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s UGy SPORTS. . sfRedemamiuie . THE E{’EZ\'TNG .STAR’, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1928. "SPORTS. I Always Supremé in Sprinting : Sensational Rolling in Tourney Expected YOUNG FRIENDS TOP ’BASKETERS IN ADVANCE STAGES OF TITLE GAMES SEEMS CERTAIN TO AGAIN RULE I‘\T OLl MPIC GAMES America Has (,!e\ er Dash Men This Year in All Sec-| tions of Country—Base Ball Squads Here Hurt by Bad Weather. the majority of places in the sprints! O matter how many specialists will come to America. | in various sports are developed It is interesting to note that one of | by other countries. in one field | the greatest half milers on the indoor | the U d States seems al- | tracks this year, Edwards of New York ! wars to be supreme. That is | University, will not represent the United year it seems that | States in the Olympics. Edwards is a dash men that | Canadian and will wear Canada’s colors. | been line for tryouts for |'It might be mentioned, too, that Ed-| pic honors will ?mr the uflo;‘xs wards is a negm | on for p on ‘the .,‘;,E(L_fi Chcle Sam | The bad weather of the last two days | o section of the!Wwill further injure chances of !oc.-.lw ball teams getting in their best shape| for opening games the last of this| month. While it is good theory that| teams around here ought to be in bet- | d States are | ter condition for latter March and early | - | April games than the Northern schools | they face, as a matter of fact this act- | BY H. C. BYRD. a corner on the fast e Pacific Coast '8 exceptionally of them, have big cages for indoor pra tice, and their players, especially pitch- more work than the local schools. | TUniversity of Maryland is planning another basket ball trip to the Middle | West next Winter. If its plans ma- terialize, and it seems they should. the Old Line five will take part in three contests with members of the Western | Conference shortly after the holidays. | The team will Temain in tralning dur- lng the Christmas holidays. and will | | play one game during the holidays, that nm.h Pennsylvania ia on ] December 22. | are ON in the and who | T |Fall in foot ball for the 'nrsz time in nd has a chance, e e iy ne;l:?ly since 1818, if memory serves ompete four of the |Chapel Hill and for North Carolina | orid in the Der-|takes the place of the nme with \'u’- of the Olym- | ginia Military Institute and Draper T play-| In speaking of Virg Virginia Polytechinc | ber was South- | anmu.e it is not amiss to mention that . P. Miles, familiarly known to his Both | legibn of friends as “Sally,” has been ill the Los | for some time and has not been able to |attend to his dutles. He has been away 20 are likely | from school for about two months, but rilliance before expects to get back early in April. He 'ge year. should give has been suffering from ulcers of the | the CTnited =, tes all the sprinting talent it needs to sweep these events in the Olymp: during last foot ball season. and has since Everybody who knows Miles likes him, and certainly all wish | ARCADIA BOWLERS HOLD | LADIES’ DISTRICT LEAD By 2 margin of one game Arcadia| League with the Billies providing the | “ closest kind of competition. Conven- | xar st | tion Hall and Peiworth teams are tied | Lohoes for third honcrs, fust *wo games benind | the frst-place club, giving this league | jorn cne of the most exciting races in iocal | Forersi |, Cuekpin circles 25 well 45 the warmest | femss ... tattes that it has ever experienced. Pisher of Arcadia is the actual jeader | 2%72 - in the individual average race with a|Gr 97-60 mark against a §° Ackman of Congpe 3 w3 & 8116 Py Williams .. ¥oreanewis Petworth has an 2 of 160-2 for | TR ! 