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Evening star., 1925-04-04
SWIMMERS COMPETE
: IN TITLE MEET HERE

Making their final appearance Of
the season, Catholic University swim
mers will make strong bid for hon.
ors in the South Atlantic champion
ship meet being held at the Brook
land pool this afternoon and tonight.
Fitzgerald, credited with being the
best performer on the squad, will
meet Ben Mitchell of the Maryland
Swimming Club. holder Of the title in
the 220-yard free style event, in what
should prove to be an interesting
duel. while Estevex will attempt to
wrest the 100-yard back stroke cham
pionship from Emmet Loane, also OF
the Maryland organization.
Other Brookland entries arc Sul1i-
van and Lehrfeld, in the 100 and 200
yard free style; Mangan, in the fancy
dive, and Gallagher in the plunge.
Fitzgerald. Estevex, Lehrfeld and
Mangan or Sullivan will carry the
c. q. colors in the relay.
The Washington Canoe Club, George
Washington University, Tidal Basin
Swimming Club, Central High and
Dewitt Prep are other District or
ganizations competing for team hon.
ors in the eight events.
-Four Baltimore clubs the Mary
land Swimming Club. the Bay Shore
Athletic Club, 7. NJ. G A. and Balti-
more Athletic C1ub-aro entered.
Finals are scheduled to be run of
at 8 o'clock.
Evening star., 1925-04-04

If you have a liking for the game
play it as hard and as often as you
can. You will be a better man and a
better citizen for so doing. The sport
will teach you discipline, build up your
body, sharpen your mental powers and
help develop you into a better all
around man.
Doht allow apparent physical hand
leaps to stand in your way. The lad
who makes up his mind that he is
going to be a base ball player has an
advantage over one better physically
endowed who doesn't know his own
mind. Set your course and stick to
1t. Maybe you will fall short of the
mark. but at least you will have the
satisfaction cf knowing that you did
your best to achieve an ambition.
Never be discouraged because Of
your youth. The boys of today are
the men of tomorrow, and the lads
playing on sandlots, school and col
lego diamonds are the big league
stars of tomorrow. Build up your
body as best you can, keep in good
physical condition, learn the mechan-
ical duties of your position and, above
all, use your head in playing base
ball. Then, if you have the ability,
you will have the satisfaction of max
ing good in the greatest of all sports.
Copyright, 1925, by Current News Features,
Inc)
Evening star., 1925-04-04
Pittsburgh Pirates
Won 30. Lost 63, in 1924.
Finished Third.

The best young team that ever
stepped on a ball field" says Bill
Mckechnfe, manager of the Pitts
burgh Pirates of 1925.
IF the fire of youth, enAhusiasm SIN,
willingn ess to hustle all the time and
skill to carry out all that is asked of
them mean anything, then my young
sters have a great chance to break the
winning streak of the Giants this
year. L have just enough old heads
on the team to steady things with
out slowing up the attack. For the
life of me 1 can't see any team we
need fear"
True enough, the Pirates are young
They developed five first-year men
last Summer, and they are all IN the
regular lineup today. They are 60
ing to try out a freshman first base
man this Spring. A couple of their
new pitchers are yearlings. All but
two OF their veterans are middle-aged,
as far as players go. Max Carey and
Babe Adams are the only really old
men, and the former, old as he Is, is
still the speed boy of the outfit on
the bases.
Boys and all hustlers Neihaus, OBJ
tained from the Chicago Cubs in the
big Winter deal which sent Mararl-
Vile, Grim and Cooper from the
Pirates, is to get a trial at first He'll
stick, say the critics. Eddie Moore
Is going strong at second He was
a shortstop and left fielder last year.
but now will try to fill the place
of Rabbit Maranville. Glen Wright
made good at short on his first leap
to the majors, and Pie .Traynor, one
OF the third base stars in the Ma
tional League, make the left side of
the infield as strong as any combi-
nation.
Hazen Cuyler Carey, Grantham, Big
bee and Barnhart are good outfielders.
Earl Smith and Johnny Gooch will do
their part behind the bat
The pitching is even more promis-
Ing than last year. Emil Yde and
hremer, the youngsters, who made
such a meteoric start, seem as good
as ever, and Adams. Meadows, Nor
rison and Aldridge are great quar-
tet OF right-handers. In Songer the
team has another left-hander of
promise, and there are two or three
newcomers who are seemingly as
good as kremer and Yde were at
TINS time a year ago. Dreyfuss and
Mckechnie always had great luck
with their youngsters.
By their trade with the Cubs the
Pirates gained slightly in batting
strength. They may have lost in
neldfng skill Time will tell in that
matter. AS 1t stands now the Buc-
cancers seem as good as any club in
the league. and if they wear well
should be dangerous.
Evening star., 1925-04-04
SCHOOL TITLE PLAY
GETS START TODAY

