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1936 Rough on Track9 Field Marks : Bowlers Open Star Roll-Off
OWENS, STEPHENS HEAD
RECORD-BEATING MARCH
Year of Olympics Sees Boys, Girls of U. S. Score
in Games at Home, Abroad—Work of
Colored Athletes Remarkable.
BY ALAN GOULD,
Associated Press Sports Editor.
EW YORK. December 38.—
They—meaning the boys and
girls who romp about the
athletic premises scantily clad
—rewrote the track and field records
during the Olympic year of 1936.
The branches of competition calling
for speedy footwork, acrobatic agility
or the knack of heaving sundry im
plements, reached their grand climax
at Berlin during the first week of
August. In the wholesale record
emashing by both sexes, the Olympic
games excelled even the amazing at
tack upon time and distance at Los
Angeles four years ago. After it was
all over the I. A. A. F. stamped its
approval upon no fewer than 27 record
breaking or record-equaling perform
ances, most of them achieved by
American boys and girls.
Before forsaking amateur ranks,
Jesse Owens of the United States
registered the biggest batch of new
records since Paavo Nurmi was on
the loose. Ohio State’s Brown Bullet
captured four first places in his sprint
ing. hurdling and broad jumping spe
cialties in each of three meets, in
cluding the Big Ten and N. C. A. A.
championships. He lifted two National
A. A. U. titles, qualified for three in
dividual events in the Olympics and
won them all, the 100, 200 and broad
Jump, besides anchoring the record
smashing American 400-meter relay
team.
Yank Negroes Sweep.
/"YWENS duplicated Nurmi's quad
ruple triumph of the 1924 Olympic
games. When the record books were
brought up to date, the name of
Owens was added to the list eight
time* for his best performances in the
last two years. Two technicalities,
comprising a track measuring a frac
tion of an inch short at Chicago and
a bit of tailwind at Berlin, robbed
Owens of a new world record of 10.2
seconds for 100 meters. Jessie was un
beaten until Ralph Metcalfe outran
him at Cologne after the Olympics, i
Owens contributed largely to a J
•weep by American Negro runners of
•11 Olympic foot races, from 100
through 800 meters. Archie Williams,
winner of the 400. set a new world
mark of 46.1 at Chicago, displacing
the supposed "perfect record" of 46.2
by little Bill Carr in the 1932 games.
Long John Woodruff, winner of the
800, startled athletic observers with
the longest stride ever seen in foot
racing. The expert, feeling is that
the University of Pittsburgh runner
has the half mile and mile records at
the mercy of his space-eating form.
The year's outstanding figures other
wise included Colorado’s Glenn Morris,
•elf-tutored all-around star who twice
smashed the world decathlon In his
sweep of national and Olympic hon
ors; Forrest (Spec) Towns, the limber
Georgian who proved himself the
world's greatest high hurdler, posted
new standards of 14.1 seconds for the
110-meter and 120-yard distances,
and was clocked in the unbelievable
time of 13.7 at Oslo, after the Olym
pics, and John Edward Lovelock, the
New Zealander who romped off with
the classic Olympic 1,500-meter crown
In the new world record time of
3:47.8, a full second under Bill Bon
throna mark.
Lash Fades Out, Returns.
HE biggest disappointment of the
Olympic*, to Americans, was the
failure of Indiana's Don Lash to give
the Finnish distance runners more I
than a passing challenge. Lash fin
ished eighth in the 10,000, in which
the Finns were 1-2-3. The American
college star ran fourteenth, next to
last, in the 5,000. Prior to going
abroad Lash lowered Nurmi’s world
outdoor 2-mile record to 8:58.3 at
Princeton. Back home again, the
Hooeier proved king of the cross
, country pack, nationally, for the third
atraight year.
Equally surprising was the failure
of George Varoff, Ben Eastman, Bill
Bonthron and Walter Marty, a quar
tet of world record holders, to make
tha Olympic team. Varoff failed in
the pole vault only a week after soar
ing to the new record height of 14
feet fit* Inches. Eastman and Bon
thron faded in the middle distances in
blistering hot weather at Randalls
Island. Marty failed to qualify in the
high Jump and watched his record dis
appear as two lanky Negroes, Cornel
ius Johnson and Dave Albritton,
•oared over the bar at 8 feet 9%
inches.
Winter performances, as usual
failed as an Olympic barometer. Joe
Mangan, the Cornellian who upset
Glenn Cunningham and Gene Venzke
at indoor mile running, tinned up as a
pro coach. Another sensation, Syra
cuse’s Eddie O’Brian, made the team
only as a member of the 1,600-meter
relay quartet. Big Jack Torrance, the
Louisiana State holder of world shot
putting records, never recovered his
best form. Indoors or out. He placed
fifth in the Olympics and is now a
pro flstlcuffer.
der the world record time himself,
topped off his European trip by re
ducing the 800-meter mark to 1:49,7
in a meet at Stockholm. Glenn fig
ured in the most freakish event of
the year, outsmarting and outsprint
ing hi* two indoor rivals, Mangan
and Gene Venzke, In the "world'*
slowest mile," clocked in 4:46.8, on
the Madison Square Garden track.
