The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 31, 1923, Page 13

* SATURDAY. THE SEATTL PAGE 13 REDSKINS FIGURE TO BE FIRST DIVISION CLUB THIS SEASON EMINISCENCES © D-ED As Told to Leo H. Lassen All in a Cloud of Dust CHAPTER LXXX. iS the old days Milwaukee was one of the hardest cities for a visiting club to play in, f The reason was that the majority of the fans were Ger- ree man fans, there were a number of German | players on the team any club but their own, Jimmy McAleer, later one of the greatest outfielders in the game, with Cleveland, was playing for the Milwaukee club. I was catching for Minneapolis, In one particular game I was catching a southpaw heaver had all kinds of stuff but nobody knew where it was going. | McAleer was on third base, and the core was close, Jimmy being the runner would tie the score. The pitcher let go a wild pitch and I just = managed to knock the ball down. It rolled puapaLe =e about 20 feet and I dashed after it. I knew doggone well that McAleer would start for the plate. I grabbed the ball, ran wildly to the plate and threw my- self across the rubber, colliding with McAleer about 10 feet that Mike Strauss being | their particular hero—and they couldn't see from the plate in a wild cloud of dust. The stands let up I got up, brushed And still the stands owards the bench. “Where you going, T “Why, the man was out a “That was a very vit. He slipped a f ait him with the ball And then I did some talking. from the plate, the marks on souldn’t have touched the plate wit stilts, But it didn't do any good, Afraid of those raving fans aK oft roared. I yelled nice, play ot around you Brennan was that kind of an umpire coming to a game one day when it umpired the whole battle und Monday Dugdale will tell about § y clothes an Jack Bre a I'm going made,” said E you an The play and I'll started for the dug t p and pped my c hoy going nan, who was but he wasn't 1 the plate touct before you ha ground h his sho Occurred at least 10 feet wed th and McAleer less he had them on always swear that Brennan was He was unique, If nothing isa, rty Wolverton’s start In baseball SERVICE WILL MAKE OR BREAK TENNIS NOVICE. By Vincent Richar Famous Tennis Star HB service in the lawn tennis game is a qualification that either “makes or breaks" a player. It fs a vital factor at all times and in all match A player destitute of a food service can never hope to attain lofty height in the net game Playing against a man for the first time, I invariably try out every kin of a service I possess during the first few games until I determine the one that is most effective against this particular opponent. conclusion I continually bombard him with the same variety of a serv. jee. My best service is a combination of the well known American twist service and flat straight stroke, de- livered on the principle of William Tilden'’s cannon-ball service. To make this delivery effective the ball | should be thrown at least two feet high and must be hit with a slanting overhead stroke, cutting the ball on either side, which causes it to take & peculiar loop after it comes in con On reaching a| | tact court Tam continually asked wheth cond b do the first With the opposite side of the I know ts perte The degree of difference between the | two Is very slight, however, and can | not be detected by an audience. | To use a fast ball agninst “Little | Bil" Johnston ts “auicide.” Tilden Jand I have agreed on this many | times. The California ace ts a demon on a speedy serve and on an average of seven times out of 10 he will driv Hit back at you like @ proverbial bul: let. Opposite Tilden. I deliver a serv to “Big Bill” that only bounces trifle after {t strikes the court. The Philadelphian on most occasions re- quires a long swing to execute hi stroke | | In advising ambitious players, 1 will y that In order for them to acquire, an effective service th jshobid eliminate excessive speed un til they are first able to place their drives, REDS ADOPT DISCARDED MINOR STAR RLANDO, Fla., March 31.