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SAN BERNARDINO DAILY SUN. FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1931 Jack Sharkey Appears to Have Voice in Championship Mixvtp BOSTON HEAVY EAGER TO BOX FAR WESTERN COLLEGE GRID RESULTS GOOD Stormy Weather Causes Delay In Los Angeles Open Tourney Play Will Be Resumed Tomorrow Providing Showers Subside, Golf Schedule Altered BOBBY JONES MIGHT BECOME GOLF DIRECTOR Miracles of Sports By Robert Edgren FOR BIG MONEY PAGE EIGHTEEN Pacific Coast Universities Have Movie Contract Appears to Be Files Challenge for Return Go (By United Press) LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8. The opening of the sixth annual $10,000 this year are Walter Hagen, Mac-Donald Smith, Gene Sarazen, Harry Cooper, Leo Diegel, Horton Smith, Olin Dutra, Tommy Armour and George Von Elm. Densmore Shute, last year's winner, is not competing.

Los Angeles open golf tournament today was postponed until Saturday because of the continued rain which made the Wilshlre Country club course resemble a quagmire. The fir3t 18 holes will be played Saturday, the 3econd 18 holes Sunday and the final 36 holes Monday. The postponement will set back the opening of the $25,000 Agua Cali-ente a day, making that tournament start Jan. 13. One hundred and thirty of the country's greatest professionals, sprinkled with a few amateurs, comprise the Los Angeles open field.

Frist prize is $3,500, second prize $1,750 and third prize $875. The low amateur will receive a sil ver trophy. Entry List Reaches 330 The total entry list numbered 330, being reduced by. a 36-hole qualifying round played yesterday. Thirty- nine of the leading players were exempt from qualifying.

The previous winners and scores follow: 1926, Harry Cooper, 279; 1927, Bobby Crulckshank, 22; 1928, MacDonald Smith, 282; 1929, Mac-Donald Smith, 285; 1930, Densmore Shute, 296. Among the leading contenders Polo Gaining Rapid Strides as Popular Sport in California Argentine Presents Classy Opposition to Feature Winter Schedule of Daring Play ONE GMte TWttt lt Kr.k.WC L1VV nU -TtT Mil AMD ICWiA, SWTS Mi- TeHMMUTE'S a PLAtf lOOlN WNrt(J OH Don) lOVUfc QVMCTC. RMA BfwCK YAM6 OVER GoKK. 5fc.FtTY- Dt "TVU3 mPcW TWS lOUi KEePVHQ To OF tRAW FOR. ToOCKDouiU RNM.fcCOR 0USfs7- DRAKE a SKAWE OTTHI TRICK RUUE5CHH6EV KgAgfe- Big Barrier in Assuring Champion U.

S. G. A. Job By L. S.

CAMERON (United Press Sports Editor) NEW YORK, Jan. 9. The United States Golf association will be In convention here Saturday to elect a slate of officers, with Bobby Jones as one of the nominees. Ever since Jones made his movie contract there have been hints that he would be declared beyond the fold of the ruling body of amateur golf. There have been reports that he would be declared a professional.

There was a rumor that a substitute would be placed In the spot assigned to him In the board of directors. Atlantan May Get Election But despite all this locker room conversation and despite a great number of newspaper headlines, one may feel reasonably certain that he knows what will be done about Bobby Jones other than to elect him. And that is precisely nothing. Here are the events leading up to the meeting of Saturday: Jones won all four major golf titles In a single year, thus establishing himself, as If he had not already done so, as the world's greatest golfer of all history, Jones announced that he would maka some movies which would "educate" players to his form of play. Jones signed to talk over the radio.

Jones was reported to have made a commercial alliance with a seed company. Jones; was reported to have prepared to sponsor matched sets of clubs bearing his signature or Initials. The U. S. O.

A. nominating committee placed Jones' name on the board of directors. Has Done Much To Boost Sport Through all of this there was no end of talk among the golfers of the land. There was a feeling held by some that Jones ought to be declared a professional. Others held that while this move might be foregone that he should be removed from the directorate.

Still others asserted that Jones had done so much for golf that his name on the directorate would be a decoration. This last view Is the one that the majority of golf association members are expected to take. There are two things about the Jones case that appear to have been lost sight of by your casual golf enthusiast One Is that the U. S. G.

