Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1929, Page 46

SPRING DRILL CALL SANSHEREDBY Thirty-one Qut for Track. Students Apathetic To- ward Base Ball. HAT day is gone forever when Catholic University need scare up a brave but sometimes brittle student or two to fill out a foot ball team. ‘The Cardinal coach of 15 years ago, Fred Neilson, could spin a yarn of forti- tude and despair about that. He was thought well off if nine foot ball play- ers showed up along with half a dozen lads whose only gridiron assets were a willingness to try and a blind passion for alma mater. In a few days 52 candidates will re- rort to Coach McAuliffe for Spring ctice. To a Cardinal coach of a few ars back such a turnout might have spired belief in a foot ball Santa Ciaus. Eddie Lafond, McAuliffe’s assistant, spends three-fourths of a busy life ching freshman gridironers and var- boxers and track athletes and sing odd jobs, presented & list of Car=- nals today that included 52 foot ball 1en, 31 track men, 30 ball players and 3 boxers. ‘'We're going somewhere in sports, T mcan,” spake the man of illimitable nergy whom Brooklanders credit argely with the growing Catholic Uni- v21sity pep. Envisions Big Track Meet. Eddie has visions of a big track meet t7 be staged.in the Brookland stadium. “Right around Washington we have "o material for a whale of a meet,” ~id he, “and it's beyond me why it 1>ver has been pulled. Why won't corgetown, Maryland, George Wash- »gton, Gallaudet and Catholic Uni- isity get together in track? Add “>hns Hopkins to that list and such a neet would be really hot stuff.” Base ball interest among the student ody is at low ebb. The Cardinals won ~aly three games all last season, and the present team is not considered ‘ormidable. Lafond observed that Cath- c’ic University before last year never had failed to win a majority of games. Gene Murphy, expert forward passer, who was counted upon to do some base ball pitching, is visiting the famous Ionesetter Reese. Unless the wizard rasseur repairs his wing, it is feared Cene will be lost not only to base ball it dhis value as a quarierback les- sened. . One of the toughest Cardinal athletes s Oscar Gerth, who weighs only 135 rounds. He played full time through 71 of the varsity foot ball games last Fall without taking a time-out. Oscar is training to be a hurdler. ROLAND MACKENZIE, Foremost amateur linksman of this section and member of the Walker Cup team, who is leaving Washington for New York to pursue his business activities. and this at a boys’ vacation camp t of mere curiosity. It is said he cared 10 feet 9 inches on his maiden Sob O'Connor, tackle on the unde- =ated freshman eleven, is out for shot- Fab Another La Salle product who may r2 helpful to Catholic University is gene Orlowski, who is working toward feet in the pole vault. John Hickey has extraordinarily long I°2t, but moves ’em with extreme facil- He wears a No. 13 shoe, John 21 feet 6 inches in the t"oad jump, and is being groomed as a carter-miler. Big Jack Malevich, star fullback and ':::r;e is doing 167 feet as a javelin ovice. _Ed McGt R o T e on a ] £>conds the other day. e Pete Masi, pitcher, is the only south- Faw on the Cardinals team. .Edmund and Norman Cosker, ball r'ayers. are perfect twins. Coach Jack Clark has been known to bawl out one 1zr the other’s mistake. Lou Little, director of athletics at 2orgeto! tleachers for today's game . between Ceorgetown and Penn State. In less ihan an hour the athletes put up a 70-capacity stand and the boards were toted clear across Ryan Field. ALEXANDRIA DROPS INITIAL BALL GAME ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28—Al- exandria High School dropped its first game of the third athletic district se- ties yesterday afternoon, Fredericksburg High School of Fredericksburg, Va., m}&mg an 8 to 4 verdict on Haydon [ Francis Gorman, Alexandria’s “kid” fwirler, worked well despite the fact fhat he was removed from the box after tie seventh inning, in which the in- Yaders collected five runs to put tho ball game on ice. Gorman held the ¥isitors to six hits, struck out seven and handled the situation well until the seyenth. “Ham” Nugent, local first baseman, Rt for a home run and single in three to the plate. Score: Fredericksburg H. 8. HOA. Middleton,1f 3 ryc.. ORI S West, Nugent.ib_: H.Tr'vers.b Birrell.rf.,, Snyder.ss... Gorman.p. . Nicholson.p. Totals....33 00300050 0102000014 Runs—West, Nugent (2), dieton ' (2), Leary. Bailey. Lowery, Hel I s_-Ingle, Brown. Middleto: Two-base hit—H. ', orroooms; U 8| noworummuesd (e r—_ Totals....36 7 Bcore by inning Fredericksburg . Alexandria ol ® o H. Travers. fun—Nugent. 