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GIBBONS is CONVINCED
HE is A HEAVYWEIGHT
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED Press.
Tommy Gibbons of st. Paul thinks
he has outgrown the hght-heaVy-
weight class and is at his best as
heavyweight.
He says he has great difficulty in
making 175 pounds and has discov-
cred his best fighting weight is be-
tween $50 and 1S5.
He is willing, however, to train
down to meet Mike McTigue, world
light heavyweight champion
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ADDED BATTERY MATERIAL
MAY MAKE AS DANGEROUS
Connie Is Hopeful That Groves and Cochrane. His
$l5O,OOO Combination, Will Put Philadel-
pha Club in Race This Year.
BY the Associated Press.

~ PHILADELPHIA January 2S-Connie Maks Athletics the
1924 looked the strengthened rival of the
New York Yankees the for
the Amerc
1928 flop mdeason,
than the
Mack has few predictions make He is standing
hopeful added strength battery will his club
in the
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BOTH BOSTON CLUBS
WILL START EARLIER

BOSTON, January 2s-Both Boston
major league teams start South to
their training camps earlier than
usual this year. the Braves entrain-
ing for st. Petersburg. Fla, February
25, and the Red SoX leaving for New
Orleans February 26.
The National Lea guers will open
their first practice session on Febru-
airy 81, while the full America n
League squad will begin limbering
up on March 2.
Manager Bancroft will begin to
move northward on April 5, he an
nounced.
The Red Sox. Manager Lee Fohl
said, would start homeward on
March 27.
Evening star., 1925-01-28
PENN LEADERS PROMISE
ALL THAT GIANTS HAVE
~ thA Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Although the name of Eddie Far
relL. Pennsylvania's base ball captain,
appears on the reserve list of the
New York Giants, Manager John Nc
Graw said that Farrell has not signed
a big league contract.
Farrell, according to a major
J1eague scout, is one of the cleverest
finffsIders seen in college base ball
circles since the days OF Eddie Collins.
Farrell has promised McGraw that
he will cavort with the Giants II he
elects to follow base ball as a pro-
fession.
Evening star., 1925-01-28
WALKER AND HAGEN
OPEN MATCH SUNDAY

MIAMI Fla, January 2s.-Walter
Hagen. holder of the British open golf
championship, and Cyril Walker,
holder of the American open title.
will play the first 3s holes of their
72-hole match for the unofficial golf
champio onship of the world at Miami
municipal course Sunday.
Hagen will arrive on the East Coast
this week. coming with Joe Kirkwood
to play Gene Sarazen and Leo Diegel
at Hollywood on Friday.
Evening star., 1925-01-28
TEDDY HAYES ARRESTED.

Los ANGELES, January as
Teddy Hayes, trainer of Jack
Dempsey, was arrested by Federal
authorities yesterday on a New York
warrant charging him with being
fugitive from justice in connection
with an alleged conspiracy to trans
port films of the Dempsey-Carpentier
fight of July 4. 1901. Hayes made
bond and his hearing was set for
February
Evening star., 1925-01-28

them swing yOur
club only ~ times
On distance shots,
assuming that you
ma de NO ractfce
swim gs between
the shots. If you
made two practice
swings b e 4 o r e
e a G In shot you
would swing the
e lu h y approxi-
rna teIy 400 times
i'm n round of play.
In pra ct I C e at
home you e n "a
swing N club this
many times in half
an hour. Since Ii
In absolutely nee
eGsary that n sense
Evening star., 1925-01-28
AIDED By IMPROVING
DOUBLE-PLAY SPEED
Perfecting Work With O'Neill at
Tampa Enabled Bucky to Win
OUer Maurice Shannon.
Chapter z4-Perfecting the Double Play.
BY STANLEY (BUCKY) HARRIS.

probability had failed Griffith struck
February had been playing basket ball dungthe Winter to
keep condition. After Scranton Steve ONell
the League; his brother Jimmy
Mike MNay then with the Red Steve told he had Just
traded Harry Harper Eddie roster
Shannon
winning ball that night Victory dldn
81 a such
knew Shannon second bamn He was rated at the tl
league II thth had ootaned
couldn't consider much of prospect The news
hard. | il the home made up my
wouldn't worry signed with
NasEnp I-ntu drew
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MUM LOSES LEGAL BOUT.

