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" S) VRDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1923.
Egg WASHINGTON TIMES SPORTS
WHITE SOX WILL STAND
PAT ON PLANS FOR
BATTLE-LINE
X By HAROLD JOHNSON.
CHICAGO, Feb. 24.—Business is slated to pick up with leaps
and bounds in the White Sox camp now? The hot stove league
went into the junk heap today with the arrival of Manager Kid
Gleason, primed to assume command of the advance guard oi
Ste-hosed athletes scheduled to depart next Monday for Marlin
Tings, Tex. Everything has been prepared for the getaway and
Trainer William Ananias Buckner is packing the uniform trunks
with regimentals, bandages, liniments and other highly essential
paraphernalia which will be used during the two months’ absence
of the Comiskeyites.
The Sox officials are determined
to stand pat on their present battle-
• front and believe that the young
hurlers, Blankenship, Leverett,
Mack and Robertson, who exhibited
flashes of real greatness last sea
son, will be even more effective
during the coming grind, as each
will have profited by his experi
ences under the guns in 1922.
The week of baths and hiking,
coupled with the actual business of
hurling baseballs during the sojourn
at Marlin, Tex., long the condition
ing ground of the Giants, should
put the battery, artists in splendid
trim for the actual baseball en
deavors to follow when the other
members of the team report at
Seguin on March 8.
Gleason proposes to start the
heavy work involving every mem
ber of his party at the latter point
en March 9 so as to have a finely
groomed machine lined up for the
initial engagements with the
Giants, who will be met in no fewer
than nineteen practice games in
Texas and on the Journey across
the Southland to New York, where
they split forces on April 15. '
According to the regular program,
ten pitchers and three ca.cnexs will
. ratly 'round Gleason at Marlin wnen
the fighting strategist assembles
them for the initial operations.
With one exception, Joubert Lum
DaveniMirt, the Arizona collegian, all
the i lingers are right-handers.
•Joube” was been attached to the
roster for two years in the hope
that he way eventually fall heir to
centio!. .omething that few south
paws acquire.
.. .. has a hunch that th*
• Seuthwesitrner will come through
this season.and prove his worth on
the firing line.
Sox fans are familiar with Faber,
the Blackenship brothers, Leverett,
Roller son, Dutt and Mack. George
Connally, a right-hander who ac
companied the Hose to Texas last
spring and later was shunted along
to Toronto, is -scheduled for a re
turn engagement with the Hose,
but in a letter from Los Angeles
recently he informed us that he
might not remain m the national
pastime this year. Phede Lambke,
another rookie, is a robust youth
from Kalamazoo who comes highly
recommended. * .
HORWETS
TO FLORIDA
r WITH PALS
Fertica and Ainsmith Motor
With Him From St.
Louis.
BRADENTOWN, Fla., Feb. 24.
Rogers Hornsby, Bill Pertica and
Eddie Ainsmith, of the Cardinals,
arrived here yesterday morning cov
ered with dust. They motored all
the way from St. Louis and report
ed that no serious mishaps were en
countered.
“It was an enjoyable trip," said
Hornsby to the delegation of local
fans who received the big league
star. “Gee, but this is wonderful
weather down here. When I left
St. Louis is was cold enough for a
fur cap.''
The three Cardinals spent the
afternoon at the golf course. Rog
doesn't go in much for golf, but he
chipped several shots with an Iren
and sent one drive Sailing down the
fairway.
Finishing their golf work-out the
players immediately sought Trainer
Kirby, who is here, and picked out
their baseball uniforms. The ball
park is a short walk from the Mana
vista Hotel, where the players will
be quartered.
TBfifflS 11
lILIBE
FDRMEET
Georgetown Weakened b)
Sending Team to Games
In New York.
Athletes from Georgetown, Georg<
Washington, Maryland University
Tech, Western, Central and Episco
pal High, together with the Wash
ington Canoe Club and other or
ganlzations, will be in Baltimor
tonight to compete in the mee
sponsored by Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, and the Fifth Regimen
Athletic Association.
Georgetown will be unable t
put forth its full strength at th
n:i et as the medley relay team i
in New York for the N. Y. A. €
games. Despite this loss Georgi
town will have twenty-two athlete
or. hand.
Maryland will make a strong bi
for honors, with the relay teat
running against Hopkins and th
frosh meeting the Hopkins free!
men. George .Washington Uftive
shy's relay team also is entered.
