Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1928, Page 32

SPORTS !I‘HE EVE\’I\ G STAR W AQHT‘\‘GTO‘Y D. €, WHEDN .n.‘\Y. AUGUST 1. 1928.. Machine ry for Selection of a Successor to Tunney's Title Ready for NEW ELIMINATION SERIES S PLANNED Dempsey, R!sko. Paulino, Sharkey, Hansen and Scott Are Contenders. By the Associated Press. EW YORK. August 1. —The heavyweights lacked a king to- . but the machinery for the throne was set up for action. By voluntary by force of a foeman's fists, v who rose from the ob: of a bank clerk to the prominence that aits the king of fighters, has vacated throne and returned to private life He bscomes the second heavyweight titie-holder to decide that the ring hoids e ihing more for him. but uniike the confusion that followed the retirement of Jim Jeffries in 1905, Gene leaves be- | hind him. as a heritage, a_well ordered plan designed to choose from all the contenders a logical successor to the of the Tex Ri apion has placed abdication rather than e Tun- man most fitted to wear the now carded robes of fistic ro3 As other parting gift, Tunney the hands-of a committee of 26. b by Rickard and William Muldoon, 82 1d New York State athletic com- a trophy on which will be cribed the names of each predecessor successor to Gene's crown Dempsey Again in Picture. Even a8 Tunney's retirement became known. the shadow of the old Manassa Mauler, Jack Dempsey, fell once more across the heavyweight picture—an om- inous sight for other front-rank con- tenders Beaten twice by Tunney. Dempsey announced his owr retirement from the ng some months ago, but with Tunney. arch-Nemesis no longer as an ob- stacle. there were many who thought that the great slugger would reconsider | that before another year has passed congquerer of Willard, Firpo, Carpen- tier, Brennan and Gibbons once more LEADING FIGURES IN SUCCESSFUL SEASON OF WOMEN’S DISTRICT TENNIS LEAGUE JUST BROUGHT TO A CLOSE HeeneyH | PHOEBE MOOREHEAD. | would be found in his corner. scowling' ferociously at an opponent There are few who seriol doubt that Dempsey. despite his age, still can defeat virtually every heavyweight con- tender now cn the horizon Manassa Mauier decided upon a come- back after he was relieved of his crown Tunney at Philadelphia in 1926, he was pitted against Jack Sharkey, then | considered the man most likely to knock Gene's title from his head. Dempsey When the | i | | record | | ‘(;eorge Washingtonians Annex Women Tenms League Titl BY CORINNE FRAZIER. INAL reports from the team aders of the Women's District Tennis League last night showed | tha George Washingtonians, formerly the Liberty team, easy | victors in the annual round rebin series in which 64 racketers have been com- peting for the past three months. | With a total of 44 wins, 9 losses and | a percentage of .830, the university | team finished well ahead of its nearest competitor, the squad from Columbia | Country Club, which took the second | place with an average of .568. Bureau of Standards, averaging .562, was right on the heels of the Columbia team. Under the leadership of Frances Kru- coff as president, Elsie Jansen, vice president, and Phoebe Moorhe o, sec- | ret: reasurer, the league L i com-| pleted the most successful seasor, of its carcer. Damp weather in the Spring | caused a slow start, but, once activities | were under way, matches have been played off in greater numbers than usual, and fully two-thirds of them have been close encounters, testifying to the accuracy of the team ratings. Season Is Successful. | In addition to conducting an elimina- tion tournament early in June, won by | Frances Krucoff, and drawing to a suc- | cessful conclusion the round robin serles, the 1928 corps of officers has managed league business so judiciously that fllci veport from the secretary-treasurer in- | | dicates a surplus, which may permit | of the rental of courts next season for matches. Frances Walker heads the champion- ship squad in the dual role of leader and No. 1 player. Through her ener- | getic leadership. more matches were | played off by her squad than by any | other team, the total being 53 out of & possible 56 ‘Alys Ewers, No. 5 player, is the only | racketer in the league with a perfect | for the season. Miss Ev!rn‘ played the maximum of 7 matches and | won them all. Other members of thf\ winning team are Mrs. Ruth Mm’l\ner No. 2; Louise Omwake, No. Miriam Davis, No. 4. Elizabeth Olrbfr No. 6, | Mary Walker, No. 7, Margaret Rvan, No. 8, and Elizabeth Wright, reserve. Final standing of the teams: w | George Washingtonians | Columbin Bureau of -u..m.m« & | Nationals | Mount Pleasant | Wardman Team leaders ai | lengue have been invited to & tennis | party Saturday afternoon at Columbia | Country Club by Aida M. Doyle, mem- ‘ Army Racketere Due to Reach ber of the tournament committee for the Women's District champlonship, to npfln at the club next Monday mnrn-’ "his will be the last of a series of | tennis gatherings at which Miss Doyle | has played hostess during the past few | wesks to arouse enthusiasm in the com- | ing event, which promises to be the most | representative net tournament ever held in_Washington for women. Entries for the singles will close Sat- urday night at 6 oclock with Miss | Doyle at Columbia Club. Names may be filed with Miss Doyle or with Eliza- | beth Bethel, at nrealur 3826 CALIFORNIANS WILL ROW BELGIANS IN FIRST RACE AMSTERDAM, Holland, August 1 (). —California’s crew, the United States representative in the Olympic eight- oared races, will have Belgium as its first opponent in the regatta, starting on the Sloten tomorrow Only two crews will participate in each race, and the Americans will row | at 5:45 p.m. Straight Off Tee C. H. and Frank K. Roesch, the| latter the Washington club champion | are the new father and son title hold- ers of the Washington Golf and Coun- try Club. They deprived the Webbs—Dr Thomas D. and his son Tom—of the title they won last year when younger Webb missed a holable putt on the final n to square the match and %0, extra oles. The Roesch family combination had a fairly easy road through the tourney to the final, where they were pushed to the limit to keep in front of the steady play of the Webbs. The tourney was played in Scotch | foursome style, with each pair making alternate drives and alternate shots through the fairway. | Commissioned officers of the Navy | and Marine Corps stationed in Wash- | ington will compete in a golf tourney to be staged at the Chevy Chase Club on September 28. Entries should be | submitted to Comdr. Herbert A. Jones, | Bureau of Navigation. Upwards of two hundred entrants will | play in the first golf tourney of the | National Press Building to be held at| Bannockburn on Friday. Prizes have| been put up for every conceivable angle | of the tourney, and there will be no lack of competition for them, judged by the entry list. The tourney is also npen to all golfing members of the Na. tional Press Club. the | NET TITLE TOURNEY A record-breaking entry lst seems assured for the annual District of Co- lumbia men's singles and doubles cham- plonships, to be played on the courts of the Edgemoor Club, at Bethesda Md., Saturday afternoon, starting at 2 o'clock. Entries will close tomorrow night at 6 o'clock, with Paul C. Hard- ing, chairman of the tournament com- ' mittee at the Edgemoor Club. Draw- ings will be made later tomorrow night It is expected that many additional | entries will be attracted to the tourna- ment as the result of the decision of the committee to permit players sched- uled to play in the various local leagues Saturday to enter the District affair and play their first and second rounds Sunday, the day following the opening of the champlonship affair. De Molay rackelers yesterday got o grip on second place in Capital City Tennis League by defeating Acacia Mu- tual Zife netmen, 5 to 1. All the matches were stubbornly contested. Summaries: Singles—H. L. flml(h th ‘Thore, 6—-3. 6-2; A. Hen (De Molay’ defeated HrXrn 97| 3. Poole (D~ Moiay) defeated Wmldridl" 64, 62 (r lDr Molay) defeated Kirchner. 64, .'1{ ilu‘ntzr (Acacia) defeated H. ML C oW, Smith (De deiented Thore_ and B Molay) defeated Team Standing. Prince Georses Bank. Mol De 8 Kanis Sons’ G Acacia Mutual Life Taking all but one match in straight sets, Commerce Department courtmen scored over Veterans' Bureau racketers 5 to 0, yesterday in a Departmental Tennis League encounter. Summaries: Judd and Yoemans (Commerce) Siiva and Huger. 3—6. 63, 64, Cragoe and Hibba Pickett and Weiss. Slevens and. Cross_ (Commerce) defeated Nelson and Johnson. 6—4. 6— Kranauer ‘and Hancock (Commerce) d feated Keisiz and Meyers. 6—2, 6-3. Branham and Allison (Commerce defeat- | ed Crosse and McDonald. . 6—4. WALSH SHOOTS 138 T0 TOP GOLF FIEL CHICAGO, August 1 (#).—A brilliant card of 138, or 6 under par for 36 holes gave Frank Walsh, professional of Appleton, Wis., the lead over the flield in the Chicago open golf championship at the Idlewild Country Club. Walsh finished a stroke Rheld of | Abe Espinosa, golfing matador of Chi- | cago, who shot a 65, or 7 under par, for 215 first round and then “slumped” to 7 HLw younger brother, Al Espinosa, third, with 143 strokes. defeated Commerce) defeated Action " SPORTSMEN REGRET e DRAWS LARGE FIELD PASSING OF TUNNEY | i BY FAIR PLAY. NEW YORK, August 1.