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The Washington times., 1925-11-10
BRITISH BOXER
SOUGHT FOR
WALKER
MiIIigan Willing to Meet
Welter Champion for
Christmas Benefit

NEW YORK, Nov. 10.-Young
Stribling having declined to box
Gene Tunney until after he has
passed his twenty-first birthday. 1t
was thought likely today that
Mickey Walker and Tommy
Milligan, of England, might be
lined up for a world welterweight
championship bout as a feature OF
the Christmas fund show, Decem-
Der %. Tex Richard, promoter OF
the show, was expected to get in
communication with Jack Kearns,
manager of Walker, today. Milligan
already has accepted terms.
Other possibilities for the feature
bouts, suggested today, involved
Tunney and Stribling in separate
appearances, possibly against Jack
Sharkey and Jimmy Maloney,
Boston heaVyweights.
The Washington times., 1925-11-10

has become a big show dandelion.
Peck's fielding is positively I'M
canny. Much that he does escapes
the eye because of its apparent
ease. He has no false motions.
He knows instinctively what to
do and where to go to do it. His
teamwork with the other infleld-
ers is perfection itself.
Not a slugger, Peck is feared
by every opposing pitcher when
he comes to bat in a pinch. There
is no bunk about this, either.
Many pitchers on other teams
have gone on record to this effect.
Yep, Buddy Myer may replace
Roger Peckinpaugh with the Griff-
men, but he is not now capable of
doing that. To junk Peck at this
stage of the game in favor of
Myer would be to play with fate.
With Peck in there, the Griffs
loom as possible third-time PEN
nant winners. With him out of
there, no matter who plays the
position, it is a decided gamble.
The Washington times., 1925-11-10
VINEZ GOES WAY OF ALL
FRENCH CHAMPS HERE

NEW YORK, Nov. 10.-Lucien
Vinez, lightweight champion of Eu-
rope, went the way Of other French
champions in this country, when he
lost the decision to Charlie Rosen,
of New York, after twelve rounds
last night. Although the decision
was an unpopular one with the
majority of ringside critics, the fact
that Vinez could not gain a decisive
advantage over comparative nov
ice lowered his prestige consider
able.
The Frenchman was outscored
through the first five rounds but
finished with rush, meeting Rosen
toe to toe and having the better Of
the slugging. At no time, was
either man in real danger, although
Hosen hurt the invader several
times in the early rounds with
heavy overhead rights.
Fast footwork and q neat 1ab
were Vinez's principal assets.
The Washington times., 1925-11-10
Free Haircuts on Tap
For Swarthmore,
If Il Lands

SWARTHMORE, Pa, Nov.
1O.-A free hair cut to every
members of the Swarthmore
football team if it defeats
Haverford, has been offered by
a Swarthmore barber.
The barber says that he has
sharpened his shears and laid
in a few extra pairs, as he
expects to be called upon to
deliver the hair cuts the week
following November 81. The
offer of free haircuts was made
when Swarthmore met Frank
lin and Marshall but Franklin
and Marshall won.
The Washington times., 1925-11-10
MARKED
FOR CUBS
FOLD
Short Price for Maranville
Thought to Have Trade
Back OF It

NEW YORK, November 10.-Ru-
mors Of the possible passing OF
Zach Wheat to the Chicago Cubs
were current today as an after
math of the deal whereby the Brook
lyn Dodgers got Rabbit Maranville
from Chicago at the waiver price.
This short price for a player of
Maranville's reputation was said to
have behind 1t the likelihood that
another deal was brewing between
the Dodgers and Cubs with wheat
involved.
Wheat has been dissatisfied with
his Brooklyn berth ever since he
was relieved Of the temporary man.
agement of the club some time be-
fore the close of the last National
League race
The Washington times., 1925-11-10
Here's a Hot One

