Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 113, 22 March 1919 — Page 11
FANS SCANNING LESSER SPORTS FOR AMUSEMENT
4 Bowling, Golf, Polo and Track Events Probable Sources of ; Entertainment. What Rill Richmond have In the line of sports this spring and summer is a question that thus far has little to answeV it. . ; It is a certainty that the High School and college will furnish track and Held events for the lovers of the cinder track sports. Earlham, under the direction of Coach Ray B. Mowe, will place a baseball team In the field in April with several games to be played on Reid Field. With Central league baseball morula still tanellng that league into thousands of kinkst professional baseball this season is almost out of the question. ; , The next best offering in semi-pro ball for Sunday, George Brehm announced earlier in the spring that he would not place his colored A. B. C.'s in the field this year. ,' Talk of Independent League. From Munoie comes a story tthat the Indiana independent baseball league, composed exclusive of Indiana cities, is being organized to give the fans a taste of the national pastime. Several attempts in recent years have been 'made to revive this league, but they have always failed. But, with the prospects of the Central League 'remaining in a muddle, the chances of the league, which seemingly originated In the head of Jap Poor of Wabash years ago may be the means of reviving a semblance of baseball in Indiana. Poor's proposed league includes all the independent teams that have ever played in Indiana. It sems that Danny Jenkins of Newcastle has been, representing Richmond in this league. No attempts have been made, however, to start anything here because of the Central league proposition. Jenkins played field on the Newcastle , independent club last year. The managers favoring an independent league include M. W. Shepler of Peru Grays; Shad Cunningham of Muncie; William Humphries of Elwood; Red Bower of Marion Boosters; Billy Jones of the Kokomo Red Sox; Mark Cleary of Ft. Wayne Shamrocks, Sam Burraan of Loganeport. and Danny Jenkins of New Castle and Richmond. There will be a conference Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock in Indianapolis, that may place teams in the proposed league. - S. A. L. Is Last Resort. If this league does not materialize, Richmond baseball fans only chance of witnessing their favorite outdoor sport will be packed away in the Saturday Afternoon League games ev--ry Saturday, starting May 3. 1 Last year the baseball enthusiasts njoyed the games pitched by Pete Minner, Ilawekotte and other twirlers of the S. A. League. There will be nix clubs playing in the Saturday afternoon league. The Saturday Afternoon U'axue first started in 1913, with Sam S. Vigran as president and has been steadily growing in importance until last year several of the factories were able to put out teams that looked good on the diamond ana arouaeu much interest among the fans. With baseball still in the balance, Richmond, will turn to some of the lesser sports for entertainment this tyring, such as bowling and golf. Bowling activity on the Twigg alleys has been steadily increasing and more interest has been shown in this sport thl.s year than ever before. It has become especially interesting to men because of the bowling tourney which will be held in Indianapolis, April 12. Several bowling teams from Rirhjnond will enter the tourney, union which are the Coco Colas, hersildd a3 the best team on the Twigg alley. " Big Golf Season. Golf last year did not have its usual number of followers, but with the return of the men from the service, Country club officials are predicting a big season in golf. The greens are already being prepared for the early invasion of the golf enthusiasts and every feasible plan to make the club comfortable for him is being carried out. . Probably the largest collection or fans are the followers of old-time polo, In its Zenith when Shorty Jessup ... unm te-ims that, crave their followers all the thrills they wanted "Tack" Bradfteld has announced that j in case the polo season in tne eatv closed early, Richmond fans could expect the return of their old-time sport. Newcastle will not have a team, but both Muncie and Richmond have plans formulated that will again place teams in the fray on the Coliseum floor and at Muncie. All the players will be drawn from the eastern teams where all the old Indiana polo stars are now playing. It Is thought that the season there will close April 19, and in that case it Lj almost a certainty that Richmond will have polo tlii sprintr. Track, baseball, bowling and polo are the four divisions of sports that Richmond sporting followers will be treated to if managers of the different branches of the sport can put them ucross. Franklin May Schedule Tennis Match With Quakers FRANKLIN, Ind., March 22. Present prospects indicate that Franklin college will be represented by a good tennis team this year. Plans are being made to schedule a series of sets with Earlham, Butler, Wabash and Hanover colleges. Donald Smith and " Richard Orecraft, who for the last three years have played on the college team, graduated last year. However, a number of men are making strong bids for the team. Among those competing for honors are William Carson, singles champion of Howe (Pa.) Military academy; Alonzo Harvey, single champion of Falrmount academy; George Porter, Roy Hunter, George Cady and Keith Reeves.
