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TECH AND CENTRAL
BATTLE TOMORROW

Tech High battles Central tomorrow
afternoon at Wilson Stadium in an eff
fort to maintain her hold on second
place in the scholastic base ball stand
ings.
The Manual Trainers have won two
and lost one. while the Blue and White
tossers have broken even in a pair of
enga gements and will Jbe near the top
if they can chalk up victory at the
expense of their old rivals.
Central is likely to play again on
Saturday in the play-off of the Central
Western game that was postponed
Tuesday because of rain.
Eastern also gets into action tomor-
row against the Catholic University
freshman team that was to play at
Leonard Hall this afternoon.
Yesterday the Lincoln ParkerS in
creased their lead in the high school
loop by defeating Business. 9 TO 6.
Quinn worked four innings for the
winners, and was relieved by 'Frager.
Shreve went the route for the Stenog
raphers.
st. ChristOpher's school, al Rich
mond, will be the opponent of the
st. Adams nine tomorrow, and on
Saturday Christ Church will be en-
tOuDItEeu 1T W est fDlItI, d.
ST. Johns made it's wins six straight
by nosing out Alexandria High. to 3,
in an eight-inning game on the latter's
field.
Dewitt Prep took the short end of a
5-to-1 count in a siX-inning battle
with the freshmen of St. Johns Col
lege, at Annapolis.
Charlotte Hall trounced the War Col
lege nine. u to 4.
Gonzaga High elouted out a 14-tO-4
victory over the Dominican Lyceum
team,
Central racketers lost TO Tome at
tennis on the Columbia Country Club
courts, 6 to !.
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TIGERS END LOSING
STREAK In BATFEST

Cold weather and wet grounds
forced the postponement of all but
three major league games yesterday.
In the American League. the only
development was the triumph of the
Detroit Tigers over the st. Louis
Browns, II to 5. marking their first
victory in the last eight starts.
SiSler stretched his continuous hit
record to the fifteenth game by con-
Meeting safely three times.
At New York, the Phillies won, Is
20 8, after bombarding three Giant
pitchers and using four of their own
twirlers.
Virgil Barnes, rushed into the box
in the eighth, after Dean and Green
field had faced the ambitious Phillies,
was hit numerically, and before the
smoke had cleared in that inning the
visitors had recorded four tallies, in
cluding their winning run.
Meanwhile, the Cincinnati Reds were
idling with the Cubs owing TO cold
weather. Nevertheless the Giants de-
feat brought the Reds to within half
a game of the league leaders.
In Brooklyn, the lowly Boston
Braves humbled the Dodgers, 10 to 3.
The Boston players registered II hits
and the Dodgers got II off Jesse
Barnes, formerly of the Giants.
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EPISCOPAL TO SEND
80 TO TRACK MEET

ALEXANDRIA,. Va. April 30.-Epis
copal High will have 80 men in the
meet with Gilman, Tome and Wood
berry Forest at Baltimore Saturday.
Alexandria High School dropped its
sixth game of the season yesterday
afternoon to st. Johns College of
Washington. TO 3. Riley, hurling for
the locals, famed. IA batters.
Coach Lionel Levy of Alexandria
High will send a squad of about 20
men to the track meet at Maryland
University Saturday.
Eddie Carroll's Dreadnaughts will
meet the Aloysius Club nine here Sun
day at the Dreadnaught Park at
o clock.
Manager Sam De Vaughn of the
Cardinal Athletic Club has booked the
Northern chIbmen for Sunday.
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Spurgeon. Ninety-five per cent Of
the seers didn't give Cleveland a look
in for the first division, but the club
hasn't been out of it so far.
Bad Break for LutZke. J
With a winning combination now
going, it is a question whether Lutzke
will get his job back-at least until a
break comes in which Spurgeon fig
ures. Lutzke isn't likely to hit 800
unless he amends the errors of his
swing at bat. When it is figured that
Lutzke might do for some other
teams, the Philadelphia Nationals, for
instance, there seems to be no justice
in base ball. It's just an old pincush-
ion with the points sticking out.
Spurgeon has had four errors since
the season began and that isn't much
for a young player who has evidently
been on his toes. and who, with Knode
and Fewster has put some speed into
the Cleveland infeld, which didn't
always run around in 1924 exactly
like an antelope on an alfalfa jag.
He hasn't stolen any bases, but
none of the Cleyelanders seem To
have done anything in that direction
with the exception of Knode. who has
stolen the large total of two for the
season.
fConyrirht la95
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WIFE NOW WILLING
FOR JACK TO FIGHT

