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New Britain herald., 1925-03-03
The Story
 ofa Roi,,a,, Napper

Why Girls Leaye Rome, by Bernice Brown this rolicking story of a Roman fappers experiences in the great open spaces will bring many laugh. Where the Road Forked, by Florence Baier Ward rather old'fashioned young man meets girl as modern as sday,after'tomorrow, and as charm ing as heroine from Jane Austen. Lice in the Camera by Norma Talmadge-recon. structs her movie career, from the old Vitagraph days and her work with Griffith, right up to her current successes
 In the March JOURNAL, no,v on sale, 10 cents
Evening star., 1925-03-31


If you have the proper confidence
you don't necessarily have to be a
powerful hitter to be an effective one.
Almost any player who uses his head
can become a smart man at bat. You
can learn to bunt and to hit behind
the runner on the hit and run. You
can also acquire the habit of hitting
only at good balls. When you learn
how to do the latter YOU will really
be entitled to be Gassed as a smart
batter.
don't believe younEster should
try to change his natural position at
bat He should strive to improve
upon IL to get the best results. But
if he attempts to shift his style rad
ically he will find himself in Difficult
ties. Many amateurs will find it ad-
vantageous to study their swing and
position before a mirror. In this way
they can detect their faults and take
steps to correct them,
Pitchers. once they find your weak
ness, can be depended upon to pitch
TO il. That is their business. If you
drill hard enough in practice against
the style delivery that is difficult for
you. you will gradually improve. This
work, and the tests to which you will
be put in actual games. will often
convert young batter's weakness
into his strength.
Youngsters should follow the ad-
vice of coaches or managers when
they go to bat. These men have sea-
soned judgment. They have been
studying the pitcher and they know
the strength and weakness of the bat
ting order. Learn to obey instruc-
tions. Otherwise team play will be
destroyed. Unless you are all work
ing together defeat is almost GER
tain.
Amateurs, who have a good eye and
are not so anxious to hit the balls
hey offer as bad ones, are most
pothersome to pitcher. The latter
likely to find himself in a hole
when working against this type of
patter Then is when the man at the
plate has a big percentage in his
.avor.
Try to get the pitcher in the hole
where the count is two balls and no
strikes, say. or three balls and one
strike. In either case the pitcher is
almost certain to put the ball over
the plate. Then is the time to take
toe hold and wallop the ball. If
your eye is true you are pretty Ger
tain to get a safe hit under such con-
ditions.
The young player should soon make
up his mind whether he is a natural
swing hitter or slap hitter. If he is
in the first class, on the type of Ruth
and Goslin, let him take his big swing
at the ball. He shouldn't try to
switch his style and choke his bat.
If he does he loses much of his
strength
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/ toward first base Or he may call to
him and say: Move up closer. I'll
swing over"
If the batter is a man who is likely
to hit to deep short, back to third,
Harris will call to Roger: "I'll take
care of the bag. You look after the
throw" Another batter may threaten
to hit near second. Peck will call to
Harris: stick close by. Well pin
this fellow on a toss and quick one
to joe" the latter being Joe Judge at
first. And so 1T goes all the afternoon
One calling to the other, and both of
them knowing how they intend to try
to make, the play and both of them
ready to go through with it.
They are supreme in this form Of
defense, and when the Washington
team goes after its second pennant
there is nothing, perhaps not even the
pitchers, that Will help IL more, be-
cause that deadly old saber. cutting
the second runner down time after
time, reduces scoring chances by just
the number of times that IT succeeds,
and runs, not base hits, win ball
games
If you can smother runs, you can
let the other team maui itself black
| in the face for a batting average.
johnson is Casino King.
Walter Johnsons favorite diversion.
aside from base ball, is casino. He
is the casino champion of the Wash
ington club. He had just swept the
board, capturing big casino and the
ten of spades with the ten of clubs
when he was asked how he had win
tered
Pretty well.' said Walter. for an
old man" A wink in his eye.
But you never should call yourself
Old
II want to get in the swim" an
swered the big fellow. They all
called me old last Fall, didn't they?
And some of them held my funeral. !
just thought l would try to be popu-
lar and swing in with the rest of the
boys"
How many games will you win
this year,"
Exactly as many as this arm will
let me-ande you will note that 1t is
still pretty good in taking big
casino
Copyright, 1929
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Ciereidnd Indians
WON g., LOST SO. IN 1924.
FINISHED SIXTH.

