Evening Star Newspaper, August 13, 1924, Page 27

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, ‘D. O, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1924 : SPORTS." 97 New Walker-Leonard Date Due to Be Set Today : Indiana Stadium Hits a Snag N/Y. COMMISSION PEEVED HAT CHAMPION’S ATTITUDE Beany’s Injury Proves Less Serious Than First Thought and May Turn Out to Be Very Minor When He Faces Boxing Body. BY FAIR PLAY. EW YORK. August 13—The New York Boxing Commission meets | today to decide what to do ab out the Leonard-Walker bout, which got crimped when Benny hurt his thumb when boxing against Pal Moran It now appears that the thumb be that by the time the commission injury to the thumbnail. Walker has expressed himself a and the boxing commission scems in The talk is that Benn e er has made him top-lofty and that he took Walker lightly until made to realize that he was in for a real battle. So, as the writer has al- ready said, Benny probably would rel- h the opvortunity for a longer| period of training. Kvidently the Cleveland fans got all the treat in seeing Leonard box T'al Moran the other night, that Ben- ny knows so well how to provide. His strategy, his abili to hit any kind of a blow and h unvarying poise cxemplify the highest art of the| fighter-boxer. He did to Pal what everyone who is close to the boxing game expected and no more That is, he gave Moran a good bLeating, but did not knock him out When one analyzes Benny’ one is forced to the concl on that Leonard ha ot most of his knock- outs not by one or two clean punches, as Dempsey does—when he wants to —but by wezring a man down as he wearied Freddy Welsh, Mitchell and others. Leonard's fights. chance against Walker will be, and if they to tie up the rushing battler, works mainly for the body and ¥ bringing over his right to the jaw. | With Leonard getting older and none too active, Mickey would con- ably wear Benny down if Benn ring experience and not avail YOUTHS WILL STAGE BIG INTERCITY MEET Playground athletes of this city and Baltimore will compete in the larg- est intercity track and fleld meet ever staged in Central Stadium the | first week in September. In preparation for the affair, the | tocal athletes are holding municipal playground meets of their own. They | will receive their final conditioning | {n the District interplayground car- | nival to be held on August 2 ! The intercity carnival will be di-| vided in six classes, including junior | 0. 100, 115 and unlimited pound class; and senier 135-pound and unlimited | class Several high school stars plan to! offer competition in the senior un-| limited d /n. Ado!ph Bond. Rouda- Mickey | meet, cleverness did | bush and Bond of Eastern. Baker and | Talmer of Central and Mitchell and David of Western are expected to rep- resent the District. U.'S. OFFICIALS TO SEE GAMES IN BALTIMORE BALTIMORE, August 13.—Postmas- ter General Harry S. New and other high Washington ofiicials will attend | the annual police, firemen and postal | games Saturday at the Baltimore| Stadium, for which there are 704 en- | trants in 22 track, field and miscel- | lancous events. A relay race will be run by from Washington, Philadelphia. folk and Baltimore A feature will be a 2-mile exhi tion run by Verne B¢ h. Baltimore < Olym: star, who h Jjust returned from Europe. teams Nor- TAKES TROTTING STAKE. By the Associated Pres CLEVELAND, August 13.—Fayette National, owned by Guttenstein Brothers, Milwaukee, Wis., and driven by Tom McKay, won the North Ran- dall purse of $3.000 for 2:13 trotters, the feature of the grand circuit short program vesterday. He won in straight heats. The best time was 2:05 2-5. REVAMPING BIG ARENA. NEW YORK, August 15.—Work on Bovle's Thirty Acres, Tex Rickard's Jersey City boxing arena, to fit it for the Wills-Firpo match on September 11. has been started. The big pine saucer will be comvletely overhauled | and the supports strengthencd to take | care of the crowd expected to attend | the contest DELAYS CHANNEL SWIM. DOVER, England, August 13.—The voung Argentine woman, Lillian Har- rison, owing to injuries received in striking her leg against a rock when she started Monday in an attempt to swim the English Chann:l from Cape France. to Dover, will not to take to the water again week. Dr. Tillot. her Boulogne stage | strain | three days before the |EGGLESTON-TURNER BOUT a | was | ture and that all v | expected. is not broken, but sprained. It may examines it. it will tone down to an s greatly peeved about the accident, no pleasanter frame of mind. GIBBONS IS TRYING T COLLECT $36,500 LONDON, August 13 resenting Tom Gibbons, American boxer. have written Maj. Arnold Wilson, pro- moter of the Gibbons-Bloomficld fight at Wembley last Saturday. claiming that £8.061 (about $36.500) is due their client this being the difference in sterling b tween $50.000 and the £3.000 which Gib- bons received. Maj. Wilkon has gone to the country under physician's orders, suffering from | a nervous breakdown brought on by the | of managing the fight. Inter- | viewed at Preston by u representative of the Dai'y Sketch, he said he had been in ill heaith for some time, that two or fight his nerves ‘went,” ‘and that until he had six or seven days' rest he would not be able to say anything. The Dui wyers rep- s the fight re- of £12.000 to its backers, the receipts amounting to £15.000 against expenses of £27,000. EXPECTED TO BE LIVELY Washington's fistic fans expect to witness 10 slashing rounds between jumbo Eggleston and Jack Turner in the feature bout tonight at the Washington Barracks for the benefit | of the Enlisted Men e Club, Johnny Sudenburg. veteran mauler, | Wil be unable to appear tonight agninst Joe Downer in the semi-final, | but the management has obtained a worthy substitute in Al Ward of Fort Myer. . | AS TO BOUT WITH SHADE | NEW YORK, August 13.—Benny Leonard, lightweight champion, who has been asked by the New York | State Athletic Commiss ree | to box Dave Shade of California, in| itle match on or before January I. 1925, in the event that he defeats Mickey Walker. world welterweight title holder, is expected to submit his gned agreement to the commission today. Walker already has consented to a imilar arrangement and has prom- ised to post a bond of $10,000 to bind | the bargain and to engage in none but the Leonard bout before meeting Shade. SANDE GETS WORSE; NEW INJURY FOUND ARATOGA SPRINGS. 3—The condition o America’s premier jockey. norted »t the Saratowa Hospital as Tess eneaurazing 1t wos stated that | he hes in davelon: 2iure end the siar rider has denied all callers. | Tt was learned last night for the| first_time that Sande suffered a frac- | tured left collarhone among his mul- | tiple injuries. No mention had been made of this injury In any of the re- ports that have been given out. The X-ray plates taken of the frac- tured bones of the injured jockey in- dicate that the left leg is in a good position and that the fractured left rib over the apex of the heart is merely a crack and gives no indica- tion of being serious. It was officially stated at the Sara- toga Hospital that Sande's condition not considered serious. Not- withstanding this, the revelatino that Sande’s collarbone was broken, that he has again developed a tempera- itors are barred i disquieting news to his innumer- able friend Steeplechase Jockey William Keat- ing is considered to be doing nicely. His ultimate recovery is confidently temner- been | STRIBLING SCORES K. 0. CHARLESTON, 8. C.,, August 13.— W. L. (Young) Strroling of Atlanta, boxer. knocked out Leo Leonard of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., in the third round last night. The fight was the feature of the boxing card arranged for the entertainment of the veterans of the Old Hickory Division, in convention cian. sent word to this effect. ~You'll Enjoy a 1 Star Each Day—While You are Away here. Visit From The 1t’ll be like a “big letter” from home — bringing all the news of what is tak- ing place while you are away. So that while you may be out of the city, you won’t be out of touch with what is going on. AMERICANS TO FORE IN TAILTEANN GAMES By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, August 13.—Ryan of Ire- land won' the 3,000-meter steeple- chase at the Tailteann games. Mar- vin Rick of New York was second and Roland Payne, Ohio State Uni- versity, third Ryan's time was 10 minutes 45 2-5 reconds. In the final of the 100 meters Carr of Australia finished first. Jackson V. Scholz, New York Athletic Club, was second and Coffee of Canada third. Time, 10 4-5 seconds. In the 16-pound hammer event the decathlon Harold Osborne, nois A. ( and winner of the recent Olympic decathlon, was first with a throw of 103 feet. Dan Kinsey, University of Illinols, was second with a throw of 91 feet 6 inches and Shanahan of Ireland third. Pat MacDonald, United States, and | 0'Grady of Irelund tied in the 56- in one hand at 14 feet 6 inches. Osborne won the standing broad | Jump, with 10 feet 5 inches. Winter | of Australia, 10 feet, was second. | The 800-meter run was won by Me- Harold Kachern, Ireland, with Ray Buker Tlinols A. C., second, and Ray Dodge. Oregon, third. The time was 1 minute 56 4-5 seconds. Dan Kinsey meters in the borne, second seconds. Miss Euphasia Donnelly, Indianap- olis, won the high plain diving for women. Miss Res, England, was sec- ond and Miss Absalom, Ireland, third. In the 200 meters, free style, for women, Miss Mackenzie of England | was firet and Miss Donnelly was sec- Illinois, decathlon, The won the 100 time was 111-3 {ond. In the 800 meters, free style, the Australians, Andrew Charlton and Beaurepaire won their heats. Charl- ton also won his heat in the 200 meters, free style. Ircland beat England polo, 6 to 0. In the decathlon the Americans, Harold Osborne and Dan Kinsey, were leading on points. WEST AND EAST BATTLE IN JUNIOR POLO MATCH NEW YORK, August 13.