Evening Star Newspaper, March 24, 1930, Page 23

S PORTS. THE EVEN. NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1930. SPORTS. "Navy Booms Neglected Track Team : Malevich Pays Dearly for Campus Glory NOW HAS STRENGTH TOVIE WITH BEST Three Years Spent Building Up Squad—St. John’s Set to Shine in Lacrosse. BY H. C. BYRD. NNAPOLIS, Md., March 24. —Navy expects its track team this Spring to rank with the best in the coun- try. Last year the squad began to show results of good coaching, and now it seems that plans made two or three years ago to develop more interest in the sport and raise it to the same strong posi- tion held by other Navy athletic organizations are nearing success. | At least Navy people feel that way, and none other should be in better position to know. | Navy track teams have seldom at- | tained the high position of other Navy sports organizations, probably because those in charge of Navy athletics have never given it the same close attention | they have other sports and have never centered 1n it their real interest. How- ever, about three years ago Comdr. | Jonas Ingram decided that something | should be done about it and he began by getting Earl Thomson, former Dart- mouth star, to coach. That was a big stroke, because right from that time somebody was in charge of track who knew how to get the most out of men and who was in a position to give his whole time to it. Comdr. Ingram and his staff also began to pay | o'ci some attention to track and to indi- cate to the midshipmen that they felt track deserved some real attention, that it was worth bullding up and worth thelr interest. Results Are Apparent. { Midshipmen began to go out for track | practice in increasing numbers. More candidates, good coaching and atten- tion from those in authority began to produce results two years ago. Last year the Navy squad was far more for- midable, and during the coming Spring it ‘is expected that it will be strong enough to hold its own in a dual meet | ‘with any of the colleges and universities. Incidentally, it is not amiss tion that the Navy is expecting to be ward to another successful year, as a majority of the players who carried it through an undefeated season -last | Spring_are back. The crew and the nine also are looking ahead to what they believe should be successful com- petition. In fact, it is doubtful if Navy people have ever shown as much optimism in their outlook for Spring athletics as is plainly evident right now. And while on the subject of athletics, right here in this old, old town is an- other college that is looking ahead to | success in at least one sport this Spring—St. John's. If the St. John's lacrosse twelve is not among the best in the country, then a lot of St. John's ‘Two years ago St. John's eliminated base ball from its intercollegiate compe- tition, and made lacrosse about the ‘whole show, as far as it is concerned, April and May. This was done ‘with no malice aforethought toward the diamond sport, but almost solely be- cause of the expense involved. Those le for athletics at St. John's decided that it would be impossible for them to maintain both lacrosse and base ball on a high plane, that if both ‘were continued the result would be two basis in which the college could take some pride. Last Spring certainly proved the wis- dom of St. John's attitude, as far as lacrosse is concerned. The decision to let base ball drop had much to do with the high plane attained in lacrosse, in which sport St. John's had one of the strongest twelves in the United States. More students out as candidates, more iber dat cent ization of the interest of students, fac- ulty ‘and ‘alumni brought more pleasing results than actually had been antici- pated. The accomplishments of last year just whetted appetities down here. 8t. John's is looking for more worlds to and confidently believes it will find them. Alexandria Notes JALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24—A sensational rally by the St. Mary's Cel- tios ‘in_their game with the United Grays of Washington fell short yesterday and the locals were forced to accept a 31-to-30 defeat in an exhibition _contest played on Schuler’s Hall court. The Grays and Celtics will meet again_ Saturday night at Armory Hall in‘a league tilt. Another league game is listed for tomorrow night, when the Celtics will take on the Skinker Bros. Eagles of Washington in the armory. In the preliminary games yesterday the Clover A. C. took an 11-to-10 ver- dict from the Alpha Delta Omega. Fra- ternity team, while Russell Sutton’s Scholastics trimmed Bobby ~ Vogt's Yankees, 16 to 10. Kiwanis and Rotary