Evening Star Newspaper, March 12, 1924, Page 29

& SPORTS. U. S. Olympic Supr YANKEES FACE HUGE TASK 'TO WIN HONORS AT PARIS ¥inland, Which Piled Up Real Menace in Tra Other Nations BY LAWRE S there a chance that some count win the 1924 Olympiad? Ther chance. cither. 76" in Winter Sports, Is ck and Field Events. Also Stronger. NCE PERRY. ry other than the United States may e Some think it not a bad is. is - persons who arc interested in sports in so far as they provide thrilling compet Ol various sOrts, m: As they view i games at the Olympics. and will continue to do so. 1 a andicap placed upon us by the results of the winter sports at Chamonix | and defeats that will come in other not very familiar will be made up, p certainty as of the winter the ay. there is The outcome ports last month gave Norway amazing total of 134% points theless, Norway is not to be re 28 a dangerous customer at Pa 1ot of the points going to make the big total earned by the Nor- wegians were won in the ski events, n which the northerners excel. Finland Ix Formidable. Little Finland. with her points gained at Chamonix, however, will be a real danger, because she will come to Paris with a selected band of some forty athlet a number which includes all the specialists who in the 1920 Olympiad gathered as many first places as the American team gathered, to wit, nine Tt _is quite possible that Finland might next summer win_the honor of excelling the United States in the number of first places, and if the competition with tGreat Britain, Trance, Italy and Sweden is as strong t now seems likely the n team might conceiv D to vield first victory Finlanders. Finland is g ring in the distane and in the field specialtics. bly obliged to sturdy to do a events om dis- to be | tion, but are unfamiliar with underlying facts and trénds be surprised to hear this. the United States always has won the track and field Thus, the great branches of sport with which we are and our prestige will remain unim- tances running upward from 1500 meters, the Kinns with the valuable assistance of Willie Ritola will pile up many points. They even look out of their recent | racing, while in |the pentathion, the discus’ and |Javelin every one concedes them to I\Jc most formidable. [ Strong In Marathon. Americans will recognize mot only | Ritola, but Hannes Kelehmainen and | Villar 'Kyronen. both of whom ran in this country for severa! years and perfected their form. They are strong prospects inthe marath which, by the way. Kolehmainen won in 1920. J If we expect to win the Glympiecs | we must win the track and field fea- |ture at lombes. ‘or while we are {qualified to capture first plac 1ot of sports ch as tennis, gol | inis and so on. our habit of | ing. developing stars at the of the genera! f 1. | pi as coneerns seconds and thirds other nations may beat u; | efforts of our champions [ (Just ot present the United States ands in fourth place in the Olympic | nding. the result of the winter | sports program. expense the It e of despite the D. C. MIDGET COURT TITLE IS AT STAKE TOMORROW! PIPHANY MIDGET basketers E thirty-five straight wins, will s District by disposing of the S twin bill tomorrow night at the Col on its hands,_ though. for the S ing, with only one loss out oi eighteen games. expect a red-hot match. Mount Vernon and the quints, that meet in the preliminary game. are expected to produce some worthy opposition. Mount Vernon, winner of the Sunday School League honors, is considered one of the strongest teams in_the 140-pound class and the emites are fully as fermidable. William H. Sanderson, who is promoting tomorrow nizht's games, says that it will be the first time any local midget teams been scheduled for the feature en- gagement. There was lots of g0od basket ball yesterday, many of the leading teams engaging in stirring battles, Aloy- sius tossers were forced to extend themselves to point the way to the ‘Washington Comets, 39 to 28. Trail- ing at half time, 15 to 11, Aloysius opened up in the'last ten minutes of play to gain the advantage. Sawyer of the losers led the field with five court goals. Both teams played well defensively. Palace Laundry five also met o rug- ged foe in the Regan All-Stars of Philadelphia. Ray Catiin turned the tide into a 19-to-17 victory for the | Laundrymen. ~With the score dead- locked, 17 to 17, he cut the cords for the deciding basket. Hoyt and Sau- ber of Palace each accounted for six points, while Ryan shone for the Quaker city fiv = Immaculate Conception were forced to play an extr. minute