Evening Star Newspaper, August 4, 1929, Page 68

'FLASHY BARNYARD GOLF IS EXPECTED IN TOURNEY * Karnival to Draw Farmers in From Cbuntryside and Some Fancy Flinging of Lucky Irons Is Predicted for Week. ILVER SPRING'S inning of championship horseshoe flinging will start tomorrow with a section of The Washington Star’s metro- politan tournament billed as a feature of the fireman'’s annual carnival. Up to yesterday more tha n 60 pitchers had filed entries with *Tournament Chairman Charles P. Clark and by the tim e the first yound is begun at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow it is expected the number will ‘thave been boosted to nearly 100. The carnival will last until next Saturday night. The horseshoe battles will start at 6:30 each evening. Some of the flashiest barnyard golfing of the entire metropolitan tournament is expected at Silver Spring. The cham&lonship'ot that flourishing Maryland town will be at stake. but th doesn’t mean necessarily that a Silver Spring pitcher will win it. A number of !Maryland farmers are coming in for the horseshoe tournament as well as the carnival and 'tis whispered come of them are really hot stuff with the lucky.irons. One visited town the other day and | continue on into the #was invited into a match with a reputed | County play-off, star from Washington. wes most | “Up our way,” said Howes last night, Teluctant to accept. Why isn't- quite | “we're backing Wilkerson to win the clear. The Washingtonian left the field | county -title. He's easily the best ©f conflict quite dazed and financially [ around Sandy Spring. He threw so 2. All that farmer Iad did was win | many ringers against me I had trouble eight straight games. He started with | keeping track of them. He finished igix ringers in a row. |the final with a double-header. In A number of Washington pltchers |one match he threw eight straight, to ™ho for one reason or another didn't |end one game and start another.” kenter preliminaries here will compete i Montgomery HYATTSVILLE L |t Stlver Spring. They're keeping {open house out there in a horseshoe \pitching and carnival way, Chairman \Clark sald last night, and the entry lof any player will be acceptable, pro- {xided he has not taken part in any {bther Metropolitan preliminary. One of the Washingtonians is serl- us| vi y at | e DO et aithery climina | third-round _matches are scheduled tons. His name Is Earle Crane. | Monday evening in the horseshoe pitch- |Horseshoe pitchers may come to Know ing tournament being conducted in {that name quite well before this storm | HYATTSVILLE, Md., August 3.—Ten of barnyard slippers has subsided. Crane used to bs a big league hoss lgce thrower. He has been trying in |1he last several weeks to get his wing iback in its old trim. Taking Own Shoes. ! He was barred from the Plaza play- ground tournament the other cay be- {cause he insisted upon using his own !pitching shoes. He had two palrs, both of which he declared were regulation. fOne pair, however, had a double set of jcalks and they didn't look so regular to Playground Director McCarthy. This {was the pair Crane was determined to pitch.. He will take the other pair to Stiver Spring where they may excite envy. The thing« are nickel plated and =hine like a new dime. An examination by the horseshoe editor revealed them to be perfectly regulation. Silver Spring hopes to have a tourna- !fment’ nearly as large as that recently ended at Rockville, where more than 150 entered. If the Silver Spring event can promise a punch at the finish like that at Rockville there will be plenty of customers at the carnival for at least one night. Many a heated post mortem 45 being held over the Rockville final 'in which Loy Smith out-pointed C. Hyatt 50 to 49. Entries Are Paired. Magruder Park here under the auspices | of The Star. One contestant has drawn | & bye for this round. | Several encounters of more than usual | interest are listed. These include the matches bestween Merle Hellman and Le Roy Trott, Oscar K. Hiser and At- wood Bassford and Louis Norris and | Herbert Slinkman. | Other contests listed are: | | Howard Steele vs. Marvin Lewis, G. | H. Franklin vs. Charles Norris, Stanley | | Lewis vs. T. D. Jarrell, Lester Robinson | ‘vl. Candler Hofftman, Dolphin Weber vs. | Charles Parrish, Albert Lewis vs. Francis James, Hugh