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BABES GOOD CONDITION
PLEASES YANKS' HACKERS
Infeld and Outfeld of American League Champions
All Set, Only Utility Jobs and Box Berths Re-
naming to Be Decided.

It seems certain early in the game
that Myles Thomas and Walter Beall,
who spent most Of their time in the
bullpen last year. will be given more
opportunity TO do their stun this sea-
son. Thomas especially has shown
greatly improved form.
OF the new men on the star George
Pipgras. bought from st. Paul, will be
kept and may be a starting pitcher.
Wiley Moore, who won 80 games for
Greenville of the South Atlantic AS
ISOLATION, last year. seems to have an
excellent chance to remain under the
big top. He is big fellow with i'm.
pressive stuff" and "a decided capacity
for work.
Rely on Box Veterans.
Manager Higgins expects to again
pin his faith on Pennock, Hoyt and
Shocker as his shock troops on the
mound.
1--WE viii be better than we were
last year." said Hug, in sizing up the
situation, but so will the other fel.
lows. We will have to fight hard all
the way to repeat"
The manager OF the champions said
he conceded five clubs a chance to win
the pennant. He did not name them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-10
BY SOL METZGER.

Outputting the Great Hagen is ex-
actly what Harry Cooper recently
accomplished when he defeated Sir
Walter in q 72-hole exhibition
match at Dallas, 10 up. That's
some feat! Cooper incidentally won
the first $4,000 Los Angeles Open
in 1926 and thus sprung into fame.
He comes from golfing family and
Is young. He will go far as he has
every shot in the bag, including
mastery of length.
Cooper's putting method is worth
studying, as 1t brings out control
ling point; namely, the wrists do
the work, as the three sketches OF
his putting stroke in the circles
drawn above imply. All good put
ters depend entirely on the wrists.
There Is absolutely no movement
or the arms or body or legs. They
merely take stance that Is solid
and prevents body sway. The grip
Is mostly with the fingers, too.
Tight gripping spoils putting. Re-
member that.
Cooper has his little mannerisms.
The first one is to place the club
head directly in front of the ball.
Then he carefully places 1t behind
the ball and concentrates on the
line. A slow back-swing with the
wrist and a pendulum-like forward
swing on through sends the ball
home.
Copyright. 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-10
BOTH LOOMING AS LIKELY
FTRST-DVISION OCCUPANTS
Each Deemed to Possess Class to Remain Pennant
Contenders Till Late in Campaign-Question
of Endurance May Decide Their Fate.

accredit him with being. No mule
driver could surpass his fiuency of
language, but 1t has a good-natured
ring to it.
Cubs Strongest at First.
AT first base, Chicago is bit strong
err than Pittsburgh on the face of
things. At second, Chicago is better
unless a very unusual young man de-
velops for Pittsburgh, which is not out
of the question. At short stop and
third Pittsburgh is better off collective.
ly than any other team in the National
League.
In the outfield if Hack Wilson is
as good as he was last year, the Chi
cago team will go on it's way with
drum and fife playing. The Cubs
have as good a youngster in Webb
as the Pirates have in their young
outfielders.
The Pirates have better hitters as
a whole and they have one player to
help them who was the most promis-
ing youngster of 1926. And he is
so taken up with base ball that he
will be likely to develop into one of
the great personalities of the game.
Paul Waner is the best young man
out of the Pacific Coast this long
time.
Cubs Possess Team Work.
The team work taught by Joe Nc
earthly is as good as is taught in
any league. The more that one sees
Of Mccarthy, the more one learns
of this managers real knowledge of
the game. He gives his players a
reason for everything he wishes them
to do and his theory Of what con-
stitutes real base ball rates him as
one who will never lack success.
Both the Cubs and Pirates are
strong enough to be in the first divi-
sion all season. When that is said,
so per cent of the argument is stated,
four Of the clubs in the first division,
there may not be difference of more
than five games at the end Of the
race. 1t is the club that gets the
benefit of the five games that win be
up in the first place, when the season
ends.
fCopyright 1877
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With the Bowlers

