Evening Star Newspaper, June 23, 1925, Page 21

SPORTS. THE EVENIN( 1 3 STAR, WASHIN( +TON, D. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 23 1925. SPORTS. 21 Three Hurlers Win Consistently : Navy Crew Again Rules Intercollegiate Seas JOHNSON, . Are Only 100-Victory Pi . Every Oppos Than O romposed ng Team all the pitchers who have w National or the opposing team for a Alexander. JTohnson makes the grade managed to break even But 1o other 100-game winner is Somewhere around the circuit there miserable even for pitchers who are v for instance. Herb just c ten him 1o ti Herb's work against games es in the Athletics Pittsburgh is Eppa Rixey's hard nut. The Pirates have beaten Eppa no less than 32 times in 52. On the other| hand, Rixev has whipped his old team- | mates of the Quaker City 10 times in | 13 decisions. { Griffs Quinn’s Hobby. Jack Quinn is still another of the hard-working hoxmen who know what | i1 means to have a relentless opponent. | In 34 tussles the White x have tak-| en Jack's measure times. which is all the more remarkable when vou consider that against Washington Jack has copped 24 times in 40 battles, | Quinn, howeve: not the only| * ler who finds Washington casy. Sam Jones' softest spot is Bucky Har- | ris’ aggregation. and yvou can say the same thing for Urban Shocker. Sam has beaten the Nationals 25 times in 3. and Urban has copped 26 in 35 Naturally, in view of the e Athletics have long been at the fobt of the race, Mack’'s men have been Softest for a good many pitchers, no- | 1ably Faber, Shawkey, Pennock, Leon- | ard, Mogridge and Ehmke, this sextet | haying won 134 from the Athletics| while losing but ‘Walter Johnson rct that | easiest meat is De- | troit. Sixty-two victories in 99 deci sions is Walter's mark. Caveleskie likes Boston best, thanks to 28 wins in sames. Dauss likes Boston. tos is evidenced by his 32 victories in | Bush Liked Browns. And. as everybody prospered oftenest a! the the team for which he now having won 35 games from the in 48 decisions Cincinnati loves Grover Alexander like poison. Seventy-four times have the Reds faced him. and 55 times have the Reds tuken the short end of the VARSITY NET FIELD knows. Joe Bush cpense of pitches, wns IS REDUCEDTO 17 QN BALTIMOREANS JULY 6 | By the Associated Press | PHILADELPHIA., 17 plavers remained today tional Intercollegiate championship tournament Merion Cricket Club as entered the fourth original field was the largest history of the event, more matches having been terday. Carl Fischer. 1923 champion. who represented the Philadelphia Colleze of Osteopathy: Cranston Holman of Leland Stanford. Gerald Stratford. E. G. Chandler and Thomas Stow of Cali- fornia, Aldan Briggs, John F. Whit beck, H. G. Perkins and W. W. Ingre- ham, Harvard; Jerry Lang and Rich 2rd Marshall, Columbia, and Louis Thalheimer of Texas are among the stars remaining in the singles. W. C. Baum of George Washngton fand Fred Haas of Georgetown were eliminated in the first round. With but eight singles matches | acheduled for the day, the doubles | championship will get under way GENE TUNNEY MATCHED T0 BOX TOM LOUGHRAN | NEW YORK. June 23 (#).—-Gene Tunney of New York. American light heavvweight champion, has been matched to meet Tommy Loughran the clever Philadelphia boxer, at the Qneensboro Athletic Club July 13 Tt will be Tunney's first appear ance in a New York ring since he | scored a sensational knock-out victo over Tom Gibbons. St. Paul, Minn., heavyweight. Tunney is carded to face | ‘ltalian Jack™ Herman in Kansas| City July 30. . in the singles June Only Na tennis P the the competi The, the 30 tion round. in than completed ves- CYRIL WALKER TELLS Picking the Right Club for My Greate: PEAKING of the midiron with at Detroit, I came very near 5 enthusiasts 1o know the hole. mind working From the tonth tee of the final round I knew=*‘hat 1 had to do to win | the championship. Word had come back, “If you break 300 vou'll win.” | T figured up my score. 