Evening Star Newspaper, June 12, 1926, Page 11

SPORTS. Nats and Giants Fighting to Attain Respectab_ Positions in Big Le GRIFFS FACING STRUGGLE | TO STAY OVER .500 MARK Champions Have Dropped 123 Points Since May 13. Johnson to Face White Game Series at Chicago This Afternoon. BY JOHN HICAGO, 12 swing the Nationals’ big Juse jol C als have been at the 50-30 mark. Wednesday, but vic Uity one game above an even break So they'll hav standing in their fa The hold-over Champions fell to fe 600 mark for the first time this weason when they were defeated by t'he Athletics in Philadelphia on April 21. They recovered slightly. but dropped to the fifty-fifty mark ihe second tme by losing to the Red Sox in Washington on April 25 Then followed three victories in 19w over the Fohlmen. but the N went to New York sromptly dropped thy he Yankees. Thus, af t May 1, their standing 3 for the third time in the season Longest Winning Streak. After that came the Nutionals' longest winning streak of the season o put them well above .500. The \iacks were trounced in Washington on May 2, the next three days the Ited Sox were vanquished in Boston, on the way home a stop-over made in New York and the were licked and on May 7 the stand sgamst the Western contingent was begwn with a win over the White Box. Then four of the next six gawmes were won, putting the Nationals eight games above the .300 point and at the best winning percentage ,they have held this year—.633. Those tigures were against the club’s name in the standing after the Browns were beaten on May 13. Only once since have the Champs been as good as eight games above the fifty-fifty ma That was after the triumph over the Iudians in Washington on May 13 3 Right on the heels of this May 15 win followed the Nationals’ longest losing streak of the year—four games. . Playing in Clark Griffith Stadium, the Indians vanquished Bucky Harris and company.on May 17 and 18, and the Tygers continued the punishment on May 19 and 20. Since May 13 the Nationals have dropped 123 points. Since leaving howme the night of May 30 they have dropped 36 points. and that in seven zames on the road. \What the Veterans Think. Vetarans of the club will teil you that it is games above the .500 mark. @ 1d not percentage points, that they think about mostly before July 1. With an advantage of a dozen games better than an even break at that time & club ought to be in the flag fizht to the finish, they contend. That hay be so. but can the Natlvnuls get h an advantage within the next iree weeks? That's something for the club to think about. Everything scheduled for Canadian day in Cleveland yesterday happened except the ball game between Na- tionals and Indians. It began raining early in the morning, and when the time for the clubs to take the field ar- rived a heavy downpour was in prog- ress. All the players and the few fans who journeyed to Dunn Fleld got out of their trip was & treat by the Toronto Scottish Regiment. that rooped to the colors, despite the in clement weather. This seems to be a jinxed tour for the Natlonals' treasury. Three times now rain has prevented action on big days. Plenty of money was lost by the club when rain balked the double- header scheduled for Memorial day in New York. Wet weather proved cost- Iy in Detroit last Sunday, and had it been fair yesterday probably the sec- ond largest crowd of the season would have been out &t Cleveland. . Johnson Pitching Today: Walter Johnson, who was to have hurled for the Champs vesterday, was likely to assume the task this after- uoon. The offday was not particularly pleasing to the veteran, for he likes to get a thorough workout the day before he 18 slated to toil, and it was too wet During the last will be to play well enough to return home with a scason winniug percentage above .50. To do that the club must triumph in four of the cight games to be played with the White Sox here and the Browns in St. Louis Four times since the start of the championship campaign the Nation- They were reduced to that in Cleveland ry over the Tribe Thursday put them in the Windy e to step on the gas if they would have an overbalanced w when they encounter the Yankees in the double- header booked in Washington on June 22 Sox in Opener of Four- B. KELLER. two series ot this Western BIG LEAGUE LEADERS. By the Associated Press. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Batting—Cuyler, Pirates, Runs—Bl; ,_Cardinals, Hits—Cuyler, Pirates, Doubles—Frisch, Giants, 2 Triples—Wright, Pirates, 11. ¥, Cardinals, 9. n bases—Cuyler, Pirates, 12 Meadows, Pirates, won LEAGUE, Batting—Dugan, Yankees, 313 K Yankees, 60. | -Burns | Yankees, 13. l‘)‘l:lh(-hlnx--lluyt. Yankees, won 10, NO-HIT, NO-RUN GAM HURLED BY MWINTYRE | taken a distance of about two mifles, Miss Wills was delighted. w ht, wen Pennock, Yankees, won 10, tr%a," "F\r‘: g g Miller, Chi 1 od Mike Dungee, len, Chi Marco, Pittsburgh ( BROWNE AND LENGLEN AGAIN HALTED BY RAIN Bs the Associated Press. PARIS, June 12.—Heavy rain in the early hours of the after- noon again assured wet courts for the final match between Mary K. Browne and Suzanne Lenglen in the International hard court champlonship. There were clear mu in m"m. however, and the iais declared they would hold the players untll after 6 p.m. if NeCessary. A huge raincoated crowd again assembled, prepared to brave any conditions to see what promised to be the greatest match of the year. HELEN WILLS LEAVES HOSPITAL FOR HOTEL By the Awsociated Press. PARIS, June 12.-Helen Wills, American lawn tennis champion, who submitted to an operation for appen- dicitis last week, was taken from the Neuilly Hospital last night to the hotel where her mother is stopping. After staying a few days more in Pn.r"ln‘ she plans to go to England to watch The chempion today said she was slightly tired, but that her condition ‘was perfectly satisfactory. She is cor- tain she will be able to play in the Forest Hills championships. the Wimbledon tournament. en she learned she was to be from the lLospital to the hotel, “If it would only rain steadily for four daye more,” she seid, “1 present at the 5 Lenglen-Browne finals " FIGHTS LAST NIGHT. By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORKR.—8id Terris, light- ligl BAlIL Express,’ Y ey ad)y; htwelght, ock Island (19) TORONTO.—Mike McTigue, former light-heavywelght champton, won trom Lou Scozza, Buffalo (12). WILLIAMSPORT, Pa.—Rus Wha- cago, ou!))loa;l!ed Cuddy De SIOUX CITY, Towa.—Sallor Larsen, A nohit, norun game turned in|[3oline featherweight, and Karl Me. yesterday by Lefty McIntyre keeps Treasury right on, the heele of Post Office in the Departmental Base Ball | Paul fiyweight, won from Irish bert Kelly, New Orleans (10). League series. lafty hurled against Agriculture Arthur, Sioux City, boxed to draw (19). DES MOINES.—Paul Milner, St Gil- SIOUX FALLS.—Pal Moore, Mem- in an eight-inning contest, getting | phis, bantamweight, and v the long end of an 11-to-0 dectsion, | Stoux Fealls, mx&.anwm‘f P He walked 8 men, hit 1 batsman and fanned 12. Treasury accounted 11 hits. Chevy Chase Dairy earned a clear title to second place in the Commercial loop by letting the Union Printers down with a 15-to-0 score. Smith was the hurler who turned the trick for the Dalrymen. He al- lowed the Typos only half a dozen |pBuffaio HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—Chatiey Ro- sen, New York Ilightweigh! D decinion over. JohARY Adams of ‘oan bingles, while his mates were slam-|Newaric ,.° ming out a total of 21 hits. 'The game went geven frames. Bolen, Schulte.” Southern and American Railway Tr::n(o Express played a tight game in the Washington Termintl Le e, South- ern getting the verdict, to 4, in seven sessions. Upton was the win- ning hurler. Shipping Board got the better of Labor in the Potomac Park series, Davis turning in an 1Iito-7 win in seven innings. Patents and Interstate battled to a tie, 6 to 6, in seven innings on the Government league diamond. The hits stood 7 to 6 for Interstate. TWO SANDLOT NINES ARE FOND OF ACTION Red Sox and Athletics, local sandliot base ball nines. are listed for action both today and tomorrow. The Sox meet the Potomac Savings Bank team today at 3 o'clock in Georgetown hollow and go to Bladens- burg tomorrow. The Athletics, who travel to Sea- Jes Daily. Rochester Baltimors ugore. Reete and Devine; Hendsteon and bergall; Marduis aund Lynn, Hill. | Littte Rock Atlanta . proMdwell and Whitney; Markle, Rogers and M i .. dempa O'Brien. Chattan o RESIe by i .. L il tewart, Hubbell and O'N . [ s T 8 15 N Morrow, Nie- 1 1 Dickerman, Schellber and SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. . E (] 2z 8 10 9 e 1y 1 Bonnelly and Cousineau; Stewart snd Nashville . New Orieans” . Alten and Mackey brook for their Sunday tiit, are to |Louisville play the St. Mary's Club today at|S% Alexandria. nosed out the Red Cross nine yester- day on St. Elizabeth’s diamond, 3 to 1. Shinauit. Paul. . . Dawson, Pigras and Hoflman. Jewish Community Center tossers |Toledo Kansas City . Preftor. Woolfolk and Heving: Evans and Bolling Field earned a 4-to-3 dect- |fndianspotia . sion over a team of Marines yester- day. Lefty Davidson hurled a not-hit no- run game in the first half of a double- header between the Washington Boys® Club and Noel House. Boys’ Club team won the tilts by scores of 13 to 0 for him to participate in a drill ves- terday. Clark Griffith, president of the Na- tionals, was to join his club here to- day. Grift has been in Milwaukee in conference with his scout. Joe Engle. Joe has been casting about for some talent for a club that is in sore need of rejuvenation. It is possible that the Nationals’ prexy is bringing word of some athletes uneartiied by Joe during his late travels. HEAVY TRACK PREVAILS FOR STAKES AT LATONIA LATONIA, Ky.. June 12 (#).