‘with the possible exception of Chet
' Union ace, and Jack Sellers, of the
,HANT ROOKIFS
in the Eastern
PITTSFIELD, March 27.——.Iohn
McGraw. manager or the New York
Nationals. who a short time ego ar
ranged for the sale of Walter Mc-
Phee. infielder. to the Plttsfleld club
has notified Manager Gilbert or the
Hillies that he can have four play-
They
are under optional agreement.
are I'aul Florence. lormer George
town catcher and outfielder.
in college circles tho last few years,
Vantc-r James. a heavy hitting out-
fielder from the Pacific coast. who
the
Fla.‘
has been showing up well in
training camp at Sarasota.
tosner, a young pitcher and Ear
Webb. who was with the
last year under option.
The New York players will report
although
other members of the squad are not
expect; d to arrive until somewhat
in I’ittsilvld on April 3.
later.
The word from
they did a few days ago,
ager Gilbert expects to
1923 player will he
T0 PHTSFIELD .,
Florence James Ros-
” ner and Webb Will
Perform» With Hillies
who
has been one of the leading batters
Iiillles
McGraw mavkes'
the llillles appear much better than
hut Man-
get more.
Thus it; can be surll that many a.
missing when
the Illllics take the lleld this spring.
zoom-
Hesse must fight for an outfield
position.
The pitchillg staff needs to be
strengthened. Manager Gilbert
thoroughly understands the fact and
has informed the management that
time comes for starting
the l‘nmpairll ‘he will have plenty of
when the
capable hurlers.
('lillwrt has been assisting McGraw
at the Giants‘ at Sarasota.
Fin.
" JONES PLEASED
ca nip
WITH CHANCES
Yale Coach Endorses
ChangesMade by
Football Rules Com-
mittee at Meeting
NE‘V HAVEN. March
ball rule changes made by the In-
ter collegiate ltules committee Sat-
urday are endorsed in part by Head
Coach Tad .l‘ones. of Yale. who gave
out: a. brief review today. 130 fa-
vors the new time out penalties. the
revised system for scoring lifter
touchrlowns. and the prohibition of
the screened pass. Tile rule to al~
low the hall to be put into play on
the three Mm! lino after a. touch-
down. he. bellows will add interest
and give :1 greater choice to plays.
The tendency “ill be to kick. he
thinks. as It. will lie caster and sur-
er. -
Abolition of, the mud too for the
kick-off, he bellows, will not prove
entirely satisfactory. The time gain-
ed by the run back because of the
fact that. the ball “in not soar will
he effect by the ram with which the
kirrkol‘t can be COVC‘TCll.
Mr. Jones inclines to believe that
too much added responsibility has
been placed on the referee who al-
ready has enough to do. A season's
try out. however, will be needed to
detern'lirlo if the changes work out
“'1'”. From the spectator's stand-
point he does not believe much
change, will be noticed in the game
as a whole
CHESLEY AITER
OLYMPIC RERTN
SYRAC [ISL N. Y.. March 27. -—
l‘talpll (Jill slay. luwa flash Who runs
the hurdlls and the middle distan-
ces for Toni lx’mlno at Syracuse Uni-
versity. will go to the Olympic trials
in the lizlrlllrd Stadium at Cam-
bridge Juno 7 to meet the country’s
finest in tho quarteromilo low- “Pilisras probably will be one of‘
hurdler event. Keane announced to- my regular DllChCS this Season- 1
day. carried a small staff last year. i had
Chesley Won second place in this eight-«mall. for a. major league
race at the Pin“ relays last year, club. especially the pennant winning
although he had never run in the organization. Tm” year 1'“ carry
event before. lie llnlshed a heart “HW-
boet behind Dirk Oram. the Union
College crack. on that occasion.
.This year the hurdles are being
l'l'lade three feet high instead of two
and onc- half and this is looked
upon as a. point in favor of Chesley.
