Evening Star Newspaper, March 12, 1928, Page 25

13705 FAVORITE T0 SCORE TONIGHT Jack Certain to Get Title Bat- tle With Tunney if He Is Winner. McCLENAHAN AND POWER STILL ARE LINKS’ KINGS BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. HE champions still hold their championship. Nearly 70 holes were required before Chairman McClenahan of the greens com- mittee and Chairman Power of the house committee of the Washing- ton Golf and Country Club were able to establish a sufficiently satisfactory margin of victory over Dr. T. D. Webb Br the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, March 12-—Jack ho already has tory attempts to | challenger for | crown, will go into the s for the third time to- | night against Johnny Risko, the Cleve- | land baker boy, in a 15-round match | in Madison Square Garden. The bout | s scheduled for 10 p.m. eastern time. | The Boston boxer's fame, brought to | the peak by his knockout victory over | Harry Wills, went into a partial eclipse when he was knocked out by Jack Dempsey in the seventh round | at the Yankee Stadium last July. Gets Another Chance. After Dempsey failed to regain the | title from Tunn in Chicago, Tex Rickard began the round-up of likel: 1928 opponents for the champion and Sharkey was included. Sharkey's next | chance was against Tom Heeney, the | New Zealand blacksmith, but the best | the ex-sailor could do was to earn a 12-round draw. | Observers then expressed the opinion | that Sharkey had again eliminated him- self, but his pugilistic star twinkled | once more when Jack Delaney lost to} Heeney in another colorless 15-round | encounter which seemingly failed to produce & title contender favorable to | Rickard. { Thus Sharkey comes to the elimina- |that furthermore that particular putter | t the Clevelander with |shouid be barred because of its age and | tion_ring agai: bout certain in the | aits himself in lmprcssi\‘e; 3 are being Sharkey to win, some at 13 to 5, these | being based principally on the fact that | the Hub boxer easily outpointed Risko | in their first fight but at that time Risko was novice while Sharkey had | |ing blow and D. C. Gruver, but yesterday after- noon, in the drizzle and wet of early Spring rainfall, they finally out a 2-up victory that established thera as_kings of their particular class. Not that their class is at the very top of the heap, because they have pleced certain limitations around their appearance in matches against their fellow clubmen. Any challenges ad- dressed to McClenahan and Power by | golfing gents against whom they have not played is met with the statement, “Go get a reputation. We can't afford to jcopardize ours against some one who has nothing to lose.” So the rubber match yesterday, after 1 holes of even combat, was a matter of great interest to the golfers at Wash- | ington and when the foursome left the first tee & few respectable wagers had been laid on the two teams. McClena- han, who has a considerable reputation as a "mud horse” found the heavy going to his liking. but the real meat of the cocoanut in Power's putter. And therin lies a story. On no less than 3 holes Power ran down putts over more than 20 feet in length the crown- coming on the * fourteenth where a putt across the green put them in the lead for the first time. As they came into the grillroom some one whispered in Webb's ear that Schenectady putters such as Power used are barred in competition, and histo: away with Power successfully talked that but brought out the fact that that very putter he defeated quoted on Jerome D. Travers, one-time open and | amateur champion of the United States, at a time when Jerry was at the height of his game, for the championship of the Upper Montclair Club. So Webb and Gruver learned that pounded | been a professional for more than a |Power really had a reputation, for it| year. Risko Possesseses Punch. Risko had punching ability and en- durance although he is considerably lacking in ring science in comparison | with Sharkey. Some of the boxing experts believe that’ Risko has an ex- cellent chance to defeat his rival par- ticularly if Sharkey can be drawn into a slugging exchange as he was in the Dempsey fight. The boxers will enter the ring on even terms of weight with Sharkey 191 pounds when he concluded training and Risko slightly more than 190. If Risko can land & haymaker on the Bostonian jaw, Cleveland perhaps will send forth for the first time a challeng- er for the heavyweight title. Station WJZ. New York and afiliated stations will broadcast the fight. MORGAN BOOKS A TITLE BATTLE WITH FLOWERS | BOSTON, March 12 (#).