finish in the first block that was
bowled in Baltimore on February 26.
Death of the mother Of J. w. Wood,
manager of the King Pin. resulted in
the final engagement being advanced
to Saturday night from March S, the
date originally set for its rolling.
With Ross Clark bowling a 317 set,
Revises compiled team count of / ,497
to gain first honors in opening play
of the Washington Post Preferred
League. Makeovers, with a total of
,470 for three games, were next, Haw-
kins set of 315 aiding their cause.
There was some right nifty bowling
flashed in Southern Railway League
games. With Zobel leveling the pins
for q set OF 1862. Auditors took the
first two games of their set with Con-
but lost the third by pins.
In other matches Purchasing scored a
three-game triumph over Freight Ac-
counts, Disbursing took Traffic over
the bumps In q trio of engagements,
Passenger Accounts twice bowed to
Operation, and Station bagged two of
three from Law. A game of 149 by
scrivener of Law was the. best indi-
yidual effort.
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WIDE ANTICIPATING
HIS TWO BIG RACES
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 10.-Edvin
Wide, Swedish middle distance running
star, today looked forward to his two
principal races on American board
tracks.
The first will match him against
Lloyd Hahn, Americas outstanding
miller, in grind of that distance at
the knights Of Columbus games in
Madison Square Garden, March II.
Hahn already has cracked the world
mark for 1000 yards this season and
Is training to smear the 4:12 indoor
record for a mile, held jointly by
Paavo Nurni and Joie Ray, in his
match with the Swedish schoolmaster.
Wide's second big race, probably the
last of his brief American tour, will
bring him against his foremost Scan
dinavian rival here. Willie Ritola, in
emile Jaunt at the United Swedish
Societies meet in the garden, March
26. The indoor record of S:58 is for
the distance, made by Nurmi here in
1925, will be under fire. Wide set a
new outdoor Emile record of 9:01 2-5
last Summer in defeating Nurmi.
Ritola, coming out of a Winters
track Information to meet Wide, twice
whipped the Swedish star in distance
tits at the 1924 Olympics in Paris. In
one of their two 10.000.meter dueis
Ritola set a world record of 80 minutes
% Is seconds.
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TRACK SQUAD AT C. U.
TO BEGIN WORK SOON

Coach Joseph Donahue will start
track candidates at Catholic Univer'
sity at outdoor training on Saturday
weather permitting. A squad of up
ward OF so is expected to report. AL
though most of the men are green,
there are a number in the group who
may develop into capable athletes.
Some of those coming up from the
freshmen appear Of more than usual
promise.
A number of engagements have
been arranged for the Brooklanders
by Athletic Director Charley Moran,
including a dual meet with George
Washington on May and another
with Delaware on May IL.
George Washington and Johns Hop
kins will be encountered in a TRAN
gular meet on May q in what prom
ises to be one of the most interesting
features of the track campaign here
abouts. A clash with Gallaudet, the
date for which will be set later, and a
number of other meets probably will
be carded for the Cardinals.
Norman #. Carton Of this city has
been elected captain of the 1927 soccer
team at the Naval Academy. He is
son of Capt. Carton of the Naval
Medical Corps.
Coach Charley Moran will use the
well known ak on his diamond squad
at Catholic University shortly to get
1t down to a size that can be handled
properly. The mentor has been get.
ting line on his candidates for sew
eral days now and yesterday put them
through a short game.
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THREE TRAYS LISTED
IN TOURNEY TONIGHT

Only three games will be played to-
night in the South Atlantic A. A. U.
floor championships. which opened
yesterday at George Washington Uni
versity gymnasium.
Two contests tonight in the u.s.
pound class will find the tourney scene
shifted TO the Boys Club gym. with
st. Pauls meeting Aztecs at els
o'clock, while Kanawhas facing
Epiphany Chapel tossers an hour
later. Wyomings will meet Calvary
Reds in the 130-pound class at SIS
o'clock.
Five games are scheduled for tomor-
row night at the university gym
nasium, with the same number listed
for Saturday night in the same gym.
Calvarys trounced Columbia Heights
in the unlimited class game played
last night, As to II. ST. Martins
downed st. Johns Celtics. 20 to Is;
while Arrows beat Aces in the 145-
pound class, 80 to 81.
Boys Club Standards defeated At
lantics, 81 to in the 115.pound class
and Boys Club Optimists held Rex
A. c. scoreless from scrimmage in
winning, 70 TO /.
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ARMOUR CRUICKSHANK
BEMOAN MISSED PUTS

