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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
CLEVELAND. Ohio, April Amer
lean Basket Ball League directors will
make what should be popular move
with the fans when they act here to-
dav in their annual meeting 10 curb
fouling and at the same time permit
more action of the clean sort in pro
basket ball.
The directors are expected to put
through q rule calling for stiT me
to be levied upon any player commit
ting moro than four personal fouls III
a game. The severity of the penalty
will depend on the number or onenses
over and above the limit, but no fine
is to be smaller than $25, and shall
be payable Immediately to the league
treasury.
Call Only Real Fouls.
Backers of the pro cage sport feel
confident that the players are bound
to be more careful in their playing
when they realize that their pocket
books are TO suffer If they so beyond
the bounds.
The PLAYERS will have more leeWay
next season, as the directors yesterday
voted to define rules of their own re
garding personal fouls. They deemed
the amateur interpretations too strict
to suit the fans and the pro game, and
therefore agreed that many or the
inconsequentiai attractions as called
in the past shall be overlooked.
These technical, personal fouls, the
magnates hold, slow UP the contests To
such an extent that the fans are IN
able to get real moneys worth for the
price of admission which they pay eX
pecting to see 40 minutes Of fast and
efficient basket ball. A committee viii
ae appointed by Joe Carr, president OF
he league, to draft the new rules. .
Incompetency among referees VIII
be eradicated next season with the Sc
lection by Carr of four or five offlclals
at the start of the campaign who vii
be instructed just what to do. rms
year aEeut IS referees were hlred
most of them on a per game basis after
the schedule got under way, ana the
result was that they tried to ofticlate
along high school and college lines
not knowing what pro-basket ball was
like, Next year the whistle tooterS
win be paid by the month and nc
changes are expected to be made after
the season opens.
George ?. Marshall, owner OF th'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07

TOR good iron shots that will run
l. with fair degree of consist.
ency throughout weeks and
A months. or seasons for that mat
ter. / know of 40 more useful
practice than the always reliable
push back and throw forward.
This gives the maximum OF timing
and the maximum Of clubhead accel-
GRAFTON into the ball. 1t gives that
click which so plainly distinguishes
the cleanly hit iron from the mushy
one
BY push back it is meant that the
left arm takes the club back and up
with only the slightest wrist action.
Start the club back by starting the
hands first, then lift it with the arms
until you feel you are at the top of
three quarters back swing. Near the
top there will be some taking up Of
slack in the wrists, as there should
be. The left wrist here is drawn back
cooked, like trigger, in way
but it does not break inward and go
under the shaft.
Now you start forward with the
club and the action is about as it
was in the back swing. Start forward
with the hands and arms and, when
the clubhead nears the ball, throw
with the wrists. That is the push
back and throw forward" principle.
You stand up there and throw it, :"
by which is meant that you keep up
on the right side, never letting the
shoulder drop down and seek to dig
into the ball. You do not have to
scoop up the ball. and should never
try to. Let the clubhead take it. You
do go in with the right shoulder, but
this action never takes place until
the clubhead is into the ball-then
go out after it as far as you can with
the shoulder.
From the top OF the back swing,
made this way, you have every feel
ing that you win hit directly across
the bali from the inside out. This
is the way it should be. And hit out
there, seemingly to a point well out
side the direction line. In this way
your clubhead will go through and
straight out after the ball, whereas, If
Won try to hit straight through the
clubhead will travel too quickly
around to the left. The elubhead does
not go to the left at all until well
after the ball is hit.
When YOU push the club back this
way it attains the feeling of q weight
in your fingers at the top of the back
swing. You then throw it forward
not as a club, but as weight-lil<e
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07

