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NATIONAL TOURNEY STARS MAY BOWL HERE
IL GARDNER
' HAS IRON
: INFIRE
By R. D. Thomas
' A plan to bring some of the
leading teams of the country here for
bowling matches in being
.considered by Al Gardner, the
manager of Convention
JBall.
Gardner’s scheme is to borrow
talent from the National Puckpin
Bowling Congress tournament to be
h»eld in Baltimore next month, thus
► practically eliminating the railroad
tare which is usually a major part
©f the expense involved in the Inter
city flashes that have become so
popular in recent years.
There are at least three crack
teams in the national tournament
that Washington fans would pay to
«ee embattled with Convention
jHall’s famous sharpshooters.
One of these, Phil Spinella’s
All-Sar team of Brooklyn,
already has been vanquished by
Convention Hall but the com
petition was interesting enough
to warrant another engage
ment.
Three seasons back the Miah
Murray team of Boston, featuring
the great Paul Pohler. knocked off
the Washington All-Stars at Con
vention Hall but Washington has
nqver been satisfied that the
Murrays, could repeat. A return
. match; was included in the original
plans but the expense was pro
hibitive.
The big grand stand at the hall
- Would be packed, of a certainty.
If another battle were fought be
tween the Murrays and a crack
Washington line-up.
Third, but prehaps not least,
there is the formidable represen
tative team of Roanoke, Va., which
has been attempting for months
to draw Washington into an engage
ment. From time to time this
season Washington has had re
ports of expectional scores rolled
by the Mountaineers and their re
peated challenges have whetted
curiosity.
Three large establishments
have made gestures toward
accepting the Roanoke defi,
only to draw back because of
expense. Convention Hall alone
Is equipped to handle a Roanoke
match, except under Gardner's
new plan, without denting the
old bank Toll extensively.
It is not assured, of course, that
the teams named would be willing
®r able to accept Gardner’s invita
tion.- ;It would require at least an
extra night from home and addi
tional traveling.
“There is one bad feature in con
nection with big intercity matches,”
commented today, “which
makes it a questionable policy to
•hold many of them during a season.
As a rule we close down twenty
alleys to make room for spectators.
'’This not only., entails a heavy loss
©f revenue, but sacrifices the pleas
ure of many who would rather
jbowl than watch others. The Con
tention Hall-Brooklyn match drew
The largest paid crowd in the
game’s history here, but when a
•final check was made on expenses
the establishment was well on the
•hort end of things.”
Even Clarendon has fallen vic
tim to theWn tercity match fever.
■Next week, the exact date yet to
- tie set, the Goff All-Stars of Claren
don will meet the Stanford Paper
Company team of the District
League in . the first set of a
«*ix-game series, the second set to
rolled the following week at the
Coliseum. The new Clarendon
alleys will be the scene of the
(opening skirmish.
Stanford Paper Company
will use its regular lineup—Brad
Mandley, Albert Fischer, Irvin
Billhimer, Tom Walker and
Perce EHett. The Clarendon
lineup will be selected from
the following: Bill Morgan,
Carson Carlisle, Rex Furr, May
nard Carlisle, Major Goff, H.
Stelle and Thurston Furr.
The girls are having parliament
ary difficulties. All of the import
ant matters that were to have been
settled Saturday night with regards
to the city tournament were left in
the air when an argument de
veloped over who should be per
mitted to vote.
So the girls decided to let every
body vote at an open meeting to
be held next Saturday night at the
Arcadia.
It sounds like an excellent
Idea for the girls to turn the
whole business over to Jim
Baker. This would save them
seives lots of trouble. Baker
is the perennial scorer of the
Washington Ladies League. He
is the reincarnation of Solomon,
that fellah.
George L. Isemann, secretary of
‘ the National Duckpin Bowling Con
jgress, is busy today checking up
entries. The lists .closed Saturday
but the mail today was still yield
ing entries. A number of teams
afflicted with pay day troubles
and whatnot, requested an exten
Bion. It was Isemann’s hope that
he could have the works in by
Saturday and get down quickly to
the business of arranging the
schedule.
This is a complicated matter in
national tournaments, i n which re
quest dates frequently are made to
> -accommodate those unable to get
away from their employment at
wilL Iseman expects to be a rail
road time table expert e’er the job
is finished. He made a tenstrike
for the bowlers by getting reduced
rates for all attending the tourna
ment.
Those considering a Boni new career
Will appreciate the assistance offered
by the school mentioned In today’s
"Who’s Who” columns of The Times
and Herald.
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• By Tommy Armour
National Open and Canadian Open Champion
In traveling around the country, playing in tournaments and exhibi
tion matches, I am asked all kinds of questions about the golf swing.
Some of them are at best rather ridiculous, and most of them won’t
mean much to those who ask them when they get the answer. But
once in a while comes one that can be made worthwhile in tne
answering. Here, for instance, is one that serves to bring out a
point which may prove helpful to a great many players: Should
there be a pause at the top of the backswing?
