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Delaney Adds to Boxing Prestige: Patty Berg Takes Golf World Unawares ~
CL R OFFENSE
TK KETCHELL
«—— ■■ •
Young Heavy’s Two-Fisted
Barrage Lands Steadily
in Eight-Rounder.
BY BURTON HAWKINS.
ETURNED to local fistic favcr
by virtue of hi* convincing
eight-round decision over Billy
Ketchell, rugged Philadelphia
puncher, last night at Turner’s Arena,
A1 Delaney’s devastating mittens also
have placed a comparative black eye
on Stablemate Eddie Mader, eighth
ranking heavyweight.
Mader. whose estimate of Delaney
ranks the Buffalo youth no better
than “pretty good,” might have been
keenly interested in the neat manner
In which A1 disposed of the tough
Ketchell.
It was this same stocky Ketchell
who gave Mader the fight of his life
here last month. Eddie gained the
decision, but absorbed such a lacing
at Billy’s flailing fists that he was
softened considerably for Art Sykes,
who scored a knockout over him a
week later in a semi-final scrap to
the Louis-Retzlaff bout at Chicago.
And those who doubted Delaney’s
illness in New York when he was
scheduled to fight Ketchell here pre
viously, today are certain that the
postponement of the match was not
due to any fear A1 nursed concerning
Billy's superiority.
Delaney s Condition impresses.
TN CHALKING up his fourth victory
1 here, having trounced Bob Godwin,
Terry Mitchell and Joe Lipps pre
viously. Delaney impressed local box
ing bugs with his superb condition.
The 20-year-old Russian-American,
never allowed to fight more than eight
rounds, is being handled cleverly by
Comanagers Billy Michy and Dave
Sonnenberg. Delaney gradually is
gaining stamina, and picking up ring
skill rapidly.
His pile-driving arms beating a
steady tattoo on Ketchell’s sturdy
frame, Delaney experienced little trou
ble in tossing a continuous stream
of hot leather into the Polish lad.
Aggressive throughout, Delaney an
swered the opening bell with a looping
right to Billy’s head and terminated
the session with left and right smashes
to the face, which backed Ketchell
to the ropes.
Evidently hoping to wear A1 down
and in the meantime save himself
from a terrific lacing. Ketchell clinched
repeatedly in the next four rounds,
•11 of which Delaney took handily.
Ketchell Shows Best form.
ITUST as Referee Mugsf Morris was
" about to faint from his exertions
In parting Ketchell from Delaney. Billy
finally opened up in the sixth session,
clipping A1 with a right to the head
and a left to jaw for his most telling
blows of the bout.
Delaney, however, retaliated in the
seventh heat with a withering two
fisted barrage which had Ketchell
groggy’ as the bell sounded. A1 con
tinued his incessant attack in the
eighth round, pumping both gloves
into Billy’s body, to win going away.
Billy Nicky, by virtue of his sec
Cnd-round knockout of Ernie Ander
son, Michigan mauler, in a scheduled
six-round semi-final, will be matched
with Mader. Nichy, popular Pitts
burgh puncher, has scored wins over
such crack clouters as A1 Ettore and
Lou Scozza.
Anderson, sensation of Jack Demp
sey’s heavyweight elimination tourna
ment in New York, was the victim of
a right hook to the jaw, which sent
him crashing to the canvas for the full
count after 1 minute and 15 sec
onds of the second round.
Dechter Wins Over Doty.
T»OBBY DECRTER of Philadelphia.
managed by Jim McNamara and
Natie Brown, former District heavy
weight champion but more noted for
staying 10 rounds with Joe Louis,
pounded out a unanimous six-round
decision over Joe Doty, local light
weight.
A pair of Phil Furr’s proteges, Tony
Livingston and Harry Thompson, won
opening four-round engagements.
Thompson, a local golden gloves
finalist in 1935, made an auspicious
professional ^ebut by gaining a tech
nical knockout over Jack Robinson of
Alexandria. Robinson injured his
right hand in the first round and failed
to come out for the second session.
Livingston, a Quantico Marine,
scored a second-round technical
knockout over Buster Wages of Alex
andria. After flooring Wages for a
nine count, Tony finished him with
a right hook to the face after 1 min
ute and 50 seconds of milling.
More than 1,400 spectators paid
$1,750.40 to witness the action.
MEDIOCRE BOWLERS
GIVEN OPPORTUNITY
Must Average Less Than 118 to
Roll at Takoma—Cowden of
G. P. 0. Has 165 Game.
Vf EDIOCRE bowlers will get their
1 chance next Saturday night at
the Takoma Alleys, where only those
with averages under 118 will be al
lowed to enter the Dutch Sherbahn
Handicap Sweepstakes. The entrance
fee is $5, which includes the cost of
the 10 games.
Two blocks will be held, the second
being scheduled for a week from
Saturday.
A new individual game record stands
In the Federal League today to the
credit of Jerry Cowden, G. P. O.’s pin
upsetter, who shot 165 last night His
record-breaking game enabled him to
walk off with the evening’s high set—
418.
But Cowden's work proved little to
his teammates, who dropped the odd
game to Bureau of Investigation. In
vestigation’s 636 in the last game was
the reason for the 2-1 decision. The
Sleuths remained within one game of
the second-place I. B. E. W. team
while National Capital Parks held its
front-running position unchallenged.
SET PRICES FOR RIGHTS.
