Evening Star Newspaper, March 26, 1926, Page 47

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO! D. O, FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1926. SPORTS. a7 Young Stribling Is Not Impressive in Registering Ring Victory Over Slattery GEORGIAN DOESN'T LOOM AS REAL FOE FOR TUNNEY Scores by Narrow Margin by Reason of His More Rugéed Build, as He Fails to Show to Good Advantage in Scientific Way. BY FAIR PLAY. EW YORK March 26.—Jimmy Slattery appears to be staging a comehack that is all-wool and a vard wide. His showing against Young Stribling, even though he lost the decision, has given him a new standing in the eves of the promoters, and there is no doubt he will bie asked to perform for good money more than once in the coming outdoer season. B0 1N p P As for Young Stribling, if last night's showing is the best he can do. then there i< going to be no public outery for a meeting between him and Gene Tunney ; ; And. by the same token, it would seem as though it were just as well for the Georgian that the projected encounter with the ex-marine in Florida a few wecks ago fell through. Slattery is the prettiest. niftiest | the verdict in the final analysis, with hoxer that any one could ask to see. | the Georgian 10 pounds heavier than His every movement is as graceful as | g 1. R that of a high-class dancer and he has | §12! bs H got all the tricks of boxing down cold. Today Tunney again looms before When he gets under full headway | Stribling and Billy Gibson, manag with his gliding in and out. his hittng | ot the Amer light:neavywalght and blocking and rolling with the hunches he Is A sight worth seeing, | champion. % that the match can Rut. like & ot of clever men, he is not | be made by a promoter of standing a deadly hitter when it comes [at any time. “Indoors or out " « nd 1 am not de- Tunney's ap- ing up against classy oppon Not & Geod Boxer. | pearance, as reported.” Stribling. not so good as a boxer,| The battle may be signed for May was always the more dangerous be. |11 at the Garden or may await the cause his wallops had the dynamite [ obening of the base ball par It is hack of them and because in every | more than probable that Tex Rick- rug- | ard will be behind it this time. way the Southerner was more ged—more rugged in his methods of | For more than half of the mixing and in strength and driving | tance last night neither man ap power. peared 10 have any appreciable ad- In the seventh round he smote the| vantage, but in the seventh the Ruffalo 1ad so merrily that for a few | Georgian loosed an overhand right that caused damage. Smashes to the head had Siattery reeling and in the minds of many only the bell saved him from a knockout. He came back, however, to outbox his adver- in the ninth and was fighting instants it looked as though Jimmy was going to oblige with the act he pulled when he fought Dave Shade at the Polo Grounds last Summer. Rut he fought himself out of his aif- | ficulty and when the bell rang for the | final round the two faced each other | with both hands when the bhout evan Stephen in the matter of points. | ended. Or. at least, that is the way it looked | Most critics gave six rounds to Stribling and three to Slattery. with one even. Stribling was awarded the decision by the raferee’s vote after one judge had voted for Slattery. And at least three cheered the verdict. for wife. the former Virginia Kinney of Magon, ( and “Ma” Stribling were at the ringside, while “Pa” was in his corner. to the non-partisan spectators. In the last round Strib pulled ahead. and two of the arbiters—that is to may, the ref and one of the judges— voted for him. while Georgie Kelly, the other judge. wrote a slip in faver of Slattery. So there was comfort and satisfaction for evervhody. | Br the Associated Press NEW YORK. March 26—Young | Stribling of Georgia continues on the direct road to honors In heavyweight | hoxing, while Jimmy Slattery of Buf- falo agaln has turned from the main thoroughfare. Stribling, just up irom the fiasco of Miami, where his match with Gene | Tunney was canceled for lack of | financial guarantee, last night in Madison Square Garden outpunched and outiasted in 10 rounds the man who two vears ago defeated him in a sixround contest. Weight gained NEW LEADER AT CHESS. MMERING, Austrin. March 26 Spielmann of Austria, hy defeat- ing Dr. Tartakower of Austria, wrest- ed the lead from the latter in the international chess tournament, the fourteenth round of which was play ed vesterday. 