MIAMI. Fla. March 1o.--Tom
Armour, Congressional Country Club
professional from Washington. and
Bob Cruicksllank of New York, cast
their chagrin behind them today and
again matched skill with Walter
Hagen Of New York and Jock Hutch.
ison of Chicago In another 36-hole
match for the four-ball professional
championship they threw away yes
terday when both missed rather easy
puts on the final hole.
Darkness interfered with further
play yesterday.
Leading most Of the way yesterday.
Armour watched Cruickshank miss
four-footer to win the match on the
seth hole and then blew one Of equal
distance himself.
Armour and CrWckshank were 2
up at noon. but Hagen secured
brides on the third and fourth holss
OF the afternoon round to square.
Armour won the 18th to put his team
! up, but they lost the last hole.
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TRAPSHOTS TO HOLD
MATCHES SATURDAY

Saturday will be full day for the
scatter gun artists Of the Washington
Gun Club. Three matches have been
carded for the Benning range in
preparation for the coming shoot with
the .Oriole Gun Club Of Baltimore,
March 10.
Two handicap matches are listed,
the first at SO birds for the three
months trophy, and the other for
a new trophy, a silver cup to be
contested for during the remainder OF
the year. Yardage in the latter event
are based on last years average. The
program will be rounded out with
the customary club singles.
Each club has won two matches
in the Washington Baltimore series
and the local shooters are looking
forward to taking the rubber contest.
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club, succeeding Gen. James A. Drain.
who has left Washington to engage
in business in the Pacific Northwest.
Moore is the third man to head
the washington Golf and Country
Club since It's organization. in 1908.
Previous presidents were DR.. Joseph
Tabor Johnson and Gen. Drain.
Moore, who has been a member
Of the club for many years and was
charter member of the Virginia
organization. will preside over the
next board meeting.
He lives at Fairfax, Va, and has
been prominent I'm Congress for many
years as an advocate OF development
OF Washington and surrounding ter
ritory. He has been prominent in all
matters touching on development Of
that section of Virginia near the Ma
tionaI Capital.
Charles III. Doing, jr., who has
served many years as treasurer of
the club, was elevated to the vice
presidency. Albert w. Howard was
elected treasurer to succeed Doing.
Basil b. Boteler and DR.. r. j.
Rice took Office as members Of the
board. Another new member, Col.
C. B. Garnett, took ONCE at a previ.
Gus meeting.
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VARIETY OF SPORTS
AT NAVY SATURDAY

ANNAPOLIS, March 10.-The last
Of. the large and varied programs OF
sports which have been weekly Tea
lures during the winter will be pre-
sented at the Naval Academy on Satur-
day.
There will be varsity contests in
wrestling, swimming, water polo ana
gymnastics at Annapolis, with several
plebe events, but the chief interest
centers in the boxing with Yale. which
will be at New Haven.
On the showing up to this time, the
Naval Academy boxers should win
from Yale, but the latter is expected
to make a special effort and Navy
victory is not being taken for granted.
Yale's insistence. upon eliminating
the heavyweight bout has turned out
to be something of joke on the Ellis,
as the Navy is weaker at this weight
than any other this season.
The match with the Dartmouth
gymnasts is expected to practically
decide the collegiate supremacy In that
branch. Both teams have clean rec
ords and Dartmouth has indicated
greater strength than any of the
Nays opponents this season.
The swimming match is with Rut-
gers, champions Of the Eastern Inter.
collegiate Swimming Association. Rut.
gers is believed to have an excellent
chance of winning from the Navy,
particularly as Coale, the crack middle
distance swimmer Of the latter, is Ill
with the mumps.
The wrestlers oppose the hardy
mountaineers from the University of
West Virginia. The Navy grapplers
have not done very well this season
and will make a special effort to make
a. good showing against West vir-
ginia.
The other varsity event is water
polo against the New York Athletic
Club. while the Plebes meet the Fresh
man boxers of the Virginia Military
Institute and the swimmers of Tome
School.
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ARMY TENNIS EVENT
TO BE STAGED HERE

