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“XI-14-~~~ZZZZZZZZZIIZ!I^—WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1937.
Linke Fit for Pinch-Batter Role : 30 Rooks May Stick in Majors
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by Eddie in Eighth
Beats Cards—Averages
.800 This Spring.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.
8iaH Correspondent of The Star.
RLANDO, Fla., April 6—It
may develop, after all these
years, that Pitcher Eddie
Linke will assume a new im
portance to the Nationals . . . and
not necessarily because of any marked
Improvement in his hurling.
Not often since the days that Bucky
Harris used to send Dutch Reuther
and Walter Johnson parading to the
plate has the Washington ball club
used a pitcher as a pinch-hitter. That,
however, is the thought currently in
mind down here as the GrifTs pre
pare to break camp.
Ever since Linke first came up with
the Nats, he's been a good hitting
pitcher. But they never used him as
a pinch-hitter. Of course, there was
Dave Harris, at one time, and Clif
Bolton. The idea of using Linke never
struck home, even as recent as last
year, when Linke was credited with
one of the two longest home runs ever
hit in Comiskey Park in Chicago.
There he actually drove, on a line,
over the center-field bleachers. Only
Ruth had preceded him at this feat.
Now, in the wake of a series of
•Grapefruit League" batting exhibi
tions by' young Mr. Linke, the idea of
double-dutying him is beginning to
grow.
Pulls ‘'Reynolds" on Cards.
TT WAS Linke who personally ac
counted for the snapping of Wash
ington's four-game losing streak here
yesterday. Tied at 3-3 with the Car
dinals, our side went into the ninth
Inning and Walter Millies singled.
The logical play was a sacrifice,
•specially with the pitcher up. Linke
got a bunt sign. He let a ball go.
Bucky Harris, suddenly struck by a
happy thought, canceled the bunt
■ign and ordered Ed to swing at the
next good pitch. He did. met it fairly,
end the ball screamed to left-center,
burying in the bushes and breaking
up the game. The score was 4-3,
Linke Having to stop at third, inas
much as his drive was a ground
rule triple.
The play was strikingly similar to
that which Harris used to win the
opening game of the 193fi season.
Carl Reynolds was the man he then
ordered to hit, after first giving a
*a orifice sign with a man on base and
nobody out. Reynolds doubled to win
I 1-0 victory for Buck Newsom. •
Can’t Do Much More.
rT"'HAT triple yesterday hasn't been
^ the sum of Linke's accomplish
ment* with the stick. The boy who
led the Washingtons in betting last
year walked up to the plate in the
ninth inning of a game with Chatta
nooga last Thursday. The score was
4-3 in favor of ’Nooga but he prompt
ly tied it up with a terrific home run
cut of the park and forced the Look
outs to go into extra innings to win.
Prior to that he helped the Griffs
stage a four-run rally late in a game
against Baltimore and win, 6-4. On
his first trip to the plate the Griffs
were trailing, 4-2. He singled to start
a rally that netted a run and made it
4-3 On his second time at bat Ed
aingled again, driving across the tying
run and placing the winning one in
scoring position. He later scored
himself.
In short. Linke has appeared in four
games this Spring and walked to bat
six times. Once he hit a home run,
once a triple, twice he singled, once
he walked and only one time was he
retired. He scored twice himself and
drove across three runs. This is hard
to beat.
So Cards Lose 4-3.
T^DDIE takes his talent at bat in
■ stride, looking upon it as natural.
"I always could hit," he says. "Wish
g had the same luck pitching."
With A1 Simmons now playing left
fleld, it is likely that Fred Sington.
Jesse Hill and Johnny Mihalic will
do most of the Washington pinch
hitting unless, of course. Skipper
Harris decides to give Linke a real
Bing. Nobody who has watched Sing
ton and Hill at bat this year is will
ing to bet they are better hitters
than Linke. As for Mihalic, he has
been a batting leader so far, but
there is no doubt but that he's been
hitting over his head.
Linke's pitching has been not as
consistent as his hitting. Buck New
10m, often in hot water, but always
getting out, turned over a 3-to-l
lead to Linke in the seventh inning
yesterday, but Ed couldn't hold it.
In the eighth the Cards jumped him
lor three hits. These, plus an error
by Hill, produced two runs and tied
It up at 3-3.
It looked dark in the Card ninth
When Jimmy Brown doubled with one
down, but Linke pulled out of it
»nd then, with Harris' permission,
"bunted” his triple to break up the
game.