—A second- round match in the national junior polo championships will be played be- tween the Midwick Country Club of “alifornia, and the Meadowbrook (L. 1) team at the Rumson (N. J.) Country Club, today. The game between the States Army and Rockaway fours, scheduled for yesterday, but post- poned because of will be played at water United | tomorrow and the finals on Saturday. The White and Blue teams, which were carded to meet in a tr match for the American international challenge cup team at Meadowbrook vesterday, also were kept idle by the weather. They will hold a practice session today. FIVE BOUTS LISTED FOR BENEFIT SHOW Alexandria boxing fans expect to be weil entert ed tomorrow night at Dreadnaught Park. when Willie Ptomey of Fort Myer, and Johnny Conroy of the Mohawk Athletic Club exchange swats in the feature bout of the boxing show to be staged for the benefit of the playgrounds equipment fund. Battle-Ax Hawes will defend his Alexandria light heavyweight title in the semi-final with K. O. Savastina, former 3d Corps Area fighter. Tex Willard and Jackie Johnson, colored heavyweights, will supply the action in a six-rounder. Emmett Eullock, 1 captain of the Alexandria High School foot ball eleven, will appear in one of the pre- liminary bouts, meeting Kid Childs of Fredericksburg, Va. Kid Cole and Koodles opponent iliott wiil be in another four-rounder. GAS HANDLED IN PLANE TO FUMIGATE STABLES NEW YORK. August 13.—The Army stables at Mitchel Field, L. I., where the mounts of the British polo team will be quartered untll after the Meadowbrook matches with _the American cup defending four, have been fumigated with chlorine gas to preclude the danger of an influenza epidemic among the ponies. When Capt. Arthur Warren, who has charge of the Army polo center at Mitchel Field, learned that rail- road regulations prohibited the trans- portations of lethal gas by rail he had two 60 pound cylinders brought by airplane from the Government arsenal at Edgewater, Md. SR I TIP FOR FI! 5 HARPERS FERRY, W. Va.,, August 13 (Speclal).—The Potomac and Shen- andoah Rivers both were clear this morning. AUTO GLASS rcR WIiD: OR_BODIES. 1astalled While Yeu Wait. Taranto & Wasman 1017 NEW YORK AVE. ¥. “I hav 1li- | pound weight throw for height with | with Os- | out | | more so. a sustained period, plays Inside Golf By Chester Horton. To xet into the knack of transfer- ring the weight to the right, as the eluh ds 4ntan haek, and to the left an the club xwuug forward, try thin simpl experiment, whicl begins the swing with what we might call ki dergarten wstepsi Take n square ~stance and place wood clubhbe back of the ball, or, better, xo posi- tion the clubhead without using a bal Place the armux lightly ~t your aides mear the should- ers. Then keep them there throughout thix exercise. Now, with arms fixed—but uot held rigidly and stifly (o your sidew— move your right hip raight out, making your weilgl & over to your right lex. Do not let your wrixts break the clubhend backward at all—keep the wrixt position fixed without having your wrints rigidly locked. t the clubhead swing back and forth ax your weight goes first to the right leg, then over to the left. Keep the movement of the club short. Tl i, at the point where your wi In week to break, stop the club and swing it back. Obxerve how your weight shifts back and forth. In tomorrow's article we will go on with thix, (Copyright, Jobn F. Dinle 4y D. C. MUNY GOLFERS 70 RECEIVE TROPHY | | H Washington’s public links team, which won the Harding cup in the tournament played six weeks ago at Dayton, will receive the trophy at presentation ceremonies at Rock Creek Park late this afternoon The cup will be presented by John L. Eldridge, president of the Rock Creek Park Club. The team repre- senting Washington composed of George J. Voigt, District municipal { champion, Earl McAleer, Charles N. | Agnew, jr., and-John C. Shorey. At the same time the qualification won at Dayton by Earl Mc- when he broke the course record with a round of 70, will be presented to him. Alrendy well on the road to com- | pletion, the new nine holes in East Potomac Park was inspected yester- ay by W. S. Flynn, the course archi- tect, and pronounced in good shape to proceed with the work Flynn, accompanied by the engineer officer assistant to the superintend- ent of public buildings and