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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-08
DECISION ON WEDNESDAY,
BOSS OF GAME PROMISES
James Contradicts Candil's Charge That White Sox
Paid Tigers to ''Throw'' Contests i'm 1917 as
Hearing Before Commissioner Ends.

token of White Sox appreciation for
their work in beating Boston.
Testimony by Risberg that the
White Sox in 1919 'sloughed' series
to Detroit to aid the Tigers in their
fight for third place in the league
standing.
All Call Cobb Square"
The hearings close found accusers
and accused unanimous on one thing
--Ty Cobb's innocence Of ever having
taken part in a crooked ball game.
Cobb had wired the commissioner to
ask every one present whether
anybody knew If Cobb got any of the
Sox pool, and whether anybody knew
IL Cobb ever played a crooked ball
game" The chorused tribute was
prompt. with Risberg and Gandil
voicing their Endorsement Of the
Jewel of Georgia" with the rest.
Shortly afterward, the commits
sioner's office learned that q hearing;
set for tomorrow, at which attorneys
charges of base ball crookedness
which have involved Cobb and Iris
Speaker, had been Indefinitely post
poned.
Besides paying the expenses to and
from Chicago of the two score odd
men who testifed-a sum estimated
at nearly $20,000--the commissioner
also faces the prospect of spending
some money to rehabilitate his office
suite.
Isn't this room a sight?" he asked
1t was. Holes in the costly rug
where carelessly thrown cigarettes
had eaten their way to the floor; cigar
and cigarette butes, matches, torn
paper scattered about. One cluster of
lights was so clouded from flashlight
smoke that the room was dimmed.
Risberg left for his dairy duties
near Rochester, Mimi. shortly after
the hearing ended. Gandil will re-
main in Chicago two or three days.
Gandil Gets Expenses.
Gandil was the first to file an ac-
counting of his expenses. which in
cluded 10 days remuneration for
time lost from his plumbing job. This
he entered as 500. Gandil's total ex-
penses, for which the commissioner
promptly handed him a check, were
$278.12.
Gandil commented bitterly on one
statement by Clarence Rowland, man
ager of the White Sox in 1917. Row
land said he had permitted Gandil to
leave the club in September, 1917, for
day to go to Philadelphia 80 Gan
Ill could meet a couple of friends"
Rowland lied" Gandil said. 81
never had any friends
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ARMOUR Is AMONG
GOLF PACE Settlers

| By the Associated Press.
| Ell CABALLERO COUNTRY CLUB
! VAN NUYS, Calf. January s.
| The 1870 golfers entered in the Los
| Angeles $4,000 open tournament tooR
up their clubs again today in the f1gn'
, for glory and cash, as the classic
cached its semi-final stage.
Weather conditions indicated better
scores would be turned in than those
If Yesterday and that a lower gross
han 1856 for the Sc holes of yesterday
and today would be needed to get into
the championship flight tomorrow.
Seventy on the par ~ Ell Caballero
Country Club course was the best card
yesterday, this distinction being
shared by four players. Charles Guest
of Hollywood, Mike Brady of Mamar,
onneck. n. Y; Bobby Cruickshank or
New York and Ed Dudley OF Okla
homa City.
The leading 81 players at the end
of today's round will go into the finals
tomorrow.
George Won Elm of Los Angeles.
holder of the national amateur cham
pionship: Harry Cooper, winner OF
last years $4,000 open; Macdonald
Smith of Great Neck. n. Y: Tommy
Armour of the Congressional Country
Club, Washington, ID. c.: Joe Kirk
wood of Albany, Ga; George Duncan
of Surrey, England; Bobbie Cruick-
shank of New York and William
Mehlhorn of New York proved the
gallery favorites yesterday.
Pairings for today's second Is holes
of qualifying play were the same as
Yesterday. The scores of the low Ga
players in these two rounds are COM
bined with the Sunday 36-hole flight
to determine the % prize winners.
Brides are common and several
eagles were made yesterday. But an
outstanding event in club history was
provided in the recording of the first
hole in l, when Jimmy Mason of Cas-
per, Wyo.. dropped his tee shot in at
the 175-yard eighth, which is par 8.
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TRACK STARS LISTED
IN BROOKLYN GAMES

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January S.-A half
dozen track and field record holders
as we'll as a small army of district
and national champions We're among
600 athletes listed for competition
tonight in the opening indoor meet
of the season, held by the Brooklyn
Knights Of Columbus. A score of
handicap and special events We're on
the card.
Heading the array of nationally
known competitors is Alan Ielffrich,
600-yard record holder, and trio of
record holding sprint aces. Louis
Clarke of Baltimore, running for the
Newark Athletic Club: Chef Bow
man, former Syracuse star. now also
wearing Newark colors. and Bob Nc
Allister, erstwhile flying cop
Edwin Wide, Swedish champion
and conqueror of Paavo Nurmi. was
invited to see the meet as the guest
of Murray Hubert. national presi-
dent OF the Amateur Athletic Union,
and fire the gun starting the two
mile race.
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BALL.
BY SOL METZGER.