1 had done the | outer nine in 39 and got the tenth! hole in 4 1 “If T can stick to right,” T told myself. At the sixteenth I was even with par, so that I could finish the last three holes with 5, 4 and 5 and win I got a zood drive down the six- | teenth fairway, but there was still a | long shot over the lake to be made | and fallure to carry might spill the | beans on the home stretch ‘ “Just get over the lake: it don't| matter what else vou do thouzht as 1 selected = club. My first pick was a driving You'll need all of that,” caddie. It seemed to me that if | didn't get | 100 much run on my ball, after cross. ing the lake, the driving iron would be all right. As T thought things | over, however, | wus being besieged | with suggestions from all sides. ! have a single-track mind. So | disregarded al! that was being sald to me and tried 1o figure things out for | myself. | The vardage was about 180 against | a wind and a 170-yard carry would Be necessary to clear the water. I finally picked my midiron and flipped ene ball up so that, with a 5-foot putt, 1 was down in 3. it pays to play the right club Helping to Sink s, Speaking of Nebraska. please iei me say that at one of the clubs there on my exhibition tour we had a zood laugh. i When we plaved from the first tee | and came 1o the first zreen we found that it was sanded. One of our op-| nonemts was the first to putt. but he fore be stepped up to his ball I no the sixtcenth hole which made iust how, in an sixteenth the person who pars I'll be all { | | 1 iron advised my ALEC AND COVEY HAVE EDGE ON ALL RIVALS 500—Walter Is Tyger Tamer. American League, only three have beaten every percentage Against his tonghest opponent 0t get by the lowly Bostons: they have 23 decisions. 170 in the afternoon. barely tchers Who Have Beaten for Percentage Higher | | | | on 100 or more games in either the than .500 Coveleskie higher The big trio is Adams almost Babe has just 1 Babe Chicago. in this limited class of team-tamers. is at least one club that makes life 1sually big winners. Take Herb Pen- that is in marked contrast to he has beaten 24 times in 30 and whom score. In a more moderate way both Babe Adams und Jess Barnes have also made life miserable for the Reds. Grimes, Rixey and Cooper find the Phillies easiest to solve, whlie Nehf nd Benton like to pick on Boston. Rube Marquard's best work has been done against the Giants. Bill Doak, now retired, had Pittsburgh on the hip. Lee Meadows likes nothing better than to stack up against his old-time play- mates, the Cards ‘The Giants are hardest for Alexan- der, Cooper and. Doak. and Artie Nehf has mnever done worse against any other team than he did against Mc Graw’s men before he joined them. tsburgh is tough for Jess Barnes and Fenton, while the Cubs have been # sad disappointment to Marquard, Meadows und Adams. Burleigh Grimes' Nemesis is Cincinnati. The Records. Lest and worst records for the 100- victory pitchers are tabulated below: NATIONAL LEAGUE. Best. Cincin Boston Pitcher Alex der Ne Cooper Marauard. J. Bar Doak Benton Rixey Meadows v Chiicags Pitta Cincin Pitts Boston Phila SUL AMERICAN Best. i Boston NV Pennock Jones Leonard Dauss Bush Quinn Boston St 1L Boston Cleve | | i | {trom home when he was AMERICAN GOLFERS QUALIFY AT TROON TROON, The trio of golfers, Joe Smith and Jim today their entry hampionship by 3. 154 and 15 Scotland. June American professional Kirkwood, Macdonald Barnes, made certain in the British open returning cards of respectively, for the 36-hole qualifving play. It was con- sidered that cards under 160 would put their holders into the select S0 who will compete in the 72-hole medal play Thursday and Friday. Kirkwood was one of the several stars who had to play low figures today to make up for lapses vester day, and he did ft. He waivered off the liné frequently. but although his second shots consistently failed to find the green Kirkwood saved him self by fine putting. one puft being sufficient on each of the first 11 sreens. Macdonald Smith played with splendid steadiness until four zreens sure he had succeeded in qualifying. Then he let up a little and took 6s ut the fifteenth and the eighteenth. Barnes played a zet his 78, The Americans’ cards for round of qualifying play lows: ). o cautious game to the final today fol Macdonald Smitl out.. 4545 In.) 44443653 Jim Barnes out In.. FITZ HOPES TO SIGN UP DEMPSEY WHILE ABROAD CHICAGO. June =3 (®).