Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1929, Page 25

SPORTS.» __Virgii_zia Doubtless Made Wise Move in Getting Driver to ABILITY IS PROVED BY DEEDS OF PAST Shows in His Work at Southf Carolina That He Has All Qualifications. BY H. . BYRD. any university in the South | would do as much for its ath- letics as the appointment of James G. Driver as director of athletics at the University of Virginia will do for athletics there. Not only does Driver's appointment mean that Virginia will have at the head of its athletics a real business man and a good organizer with a diplomatic way of getting things done. but also a man who knows athletics, Is fair. and has the kind of personality that makes for him lasting friendships Every Virginia alumnus. every well wisher of the Charlottesville institution may sit back with a comfortabie feel- | ing because the announcement of Driv er's appointment undoubtedly means that athletics at Virginia will be handled | better than at any time in the whole history of the university, and that in no wise depreciates the excellent work done by others. It simply means that Driver is about the best man for the job Virginia could have got. Succeeds in Hard Task. | What Driver has done for athletics | at the University of South Caroiina he can do at Virginia, and probably with | greater eaw because he will have more to work with and certainly a better | condition to start with than he found at South Caroline. Driver went to | South Carolina in 1924, and at that time South Carolina virtually had noth- ing, except a lot of discontentment | among various factions. Its teams | were not holding their own against other schools and equipment was very 8 Under Driver's direction the Colum- bia School rose in four years from its Jowly position to & point where in its first two foot ball games last Fall it beat Chicago and Virginia. It has had remarkable success in all branches of | sports in comparison to what it had before Driver took charge, and not only has the school been doing some credit- | able things in competition but it has built up its equipment. A new athletic field has been con- structed at a cost of a good many thousands of dollars. Stands line the field on all sides. In addition to that, | Driver worked out a scheme to finance a field house for dressing faeilities for athletes and also for use for basket ball games. That field house offers about the best basket ball facilities in the South, seating about 4,000 persons and being constructed in the form of a small amphitheater, virtually an indoor stadium. The university also has a ;eparaw base ball field with stands or _it. South Carolina will be sorry to lose Jimmie Driver. It will not get a man to fill his shoes, and South Carolina will not make the progress in the next five years that it has in the Ilast. Driver studied his job and went at it/ in a way that proved beyond question his exceptional ability to organize and | manage college athletics. No other| man in the South has put across a better job under difficult conditions. Will Feel His Way. Just how. Driver will go about his job at Virginia remains to be seen, but | he will not move too rapidly. He has| too much sense to do that. Driver| knows as well as anybody that many cross-currents exist at Virginia, and knows also full well that to put across his job as he desires he must take| those currents and gradually turn them | into the same channel. Driver will do | just that, and do it almost without seeming to. And in doing that he will| develop a great eddy, getting nowheve, | into a powerful stream capable of ac- | complishing great things, Driver's position at Virginia will be & little different from that held by any of his predecessors, except possibly Dr. Lambeth. He is to be aihletic director and have faculty rank, and he un- doubtedly will be depended on to shape | the policles of the university in inter- collegiate sports, mueh as Dr. Lambeth did, and probably with the same free hand. Those who really are interested in putting Virginia athletics on the stable plane they should occupy will get back of Driver, lend him their aid and help him do the job. | Has Had Difficulties. | It is not & secret that Virginla has had a hard time in the last few years | finsneing its athletics. One reason for | that is that it has attempted to do|R more than it had the money to do.