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The Washington times., 1925-01-17
n j R NJ | KEEPS
UP RECORD
STREAK
Fractures His Own Record by
One-fifth Second in
Chicago Meet :

CHICAGO. Jan. 17.-Chicago to-
day hailed a new champion-Paavo
Nurmi. who last night on the Coll.
scum track added another scalp to
his already weil-Iaden belt.
Nurmi ran or rather ambled 1A
miles in the special feature of the
l. A. c. sport carnival one-fifth of a
second better than he had legged
the same distance in New York on
Thursday night.
The Finn turned the one and one
quarter miles in 5:36 As and the one
and one-half in 6:44 As, his record
work being done in the last half mile.
His time for the mile, 4:26.
Joie Ray ran, too, but he was
eighty-five yards behind the famous
Nurmi at the finish. Joie gave
everything he had but was no COM
petition to the flying haddie.
Nurni took the track after day
and night ride on the train from
New York. He shook hands with
Ray, stood erect and kept that pos
ture throughout the race. Head,
chest out, knee caps that looked like
baseballs. out too.
And after the race, Nurmi ran for
a train. made IL and after another
day and night ride expects to hang
up some more track records in New
York tonight.
The Washington times., 1925-01-17
WESTERN IN VAN
Of SCHOOL
LEAGUE
Victory Over Technical Gives
Red and White Possession
of Honor Place

Fighting without their little
main spring, Harry Councillor. the
Technical High schools green bas-
ketba1l team today took the worst
drubbing of the Interscholastic
series when the rangy team frorn
Western rang up So points a.
against IL for the Manual Train.
ers.
Tech never had look in. The
shoes worn by the Manual Trainers
would not grip the slippery floor OF
the George Washington University
gym, while Westerns seemed to
hold fast. The result was that
Western simply ran circles around
their lighter opponents.
Western had the ball in its posses.
sion four-fifths of the game. Led by
CARRIER, who shot an even baskets
from the floor, the Red and White
piled up point after point. The first
quarter ended Is to in favor of
Western. Tech did not score in the
third quarter. Captain Zahn shot
three baskets and Melted two fouls.
Gichner got three baskets for
Western, Lamar got six, Hragy got
one and DuIin managed to sink tile
ball four times. Western missed q
number Of snowbirds.
Councillors absence from TechW
lineup was the main factor in tn
teams defeat. He flunked Lakins
took an emergency exam and passed
but was declared ineligible for the
| team. The high school principal1
viii decide on his case Monday.
The Washington times., 1925-01-17
M APL E
C II l p S
By r. D. THOMAS

Max Rosenberg and Glen Vol
stenholme, unanimous choices Of
two seasons for all-star teams
representing Washington, are bait
Ting for the championship Of the
District League and either may
smash record ITO win,
At this stage, with the season
half run, each has an average OF
lis, with Rosenberg leading VOL
stenholme by a slight fraction,
The highest average ever rolled
for an entire season was Ito,
achieved by several bowlers.
Rosenberg and Woistenholme are
favored by conditions to hang UP
a new mark. Virtually all Of their
District sets are rolled on practf-
calIy new alleys. In other days,
District leaguers performed on run
ways that were good, bad and
worse.
Tt is an Odds-On bet that either
WOlstenhOlme or Rosenberg VIII
win the title, but several others
are still I'm the race. Red Megaw.
WOlstenhOlme's team mate ON the
Of the Stanford Paper Company.
each has an average Of 113. Me-
gaW is nearly up to ia and ls
ono of the leagues surprises this
season.
He is giving Wolstenholme a stiff
fight for the lead in spares, West
erholme having 116 against Reds
107. Pete Metrokas, OF the Mt.
Pleasant team, Is coming along
strong. His average is liz.
The bowling dopesters are con-
ceding the pennant to the Curb
Cafe team. champion Of last sea-
son. Curb Cafe is half a dozen
games in the lead, with the King
pin, Meyer Davis and Stanford Pa
per Company fighting for the run
nerup position.
The Curb Cafe line up is for.
midable. Rosenberg mas an average
Of 116, George Friend Ill, Frank
Miller 10, Joe Toomey 1OS and Red
Morgan 1oS.
This team has lost only eight
games. Once it was Whitewashcd
by the Regulars and once nv the
Kingpins. Curb Cafe copied
twenty-five games in succession,
thus breeding past the Meyer
Davis team that for a time was
well I'm front and was doomed as
likely winner or the pennnnE.
Still the Curb Cafe bowlsrs are
not hogging all the honors. The
Kingpins have the high set % LIS
and the Mt. Peasants, the best
game, $40. Here the Cafemen play
second fiddlex having the next best
set Of 1877 and the second high
game, 617.
Frank Miller, who recently
showed Washington he could bowl
ten pins as well as ducks with more
than ordinary skill, holds the league
record for high set for this sea-
soon with 405 and also has the best
game, ITO.
Incidentally, CurD Cafe has chal-
lenged the Baltimore team that re-
Gently knocked off the Capital City
Duckpin Association All-Stars.
The Washington times., 1925-01-17
AL WORKS SHOOTS 2O8
FOR WORLD RECORD

