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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01
JAVELIN, BROAD JUMP
RECORDS ARE SMASHED

BOSTON, Sept 1.-Two New
England records, for the javelin
throw and the running broad jump,
were broken in the annual New
England A. A. IT. championships.
held here yesterday. Tony Plan
sky, formerly of Georgetown, threw
the javeln 1876 feet II inches. beat
ing the former record Of 175 feet,
and Ned Gourdin, former Harvard
star, cleared % feet 85s inches in
the running broad jump.
The other champions crowned
yesterday were:
1O0-yard dash, Earl Dudley, Bos-
ton A. A; 440-yard run, f. A.
Burns, Boston A. A.; 8S0-yard run,
William f. Dooley, St. Alphonsus;
mile run, w. G. Baldwin, Boston
a. A.: five,mile run, George Ler-
mond, Boston A. A; 220-yard hur-
dies. II. G. Steinbrunner, NJ. /. t.;
12O-yard hurdles, II. G.. Steinbrun-
ner; pole vault, Jerome West, Bos-
ton A. A shot put, A. j. Pllnsly;
hop, step and jump. A. J. Planslky;
running high jump, G. FlahiTe,
r. A. A.; mile walk, A, w. Bell,
& A A
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01
KING
NEVER HURT
HIS HANDS
George CLANCY Retires After
Fifteen Years With
Unusual Record

George CLANCY, after a career of
fifteen years in the prizefight ring,
has retired. You'd think Georges
hands would be in bad shape after
such a lengthy service, but they
are not. They probably are as
strong as the day he started
fighting.
Take a baseball player. a catcher,
who has rounded out the same
number of years in his profession
and compare his hands with that of
the fighter. There's not one of a
hundred catchers whose hands are
not married by broken digits.
Charley Schmidt. old Detroit
catcher is about the best example.
Schmidt holds the record for in
juries. He sustained thirty frac-
lures on the fingers of his right
hand during his years behind the
bat. None of the fingers Of his
right hand is straight, and his
right thumb has been broken sew
eral times.
Schmidt's playing days were
over after the season of 1922. Now
he is umpiring in the Pacific Coast
League.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01
FLAG FOLLOWS
ENLARGEMENT
OF PARKS
Ban johnson Points Out Sue
cess of Clubs That increase
Seating Capacity

No little indignation was ex-
pressed in st. Louis that some one
would dare start a rumor that
Owner Phil Ball, Of the Browns,
was about to GUST George Sisler.
his peerless first sacker, for an
other leader. Those who are ia
miliar with the methods of the
Browns owner would not have
been surprised if he contemplated
such a move, but on the strength
of the recent showing of the
Browns in their last home stay of
the season it is safe to say that
Sisler is as sure of being retained
as any other manager in the john
son league.
During a recent visit to st. Louis
President Ban Johnson told the
writer's that as rule clubs en-
larging their seating capacity in
the American League generally sue
ceeded in winning pennants- john
son did not establish any connec
ton between the two, but merely
cited instances. Back some years
in the history of the league when
Fenway Park was thrown open to
the Boston fans the Red Sox dedi-
Gated it with pennant. The same
held true of the Yankees at the
Stadium, while last season when
Clark Griffith enlarge his seating
capacity in order to try and get
the Army and Navy football game
he found himself struggling with a
world series on his hands.
The Athletics spent close to $780,
900 to swing their bleachers around
and charging their stands last win
ter to accommodate close to 10000
fans, and while they are not certain
of the pennant they viii before the
season is over have crowds to fill
the stands to capacity.
The point of Johnson's remark in
st. Louis was that it would be well
for Phil Ball to change the old
plant around at once to make room
for prospective customers and pos
sibly pennant hordeS.
The Browns by their clean sweep
of the fast going Athletics and the
champion Nationals showed that
they can be counted upon next
season.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01

