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ulWmuui viiv.wnuv.v.umw KOENIGt LAZZERI ilff.llif.lTT. VV.NV.V. AV.VvAVù UNNV vavv M.V.S 1 GEHRIG MITCHELL OtkkMi ItMM QJJINN OOAK GRIMES COMBINATION IS PERFECT Evans Thinks Keystone Duo Ranks With Baseball's Best. BY BILLY EVANS Koenig to Lazzeri or Lazzeri to Koenig There a real play combination. If you please.

The Teuton and the are a great pair around second base. In a few yearn they will get a aimllar rating Tinker to Harry to Turner to and others of that ilk. When Manager Miller Huggins of the New York started the 1926 sesson with two Mark Koenig at short and Tony Lazzeri at second, the experts predicted dire disaster for the team. Realizing the groat importance attached to the play around short- atop and second. If seemed impos sible that two recruits would be able to perform In a satisfactory manner without blowing up.

The veteran Yankee team of conceded to be of great strength, had failed badly, flnlahed seventh, and Manager Huggins realized his club had passed the peak of Its game and needed new blood. It took nerve to bench the veteran Scott at short and Aaroii Ward I at second, two stars who had given believe I am conservative when good service to the Yanks, but who that Tony Lazzeri did as Emergency Hospitals Are Needed At Racing a real double pLay trio to to Gehrig! Note the ball getting troni Koenig to Lazzeri and the whirl of zeri, in the small panel, to toss it to Gehrig, and how Gehrig is stretched to meet it! The Koenig-Lazzeri combination should have a similar rating to the Tinker to Evers and Barry to Collins duos in a few seasons. had outlived, in the opinion of Hug their usefulness In New York However. Huggins had the courage of his convictions and went through with his Judgment. The action of the mite manager of the Yankees was all the more drastic, when you recall that I jiz aerl had made his reputation in the Pacific Coast league at shortstop.

The Intricacies of second base play were all new to him. During the spring training season of 1926. didn't look so wfcll around second base. Not being accustomed to the tricks of the trade around second his chances to fill the bill seemed none too favor able. The posseasor of great natural ability and a mind.

It take Laxserl very long to familiar ite himself with the secrets of playing second. Once he got the hang Of the Job. he began to show con ratant improvement much to help the Yaukees win the pennant in any other uvm her of the team. In making that statement I am mindful of the round excellence of Habe Ruth's play and the super-pitching of Herb Pentiock, as well as the valuable contributions of the many other stars on the club. This year, the wisdom of Miller Huggins in building anew is making itself all the more apparent.

Mark Koenig and Tony with a year of major league experience behind them, are much improved ball players. I would say that each is 25 per cent better than last year and constantly developing. Lazzeri hit .275 last season. Koenig four points less, a fine showing for two rookies making their major league debut. This year both are certain to be far more dangerous at the plate because of added con- You 'd Be SURPRISED! BILLY fldence.

I know of no two greater Infleld- ers among the younger players in the majors than Koenig and Lazzeri. They promise to go down in history as one of the stellar keystone combinations of all time. In developing these two players. Miller Huggins has builded for the future, because no team can aspire to a pennant without plenty of class around short and second. DEMOLISH old stands be a familiar sight of the past 20 years missing to old alumni of Michigan next fall.

The wrecking crew are now demolishing the north stands at Ferry Held, stands that have been used by thousands of Michigan men to watch the Wolverines In actions. BASGBAll BAS 6-6 DufifUir va AVE Cwine: sum Mees 14 Basketball Is Now Paying Its Own Bills Lincoln, in the Missouri Valley is still king of sports, but basketball began taking care of its own bills this season. The heavy drain on football profits by other sports was aided to some extent this year by fhe making of a substantial profit on basketball at four, perhaps more, schools. Kansas, by virtue of its leadership of the valley in basketball, made the greatest profit, w'hile Missouri. Nebraska and Kansas Aggies also showed a balance on the credit side at the end of the season.

ampus I on sport ment BOB MATHERNE Vienna Is Erecting Clock Without Face Vienna-(yp)-A clock without a face is being built into a bridge which the upper floors of two modern buildings in the heart of Vienna. The 12 hours will be displayed by historical figures in statuary 10 feet high. The hour which the figure represents will be numbered above the head of the statue. The minutes will be numbered on a rule. Hours will be ushered in and out by music from an organ of 1,000 pipes.