Club bowlers will meet at 8 o'clock tonight on the Health Center bowling alleys in the final five- game block of a 15-game match. The Rotarians are in front by a margin of 100 pins. | “The Yankee A. C. base ball team will | meet tomorrow night at 8 o'clock at Hursky’s Salon, 400 King street. Man- ager Bobby Vogt requests all candidates | fof the team to be present. | The latest acquisitions to Vogt's squad are Bobby Roberson, Columbia Engine Co. shortstop last season, and Al Den- nis, former Alexandria High outfielder | ond captain. St. Mary's Celtics are drilling each afternoon at Baggett's Park for the opening game of the base ball season April 6, when they are scheduled to entertain the Reading, Pa., team of the Intérnational League. The Celtics will April 13, when th= Bridgeport, Coni cliy of the Eastern League will appear. Shires, brother of the famous Art ires of the Chicago White Sox, will be seen in the Bridgeport outfield. Three new players will perform with the Celtics this season in addition to the galaxy of stars left over from the team which won the Virginia and Dis- Columbia titles last year. They are “Lefty” Gettman, Washington sand- -pitcher; “Happy” Gardner, former ' Humphreys third baseman, and Billy Padgett, Columbia Engine Co. out- fielder last year. “Y” MATMEN SCORE. Washington Y. M. C. A. wrestlers scored five points in the interstate “Y" jonships, in which Baltimore and :upplm also competed, 1 Saturday night in Baltimore. VOGEL WRESTLES FELICE. Carl Vogel will meet Tony Felice in the feature match of the regular Thurs- {day night wrestling card at the Strand. the|{was a bad break. Fortune had another minor league club on | INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE MEETS TOMORROW League rules will be drawn and other | business given attention at a meeting of | representatives of Industrial Base Ball| League teams tomorrow night at 7 o'clock at French's store. French Co. will meet the Catholic| University squad in practice ball games tomorrow and Wednesday afternoons at 2:30 o'clock in the C. U. stadium. Neighborhood House Senators are off to a good start on the diamond. They squeezed through to an 8-7 win over the Majestics yesterday. St. Joseph's Midgets, who took a 5-4; game from the Joe Judge Midgets, are | after more games. Call Atlantic 3506-J between 6 and 8 p.m. Montrose diamonders will meet Thurs- day night at 3023 Dent place. Manager Willlam Roberts is receiving challenges at Potomac 4452-W after 6:30 p.m. POTOMAC BOATMEN AND CO. F CLASH Company F, National Guard, of | Hyattsville, and Potomac Boat Club of this city, and Jewish Community Center and Takoma Firemen will be the principals in the brightest games of the District A. A. U. championship basket ball tournament tonight in the Tech’ High gym. The game between the Guard and boat fives will be the first quarter-final match in the unlimited class. The J. C. C.-Takoma Firemen tilt will be a secound-round unlimited class encounter. Tonight’s tourney schedule: Boys' Club Optimists vs. Y. M. C. A. Flashes (130-pound class, quarter finals), i J. C. C. Flashes vs. Potomac Boat Club Preps (130-pound class, quarter finals), 8 o'clocl Potomac Boat Club vs. Company F of Hyattsville (unlimited class, quarter final round), 9 o'clock. 5 .Ovs. Takoma Piremen (unlimited class, second round), 10 o'clock. Stepping out in the late going with a determined attack, as has been their wont in many games this season, Skinker Eagles downed St. Wenceslaus, 40 to 29, yesterday in the Silver Spring Armory. Sweeney and Streets each scored 11 points to head the winner's offense. In a preliminary Dixie Pig A. C. came through with a 33-25 win over Stewart Photographers. The Pigs also won through a late spurt. C. GRUVER of Washington is a patient man. He takes the bad luck along with the ® good and never grumbles if | his ball hits the branch of a tree and scoots off into a ditch. And if a 20- foot putt hits the back of the cup and stays out, a look of patient resignation takes the place of the mild upbraiding that lesser men might give that re- caleitrant pill. Not for Gruver the rail- ings and ravings in which other men find solace when fortune goes against them. He can take his breaks or leave them alone. They are all one to him, and he likes the game of golf so much that we believe he gets pleasure out of every part of the game—the good and bad alike. But yesterday he nearly reached the end of his patience. Nearly, but not quite. The seventeenth hole was an im- portant one in his match with V. Cal- vert Dickey, and when Gruver pounded out a great 60-yard tee shot he didn't show the disgust he