Ringside seats at 75 cents and all
ethers at 40 cents are the low admis
sion prices which have been set for
the National Guard boxing show at
Turner’s Arena a week from tomor
row night. The feature will be be
tween Lou Gevinson, Golden Gloves
champion, and Johnny Routson of
aichimrnl
p ■■■■■'■ ... .. ^
Delaney Flashes Gass
A1 Delaney (right) had little trouble obtaining a unanimous eight
round decision over Billy Ketchell before more than 1,400 fans in the
boxing feature at Turner's Arena last night. Here Delaney is shown land
ing a straight left to the chin of Ketchell tleft) after ducking a short left
from Billy in the seventh session. —Star Stall Photo.
BY ROBERT B. PHILLIPS, Jr.
Catching sight oi the sun for
two days in succession, at
least half a dozen sporting
people we know have hastily
canceled plans to depart Southward,
hopefully insisting that foxes soon
will be able to break out of their dens
hereabouts and a hound will And it
possible to follow scent without get
ting a snoot full of icicles. We join
all snowbound horsemen in praying
that these optimists are right, but for
the present it must be admitted that
major horse news of the day origi
nates in the Carolinas.
At Camden last week end, for exam
ple, the visiting firemen were not only
treated to the sight of an honest-to
goodness hunter trials, but saw a full
program of steepleechase racing, events
of this sort being locally still enuTapped
in the misty dreams of Spring. Mrs.
Robert Winmill’s My Toy, one of the
greatest hunter trial and point-to
point horses in Virginia, won the light
weight blue for that Warrenton sports
woman on Sunday, while another
huntswoman well known in Virginia,
Mrs. Paul Abbott, sent out her Happy
Chance to give the competition a work
ing over in the middleweight division.
It is reported also that Mrs. Carroll
Bassett, wife of the noted amateur
jockey, had the best working hunter
on the gounds in her Caprice, and she
shared in the hunt team ribbons, her
trio earining second place.
'T'HE former Laura Curtis of Wash
ington, now Mrs. George H. Bo6t
wick, returned to the races again the
once-famous combination of Fugitive
and Randy Duffey (of Middleburg) on
Saturday and won the Washington's
Birtliday Plate in commanding style.
This chestnut son of Tryster seems to
have rounded into form again since
returning to the care, of his former
trainer and rider and we predict that
he will be a major factor in the cup
races in both Virginia and Maryland
this season.
Fugitive always was more or less
of a runaway on the steeplechase
courses, refusing to be rated and
rattling on at his fences so reck
lessly that he often got into trouble
where a cautious horse could have
stood up easily. The old boy seems
slightly more willing to listen to rea
son now, however, and with his un
questioned speed and fencing ability
(he probably jumped 5-foot timber
faster than it has ever been done
before in the Maryland Hunt Cup of
1933) should give both Indigo and
Hotspur a tussle for the honors of
1936. Furthermore while the boys are
so blithely handing oiit cups to the
Northwood and Wadsworth stables,
they might pause to remember a horse
named Chatterplay which started
twice in 1935 and broke records both
times.
Aside from Fugitive’s victory and
Lucier's creditable second at Camden,
the high spots were Rigan McKin
ney’s cleansweep of the two flat tests,
each time riding an outsider to beat
the odds-on favorite; the terriffic spill
sustained by Col. F. S. Greene’s Drill
master—he hit the ground so hard
he turned up his toes and looked as
though he never would rise again,
but later jumped up and cantered
away just as every one was giving up
hope; Crystal Dawn's fall, which
presented Dickie Wallach of War
renton with the annual cracked col
lar bone; Noel Laing's brush victory
on Spartan Lad and his surprise de
feat over hurdles on Navarino, one
that made up 15 lengths and still
could not win.
T'HE sole vestige of local activity
over the week end was the school
ing session at Fort Myer Saturday
afternoon, where Fenton Fadeley, Mrs.
M. Robert Guggenheim. Lieut. Col.
and Mrs. C. B. Lyman, Betty Couzens,
Lieut. Marshall Frame, Capt. John
Reybold, Maj. James Duke and sundry
other owners gave their jumpers a
workout over the open and hunter
courses, preparatory to tomorrow
night’s indoor meet.
The course for seasoned open horses
is. incidentally, a honey. It would
appear that the cash customers will
get a full load of jitters before this
show is over.
SEVEN TERPS TO FIGHT
Will Have No 165-Pound Entrant
in Conference Tourney.
Maryland will be represented in only
seven classes in the Southern Confer
ence boxing tourney at Charlottesville,
beginning Friday, as it has been de
cided to have no 165 entrant.
Terps slated to fight are: 115, Ed
Shegogue; 125, Tom Birmingham; 135,
Walter Webb; 145, Ivan Nedomatsky;
165 Mike Lombardo: 175, John Gorm
>y heavy, Ed Fletcher, who was “an
atiojd starter’’ after John Blrkland
her), been withdrawn,
LOOP GAMES ARE CLOSE.
Eagles and the Warwicks were vic
tors in two hard-fought games in the
Southeast Community Cehter League
last night, the former trimming the
Trojans, 28-24, and the Warwicks
stopping the Southeast Business Men,
39-34.
NICHY TO FIGHT MADER.
Billy Nichy, victor over Ernie An
derson by a knockout in the semi-final
bout of last night's card at Turner’s
Arena, has been signed with Eddie
Mader for the main event at next
Monday’s bill at the same place.
TERPS IN RIFLE TIE
Share Middle Atlantic League
Lead With Army, Navy.
Paced by A. L. Mehring and Robert
Davis, the University of Maryland’s
sharp-shooting rifle team now is tied
with Army and Navy for first place in
the Middle Atlantic Intercollegiate
League, according to figures released
by the National Rifle Association.
