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SPORTS. ~ THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO! D. O, MARCH 19, 1922—PART 1 S o ' i St SN A i e e SPORTS. College Nines Are Weeding Out Material : D. C. Woman Bowlers May Hold Own Tournament | X : {GEORGETOWN, MARYLAND 'AND C. U. PRUNE SQUADS {All Are Depending Mainly On Veteran Players, But " -~ Each Has Promising Newcomers—Hilltoppers : Go to Norfolk This Week. | . BY H. C. BYRD. I OLLEGES here are weeding out their base ball material and to- morrow will begin the real work of rounding out their teams for ) opening games within the next two weeks. Georgetown yesterday ut its squad to the extent of dropping thirty men, Catholic University ast Wednesday chopped its squad to eighteen, and Friday the University pf Maryland cut down its list of candidates to twenty. So far, very little Wwork has been done toward shaping up teams as far as team play is con- | kerned, and it is this phase of practice to which coaches will devote most | of the practice for the time remaining before the opening of their seasons. Georgetown, Catholic U. and Mary- | two schools during the indoor meets {Yand will depend in the main on ma- |are out agaln. ~Both have meets i gerial from their last year's teams, ! motwithstanding that each has on its uad several promising new players. D on the Hilltop the battery main- ays will be the same, with Reynolds and Hyman doing the bulk of the :itchlnx and Kenyon and Cunning- am the catching. However, George- town has one new slab artist who is said to have all the requisites of a collegiate star. His name is Jenkins, and last year he made a splendid Tecord for Dean Academy. Jenkins, like Hyman, is a lefthander. Has Veteran Infielders. Sheedy at first and Flavin at third @re the veterans around whom the Blue and Gray infleld is to be built. The best of the material out for the keystone positions are Welch and heridan at decond and John Murphy and Malley at short. Sheridan and Malley are from the team of 1921. The three leading playvers for out- fleld positions are Jimmy Murphy, John Walsh and Jimmy Grove. Schmidt and McCarthy are two more Pltchers who are showing much more han the average collegiate hurler. John O'Reilly, coach of the team. suid last night that his team was Way back in its training and that he had been unable, because of weather conditions. to work his men together and build up anything much in the way of teamwork. O'Rei d the opinion that teams from the north would have much the mdvantage of local nines; because of the cages in which the’northerners practice during inclement weather. €. U. Has Good Nucleus. _Catholic University has about de- cided on three of the positions in its infield. Nobody has shown enough yet to mive Coach Moran even an im- pression of being sufficiently capable 1o beat out Driscoll for first. Yeager. a new man. who played foot ball and basket ball, is about the best of the candidates ‘for second, and DeNault scems to have the proverbial cinch on his old position at short. Third base is doubtful, as three men are ‘working out around that corner and| not one seems up to the standard of the other infleld men. McCarthy, }.ahwlrr and Connell are trying for the o Corwin probably will do more of | the catching for the Brooklanders, al- though Moran says that he may use Driscoll back of the bat at times. Carrigan. one of the outfielders, and Sampedro, another catcher, are being Yorked at first with the idea of using one of them in that position in games in which Driscoll is behind the plate. Vail, Breslin and Lynch so far have made about the strongest bid for out- ficld _honors, but Buckley, Mahoney and Rhodey are likely candidates. Jackson, last year's star left-hander, is back in uniform, and besides him Moran will rely mainly on Clark, a new man, who has the reputation of being so good that he has turned down offers from big league clubs. Other pitchers are Mays. Kendrick, Ducharme, Fasce and Emery. Maryland's Outlook Dright. University of Marvland has had so many men at practice that little ad- vance has been made. The squad gradually has been thinned out until it is down to twenty men, and to- morrow work will begin in welding together a team. Nisbet is the only member of last vear's pitching staft back on the job, but besides him the College Park school has back Chichester. who did some fine mound work before the war. Both are right- handérs. Other right-handers are Burdéfte, who caught and pitched last summer for the Gaithersburg in the Montgomery County Gaylor, who was at Randolph- Macon; Neuhiser, star pitcher for the Hageratown High School. The Mary- landers have a left-hand hurler for the first time in years in the person of Schrider, who toed the slab last summer for Silver Spring. Bailey, captain; Wallace and Wat- kins, catchers in 1921 are back, as s the entire infield of last season, Pollock at first. Paganucci at second, roves at third and Burroughs at short. Moran and Semler are the out- flelders of the 1921 team on the squad. Best of the new plavers try- ing for positions on the infleld are _Simmons. former University of Min- fesata freshman first baseman; Bes- ley, ‘substitute at Maryland a year ago: Garder, from Mount Airy High School, and ' Litchfield, former