Evening Star Newspaper, April 22, 1924, Page 23

SPORTS. HE . KVENING CHAMP RESENTS CHARGE |TURTON FINISHES THIRD (NATIONAL CAPITAL LISTS DOT TOURNEY The National Capital League close its season tomorrow night the King Pin alleys with a dot tour- IN BILLIARD TOURNEY HE IS “EVIL INFLUENCE” Turton took the measure of Marino|. 35 to 25, and Hughes, 35 to 21, to win third place in the District champion- . " e ship three-cushion billlard tourna- Thinks Net Committee’s Attitude Regarding His|ment. which closed last night at the . Royal Billiard Parlors. Writing Activities Is Unfair—Action Blow to Hughes got fourth place after nos- ing out Marino in a 35-to-34 match. America’s Hopes in International Play JGapt. Harden won fthe ttoarnement cad while Murray was second.» P HIT })I})H PHIA, April 22—As a reply to attacks made by the oficials | DISTRICT PYTHIANS of United States Lawn Tennis Association, Bill Tilden, the world’s greatest player, resigned yesterday from the American WIN AT DUGKHNS Olympic and Davis cup squads enting the ¢ e made by the amateur committee of the national that he was an “evil influence” in the game, Tilden penned his| The team representing the Wash-| ation_to Juli rick, chairman of the organization in charge |Ington Knights of Pythias made a; * Davis cup 2 clean sweep last night in a match | “I de ch a ¢ id the champion, “in order to relieve | With their brethren from Annapolis, ment which will be theirs if they take the | Winning all five games The totals ’l‘ Lama ay on the Davis cup team, but in self-respect | were to 2324, a difference of 268 cannot do so my amateur standing is clearly established |pins. 1"\\” ing (m:' = e has he done —————— | The local Knights smashed the pins any o r the spirit or | the letter of the ami T lde c Uc one of their added that his AR D. C. DUCKP! N TEAM while the visitors falled to ! 1 the big | ch this figure. i Werl| BEATS MARTINSBURG 3 it o oo ve v o el A larse delegztion of rooters came HS-DN from Annapolis with the team | reputation | in : . hanqueted aftér the mate antial return| Although the Martinsbure, W. Va, |2 Were banqueted aftér the mateh. | | duckpin team put up a stubborn against the Washington All-S Py | they had to bow to defeat by | pins in the five gume battle at the : . = and Centr; leys last night. To S o were Washi on All-Stars, | »: 5 i Martinsburg 655 45 5 ¢ scores ANNAPOLIS, enberg, anchor man of%the All- |3 - B mmitte: | itars, turned in the high set of 631, T = — ional” | (hile McPhilomy o of the loculs, . 4557 %1 516 600 14 WASHINGTON, led in | pa i 106 97 104 91 Ko ot cro 15 109 82 103 ) ) | 97 95 114 n. - 4 e ann %2 15 10 100 ever, by s : | Larcombe it mitter MARTINSBURG. Kessler 107 96 95 Tilden for this year's 27 T Cional” contestt, ' the’ soms | ARdamon --......... 128 118 %| . W % t no embarrassment over the | Sullivan .. ... 02 —_— sed by Tilden's stutus as | Caskey ............. 121 2 | | a player-w R Bl e 10 o3 1 BOUTS FOR CHAMPIONS. | ilden, it was emphasized, is in 200 — —!| cHICAG 1 22—B anintos iy gl 1510 8 ‘xgl Totals . 55 61 543 | _cicaco, April 22.—Bud Taylor. | 1 3 k - | Terre Haute, bantamweight, crned, a WASHINGTON | will meet A in for the world ormed that | sphitomy 5 148 | champic Y ew York either May | rule, wh Eiikee o 20 13 103 | 25 or June Mandell of would | Wolstenhsime 5 8 ock ford 3 tentatively amateur plav in 1925 | Campbeil o ) i d newspaper writing on | Rosenberr . O wetene . tios | | —lthe lightweight title | Self-Respeet at Stake, 28 o & ] 's letter of resignation, PG TR D ZUNA, STAR MARATHONER, | s TOILS HARD AS PLUMBER! an ama IRRY. B OW that amateu is has been brou point by i t not be out of order to consider | It is all the more timely to do this, inasmuch as our amateur racket | wiclders now are returning irom Palm Beach, Miami, Bermuda and other | resorts where winter sojourners gather and must be entertained by afgre said amateurs, who, in exchange for their services, have been living like voung prit to quote Holcomb Ward, chairman of the tennis amateur rule committee, whose recent report is believed to have prompted Tilden's \a | resignation. - e 11 @ R y .