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Show 18 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 20, 1927. Baseball's Conditioning Season Nears End With Stars and Rookies in Shape ARTIE NEHF IS FIGURED TO HELP CINCINNATI REDS WIN BALL GAMES Former Giant Twirler Is Showing Great Form After Year's Rest. ORLANDO, Fla., March 19.-(By the Associated Press.)-Indicated return of a clever southpaw pitcher from baseball limbo has converted the Cincinnati Reds into a smiling group of pollyannas. From the bright red legs of the athletes to the beaming face of Manager Jack Hendricks all is cheer. Artie Nehf is the pitcher responsible for the inauguration of all-smile week in the camp of the Reds. Consigned to the graveyard of departed pitchers last season, he has demanded a. recount and will get it. A great pitcher with the Braves and Giants for eleven years, he developed neuritis last year and could not grasp the ball. He was sold to the Reds in May, but did little all year, pitch- i ing only nineteen innings during the season. This spring the neuritis has disappeared and he has been pitching well in exhibition games and practice. If Nehf is a winning pitcher, the stock of the Reds is immediately boosted, for Cincinnati, in runner-up position last year, was only two games behind the champion Cardinals. The players believe that the addition of another experienced lefthander to an already impressive staff will send them first under the wire. Other established left-handers are Eppa Rixey and Jake May, with Roy Meeker threatening to join the select class. The experienced right-handers include Pete Donohue, Carl Mays and Red Lucas, Jablonowski. former University of Michigan pitcher, and Ray Kolp, who came from St. Paul, seem to have an excellent chance to join the staff. Luque, Cuba's best major league pitcher, is not in camp and there are hints that he may not be at all. Luque had a sensational year in 1923, but has not been able to break even since. With the exception of possible additions of two young pitchers and the rejuvenated Nehf, the team will offer almost the same team used last year, although George Kelly has come from the Giants in exchange for Ed Roush, long a Cincinnati star. In spring games Kelly and Pipp have both appeared at first and it remains a question who will start at the position. The other places seem to be filled, although Critz has not yet reported to play second base. The consensus is that he will be on band for the opening. Ford, who finished at short last year, will be back, and Dressen will take care of third. Babe Pinelli and Clarke Pittenger are infield reserves. The Reds have a likely first base prospect in Schwab, drafted from Seattle, but he faces an unreasonably task in opposing Kelly and Pipp. Walter Christenser., wnc had a sensational season last year, his first with the Reds, will take Roush's place in center and will be flanked by Rube Dressier and Curtis Walker. Bill Zitzmann and Ethan Allen will be the outfield extras. Allen, a former University of Cincinnati player, has been doing some long distance hitting in the spring games. The hard-hitting Eugene Hargrave will again head the catching staff. Hargrave led the National league in hitting last season and was the first catcher to win the honor in a stretch of years. The much traveled but still effective Val Picinich will be Hargrave's first assistant and a third catcher this year is Clyde Leroy Sukeforth, former Georgetown player, recalled from the minors for a real major league trial. "I can not see how we can miss having good pitching," said Manager Hendricks, "and if our pitchers come through, look out for us. The possibility of Nehf having a good season is almost too good to be true. Any fairly good team with good pitching is always dangerous and we have better'than a fair team. I confidently expect our fellows to be right up there fighting for the lead. So do they, and that counts, too. I like for my ball players to have confidence in themselves." COLLEGIAN SIGNS. Herb Christiansen, former University of Wisconsin pitcher, has signed with the Terre Haute club of the Three-I league. Bowling Meet Will Come West Next Season POEORIA, Ill., March 19.-(By the Associated Press.-The American bowling congress will hold an official tournament west of the Mississippi next year fcr the first time. The game in troduced as nine pins on Manhattan Island by the followers of Henry Hudson has reached officially halfway across the continent. Delegates selected Kansas City for the 1928 congress, and also smoothed out difficulties which had arisen between A. B. C. officials and a faction which favored "world classic" by raising the maximum entry for tournaments under A. B. C. sanction from $5 to $25. FOURTH WEEK OF TRAINING CLOSES Next Two Weeks Will Be Given Over to Polishing Teams. ATLANTA, March 19.