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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-27
TWO CARDINAL BOX
ACES HOLDING OUT

ST. LOUIS, January q Rl.-Two
st. Louis Cardinal pitching aces, Jesse
Haines and Charles Flint Rhem, are
holding out for substantial increases
in salaries before signing for next
season. Both have rejected proffered
contracts.
Rheims salary last season was
81, 900 and he wants at least three
times as much in 1927.
Haines won two games in last year s
world series. In the regular season
he won Is games and lost4, a
percentage of 1855. Rhem, while
losing the world series game he
pitched, won 90 games in the regular
season and was an important factor
| In the pennant race.
Because of their many lean years
the world champions have several
| low .salaried men on their roster, an6
| with only four men with holdovel
contracts, the troubles Of President
Sam Breadon apparently are just
| beginning.
| Douthit, Hefey, Blades and SherdI
| are the followers.
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to be unfavorable. although not dan
gerous.
In the event that Cobb and Speaker
are restored to base ball, it was con-
sidered likely that the American
League would make every effort to
keep the star players.
The Tribune prints a report that
at the meeting of American League
magnateS here last Sunday 1t was
the consensus that the two should
be returned to the clubs with which
they formerly were associated. At
least four clubs in the American
League were reported to want either
Cobb or Speaker, and it was init
mated they would not have waived
on them except for word that was
sent out by league directors at the
time it was decided to ask resigna-
tons of the playing managers.
Cobb May go TO Giants.
The Tribune also prints a report
from Detroit intimating that the new
season might find Cobb in a New
York Giants uniform. playing for
one of his keenest enemies, John
McGraw
Just before Cobb left for his home
in Georgia, a Detroit reporter made
the remark, Wouldn't it be funny if
you and John McGraw were on the
same team next Summer"
Stranger things than that have
happened" Cobb was quoted as re.
plying with smile and wink of his
eve
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Cobb and Speaker Still in Spotlight Revision Due for international
DEMPSEY TO TRAIN
TO SEE IF HE is FIT
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FRESNO. Calf. January 27.-Jack
Dempsey has announced here that he
intends to start serious training with
in the next week TO determine for
himself whether he has the "stuff"
for an attempted comeback.
I'm going to train just as IL | We're
putting myself in readiness for a bat
tle," said the former heavyweight box
ing champion. "Then I'll make up
my mind whether l still have the stuff
or whether the time has come for me
to hang up the gloves.
"If / am satisfied with my condi-
ton, / want to take on any of them,
Tunney preferred, and Of course, I'll
favor Tex Richards handling.
II feel fine right now, although
am about Is pounds over my fighting
weight. I have been taking some ex-
ercise, but not real training.
Fighting Is my profession. If you
can call 1t that. Even if / hang up
the gloves, I'll yet be in the fight
game, I suppose. for it is all that I
know, and 1 will try to turn pro-
moter."
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COMMISSIONER MAY RULE
TO-DAY ON STATUS OF PAIR
Conjecture Continues as to Uniforms Stars Will
Wear, If, as Expected, They Are Restored to Good
Standing in Base Ball.

~ HICAGO, January q R).--
What uniforms Ty Cobb and
Iris Speaker will don this
~ season. in the event they are
cleared of charges of playing
in a fixed game and return to the
diamond, continued today as prime
subject of base ball gossip as a de-
cision in their case approached.
II was considered likely that a rul-
ing by Base Ball Commissioner Lands
would be forthcoming today, or posi-
bly, tomorrow, and, while there were
no limitations as to what the decision
would be, friends of the two former
mana gers were confident that they
would be returned to good standing in
organized base ball.
Charges of Hubert Dutch" Leon.
ard, former Detroit pitcher, that the
two had knowledge of betting coup
on a fixed game between Cleveland
and Detroit in 1919 We're made public
by the commissioner some months
after Cobb and Speaker had resigned
managerial positions.
Led to JoIlnsOn's Ousting.
Publication of the testimony in the
case drew fire from President Ban
Johnson of the American League and
ultimately led to his being Shelved as
acting president of the junior circuit
johnson, at Excelsior Springs, Mo-,
on sick leave, suffered an attack of
neuritis last night at the home of his
friend, John Emmke, with whom he
is staying. His condition was reported
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When Base Ball Was Young
BY JOHN B. FOSTER

