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GEVINSON ISfiATED
• New Boxing Pro Likely to
Lure More Fans Than
Featured Fighters.
BY BURTON HAWKINS.
GAUGED strictly by his profes
sional performances to date,
Lou Gevinson perhaps does
not warrant a spot on the
police benefit boxing card Wednes
day night, yet, fantastic as it may
6ound, the sharp-faced Jewish lad
who has fought only four pro scraps
doubtless will lure more ringworms
to Griffith Stadium than any of the
nine other featured fighters.
Having served a stretch of five
years in amateur ranks, Gevinson
somewhere along the route to pro
fessionalism picked up that highly
valuable sports commodity known as
^color. Not the burlesque type of
color manufactured by Max Baer or
Dizzy Dean, but a blend of native
ability, sportsmanship, modesty and
sense of decency chiefly is the reason
for Lou's crowd appeal.
Lou's cardinal virtue, it seems, is
the fact that he never has made an
unsportsmanlike gesture in the ring.
The fans, many of whom have seen
him develop since his first fights as
an amateur, apparently like it, plus,
of course, the expectant thrill of a
knockout which Gevinson's fists pro
duce so often.
f Lou’s Record Unimpressive.
'J'HE colony of Gevinson supporters
are convinced he eventually -will
make the grade in 126-pound ranks.
Ignoring his rather feeble pro record
thus far and concentrating on his
punching prowess, which, they argue.
Is bound to find the range with more
effectiveness with a bit more experi
ence among the paid clan.
The 22-year-old Gevinson chilled
A1 Schaefer and Bcny Wittier in his
first two professional engagements,
but Stepinfechit would have been a
6-5 favorite to do the same thing.
Lou then gave the ringworm Joe
Temes a severe shellacking in his
first actual test. This small portion
of prestige served as a shot of strych
nine to his boosters. Lou apparently
was on his way.
So doubtful was the caliber of his
next opponent, Johnny Pena, that the
District Boxing Commission received
22 letters urging the bout be banned
because of Johnny's alleged punch
rirunkenness and general fistic inef
ficiency. At least 22 persons made a
mistake, however, for the accused Mr.
Pena immediately vindicated himself
by capturing a 10-round decision from
our Lou.
Lou's reputation didn't suffer. His
army of followers, who doubted his
ability to take it, now were convinced
he could absorb punishment as well
as inflict it. On the other side of the
ledger, however, is the fact that Pena
detected a flaw in Leu’s fighting form
and employed it as a method of trim
ming Gevinson.
Lou’s Infighting Spotty.
■ JN OTHER words, Gevinson effec
r tively illustrated his lack of knowl
erig on infighting. Will he try to
patch that hole in his fistic armor or
will he try to carry on without per
fecting that phase of his ring equip
ment? Some great fighters have been
able to, but is Lou that good?
Gevinson will give the answers
rgainst Pena in a return match, one
of five 10-round bouts on the police
benefit card. He may have been
trained for infighting in these last few
weeks, but many fighters revert to
their natural style when the battling
■becomes torrid.
In the final analysis it probably still
will be Lou’s deadly punching against
Johnny’s infighting, and the outcome
may give some definite clue as to just
where, if any place, Gevinson is head
ed in the slippery game of sock and
be socked.
Otlier 10-round bouts will witness
^Cowboy Howard Scott facing Norment
Quarles, Ossie Stewart meeting Tom
Chester, Bob Tow colliding with Sandy
McDonald and Ray Ingram trading
blows with Joey Archibald. An open
ing four-rounder will find George
Abrams mixing with Sam Bracala.
Major Leaders
By the Associated Press.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
^Batting—Lary. Indians. .338; Walker.
* Runs—Greenberg. Tigers. 38: Walker.
Tigers. 32.
Runs batted in—Greenberg. Tigers 47
Bonura. White Sox. -13.
Hits—Walker. Tigers. SS; Lary. In
dians 53.
Doubles. Vosirik, Browns. 18; Bell
Browns. 17.
Triples—Kuhrl. Senators. 7: Greenberg
Tigers, and Stone. Senators 5 each
Home runs—Selkirk Yankees. and
Greenberg. Tigers. 10 each
Stolen bases—Appling. White Sox. 8:
Chapman. Senators: Walker. Tigers, and
FyHak. Indians. 8 each.
Pitching—Pearson. Yankees, and Hud
Un. Indians. 4-0 each.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Batting—Medwick. Cardinals. .425: P
wsnrr. Pirates, .382.
