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xr BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1934 Stripp's Signing and Dodger-Cardinal Gesture Clouds Carey Muddle Dv Pai Bill Bonthron Quiets 18 Easterners Watch Out! Front Office Dictum Sure to Affect Carey Or Orsatti, Watkins By HAROLD PAKROTT News of the Dodgers today links itself into a handy vicious circle. Max Carey's current doubtful status as manager of the club is due to be very definitely strengthened or completely swept away by a clear-cut announcement from the directors as soon as possible, and this will affect Joe Stripp, whose signed contract arrived today with a letter profuse in thanks for the "fine treatment" accorded him, but who yet may be traded if Carey stays, thus in Last sms 523M Skeptics With Smart Victory Over Kansan GEORGE CL'RRIE Bill Bonthron, Princeton's iron man of track, could not have picked a more decisive spot than the Baxter Mile of the annual N. Y. A. C.

games in which to show the world that the great chase he gave Jack Lovelock, the New Zealand Oxonian, to a world's record of 4:07.6 was no fluke due to the astigmatism of the dockers' eyes, fast watches or any other part of the discarded hoopla which at this late date the skeptics were beginning to rake over in the hope of finding a mountain among the mole hilLs. The Garden was jammed to S. R. O. Glenn Cunningham.

IA Itlfc m'i rated king of the present crop of fk SJmliW'f teAT 2 COAST 15AAERtf VJri For. a k)54J atzck Sisler Settles Fear 'Soft-Ball' Will Be Rival Marion Miley on Edge Of Unique Golf Honor Heads Growing League but otes Differences-Passed Up Scout's Job By SHORTSTOP "Soft ball" baseball leagues have been growing fast in Florida and some alarm has been expressed about the possibility of this game displacing the national pastime in St. Louis, where George Sisler, the Browns' immortal first baseman, runs a soft-ball league which is now building its third park. Sisler. however, minimizes this possibility.

"It's an entirely different game," he revealed the other day, "played at a different time, find, I find, usually by boys who are not proficient at the hard ball game." Sisler at the moment is partner in a sporting goods company, sponsors a 12-team soccer league and a 36-team basketball league and, besides the soft-ball league, finds time to promote sporting events, the most recent of which was the Celtics-Renaissance basketball game, a sensation in the Mound City. Still, Sisler's anxious to get back into baseball, his first love. "I would have done it this year, as coach of the Browns," he said, "if they had offered me enough money. But the salary was to be only $3,000, and I think I should be worth a good deal more than that to them. I think I have several ideas which would help pull the club out of the ruck." George remarked that there must be a "union" agreement among the teams in regard to coaches' salaries, because he said he was offered a coaching job elsewhere, and the same salary was proffered.

Sisler isn't at all bitter about the small salary. In fact, he said he does not think baseball owes all its old stars a living for the rest of their lives. was asked why the Browns faded so abruptly after their one big pennant bid in 1922. "No replacements," he said. "In the outfield.

Tobin. Jacobson and Williams all faded at the same time, and it was the same in other departments on that team. You have to be constantly rebuilding in baseball, and the Browns did not do that, for they had scouts who were afraid to recommend anybody for fear that the bovs would not make good and then they (the scouts) would be fired." DUROCIIER WALKING TO FAME AND HEALTH Tournament billiard players have figured out that they walk a mile or more in each match, by estimating the number of times they round Dllrocner a table. That is the way Leo Cardinal shortstop, Satre 'Caution' Sets Mark and Wins Ski Jump liile Sorenson. Ilohn- Co nqiieror of Helen Hieks Is First Daughter of a Pro to Reach Even Must Prove Threshold of Fame Own Ability By RALPH TKOST Conspicuously missing from the ranks of headliners in golf have been the daughters of professionals.

