Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1928, Page 30

SPORTS. THE I-fVENTNG STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2 1928. SPORTS. Bowlers Who Open The Star Tourney Tonight Comprise a Representative Group MEN ON INITIAL SHIFT TONIGHT The 130-0dd Pinspillers Listed to Inaugurate Event at Lucky Strike This Evening at 7:30 to Find Simple Rules in Force. A classes. REPRESENTATIVE group of bowlers will take the drives to- | night as the first annual Evening Star individual duckpin | tournament opens at Lucky Strike. ticipate in the inaugural program come from all sections and | Those scheduled to par- Both men and women, stars and dubs, oldtimers and youngsters from suburban towns as well as Washington will strive to record Scores that will withstand the remaining seven days’ duration of the big affair. ‘There will be no opening ceremonies. ‘The 130-odd bowlers scheduled to roll .tonight will be on the drives at 7:3 oclock ready to inaugurate action s'cel;ekduled for each remaining night this Many Leagues Represented. . Many leagues are represented in the l'ro|up scheduled to bowl tonight. Sev- era this list. Notable among these is Jack ‘Wolstenholme, Queen Pin Manager, and promising young star of Convention Hall's District League team. One of the outstanding independent entrants also is scheduled to swing into action on alley number 25. Vic Keen is better known in sporting circles & base ball pitcher, but he also has d veloped into a bowler of recognized ability. Vic is likely to accomplish a sizeable pinfall tonight, as he has been bowling on the Lucky Strike drives since the opening this Fall and has ‘registered some commendable scores. Some clever shooters will be seen on “alley number 10. This squad includes | Mel Tallant, G. W. O'Nelll, C. Swindle- | “hurst, John Fulmer and E. F. Wright. On the next drive, Jack Mooney, the enterprising manager of the District Firemen duckpin team, will attempt to exceed his previous efforts, o - Three of Bethesda League's high rominent pinmen are included in | scorers will toll on alley 15. These are | | Francis Floyd, G. Eaton and A. B. Thorn. Anthony Hiser of the Hyatts- ville family of bowlers will be seen on |the same drive. The squad on alley 14 includes sev- eral formidable wood crashers. F. D. Mansuy and Ollie Pacini will shoot at {the 600 mark zlong with Leo Rinaldi, | | A. D. Beavers and C. R. Hurley. | | "Final instruction to contestants will | be given by the floor commitiee of which J. William Wood is chairman. Tourney Rules Are Brief. . ’R}lles to govern the tournament are rief. All bowlers are to report on time, | |ready to roll the first ball at 7:30 |o'clock. The foul rule will be enforced strictly. All pins upset on illegal balls will be respotted and the offender will forfeit the illegal roll. | Each contestant will be asked to| write his or her full name on the score sheet to assist the auditing comittee |in checking over scores. Sheets will be | collected after each game by members | of the floor committee. | Bowlers will roll on one alley only, | that to which they are assigned. They will not alternate on a pair of alleys. All contestants are requested to pre- vent unnecgssary delays and pin boys have been instructed to keep things | moving as rapidly as possible, Star Duckpin Tourney Lists For Tonight, Tomorrow Night WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER ZG.ul No. s 3 TV 1S 1 ek ek C. L. Leasure R. Haleton Herman_ W. Day. Joseph Vance. H. C. Dawson... C. A. Daidy.. Wiliam S. Cox. George Cost.. Joseph F. Davis, jr. Steuart S. Freed M. Sniegoski. . Burton Parson: William F. Kesmodel John F. White. M. J. Pierce.. A. L. Lansdale. % 24! 24| Benjamin F. Womersle 24 25 25 25 25/ 25| Leland F. James 26| Willazd H. Higbee John H. Polkinhorn ¥red C. Barthelmes: Joe Ricks. Menry Thomp: W. B. Hargett. . Louis Silverburg. Walter G. Silcox. Frank M. Perley. Gray Rutherford. Kenneth Embrey. Charles C. Williams G. B. Hartman. H. L. Leflie . ‘Willlam E. Du. .o Jhescoe F. Walter. 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 El 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 1 ki 1 k] : § 8 8 8 8 8 9| 9 9 Ed 9 28 Frank Mischpu 28 Robert Gries¢ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27. Name. Winifred Hiser... Helen Hiser. Mary Walsh Caroline Hiser . Margaret Miltner. Mary Eton.. Mable Hiser. Margaret Cleary.. Anna M. Kirby. Annie Anderson Catherine Viehmann Anna Morison. Sarah Dovle. Emily Nell Gladys Lowd Lucile Preble.. Peggy Babcock Ora Emge... Anna Burkhalter . Elizabeth Ackman Jennie Malcolm .. J. W. McKerricher. . C. E. F. Gersdorff Otto Moeller. . George Caspar . Richard Corcan. . F.. H. Siebode.... W. T. Landis. . James Locknane S. L. Gardner. J. R. Kessler.. N. P. Tucker, . James Taberl. 