A world duckpin record is claimed
today for Al Works, the southpaw
star. who, at the Recreation yes
terday, shot a game of EOS. Works
sensational performance was in a
match with three other bowlers. Wit
nesses of it say there was nothing
flukey about it, and that had Works
been trifle lucky he would have
done ever better. A perfect hit for
O. strike in the tenth box left pins
No. and 10 standing.
He made five consecutive strikes,
which is believed also to be record,
at least for this city. Works spared
in the first and second boxes, rolled
flat in the third and then made
five straight strikes. He spared in
the ninth and got ten in the tenth.
He followed the big game with
scores of 1873, 142, 40 and lit, in
order, averaging 14S for the five
strings.
The Washington times., 1925-01-17
MANDELL-TERRIS FIRST
ITO SEEK LEONARD'S BELT

NEW YORK, Jan. IL. Tex
Richard declared his intention to,
day of applying to the State athIeti,
commission for permission to award
championship belt to the winner
OF the bout between Sammy Man.
dell and Sid ferris at Madison
Square Garden on February as
the first step in determining the
successor to Benny Leonard, retir,
Ing lightweight champion.
The Mandell-Terris bout would he
the forerunner, he said, of series
Of elimination meetings such as
was conducted recently in the
featheIweight division. He added
that the championship belt could be
passed along from winner To win,
ner az they developed.
The Washington times., 1925-01-17
TUNNEY AND STRIBLING
MEET IN MIAMI IN MARCH

MIAMI, Fla, Jan. 17.-After
hanging fire for weeks, the ten
round no-decision match between
Gene Tunney. American light heavy
weight champion. and Young Strib-
ling has been arranged for either
March 2 or 8 here. Billy Gibson,
who is here with Gene, arranged
the match with w. l.. Pa) Etrib-
ling through Ed Douglass, match
maker.
AS it is a no-decision match, Tun-
ney will retain his title unless
Stribiing scores a knockout. Tun'
ney will remain mere for his train.
ing while Stribling will probably
not be back until late In February.
The Washington times., 1925-01-17
COCHRANE WON'T SIGN
TILL HE GETS A Git

PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 17.-Gor.
don S. Mickey" Cochrane, the Ath-
letics' new catcher from Portland
in the Pacific Coast League, is n
holdout, refusing to sign a contract
until paid $4,000 of the reported
purchase price of 5000.
"Cochrane's fight is with the
Portland club, not with me-" said
Connie Mack today. If he wants
to break his contract, he may do
so. I'll manage to get along in
some way"
Cochrane claims that Tom Turner
paid $1,000 for him two years ago
and has received $55, 900 from the
AS. He believes himself entitled ia
at least S., 900 of that.
The Washington times., 1925-01-17
McTigue's End Cut
One-Third By
Fight Club

Mike McTigue, the world
light heavyweight champion,
only received $4,000 for his
end for battling Champion
Mickey Walker in their bout at
the First Regiment Armory at
Newark, N. j.
The club officials lost cor
siderable money on the show
and for that reason they cut
down McTigue's money from
$4,000 to $4,000. McTigue
and his two managers had an
argument when his share was
cut down.
The Washington times., 1925-01-17
DUNDEE'S TALK WITH
POPE DENIED BY VATICAN

ROME, Jan. ia semi-officiaI
statement issued at the Vatican to-
day refers to recent newspaper
reports which asserted that a
private audience had been granted
by the pontiff to Johnny Dundee,
the American boxer.
THE truth is" says the semi
official statement, that this gentle
man never was received by the
Pope. He was simply admitted ia
the collective audience granted
daily to the faithful who wish to
see the pontiff and receive his
benediction."
The Washington times., 1925-01-17
Bowling Tournament
Entries Close
Tonight

