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,Rmt ROSENBERG tltElt‘to
BEAT MARTIN THIS EVENING
Challen er Is Training Hard in Efiort to Annex
Groin—The Championship Has Changed
Hands Eight Times in Last Eleven Years—
Expect Large Crowd to Attend -
NEW YORK. March 20. — Tbs
bantannvcight crown, which Char-
lie i’hil liosenberg will attempt to
kncck it'rm the head of Ed its Can-
nonball Martin at Madison Square
Garden tunight. is not give-n to rest-
ing in ont- place very long. During
the last omen years the its pnurll
chcmpi m- hip has change-‘1 hauls;
eight liniv‘r. it is a slippery urti-
L.
C The :‘U‘ragc tenure of off: :0 of the
various bantumwcight bosses has
‘ been, during the last decade. less
‘ than a year and a half. That. is in
mark-:d contrast with some of the
Jack Dempsey.
Lhr instanc». has ruled the heavy-
;welght roost for live years and a
Bonny Leonard presided (nor
“-the lightutight dnision :or so long
' that he finally l‘t'rlgnvd trom office.
.fIt “as back in 1917 that Sir Benja-
“min trod the golden steps that lead
‘lip to the throne.
if Rosenberg topples Martin from
; the dais tonight Cannonball’s reign
will rank as the shortest in modern
fbfiantamuctght history with one ex—
: 1 pupilon.
i'cto Herman's second term as
rrchafpion is the briei‘est on record.
>l.'e~013t
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OQs'Asi-twleQQsI-vhm-ll . _ . .'
The former New Orleans Doorblack
fregained ill" laurels from Joe
'«-Lynch on July 25. 1921. Less than
7‘in months illii‘r—‘On September 23,
T to be exact-—tlie veteran Johnny
Q-Buff took the title from Herman.
‘ “'un Title in December.
3 Martin acquired the champion-
; ship on last December 19, when he
liwon a \ery close t‘lccislnn ‘rom Abe
3-Goldstcln. Thus. if Eddie is separ-
f‘sted from his crown tonight he will
Iliave been king for Only seven days
:liIOrIZ‘ titan three months.
‘ Bantaniwzlzht Champions
9
have
‘ .‘sat had much luck in bouts where
.. the title “as in Jeopardy. Kid Wil-
,liiuns, who took the laurels from
ByIaRoy
Bring on
c o
The baseball season.
0 O 0
There will be plenty of action in
pugillstic cirr-lcs this running. At
New York city, Eddie Martin will
.wnp punches with Phil Rosenberg.
while up in Boston Tiger Flowers
sud Lou Bogasb will do their stud.
Q O O
The bantamm-ight title may
change bards tonight. Rosenberg Is
3 real good wrapper and the pace
that he will set may be too fast for
Martin.
O O .
Bantamwelght title holders do not
seem to hank onto their crowns for
any great length of time. During
the last it years. the championship
has changed hands eight times
0 0 O
The Bogasb-Flowers scrap is an
uncertainty. The Bridgeport box-
er has worked hard for the bout
and is anxious to put the skids un-
HUGGINS’ EDIG'I' BANS GOLF
AT YANKS’
ST. PETERSBL'RG. Fla. Mar. 20
-—If there were any second hand
dealers in this town they could get
some good bargains by backing their
wagons tip to the Yankees"hotcl.
But unfortunately this is a rich
burg. and the only second hand store
man who ever set up in business
here Went broke and entered the
poorhousc to which the eminent Mr.
Ruth is now said to be seeking ad-
mission. Thc bargains that a. sup-
positlous second hand man might
obtain are in clothing and imple-
.znents forsaken by their owners.
The owners are the Yank players
and the forsaken stuff is mostly
knickerbockers, fuzzy stockings.
loud sweaters and the weird hewn
lumber that sticks up in plaid golf
bags like a clump of rheumatic
outcry in a cracked glass tumbler.