Runs—Medwick, Cardinals. 32: Oalan
Cubs. 31.
Runs Batted in—Medwick. Cardinals
8*: Demarre. Cubs. 38.
Hits—Medwick. Cardinals. 54; Bartell
Giants. 51.
Doubles—Medwick. Cardinals. 14; Has
•etl. Dodgers. 13.
, Triples—Vaughan and Handley. Pirates
7 each.
Home runs—Bartell. Giants. 10; Med
Wick Cardinals. !>.
Stolen bases—J. Marlin. Cardinals s
iOalan. Cubs, and Brack and Lavagetto
Dodgers. 8 each.
■ Pitching—Hubbell. Giants, 8-0; Fette
Bees: Warneke Cardinals, and Blantor
and Bowman. Pirates. 5-1 each.
u ri «\ HEY haven't found a worthy .
| successor of Connie Doyle
f yet.”
* Yes, it was an old-timer
speaking, but from the tone in which
the silver-haired gent spoke, you
could sense he wished they could And
one who might be called a second
Connie.
"Trouble with these kids,” contin
ued the o.-t„ "is that they play too
much with their bodies and not
enough with their heads. They have
all the strokes, a more varied assort
ment than old Connie ever had, but
they don't know how to use ’em.
“Gosh, you could almost follow
Connie's line of reasoning from one
stroke to the next. Each one had a
definite meaning, leading into some
thing—a point to be won by a cer
tain line of attack. No stroke was
wasted. None was meaningless. Now
adays, you see a player stroking to
perfection, but with no planned ob
jective. They're playing each stroke
per se, without stopping to think two
steps ahead,
Connie Thought Ahead.
RONNIE not only used to plan his
battle days, and sometimes just
the night before, but also while warm
ing up with his opponent.
"I wonder if warm-up rallies
mean the same thing to the
player today that they did to
him 20 years ago? Often he told
me that he would discover an
opponent’s weakness inside of
five minutes, just through the
apparently perfunctory warm
up.
’’He’d hit a ball to a certain spot,
and if the opponent missed, he'd hit
it there again, just to see whether
that was a weakness or a momentary
lapse. There wasn't much that Con
nie didn't take advantage of to
further his game. If today's players
utilized all their advantages, we
could expect another Connie Doyle
tomorrow. But I haven’t seen one
yet.’’
A Doyle Still Active.
GPEAKING of Connie moves us to
say that if there were any two
busier men on Washington's courts
Saturday than Doyle’s brother Lou
and little Felix Silva, this observer
can’t Imagine where they could have
been.
Both of these gentlemen had the
important and unenviable job of set
ting The Star’s City of Washington
tournament for men in motion and If
you ever have the job of registering,
collecting entrance fees, handing out
receipts, Introducing opponents, giving
balls and assigning courts for a tennis
tournament, don’t do it without either
or both of these men!
It’s a little amazing how
much detail there is to getting
a large tournament under way,
yet the facility with which it is
accomplished by men who know
how is just as surprising.
That not one squawk came from
any of the 80 entrants is a tribute to
Louis I. Doyle and Felix Silva.
Women Closely Matched.
one of the best commentaries of
the almost evenly-matched group
of leading woman tennis players in
the city came from a recent answer to
some bystander’s question, "Who is the
best woman tennis player in the city?”
"On which day?” was the question
ing answer. Yet it's the truth. Were
the first ranking four women to play
daily matches with each other for a
two-week period, we’d venture to say
that not one could v.aim a distinct
superiority.
Another sweet tennis player is com
ing to town. He is Jimmy Farrin,
Annapolis '27, and former doubles
partner of Bill Howard, another Naval
Academy graduate, now stationed here
in his home town.
Howard, who left Central High
School in 1923, is one of the seeded
singles players in the current tour
nament. He is paired with Dooly
Mitchell in the doubles. Next year,
though, he plans to team with his old
side-kick, and the Farrin-Howard pair
i may be one of the hottest things with
| two rackets in this town.
BY PAUL J. MILLER, JR.
OSSIBLE entrants in the Dis- !
trict of Columbia woman's
chess championship tourna- |
ment—the first of its type in
j local chess annals—according to Maud
: Sewall, chairman of the event, in
due Mesdames H, E. Kittredge, E. R.
