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Evening star., 1924-01-03
NATIONALS OWNERS
HAVE QUIET MEETING

No word of a possible manager for
the 1924 Nationals came from the
annual meeting OF the Washington
Base Ball Club held yesterday at the
offices In American League Park.
President Clark Griffith Is determined
that the man selected shall be fully
qualified for the job and apparently
means to go over the field carefully.
Nothing more than routine busi-
ness was transacted at the conclave.
President Griffith. Vice President
William Richardson and Secretary
treasurer Edward Eynon were re-
elected to the board of directors. The
election of officers will be held later.
but 1t is to be nothing more than a
formal meeting to rename the present
incumbents.
The 1929 financial report revealed
that the club was a money-maker
during the year, but the surplus was
voted back into the treasury to be
used for Strengthening the playing
personnel and reducing the debt on
tho new stands. More than $4,000
was spent last year for new ma
terial' that will report for trial at
Tampa In March.
Evening star., 1924-01-03
CUP IS CUT IN HALF
when RUNNERS TIE

BALTIMORE. Nd, January "a
precedent set by King Solomon was
followed by athletic officials of the
Young Mems Hebrew Association
here in determining which of two
runners who tied for first place in a
series of races should receive the
trophy. q silver cup.
When Earl v. Hart and John Peter
san crossed the finish line in the
sixth and last Of the series of hve-
mile 1ogs and their points were
.totaled. 1T developed that each had
earned twenty, tho top score.
Club oficials then left 1t to the
pair to decide whether a deciding
race should be run, or how the win
Fner should be determined. John and
Earl, however, apparently had had
their fill of running, for the time
being, anyway, and after little dis
cussion 1t was decided to cut the
trophy In half.
Accordingly, this was done. Each
half was mounted on q plaque and
presented tonight ~ m individual
award.
Evening star., 1924-01-03
,ond Paiine Arranged Wills Caber to Be Determined This Month

some batter bite at his big loop curve
he would kstp right on tossing 1t
until somebody got hold of it. Any
thing that was going good was good
enough for MAtty. He never expert
tei you 'as somsshns h0s When hus sha. at od
boy got In hole he sure could bear
down on the old apple. as ball play
ers have q way Of saying. They never
made any better pitchers than
Mathewson.
McYntyre's Hard Luck.
The hardest.luck game 1 ever saw
was pitched by Mcintyre one day
when we were playing the Dodgers at
Brooklyn.
For nine innings he didn't allow
anything that resembled a hit, but.
unfortunateiy; tho Brooklyn club
went into extra innings with the
score 90. Mcintyre kept right on
polishing us off in the tenth. At the
end OF that inning everybody was
talking about Mcintyre having pitch
ed g. no.hit ten-inning game. which
we thought would sure be record
We managed to get our first hit in
the eleventh and we finally beat him
10 in the thirteenth inning.
When a pitcher can pitch a ten
beat I consider that the champion
hard luck OF the world.
I believe Leon Ames once pitched
a nino-inning no-hitter at the Polo
Grounds and got beat. George Wiltse
laVer pitched q ten-inninR no-hitter.
Old 1berg, to my way of thinking. had
the oldest delivery OF any pitcher in
the world. He often pitched slow
balls and curves fifteen feet high be-
tween the pitchers box and the plate.
dropping them right over the pan.
How he did that I was never able to
figure.
Jim Vaughan had no preliminary
action at all in the box. He took no
wind up at all-simply stood straight
up and snapped the ball at the batter.
as X he was handing him something.
Kantalehner always dropped his
arm low behind him and looked ex-
actly as IL he were lifting ton of
lead before each delivery. I used to
grunt with him. I'd feel like i was
getting tired myself. Old Kanty's de-
livery was about as odd as any of
them.
AL Demaree delivered a ball to the
the shot. 1t was mighty hard to fig
ure what he was doing.
Carl Mays, I think. has the oldest
underhand delivery of them ALL Often
his arm is SO low that his knuckles
Craze the ground.
(Tomorrow: Picking the Greatest
Players of All Time.~
Evening star., 1924-01-03

