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Evening star., 1919-03-09
GLEASON WANTS WHOLE
HUB TEAM FOR "SHANO''

q CHICAGO. March Skid" Gleason
might have made 4 good swap with
Boston, but he wanted the whole Hub
team for "Shano" Collins, is the way
an eastern scribe put it, all of which
may be illuminating to Chicago fans
The peppery old campaigner of the
White sox has been very busy in New
York hobnobbing with other leaders
in an effort to make a possible trade
Gleason is not worrying over hold
outs. He wants to make the Sox
stronger than they We're in 1917. if
possible, and the kid" is an old fox.
He knows that three clubs of the
American League besides his own
will be vastly improved over their
rosters of 1918
will you trade John Collins"
asked Manager Barrow.
Sure" piped the Kid" but when
asked what he wanted the Red Sox
manager surely thought the kid"
was kidding.
Evening star., 1919-03-09
ROANOKE To BOWL
HALLEY'S ROYALS
Virginia's Strongest Duckpin
Quint Coming Here March
24 for Big Match.

Roanoke's best duckpin team is to
come here March "a for a meeting
with the Royals-the Royals as they
used to be. Pop" HALEY again has
yanked up the reins and proposes to
drive his old stand-bys right through
the Nirginians and any other team
that cares to face them.
W. X McLain got in touch with
HALEY two weeks ago and date for
the first half of a ten game match
was set. The second half of the
match, five games, will take place
in Roanoke some time following the
men expect to trounce the District
veterans. McLain writing: Il want
to give you fair warning that follow
ing the trend of the times, Royalty
has already-and bids fair to con-
tinue to-come in for no inconsid-
cradle wallopings, and we consider
ourselves up to the minute"
Old Royal Team to Roll.
HALEY. has picked the old Royal
bunch and expects to clean up When
the match was mentioned and some
body asked the Royal leader if he
thought the odd boys" could come
back Pop politely intimated that
the so-caled old boys have never been
any where to come back and that
if anybody believed they had. the
said so-called old boys had just two
hundred bones to lay against any
other qnint in the District or other
sections of the south to say that said
belief could not be proved by com
parison in actual competition on the
alleys.
Besides HALEY, Earl Lewis, Harry
Stanford, Skinny Carroll Harry
krauss. Dick Barber and Ray Chaplin
will make up the Royal squad. Pop
says that the boys are gong to get
some real practice and then let out
broadcast challenge to any duckpin
club that thinks it is better. Despite
the McLain def from Roanoke, Haley
opines that the Royals will use the
Roanoke men tor good conditioning
affair. Notwithstanding the fact that
the Firginians are reputed to have
the best quint below Washington.
The Roanoke men have been rolling
together for five years.
On the trip to Roanoke HALEY
plans to take along such dyed in the
wool fans as Henry Rodier, Frank
Mast, Curtis Lamson and the star
rooters. Buck Aliveri and Lefty
Wooden.
Evening star., 1919-03-09
BOWLERS MEET TODAY.
Question of Holding Annual Tour.
ney to Be Decided.

Whether the annual bowling tourna-
ment will be held this spring is to
be decided this morning at meeting
of the District Duckpin Association
at the Grand Central alleys at 10
o'clock, when officers for next season
will be elected. There is little doubt
the championship affair will be run
off, but probably on a different plan
than previously.
Heretofore teams, doubles and
singles, in classes of A, B and c, have
competed, but it is believed that with
only doubles and singles. in a common
class. a more successful event could
be staged, because of the peculiar
conditions which have prevailed in
the bowling world this season.
Evening star., 1919-03-09
KILBANE TO MAKE FIRST
APPEARANCE SINCE K. O.

Featherweight Champion Johnny
Kilbane will return to the ring to-
morrow night over in Philadelphia,
where he is scheduled to face frankie
Brown, local youngster. This will
be Kilbane's first appearance since
that night in Philadelphia when he
tried to take the measure of Benny
Leonard and was rocked to sleep in
the third round. The featherweight
king has been active as a boxing in
structor in the training camps and
probably Is in fair shape. However.
"Killy'' is not as young as he was
and he may find the going harder
than it was before
Evening star., 1919-03-09
TUBE EVE LEADS
NAVY YARD CLUBS
Has Good Margin in Standing
of Bowling Teams-High
Records Set.

