Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1927, Page 25

SPORTS? THE EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, Tunney to Carry the Calm A ORDAINED BY FATE, GENE BELIEVES, TO Champion Explains His KEEP CROWN Philosophy of Life, That Destiny Has Guided His Career From Start, Both in and Outside of the Ring. By the Associated Press. AKE VILLA, 11 The calm assurance of a fatalist who believes the outcome of all fights was a matter of record before life itself was created will steel Gene Tunney against the flailing fists of Jack Dempsey on Sol- dier Field Thursday night. Thoughtfully the big Marine who stripped Dempsey of the heavy championship in the peltin Philadelphia told today of his convic tion that the rejuv Mauler” must again fac with it fistic oblivion—when the open ing gong summons the two giants of the ring to the center of the gleam- ing battle ground while 160,000 p sons cheer from the surrounding bowl of dark Lolling on the lawn that r from his country club training quarters in soft stretches to the shore of I Villa, the serious-minded youth Greenwich Village outined his philos- ophy of life and belief in ring “men of destiny.” “All Goals Preordained.” he said, his hands rumpling | through his hair and his far-off e fixed on the distant lake shore, rects the paths of men from a com- mon beginning, through di triumph, to a goal, an ending that was preordained before birth. Man can- not change his destiny. His best ef- forts only can help bring about the end conceived at the beginning of time.” Building upon this philosophy and drawing from the history of his career that has had its sole aim in winning and retaining the heavyweight title, Tunney pointed out that the fate that made him a boxer almost again 5 will also had provided the driving force that had built his body from that of a middleweight at 21 to a full- fledged 190-pounder at 29. Finally fate carried him to the pin- nacle of pugilism, despite many disap- pointments and against the over- Wwhelming opinion of the country’s foremost fight critics. That same fate, Tunney went on, guided his life outside the ring. Solace comes of that philosophy, when er- rors of judgment can be excused on the grounds that wrong decisions “are in the cards.” Disappointments, and even tempo- rary disasters, leave but a mild sting when viewed in the light that “what was bound to happen, happened.” Applies to Marriage, Too. Although Tunney never expects to marry, fate, he believes, may some time bring across his path the woman destined to be his mate. The title- holder, incidentally, looks with dis- favor on marriage. Friendship of a light kind must be forced into the background in the reorganization of one’s entire mode of living, he said, and the rarities of a “perfect union of mind and interest” not founded on “sex appeal” is in itself foreboding. But Tunney has not left the de- September 19.— of | ter and | ! title to fate alone, despite on of supremacy. really is out of training. | Five menths ago the big_champlon | entered the woods at Speculator. N. Y.. to box lightly with two | partner \p through the Adiron- | dack hills and build his body for the | title task in the comparatively rare | When he left for the | fense of hi three weeks ago, he had attained s than announced “fighting edge.” A trio of unfortunate occurrenc onditioning at the beautiful country A hot spell, during which soared at times to 105 de- ced frequent lay-offs when ¢ effort was most necessary to | the attainment of perfect condition. | A= a result, Gene weighs around 190 pounds today, almost four notches above his best fighting weight. Twice injuries have handicapped | Tunney’s final training drive. Le than two weeks ago Chuck Wiggins chief among the champion’s spa mates, accidentally butted Tunney | over the right eye, inflicting a wound | | an inch long in the lid. Scarcely had the cut healed when Jackie Willlams abbed a gloved left thumb into the same optic last Frid: causing a uise and fnflammation’ of the eye- { ball that necessitated the attention of two eye specialists. The hurts now are practically heal- ed, however. Not Upset Over Charges. Jack Dempsey’s veiled attack of | yesterday, that the battle of the Sesquicentennial was “fixed,” while arousing Tunney’s handlers to talk of law suits and recriminations that promised to leave Tunney and Demp- | sey the sole members of the two camps on speaking terms by fight time, has failed to interest the cham- pion. Tunney branded the charges “unsportsmanlike.” Law suits and threatened court action likewise have failed to mar the title holder's tran- quillity. The ability of Tunney, acknowl- edged a master boxer, accurate punch- er and calm ring general, to resist the sweeping charges of the “hollow shell” Jack Sharkey found was load- ed, still is the subject of debate among critics. Tunney’s victory over Dempsey last Fall was not considered a fair test of ability under strenuous fire, inasmuch as “Manassa Jack” admitted he was rusty, after three years of ring idle- ness, hampered mentally by legal difficulties and in rather ordinary physical condition. They point out that Dempsey, in that battle, was “too bad to be true.” But despite the improvement Dempsey showed in his knockout vic- tory over Sharkey, Tunney at least is certain of two things—first, that his own improvement in a year of almost constant training has overshadowed any gain made by Dempsey, and, sec- ond, that the truest of boxing axioms is “They never come back.” STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE Two tournaments at Maryland clubs near Washington were under way today. While the professional golfers of the Middle Atlantic section played with woman partners at the Town and Country Club a group of some two score officers of the Army were com- peting at Congressional in the first half of a 36-hole medal play tourney to qualify two men from the district of Washington for the Army cham- plonship, which will be played at Rock nd, T, early in October. Maj. Earl Naiden, who won the Army title last year at Philadelphia, now is in France and will be unable to de- fend his title. The Army golfers were to play 18 holes today and 18 more tomorrow to qualify two of their number. Match play pairings in the Birney Cup handicap event at the Washing- ton Golf and Country Club were an- nounced today as follows: R. Dougherty, . P & H. , 21, va. C. - s, 24, v8. W. H. Jenkins, 18, , 20; Ben L. Fuller, vs. C. H. Roesch, 25; va. 1. M. Tull, 27; , v8. J. McD. Shea, 22. first match round in the tourney is| to be completed this week. Semifinal rounds in the Indian ing club championship and sub iary flights were reached as a re sult of match-play rounds in the tourney yesterday, which found Tom Moore, holder of the club title, elimi- nated by Fred C. Clark in an over- time first-round match. Clark won the eighteenth and nineteenth in a row to put out Moore, twice a winner of the club title. Clark then went on to beat G. K. Mulroy and reach the semi-final, where he will meet C. I. Putnam. Other semi-finalists are Reid W. Digges and Felix E. Early. Congressional Country Club golfers whitewashed the Washington Golf and Country Club golf team yesterday at Congressional, winning every point in_a nine-man team match. Page Hufty, the District junior champion, turned .in the best medal S(‘tx),re, a }37{ The summary: age Hufty. Congressio Erank' K. Rocsch, Waeningion. " T. E. Newton. Congressional, defeated R. T. Harrell Washington, 1 up. Best ball— Won_by_Congressional, 3 and 2. John M. Leavell, Congressional, defeated Washington, 5 and'3: Lieut. . Congressional, defea = Best ‘bali cCallum. Washington, 3 and 1. —Won_by Congressional, 3 and 1. W. E_Richardson. Corigressional, defeated B Y. Woidron, Washineion."1 p: Comar. ., Shipn. Congressional, - Wise. ‘Wakhingion. "4 snd 3 5 defeated 4 and 3; F."D. Paxion, W oJiReed J. T, Poy dy, Bost bali—Won by . P Gilmore. "C: L. Hopikins. Washingion. 