Evening Star Newspaper, May 8, 1929, Page 35

SP \ ORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1929. SPORT S.) 35 - Griffs Have One-Run Defeat Habit : American League Bloc Antagonistic to Landis LOSE SIXTH GAME BY NARROW MARGIN Jones Lacks Control and Tigers Take Opener at Detroit by 3 to 2. ETROIT, May 8.—Another game lost by one run. That 3-to-2 licking the Nationals took in the opener of the series with the Tigers here yesterday was the sixth of the ten losses they have suffered in which only a single tally separated them from the winners. The Washington club took its licking early yesterday. Sad Sam Jones, on the slab for the first time since last Thurs- day—and then he pitched but two in- nings—had nothing with which to baf- fle the Tigers, and they tucked the tilt away before the third round ended. Sad Sam's control was poor, and when he did get the ball acrcss the platter some ‘Tiger socked it savagely. All told, De- troit combed him for six safeties, two passes and all its tallies. Fred Marberry relieved Sad Sam when _ the third inning was one-third gone and pitched well until the seventh was over. Then Fred gave way to a pinch batter and Lloyd Brown hurled a round. But the good work done by Marberry and Brown meant nothing, for the left- handed Earl Whitehill refused to bz annoyed by the Nationals until the ninth session. In their first eight turns at bat all the Washington club got off the Detroit southpaw emounted to four hits and three passes, and in but one of these turns did it have as many as two on the runway at one time. The Nationals got two more hits and two more passes in the ninth, but finished a run shy of the Tiger total with two runners stranded. Alexander Starts 'Em. Big Dale Alexander, new Tiger first- sacker, started Bucky Harris' club on its winning way by beginning the sec- ond session with a lusty triple. Dale held third as McManus was thrown out, but counted when Heinle Schuble singled after Mervyn Shea walked. ‘Whitehill's one-baser sent Shea home. In the third Charley Gehringer tripled with one gone and Harry Heil- mann strolled. Alexander singled Gehringer to the plate and Marberry relieved Jones. McManus, first to face tll‘l: new hurler, drilled into a double play. The ‘Tigers got but two hits and a pass off Marberry in the next four rounds and only one hit off Brown in the eighth. Acting Manager Clyde Milan threw the National reserve into action in the , but the regulars failed him. Joe Judge singled and Joe Cronin walked, then Charley Gooch batted for Sam West and singled Judge home. Cronin counted as Jack Hayes was thrown out, but Muddy Ruel could not get Gooch up to third. Ed Gharrity took Brown's bat and drew & pass, then gave way to the pinch- running Red Barnes. This put the issue up to Buddy Myer. Buddy went to a three-and-two count and popped te Shortstop Schuble. 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ETROIT, May 8.—“How's Wal- ‘ter?” That's the first thing Stanley Raymond Harris, who piloted the Washington base ball club to two American League pennants and a world championship and now is man- ager of the Tigers here, asked when he greeted his former teammates yester- day in the clubhouse at Navin Field. “I had looked forward to seeing Walter here,” Harris continued when in- formed that the ill manager of the Na- tionals had withstood the trip from Cleveland to Washington fairly well, “and was very sorry to hear he had been stricken in Cleveland. The greatest man I ever have known in base ball, Johnson is, and I hope for his speedy recovery.” The Harris this year is a vastly changed Harris from last year. In- stead of being the moody man showing age well beyond his years, as he was in his last season as manager of the Na- tionals, the pilot of the Tigers is a peppery person that one, not knowing him, never would believe to be past his late twenties. More like the sparkling and energetic Harris of '24 and '25 is the present Harris. Bucky, as he is just as affectionately ere as he was in Washington, ickled plum silly” with his new job. “How I like handling this Detroit ball club,” he declared while dressing in his manager’s locker—yes, the man- ager's locker in the Detroit clubhouse la1 88 & room of an average-size house—“and how they work for me. T've’ never before been with a club that worked more earnestly for its manager. “And I think I've a good ball club, Harris Enjoys Support of Fans As Well as Players at Detroit too. I'm not claiming any pennant, understand, but these Tigers are going to make_trouble for the others in this league. I have good pitchers, the club can go afield