THE DAY’S
Biggest Lie
By SKILLET FINN, Esq.,
1731 Columbia Road.
FEBRUARY 24. President
Harding today gave the
post of Former Director Forbes
of the Veterans’ Bureau to For
mer Director Wihneth, of the
Bureau of Printing and En
graving.
Can you think of a biggsr ha
than that? If so, send it to Bi<-
geet Lie Editor today.
Battle for Title.
Frankie Genaro and Psycho Villa
will battle .March 1 in New York f6r
the American flyweight champion
ship.
LOOKING ’EM OVER
By LOUIS A. DOUQHER
THOSE “OFFICIAL” AVERAGES.
MR. B. B. JOHNSON, president of the American League, and
Czar of Baseball, ’ as the baseball writers used to
J— » «. hlm ’ employs what he terms an “American League statis
l. lc . ,a Jh was the action of this “statistician” in compiling the “of
r’athlr / r ? m Chicago morning newspapers
employed official scorer in New
York that caused that tempest m the baseball teapot back a month or
so ago. This statistician” awarded the immortal Tyrus a hit when
m^de C ?lhhT Xnh w° rk Z* A? f rror for Scott The deference
made Cobb a .400 hitter for the third time in his glorious career.
Mr. Johnson, who is a stubborn'^ —;
guy, either for or against, stuck
to his “official statistician” in
this instance. Well, all right,
thought most baseball writers,
Ty’s a good scout. Nobody en
vied him his record of hitting |
•400, least of all the scorer in I
New York.
Scoring baseball games is not ‘
a personal matter with the <
scorers. Somebody has to do it, i
that’s all, and hitherto it was‘
always . thought better to have'
the scorer in the press box of the :
park whefe the game was played. I
Now it has been found quite as i
efficacious to have the scorer I
some 1,500 miles away from the j
scene of the fray. The world
“sure do move.”
Shortly after Mr. Johnson had j
top the hide off those daring
Spirits who opposed the action by
the “official statistician,” Sid C. .
Keener, The Washington Times’ |
baseball correspondent in St. |
Louis, discovered that George Sis-;
ler had not been awarded the cor-1
rect batting average for 1922. 1
Where Cobb—yes, Ty Las unfor- ■
tunately mixed up in this case;'
too—had been given the benefit.
of the fractions, Mr. Johnson’s
“official statistician” had not done
so with Sister’s figures.
Keener, who is an energetic'
cuss and a good guy with it,'
wrote to the American League l
leader, calling his attention to
the excellent work of his “offi-■
rial statistician.” Mr. Johnson
thanked him, etc., and promised
to “have corrections made.” i
The official averages, now on
sale everywhere at Spalding’s
steres, have the incorrect figures.
Sister's mark is given as .419,
when it should by right be .420.
Mr. Johnson once more promises
to “have it corrected,” probably
by next year.
More Fine Work.
BEFORE getting away from
Mr. Johnson and his “offi
cial statistician,” we must
ask all you fans to find in tha
1923 “official” batting and fieku
ing averages the names of Allan
Russell and Leslie Nunamaker.
Yes, try and do it!
Among the pitchers it may be
noted that A. Russell appeared in
thirty-four games as a member
of the Boston Red Sox. He is
credited with pitching one com
iplete game and winning six and
(losing seven games.
Nevertheless, though Russell ap
peared in thirty-four different
ball games, he has no batting or
fielding average in the “official”
records.
I>eslie Nunamaker, according to
the unofficial figures kept by Al
Munro Elias, took part in twenty
six games with the Cleveland In
dians, generally as a pinch hitter.
The “official statistician” fails
to mention Nunamaker as being
in the league, either as a batsman
or as a fielder.
In climbing all over the basebail
writers, Mr. Johnson told thorn
through their president, Fred
Lieb, of New York, that “they
i ■ should first put their own house
> in order” before attacking the
“official statistician.”
Mr. Johnson might now follow
his own advice. His “official sta-
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tistician” should get the air, if
vou get what we mean.
Passing of “Stuffy.”
CAN’T help it, we’re human,
that’s all.
i One day last summer, act
ling on what we considered the
i best of information, we wrote a
' ( Jong piece for the paper, predict-
V}* th .® <arly passing of “Stuffy”
; Mclnnis froqi fast company. In
deed, unless we’re now wrong, we
j said he was doomed to drop back |
(Within a few weeks.
. And the next day into town i
with the Cleveland club came;
I Mclnnis. For four days he pro-•
ceeded to make us look bad. He I
i played wonderful ball. He hit
I *ll the pitchers, especially tha
'southpaws, and in the field he
was the same Mclnnis who opce
.starred with the Mackmen. He
had read tha piece in the paper.
