Evening Star Newspaper, March 31, 1926, Page 45

{ARCH 31, SPORTS. EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, 1926. Unusual and Remarkable Record as Track Athlete w The Evening Star Boys Club Has Close to 3,000 Members THE Jimmy Connolly Has Made an FORMER HILLTOP RUNNER |WINNERS INA.B. . HAS UNIQUE EXPERIENCE| ARE U- S- CRAMPIONS i it By the Assoclated Pres TRIPLE COURT BILL FURNISHES THRILLS Holman Wonders, Calvary Col- legiang and Kanawhas came out on top in last night's basket ball triple- header at the Arcade. 'thé Wonders were hard pressed by the Stantons and gained the decision, 32 to 25, only by a furious attack un- lje ening ar ‘ “I€8MBOYS CLUB ners of the various events in the Conducted by ROBERT C. McCLELLAN ‘ American Bowling Congress are the o " . only ones recognized by that govern- ing_body of the bowling game, ac- cording to A. L. Langtry of Milwau- kee, secretary and ruling executive. TARTING the fourth month of its existence, The Evening Star Boys Club has nearly 3,000 members, and indications point to a steady in- crease in enrollment. The carnival last Saturday was but the first of the club’s affairs, and although not exactly an experiment, it did serve as sort of a feeler in de termining just how many of the members were actively interested in the One of Greatest Milers Ever Developed Has Feats Dimmed by Nurmi and Ray, Finishing Second to Latter in 32 Compefitions. yard, or foot, or even inch, counts in base ball. “Every boy should start now to Every boy should learn to bunt, declares Tris Speaker, the famous batting “star, in an interview for BY H, C. BYRD. REATNESS is determined by G propaganda no really great live. know it. just because it happens that Others are grea many factors. Sometimes in politics men are just “built up” through deliberate and well-thought-out t because in their particular moment In some cases men are great, but no one seems to somcbody else is just a little greater. Which is how it is with Jimmy Connolly, former Georgetown athlete, now running for New York Athletic Club, as perhaps no other track man has accomplished so much, only to have it happen at a time when it was over- shadowed by performances of one or two who were just a little more capable. Had 1ot been for Joie Ray and Nurmi, Jimmy Connolly for the last five years probably would have stood out as America’s greatest middle- distance and distance runner, and possibly as the world’s greatest. Thir races to onc of the greatest competitive of a man running second in Think runners the world has known—Joie Ray; yet that is exactly what Connolly has_done. could beat Connoly. Connolly who jt It was rath remarkable that Con- nolly defeated Ray the first time he ran against him, but never was able to do so therecafter. On June 6, 1919, the Spring he gradu d from high school, Connolly defeated Ray in a great mile race in the fastest time ever made by a high school runner 4 minutes 19 1.5 seconds. The next time Connolly met Ray the race was in Canada and Ray won in just a frac- tion over 4 minutes !y second. Thirty- one times after that Ray beat Con- nolly and four times in national cham- plonship events, thus keeping away from Connolly a good deal of national prominence. It is doubtful If that situ- ation ever was duplicated Brilliant Performer. Connolly has been a consistent and brilliant performer, but, strange to say, he never had on a track shoe un- til his senior r in high school. Yet, despite that fact, he never was beaten a8 a high school runner. Connolly &raduated from Woburn High School of Massachusetts in 1919 and entered Georgetown that Fall. For four years thereafter he represented the Blue and Gray in relay races and in middle dis- tance and distance runs. At the end of his first year at Georgetown Connolly made the United States Olymipic team and finished sec- ond in the 1,500 meters at Antwerp, the event won by Hill of England. The next year Jimmy won the inter- collegiate mile for Georgetown in the ceptional time of 4 minutes 1715 ads. During his career at George- town Connolly won many races and | won again in the Intercollegiates. He broke the record for two-thirds of & mile and still holds it. That was the | only record which Nurmi attempted to | shatter and failed | In all the races Connolly has run he | hardly ever got worse than third. And right’ now Connolly is_running