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and threatening to bite him. II one
system doesn't work. the other one
usually does. The Orioles are not
getting much the worst of any
thing"
! Not a man on our club ever be-
| lieved that we were beaten, regard
| less of the score. In one game in
, Boston the Beaneaters had US Is to o
, up to the ninth inning. Jack Stivetts
was in the box. We went in for our
| half and knocked in fourteen runs.
That was the greatest rally I ever
| hope to see.
| we met the Beaneaters in the
| Temple cup series and won out with
comparative ease. We were in the
pink of condition this this time The
against taking part in too many din
| ners and other forms of celebration
! in Baltimore.
The Orioles played in two more
| Temple cup series after that, but we
never lost again.
| Growth of Game shown.
| A comparison of the gate receipts,
the winning shares and SO on Of
those days with the more recent
world series gives a pretty fair idea
of the steady growth of base ball
That you may get this clear in
your minds-I address the remark to
|
+, mind that we had no national COM
| mission in those days and we did
not play under the rules and regu-
| lations provided in the national
| agreement of 1905.
The players got larger share OF
| the money than now. No part of the
! money went to a commission and
| for other purposes. as is the case
/, under the present arrangement. inc
| players got practically all the re-
l Der
cent going to the winners.
! In the last Temple cup series in
| which I participated-the one OF 1887
my winning share was around 1870.
| forget just how many players came
| in Cor a share, but there were not
/ nearly so many as today. The at
! tendance at the games averaged
| around six or seven thousand.
In the first series-that of 1905
played under the rules provided in
| the national agreeme ent, our New
| York team met the Philadelphia Ath-
| letics and won. The winning players
| each got $1,100. The attendance at
I each game, however, was more than
, twenty thousand.
New Records Set In 1921.
| In 1921, when we met the Yanks
at the Polo Grounds. all records were
| broken. That. though, was a nine
( game series The winning players
each got S5,400. The attendance was
pretty close to 10000 the biggest day.
In 1922, the last series, the winning
players got $4s4oo each. But that
/ was a seven-game series and they
got a share of the receipts for four
1 games only. In the last series. by
| the way, the club owners made hardly
| enough to pay expenses. The fact
that we. won in four straight games
| robbed the club owners Of . chance.
That by the way is quite 2 tribute
to the honesty Of base ball. BY drag
| xine the series along 4 lot of money
could have been made. Later on !
| will explain why we didn't play q
| series in 1904.
| Not realizing that my main troubles
| in base ball were about to- begin I
| had a great time that winter OF
i1S97-1S9s.
/ (Copyright, 1928, United States and Caneaa.
b. IL oAxtaH walsh N5nAiea3aa
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be such a bad idea today, especially
II manager was permitted to throw
at player who had just pulled a
bone play.
The games at Springfield did fairly
weli-drew better than at Boston dur
ing those dreary days at the finish.
We walked in with the pennant.
Robbie Was Salve Artist.
That season batted well and stole
seventy-seven bases. I am told by the
statisticians that, based on the num-
ber OF chances, that base stealing
record woIld have beaten every
player before or since. That season
was featured by the really wonderful
playing Of Jennings. Keeler and
Kelley. They were all hard hitters.
and when it came to base ball brains
no player ever had anything on them.
Another great factor in our victory
was Wilbert Robinson. He was smart
as whip behind the bat and. my!
how he could bust that old apple"
as the players-say today.
Robbie was of Immense service in
saving the umpires behind the plate.
He had way Of making them like
him. But for his diplomacy and soft
soap we would have got the worst OF
many close decision. l was continu-
ally pecking at them from third and
IL took the combined efforts OF Robbie
and Manager Hanlon to keep me from
getting put out of the games. ] was
In hot water continually. ii seemed.
Maybe ! deserved it. Anyway, Rob-
bic was the sugar and / the vinegar
of the club.
How ArIie Latham Viewed 1t.
To help me in preparing these
memoirs, friend has just sent me
lot OF newspaper clippings of those
Gays. One will give you an idea. II
Is an interview given to a paper by
Arlie Latham, who was then umpir-
Ing. We had just protested his work
ing in our games:
Robbie and McGraw are working
both ends against the middle. Robbie
sleeps In salve factory and McGraw
eats gunpowder every morning for
breakfast and washes il down with
warm blood. When a poor, inofen-
slve and well meaning umpire ap-
pears in Baltimore Robinson meets
him at the plate shakes hands with
him and remarks: I'm glad you came
over They tell me you've been doing
great work out west The boys say
you are the best in the business. and
hetween us I'm glad YOU are here.
These are pretty tough games. old
man and that other fellow we had
here was little to the bad. OF
glad you are here. You want to
watch this pitcher we are trying to-
day. Great lad--keep your eve on
that outside corner. He gets lots OF
'em just on the edge. The other fel-
low missed EN-"
Never Admitted Defeat.
And all this time" conclude es
Latham, "McGraw is barking and
swapping around the umpire's heels
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~ FFENSE. What is known as
| } killing" or freezing the
ball in the last few minutes
of play by team holding slight
lead has come into vogue in the past
few seasons.
This practice is unpopular with
spectators. They cannot understand
why it is permitted, Some even
question the sportsmanship of such
tactics. Such play itself is started
by passing the ball to the back court
and every man ON the team starts
moving from side to side. Passes are
all short, and the receiver must re-
member to cut toward the ball,
otherwise the possibility of an inter
cepted pass becomes great
The pass is only to be made to
free man, and a long pass is never
to be made. When the opponents
close in one player at a time makes
a fake start forward, taking three
or four steps toward his own basket.
His opponent will naturally follow
him. This player then reverses
rapidly and comes back to receive
pass.
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VAN HALTREN, A FAILURE
In BOX, STARS AS HITTER

