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PLANS TO BE MADE
BY BANKERS LEAGUE

Managers of teams in the Bankers
Base Ban League meet tomorrow at
1:30 o'clock in the Hibbs Building
TO complete their plans for the sea-
son and TO elect officers.
Six teams will make up the circuit
this season. They will represent the
Riggs National Bank, W. e. Hibbs
Co, +. II. Smith Co. Mount Vernon
Savings Bank, American Security and
Trust CO. and Metropolitan National
Bank. Mount Vernon and American
Security will be taking part in the
series for the first time.
Commercial. District National and
Bank of Washington, members of the
league last season. are not entering
teams again.
The loop has obtained the use of
three diamonds for Saturday after
noon games, giving all teams action
each week. The schedule will open
about May i.
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t tos,-up until the final whistle found
he 24-to-l9 count.
half The Blues did not really break
loose for their usual scoring orgy un-
Ill well into the third quarter They
piled up the points RAPIDLY in the last
10 minutes of play. however
Ivy stevens and Elizabeth Ward,
forwards on the Blue team. are the
hi@h-poiut scorers in the series. Their
teamwork has been commendable also,
and yesterday their work was brilliant.
featured by the most accurate shoot
ing Of their career.
Elizabeth Hatch and Virginia Story
form the center field OH the winning
squad. NTiss Story is captain Flora
Alpert, Jean Slime and Barbara Bur
roughS. guards, proved an able back
field defense. Miss Slime played in the
first series and Miss Burroughs re
placed her in the second.
The Senior Reds won second place
in the series. Their first squad in
cludes Dorothy Ruth. captain. and
Dorothy Boyle. forwards; Edie Wade.
center: Dorothy Lewis, side center:
Christine Zimmerman and Gladys
Swecker, guards. BY an odd coinci-
dence the color scheme Of the Reds
was aptly carried out in its baclItield.
Both guards are titan haired
The second squad of the Senior
Blues was not quite so fortunate as
the first in coming through the series
unscathed. The Senior Red second
string players nosed ont the Blues
yesterday, II to 10. The victorious
squad holds the distinction of being
the only combination to score over
either Blue team this season.
Coaches. under the name Of the
Etcetera team triumphed over the
Business High night school Comets
last night by a 24-to-16 count. in a
game played at Business High School.
The game was featured by the play
of the Etcetcra guards, Margaret
Johnson and Nils T.. Judson. and bq
the brilliant playing Of Louise ShofnOs,
Comets. side center Jack Martin
r.fayopI
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FIGHTS LAST NIGHT.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEANWHILE, Pa.--Mike Wallace
Cleveland, beat Pedro Lopez Wheel
ing, w. VA. O0D.
A * r @ y. Ohio - Make Holub
AIIrCn, defeated Louis de Arco. Cleve-
land n0). Tommy Hughes Detroit,
shaded Andy Tomaskey, McKeesport,
Pa.
HANANA.-Black Bill. Cuba. de-
feated Henry Catena, Norfolk. Va.
02).
Los ANGELES.-Fid La Barba
fiyweight champion. beat Clever
Sencio, Philippines O0)
OAKLAND, Calif.-Roland TodG
England, and frankie Campbell, SAL
Francisco, fought g. draw 00).
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Among clubs already homeWard
bound are the two Philadelphia out
fits, the Athletics and Phillies, and
the Pittsburgh Pirates, world cham
pions. Snow prevented the Pirates
from playing at Wichita, Kans.. yes.
terday, but ii was hoped they could
get into action today
Connie Mack, ! whose Athletics are
conceded a winning chance.
asserted that if his players are not
now fit for the race they never will
be. Part Of his squad will meet the
Rochester InternationalS al Waycross.
Ga, today. Although the Phillies
have won only one game this Spring
Boss Fletcher insists they will exhibit
good brand of ball, but may not
win the pennant."
The New York Yankees and Giants
and the Brooklyn Dodgers are in Ten
nessee. Snow blocked the Yankee
Dodger contest at Nashville yester.
day.
McGraw divided his Giant squad to-
day. half Of the team going TO
Memphis and the others invading
jackson. Tenn. to play Toledo. The
teams l3-year-old mascot gets ticket
back to Sarasota, Inconsistencies beat
ing him out of a permanent berth.
y
with prospects Of getting to the
home lot in st. Louis with much
brighter prospects than last year.
The hurting staff shows great i'm
provement, with Castor going much
better, the catching department we'll
fortified and the outfield stronger be-
cause of reserve strength. The al.
dition of Robertson. Zachary, Bal
lou, Jonnard and Bolen is expected
to bolster the clubs pitching con-
siderably.
The Cincinnati Reds play Fort
Lauderdale today. then spend a night
at Hollywood. Fla, before starting
the northward trek. An interclub
game at West Palm Beach yesterday
kept the athletes in trim.
BY the end of this week or the
middle of next the Detroit Tigers.
st. Louis Cardinals. Chicago White
SoX and the Chicago Cubs will be
homeward bound. Cobb's orders at
Augusta, Ga, indicate a big possibil-
ity that the Tigers will train else
where next year.
Eight games will be played by the
Cardinals before they arrive home
from Dallas, and the Chicago SoX will
play three more at Shreveport, La,
this week before breaking camp. The
Cards spent yesterday indoors, but
the Sox brushed up on slugging
against southpawS.
Home runs featured the four eXhi-
bition games played yesterday With
