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SUNDAY ffiatlahn -fErinnnt JANUARY 17. 1928 A Hornsby And Net Rankings Outlook Tilden Lead Include Many Dims As Ernie Nevers 'Flops' Their Field I HOLDERS OE WORLD SWIM MARKS I llTHiVOiittbpfivppiil ii ii ifmmmmT mmm i miwiii nuiinmm mm fjuiws.iwi.iim. niia m.ij iiwiuwwwwwws I New Players by UyatterTrumbull Drawing by Ralph Barloa i um nx -KV ri T-r. Development of Juniors on Grange Claims Commercialized Game Will Rival Baseball In Few Years. Apart From Superiority in Sports Two Stars Have Nothing in Common.

TTWITED M.E88 LEASED WIKE TO TEIBCHE NEW YORK, Jan. 16. Amen th most remarkable athletes of recent years are Rogers Hornsby, considered the greatest right-hand I ImJ iV $wifter turner you could find; i He rat in perfect styJe. He once caught Nurmi from behind And beat him for a mile. And also in a sprinting meet.

When in the best of thape, Htstpotted Paddock tevtn feet And beat him to the tape. At stout of heart, more fleet of limb, Than any in the town, A putt all too fast for him: He could not run one down. it: 'T'HE trouble about golf tournaments It that they always give the need of them. When a man beats Drizes to those who have no every on else and comes into stretching hla shirt around the chest, he doesn't need a cup to make him happy. He can tell how he did He is a contented person.

The fellow who needs the cup with some vA7 I lJi thing cheering in it is the losers We are considering offering a prise for the man who misses the most two-foot putts during the year. Every putt would have to be missed cleanly None going in the cup and then jumping out again would count. We think the first prize probably would be a month's board and lodging at a sanatorium and a barrel of nerve restorer. If you go out into the country excavate, th result is a cellar. pay a gang of men 86 a day to excavate, the result Is a golf trap.

Three world iwimrauig records toppled before the kicking heels and splashing arms of this trio of Illinois When Bobbie Jones plays golf, It's an exercise. When he hits the athletic club stars a single meet recently. Left to right, they are ARNE BORG. Swedish merman who established a new world record in the 440-yard event; ETHEL LACKIE, who bettered the 100-yard the ball. It's a miracle.

Tell us not In mournful numbers of the scores we've made, so far; for we're dreamin', in our slumbers, we shall some day play in par. mark, and JOHN MY WLIbMULLLR. who lowered his own time 2:10 and 2-5 for the distance. Qolf clothes are becoming more time when a man could play golf Jn the sarrte clothe he wore to clean the furnace or go fishlng.but now that more of the rair sex are found ARRANGEMENTS FOR GOLDEN on a tee than at a tea, the question of dress has become, a problem I First, let us take up the matter JUBILEE DINNER COMPLETE too is the most comfortable, but Is no longer de rlgeur in mixed four somes. The square toe, such as that worn by the kicker of a football eleven, is the most useful for accidentally nudging a ball out of the rough on to thejairway, but this, too, is considered to lack beauty of outline.

In fact, one player wearing this type of boot was told that, to be Consistent, he should play a floater if he persisted in walking about in scows. THE pointed toe has delicacy and In pivoting. A player wearing missed a hard swing at the ball and, toe acted as a drill, with the result that one leg was buried to the hip before he stopped In an effort to dig him out with niblicks, his kneecap was brought to th surface before the remainder of the leg, and his golf has never been the same since. The round toe is the best for all occasions. It Is the most serviceable and, when slightly Baseball's JVlost Representative Gathering in History Will Be Held in New York February World's Champion Pittsburgh Pirates to Be Guests.

By GEORGE CHADWICK. Specisl by 'Wire to The TRIBUNE. NEW YORK, Jan. 16. Baseball's most representative gathering in history will sit at the festive board at the Hotel Astor here on February 2 for the culminating event of Golden Jubilee year for the National League.

