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Till; J5KOOKIAN DAILY NEW YOKK. 2 A COBB NEVER WAS AND NEVER COULD BE SUCCESSFUL AN AGER-N AVIN rnnpifJinFjqniFFFR ,1 Star in the Winter Sport Sky 1 Ul IlliUllU UlliLII Neither "Scandal" Nor Conspiracy Figured in Release of Georgia Peach Dctn.it Owner Bjyan to Deliberate Letting Out Ty After! Testimonial Banquet in Which a $10,000 Bonus Was fake $10,000 "Gift" Cost Him His Job Tigers Graduate Leaders But No Series Players Detroit. Jan. Hint to ball players attpirini; to leconie niujor league club managers: ei on the Detroit team. Three men picked to pilot ball clubs in the American and National leagues next year have at one time or another been on the Detroit payroll.

(Jeorge Moriarty. who will niHiiage the Tigers, did bis best ball playing as a third baseman on Frank Navin's club. Dotiie Hush, new leader of the Pittslnir I'irates. was one of the best shortstops Detroit ever had. Dan Mowley, successor to George Sisler at the held of the St.

Louis Americans, did much valuable coaching from the bench during several years in a Tiger uniform. ly the same token, the Detroit team ip a good one to stay away from for those who aspire to cut Into World Series coin. Not a player on the Tiger roster at the close of the li2ti season ever took part In a World Series game, excepting Ty Cobb. Opened Negotiations With M-ed by I ho I Mt -H Club Tint be ardal hut hei-ause Crank J. Navin one-half the (l it.

stork. decided mh i i'sf I manager. rwrli" came in the summer of 'nhii'M three-year contract that fx-. Auu'ust of the 1 season, a testi-hb and because of this testimonial han-guod policy to release Cobb, present i i.ninvpi'HV between Cobb anil statements to the effect that (lie lii the presence of the ft nests on iu nut ii Mini of money that Navin it wa true Ci.hh hiul been draw re.eiving. at the end of each season, a il W-Wy GETS UNDtR VWY THEY I Ruth TO.

GET TV CQS Glenna Collett to Play -In Two Winter Events Miss ilenna Coilett's plans for winter competition, disclosed today, include participation in only two major golf lixtures. says the Associated I'ress. These will be the Bahamas tournament at Nassau late this mouth and the North und South rhampfunship at i'inehurst, X. in March. Miss Col'ett will ail for Nassau Jan.

14. she said, accompanied by Mrs. John llenwich. Mis Rosamond Sherw ood and rs. Norman Toerge of New York, and Mrs.

Fred C. I'tts of Chicago. Bouts Last Night Cleveland Hilly Wallace, Cleveland, won a technical knockout over Cuddy De Marco. I'ittsburg Ctwo). Willie La Morte.

Cleveland, defeated Happy Atherton, Indianapolis Isix). Los Amieles, 'al. Harry Kid Firown, Philadelphia, beat Johnny Adams, San Hernardino Seattle John Iester Johnson, New York, 'defeated Tiny Herman, Tacouia (six). Palmed Off as a "Gift" Moriartv Last Summer. -sib impend and uu in i' 1 1 iliat 'obo (- 1 1 "i I I Thi- b- the Viv aid pn ed i i II jnoftl.tl ii 1 1 1 i ft Navin d'M-iiU The Kin.

art the club it ii. v. A r-i 1 Ib.UeVe endci el In I it would has fiu ii i ed in th is credit. i'hei for Siti'Hui which Navin lie llilit 'he 'int was Hot owi'd him for si i i es thai Nil in. asked about ir.

aid it ing a s.ih.rv f40 a v. bonus of 1 "'mi. l.riniiiim fHMI a y. -u Dinner "((" to Cobb Really Hi- Salary Bonu IN the hat Nav in jliet 'uh llie Sio.iotu iiu" i heck qti the night of the banimi instead of ul the end Of the seasi.n. Cobb, according to Xavin, readily agreed to arrangement.

