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Evening star., 1925-02-06
RUPERT CONFIDENT
OF FLAG THIS YEAR

NEW YORK, February 6.-CoL
Jacob Rupert, owner of the New
York Yankees, cant see" any other
pennant possibilities In the American
League outside of his former world
champion outfit. When asked what
he thought of the 1925 race, Rupert
said:
Most certainly the Yankees will re
gain the American League champion
ship, and very likely the world title
as well I say this in all sincerity
and not merely because l am club
owner Any unbiased critic will agree
that the Yankees were beaten in 1929
by team which was inferior in every
quality but gameness, hustle and am
bition. The New York club fell down
because it suffered from the ailment
which in time attacks all champions
overconfidence.
"The Yankees were a better ball
club than the Senator'S. But the Yam
KEGS took their time about starting
in dead earnest, while Washington got
the Jump and worked like beavers
from the opening day, The Yankees
figured they could overtake them any
old time, but soon the Senators gath
cred great momentum and got the
advantage of a psychology which can
not be aten. Last Fall I was pretty
sore about losing the pennant, but
right now | realize that it was good
thing for the game and that the Yam
KEGS are in a fine position to begin
new string of victories.
The players know that they lost
by their lackadaisical attitude and
will pursue different tactics this time
believe they held a meeting late last
season and made some fine resolE-
tiOnS'
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DOLAN WILL CONTINUE
FIGHT TO CLEAR NAME