V
The Brakes
CARDINALS. NATIONAL*.
AB. H. O. A AB. H. O. A.
Bd's'y.lf. 3 2 1 1 C'man.cf. 3 0 2 0
S. M'tn.2b. 4 12 2 Hill.cf 9,88
Frisch.3b 2 10 0 Lewis,3b 4 12 3
G'r'ge 3b. 2 13 0 Klihel.lb. 4 0 0 1
P’gett rf. 4 14 0 Sim'ns.lf. 4 2 3 1
Mize.1b 4 10 0 Wright.If. 0 0 C 0
T. M re.cf. 4 0 1 0 8 gton.rf. 3 12 0
Brown.sa. 4 121 TYavis_ss. 4 2ft-.
Owen c 4 2 2 0 M alic.2b. 4 111
Well'd.P 1 0 0 0 Hogan,c. 3 1 2 9
•Og'owskl 1 0 0 0 Millies.c 1111
Ryba p .10 0 1 Ne'som.p. 2 110
i tSeibert 1 0 0 0 tMyer -19 8 8
Ch bers.p. 0 0 0 0 Linke.p 1 1
Totals 3ft" 10124 ft Totals 34 11 27 0
•Batted for Weiland in fifth.
+ Batted for Chambers in ninth.
SBatted for Newsom in sixth.
UNone out when winning run scored.
Cardinals __ 1 00 0 0002 0—3
Nationals - 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 1—4
Runs — Bordagaray <21. Gutteridge.
Lewis, Travis Mihalic. Millies. Errors—
Ryba. Hill. Runs batted in—Padgett (2).
Newsom. Kuhel. Gutteridge. Linke. Mihalic.
Twc-base hits—Owen. Brown. Three-base
hits—Travis. Linke. Stolen bases—Borda
garay. Simmons. Sacrifice—Sington. Left
on bases—Cardinals. 0; Nationals, 7. Bases
on balls—Off Newsom. i; off Weiland. 1.
Struck out—By Newsom. 2: Weiland. 1.
Hits—Off Newsom H in H innings: off
Linke. 4 in 3 innings: off Weiland. 6 In
4 innings: off Ryba. 3 in 4 innings; off
Chambers. 2 in no innings. Winning
pitcher—Linke. Losing pitcher—Cham
bers. Umpires—Messrs. Basil and Sears.
Time—1:45. ,
BODIES BY MARTIN.
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To GRIFFS ATHLETES
FOR 34 YEARS.
Sports Program
For Local Fans
TODAY.
Base Ball.
Washington vs. Detroit, Orlando,
Fla.
George Washington vs. Harvard,
East Ellipse, 2:30.
Georgetown vs. Western Mary
land, Hilltop field, 3.
Lee-Jackson High vs. Washing
ton-Lee High, Ballston, Va., 3:30.
Horae Racing.
Bowie, Md., 2:30.
TOMORROW.
Base Ball.
Washington vs. Detroit, Lake
land, Fla.
Tennis.
Georgetown vs. Navy, Annapolis,
Md.
Horse Racing.
Bowie, Md., 2:30.
THURSDAY.
Base Ball.
Washington vs. Chattanooga, Or
lando, Fla.
Cornell vs. Maryland, College
Park, Md., 4.
Catholic University vs. Quantico
Marines, Quantico, Va.
George Washington vs. Boston
University, East Ellipse, 2:30.
Bethesda-Chevy Chase vs. Wash
ington-Lee High, Ballston, Va,
3:30.
Wrestling.
Ed Meske vs. Jack Hader. fea
ture match, Turner’s Arena. 8 30.
Lacrosse.
Harvard vs. Maryland. Byrd Sta
dium, College Park, Md., 4.
Golf.
Georgetown vs. Cornell, Colum
bia Country Club. 3
Horse Racing.
Bowie, Md., 2:30.
FRIDAY.
Base Ball.
Georgetown vs. Harvard, Hilltop
field, 3
Maryland vs. Cornell, College
Park. Md., 4.
... ....... ' I - --.— —
Martin Works Wonders as Trainer for Griffs
Bigger Weaver, With Fast Ball; Smaller Hogan, Able to Throw, Are Vet’s Masterpieces.
! BY FRANCIS E. STAN.
