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Dobson Scores College Heresies in Athletics in Talk at American U. Fete
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Sportlight
Nelson's Task Toughest
Faced by Champion
By GRANTLAND RICE,
Special Correspondent of The Star.
Joe Louis has just one assaulter
to face in defending his title as
heavyweight champion. The name
is Arturo Godoy, the willowy weaver
or the bounding bouncer who baf
fled Joe some time back.
Joe McCarthy and Bill McKechnie,
defending their two baseball crowns,
each have seven opponents to beat
off before accomplishing the desired
results.
But a young fellow by the name
of Byron Nelson, Open golf cham
pion of the United States, has over
1,100 challengers looking for his
scalp. He will defend his title at
Cleveland early next month.
Nelson has the toughest of all
titles to defend. The big field will
be pruned heavily next week in the
country-wide qualifying tests when
something more than 80 per cent
will be rolled into the gravel ditch
and left by the wayside. But he
faces heavier odds than any other
champion now in sight.
Louis Burden Lightest
In Defense of Title
Joe Louis has the lightest burden
to carry in his championship de
fense. The heavyweight puncher
has been deeply annoyed by his last
failure to belt Godoy out in a few
rounds and on this next occasion he
will start to work in an entirely
different frame of mind.
There is no debating the point
that even if baffled again, Louis will
be much more dangerous on this
next occasion. He is a fighter of
moods and is at his best only when
he carries the thought of quick de
struction in his brain or soul.
For all that, he still has a hardy
sector of elastic human flesh in his
road who would be even more diffi
cult to handle quickly if he could
only pick up a punch en route to
the ring.
Louis will be at least a l-to-5 shot
on the winning side, which shows
the vast gap between his job and
Nelson's.
What about the odds confronting
Messrs. McCarthy and McKechnie?
The Yanks no longer are the 7-20
favorites as outlined by Jack Doyle
when the season opened. And, at this
time, they are not even money
against the field. They have a heavy
gap to close against the Red Sox,
who are no puff balls, and they also
must reckon with a first-class Cleve
land outfit. The Yankees also must
reckon with themselves and emerge
from the jitters they carried west.
Bill McKechnie is around 7 to 5
in the National League march. His
Reds have too much day-in-and
day-out pitching, headed by Der
ringer, Walters and Thompson.
Brooklyn will be out there hustling
all the way. It is tne best hustling
team in either league. The Giants
have shown greater strength than
they once promised, but the Cardi
nals haven't been nearly as warm
and steamy as they looked to be
with all their pulverizing power.
The Reds have a better chance to
win than the Yankees have, and
they carry the more favorable odds.
Great Field to Combat
Nelson in Open
The odds against Byron Nelson,
the determined Texan, should be
around 10 to 1. The odds against
him last summer at Philadelphia
were 14 to 1.
There are too many good men in
this big field who have a chance to
arrive in front, with their share of
the winning breaks. This always is
a big factor in golf where too many
happy or unhappy events can take
place.
The safest bet is Texas against the
field—Texas, with Nelson, Demaret,
Hogan, Guldahl. Metz, Mangrum and
Cooper leading the charge uphill and
down.
But in addition to his fellow
Texans, Nelson also has at least 10
other barricades to take by storm.
Picard, Snead, Thomson, Smith,
Runyan, Dutra and the others—not
overlooking Billy Burke—can't be
brushed aside with any feathery
wand. Few sporting events can set
up a defending champion with such
odds as 10 to 1 against his play.
Wherever he may finish, you can
always gamble that Nelson will be
out there swinging to the finish, as
he is a hard young man to discour
age, even on his off days.
Newspaper Aillsnce, Ine.)
(Released to the North American
Terps Fail to Finish
Final Sports Event
University of Maryland's sports
year ended at College Park yester
day in a deluge of rain that stopped
the triangular meet among the Terp
frosh, City College and Poly of Bal
timore after three events had been
run with the following results:
One-mile run—Won by Annen (Poly);
•econd. Shank* (Poly); third. Kthm (Md.).
Time, 4:42.
440-yard run—Won by Tillman (Poly);
second. Marshall (Poly); third. Poper
(City). Time. 0:54.2.
100-yard dash—Won by Chacos (Md.);
•econd. Inglis (Poly); third. Gross (Poly).
Time. 0:10.6.
