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Evening star., 1949-12-25
With Bill Leeteh

season limits as well as bag limits
along the various fyways. -
In this zone, Maryland's sea-
son might just as well have COM
menced November 20 and ended
January 7, the same as that OF
Virginia. Maryland, along with
other States, had the choice OF
two split seasons of Is days each,
or single season of. 40 consecu-
tive days. Her officials chose the
consecutive season of 40 days. but
instead of ending it on January z.
started earlier, presumably to give
the boys in the northern parts of
the State a break, and ended 10
days earlier than she needed to
have done. .7s~.,,. -.
You can fuss. at the Fish and
Wildlife Service if you want
about the season ending January
Z, but you'll have to put the rap
on the Maryland officials for end
ing it December q. The Fish and
Wildlife Service set their season
limit to conserve ducks. We can
not say what motivated the Mary
land officials in choosing the sea-
son they did. a,7a :-.t
Going back to 1910, Maryland's
season endings were as follows. In
that year they set December 81
as the final date. In 1912 and '43
the season ended January 10. In
1944-and again in 1945, January
20 was the final date, which
dropped back to January 6 in
1916. In 1947 and 1948 Mary
land had split seasons, ending
January and January 8 respec-
lively. This year, the season ends
earlier than any season in al
most the last decade. We hope
another year, If Maryland is again
given the choice, she will elect to
take the split season. In our
opinion, everyone gets better
break all around under those con-
ditions-that is except the ducks.
Evening star., 1949-12-25
Pro Net Troupe Invades
Europe for Five Matches
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

LONDON. Dec. 24.-Jack Kra-
mer and his professional tennis
colleagues flew into London from
New York today for a brief five
match visit on this side of the At
lantic. Kramer resumes his duels
with Pancho Gonzales at London's s
Wembley Stadium Monday night
while Frank Parker engages PAN
cho Segura.
The London appearance runs
three nights followed by a quick
switch to Paris for New Years
Eve and New Years night.
I'VE haven't brought any steaks
with u.s." Kramer said at the air
port. "We're all waiting to sample
an English Christmas dinner"
After Kramer's last victory at
Wimbledon as an amateur in 1947,
he credited his good luck to the
steaks he brought with him from
the United States.
Evening star., 1949-12-25
5pitbaII Revival Urged
By Pirates Manager
To Balance Baseball
Nv the Associofsd Press

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Dec. "a
Pittsburgh Pirate Manager Billy
Meyer advocates the revival OF the
spitball in baseball to help the
pitchers catch up with the batters.
But the gray-haired Buc skipper
relaxing at his suburban home
here. said he didn't see much pos
sibility of the spitter's return be-
cause 1.-The fans want big scores"
The trend in sports, he went on,
is toward big scores.
."It's part of prosperity, guess.
The public wants more and more,
the age of abundance. The same
is happening in football and
basketball"
Meyer advanced three reasons
why he thinks the spitball should
be legalized:
/. It would improve pitching
and Gaseball.
2. It would eliminate lot OF
wrangling and speed up games.
8. It would help second division
clubs to take up the slack ana
tighten the races.
Never conceded the return OF
the spitball might open "the way
for cheating on all those old freak
deliveries" But he added that a
certain amount of cheating "goes
on all the time"
pitchers now use the sweat
they wipe off their forehead Tor
a splitter. Sometimes you see q
pitcher struggling out there. mix
ing up fast balls and curves. AND
then he gets in a tight spot,
Meyer related.
HE needs a good pitch and you
see him come in there with a bal
that really takes Of" The man
ager dashes out and cabs with the
umpire and the umpire warns
the pitcher. That's the end OF 1t
Chances are the guy threw spit.
ter and got out of a tight spo'
with it,"
A lot of mediocre pitchers prob.
ably would become winners II
they could use the splitter, Meyel
believes. .-
) And. said Meyer, here's why:
There are a lot Of pitcher
with a good fast ball who neee
something else to win. Many O
them have short fingers or g
wrist that isn't too supple. A gu!
like that can never learn to throw
a good curve. So he must leari
a freak pitch-knuckle ball, fori
ball or some such-and then may
be he can win. r..
"a splitter is easy to learn ant
if it were legal every pttchln'
staff would be stronger. It's tn
simplest thing in the world. Yo'
simply administer a little mois
ture, saliva or sweat, to- the sur
1face Of the ball, the sphere WI
break to the right, and vice verss
III it is on the top Of the ball.
| will shoot downward. and vic
versa. -.
Evening star., 1949-12-25
Baseball Replaces
Swimming as Japan S
National Pastime
By the Associated Press