Waldrop vs. win- | ner of Fred Glasgow-John Schoenbauer match and Robert Anson, jr., bye. (COLLEGE PARK TOSSERS COMPLETE FIRST ROUND | _COLLEGE PARK, Md. August 3— { First round results in College Pa ‘Richardson 50. J. Henery 19: Frankiin 50. . Mister (forfeit ves 50. Dix 21 | {PURCELLVILLE TO START Jorn (Bow Wow) % MYERS \ S Myers pulled the most -r;;hlu upset of inated Murray Johnson, former Minneapolis champion, in the Plaza tournament. Franke won the New York Avenue title. HERMAN FRANKE the tournament when he elim- Horseshoe Hurling Leaderq Battle Soon in D. C: Tourney OW comes the battle of cham- ions and near champions in ‘ashington’s section of the metropolitan horseshoe pitching tournament, sponsored by The Star. By next Wednesday, the deadline set for Washington preliminaries, the starting fleld that numbered many hun- dreds will have been reduced to & com- parative handfull. Only the neighborhood champions and runners-up will engage in the second stage of the tournament, in which divisional honors will be at stake, ‘The same general plan of com tion as in the preliminaries will prevail in Colored Horseshoe Chairman Finds Unprecedented Activity OLORED horseshoe pitchers throughout the metropolitan district are throwing ’‘em as they never did before, accord- ing to Arthur A, Greene, chair- man of the colored section of The ‘Washington Star’s tournament, who has Bruce playground results follow: A. Smallwood defeated J. Valeria, 21 to 10; T. Ford defeated S. Jack, 21-18; Harry Brown defeated E. Chase, 21- R. Hill defeated R. Walker, 21 to 13 'W. Burnett defeated J. Holmes, 21-14. G. Daugherty defeated R. Thomas, the play-offs. There will be two fmpor- | tant changes, however. Instead of one 21-point game constituting a match, two | out of three will decide the issue, and instead of hard-dirt courts strictly regu- lation layouts will be 6-foot square clay-filled box. Matches will start at 5:30 p.m. Here's a list of the districts or divi- sions with the playgrounds represented in each, with the key playground on which the play-off will take place named first in each instance: Georgetown District. Georgetown, Thirty-fourth and Volta place ‘ northwest; Adams, Chevy Chase, Corcoran, Montrose, Filimore, Weightman, ‘Tenleytown, Gallinger, Park. (In this group is included the Cleveland Park tournament, be- ing run off on a private court.) ing District. Bloomingdale, First and Bryanf, streets morthwest: Brookland, Bur- roughs, Emery, Brightwood, Tenth and Evarts. "Nowa Avenue District. Jowa avenue, Jowa avenue, be- tween Varnum and Webster streets northwest; ks, Takoma ‘Twin . Oal Park, Park View, Bancroft, Barnard, .| the order, with each stake driven in the center of a| LOUGHRAN PRAISES Light-Heavy Champ Sees | Two Youngsters as Comers Woman’s Horseshoe Play To Be Started Wednesday ‘The Washington Star's horseshoe- layed . We ay on the mmng;m:fiung ‘n 5:80 received. u o that time. i All of those who already Mave en- tered are requested to report not later than 5:30 o'clock Wednesday, and before that time if possible. ‘They will play 21-point.games on a 30-foot court, the championship dis- tance for women, and with shoes considerably lighter than those used in the men’s tournament. The shoes will be provided by The Star. Scoring rules similar to those gov- _ erning the men's: tournament will prevail, except in one instance. All shoes pitched will be counted. In the men’s event only those stopping 6 inches or less from the peg are scored. ’ MANDELL IS IRKED OVER DULL FIGHT Blames Overtraining — Will| _Get About $47,300 for Beating Canzoneri. By the Associated Press. HICAGO, August 3 —Sammy Mandell, world lightweight champion, will receive approx- imately $47,300 for polishing off Tony Canzoneri in their 10- round title engagement in the Chicago Stadium Jast night. The challenger will be enriched to the extent of $23,150. ‘These figures are based on the un- official receipts, checked up today by the Illinois State Athletic Commission. gross receipts were reported to N THLE SEWED UP, HE SHUNS RIVALS Interest Lags in Class He Rules, -as - Walker Eyes Light-Heavy Crown. BY SPARROW McGANN. Special Correspondent of The Star. EW YORK, August 3.