Shepard. Marie Wilde, Anna Bran,
E. V. Jeffers, M. Fitzgerald, Elsa
Schwartzkopf and Misses Mary E.
\ Brown, D. Fisher and Mrs. Ripley.
It is planned to open the
women's tournament Wednes
day night at the Social Chess
Lounge, 1336 I street northwest.
The Metropolitan Chess Associa
tion is lending its official indorsement
and possibly will initiate a cup award
for annual competition.
All equipment will be furnished by
the Washington Social Chess Divan
j and the contestants may play on j
Wednesday at 8 p.m. and on such
other evenings as may be convenient.
President Mahmood Taher of the
Omar Khayyam Chess Club of George
Washington University announces that
Dr. Cloyd Marvin, university president,
will award personally the G. W. U.
chess championship trophy Wednes
day afternoon at 5:30 in the chess
room of the Columbian House.
The O. K. Chess Club numbers
about 60-odd players and from the
group emerged George Lewis Derr,
college sophomore and Government
employe, to score premier honors in
the first match tourney officially spon
sored by the university in a decade.
Quarterly membership bids have
been extended by the Washington
Social Chess Divan to a selected num
Stan
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gerous hitter than any oi his run
ning mates.
In the wake of the lone victory
salvaged in the three-game series in
Boston, Appleton also was felicitated
today for some of the most phenom
enal hitting by any pitcher so far
this year. Pete’s own bat, in short,
was the difference between a hard
struggle and perhaps defeat, and the
easy romp that developed.
Pete Gets Four Hits.
/COLLECTING three singles and a
^ triple, Pete drove across six runs
and scored one himself for a truly
amazing day. In the second inning
he singled with the bases loaded to
give his side a 2-to-0 lead. After the
Sox tied the score in their half of
the same frame, Pete tripled in the
| third round with the bases loaded
again and then scored on a hit by
Ben Chapman.
This made it 6 to 2 and thereafter
it was just a breeze for Pete. With
the aid of an error and Joe Kuhel’s
triple in the sixth the Griffs boosted
the count to 9-2 and finally wound
up their scoring when doubles by
A1 Simmons and Cecil Travis and a
single by Appleton produced two more
runs in the eighth.
After their two-run rally in the
second the Red Sox had to hit home
runs to score against Appleton. Jimmy
Poxx clouted one in the sixth and
Buster Mills put one over the fence
in the seventh.
In all. the Nats made 14 hits off
Fritz Ostermueller and Ted Olson,
while Pete held the Sox to seven and
walked only three batsmen.
ber of outstanding chess loyalists In
the District, Maryland and Virginia.
Current officers of the only exclu
sive chess unit in the Nation's Cap
ital forecast a Summer of live chess
activities—lectures for beginners, si
multaneous exhibitions by local ex
perts, a divan tournament and much
over-the-board skittles.
Tech Outpoints Western.
TNTERHIGH amateurs are batting
over the .300 mark as to frequency
of school matches lately. Practically
all games scheduled by five of the six
schools competing for the I. S. Tur
over Trophy are completed. Recently
Tech mowed down Western. 3-2. But
Western's losses were chiefly forfeits.
Individual tallies:
Tech vs. Western.
Pierce _<> Lvbrand_1
Breeskin _ 1 Stovall _ o
R. Bierly_0 Parr _1
Romm _1 Doe _O
P. Bierly_3 Doe _n
For a casual game of chess
visit the Social Chess Lounge,
Parkside Hotel, and enjoy usa
of the best game facilities In the
city.
THREE-EYE.
Peoria. 7: Clinton, fi
Elmirs. 4: Binghamton. 0.
Hasleton. P-7; Wilkes-Barre. 4-8.
Scranton, 2; Trenton. 0.
SALLY.
Columbia, f>; Columbus. 3.
Augusta. S: Savannah. 3.
Jacksonville .">-1: Macon, 4-1. (Sec
ond aame. darkness.)
COASTAL PLAINS.
Greenville. 11; Willlamston. 1.
Snow Hill. 31 ; Kinston, l.
Goldsboro. 9; New Bern. 1.
Tarboro, 4; Ayden. 4 (11 innings,
darkness).
KEEN FIELD SEEKS
MILEY GDLF TITLE
Mrs. Chandler Favored to
Win Trans-Mississippi
Medal Honors.
By the Associated Press.
AN ANTONIO. Tex., May 31.—
Feminine golfdom’s heavy ar
tillery starts firing tomorrow in
quest of a trans-Mississippi
title now worn by Kentucky's Marion
Miley.
