Evening Star Newspaper, June 9, 1929, Page 70

2 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C, JUXE 9, 1929—PART - B3 Uzcudun to Be Ready for Schmeling : Blaeholder Introduced “Slide-Away ball” THE SPORTLIGHT PAOLINO IS GOING ABOUT | WORK IN A SERIOUS MOOD | | Does Not Consider German Soft as Was Opinion When Bout Was Arranged—Basque, Up Early, Has Strenuous Daily Schedule. BY SPARROW McGANN. OOSICK FALLS, N. Y., June 8.—Contrary to the opinion ex- pres his sparring mates and following will be right when the gong cpens the all important battle in New York City Thursday evening, June 27. Up at 6:45 each morning. Paolino dons his heavy clothes and tramps over the mountain trails on how he feels and how easily he works ug a sweat. his own ideas of conditioning and does not both or rote. He takes very good care stitution inherited from simple 1 ed when the match was first broached, Paolino Uzcudun does nct consider Max S8chmeling to be a soft one. The Basque gettled down to serious training here this week and if one i8 to judge by the way he has been churning about his camp, belting "o uCK the clock around, the woodchopper m LN/ o PHILLY OUTFIELDER, AND A FINE HITTER . MAYBE MELL BE THE 1929 NATIONAL LEAGUE HoMeE RUN Kne [ one mile or maybe five, depending Paolino has er much about rule of himself and with a rugged con- tving parents of peasant stock, he does not need as much hardening as would be the case if he were city bred. m the road Paolino mixes up walks with ehort sprints ot else £tops and shadow boxes fully three min- ttes before starting off on another aprint down the road. Weaving and rolling of head and {s Paolino’s idea »f shadow boxing. Reaching up and grabbing overhanging limbs, pull- ing himself up with one hand and grabbing a tree trunk with both hande d tugging hard and steady to pull y from the holding tactics of his opponent he reet of the morning is spent in lolling around with his corps of native Basques to keep him company, greet- ing visitore or taking & walk_ around the beautiful lake on Herr Ehmler's beautiful estate Only Two Meals Dally Paolino eats but two mea 3 and they conslst in the main of plenty of vegetables. Meat s served once a day and with this 18 served a salad, eliiefly lettuce, tomato and celery. Paolino has a short siesta at noon, reminiscent of his native land, a short flap at a time when the sun is hottest Accustomed to this, Paollno drops off to eleep easily and does not waken un- til he is called upon to put on the gloves and engage in boxing with the eorpe of eparring partners Al Mayer has corralled for him. Jack DeMave, Benny ‘Touchstone, Jack Dorval and Buddy Howard form A staff of assistants on & par with, if not better than, any other heavyweight fighter hae had to work out with in many a moon. DeMave and Dorval are top flight men and fit to step in the ring and give battle to the best heavies in the country DeMave's appearance in the role of a #parring mate surprised Jack s in demand all over the country and could make triple the amount of money he is getting for working with Paolino. But here again friendship makes iteelf known in the boxing game and refutes the theory that fighters are in the game for only what they can get out of it. Lou Diamond, manager of DeéMave, and the latter are close per- eonal friends of Paolino and Al Mayer. Ar soon as Mayer sent out a call for aldes, Diamond and DeMave promptly gtepped up and offered their services. Opposes Schmeling's Style. Paolino depends on DeMave and Dorval, both hard, straight punchers, Wwith more than a fair amount of box- ing utility” to imitate Schmeling's style and fight him that way. Garnering this pair was a master stroke on the part Mayer and results will testify to this effect before the sparring sessions are more than a week old Paolino spends his eveninge quietly. He has a phonograph, with hundreds of French, Spanish and American records, and the instrument drones its musical stores for hours. Arthus, Garay and Echevanni, camp mates are excellen singers and Instrument ists. The guitar and mandolin are brought out and the quartet, joined by Paolino, who sings a nice baritone, sing Basque songs that waft the redoubtable battler in fancy to his native Pyrenees. At 10:30 Paolino calls out to his friends and visitors a soft spoken “adios and another day passes into yesterday and brings him that much closer to the most important engagement so far in his career, BOTTOMLEY IS FETED AS CARDS BEAT PHIL By the Astociated Press. B8T. LOUIS, June 8.