Maryland has scored victories over
V. M. I. and Florida, while George
Washington and Georgetown both
have dropped two matches. The Co
lonials have been defeated by Florida
and Navy, while the Hoyas have bowed
to Army and V. M. I. "Hie standings:
w. l. w. L.
Navy_ 2 0 V. M. I_1 1
Army_ 2 0 Georgetown. 0 2
Maryland—. 2 p O. W .0 2
Florida_1 1 V. P. I-0 2
WIN IN COLORED TOURNEY.
Victories by Twelfth Street Y. M.
C. A. varsity and the Virginia Quick
Steps marked play in the Twelfth
Street Y-Tribune basket ball tourna
ment last night. The Y tossers
downed the Armstrong Night School
five, 45-28, while the Quick Steps de
feated the Union Station Red Caps,
41-33. The next tournament games
will be played Friday night.
EVANS APT TO CUT
New Head of Farm System
Good at Finding Stars
for Little Money.
By the Associated Press.
BOSTON. February 25.—The
faucet that has poured almost
four millions of dollars Into
the American League probably
closed suddenly today following the
appointment of Billy Evans, former
Cleveland Indians general manager,
as head of the Boston Red Sox farm
system.
Evans, who has discovered on sand
lots players as capable as those Owner
Tom Yawltey has spent hundreds of
thousands for, will expand the Red
8ox‘s farming properties immediately.
They now Include only ownership of
the Rocky Mount club In the Class B
Piedmont League and working agree*
ments with the Syracuse International
League club and Little Rock and Mem*
phis In the Southern Association. .
Evans’ appointment was announced
by Yawkey’s general manager, canny
Eddie Collins, who hastened to explain
that the Red Sox did not intend to
copy the highly successful methods
employed by the St. Louis Cardinals,
operatives of base ball’s so-called chain
gang.
No Big System Planned.
“VUE DO not plan any extensive
farm system, such as the St.
Louis Cardinals operate," said Collins.
“We want contracts and agreements
with minor league teams. That is why
Evans was sought for the position.
“I talked to him about it last Fri
day for the first time. He was in
Cleveland. We, Tom Yawkey and I,
met him in New York and came to an
agreement there yesterday.
“We have felt that we could not
continue paying prohibitive prices for
new players and we decided that we
would have to rely upon some reason
able methods of obtaining our replace
ments. We believe Evans is the man
we want.”
Evans, a sports writer before he
started his base ball career as an
umpire in the Ohio-Penn League 30
years ago, also will head the Red Sox
scouting system. He is considered a
master in that phase of the game for,
when he headed the Cleveland club,
he plucked such stars as Joe Vosmik,
Earl Averill, Wes Ferrell and Dick
Porter off sandlots.
First Assignment Uncertain.
'T'HE former umpire, who called them
in the American League for more
than 20 years, quit officiating in 1927
to become general manager of the
Cleveland Indians and a few months
ago, when his contract was reduced
to $10,000, left the Cleveland tepee.
Evans’ appointment, made in a bit
of a rush, has many undecided angles.
It has not been decided whether he
will go to the Red Sox training camp
at Sarasota, Fla., where the jump-off
party heads today, or to Rocky Mount,
N. C., to join Manager George Tor
j porcer, who will guide the transferred
I Piedmont Leaguers.
'RINALDI BASKETERS
GET TOURNEY START
! Tackle Heurich Senates Tonight
in Feature Game of A. A. U.
Title Competition.
TJINALDI TAILORS, one of the fa
ored contenders for the unlimited
championship, make their debut in
the District A. A. U. basket ball tour
nament at the Heurich gym tonight,
when they meet the Heurich Senate
five at 9:30 o’clock in the feature of a
triple-header.
The card will be opened at 7:30
o’clock by a 145-pound clash between
the Terrapins and Police Boys’ Club,
which clash will be followed by the
Department of Agriculture-Y. M. C.
A. unlimited game.
At the Merrick Boy’s Club gym two
games in lighter divisions will be
played. Police Boys’ Club No. 4 will
meet Northeast Boys’ Club Orioles in
the 100-pound class at 7 o’clock.
Northeast Boys’ Club Cardinals will
play Washington Boys’ Club Redbirds.
In games last night Delaware &
Hudson beat Latter Day Saints, 44-25;
Jewish Community Center trimmed
Port Washington, 49-35, and Investi
gation Blues defeated Knights of Co
lumbus, 39-20.
j. C. C. (49). Pt. Wash. (33).
G.F.PtS. GF.Pts.
Jacobson.f.- 0 3 3 Marker.!_ 9 2 20
Hayman.f..- 0 0 0 Klaser.f- 3 17
Mulitz.f_2 16 Dunn.f _0 0 0
Fox.f .. 3. 0 6 Pursett.e --Oil
Genderson.e. 7 1 15 Zim’man.C-- 0 0 0
Cohen.g -_ 2 1 5 Uhrinich.g-. 10 2
Glnberg.g.— 10 2 Dorn.g-2 9 2
Askins.g. - I 0 2 Byrd.g-2 15
Bershard.c.- 5 1 11
Totals_21 ”7 49 Total*_15 ~5 35
Referee—Mr. Gearty.
F. B. I. (39). K. Of C. (20).
G.F.PtS. G.F.PtS.
Ftsher.f_ 0 0 0 Forkls.f — _ 3 2 8
Erwin.f.— -Oil Callavett.f.- 204
L Th’pson.f- 6 2 14 Blackwell.c— 10 2
Robinson.c- 4 3 11 Aquillno.C-. 0 0 0
Oolley.g-J39 Murphy,*.. _ 204
White.*_ 2 0 4 Ross nb um.g 0 0 0
Howland.*-- 10 2
Totals_lil 39 Totals_*1) ~2 20
Referee—"Babe'’ Gearty (C. U.).