Southern California’s Trojans were
the No. 1 college team, winning the
National Collegiate A. A. title easily.
Indiana, led by Lash, captured Big
Ten honors. Cornell, for the first time
since 1919, won the Eastern I. C. A.
A. A. A. championship with Hubert
Cornell one of the victorious heroes.
The New York A. C. retained National
A. A. U. team supremacy.
NET STARS COLOR
SUGAR BOWL FETE
Grant Heads Lot Playing
Today—Southern Marks
Go in Track Meet.
By the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, December 28 —
Sugar Bowl sports enthusiasts
turned to tennis matches to
day for a tournament in
which Bryan (Bitsy) Grant of At
lanta, third ranking American net>
man, was seeded No. 1.
Frank Parker of Lawrenceville, N.
J., was seeded behind Grant and oth
ers entered included Dr. Johns Mc
Diarmid of Princeton, defending
Champion Arthur Hendrix of Lake
land, Fla.; Ernie Sutter. New Orleans,
and Walter Senior, San Francisco,
California champion.
Track Meet in Rain.
POUR THOUSAND fans turned out
In a drizzling rain yesterday for
the track meet, first of the sports
events, which will be climaxed with a
foot ball game between Louisiana
State and Santa Clara on New Year
day.
Southern records fell in the mile
and two miles. Archie San Romani,
Kansas State Teachers, nosed out the
veteran Glenn Cunningham in a 4:14
mile, two seconds under the mark set
here by Cunningham last year. Don
Lash. Indiana, was third.
Wayne Rideout of Texas Teachers
set the two-mile mark by running the
distance in 9:03.5. Lash, who estab
lished the former record of 9:15.5 last
year, was second.
Glickman Dash Victor.
TV/JARTY GLICKMAN of Syracuse
took the 100-vard dash in 9.9
seconds and Helen Stephens. Olympic
sprinter, overcame handicaps to lead
her field in the century in 11.3 sec
onds.
The 880-yard run was won by Char
lie Beetham of Ohio State in 1:56.
Floyd Lochner of Oklahoma captured
the two-mile steeplechase.
Tonight boxing teams of St. Louis
and New Orleans will meet. The Ar
kansas-Tennessee basket ball game la
scheduled Wednesday night.
GRID LOOP LAURELS
GO TO POLICE BOYS
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Title Earned Despite Scoreless Tie
With Northeast—Champs
Take Four Games.
FJESPITE their scoreless tie with
the Northeast Boys’ Club eleven,
135-pound grtdmen _ of Police Boys'
Club. No. 5, were being hailed as
champions of their class today after
finishing on top of the first Police
Boys’ Club League for that weight ever
sponsored in the District.
Undefeated in five games, yester
day's was the only one which the No.
5 club failed to win. The Washing
ton Boys’ Club and St. Martin’s grid
ders had bowed previously to the
champions. Northeast finished in sec
ond place, with four victories, one tie
and one defeat. Washington Boys’
Club won two, lost three and tied one.
while St. Martin's lost all six of Its
games.
Had Northeast made good on its
scoring threat yesterday when it
reached its opponents' 1-yard line, it
would have won the crown. The
Police Boys threatened only once,
when they reached the Northeast 11
yard line in the third quarter.
Five years ago—Glenn Thirtie
th walte resigned as head foot ball
coach at Wisconsin.
Ritzenberg and Johnsen in
. Second Round of U. S.
Junior Tourney.
By to* Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 38.—
Fifty-five youthful tennis play
ers who survived the opening
matches in the national Junior
and boys’ Indoor championships Sat
urday. plus 41 more who weren’t
called on in the first round, resumed
their battles at the 7th Regiment Ar
mory today.
The fields were reduced to 84 Jun
iors and 32 boys Saturday, with only
one seeded player falling. He was
George MacCall, twelfth and last on
the junior list, who dropped a three
set match to Philip W. Moore of Great
Neck, Long Island.
Washington Youths Survive.
'T'HE top-seeded stars. Don McNeill
of Oklahoma City and Kenyon
College, Gambler, Ohio, among the
juniors, and 15-year-old Arthur H.
Ink, Jr., of San Diego, Calif., In the
boys' event, went into the second
round with straight set victories.