8taflt Correspondent of The Star,
I ✓-'X RLANDO, Fla., April
| | 1 They've been aaying for the
j 1 J last few years, or ever since
v^ a new generation of ball club
| trainers introduced a line of contrap
| ttons with nine-syllable names to
I make over their athletes, that Mike
j Martin is obsolete,
Mike Martin, you know, is trainer
j for the Washington ball club. He's
held the job ever since Clark Griffith
swooped down from Cincinnati in 1912
to take over the Nationals’ diamond
destinies. As a matter of fact, Mike
has been Griff's trainer for 34 years
now and obsolete, is he? Guess again.
More firmly entrenched than ever is
the jolly round man with the lobster
red face. Remember how he stayed
up two full nights before the 1924
world series trying to patch up Roger
Peckinpaugh's spavined legs? Recall
how he worked wonders with Stanley
Coveleskie's lame back in the 1925
series and got him in shape to pitch
and win? And how, with Walter John
son on his last legs that year, he
“manufactured'' a pair of pins for
Barney to stand on?
Well, that was nothing.
Weaver Is Revelation.
jyjIGUEL'S two masterpieces of body
work have yet to be unveiled in
Washington. After 33 years Martin,
if anything, has just reached his peak.
Consider, if you please, the cases of
Monte Weaver and Shanty Hogan.
Opposites, if ever there were any, are
these two. Weaver needs weight.
Hogan needs reducing. For years
their prayers for new figures were un
answered.
Today Monte is no physical culture
model. Seemingly he is almost as
thin and anemic as ever, hut he
isn’t. Mon*'? Weaver has his fast ball
back! He is only five pounds under
his weight of 1932 when he set the
American League on fire as the rookie
pitching sensation of the year!
Today Hogan is no sylph. A stom
ach still protrudes. But Shanty, for
the first time in years, can throw' over
hand again! And he is lighter than
he has been any time since his heyday
with John McGraw’s Giants!
Weighed 138 Last Year.
'T'HE wonders Martin has wrought in
this, his thirty-fourth year South
with a ball club, have been little short
of amounting to miracles. Unbeknown
to President Griffith or Manager Bucky
Harris this Spring he conducted a
study of tonics, both liquid and tablet
form. He eliminated remedy after
remedy. Finally he arrived at a for
mula designed for Weaver.
In 1932 Weaver weighed approxi- ]
mately 165 pounds. He fell ill in 1933
and for the next three years was use
less to the Nationals. He even bounced
to the minors but was reprieved be
cause of an acute shortage of pitching
on the Washington club. He contrived j
to last the 1936 season but he weighed
only 138 pounds and was a decided
risk.
All last Winter Monte conducted a
campaign to build up weight. When
camp opened for him on March 7 he
stepped on the scales and weighed
only 147. Martin approached with
his formula. Monte had nothing to
lose. For four years he had spent his
own money in great chunks to rid
himself of his anemia.
Today Weaver weighs 161. stripped.
Fourteen pounds in four weeks.
Wants to Try Stone Wall.
T1JIS fast ball began to sizzle. His
curve broke sharper. He worked
a great shift against the Red Sox.
Against the Cardinals he was greater.
Griff rubbed his eyes in amazement.
Harris recovered from a pleasant
shock and announced that Monte will
be a starting pitcher. If it weren't for
adverse criticism in case the Nats
were beaten Monte Weaver and
Shanty Hogan would form the Wash- ;
lngton battery on opening day, April
19.
And Monte, aside from the time he
Is pitching, is a different man. There
is no hang-dog air about him any
longer. "I feel like I can throw my
fast ball through a stone wall,” he
says. And religiously he takes Martin's
formula.
Bodies by Martin.
T-JOGAN'S progress in the other di
1 A rection has been too well followed
to bear repetition. Ever since Shanty
came to camp the writing boys have
been issuing hourly bulletins on
Hogan’s weight. Goading, encouraging,
prodding, back-slapping, Martin has
driven the gkant. The 286-pound
Hogan of last August has lost approxi
mately 50 pounds, or more than any
player known to major league ball.
Whether he’ll stay down is another
matter, but Martin can take credit
for having done more with Shanty
than any one else was able to do.
Those new-fangled, nine-syllable
contraptions with multiple buttons
may be all right. So, too, may be a
diploma from a physical education
college. Martin has neither, but you
can’t argue with success. "Bodies by
Martin” is no idle paraphrase.
"POPP/NG
opp“'
Depreciation or End of Inflation?
Special Dispatch to The Star.
RLANDO, Fla.. April 6—The sale of A1 Simmons by the Tigers the
other day seemingly emphasized one of the most marked examples
of depreciation in base ball history. Scarcely more than a year ago,
the Tigers purchased him from Chicago for $75 000. or so it was
reported Yet he was sold for between $10,000 and $15,000 this week.
