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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-31
PITTSBURGH HOCKEY
TEAM MAKING DASH
Ky the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 31.--The
Pittsburgh Pirates, heros OF last
minute dash in 1926 from the cellar
to a place in the National Hockey
League championship playoff, again
are on the upward move in the
closing half of the 1927 race. The
Pirates, in little more than two
weeks of play, have spurted from
the tail end Of the Aemrican divi-
sion to third place in the standing.
Pittsburgh gained the third peg
Saturday night by whipping Boston,
2 to 0. Further opportunity to ad-
vance is afforded in the match with
the New York Rangers, leaders of
the American section, on Madison
Square Garden ice next Sunday.
ottawa Senators. victims of a re-
cent slump that added a loss end tie
to the record. have their leadership
of the international group further
endangered in a meeting with the
fast New York Americans Tuesday.
The Canadians, who broke tie for
second place in that section by
dumping the Americans, to /, last
night, +. exile the Rangers Tuesday.
Montr' Ii Maroons, beginning to
show signs of the form that gained
them the worlds championship last
year, play the Chicago Black Hawks
Thursday and Canadians Saturday.
Other engagements of the week
match Toronto with the Boston
Bruins on both Tuesday and Satur-
day, and with the Americans Thurs
day. Chicago meets Detroit Tues
day and Ottawa Saturday in addi-
ton to the Maroon fracas.
Standing of the clubs:
AMERICAN SECTION
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Yanks had given up efforts to locate
him for the day. When Spoke tele-
phoned the Higgins home late In
the day, the Yankee pilot had gone
TO visit friends" Time was set. how
ever, for a meeting today although
the hour was not disclosed.
II haven't hooked up with any
club yet" Speaker said when he
alighted from the train that brought
him here from Philadelphia. He said
he was considering offers from four
clubs in the American League, but
which four he would not say. Both
Washington and Philadelphia are
known to be in the field with the
Yankees.
Any arrangement Higgins cares to
make with Speaker will be satisfac-
tory to him, Col. Jacob Rupert.
owner of the Yankees. said last night,
adding that if Hug wants Speaker
he can have him"
CLEVELAND, January 81 R).-
Friends of Iris Speaker here We're
informed today that he will make no
announcement of the club he intends
to sign with for the 1927 season until
after he has returned to Cleveland
either tomorrow or Wednesday.
Spoke plans to seek the advice of
friends who stood by him during his
fight for vindication of game fixing"
Charges, it was said.
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BY the Associated Press.
Y n UNTINGTON, W. Va. Janu-
Ii AIRY 3l.--Tris Speaker, former
manager of the Cleveland
Il Il Americans, will appear in a
Washington uniform this sea
son, Bucky Harris. youthful Nationals
manager. believes.
Here on q visit. Harris said he
thought Clark Griffith, president of
the club, would be generous with the
old bank rolf in order to land
Speaker.
Declaring that before Speaker was
cleared of game fixing" charge
Griffith wrote him a letter expressing
confidence in him and bidding for his
services when he was exonerated,
Harris said he believed this would
make the veteran outf1elder look
favorably upon any offer to join the
Nationals.
Higgins Sees Spoke Today.
NEW YORK. January 81 (P).-Tris
Speaker and Miller Higgins, having
mixed their signals in the first attempt
of the New York manager to sign the
former Cleveland pilot to Yankee
contract for 1927, tried the play all
over again today.
Speaker, due here yesterday morn
ing TO discuss terms with Higgins,
failed to arrive until late in the aft
ernoon, when the mite leader of the
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3-CUSHION TOURNEY
is FIRST IN 5 YEARS

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. January 31.--The first
national three-cushion billiard cham
pionship tournament for FIVE years
opened today. with SIS 900 in prizes
and the title at stake for 10 entrants.
who will play daily round robin
matches until February IA.
Otto Reiselt of Philadelphia, the
present champion, was matched
against Charles McCourt Of Cleveland
in the third contest today. Several of
the three-cushion stars of the past
are missing from the tournament.
Bob Cannefax is i'll, Willie Hoppe is
busy with 1872 challengers and johnny
Layton's entry was not received.
Raimundo Campanioni Of Havana
the Cuban champion for many years.
ia on the first days round with Allen
Hall of st. Louis, who is expected 10
test whether the Cuban Is the real
dark horse OF the tournament Tiff
Denton of Kansas City and Arthur
Thurnblad OF Chicago open the tOurna
ment at 1870 pm
Aug1e Kieckhefer and Leonard
Kenney, both Chicagoans, play the
final match of the day. Kenney is
now leading the Interstate Three
Cushion League, in which FSieckhefer
and Thirnblad also are competing.
Gus CopuloS OF Detroit and Earl
Lookabaugh. another Chicagoan, are
the two players not on the first day
round
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POOR 1926 DATE-MAkINC
to- BE AVOIDED THIS YEAR
Big Leagues See Folly in Crowding Games They
Did Last Year-NatiOnal Has Harder Problem
to Solve-Not to Adopt |. l.. Plan.

