Evening Star Newspaper, May 17, 1929, Page 48

48 SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, . O, FRIDAY, MAY 17,.1929. SPORT S National Federation, Aided by Legion, Colleges and Schools, Booming Base Ball Far More Productive Than Expected. I L. Griffith, its executive vice president, to revive base ball Three thousand new “town” teams are in the fleld. And the American Legion the American Legion’s junior base ball tournament. But the surface was only to get in, where a year ago they had to be coaxed a little. the small towns, in the high schools and colleges. among the boys of the Nation. hopes to reach as many as 400,000 boys scratched, in the opinion of Dan Sowers, The colleges were asked to help and IVE years ago the National Ama- teur Athletic Federation put its This year only a few colleges remain- ed out of base ball. Nearly every high in its big national tournament this Summer. national director of the Legion’s pro- gram. The tournament was so success- But getting back to the start five years ago: Maj. Griffith started his they did. In the smaller institutions many teams had been abandoned. Now Campaign of Maj. Griffith Is O. K. on the plan of Maj. John school in the country has a team. Last year 122,000 boys competed in ful that this year teams are clamoring campaign by promoting base ball in most of them are back. But that is not the extent of the gain. In making base ball popular again as a college sport it also has become very popular in the over-growing intramural pre grams of the colleges. One big c lege may have a base ball team, play: ing its old rivals, numbering 25 or 30 men. But that same college also may have 100 teams in the intramural sports . ‘The return of the college team was an encouragement for more intramural base ball It is estimated that, counting intra- mural, there are 1,000 more college teams than there were flve years ago. There are perhaps 1,000 high schools laying base ball today that did not ve teams five y‘:,arst ago. This gain is mostly in the West, Last year the American Legion had 8,764 teams playing in the junior tour- nament. Three hundred mnew leagues have sprung up in the “town” class. Which means about 2,400 teams. ‘Which is a total of 13,164 teams ac- | counted for in these classes. No doubt there was enough encouragement to bring in enough new teams in miscel- laneous classes to bring the total to 15,000 new teams. That would make a total of nearly 250,000 new ball players. The real big growth is in the Amer- e program. Maj. Griffith sold the Legion five years ago. But it took some time to get a good start. The Legion had & tournament in 1926, but couldn’t give it much time in 1927 because of the convention in Paris. Last year it went over with a , however, and this year, according to Dan Sowers, there will be at least three times as many teams competing, maybe four times as many. Maj. Grifith broke the nd and did the planting. He had Dan Sowers and Jay Butler to help him cultivate the crop. Now the ‘major can sit back and watch it grow. But he isn't doing that. He is keeping up his efforts to encourage more teams in the small towns and in the’ country sections. Jay Butler is a fleld worker for both the Federation and the Leglon. He supervised many of the sectional tourna- ments Tast year and ‘was constantly on.| the go most of the Summer. Sowers and Butler " already ‘are in an Legion this idea to champlonship last Fall. He was worked most of the Winter and has covered the country in organizing the sport. ‘Thers sre 11,000 American Legion posts. Of that number there were 8,764, supporting base ball last year. Sowers hopes to have all of them lined ‘There was Legion base ball trict of Co- lumbia last year. Local play and State tournaments are financed by the posts. After that the $50,000 fund donated by organized base AiIPLEASANT DAY .To)‘g'ou o SIR o THE GoLF CLUB’ANDRE YANKEES LEADING CANADIAN NETMEN e g Take First Two Matches and Need Only One More Win to Clinch Honors. By the Associated Press. ONTREAL, May 17.—The United States team apparently has hurdled the first obstacle in its second campaign to bring Davis tennis cup in the first two singles matches the first round American gzone cup tie gave the United States a lead that the Dominion hardly can overcome. A victory in the doubles Codlf or in one of the two concluding singles matches on Saturday will put the Stars and Stripes into the second round. No tennis expert, either in the United States or Canada, believes the Dominion team can make a clean sweep of the remaining three matches, The two United States victories yes- terday were turned in by John Hen- nessey of Indianapolis, and John Van Ryn of East Orange, N. J. Van Ryn, & newcomer to Davis Cup play, conquered Willard F. Crocker, the TIRES ON CREDIT Against All Bead Hazards Y(€Goon Luck.To, \_\’ou:’ —BY BRIGGS PEEXIEeS 7 e | MISSED T [} No. 2 Canadian player, in straight sets, 9—17, 6—2, 6—3. Hennessey dropped a set to Dr. Jack Wright, No. 1 Canadian, buts won the match, 6—3, 4—6, 6—1, T—5. Both victories were decisive and were recorded under extremely adverse weather conditions from which the Americans could have been expected to suffer the most. Van Ryn had great difficulty adjusting himself to condi- tions in the first set but after that he swept through Crocker without trouble. Hennessey had more trouble with Wright who played fine tennis but the Indianapolis player's superior steadiness glv. him the match and the United tates two straight victories in the tie. For the doubles today Hennessey and van Ryn will oppose Wright and Dr. Arthur Ham. BUDAPEST, May 17 (9).