| Driver will correct that. He will do things more economically and will not | & attempt more than he can carry out. Furthermore, he will find vs to in- crease the revenues of athletics. In other words, he will solve Virginia's financial problems in so far as they relate 1o athletics. He will put the coaching of the various teams on a ! more stable foundation, and will see that the coaches are given the oppor- tunities to handle their jobs as they think best. And. better than either of | these, Driver will get Virginia people, | students, faculty and alumni to pull together. It has not been made known just | who was responsible for Driver's ‘ap: pointment to be head of athletics at | Virginia. but whoever was, he or they may feel satisfied that it is the best | thing that could possibly have hap-| pened. PITCHER RILEY SIGNED | BY READING I. L. CLUB ALEXANDRIA, Va, May 4.—Leon Riley, who pitched for Norfolk in the Virginia State League last season, has THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ©C i WINS WASHINGTO O action that could be taken by | N GOLE TOURNEY FRANK ROESCH. PLAVERS ARE LOST TOBUSIESS TEMN Number of Most Dependable Stenogs Ineligible to Oppose Central. GROUP of the most dependable members of the Business High | base ball team will be ineligible for the game against Central | ‘Tuesday, the final public high school championship game for both | teams, it appears certain. | Advisory scholastic marks to be posted | Monday will signalize the passing from the team of Rich, first baseman; Loftus, | centerfielder; Eddie Duryee, left flelder; Lewis, catcher; Jacobsen and Wall, re- serve outfielders: Smith, utility second | baseman, and Silverman, relief pitcher, | and possibly others. | | Three base ball games and two track | meets involving schoolboy athletes of the Capital area were listed today. On the diamond Eastern was to en- tertain Staunton Military Academy in Clark Griffith Stadium, Western was to face Georgetown University Freshmen on the Hilltop and St. Alban’s was to meet Gilman School at Baltimore. Eastern and Georgetown University Freshmen were to try conclusions in a | track meet on the Hiiltop and Tech was | at Annapolis to engage in a triangular meet against the Navy Plebes and Uni- | versity of Maryland cinderpathers. Because of the cold weather and the soggy condition of the Eastern diamond, the important Eastern-Tech game, scheduled yesterday. which will virtually decide the public high school base bail championship, was postponed until Fri- day, May 17. Business, through a two-run ninth- | inning rally, defeated Gonzaga, 7 to 6, | on the South Ellipse field. Scoring over Eastern, 1596 to 1432, Central’s indoor rifle team yesterday finished its public high school champion- ship series schedule with four victories in &s many starts, | (Wi FINAL DAY’S RESULTS IN GOLF TOURNAMENT FIRST SIXTLEN. Semi-final round—Frank K. Roesch (Wi ington) deteated Miller B. Stevinson lumbia), 1 up:; R. H. Wilson (Georgetown University) defeated Maurice J.” McCarthy (Georgetown University). 3 and 1. Final round—Roesch defeated Wilson, 3 and 2 Defeated eight. semi-final round._—Albert R. d_Thomas b4 SECOND SIXTEEN. Semi-final _round-—J. Nevins _ McBride iGeorgetown University) defeated E_B. Col d 3: Robert d Comdr. Lynes (Washington), 4 and 3. | Finai Tound—McBride defeated 'Manning, up. Defeated eight. semi-final round—A. Stup ~(Bannockbtirn) defeated Thomi Yebb. sr. 1 up. 20 John W. O (Columbin) ‘defeated D. C. Gruver (Wi ington), 2 up. round—Owens defeated Stup, 3 Final and 2. THIRD SIXTEEN. Semi-final round—Comdr. W. 8. Popham neton) defeated Carroll Plerce (Belle- aven). 