grounds, also visited the Rock Creek Park course, where work Is in progress for another nine holes. Flynn will make another survey of the Rock Creek layout as soon as the work of clear- ing the brush is completed. | FULLER BREAKS hECORD . FOR COURSE IN NORTH . Ashmead Fuller, a member of the Chevy Chase Club. who is spending e s ner at Bass Rocks, Mass., last | Monday broke the record for the golf ourse there. He went around in 70, one under par. The amateur rec- ord which was held by Ouimet and Evans had previously been equaled several times by Fuller. MATCH YOUR 0DD COATS g, 9 Our STUDEBAKE Stock of Just Drive It; That’'s All AlU-Woel TROUSERS en’t missed it since I found 1 still could get . . . QallepForge Special AS GOOD A Adam Sedeldt Browing 8 IT LOOKS Ce., Norristown, Penca. VALLEY FORGE DISTRIBUTING CO. . Just as often as you change your headquar- ters notify the Business Office—and The Star will follow you. Rates by Mail—Postage Paid Payable in Advance Maryland and Virginia— One month ... One week .......... All other States— One month ... One week . Datly asa Bunday Daily ve...20c 15¢ 624 L St. SE. Washington, D. C. Telephone Lincoln 8410 golf | ALEC SMITH TELLS Greatest Joy in Golf F the above be golf's greatest sorrow, what is golf’s greatest joy? Making a hole in one gives a man a great thrill, and it is a thrill I have had on a great many occasions. Birdies are always pleasing to the fancy and eagles, of course, much But I believe that the biggest exhiliration comes on those occasions when one, so to speak, rises above the mathematics of the game, and, for golf better than it is intended to be played. 1t is satistying to stage a game ap- proximating par, but when, over a succession of holes, one gets far under par one has a fleeting feeling of al- most superhuman power and ex- periences a degree of pleasure that is obtainable in no other way. Let me illustrate: Playing the East Lake coursé at Atlanta, Ga., on one occasion a good many years ago, I made a 180-yard hole in one, followed with a five on the next hole (440 ards), a four on the next (230 ards), a three on the next (400 vards) and a two on the next (350 yards), holing a long mashie. One, five, four, three, two—that is five holes in 15, or an average of three to the hole. It's the sort of playing that makes you feel really good. In the 1913 Dixie championship at the Memphis Country Club, I was nine strokes behind Freddie McLeod at_the end of the first day's play, In the morning round of the last day's play 1 started off with a per- formance like that at the East Lake course. T did the first five holes in one over threes, concluding this per- formance with a two on the 230-yard fifth hole, where my drive was a foot trom the cup. In the afternoon round, I got even threes on the first five holes, dupli- cating my morning play on the fifth down to the last inch. A brace of 69s permitted me to gain back the nine- stroke lead Freddie had gained and to put him four strokes to the bad. The pair of eagle twos on the No. 5 hole won me the title. Par golf is great, but its kick is mild compared to that you get when you're playing in even threes, even though you can't keep it up for more than five or six holes. 32 YOUTHFUL LINKSMEN QUALIFY IN TOURNAMENT CHICAGO, August 13.—The 32 golf- ers who qualified for the junior golf ampionship at Brierzate Club, with scores of 85 or better, played the first match round for the title this fore- noon, and the survivors met in the second circuit of the links this after- noon, reducing the contenders to eight players The starters in the qualifying round ran beyond expectations, numbering and among them was Henry J. Foley of Chicago, with the leading score of 78. Four other golfers scored 79, including Donald Carrick of To- ronto and George Hackl, a Prince- ton University student. COAST STARS PLACED IN NEWPORT DOUBLES NEWPORT, R. I, August 13.—The draw for doubles in the Newport in- vitation tennis tournament here has placed William M. Johnston and Clar- ence J. Griffin, former national cham- pions, in the upper half and Howard and Robert Kinsey, sectional cham- plons and aspirants for places on the Davis cup team, in the lower bracket With Johnston and Griffin in the top division are Harvey Snodgrass and Walter Westbrook of Los An- geles and Ignacio Borbolla and F. Gerdes, the Mexican Davis cup chal- lengers. The lower section includes Norman E. Brookes and R. E. Schlesinger of Australia, W. Lock Wel and Paul Kong of China, B. I. C. Norton and Wray Brown of St. Louis. Singles play, which was interrupt- ed by rain yesterday, will be resumed today with two Bast vs. West matches. N. W. Niles of Boston will meet Clarence J. Grifin and Lucien E. Willlams of Chicago will elash with Harvey Snodgrass. ONLY 32 MAY COMPETE IN NATIONAL DOUBLES BOSTON, August 13.