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Purge of Tigers Baseball’s Most Drastic Since Precedent Was Set in 1906
Win, Lose or Draw
By FRANCIS E. STAN.
The Fox Chases the Hounds
Judge Landis did something more than scuttle one of baseball’s
greatest farm systems when he blew the whistle on the Detroit Tigers.
He created the maddest scramble and talent hunt in the 101-year-old
history of what sometimes is called our national pastime.
With the final flourish of his pen the ancient jurist threw 91 ball
players of assorted classification out of positions. In almost any other in
dustry a proportionate upheaval would be a decidedly unhealthy condition.
Good steamfitters and garment makers and ditch diggers sometimes have
difficulty making new connections.
But not good baseball players. We said that the venerable farm
buster created a scramble. It couldn't be termed a job hunt. The only
hardship most of the free agent army will face will be choosing from
among the offers, because the clubowners, or employers, are pursuing the
unemployed. The fox chasing the hounds is ludicrous. No more so
than the clubowner chasing the ballplayer. But it is, nevertheless, true.
Landis Came in Handy After 1919
Most of the other major league clubs are counting off the hours
and preparing interesting approaches to Messrs. Benny McCoy
and Roy Cullenbine. You see, there is a rule which says that ball clubs
must stay away from free agents for 15 days. When this time limit expires
the rush will be on. Manager Bucky Harris, for instance, will travel to
Michigan to give Second Baseman McCoy a sales talk. Harris’ presence
may give the Nats a fighting chance to get Benny, because back in the
days when Harris was managing Detroit the kid was swinging on the
ball park gate there.
McCoy, if he is a good businessman, will weigh all offers
and be in no hurry. So will Cullenbine. There is no pressure on
them. They have until April 18 to get jobs. Ballplayers with jobs do
not even get paid until then. The pressure is on the clubs seeking their
services. Indeed, the longer Messrs. McCoy and Cullinbine stall
the better they will look in the eyes of their would-be employers. Espe
cially after these tycoons see gaping holes in their teams on the spring
training fields.
Personally, we think the old judge deserves a lot of credit. When the
game needed a Moses to lead it out of the wilderness after the Black Sox
scandal in 1919 it found one in Landis. For two decades the man-without
a-hair-cut has ruled supreme. We also think he was too tough on the
Detroit organization.
Navin Started Wrecked Empire of Tigers
The far-flung empire of the Tigers was started 15 years ago by the
late Frank Navin. Not as publicized as the Yankees' farm system,
Detroit's was as good and possibly better. A few years after it was
started it began to produce. Detroit's pennant winners of 1934 and 1935
were fashioned from farm-developed players.
Now it is wrecked. It is a ghost empire. There are franchises and
ball parks remaining but nobody to play. All of a sudden Detroit finds
Its source of supply cut off. Replacements in the next couple of years
probably will have to be purchased.
We agree that punishment was in order. We believe that when ball
clubs are found guilty of misdating contracts and trying to "cover up”
young ballplayers they should be fined. The scouts who are caught
tampering should be fined individually. But to free-agent 91 of one firm's
ballplayers and make them able to accept any offer except one from
their former team strikes us as a little too czaristic. After all, this isn’t
Russia.
A Free Agent is His Own Boss
It may be some time before repercussions fully stop. Hundreds of
good ballplayers, some of them in the major leagues, envy fellows like
McCoy and Cullenbine. For one thing, a pile of booty has been laid in
each of their laps.
The free agent can go farther. He can dicker for his first year’s
salary; he virtually can choose his club If he thinks the Yankees are
going to win again he can sign with them and get in line for the wunning
World Series payoff. Or, if he thinks the Red Sox will overthrow the
Yanks, he can sign with them.
He can take inventory of his assets and capabilities and apply them
advantageously. If he is a good pull hitter and hits from the right side
of the plate he leans toward a park with a short left field fence, like
Boston’s. We use Boston because some ballplayers might set a store by
the wealthy coffers of Tom Yawkey, too.
Remember When Series Cut Was Big Aim?
