Minnesota Acclaimed Nation s Top Eleven in Associated Press Poll Ranking — *, BUCKY IS BACK. EXPERTS GIVE GOPHERS By JIM BERRYMAN HARRIS' BASE BALL RISE BIG MARGIN OYER ΈΑΜΑ 6UCKV PROVED HIS ABILITY A4 A MANAGER STIRRING EPIC OF GAME BY LIFTING TH£ REt>SOX FROM THEIR 15 VEAR | Mid westerners Receive 31V2 Votes, Crimson Tide, BERTH IN THE 2*£ "Division... Quitting Pennsylvania Mine Job at 19 for Minors, and 1—Louisiana λ 5%; Stanford, 3, Pitt, Bucky Eight Years Later Leads Nationals to State Not First Ten. Among World Title in Managerial Start. BY ALAN GOULD With one split ballot for the top I BY JOHN Β. KELLER. startled the base ball world by raising Associated Press Sports Editor. position. Minnesota gained 31 % to the pilot's In the I votes for first in a total Τ AN LEY RAYMOND HARRIS post following YORK November 14.—A place January then but 27 old. : of 41 received so far from scattered IT will—In becom- Bucky, years —Bucky, you Jake flock of loot ball Only 6tahl, also a Washington college argu- but representative sections. Alabama's be re- ing the only manager to manager, had been at the helm of a ments remain to be settled, but Crimson Tide, which appears a fa- an American League major league club at such an NEW vorite for the Rose Bowl assignment. hired by early age. there's Just one really ringing another Bucky made good as a manager Inasmuch as the Gophers probably club that had fired him adds to the "What right off the reel. Under his guidance response today question: won't be allowed to consider an In- to an base startling chapter amazing in 1924 the Nationals ior the first team tops the current ranking list?" vitation, polled 5 Va votes for flrit ball history. Hie has been a spectac- time won the American League pen- It's the of Minnesota's place. Stanford received S and Pitts- University ular career In the diamond game. nant, then stepped out to beat the burgh 1. Giants in a sensational Juggernaut, by as smashing a margin BUT THE TI«R Little heralded In hi» minor league seven-game The poll revealed a sharp diver- world series. Again in 1925 the Na- as most of the victories hung up by outside the uni- WAS A LISTLESS PIT gence of opinion of day*, Bucky quickly rose to stardom tionals were flag winners, but this their all- versal for Foa HIM TD TRY the galloping Gophers in high regard Minnesota, after making the major grade and year they relinquished their world which was first or second in TO TEA CM placed to the Pirates In a conquering campaign. soon developed Into a successful leader championship every list. Alabama, Pittsburgh and £?% PENNAHT / seven-game duel Princeton were rated at least once ΖΓ Brought it TR,CK4· as well as a player of class. In as- The Quick Lowdown. in 9 out of the 10 To suming the management of the Wash- top positions. 7\ washingToH Married Here in 192S. the Nation's "first ten" Rated on the basis of this consen- λΛ the first ington club, Harris at 38 enters his to have a mar- twelfth campaign as a major league WAS shortly after this defeat of HERE'Samong the college gridiron ag- sus, Colgate figures And ohly gregations based on a poll by gin over Syracuse, while Pittsburgh ? vA TIM* ! pilot. IT the Nationals by the Pirates that Harris is a "natural" In base ball. the Associated Press among leading should trim the Navy In two of this Harris, in October, 1925. married made him take observers throughout the country and Saturday's standout games In the East. Perhaps his birthplace to the as well as to basket ball Elizabeth Sutherland, daughter of a ihowing the team records: JgLOM) game and tool was in a former Senator from West 1. Minnesota (won six). Whafll Huey Say? ball. He born house Virginia. on Ball street in Port Ν. The wedding, a high spot in social 2. Alabama (won seven). Santa Clara and Louisiana Jervis, Y., November 1896. events of the Capital that Fall, was 3. Stanford (won seven, tied one). State failed to land among the 8, RICE, He foot ball before attended by President Calvin 4. Pittsburgh (won six, lost one). "first 10," although the bal- gave up getting Coolidge. his first minor league Job and The Harrises have three children. 5. Princeton (won six). loting is close in the lower part of put aside basket ball before he the Stanley, Jr., 7; Sallie, in her 4th 6. Colgate (won four, lost one). the list. joined club in 1919. year, and Richard, in his 2d. 7. Illinois (won six). Checkerboard tabulation of the Washington Bucky / - realized the court Under Harris, the Nationals In 8. Navy (won seven). foot ball ranking poll, showing the WHoopie game might mar his career as a base ball al- 1926 fell back to fourth place. Their 9. Ohio State (won five, lost one). number of votes for each of the first player, > though It was not easy for him to fielding was poor, and their pitching 10. Syracuse (won six). 