(America Maintained Athletic Supremacy in 1924—Win at Track, Golf and Polo
Aanks First
i in Nearly All
Lines of Sports
American Athletes Cop Olym
pic Meet, Polo and Golf
Matches; French Race
Horse Beaten.
HE great grid
Sport glanced
back over the
months of 1924
and smiled a
satisfied smile.
In retrospect,
he saw the Amer
ican polo team
defeat England,
he saw the Amer
ican Olympic
team score a not
able victory over
the nations of
the world, he saw
the amateur golf
championship and the American team
the Walker cup In spite of the ef
forts of England's best; he saw Epi
nard, the French thoroughbred,
beaten four times out of a possible
four on American tracks.
But the old boy’s vision Is by no
means limited. He saw many and
varied things, among which was
rWashington’s victory In the world
series, the verdict of America's rep
resentatives In the Davis cup series,
the wholly deserving position of
. Notre Dame In footbalL
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- Duncan, Mitchell
to Be Kept Busy
i
New Tork, Dec. 27.-—George Dun
can and Abe Mitchell, the British
golfers, arrived at Dos Angeles this
week and will play at the Wllshlre
Country club today. Tomorrow they
will take on Willie Hunter and
George Von Elm at the Honcho Golf
club. A rearranged list of dntes for
Duncan and Mitchell is as follows:
i December 80, PasRdena Golf club;
December 31. Midwick Country club;
January 2, Hollywood Country club;
•. January 3, Ojai Valley Country club;
January 4, Da Cuinbre Golf and
Country club; January 6, Dos Angeles
f'ountry club; January 7. Hacienda
Country club; January 8, Sunnyside
Country club; January 9, Stanislaus
Country club: January ID I.ake Mer
ced Golf club; January 15-16, Cali
fornia state open championship; Jan
uary 18, Sau Francisco Golf and
Country club: January 24, revenge
match of Duncan against Macdonald
Smith at Ran Francisco, first 36
holes; January 25, final 36-hole re
venge match at Doe Angeles; Janu
ary 28, California Country club; Jami
ls -f-w» v 31, Virginia Country club; Feb
* ruaty 1, Paloa Verdes links.
Duncan and Mitchell will later play
1 in the Texas open at Ran Antonio
and in the Hot Springs event for
i two purses of $6,000 and will prob
ably also compete In the $7,500 event
in California.
Chuck Palling, Boston college star
at baseball and football, is also an
honor student. He stands at the head
of his senior class of 175 men in
scholarship with a mark of 89. the
maximum grade be ng 100.
f
Boxing to Be
1 Optional in
l (German Schools
i \-—
i ..JBerlln, Dec. 27.—On men peda
gogues have decided to mul:e boxing
lessons for boys optional in all Ber
lin schools. In a few it Is already
compulsory, as part of ordinary
I physical training, in the gymnasium,
but a slight hesitation prevails about
making It absolutely necessary for all
boys to box, whether they want to or
not. The contention Is that boxing
is admirable from the point of view
of quick thinking, which Is looked
upon here nowadays as a highly
k necessary equipment In the struggle
for life.
" Berlin’s biggest sporting assorts
tlon has placed Its trainers snd Its
'gloves at the disposal of the schools
and special lessons are to be given
to masters as well as boys.
croHKnrsr
^ISKUWCfi
STANLEY
KAKKIS*.
Swimming Enjoys Successful
Reign During Fading Year
By PETE WENDELL.
Director of Swimming Nicholas Senn Hospital, and Vice President of the N. A. A. 1 .
Midwestern A. A. U, Swimming Champion*.
MEN.
100 Yards Fre* Style—f. J. Kllngaman. University of lows.
500 Yards Free Stvle—S. Lambert. University of Iowa,
loft Yards Back Stroke—Reginald Ramsey. Omaha.
10ft Yards Breast Stroke—Norman Plate. University of Nebraska.
