Evening Star Newspaper, September 10, 1929, Page 28

FOUR BATTLE FOR WASHINGTON HONORS f;:fl, Tallmadge, Pixton and Quantrill Refuse to | See Themselves as Maryland and Virginia Experts. 1 ington 8tar's tournament, no They are Charles Fort, Andrew Tallmadge, N. A. Pixton and Hub- bard Quantrille, all that survive in the Washington section of the big event. which will represent the Capital in also the champion of Southern Maryland, M. E. Peake of Bethesda, and the Northern Virginia champion, who will emerge from the State play-off at Culpeper next Saturday. In tomorrow’s contest Fort will play Pixton and Tallmadge will meet Quantrille. Then the win- ners of these matches will clash. Out in the so-called “sticks” a num- ber of exceptional performers have been brought to light by the first champion- ship tournament ever held in this terri- tory, but none of the four remaining Washington players figures to be a set-| up for any of them. - | be If they run true to form, a brand 'row. Two wins out of three 50-point | main honors. games will decide all of the contests.| one year before he shook loose hi the best seen in Maryland and Virginia , Games of 21 points were played in the | mate, Lou Gehrig, in the greatest two- of barnyard golfing guite on & par with | should result, With the !xcerllon of | Quantrille, all are seasoned ‘twirlers, to whom a streak of ringers is no novelty { Quantrille 1s a youngster having his| first experienee in championship com- | petition. He mowed down a long string | of pitchers, not a few of them quite expert, to reach the city finals, and in practice lately has shown lots of class. He has been the surprise of the Wash- ington tournament. Port is the only one of the four who WITH W. O. Two Points of View. THLETIC NEWS, an English publication devoted to sports, | discusses the American ap- | proach to sports as compared p with that of the English, and | demands to know whose way is right.| “Whose method is best?” demands the | writer, “Britain’s easy-going way of | striving for efficlency in sport or Ameri- ca’s thoroughness and coaching by su- | toerats? Shall we judge by efficiency or enjoyment?” On the subject of American inter- eollegiate foot ball the writer sets down many things that have been said be- fore, particularly after the foot ball season, when there is some scattered talk about the overemphasis of the game. Also he stresses the fact that American college athletics have been made drudgery. Owen of Harvard wrote something along this line some while h“i? and created no little indignation Here is what the correspondent of the Athletic News has to say con- eerning the foot ball season and the overemphasis which is bursting right in our faces: * “The American is very patriotic. He 18 intensely loyal to his institutions, be they his fraternal order, his school, his home town or his State, so it is easy to impress on the plastic, youthful mind the absolute necessity of turning out to fight for his school in whatever game he is best in. “Comching is a distinct profession here. Practically every coach is & col- lege graduste who has been a star ath- lete. After graduation many of them take a post-graduate course in physical culture and also acquire some medical | training. “The foot ball semson lasts about three months at most educational centers. In that time 10 to 12 games will be played. The players practice daily from one to three hours. - The American foot ball game has no counterpart on land or sea. It is a typieal product of the soil. It was taken from Rugby originally, but there is no resemblance to it. The only point in common fs the ball. Even the goal posts had to be ‘im- proved.’ “It isn’t really foot ball. Beyond the fact that a goal can only be scored by kicking the ball over the cross-bar is little or no kicking. I call it ‘animated chess,’ because players are simply trying to put into effect certain moves their coach has thought out. ‘Teams conaist of 11 players, but as substitutes are permitted it is not un- usual for 20 to take part in a game. ‘The coach and reserve players sit on the side lines. If things are going badly the coach will send in replacements, who report to the referee, giving the names of the players whose places they are to take. Players come and go through the game. “A player may go in just to kick a goal and then retire again. Oh, it's a ‘wonderful game!” 3 Perhaps the writer becomes a trifie ironical here, but it still remains a wonderful game—a game that ate tracts more interest than base ball, which long has been called the na- tional pastime. Some of the writers for Epglish papers, by the way, will not give us credit for having orig- inated that game. They insist that 1t is “glorified rounders.” But the admission that the American foot ball game has no counterpart on land or sea and that it is & typical | oweey product of the soil sounds highly eom- plimentary. It may appear a strange "“l!tl.' but it is our own. It is, as the writer REFERRE ALt OVER THE NATION - BECAUSE OF ITS MILDNESS AND BUTED BY MTH ST.. HERE are four Washington horseshoe pltcheri who refusc to agree with the great mafjority that “some fellow from the u{cu" will win the Megropolitan championship in The Wash- Tomorrow they will have it out among themselves to determine | bathletes are college men, and, with few TOMORROW Easy Pickings for w nearing 8 close. the grand finale that will include hasn't lost a match, He beat Quantrilfe in the final of the Plaza division. Pix- ton lost to Tallmadge in the George- town division fing nd Tallmadge pre- viously had been beaten in the e- town