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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-09-18
EXTRA-BASE HITTING RECORD
Manaoer cravath Of Phillies Has Com
piled 218 Home Runs In Seven
teen Years of Action.

Gavvy Cravath, manager of the
Philadelphia National league team
has established great record for eX'
tra-base hitting In the II years he has
been in action on the diamond. Start
ing In 1903 IN Los Angeles he has COM
piled 2lS home runs. 40 triples and
$40 doubles.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-09-18

lamps are Pickering. Nick VOWS he
may appear on the coaching lines one
of these days behind pair of cheat
ers.
Except In daylight, can't read
any more without having the lines run
together. Guess must he getting old,
after all. Old age is flirting with me,
but I'll never quit the diamond"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-09-18
BASEBALL IN ANTlPODES

Indications are that the forth
coming winter season of the New
South Wales Baseball associa-
tion will he one of the most in
teresting In the annals of the
game there. Forty teams of
more or less proficiency will
compete. Twenty-Five students
from the University Of Califor-
mia will be touring Australia
during the season, and 1t is
probable games will he arranged
which will give local experts an
opportunity of testing their skill
against genuine American anna
teurs and of comparing stand
ards of play.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-09-18
LONG PROGRAM AT TIA JUANA
Definite Plans Being Made for Long
Racing Schedule at Southern
California Track.

Jim COffrOth, the san Francisco
boxing and racing imprrSSnrio, Is max
ing definite Hrramgcmcnts for long
Juana about November u. The last
meeting At the southern California
track was the most successful In the
tracks history, II was los days
meeting.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-09-18
MAN O. WAR IS MACHINE

After having gnlloped Sir Bar
ton, Cudgel and other great
horses. Jockey Sande says that
his ride on the back Of Man o.
War proves to him that the Fair
Play colt Is the real horse Of
the age. He says:
"He wanted to run away with
me all the way and once
thought ! would have to let him
go. never felt anything like
this horse In my life. lie Is a
regular machine. He strides
further than any nag l ever
threw n leg over and does II so
handily that you would not
know he was running at ALL"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-09-18
SIX CLUBS HAVE HELD LEAD
Giants and Cardinals Only Teams
That Have Not Been at Top
of Winning Column.

Six clubs have held the lead in the
National league this year at one time
or another and some of them more
than one time, The Pirates took II,
then the Dodgers Ousted them. Then
the Reds took II whirl. Then the
Phls, then the Braves and then the
Cubs.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-09-18
Baseball Notes
The Canadian athletic commission
has limited boxing bouts to ten rounds.

The Canadian athletic commission
has limited boxing bouts to ten rounds.
Manager Bob Coleman Of the Mo.
bile team is on the bench for the rest
Of the season with broken finger.
Olin Voight, pitcher with the Rock
ford club In the Three-I league. has
been sold to the New York Nationals.
Marty McManus, utility player Of
the Tulsa Western league team, has
been purchased by the st. Louis
Browns.
Manager Otto Knabe Of the Kansas
City team has signed Dick Smith. out
fielder, and Earl Brown, pitcher, Of
the Pirates.
The Cincinnati club, according to re.
port from Texas, paid $1,000 for
Pitcher Sam Buddy Napier Of the
Shreveport team.
Francis Robinson, an outfielder, ia
nous as an athlete at Villanova col
'":sc. aas agreed to Join the Chicago
Cubs next spring.
Excel the shortstop picked up by
the st. Louis Cardinals from the inde-
pendent Lockhart team, has been
turned over to Houston.
The Milwaukee club has added to
Its pitching staff Robert Glenn.
rookie rlght-hander who has been on
trial with the St. Louis Cardinals.
Among the recruit pitchers taken on
by the Chicago White Sox Is one who
answers to the name of Bill Dahlin.
He comes from Erie, Pa.
Earl Mack, manager Of the Moline
club of the Three-I league will take
an aggregation Of the leagues stars on
q transforming trip after the season
ends.
Ken Lilly, Stanford university ath-
lete, who has been playing In the out
field Of the jacksonville club of the
Mission league, has signed with the
New York Nationals.
AL Clayton and Cliff Brady, newcOm-
ers with the Boston Red SOx, are
known as Mutt and JEFF on the team.
Clayton is six foot six, while Brady
is not much over five feet tall.
BY driving out a homer with the
score tied In the twelfth inning, Short
stop Darringer of the Oklahoma Soon.
ers beat Tulsa and Is $500 richer. A
crowd of 5000 joyous fans shelled out.
Jimmy Doherty, Carnegie Tech
shOrtstop, and Maurey, former Prince
ton baseball star, have turned down
fattering offers from big league
scouts. They prefer business to base
ball.
Otto Theege, member of the Cincin-
natl Umpires association, lost five
pounds during single afternoons
work. The game lasted 2 hours and 40
minutes, while 80 runs denied the plat
ter.
George Stallings has recalled q
sweet pitcher in John Watson. All
John has done Is to beat the great
Grover Alexander and wallOp the
Cards for pair. He was a spring dis
card.
Buck Weaver and Johnny Rawlings
will manage American and National
league baseball teams which 1t is pro.
posed will visit Japan and the Orient
Immediately after the close of the
worlds championship series In Oc-
tOber.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-09-18
REFUSES TO LEAVE DIAMOND
Nick Altroek, Comedian Of Washington
Team, Says Old Age 10 PInehIng
Him Hard.