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The class winning the most points will he cup m»m» Walford team. which won | awarded the interclass challenge cup, and the high point scorer will have :‘.‘fi TL':"(fi‘a"f.'.'."'('...'1?’..:::"..;2',.1':..'5."'"' her name engraved upon the trophy. Blue. red and white ribbons will he {""Medals nlso will he awarded the | Presented individual event winners. | members of the winning eleven, while | _All of these awards will be made by | 4935, After scoring six perfect tar- 'the Kot Myer Booters. runners-up to | Dr. Percival Hall, president of the col- | gets against the University of Ver- the champions, likewise will be pre. | lege. I mont the Marylanders dropped a {xented with medals, Dwight . Da.| Basket hall letters will be presented | match to the University of Cincin- ix. Secretary of War, has been asked | by Miss Fdith Nelson, a member of [ nati by a 1-point margin. The Col. make the awards to the soldler|the faculty. lege Parkers totaled 495 to their op- [ | ‘Three of the seven members of the [ ponents’ 496 in this second encounter. Among the other notables expected | Squad still are in the preparatory | Another 485 was fired in the third to nitend the affair ave Mrs. Susie Root | 5¢hool and therefore will receive hon- | event, in which they matched their Flsme Howard, British Ambassa- dor to the United States, is to be Rhodes. supervisor of playgrounds; |.orable mention instead of monograms, | akill with the University of Washing- Commissioner Cuno H. Rudolph, Maj. | 8% only college students are eligible | ton, last season's intercollegiate 2. 1. .Hoyle, Lieut. Charlex D, Pal. |for the letter awards at Kendall Green, [ champion. ‘The results from the Imer, Lieut, J. B. Patterson of Fort [Mary Kannapel, Eather Brockman, | Western school have not yet heen |Myer and Capt J. R. D. Cleland, ath- | Clara Wheeler and Lucille Du Bose | received. l1etic officer a1 Washington Barracl and the letter winners. Hizel Holmes, | By an odd coincidence, or hecausa — Margaret Du Bose and Beasle Lawson | of the unusually evenly matoned will be given honorable mention. {squad at Maryland, the five high scores In eac| | were identical. Kive 99 ware {up against Cincinnati and Washing- ton and five 100« against Vermont. Thelma Winkjer. Anna Dorsey, Clemencia Cause, Anita Peters and Hazel Kreider scored for Ma against the Ohio sharpshooters, )f the three m: COLLEGE SCRAPPERS | miow Schoot. winmer of the 1 i schlag ball title of the Rosedale DI- | OPEN MEET AT NAW vision in the District Playground League, will be back in the field thix i vear with a strong team determined to defend its crown againat all comers. | Bight other teams will compete for the Roxedale champlonship. intluding | Winkjer, Alma Fssex, Betty son. Plerce, Kings. | Miss Peters and Dorothy French were | the five whose perfect scores gave | ning, so that Blow's task will not be | their team an assured victory over an easy one. | Vermont, Rosedale has longest | In the University of Washington | achedules In the league and play in the | encounter the counting targets were | aeries on that ground will get under | fired by Julla Behring, Miss Essex, | way fully two weeks in advance of | Helen Beyerie, Misa Ames and Miss | many of the other series. The firat | Dorsey. il ST 2 0)E 10 COMPETE | By the Associated Press. | ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 26.