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CHI NATIONALS ARE NOT HAPPY And With No Southpaws and Only One A 1 e x a n der Among Right Handers No Wonder Killefer's Gloomy. By JOHN B. FOSTER (Covyrlfht. IS24. By Th? New York, March 7 ? The Chicago Nationals and Bill KiUefer, their manager, are not happy. They haven't any good left hand pitchers for 1924. This 1s the first disconsolate note that KiUefer has given voice to for six months. All winter he has been optimistic about the Cubs* chances of rating up with Pittsburg and Cincinnati in the attack on the Giants. Hut with the training season at hand. Killefer finds that the only thing he has in the way of port siders is Dumovich, a wind-shaken reed, and a kid named Pierce. Nei ther of them is likely to pitch to victory the team that Cap Anson made famous. Dumovich, who be gan in the Pacific Coast League, hasn't freed himself from hte minor environment. And Pierce knows the call of the English grammar better than he does the sarcastic yowl of an opposing coach. If all Killefer's right handers were Alexanders ? and If Alexander keeps going as good as he has ? the Cubs might get along witbolit left handers. But if by any chance Alexander's arm should begin to feel the trammels of age, and if Al dridge should prove to have worn through the better side of his effi ciency, the Cubs would be up against a stone wall and a' mesqulte hedge. The Cubs must have pitching be cause they havn't enough strength in other ways to pull through the breakers that will begin to tumble when the season begins. When Brooklyn permitted Barber to go to Little Hock, it passed along an outfielder who has batted better than .300 in three years in -the ma jors, and yet cun't hold a job in fast company. Barber has had some novel exper iences in major ball. He walked in to a game against the Giants as a pinch hitter almost at the beginning of his career, and spilled it for New York. He did it again and by that time the Giants were as wary of him as a hound pup of a wild cat. Still, he couldn't hold a regular Job in the majors? chiefly because he would turn up missing every so of ten and leave the manager holding the bag. Viek. who was one of the best football centers Michigan ever had, may make the St. Louis Cardinals this year. He Is a catcher about ?whom no one . has said more than a nickel's worth, but ho did well with Houston last year. He batted .270 and had 102 assists ? more than any other catcher in the league, which shows that he was a good pegger. Proba bly the reason he didn't get boosted mere was that Houston belongs to St. Louis and everybody figured there was not any use of boosting him, since St. Louis would take him eventually anyhow. m ^Theg Sportsman! (Copyright, 1924, By Th? Advance) New York, March 7 ? Baseball fans who are getting anxious about the lively baseball and its effect c/n the home run hitting of Hahe Ruth and other sluggers, will be interested to know that today's Is not the first lively baseball that the great pastime has had. Away back In 1854, the govern ing powers of the game decreed that the ball should weigh from 5 1-2 to 6 1-2 ounces, and be from 2 3-4 to 3 1-2 Inches In diameter. By 1858 they had done away with this marginal difference, fixing the specflcatlons erf tlu> ball at 6 1-2 ounces. In weight and 10 1-4 inches in circumference. By that time, It had begun to "have a heart" ? an Inch and a half rubber center. In the seventies It was a mighty lively ball, and resulted in scores of more ihan 200 runs. From that It speedily dropped to what. was speedily known as the "dead" ball. Now the lively ball cycle Is In again. Clarence Pone of Inwood says orf the golf ball controversy that the problem Is whether the golf hall to be used shall be seletced for one per cent of all players, the few experts who score regularly under under 80. or the DO p<>r c?'nt. the great army of players who are the support and life blood of the game. Cone calls attention to the fact that with the present ball the aver ages In competition of the leading players In Great Britain, Including Sarazan and Hagen, are all 73 or higher, and that at Inwood, the two leaders of the 360 players averaged 74* He concludes: "The present ball gives the average player a good shot, a good hole or an occasional good round. It Is taking a step back ward to return to the lighter ball. Our .gold legislators should be guld (Continued on Page Right) DO YOU KNO\V THE PASS-WORD? S? jr ? "Ch*ck -< :h?f V?rb*rry !'