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cess as a sport is, that 1t must be
honest. Nowhere In the world does
honesty pay better than in base bail
The clubs who win the most games,
you know. draw the biggest patron
age. The loss Of patronage would
overcome any possible gain they
might make by selling out The
same thing goes for the players
Those on a winning team get in-
creases In salary. In other words,
every incentive In the game is to win.
Putting 1t Over fs Different.
Besides. there wouldn't be any fun
or any thrill in base bail II it could
be juggled around like some other
event. With us it Is a life work and
an everyday thing. While a wrestler
or a boxer has one fight every three
or four months q ball player must be
on his Job every day OF the week. No
man can be happy and be dishonest.
Base BAH players are essentially a
happy lot.
But when it comes to trickery.
schemes to beat the other fellow out,
that is different. There Is a sort OF
feeling among ball players, despite
what you may have read. that any
thing is fair that they can get away
with. Anyway, that was the idea in
remember one day when AL
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Ruth said he had too much reduc-
ing to do last spring, that the process
sapped his strength, and that he lost
time at the opening of the season,
which told on his 1923 performances.
Nothing Of that kind is to occur this
year, the Babe says, and he claims
poundage Of the 1923 world series. Fo
made one trip to New York this Uir-
ter. 1t was to ask and receive per
mission from Col. Rupert, owner OF
the Yankees. to go to Hot Springs,
Ark, early in February for the boz
ing out" process.
Sixty Acres of Woodland.
Ruth does not pretend to be muca
OF an agriculturist, as the growing
season of crops finds him engaged
elsewhere and otherwise. His SuQ-
bury farm contains sixty acres OF
woodland, and it is against this thaz
the Babe directs his efforts. He es-
about 100000 feet, and he swings his
southpaw ak daily during his 60
journ here. This winter he has varied
the program by assisting In the
building of several chicken houses,
intending to branch out on q large
scale in the chicken-raising industry.
Ruth swings at tree with much
the same wholehearted energy he
displays in driving at a base ball His
blows meet with somewhat more re-
'sfstance, but there is the compensat-
ing advantage that he is allowed moro
chances at the tree.
His Sudbury neighbors regard Ruth
as a faithful worker. but have no.
grown intimate with hixu. The Babe
does not pretend TO be at his best as
a conversationalist. but he is well
liked here. In adjoining towns tho
fact that a base ball star OF the fret
magnitude resides in their midst does
not seem to be known to the entire
populace. 4 Newton policeman who
arrested Ruth for speeding some
weeks ago thought his captive g prize
fighter. The Babes automobile gets
him into trouble from time to time,
but never in Sudbury, where the road"
are not adapted to speeding.
Fishes Through the Ice.
During the summer months Ruth
"hired man" carries on at the farm,
which produces sufficient to stock the
iarder for the winter months. On tac
estate there is a farmhouse, whic.,
Ruth does not use, two modern barn
and considerable live stock. Ruth
and his family occupy a bungalow.
When he wearies of labor the Babe
goes pickerel fishing through the ice
on nearby lakes.
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Inside Golf
BY CHESTER HORTON

