Evening Star Newspaper, May 28, 1923, Page 22

RATING OF HILLTOPPERS HINGES ON PRESENT TRIP Boston College and Holy Cross, Among Leading Trio in Championship Race, To Be Met—Maryland . | and Catholic U. E Worcester. This trip is an important one for the Hilltoppers, the only District collegians who have done well on the diamond this season. O'Reilly’s boys overcome the college opponents encountered on this final jaunt, the Georgetown team will have to be reckoned among the strong- est varsity base ball aggregations in the east. Georgetown has been in competition against college nines fifteen times this vear and on fourteen occasions has scored victories. Its lone defeat as handed it by Holy Cross, the loss. Georgetown's first to a varsity team in two seasons, ending a winning streak of thirty-two engagements. The Hilltoppers, however, have an opportunity to turn the tables on the Purple this week and also_will tackle Yale at New Haven Wednesday, Providence College at Providence Thursday and Boston College at Bos- ton Friday. These games mean much to O'Reil- 1y's proteges. A victory over Yale would add to the prestige of the Blue and Gray, of course, while Boston College s one of the three nines right_at the top in eastern college ranking. The others high in the title race are Holy Cross and Prince- ton, the latter not being met this vear by Georgetown. The Tigers had a date here, but rain upset the plans for the match. 4 Should the Hilltop outfit register wins over both Boston College and Holy Cross this week it would be pretty close to if not in second place in the annual rating of the varsity nines of the east. Before meeting these sturdy col- lege aggregations, Georgetown counts upon getting into a couple of battles with formidable foes. It was sched- uled to take on the Crescent Athletic Club at Brooklyn this afternoon and tomorrow the Marine Base nine at New London. Maryland Plays €. U. June 11. The only game in the District col-; lege field to be played after George- town concludes its trip is that be- tween Catholic University and Mary- Jand scheduled for the Brooklanders' field on June 11. It will be part of a class-day celebration at the insti- tution on Michigan avenue. These nines have met twice this s=eason, with each scoring a win, so the clash next month should be a warmly con- tested affair. Neither of these teams has a very impressive record for the vear. Mary- land was handicapped in its training by a backward spring, and on its southern trip suffered seven consecu- tive defeats. Desnite that. it has since played well enough to give it a rec- ord of ten wins and thirteen defeats. Catholic University has performed in an in-and-out manner, trouncing nines of the class of Harvard and losing to_supposedly weaker aggre- gations. The Brooklanders have been unsuccessful in a majority of their battles. Gallaudet, too, has not fared any too well. The Kendall Greeners lost both of the games played with Mary- Jand, contests rated high in impor. tance on their schedule, and took beatings from enough others to make their standing less than .500. DISTRICT LINKSMEN’ SEE COURSE OPENED Many Washington golfers followed the exhibition four-ball match which formally opened the new Sherwood Forest course near Annapolis, Md., yesterday. B. Warren Corkran, Maryland open champion, and Willie Scott, pro at the Baltimore Country Club, teamed against Jimmie Roche and Addison Armstrong of Eikridge in a match Wwon by the former pair. 7 and 6. Corkran turned in a card of 78, with Roche and Scott tied at 79. Arm strong had 87. All the players expressed them- selves as well pleased with the course, declaring that they found it in re- markable good condition HARTIG SETS MARK OF 35 FOR ROCK CREEK COURSE Frank Hartig of the Washington News, who had a handicap of twelve in the Newspaper Golf Club tourna- ment a week ago, shot a 35 over the | Rock Creek Park course yesterday. Hartig's score is the best made so far at Rock Creek, and he was pre- sented with a golf club by Henry D. Miller, the club professional. Hartig won second low net in the newspaper tourney. TIP FOR FISHERMEN. HARPER'S FERRY 28.—The Potomac ri muddy and Shenandoah clear morning. this CEPTING a specially scheduled game, college base ball; so far as the District varsity group is concerned, will end this week. Mary- land, Catholic University and Gallaudet have concluded their regu- lar programs, while Georgetown will put away uniforms for the sea- son after a northern tour due to finish Saturday against Holy Cross at JOHNSTON NOW HAS ST. CLOUD, France, May 28.