The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 11

Pages 11 To 20 LOUISVILLE, TUESDAY MARCH 31, 1925. 'Uiriciency Or: timsons weave oensa OVROU Means 0 0 0 0 7" 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 tlett Gym tiOtl in First -it -a I I Earl Combs, Former Colonel, Has Edge On Witt 1 For Regular Centerfield Berth With Yankees 2 BtKKHKBKHt3tW Jeff And Baer Thrill With Accurate Shots; Should Trim Franklin Outfielders Are Given Drill On Ground Balls; Pitchers Field Bunts By BRUCE DUDLEY. Editor of Sport, The Courier-Journal. Mobik-, CO. The Colont-Js have taken full advantage of another day of jroreous.

golden sunshine The scoring machinery of the club didn't work as it should yesterday when Louisville, making fourteen hits, was defeated 5 to 4 by Mobile, which made six hits, and McCarthy set about today to determine if a readjustment of his batting order might obviate the waste of so manv safe drives The defeat made the Colonels look bad because the loss was their second to Mobile after they apparently had the game won in the ninth inning. There is little comfort in the thought A ir-'im fms ruims I VTHtfil vMm from them Hb only out. M.uililn to life 7 -'l'1? 'he km mad. were held lutlew throughout By EARL RUBY. Stiff Correspondent of The Chicago, 111., March 30.

Franklin High of Portland, sounds pretty big, but they were only the runners-up for the State title of Oregon this year. The du Pont Manual Training High School of Louisville meets these boys Tuesday night at 8 o'clock in the first round of the National Basketball Tourney, starting at the Bartlett gymnasium of the University of Chicago Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock. niv- uono in" crroundfii to i.t- tho boys on the floor, but his phots were not half so good as tho stars of the Crimson outfit. Opponents Large. Tho Portland team Is composed of fairly big players.

Scallon. at for-ward. Is reputed to be one of the greatest basketball players wet of the Mississippi. The team practiced immediately after Manual left the floor, and next to Jeffries, Scallon tip pears to be a world beater. Their other forward is Potter.

He meets our Potter, and not to be bragging, ours has the edge. Not In siw or weight, but in spe.vl and ability. At center, Miller will have to (Continued on Page 12.) St. Martin's To Play Baseball This Year H. ml O-MLV PIAVER WHO 1 fMfiV CAM SIKXTCM A.

SINGLE 'NTO ff I WJr Khk. 1 RW' Jti jty? 0" combs witu 0mmmmf fO THE CENTER. RGCP JUj IP It i the -ao-k I r'itlicr the ci vick of the haiB FSiiil; 'olon if to defeat. Tb s-c'-rc nothing and I nothing Hie and nobody wax i.ijt wtiM to the li.il? fiTn! punched the! Vill ovf i th tight ltariaca.de. This ft'ih flrad-haw for inning and a on halls, a i and fitlot )) base I filled iunr-s, Jo th 1 tb ftvar to run by an- i tr.rr ball.

A f'r bat he of biSehliil. aod earii wrslk'-dl four tin. Tli" Mobile diinl wnJk any. Tirieup was much tid-r. A wild pitch by Indian lt tbo tying run In the ninth out that pitch hove done no rtim.iK M't v.ho-j4 i.y nr.

Ty on and vi ii I k-j Uuco'n tho Mart of Ihf r-lKhfh. forrr.l foiiu'': ii.ot!)! xtar- Wilkie hS.wfi.' ftl had i nil d'MiM in Lap but fail i ii2 no wbb KpIIv'h ati.i Ji.i.ps fr.m (second; "Ha (h? tiiinj I Only Miscuo. i fl at the vtai- of ninth vOtl, 1 in--, lib- badiiiK t.y 4 to 2 i tlii- c.imi tbat' koi i Ji.i ni'vjadod Aft-v Tv Rot the trtaid "it in- io-iper. )h In tlt.K fo. in front 1 of bilo baM-fi.

atol' The drawings were held Sunday afternoon. A. A. Staggr, director of athletics of the university, drew the teams himself after the different schools had been divided into four sections, representing the South. West, East and North Central parts of the UAilted States.

Louisville was classed a3 a Southern city, and in the pickings Portland was drawn for the opposition. The du Ponters arrived in Chicago this morning at 7:30 o'clock. They got off the train at the Englewood station, which is not far from the university. They went to the Pershing Place Hotel, as it was closer than the Cooper Carlton, but It was found that no breakfast could be served the boys, so bag and baggage, they continued to the Cooper Carlton, where they were housed and fed in fine shape. After a meal ot ham and they were taken for a walk along the lake shore by Coach Arntson, after which they went over to the university to register and receive their badges of admittance.