TOKYO, Dec. 24.-On almost
every vacant lot in this SCARED
country, Japanese of all ages are
busily engaged in forwarding a
new enthusiasm for sports. and
particularly their favorite game.
It is American baseball.
ported whole from, the
United States, baseball has swept
virtually every corner OF this
country. 1t helps the people for
get black past.
1t is more popular even than
the sport in which the japanese
excel-swimming.
Half a dozen other sports, all
imported from abroad, have found
new postwar popularity among
the vigorous japanese. Before
the war, they were familiar with
such games as American football,
rugby. soccer, American basket
ball, track and field, tennis and
golf. Most of these sports with
cred and some died during the
martial period.
Sumo Wrestling Popular.
Sumo wrestling is the only sport
of japanese origin which is still
popular. It features the biggest
men in the country in a push
and-grunt performance heavily
encrusted with tradition.
But the people take baseball
in large doses. Makeshift teams
play at every conceivable oppor-
tunity, from Office workers spend
ing the noon hour to students who
start at 4 am. in order to get
to school on time. They play on
rocky diamonds, on postage
stamps Of land and on fields so
close together that the center
fielder in one game stands behind
the second baseman in another
contest. They wear everything
from smart uniforms to baggy
pants.
Big Turnouts at Games.
Professional baseball, with a
league of eight teams, drew some
100000 spectators during the
current season, the most sue
cessful since the war. There is
talk now of adding four more
teams. Big professional games
have pulled 10000 fans. An ex-
hibition against the San Francisco
Pacific Coast League Seals, at
tracted more than 100000 in 10
games, including one turnout Of
80, 900.
AS baseball players. the japanese
are sharp, fast flelders and fair
but short hitters. Pitching is me-
diocre. Standard rules and Gus
toms are observed. American
soldiers, ardent fans and frequent
volunteer coaches. have given jap
anese players new ideas on hitting.
They also have taught the spec
tators to boo poor decisions by
the umpires who previously were
considered representatives of the
Emperor and therefore above
criticism.
Evening star., 1949-12-25

year at least, the weather mas
given them all the breaks.
We agree with those who claim
the season starts and ends too
early-that' is to the point that
our best duck shooting has al
ways been much later in the year
than the end of the present sea-
son-not that we've had much
later seasons in recent years. We
can well remember the days OF
our young manhood when no one
thought Of going duck hunting
in the lower Potomac or the lower
Eastern Shore in Maryland until
around Christmas week. The
good ducks, lie. the canvasbacks,
just don't arrive much before that
time.
However, there are several rea-
sons for the early season this
year in Maryland. The Fish and
Wildlife Service figures out how
much shooting the duck popula-
ton can stand and sets certain
Evening star., 1949-12-25
By John Carmichael