But, once the impetus was
gone, back he slid into a heavy,
I sluggish veteran, trying his best
I but unable to overcome the
i years.
Now he has been released un
i conditionally by the Cleveland
i club, his American League days
done. Even catching on with the
National Leafcue, he cannot con
tinue the struggle much longer.
It’s against nature.
And that’s what we said last
summer.
Let Harry Do Jit.
George Washington
GRANT saw the handwriting
en the wall. He sold out.
Now let Harry Frazee do it and
■ these may be. hope for big league
baseball in Boston again.
Boston is a charter member of
the National League. The kids
eat and grow up on baseball as
soon as they finish the milk
I bottle.
Frazee has been trying to kid
I folks wiser than himself. He
J should wake up, sell out, wrap
■it up and get out of town. Until
• he does the American League is
i carrying too heavy a burden in
the Boston Red Sox.
DUGAN VOLUNTEERS FOR
SECOND BASE ON YANKS
NEW YORK, Feb. 24 —ln sign
ing hts 1923 contract Jo® Dugan
has become a regular for the com
ing season, but not necessarily at
third base. Indeed, Dugan has
volunteered to go over and play
second, permitting Aaron Ward to
go back to his old place at the hot
corner.
“Sure. I'll do anything that will
help the team,” said Dugan yester
day. “I played second for Connie
in 1919 and 1920 and I had good
i years both seasons. I'm ready to
go back to that job and work my
head off.”
Harris is Ready.
i Stanley Harris, Washington’s
’ rapid-fire second-sacker, has been
i playing golf at Tampa for a couple
of monihs and writes friends here
i that he is ready to begin playing
ball. He will have his chance in-
| side of ten days, now.
Uhle Is at Work.
k I
J George Uhle, Cleveland’s fine
- young right-hander, is at work at
’Hot Springs, Ark. He wants to get
V an early start along the line leading
- to mound victories.
GREB GIVEN RAW DEAL,
EXPERTS’ VERDICT
By DAVIS J. WALSH.
NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—That ft is quite possible to feel some of*the
people all of the time, including a referee and two judges was proved
when Gene Tunney was gjven th* official decision 6Ver Harty Grob,
and in consequence the Hght-heavyweight chgihpidnship of America
at the end of fifteen rounds at Madison Square Garden last night.
The announcement of the verdict divided what had been a distinctly
pro-Tunney crowd against itself.
Many believed that Grab had out scored his man in the majority of
the rounds and hence deserved whatever honors went with a mussy,
unscientific bout The writer was one of these.
Os course, one cannot go behind•
an official decision any mote than
jpc can go l>ehind the nape of One's
neck. The fact, however, remains
-hat a championship was taken
i way from Greb with a honest inf
erence of opinion prevailing. That
s not equity.
The referee in question was Patsy
Haley, who is good and bad by
turns and strikes a fair average.
The judges were Charles Meighaa
and Charles E. Miles, who seem to
have something in common with
Adolphus P. Clotheshamper.
You don’t know Adolphus? That’s
all right. We don't know Messrs-
Metghan and Miles.
Nor du we knew by what rea
soning they arrived at the con
clusion that Tunney had won.
He carried only the second, third,
fourth, fifth and fourtoeath.
rounds,- according to our score
sheet, while Greb had an advgn*
Lage In the sixth, seventh, eighth,
tenth, twelfth and thirteen rounds.
The rest were even.
-
That we wer* not alone in this
impression is indicated by a ‘per
sonal canvass of ringside opinion,
with the following result:
Grantland Rleo, Now York Tri
bune:
"It was a poor decision. If any
one won, Greb did.”
Harry Newman, Daily News:
“A draw would have been more
like it.”
Charles P. Mathison. New York
Herald:
"Greb deserved the decision.”
•Jimmy Dawson, New York Times:
“I thought Tunney won.”
Walter Trumbull, New York Her
ald;
“A draw would have been the
fairer derision.”
Jack Lawrence, Tribune:
"A draw would have been Just.’’
Igoe, the World:
“Tunney deserved the decision.”
Ed Curley, New York American:
“Tunney won."
Ed Van Every. Evening World:
“Greb should have been credited
with a draw.”
Sid Mercer, Evening Journal:
“It was another one of ’those
decisions.* Greb should havo been
given the verdict.”
Warren Brown, Evening Mail:
"It was a poor decision.”