long a ball. His tee shots have
been trickling into traps and off
the straight and narrow. He has
tried hitting easier but he claims
that the easier he stocks, the father
they go. A peculiar state, indeed.
Stevinson's card was:
Out ..6 5 IS 8 g 5 5
In .......5 5 5 IA 4 5 5-S7
Despondent and blue and buried
beneath an avalanche of strokes in
his first nine, Al Houghton picked
UP considerably on the second nine.
He simply couldn't get going.
Anything he did was wrong. His
tee shots were crooked as dice.
traps with monotonous regularity.
one of those days.
Houghton is capable of better
golf than he played in his quail
flying round.
He had a nine, a seven and a
six in his first nine holes, and
when any struggles with twenty
two blows in nine holes, he is
indeed deserving. Al tried too
hard, he said afterwards. When
he decided TO give up the ghost
and directed his caddy to pick up
his ball, there was no more
miserable young man living.
He finally got home after taking
an SO, which virtually throws
him out.
His great chance had gone
aglimmering. He was through,
make no mistake. His best was
far too little. These golfers have
lifetime or playing behind them.
Most of them are independently
wealthy; all are well fixed and
Houghton could not cope with their
natural handicaps.
His practice rounds were not bad.
He shot 76 and IS, and those
scores in the regular play would
have put him in. He's just marked
il off the books
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01

Hub Oh Tuesday proved to be a
limelight party for the former Holy
Cross star, who got eight assisgs,
one putout and a singing single
that scored the winning run.
Since Gautreau joined the Braves
they have won eighteen out of
thirty five games, which is 500 ball
in any mans loop. 1t was on July
20, after Connie Mack had attempt
ed 10 send Gautreau to Portland,
that Bancroft grabbed the youngSteI
by waiver and put him in the
lineup.
His first time out he batted i'm
second place and made three hits.
helping to beat the Cubs. The
Braves began to perk up. One
week later Gautreau got five hits
IN SIX trips to the plate against
the Pirates, and though the Braves
did not win, Bancroft decided that
the place for Gautreau was as
lead off man. where he has been
ever since
Some one asked the former Holy
Cross star what was the biggest
surprise he found in major league
baseball, and he answered:
Good fellowship and the help the
youngster gets in breaking in. /
had been led to believe that ] would
have a fight to break in, but i
found things just contrary to that
belief. Not even in Holy Cross Col
lege has the feeling been more
marked. Dave Bancroft and every
other playef has tried to helD ma.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01
SUCCESS
SOME 7 INES
No ASSET
Amateur Champions Frequent
Iy Shine at Cost of Ma
teriaI Wealth

IT is a question whether nat
ural genius for any game is of
benefit to a boy who intends really
to remain an amateur. For boy
to play well is desirable. For him
to play too well is dangerous.
If he can do something infinite
~ better than most others, not only
is the temptation constant to keep
on doing it to the exclusion of
everything else, but he is constant
~ being urged in that direction.
No one likes to see an athletic
marvel retire in his prime.
But the interest shown in him
by outsiders is interest in the
special attainment he happens to
not only with small opportunity
to devote himself to it but with
the actual understanding that it is
job in name only.
: He has no chance to learn the
business or fit himself for advance
ment in it. And as his athletic
ability declines, interest in him
cools. The older he grows the
worse off he is.
The result frequently is, as a
former champion expressed it, that
at forty he finds himself with
forty cups on the mantelpiece and
forty dollars in the bank.
This same man said: IF / ever
find that my young son is getting
too good at any game I'll make
him stop playing that and take up
some other form of sport"
Competition is SO keen nowadays
that no man can give just an
average amount of time to a game
and be champion. Being
champion is a highly specialized
bIISjnfSS
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01
Plays Six Rounds In
Day In Close To
Par Scores

Jack Sellers of the New York
Athletic Club, who has been
winning cinderpath honors for
more than nine years, has taken
seriously to golf Jack was quite
some golfer at the age of twelve,
but for several years gave up the
mashie and putter for the spiked
shoe. The Winged Foot runner
on a recent Sunday played six
consecutive rounds over his own
course, the Rockaway River
Country Club, in slightly, more
than twelve hours. With Harry
Messenger of Lido as his oppo-
nent, Sellers began play at sos
a. m. and completed the six
rounds at 6:35 p. m. Par for the
course is 70, and Sellers had
rounds of 70, 76, so, IS, 76, and 70.
Messenger scored as follows: SO,
so, 50, 81. 70 and 81. The mara
thoners' took twenty-five minutes
out for lunch.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01
Yanks' InfieId Unique
AT All Four
Positions

The Yankees infield as at
present assembled has some
qualifications that make it
unique in the American League.
In Bob Meusel they have the
tallest third baseman; in Pee
Wee Wanninger they have the
shortest shortstop; in Ernie
Johnson they have the slimmest
second baseman, and in Lou
Gehrig they have the thickest.
broadest and sturdiest first
baseman. If architectural spe-
cifications counted the Yanks
would have the best inner de-
Tense in the business.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01