Catholic University has a real bas-
ket ball team. 1t made a good record
last season. and is on its way to big
things in this campaign. In Foley
it has a running guard who ranks
near the top and is a sure shot at
the basket.
One of Foley's favorite plays is
pictured when Catholic has the ball
out of bounds under her goal. Foley
is No. in the diagram, and he sta
lions himself back of his teammate,
No. .. Then, on a given signal fr5m
the player out-of bounds. Foley rushes
forward at top speed, sliding off the
hip of No. z. That prevents his
guards following him and gives
Foley a clear path for the basket.
In the upper panel the lineup for
this play is shown before it breaks.
Foley is the player farthest TO the
rear in the black jersey. In the
lower panel you see him receiving tue
pass, clear OF his guard ard with IA
chance to dribble and shoot.
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MORGAN OUTPOINTED
IN NON-TITLE BOUT

NE WYORK, January s Up)-Tod
Morgan, Junior lightweight champion
boxer, was convinced today that he
could not give Phil McGraw. aggres.
sive Detroit battler, three pounds adj
vantage in weight and score victory.
A judge and referee agreed that
McGraw won from the Seattle title
holder at Madison Square Garden last
night, while the other judge voted for
draw. No championship was in
volved, as the bout was at catch
weights and both contestants were
over the limit, McGraw at 13415 and
Morgan at 1919.
Morgan showed great gameness.
but waited too long to start his drive
Spug Myers came from Pocatello.
Idaho. to outpoint Sid Barbarian of
Detroit. The POcatello lad was true
to the tenents of the society for the
prevention of useless giving, repre-
sented by his nickname, and made the
blows he gave count.
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COLLEGE BASKET BALL.

South Carolina, SO; Clemson, e6.
Washington and Lee, a.; Bridge
water, 26.
Tennessee, 20; Florida, 10.
Tulane, 20: Sewanee, Is.
Delaware, 81; Western Maryland, Is.
Mount st. Mary's, go; st. Johns of
Brooklyn, Is.
Arkansas, Sc; Rice, Is.
Geneva, Al; Thief, II.
Wit4enberg, 80; Ohio University, %.
Evansville, 25; Butker, %.
Valparaiso, 80; Arkansas Aggies, l..
Fordham, 43; st. J0seph's, 10.
Crescent A. C.. 45; Vermont, 90.
League Hockey.
Winnipeg, A: st. Paul, 0.
College Hockey.
Harvard, Z; NOtre Dame, o.
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by III. c. BYRD.

~ CORRECTIONS begins its in
door track campaign to-
T night with one representa-
~ tive, Jimmy Burgess, com
peting in the Knights OF
Columbus games in Brooklyn at the
23d Regiment Armory. Burgess Is
slated to run in single event, q
special 500-yard race. with three of
the fastest middle distance men in
the country His opponents will be
Alan Hellfrich, Pinkey Sober, Vim
cent Lally, all of whom starred on
tracks in and around New York and
New England last year.
Despite his injury last year, Bur-
CESS is in good shape, and Coach
John O'Reilly of Georgetown expects
him to show. we'll in the event
against the pick of middle distance
performers.
Georgetown's main track squat
will not be seen in action until Janu-
airy %. when it is to compete in the
Brooklyn College games. It's next
meet will be the Millrose, February
2: the next the Boston Athletic AS
ISOLATION games, February 3; then
follow competitions for It at the
New York Athletic Club. next
February ID: the indoor INTERIOR
lepiates. March q: the Crescent
Athletic Club. March IL. and the
Knights of Columbus at Madison
Square Garden. March II.
In the majority of these meets the
Blue and Gray will have in competi-
ton a. mile relay team and two or
three individuals, but in the Boston
meet is to send three relays, a four
to compete in the two-mile cham
pionship, a freshman quartet to run
in a race for the indoor freshman
title, and a mile team to run a
special event, probably against Holy
Cross.
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Tbe Gbening Star
BOYS CLUB