The Tube team has made a runaway
of the race in the Navy Yard Recrea-
tional Duckpin League. topping the
club in the runner-up position by nine
games in the won column and six in
the lost Torpedo is second and Foun-
dry a rather poor third.
Erecting Shop has knocked down
the most pins in one game. having
rolled for 597 in one Of its contests.
The best team set is chalked up to
the credit Of the Tube outfit, the
league leader having toppled 1919
pins. Jack Nolan, with a mark of
1853, heads the high game bowlers,
and Risler, with $40, has registered
the best set.
Here are figures on the league:
Evening star., 1919-03-09
Umpire 0'Day Makes Suggestion

Hank O'Day, the veteran umpire of
the National League, has made a fine
suggestion to President Heydler of
the National League. 1t is his opinion
that the base bali rules should be so
amended that the base umpire would
have joint jurisdiction with the one
at the plate in calling balks on pitch
ers. O'Day declares that the position
of the base umpire is usually more
advantageous in the matter of de-
tecting such faults
Evening star., 1919-03-09
ALEXANDER WILL SOON
RETURN TO THE CUBS

All the alarm about Grover Cleve-
land Alexander. the crack pitcher of
the Cubs. spending the 1919 season in
Germany seems to have been in vain.
Perhaps the Giants would just as soon
have seen "Aleck' drinking Rhine
water all summer, but the great Gro
yer will be back in America long be-
fore May Is.
A cable from Kyllburg, Germany,
was received in Chicago yesterday
that Alexander LEFT that city March
5 under orders to return to the United
States Alexander will be mustered
out in New York. and hopes to join
the Cubs before the opening day of
the season, April 23.
Evening star., 1919-03-09
Closed Chair With a Bang,

AS Joe got up. instead of pulling
the chair under the bench as I
thought he would do, or even leaving
it in it's present position. he picked
the chair up. extended it at arms
length and folded it with bang. then
withdrew under the cover of the
bench. 1t so happened the chair
closed with a bang Just as Davis
passed Cantillon. Harry didn't come
within a foot of making the catch.
which would have been the easiest
kind of a chance, had it not been for
Cantillon's kindly efforts. Joe at the
time insisted he was evidently being
penalized for being overpolite, that
if he hadn't folded the chair and pull
ed it under the bench. in all proba-
bility nothing would have come Of it.
While Bill Byron's vocal interfer-
ence is surely something out of the
ordinary on which to retire a bats
man. 1 feel interference on the part
of the score card and the folding
chair run a close second and third.
Evening star., 1919-03-09

to the Cleveland players but to the
fans as well. who loudly hisSed the
guilty fan for the happening.
Cantillon's Rare Case.
Joe Cantillon knows every angle of
the game, because he not only has
umpired and played. but managed as
well. l always will recall the finesse
with which Joe pulled bit Of inter-
ference when managing the Wash
ington club, even though he lost the
decision.
Philadelphia was the opposing
team. Washington had the bases
filled. one out and a mighty good man
up. 1t looked as if Washington had a
chance to stage a rally that would
sew up the game. A base hit on the
part of the batsman was the most de-
sired thing in the world from Can
tillon's point of view. The batsman,
Jim Delehanty. was man in whom
Joe had lot of confidence.
Evidently Joe had instructed Jim
not to do any waiting, but take a
crack at the first one that looked
good to him. Delehanty didn't waste
a bit of time, because he took a
healthy cut at the first one that came
his way. His effort was a high fly in
the direction of first base. Harry
Davis. playing first base for the Ath-
letics at that time, called for the play.
1t seemed like the surest kind of
an out. because Davis was death to
balls hit in the air. In going after
the ball Davis was carried close to
the Washington bench, which was
situated midway between first base
and the home plate. Joe CantiIlon
always had habit of sitting slightly
out in front of the bench on fold
ing chair. Davis, in order to reach
the ball. was compelled to pass the
n a hinh
Joe in most polite manner rose
from his chair as Davis advanced. as
if to give him the right of way due
fielder. For moment it struck me
as being very courteous of Joe to do
so, because. as a rule. opposing play
erS always try to make it as hard
as possible for the fielder to make
play.
Evening star., 1919-03-09
Yankee Boss Sees Peck.

Col. Til Huston, half owner of tba
Yankees. was in Cleveland yesterday.
where he hoped to sign Shortstop
Roger Peckinpaugh. Cap" did not
go west to intercede with his spec
tacular infielder. He is on a business
trip which calls him to Cleveland
Toledo, Detroit and Cincinnati, and
decided to kill two birds with one
stone. IL possible.
Evening star., 1919-03-09

Club of England regatta in the race
for the. Harmsworth trophy, accord
ing to announcement made here nv
Warfield Wood of Detroit. The .gnrnal
application to enter Miss America in
the regatta, which will be shed in
waters near the Isle of Wight, was
recently sent to the club by Wood, but
he withheld announcement of the en-
try until today.
Evening star., 1919-03-09
British to Take Part.