Advancing with the Juniors were
the seeded Charles T. Mattmann of
Forest Hills, Long Island, who won
convincingly although still limping
from a leg injury sufTeied last Fall;
Marvin Kantrowitz, New York; Albert
Rltzenberg and Davie Johnsen, Wash
ington; Henry H. Daniels, Jr., New
York; Robert A. Low, New York, and
Malcolm Weinstein, Germantown. Pa.
Weinstein was the only seeded Junior
who had to play a second set.
Convincing victories also were re
corded by Alfred I. Jafle of Brooklyn
and the University of Chicago. Mc
Neill’s opponent today; Peter Lauck
of Montclair. N. J., and Princeton,
who plays Low. and Arthur C. Neilien,
Jr., of Winnetka, HI.
Easy Sailing for Ink.
'THE second and third seeded play
1 ers. Morey Lewis of Texarkana,
Ark., McNeill’s Kenyon College team
mate, and Melvin lapman of New
York University were slated to begin
play today, along with Joseph Fish
bach. New York; Isadore Beilis, Phil
adelphia; Walter Woronowski, De
troit: Billy Gillespie. Atlanta and
Scarborough (N. Y.) School, and Alex
ander Guerry, jr., Chattanooga, Tenn.
Ritaenberg and Johnsen. the Wash
ington entries, had easy going in the
first round. Ritzenberg defeating Har
old Martin of Brooklyn, 6—*. S—1,
and Johnsen downing George Dexter
of Morristown, N. J., 6—3, 6—1.
In the* boys’ tourney no strong op
position was listed for Ink for a day
or two, although all the favorites
opened Saturday with lopsided vic
tories. William Urnstaedter of Mil
burn, N. J., seeded second, and A.
Allen McDonald of Wichita. Kans.,
were among the eight boys scheduled
to play their first matches today.
--V
Leading Figures in Track World
Jesse Owens in winning three individual Olympic champion
ships and running a leg on the championship United States
400-meter Olympic team, became the outstanding competitor
in men’s track events in 1936. His three individual champions
were all in world and Olympic record time.
Helen Stephens of Fulton,
Mo., whose feats in the na
tional A. A. U. meets and on
the Olympic team stamped
her as the top competitor in
women's track events for 1936.
She won the national A. A. V.
championships for women in
the 100-meter dash, the dis
cus and the shotput. In the
Olympic games she won the
100-meter dash and also ran
anchor on the winning 400
meter relay.
Glenn Morris, sturdy Fort
Collins, Colo., automobile
salesman, exhibits the form
that enabled him to become
the outstanding field events
man of 1936. In the Olympic
games at Berlin he rolled up
a total of 7,700 points in the
decathlon to break hts own
unofficial world record for the
event by 20 points, break the
existing world record, held by
Hans Silvert, and turn in one
of the most brilliant perform
ances ever seen.
—Wide World Photos.
I
ON BIG TEN COUNT
t
Title Possibility Seen at
Northwestern—Illinois
Gets Tune-up.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December 38—The
shadow of the Northwestern
darkhorse Is falling across the
Big Ten basket ball cham
pionship track.
Unexpected winners of the confer
ence foot ball title, the Wildcats ap
parently are going to bid strongly for
the cage crown when the race gets
under way January 4. Coach Dutch
Lonberg’s shotmakers have won four
games in a style impressive enough
to stamp the team as a standout dark
horse menace to Purdue and Indiana,
co-champions in 1935.
Northwestern gets its stillest test
next Thursday night, however, when
Notre Dame comes to Evanston seek
ing revenge for a setback by the Wild
cats early this season. In that game
the Irish were badly crippled and the
Wildcats had little trouble winning,
38 to 19. This week Notre Dame will
be at full strength with Johnny Moir,
Paul Novak and Ray Meyer ready
to go.
Pardo* Faces Montana.
PURDUE’S Boilermakers, who have
1 flashed brilliantly on offense and
defense since the tune-up campaign
began, go after another victory to
night against Montana, while Ohio
State plays California.
On Wednesday night Wisconsin, de
feated twice last week, opposes De
Paul's fast quintet and it looks as
though the Badgers may take another
lacing.
Illinois, which has been defeated
by De Paul, takes on Bradley and
the Mini sophomores. Lou Boudreau
Sports Program
For Local Fans
TODAY.
Boxing.
Lou Gevinaon vs. Joe Teme*. fea
ture bout eight rounds, Turner'*
Arena, 8.30.
Hand Ball. ’
Y. M. C. A. tournament, Y. il
C. A.. 7:80.
TOMORROW.
Basket Ball.
St. John’s vs. Alumni, St John’s
«ym, 8.
Hand BalL
Quarter-finals, Y. M. C. A.
tournament, Y. M. C. A., 8:10.
WEDNESDAY.
Basket Ball.
Georgetown vs. New York Uni
versity, New York. .