INDEPENDENCE, Mo, January %.
Wayne (Big) Mum, who recently
defeated Ed (Strangler) Lewis, for
mer heavyweight wrestling champion,
lost his first legal bout with Lewis
when Circuit Judge w. P. Hall de-
clined to issue temporary restrain
ing order against Lewis. Mum charg-
ed that Lewis had interfered with his
wrestling contracts and had slandered
his title as champion.
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CRUICKSHANK TO STRIVE
FOR BRITISH GOLF TITLE
By the Associated Press

by the AssocIAted Preks.
Bobby Cruickshank, rated by some
sport experts as one of the 10 lead
ing golf professionals of the United
States, has been granted a six-week
leave of absence by the Twin Hills
Country Club at Oklahoma City. to
participate in the British open cham
pionship in June. Cruick shank's
Oklahoma contract becomes effective
April l.
Evening star., 1925-01-28
MASCART SPEEDILY
KNOCKS OUT FRUSH
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associa ed Press.
PARIS. January 2S.-Edouard Mas
cart retained the featherweight cham
pionship' of Europe last night by
knocking out Danny Frush in the sec
ond round of what was to have been
a 15-round bout.
The end came after | minute and
90 seconds OF battling in the second
round.
The victory of Mascart is consid-
cred as giving him the right to chal-
lenge Louis (Kid) Kaplan of Meriden,
Conn, for the world featherweight
title.
Evening star., 1925-01-28

PITTSBURGH, January 2s.-Thom-
as Moran, son of Charlie Moran. foot
ball coach at Bucknell and National
League Umpire, has been signed for
tryout as outfielder by the Pitts
burg Nationals. He played independ-
ent base ball in Kentucky last year.
Evening star., 1925-01-28

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, January IS.
When a local charity, supposed 10
be the beneficiary Of funds raised by
the fight, disclaimed all connection
with meeting between Jack Johnson
and Tut Jacks7n of Washington Court
House, Ohio, the bout was Cancelled
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GOLF RECORD IN DANCER.

LONDON, January 2s-Sandy Herd s
leadership of the "Hole-in One Club
is being challenged by another vet
eran British golf professional, Row
land Jones of the Wimbledon Park
court. who has sunk his tee shot on
16 occasions. Herd has experienced
this rare thrill II times
Evening star., 1925-01-28
Fifty Years of Base Ball
One Of Series Of Articles by John b. Foster
Anniversary Of the National League Year.
XLIX-Historic Games-How Giants Great Winnin,
BY JOHN B. FOSTER

IN Saturday afternoon September 3O
scheduled play double-header in New
York Before the first began the New York had
smashing
The
who began believe the
through the end of the without
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InSideGOlf
By Chester Horton

In n round of 1s holes of golf,
allowing six strokes per hole, you
would make 10s strokes. Allowing
two putts to the green, you would
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-21

An effort will be made 10 incor-
porate something in the revision o,
rules to establish new method OF
rating victories and defeats for pitch
ers. or else The whole matter may be
recommended for Establishment.
II may be practical 10 establish
some system whereby pitchers shall
not receive game rating unless
they pitch complete games, while
in other games, in which they Twill
only port Of the route. their ratings
VIII he calculated on their successful
ana mons sCcessful innings.
New Plan Needed.
Any PIN by which pitcher ~
these days may be accredited with
victory. when he doesn't throw 10
exceed SIX balls in one inning as "a
"a yImuTl. is d self confessed all
suro. ?. ana statistics Of that kind
are LcttCr abandoned than continued.
CovelesKi, now that the error in
the rating of PeHnOck has been dis
covered. stands as the best pitcher
IN the American League in 1925, both
as regards the percentage OF vic
tories and on the earued-run basis
and 1t is unfortunate that his double
honor was clouded in the first place.
IT takes long time to overcome first
impressions III regard To the per
Torrance of ball players.
One matter of interest in regard
10 Coveleskie which has been quite
overlooked is that the trade wherein
he was sent from Cleveland to WASH
ington for the season of 1926 should
be standardized as the great all
America" trade OF the year. It has
become the custom to .all-Ameri-
ca everything from the bat boy up.
The trade was the biggest factor
Of the year determining the Ameri-
can League pennant race. for Covel-
eskie's 80 games pitched-15 OF which
were complete-became the primary
factor in putting Washington on TOP.
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MASTER BEN 3.
LOCAL DOG STAR