NEW YORK, February 6.-Cozy
Dolan, blacklisted former coach of the
New York Giants, announced yesterday
following a visit to the offices of the
local National League club that he in
tended to renew his fight to clear his
name from connection with the
bribery attempt of Jimmy O'Connell.
Dolan, in a brief talk with Giant
officials, insisted he is innocent of
any connection with the deal, as
charged by O'Connell, and declared
that he intended to pursue his case
with Commissioner Lands in an at
tempt to gain reinstatement. Ask ed
about the suit he started against
Lands some time ago and then drop
ped, Dolan said he would not resort
to legal action, but hoped to convince
Lands of his innocence.
Although the recent report of the
district attorneys investigation into
the scandal pointed out that the i'm
preston of Dolan's eyasiveness in the
case had not been removed, Dolan in
sists that this inquiry added further
strength to the clear record he claims
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clubs can. When you find the spot
or get your rival in a bad position,
you must make the most of your op-
portunity. You may have only one
chance in game. Then is the time
to put over the winning drive
found some clubs in the league were
at a disadvantage against certain
Washington pitchers, so 1 made the
most of the situation. 1 wasn't al
ways right. but on the whole my
idea worked out well. I tried to
pick the proper spots for my pitchers.
Victory often depends upon making
the right sort of a match.
A team of 800 hitters couldn't land
pennant unless they had the pitch
ers to hold the opposition in check.
Washington had the twirlers in the
successful drive for the champion
ship. We were full of fight. We
tried to make the most of every ad-
vantage. We kept in fine physical
condition. We met with few acct
dents. We were brimful of conf
dence. We acquired the winning
habit. But more than all these, we
had true team spirit We lived, ate
and slept base ball If we made mis-
takes. we tried not to repeat them.
We didn't play orthodox base ball.
We veried our style of attack often.
club for the opposition to figure.
There is a big advantage in keeping
the other fellow guessing.
These qualifications of a champion
ship club didn't show all at once. We
were below the 500 mark when we
started on our first Western trip. My
friend, Morse, met me. You're doing
bully" he said. 1T doesn't look as
if you'll finish in the cellar"
We've just started" 1 declared
We're going up, not down." I knew
then we had a good club. I couldn't
see, player for player, where any
outfit had anything on us. The pen
nant bee was beginning to buzz in
my bonnet 1t made pleasant sound
Copyright, 1921
Tomorrow Hard Drive-And the
Pcnnant!
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One reason why the pitching dis
was that the pitcher did pitch. He
did not take the ball in his hand,
throw his arm around his head two or
three times like a man swinging In
dian clubs or turning fapjacks, and
then slam it at home plate at a mile
a minute. AS likely as not he did not
swing his arm once and when he let
the ball go he sent 1T strictly under
hand to the batter with a motion like
that the bowler who delivers a ball
dow alley hoping he may make
"f Ke"
TIE ball had become standardized.
The hard and bitter fight that had
been started by Albert C. Spalding
to make all base balls uniform had
been won and the dimensions of the
ball were the same as they are to-
day-weight not less than five nor
more than five and one-quarter ounces
avoirdupois and measure not less than
nine nor more than nine and one
quarter inches in circumference. So
well are base balls made in these
days that more of them weigh almost
exactly alike than vary between the five
ounces and five and one-quarter
ounces, which are permissible under
the rules.
Spalding had waged a war against
indiscriminate base ball in which
each home team could choose it's own
ball and the game would be played
with a dead ball, or with a lively ball,
as the opponents happened to be good
or poor batters.
1t reyolutioniZed base ball to
achieve this and it probably was the
greatest achievement of the early
days of the sport and perhaps the
most important thing that ever was
done in the history Of the game, as it
made base ball contest in which the
measure of physical ability on the
part of human beings was matched
against the uniform accouterments
with which the game was played.
The old rule said the ball must be
Evening star., 1925-02-06
VEECK DRAFTS BILL
TO CURB GAMBLING
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
A bin designed to cufb the gam
bling in base ball parks and provide
a prison sentence for any one con-
victed of betting on a professional
game has been drafted by william
Veeck. president of the Chicago
Nationals. for submission to the
Illinois legislature. now in session.
Veeck patterned his bill after the
New York statute.
Col. Jacob Rupert, owner of the
New York Yankees, will be among
the missing when the league presi-
dent, Byron Bancroft Johnson, calls
the meeting of the America,. circuit
to order in st. Louis ne-t Tuesday.
Rupert was member of base balls
peace committee at the warm meeting
in Chicago this Winter when John
son disappeared from base balls ad-
visory board. The Yanke ee magnate's IS
health will not permit him to make
the journey.
Six of the New Yorn 'siants' squad
for 1926 signed their 20 Atracts within
five days after they had been mailed,
but Capt. Frank Frisch still hesi-
tates. In a talk with officials Frfsch
is understood to have pledged his
services providing he receives about
$4,000 more than last season.
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ORourke looks to be the probable
victor
In Philadelphia Connie Mack is ST.
lently building up a formidable out
fit. The veteran pilot made a loud
ballyhoo about paying S100,600 for
Lefty" Groves. Baltimore southpaw,
but aside from this he has been
working rather than talking. Groves
will bolster up a weakened pitching &
staff, while youthful catcher in the
form of Gordon s Cochrane, Boston,
University star. who was obtained
from the Portland club of the Pacific
Coast League, -yiIl be a big aid. al
though ICY" Perkins will serve as
the mainstay in the receiving de-
partment.
Others VIII Experiment..
George Sisler at ST. Louis, Eddie
Collins at Chicago, Lee Fohl at
Boston and Iris Speaker at Cleve-
land have gone in for youngsters and
will experiment with several combi-
nations. The deal which sent Bush
Giard and CASTOR to the Browns aided
the ST Louis club fully as much as
it did the Yankees. OF the quartet
the Browns look the best of the four
teams which do not figure to be in
the running.
Eddie Collins will take the helm
of the White Sox to build up team
which was shattered by the scandal
of 1919 and which never has fully
recovered from that disastrous. shock.
Speaker at Cleveland will try out
several college youths. Joe. Sewell at
short, Jameson in left and Myatt be-
hind the bat are the only ones sure
of their jobs with the Indians this
coming season. Fohl has the Red
SoX considerably strengthened by
Winter trades, but for the most part
the Red Sox will build for the future
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81 PLAYERS LISTED
FOR DODGERS CAMP

NEW YORK, February 6.-Thirty-
two players. including 16 pitchers
and pitching prospects,. will be taken
lyn National League club, all men
to report at the training camp Feb
ruary %. Only five outfielders are
named in the roster just issued, and
the list included J. E. Cox, from Santa
Monica, Calf, who will attempt to
pry the veteran Tommy Griffith of
Cincinnati from the right-field posi-
tion. Eddie Brown, once with the
Giants, will have Dick Lotus, pur-
chased from the Eastern League a
year ago, to aid him in center. Zack
Wheat will roam in left, as usual, and
care for the teams interests until
Manager Wilbert Robinson is fully
recovered from his illness.
While in Florida the Dodgers will
play several exhibition contests, start
ing March IL, against the Browns of
the American League at Tarpon
Springs. The Phillies, Senators and
Yankees also will face Brooklyn in
the Florida games.
March 2S will see the northward
journey under way, with the Yankees
as opponents on the way up to Eb-
belts n April II. Emslie, veteran of
umpires will handle all exhibition
games.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, February e.
Norwich University polo team defeated
the 10th Infantry team of Fort Thomas,
KY, last night, 20 to 1871
Evening star., 1925-02-06
ated Strongest in League Ruth Facing A1duous Spring Toll
KNOCKOUT BLOW FATAL
TO SYRACUSE u. BOXER

