Evening Star Newspaper, February 21, 1935, Page 41

The anmg WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, < ARNS OPEN WAY TOTRY OUTTALENT Club’s Connections, Those| of Allies, Offer Many Train- | ing Fields. BY JOHN B. KELLER. MBITIOUS youngsters of the Capital's sandlot base ball nines are about to get a long- delayed break. With the tWashington ball club and its allied interests gaining control of little minor outfits galore, the path to a professional career in the national pastime soon will be wide open to this city’s stars. The recruiting of local talent has begun this year with the signing of | Archie Scrivener, former George Washington University pitcher, by President Clark Griffith of the Na- tionals, and the opportunity given Dick Lanahan, one-time Eastern High | School stellar hurler and later a great winner for the N. R. A. nine, to prove | his worth while training as a “guest” member of the squad at the Nationals’ camp in Biloxi. L:nahan could not be signed di- rectly by the Washington club. A big league club these days can pick up players outside of organized ranks only from the colleges. The minors have full sway on the sandlots. But there is nothing—excepting Judge Landis, the czar of base ball—to pre- vent a big league club adopting a sandlotter. He may be “signed” by & minor subsidiary of the big league | outfit and immediately bought by the | foster club. SCHEIDLE... BUT DEVELOPED INTO A FIRST CLASS EXPRESS.... EDELIN.... 1as pLaveD ON 3 CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS,.. THE COMING TOURNEY 1S “OLD STUFF” To THIS VET.... e WAS SLOW GETTING UNDER WAY- Star ‘Spnfhi FEBRUARY 1935. —By JIM BERRYMAN Hovrringe HIS WEAKNESS FOR PEANUTS DOESN'T IKEEP HIM FROM BEING EASTERN'S BEST DEFENSIVE MAA. 1S ADDING MORE GLORY To THE NAME FOR WHICH Diz1y AND DAFFY HAVE DONE So MUCH... HE IS AN OUTSTANDING YOUNGNET STAR Faulting Is Flaw in Girl's Play, but She Scores in Indoor Tourney. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, February 21.—A N year ago Helen Antoinette was labeled “promising young tennis piayer.” She still is young and has fulfilled the promise. a Have Training Spots. HE Nationals, with their Chatta- nooga in the Southern Associa- tion, Selma in the Southeastern League and Panama in the Georgia- Alabama-Florida League farms, now offer excellent training fields for Dis- The 18-year-old girl won the na- tional girls’ title and stands now in the | same high place she held a year ago. She has swept through the current women’s national indoor champion- ship to brilliant heights with a quar- ter-final round defeat of Mme. Sylvia | Jung Henrotin of France, favorite. So today Miss Pedersen engages Millicent Hirsch, an 18-year-old New Yorker, in one of the two semi-finals. It will be renewal of their rivalry started in the same round a year ago. Miss Pedersen triumphed on that occa- sion in three sets. a heavy | Got Game From Brother, HE probably will Yorker just as formidable in view of Miss Hirsch's stunning upset victory over Norma Taubele, defend- ing champion. The other semi-final match brings together Mrs. Dorothy Andrus, seeded No. 1 and rartked fourth in the Na- tion, and Jane Sharp of Pasadena, Calif., sixth ranking woman player. Miss Pedersen started playing ten- nis four yvears ago because, she said, it was the natural thing for her to do. Her brother Eddie was a tennis enthusiast. She was his main rooter jand now he’s the leader of her cheer- ing section. “Eddie trotted me out to the courts one day,” said Miss Pedersen. “It was a new game for me and it fas- |cinated me. I'd played ice hockey great delight in ‘socking’ things, so I fell hard for tennis.” “Helen is a coming champion,” said Marie Wagner, who won the title for the first of five times in 1908. “She has all the strokes and as soon as she stops double-faulting so much she ought to skyrocket to the top.” trict stars eager to make the grade in organized ranks. So do Albany in the International League and Al- bany’s farm, Lancaster, in the new Keystone League. Albany soon will control Harrisburg of the New York- Pennsylvania League, and will handle Martinsburg