The evening world. Newspaper, March 29, 1922, Page 18

seas Sinn ina = A monster petition is being planned = for Judge Landis's . lating the league rules against barn- = tub, the chief sufferer, from a box = office standpoint, hadn't lifted a finger saberes " ‘4 . "THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MAROH Petitions Here and in Other Cities in Home Run King’s Behalf. MOVEMENT has been started A not only in New York but in other big league cities through- out the country to have Babe Ruth re- instated by Judge Landis in time to begin the baseball season on April 12, Those behind the project describe themselves as plain ordinary fans, with no interest in the commercial aspects: of the case, as it affects the American League and Cols. Ruppert and Hus ton, employers of the home run hitter consideration. Unless this has some weight with thy Judge the Bambino will not get into the game until May 20, as a result of his suspension last November for vio- storming after the season had been finished. 4 Those behind the Ruth movement “Hirgue that in keeping the Babe out of game for a month, the esteemed \dge is taking away a lot of the early Mnterest from the American League race. Not only that but he is ‘handi- Sapping the Yankees in their effort to repeat last season’s victory. The Ruth adherents point out also the undeniable fact that a great majority of fans go to games just to see Ruth and unless he is in there playing from the begin- ning of the season they will be de- prived of just so many thrilis. NLY last week Judge Landis was O hobnobbing with Ruth and the other Yankees in their South- ern training camp. He went so far as to have his picture taken with his arms around the shoulders of both Ruth and Meusel, who suffered suspension with the Babe for becoming a barn- Stormer. The Judge, however, said Rothing at the time that would indi- ate he had any notion of letting up op the players. Instead he disposed s0f the case by saying it was a closed ‘cident with him, The Judge was pleased to make known, however, that there had been no wirepulling or submarine methods on him to rescind his original ruling in the case. The New York toward an appeal in Ruth's behalf. All of this speaks well for the respect in which Landis is held by the base- ball magnates and politicians of the game, 3 a It also should make him feel that yphould he take the fans’ view of the ‘wituation, he could at least modify ‘the punishment of Ruth, satisfied that he wasn't driven to it by the *game's commercial powers, the unbeaten three-year-old, I Morvich, have attracted’ atten- tion to racing unusually early this HE sensational Derby trials of 3 ar. The Eastern season starts next - turday at Bowie, but the metropol- Aan beginning is more than a month 3 of, May 3, and the Kentucky Derby 3 “er which Morvich ts being pointed won't be run till May 18. Despite the lapse of time, during which almost anything can transpire, there is a big > @iush on to accept the 4 to 1 in the future books against Morvich for the entucy classic. The pent-up inter- pt of racing enthusiasts after a long winter may be responsible for the % wholesale desire to get in action, and the miles in 1.44 being shown by Mor- yYich seem to have furnished rather early opportunities, On paper or at first glance, 4 to 1 + against an unbeaten horse who ap- + ears to have retained all his former greatness looks a pretty sweet gam- | Bling proposition, bit the turf wise- + <feres won't fall for it a month and a + ialf away from the race, It is doubt- 4 “al if even Benjamin Block, the colt's + “owner, would take it, and he likes to et. Instead, |t is sald, he would pre- ler to accept a couple of points below the market, say 2 to 1, with the privilese of calling the wager off if the colt doesn’t go to the post. Di candidates in other years have looked just as promising 4s Morvich does just -now Grey Lag was shipped to Kentucky last year, all primed, as almost a cer- tainty and went wrong on the eve of the race, He didn’t even go to the post. “Chicago” O'Brien's Pluribus was backed In the winter books for fhe stake from 100 to 1 down to § fo 1, and went Jame. He hasn't raced since, In Omar Khayan's year he ‘was a & to 1 shot in the advance quo- tations, but those who deferred bet- ting until the day of the race got a much bigger price. It's bad business