and Van Haltren from 1887 to 1903
Inclusive. Ryan was in tho Chicago
outfield the day that Van Haltren
broke in
Their batting marks also are greatly
| similar. though Big Georges" life
| time batting average is a little bet
ter. 1922. against .313 for Jim. Both
| players played exactly seventeen sea
sons, as Ryan was out one wear.
Jimmy scored 1858 runs and made
2.5S9 hits. against 1910 runs and
2.527 hits for Van. However, as
| George was pitcher in his early
years he played in considerably less
games.
Van Haltren. big fellow that he
had an expert knack of hooking his
! foot into a base. He stole 54g bases.
a record touched by a few PLAYERS.
After playing three seasons with
tne chicago Nationals Van Haltren
cast his lot with the Brooklyn Play
ers League team in 1890. He played
with the Baltimore American Asso-
! citation team in 1891. when the scrap
! Ply eighteen -year-old kid. Johnny Nc
| Graw, broke in with that club
Eleven years later McGraw came
70 the Giants as manager, and found
Van Haltren one of the many fading
veterans on the New York team, play
ers who were keeping the club in the
cellar. One of the first things Nc
Graw did on coming to the Giants
was to slash dozen names of the
| payroll. Van Haltren was one that
remained, though he ended his career
with the Giants in the following sea-
| son, 1903.
During the years that the Giants
were chronic second division inhab-
! itants, and tailenders in the era of
| Freedman ownership. Van Haltren' g
| hitting and baserunning was the one
| redeeming feature of Giant play.
| There was nine-year stretch in
| which Van scored 100 runs or more
| a season. Van Haltren made a re-
| markable endurance record with the
| Giants, from 1895 to 1900. inclusive.
| In the six seasons referred to. he
missed only eight games, playing S44
| out of S52 scheduled.
Copyright. 1921
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BY FREDERICK q. LIEB.