The higher the hurdles the better
chance he has. Conch Keane be-
lieves. as Chesley has done a. lot of
timber topping and has the form
which is so essential to getting over
the bars fast
As {our men will be taken over-
sons for this one event. Chesley's
chances are considered to be among
the best any Syracuse athlete has
Bowman.
Probably the outstanding oppo.
nents of Cheslcv will be Drain. the
New York A. C.
{lodge Landis is being talked of
new as 1. possible candidate for the
I. Bennie. The high commoner.
,, ~ and former toast-n1 court
‘3' » listen to the plea- of”!
~ insets to snake as Ines.
27.—Foot— 5’
ed from
Swanson.
Thompson, Arguijo and Newberry. "
At the present writing Gaston,
Thompson and Olsen are the. thré
from whom the fortune two
be selected. to stay with the world's
champions.
Gaston has nearly everything that
goes .to null. a big league pitcher
He has the physique. is, crafty. has
a fast ball. a good book and a great
change of pace. He will be With the
learn when the sun grows warm up
the Yankee youngsters are elai
ant enough to sense the
ing with.
road wheels ‘ southward.
A train bearing Col. Jacob
and Ed Barrow
New Orleans.
evitalilc.
Iver-n running
bills than their
warrant.
Still none of! the
need fret much.
get. let out, and it is
diamond
child
ccrlll'ln
their hour of ripe spring flow:-
to the Yanks.
men in the know,
they get to the camp. A confer
with Manager Miller llllrslus on tilt-
of
Illlcslitln of, placing some
95.1.1.me
INLLER' IINGGLNs PREPARES TO : ‘ '
‘ EARN OUT YANKEE ROOKIES
Celene] Ruppert and Ed Barrow Leave for
South to Hold 'Confab Over Players ——-
Number of Minor League Clubs Will En-
deavor to Get Some ‘Sulplus Yank Material
mill): visit. The owner and the
business manager will wing rlgllt
back home again about as man as
MY ”seamless- COOK AT Ame
JUST see 1746 my
Liz‘s Mlv , j_
NE‘V YORK Mar. 27.-—If any of
rvoy-
advance
rumble of misfortune their cars at
the present moment must. be tingl-
sure tips of tribulations.
For today there is :1 rattle of rail-
It is the
lluppert
from New York to
This nlrans only one
thing to those liven YO sniff the in-
’l'llc big bosses are going
to the lminim: camp to decapilatc
some of the child athletes who have.
up bigger restaurant
abilities
athletes
'1! any of them do
that
some will” have to iw. abandoned in
ring.
they will eventually he. )Iiiikt‘ll hack
. According to gentle-
no clnn ever had
such a uniformly promising bunch
f youngsters as have. the world's
champions. It is understood that
every lad let out will only in: let
out on option. No on» will be ditch-
ed completely withmzt home, or fu-
ture retrieving.
A Flying Visit
The Journey of Messrs. Iluppert
and narrow to lilCfiCl‘cst'l‘nt City is
one of those things described as n.
t‘llt‘t!
liii‘
YANKEES MAY
N ”JV ORLEANS. March 27.-.\lil-
ler Huggins. manager (if the Yan»
kees. has the most inlpressiVe crop
of young pitchers he has our had
at a spring training camp. From
this army, he expects to_ form the
nucleus around which he will (‘otl‘
struct a. hurling staff to sum-(«l his
celebrated five-slur when it begins
to rctrogrcss.
liuggins sat ill the dugout and
watched George I‘iplzras and per-
nice Thompson subdue the N: w 0r-
leans l'elieuns, 11 to 2
A semi-tropical sun
on the players, and for the first i
this year they I‘( ally cut loose. hug—
gins was particularly inteustcd
the youngsters.
gins lift the game. “The best col—
leétion I '12 had in many a day. «'ve
always wanted to get a staff
youngsters like tho pitchers down
here this spring."
Bush and Hoyt.
have
among Owens,
Olsen. Shields.
North.
Thompson has pitched seven in.
nlnu in all against the Pelicans
and they have only been able to
gather one bite?! his dental-y. Bug—
glns can be new. rm 11min.