-(By the Associated Press.)-The fourth week of the spring training grind of major le'ague baseball clubs closed today and found most of the stars and lesser lights in fine fettle. With the opening of the National and American leagues now less than a month away, the work cut out for the next fortnight is of a finishing nature and will find managers expecting veterans and youngsters alike to show "under fire" qualities. Jack McAllister, pilot of the Cleveland Indians, seems to be the only really dissatisfied leader in the south. The tribe is- conditioning slowly at Lakeland, as evidenced by the consistent losses in exhibition games of the last ten days. The lineup has been shifted considerably in an effort to find a more successful combination. In two others camps, those of the New York Yankees and Philadelphia Athletics, the men have not reached desired form. Several of Miller Huggins' stars are not yet able to travel the route. These include Bob Meusel and Combs. Both were excused from today's exhibition clash with the Bos- top Braves at St. Petersburg. However, Babe Ruth, who has been off the field for some time, was in the Yankee lineup. As for the white elephants at Fort Myers, Connie Mack has noticed the underpins of Eddie Collins have been wobbly of late. The veteran second sacker, again a "rookie" in the A.'s camp, is noticeably apprehensive about his legs as he goes through the daily drill. Exhibition games today engaged practically all of the fourteen clubs quartered in the south. Of the eleven aggregations in Florida, all were in action save the St. Louis Cardinals. They went through a stiff workout at Avon park, in anticipation of a heavy schedule next week. Tommy Thevenow, signed this week following a three weeks' holdout, is clue to join the team tonight. O'Farrell had been bothered about the. shortstop gap several days. Jack Flowers, who was filling the position in handy fashion for some time, has an injured foot, and Tommy is looked to as the necessary cog to close the infield leak. Sam Breadon, owner of the champions, said he had about decjded to struggle along without Flint Rhem, pitcher, for the season, following a persistent stand by the Carolinan over the salary figure. Jack Scott, another holdout, who announced he had decided to quit baseball, wasNsaid to be reconsidering. He has advised Manager Mclnnis of the Phillies that he would be at Bradenton shortly to talk matters over. St. Petersburg has become the Mecca of the training outfits, three clubs now being quartered there. The Yankees and Braves, who have been : in the city all along, have been joined by the Cincinnati Reds, whc will be in the city for several days. A new note has been heard in the Washington Senators' dugout, for Tris Speaker, another of the famous "recruits" of the year, is slugging with great gusto. The "Gray Eagle" has been clouting for an average of .571. The Chicago White Sox, now touring Texas; the Boston Red Sox at New Orleans and the Detroit Tigers at San Antonio were playing exhibition games. The Red Sox were playing the New Orleans club, the Tigers met the San Antonio outfit, while Ray Schalk's men were engaged with another Texas league outfit. As for the Florida exhibition tilts during the day, they were: Senators and Giants at Tampa Yankees and Braves at St. Petersburg, Reds and Columbus (A. A.) a I Plant City, Athletics and Phillies al Bradenton, Indians and Baltimore al Auburndale, and Browns and Robins at Clearwater. Ogden Shortstop Stars for Denver BAKERSFIELD, Calif., March 19.- (By the Associated Press.)-Leading 2 to 0 until the fourth inning, the Denver Western) league club fell before an onslaught of 11 hits and yielded an 8 to 2 win to the Seattle Coast league team this afternoon. Purdy and Ellsworth of the Indians I kept the ball rolling, Purdy getting three singles in four trips to bat and Ellsworth coming through with a homer and a three-bagger. A double play started and finished ! by Flickinger. Denver first sacker, with the aid of Pfahler, shortstop, was a feature of the game. Murphy starred in left fielld for the Colorado team. U. S. C. Football Pays $191,849 LOS ANGELES, March 19.-(By the Associated Press.)