Entries for the second annual
singles tournament of the Wash
ington City Duckpin Association
will close tonight at midnight.
Blanks are obtainable at all
bowling alleys. A large prize
list will be announced shortly.
The first prize will be worth
one hundred berries. There will
be nine silver cups and numer-
Gus merchandise prizes.
The Washington times., 1925-01-17

NHE baseball Of going South to watch the
athletes pieces their
sorted regarding the outlook for the coming campaign
few picking the world champions to repeat Bert Walker sports
editor Of Detroit
own band Of ferpcOus fenes canteng across the line in first
Rapids Duluth when Hghey Jennings last directed champion
have always been traers though it admitted
neGsereQ
defeated Tigers be expected
oOS
The Washington times., 1925-01-17
"STUBBY" MACK
SHREVEPORT
BOUND

CHICAGO, Jan. ,17.-"Stubby'
Mack, member of the White sox
curving staff for two seasons, yes
terday was released to the Shreve
port club of the Southern League.
Mack, touted as star when he
came to the Sox from the North
west, was not a winner at any
time for the Hose. He was inef-
fective in the majority of his starts
and seldom a good finisher as re-
lief man.
"Stubby' has possibilities but the
Hose officials lost patience with his
failure to prove a winner. He will
be the ground rent" man al
Shreveport, as the Sox train there
this spring.
The Washington times., 1925-01-17

-
thirty minutes of
play. The spirit
Of the game was
u n u s u ally en-
joyable, and the
play stayed clean
and devoid of
r % u 6 h n e S s in
spite of the
noise of yelling
and whistling of
the k ha k i-clad
boys, and the
slippery floor.
The new Wash
ington team has
developed a type
Of pass work
that only two
other teams In
The Washington times., 1925-01-17
CROWLEY, INJURED GRID
STAR, IS UP AND ABOUT

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. H.
James II. Crowley, star halfback Of
the Notre Dame University football
team, who has been in a hospital
here since January l as the result
of a threatened nervous breakdown,
felt so well today that he took an
automobile trip around the city.
He is mending rapidly, and it iS
expected that he will leave for home
within a week
The Washington times., 1925-01-17
TEAM HOPES
TO EVEN NEWARK COUNT

Aloysius viii make an attempt
to right the wrong did them q
couple of weeks ago by the Newark
Club basketball team from Balti-
more. The Big Five will journey
to the Monumental City and at.
different team. Maybe they will take
Newarkers. Players are requested
to report at the Union Station at
$50 o'clock Tomorrow night the
1 streeters will play the Allied Five,
of Baltimore. in the local gym.
The Washington times., 1925-01-17
PushbaIl Is Popular

Lieutenant Daniel p. Norman,
athletic officer, has introduced push
ball at Fort Howard and the dough-
boys find it great sport. The ball
used is six feet in diameter and the
leather used in making it weighs
forty-five pounds. More than $50
players take part in the game ST.
simultaneously.
The Washington times., 1925-01-17
WOODWARD CUNT TAKES
GAME FROM FRIENDS

The basketball quint of the
Woodward School for Boys defeated
the Friends quint, 16 to 10. The
game was the best yet played in
the Prep League, considering the
speed the players maintained
throughout. Thompson. forward
for the winnsrA was the bright
The Washington times., 1925-01-17
NURSES D R 0 P
CAME BY
50 To Il
Washingtonians Win by Lop.
sided Score, But Game
Is Interesting
BIZ "JACK" MARTIN.

Playing their six regulars the
first half of the games and four
substitutes through the last half,
the Washingtonians defeated the
Walter Reed Nurses, SO to IL.
Although the score was little
lopsided, the fray was interesting
and exciting every second Of the
The Washington times., 1925-01-17
At Last He Quits,

A T last, after months of shilly-
~ shallying and beating around
and about the bush, Benny
Leonard announces his retirement
from the ring. He gives out a sob
story about "doing it for mother
that should make the gals grieve
and give him columns of space
useful in his theatrical business
just now, Right there is the fly
in the ointment.
How long will the former
champion" be as valuable to the
theatrical world as the "cham.
pion" was? Those who have seen
him on the stage are inclined to
grin when it is mentioned in their
hearing that Leonard is an actor,
On the other hand, Benny
Leonard has saved his money. He
doesn't exactly need the stage any
more than it needs him. AS soon
as he finds his income slipping
too much. he will merely drop out
of the limelight and become an
ordinary businessman, which he
has been for some time in the ring,
it might be added.
Only Leonard and his manager,
Billy Gibson, are aware what the
retired champion has scaled for
more than a year. On July %,
1923, at the New York Polo
Grounds he defended his title
against Lew Tender. The ring
writer's were barred from the
weighing and, when they saw him
The Washington times., 1925-01-17