On hand after a hurried trip from
Memphis, where she won the Mar
guerite Gaut Trophy tourney, Mias
Miley played the course for the first
time today in the four-ball matches.
Four former champions, four Curtis
Cup team members and a bevy of
State champions, had the “feel’’ of
the par 36-36—72 San Antonio
Country Club course after yesterday's
mixed foursome event.
rally Berg in Fettle.
NOTE of warning rame from
Miss Patty Berg of Minneapolis.
She pronounced her game in the
"best condition of my life,” after
touring the course in 77. She ad
mitted the score "wasn't so hot,” but
said "it was the way I was hitting
my shots that made me feel so good."
The qualifying round of 18 holes
will be played tomorrow and an
attractive Dallas matron, Mrs. Dan
Chandler, was a topheavy favorite
to annex medal honors. Medalist
in her last six tourneys, including
the recent Southern at Atlanta, Mrs.
Chandler hit her first golf shot on
the local course as a youngster.
Many Stars Included.
'THE field of almost 150 included
such stars as Helen Hoffman and
Betty Botterill of Salt Lake City, Mrs.
Lucille Robinson Mann of Milwaukee,
Mrs. Patti Newbold of Wichita, Kans.,
1932 champion; Miss Phyllis Bu
chanan of Denver, 1933 title holder;
Miss Bca Barrett of Minneapolis, run
ner-up last year; Mrs. Frank Gold
thwaite of Fort Worth, former South
ern champion and present Curtis Cup
team member; Miss Betty Jameson
of San Antonio, 1935 Southern title
holder and two years running the
Texas championship, and Miss Goldie
Bateson of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
champion.
COSTELLO DIAMOND
VICTORY IS ON PAN
Fort Steven* Protests Umpire's
Ruling—White Haven Ties
for City League Lead.
QNLY two important, games were
played on sandlot diamonds yes
terday, but both allowed winners to
gain substantial ground in their league
races.
Provided its opponent's protest is
disallowed, Costello Post will con
tinue at the head of the American
Legion Junior League, following its
11-4 victory over Fort Stevens Post
yesterday. An umpire's ruling out
of a base runner for not touching sec
ond on an apparent triple after the
next batter had been pitched to rep
resent Fort Stevens’ protest claim.
The decision came in the third inning,
when Fort Stevens had rallied to take
a 4-2 lead.
White Haxen A. C. gained a tie for
first place in the National City League
when it trimmed New Deal Men’s
Shop, 12-7. Jim Penvfield registered
his fourth straight mound victory in as
' many starts for White Haven. He
was obetted ably by Harry Best, who
smashed a home run and two singles.
-•
SEEK A. A. U. LAURELS
—
College Athletes Vie at Maryland
in District Track Meet.
A three-cornered fight for team
honors by Maryland, Georgetown and
Catholic Universities was expected to
provide the highlight of the annual
District A. A. U. championship track
meet at College Park this afternoon.
The events began at 3 o'clock.
Maryland's superiority in the field,
with Bill Guckeyson and Alex Males
providing the majority of the points,
seemed to give a slight edge to the
hosts. Although not expected to be
in the running for leadership, Gallau
det furnished in Joe Burnett and
Elmer Babbs a couple of boys who
might make individual bids for Dis
trict titles.
-•
ADDS TO BOAT LAUREL
Cooper Family Scores Again as
Jack Wins on Mississippi.
QUINCY, 111., May 31 (fP).—The
Cooper family of Kansas City, Mo.,
which has been winning speed boat
races consistently for several years,
held another hydroplane title today.
Jack Cooper captured the 225-inch
displacement inboard race in yester
day's final program of the sixth an
nual Memorial day regatta on the
Mississippi. Rough water which held
up the meet for several hours pre
vented drivers from making any near
record times. Cooper's average for
the 225-inch race was 40.725 miles per
hour.
* Yankees Willing to Gamble Heavily on Bob Feller
Average Golf Pro Is 41—Garden Has Full Set of Prelims Ready If Braddock Shows.
BY EDDIE BRIETZ,
Associated Press Snorts Writer.
NEW YORK, May 31.—Sore
arm or no, the Yankees are
ready to lay plenty on the
line for young Bob Feller
. . . Max Schmeling apparently
ha* given up on Jim Braddock,
for Max has signed to appear on
the Kate Smith program at 7 p.m.,
Eastern standard time, next Thurs
day night (just the hour he’d be
due at the Garden’s Bowl).