A. does not place the brand of professionalism on any player. The association merely declares that a man is ineligible to compete In amateur events. The other Is that there Is nothing In the association's constitution which would prohibit the election of a professional to office. New Subjects For Discussion If Jones should elect to play as an amateur In a sanctioned tournament, the U.

S. G. A. might feel called upon -to declare him Ineligible. But there is no likelihood that he will do this.

While the association might call to task a player of lesser stature who has even simulated the recent activities of Bobby Jones, it will not so censure Bobby. And that's because he's Bobby Jones, world's greatest golfer. Whether or not this is eminently fair will be food for locker room discussions for months, maybe years, to come. And what a relief from the topic of prohibition that will be. Prefers Heme to Job As Ball Club Prexy ny AflKoclaUi Frcan) MILW, call the hr.me has lureil away Mrs, Ilorence Killilna Boley, inHl today the OnlV Woman Tire baseball team, from haidllnr the BiuwauK'o American nsaoc.ia.tion club for another year.

Not, she says, that basel all im the plai for a woman she expects i a in the stands this wmmrr yelling for the lirewers but Ks merely that home come f.rst, now that she's married. And her physician-husband, she says, ought to hav something more thaii a ham. ball fan for a wife. President of the Brewers forwo years and a half, owner since the death of her father, Henry J. Kil-lilea, Mrs.

Boley resigned her position yeiterday. Her official reason for becoming a director was that she "thought the road, trips re- quired of the president were a little too strenuous for a woman." Her friends, however, recalled she made no objections to the trips prior to her recent marriage. Since then Hhe has admitted that breakfast at home with her husband was one of tha high spota of her day. Dr. Boley said he had nothing to do ''vith his wife's decision to relinquish tho presidency.

"I practice medicine," he saH. "My wife can do whatever shu likes about other things." Boston Hockey Club Plant To Entfr Team in Tourn" i NEW YORTv, Jaa. 8. Bo' Hockey club's team wu name day the Amateur Athletic a to r.tt.reent the United States I No Reason to Join Throng for Curtailing Future Plans (Note: This is another of series of stories based on an Associated Press survey of college athletic conditions). By ALAN GOULD (Associated Press Sports Editor)' NEW YORK, Jan.

8. The unde feated football machines of Alabama and Notre Dame, rather than any effects of business depression, handed far western football its big gest jolt of the sensational gridiron season just closed. The East and South may make the most of this competitive deflation, after many a lean year. Otherwise, so far as the Associated Press survey of college athletic conditions is concerned, the colleges and universities of the Far West have enjoyed a prosperous year, on the whole. Pacific Northwest Proposes Expansion "The tendency at Washington and I believe at all other schools In the Pacific Northwest is to expand rather than curtail," Earl Campbell, graduate manager at the University of Washington, told the Associated Press.

We all see a great future in this region. Interest in football seems to hit different sections of the country at different times. First it took hold In the East and Middle West and then it surged out to California, It now has jumped to the Pacific Northwest and we expect to see several years of capacity crowds." Significant of this exceptional growth is the fact that plans are under way to enlarge the stadia In Seattle and Portland, where re cord crowds of 42,000 and 35,000, respectively, saw featured college games last season. California Big Three Had Prosperous Year There will be no curtailment of 1931 athletic programs at the Cali fornia "Big Three" California, Stanford and Southern California despite some examples of decreased gate receipts. California's football "gate" dropped1 from $665,000 In 1929 to $615,000 for 1930 but the Golden Bears will continue to enjoy competition in 17 sports six major and 11 minor In volving one of the biggest of all college athletic programs.

Stanford's football receipts dropped from $499,822 to approximately $480,000. Southern California, its season climaxed by the Notre Dame game, again exceeded in receipts. St. Mary's, of California, while not making public Its receipts, showed an attendance increase of more than 100,000, the profits from which will be turned into developing teams for the first time In Buch sports as track, tennis, swimming and boxing. Golden Bears Seeking Coach So far as athletic policies are concerned, the new year holds forth no radical steps in Pacific Coast areas, although California Is busy sifting the talent for a successor to "Nibs" Price as head foot ball coach.

The "systems" of Dr. Clarence W. Spears at Oregon and James Phelan at Washington have been given a season's trial and ap proved. Rumors that Glenn S. (Pop) Warner might leave Stanford to accept an offer from Pennsylvania have not been substantiated.