—Tod Mor- gan, Seattle, Wash., junior lightweight boxing champion, has agreed to defend his title here on March 22 against Bruce Flowers, New York negro, ac- cording to word from the office of Edd:e | falls to no mean golfer to beat a man | |of the caliber of Jerry Travers. In fact, the feat today woujd be something like a 12-handicap man trouncing | Bobby Jones. Having learned that they had been opposed to two such redoubtable golfers, “Webb and Gruver still were not con- | vinced, and as the shades of night fell jover the course they were trying to arrange a match over a longer layout for this week. Power was evasive, al- though his words smacked strongly of confidence, until some one suggested that young Tommy Webb substitute for {one of the others. | For Tommy Webb, be it known, is | one of the coming young golfers around Washington. Even his dad admits that the youngster has gone beyond him. | The las¢ two times Tommy has played | he has come back over the difficult last | | nine at Washington in 37 strokes. Not !s0o bad for a 15-year-old youngster in | his second year at the game. Dave | Thomson predicts Tommy is gcing somewhere in golf. Meanwhile Gruver and Webb are | striving to get a reputation by beat- | ing the champions. Their hardest task, it seems, after listening to the locker room talk, is to get the title holders hooked up for a return engagement. They may get together over Congres- sional's lengthy reaches this week. Mack, matchmaker for the Argonne A. A, today. The match will go 10 rounds. hil Scott, British heavyweight, haz | and Frank K. Roesch, the club cham- e - m:uyr 5 of 1 pion of Washington, essayed to trounce been meet Italy in another 10-round feature bout | Maurice J. McCarthy and R. T. Har- on April 18. TIPS ON KEEPING FIT. Don’t overdo anything, exer- cise, eating, working or playing. Moderation is the best condi- tioner. Training will build you up, but too much will break you down. Many a boxer has lost because he was too “fine.” Dave Thomson, the club professional, | rell, with indifferent success. Mc- | | Carthy and Harrell won on the seven- | | teenth, | i | Sandy Armour's genial presence again is making itself felt at Congressional. | The elder brother of Open Champion | Tommy Armour has returned to Wash- ington from his indoor school in New | York. He will remain until golf closes | for the season around the Capital, next | December. Fred McLeod of Columbia is recov- ¢ ering from a severe attdack of grip, which confined him to his bed a we ago, and is looking forward to the Pin hurst North and South open champion- ship on March 29 and 30. McLeod has always done well at Pinehurst and won the championship back in 1921. Bob Barnett of Chevy Chase also plans to take in the Pinehurst event, while Tommy Armour of Congressional will travel up from the South with the rest of the professional brigade. Manager Al Parr still is secking | names for the holes at Rock Creek Park. | Designations. have been suggested for | about 12 of the difficult holes at the uptown course, cach descriptive of the | difficulty o fthe particular hole, and Farr is anxious to complete the list. The system of naming each hole on the golf course is popular in the South and Middle West and has some advantages. It is more picturesque to refer to “The Devil's Elbow"” than to use such a pro- lsmn description as the “fourteenth.” { Tommy Armour and Bob Cruick- shank have a man-sized job on their hands today. In the semi-final of the international best ball matches at Mi- | ami, which they won last year, they are paired against the tenacious and sometimes pugnaclous Gene Sarazen and the dapper Johnny