Hardy Pearce Again
Airport Pool Boss
Hardy Pearce, director of athletics
at Central High School and former
George Washington University foot
ball star, again will manage the
Airport Pool this season, it was an
nounced today.
Facilities have been changed gen
erally with the most noticeable the
substitution of a greatly enlarged
grass beach in place of the old sand
one.
Greenbelts Issue Defi
Unlimited opposition on Saturdays
and Sundays is wanted by the
Greenbelt baseball team. Call Vin
cent C. Holochwost at Greenbelt 2741
or Greenwood 4493-W.
Suhr Goes to Montreal
MONTREAL, May 21 (/P).—Gus
Suhr, veteran National League first
baseman, has been signed by Mon-t
treat.
Red Sox Want Rivals
Strong unlimited opposition Is
wanted by the Virginia Red Sox, who
can be booked through Columbia
6941.
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Sports Program
For Local Fans
TODAY.
Baseball.
Washington at Chicago, 3.
Anacostla vs. Wilson, Wilson
Stadium, 3:30.
Washington-Lee vs. Mount
Rainier, Arlington, Va., 3:30.
Landon vs. Montgomery Blair,
Silver Spring, 3:30.
Hyattsville vs. Gaithersburg, •
Hyattsville, 3:30.
Golf.
Wilson vs. Roosevelt, interhigh
match. Congressional, 3:30.
Central vs. Tech, interhigh
match, Washington Golf and
-Country, 3:30.
Montgomery Blair vs. Bethes
da-Chevy Chase. Army Navy, 3:30.
TOMORROW.
Baseball.
Washington at St. Louis, 4:00.
George Washington vs. George
town, Griffith Stadium, 2:30.
Wilson Teachers vs. Western
Maryland. Ellipse, 2:30.
Roosevelt vs. Eastern, inter
high series, Eastern Stadium, 3:30.
Tech vs. Western, interhigh
series. Western Stadium, 3:30.
Bethesda - Chevy Chase vs.
Gaithersburg, Bethesda, 3:30.
Washington-Lee vs. Episcopal,
Alexandria, 3:30.
Tennis.
Central vs. Western, interhigh
series, Potomac Park, 3:30.
Roosevelt vs. Wilson, interhigh
series, Rock Creek, 3:30.
Friends vs. Gonzaga, Friends,
3:30.
THURSDAY.
Baseball.
Washington at St. Louis, 4.
Track.
Interhigh meet, Central Sta
dium, 3:30.
■ Wrestling.
Turner's Arena, 8:15.
Golf.
Women’s Star Cup tournament,
Class A, Congressional; Class B,
Capital.
FRIDAY.
Baseball.
Western vs. Tech, interhigh
series. Tech Stadium, 3:30.
Bethesda - Chevy Chase vs.
Richard Montgomery, Bethesda,
3:30.
Montgomery Blair vs. Charlotte
Hall M. A., Silver Spring, 3:30.
Washington-Lee vs. George
Washington, Alexandria, 3:30.
Hyattsville vs. Greenbelt,
Greenbelt, 3:30.
Track.
Interhigh meet, Central Sta
dium, 3:30.
Golf.
Central vs. Roosevelt, interhigh
match, Capital, 3:30.
Anacostia vs. Western, inter
high match, Army Navy, 3:30.
Tennis.
Friends vs. Devitt, Friends, 3:30.
SATURDAY.
Baseball.
Philadelphia at Washington, 3.
Horse Show.
Marlborough Hunt Show, Marl
boro, 10 am.
Landon School Junior Show,
Bethesda, 10 a.m.
Golf.
Georgetown vs. Navy, Capitol
Club. 2 pm.
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Hutchinson Is Rated
$50,000 Hurler by
Buffalo Pilot
By the Associated Press.
BUFFALO. N. Y„ May 21.—Fifty
thousand dollars in cash may be
a lot of greenbacks for a rookie
pitcher, but take it from Steve
O'Neill, manager of the Buffalo
Bisons. "this kid Freddie Hutchinson
is worth every cent of it."
The 21-year-old righthander,
farmed out to the Bisons after a
dismal showing with the American
League Detroit Tigers, made his
debut in the international loop Sun
day against Montreal, allowing five
hits in as many innings before the
game was called because of rain.
"And let me tell you now, that
by the time September rolls around,
Hutchinson will be one of the best
pitchers in this league. By next
year, hell be back in the majors—
and then watch him go,” ONeill
remarked.