must have feit. He is like that—he and Hagen. You never know whether they are winning or losing by the expression of their faces. They always are jovial and happy. Anyhow, Gruver out that mag- nificent tee shot—all of 60 yards and 30 yards off the line. That left him a with trouble lurking on every side. Gal- lantly he took a long iron from his bag and smote the ball, with the hope that he might halve Dickey, whose tee shot left him in a bad s| to pitch to the green. He hit the ball and it disappear- ed over the hill, plainly tagged for the wandered over the hill, and down into the ditch, and found his ball had fimp- ed the water hazard and come to rest on a little Mfin:b“' 3 feet above the water leaving a shot at the hole. “Ah,” said Gruver. “Fortune is with me. Perhaps I can win from Dickey.” But he found that even though he tried every possible stance he couldn’t gallant ‘waded over n“i': shoe tops, and took & pre- liminary waggle about soiling his club. As he did so the ball, which had rested precariously on a smooth sur- face, rolled back into the ditch. And for once, Gruver showed dmb.h!:::; up against him and given him a kick in the pants. But he wasn't to be out- done. He took that ball up on the hill back of the ditch, dropped it, and g‘l)ncyed his fourth stroke through a k of trees so successfully that he Vardon Employs Overlapping Grip VAROON'G GRIP BY SOL METZGER. To secure relaxed and pliable muscles, necessities when one swings a golf club as does Harry Vardon, details‘such as the grip are of pri- mary importance. Harry’s comfort- able stance and grip are here shown. Note that he uses an overlapping grip, the end joint of the little finger of the right hand overlapping the second joint of the forefinger of the left hand. Note also that his wrists are in opposition to each other. That per- mits the wrist joints to function together. But the all important idea in grip is that he the club with the forefingers and thumbs. Try that and note how relaxed the wrist _joints become. Also the mus- cles of the forearms. Having re- laxation here is necessary when playing the Vardon swing. Learn to put well, Sol Metzger has prepared a new {llustrated leaf- let on “Putting,” which he will send free to any reader requesting it. Address Sol Metzger, in care of this shot of about 230 yards to the green | Arth ditch at the right of the green. He |the G FELD LKLY FORE CLUBMEE Six Institutions Will Take Part for the First Time in Annual Games. FFICERS of the Alumni “C” Club of Central High 3chool are optimistic over the pros- pects of the twelfth annual “C" Club meet, to be held in the Cen- tral Stadium Saturday, May 17, prov- ing the best in the history of the fix- ture. Between 400 and 500 are expected to compete. A score of school, including six insti- tutions which heretofore have not been represented in the meet, have let it be known that they will take part. New schools to be represented, with the number of their entries indicated in parentheses, follow: Charlottesville High (10), Gaithers- burg High (10), Georgetown Prep (10), Landon (6), Maury High of Norfolk (18), and McGuire’s School of Rich- mond (12). Schools which have formerly com- peted and have announced that they will again be represented follow, with the number of entries indicated: Alexandria High (10, Baltimore City College (40), Baltimore Poly (25), Epis- copal High (25), Forest Park High (50), Hyattsville High (12), Langley Junior High (12), Massanutten Military Acad- emy (15), Mount St. Joseph's High (15), St. James' School (15), St. John’s College High School (15), Tech (35), Central (40) and Staunton Military Academy (15). Other schools expected to enter are Western, Devitt, Woodberry Junior High, Macfarland Junior High and Columbia Junior High. George (Turkey) Morris, ’15, is chair- man of the track committee. Other members of the committee are Irwin Porter, James Sprigman, Norman Oys- ter, Pete Fleming. Gene Casey, Robert Acorn, Channing Walker, Albert Con- radis, Lawrence Lampson, Robert A. Maurer and Robert Newby. Tech High won the meet last year, scoring 35 points. Staunton was second with 207, and Devitt third with 19. STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE hit the cup for a par 4. But Dickey had outmaneuvered him. Dickey had flung his ball up so close to the hole that he got his par 4, and Gruver's gallantry in the ditch availed him nothing. Ward B. McCarthy heard that his friend, J. B. Murphy, had put his ball in the ditch at the eleventh hole at Washington, had taken a penalty stroke and still registered a par 3. For a week he tried to emulate Murphy and failed. Each