3. E. Ruppert. W. G. Roake.. Herman J. Niman John M. Palmer. James F. Marton. D. N. Hevener. E. E. Barber. Horace Snowden R. Tucker. Pedro Genevara, jr. Manuel Zamora...... Felix M. Silva Alfredo Bonus. Zacarias Ticzon. Ralph Little. Thomas Webb William Wallace John J. O'Connell James F. O'Connell. Walter J. Snellings. William E. Hayes. Arthur_Lamb. C. H. Peake.. 3. W. Hutchinson. James Plake.. A. C. Ganna. E. J. Armstrong John Wignall John B. Lord. William Warren A. D. McFayden Blackwell Castle Roy L. Swenson M. P. Divine | Raymond J. Bischofr. { W. Dykes, jr. .... George W. Garland. Fred L. Schlaith. T. J. Moran.. WOMEN, STARS, DUBS Georgia Tech, South’s Leader, Getting Ready for California SPEER! TACKLE Here's a challenge to Pacific Coasf It comes from Georgia Tech. Souther | California in the annual Rose Bowl gam big stars. By the Associated Press EORGIA TECH'S _ Golden ‘Tornado, the best Dixie has produced in foot ball this year, has blown out to the Pacific Coast to take up the conflict where the Crimson Tide of Alabama left off. The South has been producing more than an ordinary share of great foot ball teams in the past few seasons, but not even the Tide of Alabama swept westward to Pas- adena in quest of intersectional hon- ors with any greater power at its dis- - posal than the Tornado of Georgia Tech, headed for the New Year day game with California in the famous Rose bowl at Pasadena. . Foot ball is prone to the superia- tive. Current accomplishments are apt .to overshadow past achieve- ments, whether justly or not, but Dixie rates this"Georgia Tech array which swept through to the South- ern Conference title as the strong- est it has ever had. Consequently high hopes are being erected that the Tornado will sweep to victory over the Golden Bears. Tech will battle with a great line and a set of unusually hard-hitting backs. It is difficult to pick the stars out of the forward wall, but Capt. Peter Pund at center, Frank Speer at tackle and Drennon at guard have perhaps been mentioned oftener than any of the rest in dis- cussion of All-Southern or All- American selections. Behind the Tech line there is LUMPKIN FULLBACK THOMASON HALFBACK i t foot ball that cannot be disregarded. n Conference champions, which meets e, January 1. Above are some of Tech’s Warner Mizell, one of the outstand- ing triple threat backs of the year, as well as the hard-running Stumpy Thomason, _redoubtable *“Father” Lumpkin, Randolph and Durant, quarterback and a star at the pass- ing game. Thomason and Lump- kin possess unusual defensive abil- ity in addition to value in advanc- ing the pigskin. California’s record is not as spot- less as Tech's, but the argument is put forth that the Bears have been running up against stiffer competi- tion in a year that has lifted Pacific Coast_prowess to a high level. Their only defeat was at the hands of the Olympic Club of San Francisco, but they played ties with their foremost two rivals, Stanford and Southern California. The Bears have a stalwart line to match Tech’s with two of the coast'’s _outstanding performers in Capt. Irvine Phillips, the javelin tosser, at end, and Steve Bancroft at tackle. Benny Lom's punting has been a big factor for the Bears all season and he may have the edge on Mizell In this, Tespect. It is noteworthy that California and the South, represented hereto- fore only by Alabama, have exactly the same record of performance in the New Year day gridiron classic. Each scored one victory and figured in a tie. California beat Ohio State in 1921 and was tied by Washington and Jefferson in 1922, Alabama de- feated Washington in 1926 and came back the next year to tie Stanford. Big Intercity B At Convention LENN Wolstenholme, the un- official national champion of duckpin bowlers, will defend his™ honors twice this - week At Convention Hall Thursday night he will meet Barney Spinella of the Brooklyn All-Stars, holder of the intercity five-game record. On Friday night he will take on a star {rom New England, not definitely named, but he will be a member of the Stamford, Conn., all-star team. - Convention Hall’s District League champions will battle with the Brooklyn and Stamford bowlers in five-men team and double matches also. It is probable that Stamford will send against Wolstenholme one