Detroit shelled out the 150.000
and four players for Hutchinson two
years ago after he had won 27 and
lost 5 for Seattle in the Pacific
Coast League.
Failing to make the grade last
year, he was shipped to Toledo in
the American Association. Detroit
had him back again this year, but
after he was hammered by the
Athletics and the Boston Red Sox,
he was optioned to Buffalo.
“I believe Freddie’s trouble in the
majors was a lack of confidence,"
ONeill explained. “He’ll get it back
by pitching regularly in this circuit.”
Alexandria Nine Takes
13-Inning Contest
One of the longest sandlot games
on record this season was won by
Alexandria in the 13th Inning yes
terday when they pushed over a run
to beat the Betsy Ross nine, 6-5.
The losers had tied the score at
3-3 in the ninth and each team
scored twice in the 10th.
Alumni Squawks Hurt
Sports, Spirit, Says
Ex-Terp Coach
High School Play Heads
Are Best Character
Builders, He Claims
By BILL DISMER, Jr.
A tendency on the administra
tion's part to listen to a minority
of the “alumni," many of whom
never have advanced beyond the
sophomore class, but who demand
winning teams at their alma mater,
is the chief difficulty facing college
athletics today, Frank M. Dobson,
former University of Maryland foot
ball coach, told guests at American
University’s annual athletic ban
quet last night.
“There no longer is such a thing
as college spirit," Dobson, now di
rector of athletics at the Newport
News Apprentice School, told his
listeners. “The day when a boy’s
emotion could be worked upon to
do or die for the school is gone.
Now he is sent out to play for the
coach, who sees that his tuition is
paid and who, in turn, is fired if
he can't round up winning teams.
Admires Chicago’s Leader.
“A college president can have
any kind of a team he wants and
when he says he ‘gave in because
every one else did’ to get a good
team, it’s only because he wanted
to in the first place. I admire the
stand taken by Dr. Hutchinson of
Chicago who wasn’t afraaid to sttick
to a course he believed right.”
Dobson told A. U.’s athletes of
five teams and their guests that
their school was in safe hands, but
that they shouldn’t delude them
selves in thinking they could com
pete on equal terms with George
town, George Washington, Mary
land and Catholic University. “Stick
to your own class,” was Dobson's
advice, “and you 11 be far happier
and more successful in victories,
too."
The veteran coach concluded his
remarks with the opinion that high
school coaches, not dependent upon
winning teams for the security of
their jobs, do more to promote an
athlete's character and future out
look than any other type of coach.
Brown Highly Honored.
George (Moe) Brown, the Eagles*
all-around senior athlete, not only
received letters for football, basket
ball and baseball, but was awarded
a trophy as the most valuable
basket ball player on the 1939-40
squad. Brown, president of the
Varsity Club, then announced that
Kenneth Fox, Carl Byham and
Ellsworth McClane had been voted
into membership—the highest honor
an A. U. athlete can attain.
Fifty-eight letters in football,
basket ball, baseball, track and
tennis were distributed as follows:
Football—Capt. Georze Brown. Carl
By ham. Georcc Blanchard. Reuben Cohen.
John Dean. Jamei Flaherty. Kenneth Fox.
Robert Hall. John Jablonsky. Ellsworth
McClane. Archie Norford. Stanley Rauch.
Huso Schulze. Otto Streltberser. David
Thatcher. David Yoakum. Numerals to
Manazer Watson Fisher and Francis Gor
man. Denhardt Werner, Irwin Krasnoff.
William Keefe. William McMillan. Lester
Boykin and Herbert Wood.
Basket baU—Capt. Oeorze Brown. Carl
Byham, Huso Schulze. Ernest Webb. Bart
Reese. H. G. Morrison. Keene Roadman.
Archie Norford. Bruce Etchlson. Numerals
to Manazer William Hutterly and Arnold
Fine. James Hollis and Hamilton Oewehr.
Baseball—Capt. Huso Schulze. Harry
Newby, Georze Brown. Carter Edmonds.
Clayland Price. David Thatcher. Philip
Fellows. Levi McCrady. H. G. Morrison.
James Herbold. John Jablonsky. Denhardt
Werner. Georze Blanchard. Lester Boykin.
Edward Nicholson. Richard Whlttet. Nu
meral to Manazer Fred Carl.
Track—Capt. Robert Little. Leroy
Cooke. William Adams. Robert Dixon. Otto
Streltberser. Harry Nielsen. Willard Smith.
