Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1925, Page 39

SPORTS. THE,_EV NING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29 22, 1925. SPORTS. 39 Number of European Athletic Stars Now Are Seeking Honors in This Country WOULD TRIM IN VARIED COMPETITIONS Fighters, Skaters, Track and Field Men, Golfers and Swimmers From Forei Prowess With United States’ Best. By the Ascociated P N EW YORK, dividual success. Tommy Milligan of Scotland, Edouard Mascart of France and Roland Todd of England, all boxing champions in their home lands, are in the front ranks of the invaders, and G light-heavyweight champion of the in this country would furnish antagonists. heavyweight, is expected here within the next few months. But Americans must face opposition srom abroad in several other sports as fellows: Thunberg of F > Nurmi of the ic ley Hoff of Norw n pole vaulter; Herbe of Germany and ‘Adrian Paulen Holalnd, sprinter bin Stenroos “inland, Olympic athon cham n- ma - Compston, professional Great Britain and the ritish linksman of 1 cpen champion of Rademadher and respectively, breast swimming champions Eric Gustave Froelich and back stroke of German hunberg—One can almost hear the fce rumble when his name is men- tioned rived on the Leviathan yes terday prepared to compete in various championshins in which he will en- WOMEN IN SPORT BY CORINNE FRAZIE HI ized activity on the municipal ule. sextets leading the rac defeat has one game to play led to clash with Curtis. ain made a post- Jacksor sched esterday, but mor It ement necessary has Jackson contest rtis-Hyde two more games n are yet to be dealt rtis-Hyde win from jump into the lead m n its sch ll-important in decidin 1d it lose. ed champior umbed to Cu: he last game pl are staged ndisp Al the ved. on Fillmore the when Curtis the Iatter Hyde part of meets in sket ball tossers and round team hattled ill Inst night in vited plav to a stands Peck Memoriai 13 t0 13 in the The score w ime is h School Lineup and Summary Howman Howard Wallach winner plonship Play with a sembly director of School basket ball squad. the Garfield division cham of the Elementary School ind League. was ented silver_loving cup an as vesterday by Evelyn Howard, { Garfleld. in behalf of the plavercund department. The trophy rece Dorothy Fisher, cap- ind Doris Hutching, manager, in name of their team. W ived h; ta A special assembly will be held at the E. V. Brown School immediately - the Christmas holidays to pre the basket ball and dodge ball 1ads the varfous trophies they have earned duri their most successful season The basket bhall with the n trophy for League title which In_addition, the TB will be awarded the the Chevy Chase school presented squad will Columblia the Ele- captured t ball team ant for winnin nd the 6B dodge | ive a similar pen r performance in | sund e or of girls’ play in the District, met = at the Wilson morning for the FFollowing the ground activ al Eroun Normal School time, ular w st this year Washington Al tossers played Athletic Club hasket will hold their reg: orkout this evening in the Marjor Webster gymnasium from 6 cck. The two practice games iuled tonight— one between the A C. Recreation League team and Acacia Mut \d the other he tween the Athletic Council sexter and a George Washington sroup—have heen postponed GERMAN SWIMMERS WOULD REGAIN TOP By the Associated Press BERLIN, December 21.—In an ef- fort to regain the swimming laurels won in the 1912 Olympia games at ockholm, the last in which the Ger- man athletes participated. the Na- tional Swimming Assoclation of Ge many s attempling to enroll ever swimmer of promise in preparation for the 1928 games 2t Amsterdam. The most promising candidates for the team have been started training under Walter Binner and Kurt Beh- rens of Madgeburg, both Olymplc vet- erans. Binner doubts whether he can produce a free-style star to compete successfully against Johnny Wéismul- ler of America, and Arne Borg of Sweden. On specialized strokes, in which the Germans have always been more pro- ficlent, Binner banks on such veterans as E. Rademacher, who two years ago set world indoor hreast stroke records for 200 and 400 meters, and Heinrich, Rerges, Schugert and Heltmann. Erna Huneu rold miss, who re- cently set a world indoor 1 t stroke of 1 minute 20 seconds for 100 meters, ia considered the hetter of the woman andidates. i I": the 1912 Olympics German swim- mers won the 400.meter breast stroke; firet, second and third places in the 200-meter breast stroke and fancy div- ing, and second places in the back stroke, the relay and high diving. T sch W the als December 22—FEurope is concentrating its attack on the United States’ leadership in sports, with some prospect of in- Georgetown Dodge Ball L Several games remain to be played, with Jackson and Fill- | d- then Jackson double. | practice Mo | it<elf for the aver- after | 1siness meeting u