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26 SPORTS. DEFICITIS SHOWN BYC.C.N.Y. ALONE Fans Weary of Holy Cross - Victories on Diamond and Till Suffers. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. NEW YORK, August 28—Ere the dawn of the 1929 foot ball season has struck comes an astounding statement from the College of the City of New *York, which entitles the gridiron outfit of this seat of learning to all-America Thonors in at least one respect. In the season of 1928 the eleven cost its alma mater a net loss of more than two thousand dollars—$2,089, to be ex- act. For all the writer knows that is a distinction absolutely unique. Whether or not it is a reflection upon the initia- tive and enterprise of the athletic au- thorities of this metropolitan institu- tion is & matter of doubt. For there is always the chance that they may be conducting foot ball at C. C. N. Y. with the idea of giving the students a whole- some outlet for animal spirits, athletic students on_the field chasing the pig- skin, non-athletic students in the stands cheering them on. Avoid Money-makers. This latter supposition is supported by the fact that care has been taken to provide games against institutions whose standing in foot ball is approx- imately similar, viz, Lebanon Valley, St. Lawrence, Drexel, George Washing- ton, Rensselaer, Norwich and Manhat- tan. Evidently, it is not the policy to arrange games with famous elevens to the end that the team stands for a week end in reflected flory. It is to be supposed that no board of trade or alumni tong is greatly in- terested in seeing City College of New Nork mop up the earth. pathy on the part of the old grad? i might be interesting to capture a pecimen, subject him to psychoanalysis Bnd other tests designed mentally to tlassify a type so rare. i As it is, the situation is very pleasant. The system goes through all the modern motions, as for instance, today's announcement that the squad, some 50 Ftrong, will leave for the country for preliminary training the first of next | month. That costs money: it is one | bf the gestures that run into deficits, | provided, of course gate receipts do not compensate. Wins Too Often. | Speaking of gate receipts. and at the same Fime speaking of deficits, it will strike the average sport follower s strange that in the very hot bed of tollege base ball, Worcester, the seat of Holy Cross, the base ball manage- ment Teports a column of Very robust zed ink figures for the season of 1928. | Holy Cross has the most successful ball system in the country. An- nually its teams are in a class above other college outfits throughout the pountry. The college sends more play- ers into the big leagues than any other institution or group of institutions. Yet behold a deficit. " The trouble is not lack of interest in base ball in Worcester and vicinity. It s due entirely to sporting spirit. Fans dike to get a run for their moéney in the way of competition and Holy Cross nown supremacy keeps base ball en- husiaste, unwilling to see massacres, away from the park. i Looks as though Jack Barry had bet- ter emulate the action of his old master, Connie Mack. who disbanded his world- beating Athletics solely, according to the understanding, because Philadel- phians grew weary of seeifig them win. .;TRIO OF OLD.DOMIN|0N : CREWS IN TITLE RACES : ALEXANDRIA, August 28.—Old Do- minion Boat Club oarsmen will com- pete in three races in the Middie At- lantic States Assoclation regatta over the Springs Garden course at Baltimore Monday. Coach Walter Thrall said this morn- ing that his junior four-oared gig, in- termediate double sculls and inter- mediate quadruple sculls crews would be sent to the Monumental City for the tholiday event. The crews will hold their final workout Friday and will ship their boats to Baltimore on Sunday. :The parsmen themselves are not to depart until Monday morning. Thrall's selections for the three races are as follows: -oared gig—Lionel E. Beeton. R W ton, Jufian. Whitesione. Jim folt Land Coxarain C. J Bubati : ean. intermediate " double sculls— Lionel E. eton and Parke Bell. It qui l“lil o ackson. AN AT R AR T AT X 2 © 1929 American Cigaro, Why this | | years in the game and SPORT THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO SLANTS By Alan J. Gould, Associated Press Sports Editor. 