Donald Kayhoe. Allen Hinkle. Herbert
wood. Robert Boykin and Jack Boykin.
Numeral to Manazer John Dean
Tennis—William Fausold. Harold Lands
men. Ernest Webb. Latimer Evans. Hamil
ton Oewehr. Numerals to Manazer Fred
Plltt and Bart Reese, Ernest McCarthy and
Harry Nielsen.
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Speedway Band Head Dies
INDIANAPOLIS, May 21 VP).—
William S. Mitchell, director of
the 1,000-piece Indianapolis Motor
Speedway Band since 1911, died yes
terday. He had directed the In
dianapolis Military Band 20 years.
IN DEEP THOUGHT—Josephine Shipley, daughter of the Mary
land baseball coach, Burton Shipley, is the mascot of the Terp
nine that concluded its season yesterday by defeating George
Washington at Griffith Stadium, 4 to 1. From her demeanor
here It would appear that she was taking the task of running
the ball team off her dad’s hands. —Star Staff Photo.
Civilians Fire June 22
To Represent D. C.
At Camp Perry
A civliian rifle team to represent
the District in the national matches
at Camp Perry, Ohio, from August
18 to September 7, will be chosen
by direct competition here at the
District National Guard's target
range at Camp Simms, Congress
Heights, on Saturday, June 22.
Competition will be under the Juris
diction of the D. C. National Guard.
Travel and subsistence allow
ances of 5 cents a mile and $120
a day will be paid those who make
the team by the War Department.
The competition will consist of 200
yards. 10 shots standing (no sight
ing shots); 200 yards, rapid fire,
standing to sitting. 1 minute a
string, 10 shots; 300 yards, rapid
fire, standing to prone, 1 minute 10
seconds a string, 10 shots, and 600
yards, prone (on “B" target), 10
shots (no sighting shots).
The U. S. rifle, caliber 20, model
1903, as issued to the service, will be
used.
Tooth-Pulling Sailor
Makes Mat Debut
Here Thursday
The United States Navy will have
a part on Thursday night’s wrestling
show at Turner’s Arena featur
ing Karol Krauser, the Polish
Adonis, and Gino Martinelli, Bos
ton's “Robert Taylor.”
Sailor Ed Franer. once attached to
the battleship Tennessee and now
at the dental division of Naval
Hospital, will make his debut in a
special 30-minute match against
Fritz Zigfrid of New York.
Franer, 25, is a native of Mid
dletown, Ohio, and calls himself
the professional champion of the
United States Navy. He has done
most of his wrestling around the
Middle West.
In the semi-windup Benny Ro
sen, 240, will oppose Felix Slovi
kowski, 260.
D. C. Public Linksmen's Trials
For National Set for July 8
Entries for the sectional qualifying
rounds for the national public links
championship will close at 5 p.m.
June 17 with Tommy Doerer, jr., at
East Potomac Park, the United
States Golf Association announced
today. Doerer, named as the super
visor in charge of public links golf
in Washington, will handle the sec
tional qualifying rounds over the 36
hole route scheduled at East Po
tomac Park July 8.
An entry fee of $1 will be charged
each entrant in the sectional rounds,
the U. S. G. A. said. A special
greens fee of 50 cents will be ar
ranged for tournament entrants.
Public Links Concessionnaire S.
G. Leoffler will send the three mem
bers of the Harding Cup team from
Washington to Detroit for the title
tourney scheduled to start July 22.
He’s been doing it for years. The
United States Golf Association per
mits, in the case of the public links
championship, payment of expenses
of competitors up to |6 per day. It’s
the only exception -made in the
usual amateur rule barring pay
Four Classes Added to Junior
Horse Show at London School
Four new classes have been added
to the Landon School Junior Horse
Show, which will be held Saturday
at the show grounds adjoining
the school.
Recognized by the American Horse
Show Association, the show is ex
pected to attract entries from more
than a dozen schools in Washington,
Maryland and Virginia. There will
be 14 events. Among the features are
the new A. S. P. C. A. horsemanship
and good hands events, winners of
which will be eligible for the finals at
the National Show at New York in
November. Mercer Fadeley won the
horsemanship last year and Mar
garet Hill the good hands event.
Landon won main honors last
year with Arlington Hall second.
These and McDonogh, Guns ton
Hall, Holton Arms, Bethesda-Chevy
Chase, Alice Deal, Friends, Mount
Vsrnon Seminary, George Washing
ton High Stuyvesant, St. Mitchael,
National Cathedral and one or two
others are expected to compete this
year.