The French government has made
possible the use of the stadium and
the Y. NJ. C. A. appropriation of
100000 guarantees the expenses and
the prizes which will be distributed
to the winners of the various events
already indicated Their approval of
the program by requesting the as
signment of an experienced "Y"
athletic director to set up a system
among their men. George E. Goss,
who has had similar experience in
the Philippines and in the A. E. F.,
has been assigned to the work
Every company in tine American
forces may enter a team in all
branches of sport i'm which it can
muster material. Such teams will
compete with opponents in their own
division. The various divisional
champions will meet in the finals for
the A. E. F. championships in the
Colombes Stadium in May. 1t is ex-
pected that these championships will
take about q week, major emphasis
being placed upon foot ball, base ball,
basket ball, track and field games,
wrestling and boxing. Almost imme-
diately afterward, according to
present plans, the interallied games
will be held.
DR.. George ]. Fisher, head of the
physical education department of the
Y. NJ. C. A., is now here aiding in
the development of the details for
the gigantic sports tournament.
William H. Ball. who directed the
recruiting of athletic directors for
the "Y' war work council, has sent
word from the United States that he
has obtained the services of some of
the foremost American experts, who
will come overseas as fast as they
can be cleared.
Evening star., 1919-03-09
Signs Shawkey, Visits Baker.

Miller Huggins. manager of the
Yankees. made journey to Trappe,
Md, yesterday to visit J. Franklin
Baker on that farm which threatens
TO keep him out of base ball. On the.
way he stopped off at Philadelphia
and signed Bob Shawkey. one of his
pitching aces
Evening star., 1919-03-09
clothes and is playing golf at the
Washington Golf and Country Club.

Washington Golf and Country Club.
club, may be recovering from an old
illness, but it will be hard to make
Ed. ]. Brennan and George Howard
believe it. for Terry registered a 3 on
the eighteenth hole at Washington
Friday afternoon that meant some
thing to them.
er of the Chevy Chase Club. is still at
Mineola flying field. where he has
been stationed for the past eight
months. He is expected to return to
Washington in time for the spring
tournament season.
A good story about William S. Rey-
merly champion golfer of the District,
is going the rounds. Billie as his
friends call him. started from Norfolk
one day last January in a big Hand
ley-Page bombing machine for his
home flying field. in Texas. Every
got down in North Carolina. when it
ran into binding snowstorm, the
first of the year. Forced to land by
the bowling wind and the severity of
the storm, the machine came down IN
small field entirely surrounded by
he was. but it was only a short time
before the machine was surrounded
by grinning colored boys. The former
champion asked one of the boys
where he was, and the boy replied:
"Yo' all's in Moth Ca'lina. sah." Rey-
burn then asked him if he was any
where near Pinehurst. The answer
came back. "Yassuh; Pinehurst's just
across the valley, bout twelve miles
away" So Reyburn and his brother
officers packed all their baggage into
a coaple of Fords and drove to Pine
turst Owing to the soft ground in
the field where the machine had stop
ped and the limited space for rising.
mechanics were unable to get started
for more than a week. but one night
the ground froze hard. the wheels of
the machine ran along the ground
without sinking in and the aviators
continued their trip.
And now the only thing Reyburn is
worrying about. according to friends
here is his ability to convince the
colonel that he didn't have his golf
clubs along.
A golf tournament for professionals
in the District under the jurisdiction
OF the District Golf Association still
is visionary. The matter was brought
up at the annual meeting of the Dis
trict association last Monday night
and after discussion it was left in the
hands of the executive committee,
which probably means that it is dead
Tor the present season. 1t can easily
be seen that such an event now. with
only four professionals playing, would
not mean a great deal. but to call it
! the District championship and invite
professionals from the Middle Atlantic
association. as has been done in the
case of the Massachusetts omen.
which is open to the world, would
make a really interesting event.
The recovery of Orrin Terry, pro at
the Washington Golf and Country
Club, should furnish the fourth man
for many fine four-ball matches
among the pros about the city during
the coming summer. In addition to
Ierry. Dave Burgess of Bannockburn
probably will be back by next snrine
| and will take part, as usual in the
| informal matches
Evening star., 1919-03-09
Everett Scott Signs Contract.

