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Evening star., 1926-03-02
ARRAY OF SPRINTERS
ENTER A. A. u. MEET

CHICAGO, February R.-One of
the greatest fields of sprinters ever
entered in any event in this country
will face the starter in the National
A. A. u. indoor track and field cham
pionship here Saturday night.
Loren Murchison of the Illinois A..
c., generally looked upon as the
fastest indoor sprinter in the coun-
try, will meet the best in the Nation.
Frank Hussey of Boston College, who
euualed the world indoor record of
09 As for 100 yards in Baltimore
last Saturday night. will be here to
run in the 60-yard dash and 300
yard event.
Bohn Grim of Michigan State, who
tied the world indoor record of :07 3-5
for rs yards at the Illinois relays last
Saturday, will also be here. as well
as his teammate, Fred Alderman.
who stepped 800 yards in the world
indoor record time of 81 1-5.
DeHart Hubbard, holder of the world
record in the running broad jump,
who is also a sprinter of ability, has
entered for the dash and low hurdles.
Cyril Coaffee of the Illinois A. c.,
who defeated Hubbard last week in
two races, will be a starter in both
sprints. With such an array of talent
the world indoor record of :06 1-5
held by Murchison is in danger.
Evening star., 1926-03-02
PLANS BEING MADE
BY SANDLOT SQUADS

Along with the first touch of Spring
weather comes the initial call for
action among the members of the
Districts sandlot base ball fraternity.
Tonight at 7:30 o'clock the ModOc
club will hold an important meeting
at 5118 Wisconsin avenue. J. G..
Markham has been named president
of the organization for the coming
season. +. w. Pierson is to serve
as secretary and treasurer, while
Earnest Stevens will manage the
team.
Members of the Mount Rainier base
ball club also will gather tonight for
reorganization and to plan for the
diamond campaign. At the meeting
in the Mount Rainier town hall ar
rangements will be made for the
benefit movie and vaudeville show
to be staged on March Is.
DreamIand and Moose players.
members of midget combinations,
will meet tomorrow night. The for
mer will gather at the Dreamland
Candy Kitchen at z o'clock, while
the Moose pastimers come together
at 1854 Eleventh street at 1880.
CFerrydaIe Athletic Club diamond
ers will meet Thursday night at 8
O'Clock at the home of Manager
Mickey johnson. The Cherries have
high hopes of taking the county flag
from Arlington.
Evening star., 1926-03-02
BIG TAX NEEDLESSLY
PAID BY GOLF CLUBS
Rv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, March 2.-Hun-
dreds of thousands of dollars have
been paid by golf clubs to the Gov
ernment improperly and unneces-
sarily, James Francis Burke, general
counsel for the United States Golf
Association. said today.
Clubs have gone along on the as
sumption that green fees were in the
same class as dues and admission
fees to places of amusement and that
these were to be included in tax re-
turns, Burke said.
Green fees are stated amounts,
varying from 81 on the smaller
courses to S. ON the better layouts,
paid by non-member for the priv
ilege of playing a round of golf. They
also are collected from members of
country club who do not pay annually
for use of the course.
The tax bill just signed by the
President makes no alteration in the
law, but Burke says that it will be
unnecessary for clubs to include such
fees in their tax returns this year, as
the Treasury Department and the
United States District Court of Massa-
chusetts have ruled that they are not
taxable.
Evening star., 1926-03-02

On 6 of the II grounds schlag ball
teams will be formed and entered in
the Girls Municipal Playground
League, which is to open next
month. Teams on Adams, Burroughs,
Corcoran, Dennison, Birney and Gid
dings will be coached daily by the re
spective directors in preparation for
the tourney.
The other six school grounds open
for play purposes are Cooke, Fair
brother, jefferson, Johnson-Powell,
Orr and Deanwood.
A complete program of activities to
be carried out on all of these grounds
will be announced later by playground
headquarters.
With four victories and no defeats
recorded. the Junior basket ball squad
of the University of Maryland is lead
ing in the interclass tournament which
is now in progress in Ritchie gym
nasium at College Park.
The leaders defeated the Seniors last
night, So to 8, in their fourth IN
counter. Elizabeth Taylor, playing 4
beautiful game in the forward field,
accounted for the majority of points
registered by the Juniors. Phyllis Nor
gan was the heaviest scorer for the
Senior squad.
The feature of the Freshman SophO.
more tilt, won by the former team,
% to 8, was the accurate caging Of
baskets by Irene Tippett, right for
ward, who accounted for all the points
credited to her team.
The Freshmen are close on the
Evening star., 1926-03-02

