ATHLETICS SEEK
IMPROVE SPEED
Connie Mack Has Km Karin^
Armmil Track an Well an
Practicing Regular Bum-IiuII
Dohii in "Alaliam"
By JOHN II. KOSTKB
C??r>i)*L 1*21. by Th? Ad?anc?
Montgomery. Ala.. March 15. ? j
Connie Mack's Athletics haven't!
learned It yet ? but next week they I
start to speed school. Mack Is go-'
Ins to take them out and start them ;
running around the baseball field. !
How many times they will have to !
circle It only Connie knows. But he!
aiTlrms that nothing Ik to be omitted
in the school in" of this year's team i
that is up to date and useful.
"We can take batting practice
with any of" them," said Connb*, |
"and yr?* can take fielding practice {
and hatting practice- -and now we
are going to add running practice. 1 1
am not Kolng to have It said to me
by any baseball man that the Ath
letics have been neglected In any
thing that has to do with up-to-date
baseball." ;
The Athletics already were due, J
before Mi?k started running prac
tice. to be better base runners thaii
they were last year. The .changes
thai hare been made in tin* team
made f.fr ur**ater Rpwd on the paths.
If the team in fast# r and exercises
skilled Jtidgm it as well in running
bases. MhcK has gone much further
toward that degre? of championship <
skill which lie has sought since the J
? days of tin1 PlU gjHIHplClB whom In*
disbanded because he felt they were j
shopworn. Iiut Connie disbanded ;
his champions on his own account. I
and he has carried the load of grief I
on his own shoulders, without ask- 1
inn anybody for sympathy.
Mack's face Is bright and his man-j
ner is jolly this spring. He looks at j
his ball players w'th that air of j
fatherly sympathy with which he]
gazed upon them when he had Ed- 1
die Collins. Plank and the rest of
them, and he is anticipating sitting
on the bench and watching his young
men do the unexpected.
Bishop will lead off for the t? an.
in batting as long as lie continues to
make good, and llishop wUl make a|
change for the better, because Mack
will have a real lead-off mail.
Then there will come ruor.' good I
batters to help, and speedy men on ,
their feet, too, with Strand prr.bably
in the four hole to clean up if he,
can. And after him. Simmons and '
Welch or IUiiu Miller.
Given a little sun at Montgomery,
it 'may be that the rebuilt Athletic J
machine will start this year with j
more sip than Philadelphia ban seen |
in live years. Hing Miller was talk- j
ing about the Cleveland pitchers,
and he said that Kdwards. tlie left |
hander, seemed to bother him about j
as much as arty of them. Hlng is a|
right hand hitter, too.
The Athletics look with resuect on;
Cleveland this early in the season, i
It is chiefly because of that ionnid- 1
able, array of Cleveland batters. The I
Clevelands shape up this year much ,
as the Detrolts did in 1023. When
Ty Cobb marshalled *hls .300 hitters
oir Che field last March, everybody]
was there but the bat boy and the I
pitchers.
When Connie said goodbye he sil
so H.\id that he did not think he
would make much If any change in
his team until June 15. which Is the
time limit for cuttiug down.
? Anyway you look at it, the Quaker
combination this spring has some
thing about it that seems to say
"keep an eye on us. Mister Man. for
we may be the chaps who will be
skirmishing around the frontier line
of the first division when the season
gets under way."
CINCY
Tack Hendricka (above) h&a auc
r Moran as manager of
1. 1- Cincinnati ?*?uo. f<>"
d 'x'.n of th?? Kcd i-a-icr ai
J'lA.
BASEBALL QUESTION
BOX
If you have some question
to ask about baseball ?
If you want a rule Interpre
ted ?
If you want to know any
thing u bo lit a play ?r player-^"
Write to John B. Foster,
the man who helped make the
rules under which the game Is
played today. If you want a
personal reply enclose a
stamped, self-ed dressed en
velope. Otherwise your ques
tion will be answered in this
column.