Tlungo fop Distance—Morris B. Lake, University of Iowa.
Fancy Diving—Jack Foster, Omsha.
WOMEN.
4ft Yards Fre* Style—Corlnne Condon. Nicholas Senn Hospital.
5ft Yards Free Style—Corinne Condon. Nicholas Senn hospital
50 Yards. Bark Stroke—Corlnne Cond on. Nicholas Henn hospital
50 Yards Breast Stroke—Corinne Con don. Nicholas Senn hospital
lftft Yard* Breast Stroke—Corinne Co rdon. Nicholas Senn hospital.
220 Yards Free Style—Ethel (lirttaof f«»r. Omaha.
Plunge for Distance—Henrietta Bors, Nicholas Senn hospital.
□MAHA has Just passed through
another very successful swim
ming season and with the
Nicholas Senn hospital sponsoring
the best in the swimming world by
bringing several world's champions
to Omaha during the last year,
greater Interest has been aroused
and Omaha, stands out prominently
as a swimming center.
Corinne Condon, youthful swim
ming star, stands out prominently
as tlie greatest star of the year,
having won five free style, hack
stroke and breast stroke champion
Record Attenda
at Husker
'---s
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 27.—More than
100,000 people paid to see the Ne
braska football team in ac tion during
the season of 1924, according to fig
ures given out here by John Keileck,
business manager of athletics at the
state university. The largest crowd
of paid admissions was for the Ne
braska-Not re Dame game at South
Bend, Ind. Next in line was the
opening game of the season with
Illinois.
The total paid admissions at the
various games were as follows:
Illinois Nebraska . 14,474
Oklahoma at Norman . •'>.*<><>
Colgate at Lincoln . 1V*04
Kansas •• Lawrence . 12.7";
Missouri at Lincoln.14,nl.
Notes Pams at South Fend . 17.*o4
K. S. A. C at Manhattan . * ja4
Oregon Aggies at Lincoln ..... .. 12.372
Total .192.2«:
As will he seen by the above Mis
souri was the best card In the Valley
games, on account of h»r excellent
showing prior to the Nebrneka game
and the most likely winner of the
Valley championship. In fact, It was
freely predicted that Missouri would
defeat Nebraska, hut the Tigers took
the short end of the score, The total
attendance for the season eclipsed all
other year*.
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ships and (M| iialiiif' the world*
record of 29 seconds flat for the 50
yards free style swim in a 60-foot
tank. Her record was passed and
accepted by the National A. A. I',
tills year and she is the Joint
holder with Helen Walnwrlght of
New York.
Miss Henrietta Bor*. star
Nicholas Senn nurse-swlminer,
came Into national promience by
winning the national junior A. A.
I’, plunge for distance champion
ship by plunging 60 feet in 56 1-R
seconds, setting a new national
junior record officially.
Of the men swimmer* Reginald
Ramsey, youthful merman, stu
dent at Central High school, was
easily the star. His record-break
ing performance In winning the 150
yards hack stroke title was the sen
sation of the year.
Greater activity is assures!, more
especially with women’s swimming,
net Nlcholns ttenn hospital will hold
the national A. A. U. junior EO yards
free style championship and the na
tional A. A. U. junior plunge for dis
tance championship as weil as all the
midwestern A. A. U. women’s cham*
pinna hips.
Thus a greater Interest has been
moused for thnee who swim for
pleasure ns well as tlie competitors
and 192.i should lie a bigger year.
World Tennis Domination
Won bv Americans in 1924
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»-y»ORLD dominion In lawn tennis
settled even more firmly In (he
w* T United State* during the year
'•>( 1924, the Davis Cup remaining nl
most aa a matter of formality, and
what waa deemed to he a second
elaea American team, minus Tllden
and Johnston, scoring an absolute
cleanup tn the Olymplo gamea at
Pari*.
