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SPORTS [} PILOT IS GRATIFIED BY VETS' CONDITION Sure Reserves Will Be Ade- quate—Second Tribal Tilt Rained Out. BY JOHN B. KELLER. ILOXI, Miss, March 20.— Well satisfied with the work of the three veteran hurl- ers, who made their 1933 debut$ against the Cleveland In-| dians last week end, although his | club took a licking, Manager Joe Cronin is more confident than | ever that his Nationals will have | the finest curving corps in the American League this year. “Crowder and Whitehill looked even better than I thought they were at this stage of the training grind,” declared Cronin today. “And Weaver, too, was better than the run-an-inning record made against him might lead one to believe. “I'm sure Stewart and Al Thomas will | come through in great style also once | they break into the exhibition gemes. | That'll mean with the many days for conditioning remaining we’ll take into | the championship season the strongest staff of starting pitchers in the circuit. | “Of course, we'll need more than start- ing pitchers,” the boy field boss added. | “But we'll have the reserve. Russell is | coming around nicely and when he's | right he's a tough one to get to. And | those youngsters, Linke and Bud Thomas, promise to be plenty good. ! Burke should show something once he | gets rid of his sore arm. “Back of them are McAfee and Friedrichs. both have been ailing, but | either may come through and make the | reserve force. We should have plenty | of good pitchers for relief work this season. “On paper, the Washington pitching | lines up as the best in vears and,” | Cronin went on emphatically, “it'll be Just that on the fleld.” J ROWDER appears in even better trim than he was at a similar stage in the 1932 training season. It will be recalled that the General last | fill Bpring got away to his best start in the champlonship race since coming back to the Nationals from the Browns in 1930 He promises to be in splendid stride when the bell rings next month in Washington. Against the tribe in his three-inning debut, the General had that bafing change of pace that made life so mis- erable for many batters last year. He pitched with much freedom, his action as good as might be expected of a hurler at the outset | of the flag race. And at times he put plenty on the ball. Certainly Crowder did not fear to “bear down"” with his pitching in his first test of the year under fire. ‘WHitehill, too, showed an arm well loosened, but the southpaw transferred from the Tigers during the Winter, was content to pitch well within himself. Not once did he make any effort to zip ’em through. At that, the Indians did little against him. They got four hits in Earl’s three-inning term, but two of the hits were decidedly scratchy. Weaver took the bumping in the game, but he was no weakling. His main fault, perhaps, lay in trying to pitch too well. Physically in fine trim, the rangy right hander who last year was the rookie sensation of the junior major circuit, studied every pitch and consequently tightened in his work. Hurling freely, Weaver probably would have been much more impressive. Monte learns his lessons quickly. Very likely he’ll be a smoother per- former the next time out. DOWNPOUR in New Orleans yes- terday prevented a second meet- ing between Nationals and In- dians, gave the Washington club treas- | ury a wallop and forced Walter Stew- | art to wait until Wednesday for his! first three-inning term on the hill this | year. The ex-St. Louis left-hander will be sent against the Atlanta club, facing | Cronin's crew for the fourth time this | Spring. | Al Thomas may not make his mound | debut until after the Nationals break | camp here, which they are slated to do next Saturday. While Al's arm, from which bone chips were removed by a Chicago surgeon during the Winter, ap- pears strong and the pitcher has done a great amount of heaving in batting | practice, those in charge of the club | ‘want the salary wing fully loosened be- fore it is risked in a game. | Little improvement is noticeable in the arms of Burke, Friedrichs and McAfee that have been sore for some time. These pitchers aren't likely to | get into any of the games the Na-| tionals have left to play in Biloxi. This means that Russell, Linke and Bud ‘Thomas will be called upon for extra | duty on the hill. They are willing workers—and can take it. STEPS DOWN AS PILOT Thompson Turns Over Job With Miller Nine to Curtin. Resignation of G. W. (Pepper) ‘Thompson, popular manager of the| Miller Furniture Co. base ball team has been announced. Under his direc- | tion the nine last season won the Capital City League senior title. Its record for the campaign was 34 vic- tories and four defeats. Thompson has managed various teams here since 1927, when he piloted the Sam Rice Midgets to the pennant in the Capital City League. Four mem- bers of that team are carrying on with the Miller nine. They are, Lyman Mc- voy, Brent Turner, George Wood and Carey Maupin, business manager. Curtis (Cac) Curtin has been selected as the Miller manager to succeed Thompson. He assisted Thompson in 1932, American League | |5 Kilbourne Keeps ~ Railroads Busy HICAGO, March 20 (#).