27 gemes, sgaics: 63 for Puber and| RELAY GAMES ATTRACT. | Limerick of Temole rolled high game, | HOUSTON, Tex, March 19 (P— 3 Frere of Petwortn boids high- | set honors with 2 334 count. Williams | 22, and Ackman heads the spare Ce- | partment with §7, just one more than | * Records o date 2oliow: Sixty-six colleges and universities, with 2 total of 670 athletes, 8 new record number for the event, have entered the Rice Institute third annual relay games o be held Saturday. .. ubut. .. when I fo I quit changing . . . no arge number reaty. Op unior and e #Le sk Lheyie Lor Mizus i 3 see @) far | b g - | Benior cireus Bl Peaiyay Sunior Quonde, Teyor W, Thomson wd Geles, Hayes, ¥A-| Sesiim, bagde ualiy is not true. Northern schools, many | * ers and infielders, usually have had o The contest will be played at ' stomach. Miles was not in good shape F i | X. Shields of “Like any other cigar smoker, I used to switch from brand tobrand NEVER GETS on voum CORONAS 106 FEKFECTOS ARISTOCKATS HEBREW CLUB LoOP, Young Friends Club bowlers held to first place in Hebrew Inter-Club League to the close of the second series. A| single game separates the leaders from | Vistas, who were two games ahead of | Mardelles. ‘ S. Sugar of the leaders, maintained an average of 106-17, but Coonin the same team. had a mark of 103 for twice as many games. Coonin h'\'l the highest game, 143, and st | set, 363, His 75 spares’ were also bt igh | in that department. while L. of | Auroras had t most strik ‘ Team and individual the close of the se Standing Friends’ Club. b Pal c Blan Rosen hoo ilverman Rose. Harr VISTA CL H. Goodman.... 31 1 rtn il Schee Levy 5 M | Waceerman” Weinbere . Oxin B« HENNESSEY IS WINNER OF TWO TENNIS TITLES JACKSONVILLE, Fla, March 19 (#).—By trimming two champions in successive matches John W. Hennessey of Indianapolis, Ind, vesterday was | Southeastern singles tennis champion. Hennessey yesterday defeated Frank New York, national junior champion, in the semi-finals, 6—2, 5—7. 6—1, 8—6, then defeated Wilmer Allison. University of Texas star and national collegiate champion, in straighc sets, 6—4, 6—3. 6—4. % Allison found harder going in his semi-finals match than Hennessey, being forced to come from beh: | five sets to defeat Berke! 3 of Texas, 1—6. 6—0, 4—6. 6—4. 6—3 Bell and Allison Saturday won the doubles title from Wal F. Co ; LAUREL QUINTS CLASH. LAUREL, Md., March 19.—A basket ball game of much local interest is that between St. Philip's Episcopal Church five and Headgquarters Company, N tional Guard, in the armory here to- night. The teams have m this season, and each has und MurieL to Fort four times | . | utes 25 seconds. AMES in the advanced rounds of the South Atiantic Amateur Basket Ball Tournament in progress at the Arcadia will hold the attention of court fans tonight and tomorrow night. Second, third and semi-final con- [tests are carded with the 100-pound | champlonship event booked tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. Senator Whirl- winds will_meet the winner of thc‘ Bogs' Club E! 5t. John's Victors con- test in this final Company one of the favorites, and Fort Washington survived their second round unlimited class games last night. ville's Militiamen _downed Sioux .29 to 24, and Woodside bowed Washington, 26-35. In 145- pound ranks, Woltz A. C. eliminated Knights of Columbus, 29 to 21: Fus- selis scored over Fort Myer, 29 to 20, | and French A. C. humbled Woodside, | 43 to 30. Hibbs Bankers won from St. cter's five in 130-pound ranks, 1 to'17. Games today and tonight: —100-POUXD CLASS (gemi ZSt John'a Victors ve Boys G O CLOCK-—130-POT ) trict | ve'n | son by winning over Cosmopolitans, TOMORROW'S GAMES. 4:30 O'CLOCK—100-POUND CLASS (Dis- e vl SR i ye' Club Elks-St. John's Victors win- O0'CLOCK —»130-POUND CLASS —Hibhs vs. Jewish C. C. 130-POUND exandria Celtics JUND CLASS (s Alexandria Celticn. va. Jack Faber and Joe Sweeney count- ed 24 points between them yesterday as Anacostia Eagles closed their sea- to 22. Faber registered 13 of team’'s total. Woltz A. C. quint was scheduled to meet tiie Birds tomorrow night, the contest has been canceled. St. Martin’s Seminoles found Navy yard Boy's Club quint of Brooklyn easy last night, wi g 26 to 3. P. Rosenberg counted six poin Lenox five defeated Iroguois toss last night, 13 to 10. Woltz A. C. and Woodlothians have canceled the game scheduled at Cen- tral High School tomorrow night. Peerless players, who meet St. Peter’s | cagers tonight at 8:30 o'clock in Ken- sington Armory, will meet at Sixth and K streets at 6:30 o'clock. FIGHT FOR HOCKEY POSITIONS IS KEEN e Associated Press. W YORK. March 19.