Evening Star Newspaper, March 25, 1930, Page 30

PORTS. ¢ HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, “D.-C., TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1930. SPORTS. Maryland to Have Banner Sport Days :'Schoolboy Trackmen Will Keep Busy TWO GALA EVENTS AT COLLEGE PARK' Pair of Army Teams Invdde; April 26—Heavy Field Day Card May 3. BY H. C. BYRD. ‘HE University of Maryland is planning for two big| days in athletics during| this Spring. The first will be’ April 26, when the Army is to| be its opponent at College Park | in two sports, base ball and la-| crosse, and the other May 3, when, besides the annual inter- scholastic track and fleld meet,| Maryland teams will be in com- petition with Virginia in track, with Catholic University in base ball and St. John's in lacrosse. The visit of the Army teams to Col- lege Park will mark the first time an Army organization has played on a Maryland field. The Old Liners have gone to West Point any number of times, more or less successfully, and are | looking forward with a good deal of leasure this year to having the West int teams as their guests. Maryland ought to have about an even break in both the base ball and | lacrosse games, although the latter will depend a good deal on the development of one or two green players who have had virtually no experience. Maryland won from Army at West Point last year | by 6 to 2. The day of the games with Army| probably will mark the first use of the | new base ball field. Werk is going on rapidly in construction of the stands to have them mmglev.ed by that time.| When finished, the field will be one of | the best college diamond plants in the | South, So_long has the interscholastic track and field meet been a success that there | is little doubt of it going across this | year. That is simply one of those things that has come to be and is. Schools from the whole South Atlantic section, including North Carolina, will be in competition with those from sur- rounding Virginia, District of Colum- bia and Maryland. Greatest interest in the three events in which Maryland teams will take part is likely to center around the larosse game with St. John's. That school knocked the Mary- land 12 off a high perch last Spring by 5 to 1 and is expecting to have an- other equally strong team. | George Washingtor, has announced that it will not be represented by a | track and field team this Spring. Lack | of interest among the students is given | 3s a reason. This means that George'| ‘Washington will have practically no Tepresentation in college in the next two months and must wait until foot ball rolls around once more to get its competitive thrills. The Buff and Blue indicates that it will be represented and tennis teams, but these are ly likely to cause any tidal waves the intercollegiate mill pond. Marines caught a Tartar in their ning ball game yesterday at Quan- , losing to Drexel Institute of Phil- adelphia by 4 to 5. Marines had a lead, 4 to 3, until the eight inning, when Drexel tied up the count. It was in the ninth that the Philadelphia school counted the run that gave it the short margin by which it sent its more ex- perienced foe to defeat. Robinson, who played center field for Drexel, was the particular thorn in the Marine flesh, as he got two doubles, a single and a ‘walk out of four times at bat and scored four of his team's five runs. Marines should have had him court-martialed or had some other form of investiga- tion to ascertain by what - tleman from the City of Brof ly Love should act with such rudeness and mal- ice aforethought toward hard-boiled gentlemen of the world. Fred Linkous, for three years one of Maryland’s star athletes, is seriously ill in the University Hospital in Baltimore. oped as the result of an abscessed tooth, which later developed an abscess in his windpipe, is responsible for his condi- tion. Only his remarkable physical con- dition and strength has enabled Linkous to hold on so fa: d it is hoped that this condition will ‘enable him to pull through. T OLD LINE RACKETERS TO PLAY 15 MATCHES Fifteen tennis matches, one of which is with George Washington, will be played by the University of Maryland netmen this Spring. Fourteen have been listed, and the fifteenth will be with Virginia, although the date still is pending. Lewis Kurland, Irvi { Rosenbaum, Dick Roberts and Bill Lucas are the leading veterans left, while Irving Freeman, Maurice Murphy, Howard Hunt, Dick Cochran and Irving Apple- feld are recruits from the freshman team who are counted upon to help considerably. Cochran and Murphy are former Wuhlng.on High School players. Ben Dyer and Bill Schofleld, both ‘Washingtonians who were big factors on the 1929 team, have been lost. ‘The schedule: April 15—George Washington, April 25—Western Maryland. April 26—Wi gton and Lee. April 29—Duks 1—Wwilliam