—The unique record of having been fired by @ minor league club and hired by @ major league one in the same season belongs to Gustave Sandberg. new catcher for the Reds, who ix ex pected to show well the coming year Last year was Sandberg’s fifth in the International league, He started out with Toronto last year, but fn June a deal was arranged that would have sent him to New Orleans, in the Southern league. This was even a step below the International, George Stallings, of the Rochester club, refused to waive on him, how- ever, and he was used regularly for that club behind the bat. P: ran, the Reds’ manager, saw in action and paid a good pr his release. PADDOCK IS AFTER NEW SPEED MARK Ey RELEY, Cal, March 31.~— Charite Paddock, “fastest hu was the center of interest in # University of California-Uni- versity of Southern California dual track meet, to be run this afternoon on the California oval Paddock, «miling and looking as fit as aman could look Was here with the announced tntention of clipping a fifth of a second off the world’s rec. ,0Fd for the 100-yard dash, if he has it in him. He promised to let out all he ever shown in the of Gpeed, and a little more, if he can Paddock didn't say he was going to get away with any record-break ing, but that he was going to do it If he could. DOUBLE STEAL WINS HOT SPRINGS, Ark., March 31.—~ A cleverly worked double steal by ‘Trainor and Tierney, who scored, de- cided a hard-fought game between the Pirate regulars and Ya nnigans, the former winning, 3 to 2. CUNNINGHAM TO STICK BAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 31,—~ Bill Cunningham and Jimmy o'Con nell will be alternated in center field this season by the New York Gi Cunningham working against handed pitchers, fants, left PHILS’ TRAINING ENDS LEESBURG, March 31.—The Phila have finished tholr training here, and today left in a body for ‘Tampa where they will oppose Washington, Liverpool has a Punch and Judy show that has been operated in the fame location near the Lime street railway ntation, by the wume family, tor nearly one hundred years, * | ity. FARMER BEATS ROCKY STRAMBO PORTLAND, March 91,— Frank Farmer, of Tacoma, veteran heavy. weight, is still doing business at the Jold stand. He handed out a hard beating to Rocky Strambo, of Cle | Elum, here last night in 10 rounds | that were sad for Strambo. The lat ter showed nothing but gameness and took a terrific lacing. JACK ONSLOW IS REINSTATED | PITTSBURG, March 33. — Jack Onslow, former manager of the Ma- honay City Steet league club, has jbeen reinstated by Commissioner Landis and leaves tonight to foin the Portland Pacific coast league. Ons "| low was suspended in 1918 for jump. ing @ reserve clause with Kansas " BENTON AGAIN Record of Krache Is | Hoquiam Lightweight, | | Who Will Show Here || | Tuesday, Has Kayoed 15) my | | BY SEABURN BROWN NTEREST in the next boxing show, to be staged at the Arena = Tuéaday night, centers in the first local appearance of Ted Krache, Ho-| quiam = light-| weight, who will | main event with .Jack Josephs} Josephs ts well! known to Seattle fana, having boxed several times here last summer of of } | Krache has one markable Nghtweighta the most re-| any of the generation of Northwest He has had 25 ring enec rs to date, of which he won 34-15 of them by mx rounds or less records the kayo route in| Morgan Jones took ono decision o Krache; but the Hoquiam youngster more than wiped out the by beating Jones on occasions, Morgan was in three rounds in his first Krache reverse mark ree other | | Jonephs should give Krache a tif |test. While he is handicapped to | extent by a chin that won't stand too much jolting, the Minne-| apolis m in experienced, heady, | and can sock some himself | ler Krache's showing with Joxephs| will give the raijbirds some sort of | line on how he will stack up with| Dede Bercot, Monroe's 1g logger, when the Inevitable meeting of the pair ts finally staged from centers where boxed picture him ans a ter, but green. ) & Balt have lined up an at tive card in support of the main In the semf-windup, Harry Andef. and Pat Williams, veterans, are billed to step atx rounds, | Sailor Eddie Buell is again on the card, matched with Olympia’« tough featherweight, Fi MeCarthy. | Red Campbell made a MeCasslin fon both clever here last week, ith the human dynamo, Soldier Woods Eddie Neil of Everett and tudwic| Jones of Tacoma will open the show |McTIGUE WILL VISIT AMERICA NEW YORK, March 31.—Mike Mo- Tigua, new world’s light heavyweight champion, will sa!l from Ireland for the United States on May 14, accord: ing to a cable received by Joe Ja- cobs, his mana, ewark promo- ters have offered $100,000 for a Mo Tigue-Greb fight, and Tex Rickard is rying to arrange a McTigue-Carpen: | tler bout, Jacobs said. he beat Roy will battle » when IN SPOTLIGHT NEW YORK, March 31.