—The Na- tional Hockey League season ends next | Saturday night. Detroit and Pittsburgh are now in a | race for a play-off position. Last night Most Astonishing Golf Occurrences BY AL ESPINOSA, Leading Professional in Chicago District. During the Florida West Coast open 'championsnlp at the Pasadena Golf Pittsburgh beat Detroit 1 to 0, thereby | Club in January, 1926, I was paired | deadlocking the teams for third place | ¢ith Tommy Armour, who won the na- in the standing of at 42 points. | By routing the New York Americans | 7 to 3 at New York last night, the | made certain of a position in the international division, the Ca- . Maroons and Ottawa have al- ready advanced into playof! places. The standing: NEWTON STILL LE LEADING IN RACE ACROSS U. S TWO GUN CAMP, Ariz, March 19| There was the feel of it the mome: (). —Arthur Newton, Rhodesia, South | the ball left the club face. etained a commanding lead in|later the gallery around the Los Angeles-to-New York mara-|burst into applause. best at the start of today's 26-mile; my brassie shot for an eagle 3 and|gfeq Africa, jaunt o Winslow. Eddie Gardner, Seattle negro, and Earl Dilks, New Castl firs | ing {plenty of power on both shots to get | home. and you had to be straight. | I whacked a 250-yarder with a slice | ion it and it went out of bounds and | ¥ | splashed into the canal. 5 | was distance only. so I teed up again | and drove my second about 275 yards. “lit Pa., tied for|do a thing like that. yesterday in the fifteenth lap npu»o-'n shment is greater when you do| 35 miles from Flagstaff. They finished |it yourself. 5 hours 36 minutes, 9 minites ahead good American goup | o champlopship at Oakmont five or six months later. Tom is a great fellow and a fine golfer. to stimulate each other, for we were both going pretty well. I came to the eighteenth tee, need- a birdie 4 or a 71. This hole is 535 yards long, with a canal paralleling the fairway on the right. You needed ‘This time it was dead in the middle of the fairway, but I was left with the : task of poking a 260-yard shot close | |enough to the pin to get down with | single stroke if I was to get my birdie. | The prospect was none to cheerful, ibut I took my brassie and banged away "straight for the pin. Armour said. “By George, you've laid stone dead,” and I knew I ha A moment | the green ! I had holed out | gained a 70. It is amazing to see some one else The sensation of | I knew I had hit a darned shot, but to have it drop into xhc |hole 260 yards away was too much. | 1o Elapsed time of the leaders; Newton, ;As a matter of record, it is much rarer 86 hours 3 minutes 5 seconds; Andrew | t0 hole out a brassie shot like that than | Payne, Claremore, Okla., minutes 27 seconds: Arne Soumenin, 97 hours 17 minutes 55 sec- john Cronick, Saskatoon, Can- ' ada, 98 hours 49 minutes 45 seconds; Gardner, 107 hours 15 minutes 11 sec- onds; John Falow, Passaic, N. J, 107 hours 35 minutes 55 seconds; Willlam Kerr, Minneapolis, 112 hours 42 min- utes 9 seconds; Dilks, 119 hours 5 min- Why I changed to MURIEL I don’t think that my reason for changing to MurieL is half as im- portant as my reason for NOT changing from MugieL. Mugier has all the kick I want in a cigar. ..and none of the regrets. Just 100% smoking enjoyment.” P q Murttl'hecnuu it's a cigar you - @nd thousands are changing to can smoke in any number without tiring your needto... taste or taxing your nerves. RIEL ROTHSCHILDS OK 2% i%e NERVES snzzIO¢ © P. Loriiird s, Eat, 1100 D. Loughran Co., Washington, D, C, 95 hours 18| it is to make a hole-in-one. (Copyright. 1928, by North Am paper Alliance ) CLASS | but | We seemed | ‘The penalty | TWO NEW LEADERS INA.B.C. BOWLING By the Associated Press, KANSAS CITY, March 19.—Entries in the American Bowling Congress | tournament herc today had compara- tively high marks to shoot at in all “| four events as a result of keen com- petition over the week end. Opening the third week of the tourna- ment yesterday, E. Matak and L. Wol- sieffer of St. P; best, ul, rated as one of the | “southpaw” pairs in the game, °r first place in the doubles with This was an even 30 pins bet. ter than M. Flick and Snyder of Erie Pa, rolled last year at Peoria, IIL, to take first prize. The all-time record of 1,380 was | tablished by T. Thoma and C. Thoma | of Chicago in 1924. Fred Freitag of Milwaukee rolled 692 to displace Charles Zehman of Chicago as leader of the singles. ing scores were mede in the five-man | program last night, the Meister Insur- ance Co. of Omaha holding first place with 2,969, Leaders in the four events: TEAMS Me |FIGHTERS WILL BATTLE SAN FRANCISCO, March 19 (#).