basket Lall | AMERICANS gn Lands Here to Match corges Carpentier of France, former world, would_join_them if promoters Erminio Spalla, Italy’s great counter America’s speediest blademen. Like Nurmi, who came last Winter, Thunberg is an Olympic champion. He is 32 years old. Invitations have gone to Hoff, Paulen, Houben and George Goodwin |of England from the Amateur Ath- |letic Union, and these forelgn track | celebrities are expected to participate |in several indoor meets this Winter. Compston and Massey. who should | provide one of the mo: colorful golf | teams ever to visit America, are sched- uled to sail from England today, and | the first match will find them opposed to the American amateur champion, | Bobby Jones, and his clever little | | protege, Watts Gunn, at St. Augus- | tine January Rademacher | breast-stroke holds several world records, while Froelich has made back-stroke time that has | been beaten seldom in America. | Two British horsemen, Fred Darling |and Frank Looton, are about to visit | American race tracks and farms. cague practically is the only organ- | playgrounds which has not completed | e for first honors. Neither has met | Inside Golf By Chester Horton | The wood club with a head inclines to heaviness—that is, enough weight so that it can be felt in the s-—us<ually makes the most effective driving weapon when the ayer ebserves a simple nat- 1 rules regard- | | ing its use. The fact that mo | club manufactur: ers, who expend | thousands of dol | lars experiment- | ing with clubs, lean to this type | 182 of wood is a sort of guarantee In that age player. The | player should un ARy AD. derstand, how- HE CLUBME, ever, that it Is! TiE this weight in the d of the club that drives the ball, i he must let this weight do all | the work. That s, swing with the | club, as against swinging the club— | |a vast difference in that, i you catch chat I mean. If you “swing with the club” your swing will be | rhythmic. It you try to swing the | club you probably will' press and the | | swing will be jerky. Take it back | | slowly and evenly, give it time to turn—then let it swing naturally for- ward, gathering pace as it goes. INVADING LINKSMEN ~ FACE TOUGH GOING| NEW YORK, December 22.—Archie Compston, British professional golf champion, and Arnaud Massey, French open title holder, who sall for Amer- {ica on the Homeric tomorrow, will have their work cut out for them Wwhen they arrive here. The first match in this country will find them pitted against Bobby Jones national amateur champion, and Watts Gunn, his protege and runner- | up for the crown last Summer over | the 36-hole route at St. Augustine, { Fla., on January The encounter, plans for which were completed ves. terday, will he held Just four da | after the noted uropean pros arvive and entrain for the site of the match. A week alter Jones and Gunn have | tested their mettle, Compston and Mas- sey will meet two other American headliners at Tamps. Fla., in another G-hole struggle. _ilere they. will match shots with Jim Barnes, Eritish open champion, and Johnny Farrell, zenerally rated as this country’s pre mier medal player, on Sunda uary 10. Detalls for this match were 1o perfected vesterday in this city. Althouzh the American debut of the { continental professiorals, who are com- [ing here to take Winter positions at | St. Augustine, was originally booked j for New Year day in that city, it was i feared that their late arrival might | prevent them from reaching the scene of their first match in time for the holiday contest. The result was the selection of the date for the match with Jones and Gunn as the {initial attraction in which the visitors will appear, In taking on Jones and his youthful pupll four days after they finish their ocean vovage, Compston and his com- panion are meeting as atiff a test as could be asked of them. Jones, on hir feat of mever finishing worse than second in the last four national open championships and winning the title last Summer, and in 1923. is comsid- ered hy v to be one of the great- est golfers the roval and ancient sport has ever produced, while Gunn blazed meteoric trail through formidable opposition at Chicago last Summer until he met his instructor in the final match. e MANCHESTERS WIN. Manchester Athletic Club took a bas- ket ball game from the Community five last night at Twelfth Street Y. M. C. A, 141012 ° P A BASKET BALL GAMES. At Athens—Georgia, 58; Atlanta | At Chicago—Northwestern, 42; Mich- ! igan State, 13, At Ames—Illinols, 13, At ?mnhn—(’l’fifihlon; WITH 1T ~GIVE 5; Towa State, 2 Minne- RADIATORS, FENDERS BODIES MADE AND REPAIRED NEW RADIATO | bad SCAFFE WILL REMAIN AS ST. JOHN'S COACH ANNAPOLIS, December 22.