Evening Star Newspaper, October 22, 1929, Page 34

34 S FORTS. - ARMOUR AND “THE HAIG” . : PLACED BENEATH HORTON Diegel, Sarazen, Shute, Espinosa, Mehlhorn, Cooper and Cruickshank Follow in Order in Ratings on Basis of h BY FRANCES J. POWERS. HE fiscal year in professional golf | is coming to a closs, and the harpshooters of the clan are | polishing their irons for the start of another and more Jucra- tive scason out on the Pacific Coast. where pars and birdies easily may be converted into hard mone Tha past 12 mo: have seen many gensational scores turned by the pro- fsssional stars, many famous figures slip from the top ranks of the game and others come along to replace them. It was a great year for American pro- fessionals. They won the open cham- plonships of Great Britain, France and Canada but saw_the most coveted of | all honors—the United States open— fall once more to the genius of the great amateur, Bobby Jones. Chief among the surprises of the year was the failure of Johnny Farrell to play up to expected form. Open cham- plon in 1928 and the possessor of a great competitive record in 1927, Far- rell was unable to win a single event of fmportance. His usual fine style and | impeccable putting touch were unable | 1o produce a victory and for the first time in a half dozen years he is not rgnked among the 10 leading pro- fessionals of the country. Smith Much Talked Of. While Farrell was slipping, young Horton Smith came along to become the most_talked-of professional in the game. Not only did Smith win seven championships during the year but he also was the low scorer among all (he; professionals of the country. This ob- | server is inclined to rank Horton Smith | a§ No. 1 for the professional season of 1928-29, although there are many who will disagree with that selection. Smith not only played well enough to win six Winter championships for all- star fields and the French professional title, but he maintained an average of | 73 41-105 strokes per round for 105] campetitive marches across some of the courses in the world. The er finished well up in almost v field he entered and taking his pia y ay, there is little doubt | a8 to his worthiness of being ranked | fatst { Tommy Armour of the Tam O'Shanter | Club. Detroit, is given second place in | rankings. The black Scot won the | Western open With a record score of | 273; was right on Leo Diegel's heels | when the Agua Caliente pro captured the Canadian open with 274, and fin- ished fourth in the national open. Ar- mour also starred along the Winter trail and was one of the most consistent workmen in the game. Armour really played the best golf of his life, even bet- ter than in 1927, when he held the na- tional open title ¥ Hagen Still Great. Third place is given Walter Hagen. Some might rank the old duke higher because_of his victory in the British open. But Hagen did little to add to his laurels after winning at Muirfield. He was outside the fust 10 in the | United States open and conquered only a few fields during the Winter. The | Haig still is a great golfer, but on the season’s play undeserving to be placed abead of Smith or Armour. Leo Diegel is ranked next to Hagen. He was fifth in the national open; won in the Canadian and played some splendid golf in Britain, being one of the stars in the Ryder Cup matches. He is one of the five to maintain a scoring average of less than 73 strokes per round throughout the season. Gene Sarazen was consistently bril- Yant throughout the year. ' Gene won several important events in Florida and again played sensationally in Britain, He tled for third place in the national open and with any fortune might have | won that title. Densmore Shute, who | tied with Sarazen at Winged Foot, is | ranked immediately after Gene. Shute | has en average of 19-27 strokes for 54 rounds of tournament play and played well in the Western as well as winning the Ohio open, | Al Tispinosa, who tied in the na- | {onal with Bob Jones, is rated seventh. | Ordinarily tleing for first place in the national entitles a player to a better ranking. But the fact that Espinosa broke so badly in the play-off