WILL miracles ever cease =?
" Friends School and Boys
W Latin were playing their
annual football game in Baltimore
last Friday. Woodward, of Latin,
punted. But here, read what the
Baltimore American said about it:
1.-TWO or three Quaker players
stood near the catcher for pro-
lection. For an instant the ball
was lost from the sight of players
and spectators alike. Then Thomp-
son came out of the bunch with
something that appeared to be his
yellow headguard crumpled in his
left hand. The Durham players
were mystified.
"Was this a ruse to lead them
to believe that Thompson had the
spheroid while someone else was
speeding in another direction with
the pigskin?
Before they could answer the
riddle Thompson was behind their
goal and had touched the leather
he was carrying in his left hand
to the ground.
"Vic Schmid, the referee, lnves-
tigated. The crumpled mass of
leather that Thompson had been
waving so freely in his mad dash
to the goal was the same ball that
Woodward had kicked. The i'm
pact from Woodward's toe had
punctured the rubber chamber and
the air left it completely when
Thompson clutched the ball in his
arms.
"While the teams were lining
I'D on the try for point, the Dun
hams coach made objection to the
ruling on the grounds that no
play could be completed unless
the ball was inflated, but Schmid
ruled otherwise, claiming that the
sphere was inflated when the play
commenced and when he saw it
last, and consequently the ball had
to be declared dead before new
one could be substituted.
ain the performance of this un-
usual play there was nothing that
savored of unsportsmanlike con-
duct on Thompson's part, for by
the manner in which he thrust the
crumpled leather out while he ran,
he appeared to be trying to show
his opponents that the something
he had in his hand was the remains
of the ball. The spheriod was fur
The Washington times., 1925-11-10
AL00KING'En0 OVER
. WITH LOUIS A. BOUCHER
WHO WILL EQUAL PECKINPAUGH?

being sports writer's around the country
corning alleged plans of Clark Griffith and Buckg Harris to
otherwise themselves of
before another major league campaign This is all
moonshe Neither Clark Griffith Buy Harris plan
themselves
hortstop acquisition Buddy looking
Pecknpaugh
eventually end of his string But just because ne
eight world against the Pittsburgh Pirates
that that he is through Baseball fans everywhere
played brilliantly throughout the
months leading that brief series with the Pirates ana that
finished second to the Macmen and would never have
p;.ntnn
The Washington times., 1925-11-10

In the Mohawk DachLloAu S4~@A
today are nearly all the players
who distinguished themselves as
members of leading teams a year
ago. Principal among the new
conoara to Mohawk ranks are Shorty
0'r,onnelI and Denny Sothern. Of
the Geoknicks and Cronin and Fie
Colliere of Mercury.
The loss Of Sothern and O'Con-
nell must have had considerable
r. do with the demise OF the title
Contender from Georgetown. The I
loss of CrOnin and COlliere has
been felt by Mercury. COlnere
last season was q mainstay OF
the Waverly team, too.
Besides O'Connell ana Sothern,
the Geoknicks lost Cashen to the
Mohawks. He is a valuable player
but not as much as the otner Two.
The Mohawks now have ten
hacks. any one of whom may he
termed q star by sandlot standards.
Thev are Sothern, O'Connen, Red
Schofield, Cronin, PIGGY Dufour,
Drevfuss. Brennan, Casheu, Al
Schneider and File CoIliere.
Any four of them would consul
tute q crack backfield.
1t remains now to be seen Wnat
NAV he done to force the Mohawk
club to fight for this years title.
The Mercury club insists that It
will be ready for just such an
achievement, although it has been
held back for weeks by one cir
cunstance or another.
Mohawk and Mercury win not
clash until December 8 and be.
tween now and then Mercury will
have time to do many things. 1t
has been in the habit for five
years of pointing for the Mohawk
zane from the start Of the sea-
Son. and has been late before
without apparent Ill effect.
In speaking OF the Mohawks'
corner on the backfield market
only those players whose names
are known to every sandlot fan
are regarded. There must be many
who have reached stardom only
this season and in that direction
Mercury may look for needed re-
cruits.
some of the new stars must be
among the young Apaches, who
now rank first among the title
contenders by virtue of their vic
tory over Mercury. But Mercury
would be wasting time trying to
coax away any member Of the
Apache eleven. Those youngsters
are true blue in the matter of team,
loyalty. Incidentally, they will
play the Mohawks a week from
Tomorrow
The Washington times., 1925-11-10
ROBINS GRAB BOX STAR
FROM COTTON STATES