KEEP GASTON
Sunday.
shone down
“They look good. ” remarked zlug~
"These nine pitchers will include
my five-st‘ar staff—Jones,
Shawkey.
will get a. chance to become a reg-
ular. Roe-tiger will
chance. The other two will be select-
,Gnston.
Dumont
Pennock
Pipgras
another
will
Olson has had a sore sun but will
illle
ill
of
. 1
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Sport Barrage
Chat and Comment of Special Interest to
Norwalk Fans.
Br Loner I); Downs-
L‘rlng on the baseball. Connie Mack’s team in fast round-
- ' ° r lingintoshapeandlookutxtbey
It is a great game. were going to cause some or the
' ' ' other teams in the American league
The American Legion bowlers l plenty of trouble during “It: coming
came through in fine shape last exe- l season.
ning and won six straight games in!
the military league. They took three
straight from the Spanish \‘i‘ar‘Yets
and then grabbed of! three more
from the Combat Train.
'~'wir ~1-
rookies is all that will occupy the
attention of the Colonel and Mr.
Barrdw in New Orleans. They ex~
poet to head northward about Tues-
day. April 1. This will is shortly
after the Yanks have broken camp
and started homeward. via Mobile.
Pensacola. Columbus, Ga., &c.. and
the local magnatcs will doubtless
accompany their charges as far as
some Southern depot.
Col. Rupert and Barrow would
have been in New Orleans by this
time land it not been for the death
of the Colonel's mother. This dis-
:lrrnnged all plans. including the ill-
teution or the Colonel to travel all
the way through the sticks with his
team and bring them back in person
to the Yankee Stadium. where they
have two exhibition games sched-
uled with the Brooklyn Dodgers for
April 12 and 18. ‘ -
or'tlm 36 fellows on the Yank
roster only about to will be farmed
out. Set many payers are owed
by the champs to other clubs in
payment for previous purchases. 0!
course a. lot of minor league outfits
are bidding for surplus Yankee tal-
c c i 0
Rollo Naylor. one of Mack's pitch-
ers received the thrill of his life
last season, when on May 12, be shut
the. \Vhiio Sex out by the score of
S— 0. Although he has been in the
gAmerlcnn League since 1917, it was
the llrst time he had ever pitched a
shutout.
V. c c 0
Paul Strand who will do_ duty in
the outer garden for the athletics
this sexism). nlndo,325 hafc hits slur.
in: [net season. This is a new rec-
ord. The former recon! was 288
also held by Strand. _ This bird
should look good with A's.
U Q 0 ,
The Legion clinched first place in
the league last night. It they [use
all of their remaining games. and
the Spanish “nr \cts win the six
that they lune left in roll. the Le-
gionnnlrvs will still be anchored ill
first place.
I O 0
After getting away to a bad start
in the league. the. Legionnuirns
have climbed steadily up the. ladder
until they lauded ill first place and
have. never been moved out of
there.
There will be a number of famili-
41' faces in the. line up of the Lock."
\l'rmds, when they take the field for
the opening game this season.‘ Herb
Herring will be back at first base
again.
A match game between the Legion
team and flu: Odd he Hows. the “lil-
ning team of the l rmcrnn! [(113ch
would be a. filling climax to the‘
bowling season.
a t o
. The Giants are getting their bumps E
in the spring exhibition games Most
River Traffic A Century Ago
(Philadelphia Newspaper of 1324
and expeditious passage back on the
steam boats instead or walking
.i am» or 2,000 'miles' most of it
till-011.. h a wilderness subject to the
licvcd to he owed the Atlanta Club
Bentley seems in be sllnuillg good
of the Southern Association on the
form in the r'nrl) galllcs. I think
deal that secured Pitcher George that he is‘ due for his in rl signal": in
II. Dumont. Mr. A. J. lleinemnnn, the bi~ show this year.
EDDIE 'AIN
—_Has Slowed Up
TAMPA. m9. March 27.—-When
John ‘McGraw reached Sarasota
some weeks ago one of the questions
hurled at hiln was: .