the bases loaded, Spurgeon of the
Cleveland Indians knocked q homer
against Rochester at Waycross, Ga.
At Los Angeles, Hack Wilson and
Gabby Hartnett of the Cubs clouted
two circuit drives each. all coming
with two men on, to beat the Angels.
Goose Goslin raped a four-bagger in
the fifth inning of the Griffs' victo
rious battle against Baltimore at
Tampa. and Cronin of the Boston
Braves got homer against the Prov
idence club at st. Petersburg. Man
ager Bancroft of the Braves suffered
a slight injury when spiked by Wight
Of Providence.
The Cleveland Indians play Atlanta
at Atlanta today, after adding a vic
tory to their list at Waycross, Ga.
yesterday. Dutch Levsen pitched
sensationally during his siX-inning
turn in the box, but shared stellar
honorS with his infielderS.
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AT least. that seems TO be the opin.
| ion Of many club officials and players
of the circuit. These men are max
ing no statements for publication.
They cannot afford TO do so. But they
sense that the umpireS are not going
| to end the practice. Some few pitch
ers may be punished. but it seems the
majority of the slabmen will get away
with trickery.
Such underhand practice is adbhor-
rent to the judge. it has been said.
He wants everything in the playing
of the game TO be above board and
there is every likelihood that he will
fight for the adoption Of the resin
bag by the American League. OF
course, tho league is not om2elled TO
accept every rule formulated by the
joint rules committee. IL said at it's
meeting in Washington in February
that it could take ii rule Or leave it
not in so many words. but that was
the gist of its argument.
But the Judge feels that both
circuits should operate under playing
laws identical all through and that as
it IS generally known TO the public
many American League pitchers use
IT, Ban johnson and his league asso-
ciates may just as well leSalize the
resin nag.
From all accounts. the judge has
learned a great deal about this matter
during visits to American League
camps in this State and his informa.
tion may afford him splendid oppor.
tunity to harass his old sparring part
ner. Ban johnson, if nothing else.
1t is said the judge got some in
formation on the subject while at
tending a game near here in which an
American League club was playing
National League outfit. He was
sitting in the stand just back of the
American League bench. When the
Johnsonian circuit pitcher came off
the field after an inning in which ne
had been we'll battered, he let out a
yelp that could be heard throughout
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"The sacrifice is very valuable in
scoring runs. If there is a runner on
the third-base side you sacrifice to-
ward the iirst-basc side: if the runner
is going from first to second you may
sacrifice either to right or 'aft. The
runner ON first always Is able to get
n good lead off that bag. and either
sacrifice hit will do for him.
If the batter in a position TO Sacri-
flee is not Il good hunter he should
make AN effort to place his hi',-
The hit-andrun play is Is great
piece of base bali when it goes
through successfully. but when it
misses it muses. things up consid-
CrahlN.
THE running bunt is n good play.
A running bunt between pitcher and
first baseman is hard 10 handle as it
catches both men out Of position and
off balance.
Use the short grip on the bat, and
remember to grip il loosely so that
the bali will not rebound sharply.
when there is u runner on third
and not two men out Il long fly to the
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The opposing forwards matched
point for point in the opening period,
which ended in q deadlock. Less than
- minutes after the first toss-up. Re
becca Harry. Normal School forward,
found the basket for a tWo-pointer,
This was followed closely by Mary
Kama pen's field goal for Gallaudct,
tying the count. An additional point
was added by the student-teachers
from the foul line, which was matched
hy q similar shot Gagged by Miss Kan
napel shortly before the quarter
closed.
The battle continued nip ana tuck
throughout the half. Wilson Normal
was leading, 9 to Z. when the Third
quarter opened. AT this point Louise
Hoelke, the Normalites stellar forward.
took her place in the line and added
lust the strength needed to give her
team the edge on the contest. Points
stood 16 TO g when the third quarter
closed.
Wilson Normal widened the margin
considerably in the fourth period but
a last minute rally. resulting in seE-
eral successive goals for the Kendall
Greeners. brought them close To the
leaders before time was called. Miss
Kannapell and the two guards. esther
Prockman and Clara Wheeler. were
The outstanding players on the host
ess team 1t was due largely to their
efforts that the contest was 50 close.
Rebecca Harry distinguished herself
by her excellent work in the Wilson
Normal forward field. Louise SulhTan
plaved brilliant game at center.
By taking the measure Of the Senior
Reds. SO to 10 yesterday, the Central
High School Senior Blue squad not
only clinched the championship. but
completed its season without once
tasting defeat. Not only has this com
bination won each game. but it has
,ri1mphed by Il margin Of at least l.
points in each encounter.
The Reds gave the champs the clos
est battle of the series, however. hold
ing them to a 1G-7 count in the first
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BOSTON SOX HARDEST HIT
BY BAD WEATHER In DIXIE
BY the Associated Pres