—Floyd Fitzsimmons, owner of boxing arenas at Michigan City. Ind.. and Benton Harbor, Mich., will sail for London next Saturday in an effort to sizn Jack Dempsey for a championship contest in this rountry in September or during the late Fall. Fitzsimmons says he has cablegrams from the hea champlon that were enc enough for him to make the trip. will meet Dempsey in London July 4. If Fitzsimmons falls to arrange for Dempsey's services. he will attempt 1o engage Georges Carpentier for one or two contests. The Michigan ¢ promoter is figuring on a match be- tween the French light heavyweight and Young Stribling. received welght uraging He on SLATTERY STOPS CONLEY. WATERBURY Jimmy Slattery won by u technic: Jimmy Conley of S the sixth round of und bout here Conn.. June ? of Buffalo. Y 1 knock-ont wover n_ Francisco. in their scheduled t night D. C. PROS SEEK REVENGE MARTING under a defeat yester paid players, the 11 Wa to the Monumental City yesterday are looking forward to July 6, when a return match has been arran Country Club. The Washington inst Baltimore pros, 27 points to 24, in Road. near Baltimore. The Washington aggresation lost heavily in the singles in the forenoon. collecting but 111; points against 2173 for their opponents, but came back in the afternoon to score 121 points, winning most of the four-ball matches. The matches were all plaved on the Nassau system. d McLeod of Columbia lost in the singles to Tom Skipper of Rolling Road, and Mel Shorey went up against an unbeatable 33 on the out nine by | Willie Scott of the Baltimore Country | Club. R. Cliff McKimmie, last year's Middle Atlantic champion, was the lone Washington plaver to win three points. Eddie Towns of Friendship scored a missing a 0-foot putt that would have tied the ecord for the course with a §9. The summaries follow: Singles: Tom Skipper. Rolling Road. 3 points: Fred McLeod. Columbia, none. Charles Betschler. Maryland Coun try Club, 21, points; Robert Bar net1. Chevy Chase, 5 point. Glenn Spencer. Green Spring Va! lev, 2 points: Kddie Towns, Friend <hip, 1 point. James Roche, Dave Thomsor Alex Taylo a | | { i | | Elkridge. 3 points. Washington, none. | . Suburban Club of Bal timore. 12 point: Ralph Beach, Burn ing Tree, 21, points. Warner Mather. Rodgers Ford Play which T won the 1924 championship not using this club for the shot at me a winner. It may interest golf nportant situation such as arose on s most vitally interested finds his i tic¢d him lookin as if in s “Where's said. The gallery aided and presently a ragged piece of carpet was revealed. This the player dragzed over the loose sand between his ball and the hole until he had it thoroughly smoothed. Then he played. It was a new experience for me. But it was one that was repeated at every hole. And it worked out nicely for all of us as we sank any number ot long putis. (Con all around: the green ch of something. the carpet?” he finally icht, 19251 —_— “HAIR-GROOM’ Keeps Hair Combéd, Glossy; Well-Groomed all Day g “Hair-Groom" is a dignified combing cream which costs only a few cents a jar at any drugstore. Millions use it be- cause it gives that % natural gloss and S/ well-groomed _ef- b ’/} fect to the hair— e that final touch 10 good dress hoth in business and on social occasions. Even stubborn, un- ruly or shampooed hair stays combed all 'day in any style you like. “Hair- Groom” is greaseless; also helps grow ! thick, heavy, lustrous hair, < | the day. day in a team match with Baltimore hington professional goliers who journeyed ged for the course of the Columbia ructors were defeated by a team of n engagement vesterday at Rolling points: Dan Morzan point C.'R points: A. B try, 113 points. Duncan Cuthbert, points; D'Arcy none. Willie Scott, points; Mel Park, none. Willlam Dunt, Sherwood Forest, none; R. Cliff McKimmie, unattached. 3 points, eorge Deffenbaugh. Rock Creek, points: Will Schriber, Maryland Country Club, % point. Foursomes—Skipper and Betschier, 3 points; McLeod and Barnett. none. Towns and_Thomson, points: Spencer and Roche, '3 point. Beach and Horgan, 3 points: lor and Mather. none. . Thorn and Bannagan. 273 point McMaster and Cuthbert. 1, point. Shorey and McKimmie, 212 points; Scott_and Duni. ', point Deffenbauzh points: point. MANION STARTS WELL IN DEFENSE OF TITLE OMAHA. Nebr.. June 23 (). James Manion of St. Louis, defending his title as the champion of the Trans. Mississippl Golf Association, in the Rock Creek. McMaster. Thorn, Frederick. 113 Town and Coun- Hillendale. 