BOSTON, March 8.-Everett Scott,
shortstop of the Boston American
League club, and Arthur Nehf, pitcher
of the Boston National League club.
have signed 1919 contracts. according
to announcements made by club own
erS mere
Evening star., 1919-03-09
Hank GoWdy on Wav Home

According to two or three soldiers
Just arrived in this country, Hank
Gowdy, the first big league player to
enlist when war was declared. was
waiting for a boat ten days ago and
even now may be on the high seas.
Evening star., 1919-03-09

High team game-Erecting, 597.
High individual game--Nolan, 15s.
High team set-Tube. 1,619.
High individual set-Risley, 80
Greatest number strikes-McCormick, "a:
Risler, %; Nolan. %.
Greatest number spares-Risley 100. Juk.
113; Goddard, Ill. -'
Evening star., 1919-03-09
FOR HARMswoRTH TROPHY.
Miss America to Be Entered in Eng.
1ish Motor Yacht Regatta.

SAN DIEGO. Cal, March s.-Miss
America, a Detroit t-owned motor boat,
will be entered in the Royal Motor Yacht
Evening star., 1919-03-09
INTERFERENCE PLAYS PRODUCE
8 ODD SITUATIONS ON BALL FIELD
Ryons Vocal Decision RivaledBy Score
= card Case and Joe Cantillon's
L; II Noisy Trick Chair.
BY BILLY EVANS.


usually the umpire into peck OF trouble
batter
i
to
decision
third
% his mates by got
Evening star., 1919-03-09
Runs Right Up to Stand.

A rather high wind was blowing.
making it difficult for Thomas to
Judge the ball accurately. He was
forced to go within foot or two of
the grandstand before deciding he
was in the proper position to make
the catch.
With the ball not more than
dozen feet in the air and the eyes of
lThomas glued on its descent, spec
stator in a box, either with malice
aforethought or purely accidentally,
tossed his 'scorecard in the general
direction of where Thomas was stand
ing. The fan had great control be-
reause the card struck Thomas in the
face momentarily binding him, caus-
ing him to lose sight of the ball and
TO duck his head, as one does in time
of danger. The ball struck Thomas
IN the back.
-i called the batter out, retiring the
side and breaking up the Cleveland
rally. For a time it caused consid-
cradle protest, but the justice of the
ruling soon became apparent not only
Evening star., 1919-03-09

Now it is not unusual for players
on opposing teams to yell in like
manner with hope the player may
be disconnected enough to miss the
play. Every now and then the coacher
voices such an opinion. but refrains
from leaving the lines OF his coaching
position when doing so. Usually no
attention is paid to the actions OF the
'coacher. for in not one of 1000 plays
does it have the slightest bearing on
the outcome of the felder's efforts.
a.. Coacher Followed Fielder.
IN the play in which Bill Byron fig
t,red the coachcr did not confine his
efforts to shouts from the coacher
box but closely follow ed the helder IN
his pursuit of the ball, and constantly
asked TO be allowed to make the play
The third baseman insisted he had 1t,
but managed to make most IN
glorious muff of the ball, much to the
delight of the coacher and the amuse-
ment of the home crowd.
~SByron's call for the next batter,
which was a polite way of informing
the batsman who had hit the tall foul
that he was through, naturally stirred
UP a protest that was long ana loud
Answering all queries as to why the
batter was out, Byron replled: De
cause of interference. and explained:
Vocal. purely vocal; who is the
next hitter?
Few batsmen to go back to the bench
for the customary drink of water
after he was declared out because OF
vocal interference.
Following the theory established by
Bill Byron, l might give interference
on the part of scorecard' as the
reason for a play in Cleveland. Such
a play came up five or six years ago
when Ira Thomas was catching for
Connie Macks Athletics. The score
was close. Cleveland had a couple OF
men on bases and two out, when the
Cleveland batter hit a foul fly back
eof the catcher.
Evening star., 1919-03-09

or, Orr1n Terry. pro at the Virginia
illness, but it will be hard to make
Ed. ]. Brennan and George Howard
believe it. for Terry registered a 3 on
the eighteenth hole at Washington
Friday afternoon that meant some
thing to them.
Evening star., 1919-03-09

a7 Golfers at the Chevy Chase Club are
1today OF the regular green at the
.eIub for the first time since last
winter The regular greens are being
dressed down in readiness for the sea-
Ssen's play and temporary greens are
enow being used. The greens are in
process of seeding and being top
dressed
Evening star., 1919-03-09

