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Most Accurate Play.

During all my rounds in the open
tourney at French Lick I was very
accurate with my second shots-ex-
cept in the match with Jim Barnes.
Usually 1t Is when you are laying the
ball nicely on the green 9th chance
to putt for a three that you are most
apt to cop the bacon.
The most accurate shot I ever made
was at the Inwood course, Long Is
land, in 1928, while trying to qualify
for the national open. Coming to the
eighth hole, a 220-yard affair, 1 had
pulled my ball to, the left in a bunch
OF trees and it5was necessary for me
to do some tall playing to get out.
was So yards from the, flag. In
front Of me was a cluster of trees.
My lie was in deep rough What was
to be done?
Making careful examination, dis
covered that a narrow opening be-
tween two trees gave me direct line
to the flag But the pathway between
the trees was not more than six
inches in width-so narrow, in fact,
that could see nothing on the
green but only the flag.
I,would have to play ball neither
too high nor too low. The former
would catch the branches of the
trees. The latter would not get out
of the rough. I took my mashfe and
using the most careful aim possible,
let go. The ball sailed between the
trees, came down on the green and
dribbled into the cup for two.
It was the most accurate play l
ever made. OF course, holing out was
luck. But hitting the ball through
that skinny opening was . bit more
than good fortune.
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ALOYSlUS TOSSERS
TO OPEN CAMPAIGN

AIoysius tossers will begin their
drive for the local unlimited bask e t
ball title when they open their season
against the Truxtons tonight on
Gonzaga Highs court, starting at $3.50
o'clock.
The Elliotts and Paramounts will
be opponents in a preliminary game.
On their past record the Truxtons
appear to have hardly any chance Of
topping the street ombination.
Coach George Collifower has not an
nounced the Aloysius lineup. kipp
and Fillius, forwards: Hauts. center;
Bangs and Phillips. guards, probably
will start for the Truxton five.
Eastern Props will tackle the Boys
Club Superiors tonight in the National
at 7:30 o'clock.
Lincoln Park Props scored their
second victory of the season over the
Warwicks, winning. 81 to %. The
victors are due to meet the Comforter
tossers next Tuesday night in the
knights of Columbus Hall.
Argyle basketer~ won their fifth
straight victory by downing the
Royce Athletic Club. 20 to 4. Simons,
Bangs and Sincell played well for the
winners.
Corby'x I'VE added another victim
to their list by pointing the way to
the Washington Athletic Association
team, 4S to %. Harvey Ingley of the
victors accounted for eight court
goals.
Takoma Tigers were forced to the
limit to nose out the Sherwood Ath
letic Club, 81 to 81. Milburn and
Miller of Takoma and Smith of the
Sherwoods were the outstanding
players.
Superior team play gave the Elliott
Juniors a double victory last night.
The Friends Athletic Club was
downed, 40 to 35, while the Winton
Juniors were defeated in a 31-to-19
engagement. Underwood was in the
limelight for the Elliotts.
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REAL: BASKET BALL
SHOULD BE ON TAP

Basket ball followers hereabout ex-,
pect to be treated to one Of the finest
exhibitions of court play when the
Palace Laundry five makes it's home
debut against famous world cham
pion .Celtics tomorrow night at the
Arcade Auditorium.
The Epiphany Juniors, victors in
so straight games, will be matched
against the Boys Club Celtics in a
preliminary match.
Players who will figure in the main
attraction are known throughout the
East in professional basket ball
ranks.
Holman, Beckman, Lapschicll, Leon
ard and Denert are to play for the
Celtics. while Benzoni. Schmeelk,
Knoblauck, Cooney, Lynch and Bush
man are primed for the Palace
lineup.
Joe Deering, basket ball coach of
Columbia University, will referee the
big game, while John r. Daily, court
mentor of George Washington Uni
versity, will officiate in the prelimi-
nary tilt.
Jimmy Lake has been secured as
the announcer.
Arrangements have been made to
seat 5000 spectators. An orchestra
has been obtained.
Tomorrow's game will be the first
time that any local Quint has ever
had a real chance of topping the
Celtics.
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C. U. BOXERS LISTED
ON NAvY'S SCHEDULE