6 and 4: Thomas P. Bones. jr. (Co- lumbia} defeated C. B. Roliins (Mansfield al). all). 3 and 2. Einal round—Bones defeated Popham. 3 n Defeated eight. semi-final round—_M. F. McCarthy (Beaver Dam) defeated J. N. Foley (Congressional). by default; Maj. E. Mont- zomery ~ (Congressional) = _defeated E. Cushing (Washington). § and Final round- McCaithy defeated Mont- gomery, 1 up. 19 holes FOURTH SIXTEEN. Semi-final, round—Foss Puett (Country Club of Virginia) defeated E. P. Hair (Wash« ington), 2 and 1: E_L. Bono (Columbia) de- feated Ira €. McKee (Naval Academy), 8 and 7. Final round—Bono defeated Puett. 5 and 4. Defeated . _semi-final _ round — Thomas J. Rice (Washington) defeated J. C. Johnson " (Beaver Dam). 7 and 6 X Fowler (Washinston) defeated D. C. Elmore (Washington), 2 and 1, Final round —Fowler defeated Rice, 5 and 3. FIFTH SIXTEEN. Semi-final round—George E. Elliott Chase) defeated J. Los fatany. o551 Capt. 1 ington) defeated Black (Buffalo), 2 up. ¥, efeated Treadwell, 3 i . B. Al Tourd—Elliott d and 2. Defeated eight. semi-final round--W. Woodward (Congress'onal) ated < i M. P. Nolan (Congressional) defeated D. W. Atherton (Krayie), 5 and Flda] 'round—Woodward deteated Nolan, and 2. HYATTSVILLE HIGH'S NINE SETTING PACE HYATTSVILLE, Md, May 4—With reston (Reaver Dam). 4 and 3. Yesterday's scor ne. Kneel. Stand. Tot. | 99T 91 6 250 Ludium L1 81 8 D96 266 264 1506 Kneel. Stand. Tot g a0 87 27 243 248 247 220 203 1432 exel . Green _ Totals - Eastern. Totals . | Hyattsville's nearest rivals, six vietorles in as many starts as the result of its 12-t0-9 win yesterday over Maryland Park High here, Hyattsville High School's base ball team today is heading the race in the Prince Georges County high school champlonship se- ries. ~ Upper Marlboro and Laurel, each has | lost. one game. Upper Marlboro, defending State and county champion, was beaten for the first time yesterday by Laurel. 11 to 5. Laurel suffered its only defeat re- | eently at the hands of Hyattsville. Final series games will be played next Friday when Hyattsville will meet Up- SATURDAY, MAY } the green. It appeared at the thirteenth | that Wilson was to go into the lead, for | Roesch hooked into a trap, But the Washington lad played a great iron shot | from the sand to get & half in 4. | Roesch won the fourteenth ‘when | Wilson missed his iron tee shot, and | won the fifteenth when Wilson drove in to the ditch near the tee. That left | Roesch 2 up with 3 to go, and the | Washington lad settled the ‘match in with a par 4. ing into the movies. The golf commit- tee of the Glen Echo club, dissatisfied with the ordinary golf events, has ar- ranged a “kicker tournament to be held tomorrow, in the course of which every man who plays from the first tee will” be “shot” by a motion picture camera. The films will be shown later in the clubhouse, along with a reel of films of Bobby Jones. The kicker's tournament tomorrow | has one feature which should appeal to all those who miss one shot a hole. The Fresh- Colleges. Baltimore at Cathdlic University (ten- nis); Virginia at Maryland (lacrosse); McCarthy Beaten. won the last two invitation tour- like this: Given little chanee to win in the one shot on each hole, putts excepted. Maurice J. McCarthy. | P SRR | favorite to down Wilson and to win the | | o’clock (base ball). intercollegiate title holder down from In the final round Roesch lost the| (pase ball). Roesch won the ninth to turn 1 up, and Baltimore Poly vs. Maryland Freshmen twelfth, winning the hole by laying a |elic University (base ball); Georgetown Wins Over Wilson in Final T last Frank K. Roesch appears to have come into his own. The tall, lean Washington Golf and naments in a row. It is true