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The Name of House of David and There Have Been Five Teams-Traveling at Once.

By JOE WILLIAMS

Tiines Special Writer

SEBRING, Fla., April 3.--The tent show evangelists and| the hair |

pulling preachers play to prey good houses in the dinky towns down

this way but the House of David bas tions isn't much of a draw. A great many of the people w especially the grev heads, seem to

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Tourneys May Cause Shifts

shouter’s bellows and an arm inovement like a wild left-hander can mount the band stand in the town | square and be sure of a respectful audience. A year ago! there was a preacher over in Tampa who used to let a snake bite him by way of demonstrat i n g the power of faith and whenever he pitched his tent the good p:ople would come a-running with quar- | ters in their hands and a stringe, | fierce fire in their eyes. The night I saw the act the preacher had to bat the snake lustily on the snout to arous: his militancy and I found myself won- | dering if it wasn’t one of those | things like Jack Sharkey fig tig | Unknown Winston; but I ncticed | the good people were properly im- | pressed and came away suffused in | a beatific glow. | The spiritual ardor being what it | is among the oldsters down here | I was surprised when I went up the | road a piece yesterday to sec the | House of Davids play the Torontos | that there wasn’t more than 60 bucks worth of trade in the joiat. | Rebuke Was Reaction |

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this | was probably a rebuke to a sunch| of clown ball players posing as] missionaries but I couldn't per-| ceive where this constituted a more] shoddy travesty on the precepts of | the Good Book than the old preacher who fed his pet snake on his own blood, or pretended to «id so, at so much a peek, and then sent; little girls through the crowd hawking his| picture. This lack of response plunged the manager of the Davids, a New York Irisher| named Lew Murphy, io e game he told me he wasn’t going to bring his troupe of bearded artists back to Florida. ... “Wg ain’t been drawing peanuts,” he moaned. “I'm already a thousand smackers in the red.” It then came out that the iuzzyfaced gents are cheap imposters, that none of them belong to the House of David and that they grow whiskers to .attract attention and excite the yokelry. This may account for their lack of standing

among the earnest fundamentalists, |

and understandingly so. . The House of David itself is some sort of religious cult located up Michigan way and it must be pretty low class because anybody Who wants the use of the name for a baseball team may get it bv the simple process of sending $1,000 to the boss man, whoever he is. . . .| “That's what it cost us,” admifis Mr. | Murphy. “We send ‘em a check every year for $1,000 and thal pays! for our franchise.” Five Teams at Once

At one time there were five of these phony teams, but now the number has been reduced to two, due to no sudden seizure of shame on the part of the cult but to failure of promoters to put up frarchise money. The Murphy outfit spends most of [the summer in the East, concentrating on New York state. ...“We go big up there,” the manager says. The outfit is made up mostly of semipros and washed-up minor leaguers and is about as distinguished as you might with reason expect such an outfit to be. They played 240 games last season 30 you can imagine what kind of baseball they play and what Kind of i2ams. | They frequently play three cames a day, that is, a double-header in ine afternoon and a single at night. They carry their own lighting squipment, and travel from town to town in battered old cars, crowding /1n with the bat bags, the luggag: and the electrical equipment. Once last year. they rode all night and all day and then got out and played. a night game at Mobile, Ala. . , . “At that we have it pretty soft,” said Moose Swaney, the team’s only left-handed pitcher, “We never have to shave.” Moose Is Veteran The Moose is one of the veterans of the outfit. He is crowding 50. He used to pitch for Seattle, Newark and Reading in organized bhaseball. Every year come March he starts letting the spinach form on his noble pan, gets in a flivver and sets out for Florida to join the other “nassion players” as he -calls them. 13s ys

t year he pitched 60 ball games. . “I don’t pitch as-many as I used to,” he apologized. “I'm getting a. little old.” Alabama the outfit, of Sing S

Pitts is down here with but the Frank Merriwell ng isn't growing a bush.

I put Pitts behind a beard the people won’t recognize him. He'd look like all the rest of ’em. I've gotta let him play it straight” If Pitts sticks with the outfit he will be known as |a guest star. That's how old Grover Alexander was billed last year. | He didn’t drape his jowls in moss either. . Any old ball player can’t drop any further than the House of Davids. This is absolutely zero in the profession. The whole setup is pretty smelly, the prostitution of the 11.ame, the burlesque comedian’s whiskers and the grubby existence. But as the Moose philosophizes, “it’s «1 live: ing. And if you like to play ball— what the hell?”