Plans for the great dinner the biggest of its kind ever attempted were completed this week. President Coolidge will not be present, having been forced to decline an invitation extended to him in person by the president of the league, John A. Haydler, but among the pueets will be United States senators, governors of states, veteran ball players and the grand old public fans and more fans. The East, west Coasts Result In Champions of Games. By W.

C. FULLER. Tennis rankings recently pub lished show a number of changes as to the names of Calif ornlana who have appeared In the coveted first ten" in recent years. Howard Kinsey, who has ranked No. 8 In 1922, when he broke Into the elect for the first time, was No.

6 In 1923, No. 4 in 1924 and this year returns to the No. 6 position. His play at home was not Impressive but In the east he did better. On the whole, however, he was fortunate to make the rating he was given.

Harvey Snodgrass, No. when he first showed In 1923, and No. In 1924, failed to get in at all among those ranked for 1926. C. J.

"Peck" Griffin, Who made the grade the first time in 1916, in seventh place, was No. In 1916, the same tn 1920, and In tenth Ulace in 1924, also faiU to show In the new list. The name of Robert Klnsev flrst appears In 1922, when he held sixth positldn. he was No. 10 In 192J.

since which time he failed to win a rating with the leaders. NEW WESTERN STAR, California succeeded In niacin I a new name in tennis nail or lame, that of Cranston Holman, who had a very tiuccessful season, winning the National Junior Chamnlonshin and being runner up to "Buddy" Chandler In the Intercollegiate. In addlttlon to makinar a fine showing, against a number of high class players, Cranston won the No. 8 position, to which he is certainly entitled. Chandler has a good season and many fans feel that he should have had a rating.

If not In the first ten, well up at least. It ws- most unfortunate that "Buddy" had eye trouble, and was unable to re-, main in the east for those events which have most bearing on the decisions of the ranking committee. In the women' first ten, California added two new names for 1925, mat ol Mrs. May Sutton Bundy, who reappears after an absence of wenty-one years. In eighth position, and Miss Charlotte Hosmer, lankea number nlae, fol- luwmg ner urrn app.aranoe in eastern competition a record this popular local player may well be proua or.

LIVE OIC COAST. On looking over the residences of me leaaing players listed last year, a rather peculiar and inter eating fact is disclosed. The first twenty among ths women live. without exception, on either the eastern or western awaboard. Not one top notch player from all the territory that lies between.

Of the flrst twenty men ranked. sixteen claim residence on one coast or another Of the remain ing four, two name Chicago as their home tenn, and two Louts. Just why the teeming millions wno occupy cne space rrom ocean to ocean fail produce more than four of the first forty exponents of the game is a question difficult to answer. When California's pre-eminence in the game is a subject of con versatlon the easterner or middle westerner always remarks "look at your climate, you can play the year True, admit it, but why does the east develop champions and the rest of the country, aside from California, find it Impossible? The climate or the east is not markedly different from that of the middle states, and In the matter of publlo courts the latter section leads the country, which leads to the conclusion that the answer is lack of organisation and failure to pay proper attention to the development of the junior players. We her are well organized.

and our young player given much help In various ways. The same la true of the east coast. The land that lies betw een will probably not add many, names to the list of loader until the Importance of or ganizatlon and development are fully realized and steps taken for betterment along these lines. Winter League Club Standings OAKLAND WINTER LEAGUE. Won Lost Pet.

Broadway Dept Oakland Roofing 7 4 Fiorlo Hardware ,5 1 Palace Laundry 4 1 Oakland Y. M. I. 4 Flint Motor 7 .630 .417 .863 .338 .300 BRonnnicK osagce. STANDING OF THE Ckl'BS.

CLAS9 "AAA" lEAGlIB, riv Worn Lost Pet. Maccabees We, 8S Brothrrhd. Am. Yeomaa.S West Bros. Hoofing 4 Oakland Oarage Drnlde No.