Address: John B. Foster,
special baseball correspondent
of The Daily Advance. 811
World Building, New York.
Question ? When amateur games
are being played which side should
go to hat fir^t when two teams of ?
the same town are playing?
Answer ? One of the teams should'
bo considered the home team and
that team takes the choice of going
to bat. If there is no other way to
designate the home team it is the :
challenging team. It is not Inipera-!
tlvo that the challenging team take
the Jield first. It can do as it wish-|
Ouostiou- ? Why do some say the1
world series began in 1903 and some
say it began in 1005 while others
put it earlier than both those dates?!
Answer ? Because in a loose man
ner any post season serfes was re
ferred to as a world series before
the actual playing of such a series
under rules governing the players.
The date of a bone fide world se-j
ries starts' "with 190.r> when both
I leagues agreed upon it. The begin
ning was not in 1903 wh<?n the Be-'
i rles was the outcome of a private
arrangement. All series prior to
j 1903 were simply exhibition series
| with any governing head.
Question ? Who holds the world's
record for making two base hits?
Answer ? The record Is 6T>1 made
by I.ajoie In the clubs with which he
played in. the major leagues. Wag
ner made 648 Irrthe National Lcagiu
alone and Speaker holds the record
of the American League with 59 in
the season of 19211 while Dt-lehantv
ijnnde 56 for the National League in
: 1899.
USUAL QUESTION IS
HUNG ON WOODHINGj
lt> WAl.TKIt CAM I*
Co.iyiifht. IWI. k* Th? Advance
?New York. March 15. ? The muni
q nation mark seems to have been
attached to Allen Woodring again
thin spring.
Just when the sharps contend that,
the ta'l. scanty-haired blonde run
ner is through. Tom Keane, puts
him on the back for a few weeks and
then he flies In ahead of them all.
Very likely. Tom can do the trick
again with Woodrlng. Nobody
known, but everybody knows that
Tom and Allen have teamed togeth
er many times before to tnke vic
tories from those who thought the
Syracuse st rider was all through.
FLOGGING CASE TO
JURY THIS AFTERNOON
Nashville, N. C.. March 15. ? The
trial of Will Clarke and Walter
Clarke for flogging Marvin Dennett
HobbHt is expected to go to the Ju
ry this afternoon.
I KED AKCIIEK HEADS
CAROLINA TEACHEHS
i Raleigh. March IB. ? Fre4-Archer
of Greensboro was elected president
of the State Kducation Association
and W. Graham of Wilmington, vice
president. at the closing session here
yesterday.
BY IAWPENCE PERRY
C?.,tltht, IM(. h T?, 4<>,.?
11TK, Ala i on IB. ? Latent
practical stejw in the line of makim:
a decision whether or hot to reduc
the weight Of the present golf hall
are these:
; First, a suggestion heing consid
ered, by the United States Golf Asso
| . ciation to let the ball stand as la the;
; case ot all go" tourney* thnt do not
Involve national < r International tl
| ties. Then for matches in which
j, country-wide championship nro *?t
stake a lighter hail. Ray 1.52 otitic
; with the mlntnium diameter as at
present. In thin way. It is held the
pros would be put very much upon
their mettle In the great tourna
ments while the average golfer
1 - would still be happy with his 1.?;2
| ounce hall.
Second, a report In hand front j
England that the reduction in
weight would result In the curtail
ment of a good drive at about 20
yards against the wind and lost, of
courae, down tlio wind. This, of
course. as applied to the export play
er. This ordinary Kotfer would prob
ably turn in a far greater discrepen
cy of distance as between the present
hall and the proposed new one.
Third, a series of experimental
tents of the present manufactured |
i-olf balls to take place under U. 8. 1
(?. A. executive cpinnilttee auspices J
:?t Flnehurst, March 27-30, and at I
l?lne Valley April 11-14. Samples of.
ail leading tuakaa win >>?? tried out,
and at Pine Valley human agent!) r
will be supplemented by a driving
machine.
