Evening Star Newspaper, August 3, 1928, Page 9

FAPECTSTO BEAT RECORD IN EVENT e ‘Mc Aleer, D.C. Lmksman, F a(,mg \Tasl\ in 'Ihlr(l Tournev Round PROVES SENSATION OF OLYMPIC (,\MFGI NET FINAL REACHED ‘ '| OLYMPICS IN NUTSHELL BY ALLISON, VAN RYN TODAY'S PROGRAM. 400-meter run—Semi-finals and final. 5,000-meter run—Final. By the Associated Press. | SEABRIGHT, N. J, August 3.—Wil- mer Allison of 4 Tex,, and John | ! Thinks He Can Run Dlstance in 2:25—0nly Fear Is for His Feet. BY JOIE RAY. \\hn RDAM Climate Not So Good. ‘r is nbum | a raid. | I can l\ rdly remember the day when n five miles easily and h) g distances have always been and I always have said that for my ‘own satisfaction I ¥ goil to run a marathon before I quit the game for good. Well, I have run two | marathans and won one of them. My great ambition is to th lympic | marathon. That's the world series of | marathons. It's the oldest and biggest | of them all. Had Lot to Learn. When T ran my first maratho ng about running the i he conditions, I learned a lot that race. My judgment of pace was | all right, and so were my legs, but my | feet weren't in condition. I hadn't hard- | ened them to stand the pouncing, and I wore the wrong kind of shoes In my second marathon I knew bet- r. I pickled my feet, the way the old- | tumy hter did his face and hand: and | they never bothered me from su to finish. I won that race. I had fou it something about marathon running. | That experience should help me now. | A Greek won the first marathon. That | ves fair enough, as the Greeks started | the thing, but no Greek won _one | Twice a I'n 1 has finished In Canada and bu.nh ory aplece. T J Hicks won for the United States 2t St. Louis in 1904, but that Olympiad 'P‘)X’(\Ima'l\( of the world winner was Johni They hey are Haves, in 190u threes. 1 hope t s will be our T'd hate to have 1or nothing. Speed Is Only Plan 1 have a plan which ought to win the race. My idea is to run ju st a little faster than the others. 1 know that there will be some good | men in there. Kolehmainen—I beat | m in the first two-mile race I ever ran—and Steinroos of Finland are old campaigners. And they say Bricker of Canada is & tough man to beat But| I'm here in Amsterdam to fulfill the ambition of a lifetime and if my feet hold up 1 won't ask odds of zny of them At Antwerp e Marathon PERCY WILLIAMS, Nineteen-year-old Canadian schoolboy, who accomplished the remarkable feat of scoring a double victory at Amsterdam by winning the 100 and 200 meter sprints, defeating the pick of the world’s runners in the process. Wide World Photos. D. C. MEN AT REGATTA. | Arthur Middleton Corinthian Yacht | the annual Miles River Yacht Club re- gatta, which will continue through to- morrow at St. Michaels, Md., as are al_other yaichtsmen of the local ddleton made the en ran at’s the run _faster In this inn’s record to do vice commodore of First Day's Results. ound Kuck, United shotput Olympic Results s B Sop—w U UUUU-xut‘m! Nurmi, Finland. Club, 18 attending | trip in his | | Van Ryn, Fast Orange, N.' J, gained | the final round in the Seabright fnvita- rney, and will meet_today. ms were John Doeg, Santa lif.,, who lost to Allison, forced to surrender to Van Yesterday's summaries Men's Singles SEMIFINAL, ROUND u. Princeton. defeated D Wilmer Allison. Santa Monica, Ryn. s caled Johu Doex Wo FINAL Mor ‘s Doubles. ROUND. tior e Il Dedham, ROUND, @ Watson Washburn, ed Doey and Alan Herrington. E co. 16--14. 6--3: Waliace Jonn o Prladeiohin; and, Frits. Merowr, Beth: lenem, Py . defexled Van Ryn and Allison NAL SOUTHPAW GOLF TITLE IS RETAINED BY JURAN CHICAGO, August 3 (P.—For the second consecutive yvear, Rudy Juran gray-haired amaicur from the Valley Country Club of Minneapolis, held the national southpaw golf cham- plonship today. Despite an epidemie of poor putting | Juran outsiot u field of 65 left-handers to win the title and the gold medal that with it at the Midlothlan Country Club course yesie His total score | for the 36 holes of hampionship play while mediocre golf for the 30-year-old tournament, was' 156 than the cards of 17-year-old Samm: Alpert of Chicago and Riley of Ottawa, Il Last year la score of turned in | tournament Straight Off Tee who tied for second Juran won the title 140, the best cards during the history ever Fourteen members of Club of Baltimore, accompanied by the | c professional--Duncan Cuthbert played over the Washington Golf and Country Club course yesterday There was no t>am match involved, as the visitors did not play with members of the local club. ~They attended a | dinner at tha club following the round the Hillendale | _Seven youngsters of the Indian Spring | Golf Club have aiready entered for the | junior champlonship of the club to be played next Thursda§. The entries in- clude the following: Arthur E. Bennett, David Utz John Quigley, H. N. Graves. jr. Carlisle V. Christie. Roger