Leo Williams, a left-handed pitcher
bought by the Robins from the Jack
son club of the Cotton States
League, had the best winning aver
age among the organizations hurlers
last season, according to the official
records. Williams won eleven games
and lost only four. He pitched 100
innings, issued 38 passes, famed II
men and was charged with hitting
nine batteEs.
Nap Rucker, one of the Robins
scouts, discovered Williams for VIII
bert Robinson.
The Washington times., 1925-11-10
TIGER FRESHMEN WIN
GAME AND MOVIE RIGHTS

PRINCETON, n. j., Nov. TO-
While the Princeton varsity football
team was earning the chance to
play Yale for the Big Three cham
pionship Saturday afternoon, the
Tiger freshman team was procuring
permission for members Of the class
of 1929 to attend movies on week
nights.
Princeton freshmen visited the
local cinemas last evening for the
first time this year on any day ex-
cept Saturday, in accordance with
a recent decree that freshmen could
dispense with this restriction before
Christmas only when their football
team defeated Yale. Saturdays
game here on University Field re-
suited in 14-to-0 victory for Prince
ton 1929.
The Washington times., 1925-11-10
Football Floats
Away as Tape
Is Brought

WESTERVILLE, ONO, NOV
1O.-The most unusual freak OF
the rainy-day football games
occurred during the Baldwin
Wallace-Otterbein game here.
On a fourth down Kent Pfelt-
fer, referee, called for the head
linesman to measure the dis
lance gained.
While players and officials
were waiting for the line to
be brought out the football
calmly rolled away in water
on the field. Officials retrieved
the ball, guessed where it had
been and gave the the Often
sive team first down.
The Washington times., 1925-11-10
Great Moments
Football
on Many
Fields
By DAVIS J. WALSH
International News Service Sports
Editor

Those last-minute finishes, so
dear to the heart of the college
correspondent, are one of several
things that make the great, old
game of football a great old game.
They are the super-thrills of COM
petitive sport and, mercifully, for
the sake of those suffering from
hardening of the arteries, high
blood pressure and what not, they
happen not too often.
There, have been several or them
this year. notably the run by which
Kutsch, of Iowa, beat Illinois; snap
ley's dash through the Princeton
team that gained the Navy a tie:
etc. But these lacked something VI
the total unexpectedness and. there
fore, the sheer sensationalism or
Cuddy Murphy's 55-yard run that
staked Dartmouth to a 2O-to-S de-
cision over Pennsylvania some five
or six years ago.
IL was one Of those games In
which fortunes ebbcd and flowed
from the opening whistle. Hard
Iy more than a few minutes under
way, it saw HOlbrOOk. of Dart
mouth. break off tackle and rIlgs
so yards for q touchdown.
That looked like the bloww-of1
until Pennsylvania waited a pass
to BOTS" Drummer and the young
man eased his way some 40 yards
for score. Dartmouth replied with
L. NwAn
| able to a blocked punt and Jim Rob
ertson's 25-yard run, ending in a
near-talIv and a broken leg for the
man who did it. Plunges carried
the ball over and Dartmouth again
was in front.
The overhead game. however
brought Pennsylvania up to tie IN
the third period and the same medt
| UNI placed the red and blue ahead
for the first time soon after the
start Of the final quarter. Drummer
however. twice failed to convert at
tempted goals from touchdown into
extra points and that fact was an
abiding one.
Carried away by the success OF
their forward passing, Pennsylvania
needs must throw just one too many
1t had rushed the ball to a point neal
mid field, where Dartmouth's line
suddenly held. Whereupon. Bert
Bell called for another forward pass
and Drummer threw it.
II went to what is known as
the "fIat zOne," a dangerous area
because interrogation usually
means a touchdown for the de-
Tense. In this case, it meant
nothing less.
A moment before, Dartmouth,
beaten by one touchdown, was be-
ing carried back toward another.
Then-the denouement.
Out of nowhere came Murphy as
the agency OF fate. He merely
rushed into the area between the
passer and intended receiver, took
the ball on the dead run, and was
off for the winning touchdown,
finishing all alone.
Men have been immortalized for
a little more than Murphy had
done, They also have been shot
for little less.
Editors Note-This is the first of a
| naries Of gridiron thrills. related by
Davis J. Walsh. Others Will follow at
regular intervals.
The Washington times., 1925-11-10
Gallagher Works Hard