The Yanks were forced to scrap
their links luggage when Manager
Huggins issued the most drastic or-
' der that has yet been posted on the
club house wall at Crescent Lake
mu. From now on golf is barred.
Huggins has rejected it as emphatic-
){any as the Senate rejected Charles
Warren.
Kidding around in baseball is bad
mix. but kidding around on the
is worse. Huggins has de-
fied the latter sort of comedy must
- . The regular season will be on
less than a month. And it is
,. . - the baseball boys bega’n giving
their thought and attention to
5" diamond.
no Yankees can't be blamed for
m fallen hard for golf. They
been exposed to the nibllck
' - mic in the seat of its most fev-
., contagion. This is the goodsst
”to in the union. and 8t.
org is the concentration
- and isolation ward for all the
cues. With the knicker-
\-« pantstrustbackofthsthlag.
ad! blight has cast its pull over
areas of the Southland that
. . were only annoyed by the
.and boil weevil m
. the coming of
[defending it than has any of his suc-
Sport Barrage
01st and Comment of Special Interest to
Norwalk
there-loss
m T if
Johnny Ooulon. did better work in
cessors.
The question is whether Martin
will prove to be a longer lived chem.
plon than his predecessors. |
The Cannonball has not done any
too well since he donned the cham-
pionship mantle. He dropped a deci-
sion to Carl Tremaine at. Cleveland
on February 24, but both boys were
over the bantamweight limit and
Eddie’s title was not affected. A
couple of weeks later Pete Sarmien-
to hold Martin to a draw in a class‘
at Milwaukee. This one was not at
weight either.
Martin. no doubt. was influenced
in accepting tonight's engagement
with Rosenberg by the belief that
the Harlem challenger cannot make
118 pounds and be'himself. Neither
is the bantamweight limit an easy
weight for Marlin, but. Eddie dem~
onstrated in his tilt with Goldslcin
that he can make that poundage and
still be strong enough to step tiltecn
rounds at a fast clip.
The champion has not been the
only one to doubt Resenberg's abil-
ity to get down to the bantamweigbt
limit without losing. most of his vi-
tality. Some there were who bollev-
ed that Charlie would not be able to
make the weight without a surgical
operation. The Harlem bOy was
railed on to put up a. 35.000 weight
forfeit because of all these doubts.
There now seems to be no doubt
that Rosenberg Will be at. or under
118 pounds at 2 I’. M. Charlie scaled
118 1-2 after his workout yesterday
at Tillman's gymnasium.
However, it is still doubtful
whether the challenger will be
strong at the weight. He has taken
off so much poundage in the last
few weeks that his strength may be
sapped. He appeared rather drawn
yesterday.
Fans
D. Downs
dcr the Tiger.
Be is expected to enter the ring
weighing about 104 pounds. which
is real good lighting weight for him.
0 O 0
If Bosash defeats Flowers this
evening, he has a bout pending with
Harry Greb in the near future. Don
has defeated Greb once.
0 0
According to a statement made
by nognsli. he intends to take the
lighting gain; serious from now on
and will endeavor. to annex. the
middleweight crown. We hope that
he carries out this statement.
0 O 0
Several local amateur boxers will
enter the amateur boxing tourna-
ments being held in Bridgeport,
starting on next \Vednesday.
O O O
The winners in the Bridgeport
tourney will be entered in the Na-
tional tournament to be held in
New York City.
TRAINING CAMP
used golf courses as bait for cus-
tomcrs. Famous professional golf-
ers were hired to ambls about the
scenery In swell toggery to add tone
to what had only been swamp land
and cabbage palmetto wastes. Tour-
ists fell for the stuff. and ballvplay-
ers imitated the tourists, or at least
imitated the clothes that the tourists
tried to copy from the professionals.
who had swiped their sartorial ideas
from the other side of the pond.
The ball players got to spending
a. lot of time in haberdasheries. se-
lecting tweeds. knit things and white
linen outfits favored by (ex-caddies
risen to the status of style arbitcrs.