73 T SEEMS safe to predict that no man ever will hit 501 home runs to take Ruth’s record away from him. Today he is at least 250 beyond Rogers Hornsby and Cy Willlams—the one and only home 1un hitter of the decades.” The day after this dispatch was filed, the Babe himself hit No. 501, just as though at the age of 35 he was light-hearted enough to begin collecting the second 500. It would be just like the irre- pressible Babe to consider 1,000 home runs not at all beyond his reach. Ten years ago you could have received the royal razz any- where around the circuit by suggesting that Mr. Ruth would get even close to 500. There has been only one Babe Ruth in over a half century of base ball. be his equal as a clouter. Yet they said there would never be another Tilden—and look at-the pace Cochet and Lacoste have set since they toppled Big Bill from the tennis top. ‘There never would be another Leng- len, the experts said, but the same critics a few years later acclaimed Helen Wills as the greatest of all time. Now they vision Betty Nuthall as the ulti- mate successor to the American queen of the courts. Matty's record of 372 victories for the National League was to stand the test of time, but old Pete Alex- ander has surpassed it this season. There never would be another Alf Shrubb or Hannes Kolehmainen— then along eame Paavo Nurml. Red Cagle is dashing around the gridirons where Red Grange left off. Hagen and Jones have combined to shove into the background’ the great golf achievements of Vardon, Taylor, Ball and the other Britons who were supposed to remain undisturbed on the pedestal of the royal and ancient game, There may never be another Ruth or another Jones or another Nurmi, but there is no proof of it. IT would add a novel touch to the year's drama to have Mary K. Browne make another try for golfing honors in a season marking the debut of the other famous tennis champion, Maury McLoughlin, in the men’s ama- teur golf championship at Pebble Beach. Both of these California products were national tennis title holders in the same years, 1912 and 1913, and each still has a substantial following inter- ested in any achievements they may | 4 turn in. ‘The difficulty happens to be that Miss Browne is still outside the amateur pale, not for anything. connected with golf, but because the powers that be considered her professional tennis tour of a few years ago “detrimental to the best. interests” of the royal and ancient game. It would be a graceful gesture, one that would find favor in the sports world at large, for the U. 8. G. A. to restore Miss Browne to good standing in time for the national tournament at Detroit. OU hear mainly about Grove and | ‘Walberg, the southpaw speed-ball stars, when any one is discussing the pitching staff of the Athletics, but if the house of Mack bucks into the house | of Wrigley in the forthcoming world series, it is not unlikely that old Jack Quinn and Big George Earnshaw, right- handers. will take over a good share of the attempt to check the heavy-hitting Chicago array. Along base ball alley they think the portside stuff of Grove and Walberg will be soft for the Bustin' Bruins. most of whom are right-handed hitters. With Wilson, Hornsby, Stephenson and Cuy- ler coming up in a row to swing from the starboard side, it is anything from an encouraging prospect for a southpaw artist out there trying to hold his own against a crew that has been putting fast ones out of the park all season. Earnshaw. a horse for work, may be Connie Mack's best bet, assum- ing the Cubs furnish the opposition. Big George got under the wire with his eighteenth victory of the season well ahead of Lefty Grove, who had a sizeable start on the right-hander. Quinn has put on another comeback after shfip ng earlier in the campaign. Old Jack, the Mike McTigue of base ball, still has a lot of deception in his moist ball delivery. He can’t stand as much work as Earnshow, but after 25 the age of 44 —if the record books are right—he can outsmart the best of them. The last time the Cubs and A's mingled in the world series K u: only two right-handers to win. Colby Jack Coombs won three games and Chief Bender got an even break in the other two played. Eddie Plank didn’t get into action, ‘T the rate he has been going so far this season, it is difficult to see how Eric Pedley can fail to win a place on the new American polo “Big Four,” now taking shape in anticipation of a renewal of the international cup series with Great Britain next year. Right now the stocky Californian is one of the most improved players in the galloping game. In high-goal competition he has turned in a num- ber of smashing performances, ad- Jjusting himself skilifully to any one of- the first three positions on the fleld. The only post he has not There may, as the forecaster quoted above asserts, never taken a whirl at is back, but so long as Winston Guest is available there is no need for worry about that place in the American’ line-up. Pedley was an international two years ago, but he had little chance then, with Stevenson, Webb and Mil- burn still in the game. Now these three veterans are in the background, while the new American tei being built lrognd the one and oy Tommy Hitch- cock. ALEXANDRIA TENNIS "PLAY NEAR FINISH ALEXANDRIA, Va, August 28— | Joseph C. Duncan yesterday continued the steady brand of tennis which has | marked all of his matches in the muni- cipal tournament and defeated J. C. Kauffman, 