10 places: Va forego the sport as he had made quite staff mediocre. Only at bat were they «^uiiege. 1st ζα οα sut oui lui oui »m luui a name for himself professionally in of championship caliber. Harris con- 1. Minnesota 31% 9'4 basket ball. tinued as manager of the Washington 2. Alabama 9 3 3 4 2 3 1 .... 5% 8% RETURNING AS /MANAGER OF club two more years. No pennants 3. Stanford 3 6 5 4 1 .... 1 .... 8'/2 10% THE Learns Game at Pittiton. ever came to the Capital, but the 4. NATIONALS... 3ACK AT THE V Pittsubrgh 1 11 7 4 7 1 1 1 2 .... Nationals never fell out of the first HELM THE WITH CLUNG to base ball with a 5. Princeton 3 4 8 6 4 4 4 3 l'J OF CLUB WHICH division under Bucky's marked persistency, probably in- leadership. 6. Colgate 2 2 7 4 4 4 4 2% HE SCORED HIS FIRST MAJOR HE In 1927, the year of Walter John- 7. herited from his Welsh ancestry, Illinois 4 2 1 4 5 2 10 1% LEAGUE son's decline as a pitcher, the Na- TRIUMPHS AS THE and quickly made himself a nationally 8. Navy 3 6 7 1 5 3 5 tionals finished third and In 1928, °fîoy-wonder pilot"..... famous character In professional dia- 9. Ohio State 1 l>i 3% 2 2 4 2 .... 5 fourth. after mond ranks. Immediately the 1928 10. Syracuse 1 .·.. 4 9 5 4 3% campaign closed Griffith released When Harris was but 5 years old, 11. Rice 1 1 1 5 3 2 9 Harris and made Johnson manager 12. NAIS' his family moved to Hughestown, a Santa Clara 3 1 3 1 2 BUCKY MADE 2 of the Washington club. As he left borough adjoining Pittston, Pa. When 13. L. S. U 1 1 S 3 2 the Nationals, Bucky also left the 13 he went to work as a breaker boy 14. Army 2 2 1 2 field as a regular second baseman. in the coal mines. Soon a better 15. Temple 1 .... I I 1 'BAMANS TO VISIT Time and injuries had taken toll of at the it LOOKS TO Θ5- place colliery gave him more his to 2 legs and slowed him such an Scattered placings—Washington State, for 9th; University of Washing- BOSS AGAIN FOR ^ time to devote to sports and it was A PRETTY extent he was of little value about ton, 1 for 10th; St. Mary's, 1 for 7th; Purdue, Columbia and GOOD not before he a Trinity (Conn.), long became regular the middle sack. 1 for 10th. BREAK ALL AROUND- inflelder for the Pittston team of the FORBENEFITTIU FOU THE GttJFF Interurban Amateur League. FANS, Back in Old Berth After Six oeis km so* Lp in sate. The team entered the professional AMD BUCVCy/ ranks in 1915 and was not long in Year to Build Club the next year he getting Lapse waa taken on the Detroit training trip HARRISthe management of the Detroit Will Play Picked Team of by the then manager, Jen- Hughey club, taking over the va- DEDICATE LANDON a job With nings, fellow townsman. He was Youngsters. cated by George Local Gridders to Aid considered too frail for major league Moriarty. Through ball, however, and was transferred to five seasons Bucky handled the Tigers, the Almas ''Continued Prom First Page.) Muskegen Club of the Central never getting them out of the second Temple. League. FIELDONFRIDAY j division of the American League. In 1917 he the [ here. They are Ossie Bluege and began season with Three times under his management Norfolk of the Virginia League. With players of ^βΠΒ^ΜβΜΙΤ ©fl¥ ΊΠΜΙΕ TEE Myer, both great friends of they finished fifth, once sixth and Washington's Buddy the United States in the World War, once seventh. Harris' foot ball teams is a rare ball greatest trou- One O'Clock Post Time Set. Game With St. Hot college will be W. R..MSCALLUM Bucky's. That Bluege though, business was in that cir- Albans, by poor ble with Detroit w&s lack of a com- banded Into one eleven Satur- observed Harris. "Perhaps cuit so after five weeks In the Old player," petent pitching corpe. LEADING Dominion the athlete returned young O'Hara-Bryan Memorial Foe, Will Be Feature day, December 8, to oppose a there won't be a regular berth for him Last season Harris assumed the frown which creased the atonal, whipped out a 2-and-l win to Pennsylvania to play Independent Alabama crew In a on the but what a wonderful util- management of the Red Sox in Bos- picked gridiron over Ellis Maples and Harold Callo- club, ball with the brow of Dick Watson gradually Lehightons.