The baseballcrs. being well built
young metf with shapely calves. fell
all the harder for the golf craze. for
they realized that they looked bet-
ter than the ordinary run of busi-
ness men in short pants and stock-
ings. But it wasn't manager Hug~
gins begrudged his players this
harmless vanity. Nor was it so
much on account of the golf swing
hurting the players' batting swing.
It was because of the barebeaded
fad that Huggins objected. Nay.
his fear. He feared lest his boys
get sunstrokes. turning the right-
handers into lefties and vice versa.
Most of the swank golfers here
go about uncovered. They look con-
Lstantly ready for the band to play
the "Star Spangled Banner.” Their
hair is plastered slickly back and
their upper works sunburned to a
rich chocolate, or a Hughcy Jen-
nings red. Ball players are a very
delicate type of ivory and they do
not stand up under this-constant
solar cooking as well as the chrome
brand of golfer. A piece of ivory
cracked or soured by the sun would
bring little money lathe profession-
al baseball maria.
This set Huggins to thinking. an
occupation that he is "only an.
aged in. as witness the nlcs‘llttls
roll be has made latelyrln local bul-
ne-‘cntorprlsea '
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Making
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Southern
Exhibition Games
TARPON SPRINGS. Fl... March
20.—'i‘he Robins will complete their
series of springtime. games with
George Sisler's Browns hers this
afternoon. Three of the four games
have been played and they resulted
in one sldeddefeats for the Nation-
al Leaguers. who have scored only
one victory in the five exhibition
contests played so far. Ineffective-
ncss on the part c.’ Wilbert Robin-
son's pitchers is the chief cause of
the teams poor showing. and the
prospects for a sudden impmvenient
being made by the twirlcrs in to:
day's contest are not bright. of
course. some of the pitchers will im-
prove as the training season moves
along.
Just now Robbie's hurling staff is
far below what it was this time last
year, when Dazzy Vance. Burleigh
Grimes and Dutch Ruether were
getting into prop-gr playing condition.
At the present time Robbie has not
a single pitcher who might be cap
able of turning in one well pitched
game. It. is too early for Vance to
appear in a practice contest and
most of those who have been break-
ing into the games are slow in mak-
ing progress‘ toward something that
tesembles good early season form.
The contest which the Robins lost
to the Phillies yesterday illustrltsd
how poorly Uncle Robbie's pitch-
ers are going. Ehrhar'lt. Roberts.
Cantrell and “‘ilson performsd in
the order named. or: Ehrhardt. who
pitched three innings. the Phillies
made four runs and five hits. RO‘B-
erts followed iihrhardt and for thrss
lrnmes he held the enemy in Cheek.
but in the seventh he Went to pieces
and three hits and a hit batsman
netted the l‘lilllies three more runs.
Guy Cantrell one of the rookie
right handt-rs pitched the 'eighth
frame. and that was all. Had he re-
mained longer one or two msmbsrs
of Fletcher's team might hlvs been
injured by stopping pitched balls.
Cantrell walked two men and hit
two more and the streak of wlidne.
accounted for another Philly tally.
Cantrell had plenty of speed and do-
ceptlvo curves and the battsrs who
did succeed in hitting the ball were
unable to knock it out of the infield.
Guy has much natural ability. but
his control will have to improve if
he is to make the grade.
Gormer Wilson. a young south-
paw, finished the game. and in the
only session ho pitched the I’hillies
made two hits and their last run. in
all nine runs and eleven hits were
made off the four Robin pitchers.
0n the other hand Jack Knight and
Clarence Mitchell. the only pitchers
used by Fletcher. held the Robins
to six runs. Ten hits wers made off
them. but they were able to put on
the brakes with men on the bases.
Robbie has been using only two
pitchers in the practice games. and
his first selection generally was put
through a five inning workout. Now
it may be a week before the good
natured manager will attempt to got
by with only two pitchers in one
game. The manager in which the
pitchers have performed has been a
big disappointment to Robbie. And
yesterday in an effort to bolster up
the staff he tried to make a deal
with Fletcher. but the Phillies'
manager refused to listen to any
trade talk. Robbie. it is believed.
made an attempt to get one of Flet-
cher's experienced pitchers.