60 JJ Kinh.nt Raaltr Co. ...1 11 083 CLASS "AA LEAGUE. (OHAFEH DIVISION) Club Wo! Lost Pc. C. A ITI Al Fearer Plumbers ...8 3 A mural Ilros 8 'HI Howard Aula Co.

......4 8 Albakay Ah. Club ....1 CLASS AA tr-AGBK. (MAYNARD DIVISION) Club-. Won Loat Pet. If.

F. Grocers 8 (enlurr A. C. 4 nner Klcc Co. 4 i cigars Khnnarhneaur Knit.

.4 Seminary Hell. 8 .333 CLASS IvBAGUBJ. Club Won Lost Pet. Panama Cardinals 3 Natl. Feed Fuel .737 Muddlrk If niters H'a Cardinals .506 Allendale Cube 4 warren uj-ua ou NET GAME l'Ol'CLAU, 1 Harvard ha more tennis courts than any other two universities in the United State.

to tapering, does not altogether sacrifice smartness for comfort. By selecting this shoe In too narrow a width much added style may be se Approximately one month has passed since Ernie Nevers signed his now famous $25,000 plus contract to play "pro" football and the hugaboo of the college game came to roost on the front fence-of the Pacific Coast. In that month a lot of water has gone under the bridges but not too many cash customers have gone through the turnstiles of the "pro" promot-ters. Recent developments In the of "pro" grid grabbing in California include: I. The arrival of Mr.

"Rambling Red" Grange, llio gent who caused all the. fuMs, and tils Chicago Bears In Tjos Angeles. 2. Ernie Nevers departure from Florida where tho project he was interested In troved a "bust." Nevers is accoiiiHiiiied by Russ and Herb Klein, and Jim Inwson, members of the Jacksonville team. 8, The signing of George.

Wilson to a "pro" contract as the big star of tho Los Angeles Tigers. 4. The 1 signing of former athletes of I lie leading universities of tlio const Including California, Stnnrord, V. S. Iduho; Washington.

5. The report Nevers will reHs-scnihlc I lie Jiickscuivillc team to piny ngainst "Red" Grunge on this const. Grunge, now in I.os Angeles, says the professional game will rival basehfill as a commercialized sport in a few years. Further he opines the game is different from the college sport in that It Is not as neveraly contested although th players are more expert In offense, and defense, especially in of themselves from injury. The shouting for the tian Francisco contest will be started on Tuesday when Grange and his cohorts arrive here from San Diego where they play Sunday.

The promoters will have to work fast to fill Kezar Stadium with 26.00H persons at prices ranging from $1 to S5. ANOTHER SETBACK? If Grange invades the frozen fields of the north as he plans to do the pro business is apt to receive another slap in the face. In Seattle the game is washed up and has been since the Huskies defeated the' Bears to win the Pacific Coast Conference title. Crew is the big sport at the University of Washington. Football Is a side issue as Enoch Baeshaw will at test each fall after his fight with Coach "Rusty" Callow to have crew practice started later so the men who pull the shell can nlav on the gridiron for awhile.

The Husky attitude is reflected in Seattle and while George Wilson will draw them out if he is signed to play Grange up north the Rambler won't do it himself. Nevers fate seems to be at points. Ernie has the money, 825,000, in the bank. He has an iron-bound contract and a bonus for signing to play baseball with the St. Lois Browns.

But, he has no Job on the gridiron because the Florldans were too busy diving for real estate to bother about other commercial schemes. Pacific Coast football hasn't hn hurt yet, Why not let human nature take its course? It did in Florida. Oklahoma Basketers Win Missouri Title NORMAN. 1 (United Missouri val- -ley honors 'at stake thn I7niveritv of Oklahoma basketball team this auernoon trounced the Drake uni versity rive, leading competitors, 40 to 26. By W.