whipping fast balls at our batters
and not one of US could touch him.
Not once did he give me a curve or
a slow ball. or even his fadeaway.
Every time 1 came up 1t was a fast
| and gee. 1t had smoke!-zip! zip!
| zip!-just like that.
whats he using? 1 asked Claude
Ritchey when / came back to the
bench.
"All he's pitched to me is fast
ball every time" said Claude.
That's all I've seen. too." Fred
Clarke agreed.
AS the game went along we talk ed
and talked. trying to get a line on
what the big fellow had.
After we were shut out and went
| TO the clubhouse we check ed up every
| batter. Not one Of them had seen
anything but a fast ball. In other
words, Mathewson had pitched an
| entire nine innings without offering
anything like q curve. He had got
away with his fast one to start on
and kept right at It
think that was the only ball game
ever pitchd in which the pitcher did
not use a curve or a slow ball al
any time in the game.
Matty. you know, often changed
his system. If he started in making
Evening star., 1924-01-03

The st. Louis Browns will play
most of their exhibition games in the
league clubs. The st. Louis Nationals
will play exhibition games with the
Philadelphia Athletics in all prob
ability. although the teams will not
undertake tour.
Cincinnati has given up the idea of
playing so many spring games, which
is wasted energy with an old and
seasoned team, and will remain In
Florida longer than in 1928. which is
another sensible move. The Reds
have played exhibition games for the
last ten years, without reason. and
the club never has got enough out of
IL to pay for the wear and tear.
The Philadelphia Nationals will
work their way north by easy stages
and the Giants may be the team Sc
lected as their first trial in the 1924
National League race. as the Giants
will start the season at home. Brook
lyn. perhaps. will open in Boston.
start South in February.
Almost all the major league teams
will send a part of their players to
the training camps by the last week
in February. The Cincinnatis will
have their pitchers on the ground IN
Orlando. Fla. by the last week in
February. giving them good condi-
tionIng in hope of annexing the cham
pionship.
I.uque as in 1923-a dangerous thing to
bank on with Il pitcher who shows as
much variability as the Cuban star.
However Luque appears to have
muscles of steel. and that will save
him if his temperament doesn't run
amuck.
Besides Luque. the Reds have taken
on Sheehan OF st. Paul, who won 81
games and lost only last year.
If Sheehan could do that well for
Cincinnati and Luque could come back
with record like his 1929 one. Gin
CinnatI should have little trouble win
ming the National League flag. That
would mean that the other pitchers
needed to win only about forty games
all season, and any mediocre staff
ought to do that well.
Although the Kansas City infield
will be broken up by the loss to Pitts
burgh of Wright, the best American
Association infielder of 1928, the cham
pions will have shortstop to plug
the hole and are confident of winning
another pennant. Like Baltimore. Kan
sas City would be glad to find it's place
again in major league circles, but
mileage is a drawback.
Copyright, 1924
Evening star., 1924-01-03

1 am sure that wallop gave me a
better feel than any one 1 ever hit.
1 remember one fellow in particu-
lar. who sat just back of the Detroit
bench.
It's all right" he yelled to the
pitcher, that Dutchman has got a
yellow streak. Let's go!'
Just then / smacked the old onion.
Only a ball player can exactly uE-
derstand how I felt.
As a matter of fact. we didn't need
the runs, but II was those that gave
US start. The final score of the
game was Pittsburgh, s: Detroit. 0.
So many of the fans who have been
good enough to read what ! have
written have asked odd questions
about queer pitching and oddly
pitched games that l will answer
them all In one lump. l reckon that
will be about the best way.
The most peculiar and surprising
pitching that l ever saw in ball
game was done by Christy Mathew
son in a game at the old Exposition
Park in Pittsburgh, when the Giants
and Pirates were fighting 1t out for
the pennant. Matty was at his best
then.
In the very first inning he started
Evening star., 1924-01-03
HIGH SCORES ROLLED
IN HOLIDAY BOWLING