and Mary. 5—Richmond U, at Richmond. May 6—William and Mary, at Wil- liamsburg. ay 8—Washington and Lee, at Lex- 13—Baltimore U. May 16—Richmond U. May 17—Carnegie Tech. May 21—Navy, at Annapolis. May 22—Washington College. May 24—Johns Hopkins. GOLD MEDALS TO GO T0 VICTORS IN MEET ‘Winners n the various events in the interclass track meet to be held the afternoon of April 11 in the Central High Stadium will be awarded gold mes with the runners-up getting silver medals. The Central Parent-Teacher Association, the alumni association and the “C" Club are sponsoring the meet. In addition to the medals a cup will be presented the class team scoring points and probably other prizes will be awarded. The object of the meet is to stimulate interest in track and any sluaen't‘ is eligible and invited' to com] . 'rg:n will be music by the cadet band. ‘Western High's base ball squad now is drilling three times a week on the Monument Grounds. It has been an- nounced that Bob Payne, first-string her, is eligible. He believed he had ailed in one of his studies but his | champion: THE SPORTIEST BY JACK As Told to to declare Dempsey's rally against Firpo the gamest action he saw in the ring, he didn’t hesitate a minute when asked what was the most | sportsmanlike thing that ever had come to his attention. 10-round fight with Pal Reed, the old Navy fighter, at the Mechanics Build- ing in Boston six years ago,” he said. Jack, by the way, says that Greb was his idea of a great fighter. “Harry had everything” he explained. “Did you ever think that during career he licked men who held the championships in three divisions—Gene ‘Tunney, Wl became heavyweight Tommy Loughran, light- heavyweight, and Mickey Walker, mid- dleweight?” was no set-up even for as good a man as Greb. He was the only man other than Sharkey to drop Tommy Loughran, |and he had put Tommy down for a| count of nine in their fight at Newark. He had'fought an even battle with held his own with lots of other good men. He packed a sizeable punch and he was no quitter. “There was a lot of interest in Bos- ton,” said Sharkey, “when the Greb- Reed fight was arranged. Harry was not yet champion of the middleweights, but he was on the way then to a fight with Johnny Wilson. He was always & big drawing card. Reed was popular, too. It wasn't merely that he was a good fighter, but he was a serious fel- world. Right now, unless there has been some change of which I haven't Hampshire University. and in another year or so will have his degree. “Well, the day before his fight with Greb, Reed went to the gymnasium to warm up a bit. He hit the punching bag too hard and broke it off. This loosened a piece of the steel holder. DOWN T T there seem to be any end to As he still is in the service, he obvious reasons. Congressmen in general. ‘The officer writes: “I would like to compliment you on your position in the present Army-Navy controversy and would like you to pass along a sugges- tion, but would particularly request that it be considered by you as gnonymous. You may not be willing to father the which is not even ariginal with me, but I do not wish to be thrust into the limelight of the controversy. “These Meddlesome Matties of Con- gress have a way in which this contro- versy can be settled? Believe. Let them use their efforts legitimately to equalize the entrance ages of the two academies by mha N'm““em‘fi"“ t?: same as the present requirements, 17 to 32 years at entrance, instead of 15 20 years.. Everybody knows that a 15-year-old naval middy is as scarce as hen's teeth. And there is no reason on earth why & young man of 21, who wants to win a naval career should not be as acceptable to the Navy as the 19- year-6ld lad, who might replace him under the present rules. “If this plan is adopted you will see the Navy drop their contentions like a het potato and the game will go on, though, possibly, not in 1930. Tt is true that it might work slightly to Army’s disadvantage due to num- bers (about 2,000 Navy to 1,200 Army), but you will hear no roar from Army. Also I am willing to bet dollars to dimes that no Army con- trol will ever break a contract be- cause Navy refuses to change the terms of it, after it has been signed, sealed and delivered and operating for two years.” The Arabic library here in Tunis has no statistics to show whether the two years difference in ages in the two ference. If there were any such statis- tics here I could not make them out any- how. I gather that the West Point old grad is pointing out that adherents of the Navy in this foolish controversy have been intimating that the grown up men of West Point were ing vantage of their little brothers of An- napolis every year until some of the admirals yanked the naval cadets out of harm’s way by adopting the eligibility rules of the civilian colleges. But the facts do not bear out this