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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-11
Base Balls Biggest ''Firsts''
Series Describing the First Records Of the Biggest Plays
By John B. Foster

tific. which greatly relieves the minds of
those who like to believe that the ma
tional game is based in some way on
mathematics and fixed principles.
From the head-first stealing of Eddie
Cuthbert in 1865 there developed q
school of base ball players who became
adept at that sort Of thing. Nowadays
the head-foremost steal has gone out Of
fashion. Managers are favorable to
stealing bases with the feet in advance.
and the most practical way is by means
of the hook slide" That slide is so
designated because the base runner
sticks his feet in front of him and en-
beavers to hook one of them around the
base. The other foot may wave menac-
ingly in the air. with its shoe-carrying
spikes, frightening timorous basemen
who are not partial to having their legs
slashed.
Some legs have been slashed and
none was slashed with more exciting de-
tail than that Of Charles Herzog OF the
Giants when Ty Cobb dug into the flesh
of the Giant second baseman at Dalls.
Tex, one afternoon. Cobb was chal-
lenged the same night by Herzog and
thrashed the latter in q battle in the
hotel, and he refused to play any more
games in the Spring series between New
York and Detroit. BY so doing Cobb
failed to make himself popular either
with Hughey Jennings, his manager, or
John j. McGraw, manager Of the
Giants.
Continuing in this matter of stolen
bases, the first player to steal $50 or
more bases in one season was Harry
Stovey, in 1888. He was with Philadel-
phia and stole 156 bases. He was good
enough to keep up with any ball player
any time after that. It Is interesting to
note that base stealing had Its maxi
mum record in Philadelphia, which has
erroneeNAly been described as SLOW
ktown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-11
DENTON HARD AT WORK
FOR BILLIARD COMEBACK

Tlford Denton, former world cham
plon three cushion billiard player, plans
q comeback.
Behind drawn curtains in a Kansas
City billiard parlor Denton is practice
ing from four to eight hours daily. He
prefers his individual method to COM
petition as preparation for the national
championship tournament in New York
in January
In 1919 Denton set two world records
in his first year Of professional COM
petition. His high run of II stood until
two years ago when Johnny Layton
broke it. Strain of competition rele-
gated Denton to the background SIX
years ago, but golf has helped him to
regain good physical condition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-11

| The major league getaway is the
| opening bugle note of Spring. Even
those who are still snow bound can get
Whit of Spring fragrance by inhaling
from far away the pleasant odor of
new mown base hits, presented in the
sporting pages. Hope springs eternal in
the base ball breast until around the
middle Of May or the first of June, so
for the next two months or more the
optimistic imagination Of the home
town fan can run riot until the big
puncture arrives in late Spring or early
Summer.
The Foreign Legion.
TACK SHARKEY, practically the lone
! home delegate left in the heavy
weight army, is now facing a flank
ing movement by the Foreign Legion.
The list includes Phil Scott, Max
Schmeling, Camera, Campolo and UzctI-
dun, representing Great Britain, Ger
many, Italy, South America and Spain.
| If Sharkey slips safely by Scott and
| Schmeling by early Summer he may
still have to account for one Of the in
vading maStodons, such as Camera or
Campolo, who may learn enough in the
next six months to be dangerous by
next September.
Outside of Sharkey the next leading
American prospect Is Tuffy Griff1ths,
who has come quite a distance in the
last 10 months.
| Schmeling has shown more stuff than
any Of the others, but his retirement
| from active campaigning just at the
| time he needed more work is not going
to help his cause. He may have enough
natural talent to overcome this handi-
cap by hard training siege, but he
will miss the experience of one or two
hard fights he might have crowded
under his belt since last June. There
are few substitutes for experience when
one is shooting at the championship In
any game.
The Coming of Rugby.
IF any serious attempt is made to
i introduce rugby foot ball into Amer
lean universities it Is almost sure to
catch on. 1t will not remove the domi-
nance of American foot ball, but In time
| it may divide attention and 1t is sure
to attract large following both among
the players and the spectators. Rugby
American foot ball. It calls for greater
all-around speed and for more con-
tinuous movement. An American foot
ball game lasts two hours and In this
| two hours the ball is actually in move
ment about IL or 13 minutes. Those
who have played both games insist that
rugby demands better condition, just as
basket ball does, because there are
fewer resting spots.
Rugby will also furnish fine training
for the American game, since it de-
mands smarter, faster and better all
around passing. A good rugby player
isn't supposed to have a ball thrown
into his hands or arms before making
| the catch. He can take 1t OF the
ground, over his head, even back OF
him. A good rugby player would be a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-11
U. S. BOY is COXSWAIN
OF CREW AT CAMBRIDGE