High and prep school base ball
teams are figuring in three games
this afternoon.
Western and Tech were booked to
open the scholastic title series at the
Central Stadium at ! o'clock, while
Business is encountering Mount st.
Joseph's at Baltimore, and Dewitt is
playing Georgetown Prep at Garrett
Park.
Eastern opened it's diamond sched-
ule with a victory over the st. Adams
nine by score of to 4. Burdine
held the st. Adams team scoreless
for five innings, and Madigan allowed
them only one run in the three that
he occupied the mound. Finney and
Quinn. who hurled in the final frame,
were knicked for a trio of tallies.
Business High and st. Johns fought
to 9-to-9 tie on the Monument
Grounds. The game was called in the
ninth inning.
Evening star., 1925-04-04

The more simple the base ball played
by youngsters provided it is funda-
mentally sound. the sooner they will
reach the stage where they will be
able to resort to real diamond STRAIT
egy when the need arises. Young
players should build from the ground
up. They should all know their Jobs
after they have been on them for a
portion Of season.
1t doesn't follow that they will be
letter perfect in every play they are
called upon to make. That would be
expecting too much. But they ought
to know what should and what should
not be done on every play which
comes up around their particular po-
sitions.
You can't always be expected to
make a play perfectly. You may not
have reached the advanced stage of
development necessary to perform
mechanically the things demanded of
you. Still, II you know what you
should do, and try to do 1t, you have
the makings of a good player, in the
mental sense at least.
Then, If you have the natural abil-
ity to perform the duties of your po-
sition, you are in a fair way to be-
come a useful and, perhaps, a star
player. Try hard to cultivate base
ball sense. 1t is of great help to any
youngster. without it few players
can expect to get very far.
Pick out the position for which you
are certain you are best fitted. 1
have outlined the needed qualifica-
tions, as / see them, for every place
on a team; study yourself. There is
no reason why you should attempt to
be q pitcher or a catcher II you are
better fitted to be an infielder or an
outfielder.
The duties which 60 with every po-
sftion on a team are clearly defined.
No youngster. If he thinks long and
seriously enough, will deliberately
try for a place to which he Is un-
suited by reason of speed, tempera-
ment or strength. Youtmay have to
work out in one or more positions
before you find your real spot.
Once you locate the place in which
you feel sure you will do your best
work, settle down to study hard the
duties of that particular position. No
matter how difficult the task, or how
many the obstacles. stick to your
course. Perseverance will carry you
q long way.
Youngsters must learn to think all
the time In order to make good in
base ball. You have to be step
ahead of the opposition ali the way
IL you are to get the best results.
Tho national pastirne is no game for
the mental sluggard. You have to
keep on your toes physically and on
the alert mentally from the start to
the finish OF game.
The game is not one for the faint
of heart. Courage of a high order is
demanded of all those who earn regu-
lar places on q team. Base ball will
teach you many Of the needed lessons
OF life. 1t will aid in the mental,
moral and physical development of
any youth. There Is no better school
In which to develop the young man
had Af thA uAaAeA 9kaA1aA.
Evening star., 1925-04-04
EASTERN A. A. TEAM
STARTS TOMORROW