TRAINING weather
the league base ball clubs opening
not be postponed The will
homeWard
ing the desired form
Bostons Red New
bad
the Red Hose
called off The per cent under condition
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The inquiry from Farrell which
brought the explanation, was as fol
lows:
Does th- new resin ban rule permit
ell leagues "A choice of its adoption or
Ieicctiuu""
In the FIRST place. the commits
.iontr replied "the reference to the
resin bali rule is not accurate. for the
application of resin to the ban is
expressly prohibited. Allowing the
pitcher TO dry his hands by the use of
powdered resin. as specifically limited
hv the hereinafter quoted rule, does
not affect the prohibition against the
resin ball, any more than allowing
him to dry his hands with dirt (which
is universally permitted. despite the
absence of any rule allowing it, affects
the prohibition against the mud ball
or dirt ball"
Quotes From Change in Rule.
The commissioner then quoted from
the change made by the rules com.
mittee as follows:
Under the supervision and control
Of the umpire. the pitcher may use,
10 dry his hands. a tinely-meShed seal
ed bag containing powdered resin. fur
nished by the league.
'The option suggested by your in
quiry is not with the league" the let
ter continues. at is with the pitcher
The rule is distinctly in his interest
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DEGREES 1T is OPTIONAL
WITH PITCHER HIMSELF
commissioners Stand Means All Umpires Must Carry
TO Help End Fraud and Hypocrisy.
BY the Associated Pre-,

ELIAIR Fla. April 1.-The drying the hands is
the pitchers, leagues Commissioner Lands de-
John H. Farrell president OF the National Ao
OF Minor Base Ball Clubs, today.
The regarding the Winter by the rules
which
the
allowed their parks The
and minor leagues
The that all organized base
mchbagS
As been
be known all about merely
the
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JUDGES ACT MAY RENEW
FEUD WITH BAN JOHNSON
Move Seen as Effort to Do Away With Underhand
Practice-Criffs Beat Orioles Before Starting
Nine.Day transforming Tour.
BY JOHN B. KELLER.

PA Fla. April lWhc the Nationals
training base here today there considerable
the athletes and club officials what keneSaw Mountain Lands
base ball
Although the judges meeting with Of the
something affair, well subantiacd
pd during the session indicate the
effort have the American League powder
National League hurlers.
seems the Judge under stands that labmeu ohnsonan
circuit resort the powdered despite the rule prohibit
lie understands used
American League a
II the wants American
bag into the as has the National
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WANDERERS WANT GAMES.

Midget base ball teams arc being
challenged by the Washington Wan.
derers. d club made UP OF Termina
and Western Union midget players
Of last season. Manager Radcliffe is
booking games at Lincoln COLL.
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high individual, with HIP. Brown
of Perpetual Building is second with
l09-40. The National Bank of Wash
ington maintained its lead. finishing
four games ahead Of Riggs National.
Three matches were rolled in the
Masonic League. Joppa won all three
games from Roosevelt: Congress turn
ed the same trick on Arminius, and
Washington Centennial had to be con
tent with two out of three from Il. B.
French. Happy Burtner of Wash
ington Centennial did the best bow
ling. having n set of 37S and a game
Of 1871
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COMMERCIAL LOOP MEETING

Managers Of teams intending 10 en-
ter the Commercial League base ball
race will meet tonight at o'clock at
927 ID street.
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EXHIBITION BASE BALL.

