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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1955 Ferris Lists Torrance Greatest Athlete in Twenty-Five Years Hi 2 By Ed Huehesl 7" 'Sportraits' Dan Ferris, Sports Helmsman U. Hughes COLUMNS Couchois Leads Field Of 29 Gunners Over Travers Island Traps F. A. Cauchois was the principal winenr over the Travers Island traps of the New York Athletic Club, yesterday. He began his good work by winning the High-Over-All Cup from a field of 29 gunners, by breaking 97 out of a possible vaW' iat'i J(, 1 1 Jl I 100 targets.

Then in the Doubles Scratch Cup, he tied with Sportrait of Amateurism Guardian Angel IF YOU don't register with him you can never be an amateur athlete outside of college sports. That sounds like ft despot somewhere, some royal back to be scratched. Nothing of the sort. There's no personal touch concerned with a body's determination to become an amateur athlete. All you have to do is to send 25 cents to Daniel Ferris and you're registered with him as an athlete in good standing.

Dan is secretary-treasurer of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States. As such the man is a force to be reckoned with, and I won't mean only with respect to the two bits. The A. A. U.

controls all amateur track and field, 17 different sports, in the United States. That is, exclusive of strictly collegiate competition. It controls, also, the college athlete when he performs outside of his domain. So you can see it is almost mandatory that you register with Mr. Ferris if you expect to get anywhere in amateur sport.

4) Dan Ferris, a Brooklynlte by war Z. Q. Simmons, and each was credited with a leg on the trophy. The Distance Cup shoot also saw Cauchois in tie, this time with T. H.

Lawrence and E. G. B. Riley. Each of these gunners was credited with a leg.

Cauchois finished the day by winning a leg on both the scratch and the handi Germany Will Feature Golf in 1936 Olympics "TwmKS Tack. Tdrranc The AfoUTfc WOW Int. fioo AETfcRj AT ft Duquesne Five Conquers Army West Point, N. Feb. 2 OP) Duquesne extended its winning streak to 23 games by defeating the Army basketball team, 26 to 23, today.

In a first period that was featured by close guarding, Duquesne held a 7-to-l lead after 15 minutes of play, when the Cadets, led by Dawalt and Stancook, scored eight points while the Dukes were getting only two. This gave the Army a nine-all standoff at the intermission. Army jumped to the offensive after the layoff and, with goals by Dawalt and Stancook and a foul by Underwood, took a 15-to-12 lead. Duquesne got under way at this point and ran its total up to 21 before Army registered again. Dawalt and Underwood each pitched a basket to cut the Dukes' lead to 21 to 19.

Jim Murphy and Birch Each tallied to counteract this spurt but a goal and foul by Meyer and a foul by Major put the score at 23 to 25. However. In trying for the tying basket Army fouled Miller, who made the toss good, thus ending Army chances. Lineup: Duquesne I Army G. F.

a. T. P. Schnelder.lf 0 0 0 Meyer.lf 113 Miller 2 Alrhart.rf 1 5iStancoolc 2 3 Major 0 4 Dawalt, rf 3 OiHoldman.c 1 0 Westmorland 0 4 Underw d.rK 1 4i 31 Totals 8 Blrsch 2 Meyer. 0 Kwcller 0 W.Murphy.lg 1 Murphy 2 Bonn.rg 2 Serany 1 7 23 Totals 11 4 2fi, Referee Pat Kennedy.

Umpire Ed Shaw. Time of halves 20 minutes. Good Scout Winner; Alamo Downs Closes San Antonio, Feb. 2 The Alamo Downs meeting closed today with Good Scout capturing the mile and 70 yards feature for older horses. An outsider in the field o4B, the five-year-old mare paid $25.20 after staging a strong finish to whip Sandwrack.

Money Getter was third. Glynson first was placed second but the judges put up the wrong number and then quickly took It down and gave Sandwrack the run ner-up honors. College Scores BASKETBALL Duquesne 26. Army 23. Navy 24.

Pltuburuh 22. Army Plebes 31, Fordham '38, 26. FENCING Rutgers 10. Drew 7. GYMNASTICS Army 34.

Newark Y. M. C. A. 20.

POLO Army 22, Squadron A 8. SWIMMING Byracuse 38. Union 33. WRESTLING Rutcers 28. Gettysburg 6.

Newton H. S. 264. Army Plebes 1st. RIFLE Army 1 385.

