Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1927, Page 23

SPORTS s CUBS MAKE CLEAN SWEEP OF SERIES WITH THE REDS McCarthy’s Men Start Invasion of East That May Determine Whether They Are Slated to Tri- umph in Old Circu Br the Associated Press FTER a home stand 13 victories in played. the Chicas en route East today on an invasion of enem: camps. the auccess of which probably will deter- mine to a large extent the fate of the National League leaders. Joe Mc- hat netted games 0 Cubs were Carthy's hustling outfit is scheduled | to meet Brooklyn. Boston. Philadel phia. New York, Pittsburgh and Cin-| cinnati in order before returning to Chicago September 4. The Cubs made a clean sweep of the thre-game series with Cincinnati by winning vesterday s game, 7 to 2 Percy Jones. Chicagn lefthander, was invincible after the first innins, when both Red runs were scored. The Bruins pounded Red Lucas out in the seventh with a rally that clincied the victory. By defeating Philadelphia, 3.1, the Giants pulled up to within one game of the third place St. Louis Cardinals. The game was played in a drizzle. Larry Benton allowed only four hite, two of which were bunched. Ferguson of the Phile was not scored on after the second inning. Kremer Beats Cards. Ray Kremer's airtight pitching was oo much for the Cardinals and Pitts burgh strengthened its hold on second place with a 5 to 2 victory. Kremer held the World champions to six_hits and kept them scattered. The Bucs collected only six safeties off Sherdel H. Bell and McGraw, but they de livered at opportune moments. now are two games ahead of Louis. Brooklyn failed to end its losing streak and returned home to take a 40 beating at the hands of Kent Greenfleld and the Roston Braves. The The | it—Giants Gaining. | Kentuckian held the Dodgers to four | hits and never was in difficulry. ) Three home runs spelled the down | £all of Jess Petty. the Robin southpaw | Hogan, Welsh and Fournier hitting | for the circuit. Fournier's drive came with a runner_on base. In the last threa games Petty has worked the Robins have failed to score a single run Detroit made it five in a row over St. Loui ths Browns heing nosed out hy a 54 marzin. Melillo's three errors paved the way for the St. Louis beating. Chisox Finally Win. The White Sox finally broke their Iosing streak hy knocking in the Cleve land Indians. 3. Blankenship was in good form and eased up only in the ninth. Neis, formerly of Cleveland. knocked in three runs in the sixth with a double. A summery of yesterday's gam AMERICAN LEAGUE, 000004201 tnona000 | Shaute Chicagn Claceland Blankenship and Berg Brown. Hodap and L. S Sevel St Lot 041000000812 3 Bl 1h227000x—8 % 1 Drixon: Stoner and Grant Gaston and Schank Baseler NATIANAL LEAGUE, 3020000008 St Loma nnnn01no00 emer _and Spencer. Gooch McGraw and O Farrell Pittsbureh Philadelphia New York Ferguson and Wilson 200000000 A1100041x Cincinnati | Chicagn | i | Gon; Boston Brooklsn . i Greenfleld and Hox TITLE FIGHT SEEMS SURE TO SMASH Br the Associated Press HICAGO, August 15.—A new all-time record for prize fight crowds and purses loomed be- fore Tex Rickard and his aides today as they settled down to the big business of getting ever: thing ready for the Tunney-Demps fight at Soldler Field, September 22. Rickard had no sooner announced vesterday that his final plans for the fight now indicated a total gate of nearly $3,000.000, with a gioss at- tendance of some 160,000, than Jack Dempsey hoarded a train from Holly- wood and headed for Chicago with his wife and a party of his training camp helpers. The challenger ix due here Wednes- day ready to go into training at t Lincoln Fields race coffrae. Rickard and Leo P. Flynn, the man- ager of Dempsey arrived yesterday to join Billy Gibson, manager of Cham- plon Gene Tunney, and started to set the stage for the heavyweight cham- pionship spectacle. Seats for more than one-third of the anticipated crowd of around 160,000 must be built within the towering walls of the arena, and the arrangements for this construction, Rickard said, ere his greatest problem. The mana- gers, with training camps already chosen, only await the arrival of their proteges to get down to work, Although Dempsey is on his way, ‘Tunney is not expected much before September 1. JACK DODGES CROWD AS HE STARTS EAST By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES. August 15.