East- qrn _High first-sacker. Heine, who used to play in the outfleld for Tech High, and Mace, outfielder at Cam- bridge High u vear, seem to be the est of the mew men workin, outfield fobs. e al base ball for Georgetow Catholic University and Maryland ba- Zins within the next two weeks. The Blue and Gray will be the first to &ct into action. being due to go to Norfolk Thursday night to play the Norfolk Naval Tralning Station two games, Friday and Saturday. Catho- Hc University meets Gallaudet Marc) 29, the following Wednesday, and Uni- versity of Maryland journeys to An- ;mapolis & week from next Saturday, pril 1, to try conclusions witn tho avy. . A meeting of Tocal athletes interest- @d in lacrosse is to be held tomor- Tow night at Spalding’s, at $ o'clock, for the purpose of forming a la. orosse gameé. The meeting is being tfostered by R. V. Truift, coach of la- crosse at the University of Mary- land, and Charley Guyon, coach at astern High, and former Carlisle la- rosse star. Several former Cornell ?“ are expected at the meeting and | 2)f & dozen former players at Hop- ins have indicated their intention o be present. A plan is on foot to form a lacrosse club in Washington 10 bring here strong college twelves bnd particularly to get a match with he Oxford-Cambridge team, which +Ba to tour the east this spring. Coach Truitt in speaking of the pos- pibilities of lacrosse last night said hat the game has all the advantages f many other contests. “It has the finesse of tennis, the worth to develop wndurance and skill, and has all tho «qualities which bulld in yopng men yuggedness, and reliance. There it ay be seen that n lacrosse one may Imost get all the things which foot all, cross country running &nd ten- mis give to athletes. And, of -ourse, seam work is an essential because swithout -it a lacrosse team is help- ‘8ss. I understand that Eastern High intends to have a lacrosse team and I hope it will be only a short while ‘before all the local high scl the sport. Georgetown and University of Maryland probably will get together 1his week to arrange for two base - hall games. The contests probebly will be staged some time in May. will not have & spring. Lack "o George Washingt: ‘mase ball team this round and generally inadequate facili- les for the diamond sport are the rea- son. Outoor track adl Neld worlk 1o un- ¥er way at Georgetown and Mary- land. After a brief rest practically &l the athietes Who Tepresented the within the next four weeks, George- town being listed for a date with Penn State and Maryland with Wash- ington and Lee. Georgetown already has & well rounded squad, but Mary- 1and 18 just beginning to rebuild its track fortunes, this being its first year outdoors since the war. DARTMOUTH LOSES TRIO OF ITS BEST ATHLETES ‘Three out iding athletes who saw service in the war e just been graduated from Dartmouth. ‘They are J. E. Robertson, one of the great backfield men of % time; M. P. Merritt, foot ball and base ball star, and H. N. Brown of the basket ball and base ball teams. Jim Robertsom will not, as was reported, go to Oglethorpe Uni- versity in Georgia to coach mext fall, but will assist Jack Gannell at Dartmouth. Robertson, while a soldler in France, played uson an Army team coached Ly Bill Alexander, the Georgin Tech tutor. Alex says that in all his time, in France or upon the gridiron in time of peace, ke never xow Robertson's equal. The Tech coach tells of an Army contest on the other side during the war in wkich Robertson won almost single-handed. SCOUTS TO KEEP EYE ON COLLEGE PLAYERS Georgia Tech, Auburn and probably other important southern colleges will_have base ball scouts roaming the bushes this summer. The duties of these emissaries will not be to dig up promising players, but to see that the southern intercollegiate confer- ence rule forbidding college players to receive money for playing summer ball is strictly enforced. This plan, it is hoped by its spon- -sors. will allow college men to play for the fun of the game and still pre- vent any taint of professionalism from attaching to their summer’s di- version. The executive committee of the conference is now considering how best to enforce its rule against playing base ball for money and is expected to adopt the scout’ system as at least a part of its plan. College athletic directors through- out the country will watch the ex- periment ciosely, for if successful the plan adopted by Georgia Teach should mean a country-wide solution of the summer base ball evil. Until the formation of the con- ference last January, students at Georgia Tech, Auburn. Georgia and Alabama were permitted to play sum- mer ball provided they did not play on regular league teams. Several towns concelved the ldea of getting most of the talent for their nines from the versity teams at these in- stitutions. Contests would then be billed not only as being between two towns, but between two colleges. This created interest and aided gate re- ceipts. Managers of several of these town teams got together this winter and agreed if possible to take over college nines in their entirety after com- mencement and play them as repre- senting the various towns. The Tech team, for example, had offers from several communities. However, as the new conference rule provides that students must not receive a cent ove actual expenses for playing ball, these offers, of course, have been declined. i A. . U. MAY CONDUCT ATHLETICS FOR WOMEN BOSTON, March 18.