D. McNICOLL. Dr. C. H.

Walter who oeeunlca the place of honor on the chal lenge board at-Sequoyah will defend hi position today, when the youngest of the class A players, William Ede will challenge the veteran on even terms, vr. Walter's handicap rating is 2. while Edo' handicap la 6. Nick Sorenson, caddy master at Claremont, resumed his duties yesterday after an attack of influenza. Stanley Sorenson, Nick's 12-year-old son, who was hit by a golf ball, is now on the way to recovery.

The Claremont member were much distressed over the accident to their popular young caddy, and were anxious until they knew he was out of danger. The practice of caddies standing on the bunker at the third hole will be discontinued, as there is always danger of a low traveling sliced tee shot hitting the boys who occupy this point, of vantage. Mrs. V. Nlttanger of the Lake Orlnda Golf and CountrV club, has set a record for other women-members to shoot nt, when medaled'18 holes in 88.

Mrs. Nit-tlnger had two successive nine-hole scores of 45 and 43. The East Bay club has several promising women golfers, who will probably equHl or hot'ei- t' -as the holes In us at-present -not extremely' long and see suited for women's piny. Until more snores are turned In by tho members. Mrs.

C. R. Kruse, theplub captain, has. decided to ono tournament each month?" which will be a Members' and Guests' day. WOIV 2(1 STAKES.

Lavertie Fator was the leading Jockey in tako winnings for the 1926 racing season, with $222,720 to hi credit. He won 20 stakes. cured. 4 Batter of all times, and Bill Til den, generally regarded as the best tennis player In the history of the ram. For six years these two stars nav aomlnated their (Tames Hornsby as the undisputed batting champion of the National League a mil -iiu xnaen na me King or ail the international eourt stars.

But apart from the skill to re mian at the top of their classes. me iwo stars nave nothing in common In their mode of living and training ana in competitive tern perement I Hornsby is all business when he la oq the field and Tilden is some' thing of a trlfler. Hornsby goes about his game with a colorless, methodical style, and Tilden la of the circus style, a player who likes to come within a point of losing a match and then putting on steam to overcome the lead. SAME STYLE GAME. Flaying the same kind of a game as Tilden does, even in his most important matches, Hornsby would go Into the world's series and par-posely let the pitcher get him in a two-three hols and smack the ball out of the lot.

Hornsby believes that twelve hours sleep and two meala a day are essential for a ball player. He retires at 11 o'clock during the playing season and does not arise until 11 in the morning. Tilden Uvea as the whim moves him. He likes the drama both as an actor and a spectator and he has even subjected his eyes to the danger of Klieg lamps in the movies. Hornsby Is so careful of his ayes that he will not look at a movie during the playing season and does very little reading, none at night.

i NEGLECTS GAME. Tilden entertains himself with society, bridge, discussions of the high arts and practically every- thing hut tennis. Hornsby a only diversion during the race tracks. He likes horses the regular season comes on an off day when he has a chance to go to and he bets only enough to give him some Interest In the race. Eastbay Basket League Schedule And Standings MG-rOlTND DIVISION.

TEAM STANDING. James ending Friday, January IS: Teams Won Lost Pet. Crescents 2 0 1.000 Taft Pennoyer 1 1.000 Cardinals .600 Chabot 1 1 .600 Murdock 0 .000 Palley Motor 0 I .000 SCHEDULE FOR WEEK. Tuesday, 7:30 130-pound Pally vs. Cardinals.

Technical. Wednesday, 7:30 ISO-pound Cres cents vs. cnabot A. Technical. Saturday, 7:30 130-pound Mur-deck vs.

Taft Pennoyer, Fremont. H5-POT7STD DIVISION. TEAM ITAXDINC. Teams Won Lost Pet. Wheelers 1 0 1.000 Keral Shoe 1 0 1.000 Chabot A.

0 1.000 Orimmett 2 l.ooo T. A. 0 1 I West Berkeley A. 1 1 T. M.