and I know it has remark- able power offensively. Down the line this club is a dangerous club at bat. It'll make lots of pitchers run to cover before the season ends.” Bucky a Wonder Worker. And Harris apparently has worked wonders with the Detroit club. Above all, he has brought about harmony in the ranks. As recently as last season battles that were more than verbal were nothing uncommon in the Tiger club- house after defeats, and throughout the league the club was known to be torn asunder because of the existence of sev- eral cliques in the membership. But, according to unbiased authorities here, there’s but one clique now, and that in- cludes the entire club membership, which is all for Harris, Detroit fandom, too, is behind Harris. It is now more so than at the outset of the season, for the Tigers have gotten away to a better start this year than in many previous years and the base ball bugs here attribute this successful getaway solely to Harris’ leadership., It certainly looks as though Bucky jumped into a good spot when he landed in Detroit after he was relieved of the managership at Washington. But Bucky has not forgotten the town in which he became famous in a base ball way. He thinks there’s no other spot than Washington for one to call home. “Of course, Detroit will be my headquarters during the playing sea- son,” he says, “but I'll have my family in Washington in the Winter. That's the place to live.” GHARRITY WILL SEE MORE BAT SERVICE 0—3 | Special Dispatch to The Star. May 8—Hereafter Ed DETROIT, nin. | Gharrity s to_join in the daily batting - | practice. He luoked good at bat when he tock Brown’s place in the ninth, but the veteran might have looked better had he had any drilling with the s | wand. Umpires—Messrs. Time of game—One s2sss2s4s00800000us & coscsossumoNRscoNaBaRaR. B SouoSONeNOSHANNERNARSI P T T LTI ISICP AR R caseses0s0somc02mo00MN eosscomomoseccssmmNaMMaSD sosss050gscmuscsssuRmENS - coummonaliualiiBes! o2 PITCHING. cos00somuET In’gs Gam.C . BB. 80.pitch.start.gam. i B £ Braxton arbe urke. Jones Liska. Hadley Browi Campbell. Hopkins. | LOUGHRAN-SHARKEY BOUT| % onesnaf o3 PR cosumemnof IN CHICAGO IN MAKING{: CHICAGO, May 8 (#).—A match be- | tween Tommy Loughran, light heavy- welght champion, and Jack Sharkey, the Boston gob, is being engineered by | Paddy Harmon for his Chicago stadium. Loughran is after a chance at the throne vacated by Gene Tunney, and Harmon has first call on his services. Johnny Buckley, Sharkey's manager, has notified Harmon that Sharkey is willing to meet the Philadelphian, if the price is right. A game for Sunday with an unlimited class team here having a diamond is sought by Manager George Russell of the Salisbury Club of the Eastern Shore base ball league. Call Lincoln 5460. OWENS' TEAM SEEKS FOE. Lem Owens Professionals are cast- ing about for a game Sunday with a semi-pro nine in or near the District having a park. Business Manager Harry H. Seyfarth at 2032 Bennett street | Ieague northeast, Lincoln 4638, is receiving challenges. 1 It was a regular Winter day the Nationals ran into for the series opener here. Everything but snow. All hands are hoping Spring will soon arrive. ‘This Dale Alexander, new Tiger first- sacker, is a huge fellow who moves about in clumbsy manner, but he cer- tainly puts plenty of power in his swing at the plate. His triple in the second inning was a remarkable drive. Ad Liska may try to break into the won column in tomorrow’s game here. The recruit surely has & victory coming to him after the great game in which he was defeated by the Indians last Sunday. Ossie Bluege batted for Marberry in the eighth and walked. Stufly Stewart, sent in to run for Bluege, did not last long bn the paths. Beguiled by White- 6 143 | nill's odd pitching motion, Stuffy was 000 | trapped off first and easily put out. l HOME RUN STANDING I By the Associated Press. Home runs yesterday—Grimm, Cubs, 2; Ruth Yankees, 1; Dickey, Yankees, 1; Stephenson, Cubs, 1; Alker, Reds, 1; O'Doul, Phillies, 1; High, Cardinals, 1; Fullis, Giants, 1; Cohen, Giants, 1. American _League leaders—Gehrig, Yankees, 6; Ruth, Yankees, 5; Gehrin- ger, Tigers, 4; Simmons, Athletics, 4; Foxx, Athletics, 4; Blue, Browns, 4. National League leaders—Jackson, Giants, O'Doul, Phillies, 5; Ott, ‘Wilson, Grimm, Hafey, Car- 5; High, Cardinals, dinals, 4. League totals—National, 83; Ameri- can, 65. Grand total, 148. Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND.—Emmet Rocco, El- wood City, Pa., outpointed Johnny Risko, Cleveland (12). BETHLEHEM, Pa—Sid Lampe, Balti- xr;%re’ and Joey Costa, Jersey City, draw 10). WILKESBARRE, Pa.