Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1935, Page 51

WASHINGTON, D..C., FRIDAY, MARCH 1 1935. Classified Ads D—1 Harris’ Ax Out Only for Pitchers : Athletics Risk All on Foxx Experiment | DEFY PRECEDENT WILL CUT SQUAD T023IN A WEEK Holbrook, Catcher, Stands| Out Among Newcomers. Redmond Gets Joh. BY JOHN B. KELLER. ILOXI, Miss, March 15.—An- other week and the Washing- ton ball club’s squad will be just about down to the limit of 23 players an American League | outfit is permitted to carry after May 15. The early exhibition games, | the first of which was to be played here this afternoon against the Al-{ bany club, will give Bucky Harns! sufficient line on his youngsters to enable him to pluck from the squad‘ the boys who need more grooming | before they are ready for the b‘gi show. The Nationals’ manager has noth-‘ ing to bother him in the weeding out | process other than pitchers. In other ; departments the club will stand as at present constituted. Harris has decided that he must retain all three catchers now at training camp. In this way, Jack Redmond gets a break, for early in the conditioning work Bucky figured the club could get along with two receivers and he believed Sam Hol- brook should be the reservist to call on should Cliff Bolton be put out of | commission. Holbrook has been a standout among the newcomers to the Wash- ington club’s ranks. He is stalwart physically and appears to know much of the art of handling pitchers. And |lame arms who received those famous | he came to the Nationals with a fine record as a hitter. Sam was a big number at bat and behind the bat last season at Chattanooga. He al- ready has a berth with the Harris horde. Figures May Deceive. UT Redmond came along with a reputation for nothing more than receiving pitches. With Birmingham last season he batted only .212. however, Jack, who is a husky and shapes up in every way as a big league catcher so far as build is con- cerned, has revealed a punch and a keen eye. Harris at first was at a loss to understand how such a swinger hit so low in the Southern Association last season, but since he discovered that Redmond played through many | games with a finger the catcher did | not realize was fractured the pilot, is inclined to discount the Dixie circuit statistics. The three catchers with the squad‘ are to keep their jobs. There are| only six inflelders here and all will| be retained. So will the five outfield- | ers. The final make-up of each of those groups for play in the cham- In the wand drills here, | Sports Program In Local Realm TOMORROW. Swimming. Shoreham pool. South Atlantic high school championships. Boxing. Finals in Golden Gloves A. A. U. tourney, at Catholic U., 8:15. Varied Sports, Extramural finals among teams from Georgetown, Catholic Univer- sityand Maryland at Ritchie Coli- seum, College Park: Volley ball, 7:30; basket ball, 8:30; boxing, 9:30. Rifle. George Washington vs. Navy, at Annapolis, 1:30 (shoulder-to- shoulder). Tech vs. Navy plebes, at Annapolis, 1:30 (shoulder-to- shoulder). George Washinglon girls vs. Carnegie Tech girls. VAN ATTA, WALKER Hurler and Outfielder Give Yanks Thrill by Display of Wing Power. | By the Associated Press. T. PETERSBURG, Fla.—The New York Yankees still are chuckling today over the per- formances of Russ Van Atta and Dixie Walker, a couple of 1934 @ dollar-a-year contracts. Van Atta took a four-inning pitch- | ing stretch yesterday and allowed only | |one hit. Walker, who couldn’t throw (at all last year, was tossing strikes | from the outfield all day, one ending | in a double play. | Hale Gets Wish, Displeased. EW ORLEANS.—Odell “Bad News” Hale wished for two years that some one would take the second-base job with the Cleveland Indians away from him so he could play third. He is stationed at third this Spring, {and now he isn't sure he wants to | play there. He now says he feels more ‘ at home at second base. | Chisox Rookies on Spot. ANTA MONICA, Calif.