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'Dim-: This veteran sludger was cast off by the bir leagues a few years aco but murdered the ball so on the Pacific coast he was brought back. He has played with a couple of big league clubs since his comeback. He is one of the big league stars in our J!u-masked player contest. Can you name him? By N. E. BROWN. What has the year in store for Al Mamaux, the big league pitcher whose picture was printed yesterday in our flu-masked player contest? Baseball men agree that when Mamaux wants to be he Is one of the best hurlers in the game. But the trouble with Mamaux the last couple of seasons has ben that he hasn't cared much, apparently, about his work. In the first place his appetite had more of a hold on him than his manager did. He was rapidly eating himself out of baseball when the war came, on. , ... " Al was pitching at the pace he ought to kep in 1916. He won twentyone and lost fifteen games that season for the Pirates, a second division outfit. He participated in forty-five battles and hurled twenty-six complete games, a good record considering the fact that the Pirates were a losing club and the pitchers were yanqed on little provocation. He held the opposition to eightyseven earned runs, allowing them an average of less than three a game. He fanned 163 men, which shows that he had the stuff. He was credited with 136 passes, too, but the fact that-he let loose only three, wild heaves and hit only nine batsman indicates that he wasn't a wildman, by any means. I will tell you what happened the next season. It was a happy day for the opposition swatsmen when Al mounted the hill for the Pirates. They sent word home to kep supper waiting and started pounding him. He pitched a total of eighty-six innings and was nicked for ninety-two hits and fifty-nine runs. The runs averaged over five a game. He wound up the last hurler in the list of those who pitched in ten or more complete' games: And last season with the Dodgers he broke into two games, and failed to win either. Then he jumped the game and was barred from the big leagues by the national commission. That body recently reinstated him and Al has said that he wants to do a comeback. He says he's right and will keep himself , right. So he'll be back in a Dodger uniform this season. MEETING IN MUNCIE TO DISCUSS LEAGUE MUNCIE. Ind., March 22. A meeting of baseball men interested in the formation of an Independent Indiana baseball league which will play on Sundays and holidays, will be held at Marion Sunday, at the Spencer house. A twelve-club organization is being planned with Vchmond mentioned as one of the c".js to enter. Two or three traveling club3 will be included and guaranteed sufficient money to employ the brand of ball players that the home clubs will sign. The proposed league is under the leadership of Shad Cunningham of Muncie and Jap Poor of Wabash. "Tink" Rainers of the Anderson Eagles is also planning to attend the meeting. The idea of the men in organizing the league i3 to allow any city of league caliber in Indiana to enter. . . Cities expected to enter are Muncie, Peru, Kokomo, Logansport, Marion, Vabash, Frankfort, Newcastle, Richmond, Bluffton, Anderson, Fort Wayne and Hartford City. GIRLS' GAME AT OXFORD. OXFORD, Ohio, March 22. One of the biggest sporting events of the season will take place Monday eve; ning at Miami university the annual battle of the girls of Bishop and Hepburn halls for the basketball championship of the school. This game, wlich is open to the public, always draws a large crowd. It is as bitterly contested as any of the boys' football games.