A MOTHER wild pitcher who
~ developed fame as an out
fielder who could crash the
ball against and over the garden
wall was George Van Haltren. Giant
favorite of a generation ago. II
George is sensitive soul ne per-
haps would prefer to have his Ma
tional League debut passed over as
quickly and quietly as possible.
Georges pitching debut was much
like that of Bruno Haas with the
Athletics four or FIVE years ago.
when he dlshed out seventeen bases
on balls and had designs on giving
away Shibe Park when Connie Mack
abruptly stopped him. Haas also has
decided to leave pitching alone. and
has moved into the outf1eld,
Van Haltren's pitching debut with
the Chicago White Stockings on June
81. 1887. must come pretty close to
being the worlds worst pitching ex-
hibition. He issued sixteen bases on
for twenty-six hits. The mystery
was that Boston did not win by a
greater score than II to IL.
Mike Kelly and Dick Johnson each
stung the pitching recruit for five
hits. and Larry Sutton got four. Sam
Wise was disgraced. He was the
only Boston player who failed to get
hit, though he was charged with
only two times at bat walking four
times.
But if the Bostons made a monkey
out of Big George in his pitching
! debut, he made a monkey out OF a
lot of pitchers himself before he
layed aside his big league uniform.
He found considerable difficulty in as
certaining where they kept home plate,
but when he was standing along
side Of it. he sure could plaster the
apple" Georges career runs in
parallel lines to that of Jimmy Ryan,
our subject Of a few days ago. Ryan
lasted from 1886 to 1903 inclusive.
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TRIBE SEES APENNANT
DUE WITH FRANK ROTH

Does the signing of Frank Roth
10 coach the Cleveland pitchers
next year prophesy a pennant for
Cleveland? The veteran catcher
has played on many a team that
has won a pcnnant. The name OF
Roth and pennant seem to work
together very nicely.
Back in 1905 the Chicago White
Sox, then known az the "H!tless
Wonders" won the American
League penfant. At a critical
spot in the race Mcfarland and
Sullivan. the two crack Chicago
catchers were put out OF the run
ming with injuries Things looked
bad Frank Roth was secured to
I'll the bin. He stepped right into
the breach and in way assisted
as much in winning the pennant
that year for the Sox as did the
pitching of Ed Walsh.
Roth then drifted back to the
minors and has played on winning
teams in many leagues. Two
years ago Miller Huggins wanted
veteran catcher to handle his
Young pitchers. He secured Frank
Roth. The Yankees stepped right
out and won two pennants, the
first ever captured by New York
in the American League.
Now Roth has been turned adrfft
and goes to Cleveland. Does that
hode evil to New York and good
10 Cleveland? Ball players, you
know, are mighty superstitious.
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FRANK BAKER MAY GO
TO MINORS AS PILOT

Frank "Home-Run" Baker, still a
sound third baseman and good hitter
will not be with the Yankees next
year. according to report. He Is plan
ming to retire and take charge of a
minor league club. If he is wanted
by an American League club this plan
may be changed. 1t is not the inten-
tion of the Yankees to use him regu-
larly next season and Baker does not
want to sit on the bench.
With Dugan going strong at third,
Baker will not be needed. But there
are one or two clubs in the American
League that might use him at third
The Browns. particularly, have q
third base problem
Baker, in midseason, was hit by a
pitched ball, with Urban Shocker of
the Browns doing the hurting. He
spent few days in the hospital, but
subsequently came around all right
In the meantime Joe Dugan was
holding down the far corner and Ba-
ker did not return to his position.
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The weeks boxing card is one Of
the best in some time. Two cham
pions VIII defend their titles at Madi-
son Square Garden, On Tuesday nigh,
1ommy Loughran of Philadelphia will
attempt to take the light-heavyweight
crown which Harry Greb SO clumsily
derended against Dave Shades Al
tacks over in Jersey last week II
treb isn't at least 100 per cent better
than ne was then. Philadelphia will
De sporting a champion among her
citizens after Tuesday. LouRhran
gave Greb hard run for his none
at Pittsburgh short time ago. He
hasn I fought here before. but those
VINO nave seen him say he is far from
being slouch at defense and punch
ing.
The other title tilt is between that
llttle junior lightweight wonder
tommy Dundee. and Elmo Flores, the
latter stablemate Of punching
l'ancho villa. who swatted his way
70 the top of the fyweights. Flores
is good game, clever young man.
He has sharp shooting eye and q
deadly wallop. He has won some hard
battles and he has also been unde
servedly favored in some fights thai
he didn't win. Anyway. there ought
to be considerable doings when the
two meet Friday.
y Howl Brings Results
A howl from jersey. when Rickard
signed Harry Greb for a fight with
Tommy Loughran two days before
Greh was to hitch up with Pal Reed
IN Newark, has brought results. The
Jersey men could not see that al all
The way they figured it was that
Harry would make his real fight
against Loughran and then do
waltz with Reed in Newark At the
same time the battle. which was set
for next Thursday night. Loughran
and Greb meeting on Tuesday. was d
sell out.
Now bad fight in payment for a
sell out is poor business. So the Jer-
sey bout was Sc: back week Bul
somebody had TO pay for this idle
week and Rickard did it.
Copyright 1929
Evening star., 1923-01-29