-Net earnings from football at the University of Southern California during the 1926 season were $191,849.50, Proressor G. C. Willett, chairman of the general athletic committee, announced in figures made public today with the publication of the Southern California alumni review. The gross income from the gridiron sport is given as $544,248.57. PUNCH THAT MEANS DREAMLAND IS LACKING IN PRESENT HEAVIES Tunney Alone Seems to Possess Knockout Drops; Dempsey Had Real Blow By SPARROW M'GANN, (Copyright, 1927, Salt Lake Tribune.) NEW YORK, March 19.-Was there ever a time in the history of pugilism when the field of heavyweights was j so barren of fighters with the I soporific punch as just now? With ! the exception of Gene Tunney, there i isn't a big scrapper who packs the i goodnight wallop. I Now, the writer can hear a lot of j irate boxing fans arise ana cry, "Where do you get that Tunney !stuff?" Well, wait a minute. If the world's I champion has not got a punch, how can the fact be explained that he has scored knockouts in 50 per cent of his battles? That's what the record shows, fifty-count 'em. lasted among his victims are Charley Weinert, no easy fighter for anyone to catch and stow away; Ermino Spalla; Georges Carpentier; Joe Lohmann; Tommy Gibbons; Bartley Madden, the durable Irishman who never Went to sleep in the ring before Gene applied the slumber potion. DELAYED START. Tunney would have a much larger list of knockouts except that he did not really start out to put men away until he got the championship bee in his bonnet. All who saw the terrific right hand smash with which he nailed Dempsey soon after the opening of the first round of the battle at Philadelphia will agree that Tunney can put over a punch. But the real knockout hitter with a one punch sleep ticket inside his glove passed with Jack Dempsey. This is what made Jack the card he was, and the reason, no doubt, why Tex Rickard is hoping and praying that Jack will return this summer and fight his I way to another bout with the man ! who took his crown away from him. ! Jack Sharkey and Jim Maloney? Well, they are ptinchers who look good . in delivering a blow, but they fail to ' make a stunning impression upon the man they hit. The spectacle of light- heavyweights continuing with them, after being hit with the best either Jack or Jim possessed, puts them out ! of the reckoning as farewell strikers. Paolino did not show a punch against Knute Hansen. Knute did j what heavy walloping was done, but I the squat Spaniard took the honors ! of the bout with his robust style and ; his indifference to punishment. And i Rickard is looking upon the Basque ; with longing eyes, hoping he will add 1 TNT to his wallop. Next to Dempsey he would like to have Paolino come through as Tunney's opponent. The cards read that Paolino will tackle either Dempsey or Jack Delaney this summer. DELANEY FAIR. Delaney is a good puncher, but he seems to be out of a wallop when j he tackles the big fellows. He hit i Maloney with all he carried in his ! right hand, but could not floor the Boston Irishman. The puncher draw's the fans and the promoter looks for the lads who will draw. The immortal John L. j Sullivan, Jim Jeffries, Bob Fitzsimmons. Jack Johnson and Dempsey- j whenever fans get to talking about j fighting these names are certain to be : mentioned, because they could punch. I Luis Firpo is called a bum. But fwho will forget the thrill of watching i him swing that ponderous right of j his? j Who will ever forget the fact that a ' novice with less than eighteen months' j experience in the fight racket hit the I champion on the chin and catapulted him into the press seats, coming with- i in an ace of winning the world's title? Yes, take him all in all, Firpo was a bum as a fighter; but the fans will ; never forget the wallop he packed. Right now it is safe to say that i Rickard would make due allowance for ! a fighter of Firpo's crudeness and i guarantee him a goodly sum if he could find such a man to tackle Tunney next September. I The fans want a puncher, and if any novice turns up possessing a blow that turns waking thoughts into dreams, promoters will show him the way to a gold mine. NEW MANAGERS INSPIRE CONFIDENCE AND HOPE IN THEIR BALL PLAYERS New Mexico Champs Enter Chicago Meet CHICAGO, March 19.-(By the Associated Press.) - Roswell, N. M., state champions, today wired acceptance to participate in the national interscholastic basketball tournament, which will decide the high school championship of the United States. Fifteen teams already have expressed their willingness to attend the tournament, March 29 to April 2, under the auspices of the University of Chicago. Invitations to fifteen additional high schools will be sent out Monday. Carbon County Lad Making Good at Montana 'U' Special to The Tribune. PRICE, March 19.