D. AH. (44). Batata (28).
G.F.PtS. G.F.PtS.
Beach.!_3 4 10 Terry.f-1 0 2
Smith.f_6 012 Monson.f... 3 2 8
Long.f _ 0 0 0 Csnnon.f_0 0 0
Gsrber.f — 13 6 Badeer.c-0 0 0
Mayfleld.e— 3 4 10 D.Lybert.C— 0 0 0
G.Ball.g_ 0 0 0 Belser.g_2 1 5
Rodea.g — 1 1 3 Hamon.g_10 2
J.Curtm.*— 10 2 H.Lybert.g— 2 4 8
L.Ball.g-- 1_0_2
Total*_10 12 44 Totals_ 9 7 25
Referee—Mr. Shirley (G. W.).
C. U. TO FACE FIVE
ALUMNUS TUTORS
Lawler, Card Star in ’20s,
Brings Mount St. Mary’s
Team Here Tonight.
AN OLD Catholic University ath
lete returns to Brookland to
night seeking reveinge on his
alma mater.
Jo-Jo Lawler, who starred on the
grid and court for C. U. in the mid
dle ’20s, comes back to the scenes of
his former triumphs as the coach of
the Mount St. Mary’s basket ball
team, beaten earlier in the season by
the Cardinals.
It will be the semi-final game for
the Cards, who wind up their season
tomorrow night in the same place
against La Salle. Tonight’s contest
starts at 8:15 o’clock.
Having licked the Saints, 38-31, at
Emmitsburg last month, Fod Cotton’s
charges should repeat tonight, but
there is another angle to the game
which may prove as interesting as the
final result. Hermie Schmarr, making
a bid to lead District scorers for the
second consecutive year, is averag
ing more than 10 >4 points per game
and needs only to continue that pace
to assure him top honors again.
Another objective of the Cardinals
will be the defense of their good home
record this Winter, w^hich shows the
team beaten only twice in eight games
at the big Brookland gym. Duke and
Geneva, two top-notch teams, turned
the trick, but C. U. holds victories over
Western Maryland, Davis and Elkins
and St. Thomas at home.
Bernie Lieb. Irish Carroll, Sam Pa
gano and Zeke Brown will complete
the Cards’ starting line-up.
2 OF WESTS
Little Hoyas and Friends in
Front, but Gonzaga is
Defeated.
Georgetown prep and
Friends were victorious in all
prep games yesterday while
Gonzaga was losing to Roose
velt for the second time. The Garrett
Parkers topped Landon. 24-21, while
Friends hung a 33-23 defeat on Wood
ward. The Gonzaga-Roosevelt score
was 27-17.
Although Joe Gardner’s young
team may find the outside competition
a bit too stiff, it has been quite suc
cessful against other prep fives, yes
terday’s triumph over Landon being
its fifth in seven games. At that,
Landon came near trimming the little
Hoyas at Garrett Park, erasing most
of the 18-8 advantage held by the
winners at the half.
G’town Prep (24). Landon (21).
GFPts. GFPts.
Byrd f_ 2 0 4 Crocker f_.3 4 10
O'Sh'nessy.f Oil Randall.f_022
Higems.f_ 2 0 4 Eaton.c_ 2 0 4
Hemb'ugh.f. 0 0 0 Beverlv.*.— 113
Cummings.c 2 0 4 Channel.*. . Oil
Daly.*__ 3 2 R Myers.g—.. Oil
Graham.*.. 0 0 0
Nurre *_ 0 0 0
Franklin.*.. 113
Totals— To ~4 24 Totals— *6 9 21
Referee—Mr. O'Meara.
TIOOSEVELT doubled the score on
Gonzaga In the first half at the
Rough Riders’ gym. leading by 14-7 at
the intermission, but the Purple held
the high school runners-up on almost
even terms for the last two quarters.
Roosevelt <271. Gonzaga <171.
G F.Pts. G.F.Pts.
Kollus f_ 1 2 4 Boyle, f_2 1 5
Rusher.!_ 0 0 <1 Ganey.f_OOO
S'nerman.f. 0 0 0 Connolly.!— 0 0.0
G Coakley.f- 4 0 8 O'Brien.f_10 2
Comer.c_ 2 0 4 Smith.!__ 0 0 0
Robertson,e_ 0 0 0 Walsh.c—_ Oil
FCoakley.g. 2 0 4 Laake.g.... 0 0 0
Foeel g_ 0 0 0 Collins.e_Oil
Silverman.g. 3 17 Hanley.g-4 0 8
Royal.g_ 0 0 0 Flannery.g_0 0 0
Totals.— 12*3 27 Totals... ~7 ~3 17
Referee—Mr. Kessler.
TTSING its second team throughout
the second half, Friends had little
more than a workout in downing
Woodward on the Friends floor.
Friends took an early lead and never
was even threatened.
Friends <331. Woodward (231.
G.F.Pts. G.F.Pts.
Titus !_10 2 Beane!_ 2 2 6
Gwynne.f_- 3 2 8 Schmid'rd f. 0 0 0
Miller.!_ 1 3 5 Ingram.!... 2 3 7
Smith !_ 0 0 0 Murray.c_4 10
Alexander.c. 113 Carpenter.*. 0 O O
Wannan.g— 3 0 g Parker.*-Oil
Cochrane*. 1 Q 2
Soeare.g- 10 2
Forsythe.* .113
8chultz.g_- 1 0 2
Totals_ 13 7 33 Totals- 8 7 23
I-I
Mat Matches
Br the Associated Press.
