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THE HONOLULU ADVERTISER. SUNDAY MORNING. JANUARY 24, 1926. TEN 1IJ gTBSBinrgMlli v. I i a it i r-i a li Mard Luck riaver or Ail lime BATS .349 FOR'JPHILLIES Walt Johnsons Record For Nineteen Seasons Never Will Be Eroken Started Out for $90 Month Salary 9 ISLAND New York Promoters in Move to Line Soldier Up For Titular Battle Former ScliofleiM Boy Going Great Guns in the East; Experts Predict Tie Will Be Heady for Mickey Walker After a Few More Fights MEW 10 KK hnving fans promoters and others have taken Sanimv Baker, one-time bchoneld mill MIIIHIH.J LI IMI VT ANY rookie ever had any I 1 harder luck than George it i l7 1 1.

1.1. li.B YlJ-t Washington's Grand Old Man of Mound Ulas Another Year of Major League Abili Left in Arm i -i rr been made puunc. nine umc lid Harper bat his way up to big league notice and three times did misfortune smite him T.j STONEY McLINN ALTER JOHNSON" holds the same position among tf pitchers ef th larder than he ever smote a American League that Jy ifloo noMs among tee auers ana ball, just; when he -was going hover, hut at present stationed at new, jusi ai the gateway runners. -Itie i'g iraiu or iui u.i.v.tvcu cgn. secutive seasons of major chucking has established reefcrds which ne7 will be equaled.

of New lork L.ity, ana oaKer is ucms-uaii the next welterweight cham at his best and had every right to believe that be bad really arrived. 6. I tr In the first place, no otner pitcner nueiy 10 xnrow icub curT and laSl ones xor nuinetn iuu ao.i riuj'iTio pion; the boy who will eventually meet Mickey Walker for the title. Honolulu fisht fan rem em Harper was born Paducah. years ago, and was a farmer boy i.V;-',V1:-iJ.: until he was IS years oiu.

Jie Is Ler Baker, and recall that lie rnale a fine showing during his enlistment at SchofieU. He did wanted to go to school so badly that he worked as janitor of the Baptist churcb in order to be able to set through school. He joined that same church. Later he worked in a stave factory in Arkansas. The NATIONAL DICKINSON FOOTBALL RAiiXGS NOW comes Professor Frank Dickinson, of Illinois, with his "national football ratings" for 1923, in what will probably be the final aftermath of the spectacular season which closed on New Year's day with the unexpected defeat of the Huskies at the hands of the Alabama tide.

Heretofore, national ratings have been mere myths, to be accepted with several good sized portions of palt, with the teams rated according to the whims, likes and dislikes, of the various sport writers of the country. As such they have not been taken seriouslv by anybody but the particular authors concerned. But Professor Dickinson casts" something new into the maelstrom of gridiron strife, and with it, he threatens to establish himself as a leading football authority of the land. The Dickinson rating is eminently-fair and appears to be the only.equit- able wav to settle the annual interactional dispute. PLACES DARTMOUTH AT THE TOP OP THE COLUMN" PHOFESSOK DICKINSON'S system of rating teams, jwhicli worked out to tne satisfaction of all in the Big Ten conference, places Dartmouth in first place, ahead of Michigan of the Big Ten.

This one fact speaks aplenty for the Dickinson system, in that, casting aside natural sectional prejudice, it places an outsider ahead of a recognized powerful middlewestera eleven. In this it does vchat many authorities failed to do when making their national selections. Michigan rated ahead of Dartmouth in many of the selections, whereas in actual accomplishm it, the Green was more successful ancl therefore deserved the honor. Dartmouth was given an even 20.00 in the rating, and Michigan and Alabama followed close behind -with 19.38 each. 'S i-: son of the stave factory owner goi Harper time off to play bill on a not set the world on fire, but according to competent critics, he had all the earmarks of a comer, and when he left for the mainland and confided in friends that he proposed to re- has at least one more seasrn or.

pitcomg his arm, which will pern ft him to retirt with twenty years of labor). Then Walter has, amoiig other reeorcj, 310 shutout victories to hisicredit. That pn-hap is fifty more shutout than any otir pitcher will turn in, unlesiu there is a radical change in baseball. Johnson has won abo' it thre out everv five pimcs in which jhe pitched. victories total 39-1, his def.rts 251, and hi.

average is Other pitchers have bett vf records for a shorter period, amoag themtam Gray, cf the Athletics. But no pitc'ier is erpecte. to keep up a -60S gait tor rlneteen season or longer. JOHNSON'S STRIKE OTJ IT RECORD Another mark at which tu throwen will shoot unsuccessfully is ie Big Trail. semi-pro team.