—Interest in the middle-weight division is sagging due to the unwilling- ness of .Mickey Walker to meet A & T 'd challenger for the e. Mickey could name his own figure if he cared to fight any one of the three candidates proposed by various match- makers throughout the country. When the name of George Courtney, Rene Devos and Ace Hudkins are mentioned, ‘Walker talks about grabbing the light- heavyweight title or asks for a chance lm prove his ability against the big fel- lows. Jack Kearns, Walker's pflot, does not" consider Mickey too small to fight the little fellows. 1t is no secret that Jack is banking on’ Al Fay, Leo Mitchéll or Mickey Walker to bring him another heavyweight championship. Kearns calls his trio the three musketeers of th: ring. Seeks Light-heavy Crown. ‘Walker went out of his class to fight Armand Emanuel, and a knockout over the California lawyer-boxer resulted This gave Kearns the idea that Mickey was wasting his time fighting the little fellows, and he then sent Walker against the leader of the light-heav weight class, Tommy Loughran. In thi- bout Walker came out on the short end of the decision. Next month Walkcr fights Leo Lomsky in Philadelphia ana the event that he wins a claim w set up for the 175-pound crown, a it is known that Loughran will not tr: to make that welight again. Like Joe Dundee, who has fust les HOFFMANAND HUNT The be $136,191.26, with State and Federal taxes amounting to $20,428.68. The net receipts, with the State and Federal taxes deducted, amounted to $115,- 762.58. The total paid aattendance, ac- cording to unofficial figures, was 20,- 713, with possibly 3,000 complimentary ticket holders. Mandell Downhearted Victor. Mandell and Canzoneri were under- stood to have received 60 per cent of the net receipts, with 40 per cent go- ing to the champion and 20 per cent to_the challenger. Mandell was a downhearted winner. He said today he was not himself and that he would not have blamed Eddie Kane, his manager, if Kane had tossed | Humbert Fugazy tried to stake the him out of the ring. The champion ap- | Walker-Lomsky go, but when Walker peared to have been overtrained, and |heard that he would have to weigh in | his marvelous cleverness alone carried |8t 160 pounds he demurred’ and re- him to victory. fused to take out a license to box in ‘Whether it was the grind of taking {New York. This is ail that-saved him off weight or the long seige of train- |from suspension and makeés it possible | ing that Mandell undertook as bally- |for the pair to meet in Philadelphia, as | hoo for the flight, it was apparent |the governing board of that State has | that he was not nearly as strong as (& working agreement with the New | York commission. the crown that was once his, th welterweight, Walker, is no better pc former as a title holder. Mickey h: not, forgotten the narrow escape he h in his fight with Ace Hudkins at Ch cago. The decision went to Walkcr but there were many thousands of on- lookers, who differed with the judz- ment of the officials. The referee w: overruled by the two judges who of: |ciated in that contest ‘and Mickey h not risked his title since. Avoids New York. Walker has avolded fighting in- th | State because the local commission hs been strict about champions fighting above their class weight. Last year | he was against Jimmy McLarnin, his - | 1ast serious opponent in a champion- | Meanwhile, Courtney is foreed to hip fight. Mandell appeared to be at |fight light-heavyweights and he seems |his best only in the intermediate|to be making a good job of it. The | rounds. He started slowly, but fought |Oklahoman was marricd recently and himself into his old form by the sixth | While it has often been said that fight- round. Then he began to fade. Ing carcer and: marriage do ot “mix, out well for Courtney. Blamed Training Grind. He spends more time at home and visits the gyfnasium regularly, som:- Chairman Clark has paired the en- g Mandell blamed the long stretch of | A. Irbey defeated R. Burt, James Coop: training for his.dullness in the Ting. |thing he rarely did when he was single. toured the territory embraced. Columbia Heights, Johnson, Phil trics received up to yesterday. Late lentrants_will be matched as they ap- prar. The pairings follow: Bernard W. 'S Gl Al Van Horn vs. Wiliam R. Tuck Norman Wotten vs. Willard R. Smallwood. d P. Balley. C. Reed. George Hall vs. Martin Kinsinger. Leo Bender vs. Irwin Jouvenal John F. Shorb vs. William J. Jouvenal. Joseph B. Beam va. William V. Jouvenal. Mountz Definbaugh vs. John Crawford. Charles Defnbaush v, Harry F. Anderson. Joseph Mulhe: Lucien Powell, Harold Clark 'vs. 