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Spirit High as Schoolboy Basketers Swing Into Star Tourney
ST. JOHN’S, B.-C. C.
HEADLINE TONIGHT
Cadets Hungry for Revenge,
Ambitious to Atone for
S. A. Failure.
BV' ROD THOMAS.
TO THE strains of the crack
band of St. John’s College, the
fifth annual Evening ‘ Star
basket ball tournament, with
•Ight teams of boys and four girls in
quest of three Metropolitan District
Intercollegiate championships, will
get under way tonight at Tech.
Eastern High of Washington, meet
ing Sherwood of Montgomery County,
Md., will swing into action at 8
o’clock, in defense of the Metropolitan
title it has won for three consecutive
years, but the big battle of the evening
will be fought by St. John’s of Wash
ington and Bethesda-Chevy Chase of
Montgomery County, starting about 9
o clock.
St. John's, sporting the title of
Catholic high champion of the Dis
trict, recently has come through a
sensational streak of action with vary
ing fortune. The Cadets move against
Bethesda-Chevy Chase with a triple
Incentive.
Cadet* Are Vengeful.
'J'HEIR ambition to win the metro
politan title is heightened by a
craving to make up for their second
round defeat in the South Atlantic
championship at Washington and Lee,
after they’d upset the defending title
holder, and by a keen desire for re
venge over the team which admin
istered to them their most decisive
defeat of the season, in fact, the only
loss they suffered by more than a few
points. By a margin of eight. Be
thesda-Chevy Chase a while back put
the bird on St. John’s.
The metropolitan tournament will
be played tonight, tomorrow afternoon
and night. Wednesday night and Sat
urday afternoon, with doubleheaders
at, all sessions except Saturday, when
three championship games will be con
tested.
The girls will enter the struggle to
morrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock,
with Mount Rainier battling Bethesda
Chevy Chase. Inasmuch as Mount
Rainier represents Prince Georges
County and Bethesda-Chevy Chase,
Montgomery, this one is a natural,
but the boys’ contest to follow-, too.
should be a corker. It will bring to
gether Mount Rainier, which has won
22 consecutive games and the Prince
Georges championship, and Washing
ton-Lee of Arlington, title winner in
Northern Virginia. There are no odds
on this match.
Western on the Spot.
]^OR will there be tomorrow night
in games between the girls of
Washington-Lee and Alexandria's
George Washington and the boys of
George Washington and Western. \
Western is as much on the spot
as Eastern. While Eastern is defend
ing the metropolitan title. Western is
out to uphold its prestige as the public
achool champion of the Capital.
Eastern gets a break in the first
round, for Sherwood is not expected
to be a particularly tough opponent
for the bigger school, but Western is
hard up against it in tackling George
Washington.
In former years. George Washing
ton. in drawing a Capital team in the
opening skirmish, was as good as
licked before the whistle sounded,
but the reverse is true this time. The
Presidents during the last several
weeks have been touted by some ob
servers as the strongest schoolboy
quint in the metropolitan area. They
are eager for battle with Western,
which early in the campaign handed
them a whipping.
The semi-finals in the boys' division
Will be played Wednesday night, and
Whoever the participants, both games
Will be naturals.
Finals on Saturday.
/"AN SATURDAY the boy and girl
• finals will take place and supple
menting the program will be a contest
between the two strongest suburban
teams in the tournament, for the sub
urban championship. The quints for
this battle will be chosen by Jim Pix
lee, athletic director of George Wash
ington and once a sensationally suc
cessful basket ball coach, and Forrest
Cotton, basket coach at Catholic Uni
versity. Pixlee and Cotton will judge
the out-of-town teams on their show
ings in the first and second rounds.
The largest attendance in the his
tory of the five-year-old tournament
apparently is assured. There are eight
teams where there used to be four in
the boys' division and four where
formerly there were two In the girls.
And both divisions are shot through
With sharp rivalries.
An admission fee of two bits will be
Charged at each session, with all re
ceipts above expenses to be given to
the Community Center Department.
-•
BROWNS FIGHT FOR JOBS.
SAN ANTONIO. Tex.—Competition
for the two infield assignments be
came keen in the Brown training
camp today. Jim Bottomley and
Harry Davis are battling for the first
•ack job. while Gerald Lipscomb is
trying to beat out Tom Carey at the
keystone sack.