—Here is a fighter who doesn't mind work. Kack Kilbourne, California mid- dleweight, who makes his headquar- ters in Chicago, will meet Jack Moran of Chicago tonight at White City in an eight-round bout. He will jump on a train and go to Louisville, Ky, where he will tackle Henry Firpo, in a 10-rounder tomorrow night. Jimmy é;rres. his manager, tried to line him up for a preliminary to the Maxie Rosenbloom-Bob Godwin match in_Madison Square Garden Friday. It fell through, however, and Jack was very disappointed. PAIR OF 00D SUBS AWORRY TO STRIPP Form of Reis and Flowers Lessens Holdout Prob- lem of Dodgers. By the Associated Press. IAMI, Fla, March 20.—If the Brooklyn Dodgers appear un- worried over Joe Stripp's pro- tracted hold-out, perhaps it's because they have two able substitutes in camp, While Stripp carries on his battle with the front office, Max Carey has been using Jake Flowers and Bobby Reis at Stripp’s third base post and both have been playing great ball. Flowers, of course, is a veteran who can play any infield position. Rels has been “ripening” on Dodger farms and appears about ready for the big time. | LOS ANGELES, March 20 (#).—The tremendous improvement in John (Blondy) Ryan's batting form can be credited mostly to Manager Bill Terry | of the New York Giants. Ryan came up labeled a weak man with the stick although a flelding mar- vel, but Terry spotted a few things wrong with his stance in the first few batting practices and promptly cor- rected them. Since then Ryan has been hitting at a .350 clip. He got three hits against the White Sox yester- day, including a double with the bases ed. AN FRANCISCO, March 20 (®)— | | PECK SEES A PRIZE INNEW SHORTSTOP Cleveland Pilot Rates Bill Knickerbocker a Most Promising Prospect. EW ORLEANS, March 20 (#).— Manager Roger Peckinpaugh thinks highly of several of the Cleveland Indians’ rookie pros- pects. But he ragards none more highly than Bill Knickerbocker. “It looks as if,” said Peck today, “we have come up with one of the best shortstop prospects I have seen in the last 10 years.” SARASOTA, Fla. March 20 (#)— ‘The Boston Red Sox were minus two rookfes today, Bucky Mahoney of Taun- ton, Mass., and Harley McNeal of Ohio, receiving their releases yesterday. Bucky has had a sore arm and Mc- Neal was too homesick to show much. ‘The cut was the first in the ranks of the Sox. Incidently the Sox winning streak was broken by Newark. The minor leaguers plastered a 4-0 defeat on the rejuvenated Red Hose. PASADENA, Calif, March 20 (#).— Easy days are about over for members of the Chicago White Sox pitching corps. Where the hurlers have been working three innings, Manager Lew Fonseca plans to lengthen out the tasks from now on. ‘The Sox were back at routine busi- ness today, having finished their two- game series with the New York Giants without & victory, although they did some fancy hitti T EAUMONT, Tex., March 20 (#)— Charley Gehringer's home run with two men on base Sunday furnished the impetus for a rally by the Detroit ‘Tigers which ended in their defeat of véhe l%enumont Club of the Texas League to 5. Bucky Harris turned loose three pitch- ers, Tommy Bridges, Fred Marberry and Isadore Goldstein. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, March 20 ().