Evening Star Newspaper, April 15, 1926, Page 46

SPORTS. THE EVENING AR, WASHINGTON, D. €., THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1926. Bowling As Uncertain As the Weather : Hoff Got a Good Start Away From Home ONLY SURE THING ABOUT GAME IS GOOD EXERCISE Old-Timer Enabled to Score Over Kid by Telling| Sad Story of Fido, W Apples and Thel HE Old Timer was curionsly sife [ vou thought the King Pin St should be thankful that vou didn’t ba; Say. bet on a bowling match! for the money: you never can tell Timer. “That's right.” admitted the K from me. At that.” he added. as wall for a horseshoc spare, “all vou luck. Why don't you Thanks for the bugsy v the Old Timer, gratefully. must hand it _to yon: I didn't th vou were intelligent encugii 1o readi that bowling is @n exercise and not merely a game. It is the real foun- 1ain of vouth. Yes. Christopher Columbus’ old pal, the Hon. Ponce de pioneer Florida bhoosier. cer tainly took a lot of unnecessary trou hle to sail over here and wade through the Eve des of la hunting fo n of yvouth when he ¢ und it right his ow on the bowling native town Needs Competition. Yes?" said the Kid. socking the bunch for a strike. *“Then vou'd bet ter take up bowling as 1've suggested Resides, a little practice now and then | would make the games more interest- | inz for me: I need competition o ow my stuff 4o best advantage.” “The game isn't over vet, voung man, 1hese allevs the Big Bowiing and ltel Man gives us ten frames before de- ciding the winner. A lot of things| can happen in the six frames ahead| of us.” Right.” admitted the Kid. “inciud- ing about five missed spares by you. T've done worse than that in my time." admitted the Old Timer. “I've hlown six in a row. But about this fountain of vouth stuff:Take a look at Al Work over there with Jack Whalen hey say Jack is only 20; then Alj ean’t he over 24. And he’s been that| aze since 1 started—back in 1916." | here’s the Big Bowling and Tce| Man himself over the said the Kid. pointing. “Has he quit the| howling game? 1 never see him on| the alleys now. He used to sock the old apples pretty vegularly.” Migosh,” warned the Old “don't say anything about where he can hear vou. “What's the big idea—apples? manded the Kid. Didn't 1 ever tell yvou dog?” asked the Old Timer Dog? No. But what's that to do witl apples?” asked the Kid Dog s Smart. 1l vou. You see that dog was , sir, he sure was a smart he could set up duckpins, though he wasn't any more accurate in spotting them, I'll admit, than some of these pinboys. And he'd push the batls back to us with his nose.” Must have been an airedale,” sug- zesied the Kid. “They're smart.” I don’t know what he was,” said the Old Timer. “I remember once that somebody asked the Big Bowling and Tce Man if the dog was an aire dale, and he said. ‘Sh-h-h-h! Don't let him hear vou, he thinks he is."" Har, har'" laughed the Kid. “Thass a zood one. 1 laugh every time I hear it | at green Timer apples de. about his got most wonderful thing of all me, however,” went on the Old Timer, ignoring the interruption, “was that he had trained the dog to be a vegetarian. Y sir, old Fido. that was the dog's nmame, wouldn't touch meat at all; and him right over the market most of the time.’ “Come off!” protested the Kid. Has a Swell Time. “Just keep right up with me, Kid,” #aid the Old Timer. “I'm on my way, leading up to the sad part of this story. Just a coupla weeks ago, when they were having all that excitement about opening up the new market and all that. Fido wandered around down there and found a package of dried apples some one had left. He ate five slx pounds and then took a big drink of water and went out into the doghouse they'd bullt for him. Well, sir. in half an hour the Big Bowling and Tce Man and Al Gardner had to £0 out and tear down the doghouse to zet Fido out.” 1 getcha.” said the Kid. ‘“Those oid apples were swelling up on him You said it, Kid 1 said it.” azreed the Old Timer. “And I don't mean maybe. Unfortunately. in break- ing down the doghouse. Al hit poor 0ld Fido in the head with the axe and killad him." “Aw, it didn't make any difference,” rotested the Kid. ‘The apples would ave finished him anyway. Once I aie & lot of dried apples and then took a big drink of water and, say, in 15 minutes 1 felt like a guy who had swallowed an elephant. You wouldn't helieve how the darned things swell up “Why not?” demanded the Old Timer. “I'd take your word on al- most anvthing except your bowling ~co Why is it that a guy as honest @% vou are about most things goes entirely wrong on bowling scores? You