—Reports that six National league teams had| decided to protest every game that Rube Benton wins for the Cincinnati | Reds were stamped as “groundless” | | by Charles Stoneham,” president of | the Giants, “Haven't heard a thing Jabout It, and don't believe it,” he | said. ‘OLYMPIC FUNDS ARE PROBLEM NEW YORK, March 31—Amert can Olymple officials will meet here on April 18 to discuss means of rais- | ing fungs to finance the trip to Paris | next year, It was announced, Ali | national sport-governing bodies ‘will be asked to discourage international competition this yea CUBS LOSE TWICE SAN JOSE, March 31.—The Chica go Cubs suffered a double defeat yen: | terday, the regulars boing beaten by San Franciseo, 4 to 3, and the Yan nigans by Seattle, 3 to 1 Champ Works to Regain Style That Won Title Gene Sarazen, national golf champion, i8 training steadily to overcome the slump that marked his play thruout the winter months. Sarazen looked bad in his tour with the veteran Jock Hutchison, but has announced. that he will be in the same form that won him titular honors last year when the big tourneys open this year, The cham- pion underwent an operation recently, and to thie is aa- cribed, in a measure, his temporary loss of form. Impressive AVE G . lANF a8 al the Farlington w the Black Kiver play- but they have always ment Manager Fred Jack ke o hit with the beys when they cast their optics on the 1983 Hist of events, which are as follows: Aprit 1—Bogey competition, April 1 to May 31—Eclectic tournament, April 8—High handicap competition. April 15—Inglewood at Earlington. April 21-22—Monthly medal play. April 29—University at Earlington. May 6—Earlington at University May 10—Earlington at Seattle Golf club, jay 12-13—Monthly medal play. May 20—RHellingham at Karlington, ay 27—Karlington at Everett, 30—Rogey competition, 0 1 to Sept, 36—Summer Eclectic tournament, dune 1—Club chi plonship, dune $—Karlir at Aberdeen, ne 10—Yakima at Earlington. dune 16—Karlington at Skagit € ington at Bellingh: dune M4—Earlington at Rainier. duly l—Aberdeen at Karting 4—Tombstone two-ball mixed foursomes duly 8—Hest ball and aggregate tournament, duly 14-15—Monthly medal play duly Seattle at Earlington duly 2%—Tacoma at Karlington. August 5—Earlington at Inglewood, August 12—President’s Cup. August *6—Monthly medal play. lington at Yakima, Sept rlington. Sept. 23—Captain’s Cup (bogey competition), Sept, 30—Skagit C. C, at Earlington, 7—Rainier at Earlington. 11—Earlington at Tacoma. TTWEAM matches galore feature the makeup of sehedule for the coming season. Som ors have never taken to club conipetitions, been strong f eam matches, and Tour will certainly 80 Mes bee oe duly Oct. “Variety” Is what Jefferson Park golfers have » hankering for, nd the “ever-ready-to-please” Chet King, club captain, is surely out to give ‘om Just what they want, A glance at the 1923 competitive play for members of the Jefferson Park Golf club reveals the fact that Skipper King has done himself proud in mixing them up for the hill brigade. The fight for the club championship Is coming a little early, but it is an even break for all, Here is what Captain King has lined up for the season: April 1 to Sept. 36—Eclectle tournament; five prizes. April 74—Club championship; qualifying round, April 7.8—Medal play on handicap, April Match play against bogey mbstone tournament (medal play}—prizes for winners ndicap 16 and under, and 17 and over. May 19:20—Match play against bogey May 30—Field Day tournament; special prizes. June 23—Medal play on handicap. dune M—Frederick & Nelson tournament; first round. June 16-17—Mateh play against bogey. dune 30-July 1—Medal play on bandleap. duly 4—Best ball and aggregate on handicap, daly 14-15—Mateh play against bogey daly 23—Captain's Cup tournament; first round, July 28-28—Medal play on handicap. Aug. 11-12—Match play against bogey. Aug. 25-26—Medal play on handicap. Sept. 8—Labor Day; special prizes. Sept. #-9—Match play against bogey. Sept. 17—Times Trophy tournament; first round, Sept. t2-23—Medal play on handicap. Oct, 67—Match play against bogey. Oct. 8—President’s Cup tournament; first round, Oct. —Medal play on handicap, Nov. 34—Match play agalnat bogey. Nov. 17-18—Medal play on handicap. An All-Fools’ Day tournament