3 Bannagan, Columbia, Baltimore Shorey, East C; G 8 Potomac 21 Tay 2 Schriber, 1 | first qualifying round at the Omaha Field Club shot a 72, one under par, #nd shared the honor of leading the field with Walter Murray. another St. Louis golfer. Third place went to Jack Hughes, a veteran Omaha play- er, with 74. Craig_McKee of Des Moines and Blaine Young of Omaha tied for fourth place at 76. In spite of the heavy rain the night before and a dripping sky most of players out of the starters managed 1o score 80 Specialists in the Care of Automobiles ake Yours a Spotless Car —by employing us to do your auto cleaning. Make yours’ the noiseless, easy- running car by employing us to lubricate it for you. Sheridan Garage, Inc. A. A. A. Service Station 2516 Que St. NW. (Q Street Rridge) .| T Lehigh and Hopkin collegiate L. . other members Gomer Lewis of Maryland is picked for the out home position # second suc: cessive vear. and John Hough, cap- tain-elect of the College Park gridiron squad, is placed at first defense. Cox avers that Lewis and T. B. Marden, his running mate at in home, who is awarded a place on the second 12 were the best pair playing the cloge at- tack positions this season. Hough, despite the fact that his position often led him to guard the best attack man of he opposing team, had only one goal scored on him during the campaign that closed recently when Marvland defeated Hopkins for the champion- ship of the Southern division. Arthur Sleasman, goal, and Marden, in home, are the Marylanders' repre- sentatives on the second team, while Joe Burger, the Old Liners’ capiain, is Dplaced at cover point on a third 12. Albertson and Billing, the Navy pair selected by Cox for his first combina- |tion, were honored in a like manner last_year. In fact, combination from center to in home is identical with that chosen in 1924 Turnbull of Hopkins makes the first attack position for the third time Army is the only institution to sur- pass the University of Maryvland in placing its plavers in the three teams picked by the Hpalding editc Al- though beaten by Navy, the West Pointers have six men mentioned, two on the first, three on the second and one on the third. Maryland follows with the five mentioned, Navy has three, Svracuse, northern divi- slon champlon. three; Yale, three: Ho- bart, three; Hopkins, two; Rutgers. two: Lehigh, two; Cornell, two, and Princeton, Pennsylvania, Swarthmore and Penn State one each Navy, playving Independently of the Intercollegiate League, went through the season without a defeat and is classed as the outst team in the country. Syrac Maryland. holders of the title: the two divisions of the loop, suffered one setback An_international aspect was given the 1925 term by the tour of the University of Toronto. The Canuks lost to Navy and Svracuse but de- feated Mount Washington and L'Hi- rondelle Clubs of Baltimore and the Crescent Club of New York \ | and in each 'MUNY GOLF EVENT PAIRINGS ARE MADE One of the largest fields that ever has competed in a municipal links championship about Washington has been paired for the first round of match play in the East Potomac Park title chase. The first round will be played Thursday and the field of 210 has been divided into four for men and one for women as a result of the qualifying round. En- trants have been turning in qualify ing cards over a period of two weeks {about 30 having failed to break S, the last score to get in the first flight. W. A. Maguire won the qualifying round with a score of 72, two shaots in front of the 74s made by A. i.. Hough ton. J. B. Dulin and H. G. Pitt The pairings follow: First flight—11:50, B Prevar William A" McGuire (78): 11 Dwser (171 ve. Larry Day (78) Pitt (74) ve. W. B. Milliken (77): R Miller 178) va. John Shores 210, J. B Dulin_ (74) vs. 36): 12:15, E. L. Frost Houghton (74); 12:20. Tom (77) ve. E. L. Frost (76) Cole (75) vs. B. Rolline Second Might—10:25. Robert Burton (79) ve. J. L. Pratt (R0): 10:30, R. A. brel (R0} v Bradiey Burrows (70): 10:33. H P. Hartshorn (70) va. Eugene B. Abadie (81): 10:40. Robert Le Grande (81) vs. J. S. Morris (70): 10:45. Charles Merrill (79) ve. Reid W. Diggs (80): 10:50, G (B0) va_ irwing Burr (0): 10:53. Fred Walen (78) vs. Albert Alexander (81): 11 Spencer Phillips (K01 ve. M. S, Walker (80) Third _flight—o 4. Arnold (82) ve Watson Salkeld, Jr. (K3): 050, J. A. Ather ton (R2) va. R. P. Whiteley (83 9:55, A. l.ohe (8]) E. Brown (R31. James * ¢ Heathem ‘(83 H. L. O'Neill a5y va. L Sehuman Ty L. Russell i W. Keene andana (R1) v Fourth "flizh Harrss C. Allen 