—The 8t. Louls Cardinale broke a four-game losing streak today by pounding out a 7-to-2 victory over Philadelphla. It was “‘Jim Bottomley day,” and Jim, tHe star Bt. Louis first baseman who won the most valuable player award in 1028, led the Cardinal attack, driving in the first run with a triple and himself scoring a few minutes later on a single lnE@hv!h('l'n thousand fans, including turned out to cheer as President John A. Heydler presented Bottomley with $1.000 in gold and a medal in cere- monies preceding the game. They were rds for the most valuable player y The game was otherwise featured by home runk by High, Hafey, Lerian and O'Doul,_and by the pitching of Byl- vester Johneon, Oardinal hutler, who etruck out seven battere ABH.OA 00 > cnsvesmand 8t 1, Dauinlief High3h . Frisehp " " 4 Bottomi v.ib i rantt,rf Smith.e Gelbert.ss Johnson.p. . Zouthern.ct T - Totala ... 31 6 31127 *Batted for «Batteq for t8atted for Priadelphia Bt Louls Totals 984809880 N 2000800606 x Rune—O Doul n. High, Prisch ottomiey (2, Johnson. Runs bat Hafey 4 ) ottomiey. O'Doul. Lerian, Two-base hit_Soutnern. Three-bass b ot omiey neon ome runs s igR: Lenane B Dol Bouble piats - ith 1o High. Frisch to Geibert to Bottom- e, 00, bhser Philadeionia n “balie-_OR Collins. 3 ) 4 ;fi' nsop. 5. Btruck out-— ojiind, 2: bV Eili Bf"Eoliine. 10 40’ & oking pitcher—Coliine diiott.” 1 Umpires ! iem. Magerkirth and Jorda =1 hour and 48 minutes. BASE BALL ATTENDANCE GAINING, SAYS HEYDLER BT. LOUIS, June 8 Heydier, National here for the most . 1 teri ) oarrs spiked rumors that base attendance had fallen off this year. New YOtk has shown the mow marked inc and the Cubs are nex| Heydler said. “We have played to al most 250:000 more fans than in 1928, of the alubs have lost big da; a: Sunday, because of rain. S gumeoiins§ g, TEXAS LEAGUE. Shrevepert, 8.2, Dalias, §:2 (second, eight {npin San_ Antonie, 0 Waco, 4 ;w’fénnflsx CiR Wortn, 4. his he a day | this writer. | 00 boys and girls admitted free, | IR 2 Time of game | (#).—John Leagué president, valuable player rd to “Sunny Jim" Bottomley, to- | t to date, despite the fact that a number stch 10TH STRAIGHT WN HURLED BY GRIMES |Burleigh Scatters Robins’ 9 [ Hits and Buecs Gain | 3 With & view to not being out- | | 9-t0-2 Victory. done by their more famous Phila- | delphia brothers, the Athleties, who have a nice lead in the American League, the once lowly Phils went West in the first division for the first time in years, And began their invasion of the tough eities of the hinterlands by taking & couple of falls from the dangerous Corsairs of Pittaburgh Two young men who have had a Int to do with the success of Manager Burt Shotton's team this year are Claude Willoughby, & right- anded pitcher, and “Chuck" Kiein, a left-handed batter who plays in right fleld. Kiein, who is only 23 years old, and went from Fort Wayhe to the Phillies last year, has created quite A sensation by entering the home tun derby, and, so far, has proved uite the ‘dark horse of the race. hat & youngster from the Three-I League “should graduate “summa lF\' the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH. Pa. June 8.—Bur-| |1eigh Grimes won his tenth straight | game and the Pirates their Aifth as the | home team overcame Brookiyn by | [to 2 here today in the series opener. | | Grimes allowed the Robins nine hits, | but pasted only one and so scattered | the safeties that the Robins failed to| ¢cach in on them. Watson Clark held the Piratés fairly well in check for | | seven tounds, but gave way to & substis | tute runner in the eighth. Entering the box for the first time sinice May 18, Dazgy Vance was nicked | for three hits and five runs in the home | eighth, but none of the runs was earned. | | Glibert's wild throw continued the | Pirates at bat after the side should have been retired. Hemsley opened | against Vance with a triple and Grant- | ITWO LEADING MEN —By FEG