Farrell. Three meetings today will move the already progressing golf season toward | decision as to some of the tourneys of I the ‘soggy greens. through the rain, of | the year. The place and date for the District’s women'’s championship .is to be settled at a meeting of the Women's District Golf Association this afternoon |at the Willard, and the Interdepart- mental League will meet later in the afternoon at the Treasury. The golf committee of the Washing- ton -Golf and Country Club is to meet tonight at the clubhouse to discuss mat- ters in connection with the annual club | invitation tourney. | Chairman Hoover of the golf com- mittee at Indian Spring has moved the date for his welcome party to J. Monro Hunter, the new club profes- sional, forward from March 17 to March 21. Hunter is due to arrive in the city on Thursday, with his family, by motor from Milwaukee, where he has been located for the past six years. ARMOUR ADVANCES IN MIAMI TOURNEY By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla, March 12.—Eight pro- fessional golfers who are always rank- ed near the top in any discussion of outstanding “moneéy play” ability. io- day were the semi-finalists in the in- ternational four-ball tourney, under way here, Tommy Armour, national open cham- pion, was paired with Bobby Cruick- shank of New York against “Light- horse” Cooper of Buffalo and Al Es- pinosa of New York, while Johnny Far- rell, New York, and Gene Sarazen, former open champion, were up against Macdonald Smith, Great Neck, L. and Bill Mchlhorn of Pittsburgh. Armour and Cruickshank ~entered the semi-finals by their defeat, 4 and 3, of Harry Hampton, Chicago, and Clarence kney, Atlantic City, in yesterday's match. Cooper and Espi- nosa won from Willle Dow, Fargo, N. Dak., and Jim Brothy, Cincinnati, 8 and 7. Parrell and Sarazen traveled along by virtue of victory over Joe Kirkwood, Albany, Ga, and Henry Ciuci, New York, 3 and 2, while Smith and Mehl- horn defeated Charles Mayo, Flushing, L. I, and Wilfred Reid, Detroit, 7 and 6. PERUVIAN TEAM WINS. MEXICO CITY, March 12 (#).—The Peruvian foot ball team, Alanianzia, closed its tour in triumph with a fifth straight victory by defeating the Ameri- can team, 4 to 1. The Peruvians, who have been feted during their stay here, will go to Cuba, where they will meet several Havana teams. C.. MONDAY, MARCIT 12, 1098, NEWTON HOLDS LEAD NEEDLES, Calif, March 12 (#).— Desert dust was replaced by the muddy waters of the Colorado for the scene of the start of today's abbreviated lap of the transcontinental foot race. A few hundred feet from the starting line some 30 rowboats powered by Mojave Indians waited to transport the surviving contestants across the river. For the brief passage the runners were offered an opportunity to sit at ease and cool heels seared {y the last five days of desert hoofing and perhaps to wish that the Colorado were wider than it is. The little mining town of Oatman was the destination of today's 17-mile course, less than a third of the distance of yesterday's Danby-to-Needles run, Although he came in second by a matter of filve minutes in yesterday's 57 miles, Arthur Newton, 44-year-old Rhodesia road runner, held down first place in point of elapsed time at the close of the day. He had jogged the 2064 miles front Los Angeles in 44 | hours 48 minutes 40 seconds. Other leaders in the rate, which will pay the winner $48,500 at the New York end, were Andrew Payne of Claremore, Okla,, 48:32:35; Ed Gradner, Seattle, BIG DUCKPIN The moment that the organizers of the Natfonal Duckpin Bowling Congress ave awaited since the organization as begun last Fall will arrive tonight when the first big tournament will be opened on the Recreation drives at Baltimore. Rolling starts at 7:15 o'clock. Local enthuslasts of the duckpin game saw visions of putting the little pin sport on an organized equality with the tenpin game and in arranging their first tournament they have attempted Ito follow the American Bowling Con- gress rules as nearly as possible. The tournament, which will be opened at 7:15 o'clock tonight by Mayor William F. Broening of Balti- more, is