N ASHVILLE, Tenn, April =
Before the panorama of the
Spring training camps Of
A 1927 has completely passed
away, Wilcey Moore of the
New York Yankees. Oklahoma and
Cireenville. s. G., wins place undef
the spotlight.
Moore. sometimes referred to az the
''aged rookie" of the Yankees, is here
in Nashville today with the New York
team as it continues its barnstornl-
ing trim with the St. Louis Cardinals.
He is q. pitcher by attainment and
occunation, How he attained ell that
he has. he is not quite sure himself.
He thinks it was done by practice,
which is encouraging TO every young
man who aspires TO see his name IN
the box scores.
Resembles Cy Young.
No pitcber in years has so much
resembled CIV Young as Wilcey Moore.
This recruit of the Yanks toes the
pIate al Cy did. He stands with the
aiRnified composure with which Cy
stood. He resembles a portly alder
man or a United States Senator about
TO make a. speech. He pitches with
as little exertion as he eats his bacon
and eggs. and he leaves the batter
peering into the woodchuck hole into
xvhich the ball disappeared just as he
was about to hit It,
Moore is the only pitcher, right
handed or otherwise-and he is right
handed-whom the writer ever has
seen pitch ball which breaks exact
" like the famous splitter of old. with
out the use OF saliva to make the ball
break. How he does it is his secret,
and it is not so certain that he knows
how he does it himself. He just
does il.
A right-handed pitcher throwing
splitter without chew of either gum
or tobacco, who wears a smile as
placid as a setting sun, and whose
good nature beams all the time from
q frank countenance is such a novelty
in base ball that Wilcey Moore is en-
titled to usurp the closing scene OF
the trip around the training camps.
Moore and his dry splitter, which is
80 dry that It fairly reells with thirst,
is the most extraordinary thing that
has been developed in the training
camps this Spring.
Moore lives in Oklahoma, which is
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Yankees Appear Haze Pitching Penom Person of Wcey
STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE

~ONG RESSIONAL Country Club
golfers are looking forward to
the get together meeting TO
~ be held at the clubhouse
near Bethesda. Md, tomorrow
night. Tom Armour, the club pro,
will demonstrate some Of the shots
with which he won two major
tournaments in the South and West
during the Winter, and Peter jack
son, the grounds keeper, win explain
the progress made on the course and
on the new eighteen hole layout dur
ing the Winter.
A. A. SANDY Armour, the assistant
pro. win arrive in Washington from
New York in time to attend the meet
ing.
The Spring invitation tournament
Of the Baltimore Country Club, 10 be
played this year on May 10, 20 and Il,
will be held over the new course Of
the club at Five Farms. I'm the Green
Spring Valley about 41a miles from
Roland Park course Of the club,
where so many fine events have
been staged. The new course, accord
ing to DR.. Louis y. Coriell, chairman
OF the golf committee, is In splendid
shape and offers a test of golf with.
try.
The amateur tourney of Maryland
State Golf Association viii be played
over the Roland Park Course Of the
club in June.
A practice putting green, about $50
by so feet in size, will be opened a [
East Potomac Park next Sunday. n
small charge will be made for the use
Of the practice green, which has been
put in virtually perfect condition for
those whose puts go astray around
the cup to remedy their faults.
DIR. j. r. McCIenahan, chairman OF
the green's committee at Washington,
comes to bat with a new tale Of golf
ers, concerning the wooden tees which
have found such favor with golfers
generally. -Four golfers were playing
at Columbia a few days ago, occasion
ally picking up wooden tees left be-
hind by others.
DR.. w. c. Barr. a member Of the
match, didn't use the tees, and picked
up more than any other in the match
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07
PRO BASKET BALL LOOP
PLANS TO CURB FOULINC
Due to Provide Heavy Fine for Player Committing
More Than Four Personals-Marshall Makes
Big Trade With Quaker Team.

Washington Club, and Jules Aronson,
Philadelphia owner, consummated q
trade in which Glasco, kearns and
Voss go to the Quaker team in ex
change for Meehan, Pason and RI
conda. This is the biggest trade
known in the history Of pro basket
ball. in point Of numbers and quality
Passon and Meehan should give
Washington q stronger offense next
year, and Riconda should be able &c
I'LL the shoes Of Kearns on defense.
Glasco and Kearns will return tc
action with an old teammate, Tom
Barlow, who played guard for Phila
delphia this year, but who performed
with them in Trenton, N. j., several
years ago.
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NEW PITCHER RESEMBLES
CY YOUNG IN APPEARANCE
ssAged Rookie Who Won Thirty Games and Lost
Four for CreenviIIe Last Year, Employees Dry
Ball as Deceptive Splitter.