'J hn A. Clark v: oden. G. Brandt ys. Willlam B. Ridgeway. Brook Grutm vs. J. Everett Schrider, Joseph Griffith vs. Edward Costello, Frank Brown vs. John J. Ree Lee Jones vs. Frank Proctor. Foward Parsons vs. George Schnabler, John Baunders vs. John Faulconer. Noble Veirs vs. Charies Pe Edgar Harvey vs. Stanley Hewitt. Fd Jones vs. Al Neuman, Wilkerson Wins Tourney. The Sandy Spring, Ashton and Olney tournament was concluded yes terday with Harry Wilkerson as "the winner. Chairman Townsend Howes was his victim in ‘the final. & In the earlier matches yesterday Howes defeated Willlam Ricketts, 22-11; Webster Johnson defeated Franklin Cashell, 22-16; Wilkerson de- feated Harry Wrenn, 22-9, and Morton Townsend defeated J. F. Brown, 22-5. | Howes trimmed Townsend in the semi- finals, 22-12, and Wilkerson van- quished Townsend, 23-4. SHOE PITCHING TUESDAY _PURCELLVILL, Va., August 3.—Com- petition in’ Purceilville's section of The ‘Washington Star’s horseshoe pitching tournament will start next Tuesday. Chairman Robert Carruthers today announced the following pairings: H Dewey Case vs. Clayton Paxson. n Johnnie Mercer, William Hawes rant Little. Irvin Little vs Lester Wortman . 8, Robert Clrrllt)\ergnvai‘ R. L. L. YOWELL CHAIRMAN OF ORANGE TOURNAMENT ORANGE, Va., August 3.—Horseshoe pitching has begun to boom in Orange County following its entrance into The ‘Washington Star’s tournament for-the Metropolitan District champlonship. This county has several strong can- didgtes for the big title. Preliminaries in_several towns will start tomorrow. W. ‘Thomerson, who Ilaid the groundwork for Orange County's horse- shoe organization, has named L. L. Yowell chairman for this town and will conduct one at Gordonsville himself, e BERWYN SHOE RESULTS. BERWYN, Md., August 3.—Competi- tion grows warmer and warmer in Ber- wyn's horseshoe pitching tournament. Most of the games have been hard fought. The latest results follow: A. Baker defeated Lee Kierney, 21-17, 21- 18; Owen Burgess defeated Aubrey As a winner and runner-up of the preliminary, Wilkerson and Howes will Whinnies From the Barnyard ATCHING the boys toss ‘em | in Washington preliminaries | one notices there are i dis.inct types of horseshoe | pitchers, the fellow who plans for a ringer and the chap who | aims to be near the peg and accounts | himself fortunate if he shoes it. i The first calculates the turn of the | shoe in such manner that it “opens” | as it nears the stake. The other merely | iwirls it up there, with no idea what | | position it will land in. One might be | termed a ringer thrower and the other i a single-point scorer., f In a contest between experts of the | o the outcome. A cow racing a mustang vould have more chance than the twirler, even if all his tosses leaned | the shoes against the peg. Twirlers who lose by poor scores to ringer throwers in the current tourna- ment should not be discouraged. The “three-quarter turn” and other styles of manipulating the shoe favored by experts are learned with little practice, £nd when one of these is only partly mastered the game takes on new at- traction. The thrill of a ringer is comparable to that which comes to the golfer who makes a perfect shot. There is more sclence to horseshoe * pitching than imagined by folk who never have regardeg it seriously. Thoge who reach the top in tl sport spend many hours of studious practice. Not infrequently the merest slip in . co- ordination’ is* sufficient fo decide a battle between masters. * An inch off line in direction, or a little inaccuracy in the turn of a shoe and the contest is over. An incident was recorded in these columns reeentl{man which two players in Iowa each threw 32 ringers bzfore there was a miss. Endurance is a vital factor in long matches. Your expert in preparation for an important tournament goes in for strenuous training. Even the short matches played in The Washington Star's tournament have been a physical test for some, particularly beginners. When George W. Phillips of 610 TLongfellow street northwest entered the 1ournament a little over a week ago he weighed 200 ‘pounds. Yesterday he veeighed 190. ‘ & “An hour a day takes a pound awey, Joughed