Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1929, Page 27

THE EVEXNING STAR ‘SPORTS. = Richards Declares America Should Use Youths in Tennis Play With Germans [ pIAVINE. | D.C.EVENT GIVES PUBLIC || DOWN THE LINE OPPSES PLAYING PARK RACKETERS TARGET WITH . 0. MeGESHAN v UF ”'-EEMUNTER Tournament Opening Saturday Must Pack Thrills Believes Younger Racketers‘ to Exceed Court Fireworks Set Off During BRITAIN'S HOPE. % —BY FEG MURRA:Y. § ARMY-NAVY TENNIS SHOULD OFFER DUEL Picked teams from the Army and Navy, representing the strongest net talent in each branch of the service, will battle for supremacy on the courts gilh: %hevy g:l;xesclub. in the annual ec up aturday with pla scheduled to start at 3 o'clock. i HE difficulties experienced in drumming up anything like a sus- tained ballyhoo for the light-heavyweight chlmglommp, which is set for tomorrow night, make the d)rupecu ook promising. Things go by contraries in the cauliflower busipess. You will recall that there was a ballyhoo that extended from the applelack orchards of Maine to the mescal-producing cacti beds of Southern Should Be Allowed to Gain Experience. BY VINCENT RICHARDS, Professional Tennis Champion of the World OR the first time in the history of | lawn tennis, Germany ‘has entered the final round of the Davis Cup play. | By defeating Great Britain, three matches to two, on the clay | courts of the Rote Wiess Club in Ber- | lin, Germany, tennis scaled its great- est heights since the World War. It is_true that the margin of victory over Great Britain was an extremely close one. for, had not unny” Austin developed a cramp in_his leg during the final set egainst Dr. Prenn. Ger- man national champion, the final re- sult probablv would have been reversed. | Young Austin has been ying | marvelous tennis during the past ‘two | months, but I s say that until he acquires more stamina he will never | reach the tennis mina, Against Dr. Prenn, whom I have played on several occasions in Euro- pean matches, and who 1 have often | said is one of the hardest players in | Europe to defeat on clay courts, young | Austin clearly demonstrated that he has all the strokes and technique nec- | essary to championship tennis. His greatest handicap is a frail physique, | and until he is able to develop hic physical condition his rise in the game will be limJsell To a great extent. It has been decided that the final round of the European zone, between Germany and the United States, will be played in Berlin, on the same courts that the German players gained their victory against Great Britain. The German tennis officials unques- | tionably will use the same players in | the final round against the United States. In spite of the fact that Dr. Prenn and Hans Moldenhauer are two greatly improved players, I still believe that | the net stars of the United States will enter the final round against them as topheavy favorites. Would Use Youngsters. 1 Tt does not surprise me in the least to learn that- Big Bill Tilden, Frank Hunter, John Van Ryn and Wilmer Al- lison have been selected as the Davis Cup team to play against Germany. Although the schedule of play has not been announced. I presume that Til- den and Hunter will carry the burden | of singles play, while Van Ryn and Al- | lison will shoulder the doubles. These two young players should account for the doubles match without much trou- ble, but Tilden and Hunter will have to produce their best tennis to defeat Dr. Prenn and Hans Moldenhauer. In my opinion the Davis Cup officials are making a mistake in picking Tilden and Hunter to carry the burden of sin- gles play. It would be much better to give the young players a chance to gain experience that is so necessary to in- ternational playing. British Girl Popular. | The announcement that Miss Betty Nuthall will be on the English women’s tennis team that is coming to play the United States for the Wightman Cup at the West Side Tennis Club at Forest | Hills early next month will be welcomed | by all tennis lovers in the East. There | is no more popular figure on the courts than Miss Nuthall and also none who makes a more attractive appearance than this fair-haired, smiling young British girl. ‘Those who saw Miss Nuthall play here for the first time in 1927 will recall that Miss Nuthall