If for no other reason than to get away, plenty of major leaguers
would be willing to change places with any. of the aforementioned free
agents. Players on the Browns, for instance. Players on the Phillies
and Athletics.
We have a suspicion that Landis will have to enlarge his office force,
because ballplayers all over the country may decide to investigate their
own signing and try to find a loophole. It used to be that getting into
a World Series was the paramount aim of ballplayers. Now it would
seem that getting to be a free agent is more desirable. At least it is
more lucrative.
Not long ago we talked with a ballplayer, now inactive. “When I
was just about at my peak,” he said, “we never thought much about the
ways we had been signed. But if I were playing now I know that all I'd
have to do is write a letter to Landis. Because, brother, I was signed
Illegally.”
Landis, of course, is going to stamp out the petty practices which
bring on these stiff fines and penalities. Either that or baseball is going
to stamp out Landis. Right now he has most of the clubowners walking on
tiptoes and afraid to talk above a whisper.
But we still think he could do it another way. We hold no brief for
the clubowners, nor do we think ballplayers are lucky stiffs who ought
to be driving trucks. We just think it is a tough break for a fellow like
Walter Briggs of Detroit to have taken away $500,000 worth of ballplayers
and, in addition, getting fined $47,000 because somebody made a few mis
takes. And we don't think the growing ambition to become free agents
Is a healthy sign, either.
Terp, Not Duke Man, Rates Win
In Stopped Bout, Under Code
Merely to keep the record straight
University of Maryland officials are
expected to ask for a reversal of the
decision in the Bob Bradley-Faison
Jordan bout in last Saturday's match
between the Terps and Duke. Jor
dan. Duke featherweight, was
awarded the decision when the bout
was halted early in the third round
after Bradley suffered a cut eye.
Although Maryland won the
match, 5-3, Coach Heine Miller be
lieves it only fair that Bradley
should be credited with a victory
if he was entitled to it under a new
Intercollegiate ruling—and Miller
firmly believes he is. The rule (16,
paragraph 3) states that when a
bout is stopped in the second or
third round because of a cut, the
contestant ahead on points up to
that juncture shall be awarded the
decision.
Miller contends, and most of the
fans who witnessed the proceedings
agree with him, that Bradley won
the first two rounds with points to
spare and was driving ahead to a
clean-cut decision when the fight
was stopped.
No formal protest was made at
the time because the veteran Mary
land mentor had not been informed
Sports Mirror
Today a year ago—Pittsburgh
Pirates released Charles (Red)
Lucas, 37-year-old pitcher who
had served 15 years in the Na
tional League.
Five years ago—Hack Wilson,
Hpne-time National League home
|pun king, signed with Albany
International League.
of the rule's adoption and new rule
books were not available until yes
terday. Oddly enough, the rule is
one Miller has campaigned 10 years
to get in the book, along with an
other permitting a coach to be in
the corner with his fighters between
rounds.
Maryland will resume training this
afternoon, but will go lightly this
week because no match is scheduled
Saturday. The Old Liners’ next
match is with Catholic University at
College Park January 20.
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Player-Shunting
Long Regarded
Evil of Game
Landis Warns Owners
To Be Fair; Detroit
Regains Trout
By TOM SILER.
Associated Press Sports Writer.
CHICAGO, Jan. 16.—A lot of
baseballs have been knocked out of
the park since 1906, but even back
in those days the powers-that-were
campaigned against the violators of
the professional game’s rules gov
erning player transactions.
The game’s long struggle to keep
player manipulations within legal
bounds was emphasized boldly once
again this week by Commissioner
K. M. Landis’ edict freeing 91 base
ball players owned by the Detroit
club and valued at $500,000.
In freeing 4 Detroit players and
87 minor leaguers and ordering pay
ment of almost $50,000 to 14 other
players, Landis warned the club
owners and executives that contin
ued “covering up” of players would
result in banishment from baseball
of the guilty parties.
Old Commission Rule Drastic.
Just 34 years ago this coming
spring the National Baseball Com
mission, composed of Ban Johnson,
Harry C. Pulliam and August Her
mann, drew up what is thought to
be the first rule striking at such
practices. For violation of rules on
player transactions, the commission
set fines of $1,000 on major league
clubs, $750 for Class A League and
so on down the line.