—Lieut. Thomas C. Scaffe of the Navy, former gridiron star of the Naval Academy, who was head coach at St. John's College during the past seasom, will serve in that capacity again next year, it has been announced by President Enoch B. Garey and the faculty ath- letic committee. Lieut. Scgffe is asalst- ant instructor in the Naval Reserve unit at St. John’ Scaffe, who was an All-American tackle in 1918, his senfor year at the academy, is among the game's biggest enthuslasts. ffe took charge of the Orange and Black gridders for this year's cam paign. He had a mighty difficult task on his hands, having few players of experience on hand. He went at his work in earnest, and before the season closed he rounded out a team of spirited yvoungesters which came back to prominence with State colleges. Notable achievements were the tle game with the ancient rivals of Johns Hopkins and the defeat of Delaware. Scaffe 1ikes his pupils and the feel- ing 1s mutual, and with this state of affairs existing, bigger things are being looked forward to next season. affe also played lacrosse at the Naval Academy, and will handle the St. John’s stickmen in the Spring. RACING PIGEO LOWER RECORDS Washirgton racing pigeon enth: asts broke long-time existing records in their old and young bird races dur: ing the Spring and Fall seasons of 1925. Louis Hofer, president of the Wash- ington Racing Pigeon Club, won the 200-mile young bird race from Con- nellsville, Pa., with a bird which aver- aged 2,046 yards, or better than 1 1.5 miles per minute, This is one of the best records ever attained by a pigeon over any dificult course in the world. Another record which fell was that for average speed in races from 100 to 500 miles. W. S. Hixon's loft, with an average of 1,346 yards, carried off this honor. While remarkably fast records were made under favorable conditions, even more remarkable races were flown in weather. In the bad weather races, the lofts of C. and W. R. Pen- nington won the two most difficult races, one at 200 and the other at 500 miles. The Pennington lofts had another great victory in_the all-American con course race of 500 miles, when their famous hen Congaree won the single nomination prize. Prominent among the other fanciers whose birds made fine showings were W. F. Dismer, J. H. Holmead, R. A Huntt, Phil Krouse, D. R. H. C. Burke. F. H. Crown, and H. E. Thomas Washington breeders of pigeons also won high honors during the year. Among those who exhibit ed their birds with success are Elisha Hanson, whose fantails won the cham. plonship of every show at which they were entered, A. M. Boyd, H. M. Blandy, W. P. McDowell, C.'A. Veters Morris E. Johnson, and the Finottis, father and son. BURGESS OF G u. TéAM TO RUN IN STAR FIELD Cecil Cooke of Svracuse, Jimmy Bur- gess of Georgetown, Vincent Lally and Johnn¥ Gibson of New York will toe the mark in a quarter-mile sprint in Brooklyn tonight. Cooke is the national champion, Burgess the national senior and junior title holder of 1924, Lally holder of the 600-vard championship and Gibson the metropolitan quarter-mile king. LISTS ST. LOUIS ELEVEN, NEWTO! Mass., December (#).—The 1926 Boston College foot b; schedule just announced includes a me with St. Louls in the Mound October SKA]EMAY FIGHT TODD. Dave Shade, Pacific Coast welter: weight, may meet Roland Todd of England at Madison Square Garden January 1. J. North fancy TSI fatthews, | Golf Strategies That Won '| Some Important Struggles MACFARLANE'S_STRATEGY ON TYING HOLE LENGTH OF HOLE - 335 YARDS OUR strokes to tie!” F place him alongside Bobby Jones in How often have the great and the near-great of the golfing world been nfronted by'such a situation only il in meeting the test! But there is nall blme to be attached to such a failure. Elsewhere in sport there is no such drain upon the nerves as that final drive down the stretch in a na- tional golf championship. The v fact that the player can act deliberately adds to his tension, which might be lessened were quicker action demanded. At Worcester, Bobby Jones had turned in a 291. -Macfarlane, after three great rounds, had slipped a bit on his final trip around the course The breaks had not come his way, and when he left the seventeenth green he had amassed 287 strokes for 71 holes. Responsibility Was Heavy. Four strokes to tie Bobby Jones And after that,,what? It was a heavy responsibility that rested on Macfariane’s shoulders, for lin addition to his own hopes he car |ried those of the whole professional |golfing world, which admires and likes Bobby Jones. but naturally does not relish the great amateur’s annual threat in what is to the professionals the hig event of the year. Macfarlane rose nobly to his re- sponsibility. He tied Jones and beat him in the most memorable playv-off in the history of golf in this country. | The whole world paid tribute to his gameness, but it is doubtful if many |of those who witnessed or who read |about his play on the seventy-second | hole realized that Willie had executed a strategy which s almost unrivaled in_golf lore. zhteenth hole at Worcester is i 4 hol