—A friendly wallop slipped over on his Los Angeles friends and newspaper men today may have given Jac Dempsey a chuckle as he sped east- ward toward Chicago and the hout with Gene Tunney, in which he hopes to recapture the heavyweight crown he dropped to Tunney in Philadelphia. After arf eager crowd had waited last night at the Los Angeles station. the former champion, his wife, Estelle Taylor: her nurse and a maid, and a few friends boarded the train at a suburban station A group of retainers, headed by Jerry Luvadis. was the feint used in Dempsey's farewell joke on his friends and the newspaper men. The train. ing crew waited at the Los Angeles station and entrained there. So con- fidant was the crowd that Dempsey himself would appear that it held the train for five minutes over its sched- uled departure. His wife's illnese and Dempsey's de- #ire to spare her the excitement of an uproarious farewell crowd were given as the reasons for the switch of sta- tions. Friends of the boxer said he intend- d to make a 24-hour visit in Salt Lake City with his mother, and possibly a brief stop in Denver, ARRAY OF ASPIRING HEAVYWEIGHTS POOR Rr the Amsociated Press, Unless =ome new fighting figure #prings to the front the 1927.9% Win ter edition of the “heavyweight elimi nation follies” will find participating the same cast that provided the en- tertainment leading return Dempsey-Tunney title match. Jack Sharkey, the ‘Boston sailor, will be ready for action hy October, the Jafest. his manager asserts Jimmy Maloney, Bostonian, who was eliminated” hy Sharkey last May, al resdy has started his come.back. Jack Delaney and Paulino Uzcudun complete the "leading quartet, thus keeping intact the organization “played” last Winter's circuit. Paulino's loss on a foul 1o Delaney was not convincing enough to him out of a future role. The Spaniard indicates that he has “just begun to take it.” Delaney is eager for a return hout with Maloney, who put an abrupt, if only temporary, check to the French- Canadian’s ambitions last February. The hallyhoo for this may start sho Iy, with Sharkey and Paulino a logic palring for another ‘“elimination heavyweight PORTSMOUTH BALL PARK IS DESTROYED BY FIRE NORFOLK, Va. August 15.—Fire early this morning destroyved the grandstand section of the Portsmouth elub, leaders in the Virginia League. It was the second disaster to hit the park this season. a tornado having de molished a section on May 25, when wn spec itors were killed by falling Aebris. The Bre was of undetermined origin. to this year's | put | ALL RECORDS Rickard went over his ideas of seat- ing arrangements yesterday with en- gineers of the South Park Board, which controls the stadium, and drafts- men began work on the blueprints which are to be submitted to the Il linois State Athletic Commission to- morrow. Tentative plans of the price scale show that the $40 ringside seats, clustered around the ring on the ground between the two colonnades of the stadium wings, constitute but a small percentage of the seats. Nearly all of the permanent rows around the huge concrete horseshoe are scaled at $30, $25 and $20, ahout evenly divided between the 50 rows of chairs. The gigantic incline which Rickard plans to build from th: ring up to the open north end of the horseshoe, scales from $30 down to $5, with nearly all the $5 seats at the top of this sloping grandstand, and more of the $15 seats on the big incline than any other one price class. The glass inclosed press boxes just in front of the colonnade pillars, on top of the stadium wings, are said to be the object of considerable bidding among those planning to entertain big parties of friends for the fight. One of them is said to have been al- ready reserved by a wealthy Chi- cagoan for himself and 35 friends. The press representatives at the fight will, as usual, be grouped around the ring. GENARO WILL CLAIM FLYWEIGHT HONORS By the Associated Press NEW YORK, August 15—Frankie Genaro, ex-flyweight champion, will strive to scale the puglistic heights | of his division once more His new manager, Joe Jacobs, said | today that he would appear hefore | | the ‘State hoxing commission tomor- |row and ask that Genaro be recog- | | nized as flyweight champion of the | | world in view of reports that Fidel | |La_Barha had vacated the title. | Genaro will also lay claim to the bantamweight crown. Bud Taylor was recently installed as champion of that class by the Illinois boxing au- | thorities, but is not recognized by the | New York officials. Jacohs sald he |would suggest that the New York | hody conduct an elimination tourna- | ment for the bantam erown. | After Pancho Villa, world's fly weight champion, died, in 1925, Genaro | was recognized as his cessor. | Genaro lost the title to La Barba in Los Angeles two vears ago in a ten- round bout. There was considerable dispute over the decision. Genaro won the