know vou only had five in that %ox.” Should Keep Eves Open. ‘Five!” roared the Kid. “Why I dropped five with the first shot. The hoy was just putting 'em back on the alley when vou looked around.” It was my faul,” the Old Timer conceded. “T should ha wise enough 1o watch you. but 1 felt so sorry for moor old Fido that T sort of lost track of your shooting. And—-—" Here he hroke off to take a careful shot at a! bad split. “And so,” he said, coming tack to the bench, and los ng track of !:Jedron\'msnflan And so—-"" nd so’s your old mgn?" suggest the Kid. " Wi ‘Ah, H-hem'" said the Old Tim “1 forget what T was going to say. Didja ever see such a break? And it was a_perfect strike ball. to he added. “But anywa about apples around her [ guess he's forgotten about Fido,” =ald the Kid. He sure looks cheerful enough tonight. Cheerful Once More. “fay. have vou forgotten which team won tonight?” asked the Old "imer. *“You bet he looks cheerful. . lay off talk for a whils = Open a Charge Account Our Small Pay Plan Makes it Easy for You to Dress Well THE NATIONAL CLOTHING CO., ‘436 9th St. N.W. It was some match.” declared the Kid Then | ho Ate a Lot of Dried n Drank Water. nt as they made their way to the alley. | Cheer up! T know ats were due for a walk-in, but vou ck up vour opinion with any money.” You niight just as well cut the cards what will happen,” asserted the Old i then you can win a game | carommed one off the : you've got plenty of | you are pretty good at billiards.” wouldn't take a thousand iron men the five-game total AT Work and s hung up here tonight. But | sn’t forgotian Fido. Ile has his | photograph iu the office. and under it some verses Ly the famous Knglish poet. J Squird. I'll repeat them to you while you blow that one-pin Lreak Hait and Fiao, Most cha Surely arewell. hail aod farewell. my | canine race a dog as | « bowling & in. the ¢ 10via’ at the table tears ran down ms e with the face 1 mean 10 ween an long as | am abls Perhaps | have misquoted a but that's the substance.’ n the luck.” cried the Kid shot that ball off my panis’ leg. “I know. 1 know.” comforied the Old ‘Timer. “But you would have blown the spare any wav." “Oh. 1 don’t mind.” declared the Kid. | “I want you to Win now and then 1o | trifie, | pointed out the Old Timer. “On|keep vou from getting discouraged: I|gladiators liked to wrestle. don’t want people to think I'm trying to show vou up.” “It_does you great credil,” said the Old Timer. putting on his coat. *“You bave a_kind heart, and, remember al- ways that ‘kind hearts are more than coronets and simple faith than Nor- man bicod. Come over to the foun- tain and let’s see if they've found out what Jack Williams was drinking last week."” 1 E | wrestling | Every f!Ze htm’ng Qtr BOYS CLUB Conducted by ROBERT C. McCLELLAN BY PAUL PREHN, Wreatling Coach, University of Illinois VERY regular boy wants to excel in athletics. We who have passed through boyhood days know, because we, too, had the same desire It is human nature that you voungsters shouid want to outdo your playmates in athletic feats, and [ want to assure you that the world likes that indomitable spirit in you. the spirit that develops | character for the problems of man-| hood. FEach of you should begin| striving now to become real men, for | the world wants and needs men of strong character, and, above every- thing else, it admires such a man. I'd like to see every boy learn wrestling, for it is the greatest of real “man-to-man’ sports. Men actu- | ally struggle more and prove physi- | superiority more completely in than in any other sport. | muscie in the body figures in ng one must think and acl while he is in the grip of an opponent. | In the urally the mat his struggles on strengthens one quick to take advantage of any open ing. The bodily struggles also de velop endurance. These four things are mecessary in a_ winning athlet The development of these four ath- letic -assets removes the embarrass- ing awkwardness in a man or boy and produces a gracefulness of action and appearance. 