Yale. 1.302 Army 1.369, Fordham 1.266. Mamaux Looks Guaranteed Record or He 'd Accept No Prize Jack Eller, Member of Police Department, Annexed More Than 2,000 Emblems of Victories in His Career as an Athlete By CHARLES HECKELMANN Acclaimed by many as, perhaps, the world's greatest all-round athlete, Warrant Officer Jack Eller, a patrolman in the Police Department for the past 29 years, was born on Oct. 15, 1883, on Forsythe Manhattan. Years later he moved to Greenpoint, where he lived during the height of his amazing cap shoot at 149 targets.

All in all, he won five prizes during the day. In Class four gunners tied for the trophy. They were J. H. Want-ling, F.

A. Scola, T. H. Lewis and A. F.

MacNlchol. Each had 96. In the shootoff at 25 targets, Wantllng broke 24 and the others each had 23. It gave the cup to the first named gunner. The winner in Class was'E.

Mtlliken. He had 95 out of a possible 100 targets. J. the only gunner with 100 full targets, was the winner in Class C. In the doubles handicap race, Z.

O. Simmons and T. H. Lawrence each won a leg. 6CHAEFER LEADER AT BATH BEACH By returning a card of 417 48.

H. Schaefer was the winner of the weekly shoot over the Bath Beach traps of the Marine and Field Club yesterday. It was both the best scratch and the best handicap score. Only five gunners took part In shoot. OLDS VICTORAFTER THREE-HANDED TIE Three gunners tied for the High Scratch Cup at the Jamaica Bay traps of the Bergen Beach Gun Club yesterday.

They were L. J. Olds, J. K. Voorhees and E.

L. Rowland. Each had 43 out of a possible 50 targets. In the shootoff, Olds was the winner by breaking 24 out of a possible 25 targets. The other two gunners each had 22.

Voorhees and Rowland then went into a tie for the High Handicap Cup, each with 50 full targets. Voorhees won the shootoff by 22 to 21 targets. Rowland, however, took the Doubles Cup, breaking 20 out of a possible 21 targets. WHITE BREAKS 50 STRAIGHT TARGETS J. White broke 50 straight targets In the skeet shoot over the Mineola traps of the Nassau Trapshooting Club yesterday.

It gave him the High Scratch Cup. Five gunners tied for the handicap prize, each with 50 full targets. In the shoot-oft, A. S. Bayles and C.

C. Simpson again tied with 25 targets each. On a toss, Bayles then won the trophy. In the shoot at 16 regular targets, the scratch prize went to N. E.

Sprague, who had 46 out of a possible 50 targets. There was a tie for the handicap cup between E. E. Jones and P. M.

Cushing. Each had 50 full targets. The shootoff went to Jones by 22 to 21 targets. Friends Score Over Oakwood Quintet, 18-15 Special to The Eagle Poughkeepsie, N. Feb.

2 The Brooklyn Friends basketball team nipped the Oakwood Friends, 18 to 15, here today, but the Brooklyn Friends girls team waa not as fortunate, losing to the Oakwood girls sextet, 30 to 29, In a thrilling game. Friends boys fought an uphill battle to win out. Trailing by 8 to at the close of the first half, the Invaders, led by Clarence Brown, outclassed their rivals In the closing minutes to take the lead. Brown was high scorer for the winners with five points, while Sallsian made seven for the losers. The Brooklyn girls team held a 11 to 8 lead at the half, but failed to maintain the advantage in the last half, despite Miss Betty Beach taking the scoring honors with 13 points.

Miss Eleanor Miller starred for the losers with 10 points. Stevens' Set New Bob Sled Record Continued from Page 1 accustomed to the old-fashioned type of steering ropes rather than a wheel, cracked up on the perilous eliffside curve and so badly damaged their sled they were unable to continue. They escaped injury. The presence of a woman, 17-year-old Katharine Dewey of Lake Placid, on one of the sleds lent color to the test, flist of the current season and a more-runner to the try-outs next week for the 1936 Olympics in Germany. With her father, Godfrey Dewey, at the wheel Katharine finished sixth and last in the Held.

Rare Again Today The two-man bobbrrs will pair tomorrow for the National A. A. U. four-man title now held by a quartet skippered by Curtis Stevens. The summary: Curtis P.