Jack. White, who last year humiliated several Washington stars in special matches that featured by-play of the National Duckpin Bowling Congress tournament in Baltimore. Mort Lindsey, the Stamford captain, has informed Albert D. Gardner, Con- vention Hall pilot, that three of his { men desire the crack at Wolstenholme, but that White will be given the nod if he shows to advantage in the team conflict. Convention Hall and Brooklyn have Fights Last Night By the Assoclated Press. PITTSBURGH — Cuddy De Marco, C. A. Ecklund ! { Thomas R. Boetler 19 Charles A. King ! C. A. Oberheim. {P. A Callaha 1. T. Eisenstein. Ivan Sarnoff {H. M. Stewart J.E. Donahay E. P. Curley Clyde Phelps. Lear W. Kline A. J. Raynolds Samuel S. Smith. Levi Morgan ... Kenneth F. Brooks. .. 20 21} 21 .21 = 22 22 23 23 R. Earl Haycock. Kenneth Bergfeld Joseph A. Keene. N. A. Groff... C. H. Curnie. James Beach. Ellsworth Moyer. aul M. Brumbatg B. Dizon.. . Warron Wilson. ul T. Messink ard L. Kettler. Joseph Kauffman George Bell. . 25 26 26 26 5 = Charleroi, Pa., outpointed Rudy Ceder, Tarentum (10). ALLENTOWN, Pa.—Henri Dewanck- France, outpointed Bucky Boyle, cntown (10). Steve Cole, knocked out Jimmy Flores, Fili- PHILADELPHIA—Matt Adgie, Phil- | phia, outpointed Babe McCorgary, Oklahoma (10). K. O. (Phil) Kaplan, New York, stopped Don Petrin, New- lark (4). .21 CALL Colombia—Paulino Uzcudun outpointed Jack Renault, Canada (10). NEWCASTLE, Pa.—Jack Dillon, Nash- ville, Tenn., outpointed Henry Firpo, Louisville, Ky. (10). Joey Goodman, Norfolk, Va., outpointed U. S. Carpen- tier, New Kensington (6). ‘WASHINGTON, Pa.—Steve O'Mailey, Bellaire, Ohio, outpointed Young Rudy, | Charleroi, Pa. (10). Harry Soencer, 3 | Washington, Fa., knocked out Ray Kerr, Josenh Rornos . A. Weiss R. Borman. d Drown | George Smith . E. W. King... |Harry J. Kamerow Harold G. Malone. Jack Rosenberg.. 28 8 28 owling Tilts Hall This Week battled twice, each winning a five-man match. The Washington experts triumphed both times in doubles and singles. whom are stars averaging around 120 in league play, will appear here for the first time. Convention Hall's bowlers have gone into serious training for the first time since the team was organized. Daily workouts are being held under the direction of Harry Kendall Burtner, captain. Large purses will be at stake in both matches. On January 5 Convention Hall will meet Stamford and Brooklyn on the latter’s alleys, rolling at Stamford in the afternoon and at Brooklyn at night. ‘Thus Convention Hall will tackle the toughest assignment in the history of intercity duckpin competition. . TOURNEY TO START AT TEMPLE TONIGHT Northeast Temple's holiday bowling | tournament will open tonight on the | | Northeast drives at 8:15 o'clock when | 5-man and doubles teams and singles | events are scheduled. i Teams scheduled to roll tonight are: Artie Bells, Night Owls, Coliseum, Black's Dairy, City Post Office and Allied 'Roofers. | Doubles—H. 'z Greer and partner, Harry Armiger and Sol Padlibsky, Thomas 8. Do- fan and J. A. Bovd and George Horney and Edward Edinger. Singles—Ben McAlwee, Charles H. Evans, M. E. Lawrence, B. Hasel, VE. Hasel and C. H. Olive. Teams to roll tomorrow night are: District Firemen, Rice-Schmidt Bakers. Woodchoppers, American Security & Trusi *Perpetual Building Association, Cornell ich, Model Lunch. Mome Security In- aice, Union Printers and Elite Laundry. Il at 10 o'clock are— " Becker, P. M. Appel and N. Lilly and C.'Lilly. John Papas | Watt. J. Deputy and Paul James. 3. ‘Waldron and Hatcher, J. Myers and J. Mulvey. R. Newman and' K. Thorpe, A. Santini and P. Hefflefinger and B. Geuthler and L. Murphy. and W Top honors among the 32 bowlers qualifying for the King Pin elimination tournament went to Harrison with total of 1,364 pins for 10 games. All those qualitying will roll five games to- night, the high 16 being assigned to the first flight and the remainder to the second flight. Scores for the qualifying 10 games follow: Harrison, 1,364; Slicer, 1.335: Shackleford, Lyons. 1.316; Kratzsch, 1.201: Morgan. 1; Cla 53; Peatce, L245: Simmons 9 . eide: i 22 McCurdy. 1 ‘Adamsc . 1.207; Henderson, 1,204: Nichols. 1.186; olrick, 1,185; Webb, 1,175; Dunworth, . 1.160: Hodses. 1.166; F. Moore, arrett, 1.161: Lawhorne, 1,158; Wood- McDaniel, 1,157; James Mc- ddie Lucas.’ 1,153. Robins, 1.148° Adams. 