Stanford is slowly working toward a two-year school, with only junior and senior enrollment, a plan sponsored by President Ray Lyman Wilbur, but this Is considered to be a long way from ful fillment. It Is opposed by a large section of the alumni. ARIZONA MAN GIVEN TROPHY (By Associated Press) LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8. The highest honor the racing fraternity can bestow the sportsmanship trophy for 1930 has been awarded to an Arizona man, Chester Gardner, Douglas speed king.

The presentation of the Brad-shaw-Elliot-Schofield cup to the Douglas racer will be made when Gardner drives up to the line for the start of the 100-lap grind at the Ascot speedway Sunday. The Arizona ace was fighting it out with Francis Quinn and Ernie Triplett In the last Ascot race three weeks ago. Gardner's machine spun out of control and struck a fence, throwing its driver out. Gardner was stunned for a moment. Regaining consciousness, the Arizonan saw that his car was rolling back toward the speedway, where it would be In the path of the oncoming racers.

Unable to rise to the driver's seat, he thrust hjs legs in front of the wheels of the car and prevented it from rolling onto the track. He held it back until aid arrived. FRENCH CHAMPION WINS PARIS, Jan. 8 Maurice Griselle, French heavyweight champion, outpointed the "Black Firpo" from Argentina, Eplfanlo lilas, In a 10-roundbout tonight. Griselle had things all his own way in the bat- With Stribling but May Get Primo Camera Instead fBv United Pressl EOSTON, Jan.

8 The voice of Jack Sharkey, Boston heavyweight, was added today to the babble over the heavyweight boxing champion' ship of the world. Sharkey, In a statement to news papers, declared he was ready to meet William L. (Young) Stribling of Georgia, in a 15-round bout. "I have notified the New York Athletic commission," Sharkey said, "thnt am readv to dim for a 15- round bout with Stribling in New York city. "This action was taken by me on account of the commission's statement that It would recognize the winner of a bout between Stribling and myself as heavyweight champion of the world.

Even though I won a decision over strmiing at 011-aml Beach, two years ago I feel that I should give the Georgian a return match in view of the fact he still considers himself a leading heavyweight contender." Sharkey added that he has been In training for several days and would be fit to enter the ring against Stribling within six weeks. He asserted he also stood ready to meet Max Schmeling "anytime the German heavyweight cares to accept the challenge I have on file atthe office of the New York commission." "It is my belief," declared Sharkey, "that Schmeling will reconsider his refusal to keep his promise to me. The demands of his own countrymen will compel him to do this." Finally, Sharkey saW he would welcome a meeting with Primo earners. In the event that the Italian was reinstated by the New York commission. "Camera, In my opinion, Is one of the most formidable of the heavyweights," the Boston fighter ald In conclusion.

-Jack Shar-iera for the heavyweigni. ship of the world was today's boxing rumor. The plan is not as fantastic as It might appear. Max Schmeling, champion, was deprived of his title on order of the New York boxing commission Tuesday. The commission then proposed that Sharkey meet Willie Stribling In a "title" bout.

But It now appears that Stribling is committed to a Schmeling bout elsewhere. And Camera would draw a crowd. WALKER MAY YET REGAIN STANDING CHICAGO, Jan. 8. Mickey Walker, world middleweight champion, has accepted terms for a bout at Chicago stadium against the winner of the Jimmy Slattery-Kid Le-vinsky fight next Wednesday, Matchmaker Nate Lewis today advised stadium officials.

Walker conferred with Lewis in New York and the bout was scheduled tentatively for early in March. Walker's acceptance was conditional on the promise that success against the Slattery-Levinsky winner would result in an attempt by the stadium to match him with Tuffy Griffiths. Slattery has agreed to meet Walker here if he defeats Levinsky, but the king and his new pilot were less enthusiastic. "Lewis promised to match us with Griffiths if we beat Slattery," Alvis said. "We would rather take Tuffy because victory over him would mean more to the king." Alvis already has offered Griffiths $20,000 for a Levinsky match, agreeing to take 50 per cent of the receipts and pay Tuffy out of his end.

OAKSSECURE MAJORFIELDER Wade, Detroit Outfielder Will Join Coast Leaguers, Arlett, Lombardi to Depart Bv Associated Press) OAKLAND, Jan. 8. Purchase of Charles Wade, outfielder, from the Detroit Americans was announced today by the Oakland baseball club. He played with Seattle In 1929 and is a right handed hitter and thrower. Wade's entry into the Oaks' outfield Is believed to forecast the passing of Russell (Buzz) Arlett, vtprn of 13 years of play.