The fast express was steaming into
Dubuque, Iowa, at 20 miles an
hour and the passengers half chung
to their seats in fear of the reckless
speed at which they were travelling.
Every now and then the door of the
day coach opened and a tall, lanky,
solemn-faced kid entered and offered
for sale his wares.
Prize packages" he bawled, "a
prize in every package. Morning
Herald. All the latest joke books"
Magazines were peddled only occa-
sionally then. They were too expen-
sive when shipped West. On the side
the tall boy carried a line of dime
novels which were surreptitiously
purchased by the young and the old
deacons who didn't dare read them
at home, but felt safe on a railroad
journey.
The train rolled into Dubuque and
a chubby Irish gentleman alighted
from it.. The Irish gentleman was a
base ball promoter.
On a following day the Irish gentle
man saw the lanky boy, who had
been peddling prize packages on the
train, play in a ball game. The
solemn looking train butcher" was
first baseman. He played first base
so we'll that the Irish promoter en-
gagged him to play for him. You're
a promising kid" quoth the promoter.
The lean boy only nodded his head.
COmiskey Proves a Pioneer.
The promoter went his way in time.
bu in the Winter there came letter
to the lean boy at Dubuque which
offered him q position with the ST.
Louis Browns to play first base. He
accepted 1t and the world became ac-
quainted with Charley Comiskey. the
| man who revolutioniZed the work of
all first basemen and made the posi-
ton appear as one of the greater
activities of the diamond instead of
| the lesser.
Before Comiskey played first base
| for St. Louis it was the custom of
all professional first basemen to stand
on the base ready to receive the ball
| when thrown. They seemed to think
that 1t would be thrown to them at
all times and even stood there when
| there was no one on the bases and
| the batter was up" Comiskey
played away from the base and ran
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NEW AND YOUNGER TEAM
IS ASSURED FOR BROOKLYN
Manager Wilbert Robinson Makes Good His Promise
to Fans by Wedding Out Veteran Performers
With Drastic Shake-Up.

Barrett of Memphis appear to have
first call at second and third base,
respectively.
The prospective outfield has Arnold
STATE, smuggling Los Angeles &C
QUESTION, and Harvey Hendrick OF
New Orleans fianking the veteran
former Pirate, Max Carey. Max will
captain the team in the field.
Although Brooklyn's pruning bee
has cut deeply into the ranks of vet
Grams, there still are a few holdovers
to contest with recruits for several
positions. Chick Fewster again will
aim at the keystone bag berth, Mar
riott will be available for third, while
Gus Felix and Merwin Jacobson will
bid for outfield posts.
Box Corps Virtually Intact.
With the exception of Grimes, who
has been traded to the Giants. Brook
lyn will retain it's 1928 twirling de-
partment virtually intact. Bobby
also will have back Bill Doak, after
a two-year retirement from major
league base ball. Norman Pitt, q
former hurting star, who has beer
playing Independent ball for severa
seasons. also has been reinstated.
The club expects a return to peak
form this year by Dazzy Vance
speed ball king. Working be
side Dazzy will be Douglas Nc
Weeny, Jess Petty, Bob McGraw
Jess Barnes, Bill Ehrhardt, Jim Ell.
| lott, George Boehler and Guy Cant
rell. Elliott and Cantrell are recruit
additions of promise, the former
coming with an impressive 1926 rec.
ord from Seattle and the latter with
brilliant season behind him at Jer'
sew CITY
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to it to get the ball or made the
pitcher run while he fielded the ball
to the pitcher. No other man is re-
sponsible for that changed method.
He was q right-hand first baseman,
but he was a fielding first baseman,
and the national game jumped 10
leagues ahead when he changed the
prevailing mode Of first base play.
Most Of the first basemen of olden
times were portly gentlemen who
were reputed to be sure catches, but
the ball had to be thrown very ac-
curately to make them sure catches.
Pop Arson and Comiskey were
great vivals. One led the champion
Chicagos and the other the champion
st. Louis Browns. They led their
hghting teams into post-season series,
and as both of them could talk a cow
blind and each was as stubborn as a
perverse army mule, 1t was the ora
torical treat of any season to see
them match themselves for an argu.
ment with each other and the umpire.
A Pitched Verbal Battle.
They had a pitched verbal battle
one afternoon over a disputed point
in a game. Arson in his dominating
way was riding the umpire, the OPP
posing team, Comiskey and the world
in general over little base decision.
What is this st. Louis club anyway"
said Anse. Nothing but a minor
league team. We never ought to
play EN-"
Comiskey looked at him. Then he
pointed his index finger at hin--and
when Comiskey pointed an index
finger he was seething.
"Who are We to talk" said Comis-
key. Eye big-footed Swede, We never
left first base in your life except to
bat. Go learn to play the game"
Arson was paralyzed. No ball
player ever had spoken to him like
that. His face flushed and he re-
marked, Il thought this was gentle
mems game" retreating to the base
he never had left"
When Arson died, Comiskey said
"Anse" was the greatest batter in the
history of base ball and he sticks to
it.
Tomorrow: "The First Base Ball
Goat"
Downright. 1927
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Even buffers Can Score Aces,
So Hole-in.One Club Disbands