1.136: Gorman, 56: Eq 1.149; The Stamford bowlers, all of |F 2 | T AVAL R TEANS HOLDLONG DRLLS ;Georgia Tech and California Stage Sessions Behind Closed Gates. | | By the Associated Press. PASADENA, Calif., December 26— | Georgia Tech's Golden Tornados and | | California Golden Bears plunged today | with added vim into preparation for the | Rose Bowl foot ball classic on New Year day. | Both teams worked out yesterday be- hind bolted gates when charging and tackle practice was in order. California | also got in a kicking drill. Reports from the Bear workouts in- | | dicate that Coach Nibs Price is urging Benny Lom on single and double lateral pass plays behind the line of scrim- mage. Many of these plays ended with | Benny skirting the wings for long gains, | according to the reports. ‘The California mentor also was re- ported to have been making a success of delayed bucks inside of tackle. The wiseacres have deduced that Price may concentrate on the two | Georgia Tech guards, who are not quite | as hefty as the California men in those | positions. Atlanta will be almost entirely de- serted by ultra-enthusiastic foot ball fans when the Tornado special, the last of several trains traveling from Dixie |to Pasadena, rolls westward today. | ‘lR(;b(‘n Tyre Jones, jr, alone will be | left.” Among the passengers on today’s spe- cial is Robert T. Jones, st.. who never | misses a foot ball game in which Geor- gia Tech figures or a golf match cf which his son is one of the protagonists Which reminds the writer of a good story they are telling in Atlanta. 1t seems that late last Fall Robert T. Jones, sr., decided to take a little rest, so_he went to a national resort in the Far South and settled down to‘ a peaceful week of golf. On his first | day out he was surprised to find that he was being followed over the links by a large gallery. Now, Jones' game is a rattling fine one, although, of course, not in any way up to his famous son’s game. So he decided that he was basking in reflected glory and didn't like it a bit. Finally, as in a burst of impatience. he hit the ball straight and true for a mile, he heard some one in the rear | say. “Well, he's a champion, all right— | and you know I always had an idea | Bobby was older than the papers made him out to be.” ‘Whereupon the elder Jones flubbed an iron shot and called it a day. As a matter of fact, this was not the first time the well known Atlanta lawyer has been taken for his son, but he has never got used to the mistake. WITH THE INTERIOR LEAGUE. Team Standing, Disbursing Survey No. Land .. Indian " Education High team set—Survey No. 1. 1601 High team game—Land, 578 High individual set—Peterson, 373; Dotson, 73 R Planers: 108-2: Peterson, 105-11; Boteler, 105-9; King, 104-T: Sechrest. 103-21. With the end of the first series at hand, the race for first place has be- come tighter. It is possible for any | one of the first five teams to win. | " Land stepped forward and downed | the leading Disbursing team for three losses, with the heavy bombarding | coming from Billings, who shot a 372 set and a 153 game, which is high for the league. Land also grabbed high team game of 578. i Survey No. 1 and Secretary took the odd game from Pension and Indian, respectively, Flannery and Armstrong had sets of 332, and the former now has a commanding lead in individual average. To finish the schedule the lowly Education team took two from Survey No. 2, a hard blow to the latter. AGRICULTURE INTERBUREAU LEAGUE. § Team Standing. Plant Bureau . Economics ... High team sets—So-Kems, 1.680; Interbu- reaus. 1653 Central Stores, 1652, . Hlgh team games—So-Kems, 631; Inter- bureaus, Shops. Central Stores, 579, High_indlvidial sets-Ruppert, 37; Gor- man, 378; Hevener. 367. Hign individual games—Adams, 156; Posey, 150; Donaldson, Palmer, 149. Shooting 1,652 for one of the best sets of the year, Central Stores team swept the first two games with Plant Bureau rather easily and led in the third until Rose, anchor for Plant, with an amazingly accurate slide shot con- verted a split into a spare in his tenth box and counted eight to give the game to his team. Frank Donaldson and Myers did the best bowling for Central Stores, while Rose and Ferrall were out in front *for Plant Bureau. Interbureaus had the very unpleas- ant experience of outshooting Blister Rust by a margin of 1,560 to 1,496 on the set and yet dropping two of the three games to that team, due to a couple of hair-raising tenth-box rallies by Blister Rust. Posey led the win- ners, while McCarthy's 340 set was best for the Ints. Economics made it a triple tie for first place by taking two games from the Soils-Chemistry quint, with Rohr- man and Capt. Miller supplying the fireworks. Moeller