WILMINGTON.—Emil Dusek, 215,
Omaha, defeated George Koverly, 218,
Hollywood, two out of three.
CAMDEN, N. J.-Joe Montana,
179, Camden, drew with Jose Samuel,
181, Portugal. Each won one fall.
LANCASTER, Pa.—Joe Dusek, 217,
Omaha, defeated Ed Meske, 221, Ak
ron, Ohio, one fall.
WORCESTER, Mass.—Yvon Robert,
220, Canada, tossed John Malmberg,
215. Worcester. Two falls.
PORTLAND, Me.—Lester O’Nell,
178, Portland, defeated Otto von
Zuppe, 179, Germany, two out of three.
ROCHESTER, N. Y.—Jack Sherry,
215, Texas, tossed Ivan Rasputin, 217,
Russia, straight falls.
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‘Coincidentally,’ Bike Spills Are Handy for Cameraman
Jold Mine Stock Makes Shawkey Near Millionaire—Naissmith Drive to Run to March 1.
BY EDDIE BRIETZ,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK, February 25.—
Was It a coincidence that
most of the bad spills on
the first night of the bike
race occurred right in front of the
battery of photographers—and in
time for the morning papers? . . .
or was Prof. Harry Mendel’s tim
ing just that good?
Reports along the base ball Rialto
say Bob Shawkey, former Yankee
and Newark manager, is well mi
his way to becoming a millionaire
plus in the next few years ... be
has put all his base ball earnings in
a gold mine in Canada and the
stock is soaring ... has gone from
20 to 85 in two months... Bob can
. sell now for enough to make him
independent for life, but nothing
doing.
There are 21 colleges in the
Little Nineteen Conference . . .
and the Southeastern is geograph
ically west of the Southern Con
ference ... Oabby Hartnett is mak
ing his fifteenth visit to Catalina
Island at the expense of the Cubs
... Rocky Mount, N. C.. has voted
a $30,000 bond issue to build a ball
nark for the Red Sox.
Hie Naismith basket ball fund
drive will continue until March 1
... the little town of Red Wing,
Minn, contributed $31.0$ ... or
1 cent for each of 3,100 basket ball
admissions ... pretty good foe a
town of only 10,000 ... Ned Irish's
Aare lor As Oardingamsswaa
$180 . . . Ohio State's home con
tests netted $121.29.
Correction: Freddie Miller wasn’t
the only Southpaw to hold a major
boxing title . . . Tiger Flowers,
Johnny Wilson and Lou Brouillard,
former rulers of the middleweight
and welterweight divisions, were
left-handers . . . Jim Braddock is
telling the boys in Florida, not to
feel too sorry for him ... he points
out be is quite a puncher himself
and that neither Art lasky or Com
Griffith has been quite the same
since Braddock slanted them.
The Erwin, Tenn., high school
team has won 38 consecutive cage
games ... but that’s not the best
record for the vicinity... the Bluff
City girls had captured 89 in a row
1
when their streak was stopped
... Mike Jacobs is due from Miami
any day now ... Norment Quarles,
former Southern Conference feath
erweight champion, now fighting
under Jack Dempsey’s banner,
makes his New York bow against
Mike Belloise tomorrow night.
Oscar Rankin, red-topped Negro,
asked St. Paul promoters to move
his main event ahead of the semi
final so he could catch a Chicago
train ... Fred Lenbart caught the
spirit of the thing and stopped Os
car cold ip SB seconds. P. S.—He
made the train . . . we’ll see If
Max Baer means business about his
ring comeback ... the Garden has
offered him a shot at the winner of
the Primo Camera-Isidor Gas
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Mrs. J. A. Dowdatt New Head,
Of Golf Tourney Committee
MRS. JOSEPH P. DOWD ALL
of Congressional, former club
champion, Is the new tourna
ment chairman of the Wom
en’s District Golf Association. The
most Important post in the active field
of women’s golf today belongs to the
woman who held the Congressional
championship three years ago. Mrs.
R. S. Thompson of the Army-Navy
Country Club will serve as vice chair
man of the Important Tournament
Committee. The appointments were
announced late yesterday, along with
several others, at a special meeting
of the Executive Committee of the
women's organization at the Ken
nedy-Warren.
Mrs. Ben C. Hartig of Manor and
Columbia will serve as District team
captain in charge of first team
matches, with Mrs. N. J. Waldron of
Beaver Dam as assistant. In charge
of second team matches will be Mrs.
E. A. Rule of Kenwood, with Mrs.
E. M. Amick of Columbia, as her
aide. Mrs. Prank Kramer of Beaver
Dam will be in charge of the third
team matches, with Mrs. J. L. Brown
of Kenwood as assistant.
A well deserved appointment brings
Miss Susan Hacker of Chevy Chase
to the post of captain of the team
representing Washington in the Inter
city team matches. Mrs. James W.
Beller of Columbia will serve as her
assistant.
Mrs. C. P. Medley of Manor becomes
chairman of the Handicap Committee,
succeeding Mrs. J. F. Gross of Co
lumbia in that post. With her will
serve Mrs. F. G. Mieir of Kenwood.
Other committees were chosen as fol
lows: Rules Committee, Mrs. Douglas
Tschiflely, Washington, chairman:
Mrs. James W. Beller, Columbia: Miss
Susan C. Hacker, Chevy Chase; Mrs.
Ralph Goldsmith, Woodmont; Mrs.
L. G. Pray, Manor: in charge of the
association year book, Mrs. R. E.