Louis Jaffe, Philadelphia Eve
ning Ledger:
“T can’t see how they B»ve Greb
anything worse than a draw.”
And so it went. The majority
of those at the ringside and hun
dreds of spectators, who yammer
ed their disapproval for minutes’
end, were of the opinion that an
injustice liad been done. They
conceded, as does the writer, that
Tunney fought a more strategic
fight than on the occasion of their
last meeting when the title
changed hands, and they also
granted that Greb was guilty us
rough tactics from time to time.
But this latter should have no
influence on a decision. Greb did
hold and hit in unison throughout,
but as long as he was not disquali
fied, it stands to reason that these
violations were not deemed Impor
tant.
As for Tunney, he gave over the
fatuous policy of trying to f*int
Greb and rushed to close quarters
at every opportunity, even going so
far as to outrough the Pittsburgh
entry on occasions. Tunney scored
at his best while slipping, some of
Greb's leads and countering to the
body. It was his constant attack
here that convinced a few critics of
his right to the decision.
However, Greb landed the moat
punches, although neither ceyld
have dented a Charlotte Russe. He
also forced the pace throughout,
i and even when Tunney staggered
him with an overhead right behind
(Copyright, t92>. *y intorMt'aaal
News Service.)
“I Was Jobbed,” Cries
Greb Over Bout
With Tunney
By latarnajleaoi Mews far vies.
NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—1 n
eemmentiiig en the decision 1
timt deprived him of his Aiher*
ean lisht-heavyweltht title,
Hapry Grab was quoted today
as having made tee following
statement:
waa jobbed. I was told
several days ago it was all
fixed for the title to be handed
back to Tunney. I won the
majority of rounds, but Tun
ney gets the decision. _lt is
, a ptatty cheaply won honor.”
The difference of opinions
between Greb and Referee
Patsy Hale came to a head in
the twelfth round, the bout
halting white they held an ac
rimonious debate in the center
of the ring. The official
charged Greb with holding and
hitting at the same time.
ths ear in the fourteenth, h|s best
punch of the night, it was Greb
who carried the honors in the furi
ous exchange that followed.
wiloeTofight
PANCHO VILLA
IN JUNE
World’s Flyweight Champion
Coming to New York for
Title Battle.
By Xstaraatieaal News SrrrUr,
LONDON, Feb. 24.—The
of Jimmy'Wilde- flyweight champ, n
of the world, announced today that
Wilde will fight Pancho Villa, Ameri
can flyweight champion, in June or
July, probably in New York. The
; fight will be promoted by Tom
O’Rourke, It was said.
FRANK BAKER SAYS HE
IS DONE WITH YANKEES
EASTON, Md., Feb. 24.—J. Frank
Baker announced today that he Is
through with baseball as far as the
New York Yankees are concerned.
He says h® has no grievance with
the club, but has decided to stay
at home. During the last few days
a number of letters have been re
ceived from Miller Huggins, asking
him to report for Hot Springs and
also to go south. A contract has
also been received by Baker, but
this, he says, will remain un
signed.
Baker SB’d that he will open ask
for his release from the Yankees.
It Is known that Cambridge and
other Maryland clubs have made
overtures.
NEW HAVEN PURCHASES
PITCHER BAUMGARTNER
NEW HAVEN. Conn., Feb. 24.
' Stanley Baumgartner, southpaw
pitcher for the Philadelphia Na
tionals fer the past four years, has
i been sold outright to the New
Haven Club, of the Eastern League,
I Gedrg® M. Weise, president of the
I dub, announced today.
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• SID MERCERJ
SCOTT IS NEAR GOAL
IF the Yankees run into thre4 er four postponements in April the
club may be able to celebrate a special day for Everett Scott the
first week in May at the new Yankee.stadium.
The fourteenth game on the schedule of the Yankees will signalize
Scott’s achievement in playing in 1,000 consecutive. American League
games. No other player in any league at any time has ever ap
proached this record of faithful attendance to his duties. It is an
accomplishment that calls fer generous appreciation.
Last season Seott set I,ooo'
games as a mark to shoot at, and
he may go much further. The
fan may not realize what this
means until he recalls that the
“Deacon” has not missed a game
in the last six years.
He began this remarkable run
on June 20, 1910, with the Red
Sax. That season he playbd 103
games without bains absent or
tardy. He participated in all 157
gamsa pfeyed by thd Sox in 1917.
The schedule was cut to 126 games
in 1916—a war yean—and again
Scott required no substitute. He
was in 138 games in 1919 and in
154 in each of the years of 1920-
21-22. This brought his total up
to 986.