If he depreciated in value during 1936 it is difficult to find in what
manner, by looking at the averages. Simmons batted .327 last year and
drove across 112 runs, which was a far better record than his of 1935,
when he was adjudged a $75,000 ball player. Rather than depreciation,
the comparatively paltry sum which Clark Griffith paid might well be
heralding the end of base ball's inflation prices, which Griffith himself
helped to start back in the Fall of 1934.
It was then, you know, that GrifT accepted Tom Yawkev's check for
$250,000. and Lyn Lary. in exchange for Joe Cronin. Base ball was rocked
by the deal. Club owners snickered at.;.
tne young Boston owner ana eyed
Griffith with envy. The value on all
players, whether star or stumblebum,
skyrocketed to fanciful figures.
Taking the cue. Connie Mack sold
player after player to Yawkey. Grove,
Foxx, Cramer, McNair and many
others ... a veritable ball club in
themselves. In return Yawkey poured
a golden stream into Philadelphia,
w’ho6e ball club was hard pressed by
the banks.
Ruppert Wanted to Buy Myer.
'T'HERE was little let-up in 1935.
Buying was the ultra-expensive
way of getting a major league ball
player. Buddy Myer won the batting
championship of the American League
that season and during the Winter
Col. Jacob Ruppert offered a fantastic
cash price for him. Griffith was ask
ing for *400.000 and nobody was sure
whether he was kidding or not.
During the 1935 season, Boston
tried to get Jack Knott, a so-so pitch
er. from St. Louis.
It seems that Rogers Hornsby
asked $60,000, or some equally
impossible price. Thus it went
all down the line.
Last season it was the same. When
Dizzy Dean had a run-in with the
Cardinals, somebody asked his price.
Unblushigly the Cards valued him at
$500,000 in cash or players. In what
appeared to be a very minor deal
last Summer—Joe Cascarella of Bos
ton to Washington for Jack Russel!—
$7,500 in cash went to the Nats in
addition to Cascarella.
Griff Could Have Made Sweep.
TT COULDN’T last. The surprising
thing is that the inflation lasted
as long as it did. As time went by, it
became obvious in many cases how
foolish were the prices.
Cronin, for instance, is not ad
judged to be a $10,000 ball player to
day. He cannot "make” his own club.
If he were playing for Wash
ington he wouldn't be able to
break Into the line-up. Yawkey
SO ARE ON ROLLS
Salveson, Mihalic, Sington,
Wright Due to Remain
With Nationals.
By the Associated Press.
Chicago, April 6 —A boom
year for American League
rookies seems in prospect.
With the opening of the
season two weeks away, 50 or more
new men may be carried on the eight
rasters up to May 15, with a chance
that at least 30 will remain after the
date on which each major league club
is limited to 23 players.
The Detroit Tigers, the general
choice to make the New York Yanks
hustle for the pennant, may bob up
with a floek of new’ faces. George
Tebbetts has appealed to Manager
| Mickey Cochrane as a catcher, and
| Rudy York, the slugger up from Mil
| waukee. may get the third base as
signment over the fast fielding but
J weak hitting Marvin Owen. Chet
Laabs may win his fight for an out
field job and Pitchers Bob Logan and
I Dizzy Trout may stick.
Doerr Is Bosox Prize.
'T'HE Boston Red Sox survivors prob
ably will be Catcher Gene De
sautels, not exactly a rookie but a
newcomer to the Gold Platers, Pitcher
Archie McCain and Second Baseman
Bobby Doerr, who looms as a coming
star.
Among the Chicago White Sox
novices may be Henry Steinbacher,
Steve Mesner and Pitcher John Rig
ney, who has been hurling brilliantly.
Bob Feller, the sensational kid hurl
er on whom Cleveland Indian fans
count so much, heads the list of new
comers. Geoffrey Heath, a new out
! fielder, is expected to stick.
Connie Mack may present several
! new men on his Philadelphia Athletics
among them Earle Brucker. catcher,
and possibly George Caster and Luther
I Thomas, pitchers.
Browns Obtain Trio.
! piTCHER LOUIS KOUPAL. late of
] Los Angeles, and Second Base
, man Gerard Lipscomb may stick with
I the St. Louis Browns, while Harry
j Davis, formerly of Detroit, is expected
' to be another newcomer to Brownie
ranks.
Washington will not place many
new men in the field. Outfielders
Freddie Sington and Taft Wright and
Infielder Johnny Mihalic probably will
survive, as will Pitcher Johnny Salve
son.