Burks, Congressional: prizes, Mrs. H.
L. Simcoe, Congressional; Mrs. G.
C. Roney, Washington; publicity,
meetings and tournaments, Mrs. J.
H. Bullock, Indian Spring; team
matches, Mrs. N. J. Waldron, Beaver
Dam.
The District championship will go
to Congressional, if the recommenda
tion of the meeting is followed, while
The Star Cup tourney will go to Beaver
Dem. The plan for changes in the
team matches, with some clarifications,
was unanimously adopted, as was the
plan for budgeting entry fees in the
various association tourneys.
I ipSIMMSHT Oil fill Til
by W, R..MSCALLUM_
THE cbming golf season will see
a renewal of the rivalry be
tween two of our worst golfers,
or two of the best, depending
on how you look at it. Certainly you
couldn’t find a pair of lusty divot
lifters who get more real enjoyment
out of golf than do Stokes Sammons,
the Swampscott Stinger, or Alfred C.
Paul, who became known last year as
the Silver Spring Terror, with sound
effects.
Between these two members of
Congressional sprang up last year one
of those healthy rivalries which give
a flock of folks a real belly-laugh and
the nineteenth hole its best moments
of merriment. For neither Sammons,
who weighs around 130 pounds, soak
ing wet in his immaculate golf togs,
or Paul, 220 pounds of husky man
hood, ever has cracked 100, and if
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score of 138 and then managed to get
whipped by 10 and 8 in the consola
tion flight. After that Stokes an
nounced publicly that he had found
at last a golfer he could whip, the
same being Paul. But Brother Paul
denied it and flung a few challenges
himself. Meanwhile a group of his
friends got together and tried to
arrange a match between the pair of
battlers.
Look Forward to a Laugh.
'T'HEY posted bill-boards throughout
the club locker room announcing
the match, equipped the caddies with
chest protectors and masks, to'd
Greenskeeper Hines to send an extra
crew of men out after the match to
do some divot replacing and got the
two principals together. But about
that time Paul had to leave town and
they keep on doing what they are
c' tag, neither of ’em ever will.
Finally Makes a Birdie.
GAMMONS is the gent who is out
^ with a standing offer to any pro
who' can help him to crack 50 for a
j nine-hole circuit of any standard
length golf course. Prior to last year
he never had bagged a birdie in his
many years of swinging at a golf ball.
But somehow, on the fourteenth hole,
playing from the short tee, he man
aged to reach the green and then
bobbled a lengthy putt clear across
the green into the cup for his first
birdie. And then, reverting to char
acter, he finished, pulled-up, in 11.
j 11, 11, 11 for a snappy 120 for the
round. It cost Stokes a lot of money—
that birdie—for he was generous about
the business of signing checks.
Paul only took up golf last Sum
I mer, and joined Congressional. But
he got ahead of Stokes in the birdie
j business. He got one on the twelfth
i hole by the same method, but he
; reached his high spot of all time by
j qualifying in the ninth flight of the
; cAub championship with a record
the match was oft. "That guy cant
lick me,” says Sammons. “I'll take
him if I have to shoot my best game
and get down around 115. Big as he
is he can’t outhit me.” And so Con
gressional members, at least those who
still can laugh after this Winter, are
looking forward to one of the better
laughs of the year.” Golf Chairman
Bill Jones is in on It. He has bor
rowed a kapok vest from Hugh Mac
Kenzie, a mask from Bill McEvoy,
who used to pitch for the White House
press room team, and is all set. Bill
hasn’t had much exercise this year,
but he expects to make it all up in
one afternoon, when Sammons and
Paul get together.
One of golf’s old landmarks has
passed. The American Golfer, first
published by Walter J. Travis 30 years
and more ago, has been discontinued
under that magazine name, and has
been sold to a new publication, to be
known as Sports Illustrated. For
many years*the American Golfer was
looked upon as‘golf’s leading publi
cation. The new magazine will carry
a flock of golf yarns.
Gene Vinson holes a short one on the fifteenth at Con
gressional. Roland MacKenzie on the left.
Masonic League Averages
(15 games or more.)
Team Standing.
W. L. W. L.
Hiram.- 47 16 Joppa- 30 30
Anacostia — 41 19 Congress — 0/ 2.
Harmony... 32 19 Cenenmal... 30 33
Lebanon_ 33 21 St. John s... 22 26
Barrister_36 24 Potomac - 26 31
Whiting .. 35 25 Mt. Pleasant. 27 33
King David.. 35 25 Columbia — 28 35
Hone ... 34 26 Albert Pike.. 23 31
La Payette_ 32 25 Chillum -21 30 i
Naval — 35 28 Singleton... 20 31
Stansbury_ 30 27 Takoma-21 3.11
Dawson_ 29 28 Parker - 24 39
Petworth_ 29 28 Silver Spring 23 40
Pentalpha_ 32 31 King Solomon 22 41
National_ 32 31 New Jerus'lem 19 44
Season Records.
High team games—Lebanon. 629:
Whiting. 625. , . . „„„ _
High team sets—Lebanon. 1.798: Whit
11,1High 1averages—Litchfield. 122-19: Bill
helmer. 121: Simon. 119-17; Cleary.
116-63: Ellis. 115-22. ^
High individual games—Pugh. 177:
Miltner. 175: Litchfield. 173; BlUheimer.
169.
High' Individual sets—Litchfield. 421:
Cleary. 415: Miltner. 406: Deputy. 403.
High strikes—Simon. 44: Litchfield. 38:
Roper. 38: Phillips. 36: H. D. Sonneman.