The Eastern Athletic Association
base ball nine plays it's season opener
tomorrow afternoon in practice
game with the Pullman Athletic Club
on the Rosedale diamond at o'clock.
Players named below are expected
to report to the manager not later
than 1890: Treadway, Lucas, Lowe,
Mills. seebodie, Boyd, Toomey. Mon
tague, Warren, Morrison, Patton,
Nash, Neidfeldt, Wilson, Bringel,
Spiddle and Raines.
The Modoc club opens it's season
this afternoon when the Liberty Ath-
letic Club nine is met on the Rose
dale diamond Senior teams wishing
to book the Modocs should commune
cate with j. G. Markham at Cleveland
2125.
Members of the team representing
Ransder, Inc, will practice tomor-
row afternoon at Eighteenth and
Newton streets northeast. Players
and candidates are requested to re-
port at 1915 c. street, at 80 o'clock.
Candidates for the Cherrydale team
have been asked to report to Lyon
$50 o'clock. Winegarden, former
Mohawk hurler, has signed to play
with the Cherrydales.
Manager UsiItOn of the Benning
Athletic Club nine requests all can
didates to report for practice on the
Benning field tomorrow afternoon, at
o'clock.
Columbia Midgets OF Clarendon
who are meeting the Ballston Midg-
cts this. afternoon, have the use or
the Arlington diamond tomorrow.
and wish to book an opponent. Call
Manager Harris at Clarendon 49l-&-2.
Arlington Athletic Club encounters
the Eastern Athletic Association
Grays in a practice game tomorrow
afternoon, at 2:30 o'clock, on the
Arlington field.
Alexandria DreadnauEhts are sched-
uled for a practice session tomorrow
afternoon at 2:30 on the Dreadnaught
field.
Ten teams will compose the Com
mercial League circuit this season.
They are: Allen Mitchell Co, Center
Market, Chestnut Farms, Chesapeake
and Potomac. Lansburgh & Bros,
Standard Oil. Thompson's Dairy. Eve
ming Star, Williams Webb Co. and
w. B. Moses. The w. B. Moses team
is meeting the Yankees this after
noon in a practice game.
st. Joseph's Athletic Club team will
practice tomorrow morning at IL
o'clock on the Union Station Plaza.
Evening star., 1925-04-04
Detroit Tigers
Won SO, Lost IS, I'm 1924.
Finished Third.

This is Detroit's year, If the enthu-
slastic young men who work for Ty-
rus Raymond Cobb are to be believed.
They see visions of a pennant floating
over Navin Field after a season of
struggling with the Yankees. Nation
ais and Athletics, and a world cham
pionship after that in a battle with
the National League
Cobb is a dynamic leader. In two
years he has brought his team from
sixth place to a position as a sharp
contender, club nightly feared and
respected all around the circuit. If
he can tighten up one spot in his in
field the enthusiasm of the boys may
not be misplaced.
That spot is second base. With an
alright defense over the keystone
last Spring and Summer, the Tigers
might have held off the Yankees and
stopped the rush of the Griffmen.
Cobb had no less than four candi-
dates for the place this Winter, but
has put his faith in Frank O'Rourke,
a veteran, up in the big leagues for
his second trip. He may not be an
Aaron Ward or a Stanley Harris or
an Eddie Collins. but If he does his
share in the defense Cobb believes
that the rest of his fierce attack can
carry along with one weak man.
The big asset lies in the attack.
Starting with Cobb, they have Blue
and Heilmann. Manush and Bassler.
Rigney and Haney-all 800 hitters
and poison to all but the best pitch
ers. Theirs is lineup that carries
dynsmite all along the line.
Manush, Cobb, Heilmann, Fothergill
and wingo in the outfield measure
up to the best big league standards.
The infield will be made up of Blue,
O'Rourke, Rigney and Jones. The Sec
ond baseman is the only one in Ques-
tion. The catchers, Bassler and Wood
all, are as good as any in the league
and hard hitters to boot. There is an
abundance OF good reserve material.
The Detroit pitching staff Is well
fixed in left-handers. II the Yankees,
Nationals and Browns can be fooled
by southpaws, the Tigers are we'll
fixed. In Earl Whitehill they have
about as good a southpaw as there Is
in the American League, and Eddie
Wells is only a step behind him.
Dutch" Leonard is a dependable vet
eran and Bert Cole may be of use.
The right handlers are RIP" Collins,
who has done we'll for Detroit since
escaping from the Boston Red Sox,
where he was sent by the Yankees in
1922; George Dauss, veteran; Ken
meth Holloway, Sylvester Johnson.
Herman Pillette, a sensation two
years ago, and Lii Stoner.
Cobb believes in quality, not guam
tity. He took the smallest squad to
his training camp of any big league
club in recent years. Well balanced
with hard hitting and apparently for
titled with good pitching, the Tigers
should be menace the season
through
Evening star., 1925-04-04