need to jump to any one city To take
advantage of a Sunday game for
single day. In the National League
Pittsburgh does not play Sunday base
ball and all games must he SO az
ranged as to give some visiting team
an idle Sunday i'm Pittsburgh at SOM
time.
Seek New York sunday Games.
Eastern cities of both leagues share
alike in Sunday games. The Amer
can plays in Washington and New
York and the National plays in New
York and Brooklyn. Neither can play
in Philadelphia or Boston on SUNDAY
However. in both leagues there Is
a yen to get into New York for a
least one Sunday game. and two II
possible SO that the out side clubs can
share in the possible large receipts
In old times the Nationals League
was wont to let these Sunday dates
ride where they could. II a team was
lucky enough to get them one year
it might not get them again for the
next four. That was also true OF
Saturday dates, for in New York
Boston and Philadelphia the best da +
was Saturday.
| Back In the old days the Eastern
| clubs played In the West on July 4
and the Western clubs played in thu
| East on Memorial day or vice versa
| That hasn't been done in a long time
| because the rival ma jOr leagues have
| fixed on the home opening to rota -
| in the East and West sections.
| Maybe some day that will be changed
| Every effort will he made this year
/ to avoid breaking up the continuity of
! the fight. II teams can be scheduled
| for three or four games in a group
an effort will be made to do So The
| 1926 system. which brought out
| 24-hour stands, was a very bad sort
Of thing for big organizations like the
major leagues.
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GrS Will Sign Speaker Majors Hope to Improve Schedules
GRIFFS AND MACkS
FAVORED BY SPOKE

Special Dispatch to The Star
PHILADELPHIA, January 81
After long parley with Connie Mack
yesterday, iris Speaker, the much
sought master of centerfielders left
Philadelphia for New York without
signing an Athletic contract.
Unless he is made dizzy by spec
tacular offer from Col. Jacob Rupert
iris admitted to friends that he would
sign either with the Athletics or
Washington team.
He declared that he preferred these
two clubs because their owners had
been friendly to him during his re-
cent trouble. He said that at the
early meeting in Chicago, when the
whole official base ball world had turn
ed against him and Ty. Connie Mack
and Clark Griffith alone shook hands
with him and expressed their belief
that he was innocent of any wrong
doing.
Mack made Speaker a, princely offer
and iris told him he would give il
careful consideration. That's as far
as either man would go after the
meeting ended.
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When Base Ball Was Young
BY JOHN B. FOSTER
Eleven Players Win a Pennant-

behind the plate until about the
sixth called ball Then ne moved
toward the batter and was prepared
to field the ball if the batter missed
the third strike.
The ball was as lively in those
days as it is now. II may have beer
livelier. Joe Horning was marching
across the Polo Grounds at a recent
celebration of base ball. Joe lives
in New York and sits in the press
box and calls the turn of the Giants
these days. He picked up a base
ball as he was walking over the sod
on his way to home plate and
"hefted it,"
They call this lively" said Joe.
IF it is then croquet ball is made
of rubber. You should o. seen our
base ball in SO. 1t was so lively
that it often hoped a 15-foot fence
on the first bound"
tCopyright. 1927
Tomorrow: ''The First $4,000 Beauty. d"
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~ VIEW YORK, January oil -
Schedule making for the 1927
NJ base ball season is going on
l in New York City today in
order that the National League
NAV consider it's dates at its annual
Spring meeting here, beginning Tues
day, February 8.
Last seasons arrangement of dates
never has been surpassed for general
debility. Teams went scurrytng here
and there for one-day stops. The
scrambled state of affairs was caused
by the adoption of a fixed date for
ending the season in September.
Despite all that has been said i'll re-
gard to the ending of base ball in
September. it cannot be done success
fully and make the competition in the
ma or leagues anything like conserva-
tive effort.
Int. System Not Good.
Because the international League
plays 1853 games in about the same
time that the major leagues play 154,
il has been argued the maj ors can do
the same thing. The argument is not
so good. The International plays its
1853 games by fixing artificial double
headers. The policy is bad and the
more conservative of the International
owners know 1t is bad, but they have
never been able to overcome the min
strel show ideas of some of the other
owners. Artificial double-headers
cheaper the game and work the play
ers to a shred. Even the ball player
has physical limits, although his
working hours seem few in number.
1t is possible for the American
League TO make dates in consecutive
order, where it is not possible for the
National to do so. The American
League plays Sunday base ball in all
of it's Western cities and there 10 no
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WOMEN In SPORT
by CORINNE FRAZIER