heels of the Juniors in the CHAMPION
ship race, having won three and lost
one game. Their only defeat so far
was suffered at the hands of the unde-
feated third-year seXtet.
Strayer's Recreation League sextet
triumphed over the Calvary Church
tossers in a close game last night
staged in the latter's gymnasium. The
score was 20 to o.
Mary Casey, Strayer's right forward,
Gagged 10 field goals. Mildred Yorba
accounted for the other five points for
the winners.
Miss Jolliff was high-point scorer for
Calvary, registering eight field goals.
Miss Kimball scored twice, and Miss
Randall put in the additional basket.
Grace keefe acted as referee.
Two important basket ball games
have been postponed The Metropol-
itan-Princess Athletic club tilt, which
was to have brought together two of
the strongest club teams in the city
tonight has been postponed indef-
initely, pending the arrangement of
a date suitable to both squads.
The other contest Of great interest
to local basket ball fans is the much
anticipated Coaches-All-Star contest,
which was announced for Friday but
will have to be postponed until We'd
nesday or Friday of next week be-
cause of a conflict in dates The
definite date of this contest will be
announced later.
Ethel Perrin Of the Child Welfare
Association of America, in a recent
talk before the local branch of the
women's division, N. A. A f., des.
cribed a most interesting system of
play days" which has been developed
in the schools of California. The in
PRODUCTION of this method of promot-
ing sports without holding champion
ship events is one of the most
progressive steps that has been taken
anywhere in the country toward the
goal set by the National Amateur
Athletic Federation for American
SpOrtSWOmen.
According to Miss Perrin, one high
school decides to hold a play day and
sends out an invitation to a nearby
school to join the fun. Games and
sports are planned in which all girls
in the two schools may participate.
No records of victories are kept, al
though a friendly spirit of rivalry
prevails in each contest AT the end
of the day, each girl has had an oppor
tunity to participate in one or more
activity, and none has to feel that
she was parked on the side-lines be
cause she couldn't make the team
Evening star., 1926-03-02
FIGHTS LAST NIGHT.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HARTFORD, Conn.-LouiS kid
kaplan, Meriden, featherWeight cham
pion, outpointed Billy Petrolle, Fargo,
n. Oak. Q2).
PHILADELPHIA (Kid) Roy,
Canada, knocked out Danny Kramer,
Philadelphia (S). Eddie Leonard, Bal
timore, beat Clovis kid" Durand,
Canada Q0).
CLEVELAND, Ohio.-Pete Sarmi-
ento, Philippines, won on a foul from
Benny Bass. Philadelphia (6). Morris
Layton, New York. outpointed Jimmy
Zill, Youngstown (6).
NEW YORK. - Stanislaus LoayZa,
Chile, beat Phil McGraw, Detroit Q0).
Joe Dundee, Baltimore. scored a tech
nical knockout over Tommy Freeman,
Hot Springs, Ark. (4l. "Mushy" Cal
lahan, Los Angeles, and Archie Walk
er, Brooklyn, fought a draw t10).
Carl Duane beat Joe Malone Q0).
MEMPHIS, Tenn.-Harold Smith,
Chicago, and Johnny Rosen, Canada,
fought a draw (S).
CLEARWA ATE r. ,Fla.-Harry
Forbes, Akron, Ohio, knocked out F.
Muller, Havana %.
Evening star., 1926-03-02
FIVE D. C. GOLF CLUBS
GIVEN SPRING DATES