with | Jones and did nothing else of im- portance in sectional events drops him far down the list. Wild Bill Mehl- horn, through his victory in the metropolitan open, some record-break- ing scores during the Winter and a low average for 90 rounds of play, is en- titled to a place among the first 10. Cooper Placed Ninth, Harry Cooper, who started poorly but finished with a rush to win several minor titles, is given ninth place in the field. ‘Toward the finish of the Northern’ season, Cooper was shooting as steady golf as any performer in the game. Bob Cruickshank is awarded tenth place. The wee Scot, like Cooper, did not_find himself until the Summer was well along, but finished high up in riumerous events, and still is one of our best shot makers and tournament per- formers. Professional ranking might be made more thoroughly and satisfactorily had the 1920 P. G. A. champlonships been Teld at the customary time of the year. | Their Play. But the pros will not stage their cham- pionship until December, which obviates that being taken into consideration. With the exception of Horton Smith, no professional was able to pile up any great number of victories. It was a wide open campaign with honors widely | ing exhibitions on the Pacific Coa: distributed, another factor that made rankings difficult Professional golf rankings for 1929: No. 1—Horton Smith, Joplin, Mo. Nn. 2—Tommy Armour, Detrit, Mich. ~Walter Hagen, New York. Diegel, Agua Caliente, 0. 5—Gene Sarazen, New York. . 6—Densmore Shute, Columbus, . 7—Al Espinosa, Chicago. . 8—Bill Mehlhcrn, New York. . 9—Harry Cooper, Buffalo. . 10—Bobby Cruickshank, New THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, NOMADIC LINKSMEN ARE GETTING ACTIVE By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 22.—A golf tour of the West and South, which includes the Professional Golfers' Association champlonship at Los Angeles in Decem- ber and ends with the North and South open at Pinehurst late in March is get- ting under way. The vanguard of professiona's, com- posed of Bill Mehlhorn, Craig Wood and Bill Burke, leaves here tomorrow to take part in the $4,000 Oklahoma City open this weck end. Al and Abe Espinosa, Tommy Armour, Ed Dudley, Joe Kirk- wood and Dan Williams are expected to join them at Oklahoma City. Walter | Hagen and Horton Smith, who are pla st. |are dus to enter the caravan at Port- land, Oreg. The grand tour of professional golf this year takes the players as far west as Horolulu and south to Mexico for the Agua Ca'iente open, which boasts | the richest purs2 in golf, $25.000, be- fore they swing back to Florida in February. Prize money for the 19 tournaments totais close to $125,000 More than a dozen pros from the metropolitan district, including Johnny Farrell, Gene Sarazen, Bobby Cruick- shank and John Golden, will take part in the tour as well as many from other parts of the country. to so change the layout of the holes that the ninth hole and the | tenth tee will be brought near the | clubhouse have resulted in a discovery | by the greens committee of the Wash- ington Golf and Country Club that a way can be devised to bring about this much-sought end. A plan to make the two nines begin and end near the club- house has been devised by Charles A. Beach, the club greenkeeper, and has been laid before Chairman McClenahan of the greens committee. McClenahan declares the scheme is good and prob- ably is the best of several ideas that have been presented to him over the last five years, but that it will necessi- tate such a complete change of the holes it may not come as a development. of the early future. Washington long has realized the need for a ninth hole at some point near the clubhouse, With heavy week end play, particularly on Saturday aft- ernoons, the course now is jammed to the limit on busy days. Many golfers leave the first tee and go to the thir-| teenth tee to play six holes before fac- ing the crowd at the first hole. But this is not satisfactory. and the greens com- mittee has been searching for a scheme which will not involve too much rear- rangement and will put the ninth green back at the clubhouse. The