Gallaudet vs. Prospect Park Y.
M. C. A.. New York.
Washington-Lee High vs. Alumni,
Ballston, Va„ 8.
Hand BaU.
Semi-finals, Y. M. C. A. tourna
ment, Y. M. C. A., 8:30.
and Tom Nlsbet should add to their
season point totals.
Ohio State plays Southern Cali
fornia the same night.
On Friday night Indiana takes on
Butler and Michigan meets Toledo.
The Hooslers are heavy favorites
against the Bulldogs and Michigan
should win its game.
Michigan Seen Strang.
'T'HE come-back made by the Wol
verines on the West Coast in winning
two straight from Washington after
losing the first game Indicates Coach
Franklin Cappon has a strong, well
balanced club.
Three games are scheduled for Sat
urday night.. They are Notre Dame
against Chicago, Iowa at Marquette
and Iowa State against Minnesota.
I
SEMI-PRO STARS
Once Great Shortstop to
Name 43 State Teams, Then
Pick All-America Club.
Bt the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH. December 28.—
Honus Wagner—the Immortal
“Hans” of the National League
—prepared today to select *8
all-star State base ball teams and
ultimately an "all-America” nine.
Wagner, now high commissioner of
semi-pro base ball, said the all-star
teams will be selected at tournaments
to be held in every State. Each team
will include 16 players; each player
will be eligible for the "all-America."
"This will mean a lot to organized
base ball," said Hans, "as It will give
the major leagues a record of the out
standing young players throughout
America in every State. It will also
prove an incentive to the young man
to get into semi-pro base ball."
He said the all-America nine will be
chosen by major league scouts at the
National Semi-pro tournament in
Wichita. Kans., August 13 to 23. and
will tour Hawaii, playing exhibition
games.
Wagner also announced appoint
ment of 12 commissioners to supervise
State tournaments. They are
Ray Brooks, Portland, Oreg.; Wil
liam L. Cain, Manchester, N. H.;
Vern McMillan, Terre Haute, Ind.;
Frank Klee, Wichita, Kans.; A. H.
Kirksey, Waco. Tex.; A. R. Dahn,
Elgin, 111.; Cliff Green, Montgomery,
Ala.; Paul Green, Wungstown, Ohio;
John Morris, Phoenix, Arix.; Mack R.
Evashchuck, Oceanside, Calif.; Harry
Berman, St. Paul, Minn.; Charles Ger
hardt, Paterson, N. J.
Louis Duchesnay of Montreal was
named Canadian commissioner.
WykofT Is Comeback King.
TJELEN STEPHENS, No. 1 feminine
A athlete of the year, captured na
tional championships In the sprints,
discus throw and shotput The Mis
souri girl lowered the women’s world
mark for 100 meters to 11.4 seconds
in the Olympics, beating Poland's
Stella Walsh. She also anchored the
winning United States 400-meter re
lay team, but It was a hollow triumph,
because the German girls dropped
their baton while away out In front.
Prank WykolT, Southern California’s
one-time "fastest human” and co
holder of the world 100-yard record
of 9.4 seconds, pulled the year’s finest
comeback. He qualified for the Olym
pic 100,’ placed fourth In the final, and
anchored, the winning United States
sprint relay team which set a new
record of 39 J seconds.
Speaking of relay records, the
picked American and British Kmpirs
teams blasted them apart in the post
Olympic meet at London. U. 8. A.
quartets lowered the 2-mile mark to
7:35.8 and the 4-mlle record to
17:17.2. British mile relayers cut the
world record to 8:10.6.
Cunningham, beaten by Lovelock
In the Olympics, despite nmndn* ■*
Coulon Still Flinging Fists as Wife Collects
Former Bantam Champion Teaches Boxing While Spouse Runs Paying Business
BY CHARLES DUNKLEY.
H1CAGO, December 38 <JP\.
—Johnny Coulon, whose
fists won the world ban
tamweight championship
39 years ago, still Is using them
to earn a living.
Coulon, 110-pound boxing mite,
today is following his first love,
boxing, as he has been doing for
30 years. With his wife he oper
ates a neighborhood gymnasium,
teaches boxing, and he oonducta
amateur bouts weekly, the profits
of which keeps the wolf away
from the Coulon household.
Tbs wife, Marie, is the business
head of the organisation. With
out her, Coulon says, he wouldn’t
have anything left except memo
ries of the world championship he
held from 1907 to 1914. Bha
makes the matches, sells the tick
to other details. Coulon manly
supervisee wisely.
“Why, she has made move than
12,000 matches during the 14
years we have been In this spot,”
Johnny proudly boasts. “Knows
more about boxen than I do, and
knows how to make the matches,
too.”