Washington dog star for the year
is the 1l-year-old setter, Master Ben
b, owned by Frank Burrows Ben
has raced through nine years of bird
work. during which time he has placed
in - out of % starts. A consistent
field trial winner should have prefer
ence over an equally brilliant bench
show winner. for the reason that TO
win in the field a dog must have brains
and the physique to carry him over
the course, whereas the bench show
winner can he, and often is. dog of
splendid physique but little sense. Ben
has Teen retired after winning the
members stake at the National Cap
ital trials this Fall. in which he de
feated the derby champion, Belle the
Devil, and big entry of well-known
winners. This win was turned in by
Ben at an age when most dogs either
are dead or on the shelf.
The quality of local dogs is de
cidedly on the upgrade. Mrs. r. H.
Johnston has made two Scottish ter
rier champions in Donald OF Ruffcote
locally bred. and RaVenhurst Patricia
Frank Leach has near champion in
his bullterrier, Newcoin Regret, GER
tainly the best of his breed on the
circuit. Leach has had an offer run
ming into four figures for this dog,
ana lIllS Is DelleNSd 10 De the record
for his breed. +. l.. Tetrea ult's shep-
herd. Fritz V. Holtz Eek, only lacks
two or three points to make him a
champion, and he is proving himself
a prepotent sire, as he has three or
four puppies now showing to ad-
vantage.
DR.. w. p. Collins Boston Terrier
Trimount Harper. is well on his way
to a title as are the whippets, Free
manor Tippity Witchet. Freemanor
Fast f'reda, and F'reemanor Agra
Vatin' Blues, all owned by Mrs. Flea
nor j. Whitall, and all possessed of
10 championship points. Mrs. r. II.
Johnston'S Cherie. wirehaired ter
rier, has II points and probably will
finish during the Winter shows. These
dogs have won in open competition
with the best dogs in America and
such a record certainly is new to
Washington.
Local kennels now are producing
dogs of all the well-known and some
of the rarer breeds. Every branch of
the hound family, except the deer.
hound. and almost every terrier is
represented in the kennels of local
fanciers. Among the new arrivals are
two Kerry blue terriers TO the kennel
of Newbold Noyes.
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WILLETT RUNS FIRST
IN ALOYSIUS Event

Honors in the fourth of the series Of
distance runs being staged by the Alo
ysius Club as preliminaries to the sec
and annual New Year street jaunt
went to Hurd Willett. George Wash
ington University runner.
Willett finished the smile course
ahead of c. +. Heinrich of Gallaudet
and Melvin Leach of the Marine Corps,
in 81 minutes 10 seconds and was not
pushed to gain the victory. The Gal
laudet runner was clicked at 2S min
utes fiat, while Leach. who was run
ming his first race of the season, made
the circuit in % minutes 40 seconds.
The competitors finished the course
at Union Station Plaza track. The
others crossed the line in the following
order: Albert Schaub. Aloysius Club;
c. c. Anderson. George Washington:
Ashton Bonnaffon, Aloysius Club:
James II. Montague, Aloysius Club
Reuben Friedman. unattached: G.. c.
Bixby. George Washington; A. Via
cara, unattached.
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Mathewson and McGinnity. New York
won the series, four out Of five games,
and the struggle Is we'll remembered
TO this day because every game in the
series was decided by shut-out score.
Bergen of Ewing Type.
Martin Bergen, who caught for
Boston in the COS, was a catcher of
the Ewing type. He had a wonder
full snap throw and was a good hitter.
A smart catcher, he had an cratic
disposition. and his violent jealousies
ruined what might otherwise have
been the most brilliant career Of any
catcher In the game. Also, the dis
position proved fatal to Bergen, for
on returning home from trip. he
killed his entire family and then
took his own life.
There were other catchers Of the
old school who were less prominent
than the men I have mentioned.
There was Cornelius McGillicuddy
more often called Connie Mack. He
is better known as a manager than
he was ever known as a catcher, but
he was a good receiver. He was I'M
questionably the thinnest man that
ever stood behind home plate and
he looked anything but a catcher.
Connie was a canny worker and he
had all the tricks of the catching de
partment up his sleeve. He also had
a pleasant sense of humor and got
off many funny lines. One Spring
a recruit pitcher joined the Washing
ton club. He had heard much of
Connie Mack and imagined him to be
a giant Of man. When he beheld
the thin Connie, he looked startled.
my, but you're thin. Mr.. Mack"
said the recruit, to which Connie re-
piled, Thin? II you think I'm thin
now, young man, you should see me
four months from now when I'm
trained down to my playing weight
Copyright. 1920
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-21