IM all golf strokes the cIubhead
in played, I'm the down swing,
from "the inside out.' That Is; the
right shoulder going into the shot
seemingly makes the clubhead
travel outward from the imaginary
straight hne passing through the
bail, but In reality 1T passes
straight along this line.
This hitting @from the inside
Outo can be accentaated-mado
automatic-if the player gets into
the knack OF scissOfing his hands
after the clubhead goes through
the ball. The downward swing of
the club IN a travelling fulcrum.
with the left hand aoldinN firmly
to the end of the shaft and the
right hand and arm pressing hard
against 1t. 1t In this pressing OF
the right hand against the left
that speeds the, clubhead. Tho
scissor1ng movement OF the hands
causes the right hand to pass
clear over the left, but you must
be careful not to let the right
hand roll too. soon or you will
hook every shot. The sketch shows
the hand movement ut the mo-
ment OF impact.
Copyright. John r. Ollie Co..
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In all my life never have heard Of
but two cases OF downright crooked
ness. actual dishonesty. That was in
the case Of the players of the White
Sox, who were put out on a charge
or having sold out to some gamblers,
their agreement being to let the Reds
win the first two games. Many years
before. long before my time even,
three other players were thrown out
and disgraced for throwing games.
II is mighty hard for a ball player
TO throw game even II he wants to.
1t would be impossible for one man
to do 1t. The minute he seemed to be
going badly the manager would take
him out. 1t requires several in a con-
spiracy to actually throw a game.
FOR instance, shortstop might de-
eide to be crooked in a. game and not
a single ball would be hit to him all
day.
In the first place, ball played Is a
fool to be crooked, because he cannot
possibly gain anything by 1t in the
long run. There is no incentive. He
can make more money by winning
than by losing. II he should get a
sum of money for throwing a game
he would lose many times that amount
by being blacklisted for life out Of
the game.
The real secret Of base balls sue
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The point is that willis might not
beat Ffrpo, and thus would get only
100000 and go into the discard to
boot, whereas IL he were to meet Luis
on a percentage basis at the Polo
Grounds he would surely receive
enough to salve that depression which
follows upon defeat.
Most men. who follow fighting
closely believe, that Wills is taking
X big chance In meeting Ffrpo, a big
ser chance, for instance, than FIN
isbed boxer Hike Tommy Gibbons
would take. For Wills likes to get
in close. using one arm for holding,
the other for hitting.
He Is not so rugged a performer as
FtrJoo,- and 1t Is figured to be a cinch
that II he were failed about the head
as Dempsey was that night last Sep
head left. Firpo, it Is believed, could
surely hit Wills. and so to win the
negro would have to survive some
terrific wallops.
Negroes. because Of their color, look
harder to hurt than white men. but.
IN reality. they are not. History
records few, II any, cases where the
black man has stood up and taken
punishment to- the limit and then
came through and won as Kid La
VlRnG. Qlo III tUdt pSstic
against Joe Walcott, wherein Joe beat
Up, the Kid murderously for many
rounds, but in the end was clearly
beaten by the, Saginaw lad.
As for Firpo. his gameness lis, Of
course. unquestioned, likewise his
ability. to absorb wallops such as
Dempsey alone can give without
going 10, sleep OF course, he did
finally take a short nap. but 1t re-
quired 8. multitude Of wallops flush
on the chin to keep him down.
,Rickard. 50 far as the pulling power
OF q Wills Firpo battle. Is concerned,
IS dead right in his Judgment. The
r,ublic likes to see a real fight, and as
the two men IN question size up this
ono would be worth taking a chance
on a $27:50 seat
In the meantime, Harry Wills has
a,@SfoO,000 offer to box Tommy Glib
bous in Newark on May I. This he
may aocept. All told this looks to
be the year In which Harry IL going
20 cash IN.
r.
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field, Conn, the largest collection Of
this old Chinese breed in the United
States.
The bench show committee of the
Washington Kennel Club worked
hard preparing for the 1924 show and
each and every one Is straining him
self to make everything a success.
Secretary Watson Is chairman and Is
receiving the assistance Of Mrs. Marion
c. Drnphy, Mrs. p e; Smith. George
Leaker. e. Hume Talbert,. George II.
KernodIe, Frank Meyer, Frank p. Leach,
Thomas A. Banford, J. B.. Bell.
George S. Goodacre. Ford e. Young.
Albert Hahn. Mrs. Mary Cowles Nc
Kinley Pope. Mrs. William p. Collins,
Held. Mrs Frank Meyer. Mrs. Richard
Z. Johnston. Mrs. r. C. Birney. DR..
q. e. Buckingham. Miss Gretchen
Wahl. Edward A. Conroy and Mrs.
Hattie Waldo
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MICHIGAN FIELD HOUSE
CONTAINS BIG LAUNDRY

ANN ARBOR, Mich, January IL
A large laundry. complete in all de-
tails. is part OF the equipment OF
Yost Field House. 1t Will be devoted
exclusively to cleaning the clothes
and track suits Of the university ath-
ietes.
One OF the regular tasks Of the
laundry Will be to turn out between
800 and 500, towels each day. Jer-
seys, stockings and other articles
busy weeks for the washerman.
A rotary drier has been installed
for the rough drying OF foot ball and
baee ball uniforms. No matter how
wet the uniforms become, a few min
utes In the drier will put them back
In shape to wear.
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Cleveland offered to trade Wanbs-
yanSs for Burns at the Chicago meet
ing. Bobby Quinn, now managing the
destinies of the Boston club IN company
not offered enough. He appeared 10
think that Burns was Of as much value
at first base for Boston as he was at
first base for Cleveland.
barnard Was In Earnest.
Ernest Barnard, president OF the
Cleveland club, replied that he housht
his organization had not made a bad
cfYer But" he continued. the fact
that Boston has not accepted what we
offered must not be taken as All tndica-
tion that We will not make every EFFORT
possible to get Burns for Cleveland IN
1924. We will have him if the Boston
club can be- induced to part with HIM
Yes" said Speaker. who was a mem,
Der OF the group conversing, we VIII
get Burns II We can. We Will make
our infield what We want It to be. IN, Ine
players like him. Cleveland likes him,
We like him. and II we had had him
III 1923 l think we would have been
faster on the infield than we were.
That's why 1 want him for 1924. He
seems to me the very best player that
;s In sight for us. With Burns and one
winning pitcher, I think we can come
closer to the Yan!;s than We did last
year
Neither club seems to have lost by
the trade. Boston has gained an ex-
periented catcher, much needed, with
what Boston has for pitchers. and has
a young outfielder well worth trying.
Cleveland had no chance for Connolly.
Speaker would not upset the combina-
t!on Of Jameson, Sunlma and himself.
Cleveland gets a first easeman who
will steady an infield whose shortstop
and second basenan both are likely to
be erratic, but neither OF whom can be
spared from a hard-hitting outfit like
Cleveland
II Boone succeeds at Boston as a
pitcher he has everything to gain. The
Boston infield Will flash with Wambs-
;;anss at second and Lee at short. II
Mcmillan comes through at third as
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BOWLERS TO STAGE
INTERCITY CONTEST