Steadily slipping since 1920. when
they won an American League pen
nant and world championship, the
Cleveland Indians seem on the way
TO rejuvenation this year
II have learned the lesson that all
managers must learn" says Speak ken
"It is useless to try TO bolster up
losing team with old players. men
who may know the game, but who
are lacking in enthusiasm. This year
l mean to give the youngsters
chance. | will have a young infield
except in one place, a young outheld
except in one place, a young pitching
staff and a young catching staff.
would say now that our chances are
most encouraging"
The Indians have been torn asunder
since 1920, the year OF Clevelands
first championship Charlie Jameson,
Speaker himself and Joey Sewell, the
shortstop, are the only members Of
the team which beat the Brooklyn
Robins who have stayed George
Burns was with them then as a sub
baseman, but was traded to Boston
and then brought back as a regular.
All the rest of the 1920 champions.
Coveleskie, Mails. Bagby. Ray Cald-
well, Steve O'NeiH, Larry Gardner.
Bill Wambsganss and Elmer Smith,
are gone. George Uhle. now a standby
in the box, was a buIl-pen pitcher in
1920. Sherry Smith, now an Indian,
that year pitched for the Brooklyn
Robins and was beaten l to by
Mails in one of the neatest world
series games ever played
There is new deal around. Burns
Will be seen at first base. but second
will be in the hands Of Wilson Fews-
ter, former Yank. Joe Sewell Will be
the shortstop and "Rube" Lutzke at
third base. The outfield is Jameson.
Speaker and either Homer Summa or
Riggs Stephenson. transplanted from
the infield because he can hit. Speak
er also has half dozen other young
sters trying for a place as utility
outfielder.
Glenn Myatt and Luke SeweI are
the catchers. Myatt promises to be
one of the stars of the American
League, for he not alone is smart
man behind the bat, but he can sting
the ball and is speedy base runner.
Pitching will tell the story with
Speaker as il does with almost every
club seeking championship class.
Uhle is the top-notch right-hander
and Joe Shaute star OF the south
paws. He should be as good as any
of Ban Johrsons pitching boys in an
other year. Sherry Smith still is
good for game a week, and the
rest of the work will fall on Jim Joe
Edwards, Metevier, Clark, Luther and
Roy.
The Indians can hit. They carry a
lot of metal and with any kind of
pitching may cut quite a figure in the
American League scram BILE. They did
not get the pitching last season and
it is hard to see where much i'm
provement has been made this year.
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X. @. is SOMETHING
STRANGE TO RATHER

NEW YORK, March 31.-The tech
nical knockout in the second round
suffered in Boston last night by
Augie Rather. veteran middleweight
at the hands of the Buffalo boxer
Jimmy Slattery marked the first fail
ure of the New York veteran to go
the distance in his nine years of COM
petition.
Rather fought approximately 20
battles without having the ten"
counted over He scored triumphs
over such well-known fighters as
Tommy Robson. Boy Mccormick, Ted
Kid Lewis, Larry Estridge and Jackie
Clark.
Slattery's quick victory was a sur
prise. Although he had demonstrated
punching ability in many of his i'm
portant fights, the quick and decisive
results of last nights battle was en-
tirely unexpected over so seasoned
ring workman as Rather.
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SISLER is CONFIDENT
OF HAVING BIG SEASON

ST. LOUIS, Mo, March 3l.-Man-
ager George Sister Of the st. Louis
Browns, who last year was badly
hindered by sinus trouble, has de-
clared himself to be in better condi-
ton than he had anticipated when
the Browns began training. Express
ing confidence in his catching and
pitching staffs. Sisler added that his
own helding had improved with his
batting.
Il am full Of confidence that I will
have great season" asserted Sisler.
Going further. the manager. who
passed his thirty-second birthday last
Tuesday. said: Il just groped around
last year. 1t is true l batted .3O5.
but | didn't hit the ball the way I de-
sired. / just tapped il. 1t is differ
ent now. am getting a hold Nof the
pail the way like, hard and solidly."
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MUM CONSIDERING
MATCH WITH LEWIS

CHICAGO. March 31.-Wayne (Big)
Mum, worlds heavyweight wrestling
champion, meets Joe "Toots" Mondt,
Colorado cowboy. in finish match.
best two out of three falls here to-
night.
Action toward a match between
Mum and Ed. Stranger" Lewis was
taken at a conference today of man
ayers and promoters.
Floyd Fitzsimmons, Michigan City.
Ind. promoter, offered $4,000 in cash
as a guarantee. while four Chicago
promoters also made bids. Billy
Sandow, manager of Lewis, has said
he will give Gabe Kaufman, Munn's s
manager. $4,000. when articles are
signed.
PHILADELPHIA, March 31.-The
State athletic commission has granted
permission to Stanislaus Zbyszko to
wrestle Wayne (Big) Mum in this
city April 10 to a finish.
The commission stipulated that
ZbysZko must deposit 1000 on or be-
fore April s, the money to be for
feited should the match not be fairly
contested.
Evening star., 1925-03-31
Cincinnati Reds
WON 81, LOST 30. IN 1924.
FINISHED FOURTH.