He was a snortstop them. -His play was fast enoug'i to win him an offer from the Paris. SAMMY BAKER Texas, team. They offered lu.n A month. Me took council with in the school teacher, and held out for .90.

Got it. The Paris manager shifted Harper to the out field. WALTER JOHNSON IN KANSAS CITY His batting won him a berth in Kansas Citv in 1913. He was just totrj of S324 strikeouts, or an average, of about tour aia one-aair per game. Johnson has been in T5I pennant contests.

Thirteen nifchers. including Johnson, were throwing brlseballj in th THE NEXT EIGHT 1 that year. He was going good in the American Association, when li enlUt at the Mitchell FIving Field and continue his boxing career in the professional rings of Gotham, it was freely pre- dieted that with the proper handling he would eventually land up among the topnotchers. Baker is a tall, rangv chap with a fighting heart. He never knows when he licked and has improved wonderfully since he left Honolulu.

Onlv a short time ago he won on a foul from Jack Zivic, the tough Pittsburgher who has knocked out such men as Lew Tendler and others. Ringside critics who are impartial, declared that until Zivic delivered the foul blow, baker had the better of the milling. i Be-t of all, Sergeant Baker is still in the Army and under rigid discipline. He is given permission to box in New lork, but must be back on the job next morning, all of which means that Baker will keep in fine physical trim. They are talking of matching Baker with Mickey Valker, l.

th n1lier has tucked a few more fights under GEORGE HARPER, American League last year who rounded out ten or more asons cf big league toiL Urban Shocker is nearest to Johnsoi perolntage of vie- he became afflicted with bone felons on his hand. Back he went to Paris, Texas. Then he was shifted to lort Worth. Again his terrific hitting won him promotion, this time to De HERE'S LATEST BALL MAJORS ARE TO USE tories. Shocker has spent ten years in American League vestments, teiunj: for ft.

Louis and New York. He has won lo2 games and llst 33, for ta average of Stan Coveleskie, with Washington last year, had wen 3P5J ana lost in eleven campaigns. His average i .604. Jied Faber in a deitNn eampaigtn end Bob Shawkey in thirteen have good records. The vital statistics concerning th thirteen veteraa pitchers, at tea piled by Charles J.

Foreman, the Baltimore statistician, foHw fcr: his belt, and Baker's followers declare emphatically that when welterweight B.B. W. I O. 1306 394 134 Games P.O. 751 the time comes there will be crowned a new champion.

COLGATE raaked fourth in the standing with 13.75 and Missouri was placed fifth with 16.25. The South again came to bat for national honors when Tulane placed sixth ahead of the se cnth-plaee Washington eleven. Tulane had 13.00 and the Huskies .14.75. the latter losing out on New Year's Day. Wisconsin nd Stanford were tied for eighth place with 13.75 and Pittsburgh and Lafayette completed the list of distinction with 12.50 and 13.SS respectively.

I'rof essor Dickinson 's list is fairly comprehensive and takes in a wide scope of territory. It looks like the best national rating of the season and has drawn" much favorable comment from all the sections. DICKINSON RATES SECTIONS BESIDES giving the rating of individual teams of the country, Dickinson comes out with lis inter-sectional rating, compiled from tshe scores of the various battles between leading teams of the various divisions of the nation's grid encountered several reversals during the campaign. The foregoing figures will furnish the fans here and on the mainland with lots of fuel for their hot stcVe leagues until the gridmen gather in the fall for the 1926 mom A CHANGE IN REGIME THS 1925 season witnessed the downfall of three of the outstanding teams of 1924. The national ratings do not recognize Xotre Dame, California or' Yale, the three respective leaders in 1924.

In fact, only one, Xotre Daine.plaees in the second list of 11 nationally prominent football teams," according to the Dickinson plan. California and Yale were completely submerged in the upheaval of the past campaign. Another significant feature of the season recently closed was the sudden blossoming of the Sunny South into fulfledjjed citizenshi pin the football world. Alabama and Tulane were the outstanding southern teams, and both scored against Name and club Johnson, Washington Phockr. New York Coveleskie, Washington Faber, Chicago Shawkey, New York I'ennock, New York Pa us, Detroit Cuinn Athletics BASEBALL MORE POPULAR IN THE BRITISH ISLES Yrs.

