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Sees Woodruffa 4-Minute Miler: U. S. Amateur Faulty, OuimetSays
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MARK ONCE HELD
AN IMPOSSIBILITY
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Lawson Robertson Declares
It Within Reach of Big
Colored Runner.
BT LAWSON ROBERTSON.
RUN a mile In four minutes?
What was once considered an
utter impossibility is now re
garded in many circles as quite
feasible. X, for one, believe truly it
can be done and that it will be done
L. Robertson.
in tne very near
future.
It’s a herculean
task, yes, this
running the full
eight furlongs in
even time. The
dream of many
track athletes,
past and present,
out it won’t al
ways remain just
a dream. Of
that I feel sure.
Miraculous if
achieved, you
might say, but
the same has
been said about other accomplish
meats in track and field.
There are those who have contended
that any one of our four most recent
leaders at the mile might have ac
complished the much-discussed feat,
Glenn Cunningham, Bill Bonthron,
Gene Venzke and Jack Lovelock, all
great runners. Under the benefit of
perfect conditions and with pace
measured to exactitude, any of the
four might have a chance to emblazon
his name in track annals as no other
runner before him.
Endurance I* Cultivated.
TT’S my opinion that not any one
A of the quartet I’ve named—Cun
ningham. Bonthron, Venzke or Love
lock—is speedy enough to maintain
such a rapid pace throughout the
entire mile as would be required to
achieve a four-minute mile. Cunning
ham, barrel-chested as he is, might
be the exception.
I might point out that all running
Is speed, whether it be at 50 yards or
50 miles. By that I mean the speed
is always there, even though it may
be latent. Speed is born, but not so
endurance. A coupling of the two is
necessary to achieve record heights.
The speed might be there, and the
endurance missing. Endurance is cul
tivated.
To illustrate my point, I can point
out that the holder of the world rec
ord for 400 meters is Bill Carr, who
holds the mark at 46.2 seconds. He
started his career as a sprinter. The '
speed to run 400 meters faster than |
anybody else had done before him was j
with Carr, he was born with it. But
he had to cultivate endurance before
he could accomplish the record time
for the distance.
Eastman Might Have Done It.
r\ s ANOTHER example of what I
mean the accepted record holder
of the world marks for the quarter and
half miles is Ben Eastman. I don’t
believe he ever really has shown the
ultimate time he was capable of in a
fast half mile.
It's my opinion that Eastman might
have been able to cover the mile in
4 minutes at one t.—e of his career.
He had tremendous speed and an eco
nomical style of "close-to-the-ground”
‘running.
In looking over the field of new and
prospective champions who possibly
possess what it requires to achieve the
4-minute mile, however, there’s one
runner who I believe could do the
trick. He’s John Woodruff, the Con
nellsville, Pa., high school boy, now a ;
sophomore at the University of Pitts
burgh.
Woodruff is the Olympic 800-meter
champion. He won this great race at
Berlin last August and he did it with
out the benefit of experience or the
knowledge of proper pace.
Woodruff Has Time.
DRUFF only recently grad
• uated from his teens. The
young giant Negro won the American
Olympic tryout at 800 meters In 1
minute 49.9 seconds. That’s only a
tenth of a second away from the
American record.
Woodruff then was only a freshman
at Pitt. His running as a schoolboy
was just as impressive. He also has
a mark of 4:19 for the mile, a dis
tance he never raced much.
With this background as a young
ster and three more college running
years ahead of him in which to cul
tivate stamina, It would not be diffi
cult to visualize "Big John” specializ
ing for one year at the mile distance
with unparalleled success. With his
tremendous stride and speed, who
could say that he would not be able
to run his first half mile of the dis
tance In, say, 1:57, and then lope
home the second half mile In 2:03 for
the 4-minute mile. I think he, of all
runners, can do it.
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LIKES NEW SCHOOL LOOP.
EMORY, Va., January 26 (JP).—Dr.
J. N. Hillman, president of Emory
and Henry College, declares his
school Is ‘‘much interested” in the
proposed organization of a tri-State
foot ball conference including colleges
In Virginia and North and South
Carolina.
f--—
Speeding Up the Net Game
MIAMI BEACH. Fla.—A new sport for Winter vacationists,
tennis played on roller skates. The girl in the left foreground
skates forward over the concrete court to return a volley. Peek
ing through the wire from a neighboring court are three inter
ested spectators. —Wide World Photo.
PATTY BERG CHOICE
IN FLORIDA TOURNEY
Plays Mrs. Frank Trainor Today
in Champions' Championship
at Punta Gorda.
By the Associated Press.
pUNTA GORDA, Fla., January 26.
—Chunky Patty Berg held her
favorite's spot In the championship of
champions golf tournament today de
spite her failure to take the medal in
yesterday’s qualifying.