Starting the season, Vincent
I Richard* and Helen Wills, two
| sprightly youngsters, sailed abroad,
and each won three Olympic titles,
the United States tailing all *1*
competitions on the program. Mu
znnne of the temperament declined
to he a party to the proceedings;
In fact, she played no tennis at nil
during the season.
“IJttle Roller Race” was a final
ist at Wimbledon, but lost to Miss
Melton* of England, liefore she be
came acclimated. Helen, however,
won the Olympic title easily, as did
Itirhards; then they teamed up ami
absorbed the ml**d doubles event.
Subsequently Richards paired with
77 f Francis Hunter to win the men’s
doubles, and Helen turned around
and captured the women's event, In
collaboration wilh Mrs. Oeorge W.
Wlghtnisn.
/ Richards also lost at Wimbledon.
1 Jhi't suffered no reverses of conse
’ nenee thereafter. Me was honored
f r the first time by being placed ore
the Itnvls Cup singles team with Til
4en. and (thls pair won all four
t'
matches In straight sets from Patter
son and Anderson of Australia, In the
challenge round. Tilden and John
ston likewise gained a straight set de
cision over the Australians In the
doubles.
Tilden, of course, retained hi* title
of American single* champion, nnd
Miss Wills remained at tha top In
the women's group.
Other American chnmplona of the
year were:
National doubles, Howard and
Robert Kinsey; women's doubles,
Miss Wills and Mrs. Wlghtman;
mixed doubles, Miss Wills and
Richards; veterans’ singles, Craig
liiddlc; veterans’ doubles, Waller
Pate and Sam Hardy; girls’ singles,
Helen Juctdts; father anti son
doubles, A. II. Chapin ami sou; In
tercolleglale singles, Waller Scull,
Scuttle; doubles, Wrlglit and Thai
lielmer, Texas university; luunlrlpsl
singles, Ted Drewes, St. i/ouls;
doubles, Holman and Hagan,
Early In the year, the foundations
of the tennis world were rorked by
the pnssHge of the pin yet- writer rule
by the United States I.awn Tennis as
sociation. The rule provided that
players writing for newspapers snd
periodicals must relinquish this
source of revenue l.y the first of the
present year under pnln of losing
their nnmteur standing. Tilden nnd
Richard* are two of the men sffecled
by the rule, but the belief Is general
that It will be either rescinded or
module I at the next annual meeting
Good Jockeys
Appear Scarce
N'cw York, Dec. 27.—Most of the
capable Jockeys have been signed up
for next season. There is a dearth
of good riders and not nearly enough
to go around. There are now sev
eral large stables without riders for
next year and they have little pros
pect of getting any.
W. R. Coe, who has spent probably
$1,000,000 since he entered the turf a
few years ago and now haa a score
of horses in trailing at Belmont
Park, has no Jockey for 1925. George
I). Widener is another who has an
extensive string of horses at Belmont
park but no rider for them. Mrs.
Victor Vivaudou. who has the rem
nants of the st.iteie her husband raced
for years, also Is hunting for d
good “boy." J. K. Widener and James
Rutter ere others without Jockeys
for next season.
iFew Championship Fistic
Bouts Served During 1924
HE manly art of
refined mayhem
staked Itself to a
period of depression
such ss It hail not
known In modern
years. Only one
c h nmplonshlp
changed hands,
title bouts being all
too few. Even meet
ings between good
second-raters were
exceptional.
, it was the Inevita
ble ebb after a
flood tide of finan
cial prosperity, dating back to the
years Immediately following the war.
Abe fioldstein was the only new
champion to fall heir to the purple
during the year. He defeated an
~ *V
aging Jo* Lynch early in the cam
paign and fought several seeond
ratrrs In defense of liis title later
on. Abe was the exception among
champions, however.
Jack Dempsey didn't draw on a
glove in defense of Ills title, for
reasons several and abiding. Kenny
I^onard danced off with Pal Moran
in a no-derision bout and then call
ed it a campaign. Johnny Dundee
resigned from Ills featherweight
title and prcvionaly lost that so
called 130-pound championship to
Kid Sullivan.