plan evolved by Beach uses the present sixteenth hole as the ninth and completely changes No Conscious Turn Or Pivot of Hips BY SOL METZGER. ‘There is no consclous turn or pivot of the hips at any point in the golf stroke. The main idea with them is to slide them along a line paralleling the direction line all through the downswing. Then the clubhead can be compelled to hit straight through the ball and along this direction line. This applies in all strokes, even the . shorter ones. Here is a sketch of Willie Macfar- lane, former open champion, swing- ing his clubhead through after the ball. Note how far after it it has traveled. Yet Willle's hips at thi point parallel the direction line. Note, too, that his head is still down and hjs left leg braced. ‘The smaller sketch shows Macfar- lane at the finish of his drive. It finds him facing the hole. This fin- ish is caused entirely by the tre= mendous pull of the elubhead after contact. It swings up and around over his left shoulder and pulls him into the position shown. This pull alone causes the hips to turn. They do it automatically because there is nothing else for them to do when the stroke is perfectly played. Don't try to make them pivot. Theyll do it without any effort. Enjoy the thrill of long, stralght drives. Write Sol Metzger, care of this paper, for free leaflet on driving. Inclose stamped, addressed envelope. (Copyright, 1929.) Mild - to 3 for 50¢ the favorite of smokers of Quality Cigars Rich-Tasteful to the course. The two mid-Atlantic tournaments in progress at the two nearby clubs in Chevy Chase, Md., were run off today through weather better suited for a duck-hunting expedition than a major golf event. Out at Columbia Mrs. J. M. Haynes, medalist in the woman's cham- pionship tourney of the Middle Atlantic Golf Association yesterday, faced Dor- othy Hunter of Indian Spring in_ the first round today, while Virginia Holz- derber, her most persistent rival, met Mrs. H. A. Knox in another crucial first- round match. The medal round of the tourney yesterday found the scores mounting high as the woman players struggled in a high wind and against the handicap of keen putting greens. Mrs. Haynes, who is the Columbia Club champion, registered a sterling 85 through the bad weather to win the | qualifying round by three strokes from Miss Holzderber, who shot an 88. Scores of 100 tied for last place in the first flight, and in the play-off Mrs. Lloyd Harrison of Baltimore: Mrs. Frank Tom- linson of Columbia and Mrs. L. L. Steele of Indian Spring won the three places, with Mrs. H. K Cornwell and Mrs. W. 8. Corby dropping out. ‘The first flight of the women's title tourney is by far the best group of players who ever have competed in a championship division in the classic. Only one favored entrant, Mrs. W. B. Jones of Norfolk, failed to make the first flight, although Mrs. Jones of Richmond, Va. State champion, tele- graphed early in the day she would not be able to play because of illness. Fifty-five woman players started and all turned in ecards and were paired today for the match play rounds. Professional golfers of the Middle Atlantic section were playing the first and second round of their match play championship today over the course of the Chevy Chas¢ Club, with Ralph Beach favored to go far in the title chase because of his famillarity with the course and his ster] score of 70 yesterday, which won the ‘qualifying round. They were to pla§ two rounds of match play today, and will play the semi-final rounds of urney next week over a Baltimore coufse. Beach formerly was assistan. profes- sional at Chevy Chase, ‘and showed his knowledge of the course yesterday by scoring a scintillating 32 on the first nine holes, and got back in 38 for the card that led the pros in the medal round. Glenn 8. Spencer of Baltimore had a 72, and there was a tie for last place in the 16 qualifiers between A. L. Houghton of Harper and Al Treder of Manor. Houghton won at the third extra hole of the play off. Sidney Moore, assistant pro at Con- gressional, who has been a sensation | C. W. St of the golf season among the pro: this year, played