Army racketers viii compete III the
annual championship tennis tourna.
ment in Washington this year, accord.
ing to an announcement made by Maj.
Gen. r.. H. Allen, chairman Of the
Army Central Tennis committee.
Play will be held June to IL, in.
elusive. Both singles and doubles
titles will be determined.
Capt. IF. G. Van Vliet, holder of the
Sheridan trophy as singles champion
of 1925, is expected to defend his
iaurels
Following play in the Army tourney,
a team viii be selected to compete with
the Navy for the Leech cup. This
match is scheduled for June IS.
Performance in the Army title event
will determine eligibility for the Leech
cup team, according to Gen. Allen.
Try-outs will be held Immediately
after the tournament is completed.
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EVANSVILLE T0SSERS
PLAY BLISS IN FINAL

Basketers of Company r, National
Guard, of Hyattsville. will end their
season Saturday night entertaining
Bliss Electrical School on the armory
floor. A number OF spirited battles
have been waged between the teams
and a. lively rivalry has developed. A
dance will follow the game.
Two fast Washington fives are to
invade the Soldiers stronghold to-
night. Yankees viii meet the Com
pany F regulars in the main attrac-
ton of the evening and the reserves
will match baskets with the Mount
Vernon quint in the curtain-raiser
starting at Ills O'Clock.
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PRINCETON Is JOLTED
by COLUMBIA QUINTET

NEW YORK. March 10 R.--Co-
lumbia defeated Princeton. SO to %,
last night in the home teams final
contest of the Eastern intercollegiate
League season.
The defeat robbed Princeton OF
clear title to the championship, and
will force the Tigers to win their final
game against Pennsylvania Saturday
in order to tie Dartmouth for the
league honors.
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~ RONSoN QUALITIES. president
- of the Washington Ladies'
Duckpin Association, an
- nounces that there will be a
meeting of the organization on
March 20 at IL am, in the Board of
Trade room troom 504l OF The Evening
Star Building, to make arrangements
for the associations annual tourna-
ment President Quaites urges that
all women interested in the game
attend, as the association needs their
assistance and cooperation in putting
tho tournament across.
ArviIle l.. EberSole, secretary Of the
Washington City Duckpin Association.
announced today that indications are
that the record set last year, when 1873
teams entered the associations annual
tournament, win be betered by more
than a score OF combinations in this
years event that starts April ID at
Convention Hall. A number Of new
circuits that have never participated
in the fixture either have already
entered or plan to be represented and
with the teams that took part last
Winter again expected to be in line
Il appears that considerably more
than 200 win vie IN the big affair.
F. III. Smith Co. League Is among
the latest Of the newer circuits TO
announce that 1t will be represented
by all its teams. Approximately 40
combinations from the Masonic
League expect to compete, and among
other teams that plan to be on the
Job viii be those from the Suburban,
Northeast. Merchants. Bankers, Dis
trict, Odd Fellows and other loops.
Most entries are expected few days
before the closing OF the lists at mid.
night on April 2.
Ebersole ID receiving entries at 140s
q street, room 51e.
RaIlying CALAMITY in the final two
games, duckpiunerS OF the Pollack
FURNITURE Co. of Baltimore squeezed
out q win over the Hub Furniture Co.
team Of this city by a lone pin on the
Convention Hall drives. Trailing by
80 at the end of the third game, the
Monumental City rollers socked the
little naples for counts Of 523 and 479
in the fourth and fifth engagements to
bag the match 2,403 pins to 2,402. A
set OF 542 turned in by Kindsfather Of
the Hub team was the best OF the
brush, and his game Of 127 also was
tho highest. Scheel's set of 502 was
the best rolled by the visitors.
CatonsyilIe bowling team, one of the
best combinations in the Baltimore
area, win engage the King Pins on the
Fourteenth street drives Saturday in
the last 5-game block of their 10-game
series. The Monumental City rollers
viii come here with a lead of SO pins
achieved as the result OF strong
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BY JOHN b. FOSTER.
IN ROUTE EAST FROM SOUTH