7—5 and 6—1. Duncan will meet the winner of to- morrow’s match between Marshall Tra- vers and John Fowler, Priday at 4 o'clock, when the finals in the men's, boys’ and girls’ section of the tourney will be staged as a feature of the municipal playgrounds’ first annual field day. ‘Track events. will be held for boys and girls of all ages, beginning at 9:30 Friday morning, followed by a base ball game at 2 o'clock between the Cubs and White Sox, champions and runner- up, respectively, in the midget section of ‘the playground league. The playgrounds are to close Satur- ay. Belle Haven Country Club's house committee is arranging a_ holiday cele- bration for Monday, which will include the staging of driving and putting con- tests, swimming races in the club's pool and foot races for children of the club members. Clover Midgets walloped the Colonials, 12 to 1, yesterday on the Haydon Field diamond. Clover A. C. wil play the Palace Club of Washington Sunday at 3 o'clock on Shipyard Field. The locals trimmed Palace 14 to 3 in a game at Washing- ton last Sunday. ‘The Labor day celebration to be held Monday by the Groveton Community Club at Groveton, in Fairfax County, is expected to be one of the best ever staged by any Fairfax County civic or- ganization. A horseshoe pitching tournament, an old-fashioned tournament on bicycles and a base ball game between the fan- kees, junior plaground champlons of Al- city, are included on the };rlse features have also or. Chairman A. D. Kirby is being aided by Mrs. Charles Richardsci and Ear] L. Popkins, while Pierce Reid is publicity chairman. Columbia Engine Company base ball tossers will enjoy a respite from the weekly grind this Sunday. The major portion of the team is attending the an- nual convention of the Virginia State Firemen'’s Association, at Lexington, Va. Friends’ Playground defeated the Lee School Playground, 28 to 9, yesterday. Alexandria police will leave from headquarters tomorrow at 1:30 for Fredericksburg, Va., where they will play the Predericksburg Elks. LITTLE VISITS HILLTOP BEFORE GOING TO CAMP Lou Little, Georgetown University director of athletics and head foot ball coach, who returned yesterday to the Hilltop, today is completing plans for opening the Hoya gridiron camp at Ocean City, N. J., next Wednesday. Little will be here until Tuesday, when he and his assistants will meet the varsity candidates in Philadelphia. Forty-five aspirants, including all except four of last season's regulars, will begin training at Ocean City. PLANS BICYCLE MEET. Century Road Club Association of this city is planning a bicycle meet here the last part of next month or early in October. ing bikemen of Eastern cities will be invit rogram. Sur- m provided "Play S,afe—g when you put a cigar to your lips”/ —says Alfred W. McCann D. Lit., A.B., LL.D. . Famous Pure Food Expert Do you remember the old, filthy shop where the man in the window rolled the leaves with dirty fingers . ., and spit on the ends? What a far cry this is from the modern method of man- ufacture used by Certified Cremo. . Certified Ccino THE GOOD 5¢ CIGAR exandria, and the Colonials, also of this | D. C, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1929. BARCROFT AND BALLSTON CHAMPS LEADING RIVALS Semi-final and Final Are Scheduled for Tonight at Clarendon — Kirchner and Talbott Show Class—Second Round on at Hyattsville. T meet C. HE big. battle of the Arlington County horseshoe tournament will’be fought tonight at Clarendon. G. T. Talbott, confidently supported by Ballston fans, will C. Henson, young chanmpion from the town of Arlington, in a semi-final and the winner. will clash with the Bright Star from Barcroft, A. A. Kirchner. Talbott is favored to beat Henson but the odds aren’t heavy. Kirchner became the favorite to win the county title after a brilliant performance in the first round, But Talbott’s stock has been rising steadily. He threw 12 ringers in two 21-point games to eliminate‘S. IC. Henson, of Arlington, and is capable of better. The semi-final will be played at 6 o'clock and the final, in which the rivals will play 50-point games, g;%bnbly will get under way by County Chairman Charles E. Swenson has appointed Robert R. James, Cherrydale chairman, re- feree of the final. Results of the late rounds follow: F. T. Smith, Ballston, defeated E. C. Bockhaus, Bon Afr, 20—21, 23—9 and 24—13. V. Athey, Bon Air, defeated P. O. Shepherd, Clarendon, 21—8 and 21—9. C. C. Henson, Arlington, defeated V. 2‘1""1}; Bon Air, 21—16, 16—21 and G. T. Talbott, Ballston, defeated S. C. Henson, Arlington, 21—6 and 21—5. F. T. Smith, Ballston, defeated George Hooven, Lyon Park, 21—14 and 21—19. A, A. Kirchner, Barcroft, defeated Emie ~ Miller, Barcroft, 22—16 and A._A._Kirchner, Barcroft, defeated ;1 Tl Smith, Ballston, 21—10 and Second round play will start tonight at Hyattsville in the Prince Georges | County finals. Chairman