Evening Star Newspaper, January 27, 1933, Page 32

Cc—2 SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO D. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1933. SPORTS. Judge Casts Lot With Brooklyn Club : Fastest Auto a Speck, Blur to Spectator GETS HIS RELEASE SIGNS INSAME DAY Dodgers Plug Gap at First Sack in Obtaining Vet. To Play Regularly. BY JOHN B. KELLER. T'S Joe Judge of the Dodgers now. Officially released at 10 o'clock this morning by | which he had been since 1915, the first baseman hooked up with the Brooklyn Club. Information that the veteran had signed a contract with the Dodgers was conveyed in an As- sociated Press dispatch from New York. Judge left here yesterday to visit Brooklyn officials for his second confer- ence with them. His first negotiating with the National League club was done in New York last month while the major leagues were holding their an- nual meetings. At that time, President Clark Griffith of the Washington club gave the veteran permission to place himself. In getting Judge, the Brooklyn club plugs a gap at first base that it tried to fill unsuccessfully all last year after Del Bissonette was injured in Spring training. Judge is to be played regu- larly by the Dodgers for a New York report states that Bissonette recently underwent another operation for his heel injury and it is doubtful if he will be in shape to play this year. ‘The Washington club recently asked waivers on the first baseman for the second_time since the close of last sea- son. No club claimed Judge the first time waivers were sought, but Griffith retained the player because no position :ou!d be landed by the veteran at the ime. 'UDGE leaves the Nationals after serving them in 18 seasons. Through 15 campalgns, Joe was the Wash- ington club’s regular first baseman and one of the greatest firstsackers afleld base ball has known Joe came to the Nationals on August 22, 1915, from the Buffalo club of the International League along with Charley Jamieson, a pitcher and outfielder who later was sent to Cleveland. The re- ported price for Judge was $3,000 and two players. With the Nationals, Judge got his the Washington Club with | had been with the Red Sox the year before. That club, though, shipped him to Lewiston of the New England League early in 1914, and after recalling him the next year sold him to Buffalo. In most of his early campaigns with ‘Washington, Judge was handicapped by leg weakness. He had a leg broken during a game in Detroit in 1917 and it was years before he really recovered from the injury. Detroit was a jinx town for Joe, for he suffered ancther severe injury there in 1925. Then he was hit on the head by a ball pitched by Earl Whitehill, southpaw now a member of the Nationals. That blow meant two weeks in a hospital for Judge. OE'S hurts, though, did not mar his work around the first sack. For eight seasons he was the ranking first baseman of the American League. a record unequaled by any other initial sacker in the history of the circuit. Judge has a major league batting aver- age of .299, and in the two world series the Nationals played he clubbed at a .286 rate. Judge was the regular first baseman of the Washington club up to May 1, 1931. Then during a game in Boston he suffered an appendicitis attack and | the initial sack work was turned over to Joe Kuhel. The youngster continued at the post through the remainder of the season. Again last Spring Judge started at first base, but after suffer- ing a knee injury during a contest in St. Louis early in the campaign he | gave way to Kuhel once more. There- after, he did little work afield. 8 Judge was let out, the Nationals took on a new player. He is Ells- worth Hazzard, a right-hand pitch- er with no professional experience. His signed contract was received by Presi- dent Griffith this morning. Hazzard was the leading pitcher of the University of Illinois nine in 1931. ‘Then he signed with the Boston Braves, but never reported. Barred from play- ing college ball last Spring, he joined a semi-pro club in Chicago, his home. Several who saw him work on the ‘Windy City lots recommended him high- 1y to Griffith and the Washington chief decided to add him to the Nationals’ roster. According to Griffith, his new hurler is sizeable. Statistics given out by the Washington headquarters state that Hazzard is 6 feet in height and weighs 180 pounds. I E—— AERO EAGLES ARE BEATEN Conway's Super Five, in Debut, Is Victor, 45 to 39. Conway's Super Five, making its de- but, defeated the Aero Eagle basketers, 45-39, last night in the new Masonic Auditorium. The winners led all the ‘way. Joe Sweeney, Eagle star, was held scoreless by Rap Wheatley, former Mor- an College guard, until the final quar- In a preliminary the Red Sox quint bested the Arrows, 28-27. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. ISHER, elected captain of the Eastern High base ball team for next season, plans to enter the Naval Academy. Mount St. Joseph defeated George ‘Washington at basket ball, 15 to 11. G. W. used Kuehn, Coleman, Gore, Noonan and Rogers. Joliffe and Brandt have the best averages in the National Capital Duckpin League. ‘The Rochester tenpin team of the New York State League rolled 3,497 Tor three games. Roger Bresnahan of the Chicago Cubs is one of the richest players in base ball Owner Navin of the Detroit team 1s said to be willing to give the great Ty Cobb a raise but not to accede to the outfielders request for $45,000 for three years. Jim Thorpe, great Indian athlete and Olympic all-around champion, Mkely will be declared a professional. ‘Howard Drew, Ted Meredith and Platt Adams starred in a track and fleld meet in New York. Unusual opportunity to enter a pay- ing business. Small down payment. Only $18 per week buys a new Ford V-8 Sedan. Ask for Mr. Belding STEUART MOTOR COMPANY 6th and New York Avenue N. To Join Dodgers NAT FIRST SACKER GOES TO ANOTHER LEAGUE. JOE JUDGE. Capture Three, Draw as Many, Lose One to Legion Rivals. Fort Humphreys boxers captured three bouts, one was won by the Wash- ington American Legion and three were declared draws in a seven-bout boxing card staged between the two before 600 spectators at the Engineer Theater at | the fort. | Results: | Lee Crandal. and Floyd Hartis, drew. Chauncey Reppert. 138 (Fort Humphreys), defeated Kid Trigger, 135 (American Le- glon) Doug Keys. 142 (American Legion) and Bill Julius, 142 (Fort Humphreys), drew. Benny Jenkins, 142 (American Legion) and Chet Wirkowskl, 142 (Fort Humphreys), 171, (American Legion) i74 (Fort Humpnreys). rew. Jimmie O'Neill. 124 (Fort Humphreys), defeated Nay Palmer, 120 (American Le- gion Jack Baxter, 158 (American Legion), feated Bobby Jo: 5 Frank Lis, *147 ' (Fort feated Herb Vermillion, glon). - 'TACKLE OLSON’S SWEDES |Aero Eagles Book Sunday Game de- vS) umphre 147 (Ame; evs), de- rican Le: | for G. W. U. Gymnasium. Olson’s Swedes will furnish the oppo- |sition for the Acro Eagle semi-pro | basketers of this city Sunday afternoon {in the George Washington University | gymnasium Utah State Society and Sholl's tossers are carded to meet in a preliminary. | Next Wednesday the Eagles and the Lustine-Nicholson quint, the latter made | up largely of basketers who played with | the 1931 University of Maryland South- game series in the G. W. gym. | DUB STAKES DATE SET \ /105 or Under Bowlers to Start Tournament March 18. | Bowling in the Arcadia Dub Sweep- | stakes, open to rollers with averages of | 105 or under, will get under way March 18, when the first three games will be | shot, and end March 25, when the final three games will be rolled. | Entry fee is $2.50, including games. | The annual Arcadia husband and wife tournament will get under way on February 18 and wind up March 11. | There is no entry fee for this event. | SEXTET WANTS GAMES. Basket ball games with girl teams of | Washington are wanted by the Ladies’ Auxiliary sextet of Company M, Na- tional Guard of Annapolis. Address Henry Westphal, 128 Conduit street, :%n;pons, or telephone Annapolis CARDS SELL JOHNSON. COLUMBUS, Ohio, January 27 (#).— Purchase of Pitcher Sylvester Johnson from the St. Louis Cardinals has been ennounced by L. S. MacPhail, president 1%11 !bhe Columbus American Association ub, One for the Book ity BY CHARLIE WHITE. EW YORK'S YANKEES hold the all-time record of making 27 extra bases, on long hits (2 on 2-base, 4 on 3-base, 21 on home runs), June 3, 1932. The rec- ord formerly was held by Pittsburgh, with 25, June 6, 1894. The lowest bat- ting percentage of a pennant-winning team is .228, regis- tered by Chicago ‘White Sox, playing 154 games, in 1906 (was eighth in bat- ting per cent). The National League record is .247, made by Philadelphia, 153 games, 1915 (fifth in batting per_cent). The most runs, in two consecu- tive innings made by one club, is 21, in Pittsburgh-Boston game, 12 in third and 9 in fourth inning, June 6, 1894. American League record is 19 in Boston-Philadelphia game, 9 in second and 10 in third inning, May 2, 1901. ‘Three first basemen have made seven unassisted double plays in a season. Walter Pipp, New York Yankees, 1921; George Burns, Bos- ton (A.L), 1922; Jim Bottomley, St. Louis (N.L.), 1924. No chances were offered to Stephen Yerkes, Boston (A.L.), playing sec- ond base, in a game of 15 innings, June 11, 1913. Raymond Charles, St. Louis Cardinals, played 11 in- nings, no chances offered, June 26, 1909. Ice-Hockey C ro;idsil ‘ Show Cigar-Trend§ | Puck-fans Falling in Line With Rest of Country. Regardless of men’s interests— | whether it be ice-hockey or opera | —they have a common meeting- ground; that’: Casual surveys at the hockey- matches show the fans as enthusi- | astic about Girard cigars as the rest of the country. Men everywhere, | are turning by the hundreds to Gi- | \rard. It's growing faster than any| |other cigar in America! | Girard (now a nickel) was ten cents. But the sales reached such a peak—and tobacco-costs came |down so low—that the price could | be cut exactly in half! There’s no| change in the enjoyment, however. | At a nickel, you get the same ten- | cent flavor, fragrance, and coolness | that made Girard famous. There's no change in the famous mildness, either! Now, as always, Girard “never gets on your nerves.” Every puff—right to the butt— duplicates every other puff. Mel- low, fragrant, and soothing! Try a Girard today.