ANNAPOLIS, Nd, December 81
The annual competition of the Inter
collegiate Boxing Association will
take place under the auspices of the
University of Pennsylvania at Phila-
delphia. on March 2s, it has been an
nounced here.
The Naval Academy boxers also will
meet Pennsylvania in a dual match
at Annapolis one week earlier.
The only other trip OF the Navy
team will be to meet Pennsylvania
State, last years champions. on Feb
ruary 81. The big home matches are
against the picked Canadian collie
CLANS, OF February %, and Yale, on
March IA.
The Navy team opens its season
here January 24 against Catholic
University.
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FAV0RITES ADVANCE
IN TENNIS TOURNEY

NEW YORK, December 21.-Rank-
ing players came through safely in
the opening round of play in the ma
tional boys and junior tennis tourna-
ment on the indoor courts of the
9TH Regiment Armory.
Kenneth Appel of East Orange, n.
J., wearing the colors of MERGERS
burg Academy, who is defending his
junior title in the tournament. de-
feated Herbert J. Duval of Choate
School, Wellingford, Conn, in a sec
had drawn a bye.
Robert Raymond of Lehigh Uni
versity, one of the seven college play
ers entered in the junior tournament,
advanced to the fourth round by
drawing a bye in the first round and
winning his second and third round
matches. He defeated Solo Blank OF
Erasmus High School of Brooklyn, in
his second round match, SIS, 6-3,
and triumphed over William H. Sum-
merson of Cornell in the third round,
C., 6-3.
MaIcoImn T. Hill of Newton
Academy, Waban, Mass, winner Of
the 1923 boys title, but who gradu-
ated to the juniors this year, drew a
bye in the first round and defeated
Mason Blake of South Kent School,
South Kent, Mass, in second round
match, 81, 81.
f. II. McAuliffe of F'ordham, one of
the favorites In the boys tournament,
won his match against Thomas Gren-
shaw OF Flushing, GO, 81, despite
the fact that he is nursing a frac-
tured wrist on his racquet hand.
Joseph Defina of New Utrecht High
School, n. Y, advanced to the fourth
round
In the second round of the boys
division, Myron Raymon, New York
Textile, defeated Francis G. Boggs,
jr., Snyder School, Asheville, N. c.,
e., ca, and Edward Jacobs, Balti-
more City College. defeated Joseph
Fox, Evander Childs High, New York,
60, 6-2.
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TY COBB
Rernaker of Base Ball
A Different Game
A Sport Rernade-
His Opinion of 1t.
I'M His Wake
CHAPTEIt LN.

been put temporarily on the shelf.
Inside base ball was used chiefly to
produce one run at a. time. One run
is no good in these days, except in
rare instances. You've got to get
them in clusters, get thEee and four
at time, sometimes eyes, quite
often) more. Big rallies-that's the
thing that counts today.
Outheiderx' Assists.
The fast defensive work in which
the outflelders particfpa ted is gone
The outfielders are out too far to get
into the play. How many men have
you seen cut off at the plate on di-
rect assists from the outfieIders in
recent years? Nearly. all the assists
oatfIelders get are on relayed throws
in which an infielder or more gets
credit for an assist also.
The law of the manager today is
safety ffrst-take no chances, wait
for the wallop. The manager takes
his cue from the batting averages
They show the percentage is in favor
of the batter hitting as against the
baserunner trying TO steal. The hit
gets you so much more.
But base ball moves in cycles.
When l first broke into the league
the craze was pitching. All kinds
of freak deliveries began to appear
the shine ball. the emery ball. the spit
ball and all the other freaks. Then
suddenly there was complete reform.
All freak deliveries were made IL
legal. Pitchers could not apply dirt
or anything else to the ball. Base
ball went from one extreme to the
other. No temperance. The sky is
the limit or there is absolut pro-
hibition. That is how the cycle
moves. This is the day of the slug
ger. And tomorrow-who knows?'
(Tomorrow-Chapte LVI-The
Dollar)
copyright, 1924
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BRITISH SPRINTERS
MAY COME TO U. S.