Some of the local and nearby
riders expected to exhibit are Elaine
McDowell, Elizabeth Marsh, Anne
Hugh, Robin Riddick, Mary David
son, Suzanne Ladd, Dean Rathbun,
Jr.; Ellie Leh, Sally Seward, Mercer
Padeley, Tom Mott, Jr.; Cary Jack
son, Jack Deveraux, Jacqueline War
ren, Sammy Nash and Carroll Cur
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merits of expenses of tournament
participants.
The U. S. G. A. announced that
there can be no indication of the
number of places open to qualifiers
at East Potomac Park until Charles
V. Rainwater, chairman of the Na
tional Public Links Committee, has
all the entries before him.
The public links championship is
the world’s largest golf event in
number of entries and promises
again to set a record for size. Sec
tional qualifying rounds this year
have been scheduled at 40 places
against 33 last year. In 1939 a total
of 3,401 players entered the sectional
rounds, and the U. S. G. A. expects
that number to be exceeded this
year.
Washington will be the center of
the qualifying rounds in this sector.
Baltimore players will be required
to qualify here, just as the Wash
ington public links boys had to go
to Baltimore last year to qualify. In
the future sectional qualifying
rounds will rotate between the two
cities. Last year’s qualifiers were
Andrew Oliveri, Jim Gipe and Bob
Morris. Oliveri went to the fourth
round in the championship. He
may not play this year. Oliveri now
lives in Norfolk.
All former public links phampions
are eligible for the title tourney
without preliminary qualification.
It’s a shame the U. 8. G. A. solons
don’t do the same thing in the
National Open championship.
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By WALTER McCALLUM.
Every once In a while in Washing
ton we have a distinguished golfing
visitor in our midst. Bobby Jones,
Harry Vardon, Chick Evans, Francis
Ouimet, Byron Nelson, Ralph Gul
dahl, Sam Snead, all of them have
come to Washington for fun nr
money, have gotten some nice stories
in the papers, have been looked over
by the citizenry and have gone back
home.
But there was a fellow here yes
terday who played before a gallery
of three caddies, and his two com
panions, with strange, thick-gripped,
wooden-shafted clubs. Queer throw
backs to an era when golf clubs
were fashioned by hand. The fel
low was more interesting than his
clubs, for probably he was one of
the greatest golf champions who
ever lived. And scarcely any one
knew he was in town; there was no
gallery, and none of the fanfare that
goes with the appearance of a big
fellow in golf.
The man was John J. McDermott.
The name doesn’t mean anything
any more. But to those who saw
this mite of a fellow play when he
was at his peak 27 or 28 years ago,
it meant everything. Johnny Mc
Dermott has been in an asylum
now for going on 27 years. He went
there late in 1913, and he gets out
every once in a while to play a
friendly round of golf. Such a round
as he had at Chevy Chase yesterday
with Bob Barnett.
It would be easy to become maud
lin about this fellow who became the
first American-born pro to break the
tradition that Scotsmen and Eng
lishmen were the best professional
golfers. But it isn’t easy to be maud
lin about a fellow who didn’t get a
par in nine holes; who hardly speaks
audibly and who looks at you with
slack jaws, friendly enough, but
vacantly, as if you weren’t there.
Johnny McDermott won the Na
tional Open championship in 1911
and 1912. He tied for the title in
1910 and lost in the playoff. He
was the first great American home
bred. Johnny McDermott destroyed
the idea that a pro had to be an
Alex or a "Nipper” or have an im
ported "Mac” in front of his name
to win the Open championship.
A magnificent swinger, 'and a
great competitor, the McDermott
mumbling fellow with some sem
blance to the great swinger of 30
years ago, but no spirit. It makes
you wonder about things and people
when you see that fellow play, and
realize how great he was three dec
ades back.
You see Johnny McDermott won
the open twice. Today if you men
tion his name people say, “Who was
he?”
Memories are so short, even of the
truly great ones.
Star Tourney Entries Close.
Entries were to close today for
The Evening Star women’s golf
tournament, 23d in the series of
brilliantly played affairs that start
ed back in 1917. Mrs. Richard D.
Kreuzburg, who won last year, will
not be able to play. The tourney
will be played Thursday at Con
gressional and Capital, under the
new system of splitting the feminine
fields by handicaps. Pairings will
be published tomorrow.