—Fred Walker, 22-year-old outfield- er, may not break into the New York Yankees’ outfield this year but experts | are convinced he is destined to become & major league star in the not-too- distance future. Son of Dixie Walker, who pitched for Washington 20 years ago, Fred has been a sensation in Spring training. He is fast, a good fielder with a strong arm, and a splendid hitter as his .351 average with Newark last year attests. FORT MYERS, Fla., March 20 () — Back in their training camp after the Major league base ball teams train- | Jongest road trip they will have in the ing in this area will check up on | their weak points today and go into | action again tomorrow against Pacific | Coast League teams, the Chicago Cubs playing the San Francisco Seals here and the Pittsburgh Pirates taking on the Seattle Indians at Santa Cruz. The Cubs cleaned up a four-game series with a record of three wins, by dividing two games with the Pirates | game at Emeryville, 10 to 4, and the | Cubs the afternoon struggle here, 6 to 4. | TAMPA. Fia, March 20 (P—as a reward for their hitting against the | Athletics, Manager Donie Bush today |gave the Cincinnati Reds their first rest since training started, 18 days ago. | Although the Athletics evened the | series with the Reds with a 9-5 victory vesterday, Cincinnati slammed out seven hits off Connie Mack’s ace left-hander, "Lefty Grove, and scored four earned runs in three innings. Bottomley led the Red attack with four hits, two of them doubles. | SAN FRANCISCO, March 20 (®)— | | The Chicago Cubs had an open date today, giving Manager Charlie Grimm | opportunity to take stock of his squad. | "His worries center around the pitch- |ing staff. The veterans, Charlie Root, Guy Bush, Lonnie Warneke and Pat Malone, have made satisfactory progress, | but some of the younger hands, notably | Bud Tinning, have not done so well. Tinning_has been unable to take off weight fast enough to reach the form he showed late last season. B OUTBOXING BOB TOW IS GALLAGHER’S TASK Davis, on Other Hand, Is Meeting| a Socker in Taylor at Portner’s Tomorrow. ODDY DAVIS and Marty Galla- gher, local lightweight and heavy- weight, respectively, the ring at Portner’s Arena tomorrow for tests which may make or break them as far as boxing in headliners hereabout is concerned. Gallagher is receiving last chance ! No. 71, or something, and has drawn Bobby Tow, who defeated Marty in their first meeting last year for his opponent over a 10-round stretch. Un- like Davis, Gallagher won't have to be | on the watchout for a single knockout unch. Bob Tow is not a kayo socker and Marty's biggest job will be to out- box the lanky Georgian. Davis is encountering an even more dangerous rival in Bucky Taylor in the eight-round semi-final. Taylor can sock and Davis isn’t the world's hard- est fighter to knock down. However, Roddy is just as good a boxer as Taylor and has an advantage in weight, reach and height. Three four-rounders will precede the Gallagher-Tow and Davis-Taylor bouts. | They follow: Young Raspi vs. Jack La- mar, Joe Maffi vs. Buddy Spenner, Jesee Belt vs. Ed Erman. ENTER SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIP ROME (#).—The United States, Mex- ico and Haiti have notified International Soccer Federation headquarters they will send teams to participate in the world championship matches to be played in Italy next year. Seventeen nations now are on the list of partici- pants. Stagg, Eager, Goes to New Job Starting Over at 70, He Drill at College By the Assoclated Press. HICAGO, March 20.—For the second time in his career, Amos Alonzo Stagg today was on his way westward to take a new job. Automatically retired from the post of director of athletics at the Uni- versity of Chicago, by the 70-year ge limit, Stagg signed to become head foot ball coach at the College of the Pacific, Stockton, Calif. Yes- terday, enthusiastic and eager, he started for California to become acquainted with his new job. He will remain at Stockton, di- Will Direct Spring Grid of the Pacific. his annual vacation. He will ‘not finally step out of his position at. Chicago until the end of the college year. Mrs. Stagg did not accompany the old man, but they will go West to make their home next August. Stagg's departure was tinged with regret, but he was too happy at start- ing over again to sorrow much. He is pleased with a foot ball schedule that includes games with St. Mary's and Loyola of Los Angeles, and plans to bring his College of the Pacific mlm to Chicago as soon as pos- e. A t welcome has been pre- pai and Stagg is booked solid for ts during his | vesterday, Pittsburgh won the morning | step into | | South, the Philadelphia Athletics meet | the House of David players today and get a chance to even the so-called | grapefruit series. To date they have won three and lost four of the exhibition games, having | defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers, the | Phillies and the Cincinnati Reds, and | lost two to the Dodgers and one each |to St. Louis and Cincinnati. In a resolute late rush the A's flat- tened the Reds at Tampa yesterday, 9 | LEGIONNAIRES TO BOWL | Second National Tournament Will Be Held at Chicago in Fall. CHICAGO, March 20 (f).