—Track and field eports for women in this coun- try will be recognized and supervised by the Amateur Athletic Union with in a year or two, Willlam C. Prout, president of the organizaton, said to. day. Events for womeh on track and fleld will undoubtedly be included in the 1928 Olympic games, he added. Officials of the A. A. U. were ape proached recently in the intérests of women in sports by directors of the women's track committee, headed by Harry E. Stewart of New Haven, Conn., and plans for making the lat- ter a body subsidiary to the A. A.-U. are now under consideration. President Prout sad there was lit- tle doubt that the action would bé taken and that the committee then would conduct track and field com- petitions as swimming events for women are now conducted. Dr. Allan W. Rowe of this city, & director of athletics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Bo ton University, it is understo% may be asked to give the A . the benefit of his study of the subject of track sports for women. PENN RELAY. CARNIVAL DRAWS RECORD ENTRY PHILADELPHIA, March 18.—Three hundred and ninety-five institutions have entered teams or individual ath- letes in the, University of Pennsyl- vania relay carnjval, to be held April 28 and 29. Entries do not close until April 1. when it is expected st least | have bec 425 colleges and schools will have signified their intention of competing. The list, already a record breaker, includes 98 coMeges, 155 high schools, 56 preparatory schools, 69 grammar schools and 17 parochial ‘schools. It embraces all sections of the United States and includes an entry from the University of Havana. Two of the four Pacific coast col- leges entered, Redlands of California and the Oregon Agricultural College, will be represented by relay teams. The other two, Washington State and the University.of Oregon, will com- pete in the special events. D. C. CYCLIST SCORES. ‘Willard, seventeen-yéar-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Gibsoni former residents of Washington, now living. in Manila, P. ‘won the four and five mile events and finished secondin the 440-yard Int in bdicycle races re- cently held in the fsland capital. It was, the youngster’s first appearance in competi o l N e The Time Limit. The AVERAGE FIGHTER 1S THROUGH” AT THE AGE OF 28 YA Tenns CRAMPS BURN OUT QUICKLY 4NRESTLERS LAST A REMARKABLY LONG TME CONSIDE THE SPORT. The time limit is short—time is fleeting. A champion has little time before he starts down again. As a matter of fact, I guess we all are eith 15 A VETERAN AT 30 —By Ripley. |FLYNN GOT EXPERIENCE IN FIGHT WITH JOHNSON FORT WORTH, Tex., March 18— Jim Fiyum of Pueblo, weight i A BALL PLAYER THE AVERAGE ATHLETE 1S GOODFoR A FEwW FLEETNG YEARS RING THE STRENUOUSNESS OF MOST MARMEN ARE STILL GOOD AT 40 to rest after the long climb upward er going up or down. The average boxer is “through” at twenty-eight; the average age at which titles are lost is earlier than that. Of course, there are exceptions—Fitz, Jeff, Johnson and others—but they had gone far back before they | lost their crowns. On the other hand, we have such great fighters as Terry McGovern, who won three world | first ballot. Frank Erne, Ad Wolgast, Kid Williams, Kewpie Ertle, Willie titles and was done before he cast Ritchie and a host of others who were well on their way downward before the age of twenty-five. The fight game is wearing with its sieges of training, but particularly because of the punishment the battlers all receive. The diamond is a little better. Here we call-'em veterans at the age of thirty. The average ball player is good for about eight years in the big leagues. The game is too fast and keen. The eye and limb soon show signs of wear. Strange that most notable exceptions are also the most n Cobb, Collins, Johnson and Speaker. otable players, like Wagner, Lajoie, The career of a tennis champ is short and sweet. Violent playing under torrid skies burns them out q-lcki tralia and Larned of America. As usual the greatest players last the greatest length of time—the Dohertys of England, Brooks of Aus- Athletes are good for a few fleeting years. The age of twenty-five usually marks the end—except, of course, the big weight men like McGrath, McDonald, Ryan and others. Oarsmen average about four years; swimmers are good until thirty. " “The sports which seem to insure long and happy careers are golf and wrestling _Gelf, of course, has no age limit. Aged veterans meet on even terms with “boy wonders.” Johnny Ball won the English championship eight times—the last vlctor¥ was twenty years later than the most violent sports of all, yet Zbyzsko, who just r:lin?u years old. Gotch, Hackenschmidt, Mahmout, Youssouf, good at the forty-year mark. first. The case of wrestling is unusual. It is one of the ished the championship to Lewis, is at least forty-five | Dr. Roller, Jenkins, uldoon and Bothner were all STILL ANOTHER GOLF CLUB}4]5.YAR|] GOLF DRIVE all the golfers of the club. ‘The Indian Springs Golf Club has just closed a deal with a Long Island estate for the beautifying of its golf course by scattering