Mickey Walker knocked out Bobby
Barrett In a welterweight champion
ship bout that attracted slight atten
tion outside of Philadelphia. Mike
McTIgue, alleged light-heavyweight
champion, wag too proud to fight—or
something. Harry Greb. middleweight
king, fought a number of no.decision
affair*, and Pancho Villa threatened
several times to defend his flyweight
title, but didn't.
Georges Carpentier, our French
boy friend, added to the gayety of the
occasion hy returning to this country
for some of the American dollars he
overlooked on his last'- visit. He lost
the decision to Tom Gibbons in 10
rounds, at Michigan City, and later
was knocked out by Gene Tunney in
the 14th. Georges then smiled know
ingly anil went on about his business.
Gibbons nlso stopped Jack Bloom
field In a few rounds in I«nndon,
but the real knockout ranir when
the promoter paid Thomas only
part of his guarantee. A six-round
knockout of Kid Norfolk wound up
Gibbon's 1911 campaign.
Luis Flrpo, the well known hu
man being, also «tep|ted out a
couple of times, to liis ultimate re
gret. lie finished second In every
one of II rounds with Harry Wills
and was rut into slithers by Charley
Weinert's left hand on a later ocra
aion.
Boxing and Flrpo ■will remember
1924 as a particularly disadvantageous
vear
It Is a rertalnty that the Boston
club will never be able to waive
Pitcher Jack Quinn out of the Amerl
can league. Several big league mana
gers srs wiling to take a chance
i n the veteran spit bailer, when Bos
ton releases him. which Is expected
to l>e In the near future.
Epinard, “Wonder Horse,’’ Beaten
_j
The thoroughbred racing eeaeon of
1924 ended In a great furor# when
Kplnard, 3-year old champion of the
European tracks, crossed the ocean
for a series of races on American
tracks. The French thoroughbred
fulled to win a single race In four
starts, but he convinced the American
public that he Is one of the great 1st j
of the modern generation.
Although conceding handicaps In
many cases, lie finished second on
three occasions and finally pulled
up lame in the fourth race and was
shipped home.
t pitta ill's first defeat came at ;
llrhnont Park, where he was heatrn
a half length hy Isidkln. The gen
eralship of Jockey Haynes, who
rode the invader, was generally
criticized In this rare, as was the
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case when Eplnard was beaten a
neck by Wise Counsellor at Aque
duct.
They then shipped th# French
thoroughbred west and again he was
destined to finish second. The rsce
was held on th# hard surface of the
I-atonla course, and. finding the go
ing much to hla liking, Sarazen reeled
off a mile and a quarter In the new
American record of 2:01 S-5.
Eplnard cracked a quarter In tills
race and finished lame, but Ills
handlers were III advised enough
to atart him In the laurel Handi
cap several tveeli* later. The In
jured horse could not show his best
speed, and trailing the field home
pulled up liy his jockey. Tile inci
dent only served to illustrate fur
ther the great quality of the colt.
Sarazen, perforce, van* granted
the honor of being the greatest 3
year-old of the American season,
with Master Charlie ranking the 2
year-old field. The latter also
proved the greatest money winner
of the season, and Irsn Parke, the
jockey who piloted the most win
ners home. I
In light harness racing Sir Roch
was the champion pacer and Baron
Worthy the king of the trotter#.
Tommy Murphy of Syracuse had the
greatest total of purses, 1101,000 In
alt.
AQUAKKEH Is something that It
takes a ehovel to bury, but can
he dug up again with a tea
spoon.
And there were many quarrels In
sports this year. The vendettas were
running strong all year, but hove
been Interred for the holidays.
Kven Ban Johnson felt the
Christmas urge and wished all hie
baseball friends a merry Xmas on
one postcard.
A note from Fulton to California
stated that Fred would be glad to
visit that stats again some time un
der happier circumstances.