Offi cials of the club Indicated they will try to sell Arlett to another club in the league. It Is known the big outfielder has been dissatisfied with his present connections for some time. LOMBARDI SOLD TO BROOKLYN DODGERS jnAKLAND, Jan. 8. Officials of the Oakland baseball club announced today they had practically completed a deal whereby Ernie Lombardi, heavy hitting catcher, will be sold to the Erooklyn Nationals for cash and three players.

Lombardi'a sale hinges on whether the Pacific Coast league accepts the universal draft agreement with the major leagues, at It meeting in Los Angeles tomorrow. ONE STROKE VICTORIES FEAUTRE MIAMI MEET MIAMI, Jan. 8. Many a match was won by the slim margin of one point today In the first round of match play in the Miami mid-winter amateur golf tournament The results: J. B.

Ryerson, Cooperstown, N. defeated Ken Barry, Miami, 6 and 4. Mack Fisher, New York, defeated Jack Vilas, Chicago, 1 up. C. A.

Fifer, Qulncy, 111., defeated George Anson, Merrill, 28, 4 and 3. Lee Chase, Buffalo, defeated Dick Bennett, St. Albans, N. 1 up. Jim West, Miami, defeated T.

C. Woodward, Middletown, 1 up. O. C. Durand, Brooklyn, defeated C.

A. Ammls, Boston, 4 and 3. C. A. Bayley, Akron, Ohio, defeated Frank Lewis, Miami, 2 up.

Win Day, Chicago, defeated Millard Chase, Buffalo, 1 up (19 holes). Pairings for tomorrow: Ryerson vs. Fisher, Fifer vs. Chase, West vs. Durand, Bazley vs.

Day. at Michvick and are great mounts, But of more Interest to the visitor are the Gaucho grooms, who breathe an atmosphere of the vast pampas of South America: The Gauchos are most picturesque in their baggy trousers, sashes and broad white neck pieces. With their accordions and wild pampas songs they give fashionable Mid wick a bizarre touch. Capt Pat Roark, the great Irish star who played so brilliantly when Tommy Hitchcock's Meadow- brook four defeated the Army In India is scheduled1 to ride with Lad' die Sanford's Hurricanes In the open championships. The presence of the daring Gael with his match less horsemanship and great stock handling will give added interest to the games.

Midwick will have a strong team built around Elmer Boeseke, who played in the 1930 international at Meadowbrook, Eric Pedley and- Carleton Burke. Army teams from Fort Bliss and the Eleventh Cavalry have been invited to compete and other teams will be organized for the season. While Midwick is given the choice events on the high goal schedule, other polo centers In Cal ifornia also will have their share of attractions. Del Monte will get the high goal handicap play late in February; San Mateo has a cir cuit cup play and Santa Barbara the junior and novice tournaments. California's matchless climate is ideal for polo and the game is en joying a rapid growth and great popularity, here.

Many polo ponies are being bred in the Far West and California Is developing players the equal of those in the East where most of our internationalists have been trained in the past. SOUTHERNERS HOLDCONFAB League President Indicates Loop Will Continue as Eight Team Circuit (By United Press) MEMPHIS, Jan. 8. Prospect for a continued membership of eight clubs in the Southern league looked brighter tonight, as league directors discussed- final disposition of the Little Rock, Mobile and Nashville franchises. Little Rock's franchise apparently was secure after directors approved transfer of the club and stock from Robert G.

Allen, veteran minor league club owner, to a stock company of Little Rock business men, headed by H. Grady Manning. Manning was elected a league director today. Turning to Mobile's problem, President John Martin of the league, announced an agreement had been reached between Jimmy Hamilton, majority stockholder of the Mobile club, and Byrd Douglas, Nashville attorney, as to price and conditions of transfer of the property. Milton Stock, former major league star, expected to man.ige the Bears this year, and Harry T.

Hartwell, Mobile city commissioner, participated in the discussion. The meeting broke up temporar ily, while contract for the sale of the Bears Vvas drawn up. The Nashville club, due to be hold in receivership Jan. 20, still provides a problem in the circuit. lllAiX -TUT: ZrbMP AV "Ali IT I PLANS BEGUN FOR REGATTA If T- Intercollegiate Rowing Kaces Expected to Be Held During June; Cornell Favorite (By United Press) NEW YORK, Jan.