The Minneapolis schoolgirl was out
stroked in the preliminary test by
Kathryn Hemphill of Greenville, S. C..
who toured the par 75 course in 76
while the defending champion landed
second with a 78.
In today’s opening match play Miss
Hemphill went against Mrs. G. Hamp
ton Lewis of Fort Myers, while Patty
drew' Mrs. Frank Trainor of Tampa.
Other pairings:
Upper bracket—Mrs. C. Doser,
Rochester, N. Y„ vs. Mrs. Carrie Seay,
Fort Myers, Fla.; Jean Bauer, Provi
dence, R. I., vs Mrs. W. S. Moore,
Bartow, Fla.; Helen Hockenjos, Lake
Hopatcong. N. J„ vs. Kathryn Pearson,
Houston, Tex.
Lower bracket — Jane Cothran.
Greenville, S. C., vs. Mrs. R. M. Clapp,
St. Paul, Minn; Mrs. A1 Nelson,
Sarasota. Fla., vs. Mrs. E. H. McFar
land, Zanesville, Ohio: Helen Dett
weiler. Washington, D. C., vs. Mrs. C.
W. Thompson, Lakeland, Fla.
SCHAEFER’S 99-RUN I
HAS HOPPE TRAILING
One-Time “Boy Wonder” of Game
Is Beaten 250 to 152 in First
28.2 Cue Match Block.
By the Associated Press.
/CHICAGO, January 26. -- Willie
^ Hoppe of New York had a 98-point
margin to overcome today as he
squared off for the second block of
his 2.500-point match with young Jake
Schaefer of Chicago for the world
28.2 balkline billiards championship.
Schaefer, son of the old wizard. Jake,
won the opening block of the duel last
night, 250 to 152, putting together a
high run of 99 in the seventh frame
and going out in the fourteenth with
an unfinished run of 11.
Hoppe, the now-graying, one-time
“boy wonder” of the game, could not
get the balls rolling and repeatedly
had to attempt difficult masse shots
after the balls lined up on him. His
high run was 70, In the eleventh
inning.
Schaefer is the defending titlist in
the difficult game, which has not been
played regularly In this country for
several years. Both stars have posted
a $1,000 side wager. The second block
will be played tonight, with afternoon
and evening sessions scheduled for
Wednesday.
DIXIE GOLF DATES SET
Women's Southern Association to
Hold Tourney in May.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., January 26 tA5).
—Mrs. Dave Gaut, president of the
Women’s Southern Golf Association,
has announced the association's an
nual tournament will be played in At
lanta, May 17-22.
One of the two courses of the East
Lake Country Club will be used, Mrs
Gaut said.
Mat Matches
Bj the Associated Press.
WILMINGTON, Del.—Danno O’Ma
honey, 220, Ireland, threw Hank Bar
ber, 218, Cambridge, Mass., 20:59.
YORK, Pa.—Maurice La Chappelle,
178, Toronto, threw Tony Siano, 178,
New York. 56:32.
SCRANTON, Pa.—Cliff Olson, 215,
St. Louis, threw Joe Dusek, 211,
Omaha, 30:00.
TACOMA, Wash.—Vic Christy, 225,
Glendale, Calif., defeated King Cox,
235, Lodi, Calif. (Cox fouled referee).
PORTLAND, Oreg.—Joe Gunther,
163, Nashville, Tenn., defeated Jack
Lipscomb. 161, Indianapolis, two out
of three falls.
20 YEARS AGO
IN»THE STAR
AN ALL-AMERICAN foot ball
player who played with Min
nesota may coach at Catholic Uni
versity next Fall. He is Batson,
an end, who has been rated one
of the best collegiate flankmen in
the country for the past two years.
George Isemann's Cresent bowl
ing team had no trouble cleaning
up the duckpin quint represent
ing Martinsburg in the last five
games of the 10-game intercity
match. At the end of the match
Isemann's quint was 213 pins
ahead, Johnny Vaeth and Harry
Stanford leading the winners.
John Henry and Charley Jamie
son are listed as having been
among those present at a national
meeting of the Flayers' Fraternity
in New York. Although Henry is
credited with the statement that
he was greatly amused at Ban
Johnson’s threat to drive him out
of the American League unless he
resigned from the fraternity, Clark
Griffith is of the opinion that
Henry is anxious to continue play
ing.
TWOMEY GEORGIA AIDE
Made Grid Line Coach as Mehre,
Stegeman Are Renamed.
ATHENS, Ga., January 26 (>T).—
Georgia's athletic board has named
Ted Twomey, former tackle at Notre
Dame, line coach and re-elected all
other members of the coaching staff.
Those retained for 1937 included
Harry Mehre. head coach, and H. J.
Stegeman, director of athletics and
track mentor.
BATTLES TONIGHT
Cowboy Looking Beyond Go
With McGeever to Bout
With Champion.