The commission warned that a
second offense would lead to the
withdrawal of the protection of
the game s govvernors—which would
amount to WTecking a club, since its
hold on its players would have no
legal status.
Since that time there have been
repeated warnings and repeated vio
lations. Less than two years ago
the baseball world was jolted when
Landis lashed out at the St. Louis
Cardinals. He charged the club
with mishandling players, gave free
agency to more than 100 of them
and levied fines against the Cards
and some of their affiliates.
inree-iear nan imposed.
But the Detroit case exceeds by
far all past ones in magnitude.
The commissioner not only freed
the 91 players, but also prohibited
Detroit and affiliated clubs from
dealing for them within three years.
In addition, the Chicago Cubs were
fined $1,000 and the St. Louis Browns
$1,000 for meddling and Cleveland
was assessed $2,000 for ‘‘covering
up" a player.
A decision reversal by Landis in
one instance yesterday helped De
troit. He removed the name of the
highly-prized Pitcher Paul Trout
from the “free agent" list, an
announcing he had discovered later
that Trout had been turned over
to the Toledo club in a proper op
tional assignment and therefore
belongs to the Tigers. Trout had
hoped to sell his services to some
other club for $20,000.
The action struck a damaging
blow at Detroit’s plans for re
building the Tigers in the hear fu
ture They now have only 78 play
ers, 35 of whom are with the par
ent club, 30 with the Beaumont
Texas League club and 13 with
Henderson of the East Texas
League. Beaumont and Hender
son are the only minor league
clubs owned outright by Detroit.
Ruling Helps McCoy.
Landis’ ruling allows the 91 play
ers to sign now with any club whose
terms are agreeable to them. Some
of them doubtless will realize a
handsome profit on the sale of
their services.
Foremost among this group are
Benny McCoy, Detroit’s rookie sec
ond baseman, valued by that club
at $40,000, and Roy Cullenbine, out
fielder, worth about $10,000. Un
der similar circumstances a few
years ago Outfielder Tom Henrich
accepted a contract with the New
York Yankees on being paid $20,000.
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Senior Scrappers Head
Golden Gloves Card
Senior fighters, slated for action
tomorrow night and for the next
four weeks in the seventh an
nual Golden Gloves tournament at
Turner’s Arena, will be weighed in
and examined tonight at the
Knights of Columbus Hall at 7:30
o’clock.
Four or five senior bouts will be
added' to tomorrow night’s card,
which already lists 10 novice en
gagements. Among the novice
scraps will be three in the feather
weight division, three more in the
lightweight class and two in the
welterweight division.
Tech, Central Quints
Could Belie Lowly
Rating Today
Play Roosevelt, Eastern
In Series Games That
Top Heavy Program
Two of the most highly regarded
high school basket ball teams in
town were to meet two of the lowest
ranked this afternoon when Tech
plays at Roosevelt and Central in
vades Eastern. Both games were
set for 3:30 and top a busy day of
schoolboy activities.
Important because both are in
terhigh contests, the games might
answer several questions in regard
to the currently low standing of
Tech and Central. So far neither
has shown championship form, but
the Tech admirers insist their team
is traditionally slow starting and
that soon a successful change will
take place. Central, apparently
well stocked with material, is far
from a smooth-running outfit, and
its future appears none too bright.
Roosevelt and Tech, which fin
ished neck and neck in last year’s
title race, might provide a better
game than expected. The Rough
Riders have bowed but once in seven
starts, while Tech has lost all but
one of its six games. However, sev
eral of the losses left the impres
sion that a better effort would re
sult next time.
A defeat for Eastern and Roose
velt today would leave the top of
the ladder to Western and Woodrow
Wilson, which to some is the team
to beat.
Both those teams were to get non
title tests today along with several
others. Western plays host to
George Washington High, Wood
row Wilson is the guest of St.
John’s and Anacostia entertains
George Washington U. Frosh.