36: Billhetmer. 35; Bryant. 35.
High spares—Cleary. 1.0: Miltner 168.
Bittenbender, 164; Voorhees. 164; Hare.
High weekly games—Malcolm. 158:
Stevens. 153..
Individual Averages.
(15 games or more.)
ALBERT PIKE.
Schlosser 12 110-10 M.Daoud. 54 99-20
Shah_ 45 106-8 Scott. - 54 9.-16
Ebersole. 64 101-35 S.Daoud- 21 80-10
Danbelser 30 99-26
ANACOSTIA. . —
W.Koontz 60 113-16 Handy— 54 100-18
D. Vecc o 57 110-50 Wilson— 53 99-48
K. Koontx 49 107-25. Dodge—. 18 98-11
BARRISTER. ..
Horner— 21 109-1 Butrum.. 57 105-55
811C0X— 60 106-26 Staubley. 51 105-50
Manning 57 106-5 Speer— 39 98-36
CHILLUM. nA
Baxter.. 38 114-19 Oude-34 97-.0
Ooode- 28 103-19 Shinn 31 89-28
Lau’ghton 23 101-21 Youngb d 20 83-10
Austin_ 27 98-6 McClum 14 77-8
COLUMBIA. —
Franklin. 58 109-2, K. S'nm’n 67 103-20
H. S'nm'n 63 107-44 Harsch— 23 98-9
Orlest__ 63 104-15 K'ffmann 24 97-17
CONGRESS. „„ — _
Stringer. 15 107-5 Kellogg— 33 101-3
IBM M M!::« oT-i9
_36 lOp-SS^lutrick 48 98-4
_ 42 101-34 Burnest n 45 95-12
:a„ 25 101-9 Jenklnson 28 91-11
ion 44 100-14
Ellis_38 lLS-^Montl'rts 42 100-26
Iseman— 42 109-10 Boo- 42 96-00
Carlson_45 106-10
HIRAM.
Simon . 45 119-17 Peterson 57 105-5J
Courtney 45 110-38 Tuggle . 63 103-4
E. Meany 37 107-16 C.Meany 44 103-30
HOPE.
Kellogg 50 110-38 Velhmeye 39 100-3
La Clgir 60 103-37 Croai.-- 15 98-4
Collier-- 54 101-28 Rabbitt. 39 94-22
JOPPA.
BUlh'mer 42 121 Oliver — 45 101-83
Rokbiatt 45 107-13 Wood— 45 100-37
KINO DAVID.
k
KING SOLOMON.
Sutton— 43 97-18 Johnst'ne 64 91-49
Ferber 42 96-32 Wernth'r 24 86-19
McLaren 60 95-55 Burr'ughs 51 85-30
Gaither. 30 92-14
LA FAYETTE. *
Hare 57 113-25 Slick ... 39 102-26
Kaschub., 35 113-4 Landis... 52 101-2
Phillies 29 109-7 Purchase 28 100-17
Aekerm n 42 105-30
LEBANON.
WJVchf'd 42 122-19 Christian 54 109-16
Robey— o4 115-o Hunt 00 106-7
Raum 46 111-29 Moore 28 104-17
Brooks . 16 110-2 C.Lt'chf'l 21 103
MOUNT PLEASANT.
Malcolm 45 106-36 Knock . 17 98-7
Mason . 61 104-24 Doymg.. 39 97-29
Cornell. 44 104-21 Carter.. 42 95-17
Henry.. 15 99-9
NATIONAL.
Bryant.. 67 111-66 Demarest 48 101-37
Roper . 63 110-1 Watts.. 60 98-58
Freeman 67 107-12
NAVAL.
Gray ... 63.108-14 O'Brien. 63 100-54
U Pl"tae~ 50 88-18
NEW JERUSALEM.
Brnmons. 45 108-1 Jacobs.. 45 101-33
Walker 12 105 Hudson. 30 92-17
Campbell 21 104-19
PARKER.
Lewis.._ 51 110-1 Ben ham 29 95-27
Mitchell. 24 107-23 SaxtoiTZ 17 93-15
Miller... 55 101-6 Wilhelm. 34 92-14
Maddox 67 97-28 Behrems. 23 89-5
PENTALPHA.
Miltner— 63 113-44 Moore— 49 102-16
Pugh .. 54 111-46 Butler.. 25 95-12
Werntz.. 60 105-10 Seibert.. 58 92-55
PETWORTH.
Deputy.. 57 113-33 Hancock. 38 104-25
Soper... 57 107-40 Pratt... 39 104-11
Homer.. 15 107 Helmer.. 45 103-3
POTOMAC.
Driver.. 48 110-10 Ulrich.. 64 108-35
Stevens. 64 108-48 Hunter.. 45 101-42
House.. 64 108-48
ST. JOHN’S.
Robb- 48 109-3 Milana.. 12 103-4
Hyde-18 105-9 Stein ... 48 100-14
Keeler.. 27 104-14
SILVER SPRING.
Rich'son. 51 103-1 Durrelle. 18 95-12
Duryea.. 61 101-19 Brandt.. 60 89-19
Ber'mann 46 99-37 Oliver_11 94-2
McComas 52 97-11
SINGLETON.
Doleman. 18 108-4 Lehman. 18 101-15
Perna.. 48 103-39 Bell_ 36 95-32
Stoner.. 48 103-18 Roach_ 30 88-13
Oray... 48 103-1
8TANSBURY.
