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None Is Elected
To Hall of Fame

NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—(P)—For
the second straight year members
of the Baseball Writers’ Associa-
tion of America have failed to
agree Op any one candidate: for
election to baseball’s Hall of Fame,
the association announced today.

Despite a new method of voting
this year, not one of 21 diamond
greats was able to command the
necessary 75 per cent of the total
ballots to have his bust placed
alongside those of Babe Ruth,
Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson,
Hans Wagner and other famous
stars in baseball’s shrine at Coop-
erstown, N. Y.

As in the previous balloting
held last winter, Frank Chance,
first sacker and manager of the
Chicago Cubs in the early 1900’s,
received the most votes, but once
again he failed to make the grade
by a slim margin. Needing 197
of the 263 votes cast to be elected,
Chance could garner only 150
votes. :

Close behind him in second
place. with 110 votes was Johnny
Fvers, another former Cub hero
who with Joe Tinker and Chance
formed the almost legendary dou-
ble-play combination of Tinker to
Evers to Chance. /

Miller Huggins, former second
baseman of the Cincinnati Reds
and St. Louis Cardinals, but better
known ‘to modern day fans as
manager of the great New York
Yankee combines of 1921-1928, and
Ed Walsh, famous spitball pitcher
of the Chicago White Sox, were
tied for third wtih 106 votes
apiece, :

Cieslak Is Playing

In Puerto Rico Loop

Ted Cieslak, the Southern
weague’s most. valuable player
ast season, is playing ball with
san Juan in Puerto Rico and sav-
ng his money.

_ Cieslak, who spent most of the
winter here, left early in January
0 play for San Juan.

The popular ex-Cracker, who re-
dorts for spring training with the
Roston Braves this season, is sav-
ng his money, but he doesn’t trust
the banks in Puerto Rico, “Corn”
White, who with Lew Sewell, op-
erates the Anchorage, revealed.
“Ted left his bankbook with me
and sends his savings back here
for deposit,’ White said.

 

 

BASKETBALL PAYS KENTUCKY —

 

 

 

“We didn’t play up to our best
against Tech tonight,” he tried to
explain to a reporter who had
been popeyed at the sight of the
lightning-like Wildcats streaking
by and through the Tech Yellow
Jackets. ‘‘Wish you could. see us
when we’re having a good night.
We were much better against Ten-
nessee.”

“What was the trouble against
Temple?” the reporter asked devil-
ishly. ‘“Didn’t they hand you your
only defeat?” :

“Yep, they beat us all right,”
he said. “It was a case of too much
Madison . Square Garden. We
should have come on home after
playing in the Garden. But here’s
a scoop for you: We haven’t an-
nounced it yet because we don’t
want to be bothered by ticket
hounds, but we play Temple later
in the season in Louisville. And
you know what—we’re gonna kick
the daylights out of ’em.”’

‘Rupp disclosed that Kentucky
cleared $29,000 out of basketball
last year and would draw consid-
erably better this season. ‘‘We
pack ’em in everywhere,” he said.

“I figure I’m the smartest man
in basketball,” he said half aloud,
“put I was outsmarted once or

State we would take all of our
gate and they could have theirs.
Our gym seats only 3,700 and
when we got to Michigan State
they had a crowd of 8,200. How-
ever, we’re starting construction
on a field house soon that will cost
a million and three-quarter dollars
and will seat 10,000 for. basketball.
Then we’ll swap gates with any of
’em and feel no pain.”

“Wish I could stay over and
watch Fort Wayne play here,” he
said. “Don’t forget to send me
the clippings from their games in
Atlanta. You know they are pretty
good, too.’

 

Three Games Tonight
In Suburban Loop

Three games will be played in
the Suburban Basketball League
tonight, beginning at 7 o’clock.
Hapeville meets the Medics in the

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| Rupp Says Wildcats,
ToPlay Temple Again

| By THAD HOLT | 7

Talk to Adolph Rupp for 30 minutes or 30 hours and the subject

is the same—basketball. The famous University of Kentucky coach
has a one-track mind. He won’t discuss the weather.
inspire the man from the Blue Grass country to give a bored grunt.
Politics are out of his line. But basketball—it’s his baby and he’ll
talk about it hours after he’s tucked his ball players in their cribs.

twice this season. I told Michigan |

first game, College Park faces Fair- |

 

takes on Fayetteville in the third.

 

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