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The Washington times., 1925-01-19
NJ A G THINKS
AS GAN MAKE
TROUBLE
Still Can't Understand Why
Team Didn't Do Better
Last Year

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. Econ
ME Mack. the elongated leader Of
the AS insists he is, no prophet,
yet at the same time he admits
that his team is much strengthened
and will give every club in the
league a run for it's money.
II never could understand my
team last year" said Mack. AT
times 1 still do not see why they
did not do better than they did.
1t was the most disappointing sea-
son in my baseball career.
1T seems to me, though, that
the effect was caused by Paul
Strand. Strand held world batting
records on the coast. looked like
a wonder, and in exhibition games
hit like one. Everybody who saw
him before the season opened
thought he was sure thing.
But he just couldn't deliver.
And after trying him repeatedly,
believing he would start batting
and carry the rest Of the club with
him. decided he was not going to
come through. AS soon as 1 got
Lamar the team started moving.
We finished the season going like
q WuTl"LuOs BdAAAAuS 50NOAdL 6dAuCS
after July 1 on everybody but the
Yankees and Washington"
Mack said he expected great
things from Lefty Groves, his
pitcher acquired from Baltimore,
and remarked he would strengthen
the AS.
After touching on the other
clubs in the league, Connie said:
1T can be seen the American
League is very strong. So some
times, wonder. after adj, just
where my team will land. Wash
ington, New York, Detroit, Cleve-
land, and Chicago will all be
mighty hard to beat. But We'll
give them all a hard rum"
In mentioning Washington, Con-
ME said he did not believe any
other man in the country could
have got out of the Senators what
Harris did, and said Bucky is a
man who never tires, no matter
how hot the pace. He also pro-
nounced Ty Cobb "the greatest
player who ever wore a baseball
uniform"
The Washington times., 1925-01-19
Dundee Promises To
Return For Paris
Fight

PARIS, Jan. 10 johnny
Dundee, resigned bantamweight
world champion, answered the
critics accusing him of breach Of
contract in q wireless message
to international News Service
today from aboard the liner
Paris:
Serious illness in my family" "
Dundee radioed. They cabled
me to come home at once. My
wife sick and upset about con-
ditions at home and insisted we
20 together. Will return and
fight BretonneI or any other
man. (Signedl
JOHNNY DUNDEE"
The Washington times., 1925-01-19
ALOYSIUS AGAIN BOWS TO
BALTIMORE VET CUNT

Though the team showed a vast
Iy improved passing game, Aloysius
was unable to Withstand the as
saults of the sharp shooting for
wards of the Allied five, of Bal
timore, and the 1 street gym and
the Baltimoreans went home with
a 35 to 20 victory.
Aloysius started the season with
a new aggregation and new play
ers have been added from time to
time. Tommy Ford is the latest
to join the team. D'Agostina,
Ryan, Livezey, O'Dean, and Duffey.
started the game for the ! Street.
ers.
The Washington times., 1925-01-19

81 don't want to take anything
away from Nurmi's wonderful per-
formances since coming to this
country" Ritola said, in effect, ''but
must point out that I have been
given none the best of it in meet
ing him in comparatively short
races. / knew / didn't have chance
when I went to the mark with him
at 5000 meters at the municipal
games. The distance is far too
short for me because I lack Nur-
MRS speed. Unless he Is off form,
which he never seems to be,
haven't much OF look-in with him
at 5000 meters, either. Double that
distance, however, and think I will
be able to give Nurnni all the run
ming he wants"
This is no idle Jest. It is the
one distance on the list at which
Nur1ni has yet to convince the
d0ubters that he stands supreme
to- all Others, Previous to July 6,
1924, he held the worlds record
Of 1910 LIS for the distance. but
on the date mentioned RitOla
stepped out and won the $4,000
. metre race at the Olympic games
by all of 800 yards, beftering
Nurmi's mark by around twelve
seconds, which is quite a few.
Where was Nurmi? Therein rests
the plot.
According to inside information
given the writer at the time Nurmi
approached Ritola before the race
a. hi N 20 EA
easy for the good Of the team. He
wanted Ritola to do a brother act
in which the two stars would come
down to the tape together.
You go out there and rum" was
Ritola's alleged reply. I'm going
to run race and II you can beat
me, all well and good. But if I
can beat you, I'm going to do it,"
The strained relations between
the two Firms began with that mo-
ment. Nurmi withdrew from the
race altogether, leaving the honors
to Ritola and Wide. They Tapped
their field two or three times on
5O0-meter track. and finally Ritola
won off by himself when the Swede
burned out.
Whether Nurmi, great as he is,
could have beaten Ritola in that
race Is a question that has no solu-
ton to this day: The writer Is one
who would back Nurmi against the
field at any distance from a half
to ten miles, yet it is hardly a dip.
lomatic thing to venture that a
man who gets twelve seconds under
a worlds record could have been
beaten by any one.
If Nurmi can follow Ritola's pace
over the longer route-and plenty Of
wise money will say that he can
he would almost certainly run
around Willie in the closing laps.
But the element Of doubt would be
there to the end, which element has
been nonexistent in Paavo's races
to date.
The Washington times., 1925-01-19
BAY STATE BILL
ASKS BOXING
CHANGES
Petition Asks Elimination of
Judging System and Other
Alterations