Theoretically there should not,<
any more than there is a pause as
a pendulum reaches one extremity
of its arc and th?n changes direc
tion. At least, there is no percep
tible pause.
But a gWf club is rarely swung
with the precision of a pendulum.
Seldom indeed does one find a player
who co-ordinates all the necessary
movements into such smooth rhythm
that the club reaches the top of
the backswing and then starts down
instantly.
. It Is common enough to find
players who start the club down
at almost the exact instant that
it reaches the top limit of the
backswing. But usually ail
semblance of rhythm and smooth
ness in the stroke is lacking.
And there is just the point I want
to bring out. Snatching the club
back too past and then hurrying
the effort to hit the ball so that
the downswing begins with a jerk
is a very common fault in golf, one
of the most common of all.
Furthermore, it is sometimes very
difficult for the player to overcome
it. He may be all right so long as
he is thinking of the advice to go
slow on the backswing, but just as
soon as something else happens to
get his mind off of it, he finds
himself hurrying things again, with
the old slice, or whatever his favor
ite chronic trouble is, bobbing up.
For the player who is given to
this fault, I Would recommend a
systematic practice of cultivating
just a slight pause at the top of
the backswing.
Not a dead stop, of course,
but just enough to cause a reali
zation that there is a definite
dividing line between the move
ment of taking the chib back
and then starting it down to hit
the bail.
This can be made to apply to all
strokes, even down to the putt.
Especially will It be found valuable
on short approach shots, where
there is always a tendency to hurry
the stroke.
Try practicing the trick of just
realizing that the end of the upward
journey of the clubhead is finished,
and that now begins the real stroke
of hitting the hall.
It will do a lot to break the
habit of hurrying the stroke, and
will eliminate a good deal of trou
ble.
(Copyright, 1928, King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
TURNS TRAINER
Joe Notter, former “king of the
pigskin,” who captured the Ken
tucky Derby in 1915 with Regret,
the only filly ever to win this
classic, is now a trainer of thor
oughbreds.
ACE FOR GOVERNOR
Ex-Gov. Cary A. Haree, of Floria
recently made the coveted hole in
one while playing at the Live Oak
Golf Club, of which he is president.
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How’d You Like To Be Sniped By a Maryland Co-Ed Sharpshooter?
'EDDIE BOWEN
IN RING
Eddie Bowen, who was seriously
injured in a boxing bout here a
year ago, will make his return to
the ring Wednesday night at the
annual affair of the Rockville Vol
unteer Fire Department at Rock
ville, Md. He is to meet Joey
Rivers in a four-round bout. The
Rockville show will start at 8
o’clock.
Frankie Mann has completed his
program of athletic events. The
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At the left is Miss Margaret Mitchell, in a firing pose.
That’s the position in which she recently won the women’s
individual high point championship, and she recommends
it as the proper one for girls who wish to become pro-
headliner of eight rounds will show
Ray Bowen and Sailor McKenna.
Both boys are to weigh 137 pounds.
The opinion here is that Ray
Bowen is the youngest member of
the fighting Bowen family. Johnny
Bowen, now fighting in Florida, is
the baby of the flock.
* The semi-wind up of six rounds
will bracket Paul Bruen and
Joe Perron, both lads to gross
130 pounds.
Another slx-rounder will involve
Johnny Gauzza and Allen Small-
wood, a pair of aggressive 145-
pounders. The opening bout of
four rounds is to bring together
Gypsy Smith and Jessie Belt, at
130 pounds. Billy Lowery and
Sailor Oden are/o engage in a four
round combat.
Joe Turner and Charlie Metro
will appear In a wrestling bout.
Kid Sullivan is to referee the box
ing matches. Busses will carry
the fans to Washington after the
show.
Tickets can be secured from
Bernard Welsh at Rockville.
—lnternational Newereel Photo*
ficient with fire arms. In the center is Miss Alma Essex,
one of the individual stars of the College Park girls’ rifle
team. The picture at the right gives you an idea of how
it looks to be staring into the muzzle of a gun, Miss
Mitchell being the markswoman.
CAMP MEADE LISTING
The Camp Meade basebailers are
looking for contests with District
unlimited nines. Write the athletic
officer at Camp Meade, Md., or
phone him at Camp Meade, 320.
DRESS UP REFEREES
Referees of basketball contests
between members of the Big Five
of North Carolina will wear green
and white striped jerseys in the
future.
UfflOP
UK WK
Pitcher John Mildrexter. who
joined the Athletics last summer
with the reputation of being a
second Walter Johnson, will receive
another chance to make, good. The
Mackmen have his name down for
a railroad fare to Fort Myers, Fla.,
and will give him a second once
over under the spreading palms.
Mildrexter was quiet a disap
pointment to the Athletics. Connie
Mack gave him a private audition in
St. Louis late in the season of 1926
and liked the buzz of his speedball
so well that he said it sounded like
Walter Johnson’s fast one when
Walter first broke in.