—Show 3rs during the night brought about changed track _conditions for the run- ning today of Latonia’s twin features, the Clipsetta Stakes and the Quickstep Handicap. The Clipsetta. for 2.year-old fillies over the five and one-half furlongs route, drew a field of seven probabie starters, H. P. Gardner's Thirteen Six- Fithel Dear, Gal- B. McLean's Flora- ncerely and loan de Albert. 00 is the stake, the same as that in the Quickstep, for which 15 of the shiftiest sprinters in these parts have been named to con- test over six furlongs. In this Audley Farm's Princess Doreen was given top weight, 130 pounds. H. G. Bedwell's Senator Norris comes next, “with 119; ‘Aroady and Sunsard, 113 each, and the others scaling down to 97 pounds, as- signed Champ de Mars, representative of the Keenland Stud. CARTER WINS GOLF TITLE. OKLAHOMA CITY. June 12 (#)— Keefe Carter, I&-yearold Western amateur golf champion, won the Ok- lahoma. amateur championship by de- feating Emmitt Rogers, 7 and 5. Both Iive in OkLiioma ————— AKRON MEET STARTS. AKRON, Ohio, June 1% (P).—The Summer running-horse meeting of the Akron Racing Association opened at Northampton Park, near here, today. Tt will continue 19 days. Seven races a day are planned. WILL RUN IN FAII;KOUNT. CINCINNATI, June 12 (#)—Bag- enhaggage and Boot to Boot, winner and runner-up, respectively., of the rich Letonia Derby last week, will en- trath for Collinsville tontorrow to car- 1v the Idle Hour Farm colors in the Fuairmount Derby next Saturds and 9 to 1. ALTOONA AUTO RACE DRAWS BEST DRIVERS By the Associated Press. ALTOONA, Pa., June 12.—A score or more of the country's foremost speed demons of the board track were expected to cross the starting line today in the 250-mile automobile race at the Altoona Speedway. Fourteen drivers in cars. of various makes and design so far have made the 118 miles an hour for a single lap necessary to qualify, while 10 others were to attempt the qualifying run this morning. Delay in shipment of parts for some of the cars, which were being rushed here from California by air mail, together with a high wind and rain, yvesterday combined to cut down | on saney ouiled. the number of qualifiers. Dave Lewis, Barl Devore, Danny O'Brien and Earl Cooper were the only ones to qualifly yesterday. Their speed for a single lap varled from 119.6 miles an hour, made by O'Brien, to the high mark of the day, 124.3, made by Cooper. ‘Weather indications alone were un- favorable. It had started to rain{® early today, but bope was entertained by the drivers and the thousands of visitors that the weather would clear before race time this afternoon. Included among the probable start- ers in the motor classic were Frank Lockhart, the 23-year-old Los Angeles novice, who captured the B800-mile brick track event at the Indianapolis Speedway in May: Peter de Paolo, 1925 champion, and practically all of the country’s well known automo- bile racers. Fred Wagner was se- lected as officlal starter. —_—— BOATS IN 2,225-MILE RACE. SAN PEDRO, Calif., June 12 (®).— Six fleet white-winged craft await the starter’s gun here today to head for the Hawalian Islands on the biennial yachting classic of the Pacific—the an Pedro to Honolulu race. A five- inch gun aboard a Navy dreadnaught will start the boats on the 2,226-mlle course. The craft will depend entirely on sails. B rngaworth Sy AR inneapolls Timbus Milwaukes (rain). PACIFIC. COAST LEAGUE. Hnlm. g-z- tland, 0-0. Oakl an icieco, © SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. e TRt Knoxville, 10; Spartanburg, 4 FLORIDA STATE LEAGUE. Sanford, 2: Lakeland. 1. Bradenton. ‘3-2: St. g Brudenton. 331 8t. Petersbure, 6-1. y VIRGINIA LEAGUE. Richmond, 7: N . 6. Wiison: 13:" borsamnid." 4 .'8: Petersbure. 1. SOUTHEASTERN LEAGUE. 8t Augustine, G: Sevannah, 1. Conitiua 8o 3 t Aibany. o? ‘sackaohvitie '8 TEXAS LEAGUE. Dallas. 4; Waco. Wichita: ialiac 0] Houston. 0 Sgo Antonio, 5: ““F Worth, hreveport, 155 5 ok 5 e s PIEDMONT LEAGUE. Durham, 6; Winston-Salem, 7. R SIS o COTTON STATES LEAGUE. Hattiesburg. 3: 2 Nonror ¥f: Seridian 0 Alexandria, urel, 4. Jackeon, 1} Guifport. 