Teams representing the. Carry Ice
Cream League Of this city and the
Hendler Ice Cream League Of Baltimore
have arranged a duckpin match. Nine
games will be rolled, the first three in
this city Wednesday night, on the Rec
reation alleys, the SECOND three: in Bal
timore a week later, and the final three
at a location to be decided by the toss
Of coin.
The match should be close and in
teresting, as each league contains an
array Of good bowlers.
Ice Cream and cake in profusion will
be provided at the contests and an Or
chestra will be on hand.
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The first was frankie Pitcher, who
died In 1922, and the second Andy
Thomas, who succumbed early last
year. Neither was as we'll known as
Jerome, who was a contender for the
world title held by Joe Lynch.
Threats of legislative action against
the sport have been heard since wide
discussion began a month ago Of
poor decisions. An investigation of
Jsrome's condition before the fight is
expected, particularly ag he has been
lighting often and 1t was apparent
when his bout with Taylor began that
he was not IN his usual strength.
Tex Rfckard, who promoted the fight.
said Jerome was in good condition
when he entered the ring.
A brain specialist attempted an un-
usual operation yesterday TO save
the boxers life, boring hole in the
skull to relieve a blood clot.
Rickare Billy Gibson, Jerome'S
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POLITICAL BAN ON WILLS
REMOVED, IT is DECLARED
BY FAIR PLAY.

EW YORK. January l4The is talk along
that Tex Rckad has received political
Harry Wills appearing championship lifted
in of
Wills fight followed by battle between Dempsey that
Paddy Mullins manages Wills has SHE'D
his 100000 Frpo
meeting Dempsey he dsposes the
to heas
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CHAPTER 3S-Ans Fair in Love and Base Ball.
BY HANS WAGNER.

FEW people who have just fair working knowledge OF base ball
be confused the words crookedness and ness
applied to the They have asked relate crooked
cdent that that If player
actually crooked in ball hardly who wouldn't
help him backEsted fol life imme
The word crookedne when applied to base ball often is mixed
what folk call AS have
before thought much about what and what
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GIBBONS AND DEMPSEY
DUE TO SIGN SHORTLY

HOT SPRINGS. Ark, January H.
Articles for return match between
Jack Dempsey and Tommy Gibbon.
probably will be signed within two
weeks, Jack Kearns, Dempsey's man
ager, stated upon his arrival here.
There is also good prospect for
another bout with Firpo a little
later" KearnS said.
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NEITHER OF TEAMS LOSES
BY SWAP INVOLVING SEVEN
Increasing Boston's Strength Against Indians Will
Not Hurt Speakers Flag Chances if Hubites
! Can Give Yankees Trouble.
BY JOHN b. FOSTER.

NJ January 14-Cevelnd succeeded obtaining
~ club play first base
thereby demonstrating that the Indians determined
to strengthening easily turned
from Boston, infede who
within him. and Walters catcher
notg young
Cleveland gave ONell catcher high reputation
in
in
he great but
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JEROME, K. O.'D BY TAYLOR,
DIES AFTER AN OPERATION

