Evening Star Newspaper, January 29, 1929, Page 31

SPORTS MOTHER DIES JUST BEFORE SET OPENS Plays Because of Her Last Request—Leads Cards to World Series Win. BY ROGERS HORNSBY. T was with a heavy heart that I went into that world series of 1926 against the Yankees. The biggest event of my base ball career had arrived, and my mother was lying dead 2,000 miles away. It was only because of her last re- quest that I stay with the team and Elly in the series that I was able to ar up under the strain. I knew I was doing what she wanted me to do. She always had been deeply interested in my base ball career. To make matters worse, I still hadn't heard a word from Sam Breaden, presi- dent of the Cardinals. He went to New York to attend the series, but didn't once come and talk with me. He hadn't even yet congratulated me on_winning the league pennant. I seemed. terribly alone in the world but the pla: soon as I got into uniform I forgot &ll worries and cares and just made up my mind to go into the fight and win. The first two games were to be play- ed in New York, and then three in St. Louis. The Yankees trimmed us in the first game, 2 to 1, with Sherdel pitching against Pennock. We won the second, 6 to 2, with Alexander working against Shocker. With the series even, we traveled to St. Louis to continue the battle. Our team hadn't been home since winning the pennant, and the whole city of St. Louls turned out to give us the great- est reception ever given any ball team at any time. I realized then that the fans were for me, even if everything Wwas Wrong. Babe Evens the Series. ‘We jumped into the lead by winning fhe first set-to in St. Louis, 4 to 0, with Haines pitching the best game of his life against Reuther. Things looked pretty good then, but the following day, with Reinhart on the slab against Hoyt, Babe Ruth rose to the heights by hitting three home runs. The Yanks beat us, 10 to 5, and again the series was even. It was Sherdel against Pennock in the fifth game, and we were beaten Bgain, 3 to 2. Sherdel pitched great ball, but he had all the bad breaks. Hafey lost one ball in the sun that was costly. We had to go back to New York then to finish, with the Yankees needing only one game to end the series. We needed two. Things looked blue, but Alexander rose to the occasion, not only winning the sixth game easily, 10 to 2, but coming in as relief man in the seventh and deciding game and saving it for us. With the series even, I had sent Haines to the rubber for the final game, and he was opposed by Hoyt. We won, 3 to 2, but with the most dramatic finish ever seen. Haines had them 3 to 2 in the seventh, when he rubbed a bit of skin off his finger and lost cortrol. I had Sherdel in the bull pen with dlec. Alec to the Rescue. ‘When Haines blew up the bases were filled, two were out, Lazzeri was at bat end only one run was needed to tie. It was no place for Sherdel, a left- hander. Lazzeri murders southpaws. I called a halt and signeled for old Alec. Never have I seen a greatet bit of 1 HOPE NODODY waxasS ™mME UP-. -+ THOSE WONDERFLL STArs '! | MUST Take UR. ASTRONOMY...... AREN'T THOSE LOVELY, VOICES | HEAR- PLEASE DON'T DISTURE, ME..... OB HEAR THOSE BIRDS ' WHAT GorRGEOLS PLUMAGE THEY HAVE ! AREN'T WE HAVING. _FuI DISTRICT BASKETERS AT NAVY THIS WEEK ANNAPOLIS, January 29.—The sports offering this week at the Naval Academy includes the initial boxing match of the local season, one of the most important matches on the wrestling schedule and three basket ball games, all against ‘Washington teams. ‘The outstanding event for Saturday is the boxing match between the Naval Academy and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the opening match for both teams. ‘The Navy wrestlers meet Lehigh, in- tercollegiate champions last season. The Naval team has defeated Virginia Military Insttiute and Duke by decisive scores this season, and awaits the match with Lehigh as a sterner test. ‘Tomorrow the Naval basket ball team entertains George Washington, and Sat- urday American University opposes the Navy varsity, while the Georgetown freshmen oppose the Naval Academy, plebes. UNBEATEN YEARLINGS MEET. UNIVERSITY, Va., January 29— Virginia'e first-year basket ball team faces one of the hardest, if not the very hardest, game of the season on Thursday, when