that the | last one was last Fall, but the fact still remains that Roesch Is the winner of i lournament e e, “In addition to the numerous kicks you have in mind, you are allowed one brifliant. field, Roesch moved through h round, becoming r with eacl e d. | Tateh, until yesterday afternoon, in the | If you elect to plnyt_n »r‘cmj;?hb'fltlllv‘hg:" final round, he downed young Dick | ever, you must continue with tha ? th ottt Fount AT S5l | EVENTS fiflgggflc{flgéss |of Columbia, holder of the District amateur title, had been favored to beat FOR SCHO ’ Schools. tournament, But Roesch beat Stevin- | Esstern va. Staunton Military Acad- son on the last hole, and Wilson downed | ; Western vs. Georgetown U. the first tee, struggling to get even and | Wesigne W& CeOmTAN L first hole when he overplayed the green. | But he then won three holes in a row, Wilson_got @ lucky half at the fenth when he lald Roesch a dead stymie.| (lacrosse), at Collese Park; Maryland | chip shot dead. The twelfth was played | at Penn, morning (golf); Georgetown into the teeth of the Northwest gale!vs. Princeton, afternoon (also at Phila- Aiter Stevinson and Country Club champion now has around Wachington. big kick on each hole. You may replay Wilson. who had earlier defeated |for the remainder of the hole. Roesch, and McCarthy was a top-heavy ‘emy. Clark Grifith Stadium, 2:30 McCarthy in a match which fcend the | finally capitulating on the seventeenth. | only to lose the sixth and seventh. ‘Wilson again squared the match at the | at Navy (track); Manhattan at Cath- and it took two wooden shots to reach delphia). quick fashion on the sixteenth, winning | | Bannockburn's golfing clans are go- | announcement of the tourney reads| St. Alban’s vs. Gilman, Baltimore | | per Marlboro at Upper Marlboro, Mary- CHEVY CHASE TENNIS Play in the Chevy Chase Club invi- | qywine at Brandywine and Oxon Hill tation doubles tournament was post- [ai8" B den will try conclusions at poned again yesterday on account of | Baden, unfavorable weather conditions. First- |~ Bob Venemann, Hvattsville pitcher. round encounters were to be played this | vielded only two hits yesterday to afternoon, starting at 2:30. Maryland Park. but was wild, giving R. Norris Willlams and Watson F. |yp 11 bases on balls, and Hvattsville Washburn are among the visiting stars | made nine errors against four for entered. They will defend their title. | Maryland Park —— - H\'auwillf“ngh girls drubbed Mnr? TWO CREWS ENDANGER land Park girls, 30 to 5, vesterday in ELI'S PET ROWING CUP| cigarette a county voliey ball title series match. DERBY, Conn., May 4 (#).—Unde- been signed by the Reading Keys of the | feated for six years in a Blackwell Cup International League. | regatta, the sturdy sweep swingers of E = | Yale today face their sternest opening Vincent Curtis, George Mason High | test in recent years from the pupils of | diamond star, will be seen at third base | young Dick Glendon at Columbia and tomorrow when the St. Mary's Celtics | Coacfx Rusty Callow’s oarsmen from | oppose Burke & Co., amateur champions | Pennsylvania. | GARDNrER APPEARS OUT OF PYLE’S LONG RACE! CHELSEA. Ok'a., May 4 (#).—Offi- cials ex; drop out_today on the 70-mile tramp of C. C. Pyle's cross-country race | pected some of the bunion boys to: of Richmond, on the Baggett's Park | diamond at 3 ‘o'clock. Alexandria Police Department will" work out Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock in Baggett's Park. When the varsity crews are sent away | o Muskogee. ~The run is one of the on a 2-mile pull up the Housatonic River late this afternoon the New York entry | will be a slight favorite. There will be four races. The 150- pound varsity crews will brush over the Henley distance of one mile and five sixteenths. The races by the freshmen and junior varsity crews ex-| longest of the derby. Gardner. Seattle ‘Negro. third in | elansea time before yesterday's