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1 EARLHAM PLANS BEST 1 DISTRICT TRACK MEET IN SCHOOL'S HISTORY Plans to make the district track and field meet one of the best In the history of Richmond were formulated Friday afternoon by the Earlham Student Affairs association. .Nearly 200 thinly clads are expected to be at Reid field, bringing with them several hundred high school fans from their schools. Richmond business men will be asked to co-operate with the college to make the meet a big success. Every arrangement for the entertainment and amusement of the competitors will be made. A committee composed of Leslie Meeks, Ralph Nicholson, Cyril Pitts, Susie Meeks and Ellen Sherill, who, with the college athletic board, will make arrangements for the contestants, housing, meals and entertainment. Committees to plan the entertainment, decorations and to meet the vis itors will be made soon. The track teams will be entertained by the college on May 17 from 8 o'clock a. m. to 8 o'clock p. m. Richmond high track artists were extended an invitation to work out on the Reid1 field in practice for the meet. Owing to the poor condition of the high school track and field at the playgrounds. Coach Eckel iwobably will take advantage of the college's offer. The college meets are governed by the Western Inter-Collegiate Amateur Athletic association except in cases of modification by the board of "control. Secretary A. L. Trester will notify the college holding the meet of the required changes in the rules. Each contestant must have previously made a fair test record equal to following in every event in which he is entered: 100 yard dash, 11 seconds; 220 yard dash, 26 seconds; 440 yard dash, 5S seconds; half mile, 2 minutes, 20 seconds; mile run, 5 minutes, 15 seconds; 120 yard hurdles, 19 seconds; 220 yard hurdles, 29 seconds; running high jump, five feet; running broad jump, 19 feet; pole vault, eight feet nine inches; shot put, 36 feet. Last year in the district meet at Franklin only Greenwood, Sheibyville and Rushville were accredited with places in the track and field events. Richmond did not enter. In the final meet at Purdue university, Trotter of North Salem, broke a record, running the mile in 4 minutes, 39 1-5 seconds. The winners of each sectional meet will enter the final 1919 track and field meet to be held at Indianapolis the following week. RANDOM PORTNOT Joe Beckett, the English heavyweight who startled the British ring fans the other day by knocking out Bombardier Wells, their idol, in the fifth round, is slated to take on Frank Goddard, another star heavyweight, in the early summer. The date has not been set as yet. Both Beckett and Goddard have had unusual careers. Each one has knocked out a British champion, but has never been awarded the title of champion for his prowess. Beckett's knockout of Wells did not give Joe the championship because the fight wasn't held under the auspices of the National Sporting club. Goddard stopped Dick Smith, the light, heavyweight champion of England,, in the seventh round, but because Goddard weighed 1S1 pounds he was not awarded the championship. It is believed that the winner of the Beckett-Goddard fight will be matched with Georges Carpentier, the French heavyweight champion, later in the summer. ' Ray Fisher, the veteran player of the Yankee aggregation in point cf service, is going to wear a different uniform this season. He was released to the Cincinnati club a few days ago. Fisher joined the Gotham club in 1919 under George Stallings, and several times since then has show signs of becoming one of the great hurling stars of the game, but could not keep up the pace for any length of time. His best season was in 1915, when he won eighteen games and lost but eleven. Of course it must be said in justice to Ray that had he been with a firstclass ball club all those years he probably would have had a better record below his name. Fisher hung up one of the oddest little records in baseball in 1913, according to statisticians. He lost five games in a row and the scores were 6-5, 5-4, 4-3, 3-2, 2-1 and 1-0. The scores show how as Fisher Improved in each game his teammates batted in fewer runs for him. . Fisher was one of. the big league stars who profited by the Federal league war. He obtained a juicy con tract with the Yankees when the outlaw moguls were signing up the or ganized baseball stars. George Uhle, rookie hurler with the Cleveland Indians in training at New Orleans, may not burn up the league this year, but it can, be said he set fire to things early in his big league career. A few days after his arrival at the training camp he crawled into bed one night with a lighted cigaret in his mouth and set fire to the bed, falling asleep before the cigaret did. Uhle stated that it was very unusual for him to forget his cigaret that way. but Joe Wood, who had been his roommate up to that night, said "I take no chances," and got Manager Fohl to shift him to another room. Ted Lewis already has felt the effect of his failure to retain the welterweight title. He was booked to box Willie McLaughlin fifteen rounds in Tulsa, Okla., March 31. Since Lewis lost the title to Jack Britton at Canton, O., recently the' Tulsa promoters have called off negotiations with him and have signed Britton to meet McLaughlin, a Pennsylvania boy. Charley Schmidt, catcher for the Detroit Tigers for nine years, will manage the Sioux City W7estern league club this summer and probably will do most of the catching for hs outfit.