4 Marty Gallagher, South Atlantic
amateur light heavyweight cham.
pion, is doing from five to ten
miles on tho road each day in
preparation for his bout with Sailor
BEEN next Monday night at the
Aloysius Club.
The Washington times., 1925-11-10
MOHAWK CLUB FLASHES
TENBACKFIELDSTARS
By r. D. THOMAS.

them that has gifts, you know A..
Rob Roy Mackey the question: now COno o
Mohawks have those backfied stars .a.r.
;o iev Of sandlot backfield finds the Mohawk team
that good for
sandlo football although might make the Mohawk club appear
enterprising. .rr;f4 = race thus find
independents tootD
interest,"
The Washington times., 1925-11-10
Shoot Next August

The international rifle matches
viii be held at San Gall, Switzer
land, August Ii.
The Washington times., 1925-11-10
Tell IT to Russia

All the outstanding thoroughbreds
in England and in France this sea-
son are owned by royalty and no
hilifU
The Washington times., 1925-11-10
Wasn't High Pay

John L. Sullivan received $4,000
for his 75-round bare knuc5le fight
with Kilrain.
The Washington times., 1925-11-10
Fisher FOuieS
NOtDOOrDie
Kind of
Team
By w. M. CORUM

They tossed poor old John Har-
ward to the Tigers Saturday and
then laughed in high glee to see
him torn limb from limb. That
is. everybody laughed but Har-
ward men, who sat through the
spectacle in sullen, silent bewilder-
ment. They were only little
less bewildered than their football
team, which, to put it in the
vernacular, didn't know what it
was all about.
The surprise of this first social
ed Big Three game was not the
speed, daring and deadly efficiency
Of the Princeton eleven. Those
who have followed the coaching
career of Bill Roper have come to
expect those things from his teams,
and you can underscore this in your
Observation-Disclosures anybody gets
from a Princeton football team they
fight for.
But what did knock the wind out
Of the talent was the complete and
utter collapse OF the Crimson under
fire.
The Washington times., 1925-11-10

Roger Peckinpaugh is a great
heroic model for Buddy Myer.
The kid from the New Orleans
Pelicans doesn't hesitate a moment
in admitting this, either.
"I am learning something every
day. just watching Peck playing
out there" Myer said to this
writer last September. Il have
to laugh when l think that l nave
been compared to him. He does
things out there that only base
ball players can understand. You
baseball writer's miss some OF his
stunts, though you get most OF
them, but / feel certain that the
fans don't half appreciate Peck's
greatness as a team player. l
hope some day to be able to ap-
proach him as a shortstop. hes
a wonder to me and I'm not kid
ding about it.
Buddy Myer was considered the
greatest shortstop in the Southern
Association during the past sea-
son. Joe Engel, who picked him
up, claims Myer now able to re-
place Peckinpaugh. Yet Myer,
himself, sitting on the bench and
looking at Peck in action, thinks
otherwise.
Roger Peckinpaugh is today the
hest shortstop in the American
League. His unfortunate perform
ances in the world series, to the
contrary Notwithstanding, cannot
take away the brilliancy OF ms
playing during the campaign. lie
injured an ankle in September,
lost considerable practice, and
went into the big series crippled.
He made no complaint, however,
merely doing his best, which was
not enough. -,
And yet-don't forget this
Roger Peckinpaugh, with errors
behind him and severe bawllnlg
ont from Judge Lands ringing IN
his ears, poled a home run IN that
seventh game that apparently gave
his team a victory for the world
championship. His head was up.
He was not quitting. he was
doing his utmost to make amends
for his poor fielding.
With Peck out Of the lineup,
the 1925 Griffmen lacked that ma
chine-like play of their infleld'
and, without that smoothness, they
never would have defeated the
Mackmen for the American League
nennant. Indeed, it was Peck's
great work Labor Day against the
Mackmen that took their courage.
Don't forget that.
The Washington times., 1925-11-10