Arthur B. Thorn of Town and Country in the first round today, while Gene Larkin, assistant Chevy Chase pro, who won the Mary- land State title last week, met Beach. In another match that was certain to bring out good golf, J. Munro Hunter of Indian Spring met A. L. Houghton. ALEKHINE WINS MATCH. BERLIN, October 22 (#)—Dr. Alex- ander Alekhine of Paris defeated in 33 moves E. D, Bogoljubow of Triberg in the seventeenth game in defense of his chess champlonship of the world. Dr. Alekhine had white in a queen’s pawn opening. The score of the match to date: Dr. Alekhine, 8; Bogoljubow, 4; drawn, 5. — On July 1, 1928, there were 96,481 Reo Speed Wagonsreg- istered in the U. S. — This was 4,756 more than “had been sold in the U.S. dur- - ing the entire 634 years from Jan. 1,1922, to July 1, 1928. —93.29%, of all the Reo Speed Wagons sold in the U. S. the revious 7}4 years were still 1 registered use July 1, 1928, — 80.37%, of all the Reo Speed Wagons sold in the U. S. the 18 Sherby Motor Co., i) GOOD FOR 100,000 MILES A Long-Life Record Probably Unequaled in the History of Commercial Transportation Read These Proved Facts Distributor 14th St. NW. Dealer GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE LEAGUE. Team Standing. Team. w. Pet. | Recoras | Vouehers | Audit | Indian " cia hief Clerks Audit Review | Accounts ... Ciatms ] 8 Somananssep Office ©.. .0 General Coinse™ 111101 team game_Au team sei-Audit, individual game | individual set--Warfield individual avera 113-0. number of ‘strik 53 number of spares—Deuterman, 26. Records moved into first place by virtue of three wins over Audit, due mainly to Records' anchor man, War- | field, who rolled a set of 359. Chief | Clerks alsh won all its games from General Counsel and Indian Claims took the odd game from Post Office. Audit Review caught the strong Claims team in a slump and beat it badlv| | all three games, and Vouchers won two games from Accounts, White rolling | third for Vouchers getting the fine score of 139 in the first game, which game said team lost by 17 pins, duc to the rolling of Bauman, Minster and Tavlor of Accounts with games of 107, 112 and 122, respectively. WASHINGTON GAS LIGHT LEAGUE. Team Standing. Sireet Dept (3] Meter Shop b Georgetown ... 8 @ Installation Fitting Tent’ " 8 6 Meter Tnsp. Commercial Off. 7 § West Statian High feam game.Meter Shop. 573 HiEn team S itting pepariment. 1660 High indiviqual game—Clark (General Of- - ‘1‘““'“’: individual set—Clark (General Of- | "“The fith week of competition finds | Street Department in first place with the second and third place teams in a | close race. INSURANCE LEAGUE. Team Standing. People's Life . Traveler's Metropolitan | Virgini Mass. | Prudential Equitable Continental Gas . A 1 High t wame_ Travelers. '569. High 1 set.-People's, 1.574. High indivtdual game_—Brockson. 1 Brockson. 365 5 108-1; Weigle. [ iy Mutual High individual set ages —Brockson, 105-6. GEORGETOWN CHURCH LEAGUE. | Team Standing. Christ Peck FEpiscopal .. No. 2 ernon M. E Bap! E. South ce Episcopal Galvary Drakes Calvary Kinnear Georgetown Presby. Congress St P. MaommanIIemog 3B s 10 Anderson, Calvary averages W 115; Hillears, 2 110 Dl individual amesDousles. Coneress P Hi v Drake! High team Drakes, 25: R. Stock individual m{h; ‘Yigh team sgame—Grace Episcopal, Calvary Drake: High team Peck: No. 1. 560; Christ Episcopal, 1573 Sets- 17856 There were some very good games| rolled in this league the past week. Cal- vary Drakes pulled the biggest upset by | taking the Peck No. 1 team to camp for Ve ames, Crow, the Drake's anchor 13:11‘! being the leading light in his team's victory. ably assisted by Hilleary and Rice. Christ Episcopal set a new high-set record in taking the set from Georgetown Presbyterian. Peck No. 2 is still setting & warm pace, taking the odd game from the strong West Washington Baptist team. Grace made & clean sweep over the Congress Street team. Mount Vernon took two of three from Calvary Kinnear. High sets for the night were: Crow, 358; Doc Barr, 348; Holmes, 341 and De Lashmutt, 340. N. Saul rolled high game at 141 NATIONAL CAPITAL LEAGUE. Team 8¢ Bethesda_ . | Bervice Cafe "\ Although "the Bethesda was forced to forfeit to the Grand Palace team, the latter rolled a 1.786 set with- Auto Bodies, R ed; also New Radiators Radi and Cores in Stock h,l:‘l!hofl 14th. North 7177 w Alse % Block Below Ave. OUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN’S, 7th & F previous 8% years were still 11?) zrseglstered use on July 1, — And 50.8%ofall Reotrucks sold since 1913 were still reg- istered on July 1,1928, in the United States only! Those in service elsewhere thruout the world would even increase this high figure, Learn what this means to you. Reo Motor Car Company, Lansing, Mich. 2015 14th St. N.W. (! ol My I v N ) " W, (" A 3 | tie for seoond place by thrice trouncing D. C., TUESDAY, OC TOBER 22, 1R9. SPORTS. out competition and increased the tense- ness of its grip on first place, as the King Pin five was idle due to a post- ponement with Mount Rainier. Lucky Strike moved into a percentage Meyer Davis. Arthur Logan led the vic- tors with a 376 total. Parkway Filling Station made it a three-way deadlock for the runner-up berth by taking two from Georgetown Recreation with a 612 game in the middle. Carroll Daly rolled & 155 game and 386 set for Parkway, losing a big chance to go over the 400 mark. After 129 and 155 efforts, he dropped to 102 in his last session. C W. Smith bagged three by the forfeit route over Service Cafeteria, with Brad Mandley contributing a 352 set. BUILDING CONTRACTORS' BOWLING LEAGUE. Team Standing. BENnvoaasanat Futler_Plant ... C. H. Tompkins TP Evans . 8 'wsbestos James Baird . D.'C. Butcher Rudolph & West Lake Stone Co PUT, MeDermott . W. Loe oo A Rule'! . A. Fuller Although idle the past week, G. A. Fuller Stone Plant team, defending champion, held the lead, as the C. H. Thompkins Co. five could glean but one victory over the Rudolph & West team, which got back on even terms by tak- ing two victories with totals of 500 or better. John P. Evans bowlers moved | s saacons=BE A . into & tie with the lompkins plnmen}‘f for second place by bagging the last two from D. C. Butcher Co. Sparks The E. A. Rule club ducked the cellar | in favor of the George A. Fuller Co. team by taking three close verdicts over | the latter. Homan led the victors. Laki Stone assumed a .500 percentage mars by sweeping the set over James Baird Co. All three games were decided by narrow margins. Goodrick's 124 game and 329 set helped Southern Asbestos to take a pair from A. W. Lee. After a bad start the Asbestos crew hung up 538 and 533 game! AUDIT REVIEW LEAGUE. Team Standin, Won. Lost Oil and Mining . ] 1 Special Adjustmen 1 Section G- . 7 5y Teehnical Staft, No 2 gt Uiz Timber dEa s 6 3 Reilrond. No. ' 8 s Exccutives. No. 5 4 Executives. No. 5 4 | Section ©- & Annex. No 1 s Review. No s 4 Section G-I 5 4| Section D-1 4 o | Section €2 . 4 s Railroads. No.'3:..01 "0 4 | Alien Property Cistodian 4 5| Section C-3 : 3 ef Section B.. 3 & | Section D-2 3 8 ction D3 : & U Review. No. 3 2 7 Technical Staff' No. i I Technical Staft No. 3. g . High team game_Special Adjustment, 539 High team set—Special Adjustment. 1.567. High individual game—Middlekauff, Spe- cial Adjustment. 135. High individual set—Middlekauff, Special Adjustment, 367. DISTRICT LEAGUE. Team Standin King Pin... Hyattsville Meyer Davis Corne! Prog Arcay Temple - Convention Hall Petworth ........ Stanford Paper C P omaaaaas s 828, 654, i t—Weldman (King Pin), 1hi16h individual game—8chroth (Cornell's), ‘The winning streak of the King Pin team, which ran to 11 straight games, | | with low scores. 