Even they are tyros against
Sandy Herd, Briton, who has
scored II aces, though 1t Is es-
timated that the chance to hole q
ball from the tee comes but once
in 10000 chances.
Scarcely any of the 10000 MEM
bers OF the Hole-In-One Club are
famous golfers, but almost 800 got
aces on holes more than 200 yards
long and six, on holes 800 yards
long. Frank Melus of Los Angeles
holed a 374-yard drive.
The most curious hole in one
was a climax to Rose KTonman OF
New York. Her card read: 1873
15-9-I2-9-6-1. She Is one of the few
golfers who do not attribute their
feat to sheer skill.
Another Is j. A. H. Kerr, Los
Angeles banker. He scored an ace
when his ball, sliced, hit tree,
caromed to a bridge, rolled across
into sand trap and crept out TO
the sloping green to roll circuitous-
ly into the cup.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-27

Note: This Is the tenth Of
series of stories on 1897 major
league club prospects.
BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 27.-Only one
of the players who began last years
campaign in the supporting cast of a
veteran Brooklyn pitching corps has
been given a place in the tentative
first string Robin lineup for the 1927
National League race.
The lone survivor of Manager VIII
bert Robinson's drastic shake-up, aside
from his finging staff, Is Shortstop
Johnny Butler. Of the other tossers
who began the 1926 hunt as regulars
Cox, Wheat and Felix, outfielders
Fournier, Meanwhile and Marriott, In
fielders; Hargreaves, O'Neill and De
Berry, catchers, four have passed
from the fold and the remainder are
slated for reserve roles.
New and Younger Team.
The names of Zach Wheat, Jacques
Fournier, Burleigh Grimes, Rabbit
Maranville, Sammy B0hne, Bill Coz
and Whitley Witt have been cut from
the Brooklyn pay roll since the in
auguration of the last chase, indi
eating that Robby has made good his
promise to give Brooklyn a new and
younger team"
Butch Henline, former Philadel
phia maskman, obtained by Brooklyn
In four-cornered deal, will take over
the first-string catching assignment
Babe Herman, who succeeded Four
nier in mid-season, is expected tt
guard the initial sack, while Jimmy
Partridge of Nashville and Bobby
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With the BowLers

BURNER was the big noise Of the up
per Fourteenth street gang, seeking
a set Of S83.
Betas beat the Lambdas three
times, DeltaS swept set with the
Epsilons and Alphas got two of three
games bowled with the Pts, In tbs
Delta Sigma Phi circuit. Wilson Of
the Deltas did about the best bowling
of the contests.
Central Armatures had to toll con.
siderably to take two of three games
rolled against the E. B. Warrens, in
the Electrical League, The Centrals
took the first game by pins only,
and, after being nosed out by a single
maple in the second encounter. came
back to win handily in the third.
Freight Auditors swept a set with
Passenger Accounts, in the Southern
Railway Clerks League. A set of 343
by Stanley helped the Freight Audi.
tors much.
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MONTREAL NOW SLATED
FOR RETURN TO CIRCUIT
New Stadium May Be Available for Canadian City in
Event 1t Is Readmitted to Loop-Hot Pennant
Race in Prospect This Year.