: CAMBRIDGE, England, February IL
R.--While the Cambridge varsity
crew, now in training for the annual
race with oxford at Putney April IL,
may undergo some changes, it seemed
fairly certain that the Light Blue eight
will be steered by an American, r. E.
Swartwout of New York.
Swartwout Is one of the smallest
barely los pounds. A graduate of the
Middlesex School, in Massachusetts. he
is an old schoolfellow of w. P. Mellon,
who stroked the winning oxford boat
in 1923. Swartwout is now at Trinity
College, Cambridge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-11
MCLARNIN AND MANDELL
FACE IN NON-TITLE GO

VANCOUVER. British Columbia,
February IL P1.-Jimmy McLarnin,
Vancouver contender tor the worlu
welterweight boxing title, will meet
Sammy Mandell, world lightweight
champion, February "a at Chicago, In
stead Of February %, McLarnin's man
ager, Charlie Foster, announced here
today. Mandell's title will not be at
stake.
The earlier date was requested over
long-distance telephone by the Chicago
matchmaker, Nate Lewis.
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Miami the claiming privileges to the
heavyweight chances. If Phil Scott
comes out Of Florida in a vertical posi-
ton you can rely on his manager, James
j. Johnston, the Boy Bandit, to do some
welterweight championship for Ted Kid
Lewis by the simple process Of claiming
and later the light heavyweight
championship for Michael Methuselah
McTigue by the same process.
How About Schmeling?
Somehow gather that this news
previously had come to the ears of
Babe Ruth and that it might have been
a factor in moving him to ask the good
Col. Jacob Rupert for the salary of
100000 francs a year. If Sharkey is
paid on the same basis as he was paid
for the Battle of What of tt at Miami
Beach he will get that sum for stepping
around lightly on a balmy Florida eve
ming for fifteen rounds.
It is not unlikely that Phil Scott will
get about the same amount for doing
just the same thing, Babe Ruth has to
prespire for 154 days in the course of
q base ball season and it must be re-
membered that daily the Babe swings
at base ball with more earneStness
and energy that ever will be shown by
Phil Scott or Jack Sharkey when they
are swinging at each other by the
shores of Biscayne Bay.
noted that Max Schmeling. who is
the best of the heavyweights today, is
left out of the calculations when the
promoters announced that the dance of
Phil Scott and Jack Sharkey will decide
lie championnat du monde, tout cate
gortes. It must be because Schmeling
was unconventional and impulsive
enough to knock Risko, the rubbery
one, cuckoo and to mess up Pauline
Uzcudun. He seemed to be precipitate
and impulsive. If he had been allowed
to continue he might have eliminated
all OF the contenders in the heavy
weight division. This never would have
done. There would not be enough
heavyweights left to supply the demand
of the Six Hundred Millionaires OF
Madison Square Garden.
Conservative business men like
Sharkey and Scott seem to be needed
with the present precarious state Of the
cauliflower market. Last year at
Miami Sharkey showed that he was
ultra-conservative.
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from dropping out of the game
he plans to come back this year
and show that he is far from
through. His physical condition
was none too good upon his re-
turn from France last August, but
he has taken the best care of him
self and is rounding into fine
shape.
During the interzone matches last
year Hennessey was the outstanding
man on the team. Against Canada,
Japan and Cuba he won every match.
and he showed best of all in the hardest
test the team went through. That
was the tie with Japan. After John
Van Ryn had lost one of the first two
singles and the score stood ii, it
looked as though the United States
might have a terrific battle to avoid
elimination.
But in the doubles Hennessey rose to
brilliant heights to give the United
States 2-1 lead, and in his match
with Yoshiro Ohta, who had beaten
Van Ryn, Johnny smeared the Japa-
nese, tying him in knots at the net and
running him all over the court with
ground strokes.
His UnOrthOdOx Backhand.
HenneSSeyS stroke technique Is not
in accordance with the standard con-
cept. His backhand in particular has
come in for lot of ridicule, but any
one who has played him will tell you
OF his respect for Johnny'S backhand.
HenneSsey makes the shot with a
spiral or corkscrew motion, like Gerald
Patterson, and you wonder how he
keeps the ball from going over the
backstop. But the topspin makes it
drop, and It has habit of dropping
where you don't expect. That back
hand has undone many a player who
thought he had only to play it to win.
There isn't any player in the country
who gets the bali back more consistent.
1y than Hennessey. His control can be
heartbreaking for his opponent, and
although his feet aren't In such good
shape, Johnny can get back shots many
players wouldn't think Of going after.
The back court is where Hennessey
makes his stand, but when he comes
to the net, he puts his volleys away
cleverly and with little effort. He times
his advances just right, and as q result
he isn't passed nearly as frequently as
habitual net players
Hennessey's game lacks the force and
aggressiveness of that of some others, so
doubt whether he can ever hope to
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Hunter Is Peer of Any
u. S. Netn,0n, Richards
BY VINCENT RICHARDS.
International Tennis Star.