American flyweight champion- ship from Villa in a I5-round hout here in 1923. A few months Villa defeated Jimmy Wilde. | RUNSER, MIN'OR LEAGUER, | ] later | MAKES TRIPLE KILLING| | Grace Warner of the Bay Shore Club THE I EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, 7/ By the Associated Press. It's a habit among the “wise ones’ of the ring to string with the fighter who has the heftier punch. It's the wallop that wins, as a rule, and it's the *sock” that ap- peals nowadays to the crowd, whether it is delivered with a fist, a tennis racket, golf club, base ball bat or polo mallet. Look over this list of “heavy hit- ters” and you will realize why they are at or near the top, drawing the bulk of popular interest and figur- ing in the main melees of 1927: Helen Wills, the hardest hitter among all woman tennis stars. “Big Bill” Tilden of the “‘cannon- ball service and “Little Bill” John- ston of the booming forehand drive. Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, twin hattering rams of the diamond, the mightiest hitting combination the game has ever known. Devereux Milburn and Tommy Hitehcock, polo’s heaviest hitters, the topranking players at the game. Jack Dempsey, aiming at a heavyweight scomeback, with fists that pack much of their old dyna- mite. Molla Bjurstedt Mailory, the pres- ent tennis champion, won the title seven times on sheer power alore until Helen Wills came along to dethrone her in 1923. The Cali- fornia girl had developed even greater power of stroke than Mra. Mallory. Miss Wills' comeback this year, after a period of illness, has been marked by the most sen- sational stroking ‘“punch” any woman tennis player has ever shown, Similarly, Tilden. and Johnston, although they have passed the peaks of their greatness, ruled in- ternational heights chieflv on the tremendous power in their games. Both are versatile, but i a pinch it has been Tilden's booming serv- ice and streaking hackhand shots or Johnston's blazing fore-handers that have proved the main weap- ons.. The lively ball has put a pre- mium on the wallop in base ball. The crowd prefers the home run to the ‘“squeeze play’ or ‘“inside stuff.” Ruth’s tremendous hitting opened up a new era in a game in which the resounding smack of the circuit blow now echoes from one end of the hase ball front ‘o the other. Gehrig has come along this D. C., MONDAY. year to give the Babe a spectacular race for long-range honors, a tussle of titans that is furnishing even greater Interest than the pennant chases. On the polo field, Milburn and Hitchcock are the twin long-hitting aces upon whose prowess America is banking heavily for the Interna- tional Cup matches with Britain in September. Milburn, 46-year-old veteran, is the hardest hitter this thrilling gam> has ever known. His long, looping wallopse at the willow ball have turned the tide of many a game. Hitcheock, younger, and a brilliant forward, isn't far behind the “old master” at getting range to his shots. Jack Sharkey probably will tes- tify that Dempsey still packs a wallop with either fist, regardless of how much speed or finesse the ter the modern ring has known is one of the high spots of the year. The former heavyweight champion may not turn the tables on Gense Tunn who beat him so badly last September, but his wallop will be dangerous long as he is up- right and charging in. WASHINGTON EASILY WIN ASHINGTON SWIMMING CLUB natators scored their second victory in as many days yesterday, when they counted 30 points to hand- ily capture the Magothy River cham- pionships conducted by Collegiate Swimming Club at Manhattan Beach. One-third of the winners’ points came in the 200-yard relay in which their four triumphed over the stellar Maryland Swimming Club combina- tion Bay Shore Swimming Club girls of Baltimore, who finished second to Washington Swimming Club in the meet at Wardman Park Hotel pool, Washington, on Saturday, were run- ners-up again yesterday. They regi tered 21 points. As was the case Saturday v was the leading feminine performer, winning three events. . Carleton M. Meyer of Washington Canoe Club, who in Saturday's meet lowered his own record for the 150- vard backstroke event, was heaten yes- terday in the quarter-mile by George Bahlke of Maryland Swimming Club. Meyer, however, won the 100.vard backstroke and got a second and a | fourth. Summaries: 200-vard relay (senior Washington Swimming Club: second, Mars land Swimming Club: third. Collegiate Swim- ming Clab: fourth, Washington Canoe Club. Time. 22 minutes 16 1-10 seconds. 