From this aerie the Detroit club
promises to be stronger next year
than last only in having Dutch
Leonard in action from the be-
ginning of the season. Leonard
was not eligible to play ball until
late last season, but he proved
of real value, once he got going.
So long as Ty Cobb is in uni
form, his club will be an attrac-
ton. But Cobb will have rhe
same team in 1925 that he had in
1924. He will do just as much
tinkering with the lineup this
year as he did last. He will be
quite as temperamental in his
handling of his pitchers.
One cannot blame Bert Walker.
or any other Detroiter, for that
matter, for hoping Cobb will lead
the champions in 1925. But
there's difference between mere
ly hoping for q thing and planning
to get it.
Philadelphia writer's, some Of
them, believe Connie Mack's team
will be in the running, with an
excellent chance Of winning the
flag.
st. Louis writer's, most of them,
say the same thing about the
Browns. The fighting Griffs have
few friends around the circuit.
They are being called "fluke
champions" doomed to ride the
world for a single season.
New York writer's, recalling
those nine defeats at the Yankee
Stadium, are generally giving The
Griffmen more encouragement.
Some believe the Yankees due to
crack altogether, finishing as low
as fourth, or at least third. One
or two seem to think Higgins
will put over another winner, but
their voices are by no means
strident.
Meanwhile, Bucky Harris, the
youngster who startled the base
ball world last October, says
little or nothing. It's a safe bet
that he won't make any prophe-
cies.
81 can say this, though" was
his remark to this writer during
the winter, "we'll be in there do
ing our best to win each game as
it comes along. That's what we
did last season. 1t seemed to
work pretty well, didn't it,"
The Washington times., 1925-01-17
Record for Channel

The record for swimming the
English Channel is sixteen hours
and thirty-three minutes, held by
Enrico Tiraboschi of the Argentine.
Miss Helen Wainwright will attempt
70 beat the mark next August.
The Washington times., 1925-01-17
Unbeaten Since 1919

The Passaic high school basket.
ball team has not been beaten since
1919, when it was trimmed by the
Union Hill high school team in a
Kew Jersey State championship
came. Previous to this defeat Pas.
saic had won thirty-nine straight.
The Washington times., 1925-01-17
Joe Benjamin Quits

Joe Benjamin, the California light.
weight is too handsome for the ring.
He has become a movie actor and
his manager, Jack Kearns is looking
for a light weight. rough.neck who
can fight.
The Washington times., 1925-01-17
T AS I TOSSING
EXPECTEDAT
ARCADE
Kingston Palace Game Should
Bring Out Some Snappy
Basketball

Washington basketball fans are
expecting a Whirlwind performance
at the Arcade Auditorium tonor-
row night when the Palace Club
and the Kingston Club meet.
There has been considerable
ballyhooing during the past week.
Kingston has been touted as one
Of the strongest teams in the
country. The club is leading the
Metropolitan League. 1t has six
players that are acknowledged to
be the equal OF the Original
Celtic performers.
The Palace Club with Haggerty,
the new star Conaty, Cooney,
Bushman, Benzoni, Lynch and
Schmeeik are said to have reached
Unless the Palace Club and the
Kingston players get right into the
fastest battle of the season lot
of the fans are going to be dis
appointed, Washingtonians know
what the Palace Players are capa<
BILE Of doing. They expect them
to perform to standard against the
crack Gotham players tomorrow
night.
Manager George p. Marshall an.
nounces that Joe Fitzgerald, local
basketball referees, will handle the
contest. Fitzgerald has come to
be one of the leading court arbiters
in the section within the past tive
years.
The teams win take the floor
The Washington times., 1925-01-17
SAYS "SKILLETT"
Esq.
All Cabinet Members Must
Be Sixteen Years or More
and That Explains
Whiskers.
By KIRK MILLER.

president COOLIDGE has
remodeled his Cabinet to
the point where there isn't
q full set of whiskers remaining.
Only the age limit for Cabinet
Members kept him from hiring
a couple Of boys who don't
shave at all.
Foliage around the White
House will he mostly confined
The Washington times., 1925-01-17