y BOSTON, Jan. IA boxing bill
which will cause sweeping. changes
in the game In this State IL It is
adopted has been filed at the State
House by Representative William
Lancaster, of Boston.
The bill was filed as a petition
Of Louis Gropeman. 20 Phillips
street. The bill was filed with
Clerk james A. Kimball. of Swamp
scott.
The features of the new bill fol.
low:
THE elimination Of judges at
professional boxing bouts.
2-The increase Of $4,000 in the
salary of Colonel Alfred Foote.
head Of the boxing commission.
3-Elimination Of smoking at
amateur boxinG bouts and the re-
duction Of the age limit from
eighteen to seventeen years Of age.
Prevents the declaration OF no
contests before the completion OF
eight rounds.
The bill also sets IOrtn Cn6C the
age limit for professional boxers be
raised from eighteen years to
twenty years.
The filing of the new bill to gov
ern boxing in this city, as well as
throughout the State, is sure to
cause considerable comment, aspe-
cially that part Of 1t which would
eliminate the judges. This is not
the first time that the elimination
of the judging system has been
sought.
The present boxing bill has main
tanned since the game became legal
here four years ago last September.
The Washington times., 1925-01-19

not right, after l had done it,
"There's the nub of the whole
regrettable affair!
al didn't think about it.
"I acted on the spur Of the mo-
ment!
"'I thought it was not right
after had done it.!
"And because he did not think,
because he acted on the spur OF
the moment, Jimmy O'Connell, as
well-meaping a kid as ever chased
fly ball on sand lot or major
league diamond, is branded for
life as a crooked ball player
which he most decidedly is not, If
the element of intent is a neces-
sary constituent part Of q GRIM
inal act"
The Washington times., 1925-01-19

EnUS-OHSNl1H, h1C, dHu 14d1u-
wick, Harvard.
Tackles-Fish, Harvard, and
Henry, w. and j.
Guards-Heffelfinger, Yale, and
Youngstown, Dartmouth.
Center-Shultz, Michigan.
Quarterback - Eckersall, Chi
cago.
Backs-Thorpe, Carlisle; Hes
ton, Michigan, and Grange, Illinois.
Fudge" Heffelfinger goes back
to the earliest days of Yale foot
ball. If there might be any doubt
in the minds of latter-day Yale
supporters that he was the great
est Of all Yale guards, they have
but to recall his coming East a
few years ago and, though near
ing his fiftieth year, outplaying
the varsity guards then on the
Blue eleven.
Harvard men are generally
agreed that "Tack" Hardwick was
the best all-around player the
Crimson ever had, playing end,
tackle and halfback on the var
sity eleven at Cambridge. Fur
thermore, he was better than or
binary in all three positions. He
represents what, for want OF .
better name, might be called the
transitional period of our football.
Harold RED" Grange, of the
1924 Illinois eleven, represents the
modern, forward-passing game. A
generation has passed between
Heffelfinger's varsity days and
those of Grange, showing the wide
reach of this poll of a hundred
coaches.
Oh, yes, there will be many
arguments about the final selec-
tion. It is doubtful, for instance.
if all Dartmouth men will agree
that "Swede" Youngstown was the
greatest player ever in a Dart
mouth lineup.
1t is by no means a certainty
that all Harvard men agree that
Ham" Fish, now a member Of
Congress from New York, was
Harvard's greatest tackle.
Pennsylvania and Princeton,
whose football history goes back
a long, long time, are sure to
growl over the nonappearance OF
their greatest players. "
But there's the result of the poll
of the hundred coaches. Take it
or leave it.
The Washington times., 1925-01-19
FAMOUS 81
| BOX SCORES
Kid Gleason Defeated u
John Cl0rksdn In
First G0nle.