Top teams of golfers at Chevy
Chase start match play this week
in the annual tourney for the
Treasurer’s Cup, put up several
years ago by William F. Ham. The
tourney is a best ball affair, at
handicap match play. The pairings;
Reere LewH, Jr. (3) and G. Y. Wheeler
(8) v«. C. D. Hayes (14) end Btentan C.
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Pe*le. Jr. (10); L. C. Fuller (20) end
WF Martin (18> ▼». M. F. Morie (10)
end C. Dodee. Jr. (10): R. P. Whiteley
J13), end Edward Stafford (14) v». Frank
lin L. Fisher (12) and Robert Stead, Jr.
•8): F. W. Coleman (14) and P. 8.
Rldidale (12) vi. Henry Ravenel (10) and
D. M. Marthlnson (16).
Kent Len (6) and Paul Marshall (14)
vs Donald De Veau and Landra B. Platt
(7): R P. Dunn (12) and Walter White
(10) vi. Adolphui Staton (22) and J. P.
Unnon (18): Pace Hufty (2) and J. K.
McCemmon (141 vi. C. A. Fuller (5) and
W o. Emory (10): Corcoran Thom. ir.
(11) and John F. Brawner drew a bye.
Billy Shea Tops College Lads.
Out of all the crack college golf
ers who played in the recent East
ern Intercollegiate championship,
won by Oeorgetown, a local lad—
Billy Shea by name—was the only
one to go through six matches un
defeated.
Lots of people knew all along that
Billy had plenty of golf in him.
But for a youngster to go through
a tough schedule without dropping
a match is something that shows he
has tl\e stuff. Billy compiled a per
fect score of 9 points, including
the playoff matches. He's the same
likable younster from Congres
sional who won the Middle Atlantic
and District championships in 1937.
Buddy Sharkey, now a sophomore
at the Hilltop, was next with 8*4
points, losing only in his last four
some match.
Wiffy Cox, Congressional pro, is
putting on his spring rush. Maybe
the house needs new curtains or the
Missus needs a new spring outfit,
but Wiffy has been doing a lot of
cash business over the last couple
of days with his links skill. He
picked up $30 in prize dough at
Bradley Hills Sunday and grabbed
$55 more in a sweepstakes tourney
at Indian Spring yesterday, finish
ing first with 67 in the pro-amateur
with one partner—Charlie Malone;
tying for second with another—
Maury Fitzgerald; and tying Iot
third with young Charlie Price, Jr.
In addition to that Wiffy finished
2-3 through the rain, to win second
money at 70 in the pro sweepstakes.
Lest you think the tourney was
all Cox we hasten to add that young
Lewis Worsham shot himself a form
fitting 69 to win the sweepstakes.
A1 Houghton and Volney Burnett—
the latter with a 71—tied for second
in the pro-am.
Winners in a women’s flag tourney
at Washington were Mrs. Dorie C.
Gruver, Mrs. J. P. Murphy, Mrs. W.
R. Little and Mrs. E. S. Kochers
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Virginia Sports Stars
Get Annual Awards
At Fete Tonight
By the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va„ May
21.—The winner of the scholar
athletic award and the football
player designated by the choachlng
staff as the best blocker of the 1939
season will be announced at the
annual University of Virginia ath
letic banquet tonight.
The scholar-athlete award goes
annually to a Junior or senior let
terman who has maintained an
academic average of at least 85.
The best blocker will receive the
Keller and George trophy.
The full membership of the sports
squad—250 strong—will be guests at
the banquet, bringing to a close the
university’s athletic program for
1939-40.
Pitcher From Cards
Hustles Columbus
Out of Cellar
The replacements sent down by
the St. Louis Cards are beginning
to show results in the Improved
play of the Columbus Redbirds in
the American Association race.
The birds got away to a poor
start and have been in or near the
cellar since the opening gun.
The Cards shipped 26-year-old
Harry Brecheen to the Birds a few
days ago. Last night he south
pawed Columbus to a 7-to-3 victory
over Louisville. The victory hoisted
the Birds out of a tie for the cellar
into sixth place and left them only
a game behind the Colonels.
Indianapolis advanced into a
third-place tie with Milwaukee, only
two games back of second-place
Minneapolis, by outlasting Toledo in
a slugfest, 12 to 8.
