Evening Star Newspaper, February 14, 1928, Page 36

SP ORTS. THE. EVEN: NG _STAR, WASHINGTON D. C. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 192 SPORTS Tunney Looks to Minors for Battle : Congressional Vetoes Spring Golf Meet DEMPSEY THROUGH CHAMPION THINKS Expects Elimination Bouts to Produce Challenger for June Scrap. BY SPARROW McGANN. EW YORK. February 14.—Cham- ney believes that Jack cere about retiring. This Tex Rick- ser of the De- contest and that between | and John Risko will pro- uiitable opponent for a June en- | Bevond that. he is unwill- out of the reck- wed to & mere man. This is Going back a investigators will find ia ons that than one good conceded to have a| the champion's title to one rn to dodge. part of Sam e same ring with Sam. One ex- ice before Jack held the title was = son coasted along taki Jack O'B: . Ton; loose from his heavier man came on to e had been knocked down. quest for the white in other words. a white man who | restore the title to the pale skin. | ¥ good ones were uncovered, espe- | I¥_Gunboat Smith, Pelky, Jess Wil- | . Carl Morris and imerous to mention. McCarthy met their deaths | ring. Otherwise, there is no t that Luther McCarthy might have attained a match with beaten him. He was with- | Willard Did Little. es came out of retirement | his noblest. But why talk g with a big strong black man in | of l:fe and undoubtedly the | di ve boxer the game ard got a crack at the title | med it for the Nordics. It} rounds to turn the trick. done 2nd why it took so o be argued at this date. | lard and | perpetual That | the amount of | he champlon. | Jack Dempsey, | le. Willard per- | years. at | Moran, in a 10-round | have on the States abiding by the rules | | coming ur during | the title. Jack e list of contenders | nbozt 8mith, Fred Fulton, | and others before he got opportunity. { Many After Dempsey. pres’s reign there was vunding after him, Charlie Erennan, Billy Miske uis Anigel Firpo. Georges Johnson. Tom Gib- ire=, Gene Tunney liged most of them by nd fattening his of contenders Jack Delans Risko. Paolino Uzcu- ndfrey and possibly TEAW NO. 5 BOWLERS LZAD IN G. . LEAGUE [ PEAGEY BB GID 4 Saia 2aameis 36 40k ded i - | from () i OODEN pins and fast alleys 4 of the duckpin game in ‘Washington have led to the | birth of a generation of fast ball bowlers and robbed | the game of one of its spectacular fea- | tures—the astonishing resuits to be ob- | tained with a well controlled curve ball. Old timers will recall the stunts that | Bill Rider and Lefty George could pull | with their wide-breaking curves and | almost incredible spares they made time to time. Count Gengler, t00, gave the boys on the local alleys a somewhat expensive series of fllustra- tions of what could be done with an coffective curve. He could even place three ducks in a row and cut out the middle one with a hook, or shoot around a fallen pin on the alley to drop one standing behind it. In the early days of the bowling game, a curve was essential. The player did I not shoot at pins, but at a cone, much as one pitches horseshoes. Since the object was to place the ball as near the cone as possible. the man bowling last faced the problem of knocking away from the cone any opponent ball that might b2 close. or of curving his own shot around it and closer to the cone The ball was an odd sort of thing, a form adopted to make it right for a roundhouse curve. Washington bowlers. especially older generation. noted with deep re- gret the death recently of Earl Eiker. well remembered by them as one of the most ardent supporters of the ducke pin game in its early days here. As a member of the original Y. M. C. A. quint, a charter member of the National Capital League, Earl did uch to make that team famous in 1e annals of Washington duckpinning nd establish the popularity the game jovs today. e Y. M. C. A. Inglesides. A. C. M. Y. the and Grand Central teams were his older | Jehn | the Gunders- | brother. John; Roy Whitford. Meany, Eddie Krieger. heimer brothers, Willard Farrow, Tom- my Mavhew, Johnny Vaeth, Wolstenholme. Cart Rodri Gu Crampton. John Welsh, John Harville and others well known in the early davs of small pin bowling here. Earl's teams swept to championships in the District League. the National Capital League. the Y. M. C. A. League and the Washington City Duckpin As- | sociation. He was the lead-off bowler of the Inglesides when they toppled their remarkable three-game set of 1807, for years a District record and since excelled infrequently. At Convention Hall on Saturday night league representatives will gather CURVE BALL BOWLERS GO Associated with him on | Glenn, for the annual meeting of the Wash- ington Ladies' Duckpin Association and it is expected that considerable busi- ness will be accomplished during the session due to start at 7:30 o'clock. Lucile Preble, president of