With the exception of Bannock-
burn, which holds it's affairs late in
September, golf clubs of the District
are given Spring dates on the tenta-
tive schedule of tournaments adopt
ed last night at the annual meeting
of the District Golf Association, held
at the Racquet Club.
September 80 and October l were
selected for the amateur champion
ship event, to be held at Burning
Tree course. The junior title will be
decided on September at Congress
sional.
Robert Stead, jr., Chevy Chase,
was elected president of the asso-
citation. Other officers were chosen
as follows: Albert E. Steinem, Town
and Country, first vice president;
John T. Harris, Bannockburn, second
vice president DR.. w. c. Barr, Wash
ington, secretary treasurer.
A committee composed of the fol-
lowing was appointed by retiring
President McClenahan to consider
the classifying of caddies: p. w. le
Due, Argyle; Fred S. Noise, Ban
nockburn; Robert Stead. jr., Burning
Tree; Morven Thompson. Chevy
Chase; Clyde B. Asher. Columbia;
John G. Koons, Congressional; Tom
4hObIc, 1iluIdI Dpl lHoJ Ii 4h ID
Fischer, Town and Country, and
Fred d. Paxton, Washington.
Kirkside Club was withdrawn from
membership In the District associa-
ton, w. NJ. Stewart, treasurer of the
club, giving the coming dismantling
of the Kirkside course as the reason.
The tentative schedule of annual
tournaments:
April 27, 2s. 20. -3O-Town and Country
May IL. 13. 14-Chevy Chase
June Q, 10; II. 12o1Columbia;
September 9-District junior champion
ship, Congressional.
September 80, October District anna
teur championship, Burning Tree
September 22. 23. "a, 25-Bannockburn.
Evening star., 1926-03-02

Thfrty-One members of the Cardinal
squad were on hand yesterday for che
start of training at the Cardinal camp
at San Antonio, Tex. Only two regulars
are now absent. Before putting the
players through brisk workout Man-
ager Rogers Hornsby gave his hope
fuls talk in which he said, 1--WE have
no room on this club for Second-divi-
sion Players
NEW YORK, March 2 P)-Babe
Ruth has made his first home run of
the season, and the much-discussed in
fielder from the Pacific Coast. Tony
Lazerrie, has appeared at st. Peters
burg, Fla. Both hope to play with the
New York Yankees this season.
Lazerri appeared awkward, but the
the critics compare him with Hans
Wagner and Pie Traynor. Ruth played
first base for a time after punching
several base balls beyond the playing
space.
Del Bissonnette, left-handed first
baseman, featured the Brooklyn work
out at Clearwater with several long
smashes. At Sarasota Manager John
McGraw of the Giants emulated Miller
Huggins by ending the golf season for
ball players.
DETROIT, March 2 CE0.-Six pitch
ers and four catchers got into action
yesterday in the first game of training
for the Detroit Americans at their Au-
gusta, Ga, Sraining camp.
George Mcbride, who bossed the
athletes in the absence of Tv Cobb,
warned the men to be careful on their
first day out, and the players followed
his instructions.
The complete advance squad of II
batterymen will be on hand some time
today.
BOSTON, March 2 R.-Fred
Haney, third baseman, who was ac-
quired by the Red Sox from Detroit
in a midwinter deal, hadn't reported
for duty at the New Orleans camp.
Neither has his signed contract been
received The club has wired to Los
Angeles TO discover what has happened
to the only truant.
In st. Petersburg, Fla, the Braves
did their best in their waterfront ball
yard despite conditions.
PHILADELPHIA, March @.--
With every member of the team on
hand. Connie Mack's Athletics had
their first real workout at Fort Myers
yesterday.
CHICAGO, March 2 CP).-Manager
Eddie Collins of the Chicago White
Sox is the Collins of old at second
base, says reports of the first train
ing lesson given a squad of II initial
roll call respondents at Shreveport,
La, Yesterday. The veteran key
stone man took a short turn at his
position during the brief infield prac-
tice staged with a makeshift lineup
mostly of rockies.
At Avalon, Calf, the regular"
Chicago Cubs We're again downed by
the second string, this time to /.
Evening star., 1926-03-02