By the Associated Press.
Hareid Abrahams and Eric Lfddell,
Olympic champions and Britain's
most famous sprinters, may appear in
competition next Spring at the Penn
sylvania relay carnival.
Abrahams, the Cambridge all
around star, won the Olympic 100
meter dash, beating four American
aces, while Liddell captured the 400
meter run at Paris in worlds record
time.
Liddell, who is studying for the
ministry in Scotland. competed at the
Pennsylvania meet last Spring. but
was defeated in special 100 and 22O
yard dashes.
According 10 unofficial estimates,
SIC, 100000 was distributed in 1924
among turin en- in the form of stakes
and purses for thoroughbred racing
in Canada and the United States. OF
this sum it is estimated that close to
$2,000.0O0 each was distributed in
Maryland and New York, with that fig
ure exceeded in Kentucky. historic
stronghold OF the sport Canada is
credited with having disbursed ST.
100000
According TO present rules, if pen
dllg 10 lLIllClcu DE- dlISl d ueIeuulnR
foot ball team, the offensive team is
given the number of yards called for
by the penalty and first down at the
point where the ball rests A new
suggestion, made by one of the coun-
try's leading foot ball authorities, is
to give the offensive team the yard
age without the first down unless the
ball advances beyond a point which
would automatically give the offensive
team a first down.
Although official announcements re-
garding the Giants journey abroad
after the 1925 playing season closes
have not been made. it is understood
that plans call for the chartering of
d ship for the base ball party which
will be led by Manager John McGraw.
After a series of games in England,
the itinerary turns to South America,
with visits scheduled at Rio de jan
Giro, Buenos Aires and Monteyideo
Harry Damrau, who has played in
field positions in the inland Eastern
leagues, declares that Frank Walker
who sold himself from Rocky Mount
to the Giants as an outfielder, is true
major league timber. Damrau played
against Walker in the Virginia
League last season.
Andrew o. McGarrett is either a
champion or a first-class contender at
his own game. This year he has plod-
ded 1900 miles to push golf ball
into a cup 5,400 times, using 27,64O
strokes, an average of 92.1 to an IS
hole round. He is so years old.
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FORMER G. U. ATHLETE
MAKES TOUR OF WORk D