Competition was keen among the
bowlers for prizes New Year day at
the King Pin, more high scores be.
ing rolled than at any other holiday
event.
Jimmy Simmons was prominent
with games of 1873, 149 and ISL.
Miss Catherine Quigley rolled some
exceptionally good games. the best
being 120.
= EsaMT: Ws,h.r. 1T ); 8. Caldwell, 10,
mons; 1873; T. xstI.kos ll7; z. 2; Dseh:r.
r. Rhine, J32; J. Z. Calvin. III: H. xsnasl.
o. Hackleton, $50; A. crisafun, 1S1; e. q.
stoner, 1856: E. B. ouissle, lasJ ". R. La.
mar, 1875; J. w. Warner, 131; D. r. Houssr,
$50; John Blick, 142; D. ,. Dtoksy, 1i9; ..
II. Oliver. 142; Charles JAqustts, l3fI o, ,.
Diokey, 1888; W. I. Hughes, 1881 J. J. Whal.
en-, lis; H. W. siebert, lsI; 4. Moran. 10;
r. H. L. Seaton. ll3; J. b. Dulin, 1851 Al
wanan. 1871; J. Simmons. Isl and las.
Women-Niss Jessie Bosley, 81; Miss Cath
crime. oufgley, 1870; Miss E. KoNahon. o.;
Mrs. r. Lylss, si; Miss Yarnsll eai Mn. q.
son, 1oI; Mrs. n. Fletohsrs. -; Hiss z.
ner, sS; Miss E. Patton, 90.
Evening star., 1924-01-03
CHAPTER "a.
Doping Out the Bad Balls.
BY HANS WAGNER.

~ W
RECKON ! set myself up to
be shot at when / started this
telling of my base ball days. SO
l guess I've got to take my medi-
cine. You know how it is.
So many odd questions have
been popped at me through the
mails that they've got me wing
ing. An old friend OF mine out
here in Carnegie, | guess, called
the turn.
"Honus," he said, you want to
remember than when you took up
that writin' business they had
two strikes on you before you
started"
On top of the pile, as l write,
is one from a Mr.. Hawley i'll
Portland, Ore, who asks: How
was it you struck at SO many
bad balls in your time and still
managed to hit them? You tell
young players to pick out good
ones"
Mr.. Hawley has got me right, al
that. I reckon / did hit at NOR,
balls than any man in the business
had my own system about that
one that ! would not advise Others
to follow.
Whenever a pitcher made me look
foolish on pitch. whether it was
high. low, outside or inside, / figured
1t out that he would be sure to give
me another just like 1t. II I made
ball I certainly would hand him
another. So that's the way l figuret
they would do.
And. sure enough, / would call the
turn nine times out of ten. Having
set myself for a ball high over my
be ready If the pitcher tried to re-
peat. Being set for certain ball.
could sock 1t. II he shifted 1 would
wait. I knew he would try to make
me look foolish again, sooner oil
later.
1t would be just the same as if
was looking for one over the middle
certain kind of ball, and gets il
he can plaster 1t, whether it is high
low, inside or outside. That, l hope
explains why l had the reputation
Of going after all kinds of wilc
pitches.
The next writer. a Mr.. Ironton OF
New Orleans, wants to know what
considered my greatest batting ac.
complfshment-the one that gave me
the most satisfaction.
The Fan Chirped, Then
My greatest accompliS SAment, | be
lieve. was in the game between
Louisville and Pittsburgh, when
got two home runs and two single:
just when the fans were giving m.
the razz and begging Pittsburgh Il
take me back home.
The one that gave me the creates
satisfaction, though, was In the de
Gliding game of the world series be
tween the Detroit Tigers and tn,
Pirates. This game was played a
Detroit in 1909.
In the sixth inning we got two mel
on base and i was next up. TIL,
Detroit fans and players had beel
giving me a terrible razz. 1t seem
that they had never seen me pla,
out there and, l reckon, were sor
of disappointed. You know how j
is-it's mighty tough on a ball playel
who has hit SO well that fans expec
him to plaster one every time h,
comes to bat. It's harder on hin
than on a player who hasn't beer
boosted SO much in the newspapers.
Well, i came up and on the secont
ball pitched got 1t squarely on tn,
nose and slammed 1t to the fenc,
for three bases, scoring the runners
Evening star., 1924-01-03
HUTCHINSON, USING ONLY
PUTTER, WINS AT GOLF