Wolfe... 27 113-8- Rook—. 48 105-40
Burrows. 54 109-47 Bacas_ 56 104-29
Lipscomb 61' 108-39 Botts_ 30 102-11
TAKOMA
Ouerrier 51 106-14 Burr... 24 102-14
Davis... 51 103-13 Quimby. 35 96-1
Jordan.. 48 103-6 Byre... 45 93-20
CENTENNIAL.
Bltten’der 63 113-49 Fenton.. 57 101-36
Webb... 63 104-23 Lawr'son 60 99-37
Cardin— 57 102-27
WHITING.
Oleary— 60 116-53 Stocks.. 29 106-23
Ren wick. 60 109-37 Hart. W. 54 104-24
Bean_ 67 106-35 Hart. R.. 39 104-8
Today a year ago—Walter Hagen,
I with 280, woo $3,000 Gasparllla open
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EARLY BALLYHOO
18-Year-Old Maid Likely
to Win National Title
in Year or Two.
BY W. B. McCALLCM.
EVERY once In a while some
youngster comes up through
the ranks of golf and becomes
a star almost overnight, with
out going through the customary bally
hoo, or the “uncrowned” champion
stage. Such a kid is freckle-faced 18- '
year-old Patty Berg of Minneapolis,
who Is the sensation of women’s golf
this year and is in the same position J
as Glenna Collett and Bobby Jones 19
years back before either of them had
won a national championship. i
This stocky, grinning little miss of
Scandinavian ancestry has done noth
ing much but upset the apple cart of
all the accepted champions in the
South this Winter, including National
Champion Glenna Collett Vare. She
has taken in stride such accomplished
linkswomen as Mrs. Vare, Maureen
Orcutt Crews, Marion Miley and Mrs.
Opal S. Hill, three of whom were win
ning big golf tournaments when the
Berg kid was playing with gingham
dolls.
tiame s Biggest ,\ews.
CHE is the biggest news story in golf
^ today, and if she keeps on improv
ing she is going to win a national in
a year or two. But the unusual part
of it is that Miss Berg didn't have to
go through the customary routine of
winning a flock of sectional champion
ships before she became big-time tim
ber. She sprang into the national star
parade almost overnight by going to
the final in the championship last
year, where Mrs. Vare whipped her.
It isn’t the usual thing at all for a
young star to bloom so quickly, in
golf at least. Usually they have to
go through the “child wonder” stage,
win an armful of minor titles, get
licked in the national a few times and
finally crash through to win. Maureen
Crews, good as she is, went through
all the stages, Including the “girl
wonder” development, but she never
has won the national, and probably ,
never will. Patty Berg, freckles, con
fidence and all, has been spared all
this. From obscurity she sprang into
the headlines within a week last Sep
tember, and for a while she was looked ^
upon as one of those championship
freaks, a kid who had a good week
and would be a good kid again and
let all the oldtimers trim her when
ever she started, with that reverence
for age and experience that seems to
be part of golf.
Carries Fight to Enemy.
T>UT Patty is not orthodox. She
u carried the scrap right into the
camp of the enemy in Florida, and
she has done right well. Twice she
has whipped Maureen Crews and
twice she has won big tournaments,
crushing the national champ along
the route in one of them. Maureen
finally defeated her at Palm Beach
last week, but it took all the golf she
had to do it, and Maureen has been
one of our best swingers for a good
many years.
The Berg lass starts today in another
tournament—at Ormond Beech—along
with the rest of the feminine troupe
which Ma and Pa Keeler and Ray
McCarthy trot around through the
Southern loop each year, and she will
be the biggest star of them all. Mrs.
Crews and Mrs. Vare will not start.
The rest of them have proven to be no
match for the Berg youngster this
year. Anyway you figure it, Patty is
the biggest golf news of the Winter.
Any gal who can play winning golf ^
in the North and then play even better
golf on those sandy Florida courses is
j good.
Popping Off
(Continued From Eleventh Page.)
current peak. McGraw startled the
sports world in 1907 by taking his
New York Giants all the way to Los
Angeles to train, although he Anally
had to move to San Antonio when
constant rains washed out their camp
in California.
Florida Base Ball Mecca.
TT WAS from these pioneering ef
forts, however, that Spring train*
ing grew to a necessity well worth the
*20,000 to *60.000 that annually is
spent upon it by each major league 4
club owner. Now the South is a
Mecca for diamond athletes, news
paper men, photographers, cartoonists
and radio commentators, all of whom
play a part. Florida, with 12 of the
16 major league clubs training under
its sun, still ranks as the most popular
State in the country as a condition
ing site and the program still seems
to be growing.
In fact, two National League clubs
will go out of the United States dur
ing their training schedule.
Clark Griffith, tossing down a
straight shot of hot tea, took a look
at the hotel lobby here today and
grinned at the sight of his sleek-haired
ball players, who look as though they
had just stepped out of a page from '
Esquire. Hotel folk bow and scrap*
before the diamond heroes now.
“When I can first remember Spring
training," the Old Fox recalled, “the <
better hotels didn’t want most ball
clubs. And that’s where Anson was
•way ahead of the rest. Cap knew it
and took pains to make the hotel* *
want his club.
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Anson Keen About Style.
•ANSON was a showman if base
ball ever had one. He used to
tell us at camp that he wanted us in
the old soup an’ Ash at dinner. It
wasn’t compulsory, but when Cap said
full dress it was a good idea to wear
just that.
“He carried his ideas to the ball
Aeld. We didn’t just dress and run
onto the Aeld, even in training. We ,
waited and marched out in line. It
was Anson who started transporting
his ball players to the parks in open,
carriages and who varied uniforms to
add color. One day we’d be wearing
blue pants. The next we’d have tight
britches like a Buckingham Falaca
P*g«."