The charge that foot ball is detri-
m entail to health of players was de-
clared by DR.. Wilce TO be contrary 10
facts. pointing out that increased en-
phasis is being placed on. careful
physical preparation of players. He
declared the few major injuries sus-
tained during a foot ball season were
nearly always due TO failure to OBJ
serve precautions issued TO team
members by trainers and team physi
clans
Prof. Mahin's statement that the
Western Conference is without fac
ulty control of athletics was brand
ed as utterly false by Director 81.
John. At Ohio State, for example. he
explained, intercollegiate athletics
are directly controlled by an athletic
board of nine members. five OF whom
are faculty Representatives.
Reference to Commissioner John l..
Griffith of the Western Conference a.
an arbitrator of eligibility. protests"
also was challenged Director ST.
John explained that Maj. Griffith was
employed by conference athletic di
rectors to assist in maintaining high
standards in college sports.
Concerning salaries paid coaches,
DR.. Wilce pointed out that Maj. Grif-
fith's study of coaching salaries
SHONeu lldJ the average 1901 Odli
coachs salary is approximately $4,000
a year. In no other college branch.
he added. does a professor submit
his work to such keen competition.
Director St John fatty contradict
ed Prof. Mahin's claim that gambling
is on the increase at foot ball games
Every effort of the Western Confer
ence in recent years, he said, has been
exerted to eliminate gambling, and
with creditable success.
The charge that Homecoming foot
ball games, while theoretically laud
able, had degenerated into debauches,
DR.. Wilce and Director st. John
branded as ridiculous" For any
one 10 say" the latter insisted, that
any real proportion, for instance, Of
the $4,000 people at our homecoming
game last Fall was guilty Of the sort
Of thing Prof. Mahin describes rs alb
surd. Drinking is in no sense in
herent to foot ball, and it is mani
fectly unfair to condemn intercolle-
giate foot ball on that account"
Evening star., 1925-04-04
ALEXANDRIA CUNTS
PLAY FINAL GAMES

ALEXANDRIA, Va, April ALEX
andria's junior basket ball tourna-
ment closes tonight after one of the
most successful series ever staged
In the two games that will COM
plete the tournament the Cdumbias
will be seen opposing the Columbia
Athletic Club and the "A" Club meet
ing the Iroquois A. c.
The game between the Columbias
and Orioles is booked for o'clock
with the final game Of the series be-
tween the Iroquois and "a" Club
slated to follow Immediately after.
st. Christopher School Of Richmond,
Va. was to oppose the Episcopal High
School base ball team here this after
noon. .r
Lionel Levy, coach of tho Alex
andria High School, concluded the
week of active preparation for the
Georgetown Freshmen base ball
game, which will be played Monday at
Georgetown, by sending his charges
through q hard workout on Bag
gett's Field today.
Cardinals, Dreadnnught and vir-
ginia Gray olubmen have called base
ball practice for tomorrow afternoon.
All candidates are requested to re-
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Evening star., 1925-04-04
ALOYSIUS ATHLETES
TO HOLD A WORKOUT