—Advertisement. HUMPHREYS BOXERS LEAD | first real big league trial, although he | ern Conference title team, open a three- | PSEK I SPEEDY, BUTLAGKS COLOR Easily Flops Vassell—Gari- baldi-Kampfer Draw Steals Mat Show. OHN PESEK, one of wrestling's four world “champlons,” perhaps can wrestle with the cream of the caulifiower crop, but like | Strangler Lewis and Henri De Glane, | other “champs” who have appeared | here, the 195-pound Nebraska “Tiger | Man” is paled by the dynamic Jim | Londos. In toying and easlly pinning George Vassell in one of three finish matches last night at the Washington Audi- torium, Pesek proved himself undoubt- edly one of the fastest and cleverest wrestlers in the business, but compared with the colorful and clever Londos, he, too, falls short of being the kind of mat champion who makes the turnstiles | click in these days of acrobatic rasslers, technocrats and Huey Long. - Pesek displayed spced and a wide variety of holds to dispose of Vassell after carrying the Greek for 20 minutes. INO GARIBALDI and Hans Kamp- fer stole the show. As anticipated, | they went to a 30-minute draw, | the only fall being scored by Garibaldi |over Referee Benneh Bortnick, who happened to be in the way when Gino launched a flying tackle. Benneh's ponderous midsection stopped Gari- baldi’s flight and Bortnick was floored and sent rolling across the mat like a lopsided tennis ball. PFrank Judson defeated Jim Clink- stock in the quick time of 21 minutes in the final bout by the simple ex- pedient of socking the Quge Indian on the whiskers. The end came after | Clinkstock, outweighing the current Washington hero by nearly 50 pounds, threw Judson from the ring, and after | reaching over the ropes twice and | stroking Frank's chin with his elbow, attempted to launch a half flying tackle. Cyclone Burns, then ump\rm? was | resting on the floor, sent sprawling by | Clinkstock in his rush to the ropes, so Judson whipped over a right to the | mandible. Clinkstock then was easy prey. In other bouts Joe Savoldi demon- strated his flying tackle, learned at Notre Dame, in licking John Maxos in 17 minutes, and Jacques Humberto pol- ished off Floyd Marshall in 23 minutes. About 4,000 witnessed the show. No Giant éatcher Has Yet Signed EW YORK, January 27 (#)— | The New York Giants already | have 12 players signed for the off season, but they lack a catcher | to round out a complete nine. | Contracts signed so far have been returned by Outfielders Ott, George Davis and Joe Moore; Pitchers Luque, Hubbell, Glenn Spencer and | Reggie Mapp; First Basemen Terry and Joe Malay: Second Baseman | Critz, Third Baseman Vergez and Shortstop John Ryan. The veteran, Luque, and the rookies, Mapp and Malay, came to terms yesterday. A Close-Up on Speed King MALCOLM CAMPBELL IN COCKPIT OF HIS BLUE BIRD. Engel’s “Next” Intrigues "Nooga Lookout Fans Are More Interested in Ballyhoo Stunt Than Pennant Chances. By the Associated Press. HATTANOOGA, January 27. —Ideas, Joe Engel says, sell base ball as well as aspara- gus, rubber hose and hair- Malls—and at no increase in prices. And don't forget Jackie Mitchell, the girl pitcher, who struck out Babe Ruth in an exhibition game with the New York Yankees. The depression still is hanging around. so every one knows Joe is busy thinking up schemes to at- tract the paying customers and to keep red ink off his box office ledger ‘The fans like ballvhoo and so Joe gives it to them. The big question now is not so much who is going to win the pennant, but what will Joe do next. GIBBINS LOOKS TO YALE | Central Athlete Going to Roxbury | Academy to Prepare. Henry (Hank) Gibbins, crack Central High foot ball player and a mainstay in the field events on thec track team, will quit that institution next week and enter Roxbury Academy near New Haven, where he will prepare to enter Yale in the Fall of 1934. Gibbins was scheduled to graduate from Central in June. One of the most versatile gridders ever to wear the blue. Gibbins has held forth at various positions on the eleven for three years, and his work has been uniformly high class. He was picked