Bid for Golf Tourney
RICHMOND, Va„ May 21 UP.—
Ocean View and Roanoke are re
garded as possible sites for the 1941
State Open Golf Tournament.
College Diamond Title
Is Up to G. U.-G. W.
Tilt Tomorrow
Hoyas Get Clear Claim
If They Beat Colonials,
Victims of Terps
Whether Georgetown will be rec
ognized u the undisputed baseball
champion of the Metropolitan Area
by making a clean sweep of local
rivals or George Washington will
throw a monkey wrench into the sit
uation, just as Georgetown gummed
up the G. W. claim to basket ball
supremacy in the final game last
winter, will be decided tomorrow
when the Hilltoppers and G Street
ers meet at Griffith Stadium in the
last collegiate game here this
season.
Georgetown blanked G. W., 5-0, in
the first meeting of the teams and
will be a heavy favorite to repeat
when it takes the field at 2:3Q
o’clock tomorrow. It will be G. U.’s
last game, but George Washington
is not scheduled to wind up its sea
son against Navy until May 29.
G. W. Ron Is Unearned.
Maryland, twice beaten by George
town, clinched second place in the
"big three” standings yesterday
when it whipped G. W. for the sec
ond time, 4-1, in a rain-halted
game at the stadium. G. W. scored
Just before the downpour fell, but
the way Earl (Lefty) Springer was
going the Bull and Blue would have
had hard going to square the situ
ation.
As a matter of fact, the losers*
solitary hit wasn’t a part of their
score, coming when Bobby Gilham,
who had walked, came all the way
home when Shortstop McHale made
a wild throw on Oertel's easy force
play at second. It was the only
time George Washington got as
many as two men on base in the
same inning, not another one of the
three who walked or Taylor, who
got the lone hit, even reaching
second.
It was. in short, a fitting climax
for the slender Maryland southpaw,
who wound up his senior year with
a record of five victories against
two defeats. And the losses really
were not his fault.
Doubles Help Terps.
Successive doubles by Hugh Keller
and Newton Cox gave Maryland ita
first run in the second. The win
ners’ second run was entirely un
earned when First Baseman Roy
McNeill dropped an inflelder’s throw
for what should have been the third
out, McHale scoring on the play.
Culver drove in Maryland’s last two
runs in the fifth after Bengoechea,
who had singled, stole second and
third, and Cox walked.
The victory gave Maryland a sea
son record of 11 victories in 20
games.
M’land. AB. H. O. A. O W. AB. B. O. A.
Mallei,rf. 3 0 0 0 Oertel.ef 3 0 2 0
Wh’t'n.3b. 3 10 3 Orber.3b. 3 0 0 1
B'chea.2b. 3 111 Oray.lf1 0 1 5
Keller.lf.. 3 3 0 0 Tlor.rf.,e. 2 110
Cox.lb. 2 16 0 MeN’Llb. 10 8 0
Culver.cf. 2 10 0 Lusby.2b .2012
Burnac 3 0 9 1 Gllham.se. 0 0 0 0
McHale.aa. 2 10 0 Urlck.e .10 8 0
Sp'nter.p. 2 0 0 0 Zel’ka.rf. 10 0 0
Red'ter.p. 2 0 0 2
Totals 23 7 16 6 Totals .IS *1 18 ~i
Maryland _010 13—4
O. W. TJ. ... 000 01—1
Runs—Bentoechea. Cox. Keller. McHale.
Gllham. Runs batted In—Cox. Sprinter.
Culver (2). Oertel. Errors—McHale. Mc
Neil. Lusby. Two-base hits—Keller. Cox.
Stolen bases—Bentoechea (2). McHale.
Sprinter. Left on bases—Maryland. 6:
O. W.. 4. Struck out—By Sprinter. 9: by
Redineer. 5 Bases on balls—Off Sprinter.
4: off Redlnter. 2. Umpires — Messrs.
Purdy and Jeffreys. Time. 1:30.
Varied Sports
Baseball.
Maryland. 4: Georte Washlntton, 1.
Luther. 9: Carleton. 3
Greenbrier Military School. 10: Autusta
Military Academy. 1.
Gelf.
Toledo. 14: Mlchitan Normal. 4.
Mlchitan State. 18: Wayne, 0.
Tennis.
Nebraska. 4: Minnesota. 2.
Mlchitan. 6; Mlchitan State, 8.
Detroit, 7; Toledo. 0.
Albion, 7: Olivet. 0.
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