—Wil- liam M. Johnston of California now ;holds the hard-court tennis cham- | pionship of the world in men's sin- gles. He defeated W. Washer of Bel- glum vesterday in a match that went five sets, 4—6, 6—2, 6—2, 4—6, 6—3. Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen, after de- feating Miss Kathleen McKane of {England in the women’s singles, 6—3, 6—3, got through the wom- an's doubles play and then collapsed, Clash June 11. beart trouble that caused her in- convenience last vear. There is a { possibility that she will not enter j the Wimbledon tournament. In the midst of the mixed doubles against J. B. Gilbert and Miss Mec- Kane she fainted. She recovered, however, and with her partner, M. Cochet, won the match, 6—2, 10—8. Paired with Mlle. Golding, Mile. Lenglen lost the women's doubles to Mrs. Beamish of England and Miss McKane, 6—2, 6—3. Johnston's sizzling forehand drives made little impression upon Washer, who had as much pace and length as the American. The chief characteris- tlo of the match was the base-line driving of Johnston, who apparently had a tbo wholesome respect for the Belgian's placing ability to try too Imuch net playing. Johnston, however, waded into the fifth set apparently with a determina- tion not to prolong the physical strain further. He won his own service for the first game, and thereafter both exchanged games on services until the score was 3 all. Then Johnston ran out three games and took the match. Should John TO PLAY TEINNIS ABROAD | AS PART OF HONEYMOON BOSTON, May 25.—Mixs Pene- 1ope Parkman, who will be a J bride, will participate in the B ixh women's singlex lawn tenn! champlonship at Wimbledon as a part of her hon tour. Miss Parkman was a at In two local tournaments last week. Other play- ers from the Bostom district who will compete Wim| are Miss Leslie Bancroft and Miss Elconora Sears. GOLFERS QUALIFYING PUBLIC LINKS TESTS TO END TOMORROW FOR ARGYLE EVENT Golfers of the Argyle Country Club Twenty-two public links golfers are competing in & qualification will start the final eighteen-hole|round for a club tournament which round of the qualification tomorrow will start with the first match play morning to determine a group of ten | round on Wednesday. to represent Washington in the na- Twenty-five scores were turned in tional public links championship to|yesterday, and many more are ex- begin at East Potomac Park June 26. | pected to be submitted tomorrow, the Pairings for the round tomorrow |last day of the qualifing round. were made by Fred McLeod, the| Cards submited include: Columbia pro, as follow . : O. (h n;:rr-'%r, grl:}.‘;l. Bolr{d‘s!ol: ]v;. 2 E. P. Brooke and Willlam Bresna-| Hough, 84; R. T. Harreil, 50: 1. ° 3 9 Stuntz, 81; F. B. Eiker, 92; William han; John Lynch and John Watso Gtr“af;‘;m 5 ER Hautaon. i04: 3 W. W. Lord and W, E. Melvin; W. Vogel and H. L. Smith; Charles Hause, 94; C. P. Gibbons, 95 Agnew, Jjr. and A. L. Houghton;|Hollingsworth. 96: K. Paravano, 101; 2! Benjamin_ Fuller, 98; J. H. Cox, 0. L. Geerhoff, 101; M. S. Johnson, 10! B. McNeill, 1 P. Coakley, 10 R. C. Tracey, 106; J. Jennings, 1 Frank White. 109; G. C. Stevens. 111; B. F. Beall. 1 . F. Hurd, 118; M. S. Fisher, WOMEN IN GOLF EVENT. Woman_golfers of the Town and Country Club are to compete in an een-hole medal play handicap eighteen-hole ‘handicap George Billings and R. M. Brow . E. S. Tipton and E. Maury Pose Miller and F. W. Dyer; W. te and E. S. Harvey: John Shorey and George G. Voight; M. Shipley .and Earl-McAleer. M'TIGUE TO BATTLE GREB AND LOUGHRAN T avent over the course at Md., tomorrow. Prizes will be offered NEW YORK, May 28.—Mike Mec-|for low gross, first and second ‘;ow Tigue is shooting at the moon. At|net. The entry list will close today. least, he is taking a dreadful chance. Announcement today that the new penrsneement oty thet e nev | DEMPSEY PROVES HE o park n cnicage on une 20 ana| OAN DODGE PUNCHES that®* he is to follow this with a | battle with Tommy Loughran at Phil- GREAT FALLS. Mont., May 28.— adelphia on June 25 carries an in- . teresting thought. Jack Dempsey confined training at Just examine those dates once|kis camp here vesterday largely to more. They are five days apart. Now, | making the little fellows among his sparring partners miss. In the speed- lest bout the champion has been seen in since he began training for his bout with Tommy Gibbons at Shelby, July 4. Billy Wells, the English wel- terweight champlon, set a furious pace through two rounds. Dempsey once caught Wells on the jaw with a left uppercut and sprawl- ed him on the canvas. He helped Wells to his feet, and thereafter made no effort to hit him. He took all Wells had and brought cheers from the crowd by the frequency with which he made the