Evening Star Newspaper, June 10, 1925, Page 23

SPORTS. Navy Crew Seen as Real Contender on Hudson :. Battle Ball Latest Sport Craze [SHE 1S HEADED FOR NATIONAL GOLF TITLE| MIDDIES DEPENDED UPON TOBATTLE WASHINGTON U. Why Fight-to-Win Spirit Must Be Instilled Into Men at Annapolis Is Explained by Comdr. McCand- less, Athletic Officer. . BY LAWRENCE PERRY: Poughkeepsie no follower of N EW YORK, June 10—As the Navy crew makes ready to-leave for rowing who is up on the technique of the,sport has any idea other than that the midshipman combi- naton is Yhe one that must be relied upon to give the University of Wash- ington eight a thrilling contest. In the past six years, since th e scheme of sports for all was fully developed at Annapolis, one has come to expect excellence among crews, teams and, individual athletes representing the Naval Academy. Victory is often, of course, ba lanced by defeat, but the important thing is that every team, win or lose, is a worthy outfit from the stand- point of technique. The academy authorities believe in victory and bend every legitimate means to the end that vietory may be obtained. Here is a very nice point and Comdr. McCandless, the ath- letic officer at the Naval Academy, explained it to the writer with great care, lest he be misunderstood. “We want our men to be good losers,” .he sald, “but you must re- member that we are developing at this institution young men who are being trained to fight for their coun- try—and to fight to win. Thers must be no thought of losing when you set out to face, say, a rival fleer. It is your business to win, and it is this spirit which we seek to implant in_the midshipmen. ~If this were confined merely varsity teams it might not he important, or even interestin. the fact is-that this is cultivated to the highest degree within the acad- emy walls. The zest, enthusiasm and skill with which contests of all sorts are carried on among teams and in- dividual performers representing the | various companies not only results in | the development of athletes qualified to command in the enlisted force and to lead in athletics therein—a very valuable, almost an essential element in the relations of officers and men these days—but leads vers often to| the discovery of varsity materlal.” | Just now Comdr. McCandless is fos- | tering the idea of intramural cutcer races among the midshipmen. Four 31foot racing cutters have alread been secured and eight more are want- ed from battleships and cruisers that have been scrapped. As a result of the cutter racing which has already been inaugurated, the Navy athletic authorities have no great fears that they will ever lack rowing material for the regular shells. Minnesota Needs Coach. There seems to be no idea who will be asked to accept the foot ball coach- ing job at Minnesota left vacant by Bill Spaulding. Any one who takes it will inherit an unenviable situation, for the Gopher alumni have been hop- ing for a team that will clean up conference rivals. Spalding’s retirement from the Min- nesota institution shows what may happen to a university with a good coach whose alumni are howling be- cause a championship eleven is not developed as soon as they think it should. The writer knows of no higher type of man than Bill Spalding, and he was doing a good plece of work at Minne- apolis. One wonders. that. trustees, regents, faculties and so on permit as much alumni interference in athletics @s marks modern intercollegiate Sport. The students themselves seem to have a better idea of sport, rejoice in their victories, grouch over their de- feats and then forget about it either way. And when it comes down to coaches in these modern foot ball days this fact should be remembered—it is mighty hard for any gridiron instruct- or or group of instructors to get by the sort of opposition that a big team has to face. MACDONALD DEBATING LUMBAGO VS. POUNDAGE Which is the worse, lumbago or too much weight? This is what Cy Macdonald, man- ager of Spalding’s sporting goods store here, is trying to figure out. Cy decided that he was carrying an excess of poundage, and bought himself a rowboat and a couple of stanch oars and proceeded to grow smaller. He had got rid of 20 pounds when he was taken with Iumhlfn, which kept him on the shelf for almost a week. Now Cy Is debating which is the worse of two evils. ability of Grange—which when all is said and done is natural, not coached, ability—any team will lose more often than it wins. The careers in 1924 of the two best teams in the Western Conference, Chicago and Illinols, splendidly coached and with excellent material, shows the sort of competition that an eleven runs against these days. Each won bril- Mant victories and suffered surpris- ing defeats or were held to unlooked- for tles. Spaulding goes to Southern Cali- fornia, where unquestionably he will do valuable work. Little Stirs Them Up. In the meantime George Little con- tinues to make a big tear throughout Wisconsin. They have not seen any- thing wike Little in the State before. He has just concluded a trip through the northern part of the State, speak- ing to