—Kid Chocolate, Havana, outpointed Steve Smith, Bridge- port_(10). MINNEAPOLIS.——Rosy Rosales, Cleve- land, and Dick Daniels, Minneapolis, drew (10); Tim Derry, Dublin, Ireland, outpointed Tommy Havel, St. Paul, (6). CARDINALS SELL HANEY. LOS ANGELES, May 8 (#).—The Los les Ciub of the Pacifc Coast has purchased Fred Haney, third baseman, from the St. Louls Cardinals, v TEAMS IN SANDLOT LEAGUES ARE BUSY Week-day league base ball games hereabout tomorrow are scheduled be- tween Government Printing Office and Navy Yard in the Government League, Bureau of Engraving and Printing and ‘Treasury in the Departmental loop, and Big Print Shop and Washington Gas Light Co., in the Industrial circuit. All the contests, as usual, will be staged on Ellipse diamonds, starting at 5:15 o'clock. In games today Navy and Interstate were to face in the Government League, Naval Hospital and Government Print- ing Office in the Departmental loop, Chestnut Farms and Thompson's Dairy in the Industrial League and Pullman and Post Office in the Railroad Y. M. C._A. loop. ‘Yesterday's matches saw Navy Yard down Union Printers, 5 to 2, in the Government League; Aggies triumph ver Bureau of Engraving and Pyint- Zxx, 9 to 2, in the Departmental loop, Big Print Shop overcome Western Electric, 6 to 5, the Industrial League, Express routed Southern, 9 to 1, in the Railroad Y. M. C. A. circuit end Calvary Baptist trimmed St. Alban’s Episcopal, 9 to 2, in the George- town Church League. Preliminary organization of the Cap- ital City Insect section is to be offered at a meeting tonight at 8 o'clock in room 2 of the District Building. Managers and representatives of teams interested are asked to be present. DOWN THE LINE WITH W. 0. McGEZHAN. (Copyright, 1929, New York Tribune, Inc.) How to Decide. GENTLEMAN from Pennsylvania writes in to ask just what the system is in arriving at a decision in a prize fight where there is no knockout. Frankly, I do not know. Judging from some of the verdicts rendered, neither do the judges and the referees—and neither does the New York State Boxing Commission. Following through with his inquiry, the gentleman from Pennsylvania asks the following puzzling questions: “Do all blows that are landed count equally? “Do blows missed count for the opponent? “Does a knockdown win the round for the one who scores it, regardless of how he fares during the rest of the round? “Does the condition of the fighters at the end of the round determine who won the round? “If one hits very much harder and the other very much oftener—who wins the round? “Does aggressiveness count’for much or little?” I would prefer to have the members of the New Y State Boxing Commission take the stand in this inquest and have a few of their judges and referees cross-examined on these points. There have been a few verdicts rendered in this vicinity which would indicate that the judging and refereeing at times was of the catch-as-catch can variety. Maybe this system is the best, after all. At any rate, it has been getting by, and while there has been some voclferous squawking, nothing much has been done about it. The gentleman from Phfladelphia insists that a number of the followers of the manly art of modified murder would like to know just what influences the referee and the judges in making their decisions. Looking back at some decisiofls, which I happen to recall, I should say that nobody knows—particularly not the judges and the referees who made them. ‘Theoretically the game no longer is prize fighting in any sense of the word. It provides for boxing exhibitions in which the contestants are t6 reveal their skill to the best of their ability in the manly art of self-defense. But if the customers felt that they were to see only boxing exhibitions, Madison Square: Garden would be a lonesome place on fight nights. In theory, then, the modern fight is something in the nature of a fencing match, with the gloves instead of the foils, and is to be decided on points. But just what are points in a boxing match? The points in a fencing match are clearly enough defined, but in a boxing match there still is a certain vagueness as to what constitutes points. Perhaps the various boxing commissions have some definite ideas, but these never have been made quite clear to me—owing, I suppose, to my natural denseness. ‘There is something tangible in the questions asked by the gentleman from Pennsylvania. For instance: Question No. 1, which is: “Do all blows that are landed count equally?” That is to say—would a cuff on the ear count as much as a solid sock on the chin? If the judges are to weigh the effect of punches, I am wondering 'just how they are to figure this point out. At best it could be only & matter of guesswork. Some chins are more durable than others. 