It CUVf Cobb the Mini of about two months en rlier than he would ordinarily pet it. Since few people knew about Cobb ili aw in a I o.nun bonus on tup of his salary, it was naturally assume. 1 that the $10, mm was a gift, hut this assumption, according to Navin. was made possible it obb full wish a nd endorsement Chb, his former employer insists, was anxious to have the cheek presented at the harutuet anil Heeme.l desirous of having it made to appear that ft was a gift, instead of a regular bonus. After the banquet, Navin began to deliberate about releasing 'oho nnd these continued for several months.

As a matter of fact. Cobb was not offered a new contract until three hours before the start of the first game of the 1926 Hcasoii hen Navin. laid a one-eiir contract on i ooij riesK in ine liaseoan oi -fire. To friends, the club president confided at the time that ft ivhn the last contract lie. won hi ever tender Cubl), Navin Nought Moriartv In 3IUIScaon I.at our.

mid-season last year, Navin besan nepotiatlng for a new manager. He had a few interviews with George MorUtrty, former tniid baseman ami captain of the lHirolt team, but for years an umpire in the American League. Cobb nd Moriarty never got along well wVimi both were members of the Timers, and ther liave been printed re port since Moriarty's npjtoint nient was nnounred that Cobb told Navin that he would no longer play on the same team with Moriarty and that be could get rid of either Moriarty or Cobb, Nairi has never verified thin story. The appointment of Moriarty did not come until after the World's eu i in 1 with him .1 i 1 a i RANGERS EVEN A HARti PUCK MAS Pretty Ainia Wide Believes He Can Set Much Better Mark For Two-Mile Run To Cop Caialina $40,000 For Self and Husband By ctkhik. By ALPIf TRUST.

TS the same story, the one often enal Swedish middle-distance Ai.MA wife and Los Angeles "mermaid, has left It to others to figure out how long how many of the 100 expected to start the $40,000 race from Catullna Island to the mainland can stay in the runner, through his interpreter, kCarl Anderson, "I perfected my running through constant nnd tedious water. Teaming up with her husband, fully and neither makes any bones 1L! VHAVE HEART) RUBBER HOdCeV SOKAE FEELIMS. Moore Aims Leland Moore, Is training faith of the fact that both hope-io finish nrc doing nicely, hub? Funny how! women can stand exposure." And' he would unwind from his rocking; chair to shut the door, lest an imag-j nary draft brought on his rheuma- tism again. But this race, unfortunately, Is not to be swum in the Pacific. Coast newspapers, it will become the severest kind of a test of human en-' durance.

The casualties will be frequent 'and they will be numerous. Hence, the anxiety of the management to do its rescuing by daylight, Long' Bench Coin In-dst Axle (irwiw Is Sot a Suit. Noll is that the only trouble which has come tip out of the sea to worry the management. Quite aside from the sportive sword fish and the contented though carnivorous sharks, the swimmers stand a good chance of going to jail if they land at Long Beach, Cul. The town constables have been reading up their law.

They have discovered an ancient ordinance, already growing whiskers, which states thuslv: Axie grease is not a swimming cost time. Trunks are only half a swimming suit. Mermaids and ftshmen who play on the s.nds of Lontf Beach must be In foil costume. The law doesn't say maybe, and neither do the town constables. Already they have arrested two men.

tniining for the big swim in trunks ny. They got five days In Jail. The town fathers have issued an nrder-in-council, proclaiming that any marathon swimmers showing up in plain iixle grease or only a pair of trunks will be compulsory guests of the Town of Iong Beach. Now the swimming shirt on a mermaid frequently a thing of wondrous beauty, while on a tlshtnan it often shows off his shoulders to best advantage. But in a long swim it is a nuisance.

The straps bile into the skin. The steady grind causes the wool or cotton to wear the skin raw and in water alreadv so cold as to make a finish race a matter of speculation, many of the swimmers are regarding the Long Beach constables as too modest lor words. Which prompts Lineer to remark, rather dryiy: "There can be little question but that the swimmers will wear whatever they can get by with as fas as the rules com mil tee is concerned. Kven a sentence of five days in jail staring them in the face will not stop them from landing nt Long Beach if they can win All inlih, IlmTKw Wilt lilt Overflowing. only one will win tlie $25,000 firt money, only one will win the 1 5.000 second money.