the asso- ciation, has announced that this year the recently adopted of in| by leagues instead of by individuals will be effective and in all likelihood this will simplify procedure to a great ex- tent. Invitations to attend the meeting have been extended to the more than | a score of women's bowling circuits | o}u‘rnunl in the District, although all | of them are not members of the asso- | ciations at present. Officers are to be elected and ar- rangements for the annual champions | ship tournament perfected. It is under- stood that the tournament this year will be conducted according to rules similar in every respect to those governing the annual championship of the men's as- soclation. An _intercity match has been sched- uled for an all-star squad of the Bank- ers’ League. It will encounter a select | aggregation of bowlers of the Baltimore | chapter of the A. B. 1. in teani, doubles | | and singles contests here and in the | Maryland metropolis. Blocks of five | | the two citics, total pinfall to determine | the winners. The competition will start at Convention Hall on February 25 and | | the Baltimore end of the affair will be | bowled on March 10 | | _ Season records were made in the Public Debt Girls' League at Convens | | tion Hall last night by the Registered | | Accounts team. It rolled 501 for high | team game and 1,435 for high team set. | { | _All-time records for the Prince| Georges County Duckpin _Association | were _established last night .on the | Arcade drives at Hyattsville, when St. | Jerome's, leader of section 1 in the cirs cuit, took two of three games from the | Arcades. In its second effort the St.| Jerome's quint rolled 644, to beat the | league mark of 631 set two seasons ago | ¢ the Collegiates and equaled this sea- | son by Service Laundry. During this| game Leo Kessler of St. Jerome's hit for | a count of 186. shattering the 176 rec- | ord set by George Miller of Mount Rainier, Snyder-Far Post, Hyattsville | American Legion, concluded its 10-game | home-and-home match with the Cissel- ! 8axon Post team of Silver Spring last night at Silver Spring, 199 pins ahead for the full route. The Snyder-Farmer bunch outrolled the Cissel-Baxon men | by 99 pins in the block at Hyattsville | and last night bested the Silver Spring duckpinners, 2.672 to 2.572. ?Champions Are Not Disturbed Over Boxing B BY FAIRPLAY. EW YORK, February 14.—Tom Donohue, portly president of the National Boxing Association, is up against a difficult problem. Several weeks ago Tom served an ultimatum on champions Mickey Walker. Joe Dundee and Sammy Man- dell. Outstanding men in the classes headed by the champions were named. and the title holders were ordered to sign up for bouts to a decision at the class weights. The period of grace ex- pires Thursday. and it is now up to Donohue to declare the titles vacant. Just what effect such an order will of the N. B. A. remains to be seen. The_case of the welterweight cham- &lnn. Joe Dundee, is a ticklish one. Joe under indefinite suspension in Cali- fornia for his faillure to go through with a contest with Ace Hudkins. But Joe is not running away from Hudkins. He has agreed to fight the winner of the Hudkins-Sammy Baker fracas, which takes place in New York Friday TWO TEAMS BATTLE FOR I. R. PIN CROWN Miscellaneous and General Counsel teams still are staging a hot fight for championship of the Internal i At present Miscel lrads with a two-game ad. = over the General Counsel duck- sta‘*istirs compiled by Scorer follow: the 590, 1679, Tanes ounmel RECORDS. EOUS sp & ¥ %4 FIRLL ACD SCHWARTZ TO LETIONY | drry Behwaig York Juinl BOX BHAW. Februsry 14 (A recoyrized by the New ne Commission ws holder of a fywelght boxing v Billy Bhaw, & local boy, i clght-round bout sl the Olymplo ar iduy night TURF STAR RETIRED. NEW YORK. Fempiary 14 (A iicess Doreer, crack Audiey Farm noroughbred, wiich won 8174140 i irbes MDA Hlakes Vel B Bie-yeRr TaC- i@ career, has bsen retired o slud, Il Corp | crown. | ody Ultimatums | fevening. If Dundce meets the winner and emerges from the battle with his title intact, there is no state in the | union that will refuse to recognize Joe's | crown | Middleweight Champion Mickey | | Walker is ignoring Donohue the same as | { he did the New Y Athletic Commis- | sion when the latter bodv tried to get Mickey to fight Dave Shade. That was | when smiling Mickey held the welter crown. He eventually met Shade and won the decision. but Mickey took his own sweet time about coming to terms. Current rumor has it that Mickey is Icnmng longing eyes at bigger and better | #ame, and would renounce his middle- weight title for a crack at Light-heavy- weight Champion Tommy Loughran. Mickey wants to put on weight and still | go_higher by tackling heavyweights Bammy Mandell is under contract to | fight Jackie Fields, at catchweights. Flelds is a junior welter. and