E YORK January An has been ordered determine
IN night frankie Jerome banamwght
blow received during bout with Bud Ty
Tor Terre Haun Ind Friday last Madison Square Garden If
the officials will be taken
Death followed which failed relieve
cerebral henorrhage
Jerome whose real Frank Daugherty the third New
York die the Walker
law egzed the 1920 if he actually uccunbed result
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manager, and few other friends
were with Jerome when he was in
formed that an operation was to be
performed.
well boys" the boxer said, II
guess this Is my last fight" The
and his friends left the hospital, only
his wife and his manager being with
him when he died.
Previous to meeting Taylor, Jerome
never had been knocked out.
Taylor pressed the action In the
fight Friday night and had d big
lead in points when Jerome opened
up in the ninth. Jerome went down
In the elevnth and was saved from q
knockout by the bell. Taylor batter
ed his body as the twelfth opened
and Jerome sank to the floor rolling
toward the ropes to assist himself
to his feet. The referee stopped the
fight. 80. 30
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HOCKEY INJURY FATAL,

PRINCETON, N. J.. January IT.
Harold B. Reese of Ashyille, n. c., q
member of the Princeton freshman
hockey team. died in. the McCosh In
firmary yesterday from an injury
was struck in the head by a hockey
stick during game between the
Princeton freshmen and a team rep
resenting the New. York branch Of the
Canadian Royal Bank.
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yeach SIN Is Baking.

DETROIT. Mich- January 14.-Bobby
Veach, for the last eleven years mem
ber of the Detroit Tigers, has declared
he will stand by his uitimatum that
unless he received $4,000 ~aboye his
salary from the Red SoX to defray NOV
ing expenses, he was through with
base ball
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UPSET IN DISTANCE RUN.

PARIS, January i4.-Ernest Be.
del. a hitherto unknown runner 9rc:.,
Nancy, finished first in the six-nlil
road race held yesterday under tn
auspices Of LIntrausigeant, defeati.r
Frances crack runners. His time wa%
33 minutes % seconds. He will b."
trained for the 10000 event z,
the Olympic games
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GUESTS WILL PLAY.

Joe Concannon and v. r. Ferrell
will be opponents in a pocket bill
lizard exhibition to be staged at Wal
ter Reed Hospital tomorrow after
noon at 5:15 o'clock, under the direc-
ton OF George Cox.
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NEW LEAGUE rs PLANNED.

PADUCAH,f Ky.. January 14.-Or.
ganfzation Of anew six-club base bail
league to include cities IN western
Kentucky, Illinois and Tennessee to
succeed the. Kitty league, IL in proe-
poet. Paris and Jackson, Tenn: !:
Cairo and Herrin, Ill.,. and Paducah
and. Mayfleld, Ky, are mentioned as
being favored for membership.
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may be TO per cent better IMAM To was
last season.
Indians Chances Boosted.
7? Cleveland has increased the
strength. OF Boston against New York,
even at the expense Of increasing Bos-
tons strength against itself. 1t has
helped it's chances for a pennant, and
II a first baseman will make Cleveland
better, both Boston and New York must
meet that situation. Trades with Bos-
ton almost invariably have been OF fu-
ture great Importance In the American
League. and this is likely to be no
exception.
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DUNDEE TO GET $4,000.

PANAMA. January l4.-Johnny
Dundee. the featherweight champion,
against Jose Lombardo, the Central
and South! American champion.
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Indians Chances Boosted.

may be 10 per cent better than it was
Ia ST season.
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(Tomorrows Chnckles and Chores in
Spring TraininS.)
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THROUGH AS RESCUER
Stan Coveleskie Wants Speaker to
Spare Him Relief Jobs.

Hot Springs, Ark, March g.
Stanley Coveleskie, veteran star pitch
er of the Cleveland club has a scheme
which he believes will help consider
ably his chance to be 4 consistent
winner the coming season.
Coveleskie, spitball pitcher, has
always been a glutton for work. In
addition to pitching every fourth
day, sometimes oftener, he has been
the chief rescuer of the Cleveland
twirling staff.
Trouble with his arm, which de-
veloped late last season, has con-
WINGED Coveleskie that he must
nurse it carefully if he is to have a
good year. He figures that acting
as relief pitcher is one duty that he
viii have TO forego.
When Coveleskie meets Manager
Iris Speaker it is his intention to
take this matter up with the Indian
chieftain. 1t is his desire that he
work every fourth day and be given
his full rest in between pitching
dates.
According to Coveleskie, three or
four innings as relief pitcher, in a
close game, takes as much out Of
the old arm as many a regular
contest,
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FIRST LIMBERING UP
SUNDAY MORNING FOR
AL JONAS NEW CLUB
Half a Dozen Contracts
Announced by Broad
way Organization.