Consistent pitching, good infield
defense to give confidence to the
pitchers, and smart hitting ought TO
win pennant for any club says
Jack Hendricks, manager Of the Gin
cinnati Reds. Il don't make the claim
that this years Reds are going to he
pennant winners, but / do say that ]
think they have in them the essential
thingE for success.
"a team may be of championship
class and yet be outlucked in a sea
sons play. Given fair fortune. the
Reds viii give good account os
themselves"
The pitching department OF tho
Reds does look to be the big asset Of
the organization. Hendricks can pre-
sent Eppa Rixey, Rube Benton anu
Jake May, three lefthanders. who dt&
well last year and apparently art
not aging. He has Pete DonohUs.
one of the leaders Of the ieag que iu
1923, and one of the few youngsters
who stepped from college into bic
league and made the grade: Carl
Mays, former Yankee, winner Of -
games in his first year as a National
Lea guer. and Tom Sheehan, also .
former Yankee, all sterling right
handlers. and a pair of Cuban stars
in Adolfo Luque and Pedro Dibut.
If Hendricks can keep four of thesa
pitchers in condition throughout tIe
season the Reds will do a lot Of
damage to opposing batting averages.
for they class higher than any
eight pitchers on any other club
If Samuel Bohne or Gink Fowler
can fill the shoes Of Jimmy Caveney
at short and if Rube Bressler plugs
the gap left by the late Jake Dau-
bert at first the infeld will be as
good as Hendricks claims Babe Pi-
neli has developed into one OF the
best third basemen in the game and
the Reds dug up the best young in
fielder in the circuit last year in
Hugh Critz. whose place is at sec
ond
Ed Roush in center, Curtis Walker
in right and Elmer Smith or Bill
Zitzman in left will provide most of
the offensive strength. However. they
have in Bubbles Hargrave a catcher
who can hit as we'll as any man on
the team, besides being canny
handler of pitchers.
In Dresser, TopeI, Fonseca and
Fowler the Reds have some CLASSY
emergency men. The team as whole
is fast The hitting is not likely 10
be of the smuggling variety, for the
punch of the Giants isn't there
but the club should be fighting with
the leaders all the way.
Next-Detroit Tigers and Pitts
burgh Pirates.D
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REDS STRONG ON MOUND:
INDIANS POSSESS WALLOP
Hendricks Confident He Has Factors Essential for
Success-Speaker Is Seeking Regeneration
of Tribe With Young Blood.

HE big league clubs closing
and Western fields and driving home the
- regular a hence
FROM all OF them come the usual newly discovered
the fine condition the
pitchers
dey cant all be right in their claims OF victory There be
seven disaPponnents IN each league. Only a
W the New York Giants their OF winning
pennan IN still Will Washington Will the
or 1ankee retrieve themselves after the failure of last season: VIII
Brooklyn Robins through the OF
seriously
Grifmen did last
the fifth
National League
sidered week will
the champions April II
OF
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One of the biggest factors for the
success of Washington is possession
of that pair of instantaneous, Co
fiashes-a minute, sure shooters at sec
ond base and shortstop. There is no
pair like the combination OF Roger
Peckinpaugh and Stanley Harris in
either league. and for that matter
none like them in the world.
They are going faster than they did
in 1924. They are the most perfect
human machine that ever played
short and second together and they
have the added proof of the records
to bear that out. There may have
been greater individual players than
either of them in their positions and
there probably have been. but there
is no combination like them, and
never has been.
1t is their ability to get the second
man" part of the time, and in some
games most of the time, that makes
them mean so much to the Washing
ton club. They can get more second
men" than any other pair in base ball
Others Try. Only to Fail.
Many clubs try for double plays and
get the first runner, but miss the sec
ond. This pair gets the second run
ner more times than any other pair
on the diamond.
Do you realize what that means in
base ball? 1t means when the double
play is the last two outs of an inning
that Roger and Bucky have put the
side out for good. 1t means when the
double play is the first two outs that
Roger and Bucky get not only the
first man. but the second, who might
be a subsequent menace to the team
and score "A run. 1t means that day
after day, where other clubs are try
ing for the second runner and failing
to get him, Roger and Bucky are put
ting him out of the way.
In the world series ii was the fast
double plays that Were raising hob
with the Giants. Partisans called
them lucky. They weren't. 1t was
what this pair is doing all of the
time.
Use Perfect Co-OperatfOn.
How do they do it? BY perfect CO.
operation. Roger is in his position
and calls to Harris as some batter
comes up. Get away from me, Stan
That means Harris is to go over
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LEADERS DISTURBED
IN TENPIN TOURNEY