various audiences, and by his personality attracting foot ball ma- terial to Madison of a sort that pre- viously had been lost to the Badger institution. In the past Wisconsin has furnish- ed a goodly measure of star material for other institutions the country over. Now Little is out to save this material,for home use, and his man- ner of going about it is magnetic in the extreme. As for athletics at Madison, they are extremely enthusiastic over their new athletic director, who, for one thing, got into the Spring practice and played almost every position better than the student specialists could play themselves. SCHOOLGIRL IS WINNER “OF GOLF TOURNAMENT GREENWICH, Conn., June 10 (®). —Duplicating her scorg for the first 18 holes with an 83, Maureen Orcutt, Englewood, N. J. 'schoolgirl golfer, won the eastern district women’s golf champlonship over the Greenwich Club links with a 36-hole card of 166. Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd of tire Merion Cricket Club, Philadelphia, national champion, went around with Miss Orcutt in 85, giving her second place with 172. Miss Orcutt’s card: out. 565 Without stars approximating the .54 In. .. 462653 Best Shot I Ever Made Under Pressure Brady, Leo Diegel and I each 1 ‘ unusual event. Incidentally it was the occasion ever made. The match was at 36 holes, Die Johnny Farrell and me. Each team had up good-sized bets on the result of the two rounds and of the match Coming up to the seventeenth hole in the morning, Farrell and I were 2 down. Johnny hadn't been doing quite as well as the rest of us, as evidenced by the fact that he eventually ran up a 76, eleven strokes more than any one else required. _ We all got good drives, but the sec- ond shots were not unusual until I played. I took great care with my shot for two reasons. If Johnany and I could win the last two holes we would finish the round all even with our opponents. Also, if 1 could get par 4 on each hole T would equal the course record of 66, which T had set years before. There we a chance that I might pitch inside Diegel and Brady on the ntcenth, too, and get a birdie, | which would give me the advantag for the hole and a margin in the medal play. They had the same chance to equal my record that I had. The play to the green was a 100-yard | mashie niblick shot. I obtained beau- | tiful results, my ball crossing right | over the cup and almost going down | for an eagle two. As it was it stopped a foot beyond for a sure birdie 3. 1 never played better in a pinch in my | . | In the natural course of events I should have had all the better of | Brady and Diegel. Mike had a 30-foot | putt and Diegel a 40-foot one. But while I stood and looked on—and I | | _319_13th N.W. TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN'’S, 7th & F| exhibition match at Fox Hills in the Summer of 1924 when Mike went around in 65 certainly was an of the best shot under pressure T gel and Brady being paired against The trio of 65s were made in the morning round. guess my eyes must have been bulg- |- ing, too—each of them sank his putt. ‘We halved the hole in 3, so my mashie shot went for nothing. The eighteenth was halved, too, when Johnny Farrell unfortunately was un- able to drop a short putt which would have given him a birdfe 3. Diegel, Brady and I each got fours, for totals of 65, three of us breaking the course record. But if I had had the luck to sink my second shot on the seventeenth I would have gotten a 64. In the afternoon Farrell came back strong with a 68, he and I winning the round, 1 up. However, this left Brady and Diegel winners of the match, also by one hole. The result was determined on the thirty-sixth green. NOTHING BUT BARGAINS We've never offered a finer selection of good used cars. All makes—all styles—and at prices that will fit every pocketbook. Oakland Touring, $50. 1923—Hudson Touring. Premier Touring 1923—Chevrolet Touring. 1 rd Coupe. B Sttachaker Lient six T 3—Studebaker Light Six Touring. tudebaker Special Six Sedan. Fam TR e R R guaranteed. 1923—Studebaker Special Six Tour- 1922—Studebaker Special Six Tour- TODAY Base Ball 3:30P.M. 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Lang- Powell; 18, Columbia | ST T Shanghai has seven tennis clubs, the largest having 1,500 members. . presario, says: the world.” SHE IS HEADED FOR NATIONAL GOLF TITLE ORCUTT, This 16-year-old player, who represents the White Beeches Golf Club, is be- American champion among the fair sex, following the woman’s eastern championship links event, at onn. Miss Orcutt annexed the Eastern title, won last year by Glenna Collett, by turning in a card of 83 for the second day in succession, her victim in the final being Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd of Merion, who shot 85. CHICAGO GIRL SMASHES 60-YARD HURDLE MARK MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 10 #).