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Evening star., 1925-10-18

Representative and Mrs. John {.
Schafer and daughters of Wisconsin
will arrive in Washington this month
to remain for the Winter.
Evening star., 1925-01-03
BY FAIR PLAY.

NEW YORK, January 3.-Now that
Danny Kramer has failed in his am
hilton to win the featherweight title
he probably will build himself up as
a contender for the lightweight
crown. 1t took good deal of strain
ing on Kramer's part to enter the
ring a the stipulated poundage for
the featherweight division, and it
look ed Friday night as though in
getting down to weight he was weak
ened.
If so, he took poor time to be
weak, for this Kid Kaplan is an
earnest young battler, who can sock
right merrily.
What Kramer probably will do now
will be to carry out his intentions of
going after Sid Terris and other
lightweights leading up to Benny
Leonard. Had he won the feather
weight crown he would have done
this, and there is no reason why he
should not do it now. 1t will be in
terestinG to see whether at an in
creased weight he will be better than
he was on Friday night at the garden.
Probably he will be, because it Ger
tainly looked as though his effort to
make the weight had affected both his
stamina and his hitting.
kaplan, on the other hand. was
certainly entitled to the verdict, and
as featherweight champions have
gone of late, he was as good as any.
He will never set the world on fire,
and the first man possessing real
championship timber that comes
along is likely to knock him off.
Evening star., 1925-01-03
NAVY MAKES SWEEP,
DEFEATING MICHIGAN

ANN ARBOR, Mich, January g
Naval Academy basketers made a
clean sweep OF their three games on
their Western jaunt by beating Michi
gan last night in a thriller, 81 to %.
Previously on the trip the Navy
qunt had disposed OF Minnesota, a to
IS, and Chicago. % to 81.
Navy took the lead last night in the
first four minutes by scoring two field
goals and a foul. Michigan came fast
after that and led at half-time, 16
to u.
Navy tied the count early in the
second half and the game see-sawed
back and forth until the last five min
utes was reached with the score % to
20.
Parish dropped in long shot which
put the Navy points ahead. Then
Hagerty of Mich gan came along and
made double-decker. Two more min
Utes went by and Day of Navy, sank
one from the side. but once more Hag-
gerty made a basket. He was fouled
on the play. but missed both chances.
l. With just 35 seconds left Day at
tempted shot from the sideline 1t
was strong and carried off to the
other side. Michigan closed in fast,
but Craig got there first and sank the
leather, once more putting Navy
ahead. The game ended just after the
toSS-up.
Evening star., 1925-01-03
FIRST PRIZE SHARED
IN DUCKPlN TOURNEY

Curb Cafe of the District League
and White Stars of the Commercial
League copied first prize in the big
blind pig duckpin tournament that
closed last Wednesday at the Coli
scum. Curb Cafe, with 1,746, and
White Stars. with 1858, totaled S,299
pins. 103 more than the second cou-
pie, Pintas of knights of Columbus
League and King David of the Ma
sonic League. who had 1857 and
1869, respectively.
The third prize went to the Stand
ford Paper Company quint of the
District League and the Pirates of
The Evening Star League, who
knocked over 1859 and 1915, re-
spectively. Fifty-two teams com
peted.
After two teams of four men each,
representing the Capital City Asso-
citation. had rolled five games at the
King Pin alleys last night, only 10
pins separated them in the totals. AS
result of the bowling President
Lewis has selected the following
quint to compete with the King Pins
of Baltimore tonight on the latter's
drives: Max Rosenberg, Glenn VOL
stenholme, Al Work, Howard Camp
bell and Joe Toomey. with George
Friend and Happy Burtner substi-
tutes.
A return match of five games will
be rolled on the King Pin No.
drives of this city next Saturday
night total pins to count.
Evening star., 1925-01-03

doubtful III. more years tndn one.
The pitcher who is named first as
as one of the National Leagues s
greatest is Arthur Cummings, the
man who made the curve ball pos
siblc. and who completely revolu-
tionized the pitching features of the
game. If it were not a fact that Cum
mings in his time was a good pitcher
he would still deserve the honor of
the highest award for his discovery of
the way TO produce the curve, because
base ball changed in every way after
the curve came into common, use.
1t is, probable that the curve ball
was pitched, or, to be more accurate,
was thrown before ii was discovered
by Cummings. d4eft-hand throwers
curve the ball naturally. Some right
hand throwers do so.
Cummings, in the course of his base
ball career, ascertained that when he
it certain twist il changed its course
in the channel of it's progress toward
the batter. He continued to work upon
this discovery until he was able to
produce the curve at will, and then
control it, which was the most i'm
portant fact of all. His first curve was
the old roundhouse curve now known
as the outcurve.
There is no incurye. There never
to exceed six men who actually have
been able to make the ball hook for
la so-called incurye. 1t takes the great
Evening star., 1925-01-03
EASTERN BASKETERS
OVERCOME GONZAGA