and Ready did the best bowling for the So-Kems. Ruppert, Cooper and Terwisse col- laborated in some classy pin spilling for the Accounts team and the Shops outfit lost all three games in spite of a 324 set by McConnville. Shops set of 1,524 was plenty good enough to have won from almost any other team on the floor except Accounts, which piled up a total of 1,587. DISTRICT LEAGUE. Team Standing. ct King Pin... 694 Convention 'Hi Curb_Cafe.. Stanford Paper Co. emple ......... Progressiv Arcadia Meyer Petworth . Cornell's Lunch High team set—Stanfor High team game—Progressive Printers, 669. High individual set—Mitchell, Temple, 406. High individual game—Wolstenholme (Con- vention Hall). 158. High individual average—Rosenberg (Curb Cafe), 120-6. Though Convention Hall was winning three games at the expense of Stanford Paper Co. while King Pin was winning two games from Tomple, the former failed to regain leadership by a margin of two pins, although actually a half game in_front. ze! Lucas. 1.135: Hail, 1,110; Burns, 1,103, and Hendley, 1 b { As much as $50,000 is pald in England; lor a soccor player, Curb Cafe's march upward was ab- ruptly halted when Progressive Printers took all three games, rolling 669 for an all-time District, record for league com- petition, L | morrow night in Bolling Field gym- | American Security & Trust Co. quint 3% | holm bl K. OF C. TO AGAIN PLACE QUINT IN COMPETITION ASHINGTON Knights of Co- 7 lumbus again will be repre- sented by a basket ball team. Organizing last Winter for the first time, the Caseys made a fine record and contrived to beat Anacostia Eagles, city unlimited class champions. However, the Birds| twice defeated the K. C. quint before the season was over. Orrell Mitchell, coach of the Casey team, wants to arrange a double-header | for the Knights' gym for Sunday and | to list other dates. He has especially | challenged National Preps, Sioux A. C.,| Brentwood, Woodside and other teams. | Call Atlantic 2359-W for dates with the | Caseys. Original Anacostia Eagles are gun- ning for the scalp of Skinner Bros. Eagles, formerly Anacostia Eagles, city unlimited class title holders. The orig- inal Eagles will practice today and to- nasium. Woodside A. C. tossers will meet | tonight, at 9 o'clock. in the girls’ gym- | nasium at Central High School. Wood- side players are to meet at Forsyth's drug store tonight at 8 o'clock. Satur-| day the Woodside combination will| meet McLean A. C., at McLean, Va. ; Other games arranged for Woodside | A. C. include: | January 2, Warrenton A. C., at War- renton, Va.; Southern Railway at Terminal Y: 8, Benjamin Franklin at Langley Junior High: 11, Petworth meets at Macfarland Junior High: 15 (open): 18, Central Reds at Macfar- land; 22 (open): 25, Bliss Electrical | School at Silver Spring. ‘ With a total of 34 points for four | games, Jack Faber, former University | of Maryland court and lacrosse star, now playing with Woltz A. C., is lhe} | leading scorer to date in the Washing- ton City Amateur Basket Ball League. Faber has shot 11 fleld goals and 12| from the foul line. Jones of Harriman | & Co., and Vincent of Company F of Hyatttsville stand second with 32 points each, and Wright, also of Company F, | is fourth with 29. | Woltz and Y. M. O. A. teams are tied for the league lead, each with three | wins and one defeat. | Games are sought every night this week except Saturday by Woltz A. C. with unlimited class teams having a gym. A contest also is wanted for Saturday night, for which the Woltz quint has a floor. Challenges are being Teceived at National 5783 during the day, or Cleveland 838 at night. A game for New Year afternoon with an unlimited division quint is sought by Y. M. C. A. five. Call Ray Nash at| Atlantic 1972 after 5 p.m. Matches with fives having gyms are wanted by Seaman Gunners, an un- limited class outfit. Lieut. Ford is booking at Lincoln 1360, branch 233. Fort Myer 115-pound class basketers are hot on the trail of Aztecs and Cres- | cents and are desirous of arranging a zame for tomorrow night in the Fort Myer gym. Call Clarendon 1334-J-2 after 6 p.m. Oakley A. C. quint of Baltimore is | casting about for a game for New Year day or night with a Washington op-| ponent. The Marylanders also are after | Sunday night games with District clubs. Ted Marks, Oakley manager, may be reached at 2864 Oakley avenue, Balti-| more. Scholastic Teams to Figure In Several Holiday Clashes; ENTRAL High's basket ball squad, which is being hustled along by Coach Bert Coggins in prep- aration for