ball is brought up directly in front
of the eyes and above the head. Fig. ,.
In the act of letting go of the ball
the arms are extended to their high
est reach, the ball leaving from the
tips of the fingers and thumb. The
final act in getting rid of the ball is
that the backs of the hands are turned
slightly in In this way both arms
have the right amount of follow
through.
! had several pictures taken of
George Evans, captain of one of my
former teams, the team that won the
Iowa and North Central Conference
championship. I had coached Evans
in this style of shot and he became
very adept at it and was an allstate
forward selection.
The pictures showed that F,Xans
had the style down almost to perfec-
ton.
But the pictures were taken after
he had become "a great star. He
didn't always do it perfectly and
neither will you. But practice makes
perfect and it takes much practice
TO get a thing down right in basket
ball.
(Next--A basket ball talk by Os-
valid Tower. the Walter Camp of the
court gameD
9Th !
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PEABODY SOCCER TEAM
SCORES IN TITLE PLAY

Park View School hooters today
have but one hope to annex the city
school soccer title. Trounced by Pea
body / to in the opening tilt of a
three game series for the champion
ship yesterday. the Park View soccer
ties are looking forward to the re-
turn engagement next Tuesday on
the Plaza pitch which will either give
the title outright to Peabody or place
the team on an even footing for the
rubber contest.
Yesterdays game at the Plaza was
hard fought. Late in the contest
Tony Bianco of Peabody broke
through the efficient Park View de
Tense to raise the ball between the
posts for the only score
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-08
BY JOHN II. FOSTER.

~ HICAGO. January s.-The has
ball scandals of the 1926-27
Winter season have come
~ and gone. but certainly with
out revealing anything very
blackening to the accused Chicago and
Detroit American League players OF
1917 and 1919.
After listening to all testimony and
endeavoring to pry down to the bot.
tom of the affair which had developed
out of the charge of "Swede" Risberg
and Chick" Gandil. the feeling OF
the writer Is that the White SoX and
Detroit players charged with fixing
games probably will be exonerated
But when Judge Lands makes his
decision next Wednesday at 10 O'Clock
he may condemn severely the practice
of years gone by through which play
ers of the one team gave bonuses &c
players of other teams in the same
league.
Investigation Cost 100000.
Organized base ball spent 100000 or
more to get to the bottom of this
affair and it did not get word of
substantiation for the charges Of either
Risberg or Gandil, both blacklisted
from organized base ball because OF
their actions in 1919 world series Gan
dill turned out to be q more talkative
but IL less effective witness than Ris
berg. And on top Of that he let the
cat out of the bag through his admis
sion that he was being paid $500 by
the Chicago Tribune, as Expenses and
incidentials" to come to Chicago with
his supposed revelations. AS with the
Cobb-Speaker affair, this latest rumpus
was forced into the open by the prox
unity of publication of the charges.
Here are the high lights of the
wou1d-be scandal:
Big Bill James. former Detroit pitch
err. honest-appearing, highly regarded
throughout his. career, told a straight
forward story that got no denial from
the accusing Gandil.
Gandil and Risberg both rather
hopeful of some action by the com
missioner of base ball reinstatins
them to good standing, cooked Their
goose by admitting that they had
played out of position in the Detroit
Chicago game of september, 1919.
The Chicago Tribune was admitted
by Gandil to have paid him $500 fol
coming here. Whether Risberg go
nay money was not revealed.
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Charges Lands
OLLIE TUCKER SIGNED
FOR SECOND NAT TRIAL

Nineteen Nationals now have
come to terms for the 1927 Ameri-
can League campaign. The latest
to accept President Clark Griffiths
offer is Ollie Tucker, outfielder,
bought from the New Orleans club
OF the Southern Association. His
signed contract was received short
~ after the paper bearing Third
Baseman Ossie Bluege's signature
was filed.
Tucker, whose home Is at Ra-
diant, Va, was first given a trial
by the Nationals i'm 1920, when he
was Is years old.
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ALL BIG TEN FIvES
IN GAMES TONIGHT

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO, January S.--Western
Conference basket ball gets under
full way tonight, with all the teams
in action in title-race battles.
Illinois already has chalked up a
victory over Minnesota. but the other
big 10 quintets have been engaged
with non conference foes and the
barrier on their sprint for the cham
pionship actually goes up with to-
nights engagements.
The second opponent of the season
for Illinois is a somewhat crippled
Northwestern. Indiana is at Wis
consin, Michigan plays Minnesota,
Purdue entertains Ohio State and
Iowa is at Chicago.
On the basis of preseason en-
counters, Indiana is rated the likeliest
contender in the championship bat
tie which last Winter ended in a
four way tie.
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GREASE BATHING SUITS
WILL NOT BE BARRED