The sons of pros have made their marks both as amateurs and professionals. But of daughters you cannot name a single one. That is, unless as it happens that one 19-year-old lady, born in Louisville, can prove volving Probably Ernie Orsatti or George Watkins, Cardinal outfielders, -waivers on whom Frankie Frisch sent out some time last week, and whom, it was learned today, the Dodgers claimed. Not that Brooklyn will get Orsatti or Watkins. left-hand hitters who disappointed the Rcdbird organization by slumping to .208 and .278.

respectively, last year, quite so eas ily. St. Louis will of course withdraw the waivers immediately, but they were sent out in the nature of a feeler, the customary opening wedge for a trade emploved by baseball folk. CLAIM TAVES WAY FOR BROOKLYN DEAL Now that Brooklyn has shown its desire to snap on this pair, the Cards will try to arrange some sort nf ripnl Tt i k-nnwn that Frisrh. contrary to the notions of Breadon! and Rickey, blamed the collapse of the Cardinals last year on lack of a hard-hitting outfielder, and is inclined to depend on Gene Moore.

Colonel Mills and Jack Rothrock. a trio of hard-hitting products of the Card chain gang, more than on Watkins and orsatti. Further, it's said that Frisch is still set on sending Third Baseman Pepper Martin back to the outfield despite his bosses' veto of this idea so far, and that of course means he must clear his cluttered decks of some outfielders. Watkins. the man who once broke the back of a Dodger pennant chase by stealing home while Jack Four-liier and Daz Vance played catch is 32.

The Cards may take cash for him, now that he's getting along in years and not likely to hit the .312 pace he touched in 1932 again. Breadon and Rickey like to make sales. They may sell Watkins as they Bold Ethan Allen the other day to the Phils, and get ready cash for a player who, 'tis -whispered around the leagues cannot hit left-handers. But Max Carey has always liked Watkins. DIRECTORS FAIL TO HELP AREY MIDDLE The tardiness of the Brooklyn directors in coming out with a statement that would definitely squash all stories that Carey brands as "poppycock" has only lent to their credence.

Bob Quinn has done the only official denying, but Quinn is hasty to add that "I only work here" and he does not endeavor to interpret the undercurrents for the inquisitive ones. "As far as I know, Carey will run the club," he insists, which is true at this time. But if Carey does hold his post, a very complete patching-up of his affair with Stripp, which reached very-open terms late last year, will have to come for the sake of team harmony. Carey chooses to deny any trouble with Jersey Joe. but everyone knows he cannot whistle it away that easily.

Carey and Stripp could of course buckle down to work at Orlando with a sort of mutual "standoff" attitude like that under which Babe Ruth and Joe McCarthy operate on the Yankee bench. But undesirable situations would be sure to crop up, the other teams would find ammunition therein to start riding Carey and Stripp, and the Dodgers would 1 suffer. The fine hand of Bob Quinn can be seen in Stripp's "satisfied" attitude. It was Bob who talked several of the Dodgers out of getting cuts when the directors made up the payroll, though his reputation for coming here to run the club "on a shoestring" painted him otherwise. Quinn has had a talk with Stripp already, and did much to put Joe on the right path.

Efforts of the Dodgers to trade fightin' Joe, which met with blank rebuffs at both Boston and St. Louis, may also have taught the Jerseyite to change his hankering to again change clubs. A satisfied Stripp is a good ballplayer. Joe is likely to hit .300 for the Flock this year, just as he did in 1932, for the Reds. He batted .303 that year in 135 games.

Borden, Miss Vinson Miss Skate Titles Stockholm, Feb. 19 American competitors fared poorly in the world's figure-skating championship here yesterday. Gail Borden of New York, the only U. S. competitor, finished eighth in the event won by Karl Schafer of Austria.

The international women's competition was taken by Miss Megan Taylor of England, with Miss Vivi-enne Hulthen of Stockholm second. Miss Maribel Vinson of Boston finished third. Stevens Bobsled Three Seconds Special to The Eagle Lake Placid, N. Feb. 19 Three brief seconds were all of the mar gin required by J.

Hubert Stevens and his Adirondack Bobsled Club team to defeat Audrey Wells and his Keene A. A. colleagues in the Adirondack A. A. U.

rour-man bod-Fled championship on the Mount Van Hoevenberg Olympic run here yesterday. The Stevens team was Tilden Picked But Cocliet Is Vines' Problem Henri's New Views Will Aid His Game-Plaa's Early Showing Poor By GEORGE CURRIE Henri Cochet and Martin Plaa are the principal reasons for Madison Square Garden's putting on its best bib and tucker again tonight and going in for tea-drinking manners in surroundings dedicated to fisticuffs, great agonies of the wrestlers and the rough and tumble excitements of ice hockey. The former is once again to swap shots with Ellsworth Vines, the young man from out of the West who deposed M. Cochet as the world's No. 1 player.