The little bald-headed eagle,
now 47 yean old. mentally aa
■harp as a tack, possesses a figure
as trim with no more weight than
when he quit fighting 20 yean
ago. He still tips the beam at
110 pounds, which was his top
weight when he held the ilfl-pound
title, the weight limit for bantams
at that time.
In the ring for IT yean. Ooulon
fought 2M fights. He lost his
championship to xm Williams,
t
In 10 rounds In Vernon, Oallf., in
1014.
The toughest battle of bis whole
career was with bis brother, George,
stronger and four years older. As
kids, Johnny and his brother al
ways were scrapping, and finally
his father saw them quarreling In a
barn. He called them together and
took them Into the basement of the
Coulon home where a gymnasium
had been fitted up. With the old
man. Fop Ooulon, refereeing, they
were told to settle for all time the
little family fued.
“That bout to me waa the toughest
one I ever had.” Johnny said. "We
boxed 30 rounds. It was give and
take. Finally my father stopped It,
calling it a draw and making us
shake hands. Alter that we never
had a row. That battle gave me
much at my confidence toe many at
■Med me to the championship."
Ooulon is famous for a mys
tifying lifting trick. Nobody has
ever been able to lift his 110
pounds off the floor. He cent be
budged if he is permitted to apply
a certain hold. He has always
seemed like the Rock of Gibraltar.
Here is the way he does It:
Coulon puts a light forefinger
under the lobe of the left ear of his
opponent and the thumb of his
other hand on the pulse of the
right wrist Then he stands rigid,
ordering the would-be lifter to
place their hands around hfls waist
and lift They don’t
Jack Dempsey, Georges Carpen
tler, famous strong men and
wrestlers, failed. First Johnny lets
them lift him and then by employ
ing his mysterious force prevents
than trass doing it again.
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Lucky Strike, Hyattsville,
Temple, Takoma Take Up
Struggle Tomorrow. .
BY BOD THOMAS.
HE climax battle la on In The
Star bowling tournament.
Survivors of the qualifying
round, In which more than
2.000 men and women competed, will
start shooting tonight for cash prizes
totaling nearly $500 and for two gold
medals, one each to the man and
woman champion.
Patrons of Convention Hall and the
Rosslyn alleys will get the final week
of competition under way, with to
night’s pin scattering to start at 7:30
o’clock at both plants. Charley Bell,
manager of Convention Hall, will direct
the doings there, and Galt Davis, boss
at Rosslyn, who turned in a blaster
piece of promotion in the prelimin
aries. will have charge of the Rosslyn
roll-off.
Experts Take Beating.
JT IS significant of the break given
mediocre bowlers in The Star tour
nament by its handicap system that
few stars will be found In the large
groups rolling at Convention Hall and
Rosslyn. Only half a dozen are
found in the hall list, where Tony
Santini, Bill Krauss, Ed Espey, Dutch
Newman, Norman Schroth and Joe
Pricci made the grade.
Of the top-flighters who rolled the
preliminary set at Rosslyn only Whip
Litchfield and Joe Freschi among the
men and Blanche Wootton and Evelyn
Ellis among the girls survived. Oalt
Davis, himself a pin whacker of no
mean distinction, was a failure, pos
sibly because of the distraction of
rounding up more than 200 entries for
by far the best showing among the
minor alleys, if not of the entire
tournament, considering the size ot
his place.
P*tlnl Among Failure*.
T11® scenes of action tomorrow night
*111 a witch to the Lucky Strike.
Northeast Temple, Takoma and
HyattsvlUe.
Sharply noticeable through ab
sence from the list of qualifier* at
the Northeast Temple is the name of
Ollie Pacini. The former No. 1
duckplnner of the country needed 100
sticks in his final game to make the
riffle and got only 93. He Joins the
great As tor Clarke and a host of other
notables as tournament spectators.
Following are those who will try
their fortunes at Convention Hall and
Rouelyn:
CONVENTION HALL
Men.
Abe Weinberg W4 Ben Here
Ed Conniek SO 808 W. Phillips 35 024
225 Ch*' Homer 30 845
Arthur Ford. 32 832 p. Burmsn . 60 802
»' n.9?if d }S 512 A. Snyder .. 85 80S
5' S***1? **r 1- Joe Kllroy 67 8np
w ?SUE *’ 52 Jii P- Hendricks 72 837
X.-,P&"rf°n 12 888 Jul|us Singer 30 805
RhU Douglas 40 808 E Magruder 32 882
T\ Bradford 22 848 w HeiHer _ 42 810
BO Bspcy _ s «34 Edinger 25 853
£■ k'ch]Ldl* 5° 801 H. T MeTaU 80 599
S. 8cJ'ith „ - ~s 828 Fred Weft 75 584
2 Vd Beall 88 882 Earl HomilU 85 599
SP'S* 52 2Z2 E Kldwell 62 684
Joe Reftery 45 803 P. Stewart . 60 584
David Singer 35 808 j. Birman 68 595
Ralph Meyer 45 821 J N. Benner. 38 832
Dlek Millet . 48 802 S. A. Willey 72 811
A. Ebersole 63 814 Pred Blevins 80 697
A. Newman. IS 844 H. Zabrek 80 6*9
J. Smith 40 82* R. E Osgood 43 6*4
J. L. Talbert 80 833 L. F Farmer 30 6*3
Tom Powell. 33 839 o Brown 30 5*3
L. Bosworth 40 828 t De Francis 58 5*4
Joe Priccl _ 23 803 c E. Turner 82 5*5
W L. Burley 40 800 Bill Krauss. * 5*3
Clem Smith 20 879 Tony Santlnl 8 599
W. L. Landis 70 844
BOMLm
Men.