Nick Altrock, the bird who makes
the fans laugh around the American
league circuit, says old age is pitching
him some hard curves, but that he'll
never quit the game.
Nlck's left wing went bad Next his
"dogs" began to bother, and now his
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-09-18
DAVIS WILL QUIT WILLIAMS
Il Is Understood That Ira Thomas viii
Be Appointed as Baseball Coach
Next Year.

II Is quite likely that Williams col
lege will have new baseball coach
next year, us It Is understood Harry
Davis, formerly of the Athletics. does
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-09-18

not plan to return. II Is limited that
Ira Thomas, who coached the Purple
four seasons prior to last spring, will
return If his business affairs are not
too pressing,
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-09-18

picked him up when In his teens and
sent him TO Milwaukee, where he sea.
soned into major league caliber. He
later returned and was n member Of
the last famous championship team.
He always was popular with the
Quaker fans. Strunk has rare bust.
ness opportunities and at the end of
the present season will retire from
baseball to devote all his time and at
tsntion to business interests.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-09-18

Golfers and ball fans will be
fall with Babe Ruth Ted Ray side
Harry Vardon paired Lne Fowler
combination being spoken Of
and their
a ball. addscore
Ted
they
honOre the links.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-09-18

Jack Bromley, discarded by both
Sacramento and san Francisco, is
now, as n pitcher with the Salt Lake
Bees, the leading hatsman Of the Pa,
ciiic Coast league in games won and
lost-and doing his full share of work,
too.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-09-18

Buck Weaver and Johnny Rawlings
will manage American and National
league baseball teams which 1t is pro,
posed will visit Japan and the Orient
immediately after the close of the
worlds championship series In Oc-
tObsr.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-09-18

Derrill Pratt of the Yankees has let
II be known that he Is considering an
offer from the University of Michigan
10 become assistant athletic director
of that institution.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-09-18

George Stallings has recalled
sweet pitcher in John Watson. All
John has done is to beat the great
Grover Alexander and wallop the
Cards for pair. He was spring dis.
card.
The Washington times., 1920-03-27

Today the Griffs and Reds play
their last game here. Tomorrow they
rest. and on Monday appear in a
double bill at Jacksonville, the Griffs
battling the Brooklyn Dodgers and
the Yankees meeting Pat Moran's
champions. Then the Grirfs and Reds
will hook up again in their barn
storming trip Northward. being due
at Washington next Saturday.
Walter Johnson's showing yestcr-
day was poor the ace of pitchers be
ing wild as a hawk. He worked only
two innings, but the three hits, two
walks, and two hit batsmen gave the
Reds four runs. The Grirfs tied 1t up
in the second with four runs OF Ray
Fisher. and drove the former Yankee
from the rubber in the third.
Harry Courtney, who followed
Johnson for four frames, lacked con-
troll. and was hit rather easily. but
Catsup Snyder. the big rookie. fin
ishcd the game in good style.
OF the Cincinnati pitchers, only Hold
gle in three frames. Shannon getting
that.
shannon led his team at bat with
three blows, but Judge, Shanks, and
Harris each got two.
Ed Charity made his first appear
ancc in the Washington lineup in
the third. when he came to bat for
Johnson. and hammered n clean sin
gle to left, bringing in Harris and
O'Neill.
On their comparative showing in
four games. the Griffmen look much
the stronger ball club. but the cham
pions begain training later and
should look better as the series
lengthens.
The Washington times., 1920-03-27
C0MMY WILL DROP
TRIO Of VETERANS