WILMINGTON, Del. April 30
Jack Dempsey, who, with his wife, TIL
former Estelle Taylor, is a guest at
the home of his mother-in-law, may go
into business here if he can find some
thing to his liking, he told interview
ers. Questioned about his plans and
whether he would fight again, Demp-
sey said:
Il have TO do something, either fight
or appear in the movies. / much pre-
fer the former. However, l have been
in Wilmington a number of times in
the past year and it may be that I
will locate here and go into some
kind of business if | can find some
thing to my liking"
Mrs. Dempsey said she had no OBJ
lection 70 her husband appearing in
the ring.
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Edward McKeever's death leaves
Stephen w. McKeever as successor
to all officers of the club except that
of secretary Steve" Mckeever has
had no experience in base ball save
as an onlooker and an enthusiast,
in company with his brother, Edward.
The will of the late President Ebbets
was to be read today. 1t is under
stood that the will provided his son.
Charles Ebbets. jr., should administer
the Ebbets interests in the club. But
the death of the two big powers in
the Brooklyns within two weeks of
each other, is more than likely TO
bring a big change in the Brooklyn
ownership.
NEW YORK. April 30.-Edward ].
McKeever. acting head of the Brook
lyn base ball club of the National
League, died at his home in Brook
lyn yesterday little more than a
week after the passing of the presi-
dent of the organization, Charles H.
Ebbets. He was 66 years old.
Influenza, developing from cold
contracted while attending the fu-
neral of Mr.. Ebbets, was given as
the cause.
Today stephen McKeever. broth
er. is acting president of the club
and will he assisted, for a time at
least. by Joseph Gilleaudeau, sonin
law of Mr. Ebbets. stephen Nc
Keeyer is II years old and is not eX
pected TO take active CH&-ge of af-
fairs.
Provisions i'll the will of Mr.. Eb-
bets are expected to be made known
today He owned a half interest
having sold so per cent of the stock
to the McKeever brothers in 1872,
when he conceived the plan of build
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EDDIE BOWEN TACKLES
BELMONT WEDNESDAY

Washington ring fans probably viii
see little Eddie Bowen extended TO
the limit Wednesday night at Wash
ington Barracks when he meets Joe
Belmont of Baltimore in the final Of
three 10-round bouts. Belmont claims
victories over Little Jeff. Benny
Schwartz and frankie Murray.
Participants in the 10-rounders and
the round mill that completes the
card will be required to post substan-
tial sums as forfeit for weight and
appearance and must report to fight
headquarters at the Barracks at l.
O'Clock on the day Of the show
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THIRD SANDLOT LOOP
ORGANIZES TONIGHT