1 g oerested 3. George C. Gist and J. J. Lynch have reached the final round in the club champlonship at Argyle and will meet this week for the title. Gist eliminated both Di Este brothers, con- quering ‘William P. Di Este, up, and Louis Di Este, 8 and 4. Lynch won from E. E. Harmon in the semi- finals, 5 and 4. George Frederick won the class B tol:lrnley, defeating Gordon Bailey, 2 and 1. With a card of 79, Howard Nord. linger, led the field in the qualifying round for the Town and Country Club WOMEN’S U. S. GOLF EVENT HAS INTERNATIONAL TINT By the Associated Pre EW YORK, September 19.—In a tournament with interna- tional flavor a battalion of seasoned campaigners headed the list of 148 contestants for the thirty-first national women’s golf champlonship, starting today and con- tinuing through the week at the Cherry Valley Club, Garden City, N.Y. Never has such an array of talent competed for the Robert Cox trophy, now held by Mrs. G. Henry Stetson of Philadelphia. In addition to the pres- ent title holder there are five former champions in the field, Miss Glenna Collett, who took the championship twice; Mrs. Alexa Stirling Fraser, Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd, three- time winners; Mrs. H. A. Jackson and Miss Margaret Curtis. France is pinning its faith on an 18-year-old girl, Mlle. Simone Thion de la Chauve, winner of the British girls’ title at the age of 15, and now British and French women’s cham- pion. Mrs. Fraser, now of Ottawa; Ada Mackenzie, Canadian women’s champion, and Eileen P’attison, cham- pion of Bermuda, round out the for- eign challenge, which has been re- pelled without an exception in the his- tory of the championship. Other outstanding linkswomen com- peting are Mrs. Harry Pressler, West- ern champion; Miss Marion Turpie Armour Scot Sure To Sink Money Putt BY SOL METZGER. No putt was ever worth so much to a man as Tommy Armour’s 10- footer on the eighteenth green at Oakmont. 1If he sunk it he had the chance of beating Harry Cooper for the United States open title in the play-off. A friend, standing beside me when Armour was about to putt, asked me if he was Scotch. “yes,” I replied. “If he makes it, t's worth $30,000 or more to him, isn’t 1t?” he asked. “Yes” I re- plied. *“And you say he is Scotch? he added. Again an affirmative, “Well,” spoke my friend, “there’ no use standing in this jam of peo- ple trying to see, for that putt is as good as in.” Armour holed it, as the golf world knows, and then beat Cooper the next day. The day after his victory I talked with Armour at the Congressional Country Club, Washington. Tom my’s putting grip is a finger grip, right thumb down the shaft. But the point that he lays stress on in putting is that the left wrist be a bit open when the left fingers grip 1he club. As his putting stroke is ynade with the wrists this open left wrist prevents that wrist from locking during the stroke and throwing the club head off line. Armour is well over the ball, W his eyes, and his right foot is slightly ahead of his left, with weight & bit forward on the left. and Mrs. Dalton Reymond, who have dominated Southern golf in recent years; Mrs. O. S. Hill, transmississippi champion; Maureen Orcutt, metropoli- tan title holder; Mrs. Curtis Sohl, Ohio State champion; Mrs. Stewart Hanley of the Michigan district; Louise For- dyce of Youngstown, Ohio, former North and South champion; Virginia Wilson of Chicago, last year's na- tional semi-finalist; Mrs. Miriam Burns Horn and Virginia Van Wie of Chi- cago. On the basis of her play abroad Mlle. Chauve is regarded as a joint favorite with Miss Collett. Today's play is a qualifying round of 18 holes for the selection of 32 competitors at match play, starting tomorrow. TR 20 GRIDMEN REPORT FOR MERCURY ELEVEN Twenty candidates reported for the initial practice of Mercury A. C. un- limited foot ball team yesterday on Washington Barracks fleld. Another practice is booked for Wednesday night at 8 o'clock at Washington Bar- racks. All old-time Mercury players are asked to report along with any newcomers who wish