Looks as if we've got our pass
ports to the Davis Cup matches all
right . . . Good news: Mickey
Cochrane is doing fine . . . three
guesse6 as to which American
League managerial berth will be
Open next Winter.
Hit and quit: The dark-skinned
gal who cooks for this comer is a
. regular player of the Harlem num
teara game . . . Saturday aha ‘‘hit’’
for $42 and quit (her job) on the
spot . . . Leonard Bamum, Weet
Virginia Wesleyan fullback, ha»
signed to coach a high school team
at Charleston, where he can't worry
New York University any more.
Note to A1 Weil: Chicago wants
your Lou Ambers for the winner
of the Davey Day-Jimmy Oarrison
scrap this week . . . The Carden
has a full set of preliminaries
standing by just in case Jimmy
Braddock shows up Thursday
night,
Mr. Pitts plays first base for the
Winston-Salem club of the Pied
mont League . . . Mr. Pitts (Ala
bama to you) plays second . . . A1
Schacht knocked ’em dead in
Brooklyn yesterday . . . What did
King Levlnsky say on the radio
that has everybody laughing?
Reports (unconfirmed) sag Jamas
Morris, a member of Madison
Square Garden’s Executive Com
mittee, has ordered a block of 700
seats for Braddock and Louis . . .
The Giants would like to buy Gene
Schott from the Reds, but nothing
doing . . . There’s a fan in San
Diego, Calif., who gives the San
Diego players five spots every time
they hit homers.
A survey shows the average pro
fessional golfer is 41 years old. . .
He began his career at the age of
26 ... In 15 years he has earned
about $43,000, or an average of
$2,855 per year ... He expects to
work for 13 more years before quit
ting at 55 . . . Which shows you
could do a lot worse than become
a pro.
The average American will have
an Income o< $1,350 in 1937, less
than half the $3456 a map of
the pro golfer . . . Then too, the
pro always has a chance to pick
up a little extra by winning a
championship or two.
Arno Hellmis, representing the
Berlin Tag and the Berlin
Angriff. is here for the phantom
fisticuffings and will tell Der Vater
land of the doings by cable and
radio . . . He'll probably have
plenty to say if Braddock doesn’t
show up Thursday night . . .
(Schmeling, by the way, is due in
town tomorrow to go through all
the motions.)
Steve Petro, Pitt sophomore from
Johnstown, Pa., is the only foot
ball player we know who made his
college debut in the Rose Bowl . . .
He made his first start for Pitt
against Washington last New Year
day and did all right . . . Coach
Jock Sutherland says hs may be
a regular next Fall.
SHUTE FOILS JINX
FOR P. G. A. TITLE
Finally Masters First Hole
to Overcome McSpaden
1 Up on 37th.
BY DILLON GRAHAM,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
ITTSBURGH, May 31.—Denny
Shute, the cold, emotionless
Boston golfer with nerves of
steel, wore the professional
championship crown again today be
cause he conquered his Jinx hole when
the chips were down.
After a great rally down the stretch
as the sun was sinking over the hills
of the Pittsburgh Field Club yester
day. dour Denny finally caught young
Harold (Jug) McSpaden of Winches
ter, Mass.
They were all square after 3fi holes
and moved to the thirty-seventh, th"
No. 1 hole. A man with ounce less
courage might have weakened there.
Not once in the preceding five rounds
had Denny been able to rake in a par
on it. Almost every opponent had
beaten him there. The champion
ship as well as $1 000 in prize money
rode on that one hole. But not a
muscle in his poker face gave sign
of the panic that must have been in
his heart.
Shute Sturdy in Pinch.
J.JE BANGED one down the middle
and after McSpaden had driven
in the rough and skidded through a
trap with hts approach, Denny clipped
a 4-iron shot that covered the pin
all the way and dropped 18 feet short.
McSpaden chipped 8 feet away, ap
parently sure of a four.
But Shute wasn't content with a
half. Fully realizing this hole had
caused him trouble, he still disdained
to play safe. He struck his putt
boldly past the cup and holed It com
ing back to grab the title, as Jug Mc
Spaden missed.
It was a tough one for McSpaden
to lose. The first had been just as
lucky for Jug as it had been a night
mare for Denny. McSpaden had won i
it from Shute in both championship j
rounds, once with a birdie. But he |
couldn’t handle it when it counted
mo6t.