plays a bang-up game of | tennis. She was good enough to reach the final round of our national cham- pionship that year and to beat Miss Helen Jacobs in the International team match. She also put up a great battle against Miss Wills, closer than the score showed, and if she had had a bet- ter service she might have done even better. Miss Nuthall has been experimenting | with her service to change from her underhand style of delivery, but does not seem to have made any headway in this department of her game. How- ever, she has strong ground strokes and her forehand, which is made with the racket held out wide to the side, is & crackerjack. Even Miss Wills had her hands full at times to hold off the crashing drives of the young English | lass. | Sees American Victory. { ‘The United States, however, should not have any great difficulty in win- ning this coming match. Miss Wills | and Miss Jacobs, California’s two fair | Helens, look to be strong enough to | win the serfes almost single handed | after their play at Wimbledon, where | they were winner and runner-up | respectively. England has won three out of the | six matches that have been played. and | she has held her own largely because she puts out such good doubles teams. Last year her two victories in the | doubles decided the issue after the Unifed States had won three out of five singles. Some day doubles play is going to receive the attention in this coutnry it gets abroad. Until it does, our players are handicapped in team | matches since all the emphasis is placed on singles. However, our tennis solons | are realizing more and more the neces- | sity of concentrating on doubles and I | look to see an improvement in the standard of play in the tandem matches. (Copyright. 1929. by North A paper Alliance. G. U. ATHLETE merican News- ) HLETE LEADS INVASION OF EUROPE| By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, July 17.—Five of the| party of seven American track and| fleld stars who will invade Europe this | Summer leave today un the President Roosevelt for Germany. 3 i Led by Erik Kjellstrom of George- town, hurdler and organizer of the trip, they include Fred Sturdy of Yale, national pole vault champion; Leo Sex- ton, Georgetown all-around star; Dick Rockaway of Ohio State, world record- breaker in the low hurdles, and Leo Lermond of the Boston A. A., national one-mile champion. Reginald (Pete) Bowen of Pittsburgh, national quarter-mile champion, and Eddie Tolan, the Michigan Negro who! holds both national sprint titles, will sail on the Olympic Friday to com- plete the group. The first meet will be held July 31 at Cologne, Germany. Other meets will be held at Stockholm, Helsingfors and Oslo, with a final appearance at Ber- lin. ‘The athletes will return to the Unitsd States in September. POST OFFICE NETMEN WIN. Post Office-Agriculture netmen de- feated Veterans' Bureau racketers, 4 to 1, yesterday in the Departmental League. _ Summalries: (Post ‘Office-Agriculture acntuk Bnd e e s, S Ko “ ardgon and Dreschler (Post Office- ). defeated Evans and Silva. 3 Weiss_and " Johnson (V. defeated =y HUNTER, BRUGH ~ ENGLA FUTURE IN s Y /4\,% £ INDS HOPE FOR THE ’34 ENS' TENNIS . - | HINGSLEY AND BARON VON HERLiNG | “Motsopelitan Newspaper Jervice HOSE who happened to see young Henry W. Austin, jr., of England, compete in the A1 WiNBLERON, HE BEAT United States national cham- pionships at. Forest Hills last September must have been surprised when he reached the semi-finals of this year’s Wimbledon tournament. True, he beat the Jap, Toba, last year, and Jack Wright, the Cana- dian, each in five sets, but he lost in the third round to Johnny Doeg. and gave the appearance in all his matches of being so slight and frail that it was a wonder he could go on. But this same “weakling” was the sepsation of the early part of the recent Wimbledon tourney. After disposing of Frank Hunter, second ranking United States player for the past two years, in four sets on June 25 Austin administered an even more decisive beating to Jacques Brugnon, one of the four musketeers of France, the following day. The youthful British Davis Cup net ace put out the Frenchman in straight sets, and went on to defeat his countryman Kingsley, and then Baron von Kehrling of Hungary, be- fore he met defeat