Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1924, Page 31

SPORTS. . THE. EVENING .STAR, WASHINGTON, .D. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1924 SPORTS. U. S. Davis Cup Victory Is Not Assured : Georgetown Has Two Great Halfbacks MOUNT RAINIERS WOULD PLAY THREE TIMES AWAY AMERICAN TEAM CHANGES SHATTER OLD CONFIDENCE Richards Has Yet to Prove His Mettle as Trophy ! Player, and Doubles Combination Uncertain. Aussies Also Playing Strongly. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. HERE is no doubt that Gerald Patterson and Pat O'Hara Wood of the Australian Davis cup team have been playing better singles in tennis this year than ever before. The chances, however, seem fair that the United States will success- Fully defend the Davis cup, play for which begins at Germantown on ‘Thursday. But the time has vanished when the moral certainty of victory was attached to the defense of the famous trophy by Americans stars, Bill Johnston is slipping, and it remains to be seen whether or not Vincent Richards is qualified to stand in his shoes. Richards, so far as his match against Patterson is concerned, will have more than one incentive to assail the big Australian with everything he has got, and perhaps a little more. For it was Patterson, a year or so ago, who, in a signed article. stated his belief that Richards had advanced as far as he would go, chiefly because of his comparative weakness on zround strokes. Patterson will be moved to prove his assertion and Richards to confute it. A personal issue of the sort always enhances interest in a contest in_tennis or any other sport. Two things remain to be seen hefore Americans can sit back with the easy assurance of likelihood that the cup will be retained. First, Rich- ards must prove his mettle as a Davis cup singles player and second, the Tilden-Johnson doubles combination will be tried by fire Tt some think, the Patterson- Wood combination has at least an cven chance to dispose of the Amer- ican pair then, a great responsibility rests upon Tilden and Richards in the singles. For should the Australians win the doubles the two singles pla ers-of the American team would have to take three out of the four matches to clinch an American victory. Tilden, teamed with Vincent Rich- ards, fared sastrously against the Patterson-0'Hara Wood combination in tha Davis cup matches of 1922. The Antipodeans won in decisive fashion and their victory convinced Tilden that Americans know vi little about the technique and strategy of doubles play. It remains to be seen whether or not Tilden, a great student of the mame, has gained material knowledge in this respect. But even if he has its value will only be made practical by the hearty co-operation of Johnston. the outcome of .this vear's play, but also as a bit of forehandednes: The experts, pointing to Richards’ playing record, including victories in the Olympic singles and doubles, a triumph over Johnston in the East- West matches and a five-set battle with Tilden, and emphasizing the dif- ference of alout 10 years in his age and that of Tilden and Johnston, pro- fessed to see the beginning of the setting up of America’s future ma- chinery for defense of the famous Davis trophy. This will be the eighth time that Auystralia and the United States have met in the Davis cup challenge round since the trophy was donated by Dwight F. Davis in 1900, Australia winning four times and America three. Gerald L. Patterson, captain of the Australian team, and Pat O'Hara Wood will play in both the singles and doubles for the challengers. In the singles today Patterson meets Tilden at 2:30 p.m. in the opening match while ©O'Hara Wood and Richards meet at the conclusion of this contest. Conditions Net Faverable. Prospects for good playing condi- tions were not encouraging. The courts, protected from recent rains by waterproof coverings, were reported in good shape, but the weather this morning was unseasonably cold and a strong wind was blowing from the Southwest. Defenders and challngers Were on the courts yesterday for final workouts and all were reported in Zo0d form. wur singles and one doubles matches will be plaved the cup Eoing to the inner of three contests. The doubles. w! h Tilden and Johnston will meat | Patterson and O'Hara Wood. | will be played tomorrow and the other two sinzles on Saturday. Five | matches will be played regardless of whether either team wins three straight. George W. Wightman will be the refere America has successfully defended the coveted prize sinee it was recap- tured from Australia in 1320, twice a inst Australia and once against Japan. In all, this country has won the cup seven times and Australia six PHILADELPHIA, September 11.