Eastern High School baSleters added
victory to their list of preseason
games by winning over the strong
Gonzaga quint, 81 to Is, on the lat
ter's court.
Although starting the game with
second string lineup, the Eastern
ers led all the way, the score. being
l3 70 at half time.
Enright and O'Donoghue of the
losers gave the best exhibitions of
floor work, the former being high
scorer of the game, with three court
goals
A team made up of alumni of
Western and Eastern High Schools
proved to be no match for the regu-
lar five at the Georgetown School yes
terday, the schoolboys winning, 81
to 80. Dulin, with IL goals from
scrimmage- and CARRIER, with seven,
We're high scorers for the winners
while Frisby of the grads led his
team with five baskets.
GoBzaEa Reserves were defeated,
81 TO Is, by the Rosedale tossers in
the preliminary to the Eastern Con
zaga game.
After trking defeat from thei.'
alumni and the Hyattsyille High
School, tossers at st. Johns College
are hoping to turn the tables when
they meet Business on Tuesday aft
ernoon in their new gymnasium. The
ST. Johns schedule follows:
January 10. Calvert Han College; l3 lly-
aitsvillc High School, at Hyattsvillc; -.
Emerson Institute; "a. Charlotte Hall. at
Charlotte Hall.
February. 6, Alumni: II, Business High
school. at Business II, Calvert Hall. at Bal
timore: is, Tech High School %. Dewitt Prep:
IS. Charlotte Hall.
March :. Emerson: s. Dewitt Prep at Dewitt.
Evening star., 1925-01-03
POPE MAKES HISTORY
BY RECEIVING DUNDEE

ROME January 3.-For the first
time in nearly 1000 years Of the
church's history the Pope received a
boxer yesterday.
Johnny Dundee, once featherweight
champion of the world. now touring
Europe. saw Plus XI. who gave him
and his manager. James Johnson, a
special blessing, much to the delight
of Dundee. who said:
That ought to bring luck. ! hope
I'll knock out the next man ] fight"
Johnny is on vacation, and gave
an exhibition only in Milan, although
he saw both Venice apd Florence. He
is going to his birthplace. Sciacca,
Sicily. where his father lives.
Johnny Dundee" Is a boxing pseu-
donym. The boxers real name is
Joseph Giuseppe Carrorra.
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His face streaked with blood from
q broken nose and two badly battered
eyes. his lips cut and his body pink
encd by the storm of punishment
kramer w.eathcred the cyclonic attack
only by sheer nerve. He was in eX
cellent physical condition when he
entered the ring or the fight might
have ended sooner
hapIan fought an aggressive, mer-
ciless fight, wearing down his oppo
nent by the power of his drive and
then cutting him to shreds as the
gloves became wet. He sailed in at
the opening gong and never let up
until the fluttering towel had drop
ped at his feet, carrying with it the
world featherweight title, as estab-
Tished by the New York State Athletic
Commission.
Kramer fought gamely, but Kaplan
was too strong for him and crushed
him under the weight Of his relent-
less attack.
The new champion. one Of the fast
est featherweights in the game, packs
n knockout blow in either hand,
hores in continually and keeps his op
pouent on the defensive from the
start.
( Babe Herman of California. who
was an alternate in the tournament
just ended. knocked out Billy DeFoe
of St Paul, in the eighth round of
twelve round semi final Before the
bout it was announced that the win
uer would be considered a challenger
for the victor in the title event. Her
man has fought several draws with
the new champion.
Evening star., 1925-01-03