period game against th tia Eagles before they in a preliminary game to t] -Regan all-star match. Morris tossed a foul tha Jmmaculates the edge. Ray Garber and Furman of the winner: nie and Meyers of th the leading performe Argyle Athletic Club and th &uy Juniors are scheduled to morrow night at 8:30 o'clock on the Wilson Normal School floor. Hale, Dezendorf, Scruggs, Kessler., Dean, MacDonald and Dieste are to play for “piphany, while Brooks, Cook. Rob- ertson, McQueen, Smith, Bangs and Buchanan probably will display their wares for the Argyles. Bagles were piph- reet to- gets disposed of the ep_Juniors in a 33-to- 20 engagement. Accurate goal shoot- ing by Tucker and Nee aided the winners. McFadden and Sullivan starred fon the losers. ational M ieorgetown Stanton Junfors were offered little fon when they turned in a 23- tory over the Epiphany la- gles in_a preliminary match to the Palace Laundry-Regan all-star game. Superior team work proved too much for the Epiphany quint. ble with_the Calvary winning: 31 to 20. Roll, Gosnell and Sullivan led Interior's attack, whils snright starped for Calvary. five, Swavely Midgets successfully closed thefr 1924 court season by downing the Cleveland Park five, 31 to,12, and the St. Alban’s Athletic Club, 18 t0.12. Clever passing was a big raglor in Swavely's wins. fort Washington basketers will win® Army Service League title, if they ‘show the way to the Bolling i’i¢ld five tonight on the Washington barracks floor. Should Bolling Field omerge the victor, however, Fort Washington will be tied for top placi with Fort Humphreys, that yvesterday swamped the Fort Myer guint, 56 to 25, Lydon of the Riverside Wthletic Club pocketed four baskets against the Arab tossers, his team winning, 20 to 15. Eshbaugh and Miller played creditably for the losers. e T CUEISTS TO CONTINUE PLAY IN TOURNAMENT Goodacre and Hughes will be op- ponents tonight in the District cham- pionship three-cushion billiard tour- nament at the Royal billiard par- lors. They will start play at 7:30 o'clock. A match between Turpin and Turton will follow. Capt. Harden took the measure of Hughes, 35 to 29, and Merino de- feated Barker, 35 to 22, in last night's matches. CENTRE SEEKS MYERS. RICHMOND, Ky., March 12.—Rob- ert L. Myers, athletic director of Cen-! tre College for seven years, has been offered the position of head coach of the Praying Colonels’ foot ball squad. ~At present Myers is engaged in chau- tanqua work, with offices in Chicago. S Joe Concannon, who took the meas- ure of A. P. Ahern in a 125-to-29 pocket billiard match last night, will oppose Frank Voorhees tonight at 3:45 o'elock at the Brookland Ath- letio ' Clab, 10th and Monroe streets northeast. Yosemite | have | ana Ben- | who boast of the cnviable record of | trive to capture the court title of the outhends in the main attraction of a| piphany will have a real job | outhends have made an impressive show- | in spite of scum. Followers of the teams |LINKS LESSONI PUTTING. ~a KEEP EVE DIRECTLY OVER BALL - DO NOT MOVE IT OFF UNTIL BALL 18 HIT, | In putting. should the | directly over the ball or nol? Answered by TED RAY | The miege gun of Englixh zolf. Win- mer of innumerable tournnments and nicmber of the g.watest golf com nation in history—the team of “V don and Ray.” * * In putting, keep the eye directly over -the ball, and be sure you do not move the eye off the ball until it is hit. It is just as important to keep the eye on the ball in putting as in any other stroke. In a short putt, especially, keep the eye plumb over the ball. If you are too close to the ball you will be looking at i the outside of the ball; if you are too far away you will be looking at | the inside of the ball, while if you | get your eve plumb over the ball { it will help you to swing your put- | ter on a straighter line, and the ball | will roll evenly. NOBLEMAN CREATES OLYMPIC PROBLEM PARIS, March 12—Prince David Midwani of the republic of Georgla, in the Caucasus, has sent to the French Olympic committee his of- fictal entry for the javelin and discus events of the Olympic games. He explains that he learned to throw the javelin and discus at the Andover School, in Massachusett: and that while he does not claim re ord performances, he would like to represent his country at an athletic meet in which most of the nations of the world are to compete. As Georgia has no national Olymple committee nor athletic federation which might certify to the prince's amateur standing, the French Olym- pic committee is in a quandry. | E Radiators and Fenders ANY KIND MADE OR REPAIRED. TNl RAVE D% RERAD xo_lglnmm MAKES IATORS. STATT'S R. and F. WORKS 319 13th. Fr. 6410. 