"NO MAN IS SO BUM/ *S HE WHO INSISTS ON DRINKING WOOD ALCOHOL," CHIRPS CLARENCE FROM CLARENDON The Times' Complete Sport Page KmP Abreast o4 Sport WorW Br Reading Tki. P*|* OmAy LOOKING EM OVER ~~l BV I ~ LOUIS A. DOUGHER If Battering Babe Ruth, the 9126,000 mauler, can keep up hit# 191!) average ou the Polo Grounds through the coming campaign, get ready for another and a greater home-run record for the books. The Red .Sox were scheduled for ten games in New York last season. Babe Ruth ham mered out three home runs there, beginning with one off George Mo gridgc on the opening day of the season, copping one off Bob Bhawkey on June 30 and closing with another oif Shawkey on September 24. This ia an average of .300?three homers in ten games. Next season American League clubs will plsy a schedule of 154 trainee, or seventy-seven at home and seventy-seven abroad. If Babe Ruth can maintain his .300 average of 1910 at the Polo Grounds he will come close to slamming out some twenty-three homers at his home park. He will then have but seven more to get around* the circuit to beat his ?wn record of twenty-nine made last year. The other day Bill Uimtr, the Ruck vJUe, Md.. boy with the Red 8ox, caine in to see us and get a perk at the "official'* averages of the American I.eagu*. That was before Babe Ilulh was sold to the Yankees. Lamar, who looked In wonderful condition, with an eye clear as the morning sky and with the froah color of a debutante, liad much to say of Babe Ruth, who ?eemed pretty muclT of an Idol to him. "The Babe hits a lot of high dies, you know," said Lamar, talking of the proposed change In the rules which would permit .1 batsman to eacapu having a atrlko railed on him when driving long flies to the fc-1 territory on olther side of the outfleld. "There'd be arguments all the time. You know how baseball players like to argue about everything. That's Pie far Hla. "Of course, there wouldn't be so many arguments In New York, with that short right field wall, but there would be everywhere else except, pos sibly, Cleveland. If tho Babo played In New York that wall would bo pie for him. If he played there half the soMon he'd set tho home-run record so high It would never come down." And now Babe?or "The Babe," as all ball players speak of him?Is to play In New York. In seventy-seven Kames he Is going to measure the dis tance from the plate to that right Held stand, and he would be brave, in deed, who would say now that the 3I?10 record of twenty-nine home runs would not be surpassed. Only two batsmen have ever hit a t>all over the right flold stand at the I'olo Grounds, Babe Ruth and Joe Jackson. Both slammed the pellet out upon the avenue, clearing the L ftructure. A fanciful story had Jack non's landing In a saloon and knock ing a stein of beer from a man's hand. If tni<\ that must have been a dread . ul thing, to take a perfectly good 'tela-of beer away from a man just as he bad It poised for action. Any way, maybe that's only a story, which .* well, for It la almost too terrible. Talk Abent HI* Eg*. As a partial explanation for his partin gwtth Ruth, Harry Fr*zee dis -usscs the player's consuming ego. knowing many ball players of far less ability, we are constrained to nardon Ruth. There la much to be said for liim. > Though the books aay that Ruth played with the ML St. Joseph's col i3gc nine, they ^re Incorrect. He did i>lay with the St. Mary's Industrial .school nine, of Baltimore, and it was hare that Jack Dunn, the manager of the Orioles, found him In the winter of 1013-14. When Dunn asked the brother In i bargo at the school for permlsion to sign Ruth for a trial with the lialtimore club, the brother replied ?hat, to do that, Dunn would have to tdopt Ruth, who was an orphan. '.>unn, therefore, legally adopted the :dg boy. Ruth came In for much laudation while- with the Baltimore club. This ?waa Increased as soon as he became ? major leaguer. Many of us, with tar better starV? In life, would have Huceambed as well. He haa plenty of exenm for his ego. Hiiflaa Caeca Treoble. Miller Hugglns, the midget man ager of the Yankees, is facing many troubles before the 1020 campaign ends. How he will ever succeed In handling such fellows as Carl Mays. !ub? Ruth. Ping Bodle, Bob Shawkey, :>cl Fratt, and "Bruck Hannah all at once remains to be offered as a le? :ion to other big league leaders. Of # course, before the aeason starts, Hug pina may succeed in disposing