High Commissioner Lentils. who is
at Belle-air, said last night that Bur-
leigh Grimes. the Roblns’ holdom
pitcher. recently submitted to him
all the notes exchanged. betwsen
himself and Squire Ebbets in their
contract wrangle. Grimes maintain-
ed that Ebbets during the early part
of the off season offered him I. two
year contract at 815,000 a year. Eb-
hcts claimed Grimes was mistaken
when he took one of the offers to
mean that he would get "0.000 for
his work this year sud next.
FIRPO HALTS
FIGHT PLANS
PARIS. Mar. 20. -- Louis Ants]
Firpo. the Argentine firhtsr.‘ 1b-
ruptly broke off yesterday the no 0.
tiatlons in- which he was engaging
with Francois Descamps. long man-
ager of Carpentier. looking to tho
information of a puglllstio combin-
tion in which Carpentier and Flrpo
would be the main active figures.
Firpo declared he had to return
to the United States in April to do-
fend a law-suit uninst him now
pending in the Americas courts. a
hearing of which.wu on the «ion.
dar for next month. The plaintiff is
Andrew D. McCorklndals. who sues
acted as the Argentinisu’s manager:
going out and daring the sun to
knock them for a loop. Of sonrss.
in a. way. Huggins was glad that it-
was gluten the boys wsre buying.
and not the bottles of interior vor-
nish sold by bell hop bottle so“
However. he had to stop in I“
tell the boys to nngreaso their
so they could scratch their I:
better when in need of a idea. as
he told them to wear their .is
when out in the romantically-Ivory
used Sunshine Cw sun. V
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So.hivlustowssr_etsa on pass
their , 1! l
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Iflwhbadhadabrisftridwithimleldho has done
By NORMAN E. BROWN.
TABPON SPRINGS. Flt. March
tub—Jimmy Austin. former third
baseman of the St. Louis Browns
and now right-hand man to Hang-
er George Slsler. is accepting the
honors due him today.
He holds the unique distinction of
being the only baseball player in the
big league to turn in a bill to the
boss for overalls.
Bail players an about as chummy
with overalls or anything else that
hints of effort around a ball park
outside of playing baseball as a
snake is with wings. Really. you
can‘t rsailzs the distance between
a ball player and overalls until
you've followed the first for years
and worn the second yourself.
Well. Owner Ball and Manager
Slalor of the Browns decided dur-
ing the winter to send Jimmy doun;
south early. to look the clubs new
training tidal-ere. When the Broun
bo-es inspscfsd the site last fall it
was mostly on r water—an a‘li-
gator swamp. The field was “filled"
during the winter and I up dressing
imported for the diamond. Jimmy
A? at: usso to
count? me an
cues A1 map
BAse.
was made minister plenlpotentlary
and unlimited powers to look over
the achievements oi the local work—
ers and make any such chsnges or
improvements as he saw fit.
Jim was well satisfied with what
he saw with the exception of. con-
ditions along the right l’lt‘id border.
The fill had been stopped abruptly
a medium distance from home pate.
Long flies to right were destined to
drop in tho swamp—and become
dessert for the alligators. Austin de-
cided that a thirty-foot wire screen
was necessary along the edge of the
field to cut down the expense of
buying baseballs. He bought the wire
and nicked the colored help onto the
job of putting it up.
“Not us." churused said colored
help. “The alligators can wait for
them bnsvhalis. 'lhey ain't gwanns
get us." Jim pleaded but only wast-
ed his breath. They had no desire to
fall off the fence into the swamp
while stretching that wire.
lie had with him at camp as bud.
dy George Blneholder. 3 young pit-
cher. They decided to put up the
screen themselves. But the baseball
.‘A. ,’ l
\{r‘
duds hadn't arrived yet and both of
them sported new spring suits. 80
Jim took the drastic step of getting
the overalls.