McSpaden Heartbroken.
^/JcSPADEN was hearbroken, for
he had thrown away the title
several times, particularly on the
thirty-sixth, where he missed a
6-footer for a win. His failure may
have cost him a trip to Europe with
the Ryder Cup team, though he still
has a chance to make it by outscoring
11 other fellows in the national open
next month.
Shute explained he wasn't upset
by having to risk the title on the
first hole. "I'd missed a par here so
often I figured the percentage was in
my favor."
As long ago as last Winter Shute
felt he would win again. He captured
the title in November and the P. G. A.
made him a "short-term” champion
by scheduling this year's fixture In
May. He was set on retaining it.
Denny confidentially told intimates
a week ago he'd win. "I was off my
game a few weeks ago, but that suited
me all right. I thought I’d get back
in form just in time for this tourna
ment, and I did.
Turns Tide on 33d.
"TUG played a great game and I
think he deserves a place on the
Ryder Cup team." he said.
Shut* credited a 6-foot putt he
rolled in for a half on the thirty
third hole as the turning point of
the match. "It kept me from being
dormie three and left me almost my
only opening to win.”
The tides of the big battle turned
often. Off to a flying start. McSpaden
was three up after five holes. But
Denny rammed home three birdies to
turn the quarter-pole all square. He
kept up that hot stretch to lead Jug
three holes at the midway mark.
Then while Denny temporarily lost
control of his woods, McSpaden fired
a sub-par 34 on the third nine to
catch up and go ahead.
McSpaden finally had Denny two
down and three to go. But Shute
took the thirty-fourth and thirty
fifth and got his half when Jug
failed to get down that important
putt on the thirty-sixth.
■■ -■ ... ■■■■■■-»
CLOSE FOR MILWAUKEE.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
ANNAPOLIS, Md„ May 31.—Al
though making only 5 hits, the Mil
waukee Brewers took a 4-2 decision
from Annapolis here yesterday. Forney
and Bowie hit home runs for the
home nine.
TRAIGHT OF
JTHE TEE
By Walter McCollum sSS
THE boys are really burning up
the track at that lengthy Con
gressional Country Club course
these days, and if the scoring
being done Is any augury of what will
come when the Middle Atlantic cham
pionship comes off late next month
they're going to bust all records for
the 6,700-yard layout.
Roger Peacock, who has played
about six rounds of golf this year,
stepped out and walloped the ball
around in 69 strokes, which happens
to be three under par, and Parker No
lan, the club champion, and Billy
Shea, the Mid-Atlantic junior title
holder, both scored 71s yesterday.
To get scores like that at
Congressional you have to wallop
the ball, for it's one of the long
est layouts anywhere around the
town and the fairways haven't
become so hard yet the ball rolls
100 yards.
Officers of the association are
looking for the best field in many
years when the Middle Atlantic tour
ney starts at Congressional on June
22. Levi Yoder of Kenwood will de
fend his title, but Peacock, Nolan
and Shea won't be any soft spots.
T.JOLIDAY golf tournaments, many
of which started yesterday, con
tinued today at all the clubs about
the Capital, while a few of the out
of-town pros worked out at Chevy
Chase in final practice sessions in
advance of the sectional qualifying
rounds for the national open cham
pionship.
Bobby Brownell, Roosevelt
High School youngster, who got
in the habit of collecting links
championships last year, today
has a third diadem in his crown.
It's the District scholastic title,
which he added yesterday to his Dis
trict amateur and junior crowns. A
red-hot favorite before the schoolboy
tourney started last' Friday, Bobby
won the qualifying round and swept
on to the championship, but before
he grabbed the title in the final at
Congressional yesterday he had a
couple of tough battles on his hands.
Buddy Sharkey, Gonzaga captain,
took him to the seventeenth hole in
the semi-final and in the final he
came from behind to beat Charles
Sullivan on the last hole 1 up. Sul
livan turned 1 up in the final, but
Brownell squared the match on the
Minor Leagues
international.
Rochester. 13: Buffalo, 1.
Montreal. 12-7; Toronto. S-5.
Syracuse, fi-1; Newark 2-2
Baltimore, n: Jersey City, 1.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
8f Paul. 7; Minneapolis, 3.
Kansat City. 7; Milwaukee, fi.