3 Boy Builders. low easy it is, and enjoyable, 100. o go through some of the most beneficial exercises! The wrists and fingers need strength. Stand erect with thumbs to hips and fingers to- gether. Suddenly spread fingers as far as possible, keeping thumbs to body and at same time takes in a deep breath. IKxhale and relax fingers and repeat exercises several times. We'll have a little wrestling today by way of a break in the steady run of base ball articles. There is plenty the struggling of wrestlinz and it is which builds those | uscular bodies that are in both athletic and s impressi cial gatherings. and_Roman | They did it scientificaily. however. They had rules which prohibited the use of the legs, and because of that restriction | it was necessary for them to be more | clever in getting and breaking holds To be a successful athlete a boy | musi have quick co-ordination of | mind and muscle, meaning that he should act the instant he thinks. Wrestling develops that ability, for | The anclent Greek With the ‘Typotheiae Leaguers will have a night to themselves in the annual tournament of the Washington City Duckpin Association. This circuit has informed Presiderit Henry Tait Rodier of the association that it will er the tourney in a body, adding | teams to the already large list| entries. The league, which has| quints representative of the various printing _ establishments about the city. includes a number of first-class duckpinners. William N. Schaeffer is its president. A special match between picked teams of the Commercial and Busi- ness Men's circuits will start tomor- row night on the Recreation drives. Five games will be rolled. The sec- ond five-game block will be staged at Convention Hall April 23. On each occasion bowling will begin at 8 o'clock. The Commercial League team will be drawn from Brewer, Baum, Lange, Lawrence, Boyer, Preller and Pol- vinale. The Business Men's quint will be selected from Austin, Ulrich, | Bernstein, Goldstein, Bowles, Everett | and Cornell. Internal Revenue bowlers wound | up their season last night with a match between Corporation Files Audit and Accounts and Collections. ition. Play fair. Be a modest winner a loser. Abide by the rules of Follow the 'activities The Evening Star. classes. 1 am——years old: atte and The Evening S which 1 will wear. Oi this’ blank app (PONTIAC SIX QUALITY SERVICE ADAMS MOTOR €0 2015 14th St. N.W, Potomac 1742 | i TROUSERS To Match Your Odd €oats EISEMAN'’S, 7th & F RACES TODAY AT Havre de Grace' SEVEN RACES DAILY . & 0. train of steel couches g 12 o'clock noon. Parlor and Dining Car attached. 1 P R. train contes Teaves Union Stath 10 b, direet to course. Parlor and dinin; eitached, O Enstern” Standard Time. mission—Grandstand and Paddock. including Government tax. FIRST RACE AT 2:30 P. |\ S t stecl | clinched fifth place in the final st e vening Club Pledge WANT to be a member of The Evening Sta: Boys Club, and if accepted to membership I pledge If to: K my:rf“ always in good physical con- and respect officials. Never neglect either home duties or school | would like to have a Membership Certificate Bowlers encounter | games and nd- ings. N. N. Maver, anchor man for | the winners, boosted his average to 1084 to win season honors in this department. AUTO RACING CIRCUIT IS PLANNED IN SOUTH ATLANTA, Ga. April 15 (®).—| Plans for an automobile racing cir- cuit to operate for five months in the vear and composed of cities in! the Southeast have been announced here by Oscar Mills, secretary of the Southeastern Fair Association. The circuit proposed by Mills would include Atlanta and Savannah, : Montgomery and Birmingham, ., Memphis, Chattanooga, Nash. ville anfi Knoxville, Tenn.: Raleigh and Pinehurst, N. ; Columbia, S, C.: Louisville, Ky, and Richmond. Va. ook the three The latter team by winning ail Claren Nibs"” Price, new foot bali coach at the University of California, gets $9,000 a season, while the Gov- ernor of the State must serve a whole vear to earn $10,000. Star Boys nd an uncomplaining all sports | engage in of the Club through nd——————School. tar Bovs Club button, base ball coming, however. Read vour column daily. Bisewhere on this page will be | | found an application for membership. | Fill it in today and mail it, addressed, Chief. Boys Club. The Evenming Star, Washington, D. C. GOLDEN RULES. When you play a game al- ways wish to win and try to win, so that your opponent may have some fun out of it. YACHTSMAN HONORED FOR UNUSUAL FEAT By the Assoriated Press NEW YORK. April Pidgeon. Tlowa farmer and book taught navigator. last night received the Blue Water Medal of the Cruis- ing Club of America for his exploit in sailing around the world in a 85- foot vawl. The medal has been awarded only twice before Capt. Pidgeon. blushing beneath the tan. admitted the cheers of the 160 leading vachtmen of the East who attended the presentation at the Yale Club, were far more disconcerting than the most devastating typhoon encountered on his trip “People always ask me two ques tions.” he said What made vou do it? And, what did you do at night? Any boy who has read Robinson Crusoe knows the answer to the first The second—I picked the softest bunk and fell into it.” 15.