905, A (85) v, Dr. E. S Howard Charles G. Sterzar (851 va. (RR): 0:15, Fuichs (&%) Elvanes ( 920 George Farges (87) ve A. L. French (8RV: 025 F. Y. Johnson 87) vs. Charles Kelcher (R81: 930, A. K Dinton (87) ve I, L. Aston (88): 8 M. Mehurin (88) ve. L. B. Perkine (R71 Women. first fight—1330, Mrs. G. M | Burn, vs. Mre. H. S. ' Nebel (90) 12:35, Mrs. €. W. Gasaway (132) vs. Mra. Hedrick (104): Miss Midge Funk ve. bye GOLF TITLE TO THOMPSON. TORONTO. June 23 (#). Nicol Thompson of, Hamilton, Ont., yester- day won the third.annual On%rio open golf championship in two rounds of medal play at Summit course. with scores of 73 in the morning round and | 7L in the afternoon Macaboy oA (851 va STANDARD CIGAR the entire attack | nding | Lynen | Al | ALL-AMERICA HONOR GIVEN HENNESSY IS VICTOR TWO M. U. LACROSSE MEN WO University of Maryland players are given places on the all- America lacrosse team for 1925 by Laurie D. Cox, who makes the selections annually for Spalding’s Intercollegiate Lacrosse Guide. of the Southern division of the Inter- rosse League, cach is awarded one position on the mythical combination; Army, Navy and Syracuse are given two places each, while Rutgers and Harvard are represented by single stickwielders WORLD SPEED CROWN SOUGHT BY DRIVERS Speed king of the world is the crown for which a score of the most famous automobile racers of all time will com- pete when they match their skill, daring and motors at the 230-mile dedication race of the Baltimore-Wash- ington Speedway at Laurel July 11. Peter de Paolo, the young Italian |driver, is leading in the contest for |this year’s championship, having g: |nered almost twice as many points |as his nearest competitor, but with |500 points to go to the winner of the local classic and a hglf-dozen races yet to be run, the crown may yet he tched by Tommy Milton, the 192 champion. De Paolo has been warded 2.000 points thus far this vear by the contest board of the American Automobile Association, un. der whose rules the championship races are run. while Milton has but 1,030, In addition to the 500 points which will o 10 the winner of the dedication jevent at Laure, the driver who places |second will add 260 points toward his {chances for the championshin, while other awards will be 140, 80, 50, 30, 20 and 10 points De Paolo came into prominence this vear through his sensational driving at Indianapolis and Altoona. He is planning even a tion on the local track. Milion, on the other hand, has won his prestige {through many vears of hard, fast driv- ing. He is one of the oldest drivers in the championship race. Earl Cooper, n of the racers to he seen here, vears old He has 555 points. st driver is Bob McDon- | ogh. ‘just but holding 145 points |toward the championship ' PULLMAN NINE WINS IN'Y. M. C. A. SERIES | With Tripp exhibiting hrand hurling Pullman ball team yesterday fought its way to | the title in the first of the Washington Terminal Y. M. C. A League by trouncing the Express team, 14 to 6. The Expressmen were allowed only six safeties The champions have a record of eight victories and two losses, Southern Railway is in second place, a full game behind. The Express to: ers finish the series with a .500 aver- age and take third honors. Black and White, Y. M. C. A. and Washing- ton Terminal trail in order. a stellar of the hase, serie | | | | in the Commercial League by out classing the Telephone Company team 1S 10 2. while Chestnut Farms kept | the runner-up position with a 12103 | win over the W. B. Moses entry Liberty Loan defeated Annex No in a Treasury League zame, 11 to and Potomac Park nosed out Bureau, 4 10 3, in the Departmental race. Un. able to muster a team, the Commis- sioners forfeited to A. O. Government circuit | Shipping Board won an easy victory | over the Adjutant General's forces, 7 1o 1. in the Potomac Park loop. Inside Golf By Chester Horton e} Now is a good time for golfers to be reminded that the start of the golf |swing makes or spoils the swing, and | that the first es- | sential in the mak ing of any golf shot except the putt centers in the shift of weight. This _transference of weight is accom- plished through | the hips mostly The weight must pass to the right leg, which stiffens to absorb it, dur- ing the back swing, and to the left leg, which stif- fens to arrest ‘it, during the forward or hitting swing. The correct stance position is shown in the sketch. Hands are slightly ahead of the ball and the weight is solidly on the heels. ussed in subsequent arti- (Copyrizht, 19 They're Good MAZER-CRESSMAN CIGAR Q. . Detrott. Uakers AND TOBACCO CoO. DISTRIBUTORS 635 Louisiana Ave. N.W, more daring exhibi- | while | How the weight is shift- ! | | | AT WIMBLEDON NET | By the Awm | ciated Press. WIMBLEDON. June 23.