GALAN CUB LEAD-OFF.
AVALON, Calif—Manager Charley
Grimm indicated today that Augie
Galan, as left fielder, will be the Cub
lead-off man. with Bill Herman bat
ting second, Oollins third and Dema
ree fourth.
-•
DYKES RUSHES CHISOX.
PASADENA. Calif—Manager Jimmy
Dykes ordered the White Sox pitch
ers to use speed and stuff today and
outfielders and infielders were put
through a long batting and fielding i
workout. I
! Tackling Ticklish Task
JIM PIXLEE.
FOD COTTON.
/ nese noted basket ball authorities will single out the two
strongest suburban teams in The Star's metropolitan inter
scholastic basket ball tournament, opening tonight at Tech, and
the chosen pair will fight it out for the suburban championship.
Pixlee. athletic director at George Washington University, and
Cotton, basket coach at C. U., will judge the teams on their
showings in the early rounds. —Star Staff Photos.
Winners of D. C. Tourna
ment Get Places in Na
tional A. A. U. Finals.
ATRIP to Boston to compete in
the National A. A. U. boxing
tourney will be the goal of
more than 60 local amateur
fighters when the District A. A. U.
championships get under way Saturday
night at Turner’s Arena.
Dr. O. U. Singer, chairman of the
District A A U Boxing Committee,
has announced at least five winners
will make the trip, while three more
may go. depending, of course, upon the
prowess displayed in respective divi
sions.
Two Will Turn Pro.
CUCH outsanding simon-pure fighters
k as Buddy Lazear, Mike Morton,
Ray Morse. Steve Thompson, Eddie
Saugstad, Henry Peterson, Buster
Miller, Leo Pow'ell and Bob Grimm
will seek titles. Thompson and Saug
stad intend to turn professional after
a final effort to garner national honors.
Entry blanks for the tournament,
which will continue on March 24 and
wind up on March 31, may be ob
tained at the Washington Boys Club,
Third and C streets.
20 YEARS AGO
IN THE STAR
jyjIKE MORAN, the Washington
sandlotter now in training
with the Nats, may be the first
player to be disposed of by Man
ager Griffith. His release will be
due mostly to the anxiety of the
Augusta team for his services.
A college basket ball league for
the District seemed assured fol
lowing a meeting at the Y. M. C. A.
under the leadership of Prof.
Beckett. George Washington, Cath
olic University. Maryland State and
Gallaudet have signified their in
tention of becoming members,
Georgetown alone being unrepre
sented.
Washington's Yannigans beat
the Regulars, 5-4, in a practice
game at Augusta. Jamieson and
Thomas holding the first-stringers
to six hits. Both southpaws,
Jamieson and Thomas, looked bet
ter than their mound rivals. Ayers
and Flaherty, who worked for the
Regulars.
Racing in Texas
Appears Doomed
ACING in Texas is holding on
to a thin thread.
The Governor seems determined
to outlaw mutuels. The Legislature
is with him, and the chances at
present are that the friends of
racing in the State Senate will be
unable to kill the eliminating bill.
P. B
BY PAUL J. MILLER, Jr. I
PRESIDENT EARL KUNKLE of !
the Metropolitan Chess Asso
ciation says that all players in
the District interested in
either the amateur District chess
championship or the ladies’ chess j
championship should be present at
8 o'clock tonight In the Social Chess
Divan, 1625 Connecticut avenue.
Medals will be awarded the
victors in both of these tour
naments to be conducted under
the auspices of the M. C. A.
Rules of entry are:
Players must reside in the District or
adjacent States.
In the amateur match only non-profes
sional players may compete.
Gair.es shall be played according to the
official rules of chess as Indorsed by the
International Chess Federation. <The
only chess book on the market today that
has these rules is Mitchell's "A Guide to
the Game of Chess.'' A pamphlet edition
also is published by the Illinois State
Chess Association. I
No entry fee is required of any player.
Nor does any player have io be a mem
ber of the Social Chess Divan as was
stated formerly in this column through a
most grave error.
It is not the policy of social chess at
countenanced by the Social Chess Divan
to require obligatory membership as pre
requisite to participation in any city-wide
tournament sponsored by the Metropoli
tan Chess Association.
However the overhead expenses In all
city-wide tourneys must be met by a
small cover charge for use of facilities and
both visitors and players at the .divan
shall pay the small cover charge of 25
cents whenever the divan is used for
chance or tournament play.