Phillips, who has [ - zezulation court on the lawn that bor- styles there would be no doubt of |-broilin, Parker, 21-18, 21-10 and Stuart Parker defeated Allen Hardy, 21-15, 21-14. ders his home and there takes a daily workout with neighbors. . In the matter®of taking off weight, though,” Phillips added, “I'm running second to & big fellow up the street who s:yx he ‘has dropped 13 pounds in a week.” Little Miss Headley, on the business end of things at the Peabody play- ground, probably sacrificed a ‘pound or s0 the other day for the cause of barn- yard golf. Miss Headley essayed to build a regulation court all'by her frail lonesome and was having & mighty struggle with pick and shovel in a g - sun when Dick Tennyson showed up. The playground leader promptly hied her away from there and masculine hands completed the job. Assisting Miss Headley in running off the Peabody meet is a lad named Eugene Jaeger who lost out in the tour- nament but was acclaimed the cham. pion sportsman of the neighborhood. Gene made a+ practice” of picking up his opponent’s shoes as well as his own after every inning. Any horseshoe flinger. will tell that's the acme of politeness. ‘Winter Moore, who eliminated young Jaeger, for several years has been the unofficial champion of the Peabody bailiwick, but he nearly lost this stand- ing when he met Gene. The score stood 19-18 in favor of the latter when Win- ter tossed on a ringer for the winning points.. . An argument resulted the other day ‘when one flllm'l shoe came within an m&h inch of being a ringer and the r's was half an inch from the peg, with the toe closest. The peg wa squarely between the heel calks of the near-ringer. ‘The philosophers got busy on the problem. “If the object is to ring tI , then the player who comes achieving that end should be the ‘ea winner,” they reasoned. But the rules have it that the shoe closest the peg, no matter what part of the shoe, wins. That eighth of an inch was as much as a mile in the matter|; the was actually with! and of scoring a ringer and rt ol #ily within'an ineh the stake. The shoe I Greene has been busy during the last | er defeated M. G several days arranging for county play- offs.in Maryland and Virginia. Tomor- row' or Tuesday he hopes to announce places and dates for county events. Divisional play-offs in Washington will start Thursday. ‘The Howard division play-off will be held on the Howard Playground, at Pifth and W streets northwest, with the winners and runners-up of the following playgrounds en- gaged: Howard, Bruce, Garnet-Pat- terson and Shaw Junior High. In- cluded in this group will be the finalists of an independent:tourna- ment in-Brightwood, where there is no colored playground. : Rose Park division' play-off will. be staged on the Rose Park Playground, at Twenty-second and O streets northwest, with two rep- resentatives each from the following playgrounds: Rose Park, Briggs, Magruder and Cook. ‘The Willow Tree division tourney will take place on the Willow Tree Playground, at’ Third, Four-and-a half and C streets southwest, with the following playgrounds and How- ard University winners and runners- up competing: Williow Tree, Car- dozo, Sixth and L southeast, Logan and Payne. ¥ ‘The foregoing divisions aré in the west uctlm: The winner of the Deanwood division will be cham- ' plon also of the east section. Deanwood . division matches will be held 6n the Deanwood play~ ground, at Whittingham and 'Lane place northeast, with these play- grounds * represented: Deanwood, Garfield, Crummell, Lovejoy, Smothers and Barry Farms. Competition will start each day at 5:30 o'clock. Colesville, Md., will start action to- morrow. Edward Hill, Colesville chair- man, reports the entrants thoroughly warmed up. The pairings follow: War- rick Hill vs. Kenneth Wentworth, Samuel Hart vs. Collins Mason. Ed- ward Hill vs. Campbell_vs.