at the hands of Borotra, the Bounding Basque, in the semi-finals. “Bunny,” as the former Cambridge captain is called, showed over here last season that he was a steady player with a good service, but slightly weak overHead. Reports from the British hard court cham- pionship at Bournemouth, which Austin won, as well as the accounts of his victorles at Wimbledon, credit the Britisher with an improved all- court game, featuring dcadly cross- court volleying. He always was noted for his clean stroking and rhythmic hitting, and at Bournemouth this year he fea- tured some remarkable drop-shots. Added to his already full repertory of strokes, these made him a most difficuit player for any man to defeat. STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE Although the course has been in play only since May 16, and at that time much of the work of clearing out the woods which parallel the fairways | remained to be done, the Manor Club has come out of the underbrush, so to speak. Today the new nine holes is | almost entirely free of brush along the | edges of the narrow falrways. | One of the main reasons for the | difficulty of the new nine still remains | and probably always will remain. This | is the dense rows of trees which flank | every fairway like stern sentinels wait- | ing for a wayward ball to drop among their serried ranks. But the other bug- a-boo which ruined the peace of mind of many of the Manor members when | the new course first was opened—the underbrush — has been cleared away | until now when a ball is struck off the fairway it does mot mean many min- | utes lost in hunting for it. And great- er than that, a reasonable shot from | a fairly good lie is almost certain to | result. | Just now the fairways of the new nine are too fast, as are all the fair- | ways at all the golf clubs about Wash- | ington. This means that some good | shots may get queer kicks, for the fair- are new and without the heavy | on. But on the whole, the course is in excellent condition and absolutely de- mands accurate hitting from the tee The man, who is off the line with the wooden clubs, is certain to be in all sorts of trouble. But the putting greens are large, and the undergrowth now has been cleared out so that even if the ball goes into the woods, it is not incapable of being played. ‘Workmen have been busy for several weeks clearing out the woods between the ninth green and the first tee, where many balls struck toward the ninth green end, since the fairway all slopes down toward the trees. This is the-last bad spot on the course, and now is in good condition. Manor intends to hold a tournament in the Fall, over .its new, layout, and in view of the restriction placed on the tee shot and the necessity for absolute accuracy, it will be interesting to note the scores. Employes of the Interstate Commerce Commission were playing today in the first big tournament of the season of- fered for them. They were grouped into fiights, according to handicaps, With prizes to be awarded to the low gross and low net for 18 and 36 holes. Eugene R. Hendley is'chairman of the tourna- covering of grass they will have later ment committee. Right Hand Helps Make Ball Fade f Some golfers advise getting the body into a long pitch. That ap- | parently is unnecessary advice, as | the body, like the low right shoulder | in going through, ilwl get into the hit of its own accord if the shot is played right. The mere fling down and through of the clubhead with the wrists automatically pulls the body forward and through and transfers one's weight from right to left leg. Concentrate on throwing the club down and through under the ball and out on a line to the hole. Of course, have a firm left wrist, else your follow through will fail as you cut into the turf. Without that you can't make a shot work right, be- cause the contact of clubhead and ball is longer than you imagine. Chick Fraser, as you notice, using the right wrist to hit with mostly on a pitch, naturally pulls his club- head in and around himsafter con- tact. The tendency here is to make the ball fade a.bit. That's well if you can control the fade, as a quicker stop is possible. D. C. RACKETERS ENTER WEST VIRGINIA TOURNEY | Josephine Dunham and Frances ‘Walker of Washington are entered ln‘ the West Virginia State open tennis! championships, which will get under way at White Sulphur Springs July 22" with many of the leading players from the Middle Atlantic Btates com- peting for both the men’s and women's crowns. Entry lists will remain open until Sunday night for singles events and later ' for doubles. Entries-should be filed with the secretary, George D. O’Brien at the Greenbrier Tennis Club, White Sulphur Springs. ! $75,000 IS PAID FOR COLT. The highest price ever paid for a : yearling thoroughbred is $75,000, which i \\Ln&(ur a Whiskbroom colt as yet un- racs Repaired; diators ) r and_Curan. 