-Reed Harmon, graduate from the Carbon county high school, is making good in athletics at the University of Montana in Missoula, Mont. This is Harmon's second year at the Montana school, and played football on the varsity squad as a lineman the past season. In one of the feature bouts in a recent fight card at the college, Harmon gave the crowd a surprise by his smashing assault which brought defeat to the sturdy Jimmy Parmalee. A straight left kept Parmalee in difficulty, Harmon shooting his long arms in again and again for points. The first two hard-fought stanzas were even, Harmon coming through with enough direct hits in the third round to gain the decision. STECHER TO WRESTLE. LOS ANGELES, March 19.-(By the Associated Press.)-Lou Daro, wrestling promoter, announced today that Joe Steelier, claimant of the world's heavyweight wrestling championship, through his brother- manager, Antone. has accepted terms for a match with Nick Lutze, Los Angeles, March 30, at the Olympic Auditorium here. Hudkins May Fight Tendler April 12 LOS ANGELES, March 19.-(By the Associated Press.)-A match here in the near future between Ace Hudkins, Lincoln, Neb., welterweight, and Lew Tendler, veteran Philadelphia southpaw, hinged today upon the condition of Hudkins' hands. Tendler signed a contract last Thursday to meet Hudkins. Yesterday Art Hudkins, brother of the Nebraska "Wildcat," told Hayden Wadhams, matchmaker of the Olympic auditorium, that Ace would be ready to fight about April 12. Hudkins' hands, bruised in the bout here two weeks agK with Bert Colima, Whittier Mexican, are healing, and should be ready for use soon. BRITISH SOCCER LECESTER, England. March 19.- (Bv the Associated Press.)-England and Scotland battled to a 2-to-2 tie in international soccer football match here today. Since th Anglo-Scottish series started in 1892, England has won eighteen games. Scotland seven, while seven have been draws. EDINBURGH. Scotland. March 19. -(By the Associated Press.)-Scotland defeated England in an international rugby football match here today, 21 to 13. The defeat of England makes Ireland the international rugby champion. Rugby matches between England and Scotland began in 1872. Each has won twenty games of the series and nine have been draws. READING, England, March 19.- (Bv the Associated Press.)-England defeated Wales in an international amateur soccer football match here today, 4 to 0. LONDON. March 19.-(By the Associated Press.) - Football games played in Great Britain today resulted as follows: SOCCER ENGLISH LEAGUE. FIRST DIVISION. Arsenal 1. Everton 2. Aston Villa 4, Birmingham 2. Bolton Wanderers 2, Tottenham Hot Spurs 2. Burneley 2, West Bromwich Albion 1. Cardiff City 2, Bury 1. Derby County 8, Wednesday 0. Leeds United 1, Huddersfield Town 1. Liverpool 2, Blackburn Rovers 2. Manchester United 0, Westham United 3. New Castle United 1, Sunderland 0. Sheffield United 0. Leicester City 3. SECOND DIVISION. I Bradford City 1, Fulham 0. Chelsea 2, Girmsby Town 0. Clapton Orient 2, Manchester City 4. Hull City 2, Swansea Town 1. Middlesbrough 4, Darlington 1. Notts County 1, Barnsley 1. Port Vale 2, Portsmouth 3. Preston North End 4, Blackpool 1. Southampton 0. Oldham Athletic 1. South Shields 3, Reading 0. Wolverhampton Wanderers 2, Nottingham Forest 0. THIRD DIVISION. Northern Section. Accrington Stanlev 3, Ashington 0. Barrow 1, Walsall 0. Crewe Alexandra 1, Bradford 3. Durham City 2, New Brighton 2. Halifax Town 4, Nelson 1. Hartlepool United 3, Rotherham United 1. Lincoln City 3, Chesterfield 1. Southport 2, Doncaster Rovers 0. Stockport County 2, Stoke City 2. Rochdale 4, Wiganboro 1. Tranmere Rovers 3, Wrexham 2. SCOTTISH LEAGUE. FIRST DIVISION. Clectiv vs. Airdrinians, not played. Cowdenbeath vs. Rangers, not played. Dundee United 1, St. Johnstone 2. Falkirk 0, Kilmarnock 1. Hibernians 0, Dundee 1. Morton 3, Hamilton Academicals 0. Motherwell 2, Dunfermline Athletic 1. Partick Thistle 4, Aberdeen 0. Queenspark 4, Clyde 0. St. Mirren 0, Hearts 1. Seven New Pilots Raise Interest in the National Sport for 1927 Season. By GEORGE CHADWICK. (Copyright, 1927, Salt Lake Tribune.) NEW YORK, March 19.