—Manager Jupmy Dykes started putting his recruits on the spot today as the | Chicago White Sox headed into their | exhibition schedule against Los An- geles. Three young pitchers, J. Dungan Rigney, Richard Bock and Monte Straton. were assigned to duty, with Babe Phelps and Whitlow Wyatt DITCH LAME ARMS < BRUINS ARE SLOW 10 START HITTING Reds Showing Life—Frisch Bawls Out Cards—Babe to Face Yankees. I 4 @ppears to be coming along all right, and the fielding merits little criticism, but Manager Charlie Grimm is wondering when the hitters are going to get going. In two intracamp games and the opener against Pittsburgh the Cub regulars have accomplished nothing like the form they will have to show to figure in the national champion- | ship title fight. OS ANGELES, Calif. —March 15. —The Chicago Cub pitching | TAMPA, Fla—Take it from Clar- ence Rowland, chief scout for the Chicago Cubs, the Reds “are not go- ing to wind up in the cellar.” | Rowland was a visitor to the Reds’ | camp yesterday. “I've been at- many camps,” he said, “but I never have seen such | cheerful and ambitious activity.” | Cubs Win Tight One. AN BERNARDINO, Calif. —Guy Bush and Big Jim Weaver, the ex-hurlers from the Chicago Cubs, will stay off the mound for the Pi- rates during the current series with the Cubs, says Manager Pie Traynor. The Bucs were on the short end of | {a closely contested 1-0 contest with | | the Chicago outfit yesterday. | MIAMI BEACH, Fla.—Their mental attitude stimulated by a slightly criti- cal “going over” yesterday by Mana- ger Frankie Frisch, the St. Louis Cardinals were ready to take on the | New York Giants here this afternoon. Frisch unburdened himself in the club house: | “What size hats do you guys wear, | anyway? All I got to say is you'd better snap out of it.” l WINTER HAVEN, Fla.—Light prac- tice and signal drill is on the menu today for the Phillies, who meet the | Detroit Tigers tomorrow. | In yesterday's regular-yannigans mix-up, the yans held the first team | to a 2-2 tie. | Babe's Legs Strong. { T. PETERSBURG, Fla.—Manager Bill McKechnie of the Braves | says there’s no use “foolin’ around | with these Yankees” tomorrow—*Babe | Ruth and Wally Berger will play without & doubt.” “Berger's in fair shape,” Bill says, | | “and the Babe says his legs are strong | | enough to take four or five innings | in The outfield.” | ORLANDO, Fla—William Watson \I Clark, once one of the National| League’s finest southpaws, has main- tained for several weeks that his arm, | | | | pionship campaign is yet to be deter- | handy in case the Angels embarrass | :ame for a couple of years, is sound mined, but all will stick around. As to pitchers, Harris has decided he will go into the flag fight with at least 11. There are 20 at camp. A flock must be farmed or get the ax. Scrivener Likely to Go. * A MONG the pitchers to stick around | A will be Whitehill, Linke, Burke, Russell, Weaver, Hadley, Thomas and Stewart, of course. Diggs, the right-hander, tried for a brief time last season, seems destined for reten- tion. Pettit, the southpaw purchased from Chattanooga, very likely will be carried into the season. Perhaps Mc- Coll, the oldtimer, also will have a Job. Scrivener, the George Washington University lad who looks so good, is not likely to be kept with the Na- tionals, but he will be given a good spot in the minors. He can’t miss | getting up in a year or two, Manager | Harris believes Armbrust and Cohen, who were with the club the latter part of last season, | still are in the fight for places on the staff to be taken into the champion- ship season. So are Petticola, the Chicago sandlotter, and Coppola and Mulcahey, Northeastern League prod- | ucts who belong to the Albany club | at present. It does not seem now that Etts, right-hander, who came down from Margaretville, N. Y., for a trial, or Dick | Lanahan, the Washington boy, have much of a chance to stick with the | club. There might be found minor spots for them before the Nationals | break camp here the latter part of | this month. i — | 42 COLLEGE BOXERS | SEEK LEAGUE TITLES i Ten Schools Have Contenders in Eastern Intercollegiate