Stage Practice. A half-hour practice period was allotted to them, starting at noon today, but a lost trunk caused them to miss the session entirely. It was thought that the boys would have to go on the floor tomorrow night with out a practice, as St. Xavier had to do last week, but through a mix-up, two periods were scheduled for Louisville. The other oamo at 2 o'clock, so a snappy half hour was spent at that time in basket shooting and floor work.

"A sensation" would be putting It mildly in describing the effect the boys made with their work with the sphere while on the floor. Jeffries was hitting the net from every angle, and Baer never looked better in his life. All the players wore their sweat shirts, which have inscribed on the back "Du Pont Manual, Louisville." No one had to ask where they were from. It fairly flew out and hit them in the eyes. They did look Massy.

"Who'se that number 11? Good Golly how that fellow can shoot!" was heard in many sections of the stands. Number 11 is of course Jeffries Coach Arntson worked right with Members of the St. Martins Social Club assembled at the School IIh.11 last nitfht and laid plans for the organization of tho Braun's St. Martin's Baseball Club. A.

II. iiraun is ing the club members weld a teani Into shape. A practice game will be played Sunday. The regular according to the present arrangements, will open about April 5. Mr.

Braun announced that there is room for a few more good players, mid asked that those who wish to play for him should attend a meeting ot St. Martin's School Hall Friday night at 7:30 o'clock. Paglina Is Kayoed By Dayton Fighter Dayton. Ohio. March 30 (Pl Frankie 'Bob of this city knocked out Joe Paglina, of Luuisvule.

lonigtu in the eighth round of a (scheduled 12-round contest. Paulina showed remarkable gameness and eleverne-before going down to defeat. Bob sent Paglina to the floor on five ox- casions. Vintry Winds Halt Work Of Purple Baseball Nine; Captain Will Be Elected Yankees Expect Much From Combs -X- -X- Ruth Says Team Learned Lesson N'onlinued on I'age 5farf Plans For Monument To Walter Camp Athmtit. r.O A) I'lans for fo.att.all cnacht-s to erect a monument or oth-r memorial to Walter Camp, as the "Kath-r of Ainrioaii Football." were infiat'-d hnx' today by Waller Powell, fot hall coach, who an afsisr.iiit to Walter Camp in his vth.bnlo work Murine; the World War served "itii on the Rules Ci'iiiinltit Mr, I'oAel! pai.l that tile, nature tiu- nifuii'i i.i jn.l Its location would be Iff' for iy th' Football KuW Conjtuit t'-c- and ibo National Collegiate AssoriatioTi.

The sponsor of the memorial movement has from activ- coach-inr to ettK.age in business in Atlanta, bur he f-frved Wesfprn Heserve University, tin- of Montana and after play-Inp at the of and view th comijiar through a kaleidoscope of optimism. He will have Fsnie. one of the heaviest hitters f-r produced at Male High, and lluswy rettirnln in the outfield; Nor-man first. uer, second; Giugil-auo sh.r:. aid Nachatid at third to.

a complfdo infield. Robertson will return fo pitch. Parrot, a product of the church basrucs. will he for the catch-e: 'h position, while Jnks, a substitute from last year, seems to have the va-f ant outfield cinched. As yi; a plain has not been chosen to lead the Purples, but tills will be done nt a hanuu.u of the "II" Club at the Henry Watterson Hotel next Friday night.

Marshall Kspie the retiring captain, a position which he has held for the past two yea'-s. Athletes Honored With Banquet At Y. M. C.A. A ban.juet in honor of athletes who wun medals in a reent V.

M. C. A. tra'k meet was held last night at the Association Building. W.

T. Baker presided and acted as toastmaster. Charles Shontz. physical director; W. 1.

McNalr. general secretary and Dr H. A. Davidson made speeches. Walter Becker and Eddie Martin presented a black-face act.

Medals were won by the following: Roy Grif-tin. Edsar Jones. Garland Weidner, E. L. Noe.

G. M. Blanehard and A. L. Bryan.

give us "the gun." The 1924 nightmare Is now ancient history but it taught me a lesson and every player on the New York club learned that you can't win ball games or pennants on past performance. That's no new claim but it's a truth that you don't realize until after you pay the penalty. Hug preached that idea to us all season long but we thought he was just trying to throw a scare into the club until Washington reached right out and took the pennant out of our hands. The Yankees may get licked again in 1925 but we'll have our boots on when It's over and we won't take anything for granted, at any stage of the pennant race. All the regulars, and Hug himself, are expecting big things from Earl Combs.