If there should be no postpone
ments for the Yankees in April
the date of Scotfs one-thousandth
consecutive game would fall on
May 2, when the Yankees are in
Washington. Two postponements
would throw it into New York, as
the team plays at home with the
Athletics on May 4, 5 and 6. A
half dozen postponements before
that would force Seotty to cele
brate in Cleveland or Detroit.
The New York club plans to
make *it a memorable occasion
wherever the Yankees may be, for
there probably will ntver be an
other one like it.
Saving the Record.
SCOTT’S record has been threat
ened many times. He has
played on days when he was
I ill and should have been in bed,
and several times nearly lost out
by failing to make train conncc-
I tions.
His most sensational “close
J shgve” occured last summer In
Chicago. When the Yankees went
West on their second trip, Scott
obtained permission to stop over
for a day at his home town, Au
! burn, Ind., about four hours by
'train out of Chicago. The next
day the club opened a series in
.Chicago but Scott failed to arrive
from Auburn and Mike McNally
went in at short. A wire from
Scott imparted the information
that-he had been held up by a
train wreck.
Here was a story. The valiant
scribes accompanying the Yan
kees dug into the records, figured
out the number of consecutive
games for Scott and spread.them
selves on tales of his hard luck.
Then Seotty came along and
those stories, wired into New
York from the field, had to be
knocked down.
In Comes Scott.
THE Yankees were going to
bat in the seventh inning
when Scott appeared in uni
form and warmed up by tossing
a ball. When he went to his
position in the last half of that
inning and again when he went
to bat in the next round, he re
ceived applause which indicated
that the spectators knew he had
made a great effort to save his
record.
And it was quite an effort
1 Leaving his homo early in the
; morning Scott was held up by a
; wreck fifty mites from Fort
i Wayne. He persuaded a passing
motorist to convey nlm to that
city and there he caught an in
terurban trolley that landed •him
SCOTT VIEWS COLLINS
LOSS LIGHTLY
r HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Feb. 24.—Manager Miller Hoggins ami other
Yankee officials may feel a bit put out over their failure to win Eddie
Collins from the White Sox, but their feeling of disappointment isn’t
and' will not -be shared by Deacon Everett Scott. The Hardy Hoosier
feels that the Yankq are plenty strong enough without the Chicago
star, and not only claims another pennant for them but predicts that
they will win 100 games this year.
“Collins might have helped us,** the deacon said today, “but I figure
we do not need him, and would have believed that someone had made a
mistake if we had parted with Hoyt to complete a deal for him. Hoyt
has the makings of the greatest right-hander in the game, and he
might better do his stuff ror the Yankees than against them.
,7 Hoyt was a bit of a disappoint-4-
ment to oom* of the fans last year,"
the Deacon continued, “but he
should be good this season, and I
look for Carl Mays and S?.m Jones
also to show improved form. If they
come back we will have five right
handed pitchers of more than aver
age skill to shoulder the bulk of the
flinging burden, and Southpaw
Herbie Pennock to boot.
“Pennock is a good left-hander,
the only really good one the ,Yanks
have had in yean, and figures to be
especially effective against the very
clubs which promise to make most
trouble for the Yanks.
Prior to last season, when he
labored with a tail-end club, he
was uniformly effective against
the Tigers, the Browns, and the
Indians, and even last year, with a
bad Club behind him, he was far
from easy for them.
.“With five right-handed stars and
g Pennock to handle the pitching,
we should be* tremendously strong
in thia department, and we won’t be '
weak in any other department.
“We will have Joe Dugan With 1
us from the start this year, and '
at Gary, Ind., a suburb about
twenty miles out of Chicago.
The game was already under
way at the South Side grounds
when Scott hopped off the trol
ley ear and engaged a taxicab, in
which he dashed through the
streets of Gary and South Chi
cago at an illegal speed. It cost
him >4O to make his cross-coun
try dash through Indiana and the
last lap in the taxicab.
■mm
CONTEST IN
NEW mN
Georgetown Flyer Invited by
Western Union A. A. to
Bishop Mile.
NEW YORK, Feb. 24—A field
which will include some of the best
middle-distance runners of the coun
try is expected to start in the Henry
A. Bishop Trophy special invitation
one-mile race, which will furnish
one of the feature attractions at
the annual indoor athletic meet of
the Western Union A. A. in the
Twenty-second Regiment Armory
on March 7.