Hep ToT. Hep To'l.
Teunig- 45 895 Shaffner... 75 817
Wet,- 65 670 ouyther_ 47 814
P EUl*- 20 888 Tolson_ 40 614
Terry- 35 660 Hayghe_ 60 812
Shaw - 67 858 Brown_ 60 609
Lltehfleld.. 15 851 Green 75 809
Swain - 42 648 Myers_ 42 80S
Dietrich- 32 841 Weakley_ 27 80S
Cooke _ 65 841 Burdette_ 72 807
De Giant*.. 60 839 Gress_ 37 807
Crump_ 45 83* Tubbs_ 27 808
Roper- 37 838 Freschl_ 5 808
Sauls - 30 83* Potter_ 70 80S
Palmer 60 834 Smith_ 47 80S
Fishenden.. 65 831 Butler_ 42 804
Nelson_ 42 829 Schwler_ 80 803
Staleup_ 30 82* Darr _SO 803
Moler_ 60 827 Andros_ 60 802
Scholl . ... 67 827 Walker_ 25 802
McDonald.. 67 825 Jackson_ 42 802
Ztnnamon _ 75 821 Marcey_ 45 599
Eickelberg _ 82 81* Collum_ 80 59*
Hutchinson. 80 817 Hastings_ 82 697
Murphy_ 47 817 Wilson_ 67 597
Women.
Woottoei_ 5 671 Pask___ 80 542
Youna .... 80 58* Ellla_ 10 539
Pearson_ 45 684
PETERSBURG IS DATED
Western and George Washington
\
High on Toot Ball List.
PBTERSBURG, Va.. December 28.
VP).—Petersburg High School will face
Western High of Washington. D. C.,
on October 2. and George Washington
High of Alexandria, Va„ on October 8
in foot ball games here next year, It
was announced today. Petersburg
swamped Western, 27-0, this season.
Following is the schedule:
September 25. Hampden-Sldney Fresh
men.
October 2, Western: B. George Washing
ton High; lfl. Jackson High, Jacksonville,
Fla.: 23, Thomas Jefferson; 30. Maury,
Norfolk.
November «. Newport News: 13. Jeffer
son Senior. Roanoke: 18, Hope veil; 36,
John Marshall.
December 4. Baldwin.
RUGGED SCHEDULE
FOR ARMY POLOISTS
Indoor League Champions Will
Play Hine Games Before
Defending Title.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
WEST POINT, N. Y.. December 38.
™ —Army's Indoor Intercollegiate
Polo Association champions, unde
feated for 33 consecutive games, win
face a schedule of nine crack clubs
before going to New York to defend
its title In March. The Cadets, who
play all nine games at home, will open
against Squadron A on January 9.
Charles B. Hines and Robert E. Van
Volkenburgh. both of Washington,
D. C„ are bidding for the No. 1 posi
tion, although Brooks Wilson, brother
of Capt. Harry Wilson, boasts an edge
at present. Howell M. Estes and Cecil
E. Combs have been lost to the team
by graduation.
Following is the schedule: January
8. Squadron A; 16, Port Hamilton; 33,
Port Myer: 30, Yale; February 8, Har
vard; 13, Yale, 33, Penn Military Col
lege; 37, Princeton; March 0, Cornell.
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"POPPING
OFF’Sti
Blond Bomber,
OME of the rare sport items
that have made good reading
In recent weeks have been asso
ciated with a Miss Ida Sim
mons of Norfolk, a somewhat strap
ping young lady whose talent with a
bowling ball has continued to amaze
durkpin followers.
Probably you are the type of person
who can take bowling or leave it
alone, possibly preferring the latter
course. If such is the case Miss Sim
mons still is too Interesting a subject
to overlook. The other night, rolling
with Ray Von Dreele of Baltimore,
Norfolk's world champion of woman
plnspillers tipped over 1.263 sticks in
10 games to average 126 and a few
stray pins and help in the setting of
a couple of world records.