0. (10 innings) . (rain), eage (rain). STANDING OF THE CLUBS. WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, The Eoening Star BOYS CLUB Conducted by ROBERT C. McCLELLAN BY TED DREWES, National Public Parks Tennis Champlon. E'LL learn to grip the racket first, because you must hold the racket right before you can hit the ball right. For the forehand groundstroke grip you just reach out and clasp the handle of the racket as if you were shaking hands with it. The racket is then an extension of the arm. The hand is on the out- side, or right side of the handle, and the thumb and fingers wrap around it naturally. For the backhand stroke the racket remains in the same position, but the hand is mwved backward on it, to your left, a quarter of the way around. The knuckles then point di- rectly upwdrd. If it is more com- fortable, the thumb ay be run up the handle instead of ped around. For the service grip—keeping the racket unchanged in_position—the hand fits over the handle about hailf- way between the other two grips mentfoned. On all grips the mcket is held tight at the instant of hitting the ball. Be- tween shots the grip is loosened to allow the muscles of the fingers, wrist and arm to relax. Yor the volley shot the srip is about the same as for the backhand stroke, From tha shoulder the swing is free and the wrist is stiff and locked. Getting a Grip. “You Just reach out and take hold of the handle as If you were shaking hands with it,” says Bill Tilden, the famous tennis star, in describing the proper grip in tennls. Next—Swinging a racket would a base ball bat (Cop; as you SWEETSER, HERO OF LINK By the Asmociated Preas N 9 EW YORK, June 12.—Jess Sweetser, first American boin to bring back the British amateur golf champlonshi day he lies in a hospital at Bronxville, N. Y has paid dearly, for to- recuperating from an illness that attacked him when he sailed across the Atlantic on his quest, And the great American event, the amateur at Baltusro! in Septem- ber, when it had been predicted Jess would meet the two-year king, Bobby Jones, in a championshi Club, Columgu Inside Golf y Chester Horto! To hit the golf ball you swing the clubhead a good deal the same way you would swing a hammer. That means, you control the action al- most entirely with your hands. The trouble with many golfers is that they let the action of swing- ing develop into too much of a body motion. Hand action— the hammering of the clubhead home—Is lost. To get the touch of the correct hand action a good practice s to stand in the ad- dress position and then, without moving any part of the body at all except the hands and arms, withdraw the clubhead— entirely with the hands—until it is well Back from the ball. Withdraw it with the idea that you are to take it back only a couple feet or go to hit the ball as you would hit it with a hamme Practicing this will readily give yvou a fine start for the clubhead, and body action will fall in automatically and naturally there- after, will be without him. s, next month. (Conyright, 1026.) SURPRISE IS SPRUNG IN WOMAN’S TENNIS One upset occurred yesterday in the second round of the District Wom- en’s Tennis League championship now in progress on the Henry Park courts, at Seventh and B streets northwest. Mary Hall, sceded No. 2 in the draw, fell before the superior stroking of Phoebe Moorehead, George Washing- ington University singles champion, Both players possess hard forehand drives and the match was one of the most spectacular of the entire tour- ney. :’nncea Krucoff, District singles thampion, eliminated Virginia Olm- sted, 8—1, 8—1, advancing to the semi-finals. She wWill meet Cecyle Taylor in this bracket. Trances Walker advanced to the semi-finals in the lower half by virtue of her three-set vl_;:tory o Dorothy sbury, 3—6, 7—F5, 3 mfifu Walker meets the winner of the Moorehead-Curran match in the gemifinals. This latter encounter is slated for 1:30 this afternoon. The first doubles match was played yesterday. . Marjorie Wooden and Ruth Curran defeated Mary Ryan and Margaret Ryan, 6—3, 8—6. Other doubles matches are sched- uled this afternoon. HYATTSVILLE NINES BUSY. HYATTSVILLE, M4, June 12.— Hyattaville nine wns to entertain the Pullman Athletio Club team of Wash- ington this afternoon at 8 o'clock on the diamond at Riverdale. Comets Juniors of Hyattsville tomorrow aft- ernoon will visit Seat Pleasant for a game with the junior team of that place at 8 o'clock. Comets Midgets tomorrow afternoon at 1 o‘clock will tackle the Northern Athletic Club Midgets on Diamond No. 10, Monu- ment lot, Washington. STATISTICS NATIONAL LEAGUE. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. York, 2. “‘nfl'fl‘u urxh, 11. Cinclioatl, 8: Broo iyn, 6. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. o i G. P. 0. WINS LEAGUE GAME. 5[ a1 11/ 3] Government Printing Office handed “setback to :h: Colored Departmental Base Ball League, 9 to 4. Kaiser held the mound for the winners during the entire contest of efght innings. Treasury yvesterday in|— 1 3/—16877.288 Lost.._[14124/25196/25/89134157/—|—! s 11 s Lost.._[21/21/25/23(251281281301 i GAMES TODAT. GAMES TODAY. “international” contest that would decide the world amateur So will the open at the Scioto Country rest after influenza and nervous strain has been ordered by his physician, Dr. B. M. Dear, who suys Sweetser soon will be fully re covered but must not tax himself again this yvear in champlonship play. The champlon will undergo a com plete examination immeddately and perhaps will remain at the hospital for some time. Few in America, and for that mat- ter, few in Britain, knew what Bweet- ser suffered to win the coveted crown at Muirfield Before the amateur tournament started he had suffered seriously from a cold while crossing the Atlantic, and the two weeks of heavy weather in London was far ‘rom beneficlal. lembers of the golfing party with which he returned on the Aquitania yesterday told how he collapsed after a practiee round at Mulirfield on the eve of the title play and was carried from the course by big Jesse Guil- ford, a Walker Cup teammate from Boston. Only the withdrawal of his opponent the mnext day saved him then, they said. A day of rest found him able to carry on. but the night befora the wemi-finals nerve strain and cold hadl gained steadily and he remained awake, much of the time massaging a strained wrist suffered in the semi- finals. He went into the final clash against Alexander Bimpson on grit alone, ac- cording to Francis Ouimet of Boston, who described the match as one of the most remarkable demonstrations he ever had reen, with the beaten Scots lifting the American to their shoulders at the end. Then came St. Andrews and the A long JUNE 12, 1926. |COURSE STARTS IN U. S, ALL HOLES IN CANADA NORTH PORTAL, Saskatche- wan, June 12 (®).—Construction is | under way here of what is regard- ed as the most unusual golf courses on the North American Continent. The Gateway Cities Golf Club, it is believed, has the distinction of being the only club that tees * off from one country and plays the regulation course in another coun- try. ‘The first tee is in the land of the Stars and Stripes, but the holes are in the land of the Union Jack. ARMY TENNIS TITLE TAKEN BY VAN VLIET Chumpion of the United States Army is the title now held by Capt. Robert . Van Vliet, jr., of Fort How- ard, Md., winner of the deciding ateln of the first annual tournament the Army Tennls Association yes- terday at Columbia Country Club. The title holder, formerly champion of the District and a well known figure in local net circles for a num- ber of vears, gained the service crown and the honor of being the first to have his name engraved on the Henry Sheridan trophy by vanquishing Wait (. Johnson in stralght sets, 1, 6—0, 6 Col. Johnzon. also prominent fn Dis- trict sports elrcles for some seasons, carried the coloi of the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga Presentation of the lan cup. a perpetual trophy, was made to the winner by Maj. Gen. Fox Conner, deputy chief of staff. Each of the finalists, recelved siiver lovings cups for permanent possession. Van Vilet took the first two sets of yestorday's match with consummate ease. In the third set Col Johnson's service baffled him for & time and gave the Infantry School player the lead early in the encounter, 3 to 2 Van Vliet returned to his’ old-timd form, however, and took the three games hefore Johnson came througl with another win. Col. John som failed to score in tie tenth and final game. D. C. AND BALTIMORE NETMEN IN CUP FINAL Tennis of the first order ex pected today at Chevy Chase kL when Washington's combination of ex pert_racketers encounters Baltimore's | crack team in the final of the annual Hotehkiss Cup matches. The & singles are scheduled for 2:30 p.m. and will be followed by three doubles encounters. Baltimore holds the trophy at pres- ent and has sent over the hest Monu mental City talent in an effort to add another victory to an unbroken stri running back half a dozen year Eddie Jacobs, Baltimore's juvenile star, heads the team and will oppose | winner of the recent Tom Manga in the lead- Wardman Park tourney, ing match of the day. Washington reached the final yes- terday by trimming Norfolk at Chevy Chase, 9 to 0. Baltimore triumphed over Richmond at Columbis, 8 to 1. Scores of the matches: WASHINGTON VS. NORFOLK (W) _ defeated Jones King, (W) delented A. C (N, 63, 6 Charest (W) de ' Penzold (K. 640, jrave defeated Drivér (X1 : Baum (W) defeated | 2 61 'Burwell t hitchead defeatod 4‘ King (W Bundy and A. C.Hoed (N Gore and Baum (W.)