19 10 11 32 13 13 14 13 14 11 31 11 SS5 54i 1-1! Pa jB 923 t2S .604 1101 S14 34 31 126S 272 3S4 :43 .363 T93 633 331 303 .561 1172 1017 206 lt7 775 506 140 3 li .530 1226 3160 3 83 3 Yd .524 633 717 125 3 1 5 .521 SP8 390 103 3i4 5S2 79 714 .458 S3S S07 413 440 362 501 402 363 331 316 Bush. St. Louis jrogridge, St. Louis Smith; Cleveland Russell, Washington troit of the American league. He was going grandly when he broke his ankle.

Back to the bush for Harper, or rather, back to the tall timbers, for by this time had purchased half interest iu a -saw mill at Fordyce, Ark. lie worked in his own sawmill until his ankle got well. BATTED .396 He played amateur ball for three years before that shattered, ankle finally got strong and supple again. Then he got a chance with Oklahoma City. Played there 1920-21.

Batted .396 in the Western league. Got his third chance, this time with Cincinnati. Ho batted .340 as utility oufielder and warmed the bench most of the time. Traded to Philadelphia in 1923. Manager Fletcher of the Phils is strong for him, and he is strong for Fletcher.

Got his chance. Led the league in fielding in 1924 and batted well above Last season he fielded well and was up among the first ten mighty hitters of his league with the imposing mark of .349. Harper is a earnest fellow of fine character; rather serious type, quiet and not given to show or fancy stuff. In the spring he looks forward to his life time passion of playing ball. He married an Arkansas girl some years ago, about the same time he acquired half interest in that saw mill.

lie has both of them Among the younger pitchers, Kenneth Holloway of the Typrrs is tl dcr. In three seasons he has been in 329 games and has w3a 3S and st 20, for an average of .655. le lost The above will give the fans some strong teams in the Uskslde town long before the war. In South Wales football players consider bawball a better game" for keeping themselves in condition during the summer than cricket, and i is thought probable that their participation in baseball materially increased its popularity. In Liverpool the view also is token that the game is far faster than cricket, and workers are being lured in increasing numbers to baseball parks on Saturday For years Liverpool has been almost alone among the centers of the north in its adherence to the game, but new clubs are springing up in the surrounding districts of St.

Helens, Prescott and the Wirrah "inside" in formation as to the construction of tho new baseball that other reputable elevens, including will be used in the National aud the Huskies and northwestern, two strong teams of the cojist and mid American leagues this year. It was used for the first time ia the 1025 world series. iron. The east scored a comeback daring 1825 and tops the list with a standing of 22.86. The Big Ten is next -with 20.68 and the Missouri Valley conference comes third with 20.00.

The South is fourth with 19.27 and the Pacific coast is last among the sections with 17.50, having GRAY'S PERCENTAGE .615 gam Gray, in two seasons, has been in 66 contests. He was 24 times and was tho loser 15 times. His percentage is .615. Of the thirteen veterans who have good lifetime records, ty one. Jack Quinn, is a member of the Athletics.

And he only joined the Mack familv about the mdidle of last season. However, three of the stars learned their first baseball 1oobs on Shibt Tark turf Bob Shawkey, Herb Pennock and Joe Bush. Ed Rommel, in six se'asons, has won 307 and lost S7, for a .5 52 raifn. The A's knuckler may be as near to Johnson as any of them by fthe tim he completes his major league labors. The lifetime records of pitchers who hav been in the majors 'vs taa ten years, and who have averaged .500 or better, follow: dle west.

DAMKROGER ISSUES CAGE CODE According to the manufacturers "the new construction of this ball insures perfect balance and greater resiliency." They also say that it "has finer playing qualities and E. Xb DAMKROGER, whose name has often appeared creater wearing qualities. Baseball at last appears to have taken a firm football in certain sections of Great Britain, and the last season saw more progress than ever before, according to comments by London sporting authorities and Writers. Especially has preat progress the last year been noted in Liverpool and South Wales. Most of the baseball elubs in Smith Wales are to bo found in the thickly populated districts, and Cardiff has become the real stronghold of the game.

The progress it has mad in- the Welsh metropolis is largely attributable tot he fact that during the war the United States authorities had a large depot in the citv. It i that the is largely attributable to the fact that a decision is arrived at in far less than in the case of the older game. Certain it is that the athletes of South Wales and of Cardiff and Newport in particular, have seized on baseball a the best substitute for football during the off season of the great winter p.ime. Cardiff supports four baseball leagues, one of which is a women's league. Et- ponents of the game invariably play their matches.

on pitches in the pub-lin parks. A number of the cricket clubs have enclosed grounds and are able to charge admission. It is no uncommon thing, according to one London critic, to. see crowds of from i SOOO to 5000 watching a baseball game in Cardiff. Newport also has its thousands of enthusiasts and claims credit for being the pioneer of the American gamrt in South Wales.