In Ryder Cup Squad.

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NEW YORK, April 3.—With the

end of the winter golf season at hand, the job of picking the Ryder Cup team which will invade England late in June is one of the ma-

(Jor problems confronting: P. G. A. | officials.

The team of eight professionals captained by non-playing Walter Hagen, is expected to be named 'n a few weeks. But even then it may be shaken up; depending on what happens in the two major tournaments ‘to be decided before the matches. ) Twa Choices Certain Two men are certain of places on the team—Tony Manero, 1936 U. S. Open titleholder, and Denny Shute, the 1936 P. G. A. winner. The 1937 Open and P. G. A. champions also will be on the team and, if they are

not among the other six players se- | lected before those tournaments, the | team most probably will he changed. |

The Ryder Cup matches are scheduled : for the Southport and Ainsdale Course June 29-30. The United States is expected to have one of its strongest teams |in history—a team that is hoped will shatter the jinx which in the past has said that a visiting team never wins. In six biennial series played to date, U. S. and Britain each have won three—all on their home links. The U. S. Open is| scheduled for June 10-11-12 at | Birmingham, Mich., and the P. G. Al for May 24-30 at Aspinwall, Pa. The|P. G. A. is being held in the spring for the first time. Last year it was held at Pinehurst, N. C,, in the fall. Henceforth, the title will be decided [in the spring to give the winner a chance to capitalize on his | championship during the summer. Several in First Flight Outstanding contenders, in addition to Manero and Shute, for places on the squad are Henry Picard, Horton Smith, Johnny Revolta, Paul Runyan, Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead and Jimmy Hines. | Three of the best players in the land are ineligible. Lawson] Little, twice winner of both the U. |S. and British amateur crowns and now.a professional, has not been a B. G. A. member long enough to participate. Harry Cooper is British-born and, despite the fact that he is now an American citizen, cannot | play.

- Ralph Guldahl of St. Louis is ineli-

gible because he does not belong to the P.G.A.

Armstrong Leads Midwest Golfers

By United Press J FRENCH LICK, April 3.-—Don Armstrong, from the Aurora Country Club, Chicago, held the| lead in the opening round of the |sixth annual Midwest amateur | golf tournament today by shooting!a 74, two under par. Li} He was out in 35, one under par for the first nine. Making birdies on the second and fifth holes, Armstrong scored another birdie on the 10th but slumped for a seven on the 15th hole to boost his score to 39. More than 250 contestants ¢ompeted in the opening round |over the French Lick Springs Country Club course. I George Dawson, Chicago, winner of the tournament in 1933, 1934 and 1935, was runner-up to Armstrong with a 75; Gus Novotny, Lagrange, Ill, shared third place with F, K. Flegel, Chicago, with a 76.

Grant to Play Joe Hunt Today

By United Press

ATLANTA, Ga. April 3.—Bryan (Bitsy) Grant, Atlanta, and Joe Hunt, Los Angeles, meet today for the right to play Wayne Sabin, Hollywood, Cal, in the finals of the Atlanta Invitation Tennis Tournament.

Sabin, ranked 17th nationally, up- | set Bobby Riggs, Los Angeles, na- || tional clay | courts champion, 6-0, !

6-2, 6-2, to enter the final round. While Grant was idle, Hunt defeated Russell Bobbitt, Atlanta, 6-4, 6-3.

-In a holdover doubles match, El- |

wood Cooke, Portland, Ore. -and Martin Buxby, Miami, Bobbitt and Red Enloe, Atlanta, 6-2, 12-14, 6-3. : Both semifinal doubles matches were halted by darkness and will

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Since he retired at the end of the 1928 | season, leaving behind him a brilliant trail of never-to-be-equaled records, the Georgia Peach has been leading the quiet life of a country squire on his large estate here. He doesn’t have to work. He doesn’t have to worry. He just lives comfortably with his wife and three of his five children. Everything is going along as smoothly as Walter Johnson pitching a week-day ball game against the Browns. But Squire Cobb is so at peace with the world he must be miserable, And they do say that the fireeating Georgian is thinking seriously of hiring-a couple of umpires to come out and argue with him. Or maybe a second baseman or two that he can spike: when he’s in the mood. Squire Cobb’s chief diversion these days is playing golf. Like Cobb, he’s better than the best—when he wants to be. He shoots around in the low 80s, but. the boys say that when he’s in a head-to-head if you are a normal shooter.