Following the example of the midget
and junior sandlotters, members of
senior base ball teams are meeting to-
night at the Boys Club to organize
their division of the Washington Base
Ball and Athletic Association and to
elect officers.
Twenty three Junior mines met last
night and elected Edward Colliflower
president of their circuit. Edgar Baum
was chosen vice president and Vincent
Lester secretary. Junior teams have
until next Tuesday night to enroll in
the ranks of the association.
Acceding to request made by the
junior base ballers, the chairman of
the committee arranging the program
for the track and field day on May 8
has raised the Junior weight limit from
l25 to 135 pounds.
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The entertainment is to be very
chubby affair. only member Of the
promoting organization being per-
mitted TO witness il. Memberships in
any of three classes may be had
daily from am. to 8 pm, at the
chubby affair, only members OF the
hall at Fourteenth street and Park
road is being equipped with seats for
a crowd of 5000.
Foreman is well known TO and popu-
lar with Washington fight fans He
is hard-hitting featherweight and
has TO his credit number of knock
outs. In Haywood. however. Fore
man viii face a rugged opponent, ac-
cording TO the latter's record. The
Baltimorean in more than a hundred
battles has lost none by the X. O.
verdict.
The Dencio-Jeff affair will be in the
nature of return mill. although
these little fellows last met nearly a
year ago in the Maryland metropolis.
Then Little Jeff barely managed to
shade his Filipino adversary Little
JEFF now holds the fiyweight cham
pionship of the South and Dencio is
more than eager to get that title, for
he Is bent upon securing a number of
engagements before local clubs.
The siN-round encounter will be
between Jimmy Waterman. n hard :
lighting yOungster from the local
navy yard, and Nick Bass, a Balti-
more Welter, said to possess "A real
wallop. Waterman in recent show
lngs here made a favorable impres
sion, although little is known in
Washington of Bass scrapping abil-
ity.
In the opening bout of the bill
Jack Cody and Phil Harmon are to
be opponents over four-round
route. Their match will be followed
by one of similar length between
Scotty Montague and Young Pal
Moore.
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in 1915 ne batted .2JS, Il mark which
, he boosted to .309 the following season
Cleveland then purchased his re
lease, and, as on Ir1ian, he hit .304
in 1917 and .303 in 1918, jumping his
average the following year to .375.
During 1920 and 1925 Harris played
independent ball at Franklin. Pa,
being unable to come to terms with
the Indians management. On its
part Cleveland was afraid to risk the
salary Joe wanted, due to the fact
that he had been troubled with sore
feet and might not weather a cam
paign. In December, 1921, Harris
was released to Boston in a deal that
sent Stuffy McInnis to Cleveland, and
his batting figures with the Red SoX
while playing both in left field and
at first base in 1922. 1928 and 1924
have been .316. .335 and .301 respec-
lively.
Joe Is Elated Over Shift.
Harris naturally is highly elated
at having escaped from a tail-ender
to a potential pennant winner, and
has every incentive to produce a
maximum of effort Just how his
talents will be employed by Manager
Bucky has not been determined. other
than that he will be used for pinch
hitting against southpaws. 1t is pos
sible he may be assigned as regular
understudy to Judge at first base and
that Mule Shirley may be farmed out
for a Summer of seasoning, or that
Rice will be moved over to center
field and Harris installed in the right
garden.
In any event the champions appear
better fortified with Harris on the
roster than with the left-hand hitting
Carlyle, who is said 10 be having
trouble with his eyes and has not
been able to hit a lick all Spring,
while Zahniser's career as a Wash
ington pitcher already was definitely
ended.
Flag Raising Is Scheduled.
Weather permitting, the Nationals
were to open a three-game series with
the Philadelphia Athletics today. when
the hoisting of Washington's first pen
nant was scheduled as a preliminary
feature. If rain prevents competi-
ton this afternoon the f1ag-raising
ceremonies will be held tomorrow.
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sANDE RIDES IN FORM.

JAMAICA. y. Y. April 3O.-Earl
Sande. laid low by broken leg in a
race at Sarotoga Springs last Sum-
mer, rode yesterday as of old. Mount
ed on WOrthmore of the Everglades
Stables, Sande nosed out Wallace on
Harry P. Wnitney's Noah in the Pau
monok Handicap, opening feature of
the Jamaica season.
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GIANTS SIGN COLLEGIAN.

LEXINGTON. Va. April 3O.-Wal-
ter E. GUS Lindberg, captain and
left-hand pitcher of the 1925 Wash
ington and Lee nine, has been signed
by the New York Giants He will
report for duty on June 3. In five
starts Lindberg has registered as
many victories, defeating Roanoke
College, Virginia. Virginia Polytech-
mic Institute, BuCknell and Cornell
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PLAY FOR CHESS GAMES.

By the Associated Press
BADEN BADEN, April 30-Play
in the international chess masters
tournament yesterday was devoted to
adjourned games. three of which were
decided. Gruenfeld of Austria played
to draw with Rosselli. Italy which
brought him to a tie with Rabino-
witch, Russia, for third place. In the
two other games Saemisch. Germany,
defeated Yates. England, and Mieses,
Germany, defeated Cole, Belgium.
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BALTIMORE, April so. - Sewen
Dixon, outfielder; Frank Kane, in
fielder, and Turner, a pitcher. have
been farmed to the Virginia League
for one season by the Baltimore In
ternationals. Turner and Dixon will
play with Portsmouth, and Kane with
Kingston.
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WILL PLAY IN JAPAN.

CHICAGO. April 80. - Permission
for the University of Chicago base ball
team to tour Japan next autumn has
been granted by the faculty board of
athletic control. Waseda University
recently extended an invitation to
make the trip, the fourth that a Ma
room team has made to the Orient
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RUTH STILL IMPROVING.

NEW YORK, April 30.-Consider-
able improvement is reported in the
condition of Babe" Ruth, heavy hit
ter of the New York Yankees. The
home run king will not be able to re-
turn to the game for several weeks,
according to his physician, DR.. Ed
ward King
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sUMPTER OUT OF DERBY.