as well as he ever did. This year he | won what generally is considered the higgest mile race of the year, that in the Millrose games, in just a fraction over 4 minutes 17 seconds. He went to Boston the following Saturday night and won the Hunter mile in al- most as good time. Connolly also has | run as a member of the New York Athletic Club two-mile team in meets during the past three months. After competing in the Olympic meet in 1920 at Antwerp, Connolly was the only American to come back to run the same event in the Olympics of 1924, Which shows that the Georgetown man is a stayer, and to show that he has confidence in himself to stay still longer he says that he is golng to make the Olympic team of Praises His Rivals. rather interesting to know Connolly’s opinfon of the men who actually have kept him from being recognized as the greatest of runners at hisg distance. He says that Nurmi is the greatest distance man the world has known, that Jofe Ray is the greatest competitive runner and that Lloyd Hahn is the best at the mile. And, contrary to what most peo- ple, and newspaper men, too, think. Connolly still is young. He was born in 1501, consequently has just gone bevond the 25 mar He ought to have two or three more years of splendid competition, if he takes the best of care of himself. Connolly is popular. His gameness is well known, and people have given him credit for wonderful spirit he has shown in such heartbreaking competition as that in which he has engaged, Most runners would never have continued in the face of such discouragements and still remained stars of the first rank. ,He not only is popular, but has a fine personality is well liked by all that know which is a distinction in itself, 1se not always do the two things g0 togethe, Connol is a great runner, and even if some Joie Ray bobs up next vear and the next to keep him in sec ond place, he still will be a great runner. Bowie Races April 1st to April 13th Special tralng on W. B. & A. leave White House Station eve minutes after 12:30 p.om. Direct to Grand- stand. First Race 2:30 P.M. It s GARTERS NO METAL CAN TOUCH YOU 25031 In other words, for a long while Ray was the only miler who It was Ray who won most of the glory, and it was t escaped being great by the few short yards. JIMMY CONNOLLY. OWNER OF CARLARIS PLANS BREEDING FARM By the Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif., March 31.—As a result of the sensational and profit able victory scored by Carlaris, Briti colt in the Coffroth” handicap at Tia Juana Sunday, his owner, W. T. An- derson, is going to start a breeding farm of his own Horsemen expect that it will be in California._and hope that it will pro- duce morg fame for the man who bought Cdrlaris for a few thousand dollars and who woke up yesterday morninz with a colt worth many times that. Anderson has made no secret of the fact that he is willirf to sell Carlaris, but he has made it plain to all who ask a price that he wants to have Carlaris reproduce his own kind. He believes he will be a sire ranking with Man o’ War. Langtry, discussing the merits of that method of determining the best in the alley pastime, gave his reasons ollow ach and every entrant in an A. B. . tournament performs on drives he is seeing for the first time, the alleys are perfect and the new pins are used on all occasions, thousands of tons of wood being used in the course of an event that has become international. Bach bowler, before he has run out his string, has shot over six different alleys, and he is not on any one of them long enough to become accus- tomed . to them. There are no “grooves” in the A. B. C. Champions have failed to repeat year after year. This, in Langtry’s opinion, gives the “small bowler an even chance with the leaguers.” The . assault on sumed today. The leaders: 3 No. 2, Huron, 0. Detroit. 1.385: 344 Giblin-Hodis, el Braddock. Pa. 781: 714. Meler, Néwport! Rochester. Devito, the pins was re- o Clevelans B %10 Ma All'_events—Buonomo, e, Chicago. 