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Mems Pin Tourney
Schedule
SrNGLEe-7 z. u.

SINGLES n. NJ
!. y. Becker. ). T.. Becker; William
MaF wai,s Me-. fpFnS Vote q 2 sr seslwsz oits
Oscar Hiser Tom Rock, n. n. Young
D. /. Cox, D. Duncan, ]. Laycock. w
Carroll. z: qallsher, W. Wnalsn. 2
r eeT ramp wiill slSaH d GIN .9 Bfisnsr
80 TEAMs-e r. N.
Freight Auditors, Construction. Opera
ton No. 1, Operation No. 2. Regulars
No. I, Parcel Post. Insurgents. r. ~
D.. Mailing. Potomac Boat Club. d.
rectors, Interstate.
DOUBLES r. NJ.
L r. Van SAINT. 5r.. and r. w. ITeine,
jf, ". e. Miller and Nv. w Milbryi
G ". Warfield and partner; Fred s,,s1
ana &. r. GersdoFff. !. 4. Adams
ana ]. w. McKericher, J. J. McNeIil
and @. =. Frazier, J. y. Patterson and
Flynn, q. &. Baum and q. j. Cha.
oonas, L. r. Cook and q. T. Bishop
William Ward and John Bolgiano, G
G. Stoner and REYNOLDS. Leslie crumI
SINGLES p. N.
9. MOelier. c 3 Gersdorff, Z. R
& weldm.n Mf 4 s.l.s e gseas
vile, J: p. Welsh, H. X. BURNER. II. q
CmpbeIl. @. r. Benson, Joe Toomey
G.. B: Smith, N. Rosenberg. jacob
Scharf, W. Charles QUAINT
LEADERS
Class A
Teams---Jerry's Sport shop. LIS: La,
fayette. Ito; Mt. Pleasant (Nat. Cap.)
Doubles--Burtner and Campbell, res
Frye and 4: B. Ward, f4i: Morsar
singies-Brooks. 400: Works. ss7i
Frank Miller. 3S4.
Glass b
Observation-Disclosures &C. & P.), 1.644;
Washington Loan and Trust, 1.62e; Lin.
wood, 1,619.
Foggarty and Werthem, TOT; Frost and
Hyde, 677.
;. singlesaassnde.rs: s77; L. weidman'
Glass @
Teams--Regulafs Mo- 2 (Postoffice)
1890; Columbia No. u a.. Q. 9. F.l'
Doubles--Dudley and Dudley, $50
Booth and Bladen' s4s; Smith. and
'G sine is c. Ballard, $50; Ruark,
356: J. Canone, $50.
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HENDERSoNvILLE, n. c.. May
3.Tucked away III the Blue Ridge
Mountains. Jack Dempsey, heavy
weight champion Of the world, sat
and talked flight" for more than
an hour today.
weighing 2O6 pounds In his road
work costume, his heavy, unmowed
beard looking strangely like q gray
mask IN the bright spring SUM
shine. the champion spoke the con.
fidence he has In his ability to come
back.
II feel just as good AZ / ever
did, he said. Il feel just as fast
on my feet and I believe ! am
hitting with, the same power had
when faced willard. Carpenties
and FIrpo.
II see you writer's are placina
much stress on the fact that !
haven't had d fight for nearly
three years. This would be irnpor-
tart IL had remained In absolute
IdIeness all the time, but didn't.
Hardly q day has gone by that !
haven't had the gloves on or done
some form Of ring exercise.
Another thing" the champion
continued, Tim only 30 years old.
i won't be 81 until June ~. Al,
though some writer's are picturing
me as 33 and 81 already. don't
think nature automatically casts
you into the discard the moment
you pass 80.
''I don't know FOR certain whether
I'll draw Tunney or Wills on Rick
ards card on September 16.
Frankly, / don't care which one
Il draw / suppose one win be 0s
tough as the other. haven't
found any easy ones in this game.
'.But," said the champion seri-
ously, what I'm leading up to Is
this Tunney is rs years old. Wills
lis 81. They are challengers. You
don't hear much said about their
ages, yet neither Is exactly q kid.
Still, because I'm approaching 81
I'm supposed to be old. That's d
laugh"
Dempsey seems IN fair shape. At
least he is in better shape than
any fighter who har remained out
OF competition as long as he has.
There is not more than 10 pounds
Of surplus weight visible on him,
and this ii 80 evenly distributed as
to be scarcely noticed.
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Our Pickings
PHILADELPHIA