PRESTIGE HERE

The automobile may have displaced
the horse in business here. but certain
ly not in sport. In the District this
year man has been afforded much
pleasure by his greatest friend among
the animals. In fact, never before has
the horse been so prominent in sport
in this section.
The biggest event in which the
horse figured was, of course, the an
Horse Show. Of Military and Amateur
Racing Association at the Arlington
track. More steeds were on exhibition
competition was keener and financial
returns were greater than in any
other year of the show.
The Riding and Hunt Club enjoyed
a prosperous season last Winter. but
the season now under way promises
to be more prosperous. The club has
a record number Of horses and pros
poets are that the monthly shows this
Winter will be unusually bright.
Rock Creek Hunt Club is holding
meets twice each week and attracting
many riders.
Several hunters owned by District
men have earned numerous honors
during the year. Charles Carrico's g.
year-old Capt. Doane won champion
ships at the shows at Warrenton, Cul-
pepper and Richmond. Ray Norton
with Summer Hill took the champion
ship in the hunting class at the local
show.
+. Z. Mclean sold hunter. Lough
Eagle, for a price said to be the high
est ever commanded by a District
horse of this class. Tough Eagle won
the middleweight championship in the
International show at Chicago.
hn
ing of its class ever owned in the
District is NJ. C. Hazen's Gen. Mitchell.
Gen Mitchell now Is being pointed for
the Maryland cup point-to-point race
over a 4-mile route and is expected
to score heavily.
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For instance the Eastern League
was considered to be about the biggest
thing in base ball in the minors. The
American Association did not com
mand the national attention it does
now. The Pacific Coast League was
still called the California League and
also the "Outlanders" because the
clubs would not come under the Ma
tional Agreement. That trait. so early
developed, has followed the Pacific
Coast League TO this day. Ont in
California they We're so remote from
the remainder of the bast ball world
that they did not fear their players
would Jump them" overnight.
Like the Climate.
Then. too. the climate is attractive
TO those who finally make up their
minds TO live on the coast and there
are many ball players who are sue
cessful out there. who do not succeed
in the East. OF course, the atmos-
pheric conditions are held to be the
tonic that keeps them going and there
Is more truth than poetry in that. be
cause some of our ball players bust
into" the big leagues heir to fevers,
chillS and stomach trouble contracted
by rigorous climates and food none
too properly prepared.
II was "a minor Lacquer in 1902 who
led all the batsmen of the United
States with the wonderful average
of asp. None other than Danny
Murphy of the Norwich Club Of the
Connecticut League who later helped
Connie Mack to pennants.
Danny was grabbed out of the
minors by the New York Giants. He
seemed to be the best find that
Freedman. then OF New York. had
put into his club for a long time, and
Danny was assured of a permanent
job. if he made good in New York
City.
All the good Irishmen i'll New York
turned out TO see him make his debut
and some of them must have met
him at the station. Danny played
very creditable game az bat. but he
was d little unseaworthy at second
base. Yet. there was no doubt he
had in him the making OF a fine
PLAYER.
Murphy did not last at New York
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UCHT-HEAVY CHAMPION
MOTTO DRAW COLOR LINE
Agrees TO Meet Winner of McTigue.Flowers Con
test Scheduled for Wednesday Night-Chal-
lengers Expected to Stage Hot Fight.


YORK December 2l-Paul Beenbacl. Eghtheavyweght
champion the world, the Mike
MoTiguc Tiger Flowers l5ound New York Wednes
day night
In with McMaou matchmaker Madison
would
to and
Flowers
With chance the championship stake McTiguc and Flowers
Sikh Paricks day
a
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RAWLINGS SAYS ANKLE
Is NEARLY O. X. AGAIN

PITTSBURGH, Pa. December Il
P).-Johnny Rawlings, second base
man of the Pittsburgh Pirates. who
was kept from active particira ton in
the worlds series because OF a frac-
tured ankle. which he sustained short
~ before the season ended. has almost
entirely recovered.
He is devoting his time TO golf and
has written officials of the local club
from Los Angeles that the stiffness in
the muscles has disappeared to such
an extent he expects to be able to
cavort in his position next season as
well as ever.
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because the owner of the club held
that Danny took life too much like n
fair at Dublin and so he passed out
into the night at the metropolis TO
become second baseman on a team
at Philadelphia that eventually won
championships galore. and to hit
about as well for the American as
he had for the minor league. When
MS playing days We're over ne be
came coach for the Athletics where
he is TO this day.
The best big league batter OF that
1902 crowd was Ed. DeleEanty,
whose average was .376 as against
the 1852 of Danny Murphy, but Del
played in many more games than his
minor league rival. The odd ps n
of il is that both batted much alike
so far as their batting position was
concerned. Both were righthanded
and both could hit TO right field as
hard as they could to left. IIornsby
now does something like that. The
second best batter in the big league
that year was La joie. and all three
of them, Murphy, Delehanty and La
joie have left their impress on base
ball
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Benbach to Defend Title February New Pnn for Rating Pitchers Needed
HAYES PICKED JACK,
NOT WILLS, HE SAYS