! Dion Brney. Late an ofiicer in Uncle
mDa- -ArmX ia- back in -c5xdlian
The Washington times., 1919-11-08
AUTOMOTTVE
SECTION

tions on day goods arrive. This t.
gether with the increased ,shfpmeno
due 20 abnormal demand by his cue.
toners necessitstes more hsui&ss
equipment of his own.
The Washington times., 1919-11-08

ing tracks is to drive on high gear,
throttled down This requires a GER
tain amount of gas, and IL the amount
is reduced too much the engine will
stall By shifting into second speed
all such danger is overcome. Tne1
the engine is turning faster and 1t -
not so easy to stall. Furthermore,
the car may be driven across the
tracks at approximately the Same
speed. The impression prevails that
the car may be speeded up moro
readily on high gear in the event of
train approaching. but the distance
Is short and a full throttle opening
on second speed will send the Car
forward with greater certainty.
This brings up a matter Of I'm.
portance, that OF opening the throJ-
tie too suddenly. II the accelerator
pedal Is pressed too quickly, the en-
gine sometimes stalls. This is because
the air valve yields readily to the in
creased suction, giving a sudden rush
OF air before the spray nozzle can rs-
The Washington times., 1919-11-08
j. S. AUTOS REFLECT
FOREIGN DESIGN
=
Quantity Production Handicap
ped American Engineers in
Testing New Theories.

London and Paris not only tell US
what we should wear to be in fashion.
but the automobile engineers of Eng
land and France have exerted an in
fiuence on the motor modes IN this
country
Americas gargantuan demands fer
automobiles, in fact, have hindered
the Independent development of our
motor cars, with the result that we
have borrowed from the English and
the French many mechanical improve
ments.
This statement is in accordance
with the views of d. Mccall White,
designer of the eight-cylinder Cadil-
lac, now vice president of the Lafay-
cite Motors Company, of Indianapolis.
"In America we have been too busy
In the solution of quantity production
problems to put much effort on tho
evolution of new theories, and the
building of experimental models"
said Mr.. White, who knows foreign
conditions through his former connec-
tions with Napier, Daimler, and Cross
ley in England, France, and Italy.
Different In Europe.
"In Europe, it is different. The
output of the average American plant
pygmies the production of the largest
French or English factory. The Euro
pean engineer has the time to seek
new things and having found them.
to put them into practice.
"The first six-cylinder car. for ex-
ample, was produced by Napier in
England; the first eight in France,
and the first successful twelve by
Sunbeam in England. Back in 1906
they were experimenting with high
speed motors in the Daimler factory,
increasing the engine revolutions
from 500 to 1000 in one test model
that was built that year.
american engineers did not adopt
the high-speed principle until several
years later. when the superiorities OF
such an engine were demonstrated by
the victorious drivers OF foreign cars
entered in the Indianapolis 50-mile
race.
Long Piston Strokes.
Europe must also be credited with
the lengthening of the piston stroke
and the reduction OF the cylinder
bore. and for the origination. as we'll.
OF such equipment now accepted as
standard in America, as wire wheels
and cord tires.
when I make such statements. I
have no intention Of discrediting the
experts who are responsible for the
design and development OF the Amer
lean motor car. They have done much
~ making the automobile the ef-
ticient mechanism that II is today
Moreover. their adoption OF European
principles was not only ethical. but
wise. IT is also true that they have
been handicapped in their science by
the tremendous demands OF the Amer
'Can market
The Washington times., 1919-11-08
GOOD ROADS SHOW
PLANNED FOR 1920

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Nov. S.--The
eighth annual convention of tn"
United States Good Roads Associa-
ton. also the eighth annual good
roads show will be held in Ho:
Springs, Ark. April II to II. 192p.
Already active preparations and ar
rangements of the program have be-
gun. ]. Rountree, director general of
the United States Good Roads AZ
ISOLATION has been invited to uo.
Springs, for the purpose of consulting
with the Business Mems League, the
mayor and the various civic organi-
zations. to discuss the program anG
details.
1t is proposed to make good roads
week the greatest gathering Of goo
roads boosters that has ever as
sembled in this country. Delegates
VIII be in attendance from every
state in the Union. Already more
than forty governors have accept.d
life membership in the Organization
and are vice presidents of the same
In connection with the organization
the annual meeting of the Bankheac
Highway, which is promoting a ~.
tfonal highway from Washington
San Diego, California, the Albert Pix
National Highway, which is promnt
ing highway from Pixies Peak e
Kansas city. and a number of Sony
roads organizations will hold nee,
ings during good roads week.
One OF the most attractive feature
or the convention will be a disDlA,
OF road machinery, road mater!ag
trucks, tractors and automobiles. \
ready six governors have notified ID
rector General Rountree of their a.
ceptance, and will head large dee