The latter is the French pro who so rudely tumbled Bill Tilden out of the world's pro title at Berlin. So Bill O'Brien, entrepreneur of pro tennis players, has booked M. Martin Plaa to encounter the Old Master. Next Wednesday night all four will swap opponents, though the set-up will remain America vs. France.

Having seen Cochet play indoors only at the Heights Casino where he was obviously in an experimental mood against the engagingly affable Manuel Alonso, I would say offhand that one man's guess Is as good as another's concerning Henri's chances against the revivified Vines of the pro ranks. And having watched Martin Plaa drop two sets out of three in the same retreat dedicated to Indoor tennis, one would say the exuberant Martin is in for quite a spanking from the man he conquered in Berlin. Cochct's New Views Neither of the Frenchmen has had much experience under thc artificial lights. You will recall that when Vines made his pro debut in Madison Square Garden, he also complained of the "canned" sunlight supplied by the power houses. But as Cochet put it, neatly enougU, "It docs not do for a pro to complain.

He must take things as they come." Irish, Trojans Are Assailed bv Carnegie Body The Universities of Southern California and Notre Dame stood branded today by the Carnegie Foundation as exploiters of their football teams "for commercial purposes," says the Associated Press. The annual report, prepared by Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, president-emeritus of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, declared that "the three-year contracts these colleges have signed to exploit their football teams for commercial purposes" are a far cry from the "intellectual ideals" upon which the institutions were founded "Football is grossly demoralizing when developed into a commercial show for the public," Dr. Pritchett asserted.

Discussing the sport from the angle of personal Injuries, he wrote that duels engaged in by German students are safer than football. "A fatal encounter is practically unknown in dueling, and a serious wound so rare as to be negligible," he said. While approving Harvard's publication of its football receipts, the report raised the point whether the $166,628 the school paid out as guarantees to visiting teams "had any relation to the scholarly standing of the institution." Dr. Pritchett asserted that Notre Dame and Southern California would make a "real contribution to education in the United States" If they would indicate how far the profits of their football teams are used 'in supporting their intellectual activities and still more interesting and important if they would indicate the relation of the football industry to thc Intellectual life." Shop A Negro boxer by the name of Sylvester Cohen fought at the Ridgcwood Grove Saturday night Nothing unusual in that except insofar as his name is distinctly Semitic The fact is that Cohen IS a Jew, and was born in Palestine There are quite a few Negro Jews, it seems but it took a Caucasian Hebrew Harry Kid Wallace of Philadelphit to beat him in the semi-final six Chris Cagle. the ex-Armv football star, Is trying his hand at basketball now He runs a "Cagle All-star" team, which included Buddy Hassett and Synrt, two pros But the going lias been tough Last night they American milers, was on the mark.

Gene Venzke, holder of the indoor mark of 4:10, was in there, too, for once refusing to be shaken oft. Patently, it was a desperate case of "legs, do your stuff." Though followers of intercollegiate sport have snickered up their sleeves at such as imve raised an eyebrow concerning Bonthron, at last the Princeton man was breaking strong and invincible, for the tape before one of the greatest non-college collections of customers, first N. Y. A. C.

track meet sell-out. Of course, 4:14 was not a record breaker but on an 11-lap track it looked fast enough Saturday night and for that matter, 4:14 is still a fast mile on anybody's track. Bonthron mixed everything into that mile but a record. He foxed Cunningham into cramming on the pace after a comparatively lazy first half spent sizing up his man of the night. And as the Kansan in his famous imitation of Stronghcart stepped on the gas, heretofore his never-failing signal to the field that the time to fold up had arrived, Bonthron went after him.