AT PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 20,
1854 tnree-run rally by the
Bostons in the seventh inning took
the opening game OF the season
from the pills. Manager Harry
Wright, OF the Phils, selected his
new hurler, Kid Gleason, to o.
pose John Garrison in the opener
and the '.Kid" almost succeeded
in coping the game. Although he
allowed several hits and famed
six the late rally of the Boston
club was enough to offset his
splendid hurting earlier in the
game.
: Mike Kelly's great base running
In the seventh was responsible for
the winning tally. The score:
PHILADELPHIA N. u.
The Washington times., 1925-01-19
NURMI MAY SHOW HEELS
TO WASHINGTON AUDIENCE

NEW YORK, Jan. 19.-Fifteen
races are on Paave Nurmi's future
book" for the remainder Of the in
door track campaign, it developed
today. Most Of them are in and
around New York, the Finn being
averse to travelling far from the
Atlantic seaboard.
In addition to tentative engage
ments on local tracks, Nurmi's list
includes possible appearances at
the Boston A A. games, January
81; military games at Buffalo, Feb
ruary IL; American Legion games,
Portland. Me-, February 10; George
town games. Washington, d. c.,
February 81; Johns Hopkins games,
Baltimore, February %, and the
national championships at Louis
VILE. February %
The Washington times., 1925-01-19
MORROW AND MILLER
TO COACH PRESIDENTS

WASHINGTON, Pal Jan. Is
David C. Morrow, Of w. and j.,
and Allie c. Miller, of Philadelphia,
former University Of Pennsylvania
star. have signed to coach the
Washington and jefferson football
team for 1925. the former as head
mentor and Miller as assistant and
backfield tutor, according to an
nouncement made today by n. A.
Dickie, president of the w. and J.
athletic council.
The Washington times., 1925-01-19
HolIinrsworth is Gone !

John Hollingsworth has bean
turned over to- Portland in the Pa
cific Coast League by the Brooklyn
Robins. lie came up from New
Orleans last fall and won his only
start for Brooklyn. Now ne is
doomed to more minor league serv-
ice, all because Of his wildness on
the hill.
The Washington times., 1925-01-19
YOUNG PENNOCK ARRIVES
AT KENNETH SQUARE HOME

KENNETH SQUARE, Pa. Jan.
19.-Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Pennock
are receiving congratulations upon
the birth of a son late Saturday
night.
Herbie Pennock is a pitcher for
the New York Yankees and formerly
wore the uniform of the Athletics
Both mother and son are reported
as doing well.
The Washington times., 1925-01-19
COUPLE OF TONS MEET
UPON WRESTLING MAT

NEW YORK, Jan. 19.-Joe Stecher,
former worlds champion. will be the
main attraction at another local
revival of wrestling under the aus
pices of Jack Curley. He will meet
Nick Lutte, former Notre Dame
athlete, in a bout that is expected
to start the ex-champion on the
way to a championship meeting
with Wayne CBig"O Mum, the SEN
sation Of the hour since his defeat
Of Stranger Lewis.
The Washington times., 1925-01-19
TERRIS AND MANDELL VIE
FOR LEONARD'S SHOES
By SID MERCER.

NEW york JAM 1sWhen Sid Terris and Sammy Mandl meet
the of February the next
lightweight champion Of the world win be crowned The retirement
pionshp the championship that to
Friday.
were fight for the honor Of meeting
Leonard and the title bout expected to be staged the early part
of In outdoor This plan
high Benny the
The Washington times., 1925-01-19
What the White SOx Need.

IN Ode COLLINS, newly APP
H. pointed manager of the
Chicago White Sox, has a
hard job facing him. The 1924
tailenders shape up weak in the
box and at shortstop. Unless
those positions are much stronger
this season than last, the White
Hose will find themselves floun-
dering around again the second
division, if not finishing utterly
last once more.
Mcclellan, with most Sox ex-
perience in the shortfield, is not
robust in health nor q capable
batsman. Nevertheless, he will
be a candidate for the berth not
filled since "Swede" Risberg
changed the color of his stockings
back in 1919.
Ike Davis, who reported from
Columbus last season and played
in few games, will be out there
hustling again, and some say he
will eventually be chosen to start
the season.
Two greener lads make up the
quartet of shortfield candidates.
They are Johnny Cartozza, with
Muskegon last year, and Frank
Wojack, from the Canadian League.
Cartozza resembles Freddy Parent,
of the oldtime Boston Red Sox,
while Wojack is more like George
Mcbride in height and weight.
They are unknown to big league
fans.
With the release of "Stubby"
Mack to Shreveport, the White
Sox are left with fourteen hurting
The Washington times., 1925-01-19