LOS ANGELES, January s LP).-
What the we'll dressed woman will
wear, if anything. while padding
across Santa Catalina Channel Jan
uary Is in a quest for glory and the
$4,000 prize means nothing to the
Los Angeles City Council.
Councilmen announced a hands
off" policy in answer to q deluge of
demands that women contestants be
forced to wear something more than
covering of axle grease.
They said that as far the the coun-
Gil is concerned. feminine swimmers
might wear grease, regulation swim.
ming suits or the full-skirted and
bloomered bathing suit of the gay
90s."
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SULLIVAN-KlLRAIN BOUT
OF YEARS AGO RADI0ED

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January 8.--JOhn l..
SulIivan's mighty bare .knuckle
championship fight with Jake Xii
rain many years ago was broad
cast, "blOw-by-bIow," from WGN,
the Chicago Tribune station last
night.
The radiOcast sought to repro
duce the battle as II would have
sounded over the radio. If there
had been a radio then. There was
the background of the yelling
crowd and comment on ringsidc
incidents, in addition tOfthe blow
py-blow account, pitched to the
key of excitement the announcer
believed he would have shown had
he i'm fact been at the ringside.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-08

A pair Of high-nying eagles will
attempt to soar to the basket ball
heights tomorrow afternoon in the
Congress Heights gymnasium. when
two teams named after the national
bird will play in a doubleheader.
Anacostia Eagles, unlimited cham
pions of last year, and beaten only
twice this year. will meet st. stephen 8
in the feature clash of the afternoon,
while Original Eagles will vie. with
the Chevy Chase Centrals. All players
have been requested to report at the
gym at lis o'clock.
st. Stephens holds a victory over
the Hyattsville Company + regulars,
the only local team which has trim
med the Anacostia Eagles this year,
and the Eagles will seek victory to-
morrow in a left-handed effort to even
the count.
Parkway A. c. will travel to Alex
andria tonight to engage the Old
Dominion Boat Club outfit in the Alex
andria armory.
Comets will meet Calvary NJ. f..
tossers in the Eastern High gym to-
night at 9 o'clock. Calvary NJ. e. won
a game from the Comets earlier in the
season.
Petworth TremOnts will end long
layoff tonight when they meet the
Dupont A. G.. in the Naval Reserve
gym at 73o o'clock.
Minus the services of Joe Sweeney
the Washington Yankees will tackle
the Fort Humphreys five in the Con
zaga gym tomorrow at 3 pm.
Mount Vernon will clash with Cove
nant tonight at the Y. NJ. G. A, in a
Sunday School League game: Mount
Vernon players will report at 1880
O'Clock.
Calvary Seniors and Clovers won
brace of senior league contests in
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H0RNSBY SEES McGRAW
REGARDING HIS SALARY
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January S.-Rogers
Hornsby, traded by the st. Louis
world champions because he could
not agree with the management on
salary questions, is here to see if his
new employers, the New York Giants.
and he can reach a meeting of minds
on the same subject
The former manager of the
Cardinals. who is expected to play
second base for New York in the
1927 season. conferred last night
with Manager John McGraw.
Hornsby's contract with st. Louis
called for 100000 annually, but il was
predicted that the figures would be
revised upward in New York.
Hornsby plans to leave for st.
Louis tonight.
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BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HICAGO, January S.-Arnold
Chick Gandil, sun-bronzed
base ball outlaw from the
wide open spaces, has en-
ploded in the ranks of organ
lied base ball the ammunition he has
kept dry for 10 years.
Standing shoulder to shoulder with
his pal of base bail days, Swede his
berg. he fired his charges of diamond
dishonesty yesterday across the battle
ground at l22 South Michigan avenue,
from which Kenesaw Mountain Lands
kuides the destinies of the big eagues
Eyes blazing, and with mien aggres.
sively defiant, Gandil sent his shots
straight at two dozen odd base bail
players, or former players, who were
damned inside the smoke.togged suite
of the commissioner.
The men Gandil accused of con-
tributing or accepting money for the
throwing of four American League
games Chicago took from Detroit
September and 3, 1e17--such names
as Eddie Collins, Ray Schalk, Clarence
Rowland, Red Faber and George
Dauss-gave Gandil the same return
volley of emphatic denial that they
had poured upon Risberg two days
before
sitting as referee was the WnlIe-
haired commissioner, $65,000-a-year
custodian of base balls integrity. the
man who today contemplates the testi-
mony of more than 40 witnesses.
Lands snapped the hearing to a sud
den close last night with this lUwurd
announcement:
VIII Decide Wednesday.
IN dispose of this matter Wednes-
day morning at 10 o'clock"
These things will lands ponder:
Detailed testimony by Rlsberg, for
mer White Sox shortstop. and Chick
Gandil, former Sox first baseman (both
banished from base ball in 1920 follow
ing the 1919 world series scandaD. that
a pool was collected by the White SoX
and paid to certain Detroit pitchers
for laying down" In a four-game
series so that Chicago might win and
tighten its hold on first place in the
American League.
Denials of contributing to any pool
to be used for buying games, but adj
mission of contributing to a pool to
reward Detroit pitchers for good work
against Boston in later series. These
denials came from every man accused
by Risberg and Gandll who testified
The statement of Bill James. a
Tiger pitcher in 1877, that he received
$3.50 from Gandil and distributed 1t
to certain Tiger batterymen as a
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ALEXANDRIA CELTICS
PLAY NORFOLK QUINT