Supposing the whole finish. The Long to a oh would then be up against It. Meanwhile. Mr. and Mrs.

Moore take their daily dip and plan their Pt.onii ensile In Spain. And HI others look on and say to each other: "Thev gotta nerve." pretty Almn Moore, being th housewife she is, im not afraid of im-poMMbtr obstacle. Didn't she once have to learn to rook? Still, the hei- ting nit the coast Is not bow mueh money soc mm iot nnsuami win win. It is only nn how far either of hem ea urt a way from Cat a Una nd before gixinn tip. one, two and thuh keep all the money in the family.

To which the vest of the field replies: "They gotta nerve." AS TO EFFECT OF innmin Will us pic ion "Puh" Crowds or Scare Them Away. Bugs May De Curious Players Themselves Knov'-That They're "In" for It. By THOMAS HOLM CS. When some 30 ball past and present, go into hudd vvi Commissioner Kenesa Mountain Landis and Swede Bisbi-rg in Chicago today, something amy occur t'j make the currenl noise about baseball's "crime wave" of eight or u-n years ngo Justified. Yesterday brought forth no alarming crimes or misdemeanors, freshly uncovered, and the baseball bug hi just beginning to oaten up with himself.

When one realizes that after tfiree weeks of extemporaneous and general "popping nobody bai yet been convicted of anything, on is inclined to wonder what it is all about and who started it. Tyrus Raymond Cobb and Tris Speaker, who departed froiiv-organ- ized baseball under a cloud, do not stand convicted in the minds of the fans. The small army of athletes involved by the accusations of Risberg1. himself branded a crooked ball player, stand convicted in the minds of the banished "Black Sox," alone. And the principals of the miscellaneous side issues do not even appear to be charged with anything.

What Will Be Kffwt? Baseball magnates do not appear to be worried about the direct effect of conflicting masses of charges, counter-charges and But tho indirect effect is something 01se How will the current "expose affect the attitude of the fan the much advertised "freight payer" toward the game? Now, that's something to worry about. Muck-raking accusations that have achieved such a high degree of prominence in the past throe weeks can hardly be construed as favorable baseball publicity whether or not anything is ever proved. While evidence In the various "scandals" has not been sufficient to justify conviction in themind of the fan that the game is crooked, the charges nnd their constant repetition must leave a. staggering batch of general suspicion and distrust. Will public suspicion and distni't kill professional baseball? Some folks think it will.

Others say it won't. No llutli In Sight. "Babe Ruth saved the anie onot when baseball stood upon the brlnit -l of disaster." ont well-kin wn b-'tM hnll man tnfnrmrit tlie- writer a few days ago. "The public was thorough- I ly disgusted with the giune hi the time of the "Black Sox" revelations. Ruth, and Ruth alone, with his superhuman slugging, caused the country to forget previous misdeeds and brought the fans out to the ballparks in greater numbers than ever.

I'nless baseball can dig up a new Ruth within a year or two and a Babe Ruth Is due to appear about once in a hundred years the game has been severely injured." There Is another angle to the pun- lie reaction, presented by a gentle man, who is not. strictly speaKinx a baseball man, yet one who knows his sports forward and backward. "The nublic Is not so greatly con cerned an to whether a game is al ways strictly on the levei, Is this rather worldly viewpoint, "and attendance at big league ball parks next year should be greater than it would be under ordinary conditions. "I ll lay odds that if a game wen rjuietly but widely to be In the hag before hand, you'd have the park jammed with customers tn the afternoon, all eager to see what wa coming off and how the thing would be pulled. Another Angle.