6—2, 6-—4: Timble and Fros mnxtromc»-urlmlmru dc(i ed Aarrison Radiators a: Cores In_Stock Wittstatts, 1809 14th North 7177 310”1380 Belgw_Are. ler (Bancroft), Goldwyn (Cool COOKE TRACK TEAM DEFEATS TWO FOES Peabody and Hayes playgroiind boy track athletes will clash in a dual meet tomorrow on the Hayes field in one of the preliminary meets leading to the city championships Wednesday. August 21, under direction of the Municipal Playground Department. Fillmore, Weightman and Corcoran teams were to engage in a triangular meet this afternoon at Weightman. Cooke athletes were victorious in a , meet yesterday against Bancroft and | Johnson. Cooke scored 802-5 points, | with Bancroft counting 563-5 and Johnson 37. Sarkus Semerjian of Cooke was the star of the meet. He won the unlimited class dash. the 115-pound and unlimit- ed broad jumps, tied for first place in | the unlimited high jump and was a member of the victorious unlimited re- lay team. Summaries of yesterday’s meet: DASHES. 70-pound class. 50 yards—McHu croft), H. Ritzenberg (Cooke), berg (Cooke). -pound ‘class, 60 ya (Cooke), Chirjeleison (Johnson) (Gooke) . 100-pound class. 60 yards—Brown (Cooke), lagher (Bancroft). Munhall (Bancroft). 5. 70 _yards—Tabler (Ban: between Gannon (Cooke) halen ( Cooke). ed class—semeriian (Cooke), Tab- e). gh_(Ban- A. Ritzen- and Urlimite RUNNING HIGH JUMP. 85-poupd _class—Blaine (Johnson), liamson YCooke). Fitzgerald (Cooke). 100-pound class—Admire (Johnson): ond-place tie between Watson. Stein. Brown (all Cooke), and Tabler. Byers (Bancroft). 115-pound class—Admire (Johnson); Cran- dall (Johnson). Trien (Johnson). - Unlimited ciass—Semersian (Cooke) and Admire (Johnson) tled for first; Trien (Johrson) third. RUNNING BROAD JUMP. ‘pound class—McHugh (Bancroft), A. Ritzenberg (Cooke). J. Regis (Bancroft). 85-pound elass—Thorn (Cooke), Fitzgerald (Bancroft), Ad- ke), Ad- wil- HALF-MILE RUN. Unlimited _class—Askin _(Cooke), (Bancroft), Riley (Bancroft). RELAYS. lass—Cooke (A i hskihe N Fitzenberg), Bancrof. 88-pound class_Bancroft (V. 3 McHugh. Munbsil, Regit), no_second. 280:pound" clasi-Gaoks "(askin. _ Brown, > " Baneroft. i iepound " Clats — Bancioft (Vermeyer, v‘v’{'m c’!'!hlc K (Akermar, Gold- T s—Cooke waa Askin: Semerdian), Bancrort, Jonnson. . SPITTAL WINS GOLF TITLE. Tabler Ritzenbe: TORONTO, Ontario, July 17 (#)— Dave Spittal of the Royal York Club, Toronto, won the seventh Ontario open g:u’ h:ll'u.mplnmhip, scoring 148 for the S —— TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats BY CORINNE FRAZIER. TIRRING court matches are an- ticipated with the opening next Saturday of the public parks championship tennis tournament for the handsome sterling silver trophies offered by The Washington Star, but the competition will have to be even more keen than that afforded a year ago if the period to be covered by the event proves more notable in thrills than that provided by the seven days ended last Sunday. g There is little question that in 17> District champlonships ~ Washingen fandom enjoyed the greatest week of tennis thrills ever.to be recorded, bar- ring none. Of course, there were those three days at Chevy Chase Club this Spring when the Oapital enjoyed the novelty of a Davis Cup interzone round, but even that lacked the personal appeal of the District championships when cur own | familiars were performing, along with a | bunch of newcomers—and - then, t0o, | | three days is not a week. As wecks go. the last one was packed full of more | excitement, action. surprises, upsets and | | thrills than Washington ever had before | at_one dose. Increased speed and unparalleled con- | sistency of performance characterized both the singles