Other games find Friends play
ing at Landon, Georgetown Prep
facing Bethesda-Chevy Chase at
Garrett Park and National Train
ing School meeting Mount Rainier
at Mount Rainier. *
An 8 o’clock game tonight sends
Washington-Lee to Silver Spring to
play Montgomery-Blair.
B.-C. C. Girls Win
Paced by Margaret Lee and Ellen
Taylor, who scored 19 and 10 points,
respectively, Bethesda-Chevy Chase
girls defeated St. Mary's Seminary,
37-14, in a basket ball game at
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High.
Grid Heroes, About 500 Guests
To Make Touchdown Club's
Dinner Gala Occasion
Attracted by the presence of four
of the Nation’s outstanding college
football players of 1939. a record
throng of nearly 500 guests will as
semble at the Willard Hotel tonight
for the Touchdown Club’s fourth
annual banquet. The affair begins
at 8 o'clock.
But while it has been known all
along that Nile Kinnick of Iowa,
John Kimbrough of Texas A. & M.,
Ken Kavanaugh of L. S. U. and Don
ald Herring of Princeton were to
get special awards symbolic of their
performances last fall, the commit
tee announced only today that Bob
Nowaskey of George Washington
would be honored as the District’s
best college player of the '39 season.
Nowaskey Rated Best Here.
Nowaskey, all-District end for two
years and recipient of All-America
honorable mention, will get the
Arch McDonald Trophy, presented
for the third successive year by the
sportscaster.
To Kinnick, the outstanding foot
ball player of the year, will go the
Walter Camp Memorial Trophy
and to Kavanaugh, one of the best
ends ever to be turned out of the
South, will go the Knute Rockne
Trophy.
Kimbrough, the only one of the
quartet who still has another year
of college football to play, will re
ceive a special trophy as an All
America fullback.
Herring, who lost his leg after a
football injury in one of Princeton's
early games, also will be presented
with a special memo as the player
who contributed most to college
football in 1939. Sometime today
Vice President Garner was to pre
sent Herring with a gold watch
awarded him by the Athletic Round
Table of Spokane, Wash., as its
nominee as the outstanding sports
man of the year.
Honor Local Grid Stars.
Local college players, selected as
the most valuable to their teams
last fall, also will be awarded spe
cial trophies donated by the Wash
ington Redskins. They are Joe Mc
Fadden of Georgetown, Murphy
Booth of George Wasnington, Pete
Sachon of Catholic. Ralph Albarano
of Maryland and George Brown of
American.
Plenty of coaches will be on hand,
with Dr. Eddie Anderson, Kinnick’s
mentor at Iowa, who was voted the
“coach of the year,” drawing most
of the spotlight.
That the principal speech will be
no dry ramble is assured in the
committee’s choice of Brian Bell,
chief of the Washington Bureau of
the Associated Press. His subject
will be “Relax.”
Griff Is Relieved
As Lewis Signs
Clark Griffith’s contract-sign
ing worries were lessened consid
erably today after a visit and
formal agreement to terms by
Buddy Lewis, best hitter of the
Nats.
Lewis drove from his home in
Gastonia, N. C., and after a con
fab that lasted an hour, exclud
ing interruptions, signed his 1940
papers.
“We took into account that
Buddy may be switched to the
outfield and that he may be
dropped into fourth place in the
batting order,” Griffith said.
“He’s satisfied.”
Lewis, George Case and Ken
Chase are three important Nats
signed. Other key men still out
of the fold are Cecil Travis,
Gerald Walker. Dutch Leonard,
Rick Ferrell and Rookie Jimmy
Pofalil.
Maryland Own Guest
In Court Tilt With
G. U. Tomorrow
College Park Temporary
Hoya 'Home'; Terrors at
C, U., G. W. at Navy
Another 24 hours of inactivity
faced the District’s major college
basket ball teams today before all
four open the week’s campaigning
tomorrow in three games. The ap
parent discrepancy in the number
of games and teams is because of
the Georgetown-Maryland intra
group fracas at College Park.