will be put on Mt Inglewnod tormor- row and it gives promise of being # real attraction. Club Captain Gene Hatton has a load of surprises to spring on the boys, and also a hatful of prizes for the winners in the various contests. Inglewood will formally open its season next Saturday April 7, with a dinner-dance in the clubhouse. noon (Sunday) a mixed foursome competitio: bined handicaps allowed, will be played. evening, The following after. . With one-balf the com- Phil Jefferson, the Everett professional, qualified for membership In the Hole-tn-One club last Sunday, when his mashie-pitch tee shot to the fourth hole at his home course trickled into the eup, Henry Olwell and Bill Peabody were Phil's opponents, but, aside from recely- ing congratulations, they (Henry and Bill) absolutely refused to fork eat any beans for such a Jesse James trick. However, Phil done pretty on collections during the three trips he made with them on that tricky nine-hole course, his reapective scores being 35, 34, 36.. Yes! Phil is tough pickin's these days, All previous records for = single day's attendance on the Municipal course on Beacon Hill were shattered last Sunday when 837 players teedoff, This was the first time the total went over the 800 mark. That the royal and ancient game is doing a “Dr, Couc” here ts very evident, but the surprising thing isthe condition of the Beacon Hill course. “The fairways and greens are in wonderfully fine she They are hard to beat anywhere! ilo was In the Jefferson Park bogey competition last week-en named Detmer Anderson, who learned the links, led the fleld when he finish Kellam divided the second and thi five down. No special event ts on this week-end card for Jeffersonians, nd, a youngster game on the Municipal ed six up. ©. G. Duffin and A, B, rd prizes, each having the old gent Mombers of the Earlington Golf and Country club will usher In the 1923 season at the Black River links today. Mixed foursomes and other special events are on the Program for this afternoon, starting at 1 o'clock, and when play ceases the scene of activities will be transferred to the clubhouse, where the boys and girls will try their skill at a dinner-dance, In other words, Earlington's 1923 grand opening has all the earmarks of a big afternoon and a large evening. Beginning tomorrow, members of the on a fourmonths’ shoot for pars, that will go toward the winning Seattle Golf club will start birdies, eagles, or any other species of the twelfth annual eclectic tour- nament and the Blethen trophy, Play closex on July 31. One-half of theplayer's handicap will be deducted from the gross eclectic score. The low net score wins. Tee-up! Ball Players Demand Place on Commission HICAGO, March’ 31, — Major league baseball players, thru their “union,” today demanded repre: sentation on the national commis: sion, the chief vuling body of the game, ‘The commission js now com posed of K, M, Landis, national com: missioner; Ban Johnson, president of the American league, and John Heydler, president of the National longue, The formal demand for represen: tation of players on the commission, coming just before the opening of the 1928 season, was in the form of a “resolution” adopted by the Na- tional Baseball Players’ association, It was forwarded to the national commission today by Raymond J, Cannon, Milwaukee attorney and or: ganizer of the union. In m letter to the national com: mission, accompanying the resolu tion, the players’ union executive hoard stated: “This demand ia not made for the purpose of fomenting trouble, but purely ffom the conviction thatthe granting of such a demand will be to the interests of everyone opn cerned, “It waa thought that such repre: sentation was absolutely necessary in order sured they were being fairly dealt with by the ‘owners, "You have made regulations binding players without given a voice la the laws upon the the players being in the creation of governing them, You have set the terms of the players’ contracts: and have passed upon all vital base ball problems which directly affect the players, and rendered decisions without the advice and counsel of the playe “At @ meoting of the executive board of the players’ association it was decided that the best means to secure co-operation of both pla and owners and to make for a Peacoable understanding and to in. sure the best possible baseball for the public was to have the players represented on your body, In this way, It was thought, friction could best be avoided and interests of both sidos reconciled,” and ban Champs, Tigers and Angeles Will Also Figure; Race Opens Tuesday Redskins Are 75 Per Cent Stronger Than Last Year; Angels Will Miss Killefer; Seals and Tigers Have Good Clubs Again, but Champs Will Miss O’Connell and Kamm; Salt Lake and Portland Look Like Cellar Coutenders BY LEO H. LASSE (Sporting Editor The Star) AN JOSE, Cal., March 31.