4 Fear ‘Then, again, a‘cuff on the ear might annoy some of the recipients more than a blow on the jaw. I am afraid there 1s no system devised that can give a mathematically correct verdict in a close fight. A Pertinent Question. UESTION No. 4, asked by the gentleman from Pennsylvania, is the most pertinent of all. It reads: “Does the condition of the fighters at the end of the round determine who won the round?” Tt I were laying down the law for deciding a bout I should sav. “Most em- phatically yes.” ‘In spite of the fact that the modern game is supposed to be boxing, pure and simple, the object of a boxing match which is being waged with any degree of sincerity is to flatten the opponent if possible, and as soon as possible. amount of punishment during > Therefore, it is my opinion that the fighter who administers the greater the round should be given the round, and the fighter who administers the greater amount of punishment during the bout should be given the bout regardless of the number of times the other gladiator has tapped ‘him with his gloves. ‘That would simplify matters, for I know that no judge or referee can keep a record of all of the blows struck during a prize fight, even when heavyweights, who are deliberate and slow enough and who are getting more deliberate and slower every year, are involved. I have tried dictating fights by rounds with the fastest of telegraph operators, and I know that I never could have set down all of the blows exchanged, and for that matter not even all of the mgre effective blows. If the winner of the round is to be judged by what he has dene to his opponent—that to be determined by the condition of the opponent at the end of the round—it would save the judges from their futile attempts at bookkeep: and give them a cl hance to watch the fights, It strikes me that the condition of the opponent at the end of the rounds and at the end of the fight would be an authentic record as to the effects of the blows landed by the fighter. HARMON DETERMINED T0 PROMOTE HOCKEY By the Associated Press. 1 president of the Chicago Stadium Cor- poration, has announced that Frank Patrick, father of hockey in the United States, will apply to the National Hockey League for a second franchise for Chi- cago, to be operated by the Stadium Corporation. Maj. Frederic McLaughlin, owner of | the Chicago Blackhawks, has opposed the granting of another franchise for Chicago. “I have left it up to Patrick to bring hockey to Chicago Stadium,” Harmon said, “and I cannot imagine the Na- tional Hockey League turning down Patrick’s request for a franchise. “Should the application be ‘denied,” Harmon added, “I don't know just what steps will be taken. We are going to have hockey, anyway, and will cross that bridge when we come to it.” Patrick will arrive here Priday from Vancouver, British Columbia, where he has made his headquarters as head of the Pacific Coast Hockey League. LEAGUE GAME ENDS, 1-0. Treasury and Government Printing | Ofiice nines are to hook up tomorrow in a Colored Departmental Base Ball League game on Monument diamond No. 8 at 5:15 o'clock. Veterans' Bureau and Navy Yard clubs were to mix to- day, Agriculture triumphed over Treas- ury, 1 to 0, yesterday. i CHICAGO, May 8—Paddy Harmon, | D. C. MEN JOLT BOOKIE BY BACKING AMERICANS The British “bookie” who laid 6 to 1 against any man in the field to quality in the British open has taken a severe trimming with Washington money, if the odds as quoted are cor- rect. Something like $600 was sent to England from the Washington Golf and Country Club last week, and several bets of $50' each at the current odds of 66 to 1 against, were sent in on Diegel, Hagen and Horton Smith to win the title. One man had $25 each on Hagen, Farrell, Smith, Diegel and Sarazen to qualify, all at 6 to 1 against. Out in Missouri they think so well of Horton Smith’s chance to win. his supporters have laid $5,000 on him at odds which will bring them well over $200,000 if he comes through. STRIBLING BOOKS BOUT, BUT FOE IS NOT NAMED MONTGOMERY, Ala., May 8,(®).