TUTS Indicates that all the hoya
have patched up their argu
ments and are ns anxious to be
Just us friendly outside the ring se
they nre In It.
Just to prove that a white Xmas
means nothing to him. Tiger Flow
ers lias challenged the works. The
kid Inaugurated his new passenger
service this year when he took on
two battlers In one night and gave
them a rougher ride than the Krle.
He lias eent Xmas cards to nil the
light heavies In tho land. But when
a heavy aeea Tiger the heavy slnpe
on a white heard and makea a nolar
like Santa Claus.
THEY don't want any of those
little gifts from Tiger. It Is all
right to get socks snd gloves
from yonr relatives.
* But the socks and gloves handed
out by Flowers spoil flowers.
Charley Welnert Is over In New
Jersey wishing good will on enrlli
and peace l<> I,ills Flrpn. Charley
used Firpo as a rung In Ills slrp
ladder a few monllis ago and lias
nothing but sweet regards for the
Bull of the Canvas.
The Bull of the Canvas hasn't eant
any happy reciprocations to Charley
at he doesn't went to play a potato
for a man who eats with two forks.
DKMPSKT Is sending out plenty
ui cards and received one chal
lenge, This acceptance came
from Tommy Upton and It would be
a great fight If Jack had a yacht.
Clark Griffith sent John MrGraw
s nlre pebble about the size of a
quinine pill. II war the aam« one
that won the aeries lor Washington.
MrGraw had it made into a watrli
and gave the natch lo the man who
times the six-day races.
HARVARD and Pennsylvania
have resumed football relations
for the holidays. We knew
th»ee two colleges would get together
again some time.
Hull Montana has denied the re
port that he played with Ia>n Chaney
In the great picture of college days In'
Notre Dame cathedral. The report
was that Montana was the man who
was stuffed up Don’s bock.
(Copyright, lt24 >
Notrr Damn Rooters
Gather in Pasadena
Dos Angeles, J>ec, 27.—When
Knuto Rorkne’s galloping horsemen
meet Stanford university In the Rose
Bowl at Pasadena New Years day
lha eastern invaders will not go with
out cheers.
Hundreds of alumni of eastern uni
versltles have purchased blocks of
seats lu adjoining sections and will
root for Notre Dame
Regular cheer leaders will lead (lie
eastern and mlddlewaatern college
men, nnd a series of yells, tepreseut
Inn Die leading schools east of the
M ssUilppl will murk the Intersection
al tilt.
/
Grange and Notre Dame Team
Stand Out in Football Viorld
„ __)
□WO million inula saw tha great
American gam# of football
played during tha season of
1914. tha moat notable of all the
years the game haa survived. Some
<15.000 of an original turnout of 75.000
sat through a torrential deluge to
the end of the llarvanlTal# battle
at New Haven; end the etedluma at
I'rhann, III., and Berkeley. Cal., were
burdened to their tremendous ca
pacity for the llllnola Michigan and
tha California Stanford games, re
spectively. These contests, with the
Army and Navy game at Baltimore,
were merely the Mg moments of foot
ball's epic season.
It was a season made Immortal
by tin mill Iltedl Orange of Illi
nois; the CiiHersity of Noire Hattie
leant and many upsets.
Orange, the greatest Indlvidusl
player of modern football, ran
through the Michigan leant for
four touchdowns lit II minutes, a
record never before eiiualed. Ills
runs ranged front *7 yards on the
opening kickoff to a mere IS yards
for Ills final tally of the first
peri ml. Against Chicago, he tied
the score In the la*t period with
two touchdowns, one of litem com
ing sflcr a run of HS yards. Orangr
stands alone.