— A former world heavyweight champion | and a leading ender for the welter- weight title will be among a score of night in a benefit card, the receipts of | ch are to be turned over to flood | fferers in southern California. if he does appear in Ace Hudkins, the who meets is to step three rounds named opponen King Tut, 1 an un- wind-up. GEORGE BARRY IS SIGNED BY CHAMBERSBURG CLUB Mickey Kelliner, former Washington sandlot diamond star, who will manage {the Chambersburg club in the B Ridge League again this season aft winning a pennant last signed George Barry | first baseman, who played with Ameri- can Express, T. T. Keanes and St. Joe nines last season. Pepco, as Barry is known. probably will seek an ou berth at Chambersburg as Mick takes care of the initial bag duties too classy style to be displaced. { | TIPS ON KEEPING FIT. Don't overlook sleep in condi- tioning. You can't do with less than eight hours, and an athlete ing needs several hours | | No outstand- | FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS | boxers who_are to appear here Friday | i Jack Dempsey is scheduled to referee | Joe | - champion, soon, | season, has | heavy-hitting | 'STARS TO TAKE DRIVES IN BATTLES FOR TITLES Week to Find Country’s Best Duckpin Shooters in Competition—Hyattsville Rollers Now Are Holding Front Positions. | OWLING in the National Duck- pin Bowling Congress Tourna- | ment was resumed today on the Recreation drives, at Baltimore, with a week of sensation: predicted ahead. fost of the crack teams and indivi 1 stars will compete some time dur- | i the next six days and nights. | Hyattsville bowlers hold three of the four outstanding records of the tour- nament at the close of the first w Hyattsville Auto Co. five tops the teams with 1,678. Perce and Harry Wolfe of | Hyattsville set the pace for doubles tmmw with a 706 set, and Be; C sville teads the all- : s, of Martinsburg, W. Va., | tops the individuals in the singles com- petition with a 402 set, but this was tered by E. C. Smith, of Tribal |, m,.an in team compe- | tition th's record set was 405. Official scores of leaders in tourna- | | ment: DOUPLES. 915 zo. Wanining neerer. Ba. e Was 1. Washington. 07107, Washington. % w I W | DOUBLES. ary Braner. ¢ +a 10:05. P. Wol W, | 3 Washington City Duckpin Association officials e decided to rotate their 3@ | annual tournament around the various 856 | alleys the city which are equipped | to handle such an event. Pin, under the management of Bill Wood, will take care of the events this year, starting April 16 and scheduled to fintsn 4. , | association, has announce » | D will be added ¥ = | very low average bowlers a bet ? | to share the prize mone GAMES TOTALS) cag | }f§§% WOODLOTHIANS ENGAGE 1| WOLTZ QUINT TONIGHT Masonic teams of w“b.ngwq are ex- ! Woodlothians and Woltz quints are to clash tonight in Central High gym at | 8:30 o'clock in the second game of a series to decide the Community Center | unlimited basket ball championship. Woodlothians won the first game rather handily and the Photographers will be striving to even the score tonight. AT NEW MARATHON ROUTE. BALTIMORE, Md, March 19— Route for the annual Baltimore | marthon, which takes place this year June 2, will be virtuaily confined to this city, instead of over the Laurel-to- | Baltimore course. The start and finish | both will be at the City Plaza. The | new route has only one or two hills of consequen: pected to feature tonight's rolling. Mostly singles and doubles were being | rolled today. TONIGAT'S SCHEDULE. killed SUPERVISION-- That Good Gulf Gasoline is just clean, pure, straight-run motor f uel, manufactured under the supervision of skilled chemists, co-ordinat- ing under a plan designed to produce the best. 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