if the Blue Ridge League | is revived. Washington has a smooth- working agreement with Albany and | may place players with outfits under the control of this club. This agreement with Albany also| may open the entrance to organized base ball ranks to Reds Miller, a Silver Spring boy who has starred | at shortstop with Washington sand- lot teams, and Richard Knight, a “marvel” with the Heurich team of last Summer. These boys were out- standing last season, and already or- ganized base ball officials are in com- munication with them. Actually, Miller has been promised @ trial with the Albany club by Joe | Cambria, Baltimore laundry magnate and red-hot backer and president of the minor league base ball outfit. | And Knight, who outfielded with the | Brewers, did enough to convince on- lookers here that the paid base ball ranks were overlooking a good bet in"his case. Once a Fertile Field. ASHINGTON has not been ;‘/& without its high-class base . ball players in times past, base ball players that commanded the at- tention of big league scouts even if they did not make the highest grade. ‘They were clever enough to get good pay in the minors. And major league players, too. There have been Doc White— George Harris, if you would—who is in charge of athletics at Wilson Col- lege. And if you would go back somewhat, Eugene Demontreville, the | great shortstop of the Senators in the | old days of Washington in the Na-| tional League. And even more back, the famous Mike Scanlon. Then we have seen the late Charley Moran come out of Georgetown Uni- | versity to have a place as shortstop on the Washington club; the Ilate| Buck Becker rise from a Navy Yard team to a place on the pitching staff of the Nationals; Mickey Kelliher, now gone, who was one of the great- est infielders ever to rise from local teams. Some Stars Recalled, ERHAPS the present day crop of | fans doesn’t recall Al Handiboe. Well, he was good. And he man- aged the old Savannah team in the South Atlantic League for years. ‘Then there was Reggie Rawlings, a former Business High School player, | who went to the original Blue Ridge | League. He played with Martinsburg after starring for the Manhattan team | on old McDevitt Field, where the | Eastern Bloomingdale section of the | city now is, and was that league’s| greatest hitter. He outstarred Hack | Miller in the circuit, but preferred not | to_get into major league base ball. ; ‘There were many others. Among | them Johnny Priest, who shorstopped | for the Yankees back in the days| when they began fighting for recog- nition in the American League pen- nant race. Priest, before going to the ‘Yanks, had played great ball for East- ern High School and the Cornell team in the annual sandlot city series here. And anly recently Washington has seen Bill Werber, former Tech High School boy, make himself a wonder among big league third basemen. He did as much as any other member of the Red Sox to carry that club into the first division for the first time in years last season. Now we have Bozie Burger coming up to the Indians for another trial. And this one-time Tech High and University of Mary- land star has a great chance to make And with the many ways now being opened, so have flocks of other stars of Washington's sandlots. Thomas in Line; 8 Nats Unsigned NOTHER veteran pitcher got in line with the Nationals today. The signed contract of Al ‘Thomas, right-hander, was received &t club headquarters. Now only eight of the 31 players the Washington reserve list are EARNEST “SOCKER'" Pedersen of Stamford, Conn., find the New | and base ball with boys and took a | <@ LIVES FOR THE CIRCUS MANY OF THEM GoaD. DEAD-EYE TOSSERS Pair of High Scoring Basket Stars. BATTLE for points between George Washington's high- A scoring forwards and Tem- ple’s equally keen-eyed guards |is in prospect tonight at Tech High, | where the Colonials wind up their home basket ball schedule in a clash with the powerful Owls at 8 o'clock. George Washington’s Jimmy How- ell, captain, and Ben Goldfaden are be pitted against the crack guards of Temple, Captain Howard “Red” Rosan and Jimmy Brown. The first | mentioned