BUFFALO. y. Y. March 31.-Local
bowlers hold sway in the America n
Bowling Congress tournament here
Tor the next few days, although there
are few from other cities Two
teams from Jacksonville, Fla, who
play today, have the distinction of
having travelled the greatest distance
to compete. There is also a team
from Atlanta, Ga, on the alleys to-
night.
Among the two-man and indivi-
dual-event competitors today are two
A. E. G. titleholders. A Weber of
Eliza beth, y. j., winner of the all
event championship last year, and II.
Smyers of Pittsburgh, who won the
individual title in 1924
Western bowlers played havoc with
the standing of leaders yesterday. ".
Mcdonald and W. Crocombe of Chi
cago did the best rolling of the day
in the two-man event. taking third
place. with a score of /. .271 pins. T.
Zavakos and H. Sanders of Dayton,
Ohio, totaled 1885 to tie for fifth
W. Breuer of Grand Rapids placed
tenth in the singles, with total of
ga. and eighth for all-events with a
nine game score of 1860. c. Miller
of Chicago counted $40 in the doubles
and 636 in the singles on top of a
five-man score of 59I, TO total 1873
and place third. W. Carroll of Co.
lumbus, Ohio. is in tie for sixth in
the all-events, with total of 1865.
The Loyal Order of Moose OF Brad
dock. Pa, scoring a total of 2,e14
pins, tied for fourth place in the
five-man event.
The leaders are:
FTvE-MAN EvENT-North Center Alleys,
Chicago. 2.937; Miles r. Miller Florists, Erie,
1894: intercity, New York. 2.923
TWO-MAN EvENT-Mills -Scribner, Detroit.
1.2sS: Ieavy- Cohen, New York, 1,273; Nc
Donald -Crocombe, Chicago, 1.2T1.
INDIVIDUAL EVENT-H. Mahenbrock,
Jersey city, T03; d. De Vito, Chicago, I02;
T. Herman. Detroit, 694
AIL-EVENTS-D. De Vito, Chicago, 1892;
F. Kartheiser. Chicago, 1,Sss; &. Miller,
Chicago, 1,S73.
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REAL SCRAPPING DUE
AT BARRACKS SHOW

Fight fans are looking for four
real scrappy bouts at the Washing
ton Barracks tomorrow night when
the galaxy of local ring stars gath
cred together by Matchmaker frankie
Mann open program of milling.
A 4-rounder between Jimmy Gard
ner and Chuck Rubin opens the
show at S:l5, and will be followed by
three 16-round fights in the order
In which the fighters names are
drawn from the hat at the beginning
Of the show
Jack Turner of the Barracks meets
Young Renzo for the middIeweight
championship of the District The
TWO Bowen brothers. Andy and Eddie.
are matched with Al Foreman of Fort
MEer and Jack SharkeY of Wash
ington. respectively
Col. Ericsson and Kid Sullivan will
officiate.
Evening star., 1925-03-31
MAS0NS TO FIGURE
IN BOWLING EVENTS

AT a meeting of the officers and
team captains of the Masonic Lea que
it WAS decided 10 have a big evening
on May 4 in the Washington city
Duckpin Association tournament.
The association has set aside that
night for the Masons
President Robb has appointed com "A
mittees to- arrange for the annuaV
closed tournament Of the Masonic
League, which will open June / on
the Coliseum drives.
A committee was also appointed TO
arrange a banquet to the bowlers a
the end of the regular season and
tourney.
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M'MAH0N WILL PILOT
STANDARD OIL NINE