— Young Stribling of Macon, Ga., has accepted terms for a 10-round bout here June 3 against an opponent to be named later. E Stribling is now in Columbus, Ga., where his tonsils were removed a few days ago. Jua' Cndn'oll of Bflnxli Miss,, is .being mentioned as a possible opponent for the Georgia heavyweight. gt L] JONES NOW LAWYER WITH FATHER’S FIRM ATLANTA, May 8 (#)—Robert Tyre Jones, jr., better known to golf fans as “Bobby” Jones, three times winner of the national amateur championship and twice holder of the national open title, was admitted to the bar in United States District Court yesterday. Bobby, who recently finished his law course at Emory University here, was introduced to Judge Samuel H. Sibley by a member of the law firm of his father, Robert T. Jones. The youthful attorney is expected to lay aside his practice to compete in the national open championship and to de- fend his amateur lzurels this Summer. GERMANS COMING HERE FOR STUDY OF, SPORTS To study methods used in conducting physical education and amateur sports in the Nation's Capital, Dr. Theodore Lewald, president of the German Olympic committee, and Dr. Carl Diem, secretary general of the German Fed- eral Council for Athletics, will spend Friday here. They wiil be met by a committee headed by Charles L. Ornstein, secre- tary of the National Amateur Athletic Union, and escorted to various colleges and schools here and about the munic- ipal piaygrounds. L EAGUE LEADERSHIP REGAINED BY YANKS Go to Top by Defeating the Browns as A’s Lose to White Sox. BY WILLIAM J. CHIPMAN, Associated Press Sports Writef. HE Yankees are back home again, but only by the skin of their teeth. The champions regained their old stamping ground with just half a game to spare late yesterday, as they shaded the Browns by 6 to 5, at Sportsman’s Park, while the White Sox were tumbling the ‘Ath- letlcs by 4 to 2 in a surprising battle on the Chicago front. This combination of events left the Macks and the Browns in a virtual tie, but for second place rather than first. | The Ruppert Rifles fired & dozen vol- leys at young Alvin Crowder. The hardest was Babe Ruth's home run with two aboard in the fourth, but the most effective was Bob Meusel's pinch double in the ninth, after the Babe had walked and Gehrig had singled. Both scored, carrying the runs which drove Crowder to cover and decided the game. Ruth's homer was his fifth, ' which placed him only one behind his pal, Gehrig. Bill Dickéy also combed Mr. Crowder for all the bases, in the fifth. The other side of the picture, from a Yankee point of view, was Herbert Pennock’s third failure in the box this season. Leading by 4 to 2, after Ruth and Dickey had hit homers, the noted fox farmer cracked up in the sixth, when four Brownie blows netted three runs and brought Wilcy Moore to the rescue. Wilcy gave way to a pinch batsman just in time for the veteran Tom Zachary to get credit for the Gar- rison finish, which won. No team ever gained anything by losing a left arm like Pennock's, but the Yankees will remain at or near the top so long as they continue the fierce cannonading which has marked their last five games. They have clubbed opposing pitchers for 63 hits in their last five starts, all of which have been won. And after all, they didn’t win last year or the year before on any excessive amount of fancy ing. The defeat of the Athletics at Chi- cago was _brought about largely by Alphonse Thomas, the hard-luck cham- pion of the American League. Al- phonse was some better than Bob Grove in _a pitchers' baitle which finished with the Athletics in possessicn of only five small hits. ‘Boston nosed out Cleveland by 5 to 4 and Detroit shaded Washington by 3 to 2 in minor raids along the Amer- ican League front. The Giants once more had to hit for four bases to score, and as a con- sequence the Pirates rushed off with the decision by 3 to 2 in their first engagement of the season at the Polo Grounds. The Bucs tied in the eighth and won in the tenth when Lloyd ‘Waner doubled and Pie Traynor singled. Larry Benton was the victim. Ray Schalk, managing the Giants in the absence of John McGraw, permitted Benton to bat for himself with two out and the bases filled in the ninth. with the result that the sorrel-top raised a foul to Sheely. Still, some other pitcher might have given the Pirates half a dozen runs in the extra inning. oung Larry French, the Portland, Oreg., southpaw, made his first big league start and showed no timidity whatever in the face of Giant bats. The Clen McGraw had few chances other than those furnished by early home runs from the bats of Andy Cohen and Chuck Fullis. ‘The Braves remained at the top by shellacking the Cardinals, 8 to 5, in an eighth-inning rally. Billy Southworth trigd to slip past the Bostonese with his second pitching string, but this was in- sufficient. The Cubs had no trouble with the Robins, winning by 9 to 4 and hold- | ing on within striking distance of Judge | Fuchs’ amazing team. Charlie Grimm | backed up Art Nehf's