SYRACUSE, ". Y, February g.
Stanton r. Stever, Syracuse Uni
versity sophomore, is dead OF a
knockout blow received in n bout
with Carl Hansen I'm the university
gymnasium.
contest I'm the weItervSeight class
to decide which would represent
Syracuse University I'm glove
meet with the Naval Academy.
A physician said that an abscess
at the base Of the brain contribute
ed to Stevers death.
Hansen was arrested last night,
but permitted TO return to his
dormitory.
Evening star., 1925-02-06

ing 1t DeIOle returning II 10 the Watt
IAN fish should be handled with
moist hands to guard against remov-
ing the body slime. Slime is natu-
raj protection against fungus and a
scraped portion may result in an infec-
ton, causing the death OF the fish,"
says a noted authority, Sheridan r.
Jones.
Many fishermen are given to gut
ting their fish on stringer and
fastening it to either the stern or
side of the boat This practice cam
not be too harshly condemned. be-
cause it is causing needless torture to
the fish. All of US have seen fisher
men hauling their string of fish about
lake and often the poor things are
suffocateG by punches of weeds.
Undoubtedly the humane thing to
do is to kill the fish if you intend to
keep it, You have had your sport,
the fish has given you a good fight
and it is no more than right to in
stantly kill it, A trout fisherman
always kills his fish before creeling
it and other fishermen should do the
same.
1t is a scientific fact that fish
killed at once after being netted has
frmer and sweeter meat than one
permitted to die by inches. A good
plan to follow is to place the fish in
a cool spot, covering it with swamp
moss if it is possible to secure 1T,
otherwise cool leaves will answer.
The stringer habit is a bad prac-
tice. once while on a Northern lake
the writer saw a splendid string of
bass attached to the landing wharf
The next morning every fish was half
eaten by turtles. Any one with an
atom of pity, after once seeing such
a sight. would never be guilty of put
ting his fish on stringer again. The
common belief that fish have no sense
of feeling is scientifically untrue.
Evening star., 1925-02-06

around his knees. He laughed-but
suddenly he discovered that he could
not hit EN- around the knees as he
once had. He could not find the ball
because there was an obstruction in
the line of his vision. The obstruc-
tion was firmly attached to his
middle, and he could not remove 1t.
Dan did not retire Immediately, but
more and more the fight against the
increase OF avoirdupois was a losing
one, and finally he had to give It up.
Babe ut the Turning Point.
Ruth is now 80, just about to turn
the other way of the road as athletes
turn. When a ball player gets to 80
he may continue on until he Is 40
with considerable success. Anson did
that But the player knows that the
fight is being carried to him when he
reaches the 80 mark-that the arch
enemy of all men who must depend
upon their ability to keep down to a
certain weight has opened hostilities
Ruth Will have long, hard Siege
to get off the surplus weight of the
winter at Hot Springs, and he knows
1t. That's why he started early Last
year 1t hit him pretty hard to get
INTO condition, and this year he is
taxing more time, hoping TO achieve
1t without weakening himself or
falling i'll.
(COnyripht 1907
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composed of india rubber and yarn
and be covered with leather The
quantity of rubber in the ball was
limited to one ounce and the rubber
to be used was vulcanized and in
mold form. Some time ago that
was abandoned. because in expert
menting to find better center than
rubber, which was getting scarce and
which did not always give the results
that were expected of 1t because of
it's liability to chemical change, Ben
jamin P. Shibe OF Philadelphia found
that a base ball could be made with
a cork center and that the cork CEN
ter responded to every demand that
ever had been made upon rubber and
produced. on the whole. better results.
The first trial of the cork center
ball was astounding. The players
could hit the ball better and could
handle it better than they could
handle ball with a rubber center
and the base ball men and the base
ball manufacturers were wonderfully
they saw as good ball game for
on their part az to whether the rub
ber supply might exhaust itself.
Rubber still is used in the ball, but
not in the proportion that it once was,
and the ball without so much rubber
really gives far more satisfaction to
players, who find that 1t catches cas-
lily, handles smoothly, keeps its shape,
and bats beautifully, and all those
things help to make base ball more
enjoyable as well as more accurate.
Spalding's fight for uniformity led to
all that.
Copyright. 1925.)
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finally gets a strangle hold on his fl
THE Babe was up at his farm in
Sudbury, Mass, this Winter working
on the wood pile and doing other
chores calculated to keep a mans
weight down, but despite that fact, he
here, as he started for the Ozarks
he looked healthy enough but he had
the appearance Of a man who is be-
ginning to find that there is more
than mere luck in being a 200-pounder.
His is the kind of fat that he can
work off from time to time until IL
throws him completely. but it also
is the kind of fat that brings about
some physical weakness in the process
of reduction.
I'D say that one of these days,
when old Mr.. Fat gets his strange
hold on Ruth, the home-run king will
acquire a girth that will make Uncle
Robby Of Brooklyn-before his i'll
ness-seem a mere wrath"
1t is an odd thing that many of
the champion batters of the major
leagues have been forced to retire
because they were the victims of fat.
Too much flesh naturally makes a
man slower, but II also hits the bat
ter in a place which Is seldom thought
of by the man who does not follow
the training side of base ball very
closely. 1t makes him so great
around the belt that he cannot see the
low balls
Dan Brouthers was one of the best
hatters that the game ever saw, and
at his best could pick anything out
of the air that was pitched to him.
High or low, 1t was all the same to
him. He'd slam the high ones ont to
the fence and lift the low ones over
the wall
One day he overheard a catcher
tell the pitcher to keep the ball
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IRE DUE TO FIGHT 1T OUT
WITH TIGERS AND MACKS
owns Loom as Class of Probable Second Division
Teams, the Chicago White Sox, Cleveland
Indians and Boston Red Sox.
Ie Associated Press.