BY BURTON HAWKINS.
COWBOY HOWARD SCOTT,
who ha* risen from obscurity
to the comparative fame of
being ranked tenth among the
lightweights of the world within the
short span of a year, will collide with
Irish Eddie McGeever of Scranton to
night in a 10-round bout at Turner'!
Arena in a scrap which can accom
plish little in buoying the preatige of
the transplanted Texan and, on the
other hand, may prove disastrous to
his present ambition.
A portion of the proceeds will be
allotted to the flood relief fund.
Negotiations by Baltimore promoters
to match Scott with Lou Ambers,
reigning lightweight, now have reached
an advanced stage and it is very
probable that the non-title tiff will
be arranged shortly for the first week
In March. '
Scott’s ambition naturally extends
beyond the scope of a non-title argu
ment, but one of the most certain
methods of obtaining that objective
is by first whipping Ambers in an over
the-weight bout. Howard's consum
ing urge Is a crack at Ambers’ crown.
Possibility of Title Bout Here.
Vf ATCHMAKER GOLDIE AHEARN,
^ who was outbid for the Scott
Ambers non-title fight, would go the
limit to bring these pleasing punchers
together in a championship match here
this Summer, providing, of course, the
Cowboy gave Lou a strenuous session
in the pending Baltimore battle.
Aheam, who will promot' the Polloe
Relief Association card with Joe
Turner, would have a natural for this
sector should Scott capitalize on
Ambers’ ill fortune in over-the-weight
bouts.
McGeever. it seems, may spoil such
rosy plans, but Washington's gambling
gentry is laying odds of 2-1 that Scott
will trim the swarthy Scranton boxer
and add another notch to an Im
pressive record.
Eddie fell heir to the Scott scrap
through the dubious distinction of
holding Sid Silas to a draw here two
weeks ago in a eight-round prelimi
nary. Floored for a nine count in the
second round, McGeever pulled him
self off the canvas and performed
rather notably over the route.
Eddie’s Record Impressive.
ALTHOUGH the record book fall*!
to substantiate his claim. Aheam
says McGeever twice has held Ambers
to a draw. He has trounced such
fighters as Frankie Wallace. Lou
Lombardi, A1 Casamini, Danny Kop- j
lick and Tommy Cross.
Only two weeks ago Scott scored
a second-round knockout over the
highly regarded Eddie Zivic in Balti
more. Other notable achievements by
the Cowboy include win* over Frankie
FishineA Hunting;
BY' GEORGE HUBER. ]
ATURE is being kind to us by
presenting us with what so
far has been a very fine Win
ter. Even though the usual
cold snaps may come later on, the fact
that we have had an overabundance
of mild days Is going to affect our
sport in more ways than one.
There has been little or no snow
and freezing weather. Water Is not
being stored up in the hills in the
form of snow drifts and ice banks. A
mild flood is rushing down the Po
tomac Valley as a result of the recent
rains, when ordinarily it would be
frozen up there until the Spring
thaw. To be sure there will be high
water in March or April, but it will not
approach last year's disastrous
rampage.
At that time eggs and finger
lings were either washed from
their beds or covered with silt.
On the other hand, no great dam
age can be done at present. Trout
and bass have not even begun to think
of spawning, and all that this muddy
water can do is make them mildly un
comfortable. Barring unforseen dis
turbances, It follows tha: fresh-water
fishing should be better than par
when Bummer rolls around. It’a a
bright outlook, anyway.
Drift Neta Nab Rock.
OALT-WATER fishing is a bit dif
^ ferent now. Last Winter, if you
remember, the bay was frozen prac
tically solid. Commercial fishermen
had a tough time of it when they
tried to net fish, and as a result hard
head were plentiful as soon as warm
weather came, and rockflsh had a ban
ner year.
Now gigantic hauls made with un
derwater drift nets are common. The
fish move around a little bit, but moet
of them lie dormant throughout the
Winter and fall easy prey to netmen
who kno wthe location of their sleeping
holes. These anchored drift nets are
just as harmful to fish as were the old
purse nets, but as the purse nets were
surface nets and could be easily seen,
they were the ones to be outlawed
while the less visible, but just as ef
fective nets still remain.
The big rock season of 1936
has been credited to aeveral
sources. Some claim that the
outlawing of the purse nets did
it, others claim that the ban on
catching specimens over 15
pounds should receive the
credit.
Still others ere of the opinion that
a combination of natural conditions
produced what was a great spawning
season three or four years beck. What
ever the reason, we want it to continue,
and it cannot continue as long as fish
are trapped in nets with no chance
to escape. This goes for commercial
fishermen as well as sportsmen.
They're ruining their own business by
removing all the fish from the bay.