JAMAICA. n. Y, April 30-Sump-
ter, owned by Robert Odom. has with
drawn from the Kentucky Derby.
Odom said that he preferred TO have
the colt in shape for future three-year-
old battles. rather than TO jeopardize
its chances by hurrying training for
the turf classic
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FLOWERS STOPS DARDEN

SAVANNAH, Ga, April 3O-Tiger
Flowers of Atlanta knocked out
Sailor Darden of New York in the
fifth round last night. Flowers
landed on Darden frequently with a
left jab and ended the fight suddenly
when he knocked Darden on the
ropes with a blow over the heart.
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able to book an opponent for Saturday
Senior teams wishing action should
communicate with Manager Boteler
at West 730 between and 5 o'clock
A meeting of the club will be held
tonight at $3.50 o street at 7:30.
Liberty Athletic Club meets the
Park Athletic Club at the Union
Station Plaza Saturday at 2:30 o'clock.
Liberty players are requested to re-
port at the Virginia side of the Key
Bridge Sunday at ! O'Clock for a game
at Ballstdn.
John Cox, manager of the Bright
wood Athletic Club, wishes to book
an unlimited team for Sunday. Call
Adams 1484-J. The Brightwood nine
has the use of the Ifandley Field for
the season.
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TdIed With Tribe Last Year.

jackson" didn't accumulate any
record with Cleveland last season. He
merely looked them over, under the
name of Spurgeon. He got his chance
when Lutzke became temporarily
incapacitated, and showed himself
possessed Of everything requisite to
a good third baseman. He has batted
around 800 and has fielded admirably.
He accepted eight chances in his
fifteenth game in the big show.
Third basemen have become raven
Gus for those eight-or-better records
this season and are knocking old
time records far awry in that respect.
But not many who are doing it are
novices in the big circuits.
Cleveland has been knocking the
predictions of the early birds right
and left, for good and sufficient rea-
sons, one of which is Jackson
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ACQUISITION OF VETERAN
ADDS TO PUNCH OF CLUB
Whether Moon Will Succeed Shirley as Understudy
to Judge or Win Outfeld Berth Is ProblematicaI
Mackmen Are Here for Series
BY DENMAN THOMPSON,
Sports Editor. The Star.

HE which Joe Harris ouhelder-hrs
the Washington exchange Roy Carlyle Paul Zah-
will strengthen
the his health The of
fhy fyche does he rank with
initial but he hits the che he did for the Red Sox
ing 1928 and 1924 he will make himself solid with Capital fans
Harris playing regularly
the Hub led
while but this ohtha
the that the Hose anchored
the the with played
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LITTLE JEFF.
YOUNG DENCI0.
WASHINGTON A. C.. OFFERS
34-ROUND FIGHT PROGRAM

/lTH bouts billed headlners the
NV Washington be
the Arcade. The 0round
Foreman Fort Myer and Lew Haywood
and Young Deno this Little Bamorean
weights The also will include engagement
limit to fourro roundSe each
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AS" "JACKSON'' WAS CLEVER
SHORTSTOP FOR PELICANS
Hit .278 and Fielded $40 for Southern Association
Club Before Joining Cleveland-Now Is Shin
ing at Third Base for Indians.
BY JOHN B. FOSTER.

EW YORK April 30Base ball fans peruse
records for line Spurgeon the third baseman
the Cleveland Americans find any-unc they look the
His Jackson transferred
from New Orleans % Cleveland in July, 1924
name contributing
to
uke the player who started the third for the Indians
Looking record which
hard understand his speed Last shotstop
for he
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WINS ATTENDANCE TROPHY.

MACON, Ga. April 30.-Columbia
S. c., with an opening day attendance
of 1894, won the trophy offered by
the Macon Exchange Club to the city
in the South Atlantic League having
the largest attendance at the opening
home game.
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ing new stadium in Brooklyn
Ready cash was necessary at that
time and the McKeevers paid him
100000. a move which TO this day
is not understood in base ball circles.
At present the Brooklyn franchise
is considered one of the most valu-
able in the National League. as since
1916 the club has captured two league
championships.
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HUBBARD TO RUN HERE.

DeHart Hubbard, negro athlete who
finished first in the international cen
tury dash at the Penn relays will be
seen in several of his specialties at the
Howard University meet Saturday.
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DEATH OF McKEEVER MAY
MEAN SALE OF DODGERS
BY JOHN B. FOSTER.

YORK 50The sudden and death OF Edward
president of the Brooklyn bail
the funeral OF the late Charles H. EbbetI
by shock
club change hands.
already being by company by
haSe hill mani nnnaLe fnri
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RETAINS TENNIS HoNORs.