There were What makes this new ball from any that has been on tho Years, Garnet Won market before ia that it has 1 yet and expects to keep them all "cushioned" cork center. The, cen his life. i ter of the ball is made of live cork Name and elub Giard, St. Louis Holloway, Detroit Cleveland Gray, Athletics Lyons, Chicago Kerr, Chicago which is surrounded by black semi- .1 O. vulcanized rubber, over which is vulcanized another cover of red rub i ortn western stadium To Hold Only 50,000 ber.

Whitehill, Detroit in the public print since he announced that Maui would stage the first annual inter-island in-terscholastio basketball tournament, dropped us a note yesterday in which he included the "Code of a Basketball Player." He informs us that every player on the Valley Island received one of the codes and that the officials are working to keep the game clean, and to uphold Maui's name as the home of sportsmen. It is evident that Damkroger is going to sell the sport to the Maui public, in spite of itself. Jit is starting out on the right path. m. This Vashion of red rubber is sup liuethrr, Washington Hovt, New York CITICAGO, Jan.

23. Northwest posed to take so'hio of the liveliness out of tho "Jack Rabbit," which was in use during the greater part Lost 5 20 8 35 23 35 20 SO 73 35 3 49 S7 81 45 17 0 r7 24 S6 ern university has obtained permis 30 3H 13 24 S5 53 SO 310 9t 3 23 f2 107 100 55' 20 41 23 37 3 2 2 3 3 9 8 5 3 6 6 7 7 3 3 30 129 33 6f. 9: 340 73 246 117 116 3 73 281 253 ICS 71 no 133 S7 320 6S Baumgartner, Athletics Mnrberry. Washington Collins. Detroit of 1020.

sion from the Evanston city council to erect its proposed $1,000,000 sta dium, but the stand will not be the These new style baseballs have arrived in Honolulu and are avail Rommell, Athletics Uhle, Cleveland Van Gilder, St. Louis Gaston, St. Louis triple-decked, 326 foot-high struc ture that had been planned. able where sporting goods are sold The university had asked for per Dnvi, St. Lnuis mission to erect tho J2G-foot-hih -m Lib.

House Juniors Blankenship, Chicago St oner, Detroit stadium, which would have been tho highest in the country. But the city council, instead, passed amend Thurston, hn-ago Wintrard. St. Louie Play Love's Bakery IRISH GIRLS SAY YANKEES ARE TOO SOFT ments to the building code permitting a start on the preliminary work on the stands with an eighty-foot limit. So, instead of a TS.OO ca Fred Ileimaeh and Slim Harriss each has pitched for the As Ileimaeh has won 27 and lost 36.

Harriss is credited. witi 4 win and chared fcS defeats. With a favorably break in the luck, both Fred and Slim may fe a pacity oval, tho concrete stand will teat 50,000 in double decks. the .500 set inside of two year. The Liberty House Juniors and Loves Bakery team both members of the Honolulu Business Men's Junior league, will crosa bats this morning at 9 o'clock at the Fair grounds.

The Liberty House tenm has suh old time players as Jimmy Borge3, AVakita, Wonjf Inn fnd Lopez, and tliev confi lent- Members of the IrisS Ladies' Hockey Union's team which recently completed a successful tour of the United States have returned home with no very high opinion nf the athletic prowess of American girls. CmCAGO IS IN FOR REAL TREAT LIKE a bombshell came the announcement from Annapolis, the home of Uncle Sam's naval academy, that the 1926 service game would be played in And I venture to, say that the boys themselves are tickled to death with the shift. It means a longer trip for them, -new scenes and something different. In Honolulu Army and Navy this topic was an all-absorbing one yesterday, and several Army men -with whom I talked expressed the opinion that taking the game to Chicago was a mighty good thing. One of them remarked: "We've got something good at West Point and we are not asdiamed to show it.

I feel that the people of Chicago are entitled to the. game. And for that matter, I think the Pacific coast should see these teams in aclion if it could be arranged." Army-Navy football games are no different than are games between Yale and Harvard, Stanford and California as far as actual playing is concerned, but the wonderful spectacle before and after, of marching and other maneuvers, the intense cheering and singing. There's nothing like it anywhere. Chicago is to be congratulated upon getting thU game.