7| Atchison, was broken by the Cornell's Lunch. Though losing_the final game of the | match at the Coliseum, King Pin holds a commanding lead of three games. | Norman Schroth’s 125 and Capt. Ken | Thorpe's 135 were the winning punch for the Cornell team. Jack Wolsten- | holme continued to blaze away at the | maples, contributing 135 in his first game and totaled 380 for the set. Meyer Davis has perked up consider- | ably in the last two sets and trampled all over Progressive Printing Co. to carry off high team honors with a set of 1,772 and 609 for high game. Phil Goodal 381 and Joe McGolrick’s 376 featured. Only Charlie Barnard offered any resist- ance. His three-game total was 353, The crack Temple outfit was handed | another setback when Convention Hall won two games. Red Morgan led the attack with 405, the high individual set of the week, while Al Work came to hh‘” with 384. Joe Mulroe’s 140 put Temple | over in the first. | Stanford Paper Co. is still taking it | on the nose. Petworth took two games | Joe Priccl’'s 349 set topped the winners. Tim Dunworth featured Arcadia’s lone win over Hyattsville with a count of 134 In the first. Hyattsville fairly out- classed them in the next two. Pete Wolfe's 364 was high for the winners. TRANSPORTATION LEAGUE. Team Standin, Er e Whiz Bangs A. R. A, league leader, met a stum- S DUCKPIN LEAGUES bling block in the Go Getters, dropping two games by & narrow margin, while the Ground Hogs moved into a tie for first place, by making & sweep of their set with the Sparks. Eastmas-Dillon and the Onetoates also made clean sweep of their sets with the Holy Rollers and Whiz Bangs, respectively, while F. & C. took two from the Burec team. | Burroughs of Sparks was high man with 145. U. OF MARYLAND LS LEAGUE. Team Standing. 2 L. Pet. Kappa Kappa Gamma. ¢ 1000 Kappa Xi 0 1000 Day_Dods o 1000 Alpha Omicron Phi s oo Practice House 0 3 Homestead o 3 000 Park o 0 000 | ¥ Hut. : o 000 Gerneaux ~ Hall o 00 Alpha Upsilon Chi. o o 000 High individual game —Nestor, 94. High individual set —Hartenstein, 253. High indivicual averageHartenstein, 84. JglIER team game—Kappa Kappa Gamma, | Hish team set—Kappa Kappa Gamma, e-Kappa Kappa Gamma, igh team aver -33. INTERFRATERNITY LEAGUE (U. OF. MARYLAND). L. Pet 0 1.000 1 868 1 868 2 333 3 a3m 3 000 E ] Sigma Ta o <000 Delta Sigma Phi. o <000 High individual game—Mister, 138. High individual Milles 4. High individual Miller, 111-33. High team game_Nu Sigma Omicron, 312. High Nu Sigma_Omicron, 1,453. QI:"{’P -Nu 8igma Omicron, NORTHERNS TO SEEK BASKET BALL TITLE Northerns, who are planning a de- termined bid for the 145-pound basket ball championship of the District, will hold their second drill of the campaign Thursday night at 8 o'clock in the Wil- son Normal School gym. The team plans to enter both the Boys’' Club and French's Leagues. Bob Leverton and Al Huntt, for- wards: Stan and Niles, centers, and Bud Leverton, Max Jeweler and Eddie | Miller, guards, are Northern depend- ables. Olson’s Terrible des, barnstorm- ing five, are after games with District unlimited class quints. The team, which boasts an all-time record of 534 games won against 93 lost, plays under ama- teur or professional rules. Challenges should be addressed to C. M. Olson at Humansville, Mo, P. O. Box 27. Peerless A. C. basketers, who are list- ing games at Lincoln 4218, will hold | their third drill of the season tomor- | row night at 7:30 o'clock in St. Mar- tin's gym. 3 u’l;heu candidates are asked to at- n . Gelger, Bryant, Anderson, Histon, Hickey, Scanlon, Lally, Augusterfer and WALLGREN CUE VICTOR. ) EVERETT, Wash., October 22 (#).— Conrad Wallgren of Everett, Pacific Coast billiard champion, opened his play for the national amateur billiard | championship here last night by taking the first block of a 900-point match from Percy Collins of Chicago, the title holder, 300 to 285. This voluntary statement by Mr. CHARLES T. UTT of 1130 Mulberry St.,Scranton, Pa., is in line with the opin- ion of many millions of other WHITE OW L smokers CHAREST, NET STAR, TO BE PAID TRIBUTE Washington tennis stars have long paid tribute individually to the sports- manship and skill of their outstand- ing net hero, Clarence M. Charest, one- armed national veterans’ champion and thrice crowned king of the local courts, but tonight for tfe first time they will unite in honoring him, the occasion be- ing a mammoth dinner given in his honor at Columbia Country Club as a fitting climax to the outdoor tennis season. Notables will gather with the racket- ers to add color to the occasion. among them being Secretary of State Stimson, donor of the Stimson Cups, put into competition for the first time this Fall; Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest L. Jahncke and Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of Public Buildings and Public Parks, from whose offices has come the inspiration for all of the public parks net classics. A special tennis reel has been ob- tained by the entertainment commit- tee showing Bill Tilden and William Hunter in action, and it is rumored that some “shots” of Charest at Forest Hills and Helen Wills performing with !