CHICAGO, March 27.-Three vet
eran members of the Chicago White
Sox, last years American pennant
winners, may be dropped from base
ball this season II they fail to report
according to a statement issued to-
day by Charles A. Comiskey presi-
dent of the club.
The three players named in the
statement are George (Buck) Weav-
err, third baseman: Charles Risberg.
shortstop. and "Chick" Gandil. hrst
baseman.
Comiskey, who returned from the
Pacific coast. declared that he had
not seen any of the trio while there
and had no reason to sec them.
Weaver and Risberg are under con
tract to play with his club this sea-
son. Gandil has not signed his con-
tract.
The players have threatened to go
into business IL their demands for
higher salaries are not granted while
Presidency Comiskey is determined in
his stand that the players live up to
the contracts, which we're given
them at their own request.
The Washington times., 1920-03-27
STADIUM EXPECTED
FOR bR00KLANDERS

The extension of the building pro-
gram for Catholic University may in
clude preliminary operation upon a
new stadium for the Brooklanders
within the year. Under present plans
the program calls for new dormitories
which will be placed upon the site
now occupied by the athletic field.
A part of the present field is ex-
pected to contain one building within
a short while in which event the foot
ball, baseball. and track teams will be
showed off their present ground.
For more than ten years Catholic
University has contemplated the cree
ton of a modern stadium just north
of the new gymnasium. The lay OF
the ground admits of a stadium with
but a comparatively small outlay of
capital The ground slopes of gradu-
ally. forming itself into natural
amphitheater. But little grading and
filling will be necessary to start the
foundation for a stadium.
with a great structure for indoor
work and an outdoor stadium shell
tered on all sides from wind and
lending itself to easy draining. the
Brooklanders are expecting to be pos
scssed Of athletic facilities unequalled
in this section of the country.
Interesting announcements are OK
pected from the alumni association
at the June meeting. The building
program is expected to be announced
shortly. and ii is expected that new
dormitories will be forthcoming be-
fore long.
The Washington times., 1920-03-27

scored a run, stole a base and handled
six of his seven fielding chances,
From the time that he broke into the
big league in 1904. Higgins played
second base regularly until 1916, when
as manager of the Cardinals he took
himself out of the lineup to make
room for a younger man.
Joe Kelley. manager and first base
man OF that Cincinnati team. also
took a whirl at managing the Boston
Nationals. By an odd twist of base
ball fate. Kelley now is scouting for
the midget rookie who broke into
Joe's Cincinnati lineup in the spring
Of 1904 When Higgins was appoint
ed manager of the Yankees in 1918,
he retained Kelley as one of his
scouts.
Miller Higgins was born in Cincin-
natl and is forty years old today.
He is one of the few big league stars
who broke in with their home town
team, and spent the best part of his
playing career in the city in which
he was born, reared, and educated.
Higgins is a lawyer. being a grad
uate of the Cincinnati University
Law School. The little fellow was ad-
mitted to the bar in Ohio. but never
practiced his profession.
Copyright, 1920. by Al Munr) Elias.
The Washington times., 1920-03-27
SPORTS. CUT VERY SHORT.

Tots" Long goes to ROCHESTER club.
now training at Rocky Mount, n. G.
Glover Athletic Club opens with
Rex Juniors tomorrow afternoon.
Agriculture baseball team candi-
dates meet Wednesday afternoon to
talk plans for Departmental season.
"Gil" Lansdalc, Westover Athletic
Club hurler, goes with Charlie Streets
Tidewater team.
"Roxey" Roche. sccond-sacker Of
the Rex Athletic Club team. is to
captain the nine this year.
Maryland state College lacrosse
players get their initial workout in a
game with Baltimore Poly at College
Park today.
Central High has listed four games
for next week, starring off with
Georgetown Prep Monday.
Western High basketers get their
letters Wednesday. Reggie Conard
has been elected captain for next
year.
A. Y. Leech, jr., South Atlantic ten
mis- representative of Columbia Conn
try Club, is in New York arranging
tennis dates for tho season here.
Tech High stages an, interclass
track meet Wednesday afternoon to
get line on material for the season.
Clarendon Athletic Club players get
out on Laterner Field. at Clarendon
for practice tomorrow afternoon.
High school athletic advisers meet
Tuesday afternoon to talk plans for
track and baseball.
Tech, Western and Episcopal have
a triangular track meet set for the
date of April 90.
Behigh University track team Is
trying TO arrange dual meet here
with Georgetown.
Entries for the big bowling tour.
nament here next month are Begin
ming to come in fast. Singles, dou-
bles and team matches will be rolled
The Washington times., 1920-03-27
PACIFIC COAST. WONDER
QUITS ORGANIZED GAME
Willie kamm Was Headed For Trial
in Big Leagues in Another
Year.