-Major league baseball in ten years has not developed such an unusual atmosphere as it has stirred up this season. Seven managers who are new to their tasks, though old to baseball, are trying to win the confidence of their players and the news from the spring training camps indicates they are doing it. Among all these teams with new managers there is a new spirit. The players' minds have been directed into channels in which bygones are bygones-but in which there is plenty of inspiration urging them on to play better baseball this year than they ever have before. Maybe these new managers have not been paging Mr. Freud, but they certainly are doing a sweet job in applied psychology as applied to a lot of baseball ivory. NEW SPIRIT PRESENT. The players in many cases respect these new managers more than they respect some who have departed from managerial jobs. The new pilots have aroused in the players the spirit that breeds dash and raises fighting desire, and it will take a lot of beating before the men on these teams lose heart and stop trying. Watch the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Detroit Tigers. The players of the Pittsburgh and Detroit teams already have announced that they propose to show they can win more games, and maybe pennants, and they don't talk about their managers as if the latter were something like the scourge of a cat-o'-nine-tails. Donie Bush has been putting in his best licks to remodel the psychology of that crowd of Pirates in Paso Robles, Cal. He went to them a stranger, and the first thing he did was to introduce them to the word "yes" and that other little word "no." But the words came to their ears softly, like an Italian song floating on the evening air. The Detroit players had been jabbed with verbal darts so long that their brain cells were full of holes. Their new manager, George Moriarity, has not spoken -above his natural street voice since he has been with them. MORIARITY KNOWS STUFF. "He hasn't even talked to us as he did when he was an umpire," said one of the players. "Yet I've got more from him about baseball than I ever got from Ty Cobb. Ty used to tell me I was a good second guess- er, because I hadn't guessed his way, but often I thought my way was as good as his." So with the Chicago White Sox, Ray Schalk is an old factor as catcher and a completely different factor as manager. There was no question of assuming leadership on the part of Schalk. He didn't have to. His players figure that it belonged to him by right of service and knowledge and they'll go with him. Make no mistakes about that. Bill Carrigan won the respect of the Boston Red Sox first off. The layers 'believe that anything he says if the gospel of the game and there isn't a man who won't run around the park three extra times if he asks it. Stuffy Mclnnis, the Phillies' new leader,' isn't as fiery as Art Fletcher and he coddles his players. The Phillies want to get somewhere in the world and, while they have no revenge to work up on a former manager, they have fever in their veins to get somewhere other than the bottom. HOWLEY FORCEFUL. Dan Howley has put pep into the St. Louis Browns. Their former manager, George Sisler, is playing along with the boys and having ten times the fun that he had last season, and the players haven't the slightest desire to show him up. They are sympathetic toward him. His lack of force retarded the growth of force on the team. No lack of that with Howley. He is all force, and [f there is a player on the Browns who thinks that baseball is a game of moderation and no hustle he had better shake it out of his system if it is not shaken out by now. The cases of Jack McCallister with Cleveland and Bob O'Farrell with the St. Louis Cardinals are much alike. Both of them are men whose abilities are known to their teams. O'Farrell is a mainspring of drive when he is in a game. McCallister i.s running over with good cheer. Both of them know baseball and both are at the head of teams with ambitions. The Cards want to win and show that they can get along without Rogers Hornsby, and the Cleveland players want to win and show that they were not a flash in the pan when they went ahead so rapidly toward the end of the season of 1926. Spanish Fork Wants Baseball Special to The Tribune SPANISH FORK, March 19.