Toledo 4 Columbus. 1
Indianapolis. 14-P; Louisville, fl-3.
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION.
Nashville. 12-4: ChattanooRa, 6-5.
Birmingham fi-4: New Orleans. 2-1.
Little Rock 5-1 1 : Memphis. 3-4.
Knoxville. 10-R; Atlanta P-3.
HEAVIES HARD AT WORK
Braddock, Louis Going Through
Big Boxing Program Today.
CHICAGO, May 31 UP).—Heavy
weight Champion Jim Braddock and
Joe Louis, who will meet June 22 for
the world title at Comiskey Park,
pulled on gloves for a third straight
day of boxing at their respective camps
today.
Braddock was scheduled to work six
rounds against four sparmates at his
Grand Beach, Mich., quarters, while
Louis was to go against six hired
hands at Kenosha, Wis., where he is
trainmg in the Municipal Stadium on
the Lake Michigan shore.
CAPITAL BIKER SCORES
Two-Mile Race in Flemington Is
Won by Kauffman.
Bs the Associated Press.
FLEMINGTON, N. J„ May 31.—Wil
liam Kauffman, the National Capital
wheelman, won the 2 - mile conso
lation bicycle race sponsored here yes
terday by the Amateur Bicycle League
of America.
Feature of the day was the 25-mile
championship won by Sol Barons of
Brooklyn in the time of 1 hour 2 min
utes 45'2 seconds.
ROMP FOR FLOOD NINE.
Scoring five runs in the second, J. C.
Flood's base ball team continued on
its way to a 11-1 rout of the Virginia
Red Sox yesterday. Oertel. Merchant.
Silts and Aquilino all got two hits for
the winners.
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PEPSI-COLA GOES WILD.
Pepsi-Cola’s nine went on a ram
page yesterday to swamp Stockett
Fiske by a 16-4 count.
Stars Yesterday
By the Associated Press.
Pete Appleton. Senators—Limited Red
Sox to seven hits and drove in six run*
himself in 11-4 victory.
Larry French. Oubs—Beat Reds. 7-1*
allowing four hits end fanning five.
Gerry Walker and Hank Greenberg.
Tigers—Each hit two homers. Walker
driving in seven runs and Greenberg
five, in 18-:t victory over Browns.
Gene Moore. Bees—Hit homer, triple
and single, sending four runs across,
in 11-4 win -*ver Dodgers.
Paul Waner. Pirates—Drove In three
runs with homer, double and single and
scored three himself to beat Cardinals.
7-4.
Wayne Lamaster. Phillies—Stopped
Giants. 6-:t. allowing nine hits and
fanning six in eight innings.
Zeke Bonura. White Sox—Hit double
and two singles, driving in five runs
in f'-fi win over Indians.
Lefty Gomez. Yankees—Stopped Ath
letics with seven hits, fanning five, and
drove in one run with single in 1-5-1
win.
Indianapolis Race Cold, Gory
Auto Whirl on Today, Fatal to 28 Drivers,
Mechanics in 25 Years.
Br the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, May 31.—It's
called a race for “gold and
glory.” the annual 500-mile
whirl at the Indianapolis Mo
tor Speedway, on today, but the
contestants sometimes wind up
cold and gory.
In 25 years of racing around the
2,2-mile course, 28 drivers or me
chanics have been killed. In addi
tion, four spectators have met
death and one small boy playing
outside the speedway inclosure
was killed by a race car wheel,
which hurtled the fence.
The speedway’s most disasteroua
years were 1909—its inaugural—
when three racers and two specta
tors were killed; in 1933, when
three contestants were killed in
Speed Bug Bites
Meyer’s Brother
TNDIANAPOLIS, May 31 C4>).—
A After watching Louis Meyer of
Los Angeles, greatest 500-miler of
them all, win three Indianapolis
races in 10 years, his kid brother
will take a shot at fame the hard
way—as a riding mechanic.
So today Harry Meyer, just turned
21 years old, was riding the roar
ing road with his famous brother,
seeking his fourth triumph. For
the youngster It means the realisa
tion of a life-long ambition and
the chance to enter the auto racing
game himself later as a driver.
the race and two died in practice,
and 1935 with four fatalities—
three drivers and a mechanic.
A mechanic and a spectator have
been killed in qualifying trials this
year.
fA 19 Jamunm tuts* j
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fifteenth and won the sixteenth to
take a lead that he hung to like a
leech. They halved the last two holes
In par figures.