George Washington will get the
jump on its local rivals when it takes
the floor against Navy tomorrow
afternoon at Annapolis at 4 o’clock.
The Colonials have high hopes of
giving G. W. its first victory over
the Middies in a major sport in
years, and a large delegation of
rooters are planning to be in the
stands at Dahlgren gym.
Hoyas Handling Game.
Maryland will undergo the unique
experience of being a guest in its
own gym against Georgetown. Al
though it is the Hoyas’ turn to en
tertain the Terps, Maryland Coach
Burton Shipley has refused to play
henceforth at Tech High, site of
C. U.’s home games. Maryland,
therefore, will turn the management
of tomorrow’s game completely over
to Georgetown, which will handle
the gate, pay the officials, etc.
Maryland students will pay the
regular admission price charged out
siders. while Georgetown undergrads
will be admitted upon presentation
of their student books.
Edge Seen With Terps.
On paper it looks a grand chance
for the Terps to square accounts with
the Hoyas for last year’s shellacking,
for the College Park quint has won
six of its eight games while George
town has lost seven out of nine.
Beaten in its first four games,
Catholic University’s quint returns
Middies to Compete
In Maryland, C. U.
Indoor Games
Also Will Enter Three
Other Meets; Squad
Practicing Daily
By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 16—Navy’s
track team will tackle its most am
bitious indoor schedule in years this
spring, with five major meets on the
program.
The scanty-clads have been work
ing cut for six weeks under Coach
Earl Thomson. Last week the squad
got outdoors for the first time prac
ticing on the stadium oval after
snow had been shoveled from the
conders.
The Navy Athletic Association
announced plans to participate in
two meets February 3. A quartet
of quarter-milers will be sent to the
Millrose A. C. games in New York,
and other stars will enter the South
Atlantic A. A. U. Indoor track meet
in Baltimore.
Capt. Vince Healey, Davis Bunting,
Bob Kirkpatrick and Lloyd De
Latomvall veterans, and Eric Hop
ley and Ralph Johns, up from the
Plebes, are the leading 440 con
tenders.
The Navy will compete as usual
in the University of Maryland-Fifth
Regiment games in Baltimore Febru
ary 10, and participation in the
Southern Conference indoor games
at the University of North Carolina
February 24 was also scheduled.
The Midshipmen will wind up
their indoor track season March 2
at the Catholic University contest
in Washington.
to home surroundings tomorrow
against Western Maryland. Coach
Fod Cotton is convinced his charges
have the makings of a fair team
and that they are much better than
their reoord indicates.
Dahlgren's Job
As Yank First
Sacker Safe
McCarthy Will Stand
Pat on 1939 Lineup;
Praises Grissom
By BILL WHITE,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—The New
York Yankees, like a poker player
with a fistful of aces, are going to
stand pat.
And there Is a suspicion that
Manager Joe McCarthy's terse state
ment, "Naturally I plan to start
the season with the same lineup I
had last year,’’ will bring joy to a
lot of Yankee hearts—and to Ells
worth i Babe) Dahlgren’s in par
ticular. Joe made that remark yes
teerday while here to check over the
Yanks' rookie list with President
Edward Barrow.
Not many of the Yanks, whose
fourth straight World Series cham
pionship Iasi, fall sh jwed they were
practically devoid of weaknesses, '
were concerned over getting their
old jobs back.
Dahlgren Works on Batting.
Di Maggio. Selkirk, Keller, Gor
don, Rolfe, Dickey, Ruffing—all ap
peared certain to start again where
they left off last fall. The lone fig
ure of First Baseman Dahlgren
seemed to be the exception.
Babe, who took over baseball’s
toughest job when he replaced Lou
Gehrig that fateful day last May,
frankly hasn't measured up to the
rest of the Yankees at bat. Afield,
he is perfection and has made the
Yank infield again a co-ordinated
unit almost without a defensive
weakness.
But McCarthy’s statement, plus
the knowledge that Babe seriously
is trying to improve his hitting by
taking lessons from wise old Lefty
O'Doul, means that the cavalcade
of players who suddenly decided to
become the Yanks’ first baseman now
can go back to the bull pen or the
bench.