the freshman five Wonder What a Horizontal Pugilist Thinks About. crimes!! How 1 Apore BELLS..."d Don'T WNDOW WHEN 'I'VE HEARD SUCH EXQUISITE -HARMONY. i BELLS WHAT A LBVELY TIME WE'RE ALL NAVING '! | MAVE A BIT OF A MEAD- ACHE BuT ou! THE SCENERY A THE STARS !, The Birps' Tue Bells! —By Briggs WHO, t WENDER, IS TuAaT, COARSE. f?ckscu § COUNrTING] NUMBERS {To .:ne - o WHAT A PERFECTLY 'SILLY VOICE 3 HE (A S Si%mow JARRING ! | HEAR SHOUTING Now! I'VE HAD A PERFECTLY WONDEREUL TRIP~ Wio Sockep Me! ! Devitt, St. John’s Quints Meet Tomorrow in Prep Series Tilt o'clock in the Boys' Club in a prep school basket ball league match. Each has lost its only league start, having bowed to Gonzaga, the loop leader, and will be out for a victory tomorrow. In the games here yesterday in which scholastic teams of the District group figured Eastern defeated Gonzaga, 23 to 17, in the Eastern gym and Western bowed to Catholic University Freshmen, 15 to 30, in the preliminary to the C. U.-American U. varsity game in the C. U. gym EVITT and St. John'’s will meet D tomorrow afternoon at 3:15 ‘There now are four teams in the | league with the admission last night of Emerson. This school's team was ad- mitted at a special meeting of league officials at the Boys’ Club. The eligi- bility rules of the loop were amended. raising the age limit of players from 20 to 21 years in conformation with the regulations governing public play. With Emerson in the league the schedule for the remaineder of the series will be rearranged, according to Orrel Mitche!l, sponsor of the league. It is likely that two double headers will be played each week. One game has been played each Wednesday. so from Washington and Lee comes to the memorial gymnasium for a contest. Neither the young Cavaliers nor the little Generals have been defeated this season. High Unlimited OTING the most impressive record of any team ever to represent itching than the old-timer gave us. zx the first place he took all the time #n the world getting from the bull pen to the rubber. When he arrived I told bim the situation. “There’s no place to put this fellow,” ¥ said, meaning that the batter mustn’t walk. “He'll never get on there” Alec as- pured me. He didn't. Alec fanned him on four pitched balls, retiring the side. In the next inning Alec set the Yanks down three in a row. In the ninth, he retired Coombs and Koenig. Then along came Ruth. Alec got the call of 2 and 2 on Babe, and I'll always believe he had the big fellow struck out on the next pitched ball. It was a slow floater d Babe let it go. The umpire called t a third ball. Alec wouldn’t put the next one close and allowed Babe to walk, But a moment later he tried to steal second and O'Farrell pegged him out a mile. ‘That ended it. The world champion- phip was ours. (Copyright, 1929, by North American News- paper Alliance.) (Next—Traded to New York) MARINE BASKETERS TO PLAY HOFFMANS LEXANDRIA, Va., January 29.— Defeated by a four-point mar- gin at the hands of the Hoff- man Clothiers recently in their own gymnasium at Quantico, Va., the United States Marine basket ball team will endeavor to even the gcore tomorrow night when the two quints clash at 8:30 on the Armory Hall court in the second game of a home- mnd-home series, Rourke, Lendo, Cover, Slight, Barnett, Schultz, Ausman, Ostrander and Wil- liams make up the Marine squad. Willis H. Edmund, Alexandria High School athletic director, is endeavoring to schedule a game for his Maroon and White quint with John Marshall High School of Richmond to be played here Friday night at 8:30 in the Armory Hall. In order that Alexandria High may use the Armory for the game, Old Dominion Boat Club has indefinitely postponed the game scheduled for that night with the Skinker Bros’' Eagles of Washington. Nosed out by Gilman Country School at Baltimore last week end, Episcopal High School was to meet Woodward School of Washington this afternoon at 3:30 in Stewart Memorial gymnasium in an effort to break into the win column once more. Episcopal will meet two traditional rivals this week end when it travels to Army War College, the present basket ball quint flaunting the colors of that institution will meet the best teams in this section in an effort to gain a place among the ranking unlimited teams of the current