8. Prelim lnary plans for holding the annual intercollegiate rowing regatta at Poughkeepsie were announced here today. Definite decision as to the date and the number of crews to be invited will be reached at the annual meeting of the Intercollegiate Rowing association here Jan. 22. Tt la bnnmn tVifif iiA rflrfl will bp ahfMlt -TlinA 17 Tt 1 pxner.teH that nine crews, the same number that started 193U, win compete Invita'tions Given Tji Mnit CnllAnpft Atuallv tVia IntarmllpclntA re gatta Is an invitation affair, but any college or wortny scnoiasuc standing which boasts a crew receives an Invitation to compete.

Tha irawa iViat Htartprl lflst. VPflr i. Vll.n were Cornell, Syracuse, a. i. Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology), California, Columbia, Washington, Penn, Wisconsin ana Naw Thev finished the race in that order.

That is, all but Navy ftnUVioH TCnw was swamoed. The 1931 competition will be a wide open one. Cornell nas exactly Via earna vnrsitv wmcn comDeiea one year ago. And this varsity has vmn r.raMiMntr riiirlnff the earlv winter, and will remain In practice tnrougn ine spring. Thus, Cornell will De me iavoreu crew.

Eut the favorea crew aoes nn aiarava win. For example, Navy was the big threat last year, and Navy nas yet 10 reaca wc finish line of that race. Washington was the second favorite last year, end Washington finished sixth. California and Columbia were the big- threats, and they fin ished fourth ana nun, respectively. Maxwell Stevenson, chairman of Knr4 nt otetrardi of the Inter collegiate Rowing association, told the United Press waay mat ne um not expect any drastio changes to be made In the handling of this year's race as compared with that of last year.

It has been predicted, however, that some new rules restricting the coaches' launches win dj pruiiim-Kated- t.l, The race win sian snoruj dusk. McCarthy Undecided As to Yanks Line-up (By United Press) kkw YORK. Jan. 8. Joe Mc Carthy, new manager of the New York Yankees DaseDau ciud, reported to his team's office here today with little to say.

He told baseball writers that he had decided on "not one" of his regular play, ers, that every position on the team is now open, and tnai no couia not name a tentative lineup and would not be able to do so until the last week of training camp activities. By FRANCIS J. POWERS (Special Dispatch) LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8. Southern California turns quickly from one sport to another; from football to golf to polo.

Within a few days high goal polo will be inaugurated at the Midwick country club with some of the very best players In the game participating. The feature attraction of the season will be the team representing the Pamperos club of the Argentine. In the past the Argentine has sent such players as Jack Nelson, Luis Lacy and Manuel Andranada to the states but this winter a younger and equally as daring a group of riders will represent the "men from the pampas." On the Pamperos team that will arrive on Jan, 18, are: Juan Reynal, Dan Kearney, Luis Duggan, Juan Be-nitz and Diego Cavanaha. With the exception of Reynal and Benitz the other members of the team are of Irish extraction descendants of the wild riders who made the Eniskillen dragoons famous in Irish history. Dan Kearney is rated by his countrymen as the greatest No.

1 In Argentina. Which Is extravagant praise for if Kearney Is the equal or superior of Alfredo Harrington, who is well known In the states he must be a wizard. Juan Reynal, captain of the team, Is a member of the famous Santa Paula team in the Argentine and last season his troop rode to 13 consecutive victories. Duggan and Cav anaha also are superb mallet handlers and the Pamperos are expected to give the United States teams fierce opposition. The Argentine string of ponies, 34 in number already are stabled TERRIERS OUT FOR THIRD WIN Redlands Cagers Cross Wash to Oppose San Bernardino in Hoop League Contest By STANWILSON REDLANDS, Jan.

8. His quintet strengthened somewhat In the addition of Bill Boone, the husky grid captain of the Terriers during the past season, Coach Guy Daniels feels confident the Redlands will chalk up the third stright victory when they oppose the San Bernardino Cardinals on the junior college gymnasium floor in that ctly. The splendid showing of the Red-lands team in chalking up two deserved victories has strengthened hopes of the Terriers that they are on the road to the Citrus Belt league basketball championship. Coach Daniels' cagers have displayed a passing attack that has been unrivaled by other league fives, and this factor with, the improved floor play, makes the Red-lands team a real contender for the league laurels. Bauer, the big blond Swede who plays guard for Redlands, is one of the outstanding players on the Terriers, and It Is going to mean a lot of classy offensive play to slow down this romping Scandinavian.