and doubles title play at Edgemoor Club—the house committee | of which institution, by the way, de- serves more than'a rising vote of thanks from the multitude for its generous open-house hospitality during the long grind since July 4, when the doors of the club were first thrown open to the 102 contestants for the District crown |and to their friends who came to see them in action. * * Preliminary competition for the pub- lic parks net championships will be | staged in four sections at four of the municipal centers, with first round matches starting Saturday afternoon in the singles event. Henry Park, Potomac, Rock Creek | and Monument Park Courts have been | | designated as the centers of play. The | | winners of the respective brackets at | each of these sectors will figure in_the | | semi-finals of the battles for The Eve- ning Star trophies. Entries will close at 6 o'clock tomor- row night, the draw to be made imme- diately thereafter. It is expected that | the cream of the public parks perform- ers will be entered, including the Pub- | lic Parks League players and a large fleld of contestants who do not figure on the league teams. The list is open to any player not affiliated with a regular | tennis club in or around Washington. In addition to Considine, who will de- | | fend his singles crown, the bright lights | | expected to shine include Dooly Mitch- ell, runner-up last year; Maurice O'Neill, | former_champion; Frank Shore, Hugh Trigg, Everett Simon, Hal Fowler, Larry Phillips, W. Carter Baum, Bob Newb; Barney Weich and Herbert Shepard. * % % % | But, back to the District of Columbia matches. No one could challenge the claim to record-breaking speed and consistency this year who would compare the performance of the eight sceded players left in the quarter-finals of the singles with | quarter-finals of past District evegts— | or who might have chanced to witness | any one of four or five doubles matches | which revealed a caliber of play far superjor. 1o local doubles affairs of the | perhaps. | | | past, with the exception of titie matches, * o % % | High lights! They were so numerous | that their brilliance lighted even the | dim path of the “midnight marathons” | which became a daily occurrence dur-| | ing_the later rounds of the event, sev- eral of which were completed (or | | brought temporarily to a standstill) by | the full light of the moon. There was the game figure of Clar- | | ence Charest, standing out in bold | | relief against a background of veterans | | and younger {ry who found in him an unconquerable spirit after more than a | score of years in active competition. And the amazement of net followers | | witnessing his performance in regaining * his thrice-held crown, is doubled in contemplation of his early history, in- volving as it does the story of a right- handed player who was forced by cir- cumstances after the age of 20 to learn | the game anew with his left hand, and | who under this almost insuperable | handicap scaled the heights by the | sheer power of his will to do. It is| |that same will which carried him | | through young Louis Kurland’s defense, | that even more formidable threat off- | ered by Dooly Mitchell and the powerful | threat that lay in Bob Considine’s |lengthy stride and variety of shots. H But Charest rose above them all and | | today wears the crown of viclory em- | bellished by four stars. { Kurland himself furnished another | high spot with his uncanny skill in | cutting the chalk of the baseline. It was estimated by one sideline watcher | that he hit the line more than 100 times | in one match, which all in all is a fairly good average, we think. A faster game and more success is predicted for the Baltimore youth by those who saw him | in_action. 5 = | "The Oriole flash, by the by, who has | | annexed several titles this year in Balti- | more and vicinity, remarked after his | match with King Clarence that he had | learned more tennis in those three hard | sets opposite the Washington ace than | in a whole season of play elsewhere! | * oK K K Another bright spot was furnished by | the young skyrocket known in official circle§ as Ensign James Farrin, U. 8. N.