1435 P. Match Your 0dd With Our Special TROUSERS s fi UP Save the price of emtire All celors, sizes, tor | the | puts us in sorry ! here that | he kepli THE EVENI emacy Is | i N CHAPTER 1lI—1 Lead" the Field—and Then! i i N ;pilc of Al Christie's ridicule T 1 almost persuaded myself to send in my entry for that national open at Buffalo in the fall of 1912. | T wrote out one entry blank—in fact, {took it as far as the post office, and {then tore it up. A day or two before i the tournament started I boarded a larain for Buffalo. As long as golf was my game and as there scemed to be a fairly good living in it, as well as the outdoor exercise and competition I loved, I decided it was {about time I studied it at first hand. i was a very much thrilled though | inconspicuous figure as T hiked out | to the club links for my first glimpse of the fumous golfars, whose exploits | hud loug been heroic legends in my { resams. There I found myself face | to face with such men as Alex Smith, | amara, Mike Brady and McDermott, the champion of champlons. Lonz Jim Barnes was | there and 1 marveled at his skill and the nonchalant ease of his style. But struck me most, on that first t with the elite, was not their playing so much as the fascinating habiliments in which they played. | ™Tom Anderson's style of malke-up ! greatly impressed me. He wore, as 1 remember, a fancy silk shirt with | black stripes and a loud bandanna | hundkerchief around his neck. Long trousers were all the vogue in those | hite or grey flannel, with very shoes and heavy woolen socks. the pro: sionals were fashion and 1 must say | | that it w very comfortable outfit for hot weather. 1f there were any knickers worn 1 do not 1l having seen them. [ sed in thi ! % a Striped Shirt. days I trudged over the beautiful links of the Buffalo club, { well up in the front rank of every | galle watching each player like a wk and aking careful note of his faults and virtu Johmnie MeDer- mott, who won th title again that ipressed me deeply and 1 che. hed the thought of going back Rochester and telling my comrades that I had watched the biggest tigure in Amer If in action. It was a grand adve When I \ever, my rirs fa pair of light | 1 | { » Roche trou i handkerchief and a p that set well down 0 my share of ) some med to that Al Christie ot thereafter, y rococo decorations. long wait from the fail of {1912 to the fall of 1913, I had made up my mind to play in the next cham- pionship no matter where it was held. Along in April we heard that the open was gOIng to be staged at Brookline. We also heard that Var- don and Ray were coming over from Engiand to take part. Vardon's name in those days was the sine qua non, or the ne plus ultra, or whatever you call it. of golf. And Ray was also & | mighty biz factor. as he w the reigning champion of Great Britain. All 1 could think of from April to September was the coming tourna- ment and I took every possible min- ute I could spare for practi My game had come along wonderful and I was surer of miyself in eve way. jdoshing at th miraculous way VTt was First Venture Is Made., At last the big week. arrived and I was ready for iy first venture into championship competition. It was a week destined to make golf history, but we little dreamed then what a change it would bring in the general status of the game in this country. When I arrived at Brookline, one of the oldest and most picturesque course: n the country, I was all eyes and curiosity. I ook every s moment to watch Vardon and Ray well as our own Star players. John- nie McDermott, as I mentioned be- fore, was the kingpin of Amcrican golf and was looked upon as the one most likely to stop the invaders. A short time before, at Shawn he had beaten both of them by at least thirteen strokes and was considered | §00d enough to repeat All eves were on little Mac, and when .he Jfailed to come through it | cansed considerable surpri This iwas soon forgotten, howe in the of @ young Boston d Francis Ouimet. then ! ¥ twenty years of age, Who was estined to win the big international | jevent. Golf enthusiasts will remem- | ber that Ouimet flashed into fame that vear by tieing Vardon and Ray in ven two hol and beating |them in the play-off, a remarkable jachievement. Incidentally, Ouimet {established a pr amateurs, as he was the first amateur to win a national open in_this country. He was followed by Travers, Evans and, just recently Jone ‘our vut of | meteoric. su mateur nam NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, 3 Pt SR ar golfer in his day, won the Nation 11l health caused his premature withdrawal from the sport. nine opens heid In country thus gone to that side of the But to get back to the tourna I had never met McDermott the opportunity of introducing my- | self. 1 suppose the name Hagen | meant nothing to him, but he talked | to me and was very cncouraginw, telling me that perhaps my day would | come some time. It was a remark- | able thing that my day was so close at hand experience Is Handicap. stiil believe 1 could tournament had little more experience. within close range of the | all through the four rounds and was | never out of the hunt. It w M’LEOD EASY VICTOR IN FLORIDA TOURNEY ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 12— Fred McLeod of Washington, former national open golf champion, won the first St. Petersburg championship here yesterday, fin ing the holes in five under the score of Bill Mchlhorn of St. Louis. Cyril Walker of Englewood, N. I., was third, with 209: Waiter Hagen, Bear Creek Country Club, fourth, with 305, and L. Meyer of Metcomet, R. L, | fifth, with 3 Leo Diegel thur Havers, were well up with 30 Joe Kirkwood. fo wpion, and Johnny Farrell, Cuban mpion. were next, with 308. Jimmie Ockenden, French champion, | had 316. 1 that f Washington and Ar- British open champion, | each. ner Australian RACKETERS TO MEET. Team representatives of the Womens Tennis Leagzue of the District are to elect officers Friday night at the home of Betty Pyle. BASKET BALL RESULTS. "l‘Al Madison—Wisconsin, 36; Jowa, At New Haven—VYale, 30; Harvard, | Maryiand {introduced Banks to the WEDNESDAY,; MARCH 12, 1924. BILL FOR $25 CHARGE AT FIGHTS IS SIGNED TRENTON, N. J., Mareh 12— Gov. Siiger hax signed a bill per- mit{ing o maximum admission fee of 825 to boxing matches, The maximum in New York s 15, Tex Rickard now is expected to stage most of hix big bouts in New Jerney. TENNIS TROPHY LIST SETS MARK WITH 19 NEW YORK, March 12.—Cuba and Belgium ‘nave entered the lists for 1521 competition for the Davis cup, emblem of international team tennis supremacy, increasing the number «f | challeng t. nineteen and ostan- ilishing & new record for the world's 4 The previous record | ¥ Cuba, ondicz official advises fr.m Havana, has Leen placed in the American zore. while Belgium in s entry rogaested classification in the European zore. The bulk of the en- tries is in the European zone, in which fourteen nations have signified their desire to participate. Four hiave chosen the American zone, while the remaining entrv, Canada. is undecided which to enter FOR EASTERN TEAM George Burdine of Lastern High's base ball nine is a determined fellow. His ambition to garner a berth on the Light Blue and White's hurling staff has “set Coach Guyon a-think- ing.” Although no battery candidates have been called at Eastern, Burdine already has started heaving the ball, and Guyon is well pleased with the youngster's showing. . : Eastern probabjy will not issue its official call for practice until next Monda; the interclass bask games now are being held in th Capitol street institution. The E mentor hopes to usé William Glad- stone Roudabush and Burdine as the first-string hurlers this sesson. Gonzaga High's base ball candi- dates are to report tomorrow in the I street gymnasium. Only three play- ers of 1 ’s nine are back, but Coach “Hap” Farley is confident he can muster enough likely looking material. Mitchell, Genau and Burke re the veterans left, Genau, by the way, will captain the 1925 basket ball team. | nal Open twice ression in 1911-12. Swimmer's of Central High are to, te in the South Atlantic cham- pionships to be held at Baltimore Saturday. Some of the best scholas tic athletes in this section will matched against the Blue and White | team. Central is pinning its hopes on | two relay events and the fancy dive. LAST GAME T0 TELL IN CONFERENCE RACE| for me and I found agined. When would have rce er than 1 ha it into th highly elat in the pri . the 1 the third round I Dl well and had a fine ance. s seemed to encourage me and 1 went well on the fourth and | last round t the turn, with just' nine more holes to play, I was lead- ing the field. The news reached me that I w in the lead and could win with a good inward journey. If they At wis CHICAGO, March 12—Wisconsin | took a step nearer a tie for Western | Conference basket ball honors by de-; feating Towa, 36 to 26, last night. The victory provided an oppor-; tunity for the Badgers to share with' Chicago and Illinois in the champion- ship If they can defeat Chicago Sat- urday in the last conference game of the season. 