MIAMI, Fla, January 3-Jock
Eutchison, ex-British open golf cham
pion. arrived here Tuesday, and yes
men a lesson in the use Of the putter.
Using only this kind of club on all
shots, the peppery Scot defeated T.
w. Palmer. Florida state amateur
champion, who was allowed to use
wood. The Hutch played the diff
cult country links in IS with his
putter, which is a remarkable per-
formance, considering that it was the
first game of golf he has played in
more than a month. His margin Of
| victory over Palmer, who shot an 80,
| was 2 and L.
On each and every long hole Jook
| had par or better. He had brides
on both the seventh and sixteenth,
which are more than $50 yards each
and par on the first and eighteenth
Evening star., 1924-01-03
COURSES ARE PICKED
FOR TITLE JOURNEYS

NEW YORK, January s-sit..
for all four Of the national golf
championships conducted by the
United States Golf Association have
been selected for the 1924 season.
Dates for them will be ratified by
the u. 3. q. A. at it's annual meet
ing, which opens here tomorrow.
The open championships viii ha
conducted 1T Oakland Hills, Detroit:
the amateur title event at the Merion
Cricket Club, Philadslphia: the public
and the womeri's ohAmpionshin at thn
Rhode Island Country Club, Provi.
dence.
Evening star., 1924-01-03

On the No. hole, distance 223
yards, with out of bounds to the
right and left of the green, demand
ing an accurate tee shot to get a
par 3. I hooked my first against a
no way to hit the ball in the direction
of the hole except by playing 1t off
the tree. I turned my back squarely
on the pin, made a successful billiard.
dropped the ball on the green and
sank a 4-yard putt for par.
The billiard stroke is one that
every player Is likely to need, sooner
or later. When it confronts you, take
your time and study out the angle
the ball must take most carefully.
tree is apt to be more diff1cult
to play than a wall. Most trees have
rough surfaces. Moreover, they are
rounded, not level. This complicates
matters.
Copyright, 1921
Evening star., 1924-01-03
HERZ0G NAMED PILOT
OF THE NEWARK CLUB

NEWARK. \. j.. January g.
Charlie Herzog, former major league
base ball star, has signed a contract
to manage the Newark club Of the
International League, It has been an
nounced by Michael McTighe. one of
the Newark men in the syndicate
which recently purchased the club
The terms of the contract were
not made public.
Evening star., 1924-01-03

OF all outraged managers Nick Kline
is the most so of all the writer has
seen since Harry Greb discharged
George Engel Here Ermino Spalla
wires Nick for $500 for expenses from
Italy to the United States. Kline sends
the dough, whereupon Spalla uses it
for transportation to Buenos Aires,
where he will meet Firpo. Crafty guy,
that Spala, No wonder Kline cabled
the King of Italy asking him to have
Spalla garroted. or whatever they do
to bad men in Italy.
A dispatch from Rome says that after
Spalla meets Firpo he will come to the
United States The message does not
attempt to predict how the Italian will
come. Probably feet first. When he
was in this country Ermino was very
careful what fighters he met. Just
what induced him to overcome this
caution and consent to q bout with the
pile-driving Firpo is difficult ques-
tion to answer.
Looks as il Lew Tender is through
Taking no credit from Nat Goldman. il
stands to reason he hardly would have
given the Philadelphia southpaw the
beating he did had Lew been the lad he
used to be. Well, Tender saved his
money and, even had he not, the Leon
ardTendler show at the Polo Grounds
last summer yielded him enough of the
needful to make him attractive to bond
statesmen and life insurance agents.
Jack kearns wants Dempsey to ap-
pear In three battles in this vicinity
Evening star., 1924-01-03
BIG LEAGUE CLUBS PLAN
cFOR TRAINING EXHIBITIONS
Nationals and Braves, White Sox-Ciants, Pirates.
Cubs and Tygers.Reds to Clash in Southern
Camps-Work Will Start EARLY.
BY JOHN B. FOSTER.