on The Star’s all-high eleven the last two seasons, having captained the team last Fall. He has been a consistent point winner in the shot and discus for the track team for three years. pins. By ideas, Joe usually means any- thing to build up ballyhoo and draw interest to his merchandise—the Chattanooga base ball team. For two years Joe has proved his contention. His Lookouts have drawn good crowds, at home and on the road, while other teams have played to small audiences. Engel admits the annual Babe Ruth-Jake Ruppert headline act is pretty good, but he believes he's the smartest ballyhoo agent among Southern base ball men. And, no one challenges his assumption. Folks don't really get fired up about base ball around here until Joe starts his stuff, Engel rose to a new high last season. There was hardly a week he didn't get into print with some act or statement that brought a laugh. There was his Negro song and dance team. Then the canary birds in their lded cages, singing their sweetest harmony with the base hits. Later, as the season drew to a close and the race got hot, Joe plastered the area with posters ad- | vertising his road show—"The Look- out Special”—with the great Duster CAMPBELL TAKES FVEMILE START Distance Almost Ere By- stander Can Turn. (This is the second of a series of ar- ticles on the carcer of Sir Malcolm Campbell, world's greatest racing car driver.) of ocean beach, 500 feet wide, paralleled on one side by a receding surf, shimmer- ing with white-caps in a brilliant sun, and on the other by high, irregular sand dunes, lined with thousands of excited spectators. That, in brief, is a picture of the fa- mous racing strip where Sir Malcolm Campbell of England will seek to better his own world automobile speed record | of 253 miles an hour. | _ The trials, set for the middle of | February, will mark his fourth assault upon the record here. Rolled out smooth as a billiard table | and packed down hard as concrete by the pounding waves, the course presents | facilities for high-speed racing that “ha\'led been found nowhere else in the | world. BY TED GILL. AYTONA BEACH, Fla,, Jan- LOCATED in the middle of the sandy stretch is the officially measured mile, over which Campbell hopes to dash in less than 14.17 seconds, the time for the existing record. Taking & five-mile rolling start, the driver shifts into high gear as quickly as possible and presses the long accel- erator to the floorboard, in order that | his giant 2,500-horsepower Bluebird may | pick up its maximum speed before en- | tering the official mile. | To the excited spectators in the | grandstangd, who train binoculars on the | distant horizon. the hurtling car at first | appears as a tiny speck. Faster, faster it rushes with increasing acceleration, barely skimming the crystal sands. 'UDDENLY, with a mighty roar, the machine, like a speeding arrow, | streaks past the grandstand in a bluish blur. Then, almost before the | spectators can turn their heads to fol- | low its course, the car has disappeared |In the distance. to come to a gradual stop five miles away. After a careful inspection of the trim machine, the driver jumps back into | the cockpit for another mad rush over | the course. Rules provide that he must make two runs, one with the wind and the other against it. The second must be completed not more than an hour after the start of the first. At the start and finish of the meas- ured mile, a wire is stretched cross- wise of the beach, about three inches above the sand. When the wheels of the speeding car strike the wire, the action throws a switch, which in turn SEEY=<X TOM 637 - N-STREET, N.W. @ WASHINGTON'S OLDEST o STUDEBAKER OEALER Have You Tried INO THE MILD “let your taste be the judge” NEW DEAL for cigarette smokers! 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If the trials are successful, Campbell returns to the grandstand, where he is given an ovation by the cheering| crowds. A brief interview with news- | papermen and then he motors to his | hotel to rest—another speed record to | his credit. o BOXING GETS A BREAK Minnesota Governor Will Sign Bill for Local Option. ST. PAUL, January 27 () —Legisla- tive action permitting “local option” | professional boxing in Minnesota has | been completed and the measure sent to | Gov. Floyd B. Olson, who sald he would sign it. can be G ltalis 50 SECONDS TO RUB. Mas- age Vitalis into your scalp — hard. Feel that exhilarating tingle? That tells you Vitalis is waking up your scalp—and your hair! i s 10 SECONDS TO BRUSH. Comb your hair. Brush it — briskly. Notice that lustre! No “patent-leath- er” look, however. And your hair will “stay put” all day. ASK YOUR BARBER No one can tell better than your barberabout the condition of your hair. Don’t ignore expert advice. 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