MURRAY ONE LESS THA e N RECreD) A Mere BuLL-PEN WORMER IN 1928, B NOW 135 ACE OF THE PHILLY MOUND STAFF./ ALL DUE To ACQUIRING CONTROL AND CONFIDENCE. Meeopelitan Newspaper Service cum (as v sav at Hawvahd) was O. K. for the newcomer to start out he next Spring and bat almost nothing was rather disappointing. But Klein soon got over his lethargy, or what- ever it was, and began knocking the cover off the ball, much to the joy of his boss, who had faith in the youngster by him in the line-un As for “Slecpy Claude” Willough- by, he worked hard all la a_bull-pen twirler, and nea of the season, began t harvest of conscientious He got so that curve ball, and, although he fi last season with a record of six won and five lost, he acquired confidence with the knowledge that at last he could make his fast and slow curve behave. Willoughby worked in 35 games last season, but pitched only five complete contests, Now he's up there—the ace of the Philadelphia paci laude” h showed his keeping | ham cleared up with a homer with two | board. | The Pirate management announced | the outright release of Joe Dawson former Louisville pitcher. to Baltimore | of the International League. The Robins | and the Pirates will jump to Brooklyn tonight to play a game not originally scheduled for that date. Biivn. AP Pheh. ABH.OA A Ham { Gilbert,3b . ST Grimesp... Totals ...38 Totals :RAn for Clark in sighth innin | *Bressier out, hit by hatted b! |Bimuan e 84840 Pieinich. uns—Hendriek, | waper™ g Frravgor (b ky, 001 g 3814726 14 000 156 x| Adams, i res-BARe hith ley. Home fun_Grantham. | Comoragky, Bheely, rifl puble n Lunaseisil A1t on - | gk by | |to strengthen the men 3. spitler, lelub, to libera f | | treatment of players in & world where | | there is little real saympathy shown, and to h's interest in the standing of the elub. apart from the financial end. ‘They recall his message over the hone to the Atlanta club on the open- ng of the season when it started off with a bang by winning two at Chat- tanooga. That mesasage read: “Boys, come home [ to pape. | ut all the fans knew was that the club was not winning and that it had dropped into seventh place and seemed | destined to be a cellar occupant before the season is much older. And so, when the announcement was made on the field that Clark Griffith |of the Washington club had bought the team there were wild cheers of acclaim from the bleacherites and only |a few gathered around Spiller and his | family to tell them farewell from the | game he had grown to love. 1| Perhaps the truth of it all was that 2| gpiller now 18 and always has been a 0 | business man and does not understand the base ball game. In business a man's affairs are pretty GIANTS HAND REDS ecial Dispatch to The Star. TLANTA. Ga., June 8-—Ten years ago he was working for | A salary and had only $2.500. enough to buy the concessions at the Atla from Charlie Frank, then owner. This week he sold out, lock, stock and | barrel, for the total of $850.000, has retited from business and will take a | trip abroad with his lamlkv. This i¢ the record of Rell J. Spiller, the much misunderstood and little loved owner of the Crackers, who practically has been forced from base ball by the criticism of the fans and the de- mand for a one- two-thrée t e am | which for some resson he could not supply. {| _‘Those who knew | Bpiller _intimately, | however, were not 4 in accord with the | Mecsrs. Heardon rnd verdict of the fans that he was -tlnf. | —_— — sought to make every dollar and CHISOX AND RED SOX | cam " ricy the team. They ?"m to many ef- SPLIT A DOUBLE BILL .25, % the ociated Proas, | BO#TON, June 8 —Chicago and Bos- | | ton Americant closed their four-game | series hers today by splitting a double- | header. 'he White Box took the first game. 7 to 2. behind the capable pitching | | of Fred Lyons, who drove in three o? his_team's runs. The second game was & Red Box victory, 4 to 1, with Milton Gaston | registering his third consecutive victory. | A'feature of the second game was that | not a White Sox outfielder had a single | | chance, | FIRST GAME ABROA Bosion 1470 jarleskese Phthrockct Chicage Aetalerif. . Anires.ih Clancy.ib - Revnnierf, Watwood,of Ramm.3b Clensil ss Rerr 2b Pere.c Lyons.p cucomms? ? | Sommomns 3o0wuwd T1TIT Tetals for B Barett in seventh | ot O111is in ninth. 