time he put his tee shot faithfully in the ditch, and each time he tried to hole the pitch that would put him in a class with Murphy. Yesterday the magic moment came. His tee shot again found the ditch and he holed his pitch for the par 3. But he dldl’l\'t, ;’lo “h‘? the spectacular l'nlg- ner ol lurphy’s success. M knocked his ball right into them.l?olz without touching the. green at all. Mc- C-n‘h)‘:‘n ball took a couple of hops and went in. Several of the local fessional golfers are due to leave anmn to- day for Pinehurst, N. C.. where they will play in the North and South open, to be held Thursday and Friday, with Horton Smith due to defend the title he won last year. Those who will go to Pinehurst include Fred McLeod of Columbia, Bob Barnett of Chevy Chase, ur B. Thorn of Woodmont, A. L. Houghton of Harper, Walter Cunnin ham of Burning Tree and Sandy Ar- mour of Congressional. Barnett and Thorn will leave Pinehurst at the close of the North and South to play in the Augusta open next Monday and Tues- day, in which Bobby Jones of Atlanta, open champion, will parade his “ruln-neflnnwfidnvnlnfmm of the touring pro and renew the rivalry with Horton Smith, which started at Savannah, where Smith beat him out by a stroke. 300 GIRL TEAMS SET FOR BASKET WHIRL By the Associated Press. WICHITA, Kans., March 24.—Three hundred girl basket ball players, repre- senting 27 teams from widely separatgd sections, were guests of Wichita toda; for the fourth annual national A. A. U. tournament which will begin tonight. Six games will be run off tonight and the play will continue through the week, with the titular clash Saturday night. The Bearcats of Denver and the Rainbows of Canton, Ohio, will inau- gurate the feminine classic. ‘The Dallas Sun Oilers, winners of last year’s tournament, arrived yesterday, 24 strong. Other strong entries include the Detroit Centrals, the Sparkman, Ark., Sparklers, and the Lowe-Camp- e T Spahiore. Headed parklers, headed by innine Hamm, ball tosser exflmrdlng, pack a heavy scoring threat. Miss Hamm claims a world record of 109 points scored in a single game, ALL-STAR TEAM NAMED BY BOYS’ CLUB LEADER An all-star team in_each of the vari- ous divisions of the Boys' Basket Ball League, which recently completed a highly successful season, has been picked by C. M. Fyfe, superintendent of the club; J. W. White, physical director, and J. F. Robinson, director of the league. ‘The selections: UNLIMITED DIVISION. Panella, Celtics, forward. McLarney. Tuts, forward. Fitzgerald. Whirlwinds, center. Cole. Celtics, guard Clark, Celtics, guard. 130-POUND DIVISION. Bayliss, Good Shepherd, forward. B ard. T. Ll d reva 100-POUND DIVISION. Peruzzi, Optimists, forward. Amin, Optimists. forward. pright. Spa: Doonis, Optimists, guard. Farreli, St. Mart, guard. 145-POUND DIVISION. Fisher, De Luxe, forward. Understein, J. C. forward, Letvin, J. 'C.” C., eenter. Heged Hemeg £ 00k, ux ard. Thomas, Spengler, guard. 115-POUND DIVISION. Joray, Astecs, forward. Levin, Arcadians, forward. a) >gorQ 85-POUND DIVISION. €. Glovanetti, Arcadians, forward. 8. Silverstein, Arcadians, forw: '9% Wi center. The average base ball player in the big leagues Jasts about 8 years, although paper, and inclose a ull-umP!ed. | stamped envelope, y, many continue for 15 or 20 seasons in the game. MARYLAND GUARD QUINT- BRINGS ROOTING SQUAD HYATTSVILLE, Md., March 24—A flock of supporters of the basket ball team of Company F, 1st Infantry, Mary- land National Guard of Hyattsville, will accompany that quint to Washington tonight, where it will engage Potomac Boat Club in Tech High gym in the first quarter final match in the District of Columbia A. A. U. Association cham- pionship basket ball tournament. The game will get under way at 9 o'clock. Company F is the only Prince Georges County quint remaining in the tourney, Brentwood Hawks, Dixie Pig A. C. and Bhlp‘liey Midgets all having been elimi- nated. ROBBIE’S WILDCAT—CAGE SEEING MUCH SERVICE By the Associated Press. CLEARWATER, Fla, March 24— ‘Wilbert Robinson’s wildcat cage is to see a lot of service this week. It is a rope-meshed cage 75 feet long, 15 feet wide and 15 feet high. On one end is a backdrop and a few feet in front a regulation home plate. Suspended on either side of the plate are two sand bags, the top of each being shoulder high and the bottom knee high. At the other end of the cage is a pitching slab. Robble makes his pitchers go through their full repertoire, trying-to pitch each ball between the bags. CATHOLIG U. STAR BADLY BATTERED Jack May Never Completely Recover From Effects of Sports Hurts. BY R. D. THOMAS. ACK MALEVICH of