Our blankets or clothes are used To
hold dead air around us in two ways
First, certain amount of dead air is
confined in the threads of the wool
cloth. The weave itself, that is, holds
stationary air. That is the principle on
which sweaters are built. The other
way is by confining as much dead air
as possible between two or more blan-
kets, or between layers of clothing.
The eiderdown robe and the rabbit
skin blanket, those classics of the Win
ter woods, are the ultimate examples
of these two methods. The rabbit-skin
blanket is made of strips of rabbit skin
that are tied together and then woven,
basket fashion, to make a blanket. The
mesh is very coarse, and you can
thrust your fingers through such 4
blanket at any point. But you can
sleep with it as your only covering, in
the snow, in a temperature far below
zero. The coarse mesheS of the blan-
ket, with the millions of hairs that
fill them, encompass the dead air
which insulates the body.
The eiderdown robe consists of two
wool blankets or pieces of wool fabric
with the breast feathers of the elder
duck. TINS illustrates the other prin-
ciple, in which dead air is confined
within a quilt.
Evening star., 1925-01-03

terweight titleholder, at Newark
Wednesday.
Charley Paddock. Loren Murchison
and Jackson V. Scholz Americas
star sprinting trio may meet in one
Of the Winter indoor track meets.
Paddock and Murchisou have cut
Australia from their world journey
and viii start for Japan January H.
English tcnni. leaders arc expect
cd 10 invade the United States this
Summer in the persons of j. G.. +.
Simrs on and i. c. O. Williams. Brit
ish doubles champions of 1922 and
1928. and c. y. Bruce. singles king
in 1922. +. NJ. Bacrleiu, the amateur
champion. also may come.
JUie Ray. veteran middle distance
runner. looked upon by experts as
he American having the best chance
70 defeat Paavo Nurmi, the sensa-
tionaI Finn. in Madison Square Gar
den at New York next Tuesday night,
will leave Chicago Monday. Six of
Rays Illinois Athletic Club team
mates will be with him.
Three major league pitchers, names
unknown. are going West. Wade
Killifcr manager of the Seattle club
Of the Pacific Coast League, an
uounccd he had been promised a trio
OF performers from the grand cir
cults. every one of them capable of
winning in this league" but would
not name them because waivers had
not been obtained.
The Notre Dnmr foot ball squad.
en- route back to its studies at Notre
Lame, will be entertained with an
organ recital in the famous Mormon
Tabernacle when it stops in Salt
Lake City next Tuesday. The Notre
Dame eleven went to California by
the southern way to defeat Stanford,
81 to 10, in a New Year day game,
and is returning home by the north
Grn route.
Evening star., 1925-01-03


Tho big outfielder OF the Phillies
has been fixture in the Quaker City
for a long time. and many is the
hit that he swatted into the right
field fence. Many others has he bat
ted over that fence, and the kids long
nave made practice of hanging
AZ round North Broad street waiting
TO chase one of them and earn an
sdmittance TO the field. Williams
las hit two or three long ones down
into the right center corner Of the
Philadelphia grounds that probably
aIe the record hits of the park
The Philadelphia outfit is one
that can stand all the strength and
speed that Fletcher can find for it
He has put on some kids with whom
he hopes TO get more speed from his
inheld and If he can get some one
in the outfield who can run, cover
lot of ground and generally wake
things up, he figures that he can af-
ford to let Williams go, although he
will have a hard time finding as
much batting strength in any one
individual as he has in Williams.
Williams made, his reputation be
fore coming to the big leagues at
Notre Dame. Chicago was the first
to grab him.
Last season he batted .325 and hit
out "a home runs. There are very
few players able to do that, SO the
Phillies. if they trade him, will need
Vo get hold of some one who will
plug a hole in their team, especially
in batting strength.
Evening star., 1925-01-03

est speed possible to produce this de-
erS try to get shoot on the ball by
delivering it from the ends of their
fingers with all the force they can
muster. That is not a curve.
Cummings did not pitch an incurve,
nor did he know anything about the
drop ball, which is the outcurye with
reverse English, but he was the first
man to, tame the outcurve.. and from
his beginning started the present
school of curve pitching which now
rules base ball.
When he announced that he could
handle the curve and began to tell
others how he did it a great contro-
versy arose as to whether there was
any curve ball. College professors and
teachers of natural physics insisted
that the curve was a hoax and i'm
possible Personal demonstration
finally proved that the college men
were wrong and, of course, in these
days the boys who are at high school
curve the ball as their big brothers
do in the games for grown men.
Spalding pitched the ball, not throw
ing it, and of his type was the great
est of all Cummings as the genius
who made the curve possible is the
father of curve pitching, which now
is in evidence all over the world.
fNcxt-CharIcs RadbOune).
Evening star., 1925-01-03
EASILY MASTERS KRAMER
In FIGHT FOR RING TITLE
Meriden Boxer Beats Philly Scrapper SO Severely
= Latters Seconds Toss in Towel i'm Ninth Round.
New Champion No Dundee
By the Associated Press.