made progress prior to developine
weakness.
New Stadium Is Planned.
A new stadium is to be built in
Montreal and base ball men will go
In with other stockholders and assist
IN furnishing funds IL they obtain per.
mission to use the stadium for pro-
fesslonai games on dates regularly
scheduled.
II Montreal should become a mem
Der of the International League a
vacancy would be made in the pres
ent circuit to accommodate the
Canadian city. Reading Is the least
successful of the International cities
and Baltimore men who have as
sisted In backing the Reading team
might like to go to Montreal with
that team. In case Reading Is sue
cessful this year perhaps there
would be another turn of affairs.
There has been some talk that
Syracuse might be transferred, but
the majority of the club owners OF
the International prefer that Svrs
cuse be part of the west arn half OF
, the circuit, and that Montreal, Jersey
City, Newark and Baltimore constitute
the eastern section. 1t Is now possible
to go from any International city TO
another city on the circuit over night.
That arrangement will prevail If
Montreal comes in.
Hot Race In Prospect.
Toronto has a, new stadium, Buffalo
has one and Rochester is building one,
and the league never has been so well
of for improved arrangements as it is
| now. Changes made in players this
Winter indicate there will be a red
hot race for the pennant this season.
Toronto viii go back to Augusta,
Ga. for Spring training, Buffalo, will
go to Palmetto, Fla; Rochester to
| Savannah, Syracuse to Monroe, La;
Newark to Pensacola, Fla, and Balti-
| more to Auburndale, Fla.
1t is probable that control of the
Rochester club will in every way pass
again into the hands of Walter Hap
good and George Stallings, who have
been handling the organization since
Charles A. Chaplin retired from base
ball. Rochester has put out lot OF
money to get together team for
| 1927, and with Maranville at short and
| Groh at third. Rochester figures there
| is a chance to shape up an infield that
| may lead it to a pennant.
tCopyright. 1877
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Fights Last Night

By the Associated Press.
Detroit--Jackie johnson, Toronto
outpointed Mickey Goldberg, Mil
waukee Qo); Bobby Booth, Toronto
beat AL Meyers, Detroit Q0).
Minneapolis, Minn.-Jaek McCann
Bismarck, N. D., stopped Mike Man
deli, ST. Paul %; Bobby OShea
Minneapolis, beat Irish Kennedy 60;
Mark Judge, Minneapolis, won tech
nical knockout over Al Shelton, St
Paul ca.
Kansas City, Kans.--John "FiFpo"
Wilcox, Oklahoma, knocked out Nick
Catalina, Chicago 81; Johnny Har'
ris, Des Moines, outpointed BATTLING
Clemon, Kansas City Q0G
Hot Springs, Ark.-Frankie Garcia
Los Angeles, beat Johnny Rosen, New
York Q0).
Oakland, Calif.-Armand Emanuel
San Francisco, defeated Jack Beasly
Oakland 90.
FIGHTS TONIGHT.
London--Phil Scott, British heavy
weight champion, We. Bartazzolo. Ital
ian champion (20).
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YANKEE-BROWN TRADE
is HALTED BY HIGGINS

NEW YORK, January az R.--A
proposal for the trading of Pitchers
Sam Jones and Walter Beall of the
Yankees for Outfielder Cedric burst
and Pitcher Joe Giard has been called
off for the present at least.
Manager Miller Higgins Of the
Yankees, from st. Petersburg, Fla,
wired Col. Jacob Rupert, owner Of
the club, advising against the trade.
The clubs may resume negotiations
at the schedule meeting of the Ameri-
can League next month, it is indi-
Gated at Yankee headquarters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-27

" HAT the season may be short
ened, teams of the Bankers
League are bowling overtime
L these days. This week each
team is rolling two matches,
and scoring well, too. With each
match the race for the championship
becomes warmer, and the first six
teams are so well punched that lit
tie more than a game separates the
sixth from the first.
Bank of Washington and American
Security and Trust Co. teams, which
are slightly ahead of the others, are
getting plenty of battling from Wash
ington Loan and Trust Co. No. /,
Riggs, Federal Reserve Board and
Hibbs & Co. The fine fight promises
TO be carried on to the end of the cam
paign.
The last weekly prize for high in
dividual game was won by Wilcox of
Washington Loan and Trust Co. No. 2,
who hit the pins for a 1873 total. Will
cox shared with Warden of the G.. M.
F. Murphy Co. team the prize for high
individual set, each having bowled 347.
The team set prize went to Riggs,
which socked 1877 in taking three
games from Federal-American. This
count broke the league record that
was held by American Security and
Trust Co., with a score of 1863.
Beaten by rs pins in the first game
the Nomads rallied calamity to take
a double fall out of the Union Printers
in the Athletic Club League. There
was much fancy bowling done in the
match, Frye of the Typos had q set
of 1893, with high game of 1877.
Mischou, anchor of the Printers.
socked the little naples for 37s.
Pestell of the NOmads had a set of
3SS that included the high game of
the match, LAB.
Eight Wolves failed to check Pet
worth in the Suburban League. The
Petworths used only five bowlers to
take all three games, not one of the
contests being really close. Fillius OF
the winners shot 358 for the big set
of the meeting.
Pirate and Money Order teams were
Victors in the Post Office circuit, the
Pirates taking the measure of Bright
wood In two of three games and the
Money Order crowd doing the same
with the u Street shooters. The high
game of the matches, 1875, was hit
by Heine, second in the Brightwood
lineup.
Douglas No. l barely managed 70
take the odd from Fifteenth Street In
the East Washington Church League
After winning the first game by Il
pins, Douglas was beaten in the sec
ond by Is pins, but came back in the
third to triumph, sos to 507. Douglas
No. had a handicap of pins in The
last effort and needed 1t, too.
Washington Canoe Club found the
going a bit rough in the Nautica
League and lost two of three games
bowled with the Raccars. Dear
proved a good anchor man for the
winners, rolling a set of 334.
With all hands shooting consistently
well, Amity walked away with thres
games when it encountered Colder
Rule in the Odd Fellows League
Ward did some heavy scoring fol
Amity,. while Tobey seemed to be thu
only Golden Rule bowler getting thu
range of the naples.
GOrsuch forfeited to Keller in tbs
East Washington Ladies' Church
League, but the Keller team bowlet
it's three games. 1t did not work any
too hard, however, and turned in {
count of l ,465.
King Pins bagged a couple of games
when they clashed with the Curt
Cafes, in the District League. Hal
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CONNOLLY AND NORWOOD
TIED IN BILLIARD EVENT