BY the Associated Press.
At Los Angeles l. II +,
Chicago (N) ...... IA I
Los Angeles (CoasD ~ 0
Blake, Rost and IIartnett; L. Jacobs.
Ferguson. Holmes and Sandberg
At Waycross. Ga K II T.
cleveland CAD . II o
Rochester ID ...... t l
Levson Lehr. Benge and j. Sewel;
Horne. Mitchell. Hank, Thermalen and
Devine.
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Frank Giddings has been named
captain and w. Culbertson manager
o. the Berwyn Athletic Club senior
nine, which meets the Powhatan team
Sunday in it's first game.
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Apparently. the Judge has been
quietly investigating the matter in all
Ct the American League club camps
i'll this State and has learned that al
most every pitcher gets the powder
on his hand by some hook or crook.
He ought not to have had much
trouble discovering this, for the resin
bag has been seen on or nearby every
American League Club bench many
times. according TO men closely identi-
fed With the game.
That American League pitchers
were employing resin last year was no
secret. They did not use it openly,
but there always was a supply at
hand for q, championship game. The
same condition prevailed in the Ma
eHnal League, so that organization de-
eided to let the public In on the secret
and adopted the rule Sanctioniug it's
use.
Rule Is Opposed by 4. l..
The American League at its meeting
in February, however, took a decided
stand against the adoption OF the rule
that had been formulated by the
senior major circuit and minor league
representatives. and the Judge at the
meeting of the joint rules committees.
But. evidently. tho stand OF the
American League officials has not had
any effect on the playing personnel
of the league. Those pitchers who
had been using resin have continued
TO use it in the Spring training games.
Between their pitching innings they
have been getting the dust on the
bench. Some convey il to the field
on the peaks of their caps. some man
age to get a good quantity of il on
parts OF their uniforms or in their
gloves and others dust their hands
literally before toeing the slab.
What has been done in the training
games very likely will be done in the
championship season games, despite
all edicts prohibiting its use Ban John
son, big boss OF the American League,
may issue.
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-, Tbe Gbening 5tar
~ BOYS CLUB
~>a< Conducted by ROBERT C. MCCLELLAN

old base ball men lcOuld Ike to
see more sacrifice hitting. ana
perhaps that's lchD iris Speaker,
the famous hitter and manager Of
the CIereIdnd Indians. ddriSes
members Of The Ereninq star
BoBS Club to learn sacrificing.
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tT>1E sacrifice hit in base ball
is not being used as com
monty as IN other years,
but I'd like to see it used more, and
so would all other old base ball men.
1t is a fine part OF The game and has
been somewhat forgotten i'll favor of
the home run and the triple or
double.
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ANOTHER CLOSE ONE

'Batted for C0yeleslle in sixth inning
NashinEtOn.. o % VI
Baltimore. o o o o :. o O..
Obase hits-VaIker. McNeeIy. Go4lin.
BlueEe. Home run"ioslIn. Sarrifiee-
Fischer. Left on bises-BaltimOre. 10:
Washington. o. First base balls-On
OF Bush. 2. Hits--Of johnson. in :; in
nings; OF Covele.kie, . in 3 innings: on
Bush. in 3 innings. Hit by pitcher-R,
Johnson Conn. Struck Out-By Myers
4: by Johnson. !: by CoveleSkie. =: h.,
Bush. :. Winning pitcher-Bush. Cmpirr~
-McGovan and Mct'ee. Time Of game
hour and 40 minutes
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With the BOwlers

alleys early this the
r bowling there National being
among the tourney the
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and for his benefit. II is 4 part-a
material part of his contract of en-
pioyment and retention expressly 50
made by his agreement with the club,
and being 50. it is no more open To
the league tWhOSe president has ap-
proved his contract or the club de
liberatcly to deny him the right thus
created than il would he 10 deny him
any other right.
$50 much for the legal situation rC-
sulting from the rule AS a practical
proposition (aS / must assume every
body interested in the situation now
realiZes) ii amounts simply to this:
1t brings the resin bag from the play
ers bench out into the open. 1t
legalizes a practice which many pitch
ers in all leagues, both major and
minor, have pursued, surreptitiously,
for years--in many cases, | am bound
to say, under such conditions that
their managers must be presumed to
have known all about it.
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The timeworn phase. get the
wood" stood out in the finish of the
Commercial League, the Garry Ice
cream and Times-H Herald teams, being
tied for first place. each winning 54
and losing 81 games. However, the
former got the vert on total pins.
with 167 as its margin.
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Does Away With Hypocrisy.