The Majors are recruited from the
ranks of organized base ball: ssvera,
from the big leagues. With the club
Dowd, Hickey, Black. Stark. Holly
and Heating. The team has done
with prominent ouints in the north.
The District champion Yankees
have been strengthened for the oc-
casion. Doc Wasman OF the Balti-
more Orioles has been signed to jump
center against the Majors. Heddons,
who has been used at the pivot posi-
ton by the Yanks, has not fully re-
covered from injuries suffered in a
against the visitors for time Ford
Catlin, Ingley and Sauber are to be
In the Yankee lfne7up.
holding down the front seat in the
District League show at present. as
result of a 27-to-26 victory achieved
ceums in the opening game of the
circuits tituiar campaign. The match
was warmly contested, with the Do
minicans leading through the first
three periods. Then, with the score
rallied and went to the front mainly
through some accurate shooting by
Swift and Flynn. Gleason played
brilliant floor game for tho winners.
snurkowski, Lloyd and Sothoron
starred for the Dominicans.
Capital siIents could not cope with
the sharpshooting Of Hutchinson and
Swan and lost to the Manhattans. 81
ter in other engagements this week.
Tomorrow night the Silents will face
/ the Park Views at Eastern High
School and on Saturday Georgetown
A laxf LAX - M
Peck gymnasium. trip to Fort
Humphreys will be made Sunday
More games are wanted by the Cap
ital Slents. Send all challenges to
Manager H. c. Nicol, 1908 9Th street
northeast.
Liberty Club, which has won four
teen of eighteen games played this
tonight in the Immaculate Concep-
tion gymnasium. The LexinGtons
| will be met In the hrst game start
ing at 1880 o'clock and the ArEylss in
WashinEton prep teams are to play
Z twin bill tonight IN the Congress
Heights auditorium, the reserves
| meeting the Herdi. at 7:l6 o'clock
and the big team fac N. the Epiphany
Epiphany juniors will be encountered
In Mohawk gymnasium.
'Powhatan Athletic Club basketsrs
are looking for more opposition in
| the 1a5-pound class. Telephone chai-
lenges to Manager ]. p. Prescott, Co.
| lumbia 113s-J.
spartnn Athletic Club wants en-
fragments in the 135-pound class,
Send challenges TO Manager William
Gallagher. general delivery. Anacos-.
| tin, D. G.
Evening star., 1923-01-29
RUTH BACKS PLAYERS
SEEKING MORE MONEY

BOSTON, January 29--"Babe"
Ruth declared that he was with
fellow base ball players I'm any
fight to get more pm and assatied
attempts to suppress Sunday base
ball, I'm o talk before the 81. Al
phOnsus Association here yester-
day.
The home run idol declared that
last season 3,39O.OO0 admissions
were paid to enc New York club,
and that the cry of "hoId-up7 and
"robbers" was uniustihed when
hard-workink players asked for an
"inerease In pay of $1,000 or s"."
He asserted that he was cautioned
By the owners of the New York
Yankees To keep his salary a Sc
eret. but that IL had leaked out,
and then other players demanded
more money.
Evening star., 1923-01-29
MIDDLE WEST. ATHLETES
IN BIG EASTERN MEETS