Stater and Smith at forwards are playing in great form, while Krenk-Ier at center and with Boone and Bauer as guards, Redlands has one of the strongest quintets In the past few seasons. Smith college girls had a sledding Coast Loop Conference Opens Today (Bv United Press) LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8. I The directors of the Pacific Coast league will hold a two-day meeting here beginning tomorrow morning. Among the most important matters scheduled to come up ar election of a league president, adoption of the 1931 schedule, and a decision on the draft controversy with the major leagues.

Harry A. Williams, who has been president of the league for seven years, is the leading candidate. BIG TEN TEAMS IN REACTION Northwestern Meets Michigan in Feature Game Which May Indicate Titular Quintet (By United Press) CHICAGO, Jan. 8. Big Ten basketball competition will start in earnest Saturday night with all teams in action against conference opponents.

Northwestern and Michigan, regarded as leading contenders for the championship, head the program with a game at Evanston which may decide the ultimate winner of honors. Other games include: Illinois at Purdue: Chicago at Indiana; Min nesota at Iowa and Wisconsin at Ohio state. Northwestern has earned its favorite ranking by Impressive showings In pre-conference games and is favored to defeat Michigan. The Wildcats' team Is composed of four veterans and the sophomore star, Joe Relff, and with a schedule advantage in not meeting Purdue, Indiana and Wisconsin, has an ex cellent chance to go through the season undefeated. Michigan's sonhomore team be came a serious contender through its 29 to 22 victory over Purdue Tuesday In one of the two confer ence games played to date, in me other Wisconsin nosed out Illinois 12 to 9.

In defeating Purdue, unde feated in conference competition last season, Michigan flashed unex pected class and Coach Veenker quintet now Is regarded as a strong contender for honors. In the remaining games Purdue, Indiana, Minnesota and Wisconsin are favored over Illinois, Chicago, Iowa and Ohio states respectively. RETURNS TO COMPETITION CHICAGO. Jan. 8.

Augle Kleck- hefer of Chicago, 10-tlme holder of the world three-cushion billiard championship, has recovered from a critical illnes of five months' du ration, and will return to billiard competition. EN HARVEY IS RING FAVORITE British Middleweight Expected To Have No Trouble Drubbing Vince Dundee Tonight (By United Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 8. Len Harvey, Great Britain's answer to America's prayer for a fighting middleweight boxer, will make his bow to eastern ring fans tomorrow night in a 12-round contest with Vince Dundee of Baltimore. They will meet at Madison Square Garden, the very spot which badly needs a real ring attraction to make up for some sorry spectacles.

Harvey has been termed by British ring experts as the best fighter to have come to the United States in many years. He has been made an 8 to 5 favorite over the Baltimore youth. Dundee is no setup, and the odds may shorten before fight time. The favoritism shown to the Britisher Is due solely to his record of 200-odd knockouts In 350 fights. He has yet to lose a bout.

Harvey chose an excellent time in which to appear in New York. It has been only two days since the New York boxing commission declared vacant that middleweight ti-1 tie held by the rather inactive Mickey Walker of New Jersey. Let Harvey make great showing against Dundee and let him win over an outstanding contender hand-picked by the New York commission, and you will have a new world's champion a champion, that Is, in New York and affiliated states. Dave Shade will meet Joe Anderson, of Kentucky in the semi-final bout, It was announced. Hank 0'Day'i Feeling! Hurt By Ramon of Failing Eyes (By Associated Press) SAN ANTONIO, Jan.

8. Hank O'Day's feelings are hurt. The veteran baseball umpire wants it understood that he Is 66 years old, not 7L and that his eyes are as clear as ever. Reports of O'Day's sojourn at a Missouri health resort had made his friends solicitous. He has been here five weeks, and said he expected to remain until about Jan.

15, when he will go to Phoenix, and from there to his borne in Chicago In ApriL "Do I look like the sick man they try to make me out to be?" he asked. "I could go behind the bat today and call the balls and strikes as well as ever. "All that was the matter with me was I lost my appetite, and so I went to Excelsior Springs to drink a lot of that water, and that gives a fellow an appetite to become hungry enough to eat a boot." HORSES ELIGIBLE FOR RACE LIVERPOOL, England. Jan. 8.

Eighty-four horses were named today as eligible to start In the nine ty-second running of the Grand Na tional Steeplechase to be decided over the historic Aintree course of four and March 27..