head and landed in the bleachers be-
yond. The second throw that Altizer
made was just as bad The ball again
was several feet too high and landed
In the bleachers.
AltiZer was given only the two
throws that L have mentioned and
then play was resumed. Crawford
was at bat. We had two runners on
the bases and we needed one run to
tie and two to win. On resumption
of play Crawford hit the first ball
the pitcher threw to short 1t was
a nice bounding grounder and Altizer
fielded the ball all right. Then he
pulled back his arm and threw the
ball just as high as he had thrown the
two balls few moments before. Two
runs crossed. Washington failed to
tally in the home half of the inning
and the two runs decided it. l never
before or since saw a ball PLAYER make
three wild throws in succession, and
all three bad for the same reason
too high.
In Washington ball games started
at 4:30 in the afternoon in those days.
The purpose was to get the Govern
ment employees to the park in time to
see the start of the game. Early and
late in the season it is fairly dark
at $50, even on bright days, and on
dark days it was hardly light enough
to see.
Believe 1t or Not?
Baltimore was playing in Washing.
ton on one Of these gloomy days in
early season. Baltimore was leading
by a slight margin. In the eighth
inning Washington got runners to
second and third with two out. 1t was
difficult for the batter to see the ball
and even more difficult for the umpire.
Wilbert Robinson was catching for
Baltimore and Kid Gleason was pitch
ing. Gleason got two strikes on the
next batter and then Robinson walked
to the pitchers box and told Gleason:
Throw the next one wide. I'll pre-
tend to throw it back to you. but will
hold it. You pretend to catch it and
go through all the pitching motions
III go through all the catching mo-
tions. They won't know the differ
ence."
Robinson held the ball and Gleason
went through the motions of deliver
ing 1t. Robinson smacked the ball
that he was holding in his glove, hold
ing the glove waist high, where he
would take a perfect strike. The UNI
pire yelled. Strike three"
The batter turned to the umpire
gave him a mean look and said:
Strike three, was it? Why, you
blind beggar, that last one was a foot
outs de-
tCopyrlght. 1926.)
Evening star., 1926-03-02
.PHILLY MAY STAGE
HEAVYWEIGHT SCRAP
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 2.--Words of
peace come from Philadelphia. where
rumor had heralded a great heavy
weight battle.
Mayor Kendrick has definitely put
an end to negotiations for a meeting
between Jack Dempsey and Harry
Wills in the new stadium during the
sesquicentennial celebration. This
fight or any other may be staged
somewhere else in the city. the mayor
advises but not in the stadium.
At the same time it would seem that
New York propositions for the bout
have failed to come forth, for Demp-
sey left this city today for Baltimore
without comforting with the only pro-
moter ready to stage the contest, Tex
Rickard.
Evening star., 1926-03-02

with Milstead doing most of the slab
work for the losers and Osborn throw
ing the twisters for the "goofs."
Lefty" O'Doul led the regulars in
hitting, smashing out two safeties.
CLEVELAND. Ohio, March 2 CP).-
Advices from Lakeland, Fla, state
that the Cleveland Indians had their
ilrst workout there yesterday with
all hands in the field. The newest re-
cruft to the team, Guy Lacey. man.
ager of the Richmond team in the
Virginia League last year, was on
the job as an understudy to Fred
Spurgeon at second base Lacey Is
veteran in the game compared with
Spurgeon. who is -. Lacey's debut
in the big league comes after a num-
Der of years in the minor and being
looked over by scouts of many big
league teams.
The wife of Pitcher Joe Shaute has
assumed the role of mentor to her
husband and has advised him to
learn now just what his faults are
and to overcome them before the
opening of the season.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. March 2 CP).-
Hiking has been added to the train
ing routine of the Pittsburgh Pirates
at Paso Robles. Calf.
Obliging motorists have been CIV
ing the world champions a lift in
travelling between their hotel and the
ball park, but Manager Bill Nc
Kechnie has ruled all trips to the
training camp hereafter must be
made on foot. The distance is short
and McKechnie believes the hike will
do no harm.
The entire IS members of the hurl-
Ing staff went through a spirited
workout yesterday and McKechnie eX-
pressed himself well pleased with the
performances of both regulars and re-
cruits.
The management of Forbes Field
has announced admission prices this
season have been advanced to con-
form with admission charges at other
fields in the circuit.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, March . CP).-
Arriving at the Orlando training
camp yesterday. Pitcher Carl Mays
of the Cincinnati Reds went in and
pitched at top speed for 80 minutes TO
satisfy himself that he would be able
to make good his promise to stage Il
comeback.
Last year could not go more than
two or three innings without having
n pain in my right shoulder and
back" said Mays. II have not felt
that for moment since I started
training three weeks ago at Hot
Springs"
Mays won 20 games in 1924, but
was successful in only two starts last
year. His performance yesterday was
the high light in the teams first day
in camp. Eighteen active players
We're on the field. Remaining mem
bers of the team were expected to ar
rive in a day or two.
Evening star., 1926-03-02
DIEGEL SETS PACE
AT GOLF WITH 1877