measuring 335 yards. | which apparently presents no great difficulties, but those who sat about |the green during this championship |and witnessed the number of 53 taken {on it by crack plavers know that Mac farlane faced a real task in getting par. His mechanical skill and his keart must be given full credit, but without full use of his head he might not have won out. Macfarlane Explains Play. T asked Willie to tell me how he played the hole. “To begin with,"” he said, the lavout on the eighteenth. {drive and a pitch to the green. “From the tee you shoot over a de- |pression to a hill. Then you play to the green over a trap that runs clear across its front. The green is trapped on both sides, too, while the rear half of it is terraced. rear of the green Is covered with thick, short grs . I played the last round with Fran “recall It is a tee with four strokes left to tie Bobby Jones it was apparent that my strat- egy was to base my own plays upon those made by Franc “The key to the whole strategy was to get a longer shot off the tee than Gallett. 1 put everything I had into my drive. I was greatly relieved when my ball reached the hill, several yards |in front of his. This brought the very condition 1 desired. Francis had to make the first plav to the green, enabling me to regulate my pitch shot A steep bank at the | Many a time in national epen championships this exclama- tion from the lips of thousands in the gallery has punctuated the appearance of a contender upon the final tee. drama charged in these four short words than this year at Worcester, | will give the most trouble to the pen. when Willie MacFarlane faced the home hole needing just four shots to But never was more the struggle for the title. “His mashie niblick play was strong, 0 that this ball ended up at the very rear edge of the green, near the bank “I now had & definite mark to shoot at. I must not play short, because I might find the trap in front of the green. No, I must pitch my ball some- where between the cup and Gallett's ball, so that he would have to make the first putt. This would give me a §00d opportunity to judge how I must hit my own putt. Any one who played that green will tell you how hard it ‘was to judge one’s putts, too. “Well, I succeeded in my purpose, although I was a bit further past the cup than I wished. My ball stopped four feet short of Gallett's. By chance I lald him a stymle, and lifted while he played. Results Justified Tactlcs. “Right here, let me say that Francis played his putt exactly as 1 would have played it had our positions been reversed. But the result justified my tics. The terrace had a slight down- ard slope at first, and then there was a distinct decli where it was joined to the lower level of the green. The whole surface was slippery, and Fran- cis’ ball alowly glided down hill, past the cup and to the front edge of the green, almost to the bunker. L is meant, of course, th. must be delicately handled. championship rested on it. For a mo- ment after I hit my ball I feared it would not get off the terrace. It did, however, and then drifted gently down 10 a spot not more than 12 inches from the cup, at one side. “Many a onefoot putt is missed. aps it was fortunate for me that before again putting, lifted |my ball. 1 then saw that it was rest- |ing in a little depression, made by | some ball dropping from a mashfe { niblick shot. I was able to observe the slant of this depression and to play my | fourth accordingly. Using a No. 4 iron ! T holed the tying stroke.” (Cosright, 1925.) 'GRANGE AND BEARS ON WAY TO FLORIDA By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December — Red Grange and the Chicago Bears, his professional foot ball teammates, have my putt |left for Florida, California and points | | between, on the second half of their | country-wide barnstorming tour. Six games have been booked, start- |ing Christmas at Coral Gable: |and ending Junuary 24 at San Fran |cisco. One or two others may be cis Gallett. When I reached the final (2dded, but the Bears' managers said | they had learned a lesson from the stern trip, when they tried to pla ten games in three week: New players on the squad included Richard Vick and Paul Goebel of Michigan, Hal Erickson of W. & J., Ed Garvey of Notre Dame and Roy | Lyan of Nebrask arm has completely healed. Other games on the Bears' schedule are January 1 at Tampa, January 3 at Jacksonville against Ernie team, New Orleans January Los Angeles January 18. wants for Xmas-- az\OW) bk upply at your'dealers, in Boxes of 25 Invincibles . After Dinners .. $4.00 | Cabinets Perfectos . . RS FOR AUTOR WITTSTATT'S R. & F. WKS. 319 13th ST. N.W. 1423 P, REAR « . $4.50} Bon Tons . e oo $3.50| Smiles. . . Also in Boxes of 50 DEICHES & CO. .o . $3.00 oo . $3.00 .o oo $2.50 FORT WAYNE QUINT PLAYS HERE SUNDAY Irish night 1s to he celebrated at the Arcade next Sunday to mark the return of the