to try for a job. Jack Sullivan has signed to assist his brother Zube in coaching the Mercurys. Pennant A. C. gridmen are prepar- ing for a clash with Carlyle A. C. on October 1. This is one of the first foot ball games booked for the sand- lots. Buehm and Heinricks are asked to report for practice next Sunday at 10 o'clock on Iowa avenue play- grounds. Doc Hagerty looked over about 20 candidates yesterday when the Mo- bhawks worked out for the first time. All Hawk players are requested to re- port at the club at 7 o'clock Tuesday night for a drill. WORLD HUR[;LE RECORD CLAIMED BY PETTERSON STOCKHOLM, September 19 (#). —What is claimed to be a world rec- ord was made in a 110-mile meter hurdle race here when Sten Petter- son covered the distance in 14.7 sec- onds, beating the time of E. J. Thom- 1+ son of Canada. Athletic record books credit E. J. Thomson of Canada with running the 110-meter hurdles at Belgium, | August 18, 1920 in 14.8 seconds. RACING — Havre de Grace Sept. 21 to Oct. 1 (Inclusive) SEVEN RACES DAILY Special B. & O. traln of steel coachen leaves Union Station 11:50 a.m. Parlor and Dining Car attached. Special Penna. R. R. train of coaches leaves Union Station 12 o’cloc noon—direct to_cou ] ing ear attached. Eas ADMISSION—Grandstand _and Pad- dock, $1.65, including Government tax. FIRST RACE AT 2:15 P.M. D. C. NETMEN TIE UP SERIES WITH ORIOLES ‘Washington and Baltimore tennis teams are once m on even terms in the race for e Bachrach-Rasin trophy, as the result of the local team’s 8—7 victery over the Monu- mentals on Potomac Park courts yes- !erdlay. F{“h team has won two an- nual events and a third lovlvlllnch the cup. B ith the teams getting an even break in 10 singles and sot tha'fi doubles numbers it remained for Newby and Larry Phillips to defeat Jacobs and La Fleur in straight sets, 9—7 and 6—2, in order to give Capital City's team the verdict Singles honors were evenly divided. each team winning five, and Wash. ington won three of the five doubles Summaries: 3 SINGLES. _R:;ld) (B.) defeated King, 6—4, 3—8, g Mitchell (W.) defeated Eric Jacobsen, 7. Cgnsidine (W.) defeated Welmon, 6—2, 33008 (B.) defeated O'Nelll, 7—8, 5—7, g Kirland (B.) defeated Trigz. 12—10. 8—4, 9—7. “Tavlor (B.) defeated Fowler. Hicks (W) defeated Hallan, 3 4 Phillivs (W) Gotented Sotzmman, % Cgropel ,(W.) deteated La Flour, 8—o, ”_]:?lbmmnl (B.) defeated Shore, 6—3, DOUBLES, and Considine, 7-0: g 3) Gelested O'Neill and La Fleur, 9—7, 6—2 S ’lun‘fl Shor.n (‘V.\v defeated Grockman BASE BALL,"334Y Washington vs. Cleveland Tickets on Sale at Park at 9 AM, Your OLD FELT MADE NEW Again Cleaning, Blockl a Remodellnx by Exverts Vienna Hat Co. 435 11th Street 2N ¢ 4 t via Radio Radio owners will loll back in their easy chairs next Thursday evening and listen to the blow- by-blow broadcast of the Dempsey-Tunney bout. Crosley Radios. ...$55 up Atwater Kent. . ....565 up R.C. A. Sets. ...569.50 up THE HECHT CO. Music Store 618 F St. N.W. champlonship yesterday. Pairings for the first round in the title event fol- low: Howard Nordlinger, 79, vs. A. E. Stelnem, 92; Milton King, 95, vs. Gus- I. T. Behrend, 91, vs. n, ‘William_ Ilich, 94, vs. Leopold Freudberg, 90; Walter Nondlinger, 91, vs. J. G. Kaufman, 95; Gilbert Hahn, 99, vs. Stanley Fischer, 91; Max Weyl, 91, vs. Willard Gold- heim, 96; I. L. Goldheim, 93, vs. N. B. Frank, 89. William J. Cox and L. L. Buchanan have won their way to the final in the championship tourney of the Beaver Dam Golf Club. Cox yester- day defeated Byrn Curtiss, 4 and 2, ‘while Buchanan defeated Luther Florine, 2 up. The class B tourney finds R. F. Going in the final, to pl the winner of the L. M. Griffin vs. J. Gregory match. Leo F. Pass, champion of the Ban- nockburn Golf Club, is in the final of the 1927 tourney and will meet Arthur B. Bennett in the final round. Pass won in the semi-final from E. J. Doyle yesterday, 1 up, while Ben. nett downed L. S. Pfautz, 5 and 4. Dorothy White, women's District champion, came within a_stroke of her