Championships. TATE COLLEGE, Pa., March 15— | Forty-two boxers, representing 10 | colleges, will open the annual | Eastern intercollegiate championships | today with Penn State acting as host. | Syracuse, defending champion, is | the only school to be represented by a full team of eight mittmen. Western Maryland and Penn State each have entered seven; Harvard, six; Princeton, four; M. I. T. and Army, three each; United States Coast Guard Academy, two, and Rutgers and Villanova, one | each. Preliminaries will he held today, and semi-finals and finals tomorrow afternoon and night. Referees who have been named to act during the affair are James H. Brown of Philadelphia, Charlie Short of Baltimore and Maj. Harvey L. Mil- ler of Washington, D. C. GIRLS IN SWIM MEET .Eleven girls so far have registered | for the open swim nite tonight in the Y. W. C. A. pool, starting at 7:30 o'clock. There will be events for beginners, intermediates, advanced swimmers and for those more than 14 years old. “The girls entered are Amelia Blaser, Lydia Cort, Jean Feole, Betty Har- lacher, Mary Zanelotti, Dorothy the rookies with base hits. A’s Tune for Red Sox. ORT MYERS, Fla.—Connie Mack's Athletics today put in a full ses- sion on the field in anticipation | of their game with the Boston Red | Sox on the home diamond tomorrow. Mack hopes to defeat Joe Cronin’s boys and add another victory to the A’s 2-2 score of games played in the grapefruit series. Howell to Get Chance. AKELAND, Fla—The Detroit Tigers will play host to the Phil- lies tomorrow in their first ex- hibition mn the “Grapefruit League” and Micky Cochrane may give some of his talented rookies a chance to perform against outside competition. Dixie Howell is almost certain to |, play third. The regulars trimmed the Yanni- gans 9 to 1 yesterday. Browns Plan Twin Killing. EST PALM BEACH, Fla—A flock of double plays are in the making for the Boston Red Sox in their exhibition game with the St. Louis Browns here today if plans of Manager Rogers Hornsby bear fruit. The Browns drilled yesterday on execution of double plays and catch- ers and infielders were smarted up on one of Hornshy’s pet plays, the object of which is to trap a runner off third base on a ground ball and subse- quently to trap the batter between first and second. BIG STEEPLECHASE RACE AT NEW SPOT Point-to-Point Classic April 20 on Whittingham Farm Course, Near Hereford, Md. By the Associated Press. ALTIMORE, March 15—The Grand National Point to Pnlnt.‘ one of the foremost steeplechaSes | in the country, will be run April 20| over a new course laid out on the; farm of Willam R. Whittingham, | near Hereford, J. Reiman MclIntosh, | secretary of the Racing Committee, | has announced. For the past 35 years, the Grand National has been held on the Brook- landville estate of Mrs. Isaac E. Emer- son. The committee said “a strong feeling of dissatisfaction” has existed because spectmoriI could not see the entire course and horses were required to negotiate numerous sharp turns. Located within the fox-hunting,| country of the Green Spring Valley hounds, the Whittingham place, known as Hereford Farm, consists of more than 400 acres in the shape of a great bowl with the 200-year-old resi- dence and barns in the center. It is 20 miles north of Baltimore. MAKE PLANS FOR TENNIS. With Mrs. Ruth Martinez, D. C. women’s public parks tennis singles champion, as faculty adviser, candi- dates for the Roosevelt High School net squad were to meet this afternoon to plan for the season. David Green- Ohliger, Doris Little, Jean Little, Nancy Rawls, Jean Rawls and Vir- ginia DeAtley, v berg has been named manager of the team, with Willlam White sssistant manager. again, Maybe they'll believe him now. | Lefty pitched four innings for the | Brooklyn Dodgers varsity yesterday, | | gave the yannigans four hits, two of | | them scratches, struck out three and | | walked none. ! | _MIAMI BEACH, Fla.