—A world record was en at the track and ficld meet at the University of Minnesota in con- nection with the Norse-American Centennial yesterday when Helen Filkey of Illinois Athletic Club, Chicago, covered the 60-yard low hurdles in 8 4-10 seconds. his was 4-10 of a second better than the former world mark for women. Officials expressed doubt whether the new mark would be recognized because of a strong wind prevail- ing at the time of the event. e England believes that cricket for women has come to stay. ‘he game is played keenly.and® seriously at girls’ schools throughout the country. There are also many women's cricket clubs. The Inquiring Reporter Everywhere. .. from the Lips of the Wise, he leams the "WHYS" of Murads Leadership, “Tex” Rickard, the foremost fistic ime “Murads have never failed to relieve the terrific strain to which I am subjected in promoting the biggest boxing events in Vé}/m,.z ,No man cver tires of pure Turkish tobacco, so smooth, so cool, so fragram'docs kindly Nature compound it. . . . That’s why MURAD smokers seldom, #f ever, changé to other cigarettes. MURAD THE TURKISH CIGARETTE Lorillard C ican sport and social fad. Europe. dreds of homes. Battle ball seems to develop its chief thrills and fascination from action, accuracy and strategy. To the American it appears to be a combina- tion of several sports. It is played by from 2 to 14 persons at a time on tables that vary in size accord- ingly and somewhat resemble billiard tables, with small guns mounted on the sides and ends. Shoot Metal Balls. The guns shoot small metal balls at a larger leather ball. The play- ers are organized into teams to play on the larger tables. Each team has a goal keeper, supported by backs and forwards, the line-up being sim- fll,rl to soccer foot ball and basket ball. ‘The goalkeeper is directly behind the goal posts, where there is a “pocket” to receive the ball if a goal is made. The guards sit to the right and left of the goalkeeper. The forwards are at the sides of the table nearest the opposing team's goal. Before starting the game a coin is tossed to determine which team is to make the first shot. The bal is then placed in the center of the table and the signal to start is given by the referee. Operating the guns, whicn project the metalipalls with starc'ng rapidity, the opposing teams attempt to shoot the legthér ball into each other's goal. Every.time a goal is made the ball is in placed in the center of the field And the goalkeeper of the team which lost the goal makes first shot. Played in Halyes. A game is played in two lalves of 10 to 15 minutes each. At the end of the first half players change goals. The game is won by the team Which scores the greatest number of goals. In Chicago, where the game first played In this country, enthu: iasts followed the precedent in Europe,’ where about 1,500 resorts and clybs, ineluding St. Moritz, Davos, Carlsbad, Scheveningen and Milan, are playing the game on a tournament basis. They organized the battle ball clubs of America, and are now playing a series of intracity tournaments preparatory to_a national tournament. Fully h: of the members of the clubs are men, and in reality the feminine sex seems to get a greater thrill out of the activity, noise and fly- ing pellets than the men. Incident- ally, most of the woman players so far dislike the nets used in Europe to keep the brass balls from occasionally fiying from the table and striking players. Several of the country’s best known sportsmen and athletes, as well as the “white front” crowd, are taking to the game, among those having played it being “Red” Graham, former Uni- versity of Chicago star; Laddie Myers, Dartmouth star pole vaulter; Al Journeay, former Pennsylvania All- American foot ball captain, and Carrle Neeley, former woman's tennis cham- pion. Offers Plenty of Action. UNION TAILORED and Longer Wear. Have Your Next SUIT Union Tailored at Jack Bernstein’s 814 F St. N.W. Kraeuter pliers are made for lymen as well as for mechanics. There are 120 different styles to choose from— each thebest of its kind. HICAGO, June 10—Battle ball, drawing room game, which has reached the craze stage in Europe, is also spreading over the United States, becoming the latest Amer- DRAWING ROOM PASTIME IS BROUGHT FROM EUROPE Game, Which Is a Combination of Several Sports, Requires Accuracy and Strategy—Has Gained Strong Foothold in Chicago. a spectacular indoor tournament-and The game was recently brought to the United States and introduced by Dr. Alexander Hryntschalk, Vienna sportsman, who “fathered” it in Following its initial debut at an invitation tournament sponsored by Dr. Ludwig von Kleinweachter, Austrian consul general, it has been taken up by some of America’s most exclusive clubs, inclusive of the South Shore, Lottmoor and Ravisloe here, and is being played in hun- foot ball; while players can develop amazing skill, the novice can get a thrill out of the first five minutes of play, and it is a game of uninter- rupted action. The European idea of the pastime as a popular sport may be gained from the following description in the Luxembourger Tribune: “It contains the best qualities of two of the most popular games of the sporting world—billiards and foot ball. You can now play billiards with all the excitement of a foot ball match, or vice versa: you may play foot ball in a salon or a drawing