! rapidly moving 10 the fore as the
| producer of some of the best ball
| players in the country. His home
! town is Hollis. If he continues to
! pitch as he has pitched. the town
/ of Hollis will bust wide open in the
| Fall and welcome him home with an
| Indian band and salvo of cheers.
Moore speaks in the deliciously soft
accents of the Southwest and is some
years past voting age, He has had
his share of i'll luck. He has been
looked on and passed up" as the
saying goes, by q number of base ball
scouts, and when he was secured by
Ed Barrow, secretary of the Yankees,
it was by telephone. If Wilcey Is as
enduring as he promises to be, the
secretary of the Yanks had better
engage a battery of telephones with
which to recruit the team for 1928.
Last year Moore won 30 games and
lost for the Greenyille team. He
lost one of the four when he was
trying TO break a record, and he will
not try it again. He has found that
there is more in base bail than break
ing records. When the report Of his
success in 1926 was received, the re-
viewer of the figures doubted their
truth and suggested that they needed
REVISION, lie wrote IOF Inc IeN4sloAl
and then learned that they were ex-
actly right.
Has But Hazy Explanation.
Wilcey doesn't have much of an
explanation for his dry splitter.
II tried for a long time to get that
particular ball." he drawled in his
courteous way. "By and by it seemed
to have been discovered, / think that
it is a hard bali to hit"
That seems to be the case, in view
of the fact that in 1926 he had 1.191
times at bat registered against him
and his opponents made 269 hits,
which is mighty small proportion of
the number of times at bat.
The boys say that he is low-ball
pitcher. That may be true, but the
rare part of his low-b ball delivery is
that it is mostly little lower than
the bat of the batsman. 1t ducks. 1t
makes the spectator think of a cork
bobbing on fishline, cork that sud
denly disappears, under the water
when a big bass takes the hook. The
peculiar ball that Wilcey Moore
pitches pops down, but the batter
gets the hook.
Downright 1922
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07
Fights Last Night

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Kans.--"Shuffie"
Callahan, Chicago, scored a technical
Knockout over Elmer McMullen,
Dodge City, Kans. (6); Spider Kelly.
Kansas City. knocked out Jimmy
RYAN Des Moines, Iowa "a.
PHILADELPHIA Tough
ran, Philadelphia, defeated Tom
Kirby, Boston 00); Al Bader, Phila-
delphia, defeated Red Coolidge, New
York (6).
OAKLAND, Calf.-George Godfrey
knocked out Jack Roper, Chicago (9l
SAN FRANCISCO-Joe Roche. San
Francisco, beat Marcel Thuru, France
49,
jose X. CapabIanca. world champion
chess player, also is an expert at
billiards.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07
GOLF AN ART, BUT IS NOT
EXERCISE, SAYS FAIRBANKS

"But golf is great fun. What at
tracts me is that it is so different from
the other sports | have followed Sports
which cali for quick, instructive re-
action to shifting situations, as In
polo, are easy for me. Golf, on the
other hand. is a deliberate game. A
certain rhythm. and a certain har-
mony of mental and physical action,
are required to excel in 1t.
an never be champion. But
golf is good for me. | get my thrill
out of developing the self-control
necessary to lick the game and lift
myself out of the duffer class
Exercise? No. But art, yes
Coli is really an art"
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For more than five months now he
has applied himself earnestly to the
game, and has pared his average score
down to so.
'Then you find golf is good exer-
cise?" he was asked
''Exercise?" smiled the man who is
generally in motion, whether on the
screen or off. mo. ] play 80 holes
and come back to my gymnasium for
exerCise
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07
GIRL BOWLERS TO ROLL
IN EXHIBITION TONIGHT

Beeques. leaders, and Columbians.
runners-up in the Washington Ladies'
Duckpin League, will roll an exhibit
ton game tonight as feature OF the
formal opening OF the alleys in the
new Y. w. C. A, Seventeenth and X
streets.
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a hammer-and the wrists chop it
into the bail as hard as they can.
Always be on the look out for lazy
hands The average business man
has weak hands for this golf business
and weak hands win quit on the job
every time if you don't lash them to
their work. Make them work, and
work hard into and through the ball.
Copyright 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07
KENNEDY A. C.. EXPECTING
GOOD SEASON ON DIAMOND

Jewett will continue to coach the
team. Props VIII meet tonight at the
home of Capt. Mcbride, 4219 Third
street, at 7:30 o'clock. For games call
MANAGE Koenig at Adams 5760.J.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07
HOCKEY TEAM GOING WES~