— America today begins a new chapter in its lawn tennis history when, with the breaking up of its suecessful com- Lination of the last four vears it ser to resist the efforts of the challeng- ing Australians to carry away the Davis cup, symbol of international team xupremacy Tennis experts gathered from all sections of the country at the Ger mantown Cricket Club, where the two singles matches opening the chal- lenge round will be played this after- noon. regard the supplanting in the singles of William M. Johnston of 2 . the veteran teammate of William T. Tilden, national champion, Ly the youthful Vincent Richards of New York, not merely as the result of N three occasions it has been my good luck to win the Metropoli- OSWALD KIRBY TELLS: Greatest Play Ever Made Against Me. O tan amateur championship. Three times I have won the New Jersey title. And I have played in many additional important tournaments and matches. Necessarily in these contests I have seen many splendid plays, and often have been their unwilling victim. Of them all, I should say that one executed by Max Marston, 1923 national amateur champion, was the best ever made against me. It was in 1916 during the New On his next play Max had three ob- Jersey championship at the Engle- | Stacles to conquer. First, the rough, wood Club. We had a terrifically | Which was very bad; second, to lift close mateh and, going to the last| the ball high enough to get over the hole, were all even. {bank of the green, which was elevated The lust hole measured 180 yards| 12 or 15 feet. and control it sufficient from tee to cap. 1t was a good jig-| 1y to make it stick: thirdly, to avoid ger shot to a double-level green|caroming off the slope which divided huilt high above traps. The first| the lower from the upper level. level extended from the front of the| Using his niblick, he dropped his wreen to about the center. There the | ball on the green in such a way that <ccond level, some 12 inches higher| it curled along the edge of the upper than the first, began. From the tee,|level and came to a stop dead on the upward slope to the second level | the pin. He was down in three. A lay like a cort of hulf-moon. The | bit upset by his fine play, 1 missed cup was sunk in the higher part of | my 5-foot putt and we hlh’e,d.thfi the green. just at the edge of this) hole. slope. The match didn’t end until we had INTERCITY RACKET TEAM IS SELECTED ‘Washington will be well represent- ed against Baltimore in the first of the intercity championship tennis matches Sunday at 1:45 o'clock at the Tidal Basin. Netmen who impressed in the munic'pal court. tournament were picked for the Washington. team at a raeeting last night. ‘O'Neill, Russett, King, Regan, Cra- goe, Trige, Rutley, Burke, Newby and Rathgeber were selected for the sin- gles, while O'Neill and Newkirk or Bryan, Russett and McConnell, King and Burke, Davis and Cragoe and Garnett and Wilson were named for the doubles, Baltimore is reported to have a stronger team than last season, when Washington was nosed out by one match. The local racketers, however, are certain to make matters interest- ing for the Oriole City team. GIRLS’ TITLE TENNIS NOW IN SEMI-FINALS PHILADELPHIA, September 11— Helen Jucobs, Berkeley, C Alice Francis, Orange, N. Genevieve Fox, Southampton, N. Y. and Charlotte Rabelle; New York City, have ad- vanced to the semi-final round of the girls' national champlonship tennis tournament at the Philadelphia Cricket Club. In the upper bracket today, Miss Jacobs mects Miss Fox and in the lower Miss Francis plays Miss Ra- belle. All the survivers won their third round matches with comparative ease. ‘With one exception, all the favor- ites came through the third round of the women's Middie States tour- nament. The only upset heing defeat of Mrs. William Endicott of Boston by Mrs J. D. Corbiere, also of Boston. Mr Endicott, who eliminated Miss Flor- ence Ballin, New York, one of the seeded players, in the first round Monday, appears to be off her game and was beaten, 6—0. 6—4. Others who advanced to the fourth round were Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mal- lory, New York: Miss Kdith Sigour- ney, Miss Anna Fuller and Miss Mar- garet Blake, all of Boston, and Mrs. M. B. Huff, Miss Anne Townsend and Miss Virginia Carpentier, all of Philadelphia. WASHINGTON CHURCHMEN FORM DUCKPIN LEAGUE Organization of the North Washing- ton Church Duckpin League was com- pleted representatives of eight District church teams last night at a meeting in the Central Presbyterian Church. Frank S. Harris was elected presi- dent, J. E. Hall secretary and B. J. Hamm treasurer. Mount Pleasant Methodist Episcopal, Central Prosby- terian, Immanuel Baptist, Calvary Methodist Episcopal, Brightwood Park Methodist Episcopal, Columbia Heights Christian, Emory Methodist Episcopal and the Fourth Presby- terian are to compete in the league games that will get under way Oc- tober § on the King Pin alleys. FILIPINO NET EVENT DRAWING TO CLOSE Three of the four remaining plavers in the singles competition of the sec- ond annual Filipino tennls tourna- ment were to be opponents today on the Monument Lot courts in two matches that will decide the semi- finalist to meet A. Luna. A R. de Leon was to tackle F. M. Silva, the winner being