Pcacock and John Blick, jr. The tourney is to be a 36-hole medal play affair. Nearly 150 golfers who are members | of the National Press Club, or who have | offices in the National Press Building sweltered and struggled today over the course of the Bannockburn Golf Club in the first annual golf tourney of the National Press Building Some of the newspaper gojfers who have played in the tournamaits of the | Washington Newspaper Golf Associa- | tion were competitors in the tourney | todav. Prizes will be presented at a | luncheon to be held at the Press Club tomorrow. nnockburn golfers will compete in | the club champlonship in classes A and B beginning August 16. The champion- ship will conclude September 30. | Olympic Rowing YESTERDAY'S RI First Heats. { EIGHT-OARED SHELLS | California defeated Belgium. | Canada defeated Denmark. | England defeated Italy. | Germany defeated France, | | ULTS. Argentina drew bye SINGLE United States, Africa England, Switzerland Australia, SCULLS. Myers. defeated De | Kok, South Collett yeau, Pearc Germany. Wright, Holland. cchoslovakia defeated Japan. PAIRS WITHOUT COXSWAIN defeated Cande- defeated Flinsch, Canada, defeated Gunther, | Priesche, Holland. Germany defcated France FOURS WITH COXSWAIN Germany defeated Harvard, Japan defeated Holland. | _Hungary defeated England | 1.500-METER RUN E Second Day’s Results. 100-meter dash--Willlams, Canada, | hurdies—Lord Burghley, Finah- W o5 Lado THE HAGUE, August 3 chessmen have taken second the international tourney points. 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CHESSMEN NOW SECOND,i still is leading with 40.° for 25¢,, 15¢c Auto Bodies, Radiators, Fenders Repaired Harrison radiators and cores In stock w.unnn-, ums 14th North 7177 AL to Creel Bros. Atso 319 itk iock elow Ave, h. Other siaes, 2 and 3 for 50c¢. and George King of New York, who was New | Golden | Trumbo with | of “the | Schmitt and McDowell, United States, | | defeated Van Wolckson and Van den | | Decathlon. | and 400-meter flat. 100-meter flat, broad jump, high jump, shotput | YESTERDAY'S FEATURES. Harry Larva, Finland, broke Nurmi's Olympic record in winning 1,500-meter run. American, finished tenth. Time, 3:53 1-5. Ray Conger, only Second Olympic record broken by E. H. Lundquist, Sweden, in javelin, with throw of 218 feet 6!y inches. placed Mikio Oda, Japan, won hop, United States, second. No Americans step and jump, with Levi Casey, Ray Barbuti and Herman Phillips, United States, qualified for semi-finals in 400-meter run. Six women beat old world record for 800 meter Radke of Germany winning, in United States, took sixth place Leading point scores Great Britain, 37, Sweden, 31; Belgium. event. United States, Canada, 28; Germany, 27! California crew won first race for eight-oared cr Harvard barely beaten by Germany in four-oared , with Lina MacDonald, 48; 2:16 4-5. Florenc 12815; Finland, s from Ken Myers, Philadelphia, won first race in single sculls from Henry De Kok of South Africa. Dowell defeated Belgian pair in pair oared without event. John Schmitt and Paul Mc- coxswain Gaudin of France won individual foils fencing champion- ship Helene M: can had X'f‘fl(‘th final Point total of Jneeph Levis, only American finalist, Germany, won women's foils fencing. No Amen— 17 gave Finland t took tenth place. m championship in wrestling. United States finished fourth, with 8 points. Entry List for Wome to C ingle strokes better | ITH a record list of 40 players | entered In the women's Dis- trict of Columbia net cham- | plonships, the singles lists will close’ tomorrow night at with Aida M. Doyle bia Country Club, and Elizabeth Beth- | #1. Decatur 3826 | 'Drawings will be made at 8 o'clock tomorrow night. and a schedule for | first-round matehes will be announced Sunday morning All players are expected to report a Columbia Country Club at the time their matches are scheduled, rain or hine, unless they first have commu- nicated with the committee and arc told that courts are unplayable. Play- | ers not reporting for their matches at scheduled time will be defaulted Last year an entry list of 33 broke all previous records for the local wom- en’s champlonships. Credit for the in- creased enthusiasm is due largely to a group of Columbia Club players. who. headed by Miss Dovle. Mrs. J. Howard Ford and Mrs. H. Clay Thompson. have | played hostess a number of times re- | cently to tennis parties, through which | |interest in the tournament was raised | |to a high pitch, The final one of these | {affairs is scheduled for tomorrow after- noon, when the officers and leaders of | {the Women's District Tennis League v\()ll be the guests of the club enthu- stasts | 1™"In" addition to an impressive array of individual trophies, some of them do- nated by local firms—including one from Pearson & Crain, jewelers: one from Walford's and one from Spalding’s sporting