Connolly and Norwood are today
tied for first place in the District
three cushion billiard championship
tournament in progress at Lewis &
Krauss' parlors. Connolly won over
Norwood last night by one-point
margin, 35 to "a.
Prior to his loss last night Nor
wood was alone In first place.
Goodacre beat Murray, IS to 80.
Ruark will meet DR.. Reilly and
Dodge will match shots with Lam
son in games today.
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BIZ the Associated Press.
Golfers who have made a hole In
one have become so numerous
that the Hole-In-One Club, founded
1921 by the Burke Golf Co.. has
been disbanded.
More than 10000 persons, 100
of them women, have entered the
club in six years with properly at
tested records that they holed out
In one shot from the tee. Long
before the club was dissolved its
sponsor withdrew the offer of q
dozen golf balls for every member,
and substituted badge,
That more than one ace can be
scored in a lifetime is proved by
records showing As golfers with
two holes in one, seven with three
aces TO their credit, two with four
apiece and two who recorded five,
The twain with four each are
George Aulbach, junior amateur,
and Il. j. Gerhardt, boht of Boston,
and those with five are d. Scott
Chishols, Los Angeles golf writer,
and Bob Tousley of Kansas City.
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D. C. GOLFER WINS PRIZE

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, January
27.-S. A. Drury of the Chevy Chase
Club of Washington won a prize in
the putting competition on the Alca
Ear course here yesterday, after q
double playoff with Garrett 3. Wall
vice president of the Chesapeake &
Ohio Railroad. Mrs. John A Weave,
Of Washington finished fourth in the
women's event.
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HOPPE STILL WELL AHEAD,
BUT HAGENLACHER GAINS

BOSTON, January "a R).-Erich
Hagenlacher. former world champion
1872 balkline biiliardist, last night won
the sixth block of 3,600-point match
with Willie Hoppe, present champion,
800 to 1885,
Hagenlacher made a high run of
203, while Hopes best was a 48.
The total score to date stood, Hoppe,
,686; Hagenlather, 1880.
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CHAMPIONSHIP COURSE
LURES SMART COL FER

By the Associated Press.
Harrison r. ("Jimmy'D Johnston,
who carried the name of st. Paul
to great heights in golf competition
has changed his residence and hust-
ness to Minneapolis, and hereafter
will play under the banner OF the
Minikahda club.
The national amateur champion
ship matches will be played over the
Minikahda course and Johnston viii
be thoroughly at home when the biz
drive starts.
He has been Minnesota champion
for six years, won the Western anna
teur title in 1924 and played on three
Walker Cup teams.
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TUNNEY ON WAY WEST
FOR VAUDEVILLE TOUR

NEW YORK, January az (P).-Gene
Tunney, heavyweight champion, was
on his way West today to resume
vaudeville engagements in Spokane.
With him rs his manager, Billy
Gibson, who hopes to induce Promoter
Jim Mullen TO stage a lightweight
championship match in Chicago be-
tween Sammy Mandel the title holder,
and Louis kid Kaplan, retired king
of the featherweights.
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COLUMBUS BUYS RAWLINGS,

CINCINNATI, January 81 R).-
President Hermann of the Cincin-
natl Reds, made a first move toward
strengthening the Columbus American
Association. now owned by the Gin
cinnati Club, when he signed Johnny
Rawlings, veteran National League
infielder. Rawlings was free agent.