scheduled to oppose C. Soriano in the semi-final. A. Luna advanced to the final yes- terday by taking the measure of A. Lansang, 7—5, 6—4. C. Soriano downed J. A. Orozco, 9—7, 6—8, 6—4, to_remain in the running. The final in the doubles is expect- ed to be completed tcmorrow at 3 o'clock, resulting on the outcome of today's pair of semi-final matches. Soriano and Luna were to meet Acantilado and Santos and Coronel and . Lansang planned to dispose of Orozeo and Rivera. Yesterday Acantilado and Santos upset calculations by winning a 79, 6—3, 3—6 match from Guevara and; de Leon. s Tranavaal, winmer of tha Great Prix de Paris this year, paid the record pribe, of 120 to 1 M OUNT RAINIER'S championship nine of the Washington Base Ball and Athletic Association will continue its drive in the sec- tional matches of the National Base Ball Federation by tackli Providence in a three-game series this week end in the Rhode Island city, according to the present plans of Ja mes F. O'Malley, local representative af the N. B. B. F. The two teams had planned to play one game Sunday at Providence, with the remaining matches scheduled for Washington a week late Washington Base Ball arid Athletic Association officials be- lieve considerable expense could be saved if all of the games are played at Providence. - Unless the Providence officlals are willing to entertain Mount Rainier in three games this week end, the first on Saturday and the others on Sunday, then the original plan will be adhered to whereby local sandlot fans will see the Marylanders in ac- tion against Providence on September 21 in the second match. O'Malley al- ready has wired Providence urging that all of the games be played this week end at Providence. He expected to hear from the Rhode lsland team today. O'Malley has been unable to obtain Grifith Stadium for the proposed Mount Rainier-Providence game on September 21. He has sent Providence word to that effect, but the principal reason for the present plan of stag- ing the sectional games at Providence is attributed to the expenses entailed in a longer series. It wlill cost ap- proximately $650 to take the Mount Rainler plavers to Providence for one game, and only a few hundred more to allow them to stay over the week end for the remaining matches. Comflicting reports concerning the Rolling Mills _nine are filtering through from Baltimore. Tt is sald that the Oriole City is considering withdrawing its base ball association from the N. B. B. F. as a result of the successful protest filed by Mount Rai- nier against the Rolling Mills aggre- gation. Then it is claimed that Roll- ing Mills is banking a final hope on a counter protest against Mount Rai- nier, which charges the Marylanders with using several of the General Ac- counting Office tossers in the Wash- ington-Baltimore sectional games. Washington Base Ball and Athletic Association officials believe that Roll- & Mills' protest will not be upheld by the National Base Ball Federation. Officials here say that Mount Rainier received permission from the N. B. B. . to draft several players from the eneral Accounting Office outfit. 12 BOWLING TEAMS IN CHURCH CIRCUIT With four additional teams due to i enter. the Fast Washington Church Bowling League expects to enjoy a successful campaign on the alieys this year. Twelve teams are due to supply the 1924 competition. Last vear's officers were unani- mously re-elected at a meeting of the team representatives last night. They are: R. J. Caltrider, president; Mau- rice E. Sands, secretary and treas- urer, and Thomas J. Quantrelle, offi- cial scorer, Another meeting wil be held in the Ingram Congregational Church on September 18. Brookland M. E. Douglas Memo- rial, M. E., Ingram, Keller Memorial, Ninth Street Christian, Temple Baptist, North Capitol M. E. and the Waugh M. E. are expected to send repre- Eastern Presbyterian, Epworth |’ Dominican Lyecesm tessers of the Independent League are eager for action. Petworth Athletio Club will be encountered Saturday at 3:30 o'clock at the Washington Barracks. The Dominican nine will tackle Ar- lington Sunday at 3 o'clock on the Virginians’ diaménd. Brayton McCon- nell, Grazzini and Mills are the fling- ers counted upon by the Lyceum fellowers. Kanawhas, last year's champions of the local Hebrew series, will play their rubber match with the District senior champion Linworth team Sun- day at 1 o'clock at the Washington Barracks. Sauber of the Kanawhas will be the mound opponent of Mclntyre. Lafayette Athletie Club took the measure of the Red Cross nine in a 5-to-3 engagement. Clark hurled creditably for the losers. Eftective fiinging by Alfred Mac- donald enabled the Thomas All-Stars to turn in a 3-to-1 victory over the Pirates in the deciding match for the Thomson School championship: series. Taylor of the winners led both teams at the bat with three safeties in five times at the plate, Liberty Athletie Club is casting about for a game Saturday, according tr;'sn;nller Pop Kremb at Columbia 4165-J. Plasa diamend athletes slammed 10 bingles to down the Seamen Gunners, 5 to 3. Freed, on the mound for the victors, yielded bift five wallops. Alexandria Amerfean Chemical Com- pany team ran roughshod over the No. 1 Engine Company nine, winning, 13 to 1, in the Alexandria Commercial League. The losers gathered but two hingles off the slants of Downham. ° @. A. A. SQUAD TO GATHER. Last year's gridders of the George- town Athletic Association are to gather tonight at 1227 Wisconsin ave- nue. Jimmy Clark is expected to re- por Recommended By sentatives. e KNOXVILLE WINS FLAG, BUT BRISTOL PROTESTS BRISTOL, Va.