Fuchs is not essentially a base
ball man. The practical end of
the game had been left in the
hands of Christy MatheWson until
the former pitching star was
forced 10 go back to his home at
Lake Saranac. Suddenly the
whole burdeu fell on the Judges
shoulders. but he decided to place
the running of the club in the
hands of Dave Bancroft. lie prom,
fsed TO buy whatever players Pan
croft sought and they agreed that
the only chance the Braves had OF
getting anywhere was 10 drop the
veterans and hunt for young play
ers.
The work was slow and IT times
discouraging. Bancroft had 10 play,
manage. direct the scouts and
shoulder the burden of doing the
most hitting for the team
How well he has succeeded Is
familiar 10 fans and players. The
Braves are acknowledged TO ne the
most promising club in the circuit,
an outfit that may develop pen
nant speed all of a sudden. and
once in front never to be headed.
That, however. IS not the prospect
for the present season.
Judge Fuchs, according to BOs-
ton interviewers, gives much of
the credit for the sudden squirt
of the club to the diminutiye
second sacI1er, Doe Gautreau,
who played four years OF base
ball at Holy Cross and never
missed a game.
Pi TraynoT Day down at the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01

date. Though it has changed the
female from a cIinging vine to a
sturdy oak, thereby weakening
the position of the lordly male
once so pompous. Back in those
romantic sos they referred to men
as the "better half Perhaps he
is yet. But he isn't until he
proves it. Mr.. Kipling certainly
knew something, and the rest of
the known world is learning very
re mildly.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01
ROWDIES NIL
OBSERVES MEADOWS

In ten years. less of major ball
"rowdies gentlemen
opinion? Henry Lee Meadows and if
qualified speak such subject he is Henry Lee Meadows
who cleared the hurdle of abuse and insults from these rOwe Of
the field" finds them all gentlemen" today.
Afflicted with since boyhood therefore equipped with
the major at the
Immediately the victim these
roudies of the field
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01
Needs Batting, Too

Good pitching does not always
win. Chesterfield, of Danville, and
Chedes, of Decatur, each proved
that recently. Chesterfield whitfield
six batters in a row and lost his
game and Chedes yielded only one
hit and was whipped.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01
Sheedy Leads Orioles

Clayton Sheedy, who starred at
first base for the Georgetown var
sity several years ago, is the lead
ing batter OF the Baltimore Orioles,
having a mark of $3.50. He ranks
next to Roser as a home run swat
ter with twentyfour against Roser's
tWentY.SiX.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01
By ROSS L. CONKLM.

oAKMoNT COUNTRY CLUB Sept. Bewildered and abashed
y the sudden switching the whms of Lady Luck Roland
NaoKen1ie an school kid with the build OF
embryo and the delicate bashtu manner OF an us
what all about-hs sudden
showerng of attention and paudlts
Like the retiring he has always been Roland has taken mod
when topped Bobby Jones
and the entire half of the qualifying round for
cards today
but the glory the first day will always be with him.
Roland knows him well also know, that
of the day remains qnsung and unknown Iha
Albert Mackenzie the advisor 1t due
no little degree uncanny knowledge of golf and of his
thai Roland s+an IDS in The
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01

1t is reported that Carl Mays may
return to his home in Oregon if
his arm does not show anything of
it's old form for the remainder of
this season.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01
Brooklyn Lands Star

Jim Elliott, purchased recently
from Terre Haute. pitched twenty
victories and lost five games in the
Three-I League this year.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01
McGraW Names Griffs

John McGraw holds that the
Griffmen are the best club in the
League race and should
breeze their way to Pennantville.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01
WORLD KNOWS NOW HOW
RIGHT WAS KIPLING
Rv FORD c. FRfCH

When Mr. Kpng his famous line about the female Of
humanity to start with and by she's growing bit
deadly The womany touch has changed manly destiny
she field Of sports is not immune Take baseball and prize
Benny Leonard king Of gives title worth 100000
sturdy boxing science
his wes health has wrecked by worry of his
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01