in- timation. Only last season Stanford University, which follows the same eli- gibility rules as Annapolis, beat Army overwhelmingly. Notre Dame, which has the eligibility rules of all of the ci- vilian colleges, also beat Army. Both of these universities were very pleased to beat the Army, allowing the Army to retain its own notions of eligibility. And the Army eligibility standards are the only decent ones at that. When the Army certifies a player as eligible it means that he is a bona fide cadet and eligible for all cadet activities. The cl- vilian rules for eligibility, which ha been adopted at Annapolis, were the re: sult of mutual suspicion and hypocrisy in the civilian colleges. The Usual Thing. NE gathers from the French and English papers that the critics of manly art of modified murder in Europe are amazed at what Primo Ca- nera, the Tall Tower of Gorgonzola, has been getting away with since he hit the soft shores of Etats Unis D'Amerique. The London Daily Mail is amazed that they are setting up the skittles one by one for Carnera to bowl over. M. Sparrow Roberts of the New York Herald, inflamed by what has been go-~ ing on in the ga of push-overs Carnera, insf this will “kill ME HIT THE PUNC ING BAG TOO HAQ “It was Harry Greb's conduct in his | his | go through bad. All the same, Jack allowed, Pal Reed | Johnny Wilson. And he had more than | low, ambitious to make good in the| heard, he is physical director at New | He has been | studying anatomy and all that sort of stuff at the Harvard Summer School | WITH W. O. McGEEHAN. Army andl Navy Again. UNIS--You never can get'too far away or too far behind the foot ball season not to hear something about the breach of athletic relations between the Army and the Na American service colleges makes any dif- | ACT I EVER SAW Harry Greb Refused to Hit Injured Pal Reed Above the Neck SHARKEY, J. P. Glass. H o as I know Greb had never | seen Reed fight. Naturally, he had & | man at the gym watching Pal in action. | This fellow went back to Harry and | said: |an easy time tomorrow night.’ | “'How's that?’ asked Harry. " “This Reed fellow cut his eye open | this afternoon,’ replied the other. ‘All you've got to do is smash him one on it. After that everything will be easy. ‘Is that so?’ said Greb. “At the gymnasium, meantime, Reed | was heartsick,. He wanted this fight to | would the doctors let him fight? “And if they did, what chance would he have against Greb? Harry was one of the craftiest fighters in the game. He had a reputation for never giving a man a chance. In the clinches he butted like a billy-goat. Pal remem- bered that when Greb had beaten Gene | Tunney in 1922 he had butted both his eyes shut. What chance would he have now, with this cut under his eye? “His trainers fixed up the wound as well as they could. They did a good job of it, for the doctors let Pal fight. got a lcok at Reed in the ring, he said to his seconds: ‘I like that fellow's looks. Nice boy.” “The fight hadn't gone very far be- fore Greb had a chance to shoot one to Reed’s weak spot. He didn't take it. There were other times after that when he could have opened the cut. But he never did. “Not once during the evening did he hit Pal above the neck. He refused to take advantage of Pal's hard luck. “It was real sportsmanship—of the kind a lot of folks don't think exists ‘n the ring game. “He was taking a real chance, too, in not using everything he had against Pal. No matter how good he was, he might have left himself open to a punch that would have beaten with Wilson—and the championship. “As it was, though, he won the de- cision—and E margin.” HE LINE (Touring Abroad) . Nor does the suggestions for bringing them together again. At this distant point I received a lettef from an old | grad of West Point with his idea for making everything all right be- tween the service academies again. asks that the solution or plan for a solution be promulgated, but that his own name be withheld for Some Congressman might introduce a bill to send him to Alaska or the Canal Zéne, merely for what he thinks about heavyweight bout can be made the more interesting it seems to be. Of course, they would not stand for this even in London, where a British heavyweight at least Las to look the part before he faces the East and pros- trates himself on the canvas prayer rug. In France the boys would set fire to the arena if they staged anything like the | thing perpetrated by Carnera amd Big Boy Peterson. I see that there was some complaint because Rioux, the Canadian, selected to be pushed over by the Tall Tower of Gorgonzola, dropped before Carnera could start the swing. But naturally that will blow over. Rigux will be warned not to fall so quickly in future, and Carnera will be commended for something or other. No wonder that the European critics are al . Carnera must also be amazed