- James Howard, Soloman ‘Hart vs. Robert Cook. Chairman Coles announces that entries will be received up to the day of play. Hyattsville, Md., is preparing for hot action. Chairman Walker will start g‘hy there Friday. Walker, a former Joward foot ball star, is a-ho: twirler of note. He ‘has a regulation court adjoining his home. East Arlington, Va. play, will start Wednesday, according to George Vallin, East Arlington fire chief and tourna- ment chairman. His men are anxious to wmect” the Nauck and Fort Berry twirlers. a Chalrman Catbones - Diifins repurts that 25 have entered the Rockville, Md., tournament. -Action in real tourna- ment play will be under way by Tues- day. Regulation courts are laid out on the school grounds. Tune-up matches ‘' are - played every evening. Pairings will be announced. tomorrow. Catbones “announces that late entries will be accepted up to time of play. George Cook, Walter | 21— | close. Julius Wheeler reports the fol< finals will be a family affair. Shaw playgroynd reports: John Hynonm‘cnf-wfl Willlam Hos. : C. Brown defeated H. Jack. J. Hyson defeated C. Jones, 21-5. The Rareback Club is beginning to meet Teal opposition at the Garnet Patterson playground. J. White and W. Hamilton are showing excellent form. Hamilton, a left-hander, is win- ning his games with ease. 1 Most Brentwood, Md., contests are lowing results: Samuel Williams dafelhgfl Lioyd Tilghman, 21-12; Bernard ghman defeated Frank Lancastér.’21-16; Felix Tilghman defeated Arthur Ransom, 21-13. The Tilghman brothers are in the- semi-finals and it looks like the Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. C. A, Ninth street and Rhode Island avenue, is out to capture the women's championship. Ida May Hall announces the following to represent the W, C. group: Hilda Ware, Beatrice Russell, Elsle | V. Harrison, Mary J. Bowie. Elsie | Harrison Js the Y. W. C. A star. A| close game is looked for in her match with Shelley Covington of the Bureau of Engraving group. % —_— e ASHTON HEIGHTS TOUTS BOSS AS HORSESHOE WIZ ASHTON HEIGHTS, Va., August 3.— The merry battle for the Horseshoe pitching championship ~of Ashton Helghts, with Fred J. Eden as chairman, is well under way. A favorite to Win the title and carry Ashton Heights well into the further climinations is C. R. Boss, & youngster. Results follow: F. J. Eden defeated H. R. Dinges, 3118, i . defeated Howard Roland, F. Kelly, 2210, 22_18. M, G Malor defeated Georse Yeatman. .ve{';y JHum(eld defeated Harold Dinges. ;:E“R, Bots defeated J. Maycock, 33—10, ner defeated F. H. Roland, 21—S, TEXAS LEAGUE STANDING. DALLAS, Tex:. August 4 (£).—Of- cial sianding of Texas League clubs for the second half of the season through games of Friday: ' FRENCH REWARD ATHLETES, ‘The French government has a deco- ration which is ‘given to all athletes who merit & reward of their country, and to persons who devote themselves to de- velopment of 8] ‘The decoration lips, Truesdale. New York Avenue District. New York avenue, First street and Néw York avenue northwest: Oyster, Henry, Happy Hollow, Thomson. Rosedale District. Rosedule, Seventeenth and Kramer streets northeast: Benning, Kenil- worth, Wheatley, Maury. Virginia Avenue District. Virginla avenue, Eleventh street and Virginia avenue southeast: Con- gress Heights, Ketcham, Buchanan, Orr, Stanton. - Garfield District. Garfield, Second street and Vir- ginia avenue southeast: Wallach, Fairbrother, Hoover, Van Ness. Plaza District. Plaza, Second and D streets portheast: Edmonds, Hayes, Ludlow, Peabody. (Greenback Lane tourney played on private court included.) , Only seven preliminaries have been finished, but semi-finals and finals will be played in many tomorrow. In Divisional Play. The champions and runners-up now in line for individual ‘with the pl playgrounds they will represent, follow: Bancroft—Dave Watts and Bob Eshe. ‘Takoma—C. E. Loving. New York avenue—Herman Franke and Will Raferty. Plaza—John Myers and Theadore Murray. Ketcham—Will Bragerod and 8. How- ard. Cooke—J. P. Cline and J. Birthright. Greenback George Keli . GRIDIRON STAR FLIRTS WITH BOXING CAREER By the Associated Press. Another Southern foot ball star is contemplating a pugilistic career. Harry Wolff, star tackle, of the Uni- versity of South Carolina Gamecocks and one of the best. boxers in the Southern Conference. al{; he will take up, hoxing as & profession if he fails to_win an appointment to West Point. Two years ago, Add Warren, a North Carolina University foot ball luminary, went in for boxing and progressed un- til he broke his arm. ‘Wolft won the Southerrn Conference heavyweight championshin last Winter. He is a well built youngster with & wallop in each fist. d As a foot ball player, he was picked on & half dozen mythical teams. i 15 HAS HORSE CEMETERY. A plot of ground on J. E. Widener's Elmendorf Farm, in Kentucky, is being converted into a cemetery for thorough- bred horses. A large statue pf Fair Play. sire of Man o' War, will be placed consists of & silver, medal on & bright blue ribbon. .on the grounds as the central monu- ‘ment, : Whittlesey and H.