fine pitching with | two home runs and Riggs Stephen- | son hit one. Frank O'Doul, the reformed pitcher, hit his fifth home run at Philadelphia, enabling the home team to defeal Reds by 6 to 4. Two were on base in the eighth when PFrankie's drive against Rtxé scaled the right-field wall. JOHNSON MUCH BETTER; EARLY RECOVERY IS.SEEN A vast improvement in the condi- tion of Walter Johnson, manager of the Nationals, today was reported at Emergency Hospital, which he entered yesterday after being stricken in Cleveland with an infection of the kidneys, due to a cold. “Walter spent a restful night,” said Dr. Harry M. Kaufman, chief of the medical staff at Emergency and Johnson's personal physi , “and today his temperature was almost normal.” Mrs. Johnson is in constant at- tendance at the bedside of her hus- band, whose early recovery now is indicated. I BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS I American League. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Detrolt, 3: Washington, 2. New York, €: St. Louis, 5, Chicaco, 4; Philadeiphia, 2. Boston, 5; Cleveland, 4. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. Cleveland Percentase) ;| Detroit |0 o|eaf Chicago =l 10/ 4. 1100 5., T ool | |New York GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. ton at Detroit.Wash'ton at Detroit. Chicago. _ ‘Boston at Clevelan: . Phila. at New York at New at St. Louls. I Boston at Cleveland. St. L. National League. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Plttsburgh, 3: New York, 2 (10 {nnings). Fhifdcinhia. o) Clacinaatl, 4. ¥ Clncinnatt, 4. Boston. i St. Louls, 5 TANDING OF THE CLUBS. : |chicazo st. Louis Pittsbursh Plttsburgh New York . Brooklyn Philadeipbia. T 1—1"11 2 6/ 9400 11/ 31— 11 6] 8.429 Cincinnati 111 0/—[_6101.875 Lost 61 71 3171 9] 8110/—I—I GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. incinnat Phil i St Pe LA MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS | INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Newark. 4: Toronto, 2. ontregl, 4: Reading, 2 (sscond game; first Ppostponed, 'ral ). Rochester, 11; Jersey City, 6. Baitimore-Buffalo. cold. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. ; Birmingham, 12 (12 innings, Mobile, 2. 4; Nashville, 2. New Orleans, 13; Little Rock, 4. PIEDMONT LEAGUE. Durham, 4-2: High Point, 3-0. Salisbury, 4-0; Henderson, 3-1. Winston-Salem, 1-2; Greensboro, 4-1 (sec- ond game, 14 inning EASTERN LEAGUE. New Haven, 14; Springfield, 8. Providence, 11: Alb: 4 Allentown,” 7;_Pittsfleld, 3. Hartford, 5; Bridgeport, 4. SOUTH ATLANTIC ASSOCIATION. Asheville, 5-7: Knoxville, 4-1. Charlotte, 4: Colvmbia, 2. Greenville, Spartanburg, 2-2. Macon, 6: a, 4. PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. Oakland, 7: Hollywdod, 2. Portland. 17: Los Angeies. 9. gu: TEXAS LEAGUE. Dallas, 8:; Houston, 3. San_ Antonio, 3: Fort Worth, 0. Beaumont, 4; Shreveport, 3. Wichita Falls, 9; Waco, 2. STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. EVER before, in the four years' history of Town and Country Club tournaments, has a bet- ter field been entered in the Spring invitation event of the Bethesda club than is playing in the current affair which goes on today at the club with the second half of the two-day qualifying round. And never before has the golf course been in bet- ter shape. ‘There is a ilm connected with this matter of golf course condition which those who visit the traps at Town and Country this week will bear out. It is this: For years Town and Country used brown sand, of the same kind that is used at most of the local courses. It ‘was effective in discouraging bunker play, but it didn’t look good, nor was it as good as sifted sea sand. . One day Sam Leidy, one of the most enthusiastic golfers, who ever lived, and a man who lives and breathes golf and the spirit and sportsmanship of the game, came in off the course after a crashing 47 for the nine holes and dis- covered Morris Simon, a member of the club committee, looking sorrowfully out over the golf course. “What's the matter, Morris? ¥ p) “I made the best score of my life. But that ! golf course don't look right. It's a good ! course, but we ought to have white sand | in those traps. en it would not only ] look right, but it would be right.” ‘Therewith Leidy agreed to furnish a ! carload of sand for the traps, thinking * a 50-ton carload would go a long way toward making the course “look right and play right.” He failed to reckon on , the liberality of the architect who built the traps at Town and Country. For those traps simply devoured sand. They ate it up at the rate of three traps to a