Evening Star Newspaper, November 23, 1935, Page 12

SPORTS. gt THE EVE G__STAR, WASHINGTON! D. C.! SATURDAVE NOVEMBER 23E 1935. L] t Make Golf Easier @ MecNeely Signs as Ne ew National Coach : Winter Harris Looks for Improved Base Running With New Set-up on Lines. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. place among Washington’s base ball immortals in 1924 with an unforgettable single-off-a-peb- ble to bring the Capital its only world of his greatest triumph next year as third-base coach, it was announced today by Manager Bucky Harris, Returning from the minor league clared that McNeely, also in attend- ance at the confab, definitely has accepted terms and will fall heir to the coaching job held last season his release several weeks ago. Long dissatisfled with his coaching set-up of the 1935 season, Harris seemed almost as pleased with the ged that much wanted pitching strength during the Dayton meeting. With McNeely on third base and Harris coming out of the dugout to ing the Nationals will present an entirely new traffic personnel when the 1936 American League season opens. first base for more than two decades, virtually has been retired and will confine his activities to tutoring young nitchers fp addition o bir wre-gem= THIRD-BASE POST ARL McNEELY, who won a championship, will return to the scene meeting in Dayton, Ohlo, Harris de- by Johnny Kerr. The latter was given signing of McNeely as if he had snag- personally handle the first-base coach- Nick Altrock, who has coached at clownimg, Fart Teneo Llaver PF\EJSIDE:\Y CLARK GRIFFLLS, wio has been in communication with McNeely since late last season, following Harris' request for Earl's services, also expressed gratification over landing the new coach, who will clear up affairs on the Coast in the next few weeks and then head for ‘Washington, preparatory to leaving for the Orlando, Fla, training base in mid-February. Since leaving the big leagues in 1931, McNeely has served with Sacramento of ihe Pacific Coast League as player, manager and club president. “Earl not only was a smart base runner himself,” says Harris, “but he was one of the best team players I have ever known. For example, he was the hero of the 1924 world series with his single in the twelfth inning of the seventh game. But the next season we got Joe Harris from Boston and he didn’t play regularly. He was kept on the bench until late in the game when, if we had a lead, he'd replace Harris because of his fielding. “A lot of ball players might take this hard, but Earl didn’t. When he wasn't playing he’d hop out on the coaching line at every opportunity. Earl had plenty of spirit and even then he was a good man to have on the coaching line.” Touched Off ‘HE Nationals’ Seasen was cbronic headache to Har s had speea {o spare, but tnsy e few bases and missed many op- portunities to grab extra bases. Bucky didn’t blame sall this on the 1935 coaches, but his new sct-up might well indicate a determined effort to capitalize on the speed of Dee Miles, Jake Powell, Buddy Myer and other fleeter players. McNeely, he feels, will be able to do much toward developing Miles and Powell into feared base runners. McNeely, christened George Earl, will be 37 next May. He began his professional base ball career in 1922 with Sacramento, batting .213. The next two years, however, McNeely batted .333 for the Coast League Sen- ators and Griffith, hot on the trail of Washington's first pennant in 1924, bought the centerfielder for a re- ported price of $35,000 in cash and three players, including Wid Mathews, also a center fielder. The deal proved to be one of the shrewdest of Griff’s long career, ulti- mately touching off, in the Fall of 1924, probably the greatest display of base ball hysteria in history. Earl was a sensation in his big league debut, hitting .330 in 43 games | with the Nationals and finally break- ing up the dramatic serles with the Giants. McNeely was unable to main- tain this pace, dropping to .285, .303 and .276 the next three years. In 1927 he was traded to St. Louis with Dick Coffman for Milton Gaston and he spent the rest of his major league career with the Browns. _— D. C. BOWS IN HOCKEY Local Girls Beaten by Virginia, to Meet Philly Today. By the Assoclated Press, MONTCLAIR, N. J.,, November 23. ~Washington's women’s hockey team had a difficult task on its hands to- day when it faced the Philadelphia ~leven in the second of its two-game stand in the Scuthcastern tournament. While tne Capital girls were losing 'o Virginia yesterday, 3-1, the Phila- asiphia eleven was routing Baltimore, 8-0. Mrs. Charles P. Lukens, jr. president of the Washington Hockey Assoclation, was stil! hopeful, how- ever, that some of her team might be selected for the national champion- #hip tournament