the public high school championship series which opens January 4, will resume play after a lay-off of several days with a game against Hoffman Clothiers tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in Alex- andria. In its last game Central put up a stern fight before bowing to York, Pa., | High, at York, 17 to 21. Central's clever swimming team will engage a strong alumni combination in a meet tonight in the Ceptral pool starting at 7 o'clock. The annual Christmas meeting of the C Club will follow, as will a meeting of the'alumni association. Officers are to be elected at the meeting of the C Club and other matters given attention. Dancing will be the concluding feature of the eve- ning. BOWLERS the match 0, while Pet- | The | Cornell's Lunch swept against Myer Davis, 3 to worth trimmed Arcadia, 2 to 1. 9 | week's hest scores inclides Nay's 403, | Barnard’s 364, Simon's 362, B. Harris: son's 347, Manley's 400, J. Wolsten- 's 398, Thorpe's 363, Lyon's 343, | Moore's 335, Noland's 334 and Roth- | geb's 379. | INTERNAL REVENUE LEAGUE. | Team Standing. Special Adjustment Miscellaneous ... Special Assessment Consolidated ..... Annex No. & Personal Audit ' General Counsel Rules and Regulation: MR 5 | 9 strikes—Mansuy, 2 team game_—Gern team set—Miscellaneous, 1.64 After Special Adjustment and Per- sonal Audit had each won a game in their match, Leslie settled matters for the leaders by smashing the pins for | a count of 162 in the final, a new high mark for individual games. Miscellaneous took two close ones from Annex No. 1, but dropped the final by a two-pin margin. Special Assessment rolled an even 1,600 in winning its match with Con- solidated. General Counsel was the only team to take three games, Rules and Regulations being the victim. Among the week's high scores were sets of 355 by Taylor, 354 by Hurley and Leslie's 369. STRAIGHT O BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. ONGRESSIONAL COUNTRY ‘ CLUB has passed the buck to 596. 4. Tommy Armour and it is up to him either to accept a con- siderable cut in salary or to move on to other fields. The club has advised the junior mem- ber of the Armour golfing family that it cannot next year afford to continue paying the relatively large salary it has paid him since he won the open championship. The amount of the salary is not gen- erally known, but is said to be very near five figures, and on top of this goes all the concessions in the way of lessons and sale of golf accessories. The club feels that it cannot afford to | pay such a salary to a man who is! away from Washington for such a large | part of the year, and it is understood to be offering Tommy the aiternative of being a stay-at-home pro with a cut in salary or finding a job more to his liking. Meanwhile, notwithstanding the reti- cence of influential members of the club, it is well understood that several first-class professionals are bidding for the Congressional post, among them two well known local professionals. The inside dope on the situation, as ex- pounded by a man who should know, is that Congressional will go outside of ‘Washington for its professional, in case Tommy Armour is not with the club at the expiration of his contract on March 18 next. This would mean that Alex Armour, who now is foremost in the list of bidders for the post, will not be with the club next year. But the matter still is very much in the air and next year may find the graceful game of Sandy still on exhibition at Congressional. ~ With true Scottish foresight, however, the elder Armour is angling for a job in the New York dis- trict, in case the Congressional post goes to some one else. Always Big Money Maker. Tommy Armour, ever since he turned professional four years ago at the re- quest of the United States Golf Asso- ciation, has been one of the biggest! money makers in the professional game. ‘Two years ago, before he won the open championship, he was ranked next to Hagen as the biggest money maker among the members of the paid brigade. Certainly Armour’s ability to extract spare change in the provinces did not diminish after he won the open last year, and he is sald to have signed sontracts within # month after his | High and Eastern High, at Reading, on Eastern High basketers will journey to Leesburg, Va. tonight to engage | Leesburg Independents. Coach Artie Boyd wants members of the Tech High court squad to report for practice each morning at 10 o'clock | at the Boys' Club gym. Third and C streets, throughout the holidays, which | end next Tuesday. | Boyd