Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-11-21
.XoIlARMY-NAW GAME
]20lEal.LURES DELEGATES
President Also May Attend.
Pratt's rs Chances at Sec
i, ond Base Not a Record.
NJ JOHN b. FOSTER.

! NEW FORK. November 21.-The
Limitation Of armament conference
viii be moved over to New York from
Washington next Saturday. Or. rath-
or. all the delegates to the affair will
move themselves over to attend the
Army.Navy foot ball game at the
Polo Grounds. President Harding Is
coming. too, according to current re-
ports. and this is the nrst time since
the war that this great annual serV-
loo event has been honored by lhe
presence of the commander-in-chief
Of the nations military and naVal
forces.
arisen for tickets to the game. NOT
many of the tickets have gone to
waste in the past, but there always
has been q chance to procure box
seats until the day OF the contest.
This year the boxes have been SOLO
except three or four and frantic ante f ae.
west and south for tickets. Tne
quota for Washington has bsen nlleo;
but there are scores in the national
Capital who are suddenly DESTROYS 70
see the game who will be unable 10
get anything.
those who are distributing the tick.
eta n believed to be due to the TACT
that most Of the distinguished rep
rseeutatives of foreign countries VINO
are attending the washington con-
fsrsnes are expected . 70 attend 1
The admission tickets to the stanos
are exhausted. The Army and navy
athletic associations have maiieu
theirs and the New York base pail
club, which retains q share OF inc
allotment. has disposed OF iIs ato.a,
a.. to
and kilograms from congressman ana
Rovernment officials beseeching any.
thing even TO standing room, pue
there IL no standing room.
Pratt's Mark Not Best.
Another reputed base ball record
has fallen into disrepute. Investiga-
tion has killed at least 100 claims
Of players, or claims made for play
ers within the last ten years. When
an effort was made to get the evil
dence for the claims It not infre-
auently happened that there was not
any evidence.
Derrill Pratt Of the Yankees ran
an ont Of breath ono afternoon to
tell some Of his friends in the press
box that he had equaled an Ameri-
can League record for Unfolding
which was held by Latoie. Pratt was
Just a. happy as he could be. 1t was
as good to him as a Christmas
present.
Pratt had not equaled Lajoie's
record. but he had made one himself.
Pratt had accepted sixteen chances
on the infield at second. He believed
that Lajoie In times past also had
accepted sixteen chances at second.
but Lajoie had done nothing of the
kind. Nor had any other second
baseman in the American League.
What Lajoie did do was to accept
sixteen chances ut shortstop, but that
didn't give him the shortstop's rec
ord. because Bobby wallace once
hooked up with seventeen. Pratt is
not up to Dunlop in the National
League for a record Of eighteen
chances and Bobby wallace Is not
so good as Richardson Of Washing
ton. who accepted nineteen chances
when he was playing with the Ma
tional League. All around. the Ma
eional League has II on It's younger
rival. both at second base and at
shortStop.
Montreal Again On Map.
The man behind the turnstile IN
brothers in Montreal. says they will
tionsl League in 1929. Reading. Pa.
ia the little brother to be counted out.
Reading did not come up to Inter-
national League expectations. what
ever they were.