preliminary final by Bob David- son, who later was eliminated. Short matches may have had much to do with the losses by Tallmadge. Pixton and Quantrille. But there will no chance for any such alibi tomor- preliminaries, and in most of the latter A single game constituted a match in | witnessed, All of which emphasizes that | | the Babe, when pressed, is one of the The first contest tomorrow will start | greatest of all competitors, /T the early rounds. at 5 o'clock. A sizable gallery is ex- pected, and Mrs. Busie Root Rhodes, superintendent of playgrounds, has an- ticipated it by having bleachers placed beside the court. A number of out-of- town pitchers have announced their in- tention to take advantage of an oppor- tunity to size up the Washington stars. HE LINE McGEZHAN. more sa than base ball, which is as in- comprehensible to the average English- man as cricket is to the average Ameri- can. Drudgery in Sport. THI arraignment of American ath- letics continues: “But what I want to say is that it would be strange if this country, with its huge population, its intensive system ~of coaching, the tremendous athletic rivalry between its 500 colleges and universities, its love of success and willingness to submit to all kinds of drudgery to gain the same. should not produce many first rank | athletes. - “There ‘is* one bad feature about athletics here. Practically all of our exceptions, they drop out after leaving college. I have talked with lots of them on this subject. “In most cases they were ‘fed up’ at college. There had been so much hard work connected with their sports that they were looked on as tasks instead of a means of. relaxa- tion from the grind of their studies. For instance, during the respective seasons members of the foot ball team, boat crew, track team, etc, are put through a rigid eourse of training by the coaches. They usually dine . together at a training table for several veeks. They ate required to be in bed at a certain hour, forbffiden the use of tobacco or liquor of any kind, forbidden to go to dances or to indulge in any social events that will affect their condition. Any one who breaks any of these ruleg is thrown off the team by the coach, is & thorough autocrat, the captain being merely a figurehead—simply a mouthpiece for the coach. “In many colleges the coaches are better paid than the professors.” The Mental Attitude. LL of this has been said before, and all of it is quite true. Also, it can be admitted that the English attitude toward sport is much saner. But what is to be done about it? Foot ball is drudgery and crew work probably is greater drudgery, but each year enough drudges to complete a foot ball squad report for the Spring prac- tice, and in colleges where they have crews there is no difficulty in finding several sets of eights. It must be that our gollege men enjoy their drudgery or_there would be some symptoms of revolt against the system. If American colleges were playing Rugby instead of the American inter- collegiate game they would play it with the same earnestness, the same ferocity and the same determination to win. They would make of any game a pitch- ed battle.s Some years ago in California, when the American intercollegiate game was being revolutionized because of the number of casualties, they banned the game in.that State. The “¢raditional rivals,” California, adopted as a substitute the game of Rugby, and in their an- nual meetings in this played with the same savagery, the same relentlessness. It m§N true, as the writer for Athletic News implies, that the English athletes get more fun out of the games than our earnest and “efficient” ones, I wonder. ‘But I still maintain that you eannot easily change the American mental at- titude toward sport in any short space if it could be A e 23 NTE e oL i “Do you know this is my twealy- third national amateur tournament?” remarked Chick by way of preving he now one of the old guard. was medalist 20 years age snd I was a crown, he swings up to the plate proposes to give no unnecessary ground to any riv-l‘nlhec!lmuu:!elrflll. Off to & somewhat slow s layoff of several weeks, was runs, but it took for the Yakee star to overhaul Klein Lou Gehrig and others. Ruth has had many s tussle for the ma timrs finally won for the first time That was the year of Bobby Jones' debut in the tournament at 3 “1 reeall Bobby's playing Byers in the fi ny either hit a particularly bad shot, would toss the clubs away in disgust.” EVINTUALLY Babe Ruth will be G_ STAR. SPORT SLANTS By Alan J. Gould. Assoclated Press HICK EVANS' golf future is new behind him, but the nial Chicagoan showed at Monte that he still packs » punch in his iron shots. “Why, 1 semi-finalist eight before 1 1916~ ‘Merion. with Ehen Any time they rst reund. to yleld the home run obl t the big fellow as long as this year, with a uth spotted to at least & half dogen rivals. 1 the Babe around ailing Chuck Klein by nine home less than a month well as Hack Wilson, Melvin Oftt, It was late September | team- n battle for the home run crown yet 'HE Pacific Coast has continued to send forth tennis champions in jous classes of competition, but it and econo 7 o Sports Editor, has been 10 years since a Californian held the main in men's compe- tition. “Little Bill" Johnson was last to win, and the mighty atom hap- pened to t his peak when there was one obstacle too much for him— Tilden. Of the coast’s present crop, Johnny Doeg of the famous Sutton Clan appears to have the brightest chance of breaking through to the top. I‘!