room. You may keep goal in evening dress with- out risk of injury. or catching pneu. monia.” Battle ball is known as “goal game’ in Holland, Switzerland, Luxembourg, | bee: Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Sweden and Denmark. VET BUREAU GOLFERS ARE LED LLEWELLYN Low medal score in the first an- nual tournament of the Veterans’ Bu- reau played yesterday over the Bannockburn course was turned in by George Liewellyn, who made a 75 over the rolling Glen Echo layout. James Snow was in second place with 79. Marion Johnson, with a card of 50, led Katherine Uber, who had 62, in’ the woman's division. The first match play round must be played before June 17 and the second round matches must be com- pleted on or before June 30. The final date has been set for July 13. ‘Woman golfers about the city are till discussing the break which won r Mrs. A. von Steiner of the Manor Club the competition for The Star cun last week. Playing the last round, Mrs. von Steiner was under the impression the seventeenth hole was played from the lower tee. She played from the lower level and took a 6 to the hole, putting her one shot back of the leader. She told the committee in charge she had played from the lower tee, and was ordered to go back and play from the uppér tee. She secured a 4 on the seventeenth from the upper tde and won the tour- nament by one stroke. In the of the Kentucky Derby the famous classic of the Amer- ican turf has been won twice by only one owner, George J. Long of Louis- ville, whose colors were victorious in 1892 and 1896. SPORTS. Inside Golf By Chester Horton— While the head is never held abso- lutely stiil during the golf swing, as the old rule held to be necessary, it must not bob up or down. It is very easy to fall into the habit of duck- ing the head down with the forward swing, and this habit may come trying hard to hold the head fixed and still. Or it may as readily develop through hitting too soon on_the down swing. When you lunge ‘with the body you are hit- ting too soon, and the chances are your lunge will force the head down and the club into the ground back of the ball. Feel the spring of the shaft at the top of the back swing. Then take time enough to let the club start back through its own recoll action. Let it come on of its own accord while your weight goes forward through the hips. Then, when it is about half way down, get hold of |36 it with your fingers and crack it through the ball exactly as you would crack a whip. LEADERS ARE PICKED FOR TEAMS AT V. M. I. LEXINGTON, Va., June 10.—Lead- ers of the two V. M. I. teams have n chosen by cadet athletes who received their monograms. ‘Wyndham Robertson White, jr., of Bristol, Va., will head the 1926 track and fleld team, and Archie Wilson Deitrich of Sayre, Pa., will captain the nine. White, for the past three years star fullback of the Flying Squadron, has competed for two years in the weight events. He is thé Southern Confer- ence champion in the shotput, having won this event with 43 feet 7% inches. He also took first place in every dual meet during the past season, and in addition placed in the discus throw. “Dutch” Deitrich has plaved var- sity base ball for two years, and dur- Ing the past season developed into one of the stars of the team. After playing at first base and in the out- field last year, he was finally made a fixture in center. He is one of the longest hitters on the team. 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He |also holds the Maryland mark for the | half mile of 1.591-5, and has scored | points in the 100 and 220 yard dashes. | Endslow has done all his running |for Waryland, as he never had worn {a spiked shoe before coming to Col- |lege Park | Troxell has played first for the |0ld Line varsity nine for two sea |sons. In fact, he has covered the sack three seasons for the College Parkers, as he served at that posi- |tion on’the freshman outfit. He is |an excellent fielder and thrower and |a consistent though not hard hitter Captains elected earlier for 1925- teams at Maryland are: John |Hough of Mount Rainier, Md. foot | ball; Billl Supplee of Washington basket ball; Jack Faber of Washing- ton, lacrosse, and Bill Weber of Oak- land, Md., tennis. Hough and Supplee are former Tech High athletes, whilé Faber was a sports star at Eastern. All of the captains are fraternity men. Endslow and Weber belong Sigma Phi Sigma, Troxell and Su plee to Sigma Nu, Hough to Kappa Alpha and Faber to Delta Sigma Phi FORT MYER POLO TEAM JAKES TOURNEY MATCH PHILADELPHIA, June 10 (#).—The 16th Field Artillery polo team from Fort Myer, Va., defeated the Phila delphia Country Club yesterday, 12 to 6, in the second round of the Southeastern elimination tournament Both fours started from scratch. SURPRISES TRAPSHOTS. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 10.—W. B. Mell of Miami, Fla., surpsised en trants in the amateur class cham- pionships of the Southern Zone trap- shooting tournament when he drop. |ped 199 clays out of a possible 200. | Mark Arie of Champagne, Ill, was second with a 198 score. ELECTRIC LIVERY EXPENSE Z ENGINEERS 22 Z) 2%