"If every ball game were 'in the bag If would be a different proposition, but a more suspicion that alt is not as it'hhould be, without proof beyond a reasonable shadow of doubt, is more of a 'pull' than anything else. "It Is certain that the much vaunted 'fundamental honesty' of baseball will not go over so well In the future as it has in the past. But that hasn't unylhlng tu do with attendance at the ball games. The baseball crowds of the future may suspicious of the game and unreasonably suspicious toward the pliw er. but the main point is thai there will be crowds and crowds just as large as ever." That seems to be an interesting and perhaps correct outline of crowd psychology.

VitiyerH Are WoitiimI. It Is a cinch that players are not looking forward to next seawon with any great peace of mind. We were lalking to Al Mainaux. the former Brooklyn pitcher, who now works In the International League couple days ago. Have you heard what happened to asked Mamaux.

Signot-Adolfo Luque. the Cuhamda righthander of the Cincinnati Reds, wa pitchinuha ball game In Havana an I not going so good. A buM-throute I fan accused him of "throw-inn'' tlv game, and the fiery right-handed cabullero climbed into the grandstand with murder In his heart. local gendarme boforo Oolf reached his torm -nter. "Well, that's going to happen, tn a lot of (he boys next summer," said Al.

"Just let a pitcher lose control and give four balls In a row. Just let, him try to fool a batter with a slow-ball and have it hit hard. Just let an Inftehler drop a pop fly or boot a slow roller and lisien to the raging mob." London's Ice Club Has American Bar Loii'lun. Jan. 6 (JPi An Amirirn bar is a feature of Lonrion'n ntw Club which I on from I ft o'clwk in morning until niMniKI'l I lnr.

however, eellH tlrlnkn only i -ii hor iliiy. tlif oh tho "puVi." liluU-r IIip licensing rKUlnlihn" Yhp rknk. it nti, of the in Kurou. aocommorlutinH on 17.0(10 qiiiir- fri of frorn hi" nln mil of bnn lilttiPK I.olil iKinerullf Hnd Lord JcllH'O 'nf the National Skating A)riBtlon the wpll-known pfrminl oil tN' c'-mimlt'f'. practice.

There's no substitute, and I believe the runners of Europe are more keenly aware of this truism than Americans." Thusly does Wide explain why he could clip almost eight seconds from a two-mile record which had stood for many years. Wide doubtless gave plenty of thought to the statement. He is a serious looking individual and takes running seriously. He is in his 3fth year, a slender man of about 5 feet 7 inches, with wide, high cheek-bones and cheeks which taper down to a finely moulded chin. Wide looks the typical Scandinavian.

We watched him as he sat in a straight-hacked chair in 'Jlurray Hul-bert's oMlce while the president of the Amateur Athletic Union was pouring out a deep, heavy welcome in the name of the A. A. V. Being" unable to speak Knglish he could only guess at what Hulbert was saying. But And this 14 v.

by: Temperature tests reveal that the waters lapping the ('atalina sands average 41 degrees, whilij Leo Furcell has found mjd-channel water is Bob Rice, a "Native Son, Looms Strong With Phils Ballade of Fans for Tyrus and Tristram Hark ye! Lovers of Baseball! Hegister thy strongest protest: Km lie the fiend who had the gall To dash our Idols from the crest Of a great career, made manifest By the records they made, to claim Theirs by deeds, theirs to attest Loyalty to the Grand Old Game. Allured by the sJory to enthrall The dauntless valor within the breast Our favorites heard the Diamond's call That places sporting blood to test; Clean ideals and love of conquest Proudly won for them the fame That lives on to ever suggest Loyalty to the Grand Old Game. Branded Shall our greatest fall To shame through this bitter Jest? Can we let them surrender all Through vile methods we detest? Arise! Fans! To the quest! Let no false Judas now proclaim That our heroes have not expresst Loyalty to the Grand Old Game. F.N VOL Judge, Your Honor, we humbly request The rectitude of your fair name. And hope this will be your bequest Loyalty to the Grand Old Game.

POP. A LOYAL FAX. Charlottesville, Dec. 4. told," said Kdvin Wide, the phenom orinp rpcords has been nmuzinsr.