English champion miss. Dempsey's work with his heavy sparring _ partners was somewhat slower. His underlip was running a trickle of blood when he left the ring. It first showed when he was boxing with George Godfrey, the negro heavyweight. y Dempsey went ten rounds with his sparring partners, the longest session since he began training. He will leave here today on a fishing trip of sev- it doesn’t take that many to get from Chicago to Philadelphia in the ordi- nary course of events what with train service restored to normal. The point is that the arranging of those two bouts on those two dates and the carrying out of the engagements do not constitute an ordinary course of events. Greb is no slouch. Mike his troubles in Chicago with the windmill boxer. who not so very long ago was this country’s light heavyweight titleholder. Excepting for the fact that the Chicago affair is to be a no-decision match, it wouldn’t be a bad -bet to take the| short odds in a wager that-Tommy Loughran will fight a fallen idol on | June 25, Funny things do some-| times happen in no-decision scraps. Loughran is a tough bird. as Greb himself discovered last winter. Be- cides being tough, Tommy is ex- tremely clever. For McTigue to take the second dose so soon after “the Greb affair is, in the opinion of the writer, more than a five-day pro- gram. Of course, though, if Mike beats them both he will be considered quite zome slick boy. { Match Your Odd Coats With Qur Special TROUSERS $4.65 "Radiators and F;nderl ANY KIND MADE OR REPAIRED. Cores_installed in_any make. { . 10 DIFFERENT MAKES RADIATORS, WITTSTATT'S R. and F. WORKS 319 13th. F. 6410, 1425 P. M. 7443, | NI oTOCYCLE, Save the arice of an entire DISTRIBUTOR ||| formmr - " ol 72en pat- Used and Rebullt Motocyoles Sold , HOWARD A. FRENCH & CO. 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HONORS TO MANGAN IN WARDMAN TENNIS Tom Mangan of the Dumbarton Club today holds the singles honors of the Wardman Park Hotel tennis tourney, having gained the title yes- terday by defeating C. M. Charest, District champion, in a match that | bristled with clever play and thrilled one of the largest galleries that has seen a net final here. Mangan won, 6-4, 9-7, 4-6. 6-1, his | superior steadiness giving him the | margin. Just how close the match was {8 told in the fact that the win- ner scored only one more point than the loser, the total count standing, 184 to 183 Long rallies and deuced games were | many, Charest displaying the greater speed in bis strokes, while Mangan, only slightly inferlor to his rival in Ppace, was the more accurate. Play in the doubles will be con- tinued this afternoon. Three matches were played yesterday, resulting as follows: | _First round—Burrell “and Ende defeated {Helien and Dudley, 7—5, 4—8, Becond round—Purinton and Stellwagen defeated Cox and Norment, 6—1, 6—2. Gra and Gore defeated Holt apd Elliott, 6—4, 4—6, 6—0. WOMAN RACKETERS " RUSH LEAGUE PLAY ‘While many matches have been d¢ cided recently in the Woman's Tennis League, the players still are consider- ably behind the schedule and will have to hustle to bring the list up to date by the time fixed to end the campalgn late next month. Results reported as follows: Mabel Costlett- defeated by Jessie Edmondson. Viglet Maohle defeated by Mrs, Chauncey Parker... Florence Poston defeated Mrs, Hilldale . 5 Elizabeth Brys Mrs. Chapline defeated Es- tolle Regan . vy Mrs. Graham defeated Franoes Krucoff ........ Kathleen Johnston defeated Marle Maffett ... defeated Katherine _ Rice Gladys Wills Corinne _Frasier 'defeated Margaret Brower Angels Robinsen by Adelaide Conrad Miss " Edmonson def, n . Miss Bewall def Marjorls Wooden . Elizabeth Gibson defeated by Katherine Rice ...... 151 5 G u [ I S R G BT G GG G Mrs, Hilldale de Nancy Kreider ......... Eva BSlater defeated Ann e oy dstortod 53 T lofoa y Marjorie Wooden ....... —2 Dorothy Lisherness defeated by Katherine Rice ...... Gladys Willis defested by Nuzcy Krelder L 1-8 1—5 Kate Gibson de by * Louise Whelchel ........ 6—1 Alice Hoare de by Frances Walker . . 6=l Rosanna Lague defeated by Edna Kelley ............ 6—0 Robinson defeated ’ Hauzhurst ...... 6—8 2 Beatrice Pitney defeated TR 1 s o Ruth Woeks dof Tsabelle Brown Dorothy Lisherness defeated defeated Miss Bewall.... Neal defeated by Elizabeth Gibsen . E Ruth Gallop_defeted Chauncey Parker 7—5 Rosanna Lague d g o ks by Annabelle Totten .. Kato Gibson defeated by Corinne Frazier . L. Gl Olara Birmingham defeated Anne Himmell or ..... 6—4 Edna Kelley defeated Ge vieve Mcore .. seeoos Karla Hendriok defeated Louise Perkins ... . 6—0_ 6—0 Mrs. Beatrice Smith defeated K. Gibbons, 6—3. 