_defeated R Penzold (N.), 6—2. 7—5: White and How- enstein (W.) ‘defeated Washington Reed and Moas (N0 678 60 BALITMORE VS. RICHMOND Sipler—Jaoghe (R defcated Bickel (R —4. 6—1: B Walker Cup play with the former college and open champion of Amer- icra refusing to lay down arms. then the journey home to the United States with doctors in attendance al- most constantly. A speclal cutter, the Manhattan, swung alongside the Aquitania ves terday at Quarantine and slowly down the rope ladder came the hero of the’| golfing world. He had been carried to the side in a chair, although he assured his attendants that he was fit to walk. From the Battery he was rushed to Lawrence Park Hospital in Bronx- ville, N. Y., by automobile. 8o Jess Sweetser, the conqueror, re- turned, greeted by only a few friends, the cup that was in his baggage on its first visit to America forgotten in thé haste for a quick return to full health. ALL-INDIAN GOLF EVENT IS CAPTURED BY CLARK PAWHUSKA, Okla., June 12 (#.— A new golf champlon was crowned here—a Cherokee Indian in plus fours who led the braves of all the Indlan tribes in America in prowess on the links. § The titleholder is Wilfred Clark, professional of the Pawhuska Country Club. He defeated Munroe George, an Osage Indlan of Brownsville, Tex., 7 up and 5 to play, in the finals of the first all-Indian golf tournament, which was held in connection with the con- vention here of the Society of Okla- ‘homa Indians. Sixty Indians from all parts of the country competed. And | 8 E Hoble: n dN'ffl“fll Dr lanton (R —1. 6—2; Goldsborough (B defeated Pollard (R.J. 3, 6 ! e bt delegted Lewid (R (Categiod Lewis | et gu&(vrd (R deteated "Crawtord d Turnbull _(B,) el 0—2, 0—4; = 8. (BJ. 88, 2 Doubles—Hobleman defeated Buford and Crawford and Goldsborou arrinston nd_Hobsow | ( Magee agruder fon and Lewis (). 6 1 (B defeated ) AT ST vt s detéated Dr. Blan- [ JAPANESE NETMEN WIN FROM MEXICAN PLAYERS MEXICO CITY. June 12 (f).—Japan swept victorlousiy through the first two matches with Mexico here in the American zone competition for the Davis Cup. Takeichi Harada of Japan, playing brilliantly. defeated A. Unda., his Mexican opponent, in stralght sets, 6—3. 6—4, 6—4. The second maich between Teizo Toba of Japan and Manuel Llano was won by the former, 6—1, 3—6, 7—5, 6—2. TR AN FIGHT DRAWS $221,000. NEW YORK, June 12 (#).—Thirt four thousand spectators pair $2 000 to see Paul Berlenbach and Young Stribling fight their light-heavyweight champlonship match at the Yankee Stadlum Thursday night. The title- holder received $78,520 for his hour's labor, while Stribling’s percentage amounted to $26,174. e s TREASURY NETMEN AHEAD. Treasury kept its slate clean in the Departmental Teénnis League series_yesterday with a 4-to-0 victory over War Department. All matches were doubles. Treasury now is credited with nine straight wins. WOMEN IN SPORT BY CORINNE FRAZIER S tory. yesterday from the playground JOSEPH'S dodge bafl team, winner of the Plaza Playground League series, which was completed this week, recei ed a pennant department in recognition of its vic ‘Mrs. Ruth Britt, director of Plaza, presented the bunting at the assembly preceding the closing exercises of the school. In her briet address Mrs. Britt con- gratulated the church team on win- ning the series the first time the school had been represerited in a playground league. The constantly growing enthusiasm evinced. by the layers, she cl ?or their future teams. Athletic history was made at an- other school yesterday. Benning's schlag ball team was presented with a silver loving cup for winning the e's division league champion- ship this Spring. It was the first time that B&nnlnxmb,umevar received a rls’ athletio trophy. “The cup was presented by Dalsy Robslon, director of Rosedale, in a special assembly. Alberta Usilton, captain, and Ruth Payne, manager, received it on behalf of the team. Benning girls have had to play their games under a handicap. Their school is situated near the District line, and' they were forced to make a long jour- ney to the nearest playground. Their persevering efforts were well reward- ed this year, however, as they played through their series without a defeat. June 24 the municipal 1 MA!':?emeonth nndAaB streets wllm open all day every day except