would have to have a surgical operation per- formed to get down to 135 pounds. i Sammy says he will fight Jimmy Mc- Larnin some time in July. | GIRLS’ DISTRICT LOOP BOWLING RACE CLOSE | Bix of the eight teams in the Ladles' | District Duckpin League are very much in the running for the champlonship. | Arcadias with 30 wins and 21 losses | { now are in front, but Convention Hall | |is only a game back. The Billies in | third place are just two games behind | the first-place outfit, while King Pin, | Petworth and Temple, deadlocked in fourth place, are trailing the Arcadias by three games only. League statistics follow: fever Davis Virginia Mar High team High team High ind 34 an I il set—Frere (Petworth) High individual pame—Limerick (Temple). Hish atriies a Williams (Meyer Da b spares—Ackman Hig (Conventio | Owen (Virginia Markets), 77 o0 HAl)) Tndividnal Kecords. ARCADEA WG s g 5 a7l Miltner | Biirron | Limerick | Menre Jousait | YER DAVIS TR 1 i i i | the club and decided that in view of | WOULDHOLDLINKS FOR MENBERS, USE Omits Event in Deference to Sentiment in Club—Ama- teur-Pro Play. Congressional Country Club will not hold an invitation golf tournament in the Sprmf. Holding that the con- venience of the club membership is the main consideration of any club com- mittee, the golf committée, headed by Guy Mason, has sounded sentiment at | crowded conditions on the golf course and for other reasons, the club will not schedule an invitation event, Il} conditions warrant, a tournament may | be held in the Fall The decision is strictly in line with the suggestion made by President A. E | Steinem of the District Golf Association several months ago that the clubs hold tournaments only once every two_years. although Mason declares the District | Golf Association suggestion is not the | governing factor behind the Congres- “We feel that our members deserv first consideration,” Mason said toda: “With our course crowded every day and particularly during the time when ' I the tournament usually is held, we ferl| that in justice to our playing member- | ship we should not hold a tournament this vear. A full week is needed for the playing of a tournament. during which our members have little use of the course. Our playing membership is | large and anxious to use the present | golf facilities, and we are of the opinion they should not be deprived of use of | the course. | The Congreéssional decislon is the first positive answer to the suggestion (h:\(l the tournaments be cut down in num-| ber. Several other clubs are understood to have replied to the District Goif As- sociation that inasmuch as the tourna- ments are club affairs, given by the club members for their friends, they may hold them if they wish regardiess of what other golf organizations may do. R. T. Harrell, amateur, and Dave too. being half spherical and half oval. | games in each section will be rolled in | sional decision. | beginning Thomson, professional at Washington | Golt and untry Club, annexed the | opening tournament of the year, held | by the Middle Atlantic Professional Golfers' Assoclation yesterday at Wash- ington, turning in a best ball score of 73. Frank P. Reeside, amateur, and Robert T. Barnett, professional of Chevy Chase, finished in second place, with i5, while John 8. Blick, amateur of In- dian Spring, and George Diffenbaugh, professional of the Arcadia Golf 8chool, finished third, with 76. Miller B. Stevin- son, amateur, and D'Arcy Banagan, pro- fessional of Columbla, finished fourth with 77, After the golf tourney, played on one | of the finest days of the Winter, the | amateurs and professionals gathered at | dinner at the club. at which golf affairs | for the year were discussed. | Several of the professionals attend- ing the dinner announ their inten- | tion to compete in an open tournament | to be held over the new public course m Richmond. April 3. 4 and 5, for| which o purse totaling $3.000 has been | raised Sponsors for the event attend- | ed the dinner last night and sacured the promise of several of the leading pros to play in the event. The tor ney follows the North and South open at Pinchurst and is expected to draw | a large entry list. The public course | is about 8 miles west of Richmond and is said to be in ideal condition. | A. B. Thorn, mentor at the goif school | at Meyer's Shop. 1331 F street. today | annotnced a men's indoor putting | event, to start with a qualifving round tomorrow and running | 9. Prizes will be winner of the quali- round and he winner and p in the tourncy. Entries may | honed to Thorn at Main 8044. Newman Little won the recent wonen’s event at the indoor school, | defeating Mrs. H. A. Knox 8. | n the final round. Mrs. Little had a | card of 70 for the 18 holes, while Mrs. | Knox had 77, through February awarced to the SEPPALA'S DOG TEAM | SCORES EASY VICTORY| NORT! CONWAY. N. 1§, February 14 (&) —Leonasd Seppala’s team of Si- | borian huskies scored another trump yesterday when they gave their old Alaska driver an easy victor annual_three-day point-to-point of the New England Sled Doz Club. hero of the dash to Nome with serum in A diptheria epidemic a few years ago covered 130 miles in 12 hours and 42 minutes. race |gestion was referred to the Davis Cup | TILDEN AND HUNTER ARE NOT DICTATING By the Associated Press NEW YORK, February 14.