in Cleveland next week. In the third game yesterday Phila- delphia’s second team was white- washing the North Jersey firsts, 6-0. e HOPPE TO PLAY HERE Will Display Billiard Skill at Woodward & Lothrop’s. Willie Hoppe, world-famous bil- liardist, will display his skill at ‘Woodward & Lothrop's store Monday when he gives a 23;-hour exhibition in the adult game department, start- ing at 12:30 p.m. Hoppe will play on one of the new home types of tables. Forty-eight years old, the peerless cuelst never has lost his sobriquet of “boy wonder.” Hoppe started play- ing billiards when he was but 8, and 10 years later won his first world championship, at Paris. Last week he finished as runner-up to Welker Cochran in the United States three- cushion tourney. FORT MYER FIVE BOWS. Fort Myer's basket ball team took a 31-28 licking from Company B of Hagerstown last night. Ryan’s 12 points proving unavailing. A ¢ | show from the signal-calling position, Back in Fold Hero of the 1924 world series, whose signing as the Nationals' new third-base coach today was announced by Manager Bucky Harris. McNeely, whose title- ‘winning single in the seventh game of the Nationals-Giants series long wili be remembered, succeeds Johnny Kerr and will share coache ing duties next season with Harris. LANDON IS HAPPY OVER SEROND WIN Deleals Frienas 1o Belter 1934 Record—~Presents for Real Stars. BY BILL DISMER, Jr. NIPORMS of two losing prep school teams were being stored away for the season today, but there’s a smile on the face of Manager Evans Buchanan as he checks over the equipment of Landon's gridmen. On the face of it, that record of Landon’s two victories and four de- feats doesn't sound so hot, but when you consider that it was just twice as good as last year’s, when only one game in seven was won, and that the season ended yesterday on the par- tocularly sweet note of a 32-6 tri- umph over Friends on the latter's fleld, you sea the reason for Buchan- | an’s light heart. | Three Fine Linemen. 'URTHERMORE, Evans had the privilege all Fall of looking at three of the biggest and best linemen in the city and a shifty, 145-pound back who might have proved a sen- sation on any winning eleven. Johnny Crocker could take his place on any man's prep eleven and stage a great which he occupled all year. And those three outstanding plav- ers in the l'ne waren't conspicuous be- cguse ol their size slone. la Left ‘faczle Bob Willlamson (215), Right Guard Earl Myers (205), and Center Britton Browne (185), Ooach Bobd MacCartee had a trio that was well nigh impregnable. What gaining was done against Landon this year was ac- GONZAGA T0 FACE STURDY WESTERN Red Shows Power Against Washington-Lee—Title Won by G. W. High. HAT Western should be ready I to give Gonzaga a battle in their annual season - ending scrap next Wednesday is indi- cated by the showing of Dan Ahern's youngsters in their last two games. Fresh from a 13-6 victory over Roosevelt in its inter-high finale Tues- day, Western not only held Washing- ton-Lee's powerful team from Ballston, Va., to one lone touchdown yesterday, but came within one point of tying the favored invaders. Eddie O'Brien's conversion in the first quarter was all lowing its 38-8 rout of Fredericksburg’s High School eleven. The mythical title was at stake as part of the home- celebration staged by the school of the losing eleven. Although Fredericksburg made 14 first downs to G. W.'s 7, only once ‘was it able to get into scoring position. Paully Ventura, going 15 yards around end for the losers’ only score, in the second quarter, Previously, however, George Wash~ ington had scored twice in the same period when the Fones-to-Shu combination started to click. That pair accounted for the first 6-pointer. Later, Shu raced 66 yards to a touch- down in the most spectacular play of the game, while Worden took a pass and galloped 60 yards for the final score of the winners. Alexandria (38), Pred’burz (6), wis Stewa, Shold Mat Matches By the Assoclated Press. UTICA, N. Y.~Danno O'Mahoney, 220, Ireland, defeated Scotty Mac- Dougal, 210, Toronto, one fall. LEWISTON, Me.—Henry Piers, 214, Holland, defeated Floyd Marshall, 235, Montana, two t.lls out of three. PHILADELPHIA. — CHief Little Wolf, 217, New Mexico, defeated Kiman Kido, 165, Japan, one fall; Man Mountain Dean, 317, Atlanta, defeated Alphonse Bisignano, 215, Des Moines, one fall. NORTH BERGEN, N. J—Gus Son- nenberg, 205, Boston, defeated Stan- ley Sokolis, 218, Pennsylvania, one fall, " CINCINNATI.—Stanley Buresh, 180, Australia, defeated Alex Kasaboxki, 185, Toronto, one fall, DES MOINES.