—8ix | teams of college boxers gathered here | conclusions in the squared the intercollegiate champion- day t ng fo | ship . Syracuse, Pennsylvania, Penn one of the State and Yale have a full complement of Rlove wielders in the seven classes. Colgate, which may not he able to ! throw a full team into l_h? ring, will | strike hard for honors on the 126, 145 and 160 pound classes. {“"Navy previously hax defeated Yale. | the opener. | Pennsyivania and Penn State in duai | Daisy Robsion, director of Rosedale, contests. The midshipmen meet Col | has announced the complete achedule | gate and Syracuse boxers for the first | as given below. She will referee all time today, howevei | kames, which will be called promptiy Elimination bouts comprise today’s (at 3:4§ in the afternoon. schedule. 1% Semt.finals and finals will be fought | " 30l oRT T8 Biobr. oxth. | tomorrow. _'é'x:fv-”“);" March Maury will oppose Webb in RALTIMORE, Seventy-one 26.— M4, swimmers March April representing 'TWO DISTRICT BOXERS IN TOURNAMENT FINALS ™ Washington hoxers are among 19 amateurs from the South, | Atlantic ~ district entered in the | | national junior championship tourna | | ment_which opens tonight in Phila- delphia. Walter McFeeley. winner of the | middleweight crown at Baltimore last | he only xectional champion | ng the form light-heavyweight title holder, Is entered in the heavy- weight class, the annual South Atlantic indoor championshipe to he decided here to. | morrow in the Knights of Columpbus | pool. | The Baltimore Athletic Club leads the entry list, with 17 splashers. The Baltimore Y. M. (. A. has 14 entries and the Maryland Swimming Club a dozen. Washington Canoe Club and Central High School will try to take {honors for the Distrigt of Columbia. Preliminaries will be run off at 3 o'clock, while the finals start at £. Will James of the Bay Shore Swim ming Club will act as referee. Mar- vin H. Markle of the Y. M. ". he the starter and ¥s. Kingaman Wehh Wheatley. ury. lerce. Walter Cook of N Friends School chief judge. (larence 5 Stier of the Y. M. C. A has heen | GETS OFFER FROM GRANGE. named head timer. | MONTREAL. March 2 (#).—Joe Kingsman . | Tubman, star center half last season BT —hennine vo. Araiison | CHICAGO, March 26 (®).—High | school teams of 33 States will begin to arrive here today and tomorrow for the national interscholastic hasket 1l tournament of the University of Chicago. | with the Ottawa Senators, Dominion | — | amateur senfor champions, has been | Shooting in three telegrap | offered a berth with “Red” Grange's | matches during the past fortnight, | new professional foot ball team in the | the crack University of Maryland | newly formed American lLeague, co-ed squad registered one 300 and two ' Step in Regal Style for 60 onal Institution guarantees the Style, , Finish and Fit. stores, we have Cut the Cost of Making surprised the whole Shoe World. g Styles in 60 Regal Stores, 4973 —Genuine Imported This a Spring edition straight tip, pinked and 4978 —The slender toe in this English last is the latest product of the ‘bootmaker. Another IN SWIMMING MEET‘ elght organizations will take part in | Y A. will | One Price modified English Brogue perforal e G. U. TEAM COMPETES IN GAMES IN TEXAS By the Associated Pre AUSTIN, Tex., March 26.—Entrants in the Texas University relay games to be held here today numbered 702. Many of the contestants worked out yesterday on the memorial stadium track. ieorgetown University's star aggregation of the games. ill be lent the relay carnival articipation of Adrian Paulen. sprinter, and 12 athleter from tional University of Mexico. | Paulen will compete in two special |events—running _the quarter mile |against Dick McNatt, captain of the | 1924 Texas University track team, and |the 220.vard dash against Cheaney. former Howard Payne University foot ball and track star. | Fourteen fleet quartets are entered for the mile university relay, with |the Towa team, which won the mile !handicap at the Western Conference indoor meet, ruling the favorite. 