LONDON, April 3O.-E. NJ. Baerlein
retained the British amateur court
tennis championship by defeating the
Hon. C. n. Bruce in the final at
Queens Club, "a, GO, %.
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Last summer early in June, Joe
Harris was bothered with aches and
pains and was compelled to drop out
of the lineup. His departure from
the team was a signal for the Red
SoX to drop out of first place, and
they continued 10 sink deeper and
deeper until they brought up in sew
enth place at the finish of the cam
paign
Harris troubles We're attributed to
infected tonsils. his principal ailment
being neuritis that settled in his right
shoulder and handicapped him in
throwing as well as in batting He
had the offending organs removed at
that time, and this Winter and Spring
has been in much improved physical
condition. having felt no return of the
neuritiS nor the sore throatS and kin
dred ailments he formerly suffered
with.
moon" Has Right Spirit
The veteran always has been a
prime favorite in Boston and comes
TO the Nationals with the best wishes
of Hub fans. Moon" as he is called,
is the type of player who should fit in
we'll with the local aggregation. as he
is always trying and never loafs or
goes dead" regardless of the lop-
I4SA'b aspect VI any SdIllt VI Ilit uSS-
perate plight of his team.
Restricted for the most part TO the
bench due to Manager Fohl's effort to
build up a young team in. the Hub,
which dictated the placing of Phil
Todt at first base, Harris has had lit
tie opportunity to play this Spring
: >and this probably accounts for his
slow start. but placed with a cham
pionship array and getting away from
the penetrating. deadening chill of
Spring in New England to the more
salubrious climate of Washington
may be expected to have d beneficial
effect on the old-timer.
Playing for Twelve Years.
Now 33 years old, having been born
in Coulter, Pa, May 20, 1892, Harris
first broke into professional base ball
with Pay City in 1918, where be batted
.329 that season and 1856 the next.
The Yankees bought his release. but
shunted him off to Chattanooga, where
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KRAMER K. O.'S O'DOWD.

MONTREAL, April 80. = Danny
Kramer, Philadelphia featherweight,
knocked out Phil O'Dowd of Colum-
bus. Ohio, in the second round last
night.
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YESTERDAYS 1

YESTERDAYS RESULTS.
Boston. 10: Brooklyn. ,.
Philadelphia. I3: New York. 81.
ChicagO-Cincinnati (Tain).
Pittsburfih-St. Louis trainl.
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CARDINAL A. C. GETS
CHANCE TO EVEN UP

Hess Juniors are expecting some
real competition Sunday when they
meet the Cardinal Athletic Club in a
return game at Handley Field. Last
Sunday the Hessmen broke the Birds
winning streak of 10 straight and
made their own wins for the season
three in d row.
Licarione will be seen in action on
the mound for the Hess tossers with
Rheese and Biddle prepared to go into
the fray.
Practice for the Hess nine has been
called for this evening at Fifth and
l. streets southeast, and tonight
meeting of all team members will be
held at 720 Seventh street southeast.
V. Lester has been chosen presi-
dent of the Cardinal Athletic Club,
which holds its regular weekly meet
ing tomorrow night. +. Baum has
been named vice president. +. Keller
secretary, G. Mills treasurer and r.
Lyon Sergeant-at arms. Cardinal Jun
iors will encounter Business High
School at Handley Field tomorrow aft
ernoon at $3.50 o'clock.
Tony BurrutO, manager of the Con-
greSSional Juniors, who played as the
South Capitol Juniors last year, is
casting about for a Sunday game with
a team having the use of a diamond.
Ca1r>Franklin 1855.
Northern Insects expect to have
their new uniforms by Saturday, when
the Clevelands are encountered. For
games call Adams 762 between and
o'clock.
st. AlOysius Midgets wish to ar
range a game for Sunday. Call
Franklin 9739 after o'clock
f. +. Bernard, at 1903 Seventh
street, is booking games for the Bucky
Juniors, who meet tomorrow night at
the home of Raymond Britain, 637
Q street. Candidates for the team
should call at 637 Q street between 5
and Z o'clock.
Renroc Juniors will practice tomor-
row at $50 at Diamond No. 6, and
will play the Crescent Juniors Satur-
day and the South End Juniors Sun
6aV
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Shortstops never get such high
figures as other infielders. and $40
looks pretty good. New Orleans
begged that jackson" be permitted
to stay, as the Crescent City had
chance. Eventually Memphis cap
tured the Southern Association cham
pionShip and New Orleans had to be
satisfied with third nlace