ALEXANDRIA,. Va. January S.
ST. Marys Celtic basketers are to end
their first extended trip of the cam
paign tonight in Norfolk with a game
against Maury High, State scholastic
champion last Winter.
Although Alexandria Highs track
team has lost three sterling perform
ers in Capt. Marshall Baggett, Buck
Pohl and Macy Berman, it is still
figured strong enough to successfully
defend it's title in the annual track
and field championships for high
schools to be held here May 81. Be
sides Alexandria, George Mason,
Washington and Lee, Fredericksburg,
Culpeper. Warrenton. Leesburg, Ma
nassas. Floris. Calverton, Herndon
and Haymarket will compete.
An invitation to participate in the
annual scholastic basket ball tourna-
ment at st. Johns, Annapolis, on
March IL and II, will be accepted by
Alexandria High School; 1t is an
nounced.
Alexandria has adopted q new bas-
ket ball schedule, as follows;
January IA. swayely Preparatory; s sch %,
81 ansss1as MiIitary Academy at Front
Royal, Va; %, Washington and Lee High at
Clarendon. Va. 81. George Mason High
erick sburg. Va. 5. Charlotte Hall Academy
at Charlotte Hall, Nd; Z, washngtonpy az,
Lee High. II. open: a. Dewitt Prep ct wasp
ington: 16., Charlotte Hall Academy; is
IL 25 and 90. open.
March Il and IL. St John College sehol
lastic tournament at Annapolis. Nd.
Alexandria High tossers routed
George Mason High, So 10 ), yesterday.
The losers were able to get but one
court goal. McMenamin and Cohen
for Alexandria were ranking scorers.
Francis accounted for all except one
of George Masons points.
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YOUNG OF GIANTS ILL.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, January s
R).-Ross Young, right fielder for the
New York Giants, has been i'll since
before the close of the 1925 base ball
season and has been in a hospital here
most of that time. Young is suffer
ing from a kidney disease and it is
doubtful whether he will be able to
Join his team this season.
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BRACE OF EAGLE CUNTS
TO FACE POWERFUL FOES

/, the Washington Barracks gym, the
churchmen downing Columbias. % to
49, while Clovers trounced the Kama
Whas, 20 to 16.
Red Schafer again ranged all over
the floor to lead the Red Shields to
victory over the Alexandria Pirates,
80 to II.
Columbia Heights Christian Church
tossers ended the nine-game winning
streak of the Olympic Seniors in a
32-to-29 game.
SamOset Props annexed a game over
the Mardell five, 35 to 10.
Hyattsy;Ile High nosed out Charlotte
Hall at Charlotte Hall. 90 to 20,
Wright tossing the field goal which
decided the game.
Sherwood Beta Juniors trimmed the
Emerson Juniors, 35 to 8.
Army Medical Center floormen out
classed the Fort Myer five at Walter
Reed Hospital gym, running up a
score Of II to p.
Hess A. c. plans to place another
basket ball team on the court. Plans
for the season were laid at meeting
held In the .clubrooms last night
Woodward Dietrich was reelected
president. Other officers are: Francis
Hoffman. vice president; NJ. Captain
secretary; Leo Breen. treasurer. James
Bailey. publicity, and Paul Smith,
sergeant alarms.
Palace Props. 115-pOunders. want
games with teams in their class.
Comet Juniors won from the
Bladensburg team, 35 to %.
COrinthian insect and midget players
will meet tonight in the Peck
Memorial gym at 7:30 o'clock. Games
have been arranged for both teams.