''Thercfore. inasmuch as the prac-
tice under the supervision and control
of the umpire will result only in dry
ing the pitchers hands, thus enabling
him to get hold of the ball (and ccr-
tainlv this is unobjectionablel, the rule
has the virtue of helping us to get rid
of fraud and hypocrisy, and, speaking
generally, that is still worth while"
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Outfield will score him. Don't hesitate
to deliver when your manager gives
you such n signal"

This shows the diagram of dia-
mond, with Il dotted line indicating
the best course of a bunt to lay down
toward first when there is a man to
be moved from second to third.
Tomorrow iris Speaker 1cjU discuss
The natter rcfsUS the pitchCr. Read
cr"ry one Of these base ban articles.
b0US. NdHU Of the 0rOtc1tupS are
doino IT, Thcrc WH Sc plenty Of base
ball. Keep in toHch Irith the clubs
Evening star., 1926-04-01

The final averages Of the Bankers
League show that Wood of the Ma
tional Bank of Washington is the
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In other matches in the National
l'apital League the Belmonts won the
odd game from Mount Pleasant. and
the King Pins turned teh same trick
on the Internal Revenue. OFT of
Mount Pleasant, was the star of the
TWO matches with a set Of BIG and
game Of 160.
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"
Dropping of the Capital City event
fhis season will give the Washington
Duckpin Association a free swing.
Teams in the National Capital
League must have got word of the
calling off of the Capital city tourney
Yesterday, as the Jos. Phillips ANA
Auth teams, which clashed last night,
tore things wide apart, setting three
new marks for that organization.
The Phillips team put over u 649 game.
heating by three pins the record for
merly held by the BelmOnts. It's
set of 1871 also is a new record Tor
Washington. beating by ten the old
mark, made by the King Pins of the
District League. Then Mulvey of
Auths, stepped into limelight with a
game of III. five better than the
leagues seasons record. held by Jas
per Naples. With all their sensational
work, the Phillips quint captured only
one game out of three from the Auths.
who rolled over 500 in the first and
last games.
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WOMEN IN SPORT
by CORTNNE FR.4ZIER

TIISON NORMAL SCHOOL basket ball triumphed the
Wv Gldet Kendall Green Yesterday in game which
fitting to intercollegiate
spirited oup the final whistle found
the Wlsonian he heavy end OF the 24-to-l9
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BERWYN A. c. ELECTS.

{ Copyright, 1926.)
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BOY BUILDERS.

Take care Of scratches and
cuts promptly. Keep them
clean and guard against pos
sible infection, which sometimes
results very seriously.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-18
GRAIN MARKET.
tBy Dispatch A. p. wire)

CHICAGO July 17.-Reports of en-
gether with persistent absence of
general rains, dominated the wheat
to realize profits Closing quotations
on wheat We're nervous, at the same
as yesterdays finish to one cent high
er, with corn varying from as cent
decline to % cent advance, oats un-
changed to a cent up, and provisions
varying from II cents off to rise
of two cents.
Rapid fluctuations characteristic of
a weather market We're the rule to-
day in the wheat trade, but broadly
the trend continued upward. For
the most part, spectators appeared
bullish, although unwilling to risk u
determined stand for large profits.
The many strengthening factors in
the northwestern crop situation were
more or less counterbalanced by un-
certainty over the price effect of a
much increased movement of new
wheat looked for next week from
the middle west. Expectations are
that receipts here on Monday will
total 900 cars, and that arrivals be-
fore the end of the week will be
rapidly augmented.
Traders watching the crop reports
fro mthe northwest today took par
ticular notice of one which said that
in the premier spring wheat state,
North Dakota, the wheat crop for
nearly 200 miles south Of the center
of the state is ranging from very
poor to failure, with the north half
varying from poor to good. Abandon
ed wheat fields in North Dakota, ac-
,cording to recognized authority will
probably total 100000 acres included
among Canadian advices was word
that between Edmonton and Calgary,
an dior $50 miles northeast of CAL
gary the crop is badly fired.
Corn and oats were responsive to
dry weather reports from the Dako-
tas, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska
Provisions reflected weakness of
hog values.