mental exercises, folk dancing and
schlag ball will feature the program
of the National Amateur Athletic Fed
GRAFTON group Wednesday night for
the weekly recreation period at Cen
trail High School from $50 to 10
o'clock.
Isabel Patterson of Holton Arms
will lead the gymnastic drills. Eu-
genia Davis, also of Gunston Hall, will
direct the Danish gymnastics, and
Isabel Stevenson of the National Cath
Ole Service School will conduct the
class in folk dancing, while Alice
Nicoll of Holton Arms will have
charge of the schlag ball.
Any girl or woman desiring to join
the N. A. A. F. group in this recrea-
ton program is welcome to do so
without charge, except for the 10-cent
fee required by the community CEN
ter department of all who the gym
nasium in the evening to defray
expenses of lighting and janitor serv'
| ice.
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Wv YITH only five games to bowl
n to complete the 15-game
NV Howard Campbell sweep.
Y Y stakes, it appears that OF

the 20 StcllhA A4SiNPN'
In the competition only the flve now
Of the ton of the lot have really good
chances to get the big prize. Perce
Ellett. who wrested the lead from
Glenn Weidman when the second
block was rolled last week, will carry
into the final block at Convention
Hall Saturday night an advantage OF
eight pins over the man he displaced
and one Of Al pins over Glenn VOL
stenholme, now fifth in the list.
Two dark horses of the tourney are
among the first five. They are Joe
Mulroe, who holds third place, 3S pins
back of Elicit, and Henry Hfser. the
Hyattsville star, in fourth position,
40 pins back of the leader. The per-
formances of these men have been
tbe surprises OF the sweepstakes.
Others apt to make a determined
bid for prize money next Saturday
night are Walter Megaw, only six
pins shy Of Wolstenholme's total;
Freddie Moore, Jack Whalen and Max
Rosenberg. The remainder of the
field seems to be hopelessly out OF
the running.
Weekly reports of league activities
continue to pour into The Star Sew
eral accounts of circuit bowling last
week follow:
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COMMERCE LEAGUE.

High team sets--Coast Survey, 1.577;
r. and D. Commerce mo II, 1850.
mo. p. 554; Mines. GA.
High Individual sets--Parkhurst. Coast
Survey. 800: Fugett, Mines, 1853
High individual games - Macdonald,
Census. and Simmons, Patent Office. 1879.
High individual averages-Watson. Stand
ards. 1880; Fugett. Mines, 1869 Sim
mons Patent Office. 105-11.
Total pins still decide the placement
of the several teams in the Depart
ment of Commerce League.
/ f. and D. Commerce No. 1 rolled
the highest single game to date last
week with a total OF 554 in it's second
contest.
Miltner Of +. and d. Commerce No.
] shot high set, totaling $50 pins, and
Simmons of Patent Office tied the high
game mark for the second series, get
ting a total of 139 pins in his first
game.
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TWO CLUBS TO HOLD
BASE BALL MEETINGS

Two clubs will hold meetings this
week to discuss plans for the base ball
season.
National Circles are to gather to-
night at 800 Fourth street northeast.
Circles already have held one largely
attended meeting. They are planning
to get an early start with a view to
cutting real figure in unlimited
ranks.
Smithfield Athletic Club diamond
aspirants will assemble Wednesday
night at the Convention Hall bowling
alleys at s o'clock. The club plans to
compete In the unlimited class, after
showing strongly in the younger cir.
! cles for some years.
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REAL ESTATE LEAGUE.
Team Standing.