Totals SO sa4i1l Totals 20 10 - 8
iBatted for Harriss In sixth.
matted for Bishop In eighth.
Stated for walberg In ninth.
4Batted for Galloway in ninth.
philadelphia -. ? o--a
Washington 1890. Us
Runs-Pool. cochrane, Lamar. Me-
Nicely, 8 Harris. Judge, Peckinpaugh.
Error-Gailoway. Two.base hits.
Harris, Rice. Lamar. Peokinpaugh.
Three-base hit--Peckinpaugh Stolen
bases Harris. Sacrifice hits-Bluege,
McNeeiy, Rice. Double play-Peckin.
paugh to s. Harris to Judge. Left on
b. ses-Philadelphia. z; Washington. 3.
Bases ON bails-Off johnson. 4: off
Harriss, 3; off Baumgartnsr. :.
Struck out-By5 Johnson, 3: by Wal
berg, 1. Hits-Off Harrise. 5 in 8
innings; off Baumgartner, In 3 in
nings; off walberg. 8 In / inning:
off johnson. in "a innings; off
Marberry. In 1 1-3 innings. Winning
pitcher-Johnson. Losing pitcher--Har-
rise. Umpirss-Dineen and MCGOWAN.
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TODAY'S
SPORTORlAL
By Kirk Miller

Every day in every way it is
beginning to look more and
more as If Harry Wills will
have to go to Hendersonville,
N. c., and take one solid swing
at Jack Dempsey's jaw If he
ever expects to face the heavy
weight champion inside Of .
ring or out.
It doesn't require the services
of a medium to detect the
nifnble news, or is it news, that
o pugilistic encounter between
these two gentlemen of the ring
is as remote a possibility, say,
as the renewal Of athletic rela-
tons between Georgetown and
Virginia. Or, to be more gem
erai, the burying of the Ratchet
between Nudge Lands and Ban
Johnson.
If there be any Ratchet obse-
quies in either case, it will be
in one or the others carcass.
In the Wills Dempsey dispute.
which it seems must be settled
outside the ring, another ele-
ment than the attitude Of each
toward the other or indeed the
New York commissions attitude
toward either, enters forbod-
ingly.
The element of public peace
and personal safety for those
who might attend such an en-
broglio is the real barrier which
has kept the remodelled Demp-
sey and the patient Mistoo
Wills at a little more than
arms reach. As a sporting
proposition, no man can deny
that Wills should have the
right Of way over Gene Tunney
in any pulling and hauling with
Jack Dempsey.
Dempsey no sooner had
dropped Willard at Toledo near
" seven years ago than Wills
sent in his calling card.
At that time there was no
particular hurry about Dempsey
accepting; he could take his
time and get around to the
colored man in the course OF
events, but such program was
diligently avoided while Car
pentier and Gibbons and Firpo
were being disposed of, not
necessarily in the order named,
but disposed of none the less.
Every technicality Of State
law and local sentiment has
been taken advantage of by
Dempsey in his side-stepping Of
Wills until the matter has be-
come more or less laughable.
1t seems that Dempsey never
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OVER
! With LouisA tougher
Excepting BASEBALL HONEST0'
-All Times staff Photos