"What use, do you expect to make
of Eddie Ainsmlth? Is, he going to
do any catching or did you get him
to help coach your pitchers."
-“That." replied lilo Giant manag-
er, “dependsaltogether. on Alnsmlth
himself. If he can show me that he
is able to catch. he will draw a regu-
lar turn behind the but. If he can't
I'll use him as a. coach."
The same message. probably, was
conveyed to Ainsmith. and Eddie
judging by the strenuous training he
has done. is not willing 'to be carried
FOR REGULAR GIANT BERTH
Veteran Not content to Be Pitching Coach and
Will Try to Land Job as Rég'ular Backstop
Produce Good Brand of Baseball
WM. TRY
Slightlyi But Can Still
set or pitcher; new to him he has
handled the“. very well and his
throwing has )een both powerful
and accurate. tddie isn’t working
quite as well 2.3 he should. later on,
for he was considerably overweight
and much of his time has been given
up to taking off the superfluous
poundage. \Vhen that magnificent
frame of his has been sh rn of its
light layer of fat. Ains it ought
to give su-vico that will prove of no
little value to the Giants.
Ainsmith Slowing Up
His many years in baseball have
slowed Ainsmith dtwn a bit, but
they have used up \‘u-y little of his
endurance and none at his enthus-
iasm. Playing ball still is a joy to
as a. coach but wants to take a more
ecuve'part in the work of the team
He wants the world to know that
it he isn't the catcher he was a few
years ago. he isn’t a. back number
either. As a youngster be was known
as a hard worker on the field. The
same may be said of him as a. veter—
nn‘. He usually is among the first
players in uniform every day and
among the last to take it of: and
while he has it on he is in action
The catching for the Giants has
been divided fairly equally. among
the three veteran catchers. Ain-
smith. Fred Snyderzand Hank Gow.
dy. and Ainsmith has held his own
out. but low solicitors can be :le- .1“ of mm, ("momma me mm“; a An abundance or country produce
(ullimodated. fill out or them. but (mm mama; is floated dml‘n the rivers to New ‘Over’ minute.
Atlanta May Get Rookies. don t m- as anything. . Orleans in flat boats that do not re-
A couple of youngsters are be- turn; the hands find a. safe, cheap
him, which explains why he has
held a place in the iig show while
hundreds of players hive come and
gone. to shine for :1 low fleeting
seasons and then be {bl-gotten. He
was rising to stardom avay'back in
the days when the Yankees were
known as the Highlander: and play-
ed on the Heights of Broadway. He
caught \3 alter Johnson whqn “’alter
too. was )oung’and could ‘hrow a
ball with greater speed than any
other pitcher that exer livél. Like
Walter he has plodded down the
years and 10-day. at an advanced
baseball age. is holding a job agllnsl
the onslaughls of time as repremnt-A
ed by young and ambitious rc-
eruits.
owner of the Pelicans. and propriet- . . . “5k 0: ”‘0“ “I‘d their 0““ “119“"!-
or or the largest playing field in or- (:oorgp SN”. the W: |,_ of ‘ e klle.
KlilllZCll baseball. will undoubtedly lirnvgnlz. muns'm be ’,.‘..::‘imng ’1‘“; .L used to be a two or three
he Siam"! at least one medium "a" “mill”: rye. ill: launch-"l out llll‘t‘e} months "03m“: from New. Orleans
“able rookie m rum.“ {or the “um. Mm in a gun" armies: 3h" M”th in Louisville and Pittsburgh with
he has done the Yanks in letting lmul ya'stfirdny. Not so luid for :i m“ "01”“ It ‘3 performed With
them use ll big park fol; training player who was suppq,. .1 m 1..., ““4”“ "0M5 in dhOUt ““0 weeks.
7““ Wind 1 “as at llouimille. in June.’
1S: 1. :1 boat arrh ed in a. few hours
1:55 than 12 days runnfug time.
purposes. illl'ough.