pair have accounted for | 282 points in the Colonials’ 18 games, | more than one-third of their team’s total. The exact figures on the com- are not available, but this pair, with- | out doubt, represent the greatest part of the Owls’ tallying machine. It is not improbable that on the outcome of this double duel will rest the decision of the game, which will become either G. W.’s fourteenth win in 19 starts or Temple's second vic- tory in as many games in Washington. Star Tournament Tune-Up Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School’s basket ball quint, which to- w plays Alexandria in the opening of The Evening Star champion- ahlp event, yesmdny wnqumd the Georgetown Preps, 26-19, by way of soyunm' Soen making s futile bid Here Guard Ray Higgins of the Little for a acore. Tom 328) got the ball on the rebound and netied it N Center: &M‘. 0. YOUNG MAN-ETC."-- JUST SHOTS --- AND ANNOYS THE OPPOSITION BY MAKING SO IN CLASH TONIGHT G. W. and Temple Each Has | the point-making forwards who will | | bined scoring of Rosan and Brown | i \ < “THE MIRACLE MAN--GUYON SAYS-"HE HAS ANVILS TIED To BOTH FEET AND STiLL FIGHTING HEART OF THIS GREAT EASTERN HIGH SCHOOL QUINT .. WHICH MUST DEFEND 1TS METROPOLITAN TITLE IN THE EVENING STAR TOURAEY. |Eastern Meets Mount morrow—Champion LL EAGER for action, the four | leading public high school basket ball teams of the { Metropolitan area will fight it out tomorrow and Saturday at Tech in the third annual tournament spon- sored by The Star. A double-header will be played to- morrow, starting at 2 o'clock, with the survivors clashing Saturday at the same hour. The opening contest will bring to- gether Eastern, District champion and defending titleholder in the tourn: ment, and Mount Rainier, which re- cently clinched the Prince Georges| County champlonship in a heated series with Hyattsville. Interstate rivalry will give zest to the second game in which Bethesda- Chevy Chase, perennial standard bearer of Montgomery County, Md., will battle Alexandria. Elks’ Band to Play. HE crack boys band sponsored by by the Elks Club will be in at- tendance both days, and the presentation of Evening Star prizes will be made immediately on conclu- sion of the tournament by Bucky Harris, manager of the Griffmen. All profit that may accrue from an ad- mission fee each day of two bits will Center Department ,of the District, which has jurlsdlcuon over the gym. Eastern’s strongest rival is expected to be Bethesda-Chevy Chase, which for two years has finished second, behind Central in 1933 and Eastern in 1934. Some observers hold that Eastern is not as strong as last season and that Bethesda-Chevy Chase has improved considerably. Furnishing an ideal warm-up for the tournament, a game is being played today by Alexandria with Hy- | attsville, in_the Hyattsville armory, | starting at 3:30 o'clock. Both teams | have a strong incentive. A victory | for Alexandria would clinch the In- -tersuburban League title and a win| for Hyattsville would be balm for its | failure to make the grade into The Star tournament. It would have at least the satisfaction of beating a team that did. Bethesda-Chevy Chase got in its final licks before the tournament yes- terday when it defeated Georgetown Prep, 26 to 19, on the Lelanders’ court. With Johnson and Harris find- ing the basket consistently, Bethesda- Chevy Chase ran up a 16-2 lead by recess, The game was remarkable for its scarcity of rules infractions, none be- ing called on either team in the first half and none on Georgetown Prep throughout. Rice, at center for Georgetown Prep, was the leading point-getter with nine. Summary: Bethesda (26). G'town Prep (19). 