BOSTON May s-The American League is trying to keep
baseball honest if Judge Lands will permit That is the
natural conclusion of considering the recent action
horse to water but will he necessarily drink Judge Land n
resin, compelling the American League accept this
ruling, is moving backwards not forwards and the sooner ne
confidence will the public
his rulings in the future
Judge today position of forcing the American
to solely of hostility between
the American League to
bag he force it's use That something else
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eCnO1nk D8SS utS IA AAeAAAy . GADAAs
Joe Harris has two new ones.
There's q lot OF interest right now
in two new bats which have been
made and presented to Joe Harris,
Senator slugger and hero OF TWO
world series games last fall.
Both bats have been made and
presented by Joe's fan friends in
FRANKLIN, Pa. One OF thern--a
63.ounce bludgeon--is carved out
OF q hickory beam that was the
main support Of one of the first
barns built in Fraklin County. As
near as anyone can figure the wood
which goes into that bat is at least
100 years old, seasoned by the
summer sun and the winter SHOWS
OF more than century.
Then there's another bat IN
does pOssessiOr-a hefty blud-
econ once owned by Guy Hecker,
king Of sIuggers i'm the pnlmy
DAYS. Of the old Iron and OIL
League. That's a bat with. .
history. Many q base hif has
crashed off its stained, time-wOrn
surface. But It's still good
bat. Joe declares.
baS0DaI
and they center, more than any
where else, around the bats. Frank
Schultz Of the old Cubs, during
his days as a reigning slugger he'd
certain black bat which he used
only when he came to bat in q
pinch. For an ordinary turn at
bat Frank would go to the plate
with whatever club happened to be
handy.
But when the Cubs were behind,
where there were men on bases
and a run was needed to tie OF
win, Schultz always used the big
BLACK Martha THAT bat il
almost human" Frank used to
say. "It seems to know when it's
needed. I've broken up a lot Of
games with it, and don't want to
use up its hits unless they're needed.
RutIl's trick bat. Present day
fans viii remember the trick bat
presented to Babe Ruth by Sam
Crawford--a bat made Of four
pieces Of seasoned hickory and
so cemented together that there
was no cross grain.
Ruth used that bat--and with
such success that 1t was finally
barred. Chances are that Babe
would have hit as well with some
other club. But ballplayers are
uperstitious-and the general i'm.
preston was that there was some
thing almost magic In that special
~ made club presented by a de-
. throned king to one in the height
of his glory.
Interesting things, these bats, not
because Of themselves, perhaps, but
because they represent the greatest
single interest of every ballplayer
in the big league, whether he be
a smuggling outfielder with a pe:.-
centage of 400 for the season. or a
lowly pitcher who averages two
hits a season IF he's lucky.
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that one off Marberry who func-
toned effectively thereafter as a
Good Samaritan.
On the other hand, Johnson
looked quite formidable as COM
pared with Slim Harriss who
started the duel and only stuck
to his knitting for five rounds.
In this time he permitted five hits
and three runs to say naught OF
two bases on balls; altogether q
liberal policy over so short a reign.
Before the afternoon was Cancelled,
Baumgartner and Walberg were
bombarded in order.
In the second Judges single
to right, BIuege's sacrifice. Peck's
single which brought the crowd
20 It's feet rs he slid into second
on the throw I'm to get Judge at
the plate, two walks and -
sacrifice fly by McNeely, scored
Judge and Peck.
The third and fourth were barren
for both sides but Washington added
a run in the fifth through the cour-
tesy of singles by McNeely and 3.
Harris and a sacrifice fly by Rice
and final counter arrived on the
wings of the lucky seventh, proving
there is something in superstition
after all.
If It hadn't been for this seventh
inning rally on the part Of Boss
Bucky Harris, the teams might he
fighting there yet.
Dykes dug Johnson's near, drive
right out of the dust and McNeely
was an easy out to Simmons. Har-
ris teased Baumgartner out Of n
walk, stole second and scored on
Sammy Rice's perfectly placed
Texas Lacquer for two bases.
Three hits for Washington in
the eighth availed them nothing
as a base.stealIng spree ensued
which cost them the lives of
Bluege and Peck, the latter on
an attempted squeeze play, after
they had singled and doubled re-
spectively.
Ruel singled after all of the above
wasted effort but two runs might
have been made our margin little
wider were no longer in the making
The Griffmen left at 1880 last night
! for Boston where Curly Ogden vii
| oppose the Red Sox today. A spec
| tator in a left field box was in
| iured by one Of Hauser's fouls
which Bluege couldn't quite reach
and had to be treated by the Mack
ian trainer. The Child Welfare So
| ciety, Mrs. Frank B. Moves, presi
dent, sold posies and outside OF tina
j there "ain't" any news.
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major leagues ALWAYS DIFF
FERED in their Interpretation of
the infield fly and the balk rules.
They do yet.
Does Judge Lands assert his
power to make uniform interpre-
tation of these rules? He does
not. He singles out this use of
resin apparently because the Ma
tional League favors it and also
because Ban Johnson and the
American League do not want it.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-03
CHURCH LEAGUE OPENS
WITH UNION-YANKEES