244843880 i O R ST P i Totals *Batted +Batted Chicags Boston Runs Motz I s, Bake i CINCINNATL June 8 (M.—Fred Fitssimmons gave the Reds just three 4l o8 | hite, one of them A scratch, as the 4 n 8" | Giants defeated the home team by 3 H to 0 here today in the series opener. plave avne to Nariseky 6. 18- ’ P Alxth) s By Basne n o yne 4 in | igner Aavne res). Losing ®iteher—Russell Umpires | Hereis. Onens wnd Geine Hime of ame | | two _runs. 1 hour’ and 47 minutes, REOOND GAME. Chicage. \.] (*A 65toNn H s W] h ih 1 : ; H : i | The victory gave the clan MeGraw s a record of seven out of eight in the ! THoffman.. 1 weat and A total of 18 victories in a3 their l1ast 17 gamee. The New York- bl e ers again failed. howaver, to reduce haieg for BanelD favenih:, the margin of the Pirates, who de- hieago ... 0 0 8 08 100 1 | feated Brookiyn, | BoAton 1 00 0 1 x—4| Only two glnclnnlu nmnaou r;lfh!fl Runs_Kerr, BOthrotk (). Bcrritt, Nar- | second on tesimmons and only one Dk per AR, R *hilied A" | 57 them dvanced fo third. The paid il Naretky, Todl, T¥o-|attendance was only 3,182. X o e New York. A QA Inein'tl Roush.et jwAnkan.cf . 6 | Welah.if odi | Lindat'm.ah. 4 ase | Ottrt off M. | 0 ~ 918 C R i Totals .. 88 #9718 on- XL *Batted for Lugue in elghth inns ne NeW WK,/ Cincinnati | pitched almost as well as he did in defeating the New York team at the | Polo Orounds last month, but gave vay to a pinch bataman in the eighth, after the Reds falled to scofe for him | The Giants bunched three hits off Kemner and May in the ninth for Totals...28 10 27 18 1o Todt. M. Resves 16 Regan i : Boston, Lett o bases ~Chicato, Jo on balls—Off_Faber, §: of Gaston, 6, Struck ‘out— nally. 1: by ston, in 6 innings: oft Conh ild piteh e L an and . A 1o 2 b | Hosi Fitaslm'nap PROCTOR MEETING COAST | HEAVY TOMORROW NIGHT | Joe Proctor, Washington heavyweight boxer, is to meet Frankie Brown of | California in A bout at Atlantie Oty | ! tomorrow night, i, on X st | e oh W S snd min: o—Roul % on ball Proctor will face George Palvich of Pittsburgh at Cumberland, Md., June e ineinnati, 4. Umpires—Quil Ffirman. Time of same—1 27. The procesds of this eard will go to the Cumber] base ball team, s, 3.0 WHITEWASHING | time to devote to it exclusively. Adolfo Luque, long a GHant nemesis, | | and in 1023 he bought the club | Charlie Frank. paying | | | | much his own and he can tell outsiders | tories, just how he feels about it In base ball every character from | the rookiest rookie to the owner is a | public character and Spiller did not Bage Ball Park | know how to meet the public nor how | consecutive games he has won. | to keep in the best of graces with |probably more of an asset to Uhle than newspaper men. But despite all this he had acquired a base ball club, a great stadium. a swimming pool, concessions in the best base ball town in the Southern League and some of the most valuable real ate in the city and there were many who wanted it At times Cobb and Speaker had been mentioned as negotiating for it. Only last year Brooklyn made an offer and. according to Spiller, only thia year an | Atlanta syndicate offered him $50.000 | more than he got from Clark Griffith, | but he couldn’t sell because he had pledged his word to the Washington man. Spiller bought the conceselons in 1010 from him $30,000 for it. Later on he eold the property to the 8. A. Lynch enterprises and after that Dan Michalove owned it and 8pil- ler again, buying out Michalove for a more. In one year it is reported Rell made $57.500 from this end of the game. Just Atlanta what will be done with the team now that Griffith has bought it is a matter of conjecture here. The team is some 12 or more games behind the leaders and hasn't shown any great amount of push or energy. Atlanta teams have come from far in the ruck to win pennants Joe Engel, Washington acout, it has been announced, will be president and will come to Atlanta within the next few days Washington s to take charge of the team for the first game on June 15. Wil- bur Good at pres- ent is manager and is likely to be given A chance With new mate- rial. Bill Stick-. ney, genial