the initial project of the or- ganization, which has outgrown the limits set by its organizers in the first season of its existence. Washington will send seven teams and two doubles combinations into ac- tion tonight and the University of Maryland five of College Park is also booked to roll. J. H, Brown and E. C. Smith and E. M. Deuterman and F. L. Watson are the local bowlers who hope to set marks for other doubles teams to shoot at. The local teams scheduled to roll to- night are: Willlam Hahn & Co., Hecht Co., O'Hanlon’s Plumbing Supply Co., Brodt's, Inc.; Wolf's Walk-Over Shoe Shop, B. Y. P. U, Boys' team and In- dian Tribal Claims. TONIGHT'S SCHEDULE. Teams, 7:15. Hubbard & Egeleston. Baltimare. American Bank Stationery Co. (office), mlator Corporation, Baltimore. ward (Engineering), Balti- more. Jiwanta club. Raimore. Ciwania Club. Baltimore. altimore Coal ange, Baltimore. Lutheran League Team, faltimore. faltimore Photo ¥, re. Baltimiore, G. Frank Youns Baltimore. Doubles, 7:30, 3. H_BrownE. C. Smith, E. M. Deuterman-F. L. ington Teams. 0:15. William Hahn & Co. Washington. Heeht Co.." Washington 10 Hanlon's. Plumbing Supply Co.. Wash- neton. palyliversity of Maryland Team. College ar s, Inc. Washington, Walk-Over Shoe Shop, Wash. Ington, B P. U, Boys' Team_Washington, R. & O. General Office. Raltimore. Lancastar Tron' Works. Lancaster. Ps. Indian Tribal Claims. Washington. Doubles. 0:15. Lovis Taylar-John Linker, Albert Rector-George W, N m . Selm.C !rflul(v Taltimore, Thain-H. W. Rydstrom, Baltimore Singles. 10:05. Louls Taylor. Baltimore. Carr-Boswell pinmen of Hyattsville will meet Diamond Cab Co. spillers to- night at 8 o'clock on the Hyattsville altimore, r, ir. Bal- FOR ONE THING_-THEYRE MILD; AND WHAT'S MORE-THEYSATISFY/ MILD enough for anyone’s taste, milder in fact than most cigarettes and yet, they do what you've always wanted a ¢l igarette to do— THEY SATISFY! CHESTERFIELD CIGARETTES IN OVERLAND GRIND|, NEW -| 8t. Agnes Academy of Memphis won negro, 50:32:06; Arne Souminen, Detroit, 51:20:35; John E. Gronick, Saskatoon, Baskatchewan, 51:28:25. Cronick led the fleld into Needles 5 by covering the day's stretch :44:20. Olli Wantinen, 96-pound Detroit Finnish runner, who had held a position among the leaders consistent- ly during the earlicr stages of the racc, fell before yesterday's hard grind and was carried in from a point five miles out. E SEEK FOURTH LINKS TITLE BELLEAIR, Fla., March 12 ()— Virginla Van Wie, youthful Chicago linkswoman, today will start her quest for a fourth dixie golfing crown of the season, meeting a number of leading feminine mashie handlers in the annual Belleénir tournament. Her friendly rivalry, however, with Glenna Collett, holder of four national crowns, will be missing as the Provi- dence, R. I, woman who Saturday de- feated Miss Van Wie in the final of the Florida east coast woman's play is not entered. In losing, 3 to 2 Saturday to Miss Collett, the two were left even in honors for Winter's play to date, each having won a tournament by eliminating the other. Miss Van Wie recently won the Midsouth open at Pine Hurst in the final round from Miss Collett. TOURNAMENT WILL BE OPENED TONIGHT ; q | Coneannon Arcade drives, This will be the second | block of their 10-game home-and-home match. Diamonds won the first block last week by a 15-pin margin. In a woman's match, War Department bowl- ers will engage Hyattsville on the same alleys also at 8 o'clock tonight in a spe- clal contest. District All-Stars, with Bernhardt, Bailey, Mitchell, Geuthler, Steele, Glea- | son and Orme in the line-up, will face Swampoodle Stars at Convention Hall tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in a spe- | clal match. All-Stars recently defeated a picked five from Holy Rosary League. Joe Marcellino at Adams 7917 is booking games for the All-Stars. LOUGHRAN MAY SEEK | HEAVYWEIGHT TRIAL| NEW YORK, March 12.—Prospects of Tommy Loughran, world light heavy- weight' champlon, entering the scram- ble for the role of challenger against Gene Tunney have developed. Joe Smith, Loughran's manager, an- nounced intentions of seeking the con- sent of the New York State Athletic | Commission for Loughran to become a S ih 844 he planned mith sald he planned to propose that the board designate the tw% (?