CHICAGO. January 2e.-Chicag go
athletes led by Joie Ray. crack mid
die distance runner for the Illinois
Athletic Club. began ar eastern IN
yasion today. Their first objective
was the annual indoor track and field
meet on the Milrose A. A. in New
York Wednesday.
The athletes who comprised the
delegation were Ray Watson, Harold
Osborne. Eddie Knourek and Carl An
derson of the /. A. c; Wharton. c. \.
A, and Buker, University of Chicago
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Tips on Playing Basket Ball.;
Correct Rule interpretations
BY ED THORP.

O. May the official make a decision
on play without blowing his whistle? /?
A. No. Both codes insist that ON
cials have whistles and TINT they
blow them whenever it is necessary
to make n decision.
Q. When is the timekeeper allow
ed to stop his watch?
A. 1t fs suEgeated that the time
Keepers use one watch, placed ON q
table before them. or otherwise placed
SO both may see 1t. The watch must
be stopped during the game only ON
order of the referee. At the expira-
uon of ench half 1t is stopped by the
timekeepers.
Q. If score is tied at end of game
can the referee award the game to
the team scoring the first point in
the extra period when this point is
scored In less than q. minute?
A. No. In both amateur and pro-
feSsional basket hall . full flve-H min
ute extra period must be played.
Q. How high mhy the ball be
bounced when dribbiing?
A. There is NO limit.
manner
A.. The fact that two ordinary
peach baskets (frnit eoatatners) were
used ~ baskets vixen the game was
hrst introduced resulted In the game
being called basket ball.
Evening star., 1923-01-29
Gambling Nearly Kills the
National Sport-Mc.
Cra,U Makes a Base
Stealing Record-Um-
pire ArIie Latham
Lduds Robinson As a
"SaIre Artist.

TOWARD the end OF the 1895
season it became evident that
the Orioles had won the pen
nant; that the Beaneaters. as the
Boston club was then known. would
be our opponents in the Temple cup
series. Almost imme diately ugly ru-
mors began to circulate around Bos-
ton.
One of the newspapers limited that
all was not right. That was enough.
Scandalmongers all over the city
were whispering that the big series
had been fixed. There was consid-
cradle gambling among the fans at
that time and to repeat rumor was
almost the same as stating a fact.
These damaging rumors which
were absolutely untrue. started over
some dissatisfaction about the distri
button Of tickets. If remember
right, it had something 10 do with
Evening star., 1923-01-29
SAM RICE SIGNS 1923
CONTRACT WITH GRlFFS

Back from his sOjourn Of couple
of weeks in Augusta. Gn., spent In
IrnmpinE over the excellent Bon
Air links and hunting birds with
n. Raymond Cobb as his host and
guide. Clark Griffith impaired the
cheerful irfOrmntio that another
for his 1928 Nationals now IN In
70 rhis 1923 Nationals now Is In
the fold. San, Rice having signed
his contract. Griff denied he talk
ed .sbusiness" with Cobb, but was
enthusiastic over the appearance
Of his veteran Outfielder.
.sRice has been playing golf ever
since the season ended. practically
every day, except when there has
been snow on the ground. and as a
result is in superb shape" Grin
said. "His eve Is clear and his
color good. i look for him to have
the best season of his career this
year."
Evening star., 1923-01-29
Contract CONTROVERSY Aim Put Ne,v Jersey Boxing
NO TILT At G. u. TONIGHT;
c. u. QUINT SEEKS GAME