CHICAGO, Dec. "a (CDN.-
The baseball season of 1949 was
a memorable one in many ways.
Even before it actually started,
the New York Giants had been
fined $4,000 by Commissioner A.
B. Chandler because Manager
Leo Durocher C1ned 5000 had
made overtures to Coach Fred
Fitzsimmons of the Braves while
the latter still was under contract
at Boston.
Then there was the little lady
in Chicago who took a pot-shot
at Eddie Watkins, the Phillies'
hrst-sacker. A fan in the Polo
Grounds charged Durocher cuffed
him around and Leo was sus-
pended while Chandler conducted
an official investigation which re-
suited in complete exoneration for
the Giants boss.
Only one manager was fired in
mid-season. Charley Grimm of
the Cubs was replaced by frankie
Frisch. But at the end Of the
campaign, Joe Kuhel was sue
ceeded by Bucky Harris at Wash
ington and Luke Sewell took over
for Bucky Walters at Cincinnati
Three Clubs Changed Hands.
Three big league clubs changed
hands. Fred Saigh bought the
Cardinals from the late Bob Han.
negan. Bill Veeck sold the In.
dians to a Cleveland syndicate
headed by Ellis Ryan. The De
Witt brothers Chill and Char1es)
found themselves saddled with
the Browns.
Luke Appling, the venerable
White Sox shortstop, completed
20 years at short for the Chicago
South Siders, running his string
of games at that position to
2,197 or A more than the former
record-h holder, Rabbit Maranville,
played.
League attendance was off 2
per cent from the 1948 figure, but
the major crowds still totaled
20,312,327, a nice, healthy ag-
gregate. The Yanks displaced
the Indians as high among the
clubs with home crowd of
1921, 1902, but that was to be ex-
pected since they were coming
from behind to win title while
the Tribesmen we're sloughing off
their 1948 championship.
A couple Of guys named Joe Di
Maggie and Ted Williams were
reputedly playing under 100000
contracts and when they met for
the last time on the last day of
the season. their teams were tied
for the. American League flag.
That's coming about as close to-
a deadlock between two outstand-
ing players as Is possible.
But perhaps the biggest base
Evening star., 1949-12-25
Porne|I, Red Sox Pitcher, Led
Leoque in Four Departments

In toiling 295 innings, Parnell
faced 1888 batters, yielding 25s
hits, 102 runs l91 Of them earned)
and 1874 bases on balls while strik-
ing out 122.
The seasons top strikeout artist
was Trucks with. 153 in fashion
ing a 1911 record. Newhouse1
was second in strikeouts with IA
Cleveland's Bob Feller. one-time
strikeout king, had 108 this year
as he won Is and lost IA.
Byrne Walked IA.
Tommy Byrne Of the New York
Yankees surrendered the most
walks, IA, but despite his wild
ness made an important contribu-
ton to the Yankee pennant drive
with a 15-7 record.
Reliefer Joe Page, Yankee main
stay, appeared in the most games,
so, and was more of a life-saver
for New York than indicated by
his 1873 record. Joe had an
earned-run average of 2.60, topped
by two Cleveland players among
pitchers working fewer than 10
complete games. Cleveland's AL
Benton (9-6) had 2.12 and Mike
Garcia u4-5) had 2.35.
Among % pitchers hurting 10 or
more complete games, Newhouses
allowed the most hits, 277, and
Ned Carver of st. Louis gave up
the most runs, 1875. Carver and
two Washington tossers, Paul CAL
vert and Sid Hudson, were bur-
dened with most defeats, each
with II.
Cleveland had the best pitching
unit, based on earned-run aver
age, with combined mark Of 1856.
New York was second with $40,
followed by Detroit with 3.77 and
Boston with 3.97.
Evening star., 1949-12-25
Brown, Boxter to Browl
To Finish in Turner Mat

Matte Brown, one-time fistic
artist, and Laverne Baxter. king
of mat scoundrels, will meet for
the third time on next Wednesday
nights wrestling show at Tur-
ner's Arena In a match governed
by Texas rules. No holds will be
barred in a brawl to the finish,
and the referee may give either
grappler a rest period at any
time. ri
In their first clash, Baxter lost
to Brown because Of unnecessary
roughness, while in the return
bout, both spurned. the warnings
of the referee and slugged it out.
A special two-man team match
pits Jim Austeri and Irish Jack
Kelly against Pat O'Hara, and
Ivan KamaroH. r:
Evening star., 1949-12-25
Shooting, Club Sales and Suits
Topped Baseball Newsm49