trees over it. About 500 trees of from three to six inches in diameter and about twenty- five feet in height will be trans- 1TH three new golf clubs already under way in or about Wash- ington, anothet new club is in process of formation, it was of well-to-do members of the Chevy Chase Club, is as yet unnamed and although the ground for the golf course and clubhouse has been tenta- The organization bids fair to be known as the “millionatres’ club” of [MINIRON MOST USEFUL member. it is said, a subscription of| CLUB, VARDON DECLARES $10,000 is necessary. Marshal Whit- C declares that the midiron is the mer amateur champion of the Dis- trict, 15 sald to be one of those in-| most useful club in the bug. Ac- solfer blunders when ke selects a The founders, it is related, wish to secure twenty men to put up $10.000| Tro sepac; & "het of more than course that will be second to mone. They already have about fifteen men if carried to completion, would bring to Washington a ocourse \for which ne' striven—one which would be sultable primarily for first-class play- [:I-USE “]NG GUI-F ]AU 'I' could aply be staged. Ouly three of the new greens of the| CHICAGO, March 18.—James Barnes will be out 6f use during the playing of the annual tournament of that|champion, and Jack Hutchison of Chicago, British titleholder, covered seventh. The other rearranged holes, which include practically all the rest, | winter golf tour, which ended with their return to Chicago vyesterday. according to club officials. New fair- ways have beem bullt for the fifth, |tournaments in cities on the Pacifio coast and along the gulf coast, win- last fall. They probably will not be in shape for tournament play by the |links, setting a number of course records and bagging two champion- greens may be all right. ‘The remainder of the course iscom-| Barnes won the California open champlonship and Hutchison took the to be in top-notch condition for the club’s spring event. Several of the|not do so well on Texas and Louis- iana links, apparently, they said, be- visitors, notably the seventeenth, which has been made one of the best | prolonged and continuous golfing Wwith many nights spent on trainings. One of the finest features of the new Jayout lies in the fact that the courfie | the champions found golf booming. Large galleries followed the players pl%:r as it in for the scratch man. 6 player who attempts to biteland even among the amateurs they found many fine players who could or crowds a buhker too close wiil per! find ample trouble. On_ the othér| In several instances the combined prowess of the premier golfers of the accurate can ko place his shots as to avoid major trouble. There is hardly | feats at the hands of golfers little heard of in the central and eastern will méet with the commendation of a flock of sterling golfers was grow- ing to championship form in both After a week's rest, Barnes and Hutchison will €0 to Pinehurst for ship, Hutchison to defend the title. Hutchison has not decided whether BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. i v learned last night. The new organization, backed by a group tively selected, it has not yet been purchased. Washington, for to become a charter latch of the Chevy Chase Club, for-| gemarcy Vardom. the British pro, terested in the project. g O aR G (hesty. A each to purchase ground and build a willing to chip in that sum. The plan, HU'I‘EHIS“N AND BARNES other clubs about Washington have ’ ers and one on which championships rearranged Chevy Chase Club course| .* noy york, national open golf club. These are the fifth, sixth and more than 10,000 miles during their will be in use during the tournament, They played in forty matches and sixth and seventh, whioh were seeded ning most of the encounters of the middle of May, although the new ships. ing_along admirably and is expectea northern California title. They did holes are calling forth praise from cause they were somewhat stale from two-shot holes around Washington. Everywhere in the west and south is” as well suited for the mediocre over excellent, though new, courses, off & bit too much in the way of carry be defeated only by b golf. hand, the short player who is fairly world for 1921-32 had to suffer de- a question that the improvements states. Both experts were agreed that western and southern states. the north and south open champlon- he will return to England to try to Blea: o, “willomwe -and evorgraons | Fotain s British crown. fawe fox thels Josation are el plans for their location are now being | JAGEN WINS GOLF EVENT; Thé trees are desired for landscape effeét only and will be so placed as not to interfere with play. The present plan is to run them ardund the.entire course, providing plenty of ~ McLEOD FINISHES NINTH BELLEAIR HEIGHTS, Fla., March 18.—The west coast of Florida open championship w: won by Walter Hagen of Detrolt, today, who covered four rounds in 290 strokes: Hagen, who is the former holder of the title, started his morning round five strokes behind sGéorge Smith of Hyde Park, but he picked all of these up by noon and started in the afternoon round tied for first ploce. He- took only 73 to Smih’s 74 for the final round. Scores: o B S, e Robert Out at the Washingtom Golf' and Country Club Chairman MoClenahan of th tee is getting for the cur- tain opener of the tournament season hereabouts, the club’s annual spring tournament, to be held May 4, 5 and 6. Dr. McClenahan believes the courseé will bé in excellént shape for the evént. Incidentally, it nro&lbg SRRy L 3 I I T s | i ! will be the last big toufney 292 played on the présent course of the McDonald, Bobolink. 