—Hungary eliminated Monaco in a second round Davis Cup tie, three matches to two. THREE RACKETERS SHINE. CHICAGO, May 17 (#).—Tom Wil- son of Butler and Harris Coggeshall of Grinnell today stood out as chief con- tenders for the first Central intercol- legiate singles tennis crown as play en- tered the third round on the Chicago Town and Tennis Club courts. GUNSTON HALL GOLF |G. U. GOLFERS WIN EVENT IN PROGRESS Cynthia Fries, Kitty Penn and Marian Newman were returned victors yester- day in the three matches played in the Gunston Hall golf tournament. Three more were scheduled for this afternoon, one of which was to bring together Miss Newman and Miss Penn in one of the critical contests of the competition for the school crown being staged on the East Potomac Park course. Miss Newman exhibited easy superior- ity in defeating Reeder Davidson 7 up yesterday while Miss Penn disposed of Martha Naton 3 up. Cynthia Fries was victorious over Mary Davidson, 5 up in town, the third match on yesterday’s card. Meta Shackelford, Marle See, Frances | &) Love and Louise Kendrick are the four other survivors who were to play this | F. afternoon, the two former meeting in one encounter and the latter two in the | Robe other. ‘The title match will be played Satur- day or Monday, according to weather conditions, it was announced today by Miss Helen Stout, athletic director. It is the only title sport on the Gol Spring schedule at Gunston Hall this season, as it was decided to postpone the tennis chnmglonshlp until next Fall because of the heavy rains during the past two months. MATCH FROM DARTMOUTH RYNE, N. Y, May 17.—Georgetown defeated Dartmouth in an intercolle- %:w golf mateh, 8 to 1, here yesterday. e Hoya linksmen took all 3 points in the foursomes and then added five out of the six singles to defeat the Big Green, Maurice McCarthy, the intercollegi- Barret ate champion, conquered R. F. t by 4 and 2, with a round of H W. Ekstrom scored Dartmout] single point, taking a 19-hole match from Richard Wilson. ‘The summaries: Georgetown, 8; Dartmouth, 1. rice McCarthy, Jr., George- . Barre! nd 2; Mark ed . G, m. Dartmouth, 19 hol Wi o ‘hen up: H. W. Ekstro defeated ‘Richard Wilson, ' 1 T, . J. Beger, Sinith, 8 and ., Geo! town, ' defeated A. G. Rydstrom, 4 and obert Manning. Georgetown, defeated J. 8. 1 up, 19 holes. rsomes — McCarth: us y and Georgetown, defeated Barrett and nd Beg i Cheney, 001 Radiators, o New R Harrison R rs and Cores in Stock Wittstatts, 1809 14th North 7177 Also 319 13th, 14 Block Below Ave. Fenders ators ngan, | HITTER SUPPLANTS THIRLER AS CARD Schulte, Ex-Home Run King, Bemoans Fact That He’s Not in Game Now. By the Associated Fress. ACK in the days when a home run was a national event in- stead of n yawn, Frank Schulte was a home run king. Years | 0 that was, before the lively ag ball danced its dreadful way into pitch- | ers’ nightmares. “Wildfire,” claimed now by age, the | automobile business and California sun- | shine, was mooning around out Cub park in Chicago recently, looking wist- fully at the present peppy ball. “In my time fans went to see the‘ great pitchers work,” he observed. Posie tive announcement that Christy Ma- thewson, Mordecal Brown, Ed Walsh or one of half a dozen others would pitch brought out a big crowd. “Now they go to see Babe Ruth or Rogers Hornsby or Hack Wilson or some great hitter. Perhaps the lively ball has done it.” “I'd just like to see Nap Lajole clout- ing the present ball,” he wished. Schulte thinks the Cubs are pennant winners—and here’s why: “When I was a youngster with the Cubs—in 1906—we were going pretty hot. I think we won 116 games that year, more than any team had ever won or has since. “There was a lot of stuff in the pa. pers comparing our team to the famous Anson team of 20 years before. It used to burn me up. I thought our cutfit was pretty good, with Tinker, Evers, Chance, Pat Moran and others. “‘Some day,’ I said, ‘T'll be an old- timer and a has-been and the Cubs will have another good team. If anybody asks me then to compare that team with ours I'm going to say we never’ were as good as the new team!’ “So that’s why I think the 1929 Cubs are the best of them all and sure to grab the pennant.” § ROYAL TIRE IORES 34140 NW Very Y GOLF Just 98 pairs! ! They’ll go quick at this drastically marked -down price. Spiked soles and heels — in two colors, brown and tan. Soft toes. No Other Connection NNV o newng: e e 0 e 00000000t testetestsstsssetsstisitesessssessese Two-Tone; All-Leather 'E NA) Phone Franklin 6608 AR AR AR R RN R A ARG R AR AR AR AR RARR AR ARARRA Special! 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HALF TURN-] ARMS HUG ( g aqoy backswing and not only overswing but pull ourselves off balance. When balance is lost timing goes with it and one’s caddied offers you a nib- lick. “wild Bill” Melhorn is a swash- buckling driver who hits the ball for all he is worth. But you don’t see Bill doing his clouting on the back- swing. He stops his club before it gets too far back, where control is lost. His swing is compact and al. ways under control, yet there is plenty of muscular freedom in it. SWIMMING RECORD SMASHED BY BORG| By the Associated Press. SANTA MARIA, Calif, May 17— Arne Borg, Swedish distance swimmer, broke the world record for the 700-yard swim at the Santa Maria municipal pool last night. His time, 8 minutes 2 3-5 seconds, chopped 27 seconds off the former rec- ord, held by Ray Ruddy of the New York Athletic Club. . ---take Your Choice! DALE ALEXANDER 1S REAL SLUGGER Moriarty Rates Him as Best i First Baseman Detroit Ever Has Had. GEORGE MORIARTY. Big League Umbpire. 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