—The passing of Gene Tunney is a source of genuine regrel to all sportsmen and devotees of the boxing game. Making his bow at this time, after a convincing display of his prowess as a fighting champion is but another instance of Gene’s abhor- rence of anything verging on the tinsel of hero worship. Tunney could just as well have kept his secret and traveled throughout Eu- rope as “the champion” and received the adulation ot the fight crowd. As a champion he would have been entitled to more recognition than as a retired leader. Just what niche Tunney will occupy in the annals of fistdom is a matter for time to decide. There is no doubt that Gene did much to crase the gen- eral opinion that he was a “lucky cham- pion” by the easy manner in which he handied Tom Heeney. But there alway: will be those who will say that Heeney was given preference over Jack Sharke- even though the latter was held to a draw by the New Zealander and sound- ly trounced by Johnny Risko. There are many who will say that Tunney had no business to retire at the peak of his career. Although the former champion savs that the field is barren of any one who could give him any sort of a fight, many fans will disagree with nim. According to those who take the nega- tive side. Tunney should have demon- strated his views by cleaning up the class as Jim Jefiries did before he went into retirement. Tunney took counsel with himself and decided to retire, leaving a belt for others to strive for. Gene Tunney's statement is frre- vocable. There is no chance of drag- ging him back again. The fans have learned by this time that when Gene s a thing. he means it. Gene is 20! apd the boxing game loses a great sportsmin '\nci a greater flahler STANLEY TAKES BOXING . HONORS AT PLATTSBURG Bill Stanley of this city. son of former Senator Owsley Stanley. from Kentucky, won the middleweight boxing cham- pionship of the 2d Corps Area, Citi- . zens’ Military Training Camp in & | tournament recently completed, winning | his semi-final and final boyts in extra | rounds at Plattsburg. N. Y. Citizen soldiers from New York. New Jersey and Delaware competed in the tournament. TROUSERS l To Match Your Odd Coats |EISEMAN'S, 7th & F : I knocked out Sharkey in seven rounds| and came within an ace of regnnmg his | title from Tunney at Chicaro, flooring | Final Round in Singles Today | the champion in the seventh round, the first time Gene ever had been knocked | down. Just now Dempsey s tied up in a | theatrical venture with David Belasco until Spring. When that contract is fulfilled there is at least a chance that he will return to the ring and see if his second come-back can not terminate more successfully than did his first. Six Outstanding Contenders. Rickard plans to begin his elimina- tion serfes next' month, drawing his| candidates from among such fighters as Johnny Risko, Tom Heeney, Paulino Uzeudun, Sharkey, Knute Hansen and Phil Scott. ’ “Just now there are about g standing heawwxgh! conte country,” said Tex. "I will 3¢t then to work in September in the first of thn’ series_of eliminations. In the mean- time 1 want the entries of at least 20 | other heavyweights throughout the country. All will get chances to prove their worth in eight or ten round bouts. I will have until next September to find the pair to fight in the final for the title. “I have no idea yet who will start| the show aithough I msy pair Sharkey and Paulino for a match some time in September. Risko must be considered alan( with Hooney, Hansen and Scott. “It is very M however, that the eliminations or regular trend of boxing throughout the country will produce two men the public hasn't heard of vet. The heavyweight division | needs new blood. This is the best way to get it.” Tommy Loughran Left Out. Rickard apparently has left one man out of the picture who is determined 10 crash into it—Tommy Loughran, tight heavyweight title-holder. Tommy announced at Wildwood. N. J., that he would fie with the New York and Pennsylvania Boxing Commissions his | claim for the vacant title. He added he | would be willing to fight through any | elimination tournament that might be staged All these arrangements for filling the | title contrast sharply with the situation | them. He came to the decision several | that existed after Jeffries retired. The boller-maker passed his title to erv!n Hart, but Hart was beaten by Tommy Burns. the Canadian. Then came Jack the great negro boxer, to win championship from Burns and re- st until he was beaten by Jess| rd 2t Havana, in 1915. Jeffries, | called out of retirement to restore the title to the white race, wi out by the clever negro on GIP<ON DUE TO FOLLOW iN TUNNEY’S FOOTSTEPS NEW YORK, August 1 (#).