-Tenn. September 11. —Knoxville won the split-season championship of the Appalachian League yesterday, when they re- corded their fourth victory out of six starts from the Bristol club, win- ner of the second half of the split- season race. The score was 7 to 1, Bristol's lone run resulting from an 'rror. The Bristol club protested all the sames played, contending Knoxville used ineligible players. The league president overruled the protest, and Bristol announced its intention of an appeal to the board of directors. Rogers Hormsby, the St. Louis Car- dinals’ star, has been proclaimed. the greatest batsman in the National League. Umpires in the American League ear uniforms of khaki. The prospect looked very bright to mme when I laid my tee shot on the upper level, not more than five feet from the hole, with a splendid chance for a birdie two. My optimism was enhanced by the fact that Marston hooked his ball into deep rough at the left, fully 20 vards off the green| and slightly short. PRINCETON HUNTING FOR PAIR OF TACKLES BY WALTER CAMP. The modern tendeney in foot ball to stiffen up the wings of the line is being sharply emphasized down at Princeton, whence come reports that Beattie, one of Princeton’s best back- field men last season, is to be con- verted into a tackle. Whetter used at tackle or in the backfield, Beattie, with his last year’s experience, promises to be one of Princeton’s most brilliant stars. There will be plenty of backfield material Jeft if he is shifted to the line, for Princeton has Caldwell, Gibson and Slagle, not to speak of Williams, who made the startling run against Har- vard last year. ‘ ‘There is a possibility that Howard will be removed from his old post at guard and put in at tackle. Pros- Pects for the middle of the line are good, with Hills and Crago left to start with if Howard is shifted. They are counting a lot at Prince- ton on that star end, Stout, who is captain this year and is a real leader as well as a fine wing man. Dins- ‘more has the call on the qnll’lerbl("k position, with Ewing of last year's freshman team for a second string.. Opponents of Brown are beginning to up and take notice that the Providence aggregation is likely to ‘be something to be reckoned with. Of coirse, they are all familiar with the fine work of Ed Robinson as head coach. They are also beginning to realize that this_is Reggie Brown's third season as Robinson’s assistant and that there is no cleverer student of the game. With his long expe- rience at Harvard he knows foot ball and knows how to find the weak- nesses of his opponents. Marshall and Staff will be Robinson’s other as- Sistants, Marshall handling the ends and Staff the linemen. —_— 1t is estimated that more than 600,- played 40 holes, Then, after a‘hdoked drive, I played a mashie over some tall trees, got on the green in two. and holed out my second - putt Marston, having gotten on is two without trouble, suddenly went wrong with his putter and - used three strokes holing out. That gave mé the match and the championship. BOWLERS TO MEET. ... HYATTSVILLE, Md., September 11. —To discuss plans for the seasori a méeting of managers and representa- tives of all teams planning to énter the Prince Georges County Duek™ Pin Association will be held tonight-at 7:30 o'clock in American Legion hesdquar- ters. Hugh T. McClay is president of the association, Charles Hayes, retary, and Harry F. SonnenWberg, treasurer. 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The Blue and Gray candidates were sub- jected to plenty of rough work ve: terday, but all escaped the injured list. Breslin and Murray impressed at quarterback, while Tony Plansky gave a good account of himself in the line. Frank McGrath, who is suffering from a dislocated shoulder, will leave for Washington tomorrow. Coaches Little and Palm are satis- fled with the results attained thus far| at this Virginia town, although they in- | tend to speed up the gridders next week in preparation for the opening game with King College on October 11 at Washington. PARKSLEY WINS TITLE FROM MARTINSBURG MARTINSBURG, W. Va., September 11.