Press.
Il EW YORK. February 6-Washngton New will fight
for American League honors 1925 with Detroit
doggng the heels of this and Philadelphia
ey team looming the dark horse of the This
the the look
their Southern training
Louis Boston, Chicago uncertain quantities
Barring of them figures be than threat
g
Despite the beneficial
during the Winter the Yankees be the choice
be league at this early
But Stanley Harris youthful pilot champions has
idle He has called his aid that which he lacked
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nee, however, I came near weak
hg on my plan in close game of
critical series in Detroit. Both
bs were hitting the ball hard
re was a parade of pitchers. The
on the bench begged me to send
johnson. He wanted to go him
But l stuck to my guns. AS 1t
ned out, we won the game in
stion.
ohnson came back the next day
beat the Tigers When a team
hitting the ball savagely nearly
pitchers look alike to them.
bnson might have had hard time
lning had he gone in as a relief
cher. The chances are he couldn't
EeA come back the next day with
winning effort, anyhow.
When L made up my mind, before
opening of the season, to use
hnson only in turn, I also deter
ned that l would take out any
cher when a, club began to hit
IN hard. Sometimes, if a pitcher
h't yanked when he falters, the
me is lost beyond recovery. The
| Ily way to protect a game is 10
7ange twirlers when one is going
Id.
La manager must have capable re-
rive strength to use this system.
|ashington was especially strong IN
lis respect. It is doubtful if there
I er has been a better relief pitcher
Ian Fred Marberry. / look to him
succeed Johnson some day as the
sinstay of the Washington pitching
|rps. He has a wonderful fast ball
Ed the heart of a lion. He relieved
bhnson in nine games and saved
ven of them. He relieved other
tcAers in 36 games. He finished
games started by others.
Marberry's feat in the ninth inning
the second game of the world
,ries with the Giants will not soon
forgotten by the thousands who
wv it. We had lost a heartbreak-
.g 12-inning battle in the opener.
ne score of the second game was
ed. sZachary was weakening. The
ucome hung in the balance. Two
ere out, there was a runner on sec
nd and Travis Jackson, always dan
erous in a pinch, was UP. Marberry
|tched three balls. Every one was
strike. He set us such an example
at we, put over the winning run
our half of the ninth.
Few old, let alone young, pitchers
build be as dependable as Marberry.
believe 1t a good plan, as a rule,
work recruit twirlers largely in
ktting practies~until they have
tov..<l -..CIr worth. They should be
|structed to get the ball over the
ate and let the batters hit it. They
arn control by this method. They
$50 help the batters- in timing their
Eings. 1t is the best sort of pitch
|g and batting practice.
h seldom order a pitcher what kind
a ball to give a batsman. I figure
e catcher knows better than l do
bw the twirler is going and what
/ can do-though, of course. there
he times when 1 will signal instruc-
bns. The same holds true for bat
rs. Sometimes I tell them what
Il when to hit. The stage of the
kme and the immediate situation
byern the method to be used. In
kneral, players should think for
|emselves. Otherwise they become
Ire machines. They may make an
hcient club, but frequently the vital
lark of enthusiasm is missing.
pn't sacrifice initiative.
Esck Out the Weak Spots.
n Ie5 bed early in my first year as
mai &ger the value of picking an
bponent's weakest spot and making
drive against it. Foot ball teams
blow suoh q system. Base ball
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e acquisition of the trio of twirl-
veterans, Dutch" Ruether, OBJ
I'd from the Brooklyn Nationals;
ley Coveleskie, from the Cleve-
Indians, and Vean Gregg, pur-
cd from the Seattle Pacific Coast
should bolster up the debated
which has dwindled to a trusty
tet headed by Walter Johnson
including George Mogridge,
po" Marberry and Tom Zachary.
ttside of his twirling staff. Harris
stand pat on his team this year,
h the possible exception of center
a, where Earl McNealy, who made
1850, GEO" hit in the final game of
1924 world series. may find keen
npetition with Carlyle, leading
lthern Association hitter last sea-
Huggins Also Standing Pat.
like Harris, Higgins will stand
:, except for the veteran Urban
ocker, who came to the Yankees
exchange for three pitchers-Joe
sh, Giard and CASTOR. A shift may
made in center field if Earl Combs
is his ankle fit. Combs broke his
kle sliding into home plate early
[ season, but reports from his
ne are that he is ready to step into
: shoes occupied by Whitley Witt
Cs5ear.
" Coob's fighting team of Ben
s will take the field this season
lilar in every respect to the 1924
tion, with the exception of second
'e, where a new face is sure to be
n. Derrin Pratt, veteran infielder.
been given his unconditional re-
Sc. The keystone sack will be a
'blem for the Tigers. O'Rourke.
mer Boston and Toronto player;
lringer, product of the Michigan
tario League, and Burke will be
leading candidates for it, but
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1t happened that l was in the sec
ond row, just back of the press stand
and naturally could not miss this
tremendous thing. All my life I have
been a writer and an associate of
writer's. | know newspaper men are
trained to keep their enthusiasm
under a. basket; their wits always
with them; their eyes wide open and
their minds always calm so that
every observation can be accurately
recorded
But this night L saw cold, collected
newspnpermcn rise as much .~in the
air. as the widest of pnrtisans and
create scene which surpasses any
thing of my sporting knowledge. Ii
Evening star., 1925-02-06
MINE BOY TO MANAGER
Depicting His Meteoric Rise Base Ball Leadership of
the World Champions.
by STANLEY (Bucky) HARRIS
Chapter 33-The Pennant Bee Buzzes.