| Lane—Nathan Miller lndI all-Southern | in Fight Game. | BY TOMMY .LOUGHRAN, | L1éht -Heavyweight Champion of the W L HE latest young heavyweight to score a sensation is George Hof- man, | pion’ and winner of the golden | glpves. Hoffman turned down | ait offer to go with the Olympic team F * | in order to fight as a professional. |a short time he seemed mediocre. Then spddenly he found himself. | . His knockout of Mike McTigue was a | teat for such a yourgster, fcr, though | Mike is an old man in a ring sense, he | st is shrewd and .cagey and can | thump with his right. . Hoffmar fairly | paralyzed him. Hoffman Stopped Snyder. Next Ar.gus Snyder came on the scene. Snyder is a Canadian and had been an amateur champion in his own right. | They had ballyhooed him for a long | while before he showed up in New York. His debut in New York was per- | fect. He stopped Johnny Grosso, the big Mount Vernon siugger. It made Snyder with th: fans. He seemed to be | headed for big things. Hoffman was matched with Snyder cold. That, I think, was an even more impressive. performance than his vic- tory over McTigue. It may be that George is not headed for an eventual champlonship. seems to think a bit slowly, a handicap in the ring game, but he is a con- scientious, hard-hitting, He should go a long way, even though he never scales title heights. Hunt's Praises Sung. Fellows from the West keep singing the praises of Babe Hunt. This young- ster is very highly rated by the experts. | Not long ago he won on a foul from Young Stribling after giving the South- erner a tough battle. Hunt has not had | many fights, but he has acquitted him- | self brilliantly in all of them. 1t is from the ranks of the: | sters that the stars of the future must | come. If they have the right stuff in them, they won't become discouraged by a beating here and there. The great- est boxers who ever lived were whipped on the way up. That is the price you ay for experience. s Watch Hoffman and Hunt. They may surprise you. (Copyright, 1920. by Nerth American News- paper Alliance.) STRIBLING USES PLANE TO DROP FIGHT TICKETS | By the Associated Press. W. L. ' (“Young™ Stribling, the Georgia heavyweight, has found a new use for his airplane. Cook in Kansas City Stribling circled | over the city to drop 100 tickets to the fight as a promotion stunt. It was sug- gested by Gabe Kaufman, promoter. Kaufman reneged at performing the task, himself when h2 learned that Stribling had turned over three times in his flying career. former amateur cham- | He | On the eve of his scrap with George | [H: spent nearly threc weeks in prepa- | ration, but says he never again will Courtney now has a yen to become champion, and if Mickey Walker will | put in more than 10 days for a ring engagement. | Mandell intends to keep busy and | is’ giving consideration to meeting | | Jackie Fields, the new world welter- | | weight champion. Paddy Harmon, ‘pr:sldent of the Chicago Stadium Cor- poration, 1s interested in the match. ! Mandell beat Fields here a yvear ago | and believes he can do it again. i The lightweight champion returned | to his home in Rockford, Ill, this aft- | ernono to spend a few days with his | wife and child. d | THE | | t | | . Y | | e 1is also a fine hitter, a good infielde: | to say that Lucas is a ball player, there are also ball players. than that,” said McCarthy, | Foxx and George Uhle. ‘The Babe can pitch, bases. If he isn't a ball g | be again. Foxx can pitch, play fi where, and hit around .400. Uhle Any number of ball players would like to switch around, but few get the chance after making good at one cer- tain job. Ty Cobb always wanted to pitch or play_the infield, but Ty was| a trifle too useful where he started to be turned into another department | where might have been at the best | just along the line of the average. Lucas with the Cubs or Athletics or| Pirates would have been good for 25' or 30 victories this season as a pitcher, | crowding Groves or Grimes. Even 2| star actor has a hard time shining mn a | bad production