EW YORK January 3The Chicago Americans
Nationals will play their home together
The Pittsburghs Chicago
make the trail from California together
and Detroit have paired off for exhibition the
The will play
Dallas Fort Worth Indianapolis whence they
probably Washington
will follow
and from Florida New Orleans
wherever scheduled perhaps Chicago
will hookup II exhib games the home
Evening star., 1924-01-03
Inside Golf
by CHESTER HORTON

The average golfer suffers us
ually from one or the other Of two
"boI v~eevfIs" sf Golf-he either
half tops all his mashie shots or
he digs the blade into the ground
too much in back Of the ball.
Lack of correct c0Atfel Of the
eluhhead causes that. In these
pitch shots-anA The fuA-uD with
midiron ~ weIl-tAe cluhAeaa
should do practically all the work.
Evening star., 1924-01-03

The average player too often for.
gets this. He Introduces force,
TOO much wrist action or some
otner factor that operates to coma
phcate the effort, whereas the
laen IN always to keep it simple.
the BEST cure I have ever found
1or this lack Of control of the club
nead IN sucA aAots 10 to keep the
during the entire sASt. This pro-
vides sort OF automatic guiae
since it requires the b0dy ana the
ciubhead to travel together. The
player has then only to keep his
head still and see to Il that HIS
wrists are kept from breaking the
ciuehead back ahead OF his hands.
Copyright. John +. Ollie Cs.)
Evening star., 1924-01-03
COLORED TITLE ASPIRANT
FACES A TEST IN MADDEN
Failure to Dispose of BARLEY in Short Order Would
Ruin Harry Prospects-Spalla Coming Here
After Meeting Luis Firpo.
BY FAIR PLAY.

EW YORK January 3-Barty Madden rugged West Side
batter has simple proposition before him. meeting
Wills the end of this Newark he
rounds enhance his
will a serious cmp in Iarry's fair
Should he twelve Wills a
pionhp contender Maddens
little Wills will he
gamble
Madden think he colded
high calamity tonadoes
would Wills has nothing
ability shman
condition approxmatng
o holidays Decoration JULY
Here Ermno Spala desire
(copripbt 1aaD
Evening star., 1924-01-03
WILL RACE IN SUMNER.

CLEVELAND, January "a sum.
Maple Heights track. probably from
July 26 through August. Dates will
not be definitely decided until 1t is
learned what days will Be assigned to
North Randall for its grand circuit
meeting.
Evening star., 1924-01-03
D. c. TO HAVE DELEGATES
AT MEETING OF u, S, G, a,

Washington will be represented by
two delegates at the annual meeting
OF the United States Golf Association
which starts in New York tomorrow
DR.. j. T. McClenahan and c. H.
Chasmar. chairmen of the green's com
mittees of the Washington Golf and
Country Club and the Columbia
Country Club, respectively, will leave
for New York today.
Evening star., 1924-01-03
> DIXIE TOURNEY IN MAY.

ASHEVILLE, n. c., January 81
The southern amateur championship
tournament will be played oyer the
course Of the Bi1tmore Forest
country Club. .Asheville, next May.
The exact date will be decided later.
Evening star., 1924-01-03
TIES COURSE RECORD.