—Manager Bill | Terry. of the New York Giants has | been looking for two years for an | acceptable understudy at first base. | Perhaps Joe Malay is the answer. Joe played the whole game against | the Red Sox yesterday and kicked in | with a pair of hits. That is more than Terry has been able to do. VIR [ INFIELD GIVES DUKE | | DIAMOND PROBLEM Two Important Cogs to Replace. Pitching Strong and Other | Jobs Well Filled. | URHAM, N. C., March 15.—Duke | | University’s 1935 base ball team, | which visits Georgetown April | | 29 and Maryland the next day, should | | be about on par with last year's dia- | |mond outfit if the pitchers come | | through as expected. This is the| | opinion of the Blue Devils' tutor, | | John W. Coombs. | Starting his seventh year at Duke, | Coombs has veterans to do the pitch- | ing, the catching and to patrol the outfield. His problem is in the in- field where two outstanding per- | formers are missing. The first base job, filled for three years by Phil Weaver, and third, at which Horace Hendrickson performed during his college career, are wide- open posts. There are three sophomores being tried at first—Herbert Cheek, Joe Davis and Charlie Burnham. Sam Bell, second-sacker last year, has been shifted to third and will battle it out for that job with John Shortell, re- serve last year. Rounding out the infield will be Wayne Ambler, sophomore, or_Joe Taylor, senior, at second and Dave Michael, senior, Junior, at short. Candidates for the outfield jobs are Bill Huiskamp, Earle Wentz, Corky Cornelius, all lettermen, and Carl Huiskamp, sophomore. Ken Weafer, undefeated in six games last season, Reynolds May, beaten only once in six, and Pete Naktenis, who was an undefeated sophomore last year, are the vet- erans of the pitching staff. George Barley, who had a fine record as a freshman last year, probably will be the fourth member. Capt. Ty Wagner will do the catch- ing with Al Konopka, junior, as re- lief man. SLATE FOUR CONTESTS Two 145-pound basket ball games and two junior soccer matches are carded tomorrow morning in compe- tition sponsored by the Municipal Playground Department. In basket ball, Garfield’s quint will and Avenue at 11 o'clock at the Boys' Club of Washington. Both are second- round affairs. or Claude Corbitt, | PORTRAIT OF A PLUMP PITCHER. vl ’ /- @?&/ A z2 ¢ WITH THAT TERRIBLE FAST ONE OF HIS Is, “ORVY"SAYSTHE ONLY TROUBLE J THAT WHEN THEY DO CONNECT WITH IT, IT COMES BACK A MILE A MINUTE ./ WE'D BETTER MAUL OFF A COUPLE OF THOSE spares / EVERYT/ME MIKE MARTIN CATCHES HIM EN ROUTE TO THE SHOWERS TS JUST Too Bap....! - Exhibition Games By the Associated Press. Yesterday's Results. New York (N.), 9; Boston (A), 3. Chicago (N.), 1; Pittsburgh (N)), 0. Today's Schedule. At Miami Beach: New York (N.) vs. | St. Louis (N.). | At Los Angeles: Pittsburgh (N.) vs Chicago (N.) At West Palm Beach: St. Louis (A.) vs. Boston (A). At Biloxi: Washington (A) vs. Al- bany (I L). ._By JITTERS... DRINKS IT IN HIS , SLEEP VEAR, 15 THE (96 POUND ARKANSAS BOY WHO WAS BOUGHT FROM CHATTANOOGA LAST TRYING TO MAKE THE WEIGHT LIMIT AND THE GRADE N BILOXI.... SPORTScop BY ROD IDBITS from the latest issue of | Frank G. Menke's All-Sports | Record Book, the most com- | plete thing of its kind we've | ever seen as well as one of the most | interesting: | Al Foreman, who used to be some shucks as a boxer in Washington, scored the quickest knockout on record. In a bout in England in 1928 he hit a guy two seconds after the opening bell and the full duration of the scrap was 12 seconds. (Goldie Ahearn, take notice). . Nobody knows the exact origin of tennis. The longest successful ski jump ever made was 301 feet, by Birger Ruud, a Yugoslavian, last year. On the same | didn’t count. There’s no such thing as a roller skating record. Several fights of pare knuckle days lasted more than six hours. Hook and Line Whoppers. HE biggest black bass ever caught | T with hook and line weighed 221 | pounds, taken from Lake Mc- Rae, Ga. In 1878 somebody hooked a | catfish in the Mississippi weighing 150 pounds and that’s still a record. | The aquarium at the Bureau of | Fisheries contains several whoppers of | the yellow perch