Talbott Denmead, chief of the Black
Bass and Anglers’ Division of the
Bureau of Fisheries, is of the opinion,
in which we concur, that many of
these commercial men could make
much better and easier living by
cleaning up their boats and renting out
to sporting parties. Surely it is bet
ter to make $15 a day, sure, than take
the chance of bringing in a big haul,
which almost is certain to lower the
price anyway.
Upland Season Closes.
AN OTHER angle on the mild Win
ter game situation. Birds and
small animals still can feed naturally
on natural food, all of which will in
crease the wild life population next
season. Undoubtedly there will be
freezing weather later on, when the
ground will be covered with snow and
ice, but game will be in much better
condition to stand it and artificial
feeding will be much better organized
when those conditions obtain.
Saturday is the last day of the up
land game season in Virginia, which
already has ended in Maryland with
the exception of raccoon. On that day
the few counties which still remain
open will end hunting of rabbit, squir
rel, grouse, quail and turkey. Ordi
narily the season would end on the
31st, but as that falls on Sunday this
year the closing date Is moved up to
Saturday.
Lash Out to Win Mile and Two Mile in Prout Meet
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It’s a Good Trick Even if He Fails—Modern Pitchers’ Salaries Make Matty’s Look Measly.
BY EDDIE BRIETZ.
NEW YORK, N. Y., January
26 (JF).—It’s a good trick
even if Don lash doesn’t
« do it . . . The enduring
Hoosier wants to take both the
? mile and 2-mile at the Boston
\ Prout Memorial games Satur
• day . . . With Olenn Cunning
ham and Gene Venzke in the
shorter one, and Ray Sears and
Joe McCluskey in the big fella, no
* less . . . add life’s little jokes:
Christy Mathewson rated (10,000
per from the Giants in his prime
. . . Now Carl Hubbell is getting in
the neighborhood of (25,000 (and
the Hub is no Big Six) . . . And
that feller Feller will draw better
■- than 10 grand from the Indiana
ti ■ .
for his first full season In the ma
jors.
Jim Tobin, U. S. representative
In the International Basket Ball
Federation, Just stepped In to tell
us he's back from last Summer’s
Olympics . . , Jim probably Is the
last man of the American Olympic
outfit to get home, because of the
basket ball rules meetings over
there ... He says Germany spent
$8,000,000 on the games and took
in only $7,000,000 . . . “But what
publicity for Mr. Hitler!” adds Jim.
Is Del Bisson ette, the Brooklyn
Dodger first sacker, slated for a
managing job in the Piedmont
League? . . . The banquet season
is agreeing with Joe Dl MagghL I
. . . word rrom toe coast says ms
poundage Is up considerably.
Wonder if Tommy Loughran’s
current “world tour** will wind up
with his accepting that London
offer ... A set of British sports
men, with plenty of the do-re-mi,
wanted to back him in a gymna
sium venture there his last trip
over . . . Don't look now, but they
say Frank Thomas Is losing eight
first-stringers from among those
unbeaten Alabama foot bailers by
graduation this June.
Like rather, like son... old Mike
Gibbons l* sending son Jackie back
to the ring wan again any day
now . . And Buck Boucher, who
did a lot of big-league hoekeying
In his day, is having ton liankla
win nis spun wiui ins Ottawa
Senators.
Did you get a load of those black
and white cowboy boots with Pep
per Martin in ’em? .. . Some stuff
and such . . . The wild boss says
they’re made out of the kangaroo
hide . _ “And you know them
fellas can sure step, but I don't
know how they slide,’* he tells
Manager Frankie Frisch.
The Fort Worth 8tar-Telegram
quotes Texas Christian grid coach
as saying Texas U. wants Dana
Bible “as agieace-make: more than
a coach" . . . Incidentally, Bible
isn’t the first pilot to get a 10-year
contract. . . Oil Bodie had one at
Cornell and Tuas McLaughtry was
under one at his alma mammy,
A
Fights Last Night
By the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS.—Jimmy Per
rin, 123, New Orleans, outpointed
Frankie Jarr, 120, Indianapolis
(10).
BUFFALO. N. Y.—Henry Pal
mer!, 174, Cleveland, knocked out
Jack Moran, 185, New York (4).
BOSTON.—A1 McCoy, 1854,
Boston, outpointed Max Marek, 181,
Chicago (10).
CHICAGO.—Harold Brown. 14234,
Chicago, outpointed Frank SagUo,
144*4, Chicago (10).
MIAMI.—Tommy Spelgal, 1324,
tJniontown, Pa., outpointed Nor
ment Quarels, 1324, Henderson
ville, N. C. (10).
DAVENPORT. Iowa—Kid Leo
nard, East MoUne, HI., knocked out
Tony Mandell, Rockford, 111. (3).
(Weights unavailable).
DULUTH, Minn.—Henry Schaft,
149, Minneapolis, outpointed Wen
Lambert, 145, Proctor, Minn. (8).