and asking himself in Italian “How long has this been going on?” ‘The answer is, “for the last 20 years and it never will stop.” COMMUNITY, PLAINS FIVES REACH FINAL Community Five advanced to the finals last night in the Twelfth Street Y. M. C. A, championship basket ball tournament by downing the “Y” Big Five, 39 to 31. The half ended, 18 to 15, in the formers’ favor. ‘Turner and Jackson sparkled for the Community while Slade, Jeffries and Robinson starred for the “Y”. Slade | was high scorer for the “Y” with 10 |ooints, while Turner led Community with 15. In the second contest the Pleasant Plains defeated the Arrow A. C., 5 to 29. The Plains quint now stand out as a real contender for the tournament crown. The half ended with 4 points sep- arating the teams, but at the ing of the second period the Plains five drew away to a big lead. The victory gives the Plains the right '.u; uglly Community for the tournament played in the “Y” gymnasium Thurs- day night at 9 o'clock. The Armstrong Juniors won the junor title by defeating the “¥” Juniors in a hot battle, 15 to 10. Veteran base ball men say no big league pitcher will ever win 30 games in’ a season unless hard hitting is curbed by legislation, destroy it entirely, To do ‘this, just it in gently with the finger tips. your dandruff will be gone, ve. glossy, silky and soft, and “*Well, it looks like you would huve‘ The question was, | “The night of the night, when Greb | him. | That could have cost him his fight | n}'og will 6"1' g.o. tlu‘! all _li:chln‘ r igging o scalp will stop mml'y.. and your hfl' will be lustrous, LITILE STICK STAR- 10 PERFORM HERE e | |Pcol to Be One of St. John’s| Mainstays When Britons Are Met Tuesday. .’ ship lacrosse twelve to Central High Stadium here next ‘Tuesday to open the season with the Oxford Cambridge team of England, will ex- hibit one of the most finished players in the sport in Robert “Moppy"” Pool, the diminutive first attack man. | Despite his 20 years, Pool has had 16 years' experience in wielding a lacrosse stick. At the age of 10 he began as a member of the Mount Washington Junior team just outside of Baltimore, | a cradle for the pastime. ‘Three years later he began a scholas- tic lacrosse career at Baltimore Poly- technic stitute, where in his fourth | season ‘he was high score in the Scho- lastic League. | He now is in his third year of the | sport at St. John's. In his first year he was high scorer for his team, but last year he contented himself with | feeding to his two high-scoring team- mates, Spring and Thomsen. This year Pool gives promise of being | one of the most finished players ever | to hold a stick. His ability to handle {the ball can best be appreciated in | watching him turn a somersault, stick in hand without dropping the pellet. N CELTICS AND EAGLES | WILL CLASH TONIGHT ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 25—S8t. Mary’s Celtics and the Skinker Eagles of Washington will meect here tonight at 8:30 o'clock on the Armory Hall court in one of the two crucial games on which the championship of the Washington Independent Basket Ball e hinges. Defeat for the Celtics will mean the blasting of their championship hopes. Victory will afford them an opportun- ity to gain a tie for the title, for a tri- umph for the Eagles in their next game with the league-leading French A. C. would deadlock the series among the Prench, Celtic and Eagle teams. | The Clover A. C. will play a prelim- | inary game at 7:30 o’clock. The Clovers | have not announced their opponent. Edward Harlowe, pilot of the Knight's |five has been named advisor of the Yankee A. C., which is expected to turn out leading nines in the junior and senior division this season under the ‘management of Bobby Vogt. A meeting has been called at 400 King street at 8 o'clock tonight to make plans for the campaign. Manager Vogt requests the following to_report: Kenneth Mumford, Burton Ross, Earl Cronin, Tommy ZLucas, Robert West, Dave Henderson, Wheatley, Roland Boran, ‘Hardy” Gensmere, Wilson Sin- clair, Charles Strauss, Bob Breokings, Billy Cleveland, Charlie Hooff, Johnny Abrahams, Francis Gorman, Moore, El- more Mudd, John Travers, Hugh Trav- |ers. Jimmy Bruln, Sherman Hooker, “Wee” Lyons and Jeff Willians, St. Mary's Celtics are seeking an un- limited basket ball opponent for a game Thursday night at Armory Hall. Tele- phone Manager. Robert McDonald at Alexandria 2256 between 8 a.m. and 4 pm., or at Alexandria 516, Branch 37, from midnight to 8 am, §oniadihidiae WOLTZ AND ‘Y’ FIVES TO BATTLE TONIGHT | _Woltz Photographers, defending | champions, will face the Y. M. C. A. quint tonight in a quarter-final unlim- ited class game in the District A. A. U. | championship basket ball tournament at |10 o'clock and George Washington | T. JOHN'S COLLEGE of Annapo-| lis, which will bring its champion- | | Freshmen and