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BIG LEAGUES ARE GETTING BIGGER And Minora Are Gelling1 Smaller With Consequent j Gain in Speed on Part ot Players in Lesser Leagues. By JOHN FOSTER (CoiyriflM. IS24. By The *<>???' Savannah. Ga.. April 9. ?The big leagues are getting bigger and the lesser leagues are getting lesser?' in size of players. This is the testimony of Fred Merkle. leading batter and first baseman of the Rochester Club of the International League, which has been working out in practice games in the South against the big, leagues. ??Little by little." says Merkle. baseball is becoming more and more of a big man's game. We are liav-| ing more and more trouble getting men who are physically large. Al most all the big league club players are large men. That's why the minor leagues have trouble getting the larger players. The result, how-, ever, is that the minor leagues are ? getting all the speed, although their players may not hit as well as the big fellows." Speaking of the series which the! Rochester club played with the New York Yankees. Merkle declared Rochester should have won two of the games it lost. "We have a better hitting team, than w? bad last year." he said, and , if the fielding comes up to expecta tions. the Rochester Club should be able to give Baltimore a good fight, for the Internationa^ League pen nant." The Rochester Club is strong at i first base, of course, and seems to have an infield that will.back up | good pitching. .The team is stronger in pitchers than it was last year, judging by the spring training in Savannah. The Rochester players had plenty of chance to face the Yan kee pitchers and figure that they are strong enough to bat against Muggins* youngsters but they hold up their hands when the old fellows are talked about. It is Interesting to note their op inion of Yankees, so far as the pit chers are concerned. In the games they played against them in the South, they found Rush in tip-top shape and think that he will be as' good a pitcher this year as ever. They say Shawkey Is ready to start j but Pcnnock will have to wait some! time before he is in condition. George Stalling*, manager of the! team, thinks he picked up a fastj outfielder from Wichita but of( course Stallings will miss Archdea-I con. who has gone to the Chicago White Sox. "I think that my outfield at the' end of the season," said Stallings, I "will bo so good that it will com pare favorably with any outfield in any league and my players will be desirable to those who wish good outfielders. If they will only handle Archdeacon in the right way at Chi cago he should turn out to be for them another Willie Keeler. He is very fast, faster than most players! imagine and I think he will hit well I enough for the big leagues." The Rochester team as a whole Is being shaped up to meet Baltimore for the coming race. Of course the International League has had its troubles in Newark and Jersey City, and no one knows exactly what will como out of the predicament. On that account the Rochester^ are making every effort to put together something that will be strong en ough to down the champions who have won the pennant so many years In succession. As a matter of fact manager, George Stalling* and the secretary. Walter Hapgood, are tre mendously pleated over the showing the Rochester Club made against the Yankees. It looks as if Roch ester will be a contender in the pen-] nant fight all the year. BERLENBACH WILL RETIRE FOR REST Young Boxer Feels He's Go ing Stale and Having Din posed of Jaek Stone Will Fight No More for Season. Itv FAIR PI/AY Co??rloM. 1924. by Tilt Atfvane* New York, April 9. ? Having knocked out Jack?not A<1 Stone, Paul Berlenbach Is going to retire for a Well-earned rost. The rest he received at the hands of Jack De laney evidently didn't suffice. Paul feels he Is going stale and the nov lelty of entering the ring and either j knocking someone out or being | knocked out. has begun to lose its! charm. 1 Jack Stone, who is a pretty; rugged walloper, didn't last long with Paul. Which goes to show that! Berlenbach is the sure enough king of the flat footers. Any boxer who1 thinks he has a punch and walks) around on all parts of his feet at once is easy prey for Berlenbach. But when he (aces the lad who is' shifty, who is on his toes every min ute and keeps moving here and there, he>is at a loss. Any seaman gunner, can bit a target when it rests upon a smooth sea. but the lad who gets the rating is the one who can figure! out a target moving restlessly in a' puckered up seaway. Delaney is just the sort of man Berlenbach has got to train to meet before he will ever get into the championship: class. Deacampes is on record as saying "that if Carpentier beats Tunney. he j is perfectly willing to take on Tom-1 my Gibbons a few weeks later. Well. I he would be. If Carpentier can. Mow Tumrey away, no ousr wilt de ny him at 'least a good fighting1 chance against the puncher from St. < Paul. But no one here figures Car- 1 pentier as having any sort of a chance against the American light heavy champion who has been mak-j lng rapid improvement in the past' year. Charley Weinert thicks he has a good chance to hurdle Ad Stone and , g?