\;’tsund- ing contenders for the 175-pound title and that Loughran would be prepared days. As to what course he would take in position, Smith would not say. Jack aney, former champion of the light heavies, surrendered the title to join the heavyweights. ORLEANS, March 12 (P .— the Southern Catholic girls' basket ball | championship with a 35-t0-19 victory tournament. O to accept the two matches within 30 | ¢ the event the commission declined his b, uilding a ¢ CONCANNON IS LAST AS TABERSKI LEADS By the Associated Press, CHICAGO, March 12.—The national pocket billiard titleholder and his two immediate predecessors led a field of 10 today in the round robin championship tournament, Two of them were unde- feated and the third has lost one of his five games. Frank Taberskl of Schnectady, N. Y., the present champlon, won his fourth straight last night without a defeat, when he turned back Peter Durocher of Chicago, 125 to 72, in nine innings. Erwin Rudolph of Chicago had a stiffer battle to win his fourth straight game from Pasquale Natalie of Baltimore and share the lead with Taberski, had Rudolph down 91 to 19 at one stage. Ralph Greenleaf of Philadelphia, another ex-champlon, is in third place with four victories and on defeat. The schedule today paired Joseph Concannon of Washington with Harry Oswald of Pittsburgh and Durocher with Harry Wood of Duluth in the afternoon games. Andrew Ponzi of Philadelphia will open the night round with Onofrio Lauri of New York, and Taberski i3 to play Oswald in the last game of the evening. ‘The standing: ‘Won. Lost. R |FGUR NEW LEADERS IN BOWLING EVENT Dy the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, March 12.—New leaders were created in each of the four championship events in the Ameri- can Bowling Congress here during 15 hours of pin-pounding marking the opening of the second week of the tournament. The Meister Insurance Co. of Omaha rolled into first place in the five-man event last night with 2,969. M. Eppert and W. McCabe of Chicago shot 664 and 603, respectively. to head the dou- blest competition with 1,267. Joe Mendell, Cincinnati, proved he was “right” by shooting 674 to take the lead in the singles. He rolled 211, 232 and 231. Buck Flint, Chicago, took over the all events with 1,880. ‘The leaders: FIVE MAN. Meister Insurance Co.. Omah Peoria_Life. Peoria, ‘il Pioncer Cords, Omaha Eppert-McCase. Totzke-8tibhe. S Huebner-Leven icago. SINGLES. Cincinnati. Emmons.Chicago Harry Clatt, Chicago. ALL E Flint. Chicago. . mons. Chicago claen. Chicako Joe_ Mendell PITT QUINT UNBEATE: PITTSBURGH, March 12 (#).—Uni- versity of Pittsburgh's basket ball tea.n, like the Panther foot ball team of 1927, has concluded its season without a defeat. The twenty-first and final vic- 5 to 2 ™ Natalie | o | New York. SPORTS. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. SAN ANTONIO, March 12.—Detroit, | reacting to a diet of hard work and z | supposedly secret training tonic found in all the Western camps this year, should win more games in 1928 than it did in 1927. How many more is a | problem—but, at least enough more to | make the Tigers a fighting first division | | contender, causing trouble for the East. | The team has pitching strength when |1t 15 ready. It needs to develop two | steady pitching winners. Then it will go on with more confidence. Moriarty | is sure that he has a better outfit than he had a year ago. He has improved the speed of the team by getting more life and dexterity into his in- |field. Likewise, the Detroits have po- tential batting strength in their out- field that it will not be surpassed by any |outfleld in the league except possibly New Training Wrinkle. Just as in other camps of the West this season, the aggregation here thinks that it has a new wrinkle in training | tonics. There was a suspicion of | sauerkraut juice in the air at Paso Robles, Some said it was sulphur. | | There was more than a suspicion at| Catalina, where both bottles and cans