secre- tary of the club for many years, is to be given a position by Spiller with his Lithia Springs property, which Spiiler 15 likely to develop consider- ably, now that he is out of base ball and has plenty of that Wilbur Good. Of the present 18 players it i= not thought that more than 10 at least will be retained. Others will have to be obtained from somewhere else. And At that the best of the players here | now are owned by other clubs and are subject to recall at the end of the season. Griffith has announced as practical- ly a certalnty that Washington will train here next Bpring ‘This recalls other seasons where big leaguers have trained here. In the days when Grifith the Yankees when that team frst into the American League, with Chesbro, Wee Willie Keeler, Dave Fultz and other stars, ths New Yorkers spent considerable time here and went back North In great shape. A few rs later Nap Lajole brought his Cleveland Indians here with an array of the best in base ball, and it is recorded that when they went home they were ready for the fray and raring to go, _ Incidentally at the time of that visit Barnard, now head of the Amberlcln League, was secretary of the club, CLAN MACLENNAN HOST T0 PITTSBURGH ELEVEN Clan MacLennan soccer team, one of the best in the District, will en- tertain the strong Clan Campbell eleven of Pitburgh on the Bilver Spring field today at 12:30 o'clock. Comprising the home team will be ‘Taylor, Graham, Blanch, Burton, Pete Faulds, George Maulds, Malloch, Bryden, Turner, Gallagly and Smith. LIBERTYS TO GO TO LANHAM. Pop Kremb's Liberty A. C. bace ball team s to travel to Lanham, Md. to- day to meet the nine representing that place at 3 o'clock. Liberty pla; yers are Jaors? asked to report on the field on the De- fense Highway at 2 o'clock. 8till it is recalled that other | was manager of | | ULE FOLLOWED BROVNE HULER Pill Veers Several Inches as Batter Expects Fast, | Straight One. ‘ BY GEORGE MORIARTY, Biz League Umpire. /F\HERE is something brand new under the base ball sun. As may be expected, it 18 the invention of a pitcher. The big leaguers call it the “slide-away ball.” Pitcher George _Blaeholder, «who brought it into the major leagues °n he made his debut with the St uis Browns, induces American gue batsmen to slap many ground- and flies at his supporting cast on ount of it. nce Blacholder started with Dan Towley's team, 1 have often wondered vhat he has been using so successfully From the sidelines he did not impress one as a pitcher having fire-ball speed. | ret he pitched with amazing cunning | and confidence against the most dan- | gerous sluggers. Evans Was Puzzled. I was at a loss to figure how he forced eagle-eyed right-handed bats- | men to lunge at his pitch on the out- | side corner of the plate: now it is ob- | vious. Umplring balls and_strikes for | Blacholder lends an entirely different ! viewpoint | With the wide variety of curves in use, one harbors the idea that it is in- | credible for a pitcher to find & new r a delivery to break. cnumerate: The curve ball sideways ord ownward, acord- a_side-arm or overhanded dc The fade-away fades away from a right-handed batter. The screw- ball screws in toward a right-handed hitsmith. The knuckle-ball wigzags | ss a straight line. The spitter and sinker break downward, and the raise bail is the fast one that hops up. That is a general idea of how the varfous curves function. ‘The saler ball sails into a southpaw batter and away from a right-hander. The “slide- away ball” is & direct species of the! ailer ball; the action I8 quite similar, | excepting that the elide-away bail devi ates farther from a straight line, [ Blacholder Master of It. The slide-away does exactly what it implies. It slides away several inches, and inveigles the batter into the belief that he is about to awing at a straight | fact ball. The pitch is most effective | when it is kept on, or slightly outside { the plate against right-handed bats- and. likewise, on the inside corner ve the southpaw swingers. Blacholder handles the de- ry in masterly fashion, and in a Iarge meas it_accounts for his suc cess. wever, Blacholder also uses a sharp ve at intervals, and reliable | control plays no little