of a bum show. The Old Confidence. ACK around 1920 Leo Diegel had a great chance to win the United States open at Inverness. With only six holes left he had jumped the field. Then some one yelped or sneezed just as he hit-the ball from the next tee and he blew the wallop into trouble, taking & 7 on a par 4 hole. Even then he missed only by a stroke. In some ‘has always happened to Diegel in United States opens ever s . He has played brilliant golf and has had several chances, but he never had the confidence in his ability to go | the route. In the Canadian open, where the fleld is one of the finest in golf, Diegel has a different stary to- tell. He won the Canadian open some vears ago, and after that felt that this ticular championship was his meat. He now has won it four times. And the peculiar part is that Leo enters this tournament down- right sure that he is going to win. In the last one, finished a few days ago, he knew that Tommy Armour, playing brilliant golf, had finished ahead of him with 277, just nine strokes better than even 4s. Diegel | win when he knew 35 on the last nine to mental or psychol is. . Especially when golfer with Diegel's and high-strung ne: up the consent to' meet the former cowboy, he has a bright chance of realizing’ his ambition. X ‘Walker has the middleweight divi- sino deadlocked and until ' he fights some one of note for the title and loses it or gives it up, this once popular class will be devoid of interest to fight -fans. PLAYGROUND WORK IS BIG. Municipal playgrounds and recrea- tion programs cost America $32,000,000 last year. SPORTLIGHT By GRANTLAND RICE- OU hear about catchers, pitchers, 1nflelde;s and outfielders. Then I once asked Joe McCarthy of the Cubs, if he thought Red Lucas was a good pitcher. “He is more “he is a great ball player.” Lucas annot only win twe-thirds of his games with a tail-end club, but he r and a gocd outfielder. Which is no matter where you shove him. recently. and he knocked the Canadian | Other good ball players or great ball players are Babe Ruth, Jimmy lay first, play the outfield, hit and run ayer there never was one and never will rst, play third, play almost any- can pitch, hit and fill in when | needed. There are others, but Ruth, Lucas and Foxx are the leaders fair-boxing boy.| when it comes to a varied display of talent beyond one fixed job. The Home Run Race. AT this stage of the show last Sum- mer the home-run scramble:was between Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. with Gehrig leading up to September. Then the Babe took over the show. But 1929 is an entirgly different stdry. Up to the last few days Ruth has been taking the four-base dust of €huck Klein, Hack Wilson and Mel Ott, with Gehrig, Hafey,- Bottomley, Hormsby. Simmons and Foxx all in the syme- what dizzy scramble. Young Klein has been the main sensation up to date. and it will be interesting' to see wheré he can outslug ‘the old Sultan down the stretch, provided the Sultan remmins intact. * ‘There are now six or eight hard-hit- ters who have an open shot at’the throne room of clout and too" many things can happen in two months for any forecast to be worth more then a guess. But at least the old momnopoly has been broken, although ‘it would be ridiculous to count Ruth out as long as he can amble up as far as.thgq plate. has been suggested, that Victor Campolo can make quite a jump in the general direction of pugilistic, Am- portance by belting Tom Heeney over, This is true enough. But he can.also make the same jump in the -wreng direction by permitting Tom Heeney to outbelt bim. Campolo has = all..the physical qualifications needed. All. he yas to prove is that he can also use head and that his heart is established in the right location. e The old slogan of base ball stifl Jives on, “This is a great ball town, but we won't stand for a team.” In the .Canadian open -Tommy Armour shot a 69, 69, 70, 69, and then finished three strokes away from the top. Just what is the use if Iun- der even 4s for 72 holes isn't good enough to win? sare . s to | z =2 b CROME PLAYS muuni’i | cAL-flBQ' nas‘: t 8.‘—'.[\"!:‘%!1: A, diamona nere st 3 o'lbck n & ghma bringing fogether sturdy Price Sl DOUBLE-HEADER' ™ BASE BALL, o 00 P.M. AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK WASHINGTON vs DETROIT "~ TICKETS ON SALE AT PARK