The Garden stood on tip-toe, noisily fascinated by the cork-pulling spectacle, with Bonthron bowling along in the role of eorit -nnllpr He was taking everything the two greatest pace-setters of the season could trot and instead of blowing un. wa, as me track fan puts it, giving 'em hell and making them like it, "This is a race!" screamed Press Announcer Abel Kiviat as he danced up and down in his little squirrel cage over the lip of the mezzanine. Pinkie Sober was sputtering, inar-ticulate from excitement. Both Abel and Pinkie in their day had been racers, running man against man instead of man against tho clock. "And now let them say that after Nurmi, Ritola and Joie Ray the milers faded and only a lot of running machines wound up like a stopwatch remained," said Kiviat hoarsely, when it was over.

BILL MAKES GLENN START REAL DRIVE O. Abel," I said. "Do me some expertizing." "Well," he said, "Bonthron was watching Cunningham for the first half. When Dawson stepped Bill didn't even give him a tumble. And the Princeton man simply dared Cunningham to make the race.

"When Bonthron ran Lovelock into the world record, the day was warm, still and the track fast. He elected to make the pace and Lovelock caught and passed him. Both of them are kids who run with their heads as well as their feet. And at the halfway mark tonight Cunningham began his usual early sprint. Bonthron hung on his shoulder.

What neither one figured, of course, was that Venzke would stay up there, too. "And what Cunningham didn't figure is that granted vou'vn ant t.hA Lstuff, it is easier running to catch ana pass a man on the last stretch than it is to stay out in front and hold it. When you are out there in front you've not only got to give all you've got; you've got to give Just a little more than the other fellow has. And you've got to guess what that is. Once passed, them was no time for Cunningham to jump his man.

"They ran a two-minute last half and that's what I call racing." Abel was ecstatic. The major excitement of the mile took some of the gloss off the truly remarkable performances of Keith Brown, of Yale, who did 14 feet 4 inches in the pole vault, to beat his own indoor record by 214 inches, and of Walter Marty, the Califor-tiian who wiped out George Spitz indoor high Jump record with a 6 foot 8. Brown had to beat BUI Graber, the Southern Cali-fornian, who holds the outdoor record, inch higher. Marty had to beat Spitz himself. And the appearance of Ben Johnson, the Columbia Negro, as boss of the sprinters was not the least of the night's astonishments.

Nor was John Collier's winning of the right to share the record in the 60-yard high hurdles with Wcems Bas-kin, Harry Flippen and Percy Beard to be overlooked. But the Baxter Mile ran ofT with the show, of course. And it showed that the cash customers prefer the thrill of a great race run in the white heat of fierce competition to the busting of records in a runaway thumping of the Garden tracic against the tick of the stopwatch. Topics fell before the crack Dux Club at Staten Island, 39 to 15 Cagle got seven points, equivalent to one touchdown on the gridiron. Zoltan Ronyecz, if only for his name, is entitled to some recognition in this column Mr.

R. has been playing for a month with a broken vertebrae at the base of liis skull ami only a miracle has prevented a sudden jar that would have caused death He's now going to get a steel brace ana will return for more Thc pros needn't get cocky over the 5.000 that saw three basketball games here Friday night Out West one Netre Dame-Marquette contest will draw 6,200 Wood's Drives Low Enough to Win in Texas irw Jersey Pro Conquers High Wind to Take Galveston Open Special to The Eagle Galveston, Texas, Feb. ID The performance of Craig Wood, the demon golfer of Deal, N. yesterday in winning the Galveston open golf championship entitles him to unique distinction. Wood swept his way around 36 holes, made extremely difficult by a cold 26-miIe-an-hour blow and water-logged from recent heavy rains, to card two rounds of 72, which he added to a previous brace of 73s for a total of 290, a score two above par for the 72 holes.

It was his skillful handling of a long tee shot that flew low to cheat the wind for long distances that showed his mastery over the elements. His card of six on the 10th indicated how strenuous was the play. This 575-yard hole required three full wood shots to gain the carpet be cause of the strong wind that faced v-ic Iu cj wood, who won his lirst tourney of thc was by Byron while Tom Greavy of Albany and Paul Runyan of White Plains fol lowed, tied at 294. Johnny Dawson of Chicago took the low amateur medal with 301, topping Gus More-land, Texas amateur champion, by a stroke. Pinehurst, N.