Nurmi shot the mile mark no full of hole thHt when hn returned to HelninpforH it wan several neconds helow what it w.n before he eame here. And at that Nurmi never equaled the ninrk of 2-5 he mude at Stockholm. "1 believe 1 ran beat this mark." Wide told jhe-wrirrr, "I have not yet dune It in a race, but I feel conrt-dent that I can. I was second to Nurmi in the Stockholm race. That was in 1923." Believes Wide Can Heat rrltw-r.

EIDMARK, Stockholm sports writer, the fellow who came over to tell the Swedes of the doings of Hurry Person, gave his opinion on Wide's defeat in the 1,500 meter race by Dr. Peltier, the (lerman. According to Kidmark, Peltier won for the simple reason that Wide and Nurmi were too attentive to one another and Rave the German no thought. And Peltier. belnR the best FPrlnter of the three, was first acrons the tape.

Possibly Eidmark overestimates Wide's curabilities, but It remains that Wide has turned in fust enouith time for the 1.600 meters to make one believe that he is capable of beatine the German's record. "I do not expect to compete in manv Indoor meets." stated Wide "It will tnke me six weeks to cet Into condition, and six weeks from now will find some of the hingest meets over. I have never run on a board tinck, not in race, and I hsve no idea how I will like tt. 1 am itolng over with foil Anderson to Newark nnd will train at the Now ark armory. There they have nine-lap track which will dive me plentv of opportunity for learning Just how much difference there 1 between the boards and cinders." Ntirnil lia Not Itack.

IOW pood is Nurmi? Is he the 1 1 same speed demon that beat you at "Nurmi hasn't Kone back." was Wide's reply. "He a Just as Rood now us he was then. You will see from the records that his limes are about the same. It Is simply tile case of the others Improving." was 77, twelve strokes better than his mark in the ami tournament. Hutchison, who did not show well in the open tournament, stayed with Sarazen until the fourteenth hole of the last round, wbtre a six on a par the ruined him.

In the morning round each scored 68, three under par. and were tied. Boys High Overwhelms St. Francis Freshmen I'fuylng the best defensive and offensive basketball that they have shown this season, the Boys High varsity basketball five cavorting on their home rourt. defeated the fast St.

Francis freshmen live in the brst game of a home and home series by the om i helming core of 4'1 to 11. Sfries The matter was held up use tiie Si I am is Drowns insisted on ha ving Moriarty us (successor to it-oi go Sisler. St. Louis put up a stiff fiirlit for Moriarty. but Moriarty preferred coming tn Detroit for less nullify he wan offered by (hp SC.1 Louis Club.

The matter was eventuallv patched up when Navin sec ured Dan Mowley from Die Toronto Club for the Drowns. Mowley, before going in Toronto, hnd been employed by Nevin us assistant to Cobb. Tigers' lfMords lruv Tyrim CO Pin was not forced out as manager of the Detroit team. When Navin was asked today whether there had been any conspiracy to oust Cobb, he replied: "Whv should there be any eon sninicy? Cobb's contract had expired. did not care to renew it.

There dai not have to be any conspiracy to keep me from renewing that contract. If you want to know my reasons for not renewing tt. all you have to do is to look into the record books and study the records of the Detroit team under Cobb's management. That will give you the reasons. "At the close of the season, eight or nine of the Detroit players came to me and demanded that I sell or trade them to other dubs since thev did not care to play und Cobb any longer.

During the 1926 season, 1 had one of the veterans use his influence to keep the play ers in line and prevent dissension from becoming too pronounced. "It is surprising to hear that con spiracy an used to drop Cobb as manager ot our team. Would He a Novelty In the Nalioiml league. "THKK American League clubs wdjld not want Cobb for sev eral reasons. One of them is the sal ary he would demand.

Another the conviction that be lacks mana gerial ability. i National League clubs might want him because he would be a novelty in ihat organization for year or so. Kven though his play ing days are fiver, ho can still hit witii the leaders but his legs are gone. Sot hing in known here regarding the report that Lamti has ordered hands off lyrus. service on tlie sand lots of Philadel-pbfa before branching out into base-bull professionally.