3 G.F.Pts. & O'Shnessy.f 1 1 3 Dettweiler.f 2 2 Byrd.f. Spllflml 5 o g Hiesins.s. . ‘Totals Referee—Mr, Nat Club Chain Gets New Links LARK GRIFFITH'S chain store system is growing these days. A link has been added in the purchase of the Lancaster club of the new Keystone League by Joe Cambria, president of the Albany club in the International circuit, and Cambria expects to complete the purchase of the Harrisburg club of the New York-Pennsylvania League Saturday. Although the boss of the Na- tionals always has declared his club has no monetary interest in Al- bany, there is an accord that en- ables Washington to get its pick of Albany stars and the working ggreement extends to any club owneq or controlled by Cambria. Cambria, a Baltimore laundry owner and Totals .. Bender. | for the third year will officiate flllimmgm_ | Robbins again will be the scorer. The be turned over to the Community |. SCHOOL QUINTS GEARED FOR STAR’S TOURNAMENT Rainier, Chevy Chase- Bethesda Faces Alexandria in Openers To- s’ Rivals Improved. ITH the teams more evenly | matched than heretofore, an | excellent attendance seems as- sured. Alexandria particularly is pleased with the set-up this time. | For two years it has been called upou} to face the District champion in the first round with defeat a seeming cer- | tainty. Tomorrow it will enter the contest with Bethesda-Chevy Chase with considerable doubt as to the out- come. The Alexandrians’ record in- dicates marked improvement over last season. Practically assured of a pen- nant in the Intersuburban League, | they are considered “the team to beat” in Class B competition for the Virginia State title. Orrel and Joe Mitchell, brothers, games in the tournament, and Yank Community Center Department will | handle the ticket booth. A strictly invitation affair, the tour- nament’s field was chosen after a | careful perusal of records of pubhc‘ high school teams in the metropolitan | area, Sports Program In Local Realm TODAY. Basket Ball. Temple vs. George Washington, at Tech, 8. Bridgewater vs. Wilson Teachers College, at G. W. gym, 7. Virginia State, at Howard U, 8. Tech, at Gonzaga, 3:30. Washington-Lee High, at Fredericks- burg High, 8. Alexandria High vs. Hyattsville High, at Hyattsville Armory, 3:15. Glen Burnie High, at Mount Rainier High, 8. Western High at Maryland, Fresh- men, 8. Wrestling. Washington Auditorium — Main match, Frank Judson vs. Gino Garibaldi. Show starts at 8:30. TOMORROW. Basket Ball. Double-header in annual Star Metropolitan District tourney, at Tech. First game at 2 o'clock. Bridgewater, at Gallaudet, 8. Mount St. Joseph Prep, at St. John's, 8. Virginia State U. vs. Miner Teachers, at Cardozo, 8. St. Albans, at Episcopal Academy, Philadelphia. Hopewell High, at Washington-Lee High, 8. Howard vs. Lincoln, at Orange, N.J. Takoma-Silver Spring High, at ‘Waynesboro (Pa.) High. Kendall in Eastern Deaf Schools’ tourney, at Hartford, Conn. Wilson Teachers, at Frostburg (Md.) State Normal. Boxing. Maryland in Southern Conference at University, Va. SATURDAY. Basket Ball. Pittsburgh vs.” Georgetown, at Tech, 8:30. Final game In annual Star Metro- politan District tourney, at Tech, 2. Bridgewater, at American U., 8. Georgetown Freshmen vs. Tech, at Tech, 7:30. Preliminary to G. U. Varsity-Pittsburgh game. Central, at Charlotte Hall, 3:30, Loyola Prep (New York), at George- town Prep, 3:30. St. Albans, at Church Farm School, at Philadelphia. Boxing. Manhattan, at Catholic U., 8:15. American U, at Hampden-Sydney. Swimming. George Washington vs. Lafayette, Shoreham pool, 8. ‘Wrestling. Hopkins, at Gallaudet, 8. Carlisle '(Pa) Y. M. C. A, st Central Y, 8. Rifle. Maryland, at George Washington. Central vs. Navy Plebes, at An- s PLAYS A GOOP CENTER'”. 'HURD AND STACK CLEAN UPONICE Yanks Blanked as Canadian Pair Win Three North American Races. By the Associated Press. ST. JOHN, New Brunswick, Febru- ary 21.—Alex Hurd and Frank Stack, | both of Kirkland Lake, Ontario, ap- parently have outdistanced all rivals | in the battle for the North American | speed skating championship, Making & clean sweep of the first | three events on the championship program last night, Hurd and Stack | compiled @ total of 60 points each | against 20 apiece for Lamar Ottsen of St. Louis and Herb Flack of Toronto, | the defending champion, and 10 each for Eddie Wedge of Detroit and L. Sylvester of Montreal. The championship program closes Allan Potts of Brooklyn, only other | United States star entered, failed to | get into the running at any time. In the women’s division, Leila | | Brooks of Toronto scored 50 points in | the first three races last night against | 40 for Flossie Hurd of Kirkland Lake, | sister of Alex; 20 for Lillian Halls- COURT PERFORMER...ce TENPLE PRESSED BY HOYA QUINTET Wins 36-31 as Georgetown Fails to Convert Many Free Throws. Conference championship fol- lowing an expected victory over | Georgetown, but not without a battle | | did the Hoyas go down to defeat last | night in the Tech High gymnasium. | Only a rally in the last three minutes saved the Owls, who were tied, 18-18, at the half and were out in front by only 30-29 before spurting to triumph by a 36-to-31 score. Intercollegiate Basket shots beat Georgetown. Each team sunk 14 shots from the floor, but the Hoyas could drop in only 3 of their 10 fouls while Temple converted 8. A pot shot by Ben Zola tied the count just before the gun at half- time, and shortly after resumption of play Georgetown took a 26-25 lead. but Georgetown was always a threat until the final few minutes when Red Rosan and Jimmy Brown sunk double- | deckers to clinch the verdict. Don Gibeau, with 12 points, and Capt. Ed Hargaden, with 10, topped the Hoyas in scoring. Summary: ‘Tempie (16) Georgetown _(31). GFPt G.FPrs Hargaden.f. bei Totals .. Referees—Mr. Menton (Loyola) Mr. Mitchell (Loyola) s e UMPIRE TO AIR IDEAS. Bill McGowan, American League umpire, will be interviewed tonight EMPLE UNIVERSITY still is in | the running for the Eastern | Ball | Failure to convert their free-throw | Temple promptly took the lead away, | 'SLUEGER SPURNS PINCH-HIT BERTH {Managerial Position Still Sought by Babe, Who Says Money Is No Object. By the Associated Press, EW YORK, February 21— Base ball's biggest question mark, George Herman Ruth, is home again, but he is un- able to tell whether he will find an acceptable job in the game he has personified for more than a decade, Returning from a world tour that combined business and pleasure and redemonstrated his tremendous pull at the box office, the Babe readily | said he had no idea what he would | do this Summer, although he scarcely could conceive the possibility that no base ball job would be open to him Ruth gave few definite answers to | the rattle fire of questions hurled at him when his boat docked, but out 0{ the conversation these points de- | \eloped: 1. He 'will not wind up his career as a part-time performer or as a pinch hitter spending most of his time on the bench. 2. His big ambition still is to become & major league manager. 3. If he signs a contract with the New York Yankees, it will be as a regular outfielder. Happy to Be Home, 'M SO thrilled to get back home that I don't know what I will do,” said the Babe. “It will take me | a few days to recover my bearings. |1 don't want to leave base ball I'd be lost without it. I think I'm entitled to a manager's job or a try at it, anyhow. I don't think I should be asked to sign as a player and sit on the bench waiting for a chance to pinch hit, maybe once in seven days. That's something I don't intend to do. “I don't know whether I could play | another full season as a regular. That would depend upon how I feel at the training camp. Even if I don't sign, I intend to go to St. Petersburg to thaw out. I'm getting so old now I feel as though I belong there. “Money is not the primary con- sideration with me now. I've got | enough to live on, But I want to stay |in base ball.” The next chapter in the Ruth saga probably will come in a few days, with Ruth toting his “informal” con- tragt to the offices of Col. Jacob Rup- peri, Yankee owner. That contract calls for a salary of §1 a year. It was offered as a stop-gap until the | Yankees can discover just what Ruth ’inwnds to do. Likely to Sign Again. HE betting among base ball men now is at even money that Ruth will sign another player's contract with the Yankees and hope | that a manager’s job will turn up be- fore the 1936 season rolls around. | On the face of it, the average base ball fan might wonder why the Babe | is so insistent on remaining in the | game. Now 41 years old, he has been in the big leagues for 21 years, the last 15 with the Yankees. 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