of fome of hia temperamental stara, but If be beglna with them all In uniform, he's in for a warm summer, even If the sun never shines. All-star collections are never to be desired by a baseball manager. Just as actors, each wants all the lime light. The art of self-sacrifice for the god of the team Is unknown to the j.tar, whether on the stage or the dla tuand. Perhapa the moat self sacrificing utar In baseball today Is Walter Johnson, though Trls Speaker leads lilm a clwse race. Kach would gladly throw a""'!' a possible record If by so rlolng he could ussure success to his team. Babe Ruth, It Is needless to say, does not answer this description.. Neither does Carl Maya. And here :hey are both members of the one ulub. Yea. Miller Hugglns should Tiot want for excitement before the i-nrtaln falls next October. DROPS TWO ROBINS. TOLEDO. Jan. 8.?In fielder Lew .'Jalonc and Outfielder Jimmy Hick man of tho Brooklyn National club, I.as been purchased by the Toledo .American Aasociatlon club, according t? an announcement by President Kreanahan. JEFF SMITH WINS. I iJCWJSTON, Mst. Hun. Wheatley 2 0 is Bartelmes 1 0 is Kelchner 1 . o 10 Marks 1 <> j, Wallace 1 1 17 Henshaw n 2 11 Peaco..' u j 12 treeland 0,1 jJ WANT OLYMPIC EVENTS. Washington Canoe Club paddlera. Who during the past three years have anneed every Important canoe titular event, want canoo races put In the next Olympic meet. If they are suc cessful Hutherford, the Knight boys, Kamman, Wagner, und Burch will bo abroad to compete. COOK WANTS GAMES. Cook School teasers, averaging 110 pounds, want games. Bradley Fulker son. manager, ran be addressed at the T. M. C. A. STARTS JANUARY 14. Nigh school freshmen get started in their series on the data of January 14 Business plays Tech and Western nwti C?ntral "Spike" Webb Is Enthusiastic Over the Outlook for Ring Champions. ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 8.?Boxing. Jugt recognized a* a competitive sport at the Naval Academy, has sprung- into immediate popularity. Over ninety responded to the first call for candi dates this week, and it had to be an nounced that no more were wanted. Only about half of this squad was sent to the training table. Midriiip nxan Edwin W. Schell, of Mount Pleasant. Iowa, has been elected the first captain and manager of the team. Only one match will be fought this year, against the University of Penn sylvania, but a larger schedule will be arranged for next season, and the N'avay Academy will co-operate with the movement to Install boxing as one of the regular intercollegiate competitive sports. The midshipmen have a very capa ble and magnetic coach in "Spike" Webb, who was dlreotor of boxing of the Twenty-ninth Division, A. E. F., and who developed and hantMcd some of the best mitt men on the other side Webb, now one of the instruc tors in physical training at the Naval Academy, is enthusiastic about his material there and Is confident that he will have a team as good as can be brought out by any other lnstitu ticn. TWELVE MORE CONTESTS ON FLOOR SCHEDULE Manager U. G. Keener Announce* Completion of Daten for Hatchetite ToMem. George Washington University will have twelve more games on its sched ule for the remainder of the season, according to manager U. O. Keener. While the Hatchetites have dropped two battles already there is consid erable hope that victories will be forthcoming shortly. The big test cpmes Saturday night at the Y. M. C. A., when Catholic University Is played. On January 17 the Hatchetites go to the Navy to play, while on Jan uary 31 Georgetown will be met at the Y. M. C. A. Oallaudet Is played at the "Y" on February 7. The Hatchetltea will take a trip be ginning February 1>, when Mt. St. Mary's, Penn State, Huckr.ell, I.afay ette, Muhlenberg and Lund Broad way, had offered the money to the umpires, but Cramer was only the I go-between. Cramer, who had been a great Giant fan and a regular pa tron at the Polo Grounds, was barred from all National League parkd. However, the league never was able to get any proof on the real cul prits. and the general Impression at the time was that Cramer had been made the goat. Cramer never got over It. and died a broken-hearted man about a year ago. While Mathewson came in for a cer tain amount of blame for losing the moat crucial game of his career, it Is well to remember that the game finished the most grueling campaign Mathewson ever went through, and the one In which he reached his high water mark Jn the matter of victories. He won thirty-seven games and lost eleven for a percentago of .771. Ho was used so Incessantly In the last month of the season that even the famous Mathewson arm began to show signs of weariness In that final baltle with the t ubs Malty pitched with his heart and head more than with his sturdy right arm. Maay Berawe Maaaaer*. It la Interesting to note that prac tically all of the players in that fam ous play-off game became managers In either the majors or minors. On the New York side Tenney went ba.