Basket bail teams Of George
town and George Washington will
not meet tonight I'm Ryan gym
nsium and there In . possibility
Catholic Unfversity tossers at
Brookiand tomorrow night. The
Hatchetftes asked for q postpone
ment Of their engagement with
Georgetown and the latter offered
February Z a. an subtttute date.
Davis and Elkins, which was to
visit Bro0kInnd tomorrow night,
has Cancelled it's date. The Cath
Ollie University management is
endeavOring to arrange a match
with the Quantico Marines In
stead.
Evening star., 1923-01-29

the measure Of the st. Stephens Quint
in a 64-to-2S tilt Enright of the vic
tors tossed a dozen goals from scrim
mage.
AIoysius Clubs Big Five nosed out
the Baltimore Alf-Stars in 36-to-3l
battle. Farley of the winners and
voeth of the Baltimore team starred.
Georxetown Athletic Club held to
its winning stride in a game with the
Washington Collegians, scoring ls-
to-14 victory. Goilan and Chaconas
played sensationally for the victors,
while McGurk was the star of the
Collegian lineup.
Hudson Athletic Association is cast
ing about for opposition in the l2o-
telephoned to Manager Louis Johrden,
Lincoln 1922.
Columbia Athletic Club wants games
with teams averaging 1875 pounds
Challenges may be addressed to Man
ager Thomas A. Redmond. 1924 Co
lumbia road, or telephoned to Column
bia 1920.
Mackin Athletic Club boys gave the
Stanton Juniors a S1-to-25 trouncing.
Bonner did the best work for the
winners, while the Mitchell brothers
were the strongest Stanton players.
Quincy Athletic Club easily over
came the State Athletic Club in a
3l-to-l2 engagement. II. Smith, p.
Smith and Dennis starred for the win
ners.
Congress Heights Athletic Club van
quished the Virginia Orioles. 81 to II.
Smith and Preston played spectacular
games for the Congress Heights
Quint
Hurricane girls will 60 to Balti-
more SATURDAY. to play the Y. w. c. A.
| sextet in the first game of a series
for the Maryland-District/ of Column
bia title
Evening star., 1923-01-29
GREENLEAF Is AGREEABLE
TO MATCH WITH TABERSKI

Ralph Greenleaf. the professional J
pocket billiard champion, has an
nounced his Willingness to engage
Frank Tabcrski, who retired from
championship competition four years
ago as the undefeatcd title holder. IN
a match for the world championship
by Charles Kline OF New York, guar
anteeinG the players $4,000 with the
privilege of rs per cent OF the gross
gate receipts, for a match to be
played in the metropolis prior to
huriI
Evening star., 1923-01-29
U. S. RACQUETERS SCORE.

MONTREAL. January 29.-Ameri-
cans again hold the racquet cham
pionships of Canada. Jay Gould of
New York, who represented the Phila-
delphia Racquets Club. winning the
singles, and, paired with L. du Pont
Irving of New York, taking the
doubles. In the final matches Gould
defeated A. S. Cassils of Montreal.
and Gould and Irving defeated G. R.
Fearing and Shaw Mexican, both of
Boston.
Evening star., 1923-01-29
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS.
YANKEES PLAY MAJORS,
AITROCK AND SCHACHT

~ ASKET legitimate and buresque classes Will be offered
X Eddie HoI Majors OF New
- Yankees of this to clash
number of double bill These quints and the
the first be-
ginning o'clock goodness
OF the with Nick
ball comedian and Schaeh once OF the
These fellows have found the
we'll adapted their stunts as is
Evening star., 1923-01-29
EX-CAPTAIN OF HARVARD
UP BEFORE JUDGE LANDS
Rochester Club Claims Former Varsity ShOrtstop
Accepted Its Terms Before He Signed to
Play With the Boston Braves.
BY JOHN B. FOSTER.

29Judge K NJ Lands commissioner OF base
making investigation today the OF Arthur
shorstop and the Harvard Uni
called appear
club OF the which
right his
and had right the Boston Nationals An
that the Harvard
to he
Evening star., 1923-01-29
COLLEGE CUNTS REST
WITH YALE IN THE VAN

NEW YORK. January 29.-Prince-
ton has surrendered to Yale leader
ship in the Intercolle giRte Basket Ball
League at the end OF the second week
of play. as the schedule lapses for
the midyear examinations. not to be
resumed until February 10.
Arthur Loeb of Princeton is the
leading point scorer. with 4s.