ball news of the year was un-
yelled around Danny Gardella,
the belligerent Giant, and others
who had jumped to the Mexican
League in 1916. All had been sus-
pended for five years. But last
June Commissioner Chandler lift
ed it, at a time when Gardella's
$300,0 900 suit against baseball was
about due to come up in Federal
Court. ,,~3.. o..
However, in the middle of the
World Series, Gardella dropped
his suit and subsequently Max
Lanier and Fred Martin of the
Cards tossed in their legal
sponges. Gardella gets chance
to play with the Cardinals next
year. but probably won't make it
since he could have stayed with
the Giants if he was of major
league caliber.
The American League again
won the annual all-star game
Q1-D and the World Series from
Brooklyn a games to ~ as Man.
ager Casey Stengle led his Yanks
to the championship. There was a
slight dispute among the writer's
as to the rookie of the year. Don
Newcombe, Negro Highlander
of the Dodgers, was generally
the Dodgers, was generally given
the National nod but both
Jerry Coleman of the Yanks and
Clarence Sievers of the Browns
were voted top freshman of the
junior wheel.
Part of the Braves trouble was
blamed on dissention between
certain players and Manager
Billy Southworth. Anyway, Billy
the Kid retired for the year in
August, with the Braves 1917
games behind, and when the year
was over, he was voted only
half-share of the fourth-place
series dough. This, however, was
corrected to a full share by edict
of Chandler.
Evening star., 1949-12-25
Bucky Walters
| PIors PITCHING
fComebock at 80
By the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. "a
Bucky Walters, ex-Cincinnati
Reds baseball manager and
new pitching coach Of the Bos-
ton Braves is planning to pitch
again at 80.
Walters, who signed to coach
Boston hurlers for Manager
Billy Southworth next year, said
today at his Philadelphia home
he intends to get into shape
during spring training and go
after those two victories that
would make him a 200-game
winner.
"I want those two games
more than anything ever
wanted in baseball" Bucky de-
clared.
Bucky, if he can convince
himself that he will again be
effective, is going to feature a
knuckle ball.
Bucky explained he didn't
pitch at all for Cincinnati last
year because he didn't get IN
shape the way a pitcher should.
Evening star., 1949-12-25
Sponsors Add to Rich 7rophies
For Crack Field in Star Meet

absentee in this group will be Boo
Morcom of New Hampshire, who
took the pole vault with 14-foot
mark Morcom now is assistant
track coach at Penn and cannot
defend his laurels.
North Cardinals Bill Adams
hopes to compete in the high
jump, which he won last year
with leap of 6 feet 5 inches. AL
bans, however, is recovering from
a football injury and his appear
ance depends on whether he has
time to get in condition for the
meet.
Guida to Defend Title.
George Guida of Villanova,
whose 1882 in the 600-yard run
clipped three-tenths of a second
off Herb McKenley's meet record
last year, is coming back to try
for a second leg on the trophy.
Ditto for Jim Gehrdes of Penn
State. who took the 70-yard high
hurdles title in 8.5 seconds last
year.
Fred Wilt won the Acacia 2
mile run last year in 900, but
can't defend the title, which
throws that race wide open for
fast field. Whether Texas A. &
MS crack mile relay team will be
back to try for second leg on the
Variety Club Capital Mile relay
silverplate depends on its showing
in the Sugar Bowl games at New
Orleans December 81. The Aggies
took the trophy in 3:26.1 last win
ter and in outdoor competition
lowered the figures to 3:149.
Yale is sending another mile
quartet to bid for the Ivy League
Alumni Associa tions cup on which
the Ellis gained the first leg last
year with a 1892 run. The Pig
skin Club again will present a
trophy to the winner of the Dis
trict AAU 600-yard race. which
was won last year by Bill Kash
of Navy in 1:55. The Industrial
Bank also is putting up its annual
trophy for the winner of the Col
ored intercollegiate Athletic Asso-
citation Mile Relay, which Howard
won last year in 1892.
Best competition will not be re-
stricted to sponsored events. how
ever, for a glance at the past per-
formance chart shows the boys
run every race for keeps. Spirited
competition again will be the
meets keynote.
Evening star., 1949-12-25
NJ the Assoeioted Press