Fourth, study of the Oakniont
course. In play 1 ft years, in which
lime only one green, the second, has
been moved so much as a yard. Yet
eVen the hcftvlowt sluggers have had
no complaint that the course Is too
Advance Want: Ad* Bring Results
FIRPO NEEDS TO
GET RIDHOG FAT
And llughey Gartlaud Rath
er Than Sore Ann Itt Prol?
alily Reason for I'lmlpont
meut Fight With A1 Reich. |
II)' fair PLAY
IC.?rl?M. iw*. B? TH< Al.t.c.)
New York. March 15 ? Luis
Flrpo's postponement of the Al ?
Reich bout to April did not come as
a surprise. The reason given was
that he had a sore arm. But the
real reason probably would be found
to lie with Hughey Gartland. Gart
land has told the nig fellow to do:
some training, get the hog fat oft
him and buck u.p his footwork.
Tex Rickard'* attitude toward Flr
po is in line with Tex's poker play-,
ing habits. And the excellent results
are beginning to appear in Gart-'
land's squawk from liuenos Aires
that nothing had been heard lately
from Rickard. Nothing will be
heard, either. Tex spent a lot of
money in cables to Firpo without a
word of reply. Now Rickard is go
| ing to let Luis spend some money.
Firpo lasted two rounds against
Dempsey in their first fight. There
is really nothing to indicate he
| would go farther next time.
| Incidentally it might be said that
Rickard has Berlenbach sewed up
j now and is working on a big outdoor
I attraction for the former wrestler.)
i With this trump in his hand he
h*creBir*t have to Kiss the feet of Fir- 1
po or of Dempsey either.
NKWS KKOM CAMDKN
I Camden, March 5. ? Sam Gordon!
of Norfolk spent Sunday with her (
uncle. Johnie Gordon here. j
Sam Gordon and his sister, Evie
Gordon, both of Norfolk spent Sun-j
day with Dorothy and Maurice Up
ton.
Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Etheridge, Mr.'
and Mrs. George Harrell all of Eden
ton spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
('. (J. Etheridge and went to South
Mills on a pleasure trip.
Sheriff Flora of Currituck County
attended court here Monday.
Mrs. J. P. Sawyer and children of
West Burgess street, Elizabeth City;
spent last week with Mrs. J. M. Bell ,
here.
R. I,. Whalev of Hastings Corner!
passed through this section Tuesday.;
H. G. Berry and Clayton Williams
motored to Elizabeth City Wednes
day.
Jim Davis of Mildam visited Cam-'
den Wednesday.
The lawyers and Judge W. A. Dev
in took dinner with W. O. DeFord
Tuesday.
Will Davis of Mildam has been ex-!
cnaed from the Jury on account of,
hi* 111 llo son being ill.
M. D. Stevens, postmaster of Cam-;
den, motored to Elizabeth City Tues
day to purchase merchandise for his
store.
F. 1*. Wood motored to Elizabeth
on a business trip Wednesday.
S. \V. Hastings of Elizabeth City
was in Camden Wednesday deliver
ing fertilizer.
Jim (James bus accepted a posi
tion at Benefit, Va.
Mrs. Edward Ferrell, teacher of j
Camden, and Miss Mahala Balance. I
teacher of Mildam school, took sup-i
with Miss Dorothy Upton Wednesday'
night.
Alonzo Burgess, grandson of Mr. |
and Mrs. W. C. Jones, is improving
from an attack of rheumatism.
G. G. Cuthrell of Elizabeth City!
was in this section Thursday.
Bruce Creekmore and Clayton
Williams of Belcross attended court
here Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Newbern of;
Belcross motored to Elizabeth City!
Ihursday on business.
J. B. Williams of Shiloh attended
court here Thursday.
J. 0. Meggs of Elizabeth City vis
1 ited In Camden Thursday.
Mrs. E. Mitchell of Old Trap was
In Camden Thursday on business.
! G. W. Forehand of Norfolk passed
! through Camden Thursday going to
Shlloh.
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