to bet on races such as the Derby too far in advance As Jimmy Fitzsimmons, a wise train- er, has said, there aré a million things that can happen to a race horse in training and 1,500 other ‘Phings that can beat him after he * Joaves the paddock gate, our eeesombensener renee eon |TWO GREAT SLUGGER 29, 1922." ANS START MOVEMENT TO HAVE LANDIS REINSTATE. RUTH THE MIGHTY "BAHBING BABE NO,GOLF FORM BUT SWATS ‘Et JUST THE SAME. LIVE WIRES By Neal R. O’ Hara. Copyright, 1922 (The New York Evening Word) by the Press Publishing Co. National Leagud baseball is one pas-,out a ballplayer's eating average. time in which a team can win with a ee the Cards stacked against ‘em. Changes in the football rules will 8 © insure plenty of kicking next fall. 8 8 In the spring a young man’s fancy figures make him a holdout. . 8 Most of the rookie pitchers are going back from the South via the waiver route. Some of those Yankee ball players should forget golf for a while and remember that the low score doesn’t win in baseball. ee Looks like Baker and Ruth will ol ¢: Se keep the home runs Lurning. An ounce of antidote is worth a o 8 8 pound of bromo seltzer. ‘This is the seas. of the year when o 8.8 managers are releasing more pitchers In only requires gne table to figure!than the film companies, S—PLUS GOLF Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening World) by Press Publishing Co, WHILE TRAINING DEMPSEY PLAYS GOLF- ONLY WE RUNS Yo EacH HOLE JAcK DEMPSEY, THE ULTIMATE OF RING GRACE READY TO “FOLLOW THROUGH” |Princeton Five Captures The Intercollegiate Title Tigers Win Their First Basketball Championship by Outplaying Champions of Past Four Years All the Way in Playoff of Tie Series. (Bpectal to The Evening World.) _PRINCETON, &.)J., March 29.—A great Princeton basketball team won the titular honors in the intercol- legiate basketball race here last might by defeating the crack Penn quintet 28 to 28 in the playoff of the tie series. ‘The victory, which gives Princeton the leadership for the first time in the history of the league, deprives Penn of the supremacy which it has enjoyed for four years. The largest crowd that ever jammed the Tigers’ gym for an athletic event saw the Orange and Black fight to a well- earned victory, which was not as- sured until the last minutes of piay. The game, as have the other two Abolish Football Entirely As Menace if Highbrows Are Needed 1 to Reform It Tad Jones, Yale’s Head Coach, Makes Such a Suggestion in| Hot Comments on Talked-of Revisions in Gridiron Game— Wouldn’t Reduce Powers of Coach. : NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 29.— Tad Jones, head football coach Yale University, in a statement to- day on the present .and future status of college football, declares that: “If the situation requires high- brow legislation, I suggest that the game be abolished entirely as & menace to the youth of the country.” Speaking on the revision of foot- hall activities at Yale, Harvard and Princeton as put forth by daily pub- ications of those universities, Coach Jones said: “In my opinion there is little reason for eliminating practice prior to the opening of college and the consequent shortening of the schedule. There is more to be said in the way of elimin- ating all winter and spring practice and games before college opens, and I should be in favor of such a step. Three weeks are required to properly ondition an eleven for its first game, and I would suggest that an arbitrary date be set for organized fall practice which would allow proper time for such conditioning. “Intersectional games resulting so-called championships with results publicity can easily become a me to te game, It appears to me that this is a matter of university policy is nothing to be gained by forcing coaches to sit in the stands He said that if a substitution in a game was necessary in the fudgment of the coach {t was the duty of the coach to make such substitution as he deemed best, and that such respon- sibility should not be taken from the coach. The recent change in the rule on substitutions will leave the actual playing of the game almost entirely in the hands of the players, in his opinion. at Morvich | Shows Half in 50 Sec. Morvich, the three-year-old speed marvel, just to demonstrate that conditions other than fast are nothiag to worry about, indulged in a brisk workout to-day at Jamaica on track wet by early morning rains. He was clocked in the surprising time of 12 2-5, 24, 87 and 50 for the half mile Charlie Jackson, tipping 116, was up, and with the additional weight of saddle and all Morvich carried about 130 pounds, ae NEWS FROM OTHER in nt to be determined by the respective BASEBALL CAMPS colleges. = — “The question of a central com- AUGUSTA, Me., March 28.