50-yard free atyle (junior, girl Grace. Warner. Bay Shore second, Lucille Anthony. Patterson Swimming Club: third. Winifred Stanton, Patterson Park Swimmin, Club: fourth Lnuu; wning, unattached. Time, 43 seconds 50-yard back stroke (junior boys under 16)—Won by Leroy Baum. Collegiate Swim- ming Cluh: second,” William Mahoney, Mar land Swimming Club: third. Quentin Butler, men) —Won by CHICAGO, August 15 (#).—In the | record hooks, under the heading | {“triple plays. unassisted,” may he written the name of Jess Runser I shortstop for Evansville of the Three ive League In the sixth inning of a Peoria- Evarsville game at Peoria vesterday, | with Peoria runners on first and sec- | Lond and none out, the batter lined to Ru caught the ball, shortstop. stepped on second to get one runner and then tagged out the runner from | {first, who could not slow up in time | MALONEY SURE HE'LL | FIGHT HIS WAY BACK BY FAIRPLAY, NEW YORK August 15.—Jim Maloney is not dismayed by his knock- | out at the hands of Jack Sharkey | several months ago. | Boston Jim means to work himself | i right back to a commanding position for the title and by the time the next outdoor season rolls around be be- ! lieves he will be in a favorable position | to_challenge for the title. | | Maloney wlll tackle big Georgie '4’. »dfrey i a Philadelphia ring to- night. If he can get by Godfre he { will try to wipe out an old score when [ he takes on Leo Gates on August ates fs a Mohawk Indlan from | K.\'m"l’l Adams, Mass. He happened to | | etick Maloney on the chin and spill | lmm for the full count when Jim was | just starting in the game of give and | | take. Last week Gates was substituted for Jack Dorval against Arthur de Kuh and was able to go the full dis- tance against the giant Italian. It Maloney can score a knockout over Gates, he will be doing well and will give his Boston admirers renewed hope, J that | | ning high point honors in the dual Women in Sport Picked playground swimmers of the fair sex from the eastern and western sectlons of the city will compete on Wednesday afternoon for the annual inter-pool trophy offered by the play- ground department to the group win. | meet. orgetown swimmers who qualified | in their recent pool meet include Ione Whaler, Janet Lowrie, Rosemary Mullhall, Clara Wren, Virginia Jone Blanche Hughes, Mae King, Dorothy | Burel. Helen Amouri, Catherine Fren. | 7el adys Ballinger. Anna Lupo, Evelyn McDowell and Genevieve Sacks in the advanced classes, and Alia Pat. | Mary Trilling and Hgzel . beginners. ale's team will consist of Hel Streeks, Gertrude Haigh, Helen Ha ris, Rufina King, Ruth Neiss, Edna Hook, Alice Courtney, Evelyn Balder- <on, Margaret Roudabush, Ethel Alex ander and Catherine Harris, experi- ! enced swimmers, and Catherine Wills, | Dorothy Dumford and Margaret Man- sing, beginners. Georgetown is pinning much of ils faith on Ione Whaler, well known in junior swimming circles and one of | g the stellar performers of the Capitol | Athletic Club, while Rosedale expects to offer a strong bid for points through Helen Streeks, whose swim- ming prowess is no less noted than Miss Whaler's, | Members of the Capitol Athletic | Club are urged to attend a special | meeting to be held tomorrow night at % o'clock at the home of Gail Nicker- son, president. Important business concerning the club organization is to be discussed and for this reason a representative attondance (s particularly desired. SWIMMERS BEACH MEET Susquehannock Tribe. Time, 49210 sec- on 1s (junior bovs under 12) Hacketts. Collegiate Swim- Quentin Butler. Susque- 0 seconds. enior men)—Won | gton Canoe Ciub: wimming . W Stey . Washington Canos Club’ fourth. W, Marriott, Wash: mming Club. Time, 1 minute 30 0 seconds. 00-vard free strle (senior men)—Won oles. Washington Swimming Club W, Mose, Maryland Swimming Club: hird, ' G.Winkjer. unattached: fourth, Carleton Mever. Washington Canoe Club. tme. 1 minute’ 19 210 seconds 100-sard_back stroke (women)—¥on by Shore Swimming Cluh Marsland Swimming Caligan. unattached s (senior* men)—Won by Marviand_Swimming Club Carleton Meyer. Washinglon Canoe B, "Sfephento ashington Time. 3 minutes 38 seconds 100-yard free “style (women)—Won Grace ‘Warner, Bay Shore Swimming Club second. Louise Caligan. unattached: third. Belmar Shepley. unattached; fourth, Eliza- heth Brunner. unattached. Time, 1 minute 35.4.10 eeconds. 100-vard _breast stroke Won by "R.A. Edmonston. Swimminz Ciub: second. G. W tached: third, Amnold Sk o Ath- letie Club: fourth. Ed Kallineky., Collegiate Swimming Club. . 