carload, and Leidy went on ordering carload after carload until he had ordered more than 350 tons of sand, and dumped it in those yawning traps. ‘That bit of generosity cost Leidy some- thing like $3,200, and the end is not yet. But Town and Country has white sand in its traps, and it looks and plays like a fine golf course. The gents who get in the sand during the tournament don't think so much of it, but that sand is like the native sand of Scottish seaside courses. “It's like playing a shot out of a big bowl of sugar,” one of the competitors declared today, after he had missed a couple in the cavernous bunker in front of the first green. But aside from the sand, Arthur B. ‘Thorn and his greenskeepers have done wonders at Town and Country. We out is today. the pertinacity and stick-to-it-iveness | of Thorn and the members of the greens committee, for they were discouraged early in the year, when it seemed im- possible to get enough good weather to ) force the grass i@ grow, The fact that yesterday not one of the 60-odd competitors was able to break 78 over the Town and Country Club layout is testimony enough that it is tough and that perhaps that white sand has something to do with its toughness. | g, Frank K. Roesch, the youthful cham- pion of the Washington Golf and Coun- try Club, who won his home club tourney last week, was the only com- petitor to break 80, and Roesch did it in a peculiar fashion. He scored ex- actly the same on each hole for the double circuit of the nine-hole course. He played both nines in 39, just like this: 4 5454 6 43 4. “Strangely enough.” said Frank, “my shots were almost identically alike during both rounds. At the short Aifth I played my second shot on the second round from within & foot of where I had played it on the previous round. And it was just Jhc same for the balance of the round.” Baltimore Country Club has post- poned until today making the pairings for the qualifying round in its Spring ! invitation tournament, which gets under way tomorrow over the famed Five Farms course of the club. Quite a! group of Washingtonians are to leave | the Capital early tomorrow for Balti- | more to play in the tourney, led by | Miller B. Stevinson, who won in 1926, and Albert R. MacKenzie, who was runner-up five years ago. 2 A. G. Stup, Bannockburn’s long hit- ting amateur, is to pair with Tony Syl- vester, the club pro, a_challenge match tomorrow against J. H. Hoffman of Washington, and Walter W. Cun- ningham of Burning Tree. James Buchanan of Congressional has_ideas about hitting a golf ball.| Buchanan claims that the more spots; there are on a golf ball the better it| can be seen and the easier it can be struck. So he has taken one of the new-fangled spotted balls put out by one of the manufacturers and spotted ' it with indelible ink until it looks as| if it had a choice case of measles. ( “Now you ought to see me hit ’em,” Buchanan says. He claims the wrinkle has cut several strokes from his score. | “But the day I break 100" he adds,! | “I'm going to get the Marine Band.| tart The procession will sf from the Peace Monument, and I _hope all my friends will be there. We intend to int the town a dull crimson and I pe it won't be long.” Mrs. J. M. Haynes and Mrs. Geor(e‘ H. Parker tied for first place in the | women’s handicap tourney at Columbia yesterday, each turning cards 4 | down to par. Mrs. Haynes played in a match play against par event with a a handicap of 4, while that of Mrs.| Parker_was 16. Radiators, Fenders also New Radiators jators and Cores In Stock Wittstatts, 1809 14th North 7177 Also 319 13th, % Block Below Ave. DISCIPLINE OF BOSS RUFFLES MAGNATES Parent Circuit Not to Dis- card Award for “Most Valuable Player.” BY ALAN J. GOULD. Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, May 8 (#).—The Smooth surface of oragnized base ball has been somewhat ruffied by reaction to the dis- ciplinary moves of Commis- sioner Landis on the “covering-up” of strings attached to minor league talent. Base ball men familiar with events of the last few months, subsequent to the drastic steps taken by Landis to free the players involved and fine the big league clubs accused of violating the optional player limit, understand that a block of American League mag- nates again is ready to shoulder arms. Ii fact, the “wise ones” assert that the main purpose of the American League meeting in Cleveland was to air the objection to Landis’ action, al- though the headlined item of news con. cerned the sbandonment of the “most valuable player” award. For years the major league magnates, by a gentlemanly understanding, have “‘covered