The West Washington Yankees
and the Union M. E. Church meet
late today in the opening game
of the Sunday School Baseball
League, They will play on diamond
No. of the Monument Lot at s
O'Clock
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There are two fighters among
the American League moguls. One
is Phil Ball, Of st. Louis. The
other is Clark Griffith, of Wash
ington. Both went on record
against the use of resin by
pitchers. Both were outvoted.
Nevertheless, it is a good bet that
American League pitchers WILL
NOT use resin this year or any
other year.
"I am opposed to the use Of
resin," explain Clark Griffith,
"because it marks a step back
ward. If the pitchers can use
resin legally, they will be able to
use other things illegally under
cover of the resin and We'll drift
right back to where we were be-
fore we abolished all foreign SUBJ
stanes on the ball"
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UNION PRINTERS BEATEN
IN SLUGGING MATCH

The Union Printers were defeated
by the Knicks In a free hitting
contest, IL to S. Charles socked
out two homers to break the back
of the unbeatable" printers.
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Question of Power

UDGE lands seems to be a
bit thin-skinned when it comes
- to asserting his authority. He
has taken advantage of his power
to. interpret the rules committees
suggestion as he voted. To a
man of his legal training, how
does he explain his inconsistency :?
When the spitbal was barred
all over the country, the Texas
League declined to go with the
majority? Did Lands crack the
whip? He did not.
For years the question Of in
terpreting the rdules has been
left to the individual leagues.
This was the custom long before
Lands was anything but an oh
scure Federal judge. So far as
this writer can recall the two
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-03
Cubs Lack~WaIIop

The Cubs apparently will make
plenty of trouble this season, but
a deficiency in punch will leave
them a run or two behind in many
games. 1t is thought
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JOE HARRIS owns BAT
HUNDRED YEARSOLD

together they discuss briefs and legal tehni-
symptoms diagnosis
When ball PLAYERS meet they're apt to talk abou bats
That's enough; bat ball players hand
tool and dearest possession Naturally her cherish Their
they up traditions that endure long after the players them
selves have passed Of the baseball picture
wasS eCrawfords BLACK Betsy" instance or
Bottle still the
80 - Cit hnA4in1 n-rnllr
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RAJAH AND EARL BACK
IN LINEUP To STAY,
DECLARES HARRIS

With little better than break in the items OF games
date from expected meet the enemy toe
idencay the lineup which scapered home anead
and in the 1926 aghtaway
stay, according Manager
before
pausng long Washington to help
of The by q g.
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He's Good Starter.

Pitcher Cullop, OF Louisville. ghaa
earned the reputation OF being the
greatest opening-day hufler Id the
minor leagues.
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Retains Osborn

Joe Mccarthy, Cub manager, has
decided to keep Osborn, a big right
handed recruit pitcher.
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3lLeE Johnson VIII Ills 4OOOu l
of the Athletics, by . score Of 4
Also Roger Peckinpaugh viii re.
main az shortstop 80 long as he
judges himself in readiness to per
form there az win Sammy Rice
protect the right field area for the
American League champions.
This assurance is given the
fans by no other than the club
MANAGER himself, and IL he doesn't
know what the plans for the
Griffs, 1895 camjaign might be.
then who In blue blaxes dOesy
Griffs' 1895 campaign might be-
equally authoritatively that Peck has
been out Of the lineup until yester
day during the present season solely
on his own say-so. Peck Is an old
timer In baseball, as is Walter John.
son. and these two oldsters enjoy the
privilege that few ball players do
that of telling their boss when they
are ssready to go' as the saying is.
Peckinpaugh has taken his time
this spring, nursing his creaking
bones along steadily and holding
Ut1n6SlL OACA AOE WesA ia. Ny - ANONs
that these have arrived, Roger
win be in there every day, barring
accident, and Myer win take his
baseball lessons OF the immediate
future from distance.
The New Orleans kid has BEN
Gifted greatly through Peck's alb
sence in the lineup and almost
daily It has been possible TO see
~ IN haAAhAH hann-
work.
He has contributed an error
or two q game, but In but one
instance has his miscues cost q
ball game which II altogether
IN inexpensive experiment both
for Myer and for the ball club,
which expects to take some
gamble when sending In young
material.
Eighteen or twenty thousand
home fans sesmed altogether sat
isfied with the old combination as
it operated yesterday afternoon to
take the Griffs' sixth game out Of
nine meetings from the Athletics.
The old familiar Peck to Harris
To Judge double killing played an
encore In the fifth inning which
satisfied the throng as well as
Bucky Harris that old friends are
the best, especially when it comes
to winning ball games.
Too, Peckinpaugh singled, doubled
and tripled before the afternoon
was over as also did he try to
steal home on an unsuccessful
squeeze play right in the very lap
Of Mickey Cochrane who isn't used
to any monkey business especially
on the part OF an old man who is
supposed to have more decorum.
And speaking of old men, it is
impossible to over-emphasize the
fact that johnson was working for
his 400th victory In major league
livery and possibly it was this
thing on his mind that made him
tire as early as the sixth, although
he didn't actually succumb until
late in the eighth inning.
The first three innings were
aupIesauce for johnson, the
enemy going out In order. They
Derlxed up Q bit I'm the fourth
and got two hits to the out
field.
Then Walter had a good inning
In the fifth and a two-hit relapse
in the sixth. neither of which
kicked up any trouble. The seventh
was easy, but in the eighth thu
Athletics staged a rally that fel
Just one run short of tieing the
score.
Three runs developed as a result
Of q single, base on balls, double
an out and two more singles. Al
except the last single was regis
tered off Walter who was In thu
showers by the time Dykes go
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Shawkey Adorns
Sims With
Big Guards