season. Sergt. J. A. Mels has booked 12 games for next month. His team has won 23 and lost but 2 games this season. Two open dates remain on the schedule. Call Meis at National 8772, branch 73, for arrangements. Games scheduled: February 2, Head- quarters Company; 4, Peerless A. C.; 6, Jewish Community Center; 9, Fort Washington; 11, Petworth Mets; 13, Naval Air Station; 16, Fort Humph- reys; 18, Quantico Marines; 20, Y. M. C. A.; 23, Marine Barracks; 25, Wash- ington Grays, and 27, Quantico Marines. Woltz A. C. and W. H. West Co. quints are to battle tonight at 9 o'clock in Central High gym. This is a second half series game of Washington City League. Manager Hurley, at Main 9900, is seeking a game for Thursday night for the West team. AH Corinthian players are requested to report tonight at 7 o’clock inCalvary Church gym to prepare to meet Calvary Eagles there at 7:30 o'clock. Skinker Eagles fell victims to the Miami quint last night in Congress Heights gym, 34 to 24. Trailing 10 to 19 at half time, the local team rallied but could not halt their rivals. ‘Washington Grays ran up a 63 to 9 margin over National Publishing Co. cagers in Community Center League last night. Grays expect a pattle tonight MARTINSBURG SIGNS OUTFIELDER, HURLER MARTINSBURG, W. Va. January 29.—Bill Lee, Detroit, outfielder, who was here for a few days in the 1928 season, and L. Wagner, righthand pitcher of New York, have signed con- tracts for tryouts with the local Blue Ridge base ball team in the Spring, the management_announces. Wagner was recommended by Earl Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics, a former man- ager here. The local club’s reserve, which con- tained but three men at the beginning of the season, now includes 10. Frank Crompton, formerly with the local club, has been sent to the Dan- ville club of the Three-I League. He e. was the second best hitter in the league last year. Joe Luciano, who shortstopped for the locals, has been transferred to the Tampa club of the Southeastern League. Edward Judd, third sacker for Mar- tinsburg the past two seasons, will go Charlottesville to play Augusta Military Academy of Fort Deflance, Va., Friday night and Lynchburg, Va, for a game with Virginia Episcopal School Satur- gay night. The annual banquet of the Virginia A. C. foot ball team will be held tonight &t 8 o'clock in Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Hall, Prince and Royal streets. J. T. Preston, jr., and J. F. Wilson are mem- bers of the committee on arrangements. Herbert Bryant, local boy who starred for Episcopal High School in the four major sports last season, is playing for- ward on the freshman quint at the University of Virginia. 0ld Dominion Boat Club will meet at King and Alfred streets tomorrow night at 6:30 to make the trip to Leesburg, Va., where the Leesburg Independents will be played at 8 o'clock. AMERICAN ‘PRO’ BASKET BALL' EISEMAN'S, 7th & F Chicage, 27; New York Hakoabs, 2, to the training camp of the Milwaukee Brewers of the American Association this Spring. With him will go Lefty Mcintire, Washington. Pitcher William Foreman will go South with the Roch- ester Redbirds. NINE UMPIRES FOR A. A, CHICAGO, January 29 (#)—Nine umpires have been named to the offi- clating staff of the American Assocla- tion for the 1929 season by President Thomas J. Hickey. In the past years the staff has been limited to eight. TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats far, In other matches tomorrow, Catholic University freshmen and Gonzaga will face in the Gonzaga gym, Georgetown Prep will travel to Emmitsburg, Md. Ranking Goal Of Army War College Quint when they face Fort Leonard Wi 'ood courtmen at Fort Leonard Wood, Md. In a rough-and-tumble battle last night, Anacostia Eagles downed Na- tional Circles, 10 to 4, with Clarke and Dalglish performing well for the victors. An upset in the former of & 34 to 14 setback handed De Luxe quint by the lowly Hartfords featured the Boys' ht. Cel- in a 26 to Jones accounted for 9 points as Har- riman & Cb. tossers triumphed over Company C cagers, 32 to 10, last night. Twin Oaks were the seventh consecu- tive victim of Kennedy Red Stars last night, taking a 24 to 15 reverse, with Jones and Marks starring. After leading the way, 17 to 2, for the first half, Army Medicos were swept