There isn't any rookie problem with
: the New York champions. Most of
the youngsters given a trip to the
Yankee camp didn't even bother to
unpack their bags.
^ undoubtedly took what will
stand as the greatest beating
of all time.
Had Ruppert bought Myer in the
Winter of 1935. his financial licking
would have ranked next. Buddy wasn't
| worth a dime to the Nats in 1936.
| No fault was it of his own. of course,
j but this only emphasized the foolish
| ness of the $150,000 which Ruppert
! was reported ready to pay for him.
So far, few of the Athletic stars who
were sold to Boston have been worth
} their fantastic prices. Grove and
Foxx, perhaps, but not McNair,
Cramer, Marcum and the rest.
As for that •'little" deal of
last Summer — Cascarella for
Russell—no other better illus
trated the eookeyedness of the
inflation's trend.
Russell was released this Winter by
Boston to cast about for a job. He
finally got with the Tigers. For $2,000
of the sum he received from Boston,
Griffith could have bonused and signed
Jack as a free agent and thus wound
up with Cascarella. Russell and $5,000.
HOYA FETE APRIL 28
Athletes Will Be Honored at Var
sity G. Dinner.
Georgetown's annual Varsity G
dinner, which more than 1,000 Blue
and Gray supporters attended last
year, will be held on April 28 at the
Willard Hotel, it was announced today.
As has been the case in all previous
instances, the event will be in honor
of Blue and Gray athletes who have
won their letters during the current
school year. The awards wall be pre
sented at that time.
HUBBELL GIVES NEWS
Shawnee Sports Writer Uses Carl
as Correspondent.
SHAWNEE, Okla. (JP).—Jack Spen
cer, Shawnee sports scribe, gets inside
dope on the Giants’ Spring training
without leaving home.
Jack helps Carl Hubbell run his
basket ball team during the Winter.
The pitcher, in turn, keeps Jack
posted on things down in the Grape
fruit League.
Exhibition Games
By the Associated Press.
Washington (A). 4: St. Louis (N.V 3.
Pittsburgh (N.>. 7: San Bernardino. 3.
Philadelphia (N.V (V Cincinnati (N.V 8.
Detroit (A.V 3; Boston (N.V (V
Cleveland (A), 8; New York (N.V 5.
Chicago (A). 13: Chicago (N.V P.
Kansas City (A. A.). S: St. Louis (A.V 8.
Philadelphia (A.). 11; Texas Univer
sity 3.
New York (A.V 13; Galveston (T.V 2.
Toronto (I.V fl: Louisville (A. A.'. 4.
Baltimore (I). 9; Columbus (A. A.V 8.
St. Paul (A. A.). 9: Philadelphia (A),
team B. 5.
schedule today.
Washington (A.) vs. Detroit (A).
Boston (N.) vs. St. Louis (N.V
Brooklyn (N.) vs. Boston (A.).
Pittsburgh (N.) vs. Prescott.
Chicago (A.) vs. Chicago (N.V
St. Louis (A.) vs. Kansas City (A. A.V
Philadelphia (A.) vs. Longview (E. T. L.V
New York (N.) vs. Cleveland (A.).
New York (A.l vs. Dallas (T.V
Cincinnati (N.) vs. Rochester (I.).
SOFT BALL LOOP FILLED.
Eight teams will comprise the Com
munity Center’s Soft Ball League this
year, with Ehrlich Poultry Co., local
champion last year, among those en
tered. The other seven are Investiga
tion, Pearson & Crain, Diamond Cab,
Federal W. P. A., Bureau of Stand
ards, Sogimas and A. A. A. Managers
of the teams will meet at Tech High
School on Saturday night.
REDSKINS SIGN A PAIR
Get Peterson, Hall, Who Played
for West Virginia Wesleyan.
Nelson Peterson, halfback, and
Boggs Hall, guard—both members of
last year's West Virginia Wesleyan
eleven that upset Catholic University,
26-19—today signed contracts to play
with the Washington Redskins for the
1937 season.
The recruits were recommended by
another former Wesleyan star, Cliff
Battles, who for the last five years
has been a Redskin backfleld star.
Peterson, who resembles Battles in
build—190 pounds and 6 foot 2—
proved himself an exceptionally shifty
ball carrier in his team’s surprise win
ovei* C. U. Hall, of short-compact
stature, was effective as a running
guard on offense.