—The Martinsburz Blue Sox, three- time champions of the Blue Ridza League, lost the annual struggle for the champlonship of Virginia, Ma land, Delaware, Pennsylvania and We Virginia when it dropped its fourth Same of a xeven-game series yesterday afternoon to the Parksley (Va.) Spuds, winners of the pennant on the Eastern Shore loop this season The finale was played on a neutral field at Chambersburg, Pa. Parksl won the first and third and Martins- burg the second games played on the Shore: Martinsburg took the fourth and Parksley the fifth games, both played here, and Parksley sewed up the title yesterday by taking the sixth. The score yesterday was 6 to 3. Two years ago the same teams met as champions of their leagues, respec- tively, and Martinsburg won four straight from the Shore team. Last year Martinsburg met the Dover (Del.) Dobbins and lost the five-State title in the seventh game. SPORTLAND RlflG SHOW IS PREVENTED BY COLD Cold weather scored a knockout at the Sportland Heights boxing arena, Berwyn, Md, last night, and the scheduled 12-round go between Terry O;ID.Y and Joe Schwartz was called off. Honey Boy Finnigan and Goldie Ahearn are to appear in the main at- traction there next Thursday night. MEN'’S HAAS AND MATZKER DUE*® TO STIR FANS THIS FALL Believed to Match Any Pair on Gridiron—Twenty Out for First Geerge Washington Practice. Many Institutions Have New Fields. BY H. C. BYRD. N Haas and Metzker, Georgetown University figures it should have two of the greatest running backs in foot ball this season. Both have been ; brilliant before, and right now are showing far better form in prac- ucc_lhzn ever. The two men seem absolutely certain to get the halfback positions as regulars, without anybody else even pushing them close. Not so much was heard of Metzker a year ago, but Haas distin- guished himself in practically every game in which he took part. After one contest, that with the 3d Army Corps, a member of the latter team made the bold statement that, notwithstanding he had played college fog;} ball, then four years at West Point, played in France and since in thl:‘ruumry on Army and independent teams, he had never seen as clever a man carrying the ball as Haas. And that man was on the same West Point eleven on which Oliphant was a star. One man, close to affairs in George-| George Washington hegan its foot tnun. expressed the opinion that|ball practice yesterday with a smaller there may be a better pair of half- | squad than it expected, but with pros- backs in foot ball this Fall than the | pects of enlargement to about 40 men two who will wear Georgetown's col- | within the next few day: Twenty ors, but if so 1 would not know |reported for the opening workout. where to find them.” ‘The squad was sent through an average first day's drill. Setting-up exercises and some of the fundamen- tals of foot ball just about made it a day for Coach Crum and his aspir- ants, _ The foot Ball eemehes and officials interpretation meeting, which w scheduled to take place in New York | Saturday night. has been postponed | a week, to Saturday, September 20.| It _seems that some one man could not be present this week and pla of the hundreds of enaches and offi- cials who probably had planned to at- | tend had to be thrown overboard | and changed for the convenience of | one. Of the eight gamex plaved between consin and University of Mich- igan, the former has won but one. That lone victory was chalked up in 1899, and it would, indeed, be a sweet morsel if the Wolverines could take Michigan’s scalp this Fall in the game Weatern Maryland College, accord-|at Ann Arbor. ing to report, will have the lightest team that has represented it in eight vea Its line will average 162 and backfield 160, if press reports from that school are to be taken at their face value. Ed Pagh, eaptain and kalfback, and the best ground-gaining back the University of Maryiand has had ir vears, together with Downey Osborn, were on the field vesterday for their first workout. Osborn is the player who alternated in the right halfback’s position last season with Branner. He played a remarkable game against Yale in that position after Branner was relegated to the sidelines for a breach of discipline. Maryland’s squad generally is be- ing augmented by the return, day by day, of members of the varsity and freshman teams of last year. Yes- terday three clevens were on the field. By the end of this week it is ¢x- pected that about 40 men will be out, and the squad will be held to about that figure during the remainder of the season. | Improvements to athletic fields %o | on throughout the entire country. At least six new stadiums will be dedicated this vear, three in the Middle West, one in the East and two in the South Atlantic section. Heading the list is the University of Illinois stadium, costing a couple million dollars and seating 72,000. University of Minnesota ix dedicat- ing a mew field to seat 50,000. Mich- igan Agricultural College opens its new plant, Bucknell is to put a new field into use October 18 and Catholic University and Washington and Lee dedicate new stadiums on October 4 and November respectively. LTSS LN T TS SATS RSN N TS SN TS TR TR N NN TS AR L R TS L W WEAR echt Co. 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