* <.?t tht UiMt thing, th? irMtMt thlnft In th?wint gum. KImti < hevkartorry ? %*Jtn a l?*rln?. r? frMhlntt fluvor that a la. Getting Ready to Knock a Homer "" . **? .. ' I ? riioto khonii Kelly. Flinch. Jnrktfon and Groh of the N>w York f;innts testing before taking a turn at tr.t'Wlwy ? ?? ? VmBEsV? f="OR THt I HMBpGAMESSAKEj WHENCE PC WRY C??rrt?fit. 1 974. tr Hw Advane* New York, March 7. ? Word that the University of Georgia and Geor gia Tech have resumed athletic re lations Is significant. not only lnso-| far as It effects Intercollegiate sport ' in Georgia but throughout the South. The influence will be decidedly ton ic. Contests between these two In stitutions undoubtedly will come to mean as much in Dixie in the way of establishing atmosphere and erecting influence as the Yale-Harvard Princeton games in the Kast, the im portant Dig Ten struggles in the Middle West and California and Stanford on the coast. The two Georgian Universities probably will meet in baseball this spring and next year they will be in volved in every branch of sport. Football would be played this fall1 but the schedules of both elevens', are filled. The Dull Dogs and the Yellow Jackets have not joined in any sport? except in basketball, in ? which teams of the two Institutions! have met through the process of j tourney matches ? since 1919. Thej last football game wag played In 1916. Relations would no doubt have been resumed long ago but for the rivalry of alumni factions, whose ar dor finally attained a pitch which rendered It expedient that teams of the two colleges look elsewhere for opponents. Those who played the game and took defeat or victory as it came appear to have been very little responsible for the break. The future inference, thus, is clear ? the establishment of that bond of friendly rivalry, common respect and sportsmanlike tolerance; [hat gives to intercollegiate sport its; highest sanction. There is not thej slightest reason, for example, why, partisans of the two seats of learn-' ing, say in Atlanta, cannot sit on ! opposite sides of Grant Field with ail the fine spirit of friendly rival-' ry that characterizes contests here between Tech and Alabama. The way has been cleared for great things in Georgia. They are talking down South of confining the paid coach to mass athletics and restricting intercolle giate teams to student coaches. Thus the influence of the Y. M. C. A. shows its head ? whether for good or for bad the writer has j never been able to decide. Certainly if a game is to be played up to the ' hilt ? after the American fashion ? { such a consumation may be brought about only by the man whoj has made of coaching a career. Stu dent coaching would mean a retro-; gression In technique. The point to be considered is whether such re action is not worth the price of ( checking the present intercollegiate tendency toward intense specializa tion. Gate receipts have come to pos sess a meaning in the South as els-' where. Foc/tball is the producer and supports all other varsity tod in tramural games. What would hap pen were the process of preparing teams for the field to revert back to* the practices of the eighties is a matter of mere conjecture. HKIDKYIIXK HIGH WINS Chapel Hill, March 7? Reidsville1 High School won the western section basket ball title last night, defeat ing Charlotte 21 to 13. Wilmington plays Durham tonight for the eastern title. 1 Cantilever! | ^ Shoe 1 :|: the | X SPLENDID QUALITIES X ? :|: LIGHT, ItKSII.II'AT AXI> ? IICALTIIIll. ? X A THKAT FOIt SKXSITIVK | KKKT X You Will Knjoy Its Comfort. EXCU'SIVK ACiKM'Y X x I Owens Shoe Co. | <~X~X~X~X~X~X~X*?X,*X**X~X**X-"> THE KEYSTONE SHAVING PAKLOR is now upstairs over ?w Hood S>?tem Hank near I?ouis Sellg's i?3 He Is c 0 M 1 N G ? Do You K N 0 W H 1 M ? MR. HENRY G. 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