1 nmnute 34 keconds. v, hoys under 16) Collegiate Swim- Washington Colleglate 50-vard 1, —Won by Jame: ming Club: thi hannock Tribe. i 100-vard back stroke by Carleton Mever. Washin, Bonret. W: WS 440-y: George speond, ub: by (senior men) — Washington t. Bay secand, Elorerice dins n_ Swimming Club hev. Bay_Shore Swimming Club: fou Minerva_Burke. Marvland Swimming Club: Time. 53 3-10 seconds. e WAVERLY A. C. GRIDDERS TO MAKE EARLY START Waverly A. C. gridmen, who sur- prised by downing Mohawks early last Fall, only to succumb to that eleven later in the season, plan an early start this campaizn. A meeting has been called for Wed- nesday night at & o'clock in the McGill Building, 908 G _street, and Manager Kersey asks all 1926 play- ers to report. se Dow- fourth, YOUTHS IN GOLF TOURNEY. CHICAGO, August 15 (#).—While their elders are playing or practicing for the big golf titles, the hoys of 15 to 19 today got ready for their two-day tournament, starting tomor- row. at Indian Hill, when the Western It Association’s junior champion- ship will he determined. Sam Alpert, 16-year-old Chicago southpaw golfer. now holds the title. The qualifying round has drawn 283 entries. H RACING AT HAWTHORNE. CHICAGO, August 15 (#).—The old racing strip at Hawthorne, famous around Chicago for 20 yi and the only track of those days now in use in the revival of racing in Illinois, opened an 18-day meeting today. Several hundred horses which have been competing over Lincoln Fields course were transferred to Hawthorne. NET STARS WILL PLAY. NEWPORT, R. I, August 15 (®.— Six members of the unsuccessful Brit- ish Wightman Cup tennis team will | participate in exhibition matches at | the Newport Casino next Thursday, | Friday and Saturday against a group of American woman players, including | Helen Jacobs. REGATTA IS POSTPONED. Beca of the rain the comedy regatta of Washington 'Canoe Club scheduled yesterday, was postponed until next Sunday. The =zame pro- gram, starting at 2:30 o'clock, will be steged, NEW ATTENDANCE MARK SET IN YANKEE SERIES Some 70,000 paying guests attended the games between the Yankees and Nationals, which ended yesterday, a new record for a four-game series here | thus being established. At the opening contest Wednesda the crowd was around the 15,000 marl and the Thursday game attracted 11,000, while the approximate attend- ance Saturday was 22,000, about 1,000 more than turned out for the Sabbath setto. Threatening weather served as a deterrent to the fans yesterday, other- wise the total for the four tilts prob- ably would have bheen closer to 75,000 | than the 70,000 which local headquar- ater mark t sserts is a new high- or. AN at Clark for any quartet of gam Griffith Stadium. ROUND-ROBIN TO DECIDE BARNYARD GOLF HONORS DULUTH, Minn., Augyst 15 () —A AUGUST 15, 1927. DREWES IS PLAYING IN TWO MUNY FINALS ST. LOUIS, August 15 (#).—Two Middle Western netmen, Ted Drewes of St. Louis and George Jennings of Chicago, were matched for the final rourd of the men's singles in the National Public Parks tennis tourna- ment hers today. Dren thrice champion of the tournament had little trouble in emerging from the upper and lower brackets into the final contest. In the deciding round of the doubles, | Ralph Rice and Jennings of Chicago | were matched with Drewes and Wil- liam Bell of St. Louis. Rain vesterday forced postponement of the doubles final. In the semi-final matches, Rice and Tennings defeated Gus Amsterdam and Milton Hofkin, Philadelphia, 6—3, 7, 6—2. Drewes and Bell gained a tory over Clifford Beutel and Her- bert Hopkins, University Ci Mo., 6—1, 6 6—0. TILDEN NOW SEEMS AS DURABLE AS EVER By the Associated Pry Big Bill Tillen cracked a bit, seemed, in his two main matches with French rivals abroad earlier in the vear, but the lanky American tennis ace appears as durable as ever now that he is back on home soil. The effects of a_campaign that has taken him over half of the United States and a good share of Europe this season apparently are just the stimulus he needs. Too much significance may not he attached to it, but Tilden's decisive | victory over George Lott after the voung Chicago star had whipped Rene Lacoste in straight sets certainly in- dicates no letdown in the keen edge of Big Bill's game. The French ace always has been slow to round into form on this side. He didn't reach his best until the last | match of the Davis Cup challenge round last vear, when he defeated | Tilden and then went on to win the American singles title. On the form he displayed at South- ampton, however, the silent Rene must improve rapidly if he is to bs a major factor in his country's bid for the Davis Cup this September. NETMEN TO BATTLE FOR CUP TEAM JOB By the Associated Press NEW YORK, August 15.