1.047 NEW YORK HOCKEYISTS WIN. WINDSOR, Ontario, March 31 (®). —The New York American hockey team defeated the Portland Rosebuds, 7 to 5, here last night in the first of a twogame series for a $5,000 cash prize. Soccer foot ball is now played in 40 countries throughout the world. The Bvening Star Boys Club. Y boy should learn to bunt,” says Speaker. “The [ l bunt comes in mighty handy at various stages of the game. Fre- quently a team that cbuld start right off with a string of successive bunts can run a pitcher out of the game. It unnerves him when two or three men in succession lay down safe on bunt a ball just tap it. Tap center or just above center. tap it below center or you're v to lift a short fly, which will ily caught. Don’t bunt a bad ball. Don't bunt a fast ball inside, or bad balls high. Tt is better to walt and get a base on ba The pitcher, seeing you are trying to bunt will try to keep the balls high, but he can’t always control a high ball and he may pass you, The pitcher has Jjust_as hard a job as you have, “Grip the bat well up and keep the hands well apart. Just tap the ball or hold the bat out and let the ball hit it.. Don’t grip the bat tightly, but loosely. The firmer vou hold the bat the farther the ball will roll. “The instant the ball meets the bat drop the bat and start full speed for first. ‘A running start means much. “Be sure mot to hit the ball too hard. A hard hit bunt means a double play if a man is on base. “A left-handed bunter is even more valuable than a right-handed bunter, for he is nearer first base and every master the bunt.. It may take a I time, but the boy need not wait unt| he grows up and makes a ‘big’ team and have to learn it then. 19, Hold the bat like the sketch and meet the ball at the center or above the center. Don’'t hit underneath the ball. Lay your bunt down toward either first or second and not toward the pitcher. te: Tris Speaker will continue his base ball taiks tomorrow with a discussion of the sacrifice hit. Blsewhere on this page will be found an application for membership Fill it in today and malil addressed: Chief, Boys Club, The Evening Star, ‘Washington, D. C. aq Gi GOLDEN RULES. Probably the best golden rule of all is: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. That applies to base ball. track and fleld and all other sports. S (Copyright. 1926.) With the Bowlers C many weeks with a set of 343 and a game of 120 Oscar Swaim and Charles Sims, both bowlers of note at the Bureau of Engraving, have arranged a spe cial match of three games, total pins to count. The match is scheduled for the Recreation alleys next Sat- urday evening In the District League last night the King Pins tightened their hold on first place by taking all three games from the Regulars, totaling 1 pins. Harville of King Pits was best, with a game of 136 and a set of 352. two out of three last night. matches were rolled in the Four King Da- Masonic League last night. vid landed three games from Po- toma Stansbury grabbed two out of three from Harmony: Hiram had a close call to capture the odd from Singleton, winning the first game by one pin and the final round by two, while Whiting had to be-content with two from Federal. Holmes of Fed eral was the high man of the four battles, getting a game of 142 and a set of 355. Little opposition developed last night in the Washington Ladies’ League, four of the five matches rolled resulting in clean sweeps and the other in a two-to-one victory. Commercials got all three from In- < s/ Q Vil ARRY ICE CREAM quint is staging a great drive for first place in the Commercial League, having trimmed the Times-Herald team The Printers have held the lead for Anchorman Brewer &f Carry’s was the star of the match terstate Commerce; Hilitoppers found Bethany easy; Columbians walked away from the Climbers; the Beeques continued their winning stride, swamp- ing the Delhis, and Washingtons was satisfied with two out of three from the Daughters of Isabella. Margery Bradt of the Commercials, was the star of the evenfng with a game of 129 and a set of 336 Loraine Gulli picked up six pins on Rena Levy by rolling a set of 323. A. W. (Lefty) Owe Athletic and Northeast Leigues, is waging a hard battle against pneu- monia. Lefty has a host of friends in the bowling ranks and all pulling for him to win. Knights of Columbus won two out of three from Rosslyn, in the Nationa’ Capital League last night, losing the final by one pin. Murtaugh of the Knights. was high, with a game of 149 and a set of 347. TUNNEY GOES INTO MOVIES. NEW YORK, March 31 (#).