Hiser requests | all players to be on hand by 6 o'clock. | e pairings: A. Cullen (Seabrook champion) vs. C. M. Barb (Berwyn champion). Raymond Ward, jr. (Mount Rainier runner-up), vs. Levy Fleishman (River- dale Heights runner-up). Mark Kiernan (Berwyn runner-up) vs.G. Morgan (Seabrook runner-up). | P. Dean (Silver Hill champion) vs. Earl Pryor (Tuxedo champion.) E. Morgan (Riverdale Heights cham- plon) vs. A. W. Close (Glen Dale run- ner-up). Defaults will be entered against any of these players who falls to appear tonight. Charles E. Swenson, horseshoe mogul of Arlington County, will reign again next year. Swenson been reap- pointed chairman for Clarendon and chairman for the county, with Fred W. Watzon as vice chairman. F. T. Smith of Ballston, who has | shown considerable skill as a ringer | thrower, had never attempted to con- trol the turns of the shoe until a month | 0. The trick was shown him by the | ston champion, Talbott. It made | him & 50 per c°nt better player. are co Many of the close shoe tossers got along well in the preliminaries, but they were knocked off quickly in the higher competition by the open slipper slinger. Before next year's tourna-. ment hundreds of players will have learned the effective grip and turns. Some are practicing them now, looking a year ahead. The dope gathered from g:flormnnces in this yea play will worthless, when the new stars ap- pear. Montgomery County fans believe they have the Metropolitan champion in Earle Crane. Crane has shown lots of class, but it shouldn't surprise any- body if he meets his match in some un- heralded wizard. Some of the best in the tournament were beaten early. gorushoe flingers do have their off- ays. WAR RACKETERS SCQRE OVER VETERANS’ BUREAU War Department netmen downed the Veteran's Bureau, 4 to 1, in & Depart- mental League match played on the Monument Park courts yesterday. Welss and Johnson were the lone team to score for the losers. They nosed out King and Jenkins, 3—6. 7—5, 6—4. Hills and Hobbs (War) won over Silva and Erana (V. B.) 6—2, 6—1 in No. 1 match. Robertson and Paschal (War) scored over Hager and Cross (V. B) 6—0, 6—3. Collins and 8hedd (War) defeated Newman and Pratt (V. B) 6—1, 6—1 and Clarkson and Bush (War) downed Kelsey and Hum- mer (V. B), 6—3, 3—6, 6—3. M'CARTHY WILL COACH TWO EMERSON SPORTS Announcement has been made that T. A. McCarthy, former Gonzaga and University of Montana athlete, will be track coach and assistant foot ball men- tor at Emerson Institute the coming school year. Emerson's gridironers will begin practice September 16. Their first game will be September 28 against Woodberry Forest at Orange, Va. KRIEME{MEYER ENRTERS G. W. Arthur Kriemelmeyer, former High School foot ball stalwart, will ‘Man o' War, Boojum made walkaways WHITNEY HAS GRIP ON RACING HONORS One of His Juveniles Seems Sure to Win Title—Two Start Saturday. BY ORLO L. ROBERTS@N, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, August 28.—If there is such a thing as having a strangle hold on the 1929 2-year-old turf championship, Harry Payne Whitney has it. And he is prepared to show his strongest hand Saturday, when more than a score of juveniles go forth to battle for the rich Hopeful stake and a leg on the two-year title at fashion- able Saratoga. Boojum, speedy son of John P. Grier and unbeaten in two races, and Whichone, winner of three out of four starts, are the pair upon which the Whitney stable is ready to pin its faith, Boojum Is Impressive. Halled as the best horse bred since of his two races over the Widener straightaway at Belmont Park, breezing home lengths in front of mediocre fields. | The late James Rowe, sr., veteran | trainer the Whitney | stable, rated the son of John P. Grier as the fastest youngster he had ever trained. ‘While many experts are of the same opinion, there are others who declared that Whichone is the better of the two. This son of Chicle has had one ex- perience that Boojum hasn't—that of winning a race over an oval track. And right there is where Boojum may fall down. In workouts to date, he has shown a tendency to bear out on the turns. So well liked are the Whitney colts that they are expected to go to the post at odds as low as 3 to 5—the short- est quotations since Man o' War turn- ed in his Hopeful victory in 1919. But whegeas the *public has showed a decided leaning toward the light blue colors of Whitney, there is a set of owners and trainers who believe they have youngsters in their stable capable of beating the mighty Whitney threat for Hopeful honors. To sustain their argument they point to the inconsistency of the crop of 2- year-olds. They all have beaten each other save in isolated cases like that of Boojum, which has started only | twice. Each shift of weights has seen | & new winner. Each change of track conditions has caused a transfer of the laurels of victory. 