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 21.--Teddy
Hayes. who is training Mickey
Walker, welterweight boxing cham
pion, fer his bout with Tommy
Milligan of Scotland in New York
next month, has denied reports from
Halifax that he had predicted a
knockout for Harry Wills over Jack
Dempsey next year in a brief bout
Hayes formerly trained Dempsey.
1T must look funny for such n
statement to come from me-" Hayes
said. Il was surprised to read it in
a Boston paper and I knew at once
that | had been misunderstood. What
| said was just about the reverse
Yes, l think Dempsey will fight
next year and if he is half as good
as he was he will stop Wills"
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Trying to pick the best catcher of
all time is as difficult as trying to
'iCk the best pitcher. l never saw
Buck Ewing catch. but sharp stu
dents of base ball who watched him
have told me that he was the best
of his day and the best of all time.
Those who We're intimately connected
with the career of Roger Bresnahan
say that he was better than Ewing
and topped all the catchers. No one
will ever definitely settle the point.
Ewing Grand Receiver.
Ewing must have been grand re-
CeiVer. He was a wonder, they say,
at throwing. Probably no catcher
ever threw faster nor more accurately.
living never hesitated about throwing
10 any base if there was a chance
for a putout. Many catchers hest
tate. They are afraid of making a
poor throw or of a man attempting to
score on the throw. You rarely see
a catcher today making a throw with
bases filled. or second and third oc-
cupied, or even third occupied. Often
such a throw would win ball game.
The base runners, realizing that the
catcher will not throw, take unusually
long leads and lay themselves open
TO retirement. If they felt that the
catcher might throw they would not
take the long leads and, by hugging
The base closely they would give an
advantage TO the team in the field.
Ewing was a good judge Of bats
men and he was also one of the
fastest catchers that ever lived. Few
catchers are fast because the con-
slant crouching in giving signals
hurts their legs and causes them to
slow up. Maybe Ewing was a super
man, do not know: but Ewing con-
tinued being fast on his feet and he
was also a. grand hitter. To show
the intelligence he had, not alone as
a catcher. but in general play as well,
, need say only that during the en-
tire time Ewing was a, member of the
New York team he was the directing
head of that organization. He ran"
The team.
Bresnahan Also Great.
1t seems unusual that New York
should have carried the two men that
are regarded as the best catchers of
all time. One was Ewing and the
other was Roger Bresnahan. The lat
ter was a rare specimen among catch
ers. He was the first catcher in base
hall TO wear shin guards, and he
adopted them so he could block run
ners at the plate. Aided by the shin
guards he would squat himself across
The base lines and dare the runners TO
come into him. They did, but, al
hough they hit Bresnahan, they did
not touch the plate and he generally
touched them.
Bresnahan is teh only catcher in
history that ever was lead-off man
N the batting order. That will tip
YOU off to his ability for he was a
member of the New York Giants in a
day when they had plenty of batting
power. it also shows YOU how fast
he must have been. In this respect he
1'esemhIed Ewing. but Bresnaha was
probably faster than Ewing. He was
also a. good hitter like Ewing. and. be
sides being able to hit. he was an eX-
pert bunter. n good waiter and an eX-
aellent base-runner. He was an IL
jelligent catcher. and in the world
series of 1905. New York against Phil
adelphia, he was the talk of the base
ball world because Of the way he han
died the star pitchers of the Giants,
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GIANTS OBTAIN COHEN.
SHORTSTOP, FROM WACO

NEW YORK. December 81 Up.
Andy Cohen. shortstop of the Waco
Club in the Texas League. may prove
to be the Jewish star that John Nc
Graw. manager of the New York
Giants. has sought for years.
Purchase Of Cohen by the Giants
became known when his name ap-
peared on the reserve list. Only 10
years old, he is said to be one of the
fashiest players in the minors. He
probably will join the Giants in 1927.