203 club, as it is hoped the new arrange- | George Mclain 208 ment of holes may be put intojuse later 4}"-' Smith, li",‘-«'-'- % Tuthe esdnow, ; Tian sirumny = " Sidney Fatek, the vetéran Chicage runner, has been competing in mara- thoas fLer years. nearly twenty B0¢| Breat American 15 MADE BY BRITISHE A drive of 415 yards is credited to Frank Dennis, twenty-year-old pro- | TOM KIDDING HIMSELF, i the downfall Col., heavy- pugilist today revived of his fight with Jack Johnson at Las Jegas, N. M., in 1913, which was stopped by police after aanguinary rounds. Flynn divaiged the fact rge putromage, met him o penny. He continueds “When 1 met Johmson at Las Vegas 1 had all to gain and not a thing to lose. I was to get 35 per cent of all receivts over $30,000. Unfortunately, the bout drew $38,- and 1 never received a dime, while Johnson took every penny in the house.” LADIES’ LEAGUE IS READY TO CONDUCT TITLE EVENT Would Divorce Own Championships From Annual Men’s Carnival—W. C. D. A. Will Recom- mend Separate Contests for Fair Sex. OMAN duckpinners of Washington will have their champion- W ship tournament this spring and if they possibly can, will con- duct it themselves. The City Duckpin Association, strictly an organization for men, has been fostering contests for female bowlers annually for several years when the men have finished battling for titles, but this season it is disposed to leave the handling of the tourney en- tirely to the fair ones. And the. latter will welcome the chance if the sentiment prevailing among the teams of the Washington Ladies’ Duck- BROTHER MIKE AVERS ST. PAUL, Minn., March 18.—Tom Gibbons, who built up a string of a score of knockouts in his quest of the heavywelght pugilistic champlonship only to be outpointed a few days ag0 by Harry Greb, the Pittsburgh rubber ball, cannot punch any harder than he ever could, and has been ruined as a superb boxer, temporarily attleast. So says his brother, the famous Phan- tom Mike, according to news' dis- patches from Grand Forks, N. D. feel sorry for Tom,” Mike said. “But it was his own fault. Tom has fallen into the same rut that has been of many other great boxers. He thought he could hit, and he knocked out & couple of dozen of hig, slow fellows, which got him quite a standing in the pugllistic world, but it has ruined him as a boxer. “Tom now neglects to apply himself properly. When training to fight a fellow of the Greb type he should have trained for speed with fast boxers. In- stead of that he worked out with big ‘hams’ and was always practicing knockout punches. The result was he was too slow. “Tom also placed a lot of confidence in a secret punch, a left hook to the liver. This punch is no secret, in fact, it 18 older than Tom himself. Every one knew Tom was trying to use it. Dal Hawkins first made this left- hook-to-the-body punch famous twen- ty years ago. Battling Nelson also used it. Nelson was not a good boxer and was forced to resort to his punch- ing ability. “With Tommy it was different; he was @ good boxer, but made himself belleve that he developed a punch. The fact is Tom cannot hit anv harder now than he ever could, but he has been boxing big, slow fellows that generally would rather quit than go the distance.” ANZAC HEAVYWEIGHT AFTER V. S. FIGHTERS MILWAUKEE. Wis; March 18— Jim Tracy, heavyweight champion boxer of Australia, arrived in Mil- waukee today for a few days rest, after which he will leave for New York, where his managers are said to be negotiating for a match with either Bill Brennan or Billy Miske. Tracy is anxious to meet Jack Demp- sey, and before he leaves this coun- try hopes to enter the ring with the world champfon. The Australian boxer welghs 210 nounds, is 6 feet 3 inches in height and has a reach of 81 inches. Tracy is eredited with having defeated Lloyd, champion of Australla; Cook of England, and Pooley, heavyweight champion of New Zealand. He does not intend to enter the ring, he says, until he has become ac- customed to the climate. MANY D. C. WRESTLERS SEEK S. A. MAT TITLES ‘Washington Canoe Club has named fessional of the Crewe Golf Club of | six men and Gallaudet College two to England. for by two members. This distance is vouched | compete in the local preliminaries of the South Atlantic A. A. U. wrestling The ball was hit from a tee slightly | champlionships at the Washington Ca- above the green, 335 yards away. pitched on the ground, It | noe Club Wednesday night, starting which was|at 8 o'clock. The Paddlers will be frost bound, and ran over the green |reprseented by Clarence Bruce, 125 80 yards beyond the hole. pounds; George Bruce, 135 pounds; James Braid, 2 leading English pro- | Don Udall, 145 pounds; Capt. Craig, fessional, has driven & ball on frost- | 158 pounds; C. W. Havens, 175 pounds, bound ground at Walton Heath ajand W. Havems, heavyweight. For distance of 395 vards and declares|the Collegians, James N. Orman. that to be his longest drive. 