When Willis Johnson. traveling
secretary. arrived later he started
checking over the early bills. When
he ran across the overall bill be
swoonsd.
Right now Austin is convinced
that for the first. time since he quit
third basing for the Browns—as few
men have third baled—tbs team bu
a first-class man for the Job and a
man who will stick there for some
years to come. ‘l‘hat young man is
Robertson.
Jim played part of the season
three years ago. Since then Ellerbe.
Mcwllen. Simon, Eddie Foster and
Burke have all played at the last
corner for varying periods. Fasten.
of course. was about through when
heavas grabbed to fill the vacancy
caused by an injury to Ellerbe.
Robertson played most of the sea.
son—121 games—at third the
campaign. He looked sweet than.
looks better this year opines Jim.
NlCK CiILLOP lS
FIND OF YEAR
FOR YANKEES
Swede Slugger From
Oklahoma Looks
Good E n o u g h to
Stick With Huggins’
Clan
ST. PETERSBURG. Fla... March
30.—Hsnry Cull 2p perhaps the most
promising of the Yankee recruits.
has the distinction of being the only
St. Louis “homsbred” who does not
claim he was raised in the famous
“Kerry Patch." Th6 Mound City
suburb of Hodismont has the honor
of being the birthplace of Cullop.
There is no Irish in Cullop. Per-
haps that's why he has no Kerry
Patch connections. Yet he‘s a good
ball player. and a good specimen of
what can be produced by s combin-
ation of sturdy Swedish stock and
mid-American environment.
Cullop. now :4 years of age. at-
tsndsd the University City High
School in St. Louis for a time and
then started to work for a living as
a carpenter at the Fulton Iron
Works. And ever since he has been
doing carpentry work with a. wood-
en bat. wielded in a most iron hand-
sd fashion. A steady strain and a
highly tempered waliop runs in the
Cullop family. Henry's father is s
format: in the Scullins Steel Works
at. Mills. and it was while repro-
ssatlng the rotten Iron Works on
the diamond in the Mound City
"Many" Inocu- thst young Cullop
had his first baseball experience.
That first experience was as a
pitcher. New Cullop is highly re-
corded as an outfield and first but
m on account of his terrific
natural hitting ability. When Cull-
op connects lss “kills“ the old pill:
be rides it on a ins into far outfield
territory. He has in pounds of
bone and muscle back of his drives.
“8. can sure soak!" chorus Bur
gins. O'Lsary. Krinhell. Wiltss and
others of the Yankee general staff.
Gallop was discovered in 201! by
Ralph Works. old Detroit pitcher.
than manager of the Halli-an (8.
not.) club of tbs Dsk Imus.
hlffthisdrstysaro'u asapro-
m1. Cullen won eighteen
”manual:
Emacs-mun. .n- lsal'bslwas with
8.100. smut year with D.
m, _ _ ls ms ans-u cell» was
m‘omnmwmmm
meow-pm foster-mu
00m
' ‘mb owewulrefths
losses last
in
the remainder. lie electrified the
fans with forty home runs twelve
triples and forty-six doubles. Lou
Gehrig. considered the greatest.
home run hitter in the Eastern ml-
nor league circles. made only thir-
ty-seven homers in 1920. with Hart-
ford. Gehrig is a left handed bet-
ter.
The pink face and straw colored
thatch of thinning hair of Mr. Cul-
lop are nearly as well known to St.
Louis and Omaha soccer fans as
they sro to baseball blescherites. In
St. Louis Culiop played soccer with
the Scullins Steel Works team. but
year he changed his allegiance to
the Omaha A. C. Last winter Cull-
op tried to side line. working as
cashier and clerk in an Omaha cig-
ar store and poolroorn when not
playing soccer or out hunting and
fishing.