Moe got no action
for his dough Satur-
day, as the trainer of
Cloister kept the colt
in his stable. The
little turf bug is all
excited over the hay
burner he is backing
today. 1t was slipped
to him by Red Sulli-
van, golf champ of
the turf, and Red says
it is as good as in.
B. r. to date, $14,-
343.A. >
The Washington times., 1925-01-19
Frank Hinkey Suffers
Mental Collapse
At AshyiIle

IASHVILLE, N. c., Jan. 49,
Frank Hinkey, an all-American
end for four years and general
ly considered Yale's greatest
football player of all time, is
confined to a sanitarium here,
suffering from a complete men
tai breakdown. He has been at
the institution for some time
but it was not until today that
his identity was disclosed.
The Washington times., 1925-01-19
9fAOyEp
~ LOUIS A.DoUGHER
SEVEN IN EAST; FOUR IN WEST.

coaches, small uni
versies colleges of the country to the other
football players for all time The result showed picked
Western Yale and Harvard
had piece Dartmouth Carlisle and Washington and
Michigan providing and Chicago and
football
selections earliest termed the transitional
very with the final
unmportan least interesting that
following the of those hundred coaces
The Washington times., 1925-01-19
RITOLA SEEKS LONG RACE
AGAINST NURMI
By DAVIS J. WALSH.


NEW YORK, 19-Barring of fscass horse whip
the only possible Paavo Nurm beating uncovered
today with Willie Ritola meeting at 10000 metres
which happens be Rto distance the literal inch
The latter aired his views the subject following
notable effort breaking the worlds record for five miles Sat
immediate reaction officials the Finnish
American A. c. immediate negotiations for the big
The Washington times., 1925-01-19

candidates, nine righthanders and
five southpaws. Cvengros, Fore
man, Davenport, Ash, from Rocky
Mount, and Hamilton, a Coast
semipro, are the forkhanders.
yCvengros is good now and then,
but little is known of the others.
The righthanders are better
known to American League fans.
They are Faber, Leverette, Thurs
ton, Robertson, Blankenship, Lyons,
Connally, Mangum and Steen-
GIRAFFE.
At this early writing Collins
would seem to have a nucleus of
a pitching staff in Faber, Thurs
ton. Cvengros, Leverette and
Blankensip. At the same time
Thurston was the only one of the
lot to maintain a good average
last year, the others being inland
cutters.
Collins is quoted as being salts
fled with his outfield, his catching
corps and with three places in his
infield, but the remaining depart
ments promise him plenty Of
trouble before he hits upon the
right combination. A winning ball
club simply must have a steady
capable shortstop and enough
steady pitchers to keep down the
opposition.
They're Coming Back.
|C COTT PERRY, who jumped
- the Mackmen for an outlaw
- team in Pennsylvania, and
"Red" Oldham, former Detroit
Tiger, who declined a transfer to
the Pacific coast and joined a
midwest outlaw team, are asking
Judge Lands for reinstatement
in organized baseball. Both have
found independent baseball far
from being the bed of roses they
thought it when they hoped over
the traces.
Organized baseball has it's faults,
but in organized baseball the
player always knows what he will
get and that he is sure to get it.
Organized baseball clubs guarantee
this, though frequently players
forget it.
/, There are plenty of "Jack
Keefes" in baseball, however, who
have to- be shown. And they al
ways are.
How the Coast Feels.
TT is fairly we'll known how the
East takes the banning of
- Cozy Dolan and Jimmy O'Con-
nell. The following, written by
Jack James in the columns of the
San Francisco Examiner, indi-
Gates the feeling on the Pacific
coast regarding O'Connell, a ma
tive son:
Balancing through the transcript
of testimony that Judge Lands
finally has consented to release,
one is first struck with the thought
that the supreme commissioner
was overly reticent in the matter;
that there is nothing particularly
new or interesting revealed by the
stenographic reports of the meet
ings.
"Then, down toward the end,
comes this significant converse
ton:
"'Judge lands: What did you
think when Dolan made a propo-
sition of this kind to go and see
Sands, a player on an opposing
team, and try to get him to throw
a ball game? What did you think
about it?'
("One can see that compelling
fore-finger waving in the air, and
those hypnotizing eyes glaring at
the 'culprit.' He sure is one
tough hombre is the judge, when
dealing with the recalcitrant ath-
leteD
"O'Connell: didn't think of
it. l acted on the spur of the
moment.
"Judge Lands: Did you think
about it afterward?
MGNSHz41I. 4Lo,,ophA - xryo O.
The Washington times., 1925-01-19