Sun- day. The hours will be from 7 o'clock in the morning until 6 o'clock in the afternoon. At present the pool opens at 8:16 daily and closes at 6. On Saturdays it {s open from 10 to 6. Monday, Wednesday and Friday have. been set aside for girls and women. Tuesday, Thursday and Sat- urday the boys and men have the tank. After the schools close and the full-day schedule goes into effect the hours before 9 o'clock in the morning will be for mixed swimming. The special training class for play- ground directors, which has been con- ducted each Saturday morning since the latter part of April by Maude Parker, director of girls’ activities, held its last meeting this morning at ‘Wilson Normal 8chool. All of the 69 students who have not been sent out on the grounds dlready for practical training will go during the next week or 10 days, according to Miss Parker. After the practical training is com- pleted playground officials will select the students who have made the best grades in the class work and have ptability- on inds, to fill vacancles fg the assistant @irectors. next | SPORTS. ague Races' COMING DOUBLE-HEADERS WILL TEST New Yorkers Handicapped by H: Games on Their Own McGRAWMEN ving Played Fewer Grounds This Season Than Any Other Team in Leagues. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, June 12—Coming double-headers eithes will sink 1l Giants to rockbottom or will give the subdued Kilkennyites a chance to pick up a litte of t hat which they haven’t got this year. At this moment it seems as if the creation of so many double-header brought about by adverse weather ¢ onditionts, may mean a worse swat ting than McGraw's boys otherwise would have suffered. The Giants are plugging these with which they once wore their cap As one of the rookies of the St. Lou: what you used to be, but what you whaling the Giants all over the lot, m triumph at the Polo Grounds. CORNELL CREW WINS FROM CALIFORNIANS By the Ascoclated Press. ITHACA, N. V., June 12.-Cornell's earemen have come back and the Red and White stroked shell again sweeps into the column of triumphant crews by ite de varsity last. evening in the dual re- gatta on Cayugm Lake. Cornell's varsity won by two lengths over the California varsity boat, while Californfa junior varsity was more than a length behind its senfor crew. hut leading the Cornell junlor varsity eight. by more than two lengths. But Cornell's yearlings proved s, disappointment. The Cubs from the West Coast were too much for them and the finish line found them seven lengths behind and their stroke teable. The tine of the varsity raoe was: Cornell varsity, 17:17%; California | varsity, 17:26; California’ junior var sity, 17815 Cornell junior varsity, 'he thne of California, 10:50 ATHLETES MUST RUN ON A HEAVY TRACK By the Associated Presa. CHICAGO, June 1:—Unfavorable track conditions minfmized likelihood of many outstanding performances as collegiate athletes faced the barrier today in the finals of the National Intercollegiate Athletic Association games. Interest centered on Ronald Locke, Nebraska comet, and his effort to es- tablish world records in the sprints His outstanding challenger was Fred Alderman of Michigan State, who set a meet record of 21.7 for the 220-yard eveMt in vesterday's preliminaries after Locke had traveled the distance under wraps in 21.8 to tie the meet mark held by Paulu of Grinneil. Locke was clocked in 9.5 seconds for the 100-yard dash at the Druke rela resembling that of today's games. Rain soaked the cinders and miade running difficult, and the field was so saturated that preliminary fleld events were aban- doned. Running azainst a stiff wind, Tocke traveled 100 yards vesterday in 10.3 to qualify easily. winning his heat, as he did in the 220, by step- ping ahead of Sharkey of Miami at the finish. The University of Southern Califor- nia entered today’s events a favorite for honors, with six qualifiers in the running events and a field brigade led Touser, weight ace. lilinois and Michigan each qualified four runners, Guthrie of Ohio State led the high hurdlers at 15.2 seconds. and Spencer of Detroft City College headed the low-barrier field in the preliminaries with a 24.4-second performance. Oetreich of Gustavus Adolphus, St. Paul, finished a surprise with his vic- tory in his 440-yard dash heat in 50.6 seconds, whi was equaled by Rooney of Kansis in his heat of the same event. Charteris of Washington, winner of the 880-yvard run last vear. led the qualifiers in his event at 1:58.8. Fifteen track and field events are on today's program. freshman race. Cornell, 11:19. ROYAL ASCOT RACING T0 BEGIN NEXT WEEK By tho