—The sec- | tournament will be held in Chicago | September 28 to October 16. | _The event will be directed by Wilfred | G. Albert of the Advertising Men's | Post, Chicago, who managed the first tournament last year at Detroit. |ond annual American Legion bowling WALTER STEWART WHO 15 THINKING WAY ALONG PITCH Wally’s Syste Lack of “Stuff” no Worry to HERE is a saying in base ball, that when a pitcher hasn't any | tricks, hasn't a whizzing fast | ball, his curve is not so hot and | | Father Time has been caressing him, | that he pitches with his glove. | They have been saying that about Walter Stewart. the traded-in south- paw with Uncle Grifl's_flag-hoping crew, for a long while, Maybe, three or four years. But those critics forgot to add that along with his glove the silent, slow- | moving Mr. Stewart has a head. | And a lot of hitters who have watched | his slow ball sneak past them will agree. | “I'll be satisfied to have them say | that I pitch with only a prayer and a glove,” says Walter, down there | at Camp Griff, “if I can get my | share of them past the fellow wig- | gling the war willow. | “Then, they say I have no curve | ball. Let the batters keep on saying that. But I am capitali: on what T have, and that’s more a lot of folks are doing.” ‘That's Mr. Stew entlemen. Do- ing his best, getting his bad days and | his good ones. But trying all of the | time. | “That's all you can expect any player | to do,” chirps Uncle Clark, listening in on the conversation. | Walter has a lot of courage out on | the rubber. He always has had a lot | of the old red. When a kid, he acci- dentally lost & finger on his right hand. | in Trade W AIS ING PATHS m Suits Him Southpay Obtained by Griffs ith Browns. He was pitching on the sandlots. Then he turned flipping from the portside. Like all moundsmen Walter likes to talk of the day he got “his hit." I saw Mose Grove get his at_Baltimore some vears ago. It was a homer, far over the fence. He staggered to the bench, so thrilled and excited that the late Jack Dunn, his boss, yanked him off the hill. Anyhow, Walter's thrill came on Au- gust 2, 1928. In a 15-inning battle against the Yanks (his nemesis for years) his bat happened to nick one of Herb Pennock’s fast ones, with the | Tesult that it popped up in back of | second to bring in the winning run. ) ‘The Crossville, Tenn.. hurler did not | have a good vear in '32. He won 15/ and lost 19 for the Browns. He hung up 20 against 12 for the St. Louisans in 1930. his best major league mark. | Walter is 32, under 6 feet tall and is slightly built. And, of all things, is esire to play, along with the glove with vhich the boys say he hurls. “You may add,” says Walter, “that with the Senators I expect to have a far better year than I did with the Browns. A tighter defense and hitters like Cronin, Schulite, Goslin, Manush and the rest of the boys ought to give me runs to work on.” | A real fellow, this quiet young man, with whom the Washington fans are going to be friendly. Yesterday’s Results. New York (A.L.),3; Boston (N.L), 2. Brooklyn (N.L.), 4; Buffalo (L. L), 1. Detroit (AL), Pitfisbul’l (N. L), 10-4; (A. L), 3; House of Phtl:adelphil (N. L), 8; St. Louis L), 3 Philadelphia (A. L.), 9; Cincinnati (N. L), 5. Chicago Newark (I. L.), 4; Boston (A. L), 0. New York (N. L), 13; Chicago (A. L), 8. Today's Schedule. New York (A. L) vs. Newark (I. L), at Clearwater. Philadelphia. David, at Fort Myers. Philadelphia (N. L) (I._L), at Winter Haven. St. Louis (N. L) vs. Boston (N. L.), at St. Petersburg. vs. Montreal Shadows of the Past BY L C. BRENNER. JOHNNY LAVAN. O Hans Wagner was Johnny Lavan when he played short for the Senators and the Cardi- nals. But he was a steady high-class infielder, and it was his hard luck to come to the Cardinals before their era of success—before Rogers Hornsby led them to their first pen- nant in 1926, and the world cham- pionship over the Yankees. Johnny now is Dr. Lavan, and he is a surgeon in one of the St. Louls hospitals. After having finished with the Cards, who placed Tommy ‘Thevenow in the doctor’s place, Lavan went to Kansas City. There he went into his medical work in earnest. He realized that he wns coming to the close of his bas--I career. After he had played with ~ insas City a couplé of seasons, ~ ..an re- tired from the game, and followed in the footsteps of many another fa- mous ball player. Dr. Mark Baldwin, , was one of the early Beaumont (T.L.), 5. | (A. L) vs. House of | | LETOURNER, DE BAETS| ADD TO BIKE WINS| Victory at Chicago Is Sixth for Frenchman and Tenth for Belgian Rider. By the Associated Press. | HICAGO, March 20.