CHICAGO, Dec. 24.-1t wasn't
the fault of the 1949 king OF
American League pitchers. Lefty
Melvin Parnell, that the Boston
Red Sox just missed a pennant
grab.
Official figures released today
labeled the 27-year-old Parnell
the junior circuits No. l hurler in
four departments-best earned
run average (2.78); most victories
| (25); most complete games CID;
and most innings pitched (295)
The slick Red Sox southpaw
from New Orleans appeared in 80
contests, losing only seven. His
won-lost average of .781 was sec
ond best to the 1893 on 1856
performance by Ellis Kinder, his
Boston team mate.
Between them. Parnell and
Kinder won exactly half Of the
96 Boston victories in the pennant
chase which went to the New York
YANKEES on ~ Wills.
Five 20-Game Winners.
In all, the Junior circuit pro-
duced five 20-or-more game win
ners. They also included Bob
Lemon Of Cleveland (22-10), Vic
Raschi Of New York (21-10), and
Alex Kellner, the Philadelphia
rookie l20-12). Z
Parnell, in his second full Red
Sox season after a 1948 record
tof 1873, won the coveted earned
run title by a 2.78 to 2.81 margin
over Virgil (Fire) Trucks of the
Detroit Tigers. Third in this de-
partment with 2.99 was Lemon.
Following Parnelps q complete
games were Hal NewhouSer OF
-
Evening star., 1949-12-25

Enough silverplate to open a
jewelry shop awaits the winners
in the third annual Evening Star
Games at the Armory on Janu-
ary IA and a check of the trophy
list reveals that District organ
izations and individuals have
made the games near civic
affair. Sixteen of some Is events
on the program have sponsors,
which means an extra handsome
trophy for the victor.
Severine G. Leofler, operator of
the city's municipal golf courses,
has put up a trophy for the win
ner of the special 100-yard dash
for policemen, an added feature
on this years program. He picked
an interesting event, for the
feather footed bluecoats should
stir up a breeze when they get
into high gear.
Two more trophies were added
this year when the Georgetown
&c" Club put up one for the q
mile relay and Shah & Shah
jewelers. placed another in COM
petition for the winner of the
Mason-Dixon Conference medley
relay. Winners and those placing
in the various events also receive
handsome medals designed especi-
ally for this meet by Newman
Sudduth, Star staff artist.
d. C. Sprint Kings in Duel.
Most of last years winners will
defend their laurels and much
interest centers on the sprint
series where two Washington
speed kings, Bill Mathis of Illinois
and Marcellus Boston of Iowa will
fight it out for permanent posses
sion of The Evening Star Silver
Bowl. This is a 3-year trophy
scheduled for retirement this year
George Thompson of Villanova
will try to gain a second leg on
the Touchdown Club 1,000-yard
Trophy. He took the race in
2:16.2 las year and is reported
aiming to beat those figures.
George Wade of Yale, who will run
in the Junior Board Mile and Bill
Alexion Of Maryland, who took
the District AAU 100-yard crown
and the National Classics, Inc,
Cup, also have signed up again
for the games.
Winners of four of the 3-year
trophies presented by The Star
are slated to try again. Lone
Evening star., 1949-12-25
Training Slate Lists
81 Tuss|es, 70 With
Big League Clubs
By Burton Hawkins