own record over the Washington Golf and Country Club course yester day. Miss White was out in 38 over the most diicult nine of the course, starting with a birdie 3 on the first {hole, and was back in 44 for an 82 Last Thursday she set a new women's mark of 81 for the Virginia layout With R. M. Waldron as a partn she defeated R. J. Morman and R T. Wise yesterday. EAGLE JUNIO.RS AFTER CAPITAL CITY VICTORS Mrs. Eva V. O'Donnell's Anacostia agle Juniors, who claim the Dis- trict independent diamond title in thelr class, want to arrange a 3-game series with the Capital City League junior champs. Yesterday Eagles rang up their twenty-second win of the season, defeating Miller Furnitnre Co., 16 to 6. Mrs. O'Donnell's boys will hold their regular weekly mee! ing tomorrow night at her home at 1335 Ridge place southeast at T7: o'clock. Joe Humphreys says: “Holbrook Blinn is right—Luckies are certainly good” D. C, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1927. SHARKEY WISHES DEMPSEY “ALL THE LUCK IN WORLD” Boston Boy Who Lost to Ex-Champion Six Weeks Ago Is Surprised by Jack’s Speed—Jack Johnson Picks Dempsey as Winner. By the Associated Press. INCOLN FIELDS, CRETE, II, September 19.—Among the good wishes Jack Dempsey will carry with him into the ring Thur: night are those of Jack Shar the Roston_ heavyweight who cumbed to Dempsey's fists six weeks ago, In the first of his comeback suc: “experting” for a ched the former title holder i final workout last night and Dempsey’s speed. Both before and after Dempsey's four rounds of spar- ring Sharkey shook hands with his conqueror and wished him ‘“all the luck in the world. Jack Johnson, another ex-champion, also was among the 100 at the last training setto. He said he had seen a lot of boxing skill he did not realize Dempsey possessed. Johnson ranged himself with the very few “experts’ who have announcedtheir “pick” by saying he believed Dempsey will re- capture his heavyweight crown, even if the bout should go the full 10 rounds. Jack Has Speedy Drill. Dempsey finished up his three weeks’ training with another exhibition of speedy footwork and punching against Allentown Joe Gans, Rocky Russell, Dave Shade and Osk Till, one round with each. Since the weather had turned much cooler, he did his boxing in the afternoon and on the main floor of the big clubhouse, in order not to risk catching cold in the outdoor ring. Bag punching, road work and rest will be his program from now on, Manager Flynn said, with not an other round of sparring. The experts who have been invited to Dempsey's last three workouts, snce their exclusion over the previous week end, were very curious about the former champion’s black eye, but zained no information of its source. ] All declared they had not seen the blow which caused it in any of his recent workouts, and the rumors of secret training came to life again. The bruise is under his right eye and s no handicap to his vision. Neither Dempsey nor Flynn would discuss it. Wife Leaves Camp. Mrs. Estelle Taylor Dempsey re- turned to her North Side hotel after a week end visit with her husband, the last she will see of him until after the fight. She plans to return to picture work in Hollywood imme- diately after the fight. After his wife had gone and he had dined Dempsey had another interview session with the newspaper men and expressed his confidence of winning by a decision if his plans for a knock- out fail. “I'll force the fighting,” Jack said. “and I'm confident that aggressive- ness will outbalance any retreating s that might go for points in an Eastern ring.” FIGHT CROWN IS PLACED IN CORRUPTIBLE CLASS CHICAGO, September 19 (#).