8nyder to Btolen bases—Lowery, Nugent. Hit: orman. 6 in 7 innings; off Nicholson 2 Losing pitcher—Gorman. Gorman, s—off . 110 ary). Umpire—Robert McDonald. L TWO TITLE TEAMS ROLL IN TOURNAMENT TONIGHT | CHICAGO, March 28 (#).—Two championship teams will make a bid tonight for first place money in the five-man event of the American Bowling Congress tournament. They are the Green Rivers, Illinois State title holders, and the Baby Ruths, Chicago City champions. Another of the Nation’s leading teams which will help make tonight's pro- gram one of the most attractive of the tournament is the Milwaukee Journal squad. The Divine's Alleys, of Beloit, Wis., led the scoring in the five-man event s | shows his ability at times. . | Roland MacKenzie, the assistant pro BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. OLAND R. MACKENZIE, crack golfer of the Colurzbia Country Club, shortly is to leave Wash- to take up his residence in New York. The leading links luminary of the National Capital, only man from Wash- ington to obtain international recogni- tion on a Walker Cup team and for past five years an accepted golf 'of national magnitude, has ac- a job with a New York brokerage d will leave Washington for duties on April 6. id only recently returned to ‘ashington to spend a few days here th his parents before leaving the Cap- take his permanent residence rk. The gene of work which Eg&i? hit EZFESQ fit o for the past year. Al- he intends to keep on playing ‘Walker Cup star de- bly will not join a New or a year or moie, being to stick to business and play occasions when it can any sacrifice of working when he worked for a lo- he practically gave up golf, il ] BB & only two or three times a month only after business hours. He to retain a non-resident mem- at Columbia, and will be in occasionally to visit his its. For four years Roland has not played in any of the local tournaments, confining his tourney play to the big- ger events, notably the' national ama- teur championship. - In 1923 and 1924 MacKenzie was the undoubted topliner of amateur golf about the Capital, setting several course records and blazing a_bright trail of tournament victories. His only serious rival was George J. Voigt, who also has left the Capital to become associated with & New York brokerage house. Roland played in his first national amateur championship in 1923, failing to qualify, at Flossmoore. The next year he qualified at Merion, and surprised the golf world by carrying George von Eim to the thirty-seventh hole after Von Elm had obtained a lead of eight holes. The following year he won the qualifying round at Oakmont and was beaten in the first round by Dick Jones of New York. In 1926 he lost in the § B i 'gi clubmate at Columbia and present Dis- trict title holder. The year 1927 found Roland reaching toward the champion- ship, for in that year he won his first three matches handily and went to the semi-final, where Chick Evenas of Chi- cago dropped him out on th2 thirty- seventh hole by sinking a 20-foot putt for a birdie 3 on the first extra hole. Last year Roland, palpably in need of practice, failed to qualify at Brae Burn. He was a member of the 1926 and 1928 Walker Cup teams, contribut- ing victories to America’s standard in both contests. His departure from Washington re. moves from the Capital both the na- tionally accepted golf stars who have blazed the name of Washington high in the golf firmament, for both MacKenzie and Voigt are feared figures in national golf, and each has been conceded a chance to win—if Bob Jones ever falters n}l;lmg the purple path of the champion- ship. D'Arcy (Red) Banagan, mastodonic assistant professional at Columbia, staged a little golf stunt yesterday that Playing with blazed through the first five holes of the last nine in 16 strokes—one over even 3s—only to run into an 8 on the i difficult fifteenth hole and yet finish the nine with a par 35. Banagan, who is quite a hitter from the tee, scored the nine like this: 3 4 4 2 3 8 3 3 5—35. The round included five birdies and one hole four over par. To force play over into the fairway and avoid short cuts across the rough, which might endanger those on the sec- ond green, Course Supervisor Fitts of Columbia has planted a row of trees at the right of the fourtesnth hole, which will form a formidable hazard to those who atteempt the long carry across the face of the hill. Arthur B. Thorn, pro at the Town and Country- Club, paused in the midst -of last night with a 2961 total, which brought them eighth place. During the + day, two new names appeared in the doubles standings, one in the singles and two in the all events. a round with Tony Penna of Congres- first round to Miller B. Stevinson, a| Roland MacKenzie, Leading D. C. Club Monday when the Middle Atlantic Professional Golf Association will hold its first monthly sweepstakes tourna- ment. The trip around Town and Country marked the first time Penna had seen the course, and he was enthu- siastic about the layout. “Not a weak hole in the lot,” Penna remarked. 