In President Cleveland's time
q mans sideburns were his Gre
dentials and admitted him to
the front, back or side entrance
of the White House. This
prima facia evidence was never
rebutted until Roosevelt took
office.
Teddy had about the first bald
faced pupils. who, having no
natural ambush, often hid be-
hind their biographies. No
member of the tennis cabinet
could afford to trip over his
own whiskers.
Civilization has moved for
ward so rapidly that there now
remains but few thickets in all
of America and Secretary
Hughes frontier is the last
to be eradicated either by his
own hand or by the march of
progress.
Secretary Mellon, it is under
stood in tonsorial and sartorial
circles, is permitted to retain
his portfolio only with the un-
derstanding that he keeps his
mustache cropped in conformity
with his coat-tails.
Mr.. Work also has a stub
born little growth that time
hasn't eradicated and Secretary
Weeks wouldn't part with his
strainer except through a War
Department order which he'd
never sign anyway.
No, sir; Coolidge isn't going
to have his workshop look like
a mattress factory, as over
stuffed furniture is against his
plans for economy.
The Washington times., 1925-01-17

to the front and
back yards in
the future and
these will BIOS
som only in sea-
son instead of
all the We a r
around.
The Washington times., 1925-01-17
Speaking Of Titles

" that the New York boxing
commission will stage a light
weight tourney, the eventual win
ner being crowned as champion.
This was done among the feath-
ers, with Louis Kid Kaplan
emerging on top.
But it is wrong for Kaplan to
use the title Of "world cham
pion." It will be wrong for the
lightweight winner to call him.
self "world champion" Ring
titles are decided in the ring, not
by commissions.
Johnny Dundee won the title
by defeating Eugene Criqui
Benny Leonard won his title by
defeating Freddy Welsh. Crioui
and Welsh were champions when
defeated.
Kid Kaplan today is nothing
more than the winner of a tour
ney under the auspices of the
New York commission. That's all
the winner of the proposed light.
weight tourney will be.
If Kaplan defeats all his Ameri-
can challengers, he will become
the American champion, with for
eign champions yet to be met.
Champions are made and
broken in the ring, nowhere else.
The Washington times., 1925-01-17

The President
is a straightfor-
ward New Eng
land citizen who
doesn't believe
in hiding any
thing from the
The Washington times., 1925-01-17

The teams will play amateur
rules throughout. The game ts
scheduled to start at s p. m. Music
will be furnished before the game
and between halves.
The Washington times., 1925-01-17

the features of his official fam
lily. He now points with pride
to the family album, instead Of
the family all buns.
The Washington times., 1925-01-17

There have been some very
historic fringes grace the Cabi-
net table since George Wash
ington took his oath of office;
in fact, a full complement OF
verdure was at one time sup
posed to be a requirement of
office.
The Washington times., 1925-01-17

in the ring, not one would swear
Leonard had made 1876 pounds. He
looked like q welterweight.
Leonard made no effort to de-
fend his lightweight honors since
that bout with Tender. Indeed,
he was matched with Mickey
Walker, the welter champion, an
alleged broken thumb preventing
the combat.
There is this to be said OF
Leonard, and in his favor. He
was truly high-class champion
in and out of the ring. He de-
tended his title until no real
challengers we're in sight. He
has simply outgrown the class
that's all. II he has done any.
thing "for mother" it has beer
to retire and not seek honors in
the welterweight class. He has
not been a lightweight for only
he and Gibson know how long.
The Washington times., 1925-01-17

At the time, It was fondIy ex-
nected that Flowers would be q
candidate in spite of reports that
he sported a glass jaw. On the
face of the returns, this allegation
NAV or may not have been sub
stantiated. All that / can offer
on the subject is that II it isn't
Dresden china, neither b Il Shef.
field plate.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-04-09
The Bachelor MeditateS on Marriage

trotted out for inspection as regular
ly as the morning curl papers?
Where is the percentage of gain? Do
a lawn to NOV and a mortgage to
owe compensate for the strain of
the eternal conversation of one
woman with an outlook on life bor-
dered by a horizon of dinners,
diapers and the movies?
/ ask you. In all sincerity, I ask
you!
Marriage, in fact, is splendid ar
rangement for the woman. She gets
a meal ticket, contract made out in
her favor with the outworn laws Of
chivalry aiding and abetting her and
may hold up her head in all hen
parties as a successful huntress OF
the male. And the man gets the
bills.
And now for a few samples OF
inose / don't want to marry:
One of the most interesting types
of girl is the listener. This can
hardly be called type. It is gen
orally phase, outgrown all toe
soon. AS a matter of fact. listeners
of the first water have been known
to turn into takers four short weeks
after the wedding handouts have