—Five con- tenders selected by the United States Lawn Tennis Association today en- gage in the first of a three-day series of tryouts at the West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, N. Y., to deter- mine the fourth member of the Amer- fcan Davis Cup team. With the three major places on the team to be occupied by big Rill Til- den, little Bill Johnston and Richard | N. Williams, the other member will be selected from the following: Francis T. Hunter, New Rochelle, N. Y.; Lewis N. White, Austin, Tex John Doeg, Santa Monica, Calif.: John Hennessy, Indianapolis, and George M. Lott, jr., Chicago. Lott today plays Hunter, with Doeg meeting either Henne: or White, The order of play will be changed tomorrow and Wednesday. |JONES WILL START WEST TOMORROW By the Associated Pres ATLANTA, a., AGugust 15.—Bobby Jones, British open golf champion, will leave tomorrow for Minneapolis to take a few practice rounds over the Minikahda course there prior to the opening of the amateur tournament, during which he will seek to regain the crown lifted from his head last vear by George Von Elm. Tn Bobby's party will be his wife, his mother, Mrs. Robert P. Jones, and a pair of aspiring Atlanta amateurs, it | | holder, and Gene Cook. Missing from Bohby's party, | fully mascoted his son to his succe: | ful comeback on the St. Andrew course, where he won the British open title for the second successive year. Bobby, according to official pairings sent out. will tee off on his qualify | round Monday, August 22, | paired with James S. Mani Louis. at on of St. round-robin between the 12 finalists in the semi-annual national horseshoe pitchers’ tournament today was to de- termine a new champion or ratify the present title holder, Charles C. Davis of Columbus, Ohio. Davis f(ost only one of his 11 matches Saturday. If he won eight of 11 today he was assured of a tie with Frank Jackson of Lamoni, Towa, 13 tim a world champion, even though Jackson played through the day without defeat. Jackson was Davis' closest chal- lenger, with Bert Duryee of Wichita, Kan having a slim chance should Davis and Jackson both suffer a re- lapse of form. SWIMMING MEET HERE SURE OF A GOOD FIELD A fine fleld seems assured for the meet to be held September 10 by Washington Swimming Club at Co- lumbia_ Country ‘Club pool. Washington Canoe (‘lub and Mar: land Swimming Club, Bay Shore Swimming Club, Collegiate Swim- ming Club and Y. M. C. A.. all of Baltimore, are among organizations which already have entered squads. A number of prominent unattached contestants also are in line. 1 STRAIGHT O C. CARLIN, a member of the Washington Golf and Country Club for many years and _donor of the Invitation Tournament tro- phy, has donated another trophy to the club to be competed for by the junior members of the Virginia or- ganization in a medal play tourney August 26, The trophy, presented in the name of the Alexandria Gazette, is a per- manent one, not to be won, but merely to have the name of the winner in- scribed on it each year. In addition, Representative R. Walton Moore, president of the club, has presented a ‘gold medal which will go to the win- ner of the junior club championship. The championship is limited to Jjunior members of 18 years of age and less, and will be played for at 36 holes medal play one week from next Friday. Tommy Armour of Congressional, visibly tired from a lengthy series of exhibition matches in 'the North, cul- minating in a 36-hole affair at Balti- more yesterday, came back to Wash- ington today and had his first round in several weeks over his home course. The champion professional golfer of North America will remain here for a few days. before resuming his barn- storming career, a swing that will take MAYSELLE SEYMOUR SWIM RACE WINNER Mayselle Seymour won the feature race of the sixth annual Milton Swim- ming and Life-Saving Club meet ves- terday over a %-mile course at Chesa- peake Beach, aiming the trophy when Jackie Harrington, who finished in the lead, was ruled out on a tech- nical foul. Miss Harrington's foul, in the opin- ion of the judges, was caused by rough water, which threw her into the path of the swimmer at her heels. Summaries: 3 -mile_cup rac motr=” eecond. Ma 00-vard race for former medal winners— Won by Dorothy Hazard: second, Florence Entenmann. 