‘ does not take much study of the suceulent statisties to discover where the Pirates eracked and blew this year's nnant race to the Cubs, The Bues & three-game lead on July 16, lost that by July 25, and on August 25, just. a month later, they were 13 games behind the front-running Chicago out- fit. The Pirates over a period of six weeks won 16 and lost 24, while the Cubs were winning 33, losing only 9 and making a bigger runaway of the Nationsl League race than at any time since the Chance’s mas [LOUISIANA GRID TEAM WILL PLAY IN MEXICO ALEXANDRIA, La., September 10 ). —Louistana College has _acceptea the invitation of the University of Mex- ico to play a foot ball gai in Mexico City on October 5, inaugurating the first grid clash in the Mexican capjtal | between United States and Mexican colleges. The Louisiana team will make the trip from Brownsville, Tex,, to Mexico City in atrplanes, . The Royal Yacht Club of Bermuda is 85 old. of Pe e ‘eerless . Frank | are claiming HARMONY SECRET With Outfield Punch Out of Game. BY GEORGE MORIARTY, Big League Umpire. worthy mark, the St. ‘duhn for the last two seasons, that finished an easy more than equal rights neck finish down the s seems or twice a seasp limelight temporarily. e this season, a most surprising ning streak will bave made it possil Manush and Schulte Hurt. were playing their usual steady Then came the fourth contest, aster for the Howleymen, OF CLUB'S SHOWING Carry On to Winning Streak SSUMING /that a percentage of .500 for games won and lost is & Louis Browns have been one of the most dangerous major league ley put together a club Manager Howley pi li"l:lrd ol but this year the Cleveland India position, snd as a result are having lh. neck-and- tretc] A team that shows real cohsistency to out unexpectedly once n _and monopolize the If the - Browns happen to beat Cleveiand to the three- hofe 'bLl':." WASHINGTON, D.” ¢, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1929 D. C. Pitchers Eye Metropolitan Crown : Browns Have Put Up a Ga BroORTS. Dt me Struggle a fly ball. Both were so badly bruised and shaken up that t) laced un’d‘n m;fllfill%‘lu. o e anus| e pri club, and Schulte hprt)’; :clct "b:ll?;fl:h:. For the moment place yourself in How- ley's shoes as manager, and try to fll those positions to keep up the fight for (hird place, In Tevamping the lineup Howley sent his only regular fiy-chaser, McGowan, to center field, McNeely to said: “On with the et o merely ‘The) me b Browns, with two of &zfi‘rs;::h-flr: absent, won that contest from the Mackmen, and followed this up by tak- Ing four straight from the Yankees and one from Detroit before they tasted de- feat. Three of the victories-over the Yankees were shutouts. Moreover, the make-shift outfield played errorless ball. Confidence Alds Club, Puzzled folks said: “How come these Browns to play so brilllantly minus their full strength?” There is only one reply: Pace and patience make punch and power. There is no such ’:hlnl #s operatic temperament among the Browns. They had confidence in their ;?Ig:ly’u:v:;el:hup :lhilr high standard . 01 of play, sven though two of their stars spirit, and they for performed away six straight games. The happy family spirit of the Browns is very apparent. “Howley's harmonious hustlers” tells the story in three words. They all fight to' win a | game, but there is little moaning or groaning if they lose it. Any industry The Browns have it to excess. Close contact with them on the fleld gives one the impression that if Howley attend a circus and drink pink lemon- ade, there would be no dissenting votes. like inspired men’ till they had picked | ' They are David Bayl Philadelphia won two of the first three | or business based on the happy-family | Frazier, runnersup of the west section. | games from the Browns on the last/ spirit cannot fail. western trip. At the time the Browns | game. ndd.m[ ccident seemed to spell complete dis- | wanted his players t Sceifen ot Outfielder: players to play marbles or | Heinle Manush and Fred Schulte came | together in & head-on collision, chasing | And Howley would climb a greased pole if he thought his players would get a hu!gl ’out of "'Iles e wley sup the managerial wis- dom and nufil the s from the bench, ‘The veteran Jimmy Austin is still in_his boyhood, and expodes pepper all over, the premises every day. The quiet and philosophical coach, Bill Kil- lefer, who caught and moulded Grover Alexander into a great pitcher, is the palance wheel. In other words, a man- ager and two coaches of contrasting dispositions, all thoroughly convinced that contentment wins ball games. (Copyright, 1929. by North American News- paper Alliance.) ROCKVILLE AWARDED HORSESHOE FINALS Rockville, horseshoe pitching center of Maryland, will be the scene of the Montgomery County finals in the col- ored Metropolitan tournament next Thursday, it was announced todsy by General Chairman Arthur A. Greene, Play will start at 5 o'clock, with Henry (Cat nes) Duffin in charge. ‘The matches will be played on two courts placed mear the Rockville school. Greene and Dufin will make the pairings at the courts, Prince Georges County finals will be p!a red at Brentwood tomorrow at 5 n finals will be staged Vermont avenue and will start at 4 o'clock. Four players will participate. champion, and B. Scott, runner-up of the east section, | and C. Flemming, champion. and HE HAD A BfiSY WEEK. A busy man in Syracuse is Roy Mar- | tineau, municipal athletic director, but | he has been busier. In seven days in 1925 he played seven pro foot ball games and wrestled two evenings. Ofimazmclhg a NEw 34-Ton TRuck CHASSIS AT F.O.B. 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