*t once more into the money class. But if A1 is as good as he seems to he. Weinert*a course will bo under. itiHtead of over, the hurdles. Strlbling and Jimmy Slattery. of Buffalo, are to do a six-round exhi bition bout in this city next month. Stribllng says he will be better pre pared for the Buffalo mauler than he was last time they met. MEN'H SI-ltlMi HATS 8lyl?' and Service?$3.00 to $6.00. T. T. TURN Ell & CO 8500,000.00 7^? Cumulative Preferred Stock niVlDFNDS PAVAI1I.E QUARTERLY The Edna Mills are controlled by the same Interests that con trol the Henrietta Mills. It is one of the most successful t?'\ tlle mills In North 'Carolina W' recommend this stock as a sat,-. con*?^-vatlve Investment. Additional Information on re quest. Price 1100.00 and Dlvideud. American Tru*t Co., Ilonil IVpartment CHARLOTTE, N. C. Frank H. lirwn, Mgr. The Sport smart By Valt^r Camp (ConyrlfM. 1924. By Th? Advance) New York, April 9.?The groat; debate over the proper size and weight of the standard golf hall still ? ranges?and seems to get nowhere, j Jess Sweetser is one of the lat est to enter the forum, with the statement that once a player gets used to the proposed lighter ball, "he will derive as much pleasure from the 220-yard drive as he does now out of a swat of 300 yards or thereabouts." Come on, all you 300-yard drivers, and see what fun It is to hit the pro posed ball 220 yards. And the other 95 percent of the golfers may meekly hans their heads while their more powerful cousins talk in yard figure* j reminiscent of rec?*nt CI.:uncial co J versa!ion? in Germany. Fore! Get out of the way and 1 . the stars pass through ov ?r t!.? course for which you nay *i.\ ? ten ths of the cost and upkeep!- if yo;t can't smite the present bell &i leas 250 yards, you have no rijrh". t> e . press any opinion, or to delay tho e mighty swatters In their csr. er. Robert Edgren. the sports writer, says: "The 1". 8. Golf As:;m has tested out. golf balls of various sizes and weights to determine upon a standard' ball. The news reports say that the test 'has the approval* oT the British golf authorities. That makes It all right. When our gra duates drew up their Declaration of Independence they forgot to Include golf. Britain still rules us there. Our golf authorities would not dare to shock dear old England by insist ing upon any Independent thought or ruling." Bob may be a bit severe on our ruling body, but he voices n general feeling that wo should make our laws with a view to the groat rank and file of players hero, and not be led astray Into the field of legislating for the favored few who play_the game mere hours than, they devote to the humdrum work of earning a living. Not so many yearn ago. one could count on the fingers of one hand all the really formidable eight shell crews In the country. It's not that way any mo e. This coming rowing season looks like the best one in history. At least a dozen crews con aider themselves good enough to' enter the Olympic try-outs at which America's representatives at the great international names will be picked. The entrants todate include' Yale. Harvard. Princeton. Pennsyl-J van la. Syracuse. Washington. Du-i luth. Union Boat Club, Bachelors Barge Club and West Philadelphia J Boat Club. There will be several; >?* ers. i Americans were more thani usually Interested in the Oxford; boat. The Oxford crew lo a recent time trial rowed nearly a' minute and a half faster than it did! at the same stage of the season last i year. As Oxford won la9t year, iti looked had for the Cambridge chances. The light blue had only] one man in its boat who rowed last year. Hut the younger crew sprung a surprise and took the race. PASTE THIS IN YOUR HAT? nnd you can't go wrong?"A trlple klrenftlh Havor lasts three times as long." That's why the flavor o( 1 leer's Checker berry Chewing Cum la*tm. sure fit: tighten or loosen: Vcu ctm mate the size larger or rmaHer^ SU RE-TIT JoR"oa^ CAP S MADE BY FINE &. LEVY, INC. 702 BROADWAY. NEW YORK CITY SOLD AT GOOD STORES v Look for Them in the Window j Such popularity must be deserved RADIO?sweeping the coun- It can't just happen?It must be try?dally gains new devotees deserved. by thousands. 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