nished by Dunham's and blown up
by the Durham manager, so 1t
was just an unfortunate occur.
renee that operated to. Friends
gain and Dunham'S loss"
The Washington times., 1925-11-10
An Army of Nuts"

Since 1880 there have been lis
left handed pitchers who made good
in the major leagues.
The Washington times., 1925-11-10

f1dTV@EU mas SDUC OUT Udu ICdAAo
before that had to battle against
overwhelming odds. One recalls
Erwin Gehrke charging head
I'm the Yale bowl a year ago, but
there was no dO-Or-die to this lat
est edition of Fishers FOllies.
Captain Cheek ragged and fumed
behind his line of scrimmage, slap
ping and cutting his men as they
knelt in their positions. 1t was his
team, and if it had to go down he
wanted that it should go down
fighting. 1t did go down.
Only once, when the second half
began. did the dull Red forward
line show fight. Then, for a brief
span, the Crimson jerseys stormed
through and over the runner like
an avenging flood. But it was
only flash in the pan.
Five minutes later an illinois
whirlwind, in the person OF Joseph
Predergast, was scattering the conf-
placent Harvard forwards like SO
much chaff, as he reeled or 1orty'
five yards at ten, twelve and III
teen a clip.
There is no an.mosity toward
Harvard in any of this. The re-
norter's lob is to report what he
saas Those who watched Harvard
NAV Saturday saw not only poor
team. but a. poor team which seem
cd TO lack the spirit to do better.
Tbis ia kindness itself compared 10
what Harvard men, who suffered
and bled through the rout' mad 10
say about their eleven.
Tn a current issue Of the In
denendent Magazine, George OW-
en- ir.. the last of the great Har-
ward stars, writes that he did not
enioy playing college football.
Owen won nine major sports let
ters at Cambridge and the. day
he walked out of the yard Tor
the last time was the day that
the CrimsOn's athletic prestige be-
gan to wane. If he didn't like
to play football some of the boys
they have up there now must
positively hate it.
'It would seem that the gladiator
slave of the Coliseum days of Ole
Rome was finding it's counterpart
in the modern football player,
Owen wrote.
That was just the way his sue
cessors under the Crimson flag ap
peared to feel about it down al
princeton. They were down there
in the arena with a Tiger, while
up above 10000 persons sat with
| thumbs down, or fingers crossed
/ None OF the young men in rec
sweaters appeared to be having 6
very good time.
There was AL Miller, for instance
AL had a miserab afternoon. He
is a sprinter and he likes to run
but not over anybody. Besides, Inc
| seemed to be having no end OIL
trouble with the signals. Every
/ time a number was called one OF
| his fellow players had to stop anC
draw a map for Al. He WASH
setting out on any uncharteC
journey.
The Washington times., 1925-11-10
Myer a Conner

UDDY MYER is a conner,
that's true, but Buddy is not
~ now capable of filling Peck's
shoes. He has much to learn:
To this writer's mind, Ossie
Bluege would make a wonderful
shortstop, having a strong throw
ing arm for those filings from
deep short, having speed on the
hoof and seldom, if ever, throwing
in the wrong direction. But
Bluege has been modelled into a
third sacker and Bucky Harris
would be foolish to shift him to
the shortfield and then have to
find another third baseman.
Therefore, if Peck were sold or
traded, Buddy Myer would have
to be inserted into that infield
quartet and allowed to do or die.
He might do. But, also, he might
die. Many a bush league rose
The Washington times., 1925-11-10