The Mats customary climax OF
their spring training schedule, a
home -and-home series with the
Baltimore Orioles, will be sup
planted by two games here with
the Pittsburgh Pirates next April
In 1851 Washington and the
Pirates will clash in a pair of pre-
season contests at Pittsburgh.
Ralph Kiner. sturdy slugger
who blasted 81 home runs last
season and who has led or been
tied for the lead in National
League home run production for
the last four years, is expected
to attract sizeable crowds to
Griffith Stadium when the Mats
and Pirates tangle on April Is
and Is.
Washington's long-standing
home and home arrangement
with the Orioles was aban-
doned principally to permit the
Mats hitters to glimpse major
league pitching before embark
ing on their regular schedule, al
though the prospect of increased
gate receipts isn't annoying the
Mats front Office. The Mats will
play Baltimore at Baltimore on
April IA to wind up the road por-
tion of their 31-game exhibition
slate announced yesterday by
Vice President Griffith.
20 Games With Major Foes.
Twenty of the Mats games will
be with major league foes and of
IL trays with minor league teams,
five will be against such Triple-A
clubs as Minneapolis, Louisville,
Newark, Kansas City and Balti-
more.
Dominating the Mats schedule
are the Philadelphia Athletics and
Phillies. Less than two weeks
after the first contingent of Mats
works cut at Orlando. Fla. on
March l Washington will jour-
ney to West Palm Beach for a
brace of games with the AS. The
Mats and Athletics will battle five
times, while four games are
booked with the Phillies.
Otherwise the Mats will meet
the New York Yankees, Cincin-
natl Reds, Detroit Tigers, Boston
Red Sox and Pittsburgh twice and
the st. Louis Cardinals once.
Washington's pitche and
catchers will report to Orlando
on February % and will start
practicing on March /. The re-
mainder of the Mats squad is
slated to report and work out on
March S.
Break Camp April 9.
The Mats will break camp on
April 9 following a game with the
Athletics and on April 10 will
play their Charlotte farm club at
Gastonia, N. c.. home OF Buddy
Lewis, Washington outhelder. En-
route home the Mats also will
play the Athletics at Charlotte
Durham at Durham, Reidsyille at
Reidsville and Baltimore at Baltl-
more.
The schedule:
March II and 12, Philadelphia Athletics lel !
at West Palm Beach; ID, Phlladelphia
Phillies at Orlando, 16, New York YANKEES
at ST. Petersburg; II, st. Louis Cardlnatss
fsmas Il st. g betPU, at oando
Red Sox at Sarasota; q, New YORK
Winter Garden; "A, Philadelphia Phill1es
iando: 26, Chattanooga at Orlando; 2aa'
Philadelphia Phillies at clearTat.eI;; .sC;t Ss;, g,
Eakeland: So Phadelphia PhnllIss nIsnda at
April /. Cincinnati at ORLANDO; 2, Louis
Vile at Orlando; 3. Newark ct Haines CITY;
Athletics at Orlando; 9, Philadelphia Ath-
tonis. N. G.; II, Philadelphia Athletics at
ShaTotts gc H. Durhsn D. RsIgsv;,e at DpEham
il, Baltimore at Baltimore Is. Pittsburgh
ct WASHINGTON; 16, Pittsburgh at wash
Evening star., 1949-12-25
Walsh, Former Catcher
With Baltimore, Dies
By the Assoeiotsd Press

ROCHESTER. N. Y, Dec. "a
Police 1t. Franklin D. Walsh, AZ,
former catcher with the Balti-
more Orioles of the international
Baseball League, died today at
his home.
Walsh. who played basketball.
football and baseball at st. Bona
venture College, was with the
! Orioles the season Of 1927.
Evening star., 1949-12-25

U6elS dUOuV Vic
season starting
and ending too
early. Most OF
t he Sc co M
plants CO m e
from hunters
W no S h o O t
lower bay wat.
ers in Maryland.
We haven't had
ny squawks
yet from the
boys who mostly
gun the Sus-
quehanna fats.
CertainlV This
Evening star., 1949-12-25
OUTDOORS

With only two more days Of the
Maryland ducking season left, fol-
lowing a succession of warm, blue
bird weather, we hear plenty of
Evening star., 1949-12-25

Casey Stengel, New York YAM
kee manager, was with the Giants
in 1928 and his two home runs
won the only game the Giants
captured. In the World Series
against the Yanks. So r.
Evening star., 1949-12-25


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Evening star., 1949-12-25
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