- ERN CALIFORNIA, March 10.
The two National League
- teams training in California
resemble each other in many
particulars. Both finished in the first
division in 1926, when Pittsburgh did
not do as well as was expected and
Chicago achieved the unexpected. Both
are likely to finish in the first division
in 1927 and the problem is the same
for each--to attain a higher mark
this year.
It would not be unusually surprising
10 find these two teams contenders
late in the season, Then comes the
test as to which has the most en-
siurance. AS both are made up of
young players and as Pittsburgh in
dicates being a better fighting team
than it was in 1926, speculation as to
their probable success this season can
be unlimited.
Both Have Good Pitchers.
Both teams are more apt to have
good pitching than some of the other
National League outfits. Chicago is
blessed with an abundance of young
material which was good last Summer
and which will be better this Summer
unless the players are victims TO
n1alady. Pr sburgh pitchers are in
much better condition than they We're
last Spring, and they realize they will
have to go some for Pittsburgh this
year.
Last season some Pittsburgh pitch
ers failed to meet expectations. Ex-
cuses will not avail them anything
this year. Not only does the owner of
the Pittsburgh club expect more than
ho yeceiyed In 1925 but the manager
will be likely to ask 1t when the task
OF melting down to Spring condition
is followed by that of winning ball
games. Two or three OF the Pitts
burgh hurlers viii have to make the
grade this year, or be denoted.
Both teams have good catchers.
Earl Smith. with his picturesque
Arkansas persifiage, is much more Of
a live wire on the Pirates than some
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BY BRIAN BELL.

By the Associated Press.
ut. PETERSBURG, Fla, March
10.-Babe Ruth is in the lineup.
all's we'll with the Yankees. The
~ smuggling outfielder in practice
promises to pick up his home
run hitting where he left off in the
world series. and the other players be-
lieve New York will ride to another
American League pennant on the big
bat of the Babe.
Those who believe "as Ruth goes so
go the Yankees" find much to please
them in the Spring training program
as Ruth slams the ball to distant
places. Only a few pounds above his
abnormal weight for an ordinary ath-
lete that places him in the proverbial
pink of condition, the hone-run hitter
seems certain to be right at the top
of his game when the season opens.
To support the Babe, Manager Mil
Ter Higgins will offer the same cast
he used to win the pennant last sea-
son. He will have some added start
ers in the reserves, but will stand pat
on the regulars.
Gazella Tops Substitutes.
With Gehrig. Lazzerf. Koenig and
Dugan enlisted for the duration of the
base ball war, the infield contest is
for assistant to Mike Gazella, who
again has first utility call. Ray More
hart, who came from the White Sox,
and Julian Vera, up from st. Paul.
have shown so much in the Spring
camp that Spencer Adams may be
pushed aside.
There are several other young in
fielders scampering about the field,
but Vera has shown an edge among
those trying TO break into the majors
for the first time. Playing third or
short equally well. he gets the ball
away quickly and covers much terri
tory. Close observers would not be
surprised to see him win a place.
A similar situation exists in the
outfield. Ruth, Combs and Meusel are
fixtures, with Paschai no less firmly
intrenched as extra man. burst, OBJ
tanned from the Browns IN trade by
which Sam Jones went to st. Louis. is
said to have been brought on because
he is a left.handed hitter. Elias Funk.
whose release was purchased from
Oklahoma City, has shown a great
deal in practice and he. too. is left
hand batsman.
Grabowski Clinches Berth.
Bengough and Collins, last years
catchers, have been joined by Ora
bowski, former White Sox, who won a
place on the STAFF in short order.
Jones and Braxton are missing from
the pitching staff starting last season,
but Ruether, who was with Washing
ton at this time last year, is on hand
and Giard has taken off st. Louis
uniform to put on New York colors.
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Quiring the expenditure
of a great amount OF en-
IL ergy and / am sure 1t is
not out of place to sug-
gest the advisability OF a rest be.
tween frames. Naturally, the bowl
er who 10 in a. tight match not
only lis expanding all of his phys
ical power toward getting the high.
est score of which he is capable,
but his nervous energy as well.
Try to learn to relax after each
delivery. make your motions moro
deliberate and by all means take
your time before delivering each
ball. IT may not be noticeable at
first. but II the ball Is left on the
return rack until the pins are set
UP by the pinboy and you are &C
tually ready to shoot. your arm will
not have that weary feeling after
three or four games.
Ducltpins Is the only game I
know Of that has no defense.
Therefore conserve your strength
when bowling and the crucial game
WILL ind you fit and ready. In con-
nection with this conservation of
energy. let me bring to your at
tention one great fault which is apt
to creep into your game. Each
ball you roll has an equal bearing
on the result, so do not fall into
tho habit of Stacking in one deliv-
cry and pressing in another.
Try TO roll each ball in exactly
the same manner, using the same
motion and the same speed. You
win md that I'm the long run a
AonFO Of 100 and then one Of 80 are
a. mmh9ly 90 good as two games OF