Always lettering about in the
BACKGROUND when his son plays,
Mackenzie, senior. has noted and
taken cognizance of Roland's weak
nesses and faults. He took counsel
with Freddy Mcleod this spring and
together the two worked out plan
that bears every indication of a
genius handicraft. They sent Ro-
land away from the links, away
from the cities and the home. They
sent him to a Wilderness cattle
ranch in Colorado. near Pueblo.
For six weeks the kid played
around with horses and cattle and
breathed the pure air Of the higher
attitudes. He forgot everything con
corning golf. His youth enabled
him to step into the lonely life and
profit. And he came back to golf
a healthier, stronger, more verile
being. That was their plan.
His game has at last reached
the peak. He beat Bobby Jones,
ranking golfer i'm the country. He
beat every single one of the best
amateur golfers i'm the country.
Does not that augur well for the
sage advice and fOrethOught of
When Roland played that record
breaking round. his father was not
TO be seen. Yet he was somewhere
In the vicinity. He would have TO
be. When Roland reached the
eighteenth tee, his father Joined the
crowd, his voice husky with sun.
pressed emotion. and his hands
chliied with anxiety. He showed
the strain far more than Roland.
As soon as Roland could tear
himself away from the hero wor-
Shippers S1 he Joined his father.
There was single handshaISe a
wistfu smile, and that vast all
Those two understand each other
as few fathers and sons do.
Roland's card failed to show any.
thing exciting in the first nine. He
mad 81, one over par, and MANY
others had the same On the first
hole, 49, yards. he got a par five.
The second found him getting
warmer He sunk a short putt
after delicious drive, for birdie
three. But on the third hole, he
was away off form. He pushed
and was over the cup on the way
hack. Three puts gave him a six,
where par was three. He was two
under tours the remaining six
holes.
1t was on the second nine that
the kid showed his steel Three
brides. and but a single hole over
par tells the story
His thrilling finish, with even
threes for the last three holes, had
the gallery spell bound. Jess
Sweetser. Jess Guilford. Bobby
Jones, and all the rest had not
shown so much accuracy.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01
Dan O'Leary Still at 1t

Dan O'Leary, at the age of
eighty five, is still a great walker.
He has a. standing challenge to
walk anybody in the world in d
5u0.mile race.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01

Pitchers with weak spines
and weak hearts became the tar
get, once the ball game started.
And many iron arms were known
to wilt under the fire of verbal
attack.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01

And why not? For ten and fif-
teen years ago fielders did not step
aside with a pardon me" and al.
low a base runner to slide safely
to bag.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01
1t Sounds All Wrong

Recently ball team OF girls,
wearing boomers. defeated team
of men wearing petticoats. 1t hap
pened at Poland, Me. The gals won,
12 RI IT
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01
GAUTREAU PROVES BOON
TO BOSTON'S BRAVES

this the the Boston
public Fuchs told
this recently ahead for the
years gather together could called
a door He ha the
the Pirates, hoped
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01
Sixteen Leaders Of
National Golf
Tournament

Here are the sixteen leaders
in the National Golf Tourna-
ment now in progress at Oak
mont Country Club. Pittsburg.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01
MOeUnd,JOe
They Get
the Dough

Moe took a trip to
Coney Island yesterday
and wasted a finif on a
pig called BROOMSTER.
But today he is back on
the old home sand lot
and expects to start a
streak that will bring in
the winter coal. He is
hopping on a baby which
"SNEEZY" O'LONE de-
clares will pay a neat
price if it cops, and
"SNEEZY," being pretty
good at coping, ought to
know what he is sneezlng
about. B. R., $1,977.O7.
Moe chirps, PUe got
a FINIF on SILVER
FOX in the FOURTH
hop!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01

Chris found nearly every trap on
the course. He not only found
them, he made friends with them.
He also found a couple Of topped
shots. He wrenched his game on
the first hole. and he completely
demolished it on the ninth. In the
first case. he had a 6. and in the
latter a Z.
Outside those two holes Chris was
shooting good golf. His SO did not
cause any apoplexy, and it left him
I'm a determined mood. He said to-
day that he felt able TO make a
great fight for one of the sixteen
positions. He went TO bed early,
ate a hearty breakfast, no lunch
and lolled about the. club until time
for him to go off. Chris knows
everybody and their uncles and ne
had a tough time Of it trying TO
be let alone.
His card yesterday was:
Out 49,. 3 5 4 III
In ..... ) @ 3 4 6 4 5 4-42-83
Miller STEVENSON. the third entry
from Columbia, was optimistic over
his prospects today He developed
n fault peculiar TO this course and
unless he can iron it out he is
sunk. Stevie has been hitting too
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01