Al Jonas, president Of the City
Amusement Company, Inc, and Pete
Onion, captain Of the team, which at
present is not named, have called their
charges together for first practice on
the new Broadway Athletic Field on
Josephine street, Sunday morning at
10 o'clock.
Harry Davis, handy man on last
years Aztec nine, has signed con-
tract, according to Jonas. Davis can
play any position on a team, lnciuoing
pitch. He formerly was a men,
Der of a club in the Three-l League
and then played for short while on
the local Texas League team.
Jonas also announced that he had
the signed contract of II. G. Holchak,
a shortstop, with four years expert
ence at Kerrville. He is also rated
as a good hitter. He has also signed
A. ]. Choquette and E. r. Crawford,
outfielders, last season on the Fiji
teenth Field Artillery nine. which
club won the Fort Sam Houston
championship. Choquette Is left
fielder while Crawford plays center
field. Both are great fielders and
rank high as hitters. Capt. W. V.
Rattan. also an outfielder, now ath-
letic director of the First Infantry.
also has signed a contract to try for
a place on the team.
Jack Hunt, pitcher last season
on the Elks' nine in the City loop,
who turned in q no-hit performance,
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JUNIOR GOODS WIN
San Antonio Girl on Texas L.. Team
Getting Volley Ball Award.

Austin. Tex, March S.-Member'
Of fine Junior coed volley ball team
at the University of Texas have just
been awarded a silver loving cup by
the University Cooperative Society as
champions in the first class volley ball
series ever held at the university. The
sonbomore team came out with second
nlace in the contest. Helen Rummel OF
Ledbetter did especially good playing
for the juniors during the games.
Members of the victorious junior
team are: Winona Cause Of Cleburne.
captain; Mary Dunlap, Cleburne
Winifred Anderson, San Antonio
Helen Rummel, Ledbetter, Mary Ann
Anderson, Dallas; Corine Wood, Aus
tin.
The senior lineup: Nina Bennett,
Alamagordo, n. NJ; Mildred Golf,
Taylor; Beryl Rutledge. San Antonio !;
Anna Van Ness, San Antonio; Emma
Morehead, Waco; Thisba Worley, San
Sophomores: Angela Strand, Tay-
Tor: Helen Sandel. Dallas; Sarah
Thaxton, Mason; Thelma Await, Ma
son; Katy Rae Hall, Dallas Eulamae
Lay, Austin; Bernard Frank, Austin
Jesse Church, San Antonio.
Freshmen: Jeanette Leary, Daw-
SON: Ruth Mantor. Taylor; Ray Ed
wards, Del Rio; Eloise Gooch, Aus
tin; Nan Wilson, Snyder, Margaret
Hay, Austin; Lillian Augsperger'
luleta. -
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New Washington Pilot,
Harris, Was Terrible
Dab When He Broke In

Detroit, March s.-The selection
of Stanley Harris as manager of
the Washington ball club recalls
to minds of western Michigan fans
his debut in the Central League
in 1916. That year Harris was u
member Of the Muskegon (Mich.)
team. He played at third base.
Harris was fizzle. He was an
out-and-out frost. He appeared in
55 games. accruing a batting aver
age Of .166. He got % hits in 100
trips to the plate. He scored five
runs and stole two bases. His
fielding percentage was .S92.
"Bucby," as he was known, was
one of the worst players in the
league.
Within nine years, Harris was
discarded by Buffalo, Detroit,
Scranton, Reading, Norfolk, Va,
and Muskegon. In 1917 he played
with Reading Of the New York
State League. He had been switch
ed to secound base and his clout-
ing had improved so that it reached
the $50 mark. The following two
years found him with the Buffalo
club of the International League
whence he finally landed with
Washington.
According to a story going the
rounds, Harris broke into organized
baseball by accident, taking a job
offered his brother in the Eastern
Pennsylvania League when he
couldn't locate said brother to
hand him the offer.
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Local Basket Ball Al-Sars Houston Trange ID

ago will be held Sunday with the first
event starting at = o'clock.
There will be a stock motorcycle
event for distance of fourteen miles
or seven times around the oval.
A feature of Sundays races is the
fact that most Of the races are open
and therefore subject to more compe-
tition.
In addition to the motorcycle race,
there will be 20-mile automobile
event, free-for-all, and an endurance
run of 30 miles.
The entries through Saturday even
ing included two Fronty-Fords, a
Mathewson special, Chevrolet Baby
Grand, several laurel-head Fords, a
Kissell special. a W. L. special, a
Chevrolet straight-eight, Coca-Cola
special, a Dodge special, a Hispano-
Suiza motored special from Kelly
Field and a Durant special.
The track has been graded and roll
ed in preparation for the races.