—Billy Cibson is the undisputed champion 2mong managers of retiring champions. He managed Benny Leonard until the weight champion quit the ring in Bhortly after Leonard had retired, mnmr bought Gene Tunney's contract from “Doc” Bagley for $5,00. He steered Gene into the heavyweight championship of the world Now Tunney has retired. Billy thinks he will 100 sted Press Ernle Schaff pointed Harold Mays 10 ¢ Bill Hartwell Sity. knocked out Lee Anderson @) YORK —Maxie York, won over sogland, by disqualification (6) Paul, drew the Assoc BOBTON Boston, Bayonne. Kansas | Berlin w Johnny (8). Ployd leveland, best Johnny Oer- Minneapolls (8). Jackie Blewa ville, outpointed Knowles, Chicago Mickey McLaughlin, Chicego, de- 'lal*d Rusy Jones, St. Paul (5) PORTLAND, Me Maine, defeated Happ, (12). Joe Phan knocke ‘. AN, Tdaho.— and Jimmy Bacco, rdin Janco, Navy out Jeff Mason Jimmy Cottrell, Boston, Bpo- Fen «10) BAN FRANNCISCO.—Bobby Lasalle, Compton, Calif., outpointed “Parmer” Joe Cooper, Terre te, Ind. (10) Charley Pint, Brwklyn uuv.pomwu .anz Vaces, Boston (10, Speedometer Trouble? | We Repair All Makes CREEL BROS. 811-17 14th St. NW. Pot. 473 fv 3 Lpadiae r’-’u.um.n—.’g of eprese o “Tommy O'Toole, | drew | FI GIF ]ANQE\ TUNNEY WISE BY WALTER TRUMBULL. T B a h!% day in sport when a| t champion: - winswsdis | | uue xc i another big ddy " ¥hen i 1 he voluntarily ha up his crown. In the fullness of his health and strength, at his best physically and mentally, at the peak of his career, Gene Tunney has chosen to retire (mm the ring. Under the circumstances, seems to me that this wol as much courage as any of his fights. man. The universal tendency is to | stay in the game too lo: No_boxer ever yet has won a decision against Old Man Time, but most of them keep on battling him. You see men who once were champions, with no shadow | of their former greatness left, being | beaten 'by second-raters who once wouldn't have climbed into a ring with | them You hear these hasbeens piti- | fully boasting that they are still “as good as ever.” This never will happen b Tunney Gene er will fight that one bout t00 many. He retires as a great and undefeated champion, who has been a | credit to his profession and himself. | He will never return. For him the book | of boxing records is closed. Healthy, wealthy and voung, he will break a brand-new trail will go far on it. Knows His Own Mind. | Tunney is a young man who knows | his own mind, makes his decisions after | careful consideration, and sticks to| | months a{o that there were things in | life he wished to do outside the box- | ing game, that the ring has given him | {all he wished from it and that the bout with Heeney would be his last pro- | { fesional appearance, He has done much for boxing and boxing has done much for him. He has demonstrated to boys that a man ca lead a clean, healthy life, improve his mind, study art, music and literature, and still defeat any opponent in the world with the padded gloves. He has sho softly and y For it rt, boxing mnot only has | given him money, but it | brought him real and close friendships h hard which rust cannot corrupt nor thieves, |kmak in and steal Bpeculations as to Tunney's future activities are idle and, moreover, he feels that from now on what he does is nobody's business. It is wearing on the nerves to be a public character | The job carries too much limelight {and too many inhibitions with it. It | must be a relief to draw the curtain : i for a time and know that rising and retiring hours, breakfast menus and book d in spare time are no longer nt matters for publication matter of fact, Tunney him- as no definite business plans for immediate fu He is going | abroad, not as the champion of the 1 world, but as any young man of leisure might go to see the things of interest }\\hllh foreign countries hold In his farewell address at the lunch- and Billy | ON DANDRUFF! Glo-Co keeps your hair well roomed and nataral lookin, {r:o( oily or glossy). Keeps it althy too., It fights dandruff, 1f you can’t get Glo-Co at yo favorite _store, write to the Glo-Co Company, Los Angeles, 8old in two sizes, 50c and 75¢. GLO-CO LIQUID HATR DRESSING / ( ! 