One of the historical figures on the clock will represent Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor who died in Vienna not 100 yards from the location of the timepiece. West Virginia Track House Is Best in World Morgantown, W. Va. The West Virginia Mountaineers will soon boast of the largest field and track house in the country. The new house will ha.ve approximately 7000 more square feet of space than the Michigan house will have a seating capacity, if necessary, of 6,000 persons.

The new plant will include sectional basketball playing floors; an Indoor track one-eighth mile In length with a 75-yard straightaway, pits for high Jumping, pole vaulting; oflicee for coaches, and dressing rooms for all athletes. Several Southern California and Stanford football stars are in the movies at Hollywood this summer, working on a movie version of college life and football that Is being produced by Richard Barthelmess. So prominent, both on the Pacific coast and nationally, are these football players that the public is assured of one of the most real lstlc football pictures ever produced Tricky Dick Hyland Is technical director of the picture. If ever seen llylaiul start around an end. dodging tacklers, you have some idea of what action he will put In the picture.

How he is good! Other Cardinals with Hyland are Ted Shipkey, Don Hill, Frank Wilton ami A1 Forster, while the contribution are BARBERS AS NEWSPAPERS. Grand Forks, N. A. G. Sorlle of North Dakota has asked barbers to talk to their patrons abiut state Industries, Improving opportune moments between the scrape of the razor and the snip of the shears.

the governor says, "are practically newspapers in their dissemination of French Maneuver Auto in New Game Wireless equipped automobiles, more than a hundred of them, have staged the first radio The cars received their orders by radio and were sent 150 miles over bad roads in various directions. All arrived finally In the late afternoon at the Montl- hery speedway south of Paris. Men More Sought After in England happens when the American debutante meets the English eligible Aa American debutante who writes to the London Daily Mall only under her initials solves the question by saying that It is the American girl who gets off the first. she says, Impressed me as being very much more Indifferent than Americans. This Is only natural, as they are here In the minority and consequently sought after, as we, the girls, are In America.

find I am giving way to the men and am getting quite used to being unimportant. It was quite hard at first, but one can get used to There Is a system of chaperoning in New York which does not exist In London, the debutante declares. Very few New York girls, f-he says, are allowed to accept offers of men to see them home, but must return home with a professional chaperon or maid. Such is not the caso in London. The fair visitor deplores the American system of cutting in at dances, and prefers the English program system.

is no way of stopping anyone from dancing with you. even It you like she says, again, there is no way of keeping on dancing with someone you do like if someone else feels a desire to cut In. Another point in favor of the English system is that being with your partners for about a quarter of an hour gives you the opportunity of really gettijig to know the men you have Just met. Cooper Played Nonchalantly In Open Meet can it be said that Harry Cooper lacked the confidence to win the national open at Oakmont. Cooper, who lost the title in the playoff with Tommy Armour, was one of the few entries in the meet that rapped the ball smartly at the hole when he putted.

Ho was taking a chance and fate was with him throughout the early stages. Hut, say the wise ones, had he played other than nonchalantly, he might have copped the titie without a playoff. But he did and Armour is king now! GOOD ENDS. Madison, 40 consecutive years Julius Olson attended every commencement at the University of Wisconsin and not once did It rain. But at his forty-first commencement day the heavens opened and Olson was drenched to the skin.

By NEA Service. Belmont Park, N. steeplechase season is now on in full swing, both In this country and in Canada, and from the British dominion comes this brief dispatch: "Oulngamp broke down so badly In the steeplechase It was necessary to load him in an ambulance to get him off the As one expert here points out. we have learned to expect such things as part of the game of steeplechasing. But what about the American brave horses that break down or break their legs In steeplechases and the ordinary running races.