away by a Naval Air Station rally that gave the latter team a 34 to 24 decision. Dugan and Underwood shone for their respective quints last night as Dupont A. C. downed 260th Coast Ar- tillery courtmen, 28 to 26. ‘With Starnes leading the scorers, Pet- worth five vanquished Nuahg last night, 35 to 15. Tivolli Whirlwinds were trounced yes- terday by Jewish Community Arrows, 24 to 35. Genderson d Schoneiman led the attack. Boys’ Club Hartics handed Sham- rocks a 45 to 14 drubbing last night. Aztec Midgets administered a 45 to 9 walloping to Petworth Cards in Y gym last night. Joray was chief point getter with 14 to his credit. LINDSTROM AND TERRY NEW YORK, January 20 (#).—All but eight of the names of the New York Giants’ roster for the coming base ball season also appear on con. tracts, but among the missing eight are two that may cause a bit of worry. They are Freddy Lindstrom, star third baseman, who was runner-up to Jim Bottomley for the National League's most-valued-player award last Fall, and Bill Terry, one of the outstanding first sackers of the circuit. ‘The Giants' manggement, while in- sisting on the point®that the hold-out season still is far away, does not con- ceal the fact that it is more eager to see their signatures on contracts than they are to put them there. —— e — POTOMAC FIVE BOOKED. Potomac Boat Club basket ball team, which has been having difficulty ob- taining games, is to meet Petworth Mets at Central High School Thursday night at 9 o'clock. : Hawkins NASH Still “conveniently located on 14th street” and the same set slogan of “Satisfaction Plus” from smiling sales and service men., 1529 14th St. N.W. Decatur 3320 engage Mount St. Mary's Preps, Busi- ness and Hyattsville High will meet at Hyattsville, and Skinker Eagles and Bliss will come to grips in a night game in the armory at Silver Spring, Md. Public high school title games be- sween Business and Eastern and Central and Tech in the Tech gym featured the schoolboy basket ball card here today. 3t. Alban’s was to hook up with George- town Prep at Garrett Park, Md, and Benjamin Franklin and George Mason High of Alexandria were to face in other encounters of the day. Eastern’s regulars proved a little too much for Gonzaga yesterday. The Purple was able to battle the Light Blue and White reserves on just about even terms, but when Coach Sanborn sent in his first stringers the Lincoln Parkers provoded too formidable for the [ streeters. Gonzaga, however, gave the Easterners stout opposition all the way and were behind at the half only 5 to 7. Cody, Shapiro and Jommy Ryan for Eastern and Jake Farrell and Bus- sink for Gonzaga were leading scorers. It was Gonzaga's second defeat this season at Eastern’s hands. ‘Western proved no match for Catho- lic University Freshmen. With Clemons and Kane heading their attack, each with four goals from scrimmage, the Cardinal yearlings held the whip hand all the way. At the f the Freshmen to | were in the van, 16 to 9. Third Variation Of Mlini Attack BY SOL METZGER. When you attend a basket ball game and one of the teams begins ringing up baskets you will get more of a kick out of it if you will delve into the cause by a bit of personal scouting than you will if the winning team happens to be the one you support. Studying a contest from this angle adds tremendously to one’s interest in a sport. Any one can do it if he watches closely the moves of the players on attack. You know pretty much what the defense is doing. The point of the game is to see how the offense overcomes the defense—outwits it, in other words. In preceding articles two Illinois plays that started exactly alike with different breaks for scoring were shown. Here is a third variation to the attack that centers around Lindsay, tall center. Guard No. 4 trails the two for- wards, Nos, 1 and 3, and the center, No. 2, up the floor, dribbling be- hind them. Lindsay, No. 2, at the foul line, makes a break to his left as is his wont on his spinner play, By"hix opporent ¢ 105 speed siralgnt )y his opponent a speed straight for the basket, withpN‘;i. 1 and 3 driving for it from either side. Thus, if No. 4's long shot misses they are in for the rebound and & close up shot. Next—The Minnesota attack. (Copyright, 1929.) Auto Bodies, Radiators, Fenders Repaired; also New Radiators