announced today that he would | start the following line-up against the | alumni in the game Friday morning at | 10:30 o'clock: Johnson and Talburtt, forwards: Mac- Cartee, center, and Capt. Goldblatt and | Brown, guards. Right now it appears that ail of these players, with the ex- | ception of Talburtt, likely will start January 4 against Eastern in one of the opening games of the public high series. Goldblatt, Brown and Mac- Cartee all are seasoned players. John- son is only a sophomore, but is tall and unusually promising. Talburtt is being | pushed for the other forward job by several. With a view to building for the future Boyd is carrying seven sophomores and as many juniors on his squad. Werber, Councilor and Croson, all of whom are holding down varsity berths with Duke University this Winter; Berger and Rooney, freshmen at the University of Maryland: Koons, an upper classman at the old-line school, and Jack For- ney are some expected to be in the Tech Alumni line- This game will be the only foot match in which; D. ball Tech will take part before the public | high series. St. John's College will engage its alumni also on Friday in a contest in the Saint's gym. A match carded between Reading, Pa., Friday has been cancelled. It has just been announced that | Western will meet its alumni Saturday morning, at 10 o'clock, in the Western | gym. Bob Wilson, Warren Rabbitt. Albert Heagy and Bill Luney, all of the Uni- versity of Maryland: Don Garger of Duke and Francis Doyle of Purdue, comprising the group slated to uphold alumni prestige. In another game Saturday Central will play host to Gettysburg, Pa., High in the Central gym. GAME AT SILVER SPRING. Silver Spring National Guard tossers will entertain Fort Myer basketers to- night in the Silver Spring, Md., Nation- al Guard Armory. The game will fol- low a preliminary between Silver Spring | Girls and Good Shepherd Lassies start- | ing at 7:30 o’clock. FF THE TEE win at Pittsburgh which were to total more than $65,000. ‘Tommy Armour, no matter where he goes, always will be a big money maker. For he is a man with an ex- tensive knowledge of psychology, a free spender, always willing to give the other fellow more than an even break, and a “square shooter” in every sense of the word. | There is and never has been any | inkling of bad feeling between him- self and Congressional, where Tommy is regarded more as a member of the club than as the servant of the club, which the professional usually is. i If he leaves Congressional—and it | seems likely that he will—the break will come about solely on the money issue. If Tommy feels he can make more money somewhere else, and Con- | gressional feels that it cannot afford | to pay him his present salary, that is| purely & business matter and one solely | between Armour and the club. There | is no hint of bad feeling on either side, and never has been. It is solely a business arrangement. Armour’s talents and ability have been appreciated by the club, and the advertising he has given the Congres- sional Country Club has been inval- uable. But the club feels it cannot afford to continue longer to pay Tommy a fairly large salary as an advertising proposition, which is virtually what it | amounts to, inasmuch as Tommy is out | of the city much of the time. ! Likely to Go to Detroit. ‘Tommy is dickering with the Tam O'Shanter Club of Detroit, where his close friend—George Von Elm—is the | king pin amateur. and star insurance salesman. He is said to have been offered a large salary by the Detroit organization, with virtually the same traveling privilege arrangement he en- Jjoyed at Congressional. This appears tl)leke!l);zl to be Tommy Armour’s next th. Meanwhile Tommy is on the Pacific Coast, where he won the Sacramento open the other day. He will travel with the other lads of the paid brigade through the California circuit, which reaches its peak with the $10,000 Los Angeles open January 9 to 13. Pasadena has an cpen tourney worth $4000 on January 15 and 16, and then the pros will hike Southeast to El Paso, Tex., for the $2,000 event at that place. Then comes the $6,500 open at San Antonio and the $6,000 tourney | | five in Brooklyn. | the opening of the Caseys’ new build~ | into action Saturday. | tween Towa and the Pittsburgh Panthers at Hot Springs. .From there the boys move East to Plorida, where the repeti- tion of the La Gorce open holds out $15,000 to the pros. EAST ELEVEN ABOUT READY FOR BATTLE SAN FRANCISCO, December 26 (#). —With the Eastern gridders holding a big advantage