Dead Ball Better

Now that’s he's out of baseball, | Ty. doesn’t seem to have much in- | terest in the game. . For one thing. | he doesn’t like the so-called rabbit ball,

better,” says Ty. “They've lost a lot of the fine points of the game these days, even though it has made for-a lot of spectacular home runs. The old game was better. “There must be something wrong with baseball today. But, of course, it isn’t so mych in the game itself. You-see, there are a lot more competing sports. In the old days we had few other sports and everyone played baseball. “But now there's football, golf, swimming and all sorts of things to divide the interest of the sports fans. © And another thing, the [coaches in the schools and colleges (aren't familiar enough with the fine points of baseball to interest the youngsters in the grand. old game.” Squire Cobb’s children themselves have very little interest in baseball. [None of them have inherited his | ability. One of his sons is a fine athlete, but he is a tennis enthusiast) and coaches the University of Georgia team. Greatest Competitor There may be some question about Squire Cobb having been the greatest ball player of all time. But there can be no question but that he is the greatest competitor baseball—and perhaps any sport—has ever known. H. G. Salsinger, a Detroit sportswriter, once wrote that Cobb “could endure anything but defeat.” No truer words were stuttered by a ‘typewriter. : He had the most furious will-to-win any athlete ever displayed. They

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say that he wasn’t the greatest natural hitter, and yet he compiled a half-hundred hitting records, and he wasn’t the fastest runner, yet he was the greatest base runner of all time. They tell you that Cobb was only a fair hitter; a bad outfielder and a clumsy baserunner when he first broke into baseball in Augusta, Ga., back in 1904. Those who saw him bat .402 in 1911 and steal 96 bases in 1915 and throw out three men at first base in one game in 1907 find such stories hard to swallow, But the historians swear that the Augusta club thought it was getting a goodly sum when Detroit paid $750 for Cobb. It seems that he wasn’t born a ball player, but was, instead, a made one. :

Well, anyway, there’s no doubt he |

was a born fighter. His battles with Buck Herzog and Billy Evans, to mention a few, were the most famous in baseball, and that goes for the Old Orioles, too.

Squire Cobb created about 90 different records for fielding, hitting, endurance, base stealing, and what not, by the time he finished his playing days. Practically all of these records are still standing and probably will for all time. Who, for instance, will ever lead the league in batting nine straight times, like he did? Or steal 96 bases in one year? That's more than whole teams steal these days. These two records give him his most satisfaction now as he: sits back and thinks of the old days. Buf they, with all the rest, don’t make up for the fact that there ain’t nobody around to fight, dammit.

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Meyer, Cummings, Miller To Drive for Chicago Sportsman.

Mike Boyle, Chicago racing enthusiast is playing a pair of aces and a wild card for the high stakes in the 25th running of the annual 500-mile race here on May 31. With characteristic bluntness the Windy City sportsman ‘laid his cards on the table as the spring training season opened for the Silver Anniversary event at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and dared other car owners to match them. : His first ace is Louis Meyer, last year’s victor and only three-time winner of the world’s greatest automobile racing - sweepstakes. won first in 1928, repeated in 1933 and made a spectacular drive to post his third victory last year—a

task that may never be. fepeated |

in a generation. Names Cummings

His other ace is not a bit weaker. He is Wild Bill Cummings, one of the most colorful drivers of modern times who won for Boyle in 1934 and is conceded one of the most daring and most able drivers in the big time. 1 Boyle's wild card is Chet Miller, veteran driver, capable, courageous and always a serious threat. The playing of this powerful hand will be left to the mechanic of champions, portly, affable Harry (Cotton) Henning, who, in his many years in the racing -profession, prepared cars for Pete De Paolo, Ray Keech and other men of speed. .