Harrison radiators and cores in stook {Hstatts, 1805 “:#’ North 7177 Also 319 18th, % lock Below Ave. (AR o T GARDINALS UPSET A. U. BASKET QUINT €. ¥, Team Wins on Merits, 28-25—G. W. to Ptay at Annapolis Tomorrew George Washington basketers, who. have lost both their starts so far, hardly expect to win over Navy, when they face the Middies tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at Annapolis, but they hope to make a creditable showing. Catholic University yesterday staged the biggest upset so far of the college floor season when it overcame American University, 28 to 25, at Brookland. Because of mid-year examinations Coach Maud Crum, has been handi- capped in getting the Colonials togeth- er to prepare for the Navy match. Last night was the first time Crum had his whole squad on the job since the contest with University of Baltimore a week ago Baturday night. A long drill is planned tonight. George Washington's starting line-up against the Navy will be the same, it is expected, as has started the Colonials’ two other games. It comprises Alls- house and Fine, forwards; Snow, cen- ter, and Barrow and Gray, guards. George Washington was beaten by the Navy last season, 34 to 53. A game between George Washington and Catholic University, also scheduled tomorrow, has been postponed to March 2 and will be played in the George Washington gym. Catholic University’s win over Ameri- can University last night, the first in seven starts this season for the Cardi- nals, was no fluke. Coach Fred Rice’s boys held the whip hand over the Meth- odists virtually all the way. Rice used a combination of which Tut Amann was the spearhead that was superior to American University, which played not at all impressively. Forrest Burgess, sharp-shooting American forward, was unable to score a single goal from scrimmage, while Dave Lichliter, cen- ter, another star, was lost to the team before the first half ended, because of personal fouls. It was a point-for-point battle throughout the first half, with C. U. holding a 17-15 lead at the intermis- sion. Batéling continued on a nip-and- tuck basis during most of the second half, but C. U. gained the edge in the late going and held it the remainder of the way. Aside from Amann, fine exhibitions were turned in for the Cardinals by Jim Hanley and Bill Reilly, the last named making his debut with the Var- sity. Bruce Kessler and Leon Shloss were most consistent for American U., the former with 10 points being his team’s top scorer. $ C. U. (28). GF.Pts. A U.(25). GF.Pts. 40 8 Burgess, f... Olsen, . La Favr Lichliter, Field, ¢! Schloss, Walsh, ' &. Fitzgerald, Kessler, Totals Referee—Mr. Sumner (G. W.). Mr. Simpson (G. U. NEARBY SCHOOLBOYS IN BASKET TOURNEY HYATTSVILLE, Md., January 29— Championship high school basket ball teams of Prince Georges and Montgom- ery Counties will compete in the sixth annual State-wide title tournament, play in which will begin March 1. A series to determine the Montgomery County standard bearer now is in prog- ress. Hyattsville High will represent Prince Georges County, being the only hl%ht school of the county having a quint. Play in the tournament will as usual be under direction of the Playground Athletic League of Maryland. Last year 16 counties furnished 47 teams and 533 boys were entered. Catonsville, which won the Western Shore title, won the State championship last season. THE SIDE LINES With the Sports Editor By DENMAN THOMPSON: HILE none of the mag- nates, aside from Col. Jacob Ruppert, has gone on record as favoring identification numerals for the players, which the Yankees will inaugurate this year, we have a hunch the plan will be universally adopted be- fore the records of many more seasons are compiled. And this despite the out- spoken opposition of some of the owners, chief among them Clark Griffith, and the disap- proval of the scheme by such an astute and practical a base ball man as KErnest Barnard, boss of the American League. The reason for this belief is that so far as we can discern the plan has everything to recommend it and no disad- vantage, none deserving serious consideration, at any rate. One of the chief appeals of base ball is that its action is right out in the open where everything can be seen. In this respect it has a mark- ed advantage over foot ball