SAN FRANCISCO HELP NOT NEEDED IROM San Francisco comes word that the Amateur Athletic Union is planuing a benefit swimming meet for Mariechen Wehselau, Honolulu's champion swimmer when she arrives Tuesday. that the proceeds will be turred over to her in order to help defray expenses of the Florida trip. One of the reasons why THE ADVERTISER pnt over a successful drive for funds last week was to provide Miss Wehselau with plenty of expense money so that she would not have to depend upon help from Ean Francisco or any other msliland community. Honolulu is perfectly able to pay the way for its star athletes when a worthwhile "competition is in sight, and when it is deemed ly expect to trounce tho Bakers. This team according to Jimmv I regular Liberty House team ia the i Commercial League.

plaver is expected to be on deck His morn- 4 ing at 8:30 o'clock sharp. F.3 Your Hair i.s Important As Your Clothes "American girls are soft and luxury loving," is the comment of Miss Winifred Drury, secretary of: the Irish team. "They walk no more than is absolutely necessary and use motor cars to go everywhero. In their homes electric heaters keep the rooms at a high temperature and tho atmosphere study. This mole of living tells against them on the athletic field.

They are not so sturdy as the Irish 'girl hockey players. Miss Levingstone, a member of the team, thought it funny that American girls should wait five min -m-t-m- WORKS WELL 'Maud seems to have the ri combination." 'What, do vou m3n'r" "She ktp her dark and 1 spirits light." The crowning moment of the "Young Hopeful's" career arrives when he dons the first long trousers. And it is a fact that those trousers must be indeed strong and durable. This offering is of the highest quality sturdy, strong, and dependable fabrics made especially to stand the rouost The style and cut are and Men wlio value correct appearance use A wot brush i'cs only temporary results, while Ftacunb makes hair smooth throughout the day. Light, velvety, invisible.

utes for an elevator when thev might walk up a few fiiahts ia 3 advisable to send athletes to the mainland. in! rtPy I rW Trt VT ser-onds. She said the only iris the United States who seemed of San Francisco to an have any life were thoso who played TYJIY nice b'hl a be encfit swimminj meet Makes women' trvt. place. Ktj cirl in.

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ith Miss Wehselau the magnet, but those who know the swimming 'game lierj, and vrivo are competent to 'id-vise have stated that it would be unwise for ilariechc-n to appear -in a Snn Francisco tank until after her Florida competition. It is argued that she would be In better physical condition for the: championships if she s'tould go direct to St. Augustine and taper off with he- training down there. If San-. Francisco wants to see Xfariecheii swim, then tbe mctt thus provide another attraction for the Sesqui-Centennial celebration may be accepted by Dempsey, but already there is an obstacle in the pathway of the match, for the New York Boxing Commission has warned Pennsylvania that Dempsey is under suspension.

The Pennsylvania and New York state commissions have a working agreement and if Pittsburgh insists upon going jihead with the nht it will either have to break with th.9 Gotham commission cr else patch things up in some manner. All of which i3 mighty good advertising for the champion, who manages to keep his name before the public no matter hookey. Another of 4he players. Miss said she did not think that the young men in the United States were "so well turned out" as those in England and Ireland, and that the "bright yellow boots worn -by every second young man" were an eyesore. thnt there was no interest in the sport (f kh'ss.

but evidently I am ail wrong, -for Charles Hartweil of Pnrker Ranch, Hawaii, sends me an entry list of the nags who will compete in the Coffroth handicap at Tijuana, Mexico, on March 25, in the world's richest with an estimated aiue of 000, and he $5.00 to $6.50 McINERNY Name AFTER a fall on treacherous, wet or icy pavement soothe andheal that wrench or strain with Absorbing, Jr. The magk bottl is double first aid both antiseptic and lini-jnent. It stops the ache and pain promptly and effectively. It destroys germs guards ainst infection. At tht ctrtirr anzzut's, a XT.

T. YOT.TNG. Inc. dddress M. i-nuld be stage, on her return home, i lt believed that this will be done.

wcat happens. MEN'S SHOP. Fort at Merchant Street JACK DEMPSEY AGAIN PHILADELPHIA'S offer of half a million for Dempsey to figfct Harry ViUs in the Quaker City next summer and calls attention to a. hors with a p-wv -w--t. PULL FOR LIHOLIIIO Honolulu wl, THOUGHT that Honolulu us be elig-bl-.

but will be rJJted Mf.W -1 far removed from horse racing; at odds 40 to 1 if it runs. 4 l-11" if. 1.