Louisville. from whence-was pur- ~7-
clulscd the sensational outileld pros-
pect. Earl 13. Combs. wants some of
the Yank machine spare parts. but
it is not believed that the Colonels
are owed :1 single player-pawn. The
Yanks settled in full when they got
Combs.
In this great emergency of the
Newark club how glad would be the
owners (whoever they legally are)
if they could Just gobble up a few
crumbs from the overflowing Yan-
kee table However. the Yanks
could not stake'the Bears to any of
their boys as the International
League is squeamish about the
draft. and the Yanks are equally
squeamish about letting plmers out
unless they are sure they will get
them back again.
Carl Mays says Babe Iiuth has’li
weakness and that if the c‘incl Reds
hook up ulth the Yunlucs ill the
1924 world‘ s selies c he'll l heck Ruth
and his big bat. All right. Carl but
take a. tip. The best V“) to check
Babe and his home runs is to throw
the. baseball out of the lot )ourSz-lf.
There‘s :1 good reason, mighty
good reason (as the song writers
say). why Ernie Mann should come
through fast and furious for John
\chraw. For the rookie pitcher
comes {ram a town that sounds like
lli:tt-1‘,fllfllrrllls Tex \lust of his
pitching was done in Wit hi ta. Kan"
howmer. “here he stalled three
and a half season. Before hat. he
played in Rockford, Ill.
Judge Story On “’cbstcr
(Boston Transcript)
“For the first hour we listened to
him with perfect astonishment: for
the second hour with perfect delight
and for the third hour'with perfect
conviction." This is'about as high as
anything could go in the way or
praise \\ ebster. by the way. when
he made this plea. was thirty-six
years old. His argument was in
reality the basis of the court's decis-
ion in the case (Dartmouth Col-
logo) which was fully as important I
in the development of he American
republic as was He ton's' report
on Manufactures.
. , J ' ' 7
“SAVE your: HANDS” VETERANS FIRST TIP To ROOKIE -
t
Chris Hot! at Christiania in-
coming Olympic games the follow-‘
1113 article in a New York paper is
0! interest. The article says:
come across the Atlantic. concern-
ing the achievements or one. Chris
Hot! or Christiana, Norway.
alter manning up the performances
pushed. ' It. is only too apparent
that the United States will have to‘dapper warriors loos
deyei'bp an athlete who can better! stead of baseballs and gloves?
the marks made by the 1930 win-l
here in
‘STpcntpthlon and deeathion titles when
they return from the invasion 02
France.
_ ; Lshtonon finished hmxln nm 200.
metre run; second in the running
broad jump. Javelin throw and 1.-
500 metre run. and seventh in the
. discus, (livingdlim a total or tour-
: teen
noiné
United states. who finished me.
against the:
while acorn-it” q Moisture lacking
in the discus ud‘javelin events.
the Not-ska is said to be accom-
with the' two others. Working with a_
In view of reports trom‘lx‘orway
. concerning the threatened capturing}
o! the pentathlon and decathlon by}
the- i
The United States had its Jim
Thorpe in the 1912 Games at Stock-
holm to carry the Red. “finite and
Blue shield to victory in both the
big, events.
tions at: Antwerp, there were Brad-
In the 1920 competi-i
ey. Hamilton. Legendre and Vidall
striving for honors. but they were!
beaten by
Scandinavia. Lehtonen of Finland,
winning the pentathlon crown and
Deviand of :Norway,_ capturing the
deca‘thlon honors. This year it ap-
pears. Judglig from a comparison
of records. that it will .be another
Scandinavian ,whom the American
contenders will have to beat in or-
der to win back the ianrels. ‘
representatives from i
From time to time reports have
and.
but this tech Nozzles has accom-
order to bring back the'
In the last, Olympic Won.
points. Which. was n 21:11 ten
better than Bradley 01' the
s
‘zin 19:0
singer who poled 625 hits and scor-
.ed 185 runs for Pacific Coast lea-
gue fans last season. says
quired his batting style from chop-
ping trees in the; state of Washing-
ton in his early days. New theme
the germ of an idea. \Vhy don' t the
Braves and a. couple
hittin clubs establish training
chimps In Washington turn their
lth axes in-
DUCAN PICKS
'N’EW’ ORLEANS, Dbl-ch 27 .—.Toe
Eugen. star third menus} for the
Yankeeg, bélleves tint
8313811115 troops and the Giants will
win their fourth mm pennants
this year and will meet again in the
'7 world series next hi1.
travelled the distance half a seco'ld
l‘asterfibeing credited with :32 5-;0
seconds. in tho 1,500-nietcr rur.