WASHINGTON started off the right foot by beating Phdel
phia Walter Johnson the winning pitcher
him North from Tampa ready for the opening game
pit him to take chance of catching cold nurng his
transforming hadn't happened
the long with the Reds
veness for the
realized that
plans Johnson before determined
only He would have relief work do The
which pitcher year
Evening star., 1925-02-06
Fifty Years of Base Ball
One OF Series Of Articles by John Feh
Anniversary of the National League This Year

the the
was 4o " and than CO. That that the
pitchers OF the than those the
dads ere little difference between them Possibly
fellows the old times who
there
mark and who could
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GENARO TO FIGHT TWICE
WITHOUT RISKING TITLE

NEW YORK, February 6.-Frankie
Genaro, American iyweight champion,
has signed for two matches this month
but his title will not be at stake in
either encounter. Genaro will meet Kid
Wolfe at Philadelphia February Is IN
a 1O-round match. while on February 20
he will fight Eddie O'Dowd of Columbus,
Ohio, at Youngstown, Ohio, In
I o
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MUST TRAIN STRENUOUSLY
TO SHED SURPLUS WEIGHT
Babes Task Each Year Grows More Difficult With
Advancing Age He Packs on Ever-Increasing
Amount of Fat in Winter.
BY JOHN B. FOSTER.

EW YORK, February 6Babe Ruth from faces
VI ceasng fight keep in condition. physical
had look the infant before
left for the Ozark
THE Babe, this naturally taking
reached
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THE CALL OF THE OUTDOORS
BY WILL H. DIG.
President Izaak Walton League Of America

finds and black
| sides and mostly this ignorant
OF Notably and bass
with dry hands than other fish During
OF the touching while unhook
nj before eturning to waite
Evening star., 1925-02-06
BOXER HURT IN BOUT.

NEW YORK, February 6.-Pepper
Martin, Brooklyn junior lightweight,
who was knocked out in the eleventh
round of a bout last night by Mike Bal
lerino, is in a hospital suffering from the
effects of a body blow. Doctors say he is
not seriously injured.