—although he scarcely seems | old enough yet to have graduated from prep school. This youthful officer, paired with Bill Howard, also of the Navy, provided a generous share of the thrills in the doubles matches, bowing only after a magnificent battle with the | more experienced team of Mangan and | Considine in the doubles. title round. | To see Jimmie Farrin_climbing the backstops after one of Bob's overhead line smashes was a treat which brought howls of glee from the onlookers on numerous occasions. And more than once Farrin picked ‘em off the wire, too. Experts who watched him in action | declared that they give him the laurel wreath for speedy co-ordination of eye, hand and foot, barring none, unless it be Big Bill Tilden himself. * ok x % ‘The” Army offered some keen com- | petition, too, and produced at least: one potential comer in Lieut. 8. K. , the aviation ace who flew up here from San Diego for several tennis ‘events, among them the Leech Cup competition this next Saturday, in | which ‘he will participate, per- formance against Maj. R. C. Van Vliet, deposed et king, was impressive,_al: | | | | SWIM IN THE Y POOL_ Special Rate 4 Months—$8.00 ISEMAN'S, 7th & F T T Week of Washington Championships. | they bou; | He created havoc with the dopesters in ' | mot take a set. though he did not quite best the major. | Speaking of the Army, did you know | that our Army is responsible in a measure, net figures who ever came out of the Orlent to make the West look to its laurels? It happened this wise. Back in 1915, over in the Phillipine | Islands, a group of Army netmen were wont o spend their spare time develop- ing their games in preparation for the championship of the East, the one big | event of the season out that way. One of these men was Gen. Robert Allen, retired chief of Infantry, whose excel- lent officiating figured largely in the success of the Edgemoor Tournament this past week. One day, the story goes, the Japanese consul, who was a member of the club frequented by the American officers in | Manila, presented to them a quiet little | fellow countryman of his, whom, he said, would like to play some tennis. ‘The young Nippon was Ichy Kumagae. He had never owned a real tennis | racket. He had never played across a regula- | tion net. His net at-home had been a rope. He came out to play with the Ameri- cans with his homemade bat—"the wicrdest contraption ever seen on & court,” o quote those who carry with them' the memory of that unassuming | figure wielding a hand-whittled racket, strung as none before or since has been | strung. The “gul” was grass. The general and his companions were so much impressed with the youth's possibilities, and with his ingenuity in the matter of rackct construction, that ht him the best bat that could be filad on the island and pro- ceeded to give him all the practice he desired for the coming tournament. ‘The world knows the rest of the story. In that first appearance Kumagae went to the finals against Billy Johnson, California wizard, giving him a great battle before bowing to him. Subse-| quently he beat both Peck Griffin and | George Dawson for Eastern titles. Then Kumagae came to America. 1916 by beating Bill Tilden in three straight sets for an important cham- plonship on the Park Club courts Buffalo, demonstrating his supremacy over all players in the game in one| department at least—the back court, where he h rfect control of the greatest top drive the world has ever | seen—or 50 the experts tag it. Anyway, | Kumagae was a wiz. And he wanted | to play so badly that he learned his| game with a rope strung between two | | posts and some grass plaited through a | homemade frame. That's the stuff| of which champions are made—the will to play—not a heaven-sent, ready-made talent, as some would have it. In that match with Tilden, odds were 5 to 1 for the Philadelphian to | win, and 2 to 1 that Kumagae would So much for dope. MITCHELL AND KING Dooly Mitchell and Gwynn King were to meet Alex Keiles and Arnold Silver- man of Baltimore in the second round of the Middle Atlantic doubles cham- plonship this afterncon on the Balti- more Country Club Courts, the winners to advance ‘to_the semi-finals, where they will face John A. Magee and War- ren K. Magruder, veteran Oriole pair, tomorrow. Eddle and Billy Jacobs flashed through their first and second round matches yesterday in the other half of the draw without the loss of a set. They first eliminated E. §. King and F: Hammond. 