500-vard’ swim. 12 vears—Won by Joe Kine: second. Wilford Manders: third,” Paul oy under, 12 years—Won by Ethel (Second.” Thelma Zoltrow: third. ein. ail-round ability, Class 1—Won by Wilford Mandere: second.” Ada Stanley. Class v imae Sockridge: sec- ond_Louise N Flass 3—W ol Weat. 4 Bertha Klein: Emma Zoltrow Class 5—Waon by Eugenia Trople: FEmma Zoltrow, FF THE TEE him over the Middle Western part of tha circuit. Tommy played vesterday with Bob Cruickshank at the Hillendale Club of Baltimore against two pairs of Balti- more professionals, and, to put it plainly, he wasn't any too good. He got around in 79 in the morning and in 76 in the afternoon, leaving the lion’s share of the work to his dimin- utive partner. And “Cruicky,” as usual, came through. The little Scot, who holds three big| sectional titles, shot a 69 in the morn- ing round and a 71'in the afternoon set-to, to finish tho 36 holes 2 under par. In the morning Armour and Cruickshank had -trouble downing Charles P. Betschler of Maryland and Willie Scott of Baltimore, but man- aged to nose out the local pros large- ly through the great chipping and putting of Cruickshank. In the afternoon they had easier going against Duncan Cuthbert of Hillendale and Jimmy Roche of Elk- ridge, whom they downed 6 and 5. The afternoon combat was played in a drizzling rain over a thoroughly soaked course. Norman B. Frost won the low-gross prize in the 18-hole handicap tourney at Indian Spring vesterday, with a card of Low net went to George J. HHIYQ with 70, Won by Mayselle Sey- Klein. as: ond. " Eth Class, by second : second. | | Watts Gunn, national collegiate title how- | ever, will he his father, who success. | g | SPORT 'BRUINS ARE D ik 23 Chicago Bolsters Lead in National by Winning 13 of 17 Games in Home Stand T'STHE PUNCH THAT DRAWS THE CROWD ISPLAYING NO SIGNS OF CRACKING Unity of Club Secret of the Success That Indicates . It Can Stand Gaff During Remaining Six Weeks of Heated Fight for Pennant. By the Assoriated Pro NEW YORK, August 15—The re- | mark of Bill Veeck, president of the Chicago Nationals, on the occasion of the Cubs’ last Eastern invasion | may turn out to he prophetic “The Cubs” said Bill, “will crack. That's one thing you count on.” - Since then they§ubs not only have declined to crack, but have built | themselves a substantial lead over their thres major pennmant contend- | ers, the Pirates, Cardinals and | Giants, Any cracking that has been going on has heen dome by the Pirates. | who, at the time of Veeck's remark, | were neck and neck with Joe .\h--‘ Carthy's Bruins. | Critics of the Cubs, of course. will | contend that there are six weeks or! not | can | s0 of somewhat heated battling in which the temperature may become so Intense as to cause a slight crack- ing in the Chicago machine. But McCarthy's men appear_to have the spirit as well as the stuff to stand the closing gaff. The secret of their success thus far in upsetting the pre-campaign dope has been the unity of the club: the fact that it has worked so smoothly while cogs in the rival works have shown a tend- ency to get out of gear. Of course the Cubs have their . such as Charlie Root and his wrinkle ball. which has bronght in more than 20 victories. If the Chi- cago team wins the pennant Root will he a major contender for the league's most valuable player award on the strength of his remarkabls twirling. BETTY NUTHALL IS QUEEN OF COURTS IN GOOD LOOKS BY LAWRENCE PERRY. ) EW YORK, August 15 —Some | times, even in the highly or- ganized state of modern ama- | teur sport, an event arises, or an incident crops out in| which sen ent prevails utterly. | It happened at Forest Hills on urday when Betty Nuthall, the 1§ year-old English tennisstar and Helen Jacobs of California, who wasz 19 on | August 6, met in one of the singles | matches of the Wightman Cup series. Before the two girls appeared it is | safe to say that the interest of prac- tically every one of the 7.000 specta- | tors who sat in_the beautiful concrete | stadium of the West Side Tennis Club was moved solely by sporting in- | terest, How good was this voung Betty | Nuthall who had captured the imag- | ination of England and was the pop- | ular figure at Wimbledon? Was she really another Suzanne Lenglen or | Helen Wills in embryo? Or was she merely a figure raised chiefly hy Eng- lands overweening ambition (o pro. duce a blazing tennis meteor? These | were the questions every one was| asking. Quickly Wins the Crowd. | But when the English lass at the step of the marques tons and walked down to the court. a sort of sigh rather than applause greeted her and in that sigh one could read the opinion sweeping the stadium like a breeze, “Isn’t she lovely?" Betty Nuthall is just eved, fair-haired. sweet some, she is precisely the whom the poets, no donh mind when they sing of English poe- sies and English lanes and a girl | Waiting there. She has a smile so in- fectious that every one smiles with her and she moves about the course with the grace of a dancer. AB‘N,\' may never get to Be