When any city-wide tourney is in
progress, members of the divan may
enjoy all privileges as though no
tourney were on the schedule.
Central and Western Wrin.
J^OUND No. 2 of the Washington
Interhigh Chess Association team
tournament throws Central and
Western into the limelight with vic
tory scores of 5-0 and 3-2. Eastern
and Wilson succumbing before the
onslaught of their peers.
Chess among the high boys
and girls is flourishing as never
before, and six schools are
fighting with bulldog deter
mination for possession of the
I. S. Turover Trophy.
Central ti. Eastern.
Reynold* 1 T usertbeel _ 0
Hiaurra _ 1 Daney __ _ 0
Schneyer _1 Bordow -. 0
Hostler _ _ _ 1 Qlu _0
Kurland _1 Miller _ 0
~5 “0
Western ts. Wilson.
Parker 0 Margold __1
Lbrand _1 Dickman _0
Parr __ __ _ 1 Huddleston _0
Stovall _1 Maxwell _0
Mil'.enson _0 Schutte _1
~3 ~Z
—
Bowie Overlooks Totalizator
Earnest Race Fans Neglected—Picking Nags
for Maryland Meet No Bargain.
JUST a couple weeks now be
fore the bugle Wows at
Bowie. The management
has announced many re
forms but no totalizator. Picking
■winners at Bowie’s Spring meeting
Is somewhat like selecting an early
cantaloupe. They all look good.
There are many reasons. Horses
are shipped In from many tracks*
ft.
There is no way for the ordinary
mortal to know how well they
shipped. Horses that Wintered In
New York and nearby Maryland
and Virginia will be making their
first starts in six months. Are
they ready or “short”? By the
time these questions have been
answered the gee gees will have
moved over to the “Draw.” F. B.
Central swamped Eastern at East
ern. while Western trounced Wilson
at Wilson. It seems as if the invad
ing quintets had something on the
ball and took the offensive at the
very outset of their matches
A conclave of members of Inter
high Association has been announced
for Wednesday, this week.
Beginners Increase.
^~JROWING steadily, the Social
Chess Divan is fostering begin
ners’ lectures in chess play. In co
operation with the chess editor of
The Star.
Already the instruction classes
meet with the praise of some 30-odd
novioes from both sexes and the en
thusiasm for chess instruction is
mounting weekly.
A canvass of book stores and game
merchants reveals that in the past
weeks they have sold more chess par
aphernalia than in the last half
dozen years, that is, prior to Decem
ber, 1935, when this column definitely
went on record favoring chess as a
most enjoyable pastime for the aver
age man, as well as for legendaryj
kings. j
This Wednesday at 8:30 pm.
another beginners' lecture will
be given at the divan. Visitors
are welcome.
President I. J. Ciftran of the Social
Chess Divan will receive entries for
the championship tournament of the
divan Wednesday night. The tourna
ment will be initiated promptly at
8:15, and is open to all divan mem
bers.
Membership dues in the divan is
only $1 monthly, and April fees are
due today. Remittances should be
posted to Treasurer Norval Wigginton,
200 Rhode Island avenue northeast.
Decatur 2279.
All Washington is co-operating to
ward making the divan a "clearing
house” for all chess activities in the
District, where players may come and
go as fancy wills, and the venture is
non-profit, all moneys going toward
a better and finer game room and in
creased library facilities.
REDS WARN BRENNAN
Hurler Kicking About Contract
Told to “Take It or Leave It.”
TAMPA, Fla.—General Manager
Warren C. Giles of the Cincinnati
Reds said today Don Brennan, hold
out hurler, had telegraphed he would
"like to come to Tampa and talk con
tract.”
“I have nothing more to say,” Giles
replied, "you have my final offer.
Take it or leave it.”
BEES IN WARM-UP.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—The Bos
ton Bees warmed up today in prepara
tion lor their grapefruit league game
tomorrow with the New York Giants.
Elbie Fletcher, lormer Buffalo first
baseman, will see service at the initial
sack, Manager Bill McKechnie said.
TWO DRILLS FOR PHILS.
WINTER HAVEN, Fla.—The Phil
lies returned to a schedule of two
practice sessions a day after their
first intra-club training game over
the week end.
■ ■- »
PAMPAS BASKET VICTOR.