So does the Notre Dame football
team, which need only defeat or tie
Stanford at l'asadena Cal., to' e«tab
llsh Itself as the first college team
to attain national recognition as
champion In the last lu or 15 ycnir
Eastern supremacy ta divided
among Yale. Pennsylvania and Bart
mouth. The middle west recognises
Notre Berne above all else, with Chi
cago tha winner of the Big Ten con
ference: Kansas was ths winner of
the Missouri valley conference; Ala
bama ruled the southern conference,
with Center college, a non-conference
team, the leading entry' from that
section: and Stanford finally obtained
rating above California on the coast,
although neither was beaten. The
Bears, however, played two tie gsn.es
to Stanford’s one.
The latter came with Just elx
minutes to play In Stanford’s game
with Its traditional foe, the Hears
leading 20 to « at that late moment.
But Sianford scored enough points
lo tie the ecoio before the final
whlatla and two spectators dropped
dead from heart failure.
Boy Manager
Wins Baseball
Championship
Work of Sianley Harris at
Washington One of Fea*
tures of 1924
Season.
WORLD'S championship
flag proudly file-'
In the shadow ol
the capltol'a dome,
from the peak of
a staff that was
starkly unadorned
at this time last
year.
Handled with
consummate skill
by a 27-year-oid
manager, the
Washington Sen
a tors won the
American league
pennant in a driv
ing union with the New York Yankees
and then captured the world title from
the New York Giants in the greatest
series ever played.
That night, in Hie midst of the
wildest scenes ever enacted in tile
nation's capital, with the possible
exception of the occasion that
marked the signing of the armis
tice, two names were on every
man’s lips as lie revelled through
Pennsylvania avenue. They were
Stanley “Bucky" Harris, the juve
nile manager who had jockeyed
Washington Into Its first pennant
and world title, and Walter John
son.
Johnson It was who staked him
self to a great season at the age of
37 and topped it off hy holding the
Giants at bay In the final game,
after Mogridge had been relieved of
the pitching assignment In the
ninth. Johnson's pitching won the
i pennant and it was a source of uni
| vet-sal satisfaction that to the same
, man fell the honor of beating the
l.lant* in the seventh and final
game after he had been beaten by
the McGraw entry in two previous
starts.
That Washington was aided by a
freak of fate in this final contest
mattered little or not at all. How
ever, the circumstances are these
In tile ninth inning, with two run*
needed to tie and second and thirl
occupied. a grounder by Harris
took a Did bound oxer Llndstrom'*
head and sent the game into extra
innings. In the twelfth, with the
winning run on second base, a shot
by Mi Neely again took a freak
imp over Lindstrom's head and the
game and series xvere over. The
xvinnlng run might not even hax-e
been on the ba«os had not Gowdy't
feet become fancied fri his mask as
he settled under Ruels foul. He
dropped the bail and Ruel doubles
a moment later.
On the eve of the series the base
ball xxorld was rocked by Judfce
I-andis' announcement that he had
barred Jimmie O'Connell, substitute
outfielder, and Cozy Dolan, coach,
from playing with the New York
Giants and organized baseball for
an attempt to bribe Heinie Sand,
shortstop of the Phillies.
\ jury of baseball writers xoted
Dazzy Vance, of Brooklyn, the most
xahiahle player In the National
league—from the standpoint of
xalue to Ills team—to the great dis
tress of folks In St. Iamis, where
Rogers Hornsby holds forth. Horns
by established a longue record by
leading his organization in hitting
for Hie fifth surceaalve season He
had a remarkable average of .123.
George H. Ruth, the well known
outfielder, toppwl the American
league bitters and also smote the
| most home runs, with a few to
i sjare. Vance and Walter Johnson
i were the respective pitching lead
ers of their leagues.
The following xvon pennant*
among the little majors:
American association. St. Paul
j Pacific Coast league. Seattle In
ternational league, Baltimore
| Southern Association Memphis
I Kas'ern league. Waferhurv.
Italtimore again took several or
I series." The Orioles lost to Water
! bury, then took on St. Paul and low
| again.