—~Harry muscles. | e ulso learns to he aggressive and | Took Broad Jump With I Also Won his athletic life from a fragile boy world. during these first months of | then far from what they are now. [ ar athlete in Norway at that time. papers and magazines. when I jumped, from 11 feet upward. not know the world. thought that everybody was awiully I should have known a little earlier what was going to happen. I might have taken precautions then. My coach, Kreigsman, was sensible, and d 1o advise me that I should not let everybody take advantage of me to tell the truth. | competed then much more than | wanted to. Early, T joined the staff of a Norwegian sport paper. long befors I was through with my studies, and T continued-there after graduating This same newspaper raised capital to send three of us to the English championships in 1921. All Norway was with us three who were to fight for her colors abroad. Until that date Norwegian athletes had had little contaet with countries outside of been beaten You can therefore easily imagine our feelings when we arrived in the mighty city of London, to represent such a small country as Norway. We {all felt very =mall, and thought that { we had no chance “Knee-Length” Trunks. jumper, Sverre Hansen. who won third prize in the last Olympics, and Erik Manskow. who did the hop-step. and-jump and running high jump. I shall never forget my nervousness, which got still worse when the pro motors of the meeting at the last moment told us that we could not enter the track without trunks reach ing 1o the knees Finally I got an idea. We all had long jersevs on. long enough to per: mit pulling our trunks down, and so e entered the track. The trunks iched our knees—how far they neither did any one say anything when. after our entrance. they sud- denly failed to reach our knees ® 18 ANNEXED PAIR OF EVENTS IN ENGLISH It Was First Time in This Competition, and A This is the fourth of an entertaining series of stories by Charles Hoff, 1world record holder and greatest pole vaulter of all time. He vecounts BY CHARLES HOFF. OU can understand that I became very popular at home in Norway | made new Norwegian records, but, of course, the heights were I never saved myself, and took part in many competitions. was then quite new to the public, and the applause was always enormous a good athlete, and nobody considered me in any other capacity. The world smiled to me and Scandinavia and most often they had| The two other bovs were the broad | reached above the knees no one asked. | TITLE GAMES/ Leap of 23 Feet, Although | Pole Vault. to the best all-around athlete in the my pole-vault training. I irequently can safely say I was the most popu- I saw my name everywhere in news- My style T was 1 did I smiled back, and I was only a young boy then. nice to me, My main competition that day was |in the pole vauli, but I was also en | tered. if 1 cared to compete in it, for | running bread jump. which was before the pole vault.” That would. in case I} | entered. be my first competition in the | broad jump. and | had never trained much oni it At the last moment | tossed a penny -start or not start. | started. jumped 23 feet. and won' | e Judge's Straw Hat. | In the pole vault I felt sure to win and my consternation was great when I knocked the bar off twice at 10 feet' The reason was that the judge, a very conservative old Englishman, did not allow me to move the posts in the po sition I wanted them. Refore the third jump T moved them without permission. with the result that the bar fell down on the head of the judge and destroved his expensive straw hat. 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At present Kimbel, Schott and Because soldiers are sometimes | Frey are fighting it out, each of them given jogging exercises with their |having an aver 105, with but fists held against their chests, many 1 pins sey s the three of young runners gain the impression There ar st half a dozer that this is the proper to hoid « 50 close, however, that they are the arms when training distance a position to assume the lead with races. That is wrong. a good set tion for the arme is not a nat Keefe of the one. Additional and unnecessary effort | game of 170 must be expended to hold the arms in | set. 433 this position, Neither « they be' strikes, 49 used 1o help one's stride winging , these them back and forth in the direction | fight fc the runner is going. as the runner on |vace be the left is doing in the above tion. 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