Started With Springfield. Poll's iirst engagement in the money ranks was with Springfield of the Kastern League in 1 9 20. The season of 1 I naw him exhibiting his skill with Suffolk of the Virginia League and Albany of the KastVrn leatue. He retired from the game it22, but the lure of the pastime wot the better of him In 1113 and he tried his luck with Binuhumton of jthe New York-Pennsylvania League. He remained vith the club in PC'-i and in did his stuff for Scranton of the name circuit.

Hu appeared to hit his real stride in with Portsmouth of the Virginia League. He was bought by the Phillies an.) reported to them ai the termination of the season in the Southland circuit. lie got into several games against the Brooklyn P.ohinn last fall and made a big hit with the fans. Hit lidding and bat-ling were impressive and he handled himself as if he might be a worth iv bile major leaguer it schooling. ptjer lii.l) in an i.rthoiiox batter anil thrower He L'f.

years old. having be. born in Philiy on May I He is fei lit inches and weighs 75. pounds. Hp is a came youngster, and it uaft this that gained him favor with Artie Fletcher.

Bob has quite following in his home ritv. and his admirers arc routing for bun to stit it out under the big tent. 'I'lu-sc top not he in a re prac tiring t.t tier courses 1 tut the 1 plovers who qualMv for the entry list, i.nlv ill get into tlie final art-hole ha uuuonship flight Sunday. Tti.it field Hill and ties wnprise the t4 low seoif the end of the ttrii hides at calmllero. IS of which will he plavid Friday and If Saturday.

The on dav mtervai in the piav. I Iiui 'iitj will iiriiuru (ti pi.iv in un Ihw vnrlou The Kl t'aliulhlo 1'ciiintrr Clulil rifTir. it p.ir 7j! tiiurnc. out uri') u. Ii ift'uiil' was set lust lit.

hv Jock Tarrant, prof essoin a 1 at the club, ho then em uvi-r it in fi'i. reens a re In excellent shape, a hit fast povv after he ei.pi vm at lo r. (tut it lr rising t'-m pi to i.ff, rants 1 1 ii res its be pr 1 vuioiig hiilleng promise the in- sr. vs 1'iti i. SI AmIIm 1'iep basketball ii Mil si 1m or st raig hr of the easoll by if efc inis A H.iilou it ut on the Ilol auie n-uit.

Manbati.in. yeaterday. I. OF THE MEJ VORK 1-s CRESCENT PI TOO SPEEDY POO OUEENSCQLLEGE Canadians Outscored 37 to 16 Eddie Keating Meets Immovable Body. The Crescent A.

basketball team added another to its rapidly growing string of victories, last night by decisively scoring over the Queens College five on the Neiy Moon court. The Canadians, who hail from Kingston. Ontario, were no match for the club players, as the final score, 37 to Id, indicates. During the first half the Crescents more than doubled the Queena quintet's score, the count standing 1 7 to 8 when the whistle blew for the intermission. The New Moon victory Was marred by an injury to Kddie Keating, star forward, who crashed Into the brick wall outside the court while cutting for the goal In the second period and was stunned for Several minutes by the blow.

He sustained a small scalp wound In addition to a severe shaking up and bud to retire from the game. After the contest Keating was himself again, and It probtihle that he will not have to remain out of any of the coming games. When the Si a Sn a r. Hill Kurtz and Ted Crabtree in dulged in a scoring bee that resulted in ten field froals between them. Kurtz netted six from acrimmage, three In lens than two minutes in th second half, while Crabtree accounted for four goals, his last two in succession ending the scoring tn the game.

Kddie Keating was right behind them, with two goals and two fouls, and was just hitting his stride when he lot the argument with the stone wall. A few second befort he dropped In the feature goal of the game, a long shot from the center of the court. The New Mooners were a trifle tardy in getting their attack started, and for the first ten minutes the Queens players were able to stay on even terms. Kurtz and Keating broke loose for three field goals, though, and put the' New Moon in a lead that was never relinqxiished. The strong defensive work of Crabtree, Kay-rttond and Lynch held Queens to four field goals as the half ended, 17 to S.