—Two more days and the barrier will be lifted for the eight Coast league clubs, Seattle opening the season at Fresno with It Lake, Vernon clashing with the champion Seals at San Francisco, Oakland opening at Los Angeles with the Angels and Portland prying off the lid at Sacramento, At the start of the race it looks like San Francisco and Vernon, the one+ two clubs of last year, will be the outfits to beat again, with Frisco slighfiy weaker thru the loss of Bill Kamm and Jim O'Connell and with Vernon having the same strength. Pitching carried the Tigers thru last year, and if Frank Schellenback can come back they will be dangerous, Los Angeles and Seattle will enter the race favored to be the other strong contenders. The Angels will be stronger by the addition of Marty Krug to second base, but they will miss the leadership of Red Killefer. Seattle is 75 per cent stronger this year than last. For the first time the locals have a good manager, a real big leaguer, when it comes to handling men. They have a good first sacker, a dependable duet at ~ —— ee jsecond and a fair third bas outlook. The Indians _ will |have an outfield that will not have to take a back seat for Williams Invents New that players might be as. | lany club in the le ague and jthe catching will be well taken care of. Oakland looks a the addition Jtwo heady and Chet work may bit stronger thru of Walter Mails and catchers in Del Baker Thomas. Good battery make the Oaks @ danger. will enter the race as ne of the league with a |corking @ pitching staff, a fast in | field and just fair catching and out |felding. T lack @ real punch, but will win more games than they did last year, and they are expected to | be anything but a last place team. Portland will have a pretty fair hitting club with such maulers as Poole, Brazil, King, Cox and High jon the team, But their battery de- partment, outaide of Buds Sutherland, is nothing to yell gbout. Larry Jones, | @ newcomer from the East, is booked to play third and King will add con- |siderable punch to the outfield, but |he will have to go some to hit like Sam Hale did. The team doesn't look one whit stronger than last year when it fin- jished seventh and would have been last again only to be saved because | Sacramento had such @ tough run of injures. An for Salt Lake, the Bees have lost three of their best players—Sand, Biglin and Thurston. Peters, their new catcher, ts auld to be a pip, while Laalio at first should get by in this company. But Sheehan and Pearce are just @ mediocre pair around sec- ond base and can't carry bats to Sig- lin and Sand. The Bees will always be dangerous with such hitters as Strand and Lewin on deck But how Duffy Lewis will keep the & mystery at this writing. Orr Stars When Tribe Beats Cubs BY LEO H. LASSEN AN JOSEP, Cal., March $1.—Just |Ntry to oust Bill Orr out of the |shortatop job of the Seattle Ball club. This year if the Sacramento |fellow counts to dish up the kind of ball that he did against the Chi- jcago Cubs yesterday, Orr wan the leentral figure in the 3-to-1 victory Jover the Windy City rookies. Orr figured in four double plays, starting two of them, and besides he crashed out three hits, one a |double, knocked in a run, scored janother himself, stole a base and |played a perfect game in the field, making @ couple of sensational pla He |s playing the same caliber of ball this spring that he did the last two Weeks of the season in Seattle in 1922 when he was the talk of the town, Fred Blake pitched the entire game for the Seattle club and while had a world of stuff, using a hook, a fast one and a floater with telling effect. bingles all afternoon, the rest boing Scotch hits. Hack Milkr, former Oakland slugger, slapped one real hit to right field and Cotter rammed another burner thru the infield, A big right-hander named Osborne, a submarine pitcher, hurled the game for