Feb. 18 A foursome composed of Richard Clemson of Middletown, N. Joseph Wood of New York and E. G. and J.

J. Fitzgerald of Osterville, won by 6 up playing fours against par in the first Tin Whistle golf event at the Pinehurst Country Club here yesterday. mat ner victory over miss neien Hicks in Palm Beach, was not just one of those things that may occur on a certain Thursday in February and never again. You see this Marion Miley Is a professional's daughter. Miss Miley is the child of a handsome, blond-mustached professional who was one of tlie big shots back in the days when Walter Hagen, Mike Brady, Francis Ouimet and Tommy Kerrigan ruled the golfing roost.

Like the last mentioned three, Fred Miley hailed from Boston and in company with those others he trod turf in many different places in pursuit of golf titles and gold. Miley didn't win. But he was always a threat. And now his daughter, born during his long stay Louisville, threatens to be ine first to break through. Pa Hailed Her Some five or six years ago Fred Miley button-holed Al Ciuci in Miami and told of the prowess of the then child prodigy who could bust 80.

Ciuci listened. But probably didn't heed. Infant wizards wizards at least in parents' eyes are far from rare and for one reason or another, are rarely heard about save from parents' lips. And so it was with Marion Miley, a young lady built like Helen Hicks. Fred spoke, but few heeded.

As one swallow does not make a Summer, one victory over Miss Helen Hicks doesn't make Marion in shape, evidently. Durocher, recognized as the best ouuara prayer me majors, played MiW a preat eolfer But in beat ing Miss Hicks, Miss Miley showed that she assuredly has capabilities; a game that has real promise. Ana more than anything else, that she has no fear of the star golfers. A girl who can start out at Palm Beach, in practically her first tournament, win the qualifying medal, triumph over a Helen Hicks and get to the final against a Miss Maureen Orcutt is quite a sizable golf proposition. And she's the first professional's daughter to show this promise.

Prediction Difficult One hesitates to proclaim a brilliant future for any young man or woman. So many rise swiftly and then, all spent, duck out of sight with greater speed. Among women there was Marion Turpie, for example. As a girl Miss Turpie was considered a veritable wizard. As a young lady she was not quite as brilliant though she frequently won the Southern championship.

But in the bloom of womanhood a Mrs. Marion Turpie Lake she faded from among- the prospective champions. So it may be with Miss Miley. But then she accomplished something that was a bit beyond Miss Turpie. Marion Miley reached the final in what practically amounted to her first important tournament.

Miss Miley's was a great stride. 'Big' in Lining an exniDition maicn wun ranKlwi un Mrf ra flroni Take Chances Winner Plays Safe Special to The Eagle Norfolk, Feb. 19 Ottar Satre of the large family of Satre snow athletes today paraphrased the truism about "discretion being the better part of valor" with the parallel of it being the better part of ski-jumping. It was his caution which, plus his innate skill, enabled him to win the second annual ski jumping tourney of thc Norfolk Winter Sports Association here yes terday, two leaps of 171 and 161 feet giving him a' total of 219.3. His jump of 171 feet displaced the old record of 163 feet, made by Sigurd Jorgensen.

competing against Satre were Haiald Sorensen of the home club and Carl Holmstrom of Bear Moun tain, who resorted to longer and more spectacular leaps. But both fell; Sorensen, who was favored to win, falling In two jumps of 177 feet each, while Holmstrom suffered an injured wrist. Satre took his time, resorted to cooler tactics, and broke the record in so doing. Paul De Bruyn Turns Tables on Steiner Will Steiner won the run for the metropolitan championship last week, showing a clean pair of heels to his German-American A. teammate, Paul DcBruyn, but it was De Bruyn's turn yesterday to win the 15-mile invitation run conducted by the Bronx Y.

M. H. A. in the Bronx. De Bruyn, who is the metropolitan marathon champion, won by a margin of 30 yards over his rival, who holds the national- 20-mile title.

Only six finished the race, the victor being clocked in 1:25:11, six seconds before Steiner completed the route. 'Em Up left-hand pitching lineup in the league. Weiland is a good worker, though he won only seven and lost 14 last year. George Pipgras and Henry Johnson, both former Yanks, are the right-hand main stays. Neither had losing records last year.