SANTIAGO, Chile, March 15 (jT*).—
Argentina defeated Peru, 25 to 24, far
the South American basket ball cham
pionship
BILL AGEE HM HOT
FOOT IN OOLB RACE
Wins 15-Mile Run in Snow
and Sleet—27 Out of 30
Starters Finish.
WHILE you were lolling at
your ease in a warm room
yesterday afternoon, or,
perhaps, adequately bun
dled up, indulging in your favorite
outdoor Winter sport, some 27 hearty
athletes, wearing no more than a
jersey, trunks and shoes, ran 16 miles
through Washington's snow and sleet.
Bill Agee, Irom Baltimore's Stone
wall Democratic Club, added another
victory to his long list of marathon
conquests, but 26 others today own
the satisfaction of having completed
a trying task.
As Fast as Autos.
J^ECALLINO the storm between 1
and 3 o’clock, the time that the
marathoners were setting down and
picking up their feet on snowy and
icy pavements between Third and C
streets northwest and the Mount Ver
non Memorial Highway as far as
Alexandria, admiration of the 27 In
creases in proportion with the vivid
ness of memory. AH that in the face
of a near-blinding snow.
That Bill Agee won is not so much
news as the fact that only 4 of 31
starters failed to finish. Trying to
walk at times became bad enough,
but running, nearly stripped! It was j
no record time for a 15-mile route
that Agee hung up when he finished
in 1 hour 22 minutes and ^5 sec
onds, but how many automobiles cov
ered such a distance in that #me
yesterday?
Orioles Take Team Trophy.
^GEE'S Democratic Club took home
the team trophy when Charles
Miller, Donald Helniche and Pat
DengLs finished third, sixth and eighth,
respectively. Along with their team
mate's victory, they scored 9 points.
John Clark of the Passon Club of
Philadelphia ran second to Agee, com
ing home a minute and 35 seconds
after the Baltimorean. Joseph Klein
erman of New York was fourth,
George Caspar of Philadelphia's Pas
son fifth and Joe Volz of New York's
German-American A. C. seventh.
B. Chitwood was the first local man
to cross the finish line, thereby not
only winning a gold medal, but also
the local A. A. U. marathon cham
pionship. Haskell Clark was the sec
ond local man to finish, coming in
eighteenth, while J. Speer, also of this
city, was twenty-second.
.!■ Bill Agee (Stonewall Democratic!
9 ubDc,,1 "M5- 2v J- Clarke (Passon A
A. . Philadelphia!. J :24.38; 3. C. Miller ir 1
(Stonewall), 1.26.22: 4, J. Klemerman
iG. P. O. Mail Clerk!, 1:25.27 5 g
Casper (Passon! 1:25.34: 8. D. Heirilcke
(Stonewall) 1:26.41; J. VoU (German A.
9:Ay .iir6i?4w8-r„pi. Hen“‘s (Stonewall),
i.i-., Dicltson (German A. C.)
.s',-' 1,°. G. Lleterman (Passon),
1 .at>.4o: 11. B. Chitwood (Unattached).
I r,1.',, 1~:„ H„ Wesolowskl (German).
13. P. Worthington 1 Passon >
14, H. Lichtenstein (German.,
fcjf-y jl G , Gertsmeyer (German).
1.34 42, IB, J. Harvey (Passon). 1:37.18;
7Mt J- 0 Hara (French Sport Club),
1:?».04; 19, H. Clark (Wash, T. & r 1
1 39.04 ; 2d. J. Beares (Baltimore C c 1
1, All i.T1’. Merson (Stonewall),
1.41.02; 22. J. Speer (Wash T. * P ),
tigO-fl. 33. B. Nicholson (Wash. T. & F.l,
1 22-5;: ...J' 1- Jacobs (unattachedi,
„i5 p Jackelskl (Stonewall),
1-59.2/: 20, M Coven (Wash. T. A F)
~ j 3. J4. 3;, J. Montague tWash. T. ii F.l,
* lOi
B.L.VL League
Team Standings.
LADIES.
W L TP
Wallace Memorial _ 42 15 2" 977
Langdon Methodist 35 22 h;/-,
B. Y. P. U. No. 1 . 33 24 23,732
B Y. P. XJ. No. 2 30 27 23 35(1
Sherwood C E 17 40 17 780
Brookland Methodist _ 15 42 21.387
Seaton Records,
„ H'*h„ avenge—Morgan (Sherwood).