6—0. Mrs. J. Stambaugh defeated Beatrica Wood- ford, 6—1, 6—1. Mrs. Whipple defeated Gemevieve Morre, Mrs. Beatriop Smith defested Estelle Regan, 6—1, 6—0. J. Stambaugh defeated Miss Himmel- berg: 6—4, 6—0. Adelaide Conard defeated Marie Moffett, Frances Krukoeff defeated Mrs. Donmaldson, 6—0, 6—0. 6—4, 6—0. —0 G5 B S G ) S o ) G S L S 0 3 THE EVENING STAR, - WASHINGTON, D. -C,--MONDAY, MAY 28, 1923. G. U. Nine Has Chance at Eastern Title : Big Ring Should Be a Help to Gibbong Edge to Fighter them erroneous. have conducted fighters through the LEONARD IS PICKED | | T0 BEAT MITCHELL ! CHICAGO, May 28.—Benny Leonard, ]world‘u lightweight boxing champfon, +and Pinkle Mitchell,” the junfor| 'wellerwelght title holder, will taper | off in_ their training today for thefr | ten-round bout here tomorrow night. | Leonard, who has trained here, has | been made the favorite despite the | opinton - of some expert judges that | he ‘fs not in the best condition. Mijtchell will come here tomorrow | from his home at Milwaukee, Wis.| Information from there fis he will | have no trouble making the 140 pounds at 3 o'clock as agreed on. Aside from its championship 1!;-] tures, tomorrow night's bout will af- !ford an opportunity for testing the stringent Illinois ~ anti-prize law, | which has forced the ring sport from the state for twenty vears. James Mullen, the promoter, wiil submit to | technical arrest after the fight, and | his case will be taken to the supreme | { court it he is convicted in the lower | courts. 1 The contest 1s being offered for | charity and is sponsored by Chicago soclety leaders. The stockyards pavillon, scene of intefnational horse and stock shows, virtually has been sold out at prices of $5, $10 and $15 | It “will “be Leonard’s first contest | since last September, when he was forced to quit boxing because of trouble with his testh. Mitchell, the younger brother of Richie, who has Eiven Leonard some hard battles, won his last-two fights by knockouts, his | most recent being at Loulsville, Ky., | the night before the Kentucky derb: | SPORTS., ; SEEN" AS ASSET TO MIKE IN CLASH WITH DEMPSEY Twenty-four-foot Arena Will Enable Challenger to Make Best of Cleverness—Small Space Gives Like Champion. BY FAIR PLAY. EW YORK, May 28—One very intergsting fact concerning the Dempsey-Gibbons fight on July 4 has devéloped. were especially interested. It appears that the boxing law in Mon- tana calls for:a twenty-four-foot ring. All sorts of stories concerning the boxing law ‘of that state have been current in New York, most of But the stipulation as to the size of the ring is cor- rectly reported, according to Ike Dorgan, Francis Getz and others who Betting men west. Now, in a ring of that size Gibbons, with his cleverness, ought to make a lot of trouble for Dempsey in the way of keeping away until the champion gets arm tired, as he is prone to do, it is believed, when the fight goes beyond a reasonable number of rounds. In these parts the size of the ring has steadily been reduced until { now it has got down to eighteen feet. i that managers want more room for spectators. This has been ascribed to the fact It is to make sure that fighters stand toe to toe and fight. Spectators demand this. They have little use for clever defense, ability to duck, side step and give ground. Gives Fighter Advantage. The small ring has played straight into the hands of the fighter as against the interest of the boxer. Carpentier would have howled long and loud over the small ring in Boyle's Thirty Acres had he not de- cided that the only chance he had | with Dempsey was {o get in and plas- ter him with his right as soon as pos- sible. But after the battle Descamps told the writer he would not permit his man to fight Dempsey again, provid- ed the two signed to meet, in a ring smaller than twenty-four feet. Men who stake big money on ring affairs know that Tommy Gibbons can take a wallop and they know he can deliver one. 1f, in addition,” he has plenty of room in which to move around they have no idea how long it might take Dempsey to get to the St. Paul artist, assuming he got to | him_at an Jack McAuliffe would have lasted longer with Firpo had the ring been larger, because Jack is quick on his feet and is a good boxer. At the Yank stadium the trouble was that a side slip or a duck would find him across the ring with Firpo lumbering after him. 1t Is doubtfyl if New York or Jer- sey will ever see rings whose di- mensions are greater than twenty feet at most. There would be too few knock-outs for the good of the business. Copyright, 1923. EPEE HONORS TO SHEARS. NEW YORK. 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