—Not that it is new to them, Alfred Letourner and Gerard de Baets today were on their way with whatever six-day bicycle riders get for winning races. | _ Letourner, a Frenchman, and De Baets, from Belgium, won Chicago's | twenty-ninth international grind which | closed Saturday night at the stadium. It was the tenth victorious ride for De Baets, and Letourner’s sixth. They | won over Jules Audy of Montreal, and Bill Grimm, by three laps, covering 2,191 miles and nine laps. Audy and Grimm took second place by scoring 616 points, although the Le { Page-De Lille and Thomas-Schaller | teams covered the same distance. The latter had 516 and 308 points respect- ively. The remainder of the field { finished in the following order: Jimmy Walthour and Charlie Ritter, | Harry Hoan and Tony Manera, Bobby ‘Walthour and George Dempsey, Mickey Rodak and William (Torchy) Peden, | Franz Deulberg and Paul Croley and | Freddie Spencer and Dave Lands. LOCAL SWIMMERS BOW Baltimore Y. M. C.,A. Natators Take Six of Eight Events. ‘Winning six of the eight events, Bal- timore Y. M. C. A. swimmers easily de- feated natators of the Central Y. M. C. A. in the latter's pool here, 51-24. In a preliminary meet the Central Y Juniors conquered the Shoreham Jun- lors, 20-19. Baltimore-Washington summat 200-yard relay—Won by Baltimore (Van- denburg, Kicas, Chesonis, Kinsley). Time, 100-yard breast stroke—Won by Moncure (W.);_sect Dryer (B.); third, Chumpun- kas (B.). Time, 1:16. 50-yard free style—Won by Kinsley (B.): d, Chesonis (B.): third, Westover (W.). yard free style—Won by Kicas (B.); Flurry (B third, Rouse® (W.). 145 d_back stroke—Won by Marmion (W.); second, Vandenburg (B.): third, Weiner me, Won by Kinsley (B.); 100-yard free sty second, Mathews (B.): third, Mullady (W.). ime, 0:57%%. Fancy diving—Won by Anchakaites (B.), 82.1 polnts; second, Wells (W.); third, Mon- )-yare —1 Baltimore (Weiner: Dryes sad Bican: Hime, 1L B T Ao e Atarphy (8. -yas 5 "Prince (¥); third, Kinselia® (Y. yard breast stroke—Won by Murphy ® Bhee Y thirs, Much (2D, ime, 0:2334. 25-3 lo— 1 ); el LS TRT &Y ard medley relay—Won by Y (Kinsells, ! Much, Prince); Shoreham. 0:574. HOPPER SHIFTS AS PILOT. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., March 20 (#)— Clay Hopper of Greenwood, Miss., Who finished the 1932 season as manager of the Elmira base ball club of the New today was la; Dryer and Kicas) second, e, SANDLOT BALL CLUBS GET BUSY IN EARNEST Heavy Practice and Organization Meetings Slated This Week. Ex-Champs Seek “Uncle.” ANDLOT base ballers of the District area plan to get down to serious drilling this week. Many squads al- ready have had preliminary work. Organization of the various divisions | of the Capital City League will go for- | ward this week, when meetings again will be held in the playground office | of the District Building at 8 p.m. Insect nines gather tonight, un- limited teams tomorrow night, seniors, | Wednesday; juniors, Thursday, and| midgets, Friday. Cal Griffith, adopted son of President Clark Griffith of the Washington club, | is among the aspirants for the Griffith- Consumers team. The squad will hold its first drill next Sunday. Willie| Glascoe is manager. Maryland Aces are booking junior and midget nines. John Newman is receiving challenges by mail at Capitol Heights, Md. A sponsor for the group of players which two years ago under the man- agement of Snitz Nau made up the Olmsted Grill team that won the Capi- tal City League senior title, is sought :{&l‘m‘ His phone number is Potomac Sunday games with semi-pro nines hereabout are wanted by the Annapolis club. Write Manager L. J. Woytych, | Annapolis, Md. OVER 20 QUIiITS ENTERED More than 20 teams have entered the Twelfth Street Y. M. C. A. colored basket ball tourney and indications are more quints will compete than last Winter. The deadline for entries is ‘Wednesday. Teams that will compete in the 110, 120 and 140 pound classes are to at the Y tomorrow for weighing-in and SPORTS. Ve QUIT TRYING To ThRow A BAST ONE - QuUIT LONG AGO"_ Siys WALTRR, JACK QUIAN HAS BEEN FOOLING ‘EM CoRrR .A LONG WHILE... WALTER Turows A BAFFLING SLOW BALL—" —— TIME BROUGHT- Down AT BiLoxi, WALTERS METMoD ABOUT...... OF GETTING INTO SHAPE IS AIS OWAL.... THE SPORTLIGHT BY GRANTLAND RI The Wearing of the Green. I'll pick a name from the old time school, ‘When Erin’s pick had the right to rule, And shoot an ode at the great O'Doul. ‘What has become of Bid McPhee? Bowerman, Donlin and Magee, And Dan McGann with the old ash tree? Back in the days of the leathered paw, What were the names you always saw? Kelley, Mclinnis and McGraw— Buck O'Neil and the two-base whack, registration. Mike Drennan, Finder of Many Mack Stars, Dies Suddenly, 61 By the Associated Press. HILADELPHIA, March 20.