AIoysius Club track and field ath-
letes will hold their first workout
FOR the South Atlantic championship
meet tomorrow morning at IL o'clock
at the Georgetown University Field.
A general invitation to take part in
the trial session is extended to all
athletes of the city. The champion
ships are scheduled for June at
Central Stadium.
A series of four 5-mile scratch
races will be held at the Georgetown
Field beginning Sunday, April 19. and
continuing each week until May 10.
These runs are in preparation for the
title meet and the special 5-mile
run to be staged at the "C'' Club meet
at Central Stadium on May Is.
An interesting duel is expected at
the Central meet when five of the
best distance runners of this sec
tion--Leach of the Marine Corps, AL
berry of the Washington Canoe Club,
u gee of the Beano Club of Baltimore
and Healy and Williams OF the Aloysius
Club-meet in the smile grind on the
stadium track,
Evening star., 1925-04-04
STATEMENTS OF PURDUE
MAN ARE CHALLENGED
Leaders at Ohio State Declare Accusations by Prof
Mahin Based on Msjudgment, Old and in
Large Part Bunk

@OLUMBUS, Ohio April 4--Crticm of intercollegiate
vanced here yesterday before the Ohio College Association
Prof G. Mahn of Purdue
by Prof w St John head of the of
director of athletics Ohio State University and Dr. W. Wice
as based anquated a
and
that the Ohio
almost solely of
in
Evening star., 1925-04-04
CUNTS OF MIDWEST
AND SOUTH SURVIVE

CHICAGO. April 4.-The Midwest
and South remained in the running
today in the national interschola site
basket ball tournament at the Uni
versity of Chicago
Wichita, kans., which has run up
a higher total score than any other
team of the four semi-finalists, was
regarded as likely to go into the
final tonight.
The South's remaining representa-
tive, Wheeler, Miss, whose forward,
II. Holiday, tops the scorers, was
another possible f1nalist. Ell Reno,
Okla, its opponent in the semi-fnals,
hoped to eliminate the Mississippians
while Wichita had an eager antag-
onist in Westport High of Kansas
City, Mo.
Evening star., 1925-04-04
D. c. GUNNERS CONTEST
FOR PLACES ON TEAM

Marksmen of the Washington Gun
Club are holding an elimination race
at the Benning traps this afternoon
to determine the team to compete in
the meet with Yale University and
the Oriole Gun Club of Baltimore, ar
ranged for next Saturday on the local
range.
The three-cornered match was held
at Baltimore last year, the college
men winning over their more expert
enced opponents by a margin of two
targets.
Evening star., 1925-04-04
WALKING
MARK SET BY PLANT

OTTAWA, Ontario. April 4.-Paavo
Nurmi won the one-mile- -and-a-half
international indoor race at the Ottawa
police races last night.
Jim Connolly of Washington was
second and Lloyd Hahn, Boston, Col
lege, was third. Nurmrs time was
6:56.
Willie Plant, American walking
champion, set a three-mile record of
20 minutes 43 seconds.
Phil Granville. Canadian champion,
and Ugo Frigerio of Italy. Olympic
10,00O-meter title holder. quit the race
after walking half the distance.
The previous record. 20 minutes
4s As seconds, was made by George
Goulding of Canada, in Brooklyn,
March 80. 1912.
Evening star., 1925-04-04
MAY BE A MONTH LATE
REACHING PEAK OF FORM
Sustained Hard Work Prescribed to Melt Fat OFF
Walters Waist and Chest-Lack of Pose
Worrying Gregg-Play Mobile Today.
BY JOHN B. KELLER.

OBlLE Ala April 4FIard work and plenty OF it. to be the
wv training OF Walter Johnson for some time So Stanley
Nationals averred
The pilot he the
1925 American
of before May
Is meanwhile intends the moundsman through
grueing routine.
Johnson bright performance at New Orleans when
which Nationals the Pel-
and and tanned
eu irt h ua ON
Evening star., 1925-04-04
COLLEGE BASE BALL.

At College Park, Md.-University of
Maryland, 8; University of Rich
mond, s.
At Lexington, Va--Washington and
Lee, 16; Lynchburg College, o.
At Macon, Ga.-Mercer, IL; Indi-
ana, 2.
At Atlanta, Ga.-Georgia Tech, z;
Dartmouth, S.
Evening star., 1925-04-04
CHAMPION SIX BEATEN.