C. A. 0 1 .000 Aeorns 0 1 -too All Comers Cutset iCHEDTXE FOn WEEK. Ifeoday 7:0 T. O.

vs. Grlm-atett, ftoosevlt. Tuesday Sunset Terhrlcal. Wednesday West, Berkeley s. Chabot, Frcraon.

Thursday 7:30 Y. M. C. A. vs.

Acorn, Technical. Saturday 7:30 rtegal vs. All Comers, Y. M. C.

A. COMMF.RCIAI, 8ECTIOV I. frames ending Satur lay, 16th.) Teams Won Loet Pet. Riverside 2 0 1.000 Budd A Votaw 2 0 1.000 C. A Tires 1 1 .600 T.

M. C. Reds 1 1 .500 Titans 1 1 .500 Mutual Creamery 1 1 .500 Manzanlta ,0 2 .000 SCHEDILB OK WEEK. Wednesday 8:30 Unl. Budd A Votaw vs.

Slieot A. Fremont. Thursday 7:30 Unl. Y. M.

C. A. Reds vs. c. A I.

Tlrea, Fremont. Thursday 7:30 Unl. Mutual Creamery vs. Wkt Rootevelt. Friday 7:30 Unl.

Manxaniia vs; Riernid, Technical. COMMERCIAL. SECTION. TEAM STANDING. (Games ending Friday.

Jan.uary 15.) i earns on bom ycx. Albskay A. 1.000 l.ooo N. C. A.

Flues Rock IUdge le Molay 1.000 1.000 .600 .000 .000 .000 .000 miattuck M. U. Pal's club Oakland Natives Cardinals Fruitvale Native' Sons. Trojans i SC'HKDI I FOIl WEKK. Monday S0 I'nl.

Hock Kidge D. M. Khattuck M. lloosevelt. Thursday Unl.

Y. M. C. A. ISJups vs.

Oaklnnd Natives, Fremont. Thursday Unl. Albakay vs. Trojan. Hoo-velt Knturdav 1:30 Unl.

Frullvale Na-Uvea vs. Cardinals, Fremont. BANKKHN' ntVISIOJf. TKAM ITAKUINti, (Games ending Thursday evening.) Teams Won Lost Pet. Kank of Italy 1 0 S00 Central National 1 0 1000 Amwricaa .1 lrt National .000 Citlsens1.

Alameda 0 1. .000 POK VVBIOK. Tuesday 1:30 CnU Central vs. Ainricn, Technical. Frldav 1:80 l)n.

Rank ef Italy v. Cil liens. Technical. INUI'KTRMI. IWV, I'NMMITGD.

I'OR WlUli. (January 11. Wedneodsy Vnl. Montgotn-. rr Mercantile.

Tehnical. Thursday IJpl. Key System I'sraiflne. Techntal. Friday Unl.

Western Klee trio I'uUinan. noesava. a txt Designs in golf stockings should depend largely upon the general conformation of the wearer. For those whose calves have long since developed into full-grown cows or steers, a decided design is recommended. Simple horizontal stripes of pink end orange might do, bat most persons of this build favor something more ornate, such as green and purple lattice A fine pattern is group of pinwheels against a cerise background, with scarlet roses Climbing the tibia from the ankle bone to the patella.

Those whose underplnlngs dogs are apt to try to snatch and bury should wear vertical stripe embroidered from porcupine quills. No golf costume Is complete oarrv. The blond-wltn-the-measlea th horizontal rainbow and Vesuvius the clubhouse walking on air and it all the remainder ot the season and pay a gang of men 3 a day to If you go out into uie pountry ana it's a game. When we play golf. ball, it's a picture.

When we hit and more important. There was a of shoes. The duckbill or spatulate grace, but is somewhat dangerous the extreme style in this variety spinning about rapidly, the sharp without a sweater for the caddie to desle-n Is verv noDular. aa are also in eruptlon patterns. seasoned old leather which one Podubbny and other pachyderm tg: but all are worn with a flap and Public Ledger.) May New Faculty ''Athletic Adviser SEATTLE, Jan.