Suess (B. Y. No. 1), 92-5.
^Hlgh individual set—Suess (B Y. No.
j ( High individual game—Suess (B. Y. No.
High flat game—Goad (B Y No 1). 93
High spares—Brincefleld (L. M ), Schoeti
<W. M.). 45.
High strikes—Suess <B Y. No ]> 17.
High team set—Langdon Meth l '37<>
High team game—Langdon Meth., 480.
MEN.
W L TP
B Y P 0 No. 1 38 lit 29.351
Langdon Blues 29 28 28 048
aherwood C. E . 28 29 27 959
Brookland Methodist 28 31 283Hi
B Y P 0 No. 2 25 32 27.581
Langdon Reds 25 32 27.4X0
Season Records.
High average—Sherwood (L B ). 109-7
High individual set—MacMullen (B Y.
No, 2). 392.
High individual game—MacMullen (B
Y. No 2). 150.
,, Hl«h «at game—Jack Kemper (B. Y
No 1). 98.
ioHi*h spares—Boeglen (B Y No. 1),
High strikes—Boeglen (B, Y, No i) 25
High team set—B. Y. P. 0 No 1. 1.859'
High team game—B. Y. P. 0 No. 1. 584
Individual Average*.
LADIES.
B Y. P. U. NO 1.
O Ave.
Fmnacom.. 33 72-12 R. Nicol 57 82-8
Goad 54 83-43 Parker 34 78-29
E. Nicol . 67 84-2 Suess..^ 64 92-5
B. Y. P U NO. 2
Bingman 43 79-37 McDowell 54 88-42
Hanneman 44 79-4u White 54 85-41
McDermitt 23 89-20 Wilson 31 69-22
BROOKLAND METHODIST
Barber . 30 74-4 K. Shrodes 53 72-27
Boyce 49 77-26 Htackhouse 53 82-11
Hopkins 53 72-49
LANODON METHODIST.
Brincefleld 67 84-52 Rodman 56 76-5
Clark 66 87-18 Wasser . 30 91-4
R*bbltt.__ 61 84-17
SHERWOOD C. E.
Barr 32 72-7 Perry 23 74-16
Castell 4 1 68-22 Thompson 39 81-4
Morgan 30 92-5
WALLACE MEMORIAL
Baxter „ 30 78-7 Schoen 54 84-24
DeMott. 54 81-1 Sweitzer . 48 83-32
Masson 33 90-28 Sutherland 61 72-31
MEN.
B Y. P. U. NO. 1.
_ G. Ave. G Ave
Boeglen 67 106-6 Hughes 67 101-49
Carleton 52 106-50 J'ck K'p'r 64 102-47
Fop C ton 17 100-8 J'es K'p'r 64 96-4
B Y P. 17 NO. 2.
Clarke 64 95-9 Wllller 28 95-8
Duncan 27 96-2 Woodrufl 66 98-16
Gaither 32 04-31 Zoerner 48 94-37
M'Mullen 32 106
BROOKLAND METHODIST
Barber _ 19 90-12 Van B 66 90
Foley 46 94-4 Williams 39 93-7
McCraw 47 92-19 Yenney 44 95-24
LANODON BLUES.
Findley . 64 98-36 McPher’n 38 9<-28
O Lewis 64 102-30 Sherwood 61 109-7
W.Liggett 29 97-29 Shoe’aker 38 100-26
LANGDON REDS.
Dampier 49 97-11 Mayfield 33 93-30
Kendall 27 94-25 Phelps 47 101-9
F. Lewis 31 93-8 Rodman 43 87-30
SHERWOOD C. E.
Babb'ton 24 104-4 Morgan 60 94-14
Han'man 32 96-21 Perry 67 99-37
Kozea 17 100-12 Peyton 66 104-44
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BIG TEN APPROVES
CENTER JUMP BAN
Other Changes in Basket
Ball Rules Are Debated
by Coaches.
By th« Associated Press.
HICAGO, March 15.—Discarded
by Big Ten basket, ball
coaches, the center Jump was
the main topic for considera
tion today by the National Collegiate
Coaches’ Association In a two-day
meeting here.