SEBRING FLAP, March 2 OP).-
Leo Diegel, Canadian open champion,
with a 70-67-137, had the low score
in the first days play of the South
Florida open championship.
One stroke behind, with a total of
1873, was Gene SaraZen, former United
States open champion. Sarazen shared
honors with Diegel in the new course
record with a 67 he made in the
morning.
John Golden of Paterson, N. j., and
Ed Loos are tied in third place, with
141.
Compston. the English star and Bill
Mehlhorn each scored 142, and shar-
ing fifth position were j. Minor
Johnny Farrell, Larry Nabholtz and
Mike Brady, with 145.
Evening star., 1926-03-02

Alex Smith, who used to catch 70!
Brooklyn, liked to play the ponies.
and one day he placed a fair-SiZed
bet on a horse before coming to the
park. In one inning with one man
out and a runner on third, the bat
ter famed. Thinking it was the
third out, Alex rolled the ball to the
first baseman and ran over to the
press box to find out how his horse
finished With the plate uncovered
and the ball rolling slowly toward
first, the runner sprinted home, the
run incidentally deciding the ball
game. To add to his woes the horse
that Alex bet on also lost.
Rare King of Strategy.
George NIullin told me about an
unusual strategic move concocted
by Charlie Schmidt, who used to be
Detroit's first-String catcher. In one
game. with a runner on third, two
out and a dangerous man at bat,
Schmidt walked down to the box and
engaged Mullin in secret conference.
He told Mullin:
"Now, you heave the next ball over
my head and put everything you got
on it. This fellow on third will come
dashing in. The ball will hit the
SLaflu 50 nara lndL 1t ii DOuIlU DaCk,
and you come up and cover the plate.
I'll toss the ball to you and We'll nail
him."
The strangest part of it was that
Mullin made the wild pitch, the run
ner tried to score, Schmidt recovered
the ball and threw to Mullin. who
tagged the runner, just as Schmidt
had planned it all.
The freakiest play ever engaged in
happened while / was shortstopping
for Baltimore. Reitz was playing sec
ond. The batter drove a hard grounder
to second. I ran over to field it. The
ball took a false bound, struck me on
the arm and shot off on a line to
Reitz. He grabbed the ball with his
bare hand and relayed it to first, q
lightning throw that resulted in a
double play.
Detroit was playing q game in
Washington. The shortstop of the
home team, I forget just now what
his name was, got into an argument
with the umpire and became so vio-
lent in trying to establish his point
that he was chased to the clubhouse.
Dave Altizer was playing first base.
and when the Shortstop was eXiled
Altizer was ordered to switch to short
and one of the pitchers assigned to
cover first. a ball was rolled out to
AltiZer to give him a chance to warm
up on a few throws.
The first ball that AltiZer threw was
several feet over the first baseman's
Evening star., 1926-03-02

THAT shooting by Urban was
great" the veteran admits. land the
boys sure are stepping high and fast
But 1 can't keep back the feeling
that the daddy of them all is stand
ing on the sidelines, idle. No. sir:
don't mean maybe! If Harry
Kraus had loved the duckpins as
well as he did the tenpin game. we
would have had some real marks to
shoot at.
Remember, Harry was setting
season averages of Halle 10 years
ago, bowling on alleys from Ryatts
Vile to Alexandria and from Anacostia
to Georgetown; alleys that looked
like contour maps of the Rocky
Mountains, and with more humps
than flock of camels. Alleys! Say,
we bowled on cinder paths, not
alleys, in those days. I've seen 'em
so gummed up that the balls would
stick half way down and the pin
boys would come out and pry 'em
loose with chisels.
And the balls. They ranged all
the way from the size of marbles to
the tenpin model, and most of them
We're square, not round. Maybe
you've seen some of the old wooden
veterans, chipped and battle scared
that you couldn't handle without get
ting your fist full of splinters.
Now nothing but the best is good
enough and the alleys are so smooth
and fast and the backs and sides so
lively that the boys are playing the
pins off the walls for caroms-shoot-
ing billiards, not bowling"
'Tn those old days." the veteran
fan continues, IAN average of 105 was
something to write home about. l
remember that when John Pinspiller
Evans reached an average of 105 with
the old Agriculture team in the De-
partmental League. the office closed
for day.
They are gone, all gone, the old
familiar faces" adds the veteran.
Harry Krauss, noblest Roman of
them all; Ray Chaplin, who shot two
sets of 434 within week or 80;
Skinny Carroll, most colorful of
bowlers; Bill Rider. who had a hook
that would wrap itself around a pin
and drag it off the alley; Charley
Wright, the cannon-ball deadshot-
gone, all gone. What bunch that