Bob Shawkey, dean OF the
Yankee players in point OF
service, does not intend to take
any chances with his aged shin
bones. He has seen too many
pitchers get their UNDERMINING
bruised this spring by hot drives
right through the box.
The ball is not supposed to
be as lively as it once was,
but Joe Bush Of the Griffmen
and Paul Zahniser Of the Red
Sox, both with wounded UNDER
pinning, will testify that the
old horsehide is just as zippy
as ever when it Is hit hard
enough. Shawkey, in practice,
borrows D pair Of Catcher Pat
Collins shin-guards. It seems
q sensible precaution. The day
may come when all pitchers
will wear shin-guards, even dur
ing actual games.
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intended to give any man with a
dark skin a chance at the
worlds highest ring honor, in
which case it might have been
better for him to have said so
at Toledo, and thereby kept
many admirers which he has
lost merely through diffidence
toward Wills.
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Toronto Seeks BeaIl
Toronto expects to get Walter
Beail from the Yankees to bolster
its pitching staff
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He has contributed an error
or two q game, but In but one
Instance has his miscues cost q
ball game which ID altogether
IN inexpensive experiment both
for Myer and for the ban club,
which expects TO take some
gamble when sending IN young
material.
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Also Roger Peckinpaugh win re.
main at shortstop so long as he
judges himself in readiness to per
form there az win Sammy Rice
protect the right field area for the
American League champions.
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The first three innings were
aunIesauce for johnson, the
enemy going out IN order. They
perlked up . bit in the fourth
and got two hits to the out
field.
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This assurance is given the
fans by no other than the club
manager himself, and IL he doesn't
know what the plans for the
Griffs' 1895 camjaign might be.
then who In blue blazes dOess
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-02
FANS GET FIRST VIEW
OF CITY II. 6. METERS

Three local high school basketball
teams will show off before the home
fans for the first time this weekend.
Shortridge and Technical will play
their opening games. while Manual
has performed on foreign" courts
In previous contests.
On Friday night at the Blue and
White takes on Hartford City at the
Shortridge gym in the first game on
Coach Burton's schedule. Tech
opens up at Lebanon on Friday, but
returns home the next night for the
opening struggle with Broad Ripple
in the new armory on N. Pennsyl-
vania St, which will see much ac-
tivity through the winter months.
ShOrtridge and Manual also will
play some games, inducing the
city series i'm the new auditorium.
An Butler home games are sched-
UIed there.
The Red and White team plays its
first home game at Manual gym on
Saturday night with Brownsburg as
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the opponent On Friday the South
siders play Ben Davis at Bridge
port.
Cathedral does not start It's SEIZED
ule until Dec. 10 with Oaklandon at
K. G. hall.
Tt is a little early to attempt an
estimate of the various teams.
Even Manual, which has played
some games, cannot be classified
as to strength because the lineup
will be changed when the football
players become accustomed TO the
feel of rubber sOies and hardwood
instead OF leather cleats and
greensward.
All of the local teams, with the ex.
ception of Broad Ripple, played foot
ball and it will take a few weeks for
the coaches to get their squads into
smooth working order. Those out for
the net sport exclusively have been
practicing almost since school
opened this fall