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SPRINT STARS TO
TOURNEWZEALAND
New York. Dec. IT.—Cbarlev Pad
dock of the l.os Angeles A. C. and
Loren Murchison of the Newark A
C. have received an official Invlta
tlon from the New Zealand A. A. A
to visit Australlaala for the winter
track campaign. The "sprinting
twins" have accepted the Invitation
and will sal! from San Francisco dur
ing the second week In January, ar
riving In New Zealand In time for
the February meets.
Paddock and Murchison will not
confine their foreign Invasion to the
Antipodes. Thej have decided to
make a summer of it In foretgn
climes. Leaving Australia, they will
sail to Japan to show their speed to
Nippon a athletic enthusiasts.
^B W • m. 1 v T — s r — Was
ATTENTION!
January Delinguent
Fir»t Day
1 lues are payable on or before Uecember dlst. If you
have not paid semi it today, l'o not take a chance!
t'ha*. I- Hopper, Sec’y.
\
I I
Johnny Dundee, almj a rated »
great little fighter but anything but
a matinee Idol, Is "high-hatting" the
I-ondon folks these days. Dundee la
now touring Europe and expect* to
look them over In Italy and Paris.
Johnny is an Italian.
Here Is a society note for the sport
page which is of general Intereat to
golf enthusiasts. Alc-xa Stirling of
Atlanta, tin., famous woman golfer
and holder of many championships,
has announced her engagement to
Dr. Wilbur Green Eraser, medical
practitioner at Ottawa, Canada. Ru
mor has It that the engagement is
another romance of the golf links.
Dr. Frazer is a pretty fair golfer him
self, but he will certainly have a hard
time winning from the fair Alexa.
While Miller Huggins, manager
of tho New York Yankees, realizes
his pitching is slipping he is not as
worried as It might seem. Of his vet
erans Jones, Hoyt, and Pennock.
should be consistent winners. Hug
gins feels that he has a great aid to
the hurling staff In Walter Beall, a
husky right-hander secured from
Rochester of the International league.
Beall did a lot of good work in the
closing months of the 1924 season. He
Is being banked as a regular by the
midget manager of the Y'anks,
Ty Cobb, to set aside all rumors as
to who is to play second base for the
Tigers in 1925, announces that Frank
O'Rourke will positively start.
O'Rourke is a great fielder, but weak
With the bat.
Frankie Frisch of the Giants Is one
of the few hitters who bat equally
well against right or left-handers.
However, he says he lias more confi
dence when he hits from the left side
of the plate and believes he gets a
better punch Into his swing. Inci
dentally he says he has a stronger
liking for right-handed pitching than
southpaws. He also realizes the value
of the extra step saved when hitting
from the left side of the plate. That
step is a difference from a base hit
and just nn ordinary out at first base
many times during the year.
It is a bit of a coincidence that
two athletes expected to star as pitch
j ers for Yal» the coming season. Pond
i and Scott, played in the Blue's back
field.
Both George Slsler and Babe Kutli.
; who achieved big league fame »s
pitchers, say they consider the twirl
ing job a harder consignment than
playing regularly at first base or in
the outfit M. Pitching one hard game
takes more out of a player than tak
ing part In four regular games at sm
other position, according to r.uth.
Sislep says “In pitching you must
bear down on every batter, as care
lessness on some weak hitter Invari
ably causes defeat. There is no rest
for a pitcher from atart to finish of
a game."
Squash Tennis at first glance may
I not strike one as a strenuous pm*,
! but It Is. It is really Indoor tennis
’and Is very fast. Walter Kinaella is
the world’s champion squash rlayer.
I He recently defended his title against
Robert Cahill in New Tork. taking
three of the five sets, 10-15, 15-1S.
j 12-IJ and JUS.
Japan has a baseball nine made up
I from royalty.
Harry M ills lias taken part in
fights, winning 44 of them w-Hh
I knockouts.
One of the oldest licensed banters
in Maryland is Daniel H. May, age
j 91. of Bedford.
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