Emerson-Orme will bat- | tle it out in another quarter-final un- limited match an hour earlier. Woltz and George Washington are favored to win, but the games arc expected to produce spirited competition. Potomac Boat Club rallled briskly in the latter stages last night to eliminate Company F in the unlimited class in a 31-to-21 game. The crack Jewish Community Center quint blanked Takoma Firemen, 35 to 0, for the first shut-out victory in tourna- ment history. In other matches Y. M. C. A. Flashes squeezed out a 32-to-31 victory over the Boys' Club Optimists in a 130- pound clash and Jewish Community Center Flashes took the measure of Potomac Boat Club Preps, 36 to 17, in another 130-pound tilt, Tonight's pairings: Ambassadors vs. Boys' Club Optimists (100-pound semi-finals), 7 o'clock. Boys’ Club Optimists vs. De Luxe (145-pound class, semi-finals), 8 o'clock. George Washington Freshmen vs. ‘Emerson-Orme (unlimited class, quarter- finals), 9 o'clock. ‘Woltz Photographers vs. Y. M. C. A. (mlm,:".ed class, quarter-finals), 10 o'clock. FARRELL WILL CAPTAIN QUINT AT HOLY CROSS ‘WORCESTER, Mass., March 25 (#).— James J. (Tubba) Farrell of Washing- ton, D. C., has been elected captain of the Holy Cross basket ball team for next year. He is a guard. ‘Tubba Farrell is one of the several Farrell brothers who have starred in athletics at a’ Coll High School here, playing foot bnu,.fiu ball and basket ball. He also is & former sandlot base ball and foot ball luminary here. PHILS SHOOT FOR HOMERS. ‘The Phillies expect to present a Big Four of home-run hitting this year with O’Doul, Klein, Hurst and Sigman. Sure Way to Get Rid of Dandruff ‘There is one sure way that never fails to remove dandruff completely and that is to dissolve it. Then you about four ounces of plain, ordinary liquid arvon; apply it at night when retiring; use enough to moisten the scalp and rub B ¢ By morning, most, if not all, of ind two or three more applications will com- pletely dissolve and entirely destroy every single sign and trace of it, no || matter how much dandruff you may look and feel a hundred times better. d“\’!m-.‘un .!fltd li?uld arvon at '"fi g store a our ounces ) will need, . This simple; remedy never been known to fail. : Michigan U. to Provide Cheapest Golf in World BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. One of the finest golf courses in mid-America will be thrown open on September 18 when Fielding H. Yost dedicates the fairways and greens he has built for the pleasure of the students and faculty of the Uni- versity of Michigan. The course is built on the gentle slopes that surround Ann Arbor and is the product of the architectural skill of Dr. Mackenzie, who designed several of the best courses on the Pacific Coast and who now is laying out the one L. W. St. John is con- structing for Ohio State University. ‘The course will measure 6,200 yards under ordinary conditions, but for championship play can be stretched to 6,650. Michigan will provide its students with the cheapest golf in the world. Director Yost plans charging only $15 per year and divides that into the Fall and Spring seasons. If pos- sible, he will even reduce that fee, once the course is in use. The course cost the university $300,000, of which only $75,000 went into construction. ‘The remainder was expended in the purchase of the land. £ o U. . NET CIRCLES IRKED BY FRENCH Proposal to Place Davis Cup Play Under International Body Resented Here. N with a high hand within the International Lawn Tennis Fed- erations. Officials of the U. 8. L. T. A, are beginning to awaken to a realiza- tion of this. ‘The action that proves amazing to the officials in this country is that the proposal should be put forth to place the Davis Cup competitions within the urisdiction of the international organ- tion, When that part of the cable messages fromi France was brought to the attention of Louis B. Dailey, presi- dent of the national amateur ly, he BY J. P. ALLEN. EW YORK, March 25.—France appears to be carrying things temarked, “This is the first time I have | heard of such a thing.” Gradually the impression is gaining | ground that the French, apparently un- der the astute leadership of Pierre Gillou, who captained Davis Cup teams, Tl‘:\l tralnym: lawn tennis politics to the France has brought about condi- tions that have not entirely escaped criticism of Americans visiting there, Allen Behr, for instance, makes no se- cret of the fact that the financial re- Ppecially the secretaries.” Exactly why the French desire to place the Davis Cup under the wing of the international federation no one here exactly knows. All they see is that the French officials, holding the upper bhand in the federation, now seek a wider field. . McEWEN IS NAMED COACH OF HOLY CROSS ELEVEN WORCESTER, Mass., March 25.