—Willlam T. Tilden, 2d, and Francis T. Hunter, ranking No. 1 and 2 players, respec- tively on the national tennis list, are ready to compete for the United States | in either the American zone or interzone Davis Cup play. | Contrary to published reports that the international doubles champions would | compete only in the interzone competi- tion or not at all, Tilden and Hunter announced here that they were ready to aceede to the wishes of the Davis Cup | committee even should they be forced to give up thelr contemplated trip abroad early this Summer. | They have suggested to the United States Lawn Tennis Association that two Davis Cup teams be appointed, one to compete in the American zone and the other to go overseas to get accustomed to European playing conditions before the interzone final. This two-team sug- | committee without indorsement at last | week's meeting of the tennis association. | At that time Tilden and Hunter were quoted as declaring they would go abroad in May for foreign competition | and probably would not be available for duty in the American zone play sched- uled for June. Upon their return here, however, they | declared they would obey the wishes of the Davis Cup committee, and compete, | should they be so asked, In the zone play | here. They suggested, however, that if the committee wishes them to play here | that some of the younger players be sent | abroad to acclimate themselves before | the clashes with the European zone | winners, should the United States sur- | vive preliminary play in the American | zone. TILDEN-HUNTER MATCH ATTRACTS A BIG GATE| CHICAGO, February 14 (#).—The most successful tennis match in this sec- tion in many years was the Tilden- Hunter exhibition against Lott and Hennessey Saturday night, drawing| gate receipts of more than $6.000. This paid for the canvas court and other indoor equipment, and left a profit for the Chicago Tennis Associa- tion, which at once began plans for featuring other exhibitions by nauonali stars. PRIVILEGE OF GLARING SAVED BY BILL TILDEN CHICAGO, February 14 (#).—The American privilege of glaring at the officlals, whether it be in base ball, boxing or tennis, was saved to the tennis players of the land, it was learned today, by “Big Bill” Tilden when this right was on trial at the United States Lawn Tennis Asso- ciation meeting last Saturday. Advocates of the English code offered a regulation forbidding the players glaring at the officials. Tilden rose with some choice re- marks and some very impressive glaring, and the rule against dirty looks was voted down. 'MYRICK WOULD QUIT CUP CHAIRMANSHIP ¢ the Assarinted Prose NEW YORK. February 14 —Julian S. Myrick has decided to relinquish his post as chairman of the American Davis Cup committee. Myrick, first named chairman of the committee in 1920, has informed Samuel H. Collom of Philadelphia. newly elect- ed president of the United States Lawn Tennis Association. that pressure of husiness will make it impossible for him ‘o accept reappointment. He indicated, however. that he would be willing to accept membership on the committee should Collom see fit to appoint him. | ALONSO, IN AN UPSET, . WINNER OVER HUNTER | NEW YORK, February 14 (#).— | Manuel Alonso, former Spanish Davis | Cup star, has added the Heights Castno invitation tennis tournament to his list | of laurels after three days of play marked a series of stunning upsets. Alonso’s victory in the finals yesters | day was the final blow at the form list for it was achieved at the expense of Francis T. Hunter of'New Rochelle, N. | v.. ranking No. 2 in the national list announced Saturday by the I States Lawn Tennis Associatior ated at the No. 4 position i list, disposed of Hunter r 6—1. 6—1, 3—8, 6—4 Hunter's defeat came after the elimi- nation of a nlimber of other favorites in the earlier rounds, inciuding John Van ng No. 8 playe v York. No. 12 Washbu T and William T. Tilden, IL in- ternational doubles champlons. cap- tured the doubles final after a hard- fought match with Harry Brunie and William nd. 1927 Davis Cup ., 9=17. Myrick became chairman of the com- | mittee in the same year in which the Americans wrested the Davis Cup Australia, directed its destinles du the seven ensuing vears in which United States retained the cup and leaves it a few months after the trophy was carried to France. 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