Tom Fitzgerald of Gonzaga won
the second flight of the Interscholastic
tourney, licking Bill Leapley of Cen
tral, 2 up, at Garnett Park.
Didrikson, Spencer Win.
gABE DIDRIKSON, sometimes out
hitting the men, scored an 80 over
the lengthy Beaver Dam course and
paired with Clift Spencer, home club
a
pro, to win an exhibition match from
Helen Dettweiler and Leo Walper. The
Babe, who’ll be around Washington
for another week, caught a couple on
the nose before a good-sized gallery.
Walper scored 75, Spencer was 78 and
Miss Dettweiler was 84.
Jane Daniels and Pat Winkler
scored 95 with a handicap of 22 for a
net of 73 to win the mixed Scotch
foursome at Congressional.
Mrs. Hazel Weber and Daze
Morris tied at net 77 with Mrs.
Walter Rice and W. H. Wenzel
for second place. Mr. and Mrs.
J. O. Rhyne won the gross
award with 83.
The mixed Scotch foursome tourney
at Indian Spring went to Kenneth
Mount and R. A. Techtmeyer with
100—27—73. Mrs. Kenneth Lafferty
and R. Oehman were second with
104—29—75.
Buddy Tew' hung up a par-leveling
round of 71 and a net of 65 to win the
Tournament Bureau Sweepstakes tour
ney at Kenwood. R. W. Weaver wa*
next with 73—4—69 and George O.
Vass and Paul Dalis with net 70s were
tied for third.
Dr. Morris Wolfe won first place
in the handicap sweepstakes tourney
at Woodmont with 85—15—69. Tied
for second place were D. Schwartz and
Milton Goldstein with net 72s. Wood
mont golfers will qualify this week for
the club handicap championship.
Costly, but Would End Con
gestion on Short Holes,
MacKenzie Believes.
BY W. R. McCALLLM.
DOUBLE putting greens on
one-shot holes, where crowd
ed playing conditions exist.
It’s something new in golf
ideas and it would work out splen
didly in speeding up play on some of
the courses around Washington where
it takes from 3V4 to 4!/i hours for a
round of golf, in the opinion of Ro
land MacKenzie, Congressional Coun
try Club pro.
Roland walked up to the fourth
hole at Chevy Chase, the only one
shot hole around Washington which
has a double green and two sets of
tees. The new green, built four or
five years ago, was occupied by a
group of club members, but the old
green which will be used tomorrow
in the sectional qualifying rounds for
the open championship was open
and clear.
“Say,” he said, “why couldn't they
have double putting greens on several
short holes of every course where the
play is heavy? One match could play
to one green of the same hole, while
another match played to the other
green. Think of the time it would
save and how it would speed up play.
I haven't figured it out but I’ll bet
it would cut at least a half hour off
the playing time on crowded courses,
and I’ll also bet it could be worked
out.
Effective, Although Expensive.
“’J'AKE Congressional, for example.
We have a rule (and we're
plenty crowded) that player* reach
ing the green on short holes mu-t
motion the match behind to play their
tee shots to the green, and then the
members of the first match may putt
out. That saves some time but the
double green idea would save a lot
more time.
"Look right here. That match
ahead of us could be putting on one
green, while we played to the other
at this fourth hole, and they could
go on while we were putting.
"It sure looks as if it might work
out, but I guess it would be rather
expensive. Where the average course
has four short holes you'd have to
have four more greens, making a to
tal of 22 greens to keep up instead of
18. But it would speed up play."
Washington woman golfers will
play their first Important team match
of the current season Wednesday at
Congressional, where they will meet
a team of feminine clubswingers from
Richmond. The teams will number
about 20 women. Final first-team
matches will be played Friday at
Chevy Chase, but the girls will be
playing only to determine second, third
and fourth positions. The champion
ship already has been won by Chevy
Chase.
PACIFIC.
Missions. 4-5: Portland. 8-2
Sea'tlf. 11-3: San Dteio. 1-3.
Oakland. i4-C; San Franetaco. 10-4.
PIEDMONT.
Asheville ffl; Durham, *
Rocky Mount. 7; Norfolk 8.
Charlotte. 11: Portsmouth. 4.
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THE NATIONAL
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Tournament at Pittsburgh, Pa.
DENNY SHUTE
WINNER
Shute alto won P. G. A. 1936
HAROLD "JUG" McSPADEN
Runner-up
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