Cullop is married and has one
child. Bing; coming to st. Peters.
burg to train he has made a name
for himself by being the first player
to book a man sized amberisck out
in the gulf and the first athlete to
raise a "strawberry" on his sna-
tomy by the thoroughness of his
sliding around the Crescent Lake
Park base paths.
CARL SCHMEHL
AT FORT WORTH
TIIIS SEASON
GREENWICH. March 20.-Carl
Schmehl. of East Port. Chester. the
well known baseball player. who for
several years past has been in the
Eastern We has become a mun-
bor of the Fort Worth team in
Texas. For two years. Bchmehl has
been withvthe Hartford team of the
Eastern League snd’wss recognised
none of the best players on the
team. Rspbrts were current last
ym'tbat Bchmehl was going to the
Chicago White Box. but it has now
been confirmed that. Jake Atz. man~
sgsc of the Fort Worth team has
purchased the Greenwich player
go’s: Hartford, for the sum of 84.-
Sclnnshi is not at all elated over
his transfer as- he was sndeavoriug
to make good in the Eastern Inglis
Inset“ weakpolntwutntlio bat-
ting departments. If he could only
hit "(surly about thirty points
slam his usual _ average. nothing
could have kept him out of the big
blips- As an infielder sin! in the
excellent
work and he has but few equals.
nut; unites. third ssck’or of the
club of the Easter-ti
lesson is aim with the
team flab year. Alx has
mutual-eras
hm ‘Pci-t
nest, Worth
WAMBY FAILS
TO JOIN THE
BOSTON SOX
Youngster May Re-
place Veteran at Sec-
ond Base on Hub
Team
NEW ORLEANS. 1A.. Lilith 20-
——Ira Flagstead pulled into Red Box
headquarters today and now. with
one exception. the squad is complete
That exception is Bill Wsntby. vot-
eran second baseman. and not a.
word has been heard from Bill since
the team arrived here. And “'arn-
by's absence is making it thought
that the injury to his knee he sus-
tained is worse than was thought:
all of which may prevent him from
getting in action early. and thus
may help Manager Loo Fob! in the
starting of the big league career of
one of the slicksst looking rookies
a Southern camp could desire.
if Wamby doesn‘t play second
this year. mark it down in your
book that Nifty Connolly. the your;
ster from Berkeley. Cal" who wus
obtained from Bay City in the li-
chlgan-Ontarlo league. Will let the
Job.
Folks back home may be getting
tired of reading about Connolly. but
no one down here is tiring of talk.
in: about this young sensation.
Even the usually taclturn Mr. Fohl
has declared himself on Connolly.
“If that follow isn't a ball player.
I'll never pick another one." he has
said. He didn't add that Connolly
would be able to step in and fill tho
bill at sscond. for be or anybody
slso‘doesn't know that much yet.
Nor has he (racially announced
that Connolly would get the 105-—
eyes and mutter an "Is it “his!”
For they're going'to think “I”
are seeing Ennis reim-
stod. or- as he looked when its 81st
started to platoon. Connolly Is
the picture of Ruble.
'm°l°rto!liumiesam
up and show I “hull. 3...
humanitarian-that
BRIDGEPORT. March 20.—-—Lou
Bogash will fight Tiger Plovvers for
the second time in his career
Mechanics Hall in Boston tonight.
The Bridlfiport warrior won a foul
in their last bout but has hopes of
rs‘lstsrln‘ t knockout victory over
the Atlanta Deacon tonight. The
~~ - I ‘ FRIDAY,MARCH 8,
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SHAPE FOR BOUT
K
Hopes to Knock Out Atlanta Deaco
Clash—Has Trained
About 164 Pounds-—May Dra
Suspension in New
Pending ‘
I I8h“\' ha;-
at‘
.tlxee r «my.
bout is scheduled to travel ovcr a‘
ten round route.
Bog-sh left Bridgeport Wtsdncs-
dly ‘nizht in prime condition.
trained with Pal Reed and a, corps
of other Upon-lug pa era for me
weeks and reduced hi poundage to
a considerable extent. It iscxpectml
that the Spaghetti Mauler will diner
the ring about 16 pounds tonight
while Flowers may be a few pounds
heavier.