The victory Of Frank Hunter
in the national indoor champion
ship tennis tournament proved
beyond a doubt that the LACED"
star from New Rochelle still is
good enough to hold his own with
any Of the younger players in the
country-and this In spite of his
SO years.
While no one will claim that
the tournament held In New
York was representative Of the
best young talent we have,
nevertheless, Hunters crushing
defeat of Julius Seligson m the
final was so impressive that it is
doubtful whether any American
player outside of Tilden could
have beaten him. In fact, I
don't feel any too sure that Big
Bill, who now is playing on the
Riviera, and who never was as
good on board courts as he is
outdoors, could have beaten
Frank the way. Frank played In
the final.
(Copyrisht,. 1880, By the North Amer.
lean Newspaper Alliance.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-11

When the sand is heavy or packed,
they drive their niblicks into it
about an inch short Of the ball to
explode. When light, they take as
much as 3 or inches. Another
thing they do is to keep the right
hand as much und .rneath the shaft
in hitting through as possible. Same
as in pitching. The idea, of course.
is to prevent the toe of the niblick
turning in and smothering itself in
sand. It's cut shot, you see, and
In cut shots the blade is laid open
and kept that way.
Unless you understand the pivot
you cannot hope to shoot good golf.
Sol Metzger has a new illustrated
!eaf1et which he will send to any one
wishing it. Address Sol Metzger, in
care OF this paper, and inclose a
stamped, addressed envelope.
(Copyright, ie30.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-11
DUCKPIN RECORDS MADE
BY FEDERAL LEAGUERS

Bowlers set season records for the
Federal League last night on the Ar
cadia drives. Charles Barnard of the
G. p. o. team set game mark with
score of 1859. and Oscar Swain of Treas
ury shot set Of Alb for a new figure.
SWANS games were 148, 153 and 1T.
SWANS set topped the former record
Of 403 made by Carl Lewis. This record
also was beaten by Barnard, who scored
a set of 404.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-11
Light or Heavy
Sand Changes Shot
BY SOL METZGER.

When Ted Ray led the last British
Ryder Cup team to America the big
fellow did not fare well in Oak
mont'S sand during the 1927 United
States open. Up till then he had
been sands master. Asked why the
furrowed traps of this Pittsburg
course bothered him, Ted replied.
Il didn't have time to taste it."
Ted always jokes. Once when
asked why his pitches were so high,
he answered, There are no bloody
bunkers up there" So, you see, the
stars like to avoid sand. But they
do have to know it, even II not by
taste.
They follow this general rule:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-11
MANDELL VS.. McLARNIN.

CHICAGO. February II (P.-Sammy
Mandell, world lightweight champion,
and Jimmy McLarnin. Vancouver, Brit
ish Columbia, welterweight title con-
tender, will meet in the rubber bout of
their feud in the Chicago Stadium Feb
ruary "a
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LEWIS SCORES ON MAT.

SEATTLE, Wash, February IL (P).-
Ed Stranger" Lewis. former world
champion heavyweight wrestler, de-
feated Howard Cantonwine of Iowa
here last night. Lewis gained two falls
and Cantonwine one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-11
HOCKEY GAMES LISTED.

NEW YORK, February IL R.-Two
games are on the National Hockey
League schedule for tonight. The New
York Rangers and Montreal Maroons
clash at Montreal for the last time this
season and the Toronto Maple Leafs
play at Boston.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-11
WEST TO BE MARRIED.