Kurt 2 Stage Spam. In the second period the Crescents bombarded the Queens' goo) and soon ran up their advantage to decided one-sided proportion. KurtE ran wild for several minutos and scored a trio of goals in quick order, but during the remainder of the game little more spectacular scoring took place. Sutton and Chan tier starred for Queens College, between them registering more than half their team's total. The Crescents will play the Fni-versity of 'Vermont five on Friday, ami expect to add the Green Mountain team to the list of victims.

The score: CALLLD upon last season to exploit his talents, and making a f'j vol able i rnpression, ca rned liol.ert Itice i ham for a thorough uial on the ne. spring training trip of IMiil.oirl-phia Club of lu xations I a. uc. Lob. as he tailed 'in cir-cb i'l the Quaker i here iiH Mia his home, is en'' of the adiuu-candidates to til th1 gap at third bav.

It ns iimler Artie leti-ti'-r -s i regime that Uice got bis chan. son, but I other players sav 4 A i ji. points In lii-s plav 3C8 RfC ing to tip utf Stuffy Imiis, iio has replaced I- hi bee as Me hi boss, th.it the re- mil is deserving ot bettig cxperiinented with further. In the event that Kl-c conies through, he will be a draw inr c.i rd tn view of the tart lb it be is a nathe s-m of the of William Iilrr aequired his e'irlv knowiC'l i.f the iMiiie -(t ndiew Cuitill meiit.uy and lateral Herman-tnwn Hiuii He u.is iutt ontv a baseball star a' the itter tntituTjon. but tlo gave a fceod io'Cmint ot hilliel( li a basketb.ii; topnobher.

He sjiw hardly ever above f.O degrees. It is a long cold splash, this oceanic marathon which William Wrigley Jr. has arranged for the glory of swimming and real estate advertising. Can the Women Slam! CuM Water Better Than Men? MKrf. MOOKK Is confident the old theory that women can stand cold better than men will be borne out.

In fact, she is banking upon It. But so are some other women, ten. in fuct. The chilly currents which guarantee bites rom contented sharks have failed to alarm Clarabelle Barrett, I'ndlne of the New Bochello school teachers and the most glorious of all failures in he. attempt to cross the Knglish Channel on fool.

Kllen Hay of New York is another who is willing to swim among icebergs ami walruses, if need be, to win the $25,000 first prize. Not to mention Mrs. Delia Sullivan of Ilolyoke, Mrs. Vallery Mahr Schramm of Corouatlo. Cab: Miss Margaret Mauser unit Miss Myrtle Huddleston of Long Beach, Mis.

Keba Schwartz mid Miss Martha Stager of Los Angeles. Mrs. Lee Fourrier of San Bernardino and Miss Jean McKenzic of Carpcnteria, Cal. The low temperature of the watvr has given Oscar iCeichow, manager of the race, a lot of worry. He has already altered the starting time from 4 p.m.

to 11 a.m., on the theory that if the whole 100 start, it would bo better to do the rescuing by daylight. But at least this race will prove or demonstrate the fallacy of the old people's claim that women can stand temperature better than men. Manacement Wants Only Da light Up-w. Tin; Moores, man and wife, will have all they can do to finish. if the experts have anything to say about it.

And this beln a new year, with the hope of a new deal in expert ing always present, the experts are confident that tin race will not he to the swift, neither will it be to a woman. George K. Lineer, the 1'aciftc Coast swimming authority, has been amusing himself with the estimates of probable timing. Sixteen hours is the smallest yet ottered, and he declares without a blush that only Leo Purcell or Norman Boss would have any chance tu linish on that schedule. Henry Sullivan, the channel veteran, he gives 30 hours to finish.

Henry t-wlms a powerful, steady und slow side stroke. Charlie Toth he concedes might do it in 24 hours. But there is always that formidable "if." The real qmstion appears to be: How long can man or Woman remain in the unfriendly waters lying between Cutalina Island and lui mainland? The cont writers are digging up all the old stories about mother and hild being washed ashore alive, tied to a spar, after shipwreck of tu ii days past. Thr were swell yarns in the good obi days, when j-hil news reporters were hard up for news. They atwsvs went well with grandpa who used to re mark "I see by the, papers that a mother and el; ibl were ashed ashore on he Pitcairn Island, alter being wrecked MoihT and child when he thought it time to nod a "Thank Wide bowed his head.