the Bruins and had a lot stuff, too. He is considered one of the Cubs’ best mound bets, The Redskins turned in a double Killing in the first Inning, with the bags full, and in the seventh, elghth and ninth they repeated the stunt. Billy Lane made one of his fa- mous catches In deep left field that saved the game from being tled up in the first of the ninth when he went back among the goats and picked Hartnett's drive out of the ozone with a runner on first. Seattle scored in the first Inning jwhen the right fielder dropped Lane's high fly to right field and the rabbit scurried around to third on it, Johnston lined a fly to cen. |ter and Lane scored, The Cubs tle dit up in the third when Beck walked and Cotter singled, Miller forced Cotter and Beck went to third, He scored when Weis flied to left, After that Blake held the enemy scoreless. Seattle went in the lead in the |fifth again when Orr singled with |two out, stole second and scored on Janvrin’s drive across second, They added their final tally in the seventh when Eldred singled, stole second and eame across on Orr's two-base slap to right field The same teama were due to play again today here with Kaufman slated to hurl for the Chicago out. fit and with elther Vean Gregg or Mimer Jacobs on the hil for the Indians, Sunday the training season wil) Bees out of seventh or eight place is; The Cubs picked up only two real | {Crane and Jack Martin—and of} One for Boo k—IPHOUS Nick Williams has invented a new word that has taken Its place in the vocabulary of the San dose t nounced efus, with a long Nick razzberry, bunk, strategy, and then add anything you like, raining camp. It is IPHOUS, pro- says it is from the Greek, meaning. It is used in the sense of giving someone the iphous, or, in other words, putting the works to ‘em. Future Euan Fie for — 1923 Brooklyn Robins. | BY BILLY EVANS LEARWATER, Fila., March Manager Wilbert Robinson, the Brooklyn Nationals, appears have th biggest task of any the ma, league hagers, With the exception of his pitching staff, Robbie asn't a thing to boa about. In discussing the situation {wih the Brooklyn leader he about summed up his situation when he remarked: “The way things now line up my club doesn’t present much of a front. It's just a good minor league 31.— of to of team." The usual number of holdouts |have hampered Robbie from using jhis full strength. /Zach Wheat is among the absenttes, as is Third Baseman High, also Jack Fournier, secured in the trade with St. Louis for Hi Myers. If these three players were In [band Manager Robinson might agein wear his broad smile. At pres- jent Robbie hasn't had much to en- thuse over and the smile has been conspicuously missing. MANY ROOKIES IN LINEUP When I looked over the Dodgers in action few of the men in the lineup were familiar to me. In the game with the Boston Braves the entire infield with the exception of | Jimmy Johnston was made up of re- cruits Three youngsters from the South- rn association, with the addition of Johnston, comprised the infield. Stewart, with Birmingham last year, was at second; Mullen, with Mobile, \at third, and Schleibner, of Little Rock, at first, Stewart looked right promising de- spite the fact that this is his third chance in the majors. Pittsburg and St. Louis, of the National league, had him for a time, but he never got much of a chance. W | Picking Infield Is Task BY LEO H. LASSEN N JOSE, March 81 —"Doc” |) Johnston ts a cinch to open the ak [season at first base for the Indians he was wild, walking six men, he| and “Boston” Janvrin is likewise a cinch to open at second, but only the Gray Wolf knows the names of the birds who will decorate the left side of the diamond this season, Wolverton has three good short- stops on the club-—Bill Orr, Sam two third skckers—Tex Wisterzil and Harry Baldwin, But try to pick ‘em! Of the shortstops, Orr is in the best shape and is throwing like a youngster and he's hitting and covering plenty of ground. He re- ported in swell shape. Crane is the most brilliant of the whole lot, and {t's hard to figure out how he can be kept off the club. Then there's the slow, but steady and experienced Wisterail for third, Tex has been playing winter ball and ts in condition. Baldwin has been covering a world of ground in practice and has been hitting pretty well. And then, too, Sam Crane can play third, Try to figure it