species, but none to | compare in size with one caught at | Bordentown, N. J., in 1865 by Dr. | C. C. Abbot. It weighed 4 pounds 32 ounces. at least twice as large as sailfish in the Atlantic. Anyway, the biggest | about 90 pounds and at least one has been taken from the Pacific scal- ing 180. — Archery Goes 'Way Back. HE best authority on archery claims the bow and arrow was used 25,000 years ago by the Aurignacians, whoever they were. Since the first Indianapolis auto T The jurilor soccer schedule calls for || a game between Rosedale and Twin Oaks on the McMillan Playground and Park View and Virginia Avenue on Monument Field No. 2. Sailfish in the Pacific grow to be | landed so far in the Atlantic weighed | Menke’s Latest Record Book Glistens With ~Sperts Nuggets. THOMRRC: v | race in 1911 the average speed of the winner has risen from 74 to 104 miles an_hour. Five men have traveled on land faster than 200 miles an hour—Ray Keech, Frank Lockhart, Maj. Segrave, | Lee Bible and Sir Malcolm Campbell. Speed cost the lives of all except Sir Malcolm. From 1890 to 1911 Cy Young pitched 873 major league ball games, winning 511. losing 315. The Yankees hold the record for avoiding whitewash. They played 308 games without being shut out. Grove put the brush on 'em August 2, 1933, to end the streak. not including this year, R $1,022.900. have that 900! Babe Makes a Million. total How we'd like to Menke goes in for a world of variety. | ing of this book and in amazed ad- | minutes to defeat the Lions 35 to 34 | A crowd of 3,500 | at.” Recited thousands of times by | De Wolf Hopper, the piece, some be- lieve, also was written by him. But the author was Ernest Thayer of Worcester, Mass., a Harvard man who penned it about 50 years ago. Texas in 1934 produced more major league ball players than any other State, with 36. followed by California with 35 and Illinois with 34. The original Celtics, who played from 1918 to 1929, “remain vivid,” says Menke, “as the greatest basket | ball squad ever assembled. As for the origin of billiards, claims | are made by France, England, Ireland, Spain, Germany, Italy, China and several other countries but the his- torians string with Egypt and say the Greeks also had a game something like it about 400 B.C. Not a Rare Feat. T requires nearly seven pages to print the names, in tabulated form and small type, of tenpin bowlers who have rolled perfect scores | A bit verbatim: “Dice are the old- est gaming instruments known to the world, with dominoes running a close second. Dice is purely a game of chance; dominoes involve skill.- It is likely, therefore, that dominoes were created a short time after dice. In e e e e e S e § YOUR SPRING SUIT TAILORED TO YOUR MEASURE _ ON OUR } 10-PAYMENT BUDGET PLAN IMPORTED AND, DOMESTIC FABRICS | PRICES FROM $27.50 TO $49.75 meet the Sherwood five at 10 o'clock [/ etown engages New York || Quality Without Extravagance - | dice, 21 combinations are possible; in dominoes the same 21 exist, plus an additional 7, due to the blanks.” His ancestry traceable to a time before the building of the pyramids, the greyhound is the-oldest dog known to history. The Pharaoh$ used the lanky canine in hunting. Bisons Grid Pioneers. OWARD UNIVERSITY of this city and Lincoln University of Pennsylvania played the first foot ball game between colored col- leges in the East and Tuskegee In- stitute of Alabama and Atlanta Uni versity pioneered in the South, both games taking place in 1894. We’ll stop with that, but it would !be a cinch to write all day from the dope in Menke's tome. It is the most voluminous lot of sports in- formation ever put between one set of covers, including the histories of 80 major sports, the names of all the | champions and all of the tens of thousands of records, and Frank’s | UTH'S earnings on the ball field, bits of writing that intersperse the | statistics fairly sparkle. A newspaper man shudders to think (of the toil that went nto the mak- | day and slide another skiier leaped For instance, his book contains even | miration blinks over the efficiency of | and win the crown. | 346 feet, but the bloke fell and it the base ball poem—“Casey at the Frank Menke and whoever helped | saw the game, played on the neutral | as a slugger. Roger Cramer, in center, 2 B: | him. PENN WINS BASKET TITLE IN PLAY-OFF Beats Columbia by Single Point in Intercollegiate League for Eleventh Flag. | By the Associated Press. EW BRUNSWICK, N. J.,, March 15.