H.The appointment of Prof, Charles G. May as chairman of th Faculty Athletic Committee at th University of Washington to succeed the late Dean Herbert T. Condon, has been announced by President Henry Suztalo. May -will have th power to decide th eligibility ot all athletes and will be th University ot Washington representative 'at all conference meetings. Beckman Highly Paid Basket Star Johnny Backman, famous forward of th original Celtic, a wandering basketball team 'of New York, gets $12,000 for his winter's Th seating capacity of Soldiers' Field Municipal Stadium on lake front In Grant Park will be enlarged to 100,000 lure to bring annual Army-Navy football gam Chicago la 192 1, A true ocotch design is the turtle-neck sweater in conjunction with the oyster-thell wallet, which is opened with Unite.

tz: si: ixs Belts should I mad to order, according to individual require ment. Such all-around golfer as William II, Edwards Xrvln S. Cobb, William H. Taft and Wllbert Robinson patronize th beat trunkmaker and wholesale leather manufacturers, while Harold MacGrath, Connie for the 220, cleaving the water in no place In New Tork large enough to seat all the would-be-theres. So the affair had to abandoned as In that spirit The Golden Jubilee year began with a buffet luncheon served February 2.

1025. at the Broadway Central hotel In New City, where the National League was organleed. This hotel Is now in the heart of the Wholesale section in New Tork. When the National League waa formed th site was very well uptown. A few blocks above the hotel at Fourteenth street was country.

The fifty-year jump from the Broadway Central hotel to- the Hotel Astor in old Long Acre now Times Square, above Forty-second street, takes the coming dinner Into historic ground, where generals-and their aides met la the revolution on untilled fields. where the Indiana once hunted the Kama birds, and where now.it la noon at midnight and midnight at noon for a great part of the crowd. isxe.oy uonuuoaua rr .) '9 Dos Pal os Captures Hoop Game, 26 to 15 MERCKD. Jan. It.

The Dos Palos High school basketball team repeated its earlier vfeat of de feating Merced's hoop five last night in Dos Palos when the West aiders scored a decisive win, 26 to 15, by swamping Merced's de-fenne In the second half. Dos Palos made 21 of Its points in the final period. Lynch En Route East for Battle CHICAGO, Jan. 16 (W "California Joe Lynch, bantamweight from the Pacific coast, arrived in Chicago today enroute to New York, where he will engage Bushy Graham In Tex Rlckard' bantamweight elimination tournament. Lynch lays claim to a victory over Phil Rosenberg, Far West champion.

Old Golf Partners At Parting of Ways The old partnership of George Duncan and Abe Mitchell is in proceHS of dissolution, according to a coast man who has recently returned from abroad. This will become a fact, it Is said, about the time that Duncan gets the itch to his palms that will send him to the country where they have the money necessary for it. Texas Tourney Postponed By Mr. Pluvius Players Recalled by Commit tee When Rain Threatens to Spoil the Event. SAX ANTONIO.

Jan. 1. (United Press.) Thirty-nine golf ers who started out today on the final 36 holes In the Texas open championship tournament got such netting it was decided to abandon play until tomorrow. It was the first time In five vears rain has interfered with Texas open golt play. colder and continued cloudv weather Is forecast for tomorrow.

and the tournament may have to be postponed until Monday. MacDonald Smith of New York, with 36 holes to play, has the best opportunity to win the Texas -onen and the 11600 prize money. He is leading Bobby crulckshank, Chi- cago, by three strokes with George Gowden of Cincinnati and Jack Burke of Houston are tied for third with 142. The present champion, Joe Turnesa, has a score or 111. Michigan Men To Coach At Kansas KANSAS CITY.

Jan. 16. Franklin C. Cappon and Harold O. Steele, University of Michigan graduates, who were named as football coaches by the athletic board of the University of Kansas Lawrence, were guests of Kan sas alumni here recently.