Big Ten cage mentors voted unani
mously last night to abolish the center
Jump for a one-year trial period. The
action is effective at the start of the
1937-38 campaign. Permanent adop
tion hinges upon the reaction of the
coaches.
Dr. H. C Carlson, president of the
National Coaches' Group, said the
center jump would receive serious con
sideration at the meeting today.
Keen Rules Debate Likely.
ROACHES will view motion pictures
of basket bail games and hold a
general discussion of the rules, with
indications pointing to considerable
debate on abolition of the center jump
and three and 10-second rules.
At the end of their meeting, the
coaches will make suggestions or def
inite recommendations to the national
Basket Ball Rules Committee, which
will meet here Tuesday and Wednes
day.
Action taken by the Big Ten coaches
calls for the center jump only at the
beginning of the game, at the start of
the second half, at the opening of
overtime periods and after double and
technical fouls.
On all other occasions, the ball will
be placed in play in the end zone of
the team scored upon, the same pro
cedure now in effect after a free throw
scored on a personal foul.
Coast Change Followed.
A CTION by the Big Ten follows
that of the Pacific Coast Confer
ence which officially eliminated the
jump last Winter.
Represented at the Rules Committee
sessions Tuesday and Wednesday will
be the National Collegiate Athletic
Association, the National Federation
of High School Athletic Associations
and the Canadian International Ath
letic Conference and Canadian Ama
teur Basket Ball Association.
m nAnjp Politics Seen Dooming
UK 1 Horse Racing Bill
BY FEED BOX.
THE bill for racing at Benning,
which once passed the House
without trouble, will have
tough sledding as soon as
the debate on the floor commences.
It was barely squeezed through the
committee lor a favorable report,
proxies being used. The whole affair
now has become a political row, and
the betting is that it will never pass
the House and should that happen,
that it is curfew when it reaches
the Senate.
Any time a sport reaches gold mine
proportions, politics is sure to creep
in. O'Hara has stated through his
sponsor that racing at Benning will
pay the District $500,000 annually.
We doubt it very much, but the fact
remains that if the District should
receive that amount, O'Hara and
his cohorts would receive much more.
It is not a local venture. There
is no real demand for more racing
and there are those, too, who are
lukewarm on the proposition, that see
no reason for dumping such a plum
into O'Hara’s lap. If there was some
one willing to back the venture for
sport’s sake, that would agree to
( give all the profit except a fair re
turn on the Investment to charity,
the bill would get many more votes.
Dollars Don’t Come Back.
ANY track that operates with
mutuels, if allowed to run long
enough, is sure to milk the com
munity dry, provided, of course, the
comunity wagers. You just can’t take
I 10 cents out 6f a dollar each time it
i is wagered and expect that dollar to
come back whole.
Sit down any night with half a
dozen friends in a poker game All
jack pots. The kitty is a white
chip. You play later than you
probably should. The answer always
is the same if you play long enough.
You have had a lot of fun. No one
i won but the kitty. Just a question as
to how long you play as to whether
the kitty gets all the chips.
The race track owners never learn.
Racing has come back with such a
bang that it is running away with
itself. At the Santa Anita meeting
more than $28,000,000 was bet. The
State of California allows the track
8 per cent and breakage. The track
voluntarily cut the take to 6 per
cent. The breakage alone was more
than *400,000.
I
At Narragansett, where O'Hara
rules, high-powered press agents In
form the world of the huge amounts
wagered dally and of the total for
each of the several yearly meetings.
It only makes the grafters and small
time politicians hungry, and fur- i
nlshes ammunition for the reformers.
The merchants yell about the huge ,
amount taken from legitimate chan
nels. On Wilshlre boulevard, in Los 1
Angeles, there Is a large electric sign
headed: ‘Question.” Then follows,
‘‘Are you playing the races or paying
your bills?” The Inference, of course,
Is that you cannot do both.
It is only a question of a little time
before racing will become a political
foot ball in California. There will
be an election. Racing will be the
issue, and history probably will repeat
j Itself. There will be no racing in
| California for many years to come.
The problem for the track* to figure
is whether they need most the poli
ticians or public opinion? If racing
is to survive, it is our guess that pub
lic opinion is the biggest asset Let
the tracks combine and get a czar as
both base ball and the movies did
when threatened. Cut the mutuel
take, put in officials whose word is
law. Let the spongers, dopers, "fixers”
and petty grafters know that it means
“life” instead of a brief suspension,
when caught.