1t Chicago wins the Maroons would have a clear title to the crown, with | Newell Banks of Detroit, champion | pine wins and three defeats, while | checker player of the United States, | Iilinois would take second place with | *hilition at the Capital | elght victories and four losscs, and 2t avant = consin_ would tie with Purdue, ess Club last evening. He| opigng Indiana for third place. imes of checkers and six| ~Curroll Spradling, star forward of simultaneously without a|Purdue, who made his debut in con- | ference’ basket ball this season. has clinched individual scoring hono! Spradling’s total of 123—fifty field | CHECKER CHAMPION of chess loss. This achievement is regard extraordinary. inasmuch as it is rare| . that champion players will play | €oals and twenty-eight free throws-- simultancously both checkers and | Places him at the top of the list with chess. In the chess a lead of 11 points over Cunningham | last evening Banks wa v | of Ohio State, his closest rival. | Willard Mutchler and William Mun Players on teams wi have vet delle, two of the strongest chess|to finish their schedules are not con playe the club. dered within striking distance of The checker players w Spradling’s total. - | ere from the | M AL and the University of WRESTLE TONIGHT. | Waino Ketonen and Pete Sturgis.| of [two middleweight wrestlers, will meet the club |tonight at the Coliseum. There will | Mundcile was refera for tha checker | S0c 8% the (Coliseum. “There wil contests und Mutchler for the chess | Yale defeated Harvard in basket ball | Taranto & Wasman here lust night, 30 to 28. Harvard led at the end of the first half, 13 to 12. 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U. champlon- SPORTS. 29 Threatened : Dempsey and Firpo to Fight Labor Day WILL BE HIS ONLY FIGHT OF,YEAR, SAYS CHAMPION Understands That Argentine Will Not Engage in Any Bout Until He Meets Him—Titleholder Appears Pale and Thin. E{IC'AGO. Marf:h 12—Jack Dempsey, world heavyweight cHampion, will defend his title against Luis Angel Firpo in New York Labor . day, he announced here. Thc Argentine will be his only opponent this year, the champion said. Decision to fight Firpo was reached at a conference with Jack Kearns, his manager, before he left New York, Dempsey said. The public wants the match, he asserted. U. S. TENNIS STARS OUT OF OLYMPICS NEW YORK, March 12.—The United States will be without the services of its first, second and possibly fourth ranking tennis players at the Olympie games. The announcement by William Til- den, the champion, that he would be barred from competition by the rule against writing for newspapers, fol- lowed a recent statement by William Johnston, former champion, that he would be unable to join the team. Vincent Richards may be affected by the rule which barred Tilden. CHRISTIERNSON SETS WORLD HURDLE MARK NEW YORK, March 12.—Carl Chri: tiernson of the New York A. C. estab- lished a new world record of 7 2 “If Firpo is beaten by Wills or Gib- bons, then naturaily 1 would be com- pelled to fight the winner,” the cham- pion asserted. “However, I under- stand Firpo will not engage in a: fights until he meets me. Under such conditions it looks like a quiet out- door season for me, but my picture work and about six weeks of hard training should leave me fit for thi Firpo fight.” Dempsey looked a bit pale apd after his recent operation at ) York. He plans to leave at once fo Salt Lake City to visit his parents be fore going on to the coast, where will engage in motion picture w three months. P CARPENTIER-GIBBONS GO PLANNED FOR MIDWEST SOUTH BEND, Ind., March 12.—Ne- gotiations are under way for a match between Georges Carpentier of Franc. and Tommy Gibbons of St. Paul, to D held some time this summer in t middle west. The affair will Floyd Fitzsimmons. S PHILADELPHIA, March 12 —Ti 4 e athletic_comm as suspended Sailor Friedma f Chicago for one vear for cutti his boxing gloves and removing i padding prior to his bout with be promoted ships last night. The old mark of eight seconds was held by Fred Kelly since 1919. Kelly jumped five hurdles, however, and Christierson topped but four. Abel Kiviat, star of ten years ago, and former Olympic runner, added luster to his comeback efforts by winning the 1,000 vard run in 2.18 2-5. Loren Murchison won the 60 and 300 vard dashes. 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