—The number of entrants for the national lawn tennis doubles championship, starting at the Longwood Cricket Club Mon- day, will be limited to 32. It was announced that this was necessary in order to insure completion of the tournament in five days of play, al- lowing a day for possible rain. so as not to conflict with the national singles starting August 25 at Forest Hills, N. Y. Robert and Howard Kinsey, Pacific Coast champions, have sent thel entry. Other new entries are B. I. Norton, winner with William T. Til- den, 2d, last year, and paired this year with Wray Brown. St. Louis; Clarence Sanders and M. B. Hutchin- son, Northwestern champions; M. Gal- lagher and H. McElvaney, intermoun- tain champions, and W. Newell and C. Meyer, Missouri Valley champions JUNIOR TENNIS EVENT IS TRI-CORNERED RACE CHICAGO, August 13—Play in the fourth round of the national junior tennis tournament here developed into a tri-cornered contest among favorites of the East, West and Cen- tral sections. Alan Herrington and Cranston Hol- man, Californians, represented far West against Horace Orser of New York and Neal Sullivan, Philadelphia, Eastern con- tenders. Chicago’s hopes were fixed on George Lott, defending champion, and Emmett Pare. In the boys' singles competition was between the South and Kast, with Donald Cram, Nashville, Southern in- terscholastic champion, and Myron Raymond, Brooklyn, the leader: FLAWS IN CONSTRUCTION NECESSITATE REBUILDING Certain Not to Be Ready for Any Earlvarid Games and May Not Be Available for Play During the 1924 Campaign. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. / YORK, August 13—Sort of a calamity has happened at the N University of Indiana, where they were building a new stadium, hoping to have it completed in time for the foot ball season. It seems that flaws of some sort were discovered in the partly completed structure which necessitated blasting and wrecking to make way for a subatitute. It is certain that it will not be ready in time for the preliminary games, and perhaps not for any. Because of this trouble Indiana will meet only three teams—none of them big ten members—at home this year. PLAY TO BE RUSHED IN WOMAN’S TENNIS FOR 13. —aAl the | women's national championships post_ | poned yesterday on account of r;lln}“o Seadn Paree o and|&s)many tnizdlirounalicontestsias| oMol Of e Universitypor Jvis: possible will be played off on the! basket bzll mentor in the Middie courts of the West Side Tennis Club | West. today. Purdue, which building a new bowl, hopes to have it completed b: November 22, when Indiana comes to Lafayette for the annual game. Knute Rackne advises the writer that every State in the Union is rep- resented among the students at the coaching school which the great coach has just opencd at Notre Dame. Teaching basket ball at the Notre Dame coaching course is Dr. W. i3 T HILLS, N. Y., August second round matches in | Mrs. the | Anderson and Miss Isabella Mumford Lewis Watson and | ©f Boston Play was scheduled to start at 10:30 o'clock this morning. The principal second round match will be that be- tween Miss Helen Wills of Berkeley, Calif., defending champion, and Mrs. H. P. Falk of Elberon, N. J. Other outstanding singles on today's card are Second round—Miss of New York vs. Mrs. B. L. Cole Lawrence, Ma Miss Mary Browne of Los Angeles vs. Miss Penelope Anderson of Rye, N. Y., and Mrs. Marion Z. Jessup of Wilmington, Del, vs. Miss Mary E. Case of Orange, N. J Third round—Mrs. Molla lory of New York vs. Mrs. ders Taylor of New York. First round match doubles will be played today as follows: Miss Goss and Mrs. Jessup vs. Miss Margaret Blake of Lenox, Mass., and Miss Anna Fuller of Boston: Miss Browne and Dudley California vs. Miss matches Goss of K. ss Eleanor B 5 Mal- Saun- -~ WATER STARS TO MEET. CHICAGO, August 13.—Olympic swimming stars will compete in three national championships here Sunday. when cfforts will be made to set new records. The 220-yard back stroke, 440-yard breast stroke and $80-yard re- lay titles will be decided. The practice of securing foot bald athletes of reputation as a drawing card for Kuropean steamship excur- sions is growing by leaps and bound-. | Just now the Eastern big three iz | represented on a Scandinavian cruise viz: Buff Stout, Princeton foot ball captain; Percy Jenkins, the star Har vard back, and Newell Neidlinger of the Yale backfield If Bill Johnston's sun is really de- [clining he will take with him below | the horizon many more illustrious honors than hiive fallen to most ten- nis players. When Father Time beck- ons to a champion it is an inexoraol« gesture. PROMOTERS TO TRY AGAIN. 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