NEW YORK. December 27.-Emerr
son Norton. former Georgetown ath-
lete, who gave Harold Osborn great
fight for Olympic decathlon honors at
Paris will complete trip around the
world when he arrives here to COM.
pete in the Ffnnish-American A. C.
games at Madison Square Garden
January s.
Norton, whose home is in River
side, Calf, sailed with the Olympic
team from New York last June Is,
and after competing at Paris went
to the Far East, where he competed
in Japan and other countries. He
recently reached San Francisco on his
return voyage.
Norton will compete against Osborn
in the high jump at the Finnish
American meet.
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was his pride and joy.
. Three years ago he began catching
carp in it. Soon the carp spread and
the trout began to diminish alarm
ingly.' The spring came out of the
bottom of a hill into the pool and
when it left the pool it left in a drop
of about Is feet. Thus there was no
way for the carp to get into IT by
the water route. The doctor decided
the eggs had been deposited in the
pond by birds and set about to get
rid of the carp.
He drained the pond. Satisfied
that this had solved the problem, he
let 1t fill up again (having first killed
all the carp and restocked it with
trout. The next year the carp were
back This so angered the doctor
that he drained the pond again and
left it dry for three long years. =.
Then he again reopened it. stocked
it with trout again-and the next
year he began to catch carp. Some
eggs had evidently lain in the mud
for three years. Anyway, that's his
only solution. Today there's a fine
looking trout pool offered as a gift
to the first conner.
what can be done against such an
enemy? 1t is hard to say They are
Undoubtedly here to stay. You can't
freeze them out, either.
Another case 1 know of is similar
to that have Just told. A very large
lake, one of the finest canvasback and
red hen lakes in this country, became
infested with carp, and these fish ate
UP or destroyed all the wild celery,
and the ducks found other feeding
grounds. Driven to desperation, the
Lakeland 1t covers, some 10000
acres-was drained until the water
and mud was only a foot deep. OF
course (the lake is in the North). it
-froze solid. The next Spring a great
many German carp were taken out,
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his value as player of unusual skill.
Keller could do more with bat
than almost any ball player who
has lived. and his fielding was
nearly perfection year after year.
1t was this quaint character, who
finished his base ball in New York,
who was the author of the best
maxim for becoming successful
batter that ever was devised. He
was asked the secret of doing well
with the bat on the ball field. and
with characteristic grin and a
twinkle in his eye replied: "Hit EN-
where they Amt"
Nothing could tell better than
those words the secret of batting
success. Keller was not a player of
the Ruth type, the Lajoie type, the
Kelly type, or that of a haif-dozen
more great ball players who might
easily be mentioned. He was
strictly a player of the Keller type,
and it was his success as man OF
slight physique and wonderful SIKH
that for a time revolutionized base
ball and gave the little fellow a
Keeier's base ball still are felt in
the professional athletic life Of the
United States.
KeeIer, more than any ball player
who has lived, revolutionized batting.
He was not free-swinging slugger,
although he could hit the ball free
and hard IL he felt like IT. He was
place hitter, a hitter who willingly
tapped the ball to some spot where
the fieIder had the greatest difficulty
TO handle it, and the most perfect
hunter day in and day out who has
lived. He would draw the inffelders
in. and when they had advanced
within the boundary of the base line
he would tap the ball over their heads
or fine IL over II the infieiders re-
mafned back, he would push the ball
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Coach Robert c. Zuppke of Illinois.
vice president, will preside over the
morning session, which will be taken
up with routine business and official
reports. District representatives will
report on Foot Bail Progress. Needs
and Outstanding Pieces of Play in
their regions. Discussion of coaching
ethics, rules and officials will follow
Coaches who will report foot ball
conditions in their districts are: Dis
trict No. l, Robinson of Brown: No. 2,
Thorp, New York University; No. 3,
Byrd. Maryland; No. 4, Stegeman,
Georgia; No. 5, Spaulding, Mime
sofa; No. 6. Clark, Kansas; No. :.
Bible, Owen; No. 2. Romney. Utah
Aggies, and No. ., Warner, Stanford
Foot ball motion pictures, special
committee reports and election of Of
ficers are scheduled for the afternd6n
meeting. Speakers on the midday pro-
gram include Athletic Director A A
Stage of Chicago, who will give
Some observations on How to Make
Success of Foot Ball Coaching;
Chick" Meehan of Syracuse. who will
discuss his impressions of intersec-
tional foot ball in light of the recent
Syracuse-Southern California grid
iron game; Hugo Bezdek of Penn
State, Forward Pass Defense; Mai
John l.. Griffith. commissioner of the
Big Ten, Future Of Foot Ball" and
Gen. Palmer E. Pierce of the National
Collegiate Athletic Association
The feature of the evening session
will be the second annual Brown Derby
Experience and Storytelling Con-
test" This contest is open to all
coaches. Maj. Frank Cavanaugh of
Boston College won the first one held
year ago.
Walter Camp, dean of American
foot ball writers, and Grantland Rice,
Herbert Reed and Lawrence Perry.
other widely read sport reviewers,
will speak at the evening session
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All in all, this deal of 1918, which
gave the Browns remarkable
pitcher, is declared by Higgins TO
have lined up the Yankee "shock
troops who were to bring champion
ships TO New York. 1t brought to-
Eether Pipp, Baker. Pratt and Bodie,
a crashing quartet. Ping Bodie. who
was known as fence buster with
the White SoX, soon disappeared from
the lineup aud Del Prat. was traded
to the Red SoX. Baker disappeared
in 1922. Then came Bob Meusel and
Babe Ruth to add TO the distress OF
moundmen. Miller Higgins brought
the Yankees from the second division
TO the top.
Before he attained the American
League championship in 1921 Hug
gins name was about to be erased
from the managerial list several
times, according to weli-founded
rumors, and ii was said that he
sought interests in minor league
club. Today the former second base
man of the Cardinals declared that
he will remain with the Yankees in
definitely; that he understands the
owner, Cob Rupert, and that the
owner understands him.
There is no business or game l
know of where nerves can be worn
more raw than in the one of these
] 54game grinds in which pennants
hang on every bali pitched Higgins
says. I'VE have been in such a race
every year since 1918.
Men in base bail are men of
strong emotions. The average man
doesn't realize the strain the club is
under when it reaches the September
stretch. Sometimes we see explosions
in temperament, but allowance always
must be made for. the pressure that
caused the explosion. After all, money
and honors are nothing compared
with peace of mind and health, and
] have known what it is to lose both
during the campaign.
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Y0ST IS FOR MORE,
NOT LESS, PASSING