PITTSBURGH. April (F). --l-i-
Gals OF the Pittsburgh team of the
National Hockey League have ac-
cepted an invitation for the club 80
play series Of games In Los Angeles,
with an all-star team of that region.
The series will open April 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07

Senting the best in unlimited
diamond material in Bright
wood, is expecting a success
full campaign. Maryland A. G.
will be the opening opponent on Apr1
IL on the NJ. A. c. diamond.
Kennedys viii face hard schedule,
which is being arranged by Manager
Otte. A number of new faces VIII be
seen in the lineup this summer.
Officers have been elected by the Mer-
chants League as follows: President,
William Flester; secretary-treasur
II. T.. Sanders. Five teams VIII COM
nose the loop. Chestnut Farms and
Thompsons Dairy will open the sea-
son on May 2. Jimmy Jones has been
selected as umpire.
A trophy has been offered by
Frenchs Sport Store to the pennant
winner.
Isherwood A. C., one of the leading
senior teams of the District, will hold
a. meeting tonight in the Noel House
gymnasium. Final arrangements will
be made for the minstrel show and
dance to be given April q for the
benefit OF the team. Coach Buck
America has arranged a PRACTICE
game for Sunday morning on Rose
dale Field.
Post Office Department nine, cham,
pion of Departmental League last
season, was to engage in its first
workout this afternoon on the East
Fllipse diamond Several newcomers
have been added to the list of candi-
dates in addition to most of last sea.
sons stars j. Milwit is manager.
Manhattan Juniors trounced South
ern Railway Juniors yesterday is to 0.
Manager Brown wants games for his
Manhattans. Cali Atlantic 4S7-W.
Langley Midgets will meet tonight
ut 1880 o'clock at 207 V street north
east. All candidates should report.
For games call North 2076
c. & p. Messengers play their open
ing game Saturday afternoon at j
o'clock on No. 3 monument diamond
Harlem A. G. will furnish the oRposi-
ton. Jimmy Mitchell, manager. at
Main 10000. branch ], is booking
games.
AIoysius players meet tonight at the
club, AZ / street, at o'clock.
Peerless juniors viii elect captain
and manager at meeting tonight at
lilo Fifth street.
Moose 4. G. wants some opposition
for Sunday morning on Seamen Gun
ner's Field. Call manager Lally, Lin
coin SEA
TTls Speaker Insects won over Naval
Village nine yesterday, 10 2.
Arlington Bearcats open their sea
son Sunday with Mohawk Athletic
club on Arlington Field. Bearcats
practice today and tomorrow.
Goose Goslin PeeweeS want games
with teams in their class. CAL
Manager Emilio. Potomac SOFT.
Azrec Juniors want Saturday games
with teams in their class. Class
West 1884
XorIte Props have not combined
with Cardinals this season. Pop
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07

OLE, the gentle pastime of the
country clubs, has captured
r the enthusiasm of Douglas
! Fairbanks, restless athlete of
the films.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07

Goose GosIin PeeweeS want games
with teams in their class. Call
Manager Emilio Potomac SOFT.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07

Azrec Juniors want Saturday games
with teams in their class. Class
West 1884.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07

XorlSe Props have not combined
with Cardinals this season. Pop
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Manhattan Juniors trounced South
ern Railway Juniors yesterday is TO 0.
Manager Brown wants games for his
Manhattans Cali Atlantic 487-W.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07

Arlington Bearcats open their sea
son Sunday with Mohawk Athletic
club on Arlington Field. Bearcats
practice today and tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07

TTls Speaker Insects won over Naval
Village nine yesterday, 3 10 2.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07

Post Office Department nine, cham
pion of Departmental League last
season, was to engage in its first
workout this afternoon on the East
Ellipse diamond. Several newcomers
have been added to the list of candi-
dates in addition to most of last sea.
sons stars j. Milwit is manager.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07

Langley Midgets will meet tonight
at 1870 o'clock at 207 V street north
east. All candidates should report.
For games call North 2076.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07

G. & p. Messengers play their open
ing game Saturday afternoon at j
o'clock on No. monument diamond
Harlem A. c. will furnish the opposi-
ton. Jimmy Mitchell, manager. at
Main 10000, branch ], is booking
games.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07

Moose 4. &. wants some opposition
for Sunday morning on Seamen Gun
ner's Field. Call manager Lally, Lin
coin 6924
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07