Associated Press. LONDON. June —~Next week comes the annual pageant of Royal Ascot—one of the most brilliant turf meetings in the world. Notables from all over the kingdom will gather to witness the competition between the thoroughbreds in a dozen of the sea- son's important races, From June 15 to 18 the following events at Ascot Heath will attract public attention. Coventry stakes, for 2-year-old colti the Queen Mary Stakes, for 2-yearold fillies; the Prince of Wales stakes, the Corona- tion Stakes, the Gold Vase, the Gold Cup, the Ascot Stakes, the Royal Hunt cup and the New stakes. One of the possibilities is a meeting on even terms next Tuesday in the St. James Palace stake of Lord Derby's colt Colorado, winner of the season's first _classic, the 2,000 Guineas, and Lord Woolavington's Coronach, which won the Epsom Der- by. Colorado defeated Coronach by five lengths in the Guineas, and Coro- nach came back in the mud and rain at Epsom and won the Derby by five lengths from Lance Gaye, which was a short head in front of Colorado. The colts are also entered In the Hardwick Stakes to be run next Fri- day, the last day of the meeting. On the outcome of the races at Ascot may depend the fixing of the favorite for the fifth and last of the season’s 38-year-old classics, the St. Leger, which is to be run at Don- caster In September. TIP FOR FISHERMEN. HARPERS FERRY, W. Va. June 12.—The Potomac River was clear and Shenandoah was very cloudy this morning. HAWKINS ' MOTOR Conveniently Located on Fourteenth Street 1333-37 14th St. Main 5780 ve defeat of the California | days. They haven't the jaunty a s perched on one side of their skull is Cardinals put it, “you iellows ain't are.” hen the Cards rub it in b raking it three straight in yesterday - The Giants Lave played 17 gaiues on thir own grounds, fewer Lome games than have been played by an: club in the majors. The Detroit Tygers, who had some of their earlv games sandwiched between two slices of {ceberg, are nearly as bad off, They bave played 20 home games. The | Boston Nationals have played 1% games on_ their own fleld and Brook I¥n and the Chicago W Sox ewch e played o Cubs Kept Busy at Home Contrast this with the Chicage Cubs, who have plaved 33 games at home, the Cincinnati Reds with 3 and the St. Louis Cardinals with 30 Here are three National Leagus nines of pretty fair strengtn, each of which has consumed a large chunk of [te home season and knows relativelv what it may be able to do. That might be denled in the case of St. Louls, be cause no one knows what that crow may do before it is flattened for the year. Washington has played more games on the homs fleld than any other American League team—a total of 3. —and 18 not as well off today by more than 100 points as when it started to make its campaign out West instea of on its own grounds n 1925. Chance for Dark Horse There would be a great chance | the American League for a dark horse to win something this yvear if the teams only could get within kicking distance of New York's heels. The Yankees have lost their stride once or twice, but they never have beer flattened, and until two teams in suc cession poke the Yanks hard, thev will stay right where they are—and that may mean to the finish. There ara two teams in the Amer fan League that play day after das with pretty much the same players They are the Yankees and the Ath letics. The White Sox also have thar habit. Scott is back on the bench in favor of Hunnefield, but that onls recails that before the season started Collins sald he would play Seot larly untfl some one on his could do better. It was the stead ness of the veteran shortstop ftha kept the Sox up eariy in the seasor and meanwhile Hunnefield was heing schooled. The kid 1s doing pretty well. He has been hitting ahove 300 against about .250 for Scott (Copyright. 1026.) POLOISTS PLAY TODAY War Department Polo Associatii teams play one of their regulur Sar urday matches today Potoma. Park. the toss-in being listed for 3-89 Whites and Greens battied to a 6-all tie yesterday in a practice game. Capt. Kilburn led in the scoring, gei ting 4 goals GRANDSTAND DESTROYED COLUMBIA. S. ¢, June 12 (# Fire of undetermined o though: possibly cavsed by a lighted cigarette destroyed the grandstand of the hase hall park at the State Fair Grounds here. The damase was about $20,000 covered by insurance. RADIATORS, FENDERS BODIES MADE _AND REPAIRED NEW KADIATORS FOR AUTOS WITTSTATT’S R. & F. WKS. Wallace Motor Co. NASH Sales and Service 1709 L Street N.W. Just East of Conn. Ave. Main 7612 PROBEY TIRE STORES 2104 Pa. Ave. N.W. 9th & P Sts. N.W. 12th & H Sis. N.E. 2114 14th St. N.W.