—Gene Tunney, challenger for Jack Demp- sey's heavyweight championship, has signed a contract with Pathe Ex- change to star in a serial motion plc- ture. Tunney will leave York this week for Hollywood. ecretary of the Your Easter Shoes Choose “Florsheims” and be on the safe road to Style—Service—Satisfaction. men—all over the million wearing them on Easter Sunday! Other “Hahn Shoe Leaders” Jime fora fresh pair? for Men $5 to $12 7th & K 414 9th St. 3212 14th St. “Man’s Shop”— Three world—will be 233 Pa. Ave. SEE. 1914-16 Pa. Ave. SHARKEY WILL FIGHT SOLOMON TOMORROW NEW/ YORK, March 31.—Jack Sharkey will wind up the indoor sea- son among the big fellows In Boston by mingling for 10 frames with King Solomon tomorrow night Both men will try hard. of course, because the lucrative outdoor season is just around the corner. Gene Tunney once a chance to show his wares against the Boston heavy, but he passed the chance by. Eddie Huffman, the coast lad who flopped Tony Fuente in five rounds last week. jumped into the breach and took a fine pasting. Sharkey was accused of all kinds of things in this battle. Chief among them was his reluctance to put Hoff- man to sleep. Whether or not Jack really permit- ted his ex-service brother to stay, not even the august New York Boxing Commission could deterraine. The fact remains that Sharkey showed class in every respect save a willing- ness to go in and finish the bout. This lack of real fighting spirit ems to be Sharkey’s only real weak- He is a fine hoxer, a hard puncher and a first-rate ring general. But he has a heart when it comes to punishing a rival. Maybe with the golden shower of outdoor engagements just around the corner Sharkey will act differently with Solomon. leashed Schloss, recruited by the Wonders from the Epijphany Big Five, led the winners in scoring, with a total of 12 points, A getting a total of 8 points. and California Joe Ly last and Lynch in the last period. Leon The Kanawhas nosed out the Aloysius Scniors, 26 to 24, while the Collegians trimmed Epiphany, 22 to . Goldblatt headed the Kanawha ring column with 12 counters and roadbent did best for Calvary, WATERMEN TO BATTLE IN BASKET BALL GAME Boat House Row is expected to turn out in full force at the Arcade next Tuesday night, when basket ball ams of Potomac Boat Club and Washington Canoe Club meet for the first time. Both quints have been priming for the big contest throughout the past month, and each has taken part in several p the encounter will be used to further ractice matches. Proceeds of juatic sports during the Summer. e e GRAHAM AND LYNCH DRAW. TORONTO, March 31. (#).—Bushy raham, Utica, ) . bantamwelght, nch of San Fran- sco fought 10 fast rounds to a draw night. Graham weighed 120% 1211 . There are only three golf clubs in weden. activities. Thé chief was more than pleased with the turnout and enthusiasm shown Saturday, particularly by the smaller boys. The club hopes to become espectally active and the members are asked to urge their eligible friends to join the organization. Members also are asked to maintain their present interest in the organiza tion. It will be made worth while. And by all means read vour column daily. ~ Articles like Tris Speaker’s, running at present, are not availabl every day. A list of new applicants for mem- bership follows: Wilson Ayld, Hyattsville, Md.; Theodore Fdwards, 125 Sixth street Southeast; Arthur Lipphard, $20 Silver Spring avenue, Sllver Spring, Md.; T. Francis Curtin, jr., 3145. P street; Rus- sell Sharpe, Potomac avenue; Melvin O. Taylor, Beltsville, Md. John Kershaw, 1508 Varnum street; Robert Emmett Curtin, 8145 P street: Claude Orndorff, Montrose, Rockville, Md.; John Croghan, 154 Lamont street; Billy Dix, 3332 O street; Ken- neth Silson King. 1440 Rhode Island avenue; Nick Shea, 1341 Montague street. Merrell Whittlesey, Silver Spring, Md.; Ralph Hurley, 721 Otis street: Robert Gwynn, Clinton, Md.; Charles Shuffle, 67 Rhode Island avenue; Wil- liam Madison Monroe, Ballston, V: Edward Samperton, street northeast; Harne, 453 Oak street, Lyon Park, Va. The Evening Star Boys Club Pledge WANT to be a member Club, and if accepted to self to: Keep myself always in Play fair. of The Evening Star Boys membership, I pledge my- good physical condition. Be a modest winner and an uncomplaining loser. Abide by the rules of all sports I engage in and respect officials. . Follow the activities of the Club through The Evening Star. Never neglect either classes. 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