—Ty Cobb, manager of the Detroit Tigers, 1s be- moaning to-day the loss of Sylvester Johnaon, Just about the most promising rat the camp. He was hit and by @ pitched ball ina game at Unidn, 8. C., last week, and an X- amination last night diseto ture of ot th small bon the wrist. He will be out of the game for several weeks Cobb haa decided to leave Phmke and Dauss, two of his pitchers, at Augusta mittee on eligibility requires no com- ment. Any plan to safeguard the amateur standing of the participants in all branches of athletics has my whole-hearted support.’* Coach Jones further said that “there ENGLISH LACROSSE TEAM HERE FOR BIG SCHEDULE. Fifteen bers of thi ne e Oxford and the opening of tie season Cambridge lacronse teams arrived on] UNG) Me, QPenink MAME as) guia the Olympic to-day and went to the ers amo leg ts much better Crescent Athletic Club in Brooklyn, | poeakers & si oe tae he ds still taking things eaally, He has Just about decided (> keep Jim. Lindsey, the recrult pitcher, with his Cleveland team this year. ‘The youthful hurler held the regulars to two hits in a prac- They were headed by Capt. Herbert O. Hopkins of Oxford. He said the team is acheduled to remain in the United States for five weeks and will play the following opponents Lehigh, Penn | tice game yesterday: State, University of Pennsylvania, _ Mount Washington, Hobart, Cor TULSA, OkIn , Inke D Colgate, Syractas, Harvard, Princ bert, first bnae Cinctonatt Stovens and tho Croseant Athlede CI Reds, te hitting tho ball as hnvd an ever, two or three (oame in| proving distinctly that ho haa not out: lived his usefuinors, contests this season between the Quakes five and the Princeton Tigers, was marked by the frequent calling of fouls, which did not, however, de- tract from the interest. The first half saw a wonderful exhibition of guarding by Foster, Jeffries and Loeb, the Tiger defense men, who prevented the visitors from throwing a single field goal during the entire. period. Graves, the star centre of the Red and Blue, however, kept his teammates in the running by his mastery of foui shooting, in which he registered in fen out of eieven free tries. The “first half ended with the Nassau five leading 12 to 10. Prince- ton clearly outplayed Penn during this frame, apd had it not been for the deadly accuracy of Graves the victory might have been assured earher, The Quakers scored first on a foul goal by Graves. Loeb missed a try at a foul goal, but Klacss came through with a basket, which he poked in from scrimmage, and from that time the Tigers were never headed, although their lead was threatened several times. Scoring was more frequent in the second half, due, perhaps, to the looserfing up of the defense owing to the, injection of several substitutes. Princton lost three men for excessive infractions of the foul rules. Capt Jeffries and Gaines being banished in the second half, as Murray Foster was in the first. Stock Gaines, the Tiger's lanky cen- tre, before his departure just prior to the end of the contest, put up the best exhibition of his career, leading the Nassau men in shooting with four field goals to his credit. Graves, after caging ten out of eleven foul shots in the first half, took a slump in the second frame, missing four in a row, ylelding to Huntzinger, who made five out of nine, Rosenast, the plucky Penn forward, who played with his wrist tightly braced as a re- sult of a recent fracture, played a stellar game and made two of Penn's four field goals. Huntzinger of Penn and Selden- sticker of Princeton were the only players on the court last night who connected with long shots, both of these men tossing one in from the middle of the floor In the second halt. All Princeton Is paying hom. to- day to the finest basketball team that has represented the Orange ani Black in recent years, At the start of the season the chances of Princeton were not worth much, according to experts, who saw a new coach