125 pounds; Charles Schraeger, 145 H. H. Horne, another Britsh pro-|pounds; Towi Lindholm, 158 pounds, fessional, noted for long-distance|and Uriel C. Jones. 158 pounds, will at North Berwick. BOXER IS EXONERATED. OMAHA, Neb., March 18.—Charles Havlicek, Omaha prize fighter, fatally injured last night in & bout with Ray Carter of Sioux City, Jowa, meét an accidental death, it was deédided by a coroner’s jury. ¥ NAVY MATMEN SCORE. ANNAPOLIS, March 18.—The Mid- shipmen closed their most successful wrestling season here today, defeat- ing Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology six bouts to one. The victory gave the Middles their eighth straight win, and of fifty-six bouts in which they contested they lost only three. A recorded a distance of | wrestle. Entries are expected from other Washingtonians. The_finals will be held at the Cen- tral Y."M. C. A. in Baltimore mext Saturday night. Championships will be at stake in the following classes: 108 pounds and under, 115 pounds and under, 125 pounds and under, 135 inds and under, 145 pounds and under, 158 poun and under, 175 pounds and under and over 175 pounds. —_— BOUT TO MIKE 0'DOWD. NEW YORK, March 18.—Mike 0'Dowd of St. Paul, former middle- weight champion, was awarded the judge's decision over Soldier Bart- field of Brooklyn in a twelve-round bout here tonight, O'Dowd forced the fight all the way. FRENCH ASSERT DUELING IS ON A PAR WITH BOXING BY SPARROW McGANN. S a result of the boxing craze in France the practice of dueling may be restored to public use. Any way there is a movement on at the present time among prominent fencers of France to have the duello sanctioned, and the chief reason they give is that the practice is not nearly as deadly as boxing. paign in behalf of the good old waged and is backed by a lot of There have been a few fatilities in the history of French dueling. but not many. Indeed, even horse racing shows & much largér death list. “If boxers can knock each other silly and even kill one another, why cannot dueling once more be madé legal? “It's a gentleman's game and boxing isn't.” “ls there no justice in France?’ “The honor of the Freénch nation' demands it.” cry the 8o fencers aud, all in all, there is a big fuss on. Boxing Once Forbidden. Any one whe thinks thet dueling may not climb once more to favor upon the back -of ing is not fa- milier with the French tempefament and their way of doing things. So far as boxing is concerned, the sport was forbidden by law for more than eighty vears in France. It was not more than thifty years 8go that the Paris prefect of police forbade a three-round boxing match bétween au Englishman and & Frenchman on the ground that if boxing opponents met with bare hands thefr chief object was “to tear each othér’s ears oft. s mot josh. 1t was the exact reason which the prefect gave. His curious.idea of the manly art Temeyaicens sohn L. Sullivan. B eavyweight, John k 03 happened to be sitting in the Cafe de Paris. He was not in n;-llmn —not | d notice it a l’:n:ol‘:on?‘euh“mn well known old champ “Vin Blink” led him,.in_ the, coursé of an akércation with & wafter, to seize the urvmm_mxn of_heating | and pretty complétely détach it fromr its jvory-base. "1"‘1:60 lndll:.i‘ caused o o epeciatised in mg_ passed ping off ears. Hein!" Yenrs This | try. Word from Paris states that the cam- game of sword sticking is being strongly influential persons. o before the Frénch authérities would believe that it wasn't a part of the game. 1 Began to Boom Recently. Later, however, mild exhibitions of fistic encounters were permitted. Feet' and hands were used, but not in brutal fashion; opponents were merely touched as fn fencing. But in 1905 a liberal and better informed prefect let down the bars and this year really marks the date in which boxing began to boom in France. Then the way was paved for the de- velopment of such sterling fighters as Charley Ledoux, Eugene Criqui, Mercel Nilles and Georges Carpentier. —_—— . EARN RIFLE MEDALS. Margaret Umbatgh, 74 O street northeast; James B. Bradley, 2118 P. street, and Thelma Winkjer, 1921 Lawrente .stréet nertheast, werée medal winners in the February shoot of the Winchester Junior Rifle Co?u. More than 1,400 medals were awarded to participants throughout the coup- ——— PATRED FOR NET PLAY. BOSTON, Mass., March 18—Play in the national women's indoor ten- e e resore Only fous h at Lo . g’f tl:e ‘thirty-eight entries were arbi- trarily placed—Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt llory of New York, Mr-.m?nnon o Palle. Bancroft and uli-fifm Sigourney. of this eity._ s rla 1 1o “hll exnm:t lon _ sing pin League means anything. CHICAGO ROLLER TOPS IN A. B. C. ALL-EVENTS TOLEDO, Ohio, March 18—A. Lea of Chicago took third place This organization, the oldest and strongest of the women's circuits in the city, is heartily in favor of taking over the tournament from the W ington City Duckpin Association and making it an independent affair. The league already is planning a cham- in the singles and first in the all events of the American Bowling Congress tournament here today. Lea put together games of 202 232 and 258 for a total of 690 in the singles. He rolled 534 with the Federal Markets of Chicago in the Sive-man event last might