Almost Lost to McQumn.
Babe may get a lot of stiff com
petition in spring training from the
husky Mike Chartak, up from New
ark, but it's a pretty good bet that '
the graceful blond who hit 15
homers and drove in 89 runs wop't
be robbed new of a job. He almost
lost it once to George McQuinn of
the St. Louis Browns, only to be
saved by the "no-trading” edict the
magnates wrote into the laws at the
meetings in Cincinnati.
McCarthy, in town for the first!
time since the series, also said he j
was not interested in any one cut I
loose from Detroit via the landslide '
by Commissioner Landis, and he i
seemed still mightily pleased with |
the deal that brought Lefty Lee ;
Grissom from the Cincinnati Reds. |
Enthuses Over Grissom.
"Frankly, I think Grissom has a J
fine chance to be a great pitcher for !
us.” Marse Joe thundered. "He's
big, and every time I've seen him he
was fast.”
And the rotund pilot scoffed at the
thought that his magnificent ma
chine was ageing and in danger of
developinig rheumatism in the
joints.
Nobody else thinks so, either, but
you can't blame seven other Amer
ican League managers from wish
ing!
Three years ago—Cleveland
Indians traded Joe Vosmik. Oral
Hildebrand and Bill Knicker
bocker to St. Louis Browns for
Julius Solters, Lyn Lary and Ivy
Paul Andrews.
Sports Program
For Local Fans
TODAY.
Basket Ball.
Roosevelt vs. Tech, Roosevelt
gym (public high series game),
3:30.
Eastern vs. Central, Eastern
gym (public high series game),
3:30.
St. John’s vs. Woodrow Wil
son, St. John’s gym, 3:30.
Anacostia vs. G. W. frosh, An
acostia gym, 3:30.
Western vs. G. W. High, Western
fym, 3:30.
Landon vs. Friends, Landon
gym, 3:30.
Washington-Lee High vs.
Montgomery-Blair, Silver Spring,
Md.. 8
Georgetown Prep vs. Bethesda
Chevy Chase, Garrett Park, Md.,
3:30.
Mount Rainier vs. National
Training School, Mount Rainier
gym. 3
Wilson Teachers vs. Bridge
water College, Bridgewater, Va.
Boxing.
Columbus University vs. Mi
ami, Turner's Arena, 8:30.
Ice Hockey.
Washington Eagles vs. Atlan
tic City Sea Gulls, Riverside
Stadium, 8:30.
Wyche Steals Robin's
rhunder as Early
Sandlot 'Bird'
Vet Pilot Signs Array
Of Talent for New
Team He'll Direct
Boy, roust out the first robin of
spring, Connie Wyche’s here steal
ing his thunder again.
It doesn’t take much pressure or
persuasion to pry a few items on
baseball loose from the diminutive
Wyche, who has piloted top-flight
sandlot teams since 1929. He glanced
out the window after rain had
washed away most traces of snow
earlier in the week and decided the
weather was just about right to let
the boys know he expects his outfit
to be the kingpin on District dia
monds. A glance at the roster con
firms the suspicion he has signed
about everybody but Clark Griffith.
Wyche has been building his team
quietly since last October, when the
last foul ball was lost in the deep
weeds. Baseball is a year-around
pastime with him and when the
team isn’t active he’s occupied with
the business end of the club. The
boys played only 88 games last year,
cramming ’em in with double
headers and triple-headers over
week ends and in the Industrial
League, but this is far short of
Wyche’s armition. He wants to play
a full major league schedule of 154
games.
Flans to Play March 24.
Last year the team was under
7-Up s banner and this season it will
be sponsored by Cameo Furniture
Co. S. C. Sutton, the proprietor, will
get a good, long run for his money
unless Connie's plans go awry, for
he hopes to lift the curtain March
24—Easter Sunday, at Roanoke
Rapids, N. C., and keep the ball
rolling until October 13. The com
plete schedule, however, has not
been arranged.