—Mi- chael ‘L. Drennan, the scout whose keen eyes put the “okeh” on many of the players who made up the A dam ‘teams-of 1635, 1030 and l”l.‘ ldled suddenly yesterday. e was 61. For more than 20 years Drennan served as a scout for the A's, and be- came known to base ball men in every city and town where a league team existed. A list of players he scouted would run into the hundreds. On the late pennant- Walsh and Sullivan, Duffy, Mack, Casey, Doyle and the old-time pack. Gehrig stars in the slugging school, Herman swings like a kicking mule, But I'll shoot an ode at the great O'Doul. The Big Change. UPPOSE & poll of 50 leading sporting writers had been con- | ducted 25 years ago, the idea | being to name the outstanding | athlete of 1907—the outstanding ath- | lete of the 10 previous years. Looking back on that epoch, can you | imagine the bunch picking Jerry Travers over Jim Jeffries—Alex Smith over Christy Mathewson? ‘The vote, 25 years ago, would have included Jim Jeffries, Christy Mathew- son, Hans Wagner, Battling Nelson, Joe Gans, Walter Eckersal. Archie Hahn, | Mel Sheppard, Ty Cobb and others starring in base bal!, foot ball, track | and the ring. Frank Gotch. would have gotten his share of votes. There may have been a few scattering returns for Bill Larned | in_tennis. But that was before Maurice Mc- Loughlin, the comet, came along to lift tennis into crowd popularity—before Francis Ouimet, the Boston kid, played a leading role in removing golf from the social register. That was before the colorful Hagen arrived on the scene—before Bobby Jones startled a bunkered universe, or a Sarazen re- ported for action. | Around 1905 there were only a few | hundred golf courses and less than 100,000 golfers. Today there are around 6.000 golf courses, which park from 100 to 500 golfers on each reservation, to say nothing of the multitudes who crowd the public landscapes with flash- ing irons and busy niblicks. There may be some argument whether a golfer is an athlete—but at least nearly all athletes are golfers, and most of the ball players, fighters— or what have you? AN 1ife to base ball, although he was a lace i Phnadelpnia. Th Bis yunser place e g younger days he played base ball in this city. As| & catcher he joined the Providence club of the Eastern League, and later went with Lancaster in the Tri-State League. After two seasons as an umpire in the Another Old Timer. IFE, to Reggie McNamara, has been one six-day bicycle race after arother, When you have pedaled your way through 91 such races, existence in gen- eral must take on a dizzy aspect. Reggie has been rolling around the turns a matter of 20 years and has one of the best records in sport. I still can recall the excitement in Atlanta some 30 years ago when Bobby Walthour won & six-day race. The entire city was in an upheaval of ex- citement on Saturday night when the word was flashed around that Walthour | had won again, The six-day race has held its place in sport through a long span of time, well up to the general average. The Best Sprinter. T will be something in the nature of a shock if any sprinter this season out-legs Ralph Metcalfe at either the 100 or the 200 meter route. The sable catapult of Marquette al- ready has shown that he still carries the amazing speed he exhibited at Palo | Alto and later at Los Angeles. His tremendous physical power will be a helpful factor if he doesn't get muscle- bound and so tie himself up. Metcalfe’s 100-meter battle against | Eddie Tolan was the closest in Olympic history. Lawson Robertson, head coach, thought the Marquette meteor had won. Robertson was at the tape when the finish came. ‘The slow motion pictures showed a dead heat. The judges’ decision went to Tolan. That's how close it was. LUCKY STRIKE IS PICKED | Women’s Pin Association Also Elects New Set of Officers. ‘The Lucky Strike alleys will be the the scene of two major duckpin tour- Tneys this year, as the result of the decision yesterday of the Washington Women’s Duckpin Association to hold its annual competition there starting May 1. The men’s tourney gets under way at the plant managed gy Bill Wood next Friday. Lotraine Gulli, No. 1 woman duck- the' country, was pins . Class B will include bowlers having an average of 90 to 97, inclusive; class C those from 82 to 89 and class D those with 81 and under. Nick Tronsky ard Jack White, grack Connecticut_duckpinners, last night de- feated Ray Von Dreele and Ray Barnes Tri-State League he became a scout for the Athletics. in “Mike was a fine character and one of the best es of ball players I ever knew,” ’m-flnm at Port of Baltimore in bo:“h singles and doubles CHAMPS N MOOD 10 BURN UP L0OP Babe Herman Only New- comer in Regular Job—Bucs, Cards Chief Foes. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. VALON, Catalina Island, A March 20.—One could al- most sit down right now and write their ticket on the way Charlie Grimm’s cham- pion Chicago Cubs are going to line up as they bounce away from the barrier in April in quest of their second straight National League title—and possibly an- other crack at those ferocious Yankees. With the sole—and very important— exception of the valuable Babe Her- man in right field, theyll be not a whole lot unlike the team that carried through to the pennant last year. The chief alteration, if any, will be in the pitching staff, and just now it seems that the same veteran squad that did such a good job last season will be there to carry on this year. The Cubs seem to be in the mood already to do drastic things in their league this season. They went to work with such a vengeance upon hitting their camp here that they really were in very good playing condition at the end of the first week, and if they can stay that way until April arrives they're | bound to push themselves off to a good | start in the race. HE great catastrophe that hit the team in the world series last Fall appears to have aided rather than injured the spirit of the players. At least they show no ill effects of the Yankee drubbing. They figure their stiffest competition is coming from the Pirates and Cards during the season, and they believe they've got the stuff in them to nose out those two. And if they do, it may mean another crack at the Yanks—and that's just what they want. The Cubs reason the beating they took from Ruth, et al, last Fall, was just one of those things, and they have extreme confidence now that if they meet the Yanks again next Fall, they're going to collect a lot of revenge. The Cub infleld and outfield seem to be more or less set already. Manager Grimm has been having some bother from lumbago and sore legs this Spring, but the chances are that when the season opens the r bery fellow will be out there carrving on as usual. He has “Gink” Hendrick and Harry Taylor, a young understudy from Albany, to help him if he needs ‘help. But it's hardly likely he will. ILLY HERMAN, one of the best kid infielders to pop into the majors in years. will be on second again, |and one couldn't wish for much more than that. There were & lot of persons who picked him as the best second sacker in the game last year. his first full season in the majors. He hit 314 and made more than 200 base hits. Bill Jurges and Mark Koenig will do a great deal of alternating at the short stop post, as they did last season, with Koenig probably getting first call be- cause of his superior batting ability. And. of course, Woody Eng! ‘will be at third. He's good enough at that spot for anybody’s ball club. The outfield is one you'll have to g a long way to surpass. There will Babe Herman in right, Kiki Cuyler in | center, and the old reliable Riggs Ste- phenson in left. The world knows Her- | man isn't a Cuyler in the outfield, but he is a mean and powerful hitter, and that's something the Cubs have needed since they lost Hack Wilson and Hornsby folded up on them. The Babe is likely to do a lot of important tattoo- ing on those right fleld bleachers at Chicago, and the chances are he’ll turn out to be quite & hero there, Where they love their heroes. Tmmz is some question wWhether Stevie's legs will hold up dur- ing the season, but they have appeared to be quite sound this Spring and show no particular signs of going | back on him. The Old Hoss plans on | playing regularly—and that bat of his means a lot to the Cubs. He's probably the most valuable man at the plate in a pinch, in the entire league. Cuyler is in great shape, and apparently just as fleet as he ever was. ‘There are four young outfielders %o argue the issue with Herman, Cuyler and Stevie, but it is hardly likely they'll be able to oust the veterans. They are Vince Barton, Frank Demaree, Marvin Gudat_and Mike Kreevich. On s lot | of big league teams they probably would |be good enough for regular jobs. 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