~The weed ing-out process continued today in the British tennis champlonships as the men's singles went Into the second round and as play began in the wom- en’s singles. John Hennessy of Indianapolis again led off, playing N. Dicks of | England in the first series of the dayv in the outside court. A cutting wind blew across the center court. Hennessy defeated Dicks, 3. 64 Rene La Coste defeated M. \ merson of England. 6—4. 6— J. 0. Anderson of Australi ed V. Burr of England, 6 ol 6—1. | Miss Kathleen McKane. the British | champion, defeated Miss Sterry, 6— e N 6 | Sum defeat 0, 6—2, Henri Cochet of France defeated Serlendf of Greece, 63, 61 Lucien E. Williams of Chicago de- feated Sir C sngland, 6—2, 6—2 Casey of San Francisco defeat T. Hollins of England, 6— . 6—4. B. Rice of Boston defeated D. J ummer, 6—4, 6—3, 1 L. De Morpurgo, the Italian who the German tennis title, beat W. Dudley of England, €0, H | holds A. N 62, 6 Miss Bl fornian, d ngland, Mme. Billout of France defeated Mrs. Lycett of England, 4—6, 63 11-9. | Louis B. Dailey of East Orange. J.. defeated W. H. Aitken, 6—2, 3 4. former Cali E. Brown of n, 3 MASON REGAINS VCROWK 1 LONDON, June 23 (#).—Harry Mason of Leeds, former lightweight boxing champion of Europe. last night regained his title by defeating Srnie Izzard, the champion, in the ninth round of what was to have | been a 20-round bout. The contest | was held in Holland Park. | 'PENN SAID TO CALLOW AS BY FW YORK. June 23 keepsic been rowed than the | N ~No soone | River highlan One statement. very seriously g | would accept a contract to coach at |if he does accept one it w | Pennsylvania, of course, needs a, | coach the worst wav. Jim Rice, who succeeded Joe Wright as coach, has | resigned. and the Quakers did not | show enough stuff-yesterday to cause | | any pop-eyed Penn enthusiasts to rise | Center Market maintained its lead [in @ frenzied demand that Rice be|but one great object. and that is to| asked to reconsider his action. The Red and Blue could not do any. | thing better than clinch Callow to a | contraet calling for services begin- | ning two vears hence, and those who 2 | know the Washington mentor say he |of laurels for severai would not be averse to following Ed- | ward Leader’s example so far as an Eastern connection is concerned Another report was that California | in the | would be invited to come to Pough- | ziving to the countrv an event of na- |tal | keepsie next vear whether or not the | keep: | Bears won the right to represent the | | When Better ideal of |wind out of the > LAWRENCE PERRY. vague rumors was echoing and reverberating among the Hudson iven jorth. was that Russell Callow I have to be dated a couple of years ahead, since ¥ “Rusty” has a contract with Washington running that far into the future. | Washington met unexpected opposi Fourteenth and L Streets N.W. DARING DASH IN VARSITY RACE LANDS ROWING TITLE Spurt at 3-Mile Mark Gives Middies Narrow Margin Over Washington Crew—Huskies Annex Junior P Academy again rules the intercollegiate scas as the annual regatta on the Hudson. but not margin that the Admirals have anvthing particular to brag ahout Eight broad-backed, brawny midshipmen brought the varsity rowing championship back East last evening by conquering Washington, twn time champions. in a thrilling, spectacniar four-mile ducl. but at the finich they were only three-quarters of a fength ahead and losing distance with every stroke. Washington's transcontinental quest for a third straight trinmph something that no crew has gained on the Hudson since Cornell did it ir 1912—ended in, failure, but Rusty Callow’s huskies lost no prestige. They had the power, drive and stroke to match those of the Navy. but they because they were outmaneuvered, outguessed a1 the critical stage o race. The Navy owes its brilliant triumph, in the final analysis, more to superior | last strategy than to anything. It was the lagain sudden’ spurt of the saflors, an unex-| In