and toppled the maples for 662 in his doubles with S. Kellogs this morning, giving him a total of 1,886 for his nine games. FOUR ARMY-NAVY BOUTS INARENA AT FORT MYER Four bouts in which troopers of the 3a Cavairy will oppose boxers of the local naval air station are to feature the fight show to be offered by the Fort Myer Athletic Association at Fort Myer tomorrow night. Each of the engage- ments is limited to six rounds. Two four-round preliminaries, in which men of the post will be matched, have beenl scheduled. Boatswain Duarte of Bollinz Field | and Private Shifty Shifton of Troop Gl will mix in the most important engage- ment, a lightweight affair. A feather- { weight tilt will find Seaman We!der op- posed by Sergt. Matthew McBride of headquarters troop, while Chief Petty Officer Scott will meet Private Vincent Carbon of Troop E in a bantam scrap. Gunner Hines and Private James V. Maxfiéld of the service troop provide a middleweight fight. The preliminaries will have Private Frank Schmitt battling with Private Stephen Vitale in a lightwelght match and Private Eddie Pabst clashing with Corp. Vincent Di Carlo in a 138-pound mill. The bouts will be held in the post riding hall, beginning at 8 o'clock. Tia Juana Results : two-year olds— 40, $3. 2 ‘second 1 0, third. ' Time. 0.49 Pat Hamson. Tuie, Northfield, Gilli- flower. Lockedale, Miss Challance and Peter Pierson aleo ran. Second race, fire and one-half furlongs: three-year-olds_ and vp—Dancing Girl, 110 (Huntamer), $2.60, $2.40, Sir’ John Verzne, 122' (Thompson). second; Lady Smali, 113 (Defard), $6.80, Time, 1.0835. Apple Jack. Miss Clark. Muriel's| Pet, Jackpot and Little Princess also ran. Third race. one mile; three-veatolds and up. —iotta . 101 (Wilson), $7.20, $2.00, won: Castle Crown, 82 '(Long). $1 $4.40, second; Restful, 105 (Huntamer), $2. third. Time, 144. Galway. Bridgett. Helen Lucs ck Bridge, Little Orphan and Dells Welta' also ran. Fourth race, six furlons a5d up__Clover Junia 1 $§7.40, '£4.80. won Hurn), $3.00, $2.80, second; Careen.'115 (Red- ford),” $4.80. thi Lewis B., Redma: Klein also ran. th race, one and threequarter miles; three-year-olds and up—Rouen. 115 (Huntamer), $7.00.” $3.20. $2.00, won:; Bourbon Green, 112 (Gross), $4.00, $3.20, 'second: Ruymer. 85 (Wilson), ~ . $3.00, third. e, 3.02 2 Bucklorn , Booveville and Louis Lach- six furlongs: three-year-olds lnd’ 110 (P. Hurn), $i.60, $3.00, Fond Hope, 110 (Studer), £3.40, ay, 115 (Gross), $3.00, . C. Dooly, Merry Lass also ran. ighth *miles: 110_ (Mol $2.80, secon third, “Time. Tambian, Dora Beventh race, three-year-olds 15 ‘and one ang, one nd _up—Monton: .80, : ters), $11.20, $4.00. $2.80. won: White Haven, 108 (Stad second: Alma 108 _(Wilson ‘ime, 1.563-5. $2.40, third. T Cobrlta, Flash of Steel, Baby Sister and Hug Me also ran. _Havm Race Results meln-l’ll Fairbanks, 115 _(Atkins). 5 to 8" 1, even, won: Jessica F. 110 (Fields), 8't0o 5 4 to 5, By Gone, 112 (Pevic), 3 to 1, third. Time, 1:15 4-5. ‘Thoughtless Beanty, Fair Lassie, Say When, Mr. Jiggs, Kayman, Ely, Sir Adsum, Brizs and First Troop also ran. Becond race. four-sear-olds and up. 5% fur- le. 115 (Kenneds), 7 fo 2. 8 longs—Fttzboodle. o 28 105 _(Pribie). to 5, 4 to 5. won; N;IIIM ll:lnbo. 110 ( 2, second; Gratian, ren third, Time, 1:08 3. Net Yet, Jill ‘Winds of Chance, Archive, Eddie Tranter and | Iso ran. e i race. three-year-olds, 6 furlongs—Man- fcure, 100 (McLaughlin). 5 €0 2, even, 1 to 2, won: Stenewall, 105 (Sheffel), ‘éven,’1 to 2. second. . 104 (Prible), 1 to 2. third. Betsy Girl, Mad Nell, o nd Smiling Lad also ran. Mollie Puff and g 5. i '8 to 5, k!inn&‘ three-year-olds, 1 mile ‘lml 62 2 to 1. —Lady Astor, 104 (Sheffel e Ay 4 won: Qrm‘-san. 1 ). 5 to 2, even, second: Lighter, 110 (Garner). gut, (hisd, Time, 1:43 25. 'Caesar, Randel aleo ran. . “s\z!&‘h:;. three-year-olds and up, 1 mile Orris, 90_(Poole). 2 to 1 cord and Cork also ran. ‘Mobile Race Results Fitst rebe, (hfeeyearolds and npwai about five furlongs—Rubula, 111 (Murphy), 32 t0 1, 5 to 1 and § to 3, won: Louis Lich- tenheim, 116 (Walls), 4 to 1. 2 to 1, i and Midnight Storles, 116 (0. Mahohey). 6 10 5, third. Time, 05625, Mabel A, Kedgewick, Powder Face, Lady Acton, Burico, War Re- llef apd Bun Time also ran. . four-year-oids a8d upward; about five furlongs—Assume, 111 (Rice), 3 to 2, 3 to 5, 1 to 3, won: Charles A. Byrne. 111 nowskl), 2 16 1, even. second, 111 (Widal). 3 to 5, third. Time, 1. Terrible Miss, Dr. Zab, Annette Teller, Troea. dero, F. G. Corley, Blue Jay and Arrow Polnt also ‘ran. Third ‘m‘fll‘ i Deriic 114 (Gray). 3 to 1. B to 5 verida, 101 nowski), even, third. Time, $ e Au l(wnfii.s.ndr .. Miss La Veita, My Rose and San Diego also ran. ‘three yearolds and_upward: L nait furlonge-—Marpiy; 11 to 10, 1 to 3, won: Prem- jsing_ Tom, 114 (Gray), 6 to 1, 5'%0 2. second, and Financial Rooster,’ 118 (Boganowski). 3 t6 5, third. Tome, 1.102-5. Assumption, Kirah abd Ace of Acés also ran. th Tace, ope mile snd seventy yard: three-year-olds #nd _upwa V.. 1 Rice), 7 to 2, Obstinste, 103 (Wayt). 1t (Gray), D560 $ teconds god D o c . 