2 Thorn is carefully grooming the greens in preparation for the coming event at which he, as president of the professional organization, expects to an- nounce a schedule of everits for'the pros for the season. Under Thorn's guidance eight new tees have been constructed at Town and Country, for every hole but the first hole. The new tees, however, are not expected to be ready for the club invitation tourney during the sec- ond week in May. ALL-YEAR SPORT. Foot ball is rapidly becoming an all- year sport at many of the le: g col- leges, some schools starting their Spring grid sessions this year early in Feb- be | ruary. sional yesterday, long enough to an- nounce that he expects all the leading pros from the Baltimore-Washington sector to be at the Town and Country N3 TITLE BAGGED BY HORTON SMITH Golf Sensation Has 287 Card at Pinehurst, Two Better Than Tom Armour. By the Associated Press. [)INEHURST, N, C, March 28.— on his golfing way today with another title tucked away in his bag_and 700 more first money dollars in his pocket. Making his first bid for recognition on the sand greens of Pinehurst, the new sensation of the golfing world kick- | v ed in with a 72-hole score of 287 to win the historic North and South open, one of the headline events of the Spring season. Tommy Armour, the Detroit mashie artist, who usually is red hot on the Pinehurst courses, was runner-up for the second time in as many years. His score was 289, just two strokes bchind the youth from the Ozarks. Roland Hancock, the Lynchburg youngster who gave Bobby Jones and Johnny Farrell the chivers in the Na- tional Open last Summer, served No- tice that he is back in championship form by shooting a 291 to collect third money. Hancock's form was one of the sur- prises of the tournament. Since blow- ing up at Olympia Fields last Summer, the Southerner has been off his game and in the Winter tournaments on the coast and in Texas he seldom_ flashed any of the form that marked his play last Summer. Yesterday, however, he shot the two best rounds of the day, 2is morning and afternoon performances being four strokes better than any one else could do. Others to finish in the money were Billy Burke of Westport, N. Y., de- fending champion, whose 294 was matched by George Voigt, New York crack and the highest finishing ama- teur; Walter Hagen, British open champion; Joe Turnesa of Elsford, N. Y., and Ross Somerville of London, Ontario, Canadian open champion, who tied for sixth place; Wild Bill Mehlhorn of New York, Hugh Kirkpatrick of Co- lumbia, 8. C.; Emmett French, veteran ‘Youngstown, Ohio, pro, and Jack For- rester of Oradell, N. J., who were in a four-cornered tie for ninth. Voigt, who had dreamed of stowing away the open title with the North and South amateur crown which he won last year, was a menace to the hopes of Smith, Armour and the other big shots throughout the opening day, but he faltered yesterday, and while he struggled to maintain the four-stroke advantage he held Tuesday night, the machinelike Smith gradually pulled up on even terms and then shot into the lead never to be headed. INJURY TO CE.NTRAL HIGH ATHLETE IS NOT SERIOUS ‘The mishap of Spring track practice which yesterday sent Albert Hochbaum, 18-year-old Central High School stu- dent, to Garfield Hospital, after he had been struck in the neck by a misdirect- ed discus, will result in only a tempo- rary disability, physicians said this ‘morning. Initial fears of brain concussion or a skull fracture were dispelled after X- ray examination, and it will be but the matter of a few days until young Hoch- baum can return to his home, at 7311 Blair road northeast. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Hochbaum. The student's athletic activities re- in sulted in another injury last Fall when he sustained broken ribs in a foot ball scrimmage, eliminating him as a likely candidate for the varsity. CRADLE OF VAULTERS. In the last 40 years Yale's pole vault- ers have won the intercollegiate cham- plonship on 18 occasions. Credit is given to A. C. Gilbert, himself one of Eli's former titleholders, who has de- voted his spare time for many years to coaching the I Horton Smith, from Joplin, went | p SCORES LAST NIGHT IN BASKET TOURNEY UNLIMITED CLASS. Grays. a. Macdonald, 1t 4 Peck, r 4 Buscher, g. Totals.. Elbiismasa wl| onoonoot Bl cwnobioa™ 115-POUND CLASS. .F. P, Montros 02 Scheele, | J.Th'pson, Freeman, H.Th'pson, 1§ Baer, . Hunt, rz. L momaal nomNaND couwowa G. 1 1 1 [} 2 . Kane, ig... 2 Robey, rg..... 4 Totals.....17 337 Totals Referee—Mr. Joe Mitchell, 115-POUND CLASS. . F.P. Aztecs. 06 G. Joray, If. Gardner, " i . Jora; Chatlin, Warder, Ingalls, 1 al Hl Optimists. Colbert, 1i @y, rf. wooroa roawss? Finnera Fitzgerald, Bayliss, rs. Totals...... 6 chell, UND CLASS. . Prenchy-Arcs. Harris, 1 B2l oroavaa! - B a Arrows. &c'nerman, Seidman, Genderson, i Goldman, Tewis, Ig. | Echaffer, . Totals.. Referee- G. U. OPENS TODAY WITH PENN STATE How the Georgetown team shapes up may be learned today when the Hill- toppers meet Penn State. Bozek was to play first base; Scalzi, second; Dunn, shortstop; Morris or Leary, third: Duplin, McCarthy and Wholey, outfield, and Phelan, McNamara or Donovan, catcher. White, Edmonston and Poole were the available pitchers. Catholic University, beaten by Wash- ington and Lee in its opening e, was stopped cold by Virginia Military Institute in its second engagement, 5 to 1. Gillespie and Williams, the Cadet pitchers, had 16 strikeouts between them and yielded only two hits, which were singles by Brennan and Conlin, Conlin pitched better ball than the score indicates. Three errors helped the Cadets to seore three runs in the eighth. Conlin was nicked for five| safeties. Frederic W. Wile, jr., of Washington, has been elected water polo captain at Princeton. George Washington and Georgetown are on Penn'’s golf schedule. Maud Crum will direct Spring foot ball and base ball practice at George ‘Washington. The ball team will play only local outfits. BRUINS AND RANGERS OPEN HOCKEY SERIES BOSTON, March 28 (#).—Boston’s Bruins and the New York Rangers clash at the Boston Garden tonight in the first game of the Stanley Cup series for the world professional hockey cham- pionship. The Rangers won the cup last year. Both teams emerged from the Na- tional League preliminary play-offs in impressive fashion. The Bruins defeat- ed Les Canadiens of Montreal in three straight games for the league cham- plonship and the Rangers, runners-up the American division, eliminated their home city rival, the Americans. and the Toronto Maple Leafs, in succession. Tomorrow the teams will play in £ »l coscow! 5| voonusT Madison Square Garden in the second game of the two-out-of-three series. The third, if necessary, will be in Boston next Tuesda; Auto Bodies, Radiators, Repaired; also New Rad Harris Fenders 13th. 1% Block Below The same fine cigar that enjoyed leadership on the Pacific:Coast at 2 for25¢. famous Now:nat;ona]]y at l_Oé. youfl like Van Dyck [ L2ght one:/ Sponsored by flfiwm.la}mamc Jock Grooming for Inaugural At Bowie Track Next Tuesday HAT John Schorr is grooming Jock for racing at Prince Georges Park, Bowie, that will begin April 2, to run 11 days under theaegis of the South- ern Maryland Agricultural Association, is evident from the manner in which he is stepping that son of Colin and Kathleen along at Benning. ‘Twice last week Jock stepped three- quarters of a mile in 1:18 through the deepest going to be found anywhere. He 1s sound of wind and limb and never looked better. Over the Bowie course, which, since its resoiling by Track Su- perintendent Richard Pending, is about the fastest in Maryland, Jock could, without trouble, get six furlongs in 1:12 or_better. The Bowie races for which Jock seems to be pointing are the Inaugural Handicap, a dash of three-quarters of a mile that will be run April 2, and the Prince Georges Spring Handicap, a gal- %e! one mile and a sixteenth, which be run April 13. Each of these races will have an added money value of $5,000 and gross about $6,000. Since JoJckJ always has been a speed hound, they suit him admirably. He likes the Bowie course, as he demonstrated last November when he shouldered 122 pounds and defeated Chance Play, Canaan, Royal Stranger, Knapsack, Joe Marrone 3d, Distraction, Crossco, Dis- play, Mi Vida and Gaffsman in a re- newal of the Thanksgiving Handicap. Turning 1 mile and a furlong in 1:5235, the first mile in 1:39, Jock set a new track mark and earned $9,675 for Edward Beale McLean, the Wash- ington and Cincinnati publisher, who bred him in the Virginia Piedmont and always has owned him. Jock is the most