part in his vice c way { To sweeps Oddly enough. Pitcher George Uhle, ace of the De aff, now also s em- | ploying the magic slide-away ball. It piayed an important part in the nine is | it has been for Blaeholder, as Uhle was a great pitcher before he added it to | his bag of tricka. | It is just another idea that has been | borrowed from its inventor. It was the same with the spitball. Elmer Strick- damp fllr;dg. and Grimes, itehell, Bhocker, Coveleskie and others became stars by virtue of it. There is & possi- bility that many other pitchers will soon be experimenting with this slide- away ball And thinking about the ingenuity the pitchers, we are inclined to What next | (Copsrignt. 1020, by the North American | Newspaper Alliance.) 'HARPER'S HOMER AIDS BRAVES DEFEAT CUBS of sk : | big increase in what he had paid to | | Frank. The club has paid good profits, | but the concesslons have been worth far By the Associated Press CHICAGO. June 8.—Boston opened a four-game series with Chicagd by winning, 5 to 4. Harper's home run with two on scored three runs after two errors by English had permitted two to score in the | seventh. Tt was Sheriff Blake's eighth defeat of the vear and ended a Cub winning streak at four. R. Smith went the route for Boston. Carlson and Bush finished for Chicago. Boston. ABH.OA. Chicago. L S3 070§ Englisivis. . Moore it > = ) > ] OSSO Blakep | Carlson.p.! Byene. tHeatheots. iHartnett., iBlair..... oo | o 20 2D e H orcomnusssssss) 31021 0 hit by Totals Total “Harper batted ball Ran for Carlson in seventh inning. Batted for Bush in ninth inning §Ran for Hartnett in ninth inning. Boston ... .000000 Btenro oo 8098898888 Runs—_James, Bisier, Harper, Maranyille, | R 8mith. Eneiish. J.'Moore. Hornsby, son. " Errors--James (21, Maranvilie, (2)." Runs battéd in— ires Time Messrs. Rigler, § of gAme—2 hours minutes 'NEARLY BLIND MAN " DEVOTED TO RACING By the Associated Press. It took a man who had not seen a horse race in years to give Texas its first taste of national recognition as & breeding ground for turf stars. One of Thomas Waggoner's entries, Panchio, placed third in the Kentucky Derby. The ploneer cowman, reputeds Iy the wealthiest man in Texas, has been nearly blind for several years. The | Ince was described to him by his son, aul, The name of Waggoner's Three D Stables, at Arlington, west of here, was taken from the brand marked on cattle | that once roamed his ranges. Panchio was groomed at the Arlington track, which with a grandstand. cost Wag- goner more than $1,000,000. CIRCLES PLAY AT VIENNA. Willie Andrews' National Circles will travel to_Vienna, Va., today to meet the Fire Department nine there at 2:30 o'clock. Circle players are to meet at 320 Fourth street northeast at 12:30 5| cosooumuonwosw! HAWKINS ‘Canvenlently Loeated om 14th Street” ; 1529 14th 5t. NW. Dee. 3320 L Covering Most Ground. BIG league pennant race de- velops Action in eight cities. A big prize fight draws most of its attendants from one city. A championship covers much more ground. But tomorrow nearly 1.000 golfers will attempt to qualify for the coming United States open. and they will represent about 8.000.000 square miles of American terrain fro more than a hundred towns and c of the United States. ¥ 1 out of 10 can even hope to qualify. Ninety per cent will fail, and this 99 per cent include some of the strong ries. There were no headlines wt Hancock qualified from the last June, but he came near bre the open. Just fair golf on the la holes would have put him fwo stroke: above Johnny Farrell and Bobby Jo: There may be others like Roland H cock. unknown today, unheralded when they qualify tomorrow, who may cha the leading stars to the final There are more than a few fine gol: in this country who have ne heard of outside of their own native | hearths. | Francis Ouimet was unknown to the | goifing world outside of New England | when he tied Vardon and Ray at Brook- line in 1923, and beat both in the play- | off with a slashing 72. There may be ! another Ouimet or another Ha | coming along. But he will ha travel when you ook at the list tha cludes Bobby Jones. Horton and Mac Smith, Walter Hagen. Johnny Farrell, Tommy Armour, Gene Sarazen and 10 or 12 