SAN FRANCISCO. March o7.-Willie
Kamm, third baseman for the San
Francisco Coast League. has retired
from the league to accept a position
'in the San Joaquin valley and play
Sunday ball" according to an an
nouncement by Charles Graham, man.
ager of the local club. The name of
the town to which Kamm is going
was not announced.
The news of kamm's retirement
came as a surprise to local followers
of the game, particularly as it was
known that the San Francisco club
had contracted to deliver him to a
major league in 1921 for a price said
to be $4,000. Kamm will receive "A
$500 salary for each Sunday game
in the San Joaquin Valley League,
1t was reported.
kamm who is only nineteen years
old, attracted attention in Coast
league circles last year by his sem
sational playing at third base and by
consistent hitting in the early part
of the season.
The Washington times., 1920-03-27
THREE COLLEGE GAMES
LISTED ON FIELDS HERE
Season Formally Opens Up With
Catholic University at Brook
land Today.

Catholic University IL opening up
it's baseball campaign today at
Brookland in enCountering the Uni
versity of Vermont team. jackson
or ballard expected to do mound
duty for the Brooklanders. 1t is ex-
pectcd that Coach Charlie Moran will
be without tho services Of Lucey, his
crack infelder. who wrenchcd his
knee in sliding yesterday.
The formal opening of tn" college
season finds Maryland state visiting
the Gallaudet College team at Ken
dali Green. The Staters will prob
ably start Nesbit. last years Balti-
more Poly crack in the box. Boat
wright may hurl for Ga laudet.
over at Georgetown Coach John
O'Reilly will send his crack LETT
handler, Sam Hyman, against the st.
Johns College team, OF Annapolis,
Md. The Hilltoppers arc looking for
The Washington times., 1920-03-27
HIGH SCHOOL MINES IN
WORKOUTS NEXT WEEK

High school baseball teams get
plenty Of work next week on the dia-
mond. While Business and Eastern
are somewhat slow in starting. Cen
trail, Tech and Western are losing no
time in getting down to work.
Monday Tech and Western will
stage a practice game while Central
is tackling tho Georgetown Props.
Tuesday Western goes down to Epis-
copal High to tackle the AleXan-
drians. Wednesday Tech meets the
Georgetown Freshmen while Central
is playing the Maryland state
Freshman nine.
Friday Western plays St Adams
and on aSturday Central will go to
Briarly Hall to play n double bill
with the cadets there.
The Washington times., 1920-03-27
MIKE THOMPSON TAKES
MT. ST. MARY'S LADS
Emmittsburg Players Open With
Navy Team in Mid-April at
Annapolis, Md.

EMMITTSBURG. Md. March CT
Mike Thompson, welI-known George
town University man. is to take
charge of the Mt. ST. Mary's baseball
team this spring and will start the
campaign against the Naval Academy
on the date of April II.
The schedule OF the team comprised
sixteen games, chiefly with Maryland
and Pennsylvania college teams. Only
two members of last years squad are
available. Roche, captain of the team.
is a Washington. d. C. boy.
Sixty candidates are working c"t
daily under Thompson who expects to
turn out first class team this season.
The Washington times., 1920-03-27
100 Per Cent Rooter
In Geo. M. Conan To
See Some Games Here

Americas most representative
baseball fan will be in Washing
ton tonight. He is no other than
George NJ. Conan, who comes for
a weeks stay to accomplish as
much in one week as many other
theatrical managers take longer
to perfect.
Several times in the last six
years -Cohan has had opportun-
ties to own baseball club.
Either maj or' league would well
come Cohan as "A magnatc. 1t is
George Ms wish to own a base
ball club before he dies. Let's
hope he does. for the right sort
OF enthusiasm would be around
the club he owned.
Such Il thing as rehearsing
some 100 actors and actresses this
week in Washington, and still at
tending to the premiere of The
House That Jack Built" at the
National, isn't going to take
Cohan's mind off baseball. There
is only one thing that serves as
serious opposition to Cohan's love
for art. It's baseball.
And this little genius likes col
leCe baseball as much as he does
the major league games. SO
Wednesday afternoon will find
him at the contest between H,ly
Cross and Catholic University.
Back In the days when Conan
lived in PROV idencc he carried
bats for the Brown University
players in their sizzling clashes
with Holy Cross at Worcester.
Every time there is chance,
Cohan witnesses the Holy Cross
team in action. Those fellows
from Mt. ST. James always have
a ball club" says Cohan.
with the Reds and Griffs here
Saturday. It's a safe bet Cohan
will be on hand
The Washington times., 1920-03-27
SHANNON LOOKS GOOD AS
GRIFFS' HOT-CORNER LAD

MIAMI Fla March 2-Maurce Shannon, crowded out of the
berth by showing of Stanley Harris
contender for the hot for
Washington The sorreopped lad
worlds champions yesterday 9to6
looked like the goods He handled fielding chances
poed safees off the Reds fingers
He also swped hassock He may third
his pulled tendon. And
may right where he is.
The Washington times., 1920-03-27
HIGGINS RODE BUMPERS
NHIS FIRST BIG GAME
BY FREDERICK q. LIEB.