up” players put out for more seasoning in excess of the official limit of eight. Apparently a number of them. under- stood to be led by Clark Griffith of ‘Washington, resent the summary action of the high commissioner in not only calling an abrnupt halt, but in adminis- tering sharp discipline. ‘Whatever their personal feelings, there is not likely to be a serious tempest, especially since Landls retains the full backing of the National League and sufficient American League support to give him any vote of confidence re- quired. Furthermore, the commissioner's sweeping powers of office give him un- disputed control of the situation. There is no appeal from a decision by Landis, whose $65,000-a-year job as sole arbiter of organized basc ball has until 1933 to run. Although there has been some objec- tion to continuing it, the National League will not join the American in discarding the “most valuable player” contest this year. ‘The issue was debated at both the December and February meetings of the National League magnates, but a ma- jority voted to maintain the award for this year, at least. Despite some criticism, the general feeling among base ball men favors re- tention of what has come to represent a “hall of fame” for big league stars. They believe the incentive and recog- nition it furnishes to the players out- wel{:s any objections. Since 1922 " the official American League award gone, in succession, ‘t’ohnGturgengfller.FBlfib; R\l';hl., ‘Walter ohnson, Roger Peckinpaugh, George Burns, Lou Gehrig and Gordon (“Mickey”) Cochrane. Since 1924 the National League prize has been be- stowed upon Dazzy Vance, Rogers Hornsby, Bob O'Farrell, Paul Waner and Jim Bottomley. ‘There was the celebrated case of Peckingpaugh, Washington shortstop. who played so poorly in the 1925 world series after, being selected as the year's most valuable American League player. Subsequently it was decided to withhold the award until after the champion- ship series; although the votes were cast beforeBand and based only on the regular seafon’s competition. Again this Spring the hold-out tac- ties of Cochrane, star catcher of the Athletles and 1928 award winner. prompted ‘misgivings in the minds of the magnates. Probably it speeded, if it did not altogether prompt, the action taken at Cleveland. —_— ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 —Del Ray A. C. will play the Takoma, Md., Tigers here Sunday at 3 o'clock on Edward Duncan_Field, 3 The Del Ray clubmen will meet to- night at the home of their president, P. P. Clark, 1015 Clyde avenue, at 7:30. Episcopal High School will strive for its fifth consecutive triumph in the quadrangular meet with Woodberry Forest, Gilman County School and Tome Institute when they meet here on Hoxton Field Saturday. Clover A. C. will open its season in ‘Washington Sunday, playing the North Capitol Savings Bank. St. Mary’s Celties have started nego- tiatlons for a series of Saturday games t Baggett's Park with other aspirants for the Virginia title. Tappahannock A. C. will be played here June 22. Con- tests are pending with Culpeper, War- renton and Fredericksburg teams. National Pee Wees trounced the Yankee Pee Wees, 20 to 7, yesterday. Bow Five pinspillers defeated the Sculls, 1,996 to 1967, last night on the Health Center alleys to win the Old mmlnion Boat Club Duckpin League e. TILDEN AND HUNTER WILL SAIL TONIGHT By_the Assoclafed Press. NEW YORK, May 8—William T. Tilden and Francis T. Hunter begin the first leg of their annual European ten- nis invasion tonight, when they board the Aquitania for France. Arriving at Cherbourg, the Americans will go directly to Auteuil for the French hard-court championships, . beginning May 18. The French singles title never has been won by an American, and Vincent Richards and Howard Kinsey alone of invading United States players have been able to win the doubles title. From Auteuil Tilden and Hunter will g0 to Amsterdam for the Dutch cham. pionships, in which Hunter will be tht defending singles champion. The Dutck tournament starts June 4. ‘Then may follow a team match against a picked German squad, afte which the Americans are to travel to ‘Wimbledon for the British champion. ships, starting June 24. Barring possible participation in the Davis Cup inter. zone and challenge round competition, the first two ranking American players will call it & campaign with the British championships. ~ Official Corbin Speedometer Service We Repair - All Makes CREEL BROS. 1811 14th St. NW. Dec. 4220 Starting. Lighting. Ignition Pimlico Spring Meeting April 29 to May 11 (inc.) First Race, 2:30 p.m. Adm., $1.50