Stevens-Robrrt F. Marfin. Lake Placid, first heat. 1:59.95. Sfcond hcut, 1:58 40: third hat, 1.58 32; lourth hunt, 1:00 AH Total time: 7 57 24.

Ivan E. Brown-A. H. Washbond, Keene alley A. first 200.49.

second heat, 2 00 34 third hfat. 1 58 74: (ourth heat. 1-5B. Total time: 47. Godfrey Dewey-Kutharlne Dewey, Lake Flactrt.

First heat. 2 08.13: second heat. third heat. 2 05 40: fourth heat. 2 04 Rfl Total time- 8 80.

J. Hubert Slevens-F PhijI Stevens. Lake Flucld First 1 SR 50: second heat. 1.47 third heat. 15518: fourth hem.

1 58 7.5. Total lime 7 50 57 OilhTl rn'trale-Richurd York First hCHl. 1 57 01. second heat. 1 50 J8.

third heat. 1 59 91: fourth heat. 1 Sum Total time- 7 54 9.1. Donna Bickford. New Ynrlc-rlrst heat.

2 01 sirond heal. 1 58 fi7; third heat. 1 IS: lourth heat, 1.58.15. Total time. 7.56 40.

I of Pawling, N. la probably the best posted amateur sports authority in the country. His secretarial labors hustle him Into every nook and cranny of 'the nation's amateut competition. He has first hand, expert knowledge of about any athlete worth mentioning. That Is why, he is yearly picked by the A.

A. to select the official All -American track and field teams and to lend an authoritative hand in the assembling of Uncle Sam's OlympiO teams. Ferris' Ten Greatest IN HIS early forties, Ferris hag seen the best of them come and ro for a quarter of a century. So I asked this connoisseur of athletie) effort for the ten best athletes ha hss ever seen. Mr.

Ferris wanted time to mull it over, took plenty el it, and then came up with the following: No. 1, Jack Torrance. No. Bay Ewry. No.

Glen Hardin. No. 4, Paavo Nurml. No. 5, Ben Eastman, No.

6, Percy Beard. No. 7, Abel Klv-iat No. Mel Sheppard. No.

Glenn Cunningham. No. 10, Hans Sievert of Germany. Placing Torrance, the mastodon-tic Louisiana State shot-putter, first surprised me. However, Dan figured the young giant's heave of 57 feet 1 inch with the 16-pound shot the most unusual of all athletic efforts.

"Torrance isn't great just here and there," explained Dan. "His average putting is about 48 feet. He's a real wonder, this 315 pound, 6-fooC 3H Inch collossus. And dont get the idea this big boy Is going la for professional fighting," continued Daniel. "He told me that is farthest from his mind, though he may play pro football." Nurmi Finest Runner RAY EWRY of the N.

Y. A. C. wa a great Jumper some 30 years ago. An Olympian and champion, Ewry excelled in the standing high and broad Jums difficult events long since discarded.

Ferris didn't forget such Jumpers, as Hubbard, Hamm and the Jap, Nambu. All things considered, though, he thought Ewry's feats superior. Hardin's 50.6 over the 3-foot hurdles at 400 meters stamped him as the greatest ever. Nurmi, you note, was rated by Ferris as the greatest of runners; five places ahead of Cunningham, with Bonthron falling to make the expert's favored ten. "Nurmi wag the most versatile runner of them all," submitted Daniel.

"In his prime Paavo was a marvel up ta five miles. Later he was a fine longdistance runner. He holds the one-hour record with 11 miles, 1,64 yards, and is an accomplished mar-athoner. It's this all-around prow ess that puts him far above Cunningham and Bonthron In my opin-ion. He lacked tough competition) at his but he'd be with Cunningham and Bonthron were he running today.

Eastman's versatility and speed in the middle distances appealed td Ferris. "He's not only a marvel up to the half but I understand he has done 100 yards In ten seconds. That's why I rate him tops and above Carr, who could beat him at 400 meters. Ferris figured Cunningham ahead of Bonthron because the Kansas can turn off a faster quarter and half than the former Princeton flyer. About Jim Thorpe nnHE best sprinter? Well, Mr, Ferris wasn't so sure there.

He had seen so many good ones. StilL he thought Frank Wykoff stood out the most prominent at the century. Ralph Metcalf was the grandest at 200 meters. Hans Sievert, the German all-arounder, staggered him with wonder. "He's tops there, no doubt, with our Jim Bausch nearest him.