on the Westerners in the matter of practice, Orin Holling- bert, West coach, prepared today to send his men through the first scrim- mage of their training period for their clash here in a charity game Saturday. The East team had a long scrim- mage session yesterday, and is fast rounding into a powerful eleven, From all indications, the starting line-up which Head Coach Andy Kerr will send into the engagement, will find Haycraft, Minnesota, and Johsos, North- western, ends; Nowack, Illinois, and Getto, Pittsburgh, tackles; Fox, Pitts- burgh, and Gibson, Minnesota, guards; Ashman, Washington and Jefferson, center; Harpster, Carnegie Tech. quar- ter; Weston, Boston College, and Howell, Nebraska, halves, and Holmer, North- western, fullback. The stagling line-up of the West- ern eleven ¥ still uncertain. G. U. FIVE TO OPEN SERIES TOMORROW Georgetown University basketers will tomorrow night play the first of a series of five games around New York City, when they engage “Knights of Columbus The match will mark ing in Brooklyn. Crescent A. C. will be engaged Satur- day in Brooklyn by the Hoyas, who after a lay-off of several days will tackle two opponents not yet announced in the Yale tournament at New Haven, Jan- uary 2 and 3. Coming back to New York the Blue and Gray will hook-up with the New York A.C.on January 5. Aside from the Georgetown games the only basket ball tilt in which a Dis*rict college will figure prior to the New Year is that between Gallaudet and the Flint (Mich) Silents at Kendall Green. BIG TEN FIVES TUNE FOR TITLE CONTESTS By the Associated Press. CHICAGO. December 26.— With Christmas out of the way, the basket shooters of the Big Ten faced final warming-up games before the opening |of intraconference competition Janu- ary 8. Chicago goes to Depauw University tomorrow for some more tuning up, while other Big Ten teams will get The game be- is the high spot on the Saturday pro- gram. Last year the Panthers, by means of a brilliant last-minute rally, won, 44 to 40. In the other tilts, Wisconsin will play Lombard College and Cornell Col- lege will meet Minnesota. Outside the Big Ten the Notre Dame- Kansas games at Convention Hall in Kansas City Friday and Saturday night will be the center of attention. NOTED U. S. SWIMMER TO ENTER PRO RANKS By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 26.—Johnny ‘Weissmuller, one of the world greatest swimmers, will sing his swan song to amateurism on January 3 to dive into :mnmere prosaic business of earning a g. Weissmuller, in a letter to W. G. Uffendell, chairman of the athletic committee of the Illinois Athletic Club, explained that he “must look into the future and try to earn some money, something an athlete in constant train- ing finds hard to do.” Weissmuller did not state in his let- ter what he intends to do to earn money, but friends are reported as say- ing that stage appearances are includ- ed in the program. The swimmer's final appearance as an amateur will be made January 3 at the Cook County interscholastic swimming championships at the 1. A. C. When he pulls himself out of the water the last time that night, he will hold nearly every free style world record in pools from 50 to 880 yards, indoors and outdoors. Weissmuller was given his first try- out by the I. A. C. in 1920 by Coach William Bachrach. In his first race he broke a world record. He later swam 100 yards in a 60-foot pool in 49 4-5, the greatest feat of his brilliant career. He was on the American swimming team at the 1924 and 1928 Olympic games. In the National A. A. U. champions in Honolulu, Weissmuller, after swimming his strenuous program, competed in the 880-yard swim and broke a world record. In a marathon swim last Summer. Weissmuller found the water so cold that he had to be helped out before he had finished the course. This Winter he has been training for cold water swimming by taking a daily dip in frigid Lake Michigan. GUNNERS IN BIG EVENT. LEBANON, Pa., December 26 (#).— Gunners from all parts of Pennsylvania Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and New Jersey, as well as from Mass- achusetts and Canada, gathered here | today for the annual yuletide wing shoot I at the Pleasant Hill Gun Club, with the ¢ Millard trophy at stake. Official A. C. SPEEDOMETER SERVICE We Repair All Makes Starting, Lighting, Ignition CREEL BROS. 1811 14th St. N.W. Dec. 4220 U.S.TIRES No Red Tape No Embarrassment Bring Your Car Registration Card Get Your Tires On the Spot 1234 14th St. N.W. 2250 Sherman Ave. N. 634 Pa. Ave. S.E.