Coach Ray Flaherty, now on the
Coast signing other ex-college stars
and several Redskin veterans, will call
his players together on August 25 for
preseason workouts. As yet the Red
skin training camp hasn’t been se
lected, but eventually It’ll be located
near the Capital if the management’s
plans go through. j
Yale to Fix Bowl Turf to Suit Backfield Phenom
Sees Another Cagle in Wilson, Who Needs Peculiar Footing in Order to Travel.
BY EDDIE BRIETZ,
Associated Press Sports Editor.
NEW YORK. April 6—Yale Is
counting on a back named
A1 Wilson from Sharpies,
W. Va., as a running mate
for All-JBierica Clint Frank this
Fall . . . Coach Ducky Pond says
Wilson is going to be another Red
Cagle . . . Only reason you didn’t
hear more of him last season was
because the turf in the Yale Bowl
wasn't suited to his peculiar close
to-the-ground style of running . . .
This will be attended to pronto.
Under the pretext that the bowl
needs a general going over, the Elis
will plough it up this Summer and
lay down a brand of sod that will
be right down Wilson's alley . . .
Then they expect to sit back, turn
the kid loose and watch him gallop
with that pigskin . . . This an
nouncement isn’t authorized by
New Haven, but it’s the real McCoy.
Most promising pitcher on the
Alabama base ball team this year is
Hugh Bedient, Jr., son of the old
Red Sox pitcher . . . Mike Jacobs
says Braddock and Louis will be a
sell-out three weeks ahead of the
fight . . . Pedro Montanez will use
some of the dough he got last night
to open a bar in Harlem.
Yankees almost ran into a small
riot in Tallahassee the other day
when several dozen school kids al
most broke down the left-fleld
l fence getting In to see Gehrig and
Di Maggio . . . Danno O’Mahony,
the wrassler, starts another tour of
the provinces this week.
Latest Kentucky Derby odds
make Brooklyn, the E. R. Bradley
colt, the favorite at 6 to 1 . . .
(This comer still likes Brooklyn’s
stablemate, Billionaire) . , . Colt
getting the biggest play Is Scene
shifter, trained by Earl Sande . . •
Odds on him have been cut from
60 to 1 to 20 to 1.
Don Paurot has ’em four deep at
Missouri, and word from the “Show
Me” State Is that the Tigers are
getting ready to do lust that . . .
Carmen Cook, the Bridegport light
weight, is retiring after 13 yean of
ring warfare . . . He'll become a
fight manager.
Ching Johnson, veteran Ranger
star, may manage or coach the
New York Americans next season
If the Americans are still in the
National Hockey League . . . Those
who know say Gus Mancuso never
has been given enough credit for
the skillful way he handles the
Giant pitchers.
Rollle Schefter, vice president of
the Portland Beavers, once played
with an Italian team under the
name of Schefrano ... On the
same club, Jack Wilson, Red Sox
pitcher, was known as Wllsona and
Eddie Murphy, the first sacker, was
billed as Signor Murtettl.
IIP
BIG-TIME TENNIS
Turns to Links as He and
Van Ryn Enter Business
in Austin, Tex.
By til* Associated Press.
Houston, Tex., April 6—wu
mer Allison, Davis Cup player
so many times he has to use
his pencil before giving the
exact number, said today he had def
initely retired from big-time tennis.
‘‘I’m too old (he’s 32) and I’ve taken
up golf,” said the former national
champion in singles and doubles.
‘‘Besides, I thought it was about time
for me to give the United States team
a chance to regain the Davis Cup.
"I'll still play a little tennis along
with my golf, which is getting pretty
good, but I’m through with tourna
ments—all except the River Oaks
event. I’ll play in it the rest of my life
if they’ll let me.”
Grant Clay Court King.
A LSO retiring and going into the
brokerage business with Allison
at Austin is his old Davis Cup doubles
partner, John Van Ryn, formerly of
East Orange, N. J., and Philadelphia.
Commenting on the Davis Cup situ
ation, Alison said he wanted to see
“Bitsy” Grant put on the team, “pro
vided the matches were played on clay
courts.” He acclaimed “Bitsy” with
out doubt the best player in the Na
tion on clay courts, and said Frank
Parker and Don Budge are also
"mighty good bets.”
“If you want to see my final match
In this year’s tournament you’d better
come out today,” Allison said. Next
Sunday, when they are playing the
finals, I’ll be shooting golf.”
Five years ago—Ellsworth Vines,
Frank Shields, John Van Ryn and
Wtimer Allison named to JQnlted
States team to oppose Canada.
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