Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-10
ON THE SIDE LINES
With the Sports Editor
BY DENMAN THOMPsON=

would be q shame to see his pros
poets ruined by a bungler."
Whereut Schmeltng, tplt0 does bear
q striking resemblance to Dempsey,
but is his superior at least in the
respect that t1here Jack has only
william Harrison for front names
the Schmeltng is preceded BY Mar
Sietried Adolf Otto, prepared to
catch an afternoon train back to the
metropolis.
Meanwhile Col. Hammond had
been sitting modestly to one side
letting the battler have the center
of the stage, but he readily gave the
testimony Of any eyewitness to the
effect that K. o. Christner really
had mussed up Jack Sharkey some
thing Scandalous. and that "the big
fellow over there" had a punch like
the kick Of mule.
The man who holds the job at the
Garden formerly occupied by the late
Iamented Tex would accept no con-
gratulations for achieving typicaily
Rickardian feat in Sewing up"
Schmeling for two-year term, how
ever.
y l..
"That's all of. but" he added,
smiling in whdt seemed to this re-
porter a significant manner, ~ don't
beliepe he will fight for anybody
else"
DRACTICAL man that he is
- John Arnold Heydler sees
little likelihood for the
4 adoption of his proposal to
legalize the substitution of
pinch hitters for pitchers. He
admitted as much yesterday
while gadding about with
friends in the Capital, where he
formerly made his home. He
took occasion at the same time
to put the stamp Of his per-
Sonal approval on the number
ing of players and to diSclaim
any knowledge of the latest
"Sale" of the New York Giants.
The boss Of the National League of
Professional Base Ball Clubs. to give
the full title of the organization over
which he has presided these many
years, did not linger long in WASH
1ngton. He was en- route to Rich
mond and Petersburg to renew some
cquaintanceships and then planned
to nose the sporty looking car he Is
driving toward some quiet retreat In
Northern Florida.
For a couple Of weeks the genial
and mild hammered executive Of the
oldest loop in organized base ball
hopes to just "sit," as he puts 1t,
with probably bit of fishing ON the
side, by way Of taking the first real
vacation from his New York head
quarters desk in three years, after
which he plans to drop i'm on those
Of his clubs which are to train in
Florida this Spring.
Heydler smiled in patient sort of
t0oy aDhen Qneried regarding the
latest runtors that the Giants are
about to pass from the control OF
Charles A. StonehGm, Nth William,
F. Kenney and Paul Block named
as the most probable purchasers, and
restgnedy Oouchsdted that the
Giants, BRACES and Phillies con-
stantly are being "sold" and that the
report tn question merely is the
ldeSt OF an eper-recuYring number.
In voicing his appropriation of
placing numerals on the uniforms of
players, a scheme the Yankees are
to try out this year, Heydler opined
that while the plan theoretically is
good its success will depend on the
measure of cooperation accorded by
the other clubs.
'When the st. Louis Club Of our
league tested the idea a few years ago
it failed for two reasons" Heydler
said. Zone was that the numerals,
worn ON the sleeves Of the uniforms,
were so small they could not be dis
tfnguished at any distance, and the
other was that the fans in the cities
aside from st. Louis were given no
means Of connecting the numerals
with the players names.
"There is little question In my
mind that the fans tuiL ipelcon,e the
numbering OF players it it will help.
them to determine at glance the
identity OF all the figures on the field,
but to assure this 1t DiU be neces-
sarg for each club to supply It's