Washington American Basket Ball League team. Heading the program will be the game be- tween the Palace Club five and the Fort Wayne Knights of Columbus, the team led by Homer Stonebreaker and recognized as one of the strongest quints in the ciréult. George P. Marshall, own Washington franchise, is ai preliminary game hetween two Irish fives in District amateur ranks and promises that Irish songs and dances will be put on during intermission. Dancing will follow the big game. Manager Lou Sugarman Is kee his players busy every night to have them in trim for the tussle with the Caseys. Instead of returning home after humbling Boston last night, the Palace tossers will remain in New England all week for a serles of ex hibitions. The Fort Wayne club has played in only three games to date and has won out in but a single contest. The club, | however, is looked on as the one that nant winner in the first serfes American Basket Ball League. Standing of Teams. FrW Ror Buffalo Boston | Team Chicako "1.000 Wash'gton | Clevelund Detroft.. .. Brooklyn’. Tast Night's Game. Washington, 28: Boston, 2 Tonlght's Game. Fort Wayns at Cleveland. JUNIOR TENNIS EVENT ATTRACTS COLLEGIANS | H. B. Wells of Ha Kaufman of Yale, Irving New York University, C of the University of No and Edward Jacobs of | College are among the ent the national junior indoor | championships starting in New | Monday. rd, ampsor Robert | of tenn York CENTRAL AND EPIPHANY DEFEAT VISITING QUINTS OCAL teams showed the way to the outsiders in last night's triple- header basket ball bill staged at the Arcade hy Bert Coggins, Central High cour: mentor. In the main attraction, members of Central's championship five showed themselves superior to the Calvert Hall com- bination, whiclh was rated the best in Baltimore last season, 15 to 10. Washington Yankees vanquished a team of college players who per- formed at Central during the past few years by the score of 34 to 28, and the Epiphany Juniors surpriscd the fans by trimming the heavier Alex andria Celtics by a 21-to-13 count | Central's reg {of Capt. Mac Banta, Moser |went through the ar line-up, composed BASKET BALL SECRETS By Sol Metzger s during the the m their Qugh held on even te haif, 5-all, pulled aw 1 |opponents during the third quarter. | Al of the Blue and White 1 |had & hand 1g, Banta ing both teamn of gained with tw |shots from A numt When Jumping. ning which with score at the scor ad 7 points nd three ch of the nters fn basket ball adopt [ 1No1 air tactics when the ball s up by the referee start d game t end of A 3 ement with the M m. the « [on d | 1 tossed play. A very apparent foul not toler: r an instant by competent offic o o put his hand o his opponent, forein him down and himsel get the jump. The correct methed the illustration on the le method in the te oo fo Clover Juniors contin: is for the s auint the Alexa r's theie fifth ry brings th £ dozer The whole | } BY WILL | President Izaak Walto THE CALL OF THE OUTDOORS Joe Holman's Roy H. DILG, n League of America. he Epiphan | ] UST as the | J the hul of small gauge. gauge gun was co sidered the gun for Then the considered a nice gun | hunters, and a curlosity ed that it anglers a gam 1 dered the t bird rning 1 ters o look | came ;hnd)‘ discove gun for jacksnipe. It used by quail nd grouse Then it began to appear | duck men. Now it is 1 | ®un suitable for any f 1 game. | A gun which gives the game a better chance, requires finer shooting The .410. ge shotgun is coming along. Like the others, it was at first a curiosity. But each vear sees more | And more men using this ii miniature besides the others eral shooting. Recent tests shown that it has fir shootin ties. Its range is up to 30 t has good penetration | Not man g0 hunters univer- | sally used uge guns for all wild { fowl. ome used S-ga cannons, Look at the aiff e, d speaking of differences, w ein does the differ- {ence lie? In finer sportsma ship. The small guns require finer shooting. You | miss more, but you constantly train ourself to fine shuoting. The larger | e have quali vards, and A more ckle, so are | : Roamers were leading ng wi favor on shotguns i in as a Nimrod. It bodes we | It is a fine tendenc: the future of & |of our wild life. Fort Mrser Juniors 24 score on the Tri: PLAY CONTEST IN SNOW, USING RED FOOT BALL | SAN FRANCISCO, December 22 (#).—Using a foot ball painted red, two United States Army teams played a game in a deep snow near St. Joseph's Preps Washi n to 10. Teams the use ¢ tion shoul th ed Company F, 6 to 0. “There were oc the report said, bear 1 the and players were bein treated for frost bite. 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If you want to give him a little surprise, you can purchase a Gift Certificate in any of our stores and let him select his own. 915-917 Pennsylva Men’s Exclusivel Open Saturday E: SHOKES 1327 F St. N. W. Men’s and Women's nia Ave. y vening