Public Asks Fair Break.
'J'HERE are millions of red-blooded
Americans who love the horses,
who are willing and glad to make a
modest wager, who want nothing but
a square deal. They gladly will fight
any movement to abolish racing, once
the game is cleaned up.
At Tropical Park Saturday more
than $375,000 was wagered and the
attendance exceeded 12,000, both rec
j ords for the track. Oaklawn, at Hot
I Springs, had a near-record attend
; ance and the management of the Fair
! Grounds announced Saturday that for
the remainder of the season eight
races instead of seven, would be sched
uled daiy. They have been racing at
New Orleans since Thanksgiving.
They race Sunday s, too.
COLLEGE QUINTS
ON A. A. U. COURT
Long Island One of Seeded
Teams to Play in Title
Meet Tonight.
By the Associated Press.
DENVER, March 15.—The men’s
national A. A. U. basket ball
tournament had a collegiate
tang today, as It picked up
loose ends of the first round.
Five of the 10 game* scheduled were
first-round affairs, four of them bring
ing together college quintets. The
two seeded college teams, Central Mis
souri Teachers of Warrensburg and
Long Island University of Brooklyn,
will go into action tonight in second
round games after drawing first-round
byes.
Two other seeded entrants also
make their debuts tonight. The
Denver Safeway, rated one of the
teams to beat, meets scrappy little
Oberlin, Kans., quintet, and the Hol
lywood Stars, runners-up last year
under the name of Universal, meet
the Eckers of Salt Lake City.
Une Lpset in rirst Round.
QNE overtime game, one upset, a
pair of victories bv comfortable
margins and several games tighter
than a new boot were incorporated
in the opening contests yesterday.
The Mohawks of Amsterdam. N Y ,
and the Slaton Oilers of Slaton, Tex.,
won in real breath-taking finishes.
, The Mohawks defeated rugged little
Cowley, Wyo., 34 to 33. in overtime.
' The Slatons, using a vocal defense
1 of yips and kiyoodles when the oppo
siton was about to shoot, downed the
New York Furniture quintet of Den
ver, 51 to 48
The most impressive team was the
West Texas Teachers. These ‘‘stilted’’
youngsters, ranging in height from
6 feet 2 to 6 feet 8'2 inches, crushed
i Adams Normal, Alamose, Colo., 62
I to 24.
American Beauty Surprises.
'Y'HE American Beauty quintet of
Denver, a gangly, ribby bunch of
lads, provided the upset in defeating
the Bendix team of South Bend, Ind..
43 to 34. The Hoosiers wilted in the
closing minutes.
The Eckers of Salt Lake City and
Club Sar of Gary. Ind., put on a
thriller, the Eckers winning, 37 to 35.
Roger peacock wont be
around the big golf tourna
ments very much this year.
The District amateur cham
pion of 1932 and 1935, one of the finest
simon pures ever developed around
Washington, and a shotmaker who
ranks with any amateur in the land,
hasn't swung a club more than twice
since last Fall and he doesn't arftici
pate that he'll be able to do much in
golf until June or thereabout—if then.
Roger is a married man now with
a little family and he finds that golf
has to take a back seat in the Pea
cock scheme of things. But the main
drawback to his link activities this
year will be his law studies. Yep,
Roger is studying to be a barrister and
no budding young lawyer ever took it
more seriously than does Roger as he
pores through precedents and rules
of objections and other legal pro
cedure.
He married a lawyer's daughter.
Mrs. Peacock was Mary Shields,
daughter of one of Washington's well
known attorneys, and it's natural
enough for Roger to stud^ law.
But it raises hob with his
golf game and probably will
continue for a couple more
years.
Sure, he has a job in the Treasury
Department, w’here he works for Ad
miral Peeples in the Procurement
Division, but between his office du
ties in the daytime and his studies
at night he doesn't have much time
to click golf balls off the face of his
big driver.
He hardly has touched a club since
November, and in two appearances at
Congressional did not score with the
old-time ease that made him the most
feared single figure among the local
amateurs since 1932,
gUT don't let any one tell you that
Roger Peacock Is through as a
golfer. Give him two weeks of prac
tice and he'll be as good as ever, even
in those days when he was shooting
62s over that tough Indian Spring
course.
Roger’s swing is so good, his game
such a natural one, that he needs only
a minimum of practice to get it back
in scoring trim.