Martin Sheridan? I hate to think of my old pal in comparison with Sievert. It's sad, but to tell the truth he wasn't near Hans "But you're forgetting Jim Thorpe, aren't you?" I quizzed. That made Ferris ponder and rub his chin. "Well T'li tui. i could have been the greatest of them ima ne stuclc to his knitting.

Jim had the greatest potentialities but he failed to realize them." How He Arrived A40ST people conceive of Dan 1 1 prris lived in a shoe a spiked shoe. Not so, tnougn. Dan drifted into the powerful A. A. U.

Job in a most casual manner. Wf In ntatlva tint nt Manhattan or Brooklyn, but of rawung, n. y. Daniel played football, baseball and hockey on the Pawling High School teams. After being graduated the young man entered a business school la New York City.

His aim was to become a stenoorranhpr. nnt an A. A. U. magnate.

Having soaked up suf- nciem typewriting ana shorthand an agency pointed the future to him. It sent him to the American Sports Publishing Comupany. Had it been the O. K. Baby's Thumb-euard works it would hav been equally satisfying to Ferris at the ume.

However, the American Bpcnrts Continued on Page I Hltier Demands Place for Sport, but Play Will Not Be Official By RALPH TROST Herr Karl Henkell congratulates Prescott S. Bush on his election to the presidency of the United States Golf Association. And at the same time, spurred on perhaps by the Hitler sports edict of 1934, points out that Germany Is going golflcal in a big way, and 'even though the Olympic Games, slated for Berlin In 1936, will not officially Include golf, Herr Hitler's capital is planning in ternational golf event to be held during the Olympics. As a matter of fact, Herr Henkell mentions dates. Says he: "The German open and amateur championships will be played on the best Berlin courses (meaning Wannsee?) in the days between July 21 and Aug.

1. Preparations have been made to hold Important International team matches. Germany seeks the co-operation of the two great golf countries." So what? Big Guns Not Interested The answer is not available at the moment. It all depends. On Germany, maybe.

Officially neither the United States Golf Association nor the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews will do anything about It. That much was decided long ago and affirmed no later than Friday when, on the suggestion of this writer. President Bush of the U. S.

G. A. and Secretary Henry Gullen of the R. and A. most casually mentioned the subject.

And jihen dropped it like a hot stove lid. Probably because the U. S. G. A.

and R. and A. believe they are handling golf's affairs in proper fashion and are disinclined to let the sometimes-pottering A. A. U.

and affiliated organizations get any sort of an edge in golf control. The golf association's angle Is logical, I think. Yet something might be done that will permit including golf, now one of the most universal of sports, in the Olympic Games. Would Permit Play How far the golf association's official disinterest will carry, it Is difficult to tell. The year 1936 will, for one thing, see a women's golf team have these shores to compete in the international Curtis Cup matches, an affair limited to players from the United States and British Isles.

There's little chance that It will be opened up to include other countries' teams. But would the U. S. G. A.

and R. and A. forbid its members to play in Berlin? Probably not. But from the other angle there appears little chance of any important international competition in Berlin involving men golfers. In 1938 the British amateurs are scheduled to make another effort to win the Walker Cup in this country.

One thousand nine hundred an.l thirty-six will be an off year for the professionals, 1935 seeing the biannual Ryuer Cup event staged right here in this metropolitan district, Hitler Wants It There's no doubt Herr Hitler will use diplomatic pressure if he is still "Der Feuhrer" to put these international golf events over. He might offer money. But then again, winning money might be simple -for visitors, but there exists, at this moment, anyway, some difficulty in getting it out of Germany. Anyway. Germany is ready to stage golf championships in the midst of the Olympic Games.

The U. S. G. A. and R.

and A. are officially "uninterested." Where it all leads to is unknown. Eight Cue Artists In Round Robin Eight cue artists from seven States, according to the Associated Press, will participate in the national amateur three-cushion billiard tournament opening at the New York Athletic Club Monday night. Edward Lee of New York, youthful national champion, will start defense of his title against Edward Spitz of Boston in the opening match. A second engagement will bring together Leon Radler of New York and Gene Deardorff of St.

Louis. The tournament a round-robin affair will run through the week and will feature four matches daily, two eRch in the afternoon and evening. Other entries, winners in sectional -eliminations, are John S. Davenport of Philadelphia. Albert A.

