THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. a•• MAJOR LEAGUE ROOKIE PROSPECTS Hoyas, AllFace WXDNZSDAT, FXBKUAKY I, IBM C-3 Red Sox Investments Tough Buck Weaver Dies, Never May Pay Off at Last Teams in Cleared of Black Sox Tag (13th In a Series) (finishing his season at Louis- CHICAGO, Feb. 1 (C).—George NEW YORK. Feb. 1 W.—The ville with a .310 mark that ln- Games Tonight (Buck) Weaver, former White thousands of I eluded 33 doubles, nine homers hundreds of dol-j in, a Georgetown Sox third baseman who main- lars by Yawkey land 88 runs batted made Both and Ameri- invested Tom (deep impression Manager tough tained to the end his innocence young] on : can U. have drawn as- scan- of the Boston Red Sox In Septem- signments in the Black Sox baseball is just about ready to, Mike Higgins in his few i for their basketball dal, died yesterday at the age players ; games Red He games tonight, the Hoyas pay off. Impartial observers ber with the Sox. i as of 64. be-! • also proved to be an exceptional : hosts to St. Joseph’s and the lleve the finest crop of rookies; Weaver, a star for the Box will be paraded at the fielder. Eagles as visitors at Loyola In anywhere I 1 Baltimore. from 1912 through 1920. col- Red Sox spring training camp, Keough. only 20 despite four South pro ball, Annapolis lapsed on the sidewalk of a at Sarasota next month. seasons in two in In a game at this by trlple-A, regarded Navy, a rec- Side street and was found Some of those highly priced is as one of i afternoon. with 5-4 police. men He was pronounced dead and high prized bonus kids have the fastest in baseball and ord, is host to Penn State. Englewood Hospital. ¦r jiiJ?. great at - signs tacked on to a defensive outfielder. He '•« gt .A “can’t miss’ Georgetown more or less has a «T .303 in 151 games at Louis- , Weaver fought losing cause the backs of their 1956 Cadillacs. batted owned the Hawks in recent years in attempting $25,000 or more ville, with 33 doubles, 14 triples. beating eight through the Six who received years, them of nine to clear his name of charges that I, to sign as untried rookies, are up 12 homers and 67 runs batted in. times, but it could be different Jm BLais a His taking he and seven other White Sox yfl from Louisville. He is lefthanded hitter. tonight. American U. is players conspired Ik Mi They Marty only drawback is a mediocre , to throw the « are Outfielder on the first-place team of the Keough, tops arm, the knack of 1919 World Series to Cincinnati kJH| who the bonus list but he has Mason-Dixor. Conference. SIOO,OOO. $100,000; Pitcher charging ground balls and get- for JH with a reported Record - JSS&p''' «| Jerry Casale, Shortstop Don ting them away quickly. Hawks Have 12-2 Cincinnati won by taking its eight Buddin, Second Baseman Joe Casale, a 22-year-old right- Georgetown, which, beat St. fifth victory in the game by year, nine-game Tanner, Catcher Haywood Sul-j ihander from Brooklyn, was one < Joseph’s 61-53 last of a series. GEORGE (BUCK) WEAVER livan and First Baseman Dick of the best pitchers, if not the might not even be favored in Weaver hit .300 for the Sox in (As He Looked in 1927) Gemert, who already has had a best, in the Association last year. l tonight's 8:30 o’clock game. The 1917 and .296 in 1919—both fling with Boston but is still The 6-foot-2, 205-pound fire- Hoyas have an 8-7 record this ; pennant years—and .333 in 1920. ment in 1927, but the move was young enough to be regarded as baller had a 17-11 record, posted season playing opposition not In the 1919 Series. Weaver had denied by Landis. In denying * tougher than St. Joseph's, a prospect. / a 2.96 earned-run average and much ’ 11 hits in 34 at bats for a .324 the plea. Landis wrote in part: Others are Second Baseman led the league with 186 strike- which is 12-2. That’s a big im- average and scored 4 runs. He “You testify that preceding the Billy Consolo from Oakland, provement for the Hawks who 1 made only one error in the field World Series, Cicotte, your outs. record last Catcher Gerry Zimmerman from young worked to a 12-14 ’ and had 9 putouts and 18 assists. team's leading pitcher that sea- "Casale is a terrific ‘get Greensboro. Pitcher Frank Bau- prospect,” Wagner, season. seven son, asked if you wanted to said Charlie a Weaver and the other a-.. mann. released from the Army assistant farm director of the There will be preliminary White Sox playerr were acquitted in on something—fix the World H -ft%\ August, Georgetown fresh- Series,' ! game you replied: last and Catcher Jim Red Sox. “Ithink he’s better between ' by a ary in Chicago in August. and ‘You Pagliaronl, signed a St. Prep v'JB out of a Dear- pitcher some fellows men and Francis at ’ 1921, of charges of conspiring to are crazy; that can't be done." Mmßiißfti -'M ..tover (Bt. Joeeph’t Friday Pittsburgh Business is dignified, and in demand 12 I n Ml Hasteln -Meek Bell Club) ve. he will be in » (i Talhakah (CTO) In 62 seconds of second Don Purcell (Merrick Club). months year. 7.10a15 17005 35.03 8.20*15 88.45 | 44.28 | «'r. /„ edp (I round. for a banquet honoring Ed Vereb, a 1 r SENIOR DIVISION Mounted Frea at AH 3 Stores '•**• 147-Paaad Class 176-Pennd Class Saturday it’s the “M”Club din- *»y O'Bryan (unattached) _ declsloned James Vountbleod (VPW) vs. John T. ; Sunday Experience our you be Robert Wilson (Olympic Club). Smith (Northeast AC). ner in Baltimore and is m line not essential as will John Matthews (Southeast House) won "Tommy Mont Day" in Cumber- thoroughly by pay br technical knoc ko u t over Oeorse MILITARY TOURNAMENT trained me. Position should over ° 'OTOi 112-P*and Class land, with the Dapper Dan din- r ln 1:20 of Srst round. Pares (Destroyer $12,000 and life ; assis p, 1! Boy* Vic Force) ve. first year. Liberal drawing account _ ~ " Club No. 131 ner won by technical 0 Cherles Newsome (Quantico Marines). to follow. (unattached)knockout over Charles Cobey, Terps' time security assured. Brown in 1:37 of second lIS-Peand Cists Bill the new di- Ronnie Andrews (Destroyer Pores) vs . ISO-Fsuad Class (Andrews APB). rector of athletics, and Mary- Robert Wsbb you you Sparks, .
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