He showed wonderful stuff a By BABE KUTH. St. Petersburg, March SO. Miller Huggins, Yankee Manager, always does a lot of fretting at this stage of the spring training season-But I don't think Hug has as much to worry about as newspaper reports make out. His Yankee machine is as good as ever and when he gets through oiling up, it ought to run smoother than at any time last season.

And what's more, he's got a better supply of spare parts than he ever had in the past with Coombs. Paschal, Cullop, Beall, Gehrig and several other young fellows who have worlds of baseball ability. One thing is positive. We'll make the grade in the American League this year and the whole gang wants to travel in high gear as soon as they a a a year ago and was making good with a bang, when he broke his ankle in a game at Cleveland. He looks as good as ever now.

The other day I got Hug over to one side and tried to pump him for a little information. Not that I was i doing any gum-shoeing or that it was any of my particular business, but I'm all worked up on the idea that our ball club has got to redeem itself this season. The New York fans have a right to demand it and I found out last fall, on my Pacific Coast tour that fans around the country expect it. That is, the feeling is something like this: "If the Yankees have got any real backbone, let's see them stage a comeback!" I think if we go out and win back that pennant on clean, hustling baseball, we can also win back a lot of friends. So I said to Hug.

"How about all this new talent you got around here?" When he thinks anybody is trying to pump him. Hug is the cagiest little guy in organized baseball. He didn't answer me for a minute and I went further, "How about Gehrig and Cullop?" "Got you worried, haven't they?" was his answer. Facts are, It was about all I was able to dig out of the Yankee boss in a fifteen-minute session. Of course, I said I was worried sick and if my finger didn't get better soon, so I could start training again, the strain of watching all these clever rookies would probably cause mo to fall away to mere 200 pounds! Hug knew that was supposed to be a little comedy, mixed with sarcasm, be cause there doesn't seem any danger of me being farmed out this season.

At least I expect to le around for a while. (Copyright. 10C5.) H.A.HandballTourney Gets Started Tonight The M. H. A.

Athletic Club will stirt its eighth annual handball tournament on the H. A. courts tonight. An entry list larger than in any previous year is reported by Manager Joseph Garfein. David Roth's Sons Company is offering the piece de resistance, a large silver loving cup, to the winner of the singles.

This trophy is on display at the Y. M. 11. A. The favorites of the tournament are Sam Handmaker, present champion, Isadore Franks, winner in 1922 and runer-up last year, and Harry Farber, winner of the 1920-1921 tourneys.

A number of those who have been pressing the winners in past tournaments and numerous younger players who have developed rapidly at the court game are looked upon as being not unlikely to dethrone the favorites. U. Of L. Track Meet Date Is Changed The date for the dual track meet between the Freshmen ot 9 ii the University of Iouisville and the combined squad of the other 0 three classes, has been changed from Wednesday afternoon to held then, the other half starting night. The meet will consume 2 two days.

It will begin at 4 1 2 o'clock Thursday at Male High Park. Half the events will be Thursday, it was announced last 2 Friday at 4 o'clock. From a forecast of the results, it is sc the ini'PI ill ho i-loso witli flip nl margin of victory hanging on lilt1; rt hiv rm-p tj if By NOKMAN E. BROWN. I.at year Earl Combs, brilliant young outfielder, fresh from the green sod of the Ixxiisville ball park, was sprinting along to fame in the American league when he pulled a treak play that put him otit of commission for the rest of the year.

Combs unintentionally stretched a single into two months in the lios-pilai leveland fan can boast of having seen the play. Combs socked a ball for a neat hit to left. He rounded Tirst, saw that he had a chance to make two on it and kept going. When he hit the dirt at second he made his big mistake. He caught his foot in the hag and snapped an ankle.

He was rushed to a hospital and remained there through the greater part of the summer while his teammates waged a losing fight for the pennant. Combs showed enough, before that accident to convince -Miller Huggins that the fortune he paid the American Asociatinn club owners for the lad one of its two big stars was not misspent. The question lingered unsettled all winter, however, as to whether he or Whitey Witt had first call on the center-fielding job. Whitcy Erratic Cent. Whitey originally named Law ton is a mean outfielder when the fit strikes him.