goods shops-—a beautiful chal- | 6 o'clock Colum- | | About sixty junior swimmers, s D. C. lose Tomorrow lenge trophy has been offered by Harold E. Doyle. Frances Krucoff, champion for 1927 will defend her title. Among the out- of-town players expected are Marywill Wakeford of Mobile, Ala.: ed Ogden, ranking player of Norfolk, V and Miriam Sydnor of Richmond. Va. Invitations also were sent to Eleanor Coltman of Baitimore, former holder of the District crown: Mr: Boehm, also of Baltimore, and Townsend and Mrs. J. Harrison of Philadelphia, as well as to several New York players, but entries have not yet been received from these by the committee. Most of them are engaged in turf court play at Seabright this week, it is understood Playground track meets, preliminary to the Interplayground event to be held in September, will be inaugurated to- morrow when the fair athletes from Benning School playground perform on the cinder path. All of these placing first, second or third in any even morrow will be eligible for the cf meet, A full program of the events at Ben- ning has not been announced. but they will include dashes, throw for distance with basket ball and base ball; broad jump, high ‘ump and relay. Sunday, August 12, the date for the has been set as annual exhibition | swimming meet of the Milton swimming class to be held at Chespeake Beach. most of them from the District, are expected to participate Doubles in Army Tournament EMI-FINALS of the Army doubles tournament, halted yesterday be- cause of rain, were to be com- pleted this morning if the courts were In condition and the finals played this afternoon. Capt. Van Vet and Col. Johnson were leading in thelr match with Capt. | D. N. Murphy and Lieut. J. H. Pitman, |61 64 ‘The Johnson-Van Viiet pair outclassed their opponents decid- edly In the opening set, Van Vliet drove | through them from the back court and | Johnson scored brilliantly on place- | ments from the forecourt, with crush- ing smashes at the net. The Pitman-Murphy team opened the second set with a lead, but their opponents broke through Capt. Mur- phy’s service to gven things in the sixth | game and forged ahead just as the rain | began to fall ~Pitman’ was the indi- | vidual star of this second set. His smashes at the net and deep court | placements brought forth frequent ap- | plause, Maj Hobbs and Capt. Christenberry queegee Cord Tire 0x140 & Hudson Tubes § Red Rubber . 30x8'y Hudson Tubes Red Rubber 3440 GARGOYL Mobiloil 5-Gallon Can 83 75 D\; Pont's Duco Polish Low i 59c¢ FENDER BRUSHES Spectal Pri Our Drys While s .39 Auto & Porch CUP GREAS 1-Pound Can 12¢ - Expected to Be Decided Today seeded No. 2, dropped thelr first set to Capt. J. H. Hills and Lieut. Hedekin, 6—1. but were holding a 3—1 lead in the second when play was postponed, I the opening set, the Hills-Hedekin team had assumed the net position, forcing their opponents to lobbing de- fense Tn the second set, the tables were turned. with Hobbs and Christen- berry pushing through to the net, where their smashes scored frequently. 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You Wait | For Sale at This Store R A S SRS T e TR R Between G and H on Ninth | vivors will go found Charles H.| Al HILADELPHIA, Pa., Victor in the first two match- play rounds of the national public links golf champion- ship, In one of which he d Sam Graham of Pittsburgh, arm of the law and med current tourney, Earl McAleer, ded golfer of Washington, fouzu sterner opposition as he advanced o the third round In the tourney at Cobbs Creck tod McAleer was opposed to C Pittsburgh pl amplonship last John R. Miller, the other Washing- lulu«n to qualify, was dropped out in - first round, losing on the twentieth | Fole ta a0, Bogte, whets thie Rock Creek tar topped his tee shot on the sccond extra hole. ‘Two more 18-hole matc cemprised the menu of the municipal links title chase today. The two sur- holes for the title to- August 3.— rl Kauff- yer, who morrow Kaufman went 19 holes late ye: v to down Bob Albertus of Phil; delphia. getting behind a pair of lengthy wooden shots at the first extra hoie to give him a 10-foot putt for an eagle. while Albertus encountered a world of trouble and picked up. With the de- t Ibertus went Philadelphia’s of winning the championship. T had to go to the eighteenth morning to down Mike Philadelphi. 2 up., but going in the afternoon Pittsburgh cop t. hop McAl Surmi sational shot from the depth reek on the fifth hole Graham failed to play his usual stel- game and was easy picking for the Washington star, who won the qualify- ing round of this tourney in 1924 Miller registered a 77 to 6 for Boyle in their first round match, and the§f halved the first extra hole. But at the twentieth Miller topped his tee shot into the ever' present creck and picked up. Yest resulls FIRST ROUND. 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