out, boys! TRAINING CAMP GOSSIP Hal Ruby, the young San Diego third sacker, who was out of mont of the training season with finger on a out later in the season by Wolverton, For a 200-pounder Byerett Yaryan, the Indians’ slugging catchor, 9 a roniark- able agile fellow. He steps right around the bases, Harry Gardner looks like a olnch to open the soason against Salt Lake, while Hiner Jacobs: will probably get the sec: ond call, Yaryon says that Bart Sheely, former Salt Lake first packer, Is just as good nw fielder as there is in the Dig leagues, and that goes for Goors Kisler, too, Sheely is now with ¢ White Sox, If Bud Davia can learn to hit a ourve hall the older fellows In camp e pect him to make quite a ball player to hit has affected the rest Joo Doran, former St. Mary end with a game with Clara Collegians, the Santa college third wacker, fe on the Indian 1 nauad and he's quite a fle with Cloveland part time | {ness at the bat was given as the reason for his failure to stick. Stewart handles himself nicely in and looks like a mighty e runner, provided he ean get on enough to take advantage af his speed. He hit an even .300 in the Southern association last year If he can hit within 20 points 6f { mark he should help Brooklymy SOUTHERN p |IN BATTING | Fred Schleibner, a husky chap) hold down first, unless Fournier Schleibner went big in the leading the Southern in hit ith a mark of .354. | As yet the big fellow has not im- |pressed with his hitting despite his imposing swat average of last year, He says that he ts a late starter. The records of the Southern asso ciation bear out that statement. Up to July 4 last year Schliebner was hitting about .180, yet he topped the organization in hitting. He just couldn't be stopped the last two months. At the present writing Wheat is a holdout, Bert Griffith ts on the |ting ner Barber is home at the bedside of his wife, who ts very ill. With’ | lin shape, Robinson's outfield trou: bles wouldn't be so serious. |BIG PROBLEM FOR PITCHERS eis Is slated for center feld, the veteran Tom Griffith will be in right, Gene Bailey, a rookie from Houston, Tex., who filled in for the Boston” Red Sox a few years back, when Hooper was out, looks good, and may start as a regular. 4 | The catching wilt be done by Dey |Berry and Hungling, with Har areaves, a recruit, and Taylor, who was with the Dodgers for a time — last year, but finished with Mem- phis, fighting it out for the third: Job. x There ts no hope for Robbie to finish in the first division, and the way the team looks now he |have his troubles finishing better than sixth. Robbie realizes the many handl- / caps he is working under, and hoping his pitching will help | him in good standing. It looms jasa big Job for the hurlers, Mexican Title Is Langford, the veteran “Boston ‘Tar Baby," who is older than anyone Jold Californian, are to battle in a | finish fight here this afternoon for jthe heavywelght champlonship @@ Mexico, ‘ | spectators have been arranged fi Chapultepec bull ring and the vance sale of tickets indicated | the enclosure will not be big enough to meet the demands, Langford, who was fighting years ago, and who has met of the great heavyweights of generation, has been installed three to one favorite to win the championship, The veteran negro), fighter has been here several months training and he ts said to be In good — condition. His superior boxing skill is being argued to overcome i youth of his opponent. ; ‘Today being a general holiday here, tho streets were crowded carly this” morning and the fight was the chief — subject of conversation, 4 The fight was cheduled to start The fight was scheduled to start. the spectators were In thelr places, It's my first chance at a title an |T'm going to be some kind of cham= | pion before IT quit," Langford sald. | He expressed the opinion the fight: wouldn't be very long. R “It whl be a long fight.” was all the comment Savage would make, — The hotels wore crowded with tours ists today, American having come fh from the sugar country for the hol days. Interest In the bout waan’ confined by any means to the Amert. cans, however, as the Mexicans have hocome greatly oxetted over boxing: since the Inst. fight hero sever fi months ago when two lightweights fought 61 rounds, x f shelf with a torn ligament and Ture |those three players on the job and q Seating accommodations for 6,000 in the