He can hit like a fool, too. when in a hitting mood. His play is erratic, however- In fact, it was so erratic that Connie let Whitey go quite readily when he got the chance. Combs looked good while he was in the lineup. He was a flash afield, fleeter afoot, even, than Witt.

And he seemed to he able to pickle big league pitching. In fact, he collected a .100 average in the twenty-four games in which he played. While Whitey hit well above at times he wound up the season with a average for 147 games. Friendly In the Fight. So, when the Yankee players reported for spring practice' at St.

Petersburg, I early this spring both lads were well aware that they would have to battle it out for the chance to start the season in the center garden. It was a friendly sort of rivalry. When I first hit the Yankee's camp this spring the first two athletes in uniform who confronted me were Whitey and Earl, standing side by side, bats in their hands, knocking "pepper" to a group of ambitious youths. A short time later they were roaming the middle section of the outfield in chase of elusive flic, socked out there by the energetic Miller Huggins. "I got "er, Earl," Witt would yell.

"Take 'cr," Combs would yell back. Huggins, however, kept a close, eye on both lads. Combs seemed to impress him most. Combs Has the Build. First of all Combs is an ideal outfielder from a standpoint of build He is rangy without being too long legged.

He covers a lot of grounci with little exertion. Witt, on tin other hand, is on the pint order- Hi-nimble legs carry him far afield hu he burns himylf out in the heat of the summerNun covering his ter ritory. Sent into the breach in an emergency he plays a whale of game. He cannot keep up the pace, however. Combs is a heavier hitter than Witt, when he connects.

The Yank bosses and the Yank fans like sluggers. Combs bats from the left side ol the plate. Ih gets away to first in good shape. This quick start enables-him to beat out infield hits and stretch his longer hits to doubles on occasions. Witt is a southpaw hitler, too, and fast wi his feet.

He does not, however hit as consistently as Combs, judging by their work last season. So it looks as though Mr. Combs would have the center-fielding job in between Babe Kuth and Meu-sel. Provided, of course, that Combs doesn't run into anv gopher holes, grow forgetful about his feet when sliding into bases, or step off a curb backward into an auto. Aulbach To Pilot Bertrand Nine This Year Joey Aulbach, one of Louisville's premier twirlers, has been selected to guide the destiny of the Bertrand baseball club during the coming- season, and his appointment has created much comment pertaining to the euc cess of the Limerick Lads, who en joyed a very successful past season after getting off to a poor start due to injuires to several of their best performers.

Aulbach appears to have gained his one famous form judging by hls sharp shooting against several clubs during the latter port of the season, especial ly when he held the champion Glas sow club to four bingles. Aulbach should prove a steady winner of an all-star team, as the following lumi naries will sport Bertrand frocks: Jess Ballard. Bob Lee. "Sheik" Mat tingly. Davey Mussellman, Frankie Cain.

Art Mussellman. Tody Olmstedt and his battery mate. "Pepper" Mar tin. Games can be obtained at this early date by addressing Russell Martin, 3 025 South First Street. a U.

of L. Athletes To Form 'L' Club rt Louisville will meet Friday night at 7:30 o'clock at the Y. M. C. A.

Cf to organize an 1 Club. I' or the past two years it has been the 5 intention of athletic officials of 4' university to sponsor such a body, but this is the first time any active steps have been taken 5 There are about fifty men in the university now wearing the The purpose of the club will be to look out for all forms of ath 1' and to further the interests of the athletes. Officers will be elected Friday night, and a pro-Cf gramme mapped out. Uy .1. It.

I.IMKh. tra Uf at lligit came to a siti.iav cvh'p. ill when Coach Hrndbury tliat wathT sva wintry for hi boys to work. I of ad (he players were ij1MI MU Hlii'l lli.iili Olf to'il In ready pi.ntice oft- fflOOII. The -ol.

i I which wept 1 1 It School i lu-rnoon had litti on tin- tri aji.l lootball men. A Ih ko of ilc. niecs to arh popiil.au-d llif ticM and Utile Mtfinh-n paid to the weather. Indeed, the a tin isphese t-er cd only to th ho up. and a tine workout was enjoyed by Coach Kind's chnrjrps.

With i-n letn-r rnn back in the fo'd find blc. iih a wabiiof nia'-r a from whi. to. boost i'u h-r two nin. di may sit bacl: l-ullo- ami li-incn IMiie At The ritling illcv Mom Popular CAFETERIA Iletttr lietter Fotni! Music! 110 V.