taking charge of alot of green material, However, the lowly rated Tigers sprung a surprise GIANT MACHINE IS NOW CRUSHING ALL OPPOSITION (Spectal to The Evening World.) VICKSBURG, Miss., March 2 The World's Champion Giants arrived here this morning to begin a six-game series with the Memphis team, cham- pions of the Southern Association. McGraw will use his regular team at the start of the game this afternoon, but as the battle progresses several of his young and aspiring athletes will be ushered into the fray. Bill Ryan will do’ the pitching for the Giants. The World's Chempions again dem- onstrated at Bort Worth yesterday that they are a real ball club and that the Chicago White Sox are not in their class. The New York players easily defeated the Sox for the second straight time and the series now stands three games for the World's Champions, four for the White Sox and one tle. Six more games remain on the schedule and the American Leaguers will be 1 cky to win two of them, The Giants’ machine 1s moving along smoothly now and .2 crushing everything that it .omes in contact with. In the game yesterday the champions continued their heavy hit- ting, pounding “Lefty” Russell and Jose Acosta, the Cuban, for an even dozen hits, including a pair of home runs and the same number of doubles In the last three games the Giants have made twenty-five singles, six cireult smashes and nine two-bag- gers for a total of sixty-seven bases. Capt. Davy Bancroft, was the big hitter yesterday. The shortstop was a regular Babe Ruth with the stick. Beauty drove the ball over the left feld fence in the first inning, again in the fourth and missed another home run by a slight margin in the sixth, The ball was headed for the right fleld bleachers, but fell short, hitting about two inches from the top of the railing. The shortstop had a very busy afternoon, as he also carried four runs over the plate. One of the spectators at the game was Judge Landis, High Commissioner of organized baseball, The Judge spent a rather busy day in Fort Worth, as he played a foursome against Harry Hooper and Eddie Col- line In the morning, attended a lunch- eon given by the Chamber of Com- in the made a merce afternoon, in their debut, when t lefeat speech in,which he declared that hel the strone Dartmouth outfit, whi was enjoying hia f rs: peal vacation Inbhad been 9 ie considered twenty-five years, had wished upon worthy + Penn five, whieh | him one of those cowboy hats and then went out to the bali park, had won 102 out lest five years, _ 110 games in the By Beating Penn Team of the pitching staff in the late stages ers and hard hitters and base, although it is not sure. By Thornton Fisher BUT THE ULTIMATE OF OUTLANDISH FORM TRYING TO “FOLLOW THROUGH WITH & DRIVER DEMPSEY HOWEVER. |S FOND \ OF THE Gane PENNANT RACES SIZED UP IN BOTH LEAGUES 8.—CHANCES OF BOSTON BRAVES Made Up of Fine Outfield, Well Balanced Infield, Good Pitchers and Catchers, Team Is “Dark Horse” of National League —Few Changes Made Over Last Year’s Nine. Following is the eighth of a series of daily *stories dealing with the 1922 prospects of the sizteen major league teams. The stories are written for the United Press by experts who have followed and know each clud. peta 1914 most anything may be: . Win orld expected of the Boston Braves. The team is one of the hardest to figure in the National League. It has inherited the permenent role of the ‘“‘dark horse’? and it is playing the same part this year. ’ If there is any big upset in the 1922 championship drive the Braves are al- most sure to be at the bottom of it. With a fine outfield, a balanced in field, good batteries and a hard hit- ting club, the Braves have to be fig- ured. Any team with a smart man- Seven Me Evening Seven members teams that bowled of the in The at Thum's Academy winning silver medals succeeded by better than 100 scores. They ager like Fred Mitchell at the helm| pensel of the Philadelphia OES cbenee: K. of C., 104; Kothe, Woodhaven Post, The Braves popped up from no-} american Legion, 100; Kling, Home where last season and caused quite altnsurance Company, 104; Murphy, ruckus for awhile. It is trife that| gambler B. C., 105; Carty of the same they didn’t get any place in particu-}team, 102; Pederson, Christ Church lar but that was due to the collapse 101. This is Silk League Evening World