FORT WORTH OUT
TO BEAT WORLD
Has Four Consecutive Cham
pionships Tucked Into Its
Belt and Is Now After Bal
timore's Record.
Bjr JOHN U. FOSTER
Cmtlftl. 1*24. ? T?. AMm
>ort Worth, Texas, March 20
There's a long and historic trail
a-windlng between here and New
Orleans. It's the trail of the Kort
Worth Baseball Club, . which licked
everything It its own league for the
fourth time in a row and then Jour
neyed down to New Orleans with a
trainload of of big hatted fans to
paralyze the New Orleans Club for
the Dixie championship.
It was that trail which the writer
followed all of a long day to drop
down In this cKy of Texas cham
pions, where Jake Atx, the McQraw
of the minor leagues, bids fair be
fore he is finished the baseball life
to equal the minor league for man
aging. Give him time, that's all.
The Fort Worth team began to
put on the medals as kings of the
plans when Paul Lagrave, owner of
the Fort Worth Club, got well
s? In the game. It was a little
slow at the start, but once he got
under headway, there hasn't been
enough sand in the state to stop
him him in his wild quest for pen
nants. In 1919 Lagrave got Into
the final with 8hreveport. The
Louisiana outfit licked him In the
play off, but not again. In 1920
he won, then In 1921, 1922 and
1923. And now the other Texas
league clubs are sitting up nights
trying to figure out some way to
head him off from a fifth vlotory.
Hut Lagrave is nursing ambition
to equa llhe record of Baltimore for
consecutive championships. "We'll
have to play ball to do It," he con
cedes. "You've got to fight In this
league The boys play ball because
they like it. and they'll bottle any
learn for a nine Inning finish. If
we win that five penmanta In a row.
we'll take on Baltimore anytime
they say the word."
Time was when Dallas was the
biggest peacock in the Texas pea
cock alley, and Waco, too, once hot- 1
tie up pennants like a pop ractory
working over time. But neither of'
them ever did what Korlh Worth liasl
done ? -win four In a row. And neir
tlier ever slapped the Southern As- J
?oclatlon ?o hard. Mobile managed
to w-ln the Dixie title once for the
Southern Association but that was
because Fort Worth was bunged up.
The Fort Worth leam has hud to
work hard to keep up with the city
which has grown wonderfully, ex
panding miles since the days when
t o flr?t big league teamn were wont
to stop here for exhibition names.
Then Fort Worth was only In the
Texas League outfit. Now It Is the
high roller of the frontier.
Jako Alz figures on his fifth
championship this year with the
calm assurance of a man who knows
what he wants and how to go about I
getting it. He has had to make his I
team over, but like a good, rc-l
sourceftil manager. that doesn't
worry him. lie knows what the
championship Job Is. lie can lake a'
h^mC,re T, " J11- ,hcre an" foment,
Ing^luh 11 real ba" "la>'-|
8lmp,y KOt lo K? ?vrr
to the Southern Association and
hi. h n "?? ,t,|lnw,, another lesson In
baseball, says Jake. "If the Amer
ican Association and the Interna-!
national want to come out here we I
will 1'ike them on. too. o?r little1
"" r f 0f ,he "Iuln? '? "econd
id. ??. "ml ,na>'h" 'he
big leagues would like |Q sample
?on. of It. They don't corne als1
y lo Practice any more of
h?vn '0un,'ler named Cantrell may
uw.h- g0"" ,l""1 "> "<> with For*
^ ?r,h, " ?<"?>?" this season lie f,
from Lehigh. Oklahoma. Last
?on he would pitch all the amateurs
of his part of the country Into sitli
f Kor' Wort" i?ok him ?,
keep him a8 " Wor,h
Make, you think of Ed Walsh In
in .l?e and ?y?. ,hu Cantrefl NiJ"
easy action with speed. He doesn't
nse a splttcr, hut he uses a head, In-!
experienced as he ia in the pro fess
lonal game, and he Is full of pluck. I
banners on the bases don't worry
him. That is his cue to take the
batter in hand.
Fort Worth has shown enough so
far this spring to make it certain
that she will do some hitting this
year, end gloom Is due to sit hea
vily on some of the Texas League
pitchers when the Panther Giants
clout the ball.
Kraft, who wns one of the big
?tickers of the Texas circuit In 1923.
already seems to be in mid-season
batting form. The writer say him
lay one on a line to the fence? -on*
of thosr ten foot hlph drives that
never float, but cut the air like a
bust ssw going through a stick of
soft pine. *
FHJIIT XWiltO ILMTKIIACY
rill:.-. :en?hU, March 20.? (Ry the
Consolidated Press.) ? Leadlnx ne
groes here have been enlisted to co
operate with tne local chamber of
commerce and other bodies to flght
i r t r. gro Illiteracy. This has re
sulted from the recent heavy In
crease In negro population.
PHONE 114
THEY WILL SEND IT.