= ENNEDY A. c. nine, repre-
= senting the best in unlimited
I diamond material in Bright
wood, is expecting a success
f,1I can1naign. MARYLAND A. q.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-07

AI0ysius players meet tonight at the
club, "a / street, at o'clock.
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BY John Il. FOSTER.

n NASHVILLE, Tenn, April r.
Before the panorama Of the
VI Spring training camps OF
4 1927 has completely passed
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Peerless juniors viii elect captain
and manager at a meeting tonight at
ITO Fifth street.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-10
CATHOLIC CHURCH HITS
 COMPANIONATE MARRIAGE
The Pilot, Boston Publication, Strongly Condemns Most Recent
 Social DisIOCatiOn

Boston, Dec. 10 (UP)-Compan- ionate marriage is condemned edi- torially in today's issue of The Pilot. official organ of the Catholic arch diocese of Boston.
 While religious leaders are de- crying divorce and wise statesmen like President Coolidge are insisting upon the integrity of the home as the foundation of national greatness. radical reformers are actively en- gagged in the press and on the plat form advocating their pernicious theories about marriage and family life.' the editorial says. in part.
 The social dislocations caused by the great war and it's aftermath have been detrimental 10 the best inter ests of the family. The growth of the divorce evil menaces it's per- petuity as an institution, and the un- reasoning clamor for such abomina- tons as companionatc marriages threatens its very existence"
New Britain herald., 1927-12-10
DOCTOR IS UPHELD
British Jurors Agree Medical Man Did Right in Letting Suffering Patient Die.

Sheffield. Eng. Dec. 10 Rl-The right of doctor to let q patient die rather than live in unrcmediable pain has been tacitly upheld by a coroner's jury here.
 The coroner in summation de- clared that neither he nor the jury should either commend or censure Dr. A. T. Simpson for letting his pa tient, John Robinson, die after the patient had taken an overdose Of q dangerous medicine. The jury brought in Q verdict that Robinson died from medicine taken to relieve pain and cause him to sleep.
 Dr. Simpson was treating Robin son for dropsy and heart disease. On the day that Robinson died he found that Robinson had taken an over dose of medicine. In view of the great pain Robinson had suffered in the past, Dr. Simpson decided to make no attempts to counteract the poisonous effects of the medicine.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-10
TROTS HEMISPHERE
 BUT IS TOO LATE
Bridegroom Races From Peking
 to Chicago
WEDDING POSTPONED DAY
Financial Adviser to China Marries Mrs. Ryer>on After TrayeIing by Auto, Train, Boat and Airplahe Half Way Around the World.

Chicago. Dec. 10 Pl-Balked for weeks by the elements bridegroom who raced half way around the world by land. sea and air arrived in Chicago to meet his fiancee, who informed him their wedding had been postponed until today.
 Forsythe Sherfesee. financial ad- wiser to the Chinese government at Picking. completed the last lap of his journey when he stepped from an alFplane at the municipal field last night. just six hours after the time scheduled for his wedding to Mrs. Emily Borie Hyerson of Chicago. Mrs. Ryerson is the widow of Arthur Ryerson, the wealthy steel man, who lost his lire when the Titanic sank.
 Meets storm on Pacific
 A storm on the Pacific soon after he left Yokohama, Japan. delayed the arrival of Mr. Sherfesee's ship at Vancouver, B. C., two days. A rec ord snowfall In the Rockies necessi- tated a re-routing of his train at st. Paul, Minn., and set his schedule back several hours further.
 Determined that the wedding should be held as planned if human ly possible. Mrs. Ryerson chartered a plane to fly to St. Paul, pick up the bridegroom and bring him here.
 But it was q losing battle with the elements for again strong head winds. snowbound roads, and bitter cold weather cost many valuable hours. When it was learned the plane could not possibly arrive in time. Mrs. Ryerson announced the marriage would be celebrated at noon today.
 Takes Plane at St. Paul
 Arriving in St. Paul, SherfeSee was met by pilots of the plane, who told him of the plan to fly to Chi cago. Motor trucks carrying gaso- line and oil to the airtield were caught in q snowbank and another three hour delay 10 dig them out followed. When the plane finally started strong head winds were fought every mile of the way.
 The wedding couple met in Pe- king expecting to leave for New York after the wedding. They plan ned to sail Dec, 3 for Italy and pro- ceed to Persia on their wedding trip.