LUBBOCK, Tex, February IL (P).--
Announcement of the engagement of
Miss Grace Cross of Rule. Tex, to Sam
West, outflelder of the Washington base
ball club of the American League, was
made here. The couple plan to be mar
ried February %.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-11
DOW THE LINE
WITH w. o. McGEEHAN
Touring Abroad
Figuring in Francs.

thoush Lyons the home Of Henri cohe the tennis
- champion gathered that the hod-out ball
must be at home One of the Journals that
at all if he did get it.
gathered further that Egbert Barrow secretary
the club said that 500O0 base
Monsieur Colonel Jacob Rupert said
promise with the Babe salary
the number francs President
States At could
tween what the Babe asking
the time this arrives will
iSati fanto Of oil nnrna rood
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-11
CANADA KEEPS TITLE.

BERLIN, February IL (P.-Canada
retained its worlds amateur ice hockey
Championship by defeating Germany
60, in the finals.
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THE SPORTLICHT
BY CRANTLAND RICE
Only a Week Away.

week the first OF the major league
n, Spring can hardly be more than
Iy ready to pack and mobilize to
hletics and the Cubs. The AS and
e back who broke up both leagues
iScovered a club that has improved
less accidents or injuries cut away
These two clubs haven't the two
but they have good pitching, hard
and smart handling from both
hey still look to be the class.
great addition to lateral passing, a form
Of attack that will develop more and
more in future seasons.
Another game that would take some
of the high pressure from the emo
tional side of foot ball would be well
come addition. Those now working
along rugby lines have great chance,
not only to provide interesting COMPETE
ton for the students, but also to build
up another Fall sport that may help
to decrease some of foot balls steam.
ITO help settle an argument" writes
L. p, who we're the six greatest base
ball batteries of all time?" Here at
least are six worthy candidates to be
Observation-Disclosures and Bresnahan
Brown and Kling-Walsh and Sui
livan-JohnSon and Street-Waddell
and Schreck-Grove and Cochrane.
They will do until some one else comes
along. If any of these doesn't At there
are Alexander and Killifer-Young and
thinner, who will also do in a pinch.
How can you get tension out of a
golf swing?" asks a reader. About the
same way you can get blood out of a
turnip or gold out of sponge. Or
using the same method employed in re-
moving spots from a leopard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-11

Note-The accompanying story,
another of the Associated Press series
on UeteTdns of sport, is an Interview
aoith yohnny King, famous catcher
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-11
BOUCHER TOP SCORER.

MONTREAL, Quebec, February II
R.-Frank Boucher, star center OF the
New York Rangers, continues to show
the way for all the scorers in the Ma
tional Hockey League.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-11
BY VINCENT RICHARDS,

Cup Ace
ME hard luck of tennis
Johnny had played brilliantly all through
his feet which have given him trouble
- and he was through for the year.
HenneSSey
Davis Cup play and when he back his
indianapolis Immediately, laying his rackets
they have been Hennessey through
OF trouble with
as though Johnny would have to give tournament play but he
fooled everybody 1929 by PLAYING
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-11
BETTER AS TEAM PLAYER
THAN In TENNIS SINGLES
Foot Trouble Made indianapolis Racketer Hard-LucA
Man of Game Last Observation-Disclosures Back.
hand Stroke Is Difficult to Handle

This OF Vincent
dndyssrg the ability
IN Sornd
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the C's have about the same peor
last Summer and no one yet has {
enough to close up the big gap III
the strength Of the two leaders.
greatest infields that ever played,
hitting outf1elds, good catching
camps. Neither is invincible, but
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-11

THE major league base ball
season promises fair
amount of excitement right
The Washington times., 1930-08-20
BONNEVILLE FOLKS
BY Fontaine Fox

SurcAsE SIMPSON. WHOSE FEET ARE THE LARGEST M THE
| WHOLE TOWNSHIP BEEN OFFERED a JOB 81 THE
OWNER OF 1hE Ton1 HUME aoLE eeuRsE
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is announced, and all goods purchased
must be removed the day Of the sale.
Other instructions given out with the
announcement Of the sale are:
ITO all dealers and others who may
intend purchasing a number OF lots 1t
Is suggested that advance deposits be
made with the cashier before the sale
begins. No personal checks accepted.
Do not unite cord on parcels, or remove
contents from the containers while In
speeding merchandise"
Collected Since Previous Sale.
The articles to be sold include those
sent through the mails and to the dead
letter and dead parcel post sections,
which have been unclaimed-the list
including all such articles accumulated
since the last auction sale, held in the
Fall of last year.
In the group of articles listed there
is one of 800 collar buttons, mems
women's and children's clothing, cam
celed and uncanceled foreign stamps,
both current and uncurrent; a wax
model of facial nerves and teeth, smok-
ing pipes, religious booklets and pam
phlets, encyclopedias lawyers direc-
tory and farming implements.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-22
PARIS FLYER AIMS
AT LINDY'S RECORD
Civic Service Club Heads
Hear Plans for New
Oversee Flight.