Headpin Tourn of the race. Manager Mitchell has one of the best outfields in the major leagues, It is a tried combination of good fleld- there are plenty of them, The same combination will be used as last year—Cruis Powell, Southworth and Nicholson, with perhaps a rookie or two watch- ing them to see how it is done One change may be made at first Waiter Holke held down the bag last year but he may be replaced this season by Walter Barbare. “Billy’’ Kopf, cured in the trade with the Cincinnati Clubs of Stockholm arrived here yes- tday afternoon on the steamshiy Stavangerfjord, bringing from swe- den a solid silver engraved shield, the ers to the U. B. C. of Greater New staged in Stockholm, May, 1923. ee IGHT RESULTS Reds, is booked for short with Ford |decision over Wee Wee Willle Spencer ut second and Tony Boeckel at third, |!" twelve rounds at the Pioneer A. C. Holke and Chistenbury would then be |28" Lynch of Bayonne knoe! out Walter Donovan of the east side in one tring utility men. ee eae ue ae pie and Mickey |7Und- Johnny Murray awarded de- bebe cele: Yleision over Happy Smith in twelve O'Neil available there are no catching | ainda worries, Gowdy has reached the point |” jsp where he has done his best but he islistand knocked out Jack a valuable man with young’ pitchers. |New York in the ninth O'Neil is one of the best young catch-|Hinners of Bayonne beat ers in the major leagues and is des- 1-final. tined for real stardom. LOUIS—Harry Kabakoft ‘As is the case with every team in the league much depends on how the pitchers come through. The tribe hasn't a combination of the best hurl- ers in the game but It 1s @ good staft round. Lew in the six-round se ST. Pointed Harvey Bright in twelve rounds. ° MANSFIELD, caloora, La., hea’ Joe White, Gus © in six rounds, and {t may work out better. Mitchell | HEADIN h 29.—Bob Mar- is one of the best handlers of pitch-|tin. heavyweight, knocked out Sajlor ers in the game and he might develop | Ray Townsend in two rounds at least one good winner from the} PHILADELPHIA—Willle Jackson out- rookies that are being given a trial, | McMillin, Oeschger and Watson are |, veteran righthanders and they ought |; to be winners, Fillingim and the vet eran Rube Marquard will attend to the port side assignments Refty Ty- ler 1s also around trying his latest comeback but he can not be depended upon. Among the rookies is pitcher Pier- ott!, who might be turned into « star ankle und bout, George ¢ * popular verdict over J non. A COMPLETE SET OF BASEBALL winner, If he should deve niake Mitchell a sweot combination ane ayers do at ( Marien WRITE FOR PARTICULARS have the pennant fy the Lag but they |] po WRITE FOR I j ii) believe they have eal chant Everlast Sforiing Geods Co, ‘Vhey ure with Mitchel! und have the 275 Bowery “7. {Crh tion winning spirit, = OPEN EVENINGS vel eadp in Medals derby that will become the eighteen Evening World Headpin Tournament last night in shooting heridan} with young men. House, 103, and Gutenkunst, B. R, T., Night in The Nils Carlson of the United Bowling | Broadway formal invitation of the Swedish bow!- York, to participate in the big Inter- national Bowling Match which is to be YORK—Jack Sharkey won the y CITY—Al Roberts of Staten Douglas of Billy Atkins out. Tus- ight, knocked out Rice of Baltimore in an y got John H. Farrell Renders Minor League Decisions AUBURN, N. ¥., March 29,—Secre> tary John H, Farrell of the National Association of Professional Baseball Clubs gave out the following do- cisions affecting minor league baseball clubs. Tho applications of the Western League and of the South Atlantic League for increased salary limits have been denied by the National Board of Arbitration, The following changes tn franchie( } and territory were announced: The franchise and players of the Joplin, Mo., club in the Western League have been transferred to Denver, Colo. The Western Association has added the territory of Joplin, Mo, and Mc- Alester, Okla, and the Wague has qualified in Class C with the following membership: Springfield and Joplin, Mo. Fort Smith, Ark.; Okmulgee, Enid, M Alester, Pawhuska and Henrietta, Ok! The Blue Grass League has qualified in Class D with the foilowing territory: Lexington, Maysville, Winchester, Cyn- thiana, Paris and Mount Sterling, Ky. Thomas M. 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