Standard Pharmacy
New York. March 20 ? Wide dis
cussion has followed the recommen
dation of Prof. C. L. Hare, of Ala
bama Poly (Auburn) that after a
term of yean ? my 1928 ? the
duties of all paid coaches In the
Southern Conference be confined
to the development of athletics for
the entire student body. Teams
engaging in intercollegiate contests
shall be coached by students alone. I
In the South the suggestion has
met both with favor and with opposi-|
tion among the members of the ex-!
ecui.ve committee of the Coherence
to whom It was submitted at a re
cent meeting In Atlanta. What even
tually will come of it may not be
I said. There Is, however, reason to
! believe that It will not die before it
' has revealed signs of sturdy life. If
then.
I Prof. Hare's views are sound en
j ough. He would have the highly
! paid, highly specialized coaches de
I vote their time to Improving phy
sique and knowledge of games among
I student* generally, giving them a
love of sport and teaching them to
play It as well as they can. He would
relieve them of their work of con
centrating on the task of develop
ing the utmost skill in from a dozen
to twenty young men who have
shown high qualifications for one
sport.
In such case, as Prof. Hare points
out, they would no longer be at
the mercy of alumni and others who
appraise an athletic instructor's val
ue upon the basis of the success or
failure of a varsity team. Under
the Hare plan the coach would lead
a peaceful, stable, unstrained exis
tence and his functions as a teacher
would relate themselves to those of
any faculty member.
On the other hand, were the cap
tain of a team and a duly consti
tuted board of students to train and
develop the varsity outfits they
BASEBALL QUESTION
BOX
If you have some question I
to ask about baseball ?
If you want a rule interpre
ted?
If you want to know any
thing about a play or player ?
Write to John B. Foster,
the man who helped make the
rules under which tho game Is
played today. If you want a
perstmal reply enclose a
stamped, self-eddressed en
velope. Otherwise your ques
tion will be answered In this
column. I
Address: John B. Foster,
special baseball correspondent
of The Dally Advance, 811
World Building, New York. '
Question ? Shortstop throws wide
to first base and the baseman I
reaches out to get the ball. He
catches It with his gloved hand butl
he touches the batter who was com
ing down tho line with his bare
hand. He does not touch the base.
Ih tho batter out?
Answer In this case, no. It Is
too evident that the batter is not
touched by the ball.
Question ? Strikes are on the bat-]
ter. Catcher fumbles the third strike!
and the ball rolls behind him and is j
lost In the urass. The batter contin
ues on, his way and is half way to
second base when the umpire calls
him back to first, saying it was a
passed ball. Could the umpire do,
that?
Answer ? Not legally unless there
was a ground rule.
Question ? Batter pops an easy
would have the benefit that comes of
using their brains to constructive
ends while the players would be play
ing for their alma mater solely In
stead of as now in part for their
alma mater and perhaps in larger
part for their coach's reputation. j
So in a general way run Prof.'
Hare's views and any person who
1 keeps in touch with current trends!
I of university sports will be the last
to say that they warrant light con-j
slderatlon.
Primarily, if there is one thlng:
that our urge for specialization does
? more than another it is to exalt the!
j gifted few at the expense of the aver- (
, age many. For example our toestj
? golfers, tennis players, oarsmen and
'the like can probably beat the world
but If you took a thousand Araerl-|
cans and pitted them against a thous
and Englishmen in the various
sports played in common by the
two countries the chances are we
would make a very humiliating'
showing. In fact It is practically
certain we would.
In England every boy Is taught
and taught well, and not by a coach
as a rule either, but by older per
Mons who are proficient in the var
ious sports. They swim, row, play
golf, tennis, football. Under our
i university system a comparatively
j few specialists are picked for the
i varsity teams and even in the In
tramural sports the premium is all
; upon victory. The qualified man ?
! not, to be sure, of varsity calibre,
; but still qualified ? is selected for
i the instrumental teams and, as a
: consequence the great bulk of the
j students are still out of it.
Sports for all, played with due
j regard for form and all technlcali
; ties under the tutelage of compe
j tent instructors ? this, as the writer
| sees it. Is Prof. Hare's aim. And
, a mighty sane and significant aim
it is.
j foul behind the plate and the
catcher muffs the ball. Is it right
to charge him with an error even if
the batter does not get to first
base afterward?
Answer ? Give him an error. The
batter's life is prolonged if an easy
foul is muffed.
MAY BE BLUFFING
OR JUST IRRITATED
Either Way Firpo Will Proli
ably Not Leave King Until
He Loses His Punch or
Makes H is Pile.
By FAIR PI .AY
Cwyrtfhi. 1 924. by TM Atfvanea
New York, Mar. 20 ? Luis Flrpo's
announcement of his retirement
from the ring might be accepted as
part and parcel of Dempsey's con
flicting statements of late. Nobody
believeB that the Argentino will not
fight again. In short it looks as if
Kearns, Firpo and Rickard were all
playing poker and not letting the
public see what cards they hold.
Or Firpo s statement may have
been due to irritability over the ne
cessity of working a lot of fat off
him before he comes to the United
States. Luis' most enjoyable task
Is putting fat on. Taking it off
afflicts him grievously. Just now
everyone who has seen him says he
is in no shape to meet any good
fighter. Probably not until he
feels the necessity of more money
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