They will return to Lawrence in time to take full charge of the Kansas squad in spring training. Matman Kicks Referee, Then Given Verdict Br UNITED FHESS LAEED WIRE TO THIBUKE TAKSHFIELD, Ore, Jan. Billy Edwards of Kansas City, Mo, turned defeat into a fluke victory in his mstch here last uilit with Sailor Jack Wood of Dallas, Texas, )y kicking the referee in the atomsih. Edwards and Wood had each Mined a fall and Wood had the Missourian pinned for the third flop. In trying to get around the srapplera to pat Wood on the hack, Henry Jonet of Provo, Utah, welterweiicht champion, and referee of the match, ran afoul of Edwards flying heeli and went down for the count.

Wood held Edwsrdt flat on the mat for two minutes while phy. ticisnt were Irving to renanritate the referee. When Jonei finally recovered, Edward had squirmed out of the headlock and was on top. The referee, still grogcy, staggered over and awarded the decision to Edwards, thinking lie was Wood. The crowd nearly mobbed the referee and booed Edwards out of the hsll.

guests will numDer peiween evu and 1000. it. will net be In any sense a strictly National League affair, although that organization will be the host of the occasion, xsan n. Johnson. Dresident of the Amer ican League, and all the Important folk of the younger major leagues will be among ths-Kuests, Senator Pepper will Deliver Main Speech.

Senator George Wharton Pepper ef Pennsylvania will maKe ttie principal address at the dlner. The Senator knows mora baseball than the average statesman, xor no became associated with tha National League when John K. Tener, former governor of Pennsylvania, was the league president. He drew up the documents which hold baseball together. Another whose voice will be heard Im "Jimmy" Walker, New York's handsome young mayor, who Is credited with having given Sunday baseball, to the big city.

Governor Al Smith was invited, but. like President Coolidge, he feels that he has to stick on the Job at the capital because he has a legislative body In session to watch over. Every member ef tho world champions of 1925, the Pittsburgh Pirates, will be present, with the possible exception or Kay itremer, the pitcher, who Uvea away out in California. Their part of the speech-making will be taken care of bv Max Carey, the Pirates' speed centerflelder. who will raise his voice in behalf of the ball players.

The umpires will be represented, too. and among thera will the veteran of them all, "Billy" McLean, who called them as he saw them In the National League before most of the ball players of the present day were born. McLean is not much bigger than the late Wee Willie Keeler. but he had the reputation of being as game as they make 'em in a day when umpires were considered a big risk by all insurance Minor League Club Magnates Invited. Most of the minor league officials will be on hand.

too. The surviving National League players of 1878. the first year of the organization, are coming, and they will have a special table to themselves. It will he strictly an invitation dinner. When its idea was firtU conceived there 1 was some notion that It mlrht be wise to make it one of those dinners to which the fans might subscribe.

It was soon ascertained, however, that If a dinner was attempted, there was Mack and Jim Barnes wear belts served as wrist-watch straps for Ivan in the Jack Curley herd. ixt ix: Hip pockets are of varying sixes, padlock. (Copyright by Philadelphia Gets Amateur Convention DETROIT. Jan. '18.

Philadelphia waa awarded th 1928 championship tournament of the National Amateur Baseball Federation and also the 1927 convention at the final session of a two- day gathering of "sandlotters" here today. In a resolution passed just before adjournment, th convention want on record in ravor or mu cooperation with th American Legion' baseball program, designed to en courage amateur, team In 11,000 American Centre Star To Lead Eleven To Harvard Bo" McMillan will bring his Geneva College eleven to Harvard start th gridiron sport there October 2, 1928. Memories ot his great work with th Centre team a tew year ago linger In th mind ef th fan, despite Single' spectacular run at Tale. Si About 40 par cent ef hers races are won by favorites. of i "7, I.