Boss & Phelps took two games
from n. L. Sansbury last week in
the Real Estate League. Douglass
G. Phillips took two from the Shapiro
team and Shannon & Luchs took
three from Hedges & Middleton.
High team set was rolled by Doug
lass & Phillips with 1900. High indi-
vidual game was rolled by Stafford
of the N. l.. Sansbury team with 100.
High individual set was rolled by
Wedding of Boss G. Phelps with 237.
J.. Dallas Grady and Cafritz teams
will bowl tomorrow night.
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GREAT NIBLlCK SHOT
MADE BY THOMSON

Three members of the Washington
Golf and Country Club still are dis
cussing a wonderful shot made last
Thursday by Dave Thomson, diminu-
tive professional, at the Virginia Club
Fred D. Paxton, chairman. OF the golf
COMMITTEES; Guy N. Church and Charles
B. Stewart started out with Thomson.
the professional playing the best ball
Of the trio. They came to the seven
teenth hole with the match close, and
smiled inwardly when Thomson drove
into the ditch near the bridge, certain
that a par would win the hole.
But they didn't reckon on Scotch
stick to-it-iveness, or whatever it is
that inspires brilliant golf shots by
Scottish professionals in the pinches.
For Thomson waded down into the
mud and water carpeting the floor of
the ditch, his trusty niblick in hand,
and blazed away. erupting shower of
dirt and water. Up came the ball high
in the air. falling right alongside the
hole, where the professional easily
| tapped 1t in for a birdie 3.
The shot, according to those who
saw 1t and bought" 1t, was one Of the
greatest golf shots ever made. equal
ing the shot made by Johnny Farrell
from the same ditch last Spring In an
exhibition match. Farrell likewise
registered a birdie on the seven
teenth from what appeared to be ar
| impossible lie.
February 2, 3 and 4 have been set az
| qualifying days for the women's in
door putting competition to be rur
off in the golf school at Meyers shop
1891 F street. under the direction o;
A. b. Thorn. instructor at the school
Thorn, who holds down the profes
sional berth at the Town and Country
Club in the warm months, reports
great interest in the tourney. En-
tries may be phoned to him at MAR
8044.
Chevy Chase Club has completed
the task OF fencing in the club prop
erty on all sides with a 6-foot stee
fence of the factory type, designed t.
keep out persons not authorized I,
enter the property. Several valuable
trees had to be destroyed behind thu
fifth green to make way for the fenc,
and in connection with the widening 0
Wisconsin avenue, now under way OIL
the west side Of the club property.
Congressional Country Club closes
it's first nine for a few days last weel
to permit several of the holes to dr.
out and to complete necessary cor
: struction work.
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Faced Underhand Pitching.

The ball players Of those days
swung against underhand pitching.
so called. Most of that underhand
pitching was hip high and it was
as speedy and could raise as much
Ned as the speedy pitching of today.
The curve, of course, changed bats
mems minds very much about pitch
ing. The catcher did not stand up
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HOPPE WINS EASILY.

BOSTON, January 81 up. -w Willie
Hoppe still is world champion at 1872
balkline billiards. He took the final
block of a 12-block match from Erich
800 to 253. This gave
him a grand total of S,257 against
HaQenIa cher'S 564
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ROSENBERG WILL RISK
HIS TITLE ON FRIDAY

NEW YORK, January 81 R.-
Charley Phil Rosenberg, will take
his bantanweight championship into
the ring at Madison Square Garden
next Friday night for the second
world titular battle of 1927 in that
arena
Rosenberg is due to face the
dazzling speed of Bushy Graham of
Utica, N. Y, for Is rounds.
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MENTION WILL REFEREE.

ATLANTA, Ga, January 81 CP-
Officials have been selected for the
1927 Southern Conference basket ball
tournament. They are Tom M. Thorp,
Atlanta; Stanley Sutton. Birmingham,
and Paul Mention, Baltimore. The
tournament will be held here late
next month.
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RICHARDS rs I'LL.

NEW YORK, January 81 CR.-Vin.
cent Richards, former amateur tennis
star, now a member of Suzanne
Lenglen's professional encourage, is Ill
and probably will be unable to take
part in matches for at least two
months, members of his family said.
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IRIS WILL GET GENEROUS
OFFER FROM NATIONALS
President Grif6th's Prompt Expression of Faith in
Deposed Indian Pilots Honesty May Sway
Latter-Spoke Sees Higgins Today.