222 Are Eligible. ‘Two hundred and twenty-two colts for powerful SPORTS gamous, W. R. Coe's Black Majesty, Caruso and Maya; A. H. Cosden’s Bud Broom, Fair Stable’s Sarazen II and Imperial Alr, James Gaffney's Squeaky, Greentree Stable’s Luxury and Romany, H. P. Headley's Alcibiades, Howe Stable's Gold Brook and Tetrachal, W. S. Kil- mer's Sun Craig, Rancocas Stable’s Moka‘am and Grattan, Sagamore Stable’s The Spare, Walter J. Salmon's Swinfield and Perfect Play, Three D's Stable’s Broadway Limited and Line Rider, Wheatley Stable'’s Erin, H. P. Whitney's Whichone and Boojum, G. D. Widener's Hi-Jack and War Saint and Joseph E. Widener's Mr. Sponge. DISTRICT RUNNERS ENTER 10-MILE RACE ALEXANDRIA, Va., August 28.—The second annual 10-mile race of the Po- tomac Yard Athletic Association, sched- uled to be held here September 14, is attracting the entries of a number of this section’s best long-distance run- ners, including five well known Wash- ingtonians. Haskell F. Clark, winner of last year's run, will head the Capital City con- tingent, running under the colors of the Knights of Columbus this year. Mike Lynch, Dan Healy, Jerry Looney and James Montague will also come over from Washington to take part in the hike. The Shreiner brothers, Wallace and Rudolph, and Herold Fields are the only local entries thus far, but J. T. Pullman, athletic director at Potomac Yards, is anticipating a flood of local entries be- fore the race is run. ‘The Shreiners will run unattached, while Fields will again bear the colors of Sarepta Lodge. No. 46, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. * Pullman said today that the race is open to all Virginia and Washington runners, as well as employes at the Potomac railroad yards. Entries may be filed with Bernard Rosenblatt, secretary of the Potomac Yard A. A, at Potomac yards, Alexan- | dria, Va., or with Jack Tulloch, at 317 King street, Alexandria. The course will begin downtown and stretch out into Fairfax County and | return to Baggett's Park for a two or three mile run before the spectators gathered there for the field day pro- gram. Dashes will be held for boys between the ages of 10 and 15, while there will also be unlimited events as follows: 100-yard dash; 440-yard run, 880-vard run, broad jump, shotput, 60-yard fat men's race, open only to men weighing 200 pounds or more: 1-mile relay and & base ball game between two teams of the " Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potgmnc Railroad League, at Potomac yards. MISSTEP TO CARRY TOP WEIGHT IN $5,000 RACE CHICAGO, August 28 (#).—Misstep, | the Lemar Stock Farm's fleet 4-year- old, will be called upon to carry top and fillies are eligible for the final| weight of 128 pounds in the Crete| classic of the Saratoga meeting with | Handicap, Saturday’s $5,000 feature at more than 20 expected to face the bar- | rier. The Saratoga course can easily | handle 30 starters. ‘The feld probably will be drawn | from the following: Belair stud's Gal- George Washington University this Fall. Thrqugh, Gifford A. Cochran's Poly- gain the fiquere NE d Lincoln Fields Saturday. At least 12 runners will go to the post in the 6-furlong event, among them Mowlee and My Dandy, both as- sessed 118 pounds: Golden Prince at ‘Tech | lant Wox, Peto and Flying Gal; E. R.|115 Dowagiac and Cayuga, 114; Brown enter | Bradley's Broad Meadows and Breezing Wisdom, Martie Flynn and Greenock, 111, | County 1'l?'oot Ball Does Not Pay Everywhere : Arlington Horseshoe War Reaches Climax CONWAY TRIUMPHS IN HORSESHOE FINAL Ben Conway won the colored horse- shoe-pitching championship of Muir- kirk, Md., yesterday in a sensational final match with Patton Taylor. Conway toox the first game with eace, 50 to 23, but Taylor staged a neat come- back to take the second, 50 to 48. They were both hot going into the deciding skirmish and the gallery was thoroughiv on edge. Conway was the steadier in the tough going and got the decision. 50 to 38. Conway and Taylor will rep sent Muirkirk in the Prince Georges finals of the colored metro- politan tournament. ‘Two divisional titles will be decided in Washington today. Five playgrounds will be represented in a tournament at Willow Tree. The other meet will be at the Howard playground. In this “Slim” Thomas, Herbert Phillips, Harr: Robinson, J. Gaither and John Mathew: all stars, will compete. Play will start at 5:15 o'clock. A match will consist of two out of three 21-point games, except in the final match will be two out of three 50-point games. As soon as all the division champions are established and sent in to General Chairman Arthur A. Greene at the Twelfth Street Y. M. C. A., pair- ings will be made up and participants notified of who and when they are to play_for sectional hon 18mont Against All Road Hagords No Waiting Royal Tire Stores 624 Penna. Av 1238 18th St A 0 Sherm. 8 Georgi all djor E.E. 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