Eveleth, Minn,, will bid farewell to Catholic University in June the proud owner of a sheep- skin labeled B. 8. but this may be the least reminder in later years of college days. ‘The most popular athlete of recent years at the Brookland school has taken what the boys term a bad beating. That sheepskin may be lost or stowed away among dusty things, but the scars of wounds suffered for the glory of old C. U. will ever remain and some of them as painful evidence, perhaps, of & sparkling college career. Unless time is more healing than it has been to many battered soldiers of alma mater, Malevich will carry to the end one of those infernal foot ball knees that either hop out of place, ache from the slightest exertion or glow with pain in rainy westher. Operation May Help. ‘This unhappy prospect may be ob- viated by an operation, now contem- plated, but there will remain a mis- treated ankle that simply won’t behave. This, too, was damaged in gridiron com- bat, and there is no certainty that the injury won't be lasting. Anyhow, its several annoying eccentricities have persisted for some time. Malevich, now washed up as a col- lege athlete, confined himself largely to the two most sports of the campus curriculum, foot ball and box- ing, although he won his letter in track. In foot ball he was a versatile back and in boxing a natural light heavyweight, but moved up a class on occasions, to essay the role of Jack the Giant Killer. ‘Today he nurses a broken rib as the result of his last ring contest. Has Busted Thumb. He fought through the entire cam- paign this Winter with a partly dis- located thumb, the ligament permanent- ly impaired. During his freshman year his nose was flattened in the middle by a terrific poke and it never resumed its normal shape. The broken beak dis- turbs the symmetry but otherwise takes nothing from a countenance uncom- monly handsome and rugged. However, among the least of the young man’s worries at ‘this time are I his loose ligaments and damaged bones. Within a few months Jack will face another stuggle, and it may be more trying than the one he’s just survived. It has been no easy financial path this far for Malevich and in the after-college game of life he will start from scratch. He's not at all certain how to begin, but this much seems assured—whatever he tackles he'll make the grade or bust something in the effort! A Popular Lad. Malevich, christened John Joseph, will be 23 years old in July. He came to Catholic University in the Fall of 1926 from Eveleth High School, where he was an outstanding performer in foot ball, basket ball, track, boxing and hockey. Despite the time and energy devoted to sport he has never been a shirker in the class room. His general average at C. U. has been 85. Malevich has attained a place among the leading heroes of the Brookland campus, but some of his fellow students say they will remember him better for personal qualities, and men who have spent many years in the service of C. U. will tell you that a more generally liked and admired athlete has never come_ within their ken, nor one who bore his honors more gracefully. BOYS TO BOX AGAIN. Boys’ Club boxers, who defeated Mil- | ler School leather pushers, 7 bouts to 6, Saturday night at Charlottesville, ex- pect to engage in bouts with another out-of-town opponent before calling it a season the latter part of next month. ' be STUART CLARKE, SUB, IMPRESSES PILOT ENS SAN FRANCISCO, March 24 (#).— Larry French warmed up for duty to- day against Oakland with intentions of improving the best record turned in so far Pirate any Pittsburgh hurler. Last Wednesday French worked the first five innings the San isco Missions and held them hit- ‘The work of Stuart Clarke, sub third baseman, both at bat and afleld, stood out in the double-header the Pirates split yesterday with the Seals. POUNDING OF PITCHERS ANNOYS JOE McCARTHY nants, but Man; Joe McCarthy m‘; exactly pleased at the way Pacific Coast u““l:s clubs are hitting his pitching Guy Bush is the latest victim. The “Mississippi Mudcat” was slaughtered for six runs and eight hits in four in- nings by Los Angeles yesterday and the Angels won, 7 to 4. it DE BEVE FIGHTS. Arthur (Frenchy) De Beve, former lightweight champion of France, now residing in Washington, will face Joe Cesar mnlfi:z in the Philadelphia arena in a preliminary to the feature bout een George Godfrey and Ace Clark, Real price you can have the.luxury of Camels? Camels stand alone. If you merely want to puff, anything will garette Pleasure WHY BE SATISFIED with less smoking pleasure when for the same do. 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