Pony McAtee is still nursing a bruised and battered body, thanking his stars he is alive to tell of Sllenus bolted into the rails with him After somersaulting the fence and pinning McAtee beneath him, the colt lashed out with his hind legs in an eff to regain his feet. An almosi caull- flowered face Is evidence of where those legs struck. The rider's left thigh was laid wide open In its contact with the rails. The emergency hospital in the new administration building at Pelmont, called the most beautiful race course In the world, was in complete readiness, a surgeon BOTH DOING WELL. Jackie Fields and Leo Lomskl are two California fighters now going well in New York.

was in it snd prepared for the patient by the time he arrived In the motor. A tremendoua wave of sympathy swept over thArrowd followed by a rustle relief when It heard of the care given "We may not have the need of this over a long period," said Mr. Wldener, when It is needed It Is needed badly and Is worth all the expense." Rut what about the horses? Evidently Canadian association Is prepared to take care of BOTH horses and ambulances waiting for both of them. In these enlightened Cnlted States too often that Is not case. When will all our associations facilities for the most prompt and least painful relief of injured horses? Are they to have horse ambulances In readiness at these $1.000.000 plants or are the fans to be regaled with the spectacle of a horse with a broken half a mile across the Infield? Or perhaps being shot to death in full Of course the thousands of race fans can always look the other way when some poor horse.

Its leg broken. Is led off hobbling horribly on the broken stump. Rut somehow It doesn't seem just right. WATTS AND WILL. Watts Gunn has a younger brother named Will Gunn who Is beginning to cut up on the links.

HE MAY BERIGHT. Sergt. Sammy Baker thinks be welter champ If he ever meets Champion Joe Dundee. DAME RCMOR CJOSSIPS. Let any club lose a few games It was expected to win.

and the gossip starts about a shift in managers. Dame Rumor has It now that Jack Hendricks is to be parted from his mans role with the with bout rial ub- Hargrave as his Only Six Spitball Pitchers Remain In Major Leagues; Moist Delivery Will Last Only Five To my bumble way of thinking. Max Carey, now with the Brooklyn Dodgers, but who won his great fame wth Pittsburgh, must be rated as one of the greatest ball players of all time, with few peers as a base-runner. To the ability to take a commanding lead and seldom be caught napping by the pitcher and the art of breaking perfectly with the pitch, add great speed and a most decep tlve slide and you have the reasons for Carry's great skill on the bases While It generally known. Max Carey, during his 36 connection with the National league, has topped that organization in 10 of those years as cham base-runner.

first winning the fitle in his third year as a big leaguer. Twice during those 10 years he has captured the title for four consecutive eeasonn After winning in at this school and another tro- he failed to repeat in 1914. but was first the next four seasons He slipped back in 1619. largely be cause he played In only 66 games He came through in 1920. failed the following year and then won the base-running honors for four successive seasons During 16 years in the majors.

Carey has pilfered 688 for an average of 43 per season, a most remarkable performance. When you recall that Ty Cubb. great haae-runner that lie watj, haw led the American kuh oniv six seasons in 22. it gives you some idea of Careys brilliance as a base- runner. This contest, encouraged by Captain elect Drury, Cravath, Lara- the government, was intended to metta, Hibs and Lee The group develop ideas for rugged portable equipment that could stand hard usage and rough riding.

Every hour additional road directions were sent out on a 322- meter wave. Each Contestant had to prove by a textual report that he had received the orders and had not simply followed other cars. One car with the antennae in the top caught the wireless while traveling 30 miles an hour. Most of the instruments were built by amateurs. would give Joy to any coach.