LAS VEGAS N. Mex„—Young
Joe Louis, 155. Walsenburg, Colo.,
knocked out Eddie Oerda, Brook
lyn (5).
BUTTE, Mont.—Charlie Burns,
Butte, defeated Hubert Dennis,
Boseman, Mont., on a foul (10).
(Weights unavailable.)
NEWARK, N. J.—Frank Zamarls,
176, Orange, N. J., knocked out
Billy Ketchell, 1704, Philadelphia
(1); Bud Mignault, 1764, Brock
ton, Mass., and Buddy Ryan, 177,
Roselle Park, N. J., drew (8); Joe
Soft, 186, Philadelphia, knocked out
Walter Hayward, 178, Newark (1).
LANCASTER, Pa.—Mike Barto,
142, Pittsburgh, and Fritzie Mc
Bride, 142, Philadelphia, drew <8>;
Kid Carter, 131, Pittsburgh, out
pointed Mickey Duca, 134, Pauls
boro, N. J. (8).
PROVIDENCE. R. I.—Mike Pazi
enza, 136, Providence, and Mickey
Paul, 142, New York, drew (8).
PLAINFIELD, N. J.—Bobb;' Cor
tez, 1474, Mexico, outpointed Sea
born Ashley, 150, Bayonne, N. J.
(8): Nick Pastore, 143, New York,
stopped Paolo Villa, 138, Philadel
phia (2).
HOLYOKE, Mass.—Saverio Turl
ello, 145)4, Italy, outpointed Tony
Falco, 144, Philadelphia (10); Ruby
Bradley, 124, Holyoke, stopped Tony
Motto, 128, Albany, N. Y. (3).
Klick, Joe Rivers, Bat Battalino,
Norment Quarles and a draw with Lew
Feldman.
Johnny Lucas, bald-pated Camden
Iron worker, who fought threi hectic
bouts here with Phil Purr, wlU stack
up against Johnny Bellous, Hartford
welterweight, in an -ight-round semi
final.
Two six-round bouts, the first of
which will get under way at 8:30
o’clock, will pit Hobo Williams. Alex
andria middleweight, against Valenti
Brown of Baltimore, and Young
Palmer of Camden against Young
Raspi, Baltimore welterweight.
MARINO TENPIN LEADER
Bowls Well Aehad of Miller in
120-Game Series.
DETROIT, January 26 UP).—Hank
Marino, United States match bowling
champion, moves into his home city of
Milwaukee today with a lead of
24 41-50 match points over A1 Miller,
Buffalo, N. Y„ at the end of 90 of
the 120-game series.
Marino gained steadily in the 30
game block completed here last night.
Marino and Miller finish their match
in Milwaukee. Marino has a grand
total of 18.608 pins and 424 37-50
match points, compared to Miller's
18,121 and 399 46-50.
GATE ASMS FALL1
Tourney Hasn’t Drawn Big
Crowd Since Jones Quit
After Grand Slam.
RETURN of the national amateur
golf championship to the old
method of a combination of
medal and match play has the
unqualified indorsement of Francis
Oulmet, former amateur and open
champion, but Francis foresees the
possibility of some unknown over
turning the show.
Ouimet doesn’t think so highly of
the 18-hole rounds that have been the
"upset" rounds of the last three years
of the all match-play championship.
He aays It happens often that a group
of outstanding players are crowded to
gether in one sector of the draw, and
must bump off each other in the early
rounds.
Birrer Gate Appears Aim.
'T'HE 1937 championship at Portland,
Oreg., won’t draw any great num
ber of local entrants because of the
expense and the time elements in
volved. But there will be a few of the
local lads making the long trek to the
Pacific Coast, provided they can qualify
in the sectional tests. With 160-odd to
qualify sectionally, the entire field will
face an additional medal round at the
scene of the championship, with 64 to
qualify for the match rounds. The
United States Golf Association has
gone through the cycle of experiments
in the amateur championship and this
year will return to the old match and
medal form of title tourney. But most
observers suspect that it Is done with
the hope of getting a big gate. Cer
tainly there haven't been any sizeable
gates at the amateur since Bob Jones
quit after the completion of the "grand
slam” at Merion in 1930.
Francis Qualified to Speak.
TP THERE'S one ranking golfer today
who know* the whole thing back
ward and forward it is Francis Ouimet.
He * been playing in amateur cham
pionships since 1912, and he won in
1914 and 1931. Sectional qualifying
rounds, says Francis, failed In their
mission of eliminating all the candi
dates who lacked championship class.
Many of the qualifiers had their good
days, but they were not capable of
scoring consistently enough to win the
major title.
Nevertheless they were sharp enough
to bump off many a recognised top
notcher on their good day* and they
did *o with *uch regularity that the
U. S. G. A., searching around for some
method to arrive at better gates and
a more conclusive championship, hit
upon the scheme that will be tried in
1937.