—Pennsylvania’s Red and | Blue court men today held the | Eastern Intercollegiate Basket Ball | League championship for the eleventh | time in the history of the circuit, which was organized in 1902 and re- organized nine years later, and for | the third time they could boast of | success in a championship play-off game. After finishing the season dead- | locked with Columbia with two vic- tories and two defeats, the veteran Quakers came through in the closing court of Rutgers University “ JIM BERRYMAN Slugger’s Return to Post Behind Bat Expected to Fill Cochrane Gap. This is one of a series of stories analyzing major league base ball prospects. BY ALAN GOULD. Associated Press Sports Editor. ORT MYERS, Fla., March 15.— Upon the broad, capable shoul- ders of James Emory Foxx rests the chance to make the | contender in this year's American | League pennant race With Foxx shifted behind the bat, after seven years as one of the game's outstanding first basemen and slu gers, Connie Mack believes he has filled the big gap created by the de- parture of Mickey Cochrane and fortified an otherwise powerful, much improved ball club. It is a drastic move. Most prece- dent is against its success and skep= tical managers of rival teams believe a month or two will convince Mark that Foxx still is a great first hase- man. Moreover, there is the added risk of injury to a plaver who is the powerhouse of the A’s attack. So far, however, the evidence all points to a happy conclusion for all con- cerned. Job Tsn't New to Jimmy. OXX looks great behind the bat, which isn't altogether strange, since he spent most of the first half-dozen years of his base ball career in that position. He is a horse for hard work and his arm is second to none in the big leagues. The pitchers already have gained more confidence with Foxx receiving them. Jimmie's presence, Mack feels, will mean at least 25 per cent im- provement in the A's pitching. Jimmie's success is essential to the team’s prospects for the reason that the only backstop of experien.2 available otherwse is the veteraa Charley Berry, let go after last sea- | son, but re-hired for relief duty. Foxx himself is so optimistic that he predicts three of the younger sharpshooters, Joe Cascarella, Bill Dietrich and Johnny Marcum, will turn in as many as 55 victories under his direction. Merritt (Sugar) Cain, who lost six games by 2-1 margins last year, says he won't drop the close ones this season with Foxx han- dling him. Alton Benton, a sopho- more, and Leroy Mehaffey, a veteran, both right-handers, probably will round out the starting corps. The best freshman prospect is Charles Lieber, right-hander drafted from the San Francisco Missions. May Have Seven Sluggers. HE main switch in the A’s line-up leaves' a big hole at first base which Alex Hooks, obtained from Tulsa, can fill only partially. Hooks, left-hander. is good defensively but no fence-cracker at bat. If he doesn't come through, Lou Finney. an outfield substitute for several years, is avail- able. The infield otherwise is first- class with Bib Williams back in form at second base, Eric McNair at short and Frank (Pinky) Higgins at third. McNair and Higgins are stars. Wallace Moses, Georgia boy, who came up from Galveston in the Texas League, has shown so much speed and all-around ability that he may dis- place big Ed Coleman in right field. Moses appears the logical lead-off man and is better defensively than Cole- man, who yet has to fulfill his promise | and Bob Johnson, in left, are fixtures, 'REQ OWNERS PAY NO PREMIUM £ THIS CAR HAS ALL FINE CAR FEATURES ... 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