TAMPA January 3CIar Griffith president Of the Wash
will make iris Speaker definite one
telephone tonight and added that is which expect
him to accept"
morning that he would talk with me
again long distance tonight Griffith said AT that time WI"
make him a definite offer which expect he will accept
telephone Thursday, but
understanding each other enough
Griffith said This matter bit difficult to
straighen will reach agreement tonight
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COMM BOWLERS
HEAD FEDERAL LOOP

Commerce has a fair hold on first
place in the Federal Bowling League
a: present. being four games in front
OF the runner-up Interiors. The
league leaders also are setting the
pace at pin topping with a total of
1882
CNtrc,Iit c+a tictfor folIoxv.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-31

Uhlartk is to meet Green at sis
o'clock tonight in the opening match
of a pocket billiard tourney at Scan
Ions parlors, Ninth and d streets.
Other tourney tits for the week are:
Wednesday, Watt w. Martin; Thurs.
day. Cross VS. Hiseey: Friday, Uhlarik
Us, Moye.
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WILL DEFEND TITLE.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, January
81 @.-Frank jackson, Kellerton
Iowa, farmer, is expected to defend
his title here February IA in the an
nual world horseshoe pitching cham
pionship tournament.
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High team set--King Pin. 1,47g. 20
High team game-Convention Hall. o42.
High Individual set-Frere Convention
High individual game-Bailey tKing PM.
High strikes--Bailey (King PM. 10.
High spares--Frere Convention HALL Az
High average-Frere Convention HAM,
07-6
Mildred Hicks packed the punch
that enabled the Meyer Davis team
of the Ladies' District League to score
clean sweep over the Petworth girls
last week. Mildred's 31S set was the
high mark for the week. while Miss
| Caldwell, n newcomer in the King
Pin team, shot the high game, 100.
! Jennie Malcolm led the Convention
! Hall team with high game, lis, arA a
| 299 set in its 2-to-1 victory over the
Northeast Temple five.
King Pin failed to gain on the lead
| ing Convention Hall quint by drop
ping a game to Arcadia. Mabel VIII
liams contributed ia to the King Pin
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-31

Mote: This is the thirteenth of a
series of stories Of 1927 major league
club prospects, ~.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-31

When a base ball team of the major
league starts South to train IN THESE
DAYS it usually can fiji the better part
of three Pullman cars, what with
the PLAYERS who will be members OF
the team, those who never Will De-
the distinguished guests, the writer's
wives and SO on. Now ana theh some
owner of q ball club raises merry
Ned about the high cost of base ball
and then forgets it. If he talks 100
much about it the fans are likely 10
take him at his word and forget TO
90 to the games because the adj
mission is too high.
They had ball teams when John
Heydler, the present president OF
the National League, was somewhere
i'm the vicinity of sweet 10 Whlcn
had ESQ few players that the squad
would have been lost in three Pull
mans.
In 1883 a gallant little band OF
iron men won the. pennant Tor Boston.
There were eleven of them. Nhat
answer has the present-day manager
TO that? No pinch hitters, no pincn
pitchers. no pinch managers, no
coaches-just ball players They were
John Morrill,, captain, manager and
first baseman; BLACK Jack" Burdock,
second baseman: Sam Wise, shortstop;
Ezra b. Sutton, third base; Paul Rad
ford, right field; Charley Smith. cen
ter field; Joe Hornung. left field.
Charley Burlington and Jim Whitney.
pitchers, and Mike Hines and Merry"
Hackett, catchers. 1t isn't certain
that they could not defeat some of
the championship teams that have
cropped up since then-say about so
per cent of them.
Gloves Were Homemade.
These ball players had no mask, and
the only gloves of which they boast
like the divan pillows with which
ball players equip themselves in these
days. Once, John Morrill,, who was
about as nifty at first base as any
man who has played it, and who never
could be induced to say a word
derogatory to any bali player on
earth, regretted that the glove In its
present state Of yielding softness had
not been invented when he was ball
player.
Il would have a fielding average
of 1000" said Morrill,, land It would
have made our championships so
much easier that all OF us might
have played championship base ball
four or Ave years longer than we
did"
1t will be observed that two
pitchers were all the champion iron
men of Boston carried in 1883 and
all that they thought necessary. One
of them pitched on Friday and the
other on Saturday and they tossed
up to see which should begin the
week on the next Monday. There
was scarcely a player on the team
but could play any position on the
diamond, although the catchers and
| the pitchers were allowed to special.
ize except, when Whitney wasn't
pitching he liked to play right field.
because he was particularly fond of
| batting the ball. In that respect he
was much like Babe Ruth, who
! would rather bat the ball than pitch
and that is why he played the out
I field.