January 3The world eaherveght boxing
Louis (kid) Kapan OF Meden Conn., Buzz
o decisive
Madison Garden
night complete submission by the whing
Kapan.
auerng towel from Kramer
II seconds fighting the ninth round the
Merden fash a technical Knockout
the historic Garden There OF the usual jockeyng tor
everything nothing
IN ntcnsire tacticsy
Evening star., 1925-01-03
G. W.-GALLAUDET COURT
CONTEST is POSTPONED

George Washington and Galiau-
det basket ball teams. that were
scheduled to play tonight in the
formers gymnasium. have been
forced to postpone their contest.
The Hatchette gym is being
used for exhibits in connection
with the meetings of the Ameri-
can Association for the Advance
ment of Science.
The gnme probably will be staged
on February IS.
Evening star., 1925-01-03

Rockne. "Notre Dame came to the
Pacific coast to play one game, and
one game it will be. I'm taking my
boys back to their studies and will
meet no other Western eleven"
Lutte Nichols. graduate manager of
California. refused to consider the
plea of members of the alumni for
post-season game with Natre Dame.
Nichols said the California players
bad forfeited two weeks of their
vacation period and il would hardly
be fair to ask them to give up the
balance of their time to prepare for
game with Notre Dame
The Notre Dame lads will encounter
at San Francisco a round of enter
tainment sponsored by the Notre
Dame Alumni Association which will
end at dinner at the home of former
United States Senator James Phelan
Sunday afternoon.
committee of nearly 40 of the
fairest maids San Francisco society
can provide, led by Miss Peggy
ONeill. will meet the Notre Dame
players on their arrival and act as
hostesses extraordinary during their
stay here
Rockne has extended an invita- ton
to Coach Glenn Warner to bring his
Stanford eleven East next year for
game with Notre Dame in the new
Chicago stadium.
Rockne pointed out that no Cali
fornia teamAad ever met an Eastern
eleven on an Eastern field. and that
coaches and fans alike were eager
to witness such an encounter.
Coach Warner displayed no en-
thusiasm over the bid. however. He
explained that there was small chance
of Stanford sending a team East in
tho middle of semester, and that If
Evening star., 1925-01-03

and riGidity.When
YOU walk at !au
ordinary gait you
are not loose In
the sense of COM
plete abandon OF
ph ysical control.
Also your legs
and arms are not
rigid and muscle
bound. When you
prepare 10 swing
a golf club your
bodily feeling
should be about
the same a. it
would be were
you about to take
"a step. The golf
swing in closely
Evening star., 1925-01-03
SUZANNE DISPLAYS
OLD TENNIS SKILL

CANNES. France, January 3.-Su-
zanne Lenglen appeared on the local
tennis courts yesterday with her old
doubles partner, Elizabeth Ryan, and
demonstrated, according to observers,
that she has recovered her former
speed and sizzling service.
The Lenglen-Ryan combination
walked away with two matches, de-
feating Miss L. Hall and Mrs. Went
worth Smith, 60, So, and Mrs. Hill
yard and Mile. st. Omer Roy, 60,
60.
Today Suzanne and Miss Ryan are
to take on the Misses French and
Bennett, the latter . 1s-year- old
phenomenon.
Evening star., 1925-01-03
COLLEGIATE BASKET
PLAY OPENS TONIGHT
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 3.-Pennsyl-
vania. which opens the fifteenth sea-
son OF the Intercollegiate Basket Ball
League tonight, at Philadelphia, with
Yale as an opponent, has won five
of the titles sought since 1910-11.
Columbia. Yale and Cornell. last
years titleholder, each shared in three
championships, although the Blue won
theirs outright. while the New York
ers and Ithacans were forced to di-
vide honors one season.
Princeton won the title in 1922.
breaking Pennsylvania four-year
reign OF supremacy. Dartmouth, the
remaining league entry, has never
won a championship.
The championship records follow:
Evening star., 1925-01-03
Wears Feaeeight Co1vn Ps Are Willing to Trade Williams
LEIBOLD AND COVELESKIE
ACCEPT GRIFF CONTRACTS