Hyland. Shipev, Cravath, Hihbs and Drury, you know, were promin- eut figures nationally this past season. Two distinctive honors came to Walter Forbes. Georgia athlete, on the eve of graduation a few days Forbes was awarded a trophy emblematic of being the best ath- phy declaring him to be the best fraternity athlete scholar of an or- represented at more than 95 schools He was of the basketball and swdmmlng and was a star in football and track There should be no idle moments in the life of Kent Farley of Mis souri. co-holder of the world's record for the 100-yard dash, in his Job at Agricultural College of California In addition to handling publicity for the school.

Farley is going to assist in football and coach track. The three should keep his time trell tilled. RANGE HORSES DYING. Helena. the range fences of Montana lie the skeletons of hundreds of wild horses, victims of a hard winter and a scarcity of fodder.

A few emaciated survivors still roam the hills. Even these are being rounded up and sent to slaughter houses. Flivvers and tractorR have made horses more valuable in the form of glue, fertilizer, bow-strings. Hero-Worship Got Sharkey His Ring Name New' hero-worship explains why Josef Paul Cukos- chay terms himself "Jack in this fight racket. Jack Sharkey, when he began to get some place in the fight business, took on Jack first name and Tom Sharkey's last name for his own.

Both of great fighters and as good as he could ever expect to not use their names instead of Paul Cukoschay? Thus reasoned the conqueror of Maloney. And so Sharkey It became and Sharkey it always will be. BY BILLY EVANS. The spitball will soon be but a memory In the major leagues. Five years more will probably spell the death knell of the moist delivery.

When I broke Into the majors back in 1906, the spitball was at the very height of its popularity. Two years prior to my debut, the veteran Jack Chesbro of the New York Americans, with the spitball as his one best bet, had won 41 games. By going to the spitball Chesbro kept his star shining brightly at a time when It seemed he was about to slip. Ed Walsh of the Chicago White Sox blossomed out about the same time as a spitball star and in 1906 helped win a pennant for Chicoga through his effectiveness, due large DEGREES AT OHIO Columbus. 20,253 degrees granted in 50 years by Ohio Iv to the almost exclusive use of State University more than half the have been conferred world war.

grandson of Stonewall Jackson, famous Confederate general, has become head of the department of military science and tactics of sity of Chicago. He is Major Thiayas Christian Jackson. since the For seven or eight years Walsh and his spitball delivery were the sensation of the majors. The possessor of uncanny control, Walsh was able to pitch nine out of every ten balls at the knee, the height where the spitter is hardest to ML The success of Chesbro tin particular, and perhaps doxCgi other pitchers in general caused the spitball germ to spread. It almost became a pest.

Twenty years ago 70 per cent of the pitchers In the major leagues included the spitball in their repertoire. The other 30 per cent faked It. That Is, they went through all the of placing saliva on the ball for the psychological effect it would have on the There is a waste of time on the part of most pitchers who use the spitball delivery. When you recall that practically every pitcher majors at the 40 mark so it is a score of years back went through fairly safe to say that in five vears the preliminary motions whether spitball delivery will i. ------a------------ a memory.

v. after placing on the excessive use XL 11 as wel1 88 delivery, added a postscript which read: uU fre, in earnest about shortening the games, Ran, why not try seven pitchers remain t. The oldest SJS5, the youngest, Few the pace in using it or not, it is easy to figure how it slowed up the action. I believe I am conservative when I say that it lengthened the ordinary game 20 minutes. It was this delay that was the inspiration for one of the many baseball classics pulled by the late Tim Hurst, one of the greatest of umpires.

President Johnson of the American League, annoyed at the way the spitball had slowed up the Mme, wrote the members of his umpire staff as to how the evil might be lessened. ir the fadinS are Amer- oi Chicago, m2 Athletics and Shocker of New York. The three National Leaguers are Burleigh Grimes of i5.ii 1 Mitchell of Philadelphia and Bill Doak of the Brooklyn team. Stanley Coveleskie, one of the most famous of the Bpitball ers, was recently given his uncon- felease by Washington. In 1920 Coveleskie won three world series games for Cleveland Koenig to Great Route!.