VaIimt st. Known for Ihk1. Ed Anderson Gains Slight Margin Over Tim O'Dowd In Sizzler At Savoy Ring h. -n ss'is K'oth -f'Ve fahrf of oty I SOrne.A!aththat'cm. that bout was to end in such a fashion judging from the tame beginning In the fourth, Referee Wilkerson ex pressed the general opinion when, in unmistakable pantomime, he let the participants know they would have to fight.

Anderson then scored a knockdown in the fifth, and another in the seventh, which he followed by beating Beatty into help leesness. Referee Wilkerson stopped the fight to save Beatty from complete annihilation. Billy Gregory, 141 pounds, of Louisville, easily conquered Charley Lang ford, of Portland, in the six-round preliminary. Langford was willing but Gregory was much the better. Cecil Payne of Montdale, whipped Young Kiva.

of Jeffersonville, in the four-round curtain-miser. Payne show ed much promise and some hefty wallops. Both weighed 114 pounds Klva hung on grimly. Gibbons-Tunney Match Seems Probable New York. March 30 W) The pos sibility of a light heavyweight championship boxing bout between Tom Gibbons and Gene Tunney at the Polo Grounds June 12 assumed new promise today after Eddie Kane, manager of Gibbons, had delivered an ultima turn to tho Milk Fund Show promo ters with regard to Harry Wills.

Kane, who arrived in New York from the West late in the afternoon with Matchmaker DeForest of the rol0 Grounds A. said tonight he had informed the Milk Fund officials that if they failed to produce the signed contract of the negro heavyweight by noon tomorrow he would drop negotiations for the contest. Well-informed sportsmen said they felt the Milk Fund promoters would not only fail to produce a con tract, but heard unofficially that the State Athletic Commission would not sanction such a match owing to the difference in the size and weight of she two men. Kane said he is satisfied with the offer DeForest made for a match with Tunney. He has been guaranteed 35 per cent of the gate receipts, which he said he believed would give Gibbons approximately $100,000 as his end.

Promoter Tex Kickard was also By REYNOLDS GIRULER. Behind a rocking right and a clever defense, Eddie Anderson, of Moline. 111., defeated Tim O'Dowd, of Atlanta, in the twelve-round main bout at the Savoy Theater last night. Anderson won the fight by a narrow margin, but the margin was there just the same, in spite of a jolting Jab that O'Dowd flashed throughout the dozen sizzlinfi rounds. Both at times fought with a caution born of experience and knowledge, but when the time came for the heavy work.

Anderson and O'Dowd were there, and earned the sustained applause that existed during the boy.t. O'Dowd weighed 125 pounds, and Anderson one pound lighter. Six rounds went to Anderson, five to O'Dowd and one was a draw. Every stanza contained some corking good work by both of these willing bat ties, but the fift hand eighth were crammed with the very meat of action. The fifth started slowly, with O'Dowd dribbling away to the left eye that Anderson continually turned toward him, and that soon became puffy because of this unfortunate location.

Then, without warning, Anderson unleashed the latent fury of his right, and trundling O'Dowd back ward to the ropes, ripped and thumped away to the accompaniment of a deafening din from the spectators. Then. too. in the ninth, when Anderson was clouting away with his right in the infighting. O'Dowd suddenly stepped away, and drilled his left time after time into Anderson's face, closing the eye.

and changing the complexion of the face from a white to a ruddy pink. Add to this the last, when they stood toe to toe and rocked each other with all their might, with Anderson getting a little the better, and you have the entire fight. Both were willing, both were game, and smart, and O'Dowd lost very little in the shade Anderson had over him. It eeemed at first that Anderson was under-rating O'Dowd, as he paid but slight heed to the lefts that ne found always In his way, but the insistence with which these jabs kept returning, awoke him to the fact thar here was a battler worthy of everything he had and it behooved him to give it. O'Dowd never ran away from anything Anderson offered, and gave plenty in return.

He too. flashed a right that caused his foe to cover up Biliy Anderson. 133 pounds, scored a technical knockout over Billy Beat ty. of Nashville. 133 1-2 pounds, in the eeventh round cf a carded eight-round N'ltJART 1 n)p pp? nn A (SUP i STARTS NEXT SUNDAY In The Big Sunday (ffxmrlcr-ihmrnal MORE FOR TOUR MOSEY! CUB KNITTING MILLS rTTv fL conference with the manager of the cemi-TrlOjluj), Fe jtouI.4 feava tboushi i X'aul boxer.

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