And the end isn't in sight In
other and greater rorms of sports
in tennis, golf, swimming-the
woman is not content to sit and
offer encouragement to her lord
and master. if any. She goes in
for them herself, and holds her
own with the male, too.
There's nothing to be done about
it and probably it's a good thing.
Certainly, the woman influence
hasn't done any great harm to
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01

Therefore when Henry Lee
Meadows made his debut in 1915
with the Sc Louis Cardinals he
was marked from the moment he
threw the first ball from the hill.
Bleacher customers and grandstand
patrons probably did not hear what
was going on between coachers,
players and Meadows. But there
was plenty of language that would
not pass the board of censorship.
PLENTY OF it" said Lee Meadows
when he was asked to tell about his
experience when he first broke in.
81 was a kid just twenty years OF
age, when / reported to the St.
Louis club, and when / think back
to those days L marvel that did
not throw up the sponge.
Baseball i'm North Carolina,
from where came, was not
nIayed with the same tune-same
tune of profanity, Il must say-as
/ found out existed IN the Dig
leagues.
when / think of my early train.
ing I have to laugh. What they
didn't call me-the usual stuff.
THAT four-eyed guy; that cross
eyed bIoke; mammals pet; take of
your glasses; guess you think
they're going to get you by up
here: take 'em off and I'll sock
YOU right on the nose
You can't print all the names
they called me. I'll pick out a few
OF the boys, and know they
haven't forgotten me. Take Johnny
Evers and Sherwood Magee. with
the Boston Braves. They had an
assortment of words that never
heard before.
"The Giants had some dandies in
Fred Merkle, Art Fletcher and
Larry Doyle-and don't forget that
Mr.. McGraw could sling some hot
stuff from his place on the bench.
And there was Heine thinner
man, with the Cubs. These were
the fellows I had to buckle against
for my major league baptism.
"And today-the difference?
Baseball players are gentlemen
on the field.
whether I no longer am a
curiosity or the fact that l wear
glasses has worn off with the
boys, 1 don't know, but the truth
is that I haven't heard an opposing
player yell at me for several years.
such a thing as trying to rattle
the pitcher is passed nowadays.
Maybe the players feel that they
don't have to resort TO such tricks
to win their games. They're all
up there at the plate, digging the.
spikes deep, tightening the grip
on the bat and getting their toe
hold swing for a home run.
Nevertheless, / owe my success
to two fellows. They are Bob Con-
merry, the scout who put the o. K.
on me after others had laughed
at such a thing as big league
pitcher with glasses, and the other
Miller Higgins, who had confidence
in me ana humored me when /
broke in"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01

HIS card OF 1t Established an OH
cial record for the course.
Chris DuHpiy and Miller b.
STEVENSON each hate fighting
chances TO land one of the cOvet-
ed positions in the qualifying play.
A. l.. HOughtOn is pretty much
out, unless he can burn up the
course, and OakmOnt is water
logged.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-01

Jack Dempsey, still an official
champion, has virtually retired,
and there isn't a man living to
deny that his wife is the influence
behind the throne
OF course there are womanly in
fluences that work the other way.
ruby Rob" Fitzsimmons' wife
was an enthusiastic fan, taking
an active part in her husband s
career. 1t was her influence that
kept Bob going through many
tough years.
No one is more responsible
for Young Stribling's success
than his mother. She has en-
cOuraged him from the start and
she is always in his corner when
he fights.
Midget Smiths sister used to
train him and act in his corner
when she was permitted. She han
died his business affairs as well,
and was as capable a manager as
you'd find anywhere.
Mrs. Harry Will always looks
after Harry's training diet, super
vising food and his workouts and
much of his finances,
too. if the truth be known, and
doing it well.
That's the "womanly touch"
Astute managers will tell you
that wives can make or break
a good ball club. What is more,
they are a power to be reckoned
with when the time comes to
sign players to a new contract.
The players themselves may
be easily satisfied, but wives
will battle to the last penny.
1--WE got so and so ready to
sign, but his wife is still holding
out" isn't a joke any longer:
it's a fact, and tough one to
Surmount.