Pruneau of Detroit, George M. O'Dea of Chicaiio and Arthur with of Minneapolis, No English Tennis World Feared Amateur Rush Desertion of Perry, Austin Might Have Started Big Exodus to Pros London OP) England's decision to ease the rules governing amateur tennis came as no surprise to those close to the game in this country. For weeks before the declaration that amateur stars should be permitted to appear in motion pictures, it had been evident that something was in the wind. Members of the British association were convinced that Fred Perry, and probably Bunny Austin, intended to Join the professionals as soon as they had defended the Davis Cup in July. Would Have Started Rush "It would have opened the floodgates for sure," H.

Roper Barrett, chairman of the B. L. T. since has admitted. "There Is no telling where the rush to abandon amateurism would have stopped." It is not surprising, then, that the association grasped the first opportunity to strike a blow for the left.

Czechoslovakia's sudden desire to permit its star, Roderick Menzel, to appear in the movies came as a godsend. Has More to Lose EnKland has far more to lose than any other country' through a general desertion of the amateur ranks. Only those who have seen the Wimbledon tournament and appreciated the tremendous Investment In the big tennis plant can fully realize the stake. Another thing: Wimbledon is not so sure it would be able to fall back nn an open tournament If the professionals really got the upper hand. It might work at Forest Hills, but Wimbledon is different.

Tennis officials doubt that the royal family would care to watch paid performers, and society follows the lead of the royal family. Bo does the average citizen. for Wilson Albany, it will spell finis to his career in fast ball. His salary with Albany is said to be higher than that of many run-of-the-mill major league athletes. If Wilson were to drop out of the International circuit, he would be forced to work for a monthly salary which he would have considered spending money a few years ago.

Owners of rival International League clubs not only believe that Joe Carl Cambria made a smart move in signing Wilson, but they hope Hack will blossom out again as a star. The addition of Wilson to the Albany roster has caused more comment, in print and by word of mouth, than any other development since the curtain fell on the league's 1934 season. Dizzy a Holdout, Now Wants $25,000 Continued from Page 1 pitch for St. Louis again, Dizzy was in the Chicago office of Commissioner Landis pleading that Land is use his influence to get him back with the club. Eventually the club relented and Dean committed no more foolishness.

Instead he pitched the Cardinals to the pennant and the World Championship. Now that the Deans are being showered with wealth, it is difficult to say how far a bluff will go with Diz. The chances are though that Breadon could hold tight and that Diz would be at the training camp before March was far gone. Dizzy can't stay away fro mthat limelight. WANTS DOUGH FOB EXHIBITION WORK Dean said to an Associated Press reporter: "They promised to get me a good contract for this outside work," Dean said, "and I got a good one, but I don't see what that has to do with my baseball playing.

"If I'm not worth $25,000 to the Cardinals, then I don't want to play for them." Dean's disagreement with the Cardinals came as a surprise. He conferred with Breadon, president and majority stockholder In the Cardinals, early in December In Florida and made the announcement himself that he ha dcome to terms at a figure "between $20,000 and $25,000." Subsequently, when was learned he had not actually signed any papers. Dean laughed it off and said that would be Just a formality. BROTHER HAS NOT SIGNED Dean was supposed to have received $7,500 las' season when he won 30 games during the pannant race and shared the pitching honors with his brother Paul Dean in the World Series, each winning two games. After the World Series the Cardinals assisted the Dean brothers in arranging to capitalize their pitching fame.

It is estimated that from various sources, Including exhibition games and vaudeville, that the brothers earned close to $30,000. Radio and other contracts have brought in additional thousands throug hthe Winter. Paul, who says little and takes his cue from Big Brother Dizzy, also has not been signed as yet for the 1935 season. He is reported to have asked for $10,000, three times the amount he received last year. school championship for the 220-yard low hurdles by racing In 25 4-5 seconds for a new State record.

He followed that by doing the 220-yard straightaway in 25 flat. Add to the the Junior and Senior Metropolitan title for the 220-yard low hurdles and fourth place in the nationals. But Jack senior, now living in Queens, is thinking of retiring from the police department to coach high school boys for track events, This is the tenth of a series of articles on old Brooklyn athlstet. athletic career and established reputation as being a capable policemen. For 12 years Jack averaged two or three national track championships and In 21 years of running he annexed over 2,000 prizes and more than 80 cups or trophies.

