is concerned, Frank js very much a star of the present—a major leaguer who cannot be & major leaguer because of a rule! (Copyright, 1 637-N-STREET, N.W. WASHINGTON’S DLDI:‘I‘ ) STUDEBAKER ODEALER slapped to the mat now. His victories | have been few and far between. Racquet Club at Squash. |to the floor for no count in the first |round, but the former amateur was | plugging away throughout, although an The Racquet Club team suffered de- | basy target for Gentile's peculiar right feat, 2-6, yesterday at the hands of hook. Two weird and clownish bouts com- When Rudy lost to Frank Judson the March Fleld Aviators' squash | ioieq' the card. Barefoot Green and here some weeks ago, Promoter Joe | Turner’s clientele reatoned Judson was | on the build-up for a Londos match. | But since then, Judson. in towns where | racquets combination of Langley Babe Hollingsworth went to a four- PFleld, which flew here for the match. 'mund draw remarkable by the complete The Langley team will play in New absence of anything resembling action | Neither could punch his wav through he is not on the build-up, has twice York and Toledo before returning 10 |an old-fashioned beaded porticre. In pinned Rudy. So has Abe Coleman. | And others. 'HE reason for Rudy's sudden drop from wrestling’s ranking list is quite unknown. Dusek is only | 30 years old, an age when 9 out of 10 grunters are just hitting their stride. So far Promoter Joe Turner is the only mat expert to offer a logical explana- tion. It's not so much travel and matches night after night as Rudy's new added duties as official scorer, or something, of the Londos-champion- ship circuit. Unless Rudy takes a vacation and gets in shape again he’ll be missed, at least by the Washington clientele. Even if it would be his fifth chance here, put Rudy, at his best, back in with Londos and it's dollars to dough- its base. Marshall Exnicios, District cham- ed a technical pion, won his match over his Army foe by a sensational rally. The Wi ton racketers meet the . combination February ' bargain, s m;{ped the tiff shortly after the second | the other fiasco Cary Wright was award- | over Jack Britten | in the second round. Britten offered the least amount of opposition ever wit- nessed at Portner’s and Wright was no 80 Referee Charlie Short | bel | New York, cutpointed Jce Fino, Mex- ico (8). CANTON, Ohio—Blilly Cleveland, outp-inted Louie Pennsylvania (10). ST. LOUIS —Maxie Rosenbloom, New York oin‘ed Al Stillman, St. Louis (12); Allen Matth St. Louis, out- pointed Ray “Showboat” McQuillan, Portland, Oreg. (10): Harry Dublinsky, Chicago. outpointed Lou Terry, St. Louis (10). LOS ANGELES—Georgie Hansford, BY the Assoclated Press. Los Angeles, outpointed Harry Fierro, NEW YORK.—Sam Stein, 204, New= Chicago (6); Fil Quintanar, Mexico &rk. threw Ray Jeffries, 206, Oklahoma, City, and Hierio Evans, Los Angeles, 20:50. drew (4): Baby Arizmendi, Mexico City,| PATERSON. N. J—Jim Londos, 201, utpoin‘cd Speedy Dado, Philippine Greece, threw Dick Daviscourt, 225, San Ielands (10). Diego, Calif., 15:00. ball with the same vigor thet made him a prime favorite at the Polo Grounds until he became disgruntled Jast Summer berause, hen John Mc- Graw gave up the management, Terry was appointed to handle the team. Mat Wallace, Severo, Iatches A nuts Washingtonians unblushingly will lay {: on the line to watch certain fire- works. Fight fans went home from Portner's | Arena again last night with that sour taste which is becoming a regular ail- ment whenever a star scrapper invades for a test with a badly-outclassed oppo- nent. Frankie Genaro might have pro- vided the ringworms with more action had he jumped rope and punched the bag instead of sparring with Joe Fino. But on February 7, Mr. Frankie Mann will serve a large order of scrapple, no foolin'. Leroy Dougan and Eddie Burl, a pair of fightin’ fools, will tangle. It's Marty Gallagher and Les Ken- nedy next Tuesday. OF the three world wrestling “cham- pions” to appear on Washington mats during the last year there little doubt but that Jim Londos has been far more impressive than either Henrl DeGlane, who showed at Bolling a an Auditorium. 5 been far more impressive than either rassling followers will have a chance to compare the fourth of the title claimants when John Pesck, the Ne- braska “Tiger Man,” meets George Vassell in one of three finish matches. Pesek, recognized in Ohio and parts of cne or two other States, as champion, is reputed to be as smooth a piece of wrestling_machinery ever to step onto 8 mat. Like Londos he is not overly large and wrestles much in the same manner as the Greek, who can draw more grapp'ing a sack of meal than the rest of the “champs” put together with prize challengers, Frank Judson and Jim Clinkstock and Joe Savcldl and John Maxos clash in the other finish affairs. Hans Kampfer and Gino Garibaldl and Floyd Marshall and Jacques Humbe in the prelims. 3 10, e TOLEDO CLUB ON BLOCK Court Orders Sheriff’s Sale of Franchise and Property. ‘TOLEDO, Ohio, January 25 (#).— The American Association franchise of the Toledo Mud Hens and all physical properties of the Detroit-Toledo De- | velopment Co. which controlled the team, have been made subject to dis- posal at sheril’s sale by order of Com- mon Pleas Court. Judge James Martin issued the order on application of the Toledo Trust Co., hich recently was granted a judgment wi against the company. dition to the franchiser T 1 8- ' It was announced the sale would be private. The date has not been set. 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