Boyle Stable Set Up

The Boyle stable already has been the very shadows of the big Hoosier speed oval. Cummings, local boy who

whipping his favorite charge about the new surface at speeds better

down” tests. ; It is unusual that such a formidable team be announced so early because it is the tradition of “Gasoline Alley” at the Speedway that much bickering go on before drivers and owners agree on mounts. But the brusk Irishman from the shores of Lake Michigan believes that he has picked the best and openly challenges anyone to match his showdown. ; Early rail-birds are of the opinion that this important Silver Anniversary race may be played “according to Boyle.”

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NCERTAINTY puts the tang into f shing. If you caught a fish on every cast, hour after hour and day after days, you soon would be ready to take up knitting. At least that's what we have been told by persons who have been fortunate enough to find such waters. And our own experience bears it out, for once, in the mountains of Idaho, miles from anywhere, we caught rainbows with every cast, with bait, flies, spinners. and even the shiny, bare hook, until all the fun was gone from fishing. For the rest of the two weeks we fished only twice, for food_cnly. If those trout had been a little coy we [would have been after them every day. | : » a i | - 2 nun = When a chemist pours a certain acid into a test tube with another acid, he knows what will happen. But when you cast a plug into an Indiana stream, it’s all a gamble. Results depend on too many factors—the season, color of the plug, where it was cast, speed of the retrieve, time of day, condition of the water, position of the sun and moon, strength and speed of the current, the possibility of a change in weather and even (according to some fanatics) the tides and the color of the fisherman’s socks. The only sure thing about Indiana fishing is that anything might happen. Once a carp took a dry fly.

worked the full route for the Yane nigans and was the star of the melee. He was opposed by Lloyd Johnson, lefthanded Pacific Coast Leaguer, and Emmett Nelson, righthander obtained from the Cincinnati Reds. Gallivan held the regu« lars to five hits, struck out two, walked two and hit one batsman. Lewis Whitehead, new outfielder, belted two hits for the regulars, one a double. Manager Killefer mixed in a few of his regulars with the yannigans to make it more inter= esting. The Yannigans executed two double plays, Hoover to Charles Parker. to Eckhardt, a regular outfielder who played first base for the green peas. ; Owner Norman A. Perry arrived in Bowling Green last night from Indianapolis and he was accompanied by Dale Miller, Tribe business manager. Evidently something is in the air. Especially involving that infield. Indianapolis visitors late last night were Dr. Karl R. Ruddell, president of the Marion County Medical Association. Walker Winslow, president of the Indiana Aviation Corps and last year’s president of the Indianapolis Bowling Association, which conducted the 1636 A. B. C. in big league style. They came by plane in a couple of héurs. Another Indianapolis visitor today was Dick Whiting, Indianapolis stock buyer.

z ” 2 > ”n " 7 AS UMenTs for the new taper in fly lines; called the “big head” and “torpedo head,” are too convincing to laugh off. We are conservative to the point of looking with suspicion on all innovations, including new flavors in ice cream, and we are not real sure that the flying machine is here to stay, but we will have to admit that it looks like they have something in this new fly line. Briefly, there are four shapes of fly lines; level, single taper, double taper and now the “big head.” : As you know, it is the weight of the line that bends the rod and gives power for the cast. The first lines were level. They have two faults. On large rods they are apt to be so heavy that they frighten shy fish and that same weight often is too much for the rod to handle on long casts. £3 ” 5 » » n Thengsome smarty figured out the single taper, where the line is small at the end and increases in size up to the “belly,” which gives the necessary weight. This cured the first objection but didn’t help much on the second. And it added a new difficulty. The first tapers were too long, and with a long leader the fisherman might find that he was attempting to cast only leader and taper to the fish that rose within 25 feet. This wouldn't do, as you know if you have tried it. You haven't the weight of line that’s needed. ” E:4 E- ” ” » } EFORE we forget it, the double taper was just developed so you . could change ends when your line wore out or became waterlogged and wouldn’t float. y : Now comes the “big head” taper, and it seems to solve all the problems. It is small at the end, tapers quickly to the large section or “belly,” maintains that size for about 10 feet, then tapers back to the small size. ; ! It gives you the weight where you need it: near the leader. Longer casts add little to the strain on the rod because the “belly” length is limited. The oniy objection that has cropped up to date is that too large a “belly” is hard to keep afloat. But keep your eye on this new taper. It's a promising youngster. _

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