-U to Boston as manager, while Charo) Hersog ran the lied* for two and a half years. llmaaahan wae manager of fc.tb tha farAJaala aa4 Cuba a??t Matbow Ty Cobb'* First Game Come* Next The tale of that wonderful play-off between the Chicago Cub# and the New York Ciianta for the 1W08 National league pennant end* today. Saturday comes the third story in The Washington Times' big banehall series, "Ty (Cobb's Firat Big League Game." Remember, these authentic baseball stones are appearing only in The Washington Times' Complete Sports Page. When Cub* Won Ban ner in Play-off n?7Kl at New 1 ?rk l'lt7, Urttkfr H. ink. CHICAGO NATIONALS. AB. It. H. PO. A. B. Jim Sheckard, If.. 4 0 0 4 0 0 Johnny Kvera, 2b.. 3 1 1 ,0 3 D Frank Schulte, rf. 4 1 1 4 0 0 Frank Chanee, lb.. 1 0 3 J3 0 0 Artie Hofman. cf.. 0 0 0 0 0 0 H. Stelnfeldt, 3b... 4 0 1 0 3 0 Geo. Howard, cf., 4 0 0 1 0 0 Joe Tinker, ss 4 1 I 1 4 0 Johnny Kilns, c... 3 1 1 4 1 0 Jack Pfeister, p.. 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mordecal Brown, p 2 0 0 0 1 0 Totals 32 4 8 27 12 0 NEW YORK NATIONALS. AB. R. H. PO A. E. Fred Tenney, lb... 2 1 10 0 1 Chas. Herxog, 2b.. 3 0 0 1 2 0 R. Bresnahan, c... 4 0 1 10 2 0. Mike Donlin, rf.... 4 0 1 0 0 0 Cy Seymour, cf.... 3 0 0 2 0 O Arthur Devlin. 3b. 4 1 12 0 0 H. McCormick, If. . 3 0 1 3 1 0 AI Bridwell, sa.... 3 0 0 0 1 0 <"h. Mathewson, p.. 2 0 0 0 3 0 ?Larry Doyle 1-0 0 0 0 0 George Wiltse, p.. 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 30 2 5 27 9 1 ?Batted for Mathewson in seventh inning. ? Chicago 001 000 OOO -4 New York 100 000 100 2 Two-base hits?Donlin. Schulte, Chance and livers. Threc-baae hits ?Tinker. Hita?Off Pfiester, 1 in two-thirds of an inning: off Brown, 4 in 8 1 3 innings; off Mathewson, 7 in 7 Innings: off Wiltse. 1 in 2 in nings. Sacrifice hlta- Tenney an4 Brown. Double playa -Kling and Chance, and McCormick and Bresna han. Left on bases?Chjcago. 3: New York. #; First on balls Off Pflester, 2; off Brown, 1; off Mathewson, 1. First on errors?Chicago, 1. lilt bp pitcher?By Pfeister, 1. Struck out - By Mathewson, 7: by Wiltse, 2: by Pfeister, 1; by Brown, 1. Time of game?1 hour and 40 minutes. Um pires?Messrs Johnstone and Klcm. Attendance?35,000. son conducted the Reds before ihe advent of Miracle Man Pat Moran. Pat was second catcher of the Cubs at that time, but he saSv the gp.mt: from the bench. Other Cubs of that famous aggre gation .who rose to be big leagu? managers were Kvers, Tinker, Kling and Brown. Chance, of course, wa playing manapcr of the Chicago teai.i. Evers succeeded him as manager of the Cubs in 1913, and Tinker ala-j got a crack at running the Cubs af ter the Federal League settlement. Prior to that Joe managed the Red;, and Chi-feds. Kling managed the Boston Nationals one season, and aid three-fi:igercd "Brownie" tried his luck with the St. Louis Federals. In addition to these men who grad uated into major league managerial berths, Shcckard, Schulte, Howard, Donlin. Devlin. McCormick. Bridwe'l and Wiltse tried their hands as man agers in the minors. There wore baseball brains In that box-scora' (Copyright, 1J20, by A1 Munro Kllaa.) BROOKLANDERS TACKLE LAFAYETTE, THEN G.W.U. Catholic University Basketers Meet Two Strong Teams Straight Running. Tomorrow night at Brooklaud, . Catholic University meets Lafayette College in basketball. It will be the second homA, game of the season for the Brooklanders, who have not ap peared on the floor since the Christ mas holidays started. I?afa.vette will be met by a for midable array of basketers a.4 C. U. has improved noticeably. OaJsatur day night at the Y M. C. A. the Brooklanders will tackle the George ( Washington quintet. Two games In a row will give the Brooklanders quint a first-class work out in preparation for trie game with the Navy next week. 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