lap of | 54.7 miles from Miami, apparently had given up. The Negro, who has been handicanned by a shin solint, had not reported here Tate last night. Glusto Umek. Trieste, Italy. finished yesterday’s lap first and went into third WOMEN IN SPORT BY CORINNE FRAZIER. New York University co-ed swim- mers will invade the Capital to swim against the George Washington tank tend to two miles. |BORG BEATS OWN MARK I\ | place in elapsed time. | Johnny Saln, Passalc. N. J., police- man, seccond in elapsed time, finiched second. and Pete Gavuzzi, first FOR 1,000-YARD SWIM clansed time. was third. LOS ANGELES, May 4 (P)—Arme| The leaders own 271 Enel in| team tonight at 8 o'clock in the K |Borg, distance swimmer, broke h street Y. W. C. A. pool. The meet will | world record for tne 1,000-yard swim inaugurate the Colonials' intercollegiate | last night by stroking the distance in schedule, { 11 minutes 47 seconds. His previous Whiie the visitors are conceded to be | mark. 12 minutes 16 4-5 scconds, was sel #tronger swimmers than the locals and | in 1924. ihe latter will be unable to swim one| In establishing the new record Borg v- and. 217:12:0 Tahn Salo. Phasaie. N.'J. 210:59:32. 2 Giusto Umek. Italy. 233:54:31, pyhioBel” Simpson, Burlington, N "'5. Sam Richman, New York, 243:25:5. JUNIORS MAY DISPLACE 4 of their best performers because of a technicality, G. W. hopes to make a fairly good showing. Julia Denning will not be able swim with G. W. tonight becanuse of her activities as assistant instructor in life caving at the college, which does not | bar her from intercollegiate competi- tion, but does conflict with the U. regulations under which the New York University team swims, George Washington netwomen were to play the Hood Colleg> team on the Monument park courts today at 2:30 in an exhibition match, to | A A was paced by a team of seven swimmers ! from the Los Angeles Athietic Club and | the University of Southern California. | COLLEGE BASE BALL. | Princeton, 7. | Virginia, 3; Maryland, 0. Virginia' Poly, 6; North Carolina | 5:ate, 0. | | | CHICAGO, May 4 (P) | Chieagn disfrict hip. which onee atiracied many of the Nation's leading stars. probably will b2 | discontinued this year and a district junior championship for boys substi- tuted for it. Largn increases in the number of cpen championships held each year and the ¢ uent less of interest in sectional | tournamenis are the reasons given by the district committes for the probable ! change, Georgetown, 11; Oglethorpe, 9; Davidson, 6. Guilford, 13; Medical Colicze of °'Notre Dame, 4: Armour Tech, 0, Chicago, 5; Wlinois, 4. " OPEN GOLF TOURNAMENT | The annual jpen’ golf _champlon- | © 1929, LicearT & Myans Tosacco Co. MILD and yet THEY SATISFY U. OF M. MAY FACE | PITCHING PHENOM J t to Work Monday—Hoyas | Beat Princeton. | ARYLAND UNIVERSITY'S ball M team, making a fight for run- | iV. P. I. No-Hit Hurler Likely ner-up_honors in the Tri State League of the, South- ! | ern Conference after a poor | start, niay face a no-hit pitcher in its | next ' battle with V. P. I at Blacks- burg, Va., Monday. A’ Maryland rival, North Carolina | State, was held hitless and runless yes- | }tsrday by Lloyd Murden, sophomore | right-hander, and V. P. I won by 6 to 0." Murden may be shot back by the | | Gobblers againsi Maryland. Murden pitched a remarkable game. ! North Carolina_ State, which had been | leading the league at bat, falled to hit | a ball past the infleld. | While the Carolinians were being whitewashed the Terrapins were taking |a coat of lime from Virginia. Red | Marshall was Maryland's nemesis. He | ylelded only six hits. He also issued | five passes, but was tough in the pinches and was helped by excelleat : support. | Benny April, a Washington youth, showed: class behind the plate for Vir- ‘ginia. He pegged out four Terrapins | who attempted to steal. Julie Radice, the Maryland second | baseman who leads {he