LEGION
ELINON VE
LEAGUE
T a_ k e Six 5.
Games From S ,,
War Vets and
0nd Battalion
Night—V. F w
Three
\
The Ameriw
team. by winnl.
in the Military .
on the Clifford a?
place in the i
team should 1
ing games and
Vets should rm: :37
still have to to '.
would still l2“ I ~
place. '
After gettin:
by dropping ti
the league to
erans_ the Lt:
spurt that c.
of the pile. \
by the Spam
time. and they h:.'- :
L251 nlfrht the 3.:
three straight in >
1511 \Var Vets
the Second 1
three ganws rel
Battalion team.
postponed whirl
scheduled to nm-h ,. ., . ,.
Perry, of the I.~;. y;
total pint‘nll fr:- 1:-- 7 t A
a. score of 2,03 Er 7,
the Second 1‘1..-
for the evenly .. .- .
of the Legion 7 '
team total wen: :
with a total 2
match against
. The scorcs Twin
Sterling .......
“'eingartner
Kelly
Banagosa .
Perry
Hawiey .........
A. “'argo . .....
l. “ argo .......
Holl nvood . .....
Totals
lilo lillil event on the ~pcntathlox.‘
program, Lehtoncn finished accent.
in 4: «in 1-5. the best time
being made by Lalltinen. who turn~
ed in n. time of 4: 36. \\ hat Hod is
officially recorded. but his effort-
at 800 meters. which he has covered
in 1: .1; 6— 10 indicates that he is
able to beat both Lehtonen's and
Lahtinen's marks. A comparison
of decathlon e\ on: marks shows as
clean ly Iioi‘f‘s greatness.
. O O
Farmer Lodge, Minnesota heavy-
weight, Lack Irom Argentina. an-
nounces that cabled dispatches con-
cerning his defeat at the hands of
Luis Firpo were scorrect. Says be
S. . '. ..... .
was licked. Then rises to remark V 3"“.
[that he would like a return battle second 1}", """" ‘k‘
with the Wild one in the U. S. A.
"1’ rom now on I'm going to do
my fighting in America."-mys Lodge
—.—-and leaves one to draw his own
conclusions."
0 . ‘
O O 0
Paul Strand. th‘e' n'eiv‘ Machlan
be ae-
t J. \‘i'argo
' I H ‘ ' i
; able to do at this distance is nil} o ’“md
-De.\lartino .......
“'right.
Amer, Legion. . . . .. _~
talion.
ciouter of the -inx. sf .
is set for another 2 : . _.< 3
ing from reports .; ""“3
the California {mi-g: :
K. C. crew.
ADHERE."
I‘e rrv
Hal“ i"\ .........
.L W urge
SECOND :2" '
D‘Boy . '
Ireland .... ...... ‘i 7
Totals
Standing ul' 'l'cnnln
Final (lam.- -.
Spankh “‘ar \‘tts ~ \. .,
American Legicr ‘ :
lil
Bunny Brief,
other weak
THE YANKEES,
a
m . the
"1 see that some of the experts
too. and fell down when the
Giant:
* . 0
Hold. your ho ‘1
don’t be in a rush to '
Crawfordshoesfustb
, we say they are ood
pick «the Cincinnati Reds (we: the 8'
Giants," said Joe and morning.
“How they reach that conclusion 1
dosi’t knew. Cincinnat! has a very
~ 1n, mblematlcal infield. ,It has great
'jpltcblng. butithna 11:38th
we’nsm-e, you‘ wfila -..
comebaindexamine
We know they are ‘
Est don’t take our W
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