\l»nml: POLAND T0 COMPETE & iy Fi M i IN OLYMPIC GAMES |20 o, iowiin on saturday, arter | of De Mar, who T won th ) en had to quit Y ARSAW. Aoril cause of stomach trouble. ARSAW, April ¥ »day in_Newark the writer ex- at present in training ed to find him resting upon a ny couch in some gilded apart- : t provided for him perhaps by nt Poland at the 1 athletic club. But, mo, will & selected, ank isn’'t that kind of an amateur. association foot ball, the|Clad in overalls and wielding a sol- N 9 i 2 dering iron, he was hard at work at v expect to make the best show- | yis trade as a plumber. my amateur the equestrian games. T Zuna ran three fuli-lensth mara- nized. | horses, chos e best blood o s in three "]ff' wlnnlnfi" l'\;vo of 4 - in record time, which was Blow to Hopes of L. | E . »d, are in magnif B on N D e gt Tuaton on Lok regarded, in the y—and dropping out of the third ntatives, as|Aafter running a score of miles in i 5 % 3 mé€, uphill fashion that promised to show that th 1 caby % I the endu: nd the front, if not in spirit as well B, - ¢ front. Thereupon he picks up his kit amateur interpretation b s the second event of tools and £oes to work, not at all sub: emolumern or gram of the equestris 1| worried or pecved by the statement work, chiefly becat his prestige | calls for a ride of th that the Olympic committee “may” s champion, and eriticized his posi- | tors, seven of which over ro want him as a substitute. n as showi n undesirable ex- | and’ paths, 4,000 meters on steep nt, 1924.) ample to the youth of tennis | chase ground, then fifteen ki waorld on roads, cight kilometers acro den’s withdrawal from Davis cup | country over obstacles and two kilo- YALE POLOISTS REPEAT. 3 ition, however, would mean a eters on a track, probably at Mai- o g ous blow to this forces, | sons-Lafitte _PINEHURST, N. C. April 23— foh face an exceptionally strong | In spite of financial difficulties, it is | Yale's polo team will return o this year mote than 4 | hoped to be able to send some fencers | With a clean siate, the Blue having ™ 3 Australia, | and two boxers in the heavyweight | 8cored its third straight win by de- partic- " From the training perform- | feating the Fort Bragg Reds vester- 5 pow anten | ances it would se ws if Poland ha to 5. Previously in- the Since d M. (Little | very little chance of scoring in the [ tourney the Old Ells downed Harvard Bill) John. br t cup | track and field events. and Princeton. »w and Lemberg, fre from Australia lost but one Dav o Mlorefor th lenge d with Aus- al NET OFFICIALS MUM mon ON TILDEN'S ACTION yo“r ) NEW YORK, April —Holecombe Ward, chairman of the 1 amateur | rule committee, whose report to the | TwoCincocigars cost executive committee of the United | States Lawn Tennis Association made | you 15 cents. Two ten- publie last Sund is thought to have | influcnced the reSignation from the | cent cigars cost you 20 Pavis cup and Olympic teams of Wil- | Jliam T. Tilden, 11 today declined com- | ee.nts. Yet Cinco actu- ment on the ction of 1¢ national | = Zennis champion i ally gives you more in Tilden's withdrawal, based upon his | desire “to relie committee of tobacco and -moms embarrassme followed publication | »f the report signed by Ward, which, | he champion asserted, pointed to him quality—becauseCinco evil influence” because of his | s a pluyer-writer | has the advantage of exceutive committee had in- | formed Tilden at its mesting here March 15 that if the facts contalned the famous Eisenlohr in Ward's report, which was not then B bl centipved M serac n Process and over 70 1925, when the player-writer inter- pretation goes into effect, the com- mittee would probably decide th years of knowing how. they constituted a violation of the reytenr rule, The champion issued And the difference in a statement indicating his continued co-operation. The publication of the cost is still in your roport last Sunday was followed by a shift in his attitude. A ‘member of the Davis cup com- pocket. mittee pointed out th: the commit- tee felt no nmbnl;lra‘ t over Ti den’s status and that, Ar as tenn r g - uthorities were concerned, Tilden W. H. WARNER CO. stll is e ble