Invitations to compete have been
extended to Joie Ray. redoubtable
little Illinois A. C. runner who en
joys the distinction of being one
of the greatest middle-distance stars
ever developed in this country;
Jimmy Connolly, Georgetown star
who has demonstrated admirable
indoor running ability during the
current board floor season, Mai
Douglas, and Billy Burke.
The officials in charge of the
meet yesterday received the entry
of Willie Ritola, Finnish-American
A. C. distance running star, for the
5,000 meters Schiff Trophy race,
another special attraction.
In this event Ritola, the holder
of ftie national t%n-mile run and
cross-country championships, will
make an assault on George Bon hag’s
old record of 15:05 4-5 for the
distance.
Walter Koppisch, of Columbia,
holder of the Metropolitan A. A. U.
quarter-mlle and 500-yard titles;
Mike Devaney of the Millrose A. A.,
local two-thirds mile and three
quarter-mile title holder; Vance
Lally of the St. Anselm’s A. C.,
600-yard district champion, and i
Clarence Sherman have been in- j
vited to start in the Metropolitan ’
A. A. U. 660-yard title race.
CONNIE MACK IS AFTER
McINNIS FOR HIS TEAM
PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 24 —Man
ager Connie Mack of the Philadel
phia American League baseball
club announced today that he whh
negotiating with John H. (Stuffy)
Mclnnis, recently unconditionally re
leased by Cleveland, and that he
hoped to obtain the services of his
once famous first baseman. Mack
said that he had made Mclnnis a
liberal offer and that he expected
to hear from him within a few
days.
Mclnnis, who was a member of
the Athletics’ famous “Hundred
Thousand Dollar” Infield, wtts sold
by the local eluh to the Boston Red
Sox and later went <• Cleveland
in a trade.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY
French Was Tossed
For Loss By Bit
Os Turf
Walter E. French, two years
ago famous back of the West
Point football team, goes South
this year with Connie Mack's
Athletics in an effort to prove
himself a big league baseball
player. There, at least, he won’t
be bothered with mid-year exami
nations.
It would *be interesting to
figure out whether even the roars
of a world series crowd could
make French forget a certain day
at the Polo Grounds when a pesky
little piece of muddy turf threw
him for a loss after he had evaded
about every Navy man there was
in sight.
Ward will very likely be a bettor
second baseman than he was last
season. With Ruth In his old-time
form the outfield also will be
stronger than it was in 1422.
“Os course, a hundred games are
a lotta games for any club to win
in one season. Not many have done
it in the major leagues, and it looks
as though we were going to have
some real opposition this year, not
only from the Browns, but from the
Tigers and the White Sox at wel).
“I do not believe the Tigers have
been improved as much as some peo
ple imagine, but they will be a tough
club to beat if they get away to a
good start.”
BILLINGS HIS
THIININt
BEHTN
Will Earn 1923 Salary If Ha
' Turns Out Capable South
paw in Pruett #
Although Josh Billings seldom
appears in a box score for the
Browns he is regarded as a val
uable member of the squad by
Manager Lee Fohl. Josh’s duty
is to prep the pitchers in the
warm-up station each day.
Major league ball players thrive
on work. They prefer the scene
of action to a substitute seat.
However, Josh is one fellow who
doesn't sulk although he does not
participate in the daily battle. *
With Hank Severeid attending
to the regular catching assign
ment and Pat Colling serving as
Hank’s assistant, Billings confines
his labors to the receiving end
with the pitchers each day.
Billings was the first to hand
out the hot tip on Hubert Pruett
as a pitching prospect at the
Mobile camp last spring.
Billings will direct t/ie young
pitchers again this season and if
he. discovers another youth equal
to Southpaw Pruett he will earn
his salary for the 1923 campaign.
GIRLST FOR
BASKETBALL
TITLE .
Hurricanas and Capitals Open
Three-Game Series at
Coliseum Tonight.
The Hurricanas. fast-passing girls
basketball team, and the Capitals
clash in the first of a three-game
series to decide the championship
of girls teams of the District, at
the Coliseum tonight.
In each of the other four times
that these teams have met in a
title series, the Capitals have been
returned the winners. This year
the Hurricanas are hopeful of land
ing the banner. They have ''been
defeated but once this season, at
the of a Baltimore six. The
champions have not been beaten
this season.
At 8 o’clock the preliminary game
will start, the Epiphany Midgets
meeting the Wilson Normal School.
Expect Ruling Soon.
Judge Landis is expected to cive
his ruling on tbe case of Rube Ben
ton within a few days.
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24, 1923.