r F. Mcmahon has been elected
manager of the Standard Oil Co. base
oall team, the latest nine to join the
ranks of the Commercial League.
W. A, Penn Is to captain the team
and Roland Richards has been
CHOSEN secretary-treasurer of the or
ganization.
Unlimited mines wishing to book
games with the Standards may COM
municate with Richards al Main 9032
before ) o'clock
The Cardinal Athletic Club of Pet
worth will have both Junior and
Midget mines on the fed this year
Babe Wilson, at Columbia 1920. is
scheduling games for the juniors
and Ray Roberts is booking for the
Midgets at Columbia 1904.
Texan Seniors defeated the Liberty
Athletic Club senior nine by a count
of II to L. Games may be arranged
with the winners by calling Franklin
1865 between and o'clock.
Linder registered a total OF four
hits for the Bloomingdale Athletic
Club when the Diamond Athletic
Club team was defeated, IL to L.
Fred Gran's twirlinS was the out
standing feature of the game in
which the St Joseph's Midgets
'rrounced the st. Peters Midgets,
to j.
Rex Athletic Club Insects will play
their second game with the North
Brookland Insects on Saturday.
Manager Lilly of the Glover Juniors
is booking games at Lincoln oS45.
The Clovers are holding their reg
ular weekly meeting today.
Evening star., 1925-03-31

ing the way the Giants are playing
these days.
The New Workers did not find it
difficult to win yesterday. With the
uuttield full Of alibis and the pitching
hill too spongy for the National
once they discovered how to get
around.
The world champions faced three
pitchers, but found only one espe-
cially to their liking. That was Jack
Wisner, who worked in the first five
innings. He was nicked for five hits
and three runs and was inclined to
be wild. but after his removal the
Harrismen were almost helpless. They
got a scratch single off Kent Green
field, who pitched in the sixth inning
and another hit off Hugh McQuilan,
who toiled through the last three
rounds.
Zach Solved in Fifth.
The Giants were not so strong in
the first four innings they had to
bat against Zeb Zachary. but they
pummeled his pitches in the fifth in
great style to stage an impressive
procession. After Kelly famed, five
hits, including two doubles and a
triple, bounded off Giant bats and
those, mixed with pass, netted five
runs. A couple of very opportune
wallops probably would have been
easy outs on a regular big league
field. thereby materially reducing the
score, but players cannot always
choose their playing fields.
The Nationals first run came in the
initial inning McNeeley got to first
base when his roller was fumbltd by
Groh. and while Harris was at bat
set sail for second Catcher Hartley
let the ball get away from him. so
Earl continued to the far-corner. He
tailed after Wilson caught Harris
long fly.
A pass to McNeely. Rice's double
and Goslin's single earned the Ma
tionals two runs in the third. There
after they watched the parade go by.
Ruether was pounded for I counters
in his initial frame, the sixth, and
yielded another tally in the eight
Evening star., 1925-03-31
ALTA VISTA YOUTHS
TO HAVE BALL TEAM

Boys of the Alta Vista Athietlc
Club have organized base ball nine
and expect to offer some tough oppo-
sition to Washington junior teams in
the next few months. Ford Young
has been elected manager and Is
hooking games at Bethesda lo5 De
tween and o'clock
~ Miller will handle the position
behind the bat for the Maryland ag-
gregation, with c. Broadhurst as ms
battery mate. Young. Morris, IL:
Broadhurst and W. Miller are slated
for the infield jobs. w. Broa dhurst.
L. Miller. Fletcher. Allan and Hanson
are the likely candidates for the out
field.
In case the fraternity ban on high
school players is not lifted several
Western players will be seen in action
with the Alta NiStaS.
Evening star., 1925-03-31

Sscwdy Field was to be dedicated
today in the presence of the man
from whom it takes it's name, Hank
t3oWdy. catcher of the Giants. Hank
served as a color sargeant and in
the 1l6th Infantry, a unit of the
Rainbow Division, during the late
unpleasantness with Germany.
Nationals and Giants had a 16-year-
old red-headed girl assisting them at
fielding practice yesterday. She was
katherine Hopkins daughter of a
Jacksonville railroad engineer. She
donned a catchers mitt and not only
took the throws from the fielders,
but made several fine heaves to sec
ond base.
Roger Peckinpaugh did not like the
field yesterday, so Mike McNally was
sent to shortstop for the Nationals.
The jah was to be in action today
if the grounds were considered 0. K.
Walker, Giant center fielder, fell
in a depression in his territory after
making a running catch of Zachary's
left in the fourth frame, but clung to
the sphere.
Wilson, by n great effort in the
third inning. prevented Bluege from
being credited with long hit. Ossie
slammed the ball down the foul line
but Hack raced across sand dunes
and through thickets, launched him
self at the ball and just managed to
spear it.
Young was quite peeved when
Reuther famed him in the sixth and
threw his bat over the first sack.