ANN ARBOR. Mich, December 81.
Fielding H. Yost, chairman OF the
rules committee Of the American Foot
Ball Coaches Association, will oppose
any changes restricting the forward
pass when the committee meets in
New York next Monday
In making this announcement Yost
said. .-r....
f'Generally speaking. there is too
little forward passing instead Of too
much. This is also true Of the kick
ing game. 1 am not in favor Of any
limitations" So
Yost said he would favor the elimi-
nation of run after recovery Of q
tumble.
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to the infield quite out OF the reach
Of any Of them and get to first. If
hit were needed to get run over the
plate, he would cut the ball to some
part Of the field where it was most
difficult to handle and get the run
home. He was fast on the bases him
self. and as he was on them much of
the time he was a run maker for his
team in more ways than one.
Keller played bali around his own
city before he started his professional
career in earnest with Binghamton,
n. Y. He went from Binghamton to
New York City to play third base.
He was a left-hand thrower, and for
that reason could never hope to be
much of q success at third.
He was changed to the outfield,
which he played until he was through
with base ball, and he played with
championship teams a fair share of
his base bail life.
For 10 years he never batted less
than 500. once he batted more than
400. Six years he batted better than
$50, and frequently he verged on
400. His was a. wonderful base ball
life to do that. No one equaled him
before his day in placing the ball and
making the short hit count, and no
one has equaled him since. 1t was
largely because of his success with
the bat that others who were not
natural swingers tried to cultivate
the same thing, and many of them
succeeded
There never has been another
Keller, and there is not a ball player
of the present time who shows the
slightest indication of equaling Keller
In batting -expertness.
Copyright, 1920
fNext-The great Pittsburgh out
6ol1sr Ered rfarkeA -.
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Socker Gaze Yas Flag Grid Coaches Haze Lie Meeting
SAM RICE is FOURTH I
GRlFFMAN TO SIGN UP

CLARK GFifith is mnkin9 fair
progress toward getting his ath-
Ietes in line before he hikes for
Florida, but he has a long way to
go yet. The signing yesterday of
Sam Rice, veteran incumbent of
the riEht-held berth. raised the to-
tai Of Nationals under contract To
four. There arc more than two
dozen yet to be heard from. and ax
Grfn's latest plan IL to start for
Tampa with Manager Harris ON
January, z, there LIS plenty of work
aiming to be done.
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DOC" GESSLER, FORMER
MAJOR Lacquer, DIES

INDIANA, Pa, December 27.-Dr
Harry II. Doc) Gessler. 80, a major
league base ball star a decade ago,
died at his home here Thursday.
During his base ball career Dr.
Gessler was manager of the Pitts
burgh Federal League team, and
played with the Brooklyn and Chicago
clubs Of the National League and the
Washington Detroit and Boston clubs
OF the American League.
Before entering base ball he dis
tinguished himself on the foot ball
field for Washington and Jefferson'
College and Johns Hopkins.
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HOW BROWNS COT HURLER
is EXPLAINED BY HIGGINS
New York Pilot Tossed in Twirler, Whom He Had
Never Seen Pitch, in 1913 Deal, When
Fisher, One of Original Lot Enlisted.

EW YORK December 27Wars took from the
Yankees 1918 fruits that last have been reurnedbut
Miller why he had deeply
player that Urban Shoeker
1T will be recalled said York
that the original with the Nunamake Culop Gedeon
Mae Fisher Plank deal closed
draw back and eventually consented include Shoker
whom ! had pitch, but knew to be promising
The times and Shocker subject to the draft
Shocker drafted had
he'd fewo sforS Iouis
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REDS MAY HAVE CLYMER,
SAYS DUNN OF ORIOLES

BALTIMORE, Nd, December ~
Concerning the report from Cincln-
natl that the Reds wanted Bill
Clymer of Wilkes Barre, Pa, as
coach, Jack Dunn. managing owner
of the Baltimore Internationals, said
today that he wouldn't stand in ely
mer's way if he could get a better
contract from the National League
club
Clymer has been coach of the
Orioles for three years.
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KRAMER IS PREPARING.

NEW YORK, December 27.-Danny
Kramer Philadelphia's entry in the
featherweight championship tourna-
ment, being conducted by the New
York State Athletic Commission to
produce a successor to the title re-
linquished by Johnny Dundee. starts
his final week training in New Jersey
today for his meeting with Kid Kap-
Ian of Meriden, Conn, next Friday
night in the finals.
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Larry Nabholts Tells:
Using Tree Stump for My Best Shot

IT during threesome
Shawnee, Ohio, Frank
Mitchell and Claire Dean, members
hole pushed shot the right
Getting found ball in the midst OF
umps and long grass. probably so yards off the flag
was ing
directly between
then dtor lie NAV toward the
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ST. LOUIS U. VS.. VERMONT.

ST. LOUIS, December 27-Verment
University's foot ball team will meet
the St Louis University eleven here
Thanksgiving day next season, maxi
ing three International games on the
st. Louis schedule for 1925. The
others will be Army-West Point, De-
tober "a, and Carnegie Tech here NO
vember 81. -t