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Group of American boxers It is thought very probable that more international boxing tournaments similar to the King's trophy carnival neid in London, will be arranged this comin.e summer. The tournament proved a bipr .success despite the difference in systems if lighting and awarding points Two Games Forfeited, Two Flayed by Garfield Boys Two games were forfeited and two were played on Friday night's schedule of the Garfield large boys basketball league. , The Earlham team forfeited to the Aces and the Pirates forfeited to the Lilies. The Marines went down in defeat before the stronger Daisy basketball crew, to the tune cf 6 to 4, while the Frenchies waged a closely-fought battle with the Vampires finally defeating that team by one point. The final score was 5 to 4. ."v . In the first game Kessier and Thomas of the Daisies led in the scoring, the former making four points and the latter two. All attempts at free throwing on the part of the Daisies proved futile. Clark was the chief scorer in the Frenchie-Vampire game, scoring four of hi3 teams five points. Both Good and McBride threw a field each for the Vamps. ' With "the Majors . NEW YORK "Babe" Ruth, pitcher and hard-hitting outfielder of the New York Americans came to terms 'With Harry Frazee, president of the league and signed a three-year contract. The amount of the salary was not mentioned but both Frazee and Ruth expressed themselves as being entirely satisfied. Ruth left Friday night to join the club at Tampa, Fla. INDIANAPOLIS "Ownie" Bush, star shortstop and George Dauss, pitcher of the Detroit Tigers have been asked by Manager Hendricks to work out with the Indians. Both men are at Indianapolis holding out because of a disagreement in salary. TOLEDO Catcher Ed Sweeney was traded by Manager Bresnahan to the Pittsburgh club for Gus Getz an Hoke Warner. Getz is a baseball in a 1 outer. Warner is in France and will not be back soon according to reports. He was formerly with Dayton in. the Central league. Churches Affiliate to Get Jobs for Soldiers -WASHINGTON, I-Iarch 22. The general war time -commission of the churches representing more than twenty million church members, announced today that it had undertaken the organization of its 150,000 churches for cooperation with the United States employment service in the obtaining j of iobs for returning soldiers, sailors ! marines and civilian war workers. Plans of the commission provide for cooperation of the individual churches with agents of the employment ser. vice. Members of the churches will be asked to report vacancies and the jobs will be classifiedaccording to the qualifications required of the men to fill them. The proposal, it was said, had been laid before each of the 33 church bodies represented by the commission. BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. Fred Miller, a son. Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. Wright, a son. Mr. and Mrs. John J. Harrington, Jr., a daughter, born at Reid hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest II. Freenman, of Wilomet, 111., a son, born at Reid i hospital. ' Mr. and Mrs. Zachie Myers, a son. rAT?rFM? (GARDENS EVERYGARDENS, aw. , , . ivLj o The home food producers are not overlooking any '"slacker land sayt .the Nafconal War Garden Commission, Washington. , Send two-cent stamp for, free garden boon. j
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which affected the results. The photo shows a group of U. S. boxers who -took part m the BritishAmerican tournament for -"the King's belt at the Albert Hall, London. Left to right, back row: Augie Ratner, N. Y.; Second Lt. R. II. Ledlie, assistant to Lt. Col. WILL PILOT PLANE ACROSS ATLANTIC i- 1 V x ,,. -J" Lieut. Com. Patrick N. L. Bellinger Lieutenant Commander Bellinger, until a few days ago commandant. of the air station of the naval operating base at Hampton Roads and the Fifth naval district, will pilot the U, S. naval seaplane that will attempt to cross the Atlantic ocean. He is expected to begin his flight within a few days. WALK-OVER BOOT SHOP SOLD BY LIETFIET The Walk-Over Boot Shop, owned by Henry Leitfiet, district manager for the Walk-Over company at, Hamilton, O., was sold this week to Elmer ICrAimfiifir nf PinhmrmH and T-T r.1 Beckman, of Connersvil'le. The new