a cham- pion—and, again, she well may—but right now she is the champion “look- er” of all girls who have ever played big time tennis. i Helen Jacobs. too, has her share of &o0od looks. But she is more of the athletic type: her gray ayes areslong and narrow, her cheek bones high and she has powerful shoulders. Her reputation attributes to her the bull- dog brand of tennis and that really this. Blue have in | Ouimet Tempered Mashie in Winter | avidently is the sort of tennis she plays- driving, aggressive, Betty Nuthall will be a fairer test, the writer thinks, when and if the two meet again, since the English zirl's underhand serve— <h. stands feet back of the basa terribly difficult to ne- v one unaccustonied to it. has a hack hand that is beau controlled; no harder than hut more accurate, and the tituily Helen's | way she laid her hard ground strokes on the side line at her rivals’ back hand revealed remarkable sharpshoot- ing. How she can ever get up to the net on a serve, in view of the distance she stands back of the service line is imposeible to see, But the net game is not for her: she stands on the base line, sets herself for every shot and delivers it with precision and rare accurac: She simply did not give Helen Jacobs a chance to play the tennis of which she is capable and that is the story of the match. But apart from the tennis aspect, the attractiveness of the two girls, their charming court manners, their vouth seemed chiefly to engage the crowd: ‘Wimbledon never cheered Betty Nuthall more spontaneously and with greater enthusiasm than this American crowd at Forest Hills; but Helen Jacobs, too, received her full share of admiring recognition. After the match, when the two girls had left the court. when they |came out of the marquee and started for the clubhouse, Helen noticed that her English conquerer had no sweater. o she unbuttoned her yellow knitted sweater and put one-half of it over Betty's shoulders, holding it there with her arm. Thus, sharing one sweater, Helen's arm tightly around Betty's shoulder, the two girls made their way to the shower. 94 WOMAN GOLFERS IN WESTERN EVENT By the Associated Press. LAKE GENEVA, Wis, August —Dorothy Page of Madison. Wis., champion of the Women's Western Golf Association, led a fleld of 94 which started play in the qualifying round today over the course of the Lake Geneva Country Club. A new course record confronted the contestants, a 78 made la t week in practice rounds by Mrs. O. S. Hill of OVIMETS MASHIE PITCH,| FOLLOWS THROUGH ON LINE OF FLIGHT | To MoLE- BY SOL METZGER. About a quarter of a centur: ago during the cold Winters of New England a small b spent many afternoons after school prac- ticing mashie shots in an old barn. For a target he used a bucket. In time he became very accurate with this club, so much so that today he is a former United States open and amateur golf champion. When he was 19 years of age his deadly approaches enabled him to tie Vardon and Ray in the United States open and then defeat them in the play-off. The youth referred to is Francis Ouimet of Boston. Ouimet today ranks as a great shot with this club. Besides getting loft and backspin on the shot. Francis is straight for the pin in his direction. He attributes this to following through on the line with his club head. ‘When Ouimet finiches a mashie pitch the shaft of his club usually points toward the pin 103 NO METAL CAN TOUCH YCY Double Gr | 3510 91 Single Grip hime tora fresh pair 2. who was runner-up last s Page. Mrs. Miriam Burns Horn, a former Kansas City resident, shares the course record with 1 78 two weeks ago. Mrs. Horn's best last week was a T All the entrants spent the week end in practice over the links which they reported in excellent condition. Recent rains softened the greens to hald pitch shots, although takinz a few yards off the roll of long drives. The field i3 notable this year for promising youngsters striving for the laurels of such veterans as Mrs. Dave Gaut of Memphis, Mrs. 8. L. Rein- hardt of Dallas, the former Elaine Rosenthal, and Mrs. Lee Mida, Mr: Melvin Jones and Mrs. J. W, Taylor of Chicago. Among the girls who have proved their fitness are two still in high hool. Florence Beebe and Virginia Van e hf}h nf_'ihlcllgn CORD TIRES All Sizes FULLY GUARANTEED 30x3Y, ... 5495 30x495 ........... 995 ...1015 1111005 33x6.00 ... 1195 We Mount All Tires 1010 Pa. Ave. N.W. NEXT TO_PRESIDENT THEATER Wonder what Merts will say todayt At the Sign of the Moon TAILORING Established 1503 Suits made as you want th Medigm-weight fabrics suit- able for early Fall wear in the display. Mertz& Mertz Co.,Iac. 1342G St.N.W.