their' last four starts the Na pected and daring dash at the three-|has finished 1.1.2.1 in the varsity cias mile mark, that won the race for them. [sic, while Washington. in as man In as bold a bid for supremacy as the |tries for premier honors, has landed picturesque waters of the Hudson ever 1-2 have seen. the midshipmen, in mili-| Thus the “outsiders.” rrews partici tary language, stole a march on their |pating in the regatta by invitation rivals. They jumped into « lead of a |continue their domination of the -Big length and a quarter before Washing- | Four of the Intercollegiate Rowinz ton realized what was up. a margin | Association—Cornell, Syracuse, Colum which saved the day for the midship-|bia and Pennsylvania. To rub it in a men trifle. Wisconsin, finishinz fast aftar a This eudden {bad start. brought up in third place |after finishing second # vear ago. The West has no apology to offer | Race Run in Two Sections. | Behind the Badgers came Pennstl vania, Cornell. Syracuse and Colum Dia. in order. Except for the Quakers who wore themselves out trving 1o | keep pace with Washington and tha Navy for the first mile and a half |none of the other Eastern crews menaced the pace-setters. From the | start to finish it was a personal mat ter between the Huskies and the | sailors. There was so much open water between them and the rest of | the field at the half-way mark that it looked though the race was | heing run in two sections to avoid | overcrowding L} appeared that Washington an the Navy were out beat the Bahy Gar 1V's time fo the distance hetween Krum's Elbow and the stakebout mile below the railroad bridze Washington tod: with ene trophy however. The Huskies romped off with the junior varsity honors in the first of the two-mile preliminary races | after which Syracuse captured the | freshman event Both Two-Cornered Races. Both of these races, like the varsit struggle, were two-cornered tussles Honors—Syracuse Frosh Win. OUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., June 23. - The cight-oared crew of the Naval result of the by such an overwhelmir the ers. Annapolis was vear, when not Washin represented on won e took most of the vyv's sails, but the momentum was enough 1o carry it on to victory, in spite of Washington” closing raily. That final bid of the Huskies 1o retain their title was beau- tiful to see, but it was an epilogy Had there been another 100 vards an- other story might have been told. The victory put the Navy one up on Washington in the battles these rivals have staged in the past few vears. They had met twice before. the mid- shipmen rowing to tyiumph in 1922 but losing in 1923 to the far Western: BE SEEKING CREW COACH packed up for in her bag heme r had the thrilling regatta at Pough- nsual crop of definite reports and Pennsylvania. Mavbe he would, but the |ton from Cornell in the “Javvee annual three-mile Pacific coast regat.|contest. but came from behind to win ta. And the idea is that the Washing.| by a length and a half. Syracuse ton huskies also will be on hand. irre-| held a similar margin over Pennsayl spective of winning or losing. vania freshmen after siaginz a fine The Poughkeepsie stewards finish ; Zack of Cornell in make this event bigger and better|event irailed Pennsylvania. Syra year by vear. The fact that the mem- | cuse and Columbia. while in the bers of the Intercollegiate Rowing As. | freshman race Columbia. Cornell ane sociation, which sponsors this event.| Wisconsin finished in that order have been shut out of any semblance | back of Pennsylvania’s second place vears does mnot | outfi chill the enthusiasm nor dampen the | ardor of the stewards of this organ Eeation: | REGISTE. They with West coast through victory in have e junior varsi A el o RS DEFEAT PRINTERS Registers of the Colored Departmen | Base Ball TLeague nosed out tional significance and national pro- | Government Printing Office in the last portions. and they are doinz it ' frame of a seven-inning game. 1110 10. are chiefly concerned Automebiles uestion: Why is Buick so generally accepted as the Standard of Comparison? NSWEer: Because for more than 21 years Buick consistently has nearest approas=eZ the a dependable motor car. Everyone commends your judgment when you buy a Buick. Buick Motor Company Division of General Motors Corporation WASHINGTON BRQNCH Telephone Franklin 4066