Wyche has 10 veterans around
which he hopes to weave a winning
nine next summer, and they will be
bolstered by the addition of seven
well known players. Back from last
season are Jimmy Schwab, a catcher
with a .379 batting average; Frank
Deavers, utility; Johnny Dugan,
whose brilliant shortstopping and
.429 batting featured the campaign.
Bill Albert, Clarence Plumb and the
Coakley brothers, outfielders; Reg
gie Brown and Lefty McIntyre,
southpaw pitchers, and First Base
man Richard Wyche.
Adds Some Star Performers.
Newcomers are Otis Printz, who
won 29 and lost 9 games pitching
for various District teams last sum
mer; Vincent Cooper, a first base
man acquired from O’Donnell’s; Bill
Harris and Vincent Kirchner, out
fielders; Woody Godfrey and Francis
McMenamin, infielders, and “Gig
gles" Adair, a right-hand pitcher.
Adair wron 15 games and lost three
for Benning last season.
Both Brown and Mclntire were
in organized ball last season, Brown
with Blackstone, Va., in the Tide
water League, and Mclntire with
Ashland, Ky„ in the Mountain State
League.
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New Fistic Trio Aiming to Break Jacobs' Monopoly
"Bama Coach Gets Gridder on Deer-Hunting Trip; Landis Held Likely to Strike Again
By EDDIE BRIETZ,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—It
doesn’t add up, but the word Is
going around that Pop Warner
will be back at Stanford in an
advisory capacity. • The Doc
Kearns - Jimmy Johnston - Jack
Dempsey combination (which
will stage Pastor vs. Burman) is
out to break Mike Jacobs’ fistic
monopoly and don’t let anybody
kid you about that. Judge Lan
dis has his little list and the big
league oarons are wondering
which club is next. More than
one manager was baiting his
hook for Pitcher Paul Trout
when the word came he was not
to be liberated. For the past
year two former assistants of Doc
Sutherland have been quietly in
stalling his system at Florida U.,
If that means anything.
We’ll bet on him. Two more
proclamations like that one Sun
day and Judge I andis will better
the record hung up by Abraham
Lincoln, January 1, 1863.
The Hogue twins of San Diego,
two of the likeliest ring prospects
on the Coast, are looking for a
manager. Kenneth Gregory, the
A. P.’s crack young Southern
sports editor, who has been seri
ously ill in New Orleans since the
day before the Sugar Bowl game,
leaves the hospital this week.
Tulane football players supplied
blood for transfusions. Gov.
Murphy of New Hampshire, who
was reported interested in the
Yankees, is no novice in base
ball. He once was president of
the Central League and operated
the Nashua, N. H., franchise.
Frank Thomas, Alabama coach
who went deer hunting In Texas,
brought back a line bucker in
stead of a buck.
Today’s guest star. Lynn C.
Doyle, Philadelphia Evening Bul
letin: "Connie Mack has been re
elected president of the A’s for
the fourth time. And there you
have the perfect third-term pre
cedent.”
Short and snappy: Comedian
Bert Wheeler has bought a half
interest in Steve Souris, the wel
terweight. Lefty O’Doul is giving
Babe Dahlgren secret batting les
sons on the coast. The fair Sonja
and her 65 supporting stars daz
zled the Garden customers yes
terday with costumes costing 65
grand. Prof. Billy M’Carney, the
Chesterfield of the fight man
agers, will ballyhoo the Burman
Pastor doings for Jack Kearns.
Anything can happen! Palmer
Deloteous, who used to write
■porta for Fred Digby on the New
Orleans • Item - Tribune, has
turned preached. Old Lou Brouil
lard, the middleweight, who jams
New England arena’s every time
his name goes up, has an offer to
fight in Hawaii.
Finns relief dept. When Taisto
Maki, the great Finn runner,
comes over to steam up interest
in the Finnish relief drive, his
interpreter will be Paavo Nurmi,
former great Finnish runner, who
knows exactly four and a half
words of English. Needless to
say, one of ’em is dollar.
You said it:
When Landis takes his pen in
hand
The scratch is felt throughout
the land.
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Judge .It was the Yankees, not
the Tigers, they wanted broken
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