4 X 4 ) FUTURE PLANS ARE HAZY| I think that Tunney is a ‘wise young | I believe that he] 1 that a man can speak also has | Lo at the RRces e duneh . he Biltmore yesterday ‘Tunney | Ted Kid Lewis, | TO RETIRE; | 'mnde some keen observations on m He directed attention to the fact lhll a big, heavyweight championship is the only event which can throw a, whole city into a state of tension and seid that the contestants naturally felt the tightness in the atmosphere, just as _others did. Gene also said that boxm( eonulnedA more elements of drama than any other sport, but that an important bun Was ! more gripping t! | formance, because no one even could guess in which act the big moment might arrive. Tex Has Job on His Hands. ‘Tunney’s retirement leaves Rickard with an earth-wide search for a new champion on his hands. Tex appreci- | ates Tunney and believes him to be & | great fighter, but he probably will b! just as satisfled if his successor is a |little less versatile. When a champion's sole reading consists of the telephone | book and his sole ambition is to give | all comers a good sock in the jaw, he is easier to handle. As a business provosition, Tex cares | little for high foreheads. His prefer- |ence is for strong jaws. The velvet glove does not interest Rickard as much {u the iron fist. He will hold a great, |grand and glorious series of elmlm- tions and meanwhile sit high in hope | that the forge, the factory, the mine, the lumber camp or the mill will pro- | duce another youngster with the body | of an athlete, the heart of a lion and | the sock of a pile driver, | _ Wherever that you: r may be, Tex Rickard is anxiously awaiting to make A han a theatrical per- |y’ | him rich and a champion. | (Copyright, 1928, by Ne m: Ammun N paper Alliance.) YANKEE BOXERS TUNE UP. | AMSTERDAM, August 1 ln.—luner-; ican entrants to the Olympic boxing | | matches, starting on August 7 were | tuned up on shipboard this morning | and it was expected that the entire Ne; __Alse 319 1 | cl est Prices. { 4 Prices Mot Complate GOODYEAR GOLF BALLS Special, 3 for $1 GROCE’S 11th & E Sts. N.W. No Red Tape No Embarrassment Bring Your Car Registration Card Get Your Tire RMY netmen who will figure in the title match for the Sheri- dan Cup trophy were to be de- termined this afternoon when the four survivors of prelimi- nary play took the courts for the semi- final contests scheduled to start at 2:30 on the courts of the Columbia Country Club. Capt. R. C. Van Viiet of Panama, winner of the tournament in 1926 and Lhn first to have his name engraved on ‘mammoth trophy, was to meet Maj ‘l'hmma Pinley of West Point in the upper bracket, while Col. Wait C. John- son, veteran racketer from Fort Ben- ning, Ga, was to play Lieut. D. D. aiso of Forth Benning, in the | lower bracket. Capt. Van Vliet did not compete last season, as his duty in Panama prevent- | ed, and the cup was won by Lieut. John | Strahan of Newm . J., who is | not entered this yi ! Semi-finals in zhe doubles will be | played tomorrow morning. ‘The feature matches yesterday were | the singles encounter in which Ma]. y scored over Capt. Hills and the | FAVORITES SURVIVE | toric Sea Bright bowls to eight con- Doubles. n:‘-ug r:nn‘ t n lnd.\h;a' defeated Braham snc Tuc — a5 Ehisenverry and oibs deteated Mumma and Oxrieder. 6—1. 6--1: Hills and Hedekin | defeated Neweomer. and" Colling, . 6- SEABRIGHT TENNIS SEA BRIGHT, N. J., August 1.—Only one top flight player was eliminated in the process of narrowing down the thirty-fifth annual battle for the his- tenders in the men’s division and four in the women's. Alice Prancis of Orange, N. J., who ranks tenth nationally, was the victim, yielding to Marjorie Gladman of Santa | Monica, Calif., national girl ehamplon, | 6—2, 6—4. Summaries of the singles: MEN'S SINGLES, doubles fray, which saw the elimination of Maj. P. Paschal and Maj. P. New- garden by Capt. D. N. Murphy and Lieut. J. R. Pitman. Each of these en- counters were stretched to three sets Singles rier Vilet Pananiar; won b Piniey (West Point) Hulls (washington), 406, "sus, I hecamin: (Fort Benning. 081 i C. Paschal (Army War College). 62, 6.0, Col. W. C. Johnson (Fort Sam Houston, Tex.) defenied Lieut. R." Sone Newgarden and Pasc efeat: | August 4th, is the LAST Note the name! Note the fact t going to last only a few days longer ... and THEN...ACT! Tth | defeated Sidnév | teated Miss C: Second round—John Van Ryn defeated Samuel Gilp 1 8—3i Alan Herrington Wood. ir. 63 12.-10: {icardo. Tapin detoated Oardon, Lm, D T eorue ieinn_deteated 3. Gliperi Hall: 60, John Doeg won from Ken- 4 el -5 63 WOMEN'S SINGLES. Second round—Mrs A P. Chapin, : ShaP 3y 4 [ 55 cated Miss Evelyn Parson, !duh Cross defeated Miss "Marsorie Morrill. DAY! 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