A couple OF old-tImcrs formally
came into the National fold yeater-
day. President Clark Grfmth of
the world champion washington
club received. signed contracts
from OutneIder Memo Lefbold and
Stanley Coveleski, the veteran spit
hall pitcher procured from the
Indians after the close OF the 1874
base ball campaign.
About n third OF the players ON
the Natfonals' reserSe list now
have accepted their contracts and
President GrfmthA expects the
others to fall into line within a
few weeks.
Evening star., 1925-01-03
MURCHISON DELAYS TRIP
so HE MAY RACE SCH0LZ

NEW YORK, January 3. = Loren
Murchison. of Newark, n. J., and
Charlie Paddock of Los Angeles,
Calf. American sprinters who were
scheduled to begin a world tour jan
uary II. have delayed the start of
their expedition until the middle of
February.
Murchison's decision to postpone the
beginning of the trip, 1t is said, is
based on his desire to meet Jackson
W Scholz, the only American to win
a first place in the 1924 Olympic
sprinting events. on the indoor boards
during the January meetings. 4
Evening star., 1925-01-03
EAST HOLDS SLIGHT
EDGE IN GRID PLAY
Br the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 3.-The lead
which the Middle West held in inter
sectional gridiron play a the end
of the regular playing season has
been wiped away by post-season de-
velopments of the past few weeks
and the East holds the top by d
scant margin in the final summary
of foot ball conflict.
Based upon 40 interSectional games
of the season which came to a spec
tacular climax New Year day on the
Pacific Coast, the standing shows the
East leading the Middle West by only
points. with the Far West third
and the Soueh last
Revised statistics of the intersec-
tional play staged exclusively in the
Far. West as d holiday feature show
the East also holding a margin on
the games played since 1915. In the
past decade the East has won six
and lost five of these post t-season
classics. the Middle West has divided
four, while the Far West has cap
tured seven and lost eight Three
games ended in ties
The final intersectional standing
for the past season:
Mid
Evening star., 1925-01-03

meet the strong Alexandria team,
on the floor OF the armory in the
{, leaders in the Washington Sunday
a quint of Railway Expressmen on
urch; Eastern Athletic Association
Eastern High. and the Live Wires
uniors in the latter's gymnasium.
of the Railway Expressmen at Call
vary tonight at o'clock.
Corby Bakery Court performers evi-
IDENTIFY took their New Year defeat
at the hands of the Five Jacks seri
ously, for last night they nosed out
the Petworth Athletic Club, 81 to %,
in battle that was anybody's until
three minutes before the final whistle.
A pair of two pointers by Goetz and
Ford near the end of the game put
the Bakers in the lead. 1ngley of
the winners accounted for six bask cts.
The back court work of Drissel, a
Petworth guard, was feature.
In preliminary to the Corby-Pet
worth game the Epiphany Juniors
started what may be another winning
streak by trouncing the Eastern
Preps, % to L. The Easterns were
btbb " q SlllSic StdI lIciii oS1
while each player of the winners
figured in the scoring.
A squirt i'm the closing minutes of
the game failed to bring up the score
for the Takoma Athletic Club quint,
and they We're defeated, 81 to 16, by
the Army Medical tossers on the
Walter Reed Hospital court. Dray
of the winners accounted for five
two-pointers.
Lexington Mtdgets figured in two
games, defeating the Corinthian Mid
gets, is to 8, and the Congress
Heights five, 40 to 4. T. McNal1y
starred for the winners in the opener.
Live Wire tossers won a close game
with the Wintons, 10 to IA. Koons
and Greenwood played leading roles
for the winners, while Malloy and
Della did well for the Wintons.
Although hard pressed by the STAN
tons, the Elliot Juniors started the
new year with a 45-tot1 victory.
The winners wish to schedule a game
for Monday night. Manager Under
wood may be reached at Lincoln
$685. at o'clock
Ottawa MidEets. who took the meas
ure Of the Ozark Midgets in 21-to-19
tilt, are seeking games through Man
ager Buscher at West 1928.