He smashed 25 track records, most of them in the low hurdle event and was the only track star of his day who would guarantee a world's record or take no prize. Jack was a hurdler, sprinter, boxer, swimmer, oarsman, roller and ice skater, cyclist, high and broad Jumper, pole vaulter, handball and baseball player and a member of the famous Knickerbocker football team that won the Greater New York championship in 1902. First Competition At Peekskill on a hot Fourth of July day in 1902 young Jack entered his first real competitive track meet. At that time hp was a member of the Metropolitan Aowing Club and had no idea of his ability as a runner. But he ran and placed in the 100-yard dash.

Although he had never entered a hurdle race before, he won the 220-yard low hurdles. Then, he took second In the high and broad Jump, won the shot put with a toss of 38 feet and ran enchor in ther victorious guarter-mile relay team, The following year most of the athletic clubs were after Jack to join. The list included the Pastimes, Mohawks, West Sides and Irish Americans. Jack finally joined the Irish-American A. C.

While running for them he won iis fir6t national championship in Canada In the 120-yard high hurdles in 15:4. He returned to New York and started to clean up in the Indoor nationals. In 1905 the National Indoor Track Championships were held at the old Madison Square Garden and young Jack entered and strutted his wares. He ran the 70-yard high hurdles in 9 seconds flat, the 150-yard straight-a-way in 15:3, the 220-yard high hurdles In word record time of 28 4-5, and placed in the 60 and 70-yard sprints. While Jack was setting New York and Brooklyn afire with his flashy track performances he was establishing himself as middleweight champion of the round robin boxing tournaments held by the local athletic clubs.

Years before that, when Jack was still a boy, he was considered an outstanding roller skating star in any event from the 220 to the half-mile in the old Harlem Roller Skating Rink at 107th Street. Wins Sculls Title In 1903 the boy who was to be come a policeman, won the Metropolitan Single Sculls Championship over a mile course in the Harlem River. Then with Jim O'Neill as his partner he took the doubles championship also. No boat In which Jack took an oar was ever defeated. At Celtic Park In 1911 in the Irish-American A.

C. Invitation games, the Police Department's athletic ace raced 100 yards in 9.4. At the Meadow Brook games In Philadelphia four years later he ran anchor for the New York Police Department in the 440-yard relay in 50 Beconds flat. He then did 6.2 for the 50-yard dash in three successive heats and took the final in the same time. Entered in the 50-yard low hurdles he raced against a world's record of 6.1.

He ran three successive heats in six seconds flat and then broke the world's record for the fourth time in one night by winning the final in the same time. Pentathlon Winner Besides all this, Jack was the first man in this country to win a pentathlon. It was In the 13th Regiment Athletic Association games held at Bath Beach that young Jack captured the quarter- mile, broad jump, 100 meters, Javelin throw, and discus, Geek style. At the Sheepshead Bay Speedway he broke his own record for the 120-yard low hurdles by traversing the course in 13 4-5 seconds as looked on. This shattered the outdoor record by 3-5 of a second and the indoor mark by 1-5 of a second.

Though Jack spent much of his time running in track meets he still had time to apprehend burglars. One morning about 3 a.m. he was walking near the old railroad cut at 36th St. when he was suddenly attacked by six who leaped out of the shadows at him. With the aid of a blackjack, a nightstick and his bare fists, the young policeman beat up all six of them and sprawled them out along the fence.

He then calmy called the wagon and had them taken to headquarters. But the young and scrappy "blue-coat" is not only dangerous to desperadoes, but also to runaway horses. During his 29 years on the force he has stopped 17 runaways. His method is to run with the horse, grab the shaft with one hand, snap the horse's head around wKh his free hand, knock him over and sit on his neck. There is also Jack EUpt former 15-letter man at Jamaica High.

In more ways than one he is emulating his father. A few years ago he won the New York State high To Regain Punch With Albany Al Mamaux, new manager of the Albany Senators, believes that Hack Wilson, once a terror to National League pitchers, will be able to punish Class AA hurling, even though his legs have lost some of their pristine elasticity and his eyes some of their one-time unsurpassed keenness. The fact that Wilson already has gone to Hot Springs for a six weeks' conditioning period, prior to reporting at the Albany training camp in Oulfport, March 10, is considered a good sign by Mamaux. as well as by International League commentators generally. It is agreed that such action shows Wilson means business, the 36-year-old outfleider realizing that if he fails to make the grade with.