Connie okayed the signing of
the youngster and gave him a
little dough to spend on a col
lege education. Mildrexter stuck
the cash in his pants and went
back to School, where he miied
a winter of football and basket
ball with ,a little catcli-as-catch
can studying.
That’s the last the Athletics saw
of the boy until he reported like a
giant firecracker last June in a
loud suit of one-flight-up Klassy
Kuts. They changed his clothes for
him, gave him a ball and glove
and listened for the whine of his
fast one. They didn’t hear a thing.
Something had happened to John
in the interim, a complicated way
of saying in the meantime. The
free-and-easy motion of his pitching
grace was gone and he only re
minded Connie of Walter Johnson
because he was so different. Mild
rexter was never put on the club
roster. He was given a chance in
an exhibition game or two and was
hit oftener and harder than a
British heavyweight.
Busmen Meet Tonight
To Form Diamond Team
The Alexandria, Barcroft and
Washington Bus Company basket
bailers will gather tonight at 8
o’clock at the Old Columbia School
house. The team will play home
games on the Arlington grounds this
year. J. H. Brewer and Colonel Pep
per will address the diamonders.
Entertainment will be provided by
Ethel Willis and Ollie Rosenfeld.
ir-C’'ile performers: Billie Gee,
TRACK El
TO SHOW
NEW YORK, Feb. 20. Lloyd
Hahn, whose unbroken string of 11
victories was snapped by Ray Conger
in Kansas City on Saturday night,
will attempt to start another winning
streak at the annual New York A. C.
games here tonight.
Hahn will run in the Baxter „
mile in an effort to capture his
second leg of the trophy. He
will compete against Sidney
Robinson, of Mississippi; Willie
Sullivan, formerly of George
town. and J. J. Elliot, of North
Carolina, hailed aa the South’s
best miler.
The galaxy of track stars entered,
in the other events includes E.
Monty Wells, of Dartmouth, inter*
collegiate champion in the hurdles;-;
Sabin Carr, of Yale, champion pole ,
vaulter; Al Miller, the Harvard ,
sprinter; Roland Locke, of No*
braska, another crack sprinter;..
Weems Baskin, Alabama hurdler,
and Karl Wildermuth, of George- r
town. s»
Conger’s victory over Hahn At-*
Kansas City, in which the lowa_ t
star stepped 1,000 yards in the. ;
amazing time of 2 minutes and 14 -
seconds, clipping 1 4-5 seconds from
Hahn’s indoor record, was the lead
ing topic of conversation among
track enthusiasts here today.
While some declared, that
there must have been an error -
in the distance of timing, the- •
great majority hailed Conger as-*
a great Olympic prospect. Con
ger has also defeated Dr.
Peltser, the German ace.
Hahn, who finished the race In
a walk, • declaring Conger had “
"elbowed” him 60 yards from the
tape, said aft the race that he
would never compete against Conger
again. Hahn, Conger and Peltser'
are entered in the mile event St
the Knights of Columbus games here
next week.
Doras
MUSHING
QUEBEC, Feb. 20.—Nineteen dog.
mushers, including the first woman
dogsled racer to compete in Canada, '
will start in th<? eastern interna
tional dogsled derby, which opens
here today. The woman, in question
is the famous Mrs. E. P. Ricker,
who has trained for several years
in New England's shorter races for
this 120-mile classic.
The race will iast through today,
tomorrow and Wednesday, each
team traversing 40 miles daily. The
ruling favorites are the 2 5-year-old
Emile St. Godard, winner in 1925
and also last year, and Leonhard
Seppala. 52-year-old hero of the -
serum dash in Alaska, who finished ■
second last year.
Three of the drivers St. God
ard. Early Brydges and “Shorty”
Russlck—are western Canadians.
H. Mason and 60-year-old Walter
Channing are from Boston.
Mrs. Ricker halls from Poland
Springs, Me., and Seppala from
Nome. Alaska. The rest are all
from the Province of Quebec.
St. Godard, having twice before
won the Quebec derby, will perma
nently possess the gold cup if he
wins this time. The cash prlxes z
offered this year total <2,200, of r
which |l,ooo goes to the winner, .
1400 to second place, 1300 to third .•
place, 1200 to fourth, and lesser -
prizes to the trailers. A , s .-
The dark horse is 15-year-old
Paddy Nolan, who ran fourth last r
year. If the going should be un- *
duly difficult, this youngster’s abil- .
itv to scamper with his team will
give him an advantage over all his
elders; but even under normal con-' *
ditions Paddy will give a good ac- •
count of himself, for he has a new
team this year.
Brooklyn Fans Want Cobh
To Play, Bat Robbie
Not Eager
McKeever, vied president of the
Brooklyn club, wants "Ty” Cobb
for the Robins. But Wilbert Rob
inson, manager of the team, does,
not look on the proposal with
favor. And in the meantime the
fans of Flatbush are beseiging the>
offices of the club with letters
asking that the Georgia Peach ba
signed for the coming season.
At present Robinson Is holding
the winning hand and Cobb is a
free agent. Both are in the south
land, but as far apart baseballis
tically as the North and South
Poles.
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