—In a letter to Charles Bowman Strome, executive secretary of the Holy Cross Alumni Association, made public today, Rev. John M. Fox, 8. J., president of the college, has announced the appoint- ment of Capt. John J. McEwen, U. 8. A, retired, former head coach of the United States Military Academy, and more recently at the University of Oregon, as head coach at Holy Cross. The decision to appoint Capt. Mc- Ewen came upon a report submitted by the alumni advisory committee on ath- letics who have been working for more than two months on the matter. Capt. McEwen will take up his duties at Holy Cross shortly when a call for Spring practice likely will be issued. ee| Try this on my word,” TO those mand a superior cigar, issuance of a new set of In fact the gents who say it with surveyors’ instruments have found that Rock Creek Park, by any standard of measurement, is a short golf course, that it deserves a par of not more than 68 and that it is only a shade more than 5,100 yards in length. All of which may or may not be a help to the duffers who find it quite long enough, pwhat with the hills and trees, ditches and bunkers. ‘The course, as it stands today, meas- ures 5,194 yards and has a par rating of 68 strokes. The first nine is 2,508 yards in length with a par of 34, and the second nine has a length of 2,686 with a par of 34. The old score cards, which are now in use, show a length of 5,508 yards, with par of 35—35—70. The surveyors found that many of the holes have been overrated as to length, while one or two have been inderrated. In the main, however, the distances on the old score cards are too long. Here is the way the course measures up as it will be found on the new score cards to be issued within a week or two: Hole, Yds. Par. 304 { 281 167 336 97 218 327 462 a8 4 21 s Ll avennwawalt Hole. Yds. 10 406 CLIEL T PRI 2,508 34 Total Yards, 5,104—FPar, 68. ‘The old cards placed the first nine at 2,586 yards, with a par of 35, and the second nine at 2,922 yards, with a par of 35 and a total par of 70. The tenth hole is the longest on the course, but frequently is reached in two shots by the long hitters. That tricky fifth Vardon Considers Wrists As Hinges BY SOL METZGER. Vardon’s arm swing, without con- sclous wrist roll, begins to clear it self in one’s mind when he considers his wrists in the proper light. They are hinges, and so act. Hence his | grip with wrists opposite to each other in_ order to permit the joints function together, to give him co- operative leverage. Now when the grip is applied chiefly with the forefingers and T WRISTS AUTOMATICALLY ROLL~ CLUBHEAD LEADS ol B e— 3-20 thumbs of the two hands, with wrists opposite, one to see why the clubhead leads if the swing is made entirely with the arms. Somewhere along the down arc of the swing the like thangs, they automat- ically whip through, accelerating the clubhead. It is not & conscious effort on the part of the golfer that gives him this ‘wrist 'l‘notlon hn“vllcl !:n l:-blm that counts very ly swing. ‘Try to do it and you press, thereby upsetting the rhythm of the swing through. a Nie'xt—vndon lets the clubhead o it. A new_free illustrated leafiet on “The At of Putting: has bean prepared by tage i Ad L or_it. Iver S care of his paper. and Tor close a ‘sell-addressed, stamped envelope. MILD MILD MILD men who de- we commend this new Cortez at 10c._For even the most initiated can tell the dif- ference. The Cortez cigar makers, famous for more Other sizes in the new Cortes, 2 for 25=, 15c and 3 for 50c to | Rock Creek Links Only 5,100 Yards and Par Should Be 68 HIEF” LOEFFLER'S rod- survey of the hills and valleys of the Rock Creek Park golf course and made it known today, while preparing for the and-chain men have completed a score cards, that the uptown public course is not 5,508 yards long, nor has it a par of 70, if rated by the usual United States Golf Association rating. - | hote; which has been made in one stroke more times than any other hole about Washington, measures 97 yards from the | middle of the tee to the middle of the | green, instead of the 92 yards on the | score card. But 5 yards do not make | any difference to the men who shoot for the aces. Ray F. Garrity, chairman of the Manor Club golf committee, and Dave Thomson, chairman of the club greens committee, play golf together a great deal. Thomson is known as the man with the controlled slice. And the other day Garrity got under Thomson's skin by abjuring him as he stepped up to h{.x ball on the sixteenth tee to “slice oft” Thomson looked around in amaze- ment and proceeded to do just what Garrity told him to do. Thomson has the same theory that V. C, Dickey of Washington adheres to. Both feel that it is all right to experiment with hooks and straight balls when the match is well in hand, but when it gets close, the good, old reliable slice is the shot to play. Quite a group of Washington profes