There was action galore when Mil
Ter Higgins, the midget manager Of
the Yankees. burst into his first big
league box-score. Miller ran shy OF
Johnny Evers and the Chicago Cubs
In his first major league engagement.
and the casualties were heavy on
both sides.
Higgins got into the second game
OF the 1904 season played by the
Cincinnati Reds and the Cubs. Or
Vile Woodruff played second base
for the Reds in-the opening game,
which was won by the Reds. but in
the second game, Joe Kelley. then
manager of Cincinnati, sent his mid
get rookie infielder to second base.
The game was played on the old
Cincinnati ball field on April Is, 1904,
and the following introduction sent
out OF Cincinnati that night to
Hugs" first box-score is sufficient
proof that little Miller put in an in
teresting afternoon:
Darkness put an end to the game
between Cincinnati and the Cubs here
today. after ten innings had been
played without decision being
reached. The game ended with the
score tied at to g.
prospective encounters between
the two teams over the alleged inten-
tional injuring OF Higgins by Evers
and the subsequent upset OF Evers by
Dolan went no further than words.
Neither man was sufficiently hurt to
discontinue playing the game"
He Rnn Into Evers.
In those days it was customary for
opposing teams TO give youngsters a
real initiation. The Chicago players
had heard of Higgins as being a real
breezy customer in the American AS
ISOLATION. so they started on him
early. But they were good sportsmen.
they picked out their own lightweight,
Johnny Evers. to muss up the midget
Miller. The first time that the Trojan
slid into second base he deftly carved
his initials into Miller's shins with
his spikes.
Johnny soon was surrounded by q
mass of angry Reds, who threatened
to do all sorts of dire things to him,
while the MANNED Higgins calculated
hot words OF wrath. Cozy Dolan took
1t upon himself to avenge the spiking
of Higgins and when he rumbled
into second base few innings later
he hit Evers such jolt as to almost
knock Johnny across the river into
Kentucky Then Husk Chance, jim
my sCasey and Joe Tinker wanted to
lick Dolan, whereupon Kelley. Dom
lin, Seymour, Peitz and Steinfeldt
threatened to clean up the Held with
the entire Chicago outfit.
The war went no further than
words. but when Donlin, Kelley,
Chance, Higgins, Dolan, Tinker,
Evers, Peitz. Seymour, Ccrcoran and
Johnny Killing all started Cabling at
one time: well, boys, there were some
words, Many of them do not appear
| in Noah Webster's estimable volume.
Hoped On Corridor.
| The game in which Higgins made
| his first big league appearance was
| rather a curious affair. In the first
| inning, the Reds hoped on Fiddler
| Frank Corridor for five runs, Hug
| gins scoring the first run of the game.
In the next nine innings the "Fid-
dler" shut out the biting Reds, while
| the Cubs gradually worked up to a
tie on Bill kellum. tying the score in
the ninth inning. kellum was guilty
of two balks and wild pitch in the
game.
| Huggins won regular job in his
| first game. He made a single and
rev two passes in five times up,
The Washington times., 1920-03-27
DEPARTMENTAL LEAGUE
WILL ELECT ON MONDAY

Departmental League managers
will meet Monday night at Spauld
ings' Store to elect officers for tho
year and to open up the league rosteI
for other teams.
At meeting held last night six
teams signified their intentions of
playing through the summer Treas
ury, War Risk. Union Printers. Post
office, Finance and Account. and the
Naval Hospital representatives were
on hand to talk business.
Six clubs have franchises now, and
the circuit will start toward the last
of April. 1t is expected that eight
clubs will be arranged for before the
schedule is announced.
The Washington times., 1920-03-27
LOOKING EN- OVER
LOUIS A. BOUCHER
Scribes Are Rapping Him
Is Y

New York travelling the South with the Yankees
waxing surrounding the Rupert entry in the
American League pennan them coming right
out sending that do mne words,
gardng Miller Higgins coming forward
playing positions OF
the onetenth
about the burning words of
the New York scribes for naught
recall generally agreed truth that the
Yankees speed showed, If they
puddle this Babe Ruth for all
his propensie for the Yankees SIS
the gaop Babe doesn't hit
home nm he to bat