HEMPSTEAD, ". Y, April 4.--The
girls high school basket ball team OF
Guthrie, Okla. champions in 1S23-24,
last night was eliminated in the
flrst round OF the national title
tournament here for the Westfleld
cup by the Struthers High School
team Of Struthers, Ohio, The score
was "a to Is.
Evening star., 1925-04-04
TIGERS AND PIRATES DUE
FOR BOLD PENNANT BIDS

ME Detroit Tigers and the Pittsburgh Pirates who
pennant since they batled for the world championship
subjects of today
Both had good teams last both promise
Both
of cracking evif fortune
This the sixth OF OF articles
clubs
be considered April y will and
Evening star., 1925-04-04
WAR POLO TEAMS HAVE
PRACTICE GAME TODAY

Poloists of the War Department As
ISOLATION were scheduled to open
their season this afternoon at the
Potomac Park field with a practice
teams.
Matches will be arranged for Tues
days and Thursdays at 4:45 and on
n nrdaxasAAA &hxp1aGhout tia &aaaon.
Evening star., 1925-04-04
TENPIN TEAM GETS 2,s07.

BUFFALO, N Y, April 4.-Barno-
soils of Indianapolis, who two years
ago as the Claman Dairy Lunch team
took second in the annual A B. c..
tournament with a score of 3,115 pins,
came back last night to roll into
eighth position with a total of 1907
pins.
Evening star., 1925-04-04
WILL BOX IN BOSTON.

South Americas amateur boxers
will face the American and Canadian
foes in the arena, Boston, April %.
Boston, officials Of the A. A. u. said.
made. the highest bid for the tourna-
ment, which was sought by New
.YeEk, Pittsburgh ana Baltimore
Evening star., 1925-04-04
TAKES LEAD AT HOCKEY.

PITTSBURGH. Pa, April 4.-Yel-
lowjackets defeated Fort Pitt Horn
cts, to 1, in an extra-period con-
test last night in the first OF a
five-game series to decide the United
States amateur hockey league title.
Evening star., 1925-04-04
HOW TO PLAY BASE BALL
BY Stanley (Bucky) Harris
GENERAL HINTS.

need
The simple the the
between catcher and pitcher and those yed the oufd by
the shortstop and second baseman thing
that the signals be of such that chance they will
II
Evening star., 1925-04-04
Rufinr In Red sox Star.

BOSTON, April 4-Excellent pitch-
ing by Ruff1ng was q feature Of the
Red Sox game against the club of
Nashville, Tenn, where they stopped
yesterday on their way to Louisville
and beat their hosts, 8 to 8.
Ruffing pitched the last three In
nings, striking out FIVE men, four of
them in a row. Nashville's runs were
scored off wingfield, who shared the
hurting with Ross in the earlier part
of the game.
Bill Rogell of the Boston team hit
a homer.
At st. Petersburg the Boston Ma
tional nine put the st. Peter Saints
away to the tune of IL to 6. Joe
Batcheider. thA Wsnham ,sopth1aNi
Evening star., 1925-04-04
215.TO.1 SHOT WINS.

PARIS, April 4.-Les Rameaux,
three-year- old maiden colt. yesterday
won the second race at the Maisons
Lafitte track at the record odds of 215
to one. 1 -. l. -
Evening star., 1925-04-04

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Connie
8 or n per entageo of
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Browns Would Call Halt.

ST. LOUIS, April 4.-Opening a three
game series in Nashville, Tenn,
against the Southern Association club
there, the st. Louis Browns today
hoped to overcome losing streak
that has followed them the last four
games.
The second successive shutout for
the Browns this year came from the
Barons at Birmingham yesterday, a
1-to-0 defeat.
Three more games remained on the
Cardinal schedule, including today 8
contest with the San Francisco seals,
before the st. Louis National club
leaves the coast. Both the Cards
practice and pocketbook show the
effects of the five-day rest period,
Manager Branch Hickey said.