Tri-State | | League in batting, went hitless but his | average was damaged little. He was | | at_bat officially only once. | _ Randolph led the Cavalier attack | with three hits, one a double. Up at Princeton the Georgetown ball | players outscored the Tigers by 11-to-7, | though they were out-swatted, 10-to-8. of choice tobaccds put away to age | E 4 | B D ] A hl IC irect thletics Princeton gave probably the poms:] fielding exhibition of the season. The 1 Tigers made 10 errors. Poole went the | { route for Georgetown. _Princeton used | three flingers. The Hilltoppers iced | victory with a 6-run rally in the| coventh. Johnny Scalzi, Georgetown's flashy | b second baseman, was the outstanding | sticker with three singles. o " A{Il u.}: scoring was done in the first a'f when the Maryland Freshman | : Jacrosse feam. fell before Baitimore | NOted Irish Sportsman Has l’nll.V. 4 to 2.h ‘The young 'rrm«mns.i only two of whom had played lacrosss i before coming to Maryland, outplayed Challenged for Series of the enemy in the second half. . piislbaisl e Races in 1930. | By the Associated Press FACE IN RACE TODAY ONDON, May 4.—Sir Thomas Lip- | ton, noted Irish sportsman, again | has challenged for the America’s Br the Associated Pross e ! i . | Cup, historic vachting trophy, LOS ANGELES, May 4.—Two youth-| according to an Exchange tele- ful cinderpath racers who have consist- | graph dispatch from Dublin. The chal- ently flirted with world-record time ‘in | gnnfllfgfidlon‘flr;hgrti'mfr by the the century dash—each equaling the | ioYh uater Xacht CIuD, EAee mark of 9 3-5 seconds three times this | 0 the New ¥ork Wacht Club and sug- season—wlll toe the marks in a double- | §°5ts September of 1930 for the chal- barreled bid for the title of “world's | 1°8¢ serles. fastest human” here today. | Officials of the New York Yacht Club Frank Wykoff, boy dash man of Glen- | 5aid_they had received no official word dale Junior College, and Charley Borah, Of Sir Thomas' challenge. Under cup ssasoned ace of the University of rules, the challenger is required to give Southern California, will answer the |10 months’ notice in writing, together | slarter's gun at the Southern Pacific| With the name of the owner of the chal- A. A. U. championships in an attempt | lenging beat and the prineipal dimen- to set a mew world 100-vard record. | Sions of the craft. Dates, courses, num- They will be matching strides for the | ber of trials, rules and regualtions may first’ time. be arranged by mutual agreement be- Even Ray Conger, the country's pre- | tween the challenging and defending mier miler, brought here to feature the | clubs. meet, received secondary attention. | -, The original race for the cup, then a Conger will face the West's best mile | Royal Yacht Club squadron trophy, was bet In Nick Carter of the Los Angeles | Salled in 1851 around the Isle of Wight. Athletic Club, who two years ago|The schooner yacht America had sailed trounced the Swedish _schoolmaster, | 3Cross the ocean and decided to com- i SNIOER e ADeCIaT P Rt | pete, winning by a wide margin. The Conger, with a week of workouts un- | Cup has been held in America ever since. der his belt, considered himself primed | There have been 13 challenges, the for a crack at Paavo Nurmi's world | Lipton Shamrocks having competed in TeCard (0194 miftiutes 10 2-8 séconids: the Jast four. The first Shamrock sailed . 5 in 1899, the second in 1901, the third in | 1903 and the fourth in 1920, the last COLLEGE LACROSSE. |time the cup has been in competition. ’In the 1920 race, the defending yacht, | the Resolute, was sailed by Charles Francis Adams, now Secretary of the avy. Princeton, 9; Rutgers, 1. Baltimore Poly, 4; Maryland Fresh- men, 2. ..at the plate it’s WAT/, it's TASTE/ TASTE above everything Millions of smokers say, “TId rather have a Chesterfield” — for that one reason. 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