of | | cabbage were found. | Here the Detroit players shamelessly | expose this cabbage juice at their break- | fast table, extolling its supposed vir-| tues at the same time they're telling| you to keep the secret from the East. | But other things are rejuvenating the | Detroits. | Marty McManus, once with the| Browns, always a good ball player when | the world smiled for him, is apt to make the third-base job a steady one. Last year Morlarty, the manager, who's more than a manager, being a student of the game, ventured his belief that McManus was as natural a third base- | EASTERN CLUBS TROUBLE Team Is Displaying More Speed and Infield Has More Life—Shea, Catcher, Now in Good Trim, Should Prove Big Factor. Hellman s a little lame and struts slowly, as he usually does in th but he will move around as us n the With Wingo, e and perhaps troits have potential there of a high order. Rice is very active in center where the team wasn't very act year, and he can throw better Detroit center fielde m had in a long time. So the trade with 8t. Louls seems sure to work out for the success of Detroit. When the pitchers are ready the De- | troits are sure to have an outfit that can cause a lot of trouble. Analysis is Made Of Vardon’s Style BY SOL METZGER. Harry Vardon, the old master, often styled the father of American golf, had full control over his wooden shots. He could hit them straight or impart either a slice or hook when either was needed. As present-day courses demand control of the flight curve of the ball far more than did the old style cross-bunkered ones prevailing in the heyday of his links cageer, it is pertinent that present- day golfers give heed to Vardofn's methods. To hit straight Vardon placed the face of the club at stance just back of the ball and at right angles to the direction he intended hitting it. But if he wished to get hook he HARRY VAROOH man as any player he knew. Saturday afternoon he played third for Detroit against Minneapolis and put in more dash than any third sacker Detroit has | had in recent years. More than that, he went to bat five times and made five as beautiful hits as Texas has seen for quite a while. ‘Warner is the other third baseman. | but McManus and Tavener worked skillfully together. There had been mis- givings as to whether Tavener would be fixed to play this season because of an accident to one of his fingers last year. The misgivings have van-| ished. Tavener should be a better shortstop this year than last, and that means he will be one of the great short- stops of the American League. Geh- ringer, Tavener and McManus on the infleld assure a more promising out- look than a year ago. Another factor for the team'’s success | is developing in the work of Shea, the | catcher. ~Last year he was taken from = | California with every assurance that he *| was one of the best catchers the Pacific Coast League had produced. He did | not play very well, due to illness. This Spring his style has improved. Moriarty | had na. particular fault to find with Bassler, who was permitted to go to the coast after long service, except a general slowing up. He was convinced over Redelptorist High of New Orleans | tim was Penn State, which fell before | that Shea would come through this year in the final game of the (hree-dly‘ril! Snl’urdly night at State College, | and added Hargrave, a young man who | has caught well in the East. wouid toe it in a bit. That is, the toe of the head would be farther forward than the heel. The heel of the head is the end in which the shaft is inserted. ice the heel would be farther for- ward on the line than the toe. 5 placing of the face gave the desired resuit from the same swing. If you swing in the same groove nd toe in the club at stance it wilk ¢ toed in at the top. When this clubface makes contact it cuts across the ball from inside the line of flight to the outside. The resulting spin is a hook. Vice versa you get a slice. Good thing to remember if you have mastered your swing until it follows a groove. OOD NAME ~ NE learns from experience-.-whatever it may be. 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