&r’ne of her worthy rivals will be seen, John Irving Fisher, master of cere- monies at the Fox Theater, will furnish some comedy numbers to round out the program of entertainment. OMAHA, October 22 (#).—Lope Te- nerio, who recently won from King Tut at Chicago. has been signed to replace Luis Vicentini in Friday night's fight with Tommy Grogan of Omaha. Vicentini is ill and has sent word he | will be unable to fulfill his contract to | meet the Omaha lightweight. | el EN CENTS is oughly enjoyable mounts up in the Horton Smith Is Given Top Ranking Among Professional Linksmen of America NEWS AND GOSSIP ABOUT VARIOU FIVE CELTICS HURT; TWO ADDED TO LIST ALEXANDRIA, Va., October 22— With five of its members laid up with injuries the St. Mary’s Celtics foot bail squad will practice tonight in Baggett's Park at 8:30. Dove, linesman, is out with a frac- tured jaw. Grupper is suffering with a recurrence of knee injury, while May- hew, DeLashmutt and Moutoun are in- capacitated. Charles Corbett has signed Tommy ‘Thomas, halfback, to play out the re- mainder of the Celtics’ schedule. Harry Fiddesop, former Mercury A. C. trainer, has also been acquired by the Celtics. “Mouse” Briscoe, “Dibby” Simpson and Gettle of Virginla A. C.. wore in- jured in the encounter with the Anacha A. C. at Washington, but are expected back in the Orange and Blue line-up for Sunday's game. Manager Gorman has not vet suc- ceeded in lining up an opponent for Sunday and would like to hear from an unlimited team. Phone him at Alex- andria 190 between 9 am. and 4 p.n. or at Alexandria 1819 between 7 and 9 pm. Virginia Midgets defeated the Cl endon Lion Midgets, 13 to 0, at Clare endon, to open their season in impres- EED HOME APACHES N AS UNION PARK LOST Apache foot ballers are casting about for a new home fleld following an. nouncement that Union Park is to be taken over by a building wrecking com- pany. The park had been the Apaches’ field for the past three seasons and had been used by Washington sand- lot athletics since 1923. It was the outgrowth of the old park on Florida avenue, near Fifteenth street, which was the first home of the Washing~ ton American League base ball team. Efforts are being made by the Apache management to secure the new Gon- zaga Field, on Thirty-fourth street near Benning road. for home games. If this field is not obtained, the Apaches may play the remainder of their games out of town until the annual battle with the champion Mohawks. It is expected that the Apaches’ last home game in the Union Park will be November 2. No opponent has been booked for next Sunday, but negotia- tions are on with the Hampden team of Baltimore. Northern gridders will. journey to Baltimore again Sunday, this time to meet the Lansdowne eleven. Last Sun- day Northerns suffered a 7-2 defeat at the hands of the Irvington team in the Oriole city. Northerns will drill tomorrow ht and Thursday on the Silver 8 fleld, starting at 7:30 o’clock. ey will face Mohawks November 10, and have a game pending with Apaches for November 24. A meeting of Priendship foot ballers will be held tonight at the clubhouse, 749 Eighth street southeast, at 7:30 ?ci‘{ock A practice is scheduled to ollow. Sunday games for Shipyard Fielo, Alexandria, are sought by Virginia A. C. eleven. Manager Pat Gorman may be reached at Alexandria 1819 be- tween 7 and 9 p.m. Italy is fast becoming a sporting na= tion. ~ Besides auto and bike racing, soccer, basket ball and track, another rapidly growing sport is boxing. 5 afairprleeforll‘ cigar as mild and sweet and thors as WHITE OWL. . I'd pay it if I had to . . . but 'm delighted that I dont have to. A thirty. three per cent saving on every smoke course of a year!”