Harvard has sent out bad teams
before that had to battle against
overwhelming odds. One recalls
Erwin Gehrke charging head
down through the mud and rain
in the Yale bowl a year ago, but
there was no dO-Or-die to this lat
est edition of Fishers FOllies.
The Washington times., 1925-11-10

Editors Note-This Is the 1irst or
nArias ~ pridiron thrills, related by
Davis J. Walsh. Others will follow at
regular intervals.
The Washington times., 1925-11-10

IL was one Of those games In
which fortunes ebbcd and flowed
from the opening whistle. Hard
Iy more than few minutes under
way. it saw HOlbrOOk. of Dart.
mouth, break off tackle and ruHs
so yards for q touchdown.
The Washington times., 1925-11-10

II went to what is known as
the "fIat zone," dangerous area
because interrogation usually
means a touchdown for the de-
Tense. In this case, it meant
nothing less.
The Washington times., 1925-11-10

First avenue could not GO with
Fifth avenue to the golf links.
The rich man lad his Sunday
afternoon golf and motoring. i
believed the poor man should have
his Sunday afternoon baseball.
when / wrote the boxing law
lid Il with the knowledge that box
nR rightly directed and supervised
The Washington times., 1925-11-10

Zone of the most serious prob
lens that confront intelhgent
fathers and mothers is how TO
direct the thoughts and energies
Of their children in their Idle
moments. The same problem con-
fronts an employer. Sport, right
Is directed and encouraged, helps
him to solve it.
Evening star., 1925-12-03
DR.. JOHN E. COOK DIES.
Secretary of Baptist Council of
Richmond Was 65 Years Old.

RICHMOND. Va. December ; Cp).
Rev. DR.. John Ernest Cook. Sc.
secretary Of the Baptist Council of
lichmcnd. died here Yesterday after
in illness OF five months For the
past several weeks his condition had
been critical.
Born at New Liberty. Ky DR..
cook was educated in Missouri and
later admitted to the bar in that
State. In 1887 he was ordained TO the
ministry and served charges at st.
Louis and st. Joseph until 1903 For
the next II years he was treasurer
Of the William Jewell College and
then became president of Sioux Falls
College. He resigned that office to
lGcome Red Cross director al Camp
Pike. Camp Funston and Fort Riley.
In 1919 DR.. Cook accepted the pastor
ate of Il church at Watertown, S.
Oak. which place he held until he
came 10 Richmond in 1922 as secre-
1ary of the Baptist Council. Funeral
services will be held at the Second
Baptist Church here Friday afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock.
Evening star., 1925-12-03
CONTRACTS SIGNED
FOR 7 SEWER Jobs
Commissioners Also Accept
$61 900 Bid for 18th Pre-
CinCt Police Station.

Contracts for the construction Of
new sewers aggregatinG S36,394 were
. warded by the commissioners yes
terday as follows:
Fifth street service sewer. in Con
""rd avenue between Fourth street
ana Madison street. and on Fifth
street between Concord avenue and
l"ngfellow street. awarded to Joseph
\. Forbes S1l.13I
Metropolis View sewer. Franklin
sSireet northeast between Fourth and
Fifth and Fifth street between Frank
lin and Girard streets, to Warren +.
,l;rSnizer CO.. SI.329
EaStSide Park. Twentieth street
northeast between Bennett place and
~ street and II street between Twen-
tieth and Twenty y-second, Warren F.
Brenizer, $4,243
Of Eighteenth street between Girard
,"nd Franklin, Warren F. Brenizer,
&4.771.
Petworth service sewer in the vicin-
ity Of Fifth and Kansas avenue, War
Ten +. Brenizer, S10,S76.
Replacement sewer on Howard
place between Georgia avenue and
Sixth street Warren +. Brenizer,
s$2.164
Woodbridge service sewer. in YoSt
place northeast between Bladensburg
road and the railroad. Warren +.
Erenizer. Sl.276
The commissioners also awarded
the contract 10 y. II. Roger to erect
7he thirteenth police precinct station
on Nicholson street orthweSt. be
tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth
streets. The building will cost Sil 900