as a game for onlookers, and anything that can be done to make the sport even more easily followed will tend to increase its popularity. That numbering players will serve this purpose there can be no doubt. As for contention that the plan will fail of its mission to instantly and accurately apprise all observ- ers of the fdentily of any uniformed figure on the field, we have yet to hear onme sound supporting reasom, while there are plenty to be advanced against the present practice o, having added starters “announced” by @ megaphone man with a voice of qustionable clarity and carrying power. If a fan were interested only in the athletes actually performing in a game and happened to be a fairly frequent attendant he soon would come to know all the regulars on the home team, but he still would be dubious concerning the less promi- nent members of his own club and absolutely in the dark regarding many of the visiting players. How many times have you had to conjecture about the identity of some unfamiliar figure in a travel- ing uniform who displayed impres- sive ability in batting practice prior to the game; inquired vainly regard- ing the new player cavorting at short during the infield drill or looked quizzically in the direction of the distanct bull pen, where two or three pitchers may be warming up in the course of a battle? Even coachers are the subject of interest to the fans, especially if they are particularly noisy or other- wise colorful, and they become a matter of some moment to the newspaper men if they pull a boner, such as sending runner to his death. This writer has been covering games, not only here, but in ball parks all over the country for a number of years and can state as a matter of simple fact that there are few games in which he would not have his work made easier if the names of all the figures on the field :rm accurately available at all We have seen instances where managers have switched players in the infield - or outfield. sometimes from one to the other, with just who was who left uncertain for a couple of innings, and some days ,when ne announcement. .of iany -Xkind -was:- made of a change. in assignments;- with consequent incorrect seoringy - aused an un- told number of newspaper readers to be misinformed und ‘resulted 'in mental anguisk for more than “Gile writer, which - would have been avoided by the numbering system, occurred right at Griff Stadium last season. A The Yankees were here and i the last half of the ninth the New York management found it expedient to change pitchers. One visiting seribe, glancing hurriedly from his copy at the generously proportioned figure striding in from deep left vouchsafed that Moore was the new pitcher. And that's the way it was pre- sented in the wired reports to several papers as well as the box score sent to all sections of the country by a press service. The pitcher was Hoyt, and as he had to make only two or three deliveries before the game ended even such a familiar figure as his escaped proper identification in the rush occasioned by a suddenly terminated battle, The fact that the numbering plan was tried in the majors and dis- carded is no argument against it, because the way it was dome pro- vided no fair test. It was some five or six years ago that the experiment was made by the Cardinals, but the small figures they carried on the sleeves of their uniforms could not be distinguished from any distance, and as a conse- quence the innovation meant noth- ing to the faps, ‘The numbers to be used by the Yankees will be about a foot in height and can be made out from any part of the most spacious park, and by everybody in the park, too, because fielders don't drape them- selves in their postions like statues, nor do the batters stand at the plate like wooden Indians. We are strong for numbering the players and hope that the lead taken by the Yankees proves so popular with cash customers that all the other clubs will have to follow. SUNDAY BALL ORDER UP TO BOSTON MAYOR BOSTON, January 29 (#)—Mayor Nichols today had under consideration an ordinance regulating the granting of licenses for Sunday professional base ball in this city, passed by the city coun- cil yesterday. The ordinance was passed by a vote of 12 to 7 after several councilmen de- nounced Emil E. Fuchs, president of the Boston National League Club, and Charles F. Adams, vice president. ‘The measure provided that week-day prices of admission should not be in- creased on Sunday and that a fee of $2,500 should be charged for base ball licenses in parks with a seating capacity of 40,000. One councilman said a New York pic- colo player and a 10-cent grocery man had heaped charges of infamy upon members of the council. Charges that members of the council sought bribes from the Bfaves have been heard by the City Finance Commission. MIAMI, HAVANA, REFUSED S. E. LEAGUE FRANCHISES ‘TAMPA, Fla., January 29 (#).