They now have tried everything,
from the abbreviated qualifying field
of 16 back In 1925 at Oakmont, the
year Roland MacKenzie won the medal,
down through the all match-play
method to the field of 64 qualifiers of
1937. And still there's no Bobby Jones
and prospects of a big gate anywhere
in the offing. What they need is an
other Jone*.
SCHUMACHER IN LINE.
NEW YORK, January 26 0P>.—
Right-handed Hal Schumacher stop
ped off on his way to Florida and
signed a 1937 contract with the New
York Giants.
Government printing
OFFICE'S crack band of pin
busters, made to hustle to
win by some stout P. W. A.
opposition, unlashed a sweeping at
tack to feature the rolling in the Fed
eral League at Arcadia last night with
a set of 1,816, with games of 620, 615
and 581. Wally Burton shot a brilliant
403, collecting strings of 146, 144 and
113 as he went along.
Jimmy Ott, whanging the maples
for 146 and 385, grabbed the spotlight
away from his more illustrious team
mate, Astor Clarke, to star In Bureau
of Investigation’s 2-1 win from War.
Clarke shot 356. Cavanugh’s 143-364
was tops for the losers.
United States Senate, runner-ups to
the Sleuths in the pennant scramble,
turned back I. B. E. W. No. 174 twice,
as Andy Kramer's 364 proved the edge
in the final two skirmishes. The boys
from Capitol Hill totaled 1,738 for the
set.
With Bill Ames’ 155 garnering game
laurels for the night and his 381 set
backed up by Carroll Daly’s 378. Navy
Department overwhelmed the defend
ing champion National Capital Parks.
Veterans’ Administration, which cut
AIL I
NKt> IS ,
capers In the early season going only
to slow down to a trot, is spurting
again. Buck Share led a three-game
win against Labor with 133-371, as
the former doughboys crowded Senate
for tbe second-place spot.
DLANKINO Georgetown Recreation
^ in » postponed Ladies’ District
League match. Lucky Strike pulled up
within hailing distance of the sec
ond-place Highway Engineers. A
last-box rally with Polly Shugrue,
Helen Sullivan and Catherine Feder
line counting heavily on spares cli
maxed the sweep. Catherine Quigley’s
331 was high In winning 563-1,574
aggregate.
With the grace and ease of a Brad
Mandley, diminutive Betty Dugan,
Georgetown’s crack little roller, shot
top set of 343, tilting her season’s
average over the 103 mark. The
match was at Lucky Strike.
rl'HK Gothic team shooters exploded
A m the Procurement League with
a game count of 612. Ackerman’s 147
and 367 were top Individual totals.
Normans intrenched themselves in
first place, winning three tussles while
the mnpiree chalked up high set of
1,627 to whip Orientals in the rubber
gains.
Unmans wen* take a moood-pisoe
tie with Saxons and Victorians by
sweeping a set.
TDA WENBERG turned in some nifty
shooting in the What's in a Name
League, whanging the maples tor
131-349 to supply the pace-setting
W. A. C. S. with a 2-1 winning punch
over P. C. A. Despite Agriculture Ex
aminers’ top team counts of 518 and
1.495, H. O. L. C. won the odd-game
tut
Louise Bataglia, leading strike
shooter, added three more.
TD EGISTERING high team set of
^ 1,575, Graphic Arts Press mo
mentarily stopped the pennant march
of Progressive Printing Co. in the
Graphic Arts League. Scoring honors
were divided by Ed Nash, with 144,
and Potter, with 341.
Big Print Shop's lone win from
Hayworth was the result of top team
game of 580. Commercial Office scared
the only sweep, hanging the bee «n
Caslon-Simonds.
TV ED CIRCLE gained a tie for first
place in the A. & P. League with
Worthmore, trimming the pennant
contending Cold Streamers in the odd
skirmish, while Worthmore had the
skids put under them twice by the
Rajah rollers. R. Mullican's 364 was
tops for Red Circle.
A1 Darnes of Nectar rocked the
maples for counts of 140 and 394 to
lead a 2-to-l verdict over White
House.
Condor earned the odd one from
Eight O'clock with the high game
of 581.
Bill Krauss took his city’s record
season average for a toboggan ride in
the Kilowatt League with a low 335
set. The league-leading Sales quint
disposed of the Treasurers twice in the
three-game set.
BURKE IN BIG MEETS
Colored Jumper Enter* Xillrose,
A. A. XT. Title Games.
MILWAUKEE, January 26 (#).—
Entry of Edward Burke, Marquette
University Negro sophomore, co-holder
of the world Indoor high jump record,
in two major track meets in New York
next month was announced today by
Athletic Director Conrad M. Jennings.
Burke will compete in the Mlllrose
games February 6 and the National
A A U. championships February 27.
He leaped 6 feet 8 15-16 Inches In the
nationals last year.