others who have been soasoned under championship fire through many campaigns Yet the golfer who will beat the | Winged Foot course won't be afraid of it. He will go out for all in sight And some unknown may happen to Ret going with this philosophy work- | ing for him, hitting the ball with | no deep worry about the waiting | bunkers cut so closely into the greens. Winged Foot is no course to tackle with too vivid an imagina- tion. Traveling the Mile. . | HERE are many more college | sprinters_today who can beat 10 conds or the hundreed than there used to be. There are many more pole vaulters who can beat 13 feet and | many shotputters who can toss the 16- pound | number ot By GRANTLAND RICE. " slug in the neighborhood of 50 feet But there are no mile runners who can_some close to the old marks se: by John Paul Jones of Cornell. or Nor- man Taber of Brown. The mile is one of the greatest of all races, but it takes a.terrific amount of hard work. It is a hard race because it calls for both speed and stamina. If the best half- milers could hold the same pace for a mile the record would be around 3:42. This is beyond reason. but the time will come when some natural miler will get close to four minutes. Penalizing a University. HE point has been made that the undergraduates of a uaiversity should not be penalized for the sins of the old grads who do the prosclyting nd raise the slush funds. There is something to thi work is never done by the st body. Yet the student body, when such activ- ity is discovered, should be one of the first to insist on a clean-up in place of mrnlng its wrath upon those trying to | bring back better conditions. | Student bodies. through student coun- | cils and student newspapers, can give their share of help—a greater share than most of them have given up to date. for such Still in Control. HE French still dominate the tennis ituation and they are certain to | prove this at Wimbledon and later on in the challenge round of the Davis| Cup competition. Cochet and Lecoste are still the two best tennis players in {the game and as both are fairly young they may carry the colors as long as Tilden and Johnston did, a matter of six_or seven years. | The race now on is to see which nation can build up its younger talent. France and the United States lead to- day in this respect, but it is no sure thing that when Cochet and Lecoste drop out that the United States will be in front of the French march where a young stars are coming along. i Halt Strides. | HEN it comes to a comblnation of both offensive and _defensive strangth the largest laurel sprig to_date in base ball belongs to George Uhle Any ball player who can bat over 400 and keep the other side from batting | AMERICANS LEADING IN SWEDISH BOWLING STOCKHOLM, June 8.—America’ dard bearers in the intdrnatioral bowling championships here were lead- ing today in singles and doubles, b trafling Sweden in the five-man even Although holding the first four places ingles and the first three in dou- the Americans were fourth in n bowling behind three we ed Swedish combinations. ingles the leaders were George S City, N. J.. 826: John O. ! v 822; Bart e Associated Press. W.* Ericson, Iy Knox, Phil special singles match was won by Knox 1 ibles division was headed and Knox, 1 Cook an Michael New Rocheile, N. Y. 1.544 F nerd, Kansas Cit and Kuster, 1.536. A Swedish pair next with 1,530; n_a fourth Ameri- can combination, 1,517; Sweden, 1,420, and Finland also 1,420 In the five-man rolling. Swedich teams were first, second and third, with 3.571, 3523 and 3.408, weil ahead of he American “Blue” team, with 3.274. t as he wins game after game is some- thing to have on a pay roil. What figure will win at Winged Foot? An average of 74¢, which would be 206, won't be more than a stroke or two aw; This figure was tied at Inwood. The score was 301 at Oakmont in 1927, but kecn, baffling putting greens and the deep-ridged traps had more than a trifle to do with this high mark. “With all these 855 and 668," sa; exchange, “golf is bacoming too ea: What about. the 3,000,000.000 or more still struggling with despair and des- peration {o crack 100? p TODAY BASE BALL /3. 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