—After two sessions, club owners and officials of the Southeastern League in annual meeting here failed to agree on the admission of Havana and into the league to round out am t-club circuit, and announced that it was likely they would extend the meeting through part of today. Owners of the Tampa Club fight in behalf of Havana and the whose admission was also favored bY | with Jacksonville and Pensacola. " POLOISTS GO WEST. ' PALM BEACH, Fla., January 29 o). — Maj. Alexander C. Metcalf, aide to the Prince of Wales and well-known polo player, left here yesterday for r- nia, where he will participate in annual polo tournament at “Laddie” Sanford and members of the 3 are scheduled My for the same destination. OnYour Radio, OLD GOLD PAUL WHITEMAN HOWR, Paul Whiteman, King of Jazz, and his compiete orchestra will broadcast the OLD GOLD hour every Twesday, starting Feb. 5th, from 9 to 10 P. M., Eastern Standard Time, over entire network of Columbia Broadcasting System. NOT A COUGH IN A i & SCORING S SUPERS ON WESTERN LINKS Rich Purses Attract Pros, but Promoters Are Hard Hit in Contests. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. ANUARY still has a day or two to go, but all the golf tourna= ments set for the month are in. And there has been some very fine golf, with honors pretty well distributed. ‘Through chilling blasts of rain and wind—that does not sound right, but such were the conditions—Leo Diegel won the $2,500 San Diego open, sub- duing par on every round. ‘The Miami open went to Gene Sara- zen, of whom it may be said that his golf was not. quite so bad as that of his | competitors. He took 294 for the 36 holes. Gene also won the Miami Beach open for the third consecutive time. And for the second time in a row Mac- Donald Smith captured the $10,000 Los Angeles open. Johuny Golden nipped the La Jolla open, Horton Smith the Catalina affair, Tommy Armour the | Sacramento open, Walter Hagen stroked his way to victory in the Long Beach | open and Leo Diegel won at Pasadena. Wild Bill Mehlhorn won the El Paso open and turned in the lowest score (271) ever made in a 72-hole competi- tion over a 6,500-yard course. Previ- ously he had won the Honolulu open. He scuttled through the Texas open last week end, scoring a 66 and a 67 on his last two rounds for one of the lowest 36-hole totals in the history of competitive golf. His total for the tournament was a record 277. Two records in eight days may be regarded as superfine golf. It was a great season in Southern California not only in aactual play, ac- cording to a letter the writer received today from Mac Smith, but from the promise of gold which the golf moters of the golden clime are hnlm out for future years. One concrete result of all the money talk heard this Winter has been the jacking up of the famous Los Angeles open from $10,000 to $15,000. Col. Wrigley is going to add prestige, if not | distance, to his nine-hole course at | Catalina by making next year's open there a $7.500 event, and they are talk- ing in terms of $35,000 at Agua Caliente, the new resort which has sprung up in Mexico near the border. This re) | presupposes some very extensive alter- | ations and the like to the arid stretch of domain that now serves as a golf course at Caliente. Between the two places, Catalina and Agua Callente, it is said that within year or two golf purses that will make the since real estate, and not main angle, who cares? pros in any case. (Copyright, 1029.) DISTRICT AND VIRGINIA MAY FORM A. A. U. BN with an- this oy Ay P of Columbie and a part of the Sauth A : | there has long boe’: flm e among sports leaders favorin, b tion from the Baltimore m‘ ..”.u CUB CATOHER MARRIES. 2 (A).—Leo GARL OGOAD