TAMPA Fla, January 3.-Henry
Bolesta, OCCASIONAL at the Palma
Celia Golf Club, shot q Il yesterday
and tied the course record he set two
weeks ago. Bolesta had four brides.
but three bad holes made him finish
one over par.
Evening star., 1924-01-03
LEO DIEGEL TELLS:
My Oddest Play in 1923.


he lad
shot.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-19
Haughdal, Duray
Race for Easter
L. A. Sweepstakes
by United Press Leased Wire

Los ANGELES, April 19.-Aftcr
wrangling all week about who were
to race, how, when, why or what
have you, Sig Haugdahl and Leon
Duray are ready to enter the Easter
sweepstakes at Ascot speedway to
morrow.
One of the richest purses of the
year awaits the winner which it
might be said is about the only cx-
cuse for automobile racing being Il
sport as far as the drivers are con
cerned. Excited by the death of
three drivers since Ascot has open
ci, the public is expected to flock
to the speedway tomorrow much in
the same fashion, and with the same
motive, as the ancient Romans went
to see their gladi;stors battle in a
bloody arena.
The Easter sweepstakc is a free
for-all event, but it is generally con-
ceded that either Duray or Haug
dahl will take the prize, as Ralph
De Palma will not be entered. DE
Palma cannot rGce because local
gear'cutting concern mixed his ord
or for new SCI of gears, his old
ones having been cracked last Sun
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-19
NOTICE OF LIENoR,s SALE

NOTICE OF LIENoR'ss SALE
State of California,
County of Imperial, SIS:
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN
that the undersigned, will on Mon.
day, the 2lst day of April, 1924, at
the hour of 9:30 o'clock "a. m. of
said day, in that certain building
numbered 500 Broadway, in the
City of FL Centre, County of I'm.
perial, State of California, being
the premises in which said undcr,
signed has garage and automobile
repair business, sell to the highest
bidder for cash, the following des,
cribed personal property:
One Oakland, SIX, cylinder,
1918 Model Sab, registered as
Model ?, touring automobile,
Engine No. 44033, License No.
172-s97, 1928 registration, car
number 67936, 19 II. z. auto.
mobile, together with the tires
tools and accessories thereon;
Said undersigned having q special
lien upon said property, dependent
on possession for tho caring for,
safe keeping of said automobile, in
the sum of 1850 Jas also for the
repair thereof and for material, re,
pair parts and supplies furnished
in making such repairs in the sum
of $3.50, making the total sum due
the undersigned under his said lien
$500.
Said sale will be made in pursu-
ance of the provisions of Sections
S05l and 3052 of the Civil Code of
the State of California, and the
amendments of said Sections, to sat.
isfy bill due the undersigned from
H. Owens, Registered Owner, resid-
ing at La Verne, California, Secu.
nty Investment Co., legal Owner
66l Sth St., Riverside, California,
and j. +. Jones Co. Seller, 307
North Carey Avenue, Pomona, Cali.
fornia, as compensation for the re-
pair of said automobile, as also for
materials, repair parts and supplies
furnished in making such repairs
thereto, aud for caring Tor 1ld safe
keeping said automobile from De
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-19
Indian Farme ers
Evade Arizona
Ban

YUMA, April 10. - Indian
farmers on the California side
of the Colorado river sell veg
etables to Yuma residents. This
states foot and mouth quaran-
tine prohibits bringing produce
into Arizona-but the Indians
are still supplying the market.
A covered irrigation canal,
crossing from California to Ari-
zora, runs under the river, the
water being siphoned to the sur
face on this side. The Califor-
MIA. Indians merely dump their
bcets, turnips, cabbage and the
like into the canal. Then they
walk across the railroad bridge,
and by the time they reach this
side, the vegetables come pop
ping u2 out of the waterfall
washed and ready for marketing.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-19
Only Four Left
In Golf Tourney
by United Press Leased Wire

Los ANGELES, April 19-South-
ern California golf championship to-
day narrowed down to four players,
who meet at SO holes on the AMMAN
dale course to determine what two
play for the title Monday.
Today's matches follow: Fred
Wright versus DR.. Paul Hunter and
Willie l. Hunter versus John Ne
Hugh. Titles there are plenty i'll
this arrangement. Willie Hunter is
present Southern California cham
pion; McHugh, state title holder
and northern California champion
Wright, former Massachusetts
champion and California state tour
nament runner-up, and DR.. Hunter
former state and Southern title hold
er.
The starting match. of yesterday
was the pathetic-for the loser
defeat of George Won Elm by Fred
Wright, 4 to 3.