—Frank Speers, 233, Davis | Atlanta, defeated Ben Ginsberg, 215, = ARy | Ty % that enabled the Little Generals to| ! eke out & 7-8 victory. O'Brien’s game-winning placement followed an early assault on Western's | to goal which threatened to turn the contest into the predicted rout. A 65-yard march, featured by Jimmy Fixx’s line-plunging and Hip Hippler's flank-skirting, culminated when the latter changed his tactics to drive through guard for the first six points. Western matched that touchdown in the~third quarter when Brud Saum tore through center for the score after passes by Johnny Hatch and runs by Morris Snead had placed the ball on the 1-yard line. Wash. & Lee (7), Western (6). = - Johnson - Beck Z Lioyd ~-ilippler . - Wasatugton and Lee Riza ¥ 0 Western High .. 25210, 18 Touchdowns—Hippler. Saum. Point atter touchdow; ‘Brien. Substitutions: Western—Oliphant for Morse. Prawley for McCracken Edmonston_for Johnson, Don- ohoe for Edmonston. Referee—Mr. Tracy {Mount St. Mary's), Umpire—Mr, Farrell (Holy Cross). “(""HAMPIONS of all Northern Vir- ginla high schools” is what they're calling the George Washing- ton eleven of Alexandria today fol- rty. Kass, feree—Mr ionoy (George- Wi Umpire—Mr, Nellson (Georze Washington) = Head linesman—Mr. Hi ton (V. M. 1), PROS IN TUNE-UP GAME Tilt at cn;n;nufin; Prelude to Playing Maryland A. C. Although playing in & charity game at Charlottesville, Va., this afternoon, the Washington Pros are centering their attention on the second of their two games in as many days, which will be played tomorrow at Griffith Sta- dium. It is there that the Pros will meet the Maryland A. C., one of the finest semi-pro elevens in the vicinity, Conzi d the “greatest team to pisy ia Micamond tais year,” tha Pros were Invited py 8 speciel commiiiee of wie Oid Dominicn capital to meet tne Richmond Arrows in todsy’s game at the stadium of the State university. Tomorrow's fray here will be their first local appearance of the year. SPEITH FINDS BASKET. Speith’s eight fleld goals were large- ly instrumental for Eighth Street's 36-27 conquest of the Marine basket ball team last night. ous- & | New York, two falls out of three. MONTPELIER MEET DRAWS STAR FIELD Hunters From More Than 20 Well Known Stables Are on Card of Five Races Today. | svecial Dispateh to The star. ONTPELIER STATION, Va., No- vember 23.—Horses from more than a score of prominent stables were assembled here today at the estate of Mrs. Marion DuPont Somerville to participate in the annual meeting sponsored by the Montpelier Hunt. Five races were scheduled during the afternoon, the first to begin at ! o'clock. Ameng ine prominsny o ners 3ng | trainsts reprecented in o Cnase &n0 flal evenic were 10 be Jaca Sginner, ¥. Amorose Ciars, Catherine Christy, Noel Laing, Victor Noyes, Richard Whitney, Randolph Duffey, L. H. Drennan, Paul Mellon, Morris Dixon and others. The races were to be the Orange County Steeplechase, the Virginia Plate, the Madison Plate, the Mont- pelier Cup and the Bellevue Plate. All | were to carry prize money as well as ! trophies for the winners. 66 YOU CANT complished around its flanks or over its heads—not through its mid-sec- tion. All three linemen looked great in the final act yditerday and it wasn't the inferiority of the opposition that demonstrated their caliber. But out- thining them all was Crocker, who was continually shaking himself loose from frantic clutches and weaving in and out of a group of would-be tacklers. Friends First to Scere. 'RIENDS surprised even fits most ardent supporters when it drew first blood with a first-quarter touch- down on a 3-yard plunge by Leroy Russell, but once the Landon attack got under way in the second period it was “no contest.” After blocking a kick, Friends initiated a 70-yard drive for the tying touchdown, and a 15- yard penalty imposed for “interfer- ence with the opportunity of the re- ceiving team to advance” gave Lan- don the ball on the foe’s 3-yard line. When Jim Smith's punt was caught on the fly and downed by his team- mate, Right End Elliott, on his own 18-yard line, Umpire Dilley ruled that Landon’s safety man had been thus denled the chance of advancing the bali and the score-inviting penalty followed. Line-ups and summary: Priends (6), Landon (32). - - Dunham < Willigmson fends School . 6 0 0 0—86 ndon Prep_. 013 13 6—32 . Touchdowns—Levely (2). Crocker (2). Channell. Russell. Points after touchdown —Crocker ~(latefsl). Channel (plunze). Substitutions—(Priends) Reeside, Glavis, Gorcon; (Lsndon) Nichoison, Hiboen, Land, Adans = Referee—Mr, McClure. Uninire LT Dilley (St Albans), ifead Mnecoian— s, schoenteld (Georze Washingwon U.), GRID GAME CANCELED, ‘Today’s game between Miner Teach- ers and Livington College of Salisbury, N. C., originally scheduled for Walker Stadium, has been canceled. RINCETON. FOOTBALL, SAT., NOV. 30 All Rail—All Electric Train Service Lv. Washington sI 63 l"..