New bowling accords are a
dime a dozen. Somebody is al
ways breaking a mark and, if
the person is lucky, he some
times can reach home quickly
enough to announce without
fear of contradiction that he,
or she, is a record holder.
But Miss Simmons is different.
Anybody who can make the name of
Lorraine Gulli as obsolete in the world
of bowling as, say, the term of model
T in the auto industry, must have
something. And that is what Miss
Simmons has done. People may argue
on the relative merits of men bowlers,
some sticking up for Nick Tronsky
and some for Astor Clarke, but no
body is mentioning any girl with Miss
Simmons.
Nothing Unusual at Outset.
CHE never saw a bowling alley until
1930, when she walked Into a Nor
folk pin plant with three other em
ployes of a department store and
rolled a game. A Norfolk promoter,
anxious to All a woman's league,
drafted them into service. In Ida's
first three-game set she rolled 255
and at the end of a season she had
only an 85 average.
So far Miss Simmons’ case was very
ordinary. Nearly any girl can aver
age 85. But when the Norfolk city
championships were held at the end
of the season there was detected a
spark of future greatness when Ida.
competing in class B. won the woman's
singles, doubles and all-events.
Thus her pin career was
launched. She never played
any other sport and so her time
was devoted to bowling. In
1931 she averaged 89. In 1932
she Jumped to 105. In the last
three years she has climbed
steadily.
Her average this season In the
South Atlantic division of the United
States League is 125-4 and in the
Norfolk Major League it is 122-16.
Out of curi06itv some time, look up
the best averages of our leading male
bowlers and compare them.
She Creates Crises.
^J'O BOWLER in the country, man
or woman, today is so much in
demand as Miss Simmons. Her phe
nomenal feats have caused duckpin
promoters throughout the East to
send for her and demonstrate how
the game should be played. Half a
dozen newspapers, running bowling
“schools.” hire her as the teacher.
Her “class” in Atlanta, f'rinstance,
has nearly 400 pupils.
The meteoric career of Ida Sim
mons has reaped multiple benefits
for the Ram? but by the same token
it has created a few minor crises.
In Norfolk, for example, no woman's
tournament or sweepstakes can be
held unless It is a handicap event.
Her current average is 125. The next
best woman bowler in the town has
a 110 average.
This means that if Ida and
her No. 1 rival rolled from
scratch. Miss Simmons would
win by 15 pins a game, 75 a
five-game set and 150 a 10
game block.
Nor do the bowling fathers ap
plaud the idea of permitting Miss
Simmon* to roll with the men, chiefly
because *he probably can beat 9 out
of 10 of the top-notchers. Thera
are scattered throughout the East any
number of people who are willing to ..
donate Ida's entry fee in the forth
coming United States Sweepstakes
and wager that she can win it. es
pecially if Tronsky of Connecticut is
a little off his game. George Ise
mann, secretary of the National Duck
pin Congress, has put his foot down,
however, on the grounds that her
entry would keep out men bowler*,
fearful of a licking.
Topples Gulli in 1935.
fyJISS SIMMONS, from time to
time, has been called bowling*
‘Biond Venus,” the "Harlow of
Duckpins" and a few other such
names by the more sentimental pm
writers. She hardly qualifies more
than remotely, in that Ida outweighs
Venus and Harlow by quite a bit, due
to her 173 pounds. She is blond,
however, will be 23 years old in Feb
ruary, and uses her weight to whip
the fastest ball of any woman bowler.
She rolls from the center of
the alley, like Tronsky, and her
ball has a definite “break” on it
by the time it reaches the pins.
Washington first became aware of
Miss Simmons in 1934, when she was
imported from Norfolk to bowl Gulli.
The local gal had cleaned up prac
tically everybody else and for eight
years she had enjoyed the distinction ,
of being the No. 1 woman bowler
of the country.
She defeated Ida that night In
1934. Going into the last block, Gulli
held an 80-pin lead. At the finish
she won by eight pin*. Whether
she realized it or not, Lorraine-*
throne was tottering.
In 1935 the throne fell with
a resounding crash. Miss Sim
mons rolled Gulli several times
and not a match, block or even ,
rame did Lorraine win.
So far this season Gulli again has
been blanked. In two mixed double*
matches, with Gulli rolling with Clarke
and Simmons shooting with Von
Dreele. the local duo has been beaten
soundly both times, chiefly due to
Ida's superiority over Lorraine. And
this is not detracting from Mis*
Gulli's ability.
Hm Monopoly on Records.
pOR two straight years now Mlsa
• Simmons has been ranked No. 1
and. at 23, she seems destined to stay
on top as long as she likes. If she likes
bowling that much. Ida ought to break
Lorraine's record for longevity of re
gime.