j owners will take charge of the store jvionaay. The entire stock and fixtures of the store were purchasew by Kreimeier and Beckman. Kreimeier for the last three years has been connected with the Curme-Feltman shoe store at 724 Main street. Beckman was formerly a "Richmond shoe man but has recently been connected with . a shoe business at Connersville. ' The new firm expect to carry one of the largest shoe stocks in the city. Besides the exclusive sale of WalkOver shoes the new owners will add other lines to their stock later on. Funeral of William Eyden Will Be Held Monday Funeral services for William A. Eyden, 59 "years old, who died at his Lome on East Main street Friday nignt from a complication of diseases, will be held at the home at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon. The funeral services will be private. Friends are asked to emit flowers. Burial will be in Earlham. Friends may call Sunday afternoon and evening. . Mr. Eyden was one of the best known artists in Richmond. He was born in Hanover, Germany, and had been a resident of Richmond for forty years. He was a seW-taught artist. His pictures have gained favor wherever they have been shown. Prominent persons in Indianapolis and Muncie have many in their private collections. The Hotel Se verin : In Indianapolis owns " several of his canvases.. He painted in both . oil and water color. - Most of his later works are landscapes. Mr. Eyden. was one of the founders of Rlchmond Art asEOciation. For many years he spent his summers t Leland Michigan, at the omo cf Horace Starr. - - ' . Hft gurvived.by the-widtiw and (hre cht!(jrenj Walter Eyden, William Evden Jr -t aEd Mrs Raiph cooper.
E. M. Cox, officer in charge: Eddie McGoorty, Oshkosh; Mike O'Dowd, ''St. Paul; Eddie Shannon, San Francisco. Front rev: Jake Abel Chattanooga; Gene Delmont, Memfhis; Knockout Brown,. New Orear.s; Joe Lynch, N. Y.; Eddia Coulon, New Orleans. SATURDAY BASEBALL PROSPECT PROMISING The outlook for Saturday afternoon baseball looks good to Sam S. Vk t gran this year. "Prospects for a good league in the field were never better." i he said, Saturday. With thp rptnrn rtf a larpo nnmhpr of the S. A. L. players; many of whom played on regimental teams and camp teams, S. A. L. fans are predicting some of the best exhibitions of the j Saturday afternoon pastime ever put lout by. the league. Many of the 1918 i players who were in the service and I some of the 1917 season men are back ! and are better able to handle the ball in good form because of their train-, ing. ' " j Phil Roser, a " former outfielder in j the Saturday Afternoon league in j 1917, is back and fit for the game. Roser more than hit the calcium light, i He batted against none other than ( ! Lxrover jeveiana Alexander in ! foul the ball does not matter. Out i of three times up he took three j straight swings each time. - Roser made the regimental team in j France, having been chosen from approximately 2,000 other possible prospects to play the outfield. Paul Witteplayed on the depot brij gade team at Camp Taylor. Among j those who have returned are Russell Gier, Lawrence "Ching" McConaha, i "Bulldog" Reynolds, Bill Henseler, and "Cy" Fitzgjbbons. There are only two things troubling the Saturday Afternoon league man agers after the announcement and approval of the schedule next Monday night. They are: .Where will the league play and who will umpire the games. An attempt will be made to get these matters settled as soon as possible. KANSAS CITY Josh Devore, former outfielder for the New York Giants has signed a contract to play with the Kansas City club this season. Devore was recently discharged from Camp Sherman. Music of Inca Indians To Be Introduced in U. S. (By Associated Press ' NEW YORK, March 22. Carlos Valderrama, a noted Peruvian pianoist, has arrived here to introduce the music of the Inca Indians to the American, musical world. He is said to be the first person to interpret the music of these South American aborigines, which is described as possessing a beautiful pathos inspired by the persecutions suffered by the Incas at the hands of their Spanish conquerors and transmitted from generation to generation. INDICT LOS ANGELES MAYOR. LOS ANGELES, March 22 Mayor F. T. Woodman of Los Angeles was indicted last night on charges of accepting bribes to protect vice.