‘:l 8:00 P. M. Ar.Now Haven 235 A. M. Sleeping car fore —one weys Steeping Cer may be New Haven 33.60upperberth WASHINGTON, D. C. Super Pyro Dealers NORTHWEST Abbott’s L. 3 oo MI‘D';!P.| (:'" ..!.u"grl Ave. & Alliston assador Garage. 2500 Champlain St. Autemotive Sery., 1 reh BE Barrett, 8608 Gooris Goared Bta. P B Burrows Serv, Sia., Wis. Ave, & Biontord . Butler, 0 20th St s Service, l!& Rr. 2412 18 - & C. Parkl ivert ‘Aute Sup. Go.. Champlain up. Co., Cham) i, 4 & Buclid ow Game starts 1:45P. 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Entrants Is Expected to Be Among Leaders in Grind. ‘ EARLY half of the 78 contest- | ants entered in the 62);-mile race, feature of the National Capitai bicycle sweepstakes, are Washingtonians, but none is ac- corded & chance of being among the first five to finish the 125 laps at the Ellipse tomorrow. ’ Of the 37 local cyclists competing, Ed Belber, Bob Kennon and Bits Horner are rated as the closest ap- proach to Cecil Hursey, American champion, and Jackie Simes, New Jersey title holder, who are 1o make & two-rider race of the classic. ‘The marathon will be the last of six events, which are scheduled to start at 12:30 pm. A 1-mile play- ground race for youngsters between the ages of 9 and 15 will open activi- tles, to be followed by & messenger boys’ 5-mile pursuit race, a 2-mile stock bicycle race, a 6-mile interna- race for Government employes, Entries are being taken up until 4:30 o'clock this afternoon at the National Capital Parks Office, in the Navy Building. After that time en- trants have until 9:30 p.m. to call the | Ritz Hotel. AINIER IS OUT MOUNT R Bows ‘o 8occer Beriss, 3% Slate ompelition proved siiffer wiau county competition to Mount Rainier's high szchool scccer team yesterday, which began and finished its quest for the State title by dropping a 3-2 decision to the Jarrettsville High. Given a penalty shot in the last 3 minutes of the game, when a Mount | Rainler player touched the ball with | his hand, Potect broke a 2-2 tie with a the decisive shot. The game was played at Jarrettsville. SBPORTS CARDS ARE HIGHER THAN N SUMMER &= Cold Retards Carry, Ball| Gets Little Roll as Ther- mometer Falls. BY W. R. McCALLUM. INTER rules do not make the game of golf any easler. As the game now is being played on all the Jocal courses, with the ball being given a preferred lie on the fair- ways (at some courses everywhere ex- cept in hazards) the scoring hasn't béen as good as it was during the Summer, when the ball couldn't be touched from the time it left the tee until it was knocked into the cup. Lots of golfers have an idea that when Winter rules go into effect around the first part of November each year the scoring will be easier, and that because the pill may be teed up it will be easler to hit. But they forget that under prevailing Winter conditions the ball gets hardly any roll, and they also forget that it doesn’t carry as far as it did when the air was warm. Why this should be isn't clear, but it is a fact that a golf ball loses distance in cold weather, which brings to mind the classic yarn of how Walter J. Travis, the grand old man of golf and one of the great thinkers of the game, with & tee shot that hardly carried 180 yards, won a golf match one cold day because he kept a spare supply of well-warmed golf balls along with him. The caddie car a couple of ncat Li3 clslance, by olupacison, was we- | mendous on & Gay when the ball lost quite a little carry. Shoriened Holes Suggesied. 'HE scoring nowdays among the | average golfers hardly comparesl with that of Midsumer even| though preferred lles are the rule, for tee shot which would range out 250 yards in the Summer barely goes be- vond the 200-yard mark now. The 29 Sports Mirror ‘Today s year agc—America; ciation and International n!::::; scrapped “l:me world serles” afteg ment over play-oft which A. A, abolished, -4 e Three years ago—John J, McEw; suspended Holy Cross grid coach, ::' stituted court action for the right te carry through contract which expires at end of 1933 season, Five years ago—Leo Diegel ang Gene Sarazen, with 72-hole aggres gates of 287, tled for first place in Portland, Oreg., golf open. holes play the same length and the ball must be hit all the way, for if won't run, a half missed shot goes nowhere and the putting isn't as easy #s it was back in the Summertime, A good idea for greens chairmen thesy chilly days would be to shorten the BOIf courses by using front tees, buf You will find at many courses that thy same sets of markers are in the samg old places of Summer when thy | sround was hard and almost any kind of shot moved out to the 200-yarq marker, and beyond. For the averag player, the 90 and up shooter, th¢ game gets tougher when cold weathet comes along. 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