to play. 504 Eleventh Si. N.W. If the champion adheres to his Exclusive Washington Distributor writhdrawal the burden of Davis cup defense will fall upon “Little Bill” J. S. BLACKWELL & SON Johnston, whose ability to withstand X Al aris, Wi Swhat promises to be the most lively exandria, Va. of all Davis cup campaigns is doubt- Northern Virginia Distributors od by some critics. Tilden's resigna- tion from the Olympic team came as & surprise, as he had not been ex- pected to join that group because of [ ] a rule issued by the Olympic commit- tes which barred players from writ- ing. NEW YORK, April 22—Protective skull aps of heavily compressed cross strands of fiber will be fur- nished for jockeys at the spring meeting of the Maryland Jockey Club Pimlico. Their use will be op- Wonad v/ STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C JESDAY, APRIL 22, 1 SPORTS. 23 ; Bill Tilden Stirs Tennis World by Quitting U. S. Olympic and Davis Cup Squads that time the prizes of the league will be distributed. The Rathskeller team captured the pennant by a good margi Belmonts as the runners-u The recent work of the Waverlys in ! climbing to third place has been the sensation of the season. The final standing of team Rathskeller . CHICAGO GETS WESTERN | WOMAN BOWLERS |, Jsoam 1 xovss | WAVERLYS BOWL cntense o 5ot | SET WORLD MARK|5iemmisiisc hmoi | 668, RECORD GAM junior amateur golf tournament has lightweight champion, through his been awarded to the Briergate Golf manager, Billy Gibson, has signed a Club. Chicago, with the date to be| INDIANAPOLIS, (nd. April 22.—A $100,000 contract to appeur in a mo-| That Waverly team of the Capital gnnomnced later. One moro day will| new world tenpin record in the|tion picture based on the 4itichold- | City Duckpin League, which has been gvent | doubles and high marks in other |er's career. Sl . ot 16, and | 4° spilling the maples for amasing 3 instes of | events were set up yesterday for res recently, set another mark > in the tournament | €ntries in the Women's National Bow- | UMB] MEN WIN. Wil bo limited to g.,,,,_;‘ under ! ling tournament in progress here to ! COL! IA NETMEN . s It shot a game of 663 Tty Felin ot B shoot at. Bowlers from Milwaukee, ANNAPOLIS, Md.. April 22—Colum- against the Phillips team, bettering In future amateur ha s “ h| &0, Indianapolis, Cleveland. To- [phia Un ity tennis team defeated | by two pins the former record by the avents. the esesutive. conotn - 0. St Louls. Detroit, Minneapolis | /\'" G 0 Rathsk 3 agn: A561860 i SnIRDIon Sl HOE L | and Kansas City took the alleys to- |the Mids athskellers of the same leagme. quired to ¢ in the gualifving| 9oy in :u_m&nklf. bplm‘; l:"( ores. | sl Lewis led with 1 McCarthy was r‘mlxln'd ame will automati- | or"Cpicaco’ with w seore of 1 2 = < | right on his heels with 148; Watson cally in the first bracket hed the record in the doubles DECISION TO WALKER. was close up with 141; Muolroe had 117, and Toomey ha o 1t xecutive committee of the PHILADELPHIA, April Mickey 7 IR R CENTBEELEV:EN POPULAR. pmen’s National Bowling Associa- | Walker of iizabith T welter- | With 110. ion, under whose auspices the tour-|welght champion of the world, gained | Waverly won all three games from the Phillips Company quint. Centre College, with an enrollment | nament is being held, met today for ten-round decision over Johnnie | of only about 100 students, played | scussion of routine business. Mrs. | Gill of York, Pa ght in a hard 583 | foot ball betore more than 100,000 | Zoe Quinn, Chicago, National presi- [contest. Walker weighed 146 pounds A fortnight back Waverly broke 70 | fans last fall . ‘presided. | the District set record with 1,326, iwaa, Kyt N Such popularity must be deserved PULARITY isn’t luck. How well Everywhere men are turning by the big starsof baseball knowthis. thousands from other cigarettes to And in merchandising as in base- Chesterfield. For a reason! ball, big success is scored only by Chesterfield has given smokers deserving it. A product, too, must convincing proof of finer quality— “deliver the goods.” for here’s quality you can taste! " Chestertield CIGARETTES fl"q W—mfllionsf