It is not likely that Roger will be
around when the firing starts for
Johnny Fischer's amateur champion
ship at Portland, Oreg., next August.
A trip like that costs money and Roger
isn’t in the bracket yet where he can
lay three or four hundred bucks out
to play in a golf tournament.
But he will be if earnestness
means anything.
He's plenty earnest about his studies,
even more so than when he was trying
to learn the intricacies of a cut nib
lick shot. He learned that and he'll
master law precedents, too, but its ex
tremely doubtful if lie'll show up for
the Spring tournament parade. There's
just a chance that Roger may have a
whack at the Chevy Chase tourney,
but even that is doubtful.
'■jpHAT sixteenth green at Columbia.
which the boys had figured was
going to be strictly an island green
surrounded on three sides by water
and on the fourth by a big bunker,
isn't going to be such a tough propo
sition after all.
Greenkeeper Hits has progressed
in his work of arranging the fairway
watering system to the point where
he has outlined the limits of the
water around the sixteenth, and he's
left a space of 15 or 20 yards di
rectly behind the green to shoot at.
Every one had thought the water
in Lake Stevinson would come right
up to the edge of the green at the
right and at the back.
An overstrong shot will leave
a chip sliot back to the pin, but
don't go to the right.
You’ll be likely to lose your pretty
little golf ball. Three tees now are
being built for the new sixteenth hole.
^ GOOD deal of the Improvement
in Helen Dettweiler's golf game
(and there's no doubt it's a finished
article now) may be traced directly
to Babe Didrikson, the Texas gal
with whom Helen has been traveling
for the past six months.
The Babe is quite a golfer, a hitter
with plenty of power, and she’s put
punch into Helen's game that Helen
lacked last year. The Babe herself
isn’t eligible to play in the women’s
amateur tournaments, but that doesn't
prevent her from playing and prac
ticing with Helen.
To this fact and the competition
may be traced the very definite im
provement in Helen Dettweiler's game,
an improvement that has put her up
in the very forefront of woman golfers
of the land.
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gASKET ball teams from four boys'
clubs are entered in the third
annual elimination tournament,
starting tomorrow, which is spon
sored by the Boys Club Workers
Association
Competition is divided into five
weight classes and contestants in each
class will be entered from the Mer
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Washington Boys’ Clubs.
Pairings for tomorrow follow:
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Georgetown B C . at Northeast B. C
! w T£uI;sti?y- h P m —M. B C. Tigers vs,
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lOh-Pound Class.
Friday. 7 p.m.—Georgetown B C vs
B C Red Birds, at Merrick B. C Friday
' P,m —Nor,heast B C. vs. Merrick B C
at Washington B. c.
1'20-Pound Class.
Saturday. .3 p m.—Georgetown B C vs
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PIRATES PRESS TRAINING.
SAN BERNARDINO. Calif.—The
Pittsburgh Pirates started a week of
stiff drills today to get ready for Sun
day's first game between the regulars
and the rookies.
FEDERAL W. P. A. LOSES
District W. P. A. Boils As Another
Error Damages Prestige.
Federal W P, A. and District W
P. A. basket ball teams are having
trouble for the umpteenth time this
year. Yesterday the Federal unit was
trimmed. 32-26, by the Dorsey Market
ers of Hagerstown, Md.. and the game
was publicized by the Marketers as a
triumph over District W. P. A.
District W. P. A. players, who meet
George Washington Frosh in a semi
final fray in the District A, A. U.
tourney tonight at Heurich gym, are
Keyser, Noonan, Dean, Hollidge, Leib,
Lucas. Scheible. Tipton and Mayfield,
while Federal players are Fones, Bad
ger, Evans, Routt, Pfau, Bieser and
Gleason.
YANKS CORRECT PLAY
Flaws Seen in Games Won From
Bees—Di Maggio Due Today.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla —The Yan
kees returned to training camp prac
tice today to iron out the faults un
covered in their pair of slugging vic
tories over the Boston Bees.
The regular outfield will be com
pleted today with the expected arrival
of Joe Di Maggio.
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Three Expected to Make Club's
Regular Line-Up.
CLEARWATER, Fla.—Goasip around
the Brooklyn training camp has it
that three rookies will be in the reg
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Gil Brack and Jack Winsett in the
outfield and Tony Malinosky at short
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