-Spanish Fork will have a baseball team in the Utah Central league this season. This was definitely decided at a baseball meeting Which was attended by a large crowd last night at the American, Legion club rooms, with President Warren C. Ada.ms in charge. Following discussion, it was unanimously decided to place a team in the field and the following officers were elected: J. P. Christopherson, president;; Harry Fletcher, secretary; John E. Booth. Joseph Woods, Wm. A. Simmons, W. C. Adams and John H. Bingham, directors. At the meeting it was announced that there would be a meeting of the Utah Central league held at Spanish Fork at the American Legion club rooms, Tuesday evening, March 22, at 8 o'clock. The meeting is called by President John E. Booth and Secretary Gunner Rassmusson for the purpose of electing officers for the coming year and attending to any other business which may properly come before; the meeting. STEWART SIGNS. Robert (Bugs) Stewart, right-handed pitcher, has been signed by the Springfield club of the Western association. Fore! GOLFERS- Attention! JESS SWEETSER CHAMPION Shows all the difficult shots in slow motion VICTORY ALL WEEK GANSON TO MEET KILONIS SATURDAY Dern Will Meet Rogers in Special Wrestling Match. Promoter Verne McCullough announces that he has signed John Kilonis, the Greek light-heavyweight champion, to meet Jack Ganson, the Olympic champion, at catch weights in a wrestling contest to be staged at the Hippodrome theater Saturday night, March 26. It will be remembered that Kilonis appeared on the second card last Thursday night and challenged both Ira Dern and Jack Ganson to meet him. Kilonis is after the title now held by Dern and was willing to pay his own expenses from the east to get a chance at Dern. Kilonis was somewhat piqued when Promoter McCullough matched him against Newman a week ago. His rough manner of wrestling did not appeal to Newman. Promoter McCullough has had numerous requests that Kilonis be matched against an experienced wrestler such as Dern or Ganson. The clamor of the wrestling fans is that Kilonis be matched with a wrestler who can indulge in the same rough tactics which characterize Kilonis' style. Ganson has expressed his desire to meet Kilonis at any style of wrestling which he proposes to indulge in. As a special added attraction, BOXING FANS PAY $25,000,000 IN NEW YORK ALONE IN SIX YEARS East Meets West in Catholic Meet CHICAGO, March 19.-(By the Associated Press.)-East meets west in the first semifinal garnet of the National Catholic high school basketball tournament here tomorrow. Most Holy Rosary high of Syracuse, N. Y., victor over/ Cathedral high of Wichita, Kansas, by a score of 22-18 this afternoon, will carry the east colors against De La Salle high of Joliet, 111., conqueror of Catholic high of Washington, Ind., 21 to 14. in the other afternoon quarter final game. Promoter McCullough has matched Ira Dern, light-heavyweight champion, to meet Stanley Rogers, the sensational grappler and Instructor of the U. S. army. Rogers was booked to meet Kilonis on the last wrestling card, but due to a slight injury was unable to get here in time for that bout.. This bout should prove to be a real thriller, as Rogers is recognized throughout the United States as one of the leading claimants of the light-heavyweight wrestling honors. Promoter McCullough is angling for two other high-grade wrestlers to appear on this card. This will be a special Saturday night wrestling show and all feminine fans will be admitted free as guests of the management. Special rates for boys will again prevail at this contest. Four and Half Million Dollars Dug Up During 1926; State Benefits. NEW YORK, March 19.-More than $25,000,000 has passed from the pockets of the boxing fans into the cash boxes of the New York boxing clubs during the period from September, 1920, wien the Walker law went into effect, until December 31, 1926. It is possible to compute this total with reasonable accuracy from the survey of the various annual reports of the state athletic commission, the latest of which, covering the year 1926, just has come to hand. The customers dug down for a total of $4,551,564.08 during the year 1926. That is more than half a million in excess of the average year under the current boxing statute and in excess of the figure for 1925, which was a trifle under $4,000,000. This high total was reached In 1926 despite the fact that the juiciest plum in the annals of the Queensberry sport, the Tunney-Dempsey bout, took place outside the confines of the Empire state. That show attracted gross receipts of $1,895,723. Deducting the federal income tax of 10 per cent, the remainder is $1,723,384.55. Had the bout been staged he-re and attracted (Continued on Following Page. RIDING BREECHES Ready to Wear and Made to Measure $3.50 to $35 SIEGELS 228-230 MAIN ESTABLISHED 1864. Wm. 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