Plans for a nonstop airplane fight
from the United States to Paris, during
which an attempt will be made to cut
down the 80 hours flying time of Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh, were announced
at a luncheon meeting of the Associa-
ton of Civic Service Club executives
yesterday in the Hotel Mayfiower.
The flight is to be undertaken by
George r. Hutchinson, commercial pilot,
OF Richmond, Va, who will use new
Lockheed Sirius monoplane of the type
In which Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh have
just set a new elapsed-time record for
crossing the United States. Hutchinson
said that he expects to make the Allan
tic crossing in "a hours.
The flight will be made from Rich
mond some time during the Summer
The presidents of all the organiza-
lions represented yesterday will send
goodwill messages with Hutchinson for
delivery in Paris.
The association adopted resolutions
which were delivered to the President
pledging a continuance of vigorous sup
port in his large vision and noble effort
In the matter Of international accord.
James Nelson MacLean, past preSi-
dent of Civitan International and pres
adent Of the Association of Civic Service
Club executives, presided
Other addresses were made at the
luncheon by the following: Howard Sc
we're, Washington; Col John T. Taylor
Washington; Cleaton E. Rabey of Nor
folk, Va: Robert L. McKeever. Wash
ington: Dr. Everett Ellison Washington;
DR. Wayne Brehm and Richard G.
Berry of Columbus. Ohio; Rev. c. H
Rominger of Bethlehem, Pa, and P. P
Woodbridge, Washington; N F. Nolan
of Dayton, Ohio; Harrington Wood OF
Springfield, ILL.,: George A. Mosler and
Thomas Bilodeau of Boston, and
Charles E. Roth and Raymond Sharp
of Reading, Pa
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This Wonderful Vessel Has Made History
During Three Centuries
She marked the beginning and the end of England's
monstrous penal system.
She has held lurid horror and dreadful iniquities
beside which the terrible stories of the Black
Hole of Calcutta and the Spanish Inquisition pale
into insignicance.
She is the oldest ship in the world and the only convict
ship left afloat of that dreadful Fleet of Ocean
Hels," which sailed the Seven Seas in 1870 A. D.
She is unchanged after all these years. nothing being
omitted but her human freight and their suffering
from the cruetes and barbarities practiced upon
them.
Aboard her shown, in their original state, all
the airless dungeons and condemned cells the whip
ping post, the manacles, the branding irons, the
punishment balls the leaden-tipped cato mine tails,
the coffin bath and the other fendsh inventions of
mans brutality to his fellow man.
From keel to topmast she cries aloud the greatest les
the world has known in the histo ry of
human progress
The Convict Ship Success is the Greatest and Most
Extraordinary Exhibition That Ever Visited America.
1t Is Theme for the Pen of Dante. When You Walk
Her Decks, GrOOved with the Chains of Her Miserable
Victims, the Past Will Speak to You It's Sad and
Mournful Lesson. But You Will Leave Feeling Better
Because You Live in Better Age
Open Daily, Including Sunday, 10 A. M. to IL p. M.
Electrically Lighted Observation-Disclosures
Explain Everything.
Admission so Cents Children Under 10, Half Price
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DEAD LETTER SALE
SET FOR THURSDAY
700 Groups of Articles, From
Collar Buttons to Phono-
graph Records, Scheduled.

Everything from collar buttons to
photograph records will be put on sale
in the Post Office Department Build
ing, off Pennsylvania avenue, at the
Spring public auction sale Of unclaimed
articles in the division of dead letters
and dead parcel post, Thursday morn
ing at $50 o'clock
The list includes some 700 groups of
various articles and the sale is to be
continued until all are disposed Of. The
sale is to be under the supervision Of
Frank c. Staley, superintendent of the
dead letter Office, and will be handled
entirely by Post Office employees.