Instead OF having good light
weight scrap scheduled for his Ia
nous arena, Tex Richard finds that
he has a championship affair on
his hands. Under other circum-
stances there would be little chance
of the title bout being staged at the
Garden. That arena is not counted
big enough for championship events
by the gentlemen who clash, but as
things stand the boys are signed
to contracts and will have to go
through with their obligations. At
that, neither is yet a champ. One
will have to win to gain the crown
and the big money that goes
with it.
Six months ago there were
more than q half dozen fair
IightWeights cOntending for the
privilege Of fighting for the light
den and Terris are left. Vicentfni,
bernstein, Moran, Zivic, O'Brien,
Barbarian-fOr one reason or an
other all have been relegated to
secondary consideration. MandelI
and ferris stand out as the real
cOntenders.
New York has accepted ferris as
the heir apparent to the throne
ferris himself is 80 obsessed with
the championship complex that ne
has come to regard himself as tht'
uncrowned champion already. Tex
Richard, in his ranking OF boxers.
placed Sid at the top OF the light
weight division, though he gave
Leonard honorary mention as the
headliner.
The West is as strong for Man
dell as New York il for TerrtS
ont In the great wide-open spaces,
where men are men and champions
fight no-decision bouts. Samuel ls
regarded as unbeatable. They have
never seen Terris in action out
there and refuse to believe he can
outspeed or Guidance MandeH.
Mandell is called the ''Sheilk Of
the Ring" He is q handsome,
sleek. bIack.haired youth I'm his
early twenties. Only three or four
wears ago he was attending high
school i'm Rock Island, Ill, and
boxing for small purses.
Sammy beat ferris into New
York with the bounding style OF
boxing that has made both famous,
but ferris has done more fighting
in the last year, has improved more
in speed and in hitting power and
now rates as a dangerous puncher
as well as an elusive target.
Sid and Sammy met once at the
Garden and went ten rounds to a
draw. That was more than year
ago-December II, 1923, to be exact.
ferris has appeared frequently in
local rings since then. Mandells
last start here was against Jack
Bernstein, who lost a decision to
the Sheik at the Garden last fall. :
MandelI is managed by Eddie
Kane, best known as chief ex-
ploiter for Tom Gibbons. The i'm.
preston that he is a Jewish lad
is erroneous. He Is OF Italian
parentage and his real name is
MaOdellO
The Washington times., 1925-01-19
Reds Make Money

The Cincinnati Club declared q
IL per cent dividend for 1924.
The Washington times., 1925-01-19

Earned runB-PhIIadeLphia,- 2 bOBIOH,
l. Two-base hits-Andrews. Ml1yeys
Nash. johnson, Brown. Home run
Wood. Double playS-Clarkson, Nash
and Morrill, First on balls-Off Glea-
son.. s.; off Clarkson. =. Hit BY pitcher
BY Clarkson (Bastian). First on
CONGRATULATIONS, s.; Boston, I.
Struck out-By ClarksOn, 2; by Gleason.
g.. Wild pitch-Oaeason. Umpire
Daniels. Time Of game-1:46.
The Washington times., 1925-01-19
Babe Ruth's Sock

Babe Ruth has hit a baseball two
hundred yards and has driven a
golf ball $50 yards.
The Washington times., 1925-01-19

(TOMOR R W-Hans Wagner
breaks into major league baseball
as an Outfielder.
The Washington times., 1925-01-19

GOsIin has spent most Of the
winter at his home I'm Salem,
n. D., though visiting Washington
occasionally. He is in good con-
diti0n. but idleness has added to
his pOundage, and IL is to shed
this extra, unnecessary weight
that he is going to Hot Springs.
The Washington times., 1925-01-19

Mandell is called the ''Sheik Of
the Ring.' He is q handsome,
sleek. bIack.haired youth in his
early twenties. Only three or four
years ago he was attending high
school I'm Rock Island, Ill., and
boxing for small purses.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1925-05-13
HoNoRs FOR CHARLES TOWN
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.

A Latin Trophy Cup was present.
ed to the High Schools of the State.
seven or eight years ago, by ex-Gov-
ernor William McCorkle, for the
best examination in Latin of High
School student. Charles Town High
School was the first to win the cup.
The students have not entered the
contest for several years, but did
enter this year. Miss Annie Smith,
Of the Charles Town High School.
was one of the three best in the
contest. The class has been taught
in succession by Miss Nellie Turner,
Miss Martha Phillips, Mr.. H. X. Am
bier, and Miss Shannon Denny.
Miss Bessie M. Conklyn, a pupil in
the Charles Town High School, and
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar
ID. ConkIyn, received from the Inter
national Home Lighting Contest a
bronze medal and special letter from
the Chairman. and special certifi-
cate for excellence Of composition
and clarity of style in the essay.
This contest was made from a num-
Der Of school in the United States
and Canada. ,