Pipgras won 15 and last as many with a orous defense behind him. Johnson hurt his elbow but the Bradenton boy, who has as much stu as Rurkv Harris anybody In the league but is wild, says he's all right now. Dusty Rhodes, another Johnny Welch, a relief fimger. and Curt Kullrrtnn, a Boston semi-pro going South for a trial, round out the staff. Grove, Walberg, Pipgras, Ostermueller and Johnson- the likely starters, concede nothing to any staff in the league.

"ft 5e Jt Bucky Harris' Artillerymen Bucky's Firt Yaw key-Backed Boston Team Hohhlrd by Infield Outfield Hopeful Taberski, former pocket billiard Continued on Page 19 Hubbard Breaks Pro Tank Record Breaking the record by five seconds, Lyle Hubbard, a member of the Brooklyn Central Y. M. C. won the world's one-mile profes sional swimming championship held at the Park Central pool yesterday afternoon under the direction of the Professional Swimming Association. The winner's time was 25 minutes 1 second, as compared to the old record of 25 minutes 6 seconds held by Marvin Nelson of Fort Dodge, Iowa, who did not compete.

Hubbard, formerly of Toledo, Ohio, who has been a resident of Brooklyn for the past two years, was an added starter to the race. He beat the favorite and last year's titleholdcr. Bill Sadlow hailing from Corona, L. by a full lap. Mingic Del Orto of San Diego, was third, and John Dor-ner, Flushing, L.

ended the list of cash prize winners. Needs Only to Gain Victo timed in 4:39.26 for the four one- mile heats from the mark at White- face curve. In the second contest of their two-game series at the Olympic Arena the La Fontaine Blues of Montreal turned back the Lake Placid A. C. hockey team, 5 to 2.

This victorj', added to the 2 to 1 triumph of Saturday night, gave the Canadians honors in the series. By HAROLD PARROTT (This is another of a series of articles outlining the situation in both major leagues, club for club.) Baseball folk can quite place the Boston Red chronic mtler- enders of the American Learuc, in their 1 14 niche. A grand pitching stall, one of the best catchers in the league and a capable outfield will land Buckvi narria ui liic ju.st division In his first year at the Hub with th( Yawkev bankroll man fans think But cruics are jg inclined to the Sox a bit lower because of a poor infield with Bucky Walters at third. Bill Cissell or Duke Werber at short 3nd Joe Dale Alexander or Eddie Mcjkan at first. Max Bishop, corraled from the I to work at second base, is the only proven big leaguer of the lot; Cissell, former $100,000 beauty, has failed with two clubs; Judge is iiroup.h, Alexander can't field and Morgan was dismal with the Cleve land Indians in two previous trials.

Cooke, Reynolds Set Carl Reynolds, the big clouting outfielder irom the Browns, who hit only .288 last year despite his reputation; the speedy Roy Johnson, half-Indian, whom Bucky Harris siys is much improved since he nded him off the Tigers, and Cooke, former Yankee bent on a real romehnrk, are the regular outtieid' is al this writing. Cooke's in left and Ht ynolds in Julius Soliers, huge clouting Greek from Baltimore, who is not much of a fielder, will try to break in. Hit .361 last year, drove In 157 runs and is fast, Seeds and Al- mada and Stumpf don't really figure. Rick Ferrell figures to catch 135 games, with Goron Hinkle. bought from Rochester in the Cards' chain system, understudying the polished former Brownie.

Walters, with the Missions last year, hit .375 before coming up with the Sox to hit 125 points less In a short trial. He looks like the weakest link in the infield and there's nobody else for his third base job unless it be the weak-hitting Urbane Pickering from Montreal. Two Hurlers ARing Yawkry and Eddie Collins brought Grove and Walberg from the A's. but baseball men are skeptical about the wisdom of this huge outlay, for Grove js 34 and Walberg a year older. The Sox figure the.se two or 35 victories.

Fred Ostermueller. who won 16 and lost seven with Rochester, was the minor leafues' outstanding lefty last year and, with Walberg, Grove and Welland, gives Boston the best.