Named- in Bridgeport.
FIOWei'I has found his Netiicsls in
Bridgeport padded mitt exponents.
liel
Jack Delaney sent him to the Can-g
vss twice in Madison Square Garden "
while B.\tsh gained a foul verdict.
over him. They are the‘only tm.
warriors to place thorns in the [with ‘ r: '
of Flowers“ championship aspira-
tions. Honored is knockouts and
won three decisions before Delaney
brought his streak to a halt. He
won three bouts before his
on another winning streak which
fetched three victories before I‘v-
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FOSTER FIGURES DETROIT
TIGERS HAVE PERRAth .
Cobb Has Two Good Infields T11
Danger of Accident Similar to Lastl
Not IA'ker —- Evening
spondent Looks ’Em Over
By JOHN B. POSTER.
(Copvright 1925.)
Augusta. Ga... Mar. :m—‘rhc h»- 'v .- .. . , . .;_
froit Tigers will be serious cont- nd-
ers for the 1923 championship of
the American League.
In general, the team appears to Ln
better than it was last year. it is
too early yet to say how much h~:-
ter. but even if it were a little M?-
ter it would be a strong rival l"
“'ashington for the pennant.
If the Tigers had not so oi‘it'i
come close to the title and fail» -l i.»
get it through some niisforititivr lo
players on the field. there nltzl“. in
a little more emphasis hint‘i'd on tn.-
strength of this year's tram. i‘nzt
even Cobb ventures upon Champion»
ship talk with some trepidatinn, :1-
though he. declares stouziy tlmt it.
never will give up—and ho van".
The manager of the thruiis ‘,\
not taking chances this yrar. lir-
will carry more ball players than
ever. He has an entire Silll<2lfli"'
infield made up of Noun. first Law
Burk. second base. Tavencr. slim"
stop and Haney. third base. In hic
outfield are “'lngo, Carlislc :‘::t3
Fothergill.
Imagine a team with two aw
basemen like Blue and Ncun: 1:
seems a pity that Neun must sit on
the bench now that he has blossom-
ed. Yet look what happened in
1924. when Blue was injured. Tr»-
Detroits were thrown out of lIitfr
stride and to his accident in par?
blame for their failure to win the
pennant from \Vsshington.
When Blue was hurt Cobb wired
at once to the St. Paul Club to Swim!
him Noun. thinking that the lattrr
had been released to St. Paul on an
option that permitted his recall a:
any time. But the option provrd
to be for the season. Back went a
wire to St. Paul offering $10,0th for
s. player who really belonced to ll- -
troit. But the St. Paul club St‘f‘lnwi
to be on the verge of winning tlw
pennant in their league—which tlw-y
did—and declined to lot Soun c-t
Thin Detroit had to swallow hall
and see one game and anolhr‘r frit-
ter itself away because the infield
is Yea:
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Sentinels C
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wanted to get Davis. shortstop c.’
the Columbus team. who was gain-x
to cost him a lot of mom-y. llul-
swift was sent to look at Davis. and
his answer was that he still liked
Connolly. So Nifty was purchased.
This is Connolly's fourth year in?
He played on his. _
professional ball.
Nth school team at Berkeley and
ATTENTION!
Tbs grea. t American game
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the greatest of men developers.
Playing the nine cleanly had
been tbs foundntlon of the char-
m of some of the greatest men
In "I. country. The pastime pro-
ducas llso the fighting spirit
which has made America respect-
ed the world over.
It is with those thoughts in
Iliad that the Sentinel wishes to
snooursgs the playing of the
jolts. 'nus 1:sz will gladly
mumsnd bosscorssof all
murmurs. assessors are re-
s
mu sud their scor- to the
' one. the day the game
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‘1. “his the Icatinel will
mm for amateur
my _ J" mils! be t to the
lake
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AMATEURS I
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