HARTMAN IS ACE SHOT.
William Hartman, Jr., 4133 New
Hampshire avenue, has qualified as an
expert rifleman In the Junior division
at the National Rife Association.
FROM THE PRESS BOX
Pickings So Lean in Sports Cupboard
Fans Must Add Own Yarns to Headlines.
BY JOHN EARDNER.
NEW YORK, January 26.—'This
is Mother Hubbard’s time of
year In sport, when the cup
board is devoid of victuals and
news is extremely scarce, but there are
half a dozen hardy old items that keep
right on blooming along, and you
know them as well as you know the
back of your hand, which should be
very well indeed.
In fact, your correspondent—all un
asked and unsolicited—has arranged
a blindfold test for the persecution of
sports readers with hangovers, the
proceed* to go to some worthy char
ity. All you have to do is fasten a
handkerchief over your eyes and re
member that this is the latter part
of January. Your correspondent will
supply the headline. You will then
reel off the rest of the story by heart,
if you are half the man you claim to be.
THE NUMBER 1 perennial:
DIZ, GOLFING IN FLORIDA,
HURLS DEFI AT BOSS RICKET.
T>RADENTON, Fla., January.—The
great Dizzy Dean took time out
between rounds of golf here today to
hurl a challenge at his boss. Branch
Rickey of the St. Louis Cardinals, and
to describe the members of the Cardi
nal team as bums.
"X am asking $100,000,” said the
eccentric righthander, removing the
head of a niblick from his mouth,
"and will not settle for a dime less
than $40,000. That’s my message to
Mr. Rickey, and my last word, too. I
wish we had some ball players on our
club. All we got is bushers.”
Asked for his opinion of the National
League pennant tacc, Dizzy picked
the Cardinals without hesitation.
’’We will win by 20 games,” he said.
"And as for those lousy Giants-”
NO 2:
DEAN’S DEMANDS WIN
LAUGH FROM RICKEY.
COMEWHERE, Tex., January.—Dizzy
Dean is talking telephone numbers
in connection with his 1937 contract,
and will not be humored by the Cardi
nal front office, according to Branch
Rickey, who is down here for reasons
best known to himself.
"Never mind what Dean says,” ad
vised Rickey today. "He’ll take what
we give him and like it. He isn't
worth such an awful lot to our club."
Asked If he would accept (100,000
for the sale of Dean, the Cardinal ex
ecutive reeled with amazement.
“What?" he said. "One hundred
thousand measly dollars for the most
valuable man in base ball?"
NO. 3:
BOYCOTT THREAT
SHOCKS SCHMELIXG.
DERLIN, January.—Max Sclwneling
expressed himself here today as
surprised, wounded, hurt, astonished,
grieved and unworried by talk of an
anti-Nazi boycott of his scheduled titl*
fight with James J. Braddock.
“They wouldn’t do that to me in
America,” said the Teuton schlager.
“Americans are my friends, my pals,
my buddies, my comrades, my friends,
my pals, my-”
NO. 4:
TILDEN VOICES CONTEMPT
FOR DAVIS CUP PLAYERS.
VyHATHAVEYOU, Fla., January.—
Big Bill Tilden, professional net
ace, today declared his contempt for
the officials who control the selection
o» America's Davis Cup team, and also
for the Davis Cup players, and also for
the Davis Cup, and also for practically
everything else.
“These people do not seem to want
to win back the cup at all,” said
Tilden. “And besides, Grant is no
bargain, Parker is no bargain. Riggs
is no bargain, Hunt is no bargain-"
NO 5
KELLEY IN RARE FORM
IN TALK TO OLD GRADS.
DEEFSTEAK DINNER, N. Y., Janu
ary.—Five hundred alumni of
Yale University gathered here tonight
to do honor to Larry Kelley, witty all
America end and captain of the 1938
foot ball team. Kelley took advantage
of the occasion to deny, and also con
firm the rumor that he will turn pro.
He was in rare form, and his speech,
made up on the spur of the moment,
had the old grads in stitc ies.
“That was no lady.” said the
inimitable Eli leader at one point.
“That was my wife.”
NO. 6:
FAVORITES LOSE
AT SANTA ANITA.
T OS ANGELES, January. — Form
was crowded to the boards and tha
favorites ran out of the money re
peatedly at beautiful, good-looking
Santa Anita Park today
And Bob Pastor predicts he will
knock out Joe Louis.
(Copyright, 1937. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, me.)
By WRM‘C*llw
COLUMBIA COUNTRY CLUB S
“new” golf course, with ir
rigated fairways, will get its
first real championship test
this year with the playing of the
District amateur championship late
in the Summer.