2 to s.i’mm._ ‘m 1.40 Rose-Field, , Benyan and Job 5(30. three-year-olds and up, six fur-| Leagu . to seven games. pionship event in which the local entrants would be grouped m two classes and a special class provided for out-of-town duckpinners. Class Divislon Set at 5. An average of 55 has been set as the dividing mark in the tentative scheme of the Washington League. This would place teams rating 425. doubles rating 170 and _individuals rating 85 or better in Class A and all below these ratings in Class B, 50 far as the city contestants are concerned. Visiting bowlers would be rated according to averages achieved in their own ciresits or strive for laurels without any handi- capping. Of course, the lists would not be restricted to members of the Wash- ington Ladles’ League. Fives and doubles as well as singles contestants would be invited from governmental and commercial institutions not af- filiated with the circuit, and other leagues—there are several small ones—probably would be represented. While George L. Isemann, presi- dent of the Washington City Duckpin Association, at that organization's meeting some time this week will recommend the divorcing of the women’s tournament from the men's annual championships this year, he and other leaders in the city as- sociation will ever be ready to assist the fair bowlers in every way in the conduct of their tourncy. The men are quite anxious that bowling be more generally patronized by women. but belicve the latter should have control of their title battles. For the first since the start of the season. Washington Loan and Trust Company i8 roosting below the top perch in the Bankers' League. American Security went into the first position Friday, when it took three games from the Ninth and F Street boys, and the latter droped to third place, behind Second National Bank Commercial National Bank and W. B Hibbs & Co. are tied for fourth place ynot so far behind the erstwhile lead- ers. Team records follow: American Security and Trust. won 46, lost 23; Second National, won 47. lost 25; Washington Loan and Trust, won 43, lost 24; Commercial Nationa won 42, lost 30; W. B. Hibbs, won 42 lost 30; Riggs National, won 36, lost 30; Federal National, won 34, lost 38: National Savings and Trust, won 31, lost 35; District National, won 31, lost 38; National of Washington, won 25, lost American National, won lost 49; National Metropolitan, won 21, lost 51. Sixteen howlers will take the Recreation drives Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the first round of the annual newspaper individual duckpin championship. The opening round will be concluded Thursday. Those v1to bowl in the first squad this week are: J. A. Anadale. N. H. Perber, M. Flynn, Roderick Thomas, S. R. White, S. Goldberg. C. Gemmell, F. Cassey. H. Lawrence and J. H. Darwin of R. F. Orme, C. and L. Davis of the o. the Time: E. A. Humme! .| Post and H. Neman and A. W. Col- lier of the Bulletin. Three quints are tied for first place . in the Department of .Agriculture League, Plant. Chemistry and States each having won 39 games and lost Accounts is fourtk, Farm fifth, Roads sixth, Soils seventh and Mar- kets eighth. Finance is runming ahead in the Interstate League, but it has not a comfortable lead. It has won 48 games and lost 24. Directors in sec- ond place have triumphed 44 times in 189 starts, while Engineers have taken 44 of 72 encounters. Fourth Section is in fourht position. Fifth is held by Traffic, and Statistics is last. Nan Coppage of the Orysters. witi a game of 105, and Dorothy Wilson of Post Office Department, with a eet of 276, were the high scorers 1. week in the Washington Ladles’ Widda Stephens made set. with 275, while Elfriede Yaggie and Elizgbeth Pai- terson tied for second igh game, with 103 each. Zelda LaPorte, = Post Office Department bowler, hau high flat game, with 90. Bowlers in the pig league- of ‘Washington Centennial Masonic Lodge have about epded their chase for laurels. The Wardens, with 43 won and 14 lost, aro well ahead of the seven other teams. These are trailing the leaders as follows: Masters, Apprentices, Marshals. Fellowcrafts. Tilers, Stewards and Deacons. e. second high By defeating the Hobbies three games Thursd; tho Harties in- creased their A. G. League lead They mow have & record of 49 victories and 23 defeats. 3. Kmex of Philadelphia. ¥l who will roll with the White Ele- 30 | phants in the A. B. C. championships A, 104 6 1, meeond; Aaarel.46 35, Aing|at Toledo tomorrow and Monday. B, Wreckless, Bulger, Punctual, Zofe, Dis-|twice has registered 300 scores in the ‘William national event. He accomplished his perfoct counts a few years ago in, Toledo. 3% Golf Star Seeks Divorce. PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 18.—Doz- othy L Campbell Hurd, former United States, British and Canadian amateur: golf champion, has filed a petition in; common pleas court here before Judge™ Thomas J. Ford, in which she askod that her husband, Jack Hurd, wealthy clubman, be Tequired to pay her alimony and counsel fees to de- fray expneses of divorce proceedings which she has instituted. She charged indignities. ————e Ralph Smith, amateur heavyweight. who_is to represent the Los Angeles A. C. in the national champlonships, is twenty-one years old and etands 6 feet 7 Inches. R R EWITISTATT ANT KIND ‘OR REPAIRED. Cores_in, 2 make. 141 P, The TIRE youmeed = T A Speeial 3033%-Inch_, ‘Well Known Make CHAS. E. 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