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I niftllllAAlri 0 flirn TO HELP LINE UP NEW BALL LOOP Local Promoters Will be Represented at Chicago 'Meeting Sunday.- . Richmond will be ' represented at a meeting of Central West minor league baseball moguls at cnicago Sunday. A. R. Tearnb issued an orficial call yesterday. J. u. ityaa, prudent of the Peoria club, has asked the Richmond owners to help him line up a new loop. - -' "" Elmer Eggemeyer ana Joe ttm win attend the meeting. : , The position of Richmond f is to await development at Chicago. If Tearney and Ryan are' able to organize a six-loop club tomorrow, Richmond knows that. IV will be asked to come in. Final disposition of .th-3 Richmond franchise awaits the outcome of the Chicago jneetlng. . .". Six Ready to Enter. Ryan believes that Terre Haute., Evansville, Peoria,, Bloomington, Moline and Rockford are ready to enter the proposed circuit. He sees a new Class B league ready to sign players within ten days. : V If Fort WTayne refuses to come in, Springfield or Dayton wiH be asked to pair with Richmond. Ryan has not selected a name for the new league. It may retain the old name, Central, or decide on Three-I. There is little difference between the rules and by-laws of the two organizations. " -. The Noblett-Heilbroner scneme reorganization is dead. ' ' Fans hope the Chicago meeting will put an end to the uncertainty. The Indianapolis meeting came to naught when Bert Noblet Interposed his western circuit plan. ONE-ROUND-BESS WANTS BOUT One-Round-Bess, Indiana colored bantamweight, -who boxed in Richmond several times under the ' managership of Joe Fox, challenges .any 115 or 116 pound fighter in the state. Tom Ceague of Muncie and Louie Lavalle of Anderson have been requested to take notice. Bess manager, Dave Farb, of Indianapolis will try to arrange a bout for him soon. TRAP, GUN AND ROD BY TOM MARSHALL. Clean sports make lasting friends! late and perpetuate friendships, close auu luiiuuuuub. The league of nations is no longer a chimera, is virtually an assured fact. Ideas may be there amended and polished, the ultimate i& now in sight. Principles and conditions evolved and annunciated by the United States, have in the main been accepted by the governing body now seated at the peace table. Civilized nations are against war and its untold eiiffprins. nm . . They have banded together, "as one i nation to encourage and enforce continuous harmony. . "Peace on earth, good will toward men," is a world's slogan at this writing. .Waive national technicalities and perpetuate peace. Cement by 'signed . agreements and treaties, civilized nations, wiih power to act. As individuals, let us further the work of the highest national tribunal by internationally extending thr glad hand of good fellowship along the avenues of clean sports. Organize a World's Sport Court, with ?. membership from all allied nations, purposing the promotion of a diversified line of outdoor sports. International contests, inviting friendly rivalry, will build up friendships between red-blooded contestants of allied nations, which will endorse and perpetuate, through the people, agreements and combinations now being formulated at the peace table. A5hYot?rDea2er i. iif4 liGrardPi-izelfefeafif iii hrearms o Ammunition ( Write for Catalogue p THE RTMmGTOft ARMS UJKC CO.mc rootwOT, Sum. mum tM crv Main St. CsnSnenfafpn bnisnlai