— Reference to Jack Dempsey’'s chal- lenging letter to Gene Tunney on the 1926 Philadelphia go in which Jack lost the championship was made in a Sunday night sermon by Rev. John Thompson at the First Methodist Episcopal Church. “I see,” he said, “that Mr. Demp- sey has demanded that Mr. Tunney explain; it shows that fighting is not yet on a paradise basis.” His sermon was on corruptible and incorruptible crowns. That of prize fighting he put In the former class. Two of Dr. Thompson's friends have offered him tickets to the fight but he’s not going, he said. Noted sports announcer, talking to his son, George Cohan Humphreys, at their home in Fairhaven, New Jersey, recom- mends Lucky Strikes. OLF AND tennis groups at the Women's City Club are carry- ing out active programs, ac- cording to reports from the respective eport chairmen. Mrs. H. B. Varner, chairman of golf, has aroused interest in the game through her weekly schedule of medal play. Each Thursday morning the golfers meet at 9:30 at the clubhouse and go from there to the East Poto- mac course to play around 18 holes for low-medal score. No prizes are awarded in these weekly events, but the group plans to hold a minlature tournament later in the season, after some of the novices have gained more confidence in their game Among the golfers who go the| rounds are Mrs. L. B. Hord, Mrs. | Lucille Flocovitch, Mrs. George Camp- bell, Mrs. Allen Stover, Mrs. Milton Penny, Mrs. McCulloch, Mrs. Leech, Miss De Merritt and Mrs. Varner. Racketers from the Women's y Club meet once a week for practice matches on the Municipal Courts. Tentative plans are under way for a tennis match between the four lead- ing performers in the groups, accord- ing to Florence Bell, chairman. Sunday, October 2, is the date set for the match, although this is ject to change. It will be played either at Wardman's or one of the Country Clubs’ courts. The four players selected for the event will be chosen on the basis of their past performance both in practice with members of the club and in out side turnament competition. Their names will be announced later by Miss Bell. Helen Johnson, chairman of the en- tire sports section of the Women's City Club, has called a meeting of all sport chairmen tonight at 6:30 in the Chinese room of the clubhouse. It will be a dinner meeting. Plans will be discussed for Fall and Winter activities. Chairmen who have been requested to attend the session are Mrs. H. B. Varner (golf), Elaine Eppley (riding), Florence Bell (tennis), Thelma Schmitt (swimming) and Nell Kavanagh (bowling). Winifred Faunce, one of the Dis- trict’s strongest feminine golfers, will | compete in the Middle Atlantic golf tournament as a representative of the ssurance of a Fatalist Info the Ring Against Dempsey Manor ‘Club, of which she recently has become a membe It was reported previously that Miss Faunce probably would not compete, but word has since been received to the effect that she has entered from the Maryland club. Early morning dips have been cut from the Y. W. C. A. swimming schedule in the Ada Thomas Memo- rial pool at Seventeenth and K streets for the Fall and Winter season, ac- cording to an announcement made today. The hour from 7 to 8:30 has been cut from the schedule. With this exception, the program will continue s it is until October 1, at which time other changes will be made for the Winter. Special classes for children in gym- nasium and dancing have been an- nounced by the health education de- partment of the Y. W. C. A., full par- ticulars about which may be obtained from the headquarters of that depart- ment on the fifth floor of the K street building. ACE ON 184-YARD HOLE IS MADE BY DR. A. T. UTZ For the second time in the history of the Indian Spring Golf Club an ace has been made on No. 14, the 184-yard hole. Dr, A. T. Utz, who | frequently tests his golf prowess with his son, David, negotiated the 3-par hole last week with a spoon. The shot carrled just short of the green and the ball rolled slowly into the cup. Basil Manley is the only other play- er who has made this hole in one. SOCCERISTS PRACTICE. Two practice soccer games were Jlayed yesterday. Germanias defeated Clan McClellan eleven, 3 to 0, on Rosedale playgroun, Walfords scored a 2-to-1 verdict over German- Americans on Plaza field. e H. H. 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