Since James A. Cosgrove, vice presi
dent of the District Golf Associa
tion, and golf chairman at Manor, put
on such a good tournament at his
club last year, Martin R. West, pres
ent D. C. G. A. president, has de
clared, “We’re going to put on just
as good a show at Columbia in 1937
as Jim put on at Manor in 1936,”
which clears up any doubt as to
where the District championship will
go this year. The date will be set
at the association meeting next Mon
day night at the University Club.
'J'HAT fairway watering system, sec
ond such major installation
around Washington, will be ready for
use when warm weather comes along
in June of this year. It will be ready
before that, but it won't have to be
used much before June, when the
first spell of hot weather usually hits
Washington.
Favored by unusual weather
conditions, O. B. Fitts and his
gang of workmen have com
pleted much of the installation
work, and now are laying pipe
down the middle of those ex
pansive fairways.
The twin dams near the sixteenth
green are nearly finished. They’ll im
pound the waters of the creek which
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flows across the flrst, fifteenth and
seventeenth fairways.
Columbia last staged the District
championship in 1934 when tall, rangy
Gene Vinson was winning everything
in sight around Washington. He licked
Billy Dettweiler in the final round
with an inspired burst of golf, went on
to the third round in the national ama
teur championship, and during the fol
lowing Winter was injured seriously In
an airplane accident. Roger Peacock
succeeded him in 1935 as the District
title holder and was succeeded in turn
by slender little Bobby Brownell last
year. But the Columbia course, where
the championship will be staged at the
tail end of the 1937 season, will be a
different layout from that of 1934. No
more will booming tee shots scamper
down concrete-hard fairways. They’ll
bite into green turf and run only a few
yards. That District title tourney will
be Columbia's flrst big test under the
new fairway watering system.
Loyola of South
Gets ‘Irish’ Game
T^EJW ORLEANS, January 26
UP).—'The Notre Dame atyle of
foot ball will be brought to a major
Louisiana school for the first time
when Larry “Moon” Mullins takes
over the coaching reins at Loyola
University this year.
Mullins, foot ball mentor at St.
Benedict’s at Atchison, Kans, and
fullback on the late Knute Rockne's
famous Notre Dame teams of 1928
29-30, recently, signed a three-year
contract with Loyola.
His five predecessors since 1921,
R. J, “Moon" Ducote, Bill Daly,
Clark Shaughnessy, Robert “Doc"
Erskine and Eddie Reed, used vari
ously the Minnesota and Warner
Chevy Chase has been outstanding
since its fairway watering system waa
put in use in 1934. To be sure, tha
Spring invitation tourney haan't given
the watered fairways a true test, for
It comes at a time when they don’t
need artificial irrigation. The result
has been a slow course which would bo
slow enough with any artificial water
ing. But the later days of Summer,
when the rest of the local midiron
meadows have been burned up, have
shown the advantages of man-made
help of nature's lack of moisture.
Chevy Chase in Summer has
been the most delightful course
of them all to play, and not
alone from the standpoint of
crisply played iron shots from
good lies on green turf.
A walk of five miles or more over
the adamant fairways of Summer is
tough on the "dogs.” and walking on
watered turf is like walking on a
.green carpet.
For the first year or two Columbia
expects to have a lot of crab grass.
That always follows bounteous water
and a hot sun. But within a coupla
of years the crab grass will vanish
before the finer fairway grasses, and
all wUl be lovely out there near Chevy
Chase Lake. Pity they didn’t have
it back in 1921, but they will have It
if they ever go after another national
tournament, which hardly la likely.
p OBERT P. SMITH, Washington
attorney, again heads the Con
gressional Country Club. Smith was
re-elected president by the club Board
of Governors last night.
He has served one term at the
head of the big elub near Rock
ville.
The following were choeen to serve
with Smith; First vice president,
Theodore S. Grape; second vice presi
dent, Gen. Frank T. Hines; third vice
president, Gen. Hugh Matthews; fourth
vice president. Bancroft P. Foley; fifth
uce president. Frank Yates; secretary,
Charles H. HUlegcist; assistant secre
tary, Rey R. Rommell; treasurer, John
F. Maury.
The board took no action on a pro
posal to construct an additional nine
hole golf course.
SKI MARATHON LISTED.
FORT FAIRFIELD, Me., January
26.—A 120-mile ski marathon, open to
skiers of the United States and Can
ada. will be one of the major attrac
tions of the tenth anniversary Winter
carnival here February 4, 5 and 6.
BUCS SIGN COACHES.
PITTSBURGH, January 26 iff’).—
The Pittsburgh Pirates completed their
coaching staff for the forthcoming
campaign with the announcement that
Honus Wagner and Jewel Ens had
signed contracts.
PRAISES TIGERS, TRIBE.
NEW YORK, January 28 OP).—Man
ager Joe McCarthy of the world cham
pion New York Yankees, here for hia
annual beefsteak dinner to the base
ball writers, concedes Cleveland and
Detroit the best chance of catching
his team in the 1937 race.
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