Thf deep blue eyes eyes which bulged a hit from their sockets under the sharply defined brow are purposeful eye, but ns he sat there were as devoid of expression aa his full-lipped mouth. When the meeting and official welcome terminate!) we adjourned to the anteroom. Once upon the subject of running. Wide brightened up nnd though we could not converse directly with him he was interested. Believe-, lie Has Not IEiiu licd IBs Limit.

mil A INLY I can do two miles faster than 1 have al ready done. I haven't done any running since last September, but I know that I can get Iwick into condition again. It won't be hard, for I take care of myself. You see, after that race with Nurtnl, when I broke the two-mile record and lowered the mark from 9:09 4-I to 2-u, I ran 3 000 meters In 8:20 4-5. This distance is not much short of two miles and I believe I can reduce the two-mile mark lo about "I have improved lot In the lasl two years," Wide replied in answer to a question.

"At tlie last Oiympic Games, at Antwerp, I was having a terrible time with my ankle. It was sore, stiff a nd continually aching. I must thank an- American for curing it. an American chiropractor who was visiting' in Stockholm. mciicaji hh-npnirlor Wax a (rem Aid.

1 WQIS'CK my ankle became im-wJ proved I have been able tc train more re aula rly and the position of H'hool teacher has given me more tune for running than 1 had ever had. "My training routine is quite the tame as Nurini's. Put I am more careful of my diet. There will be no 'a st in I note als of mutton pie, nor will I rat heavily before a live-mile race The writer tried to aseert-un the reason for the sudden development of middle-distance men in the northern Kuropean countries. The way thes aihleteS have gone about low- 1 ene oarazen Apparently On a Golfing Spree M.aini.

Jan. 1.4) Sai aien appan ntly is on a guir spree. Twite hand running, now. he has topped off splendid performances no a display of lighting quality and tiierged winner from open tour namentu atlracttnc some of the rmm-Irv best. Yestei da Sara ie finished the Miami Iteach open tournament four stroke under Jock Mutehmoii of i ica go after retell drne and poeKeted 1 I Jist vv eek he sd.M.k off Wilh Klein of Wheat ley Hifis.

I. and Ml the end of a 7-'-hob- mareh pocketed $750 and the Miami open tub' Kb in won tlie ear in for. Sarazcn's winning score yesterday Six Golf Courses in Use For Los Angeles Preliminaries 4'rceiit A. i. (17.

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I I to the Xpq rly pi and bent from 2 Co nad.i. a re i-nt Thir'v-six ho! on the courses Brent wood. "i leerned ith i the open tourna eiept i i s. hot a ma ton' I. re (ii esi-nl in he t.it, Kngland and red.

of plav of the Al.eirs. ilfoi'itia i It Mure. Midvkb and Milb rest Country ill del riiiitu- beth.i irht th placers lo qu.ility for the si. the 7J ho'es of pl.iV at Kl Cab "ountry ''inn. Ki oiav.

Aimiii these US already Hie being the plaversand in the riational pen and loeai i dub I. in alb-ro 4 I i.t tbe-e adei b.i tn- torn n. ii. -its of the past ve.ii, tp! from qualiiving t-lav wio their past pei ormanccs. It II Co- hvi.f.- I I .1,1, Jail At tee: ng (.1 I K- member A- a -nit.

Me in-f-'crea- HiMKKY nF.sri.ys. At Madison Square Harden New-York Americans, fc; Montreal Lcs Canadiens, 8. At Jioston Boston Bruins, 'Z; Ottawa Senators, 1. (Overtime). At Chicago Pittsburg Pirates.

Chicago Black Hawks, 1. At Windsor, 0.t. Toronto St. I'atrb ks. Octroi; Cougars.

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