successful horse Colin, a son of Commando and Pastorella, which won 15 races in 1907 and 1908, and retired to !ihe stud unbeaten, has given racing 0 far. Last year the best year of this stallion, which now is 5. After he had beaten the English 3-year-gJd, Strolling Player, at Havre de Grace, in the Congressional Handi- cap. a gallop of 1 1-16 miles, he went to Kentucky and won a revival of tho Clark Handicap, running 1 1-16_miles {in 1:45 over the Churchill Downs was that triumph came his vietory over Flatiron, Rolled Stocking, Handy | Mandy and Genial Host, in the Hotel Watson Handicap, a race of 1 mile, which distance was covered in 1:382 After the Bowie meeting Jock will train for the $10,000 Philadelphia Handicap, which will be renewed at Havre de Grace, and the $35000 Dixie, which will be revived at Pimlico. COLT WAS BARGAIN. Chatford, the promising colt for which J. L. Johnson paid $25,000, was sold at auction about a year ago by Charles Leonard, owner of the Newton- dale stable, for $459. BILLIARD MARVEL. Charley Peterson, who with Jake Schaefer, sr., was responsible for the game of balkline billiards, once stroked 1,000 points at straight rail in less than five minutes. AMERICAN MATADOR. Sidney Franklin, a Brooklyn youth, has become a skillful bull fighter while studying art in Mexico. He is probably the only United States born matador in the world. Tigers Cut Spring Grid Drills, But Yale and Penn Carry On BY LAWRENCE PERRY. Bill Roper called a_special meeting of Princeton foot ball men the other night. About 100 attended the meeting. It was very short. Roper, in fact, was the only speaker and his ad- dress did not occupy five minutes. “Fellows,” he said, “I've called you tegether to tell you there will be no Spqgg practice this year.” “Whoopee! “Glad you like it. All I ask is you keep fit throughout the Summer, study the foot ball rules and think over your jobs.” ‘There was a stentorian “we will,” and the meeting was over. The writer ran into Tad Jones of Yale. The Elis are {o have a period of Spring training. “Yes,” right, but I Fifty miles from opposite idea prevails. more than 1 he said, “I've heard about Princeton. It may be all feel Bill Roper is taking a pretty stiff gamble.” rinceton, at Franklin Field, quite the The University of Pennsylvania squad, men, is going through a six weeks’ period of intensive practice under the direction of Lcu Young and his assistant coaches. course and carning $10,925. Following | TITLES AT STAKE ON COURT TONIGHT |Final Games in Three Boys’ Classes and One Girls’ Section Listed. I George Washington University gymnasium. Pinal games are to take place in the unlimited, 145-pound, 130-pound and girls’ senior classes. In the unlimited class battle, which will be staged last, beginning at 10 o'clock, United Typewriter Grays, who as_the Woodlothians won the South afogic title last season, will face Jewisi: Community Center. Astecs and Curtin Wonders will meet at 7 o'clock in the first match of the night, with St. Peter's and French quints clashing at 8 o'clock in the 145-pound division, and Jewish Community Center and Eagles trying conclusions at 9 o'clock in the girls’ senlor class. Two titles were decided last night in stirring battles. Jewish Community Center’s team won the 100-pound class chempionship, nosing out Frenchy- Arcadians, 17 to 16, and Boys' Club | Optimists gained the 115-pound crown, triumphing over Aztecs, 21 to 18. United Typewriter Grays routed Mount Vernon, 52 to 23, in the un- limited class, and St. Peter's came through with a surprise victory over | Montrose, 37 to 28, in the 145-pound, class, in other matches. A. FLOOR TOURNEY Tonight's Games. 130-pound class final—Aztecs vs. Car- tin Wonders, 7 o'clock. 145-pound class final—St. Peter’s vs. French’s, 8 o'clock. Girls’ senior class final—Jewish Com- munity Center vs. Eagles, 9 o'clock Unlimited class final—Jewish Com. | munity Center vs. United Typewrite | Grays, 10 o’clock. Last Night's Results. Unlimited class—United Typewriter , Grays, 52; Mount Vernon M. E., 23. 145-pound class—St. Peter’s, 37; Mon- | trose, 28. a 115-pound class—Boys’ Club - ! mists, 21; Aztecs, 18. ot 100-pound class—Jewish Community Center, 17; Frenchy-Arcadiana, 16. TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats |EISEMAN’S, 7th & P OUR titles will b= at stake tonight in the South Atlantic basket ball championship tournament in /// ‘ ‘ fl_ OO SOPAAIT \ Find its equal and youll be . greater discoverer : Qlumb“é‘ Ihé AMERICAN OIL COMPANY Afiliated with Pan American Petroleum & Transport Company General Offices: Baltimore. Md.