Iseman. who has watched
bowling and bowlers since the
game started in the back of
saloons, says that it may be 100
years before another girl bowler
like Ida Simmons comes along.
This is not intended to get too
technical at the close but of you
happened to have followed this long,
! Miss Simmons so far this reason has
I rolled seven "400'' sets, which means
! that seven times she has rolled three
| successive games and averaged not
i less than 133. Her high set was 434;
, her low. 407. She has rolled 12 •'600,•
I sets, which means that for five-game
stretches she has averaged at least
125. Her high was 693.
Her method of teaching. Inci
dentally. is ms nnusual as the
young lady herself. It seems
she doesn't tell you how to do
It. She merely tells what not to
do.
And in the meantime. Brother Ise
mann and other pin pappies are tell
ing her what .not to do If she has any
further ambitions than to lift every
thing from our Miss Guilt except th«
rings on her fingers.
SIX CLUBS ASSURED
THREE-fYE LEAGUE
Only Evansville Is Without Big
Loop Backing—Two Other
Members Considered.
Br the Associated Press.
VfOLINE, m., December 28—At
least six clubs, and possibly eight,
will be members of the Three-Eye
League when the 1937 base ball season
gets under way.
Representatives of the class B cir
cuit. meeting Sunday, said Moline. De
catur and Peoria, HI: Terre Haute and
Evansville, Ind., and Clinton. Iowa,
will be ready to open the campaign
next Spring.
C. F. Boyer, secretary of the Bloom
ington, HI.. Community Athletic Asso
ciation, told the meeting that Bloom
ington Is ready to Join the circuit if an
eighth team can be placed. Under
consideration for the eighth franchise,
reports said, are Dubuque. Iowa, and
Quincy and Springfield, HI.
™ next circuit meeting, to be held
In January for formation of the sched
ule, Is expected to determine whether
aix or eight clubs will compete.
Of the six clubs pledged definitely
to open the 1937 season. Evansville is
the only one which will be without
major league backing.
Harry R. Scranton of Peoria was
elected president. Other officers
chosen were Frank Hearn. Moline, rice
president, and Byron R. Plnney of
Clinton, secretary. Scranton succeeds
L. J. Wylie of Decatur, president from
1935 to 1935.
Wylie will operate the Decatur club.
Manson Reichert and Joe Mathes will
run the Evansville team.
Warren Giles, general manager of
the Cincinnati Reds, attended the
meeting as Peoria's representative.
Peoria will be a Reds farm next season.
EX-TEBPS HIT BASKET.
RICHMOND, Vs., December 38
UP).—Five fancy shooting former Uni
versity of Maryland basket ball play
ers, headed by Boeey Berger, and play
ing under the banner of the Coffey
Sales (Paint) Co. of Washington, de
feated the Newman Clothiers, 18-33,
s
Pro Hockey
By the Associated Press.
National League.
Montreal Canadiens, 5; Detroit, 2.
New York Rangers. 1: Chicago. 0.
International-American League.
New Haven. 5: Pittsburgh, 0.
Syracuse, 3; Cleveland, 2 (over
time).
Providence, 4: Philadelphia, 1.
American Association.
St. Louis, 2; St, Paul, 1.
B00TERS IN BIG GAME
Heurlcha Seek First Place Tie In
Clash With Sun Badio.
The Heurich Brewers today focused
their attention on their moot crucial
Recreation Soccer League game of the
season next Sunday when they meet
Sun Radio hooters at Monument Field
No. 2 at 3 o'clock, with a tie for first
place as the Brewers' goal.
Sienuta, Jimmy Blanche and Louis
Gunn led the Brewers to an easy 8-1
triumph over George's Radio yester
day, but Sun Radio kept its top spot
position with a 4-0 victory over Silver
Spring. German Sport Club trimmed
the Democrats, 3-2, and Marlboro beat
Italian-Amerlcans, 2-0, in other league
games.
George’s Radio fought back amas
lngly well against the strong Brewers
In the first half, trailing but 1-0. In
the second half, however. Heurich
scored seven goals to win easily. 81
enuta booted three goals, while Blanchs
accounted for two.
DARTMOUTH CLUB FETE
Alumni to Hear Two D. C. Boy*
Talk of Foot Ball.
Twenty-six undergraduates will be
the guests of the Dartmouth Alumni
Club at a luncheon tomorrow at the
Harrington Hotel at 13:30 o’clock, when
Joe Kleman, former Central High ath
lete, and Bill Shelton. Jr., former West
ern foot ball captain, both now attend
ing Dartmouth, will be featured speak
ers.
Kiernan, a varsity backfleld man,
will dwell on the success of this year’s
foot ball team, while Shelton, a mem
ber of the freshman eleven, will fere
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