'CLASSIC CREW RACE CARDED TOMORROW ated Press. -ON-THAMES, March 26— he Oxford and' Cambridge crews will Thames tomorrow for eight-oared race. No rsmen will be in either team s The practice of the crews has re- vealed. in the opinion of experts, that | they are evenly matched, but fall far short of the usual varsity standard | The lack of first-class watermen i evident in hoth crews and the chanc | for a record row over the famous 4 | mile couse, from Putney to Mortlake, |1 very slight. although the race pos- |'sibly will be an axciting and close one. The Oxford crew will use a new boat. It has slightly higher sides than | last "vear's boat, being designed to | prevent another 'disaster by swamp- ing, such as overtook the crew last The dark blues will have to carry a load of about 1,530 pounds. heavier by 30 pounds than the Cambridge w z. They have heen able, however. to dia- | tribute their weight more evenly than in the Cambridge beat. Thiz will he ! greatly to their advantage if the Thames is choppy on Saturday. Seasoned oarsmen are fewer in the shells this vear than usual. Oxferd has three and Cambridge, four. FIRPO IS TRAINING. RUENOS AIRES, March 26 (#).— {Luis Firpo. Argentine heavyweight mpion, ik training in earnest for his match here on April 3 with Er- minio Spalla, European champion. Firpo now weighs 225 pounds, but 225 plans to take off some of this weight {by training hard up to the day of the fight. Spalla is training at a farm [ near the eity. | gt it 3 | Ban Johnson has heen president of | the American league since its or. | nization 32 vears ago. 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TRACK SECRETS y Sol Metzger | When Lacing a Track Shoe. ‘TERN pries the lid off the scholastic base hall season tomor. ‘The Wastern line-up is pretty wal} settled with the exception of one o two positions in the infleld. Hageage Hilleary and Mitchell are likely to zet the outfield positions in the opener, while Sashe Wolcott, Stevens and | Looney are the leading candidates for places at first, second. short and third, respectively. Fred Owens {s first. string catcher, with Bob Wilson as his right-hand man. Brown, Batson and Edmonston head ithe list of moundsmen available fou | duty. Gonzaga's practice game achedule lfirr vesterday with the Terminal nine was called off hecanse the diamond NOT THIS |at Union Station is not _vet in condi- tion for plaving. The Purple team's first encounter is with Eastern on April 5. \ THIS WAY It took track athletes a long, time to learn that it was impor- tant to_tie their shoes just one Augie Terneak, left guard on the way. Many of them had heen |Tech basket hall five during the 1928 hothered a great deal by having |season and the onlv member of the thelr shoe laces come loose dur- |quint slated to return to school next ing a race. That caused some of them to lose when they should have won. Finally they discovered the rea- son why their shoe laces would untfe during a race. The long flap or tongue which extends well above the lacings would pound up and down when running and cause the laces to work loose. | Fall. was elected captain vesterdar. Letters were awarded to Harry Coun- Frank Clan Terneak and Manager Rurgess. Dates selected by the hoard faculty advisers for the 1927 interhigh basket ball series were announc | terday. The list follows: ‘The remedy—turn the flap for- Janu; v ward and down under the laces O ot N and then tie it fast. All experi- Ceotral, ced track athletes do that now, by 8 and they are never hothered by 3 having a shoe lace work loose iy when in competition. o T T | S v een e, FaRarn. ‘WILL COACH ARMY TEAM. | ey 20 Nean: wnisic oscn | JOCKEY AND MOTHER at Parkershurg High School. has heen released from his contract here and will leave in ahout a week to be. | » head track coach at “nited | Btates MItArY Acagems, West Dajme | 7 the Assoristed Prese Academy. West Point. Novak came here from Cedar Rapids, | HOT SPRIM Towa. | Harry Stutt off the turf last | tueky ommission. and his mother, Myrtle Stutts, were {named In court actions filed here. crose complaint to a divorce filed by Stutts, Mrs. Anna Stutts of Venice, Calif., charged the jockey with desertion and asked for alimony of $1.000 a month and $5,000 attorney fees. = Mrs. Myrtle Stutts is named de- fendant in a $16.000 suit filed hy Mra. Lizzie Baker. who charges Mra. Stutts COURT EVENT UNDER WAY. 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