6—1, 6—2, 6—3, and then polished off Louis Kurland and Willlam Welmon, 6—2, 6—3, 6—0. If Mitchell and King survive the next two rounds, as_expected, they probably will face the Jacobs brothers in what should be a brilliant title match. PARE IS AMONG 16 LEFT IN NET PLAY By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, July 17.—Sixteen players, the refined product of the field of 88| which started in the first round of the Western tennis championships, opened the final drive for the title now ' in possession of Emmett Pare of Chicago. i Pare, who easily advanced yesterday, was paired with Charles Lejack, another Chicagoan, while Keith Gledhill, Santa Barbara, lif., No. 2 seeded player, was to tackle L. B. Dailey, jr., of New | York, who yesterday eliminated Henry Gotfredson of Milwaukee. | Another California star, Ellsworth | Vines of Pasadena, was listed to meet | Fred Royer of Chicago, who was ranked | number three in the Missouri Valley | last season. Women players were to start the sec- ond round of the singles today, while | the men's doubles also were to open. Play in the women’s doubles will start tomorrow. ESPINOSA GIRL IS PRO. Al Espinosa’s sister is one of the few woman_golf professionals in the world. 1234 14th St. N.W. 2250 Sherman Ave. 3228 Georgia l | regica announced as a very tough young | California in advance of the Battle of What of It at Miami Beach. And the end was Camembert. It is not that the boys have not gone far enough. On the con- trary, they have gone so far that the letters of the typewriters have | become twisted by the heat and the humidity. Mucl t least, for one of the greatest | been placed on the niceness of Mr. Thomas Loughran the title holder. Everybody knows that Thomas nicest young men that ever stepped into the prize ring, and that makes him a super-nice ycung man. But in these exhibitions of the manly art of modified murder it is not always the nicer of the two young men who brings home the smoked side of the hog. In emphasizing the niceness of Mr. Loughran the press agents pulled one | that was a little too swift for the boys. Mr. Loughran was hailed as a Galahad. The boys have been looking up the | record books and some have written to Mr. Thomas Andrews about it, but there is no line on Galahad in the champlons under Muldoon, Queens- berry or Broughton, Things like that| confuse important issues. ‘What the boys want to know is, “Was Galahad a boxer or a puncher?” The fact that he seems to have been in the class with Mr. Loughran makes it look as though he were a boxer. This makes no great hit with some of the boys. Everybody knows that Mr, Loughran is & boxer and a master of the art of self-defense, The biography of Mr. Loughran, as| prepared by the ballyhoo man, is a bit misleading. The fact that Mr. Lough- | ran was a sparring partner for Jack Dempsey in advance of the Philadel- phia fight is emphasized. Tommy, we learn, did much for Dempsey by acting as a sparring partner. But somehow one recalls that Dempsey lost his title at Philadelphia. Could it have been that Thomas softened him up? .That would not have been the act of a nice young man. ‘Then, again, the biography in- sists that Thomas performed with much impressiveness against Gene ‘Tunney some years ago. The records of that bout do not imply that either Mr. Loughran or Mr. Tunney appeared to be particularly impressive in their meeting. In fact, the referee’s verdict was that the bout was no contest, which means that it was something terrible to be- hold, in the opinion of the referee. One wonders why the ballyhoo men brought that up. The last good view of Mr. Loughran | in this vicinity was the night he met Leo Lomski. Mr. Lomski was heralded as another Stanley Ketchel. He was | mot, but in the first round he knocked Mr. Loughran into a sitting position— | not_once, but twice, ‘This was an acid test for a nice young man. If Mr. Loughran had been too nice he would still be sitting in the | Garden thinking it over. But he| dusted the rosin from the seat of his | trunks and arose. From that time on | he prevented Mr. Lomskl from induc- | ing him to have a seat until the end of | the contest, when he was pronounced the winner on points. The decision was | close enough to have the boys arguing | aboyt it. But the fact remains that the nic€ young man demonstrated that | though crushed to the rosin dust he could rise again. i Another Nice Young Man. i ROM all information coming in ad- vance of this contest, Mr, James J. | Braddock, the contender, also is a nice | Young man—not quite as nice as Mr. | Loughran, not a Galahad, but still a | nice young man. ‘The consensus seems | to be that they are both nice young | men. and only & meeting at the Yankee | Stadium will determine definitely which is the nicer young man. The biographer recounts that Mr. Braddock in his early youth hustled boxes, but that he did it in a nice way. Subsequently he distributed railroad ties by hand, but always in The section foreman handled in a nicér way than by James J. Braddock. ; i One is informed that young Mr. Braddock was encouraged to fight by | his maternal parent, but always in a | nice way. He developed so nicely that | he has two impressive accomplishments | at least to his credit, and the most im- | | pressive of these is the meeting with | | Tufty Griffiths, who came to this| man. | You may or may not recall that Mr. Braddock flattened Mr. Griffiths, to the surprise of all who believe in Santa Claus and prizefight ballyhoo. I understand that Mr. Griffiths, sub- sequent to the encounter, said, “I thought that you told me that this guy Braddock was a nice young man.” He rubbed his chin and continued, “I suppose you will say that was nice.” JTASTEIT/ SMEACIT/ IT5 ENTIRELY’ DIFFERENT/ S. FREEDMAN & SONS 5 Distributors 618 K St. N.W. RED TOP TXTRACT The trophy upon which has been in- scribed much net history since 1924, was presented in that year to the two branches of the service as an incentive to the development of a high caliber of tennis among the Army and Navy contingent. ‘The Leech cup matches have become one of the foremost events of the local “ net season and always draw a large and | enthusiastic gallery. And with each | succeeding year, the competition has become more keen and the standard of Also, there was Mr. James Slattery. | > Juaging fror 50, 3 3 u rom the ‘prelimina - 1116 Aanilng Southiof BUTIo, Bradtock | fommms of e torol plAuaLy. per. disposed of him in quite a nice man- | events during the past few weeks, the ner. But Mr. Slattery is opposed 1o pace this year will be faster than ever nice young men forever. | before and the gallery will have other Well, as I say, it is a contest be-|thrills in store for them than that of tween two nice young men, and you secing their favorites in action. never can tell what to expect from nice; Navv won the cup by a one-match yoimg men. margin last Summer. emphasis has | is a nice young man, one of the| Verne would have applauded N 1874, Jules Verne prophesied a tour «Around the World in 80 Days.” He would have applauded the Studebaker President Eight which traveled 30,000 miles (equal to more than one and one- fifth times around the world) in 26,326 consecutive minutes—less than 19 days and nights! If only one President Eight had per- formed this feat, some might say it was «luck.” But four strictly stock® Presidents each rolled up 30,000 miles in total elapsed time ranging from 26,326 minutes to - 28,128 minutes. That was a year ago. Yet these records still stand unapproached ! No other motor car—nothing except comets, meteors and other heavenly bodies—ever traveled so far so fast. You can only appreciate the remark- able capabilitics of Studebaker’s New President Eight by driving it. Then only will you realize why Studebaker holds every official stock car speed and endur- ance record, 126 in all, and sells more cights than any other maker in the world ! ‘THE PRESIDENT EIGHT .. $1785 to $2575 THE COMMANDER EIGHT . $1495 to $1675 THE DICTATOR EIGHT ... $1185 to $1435 At lower prices STUDEBAKER offers three great lines of sixes: The Commander Six $1350 to $1525; The Dictator Six (new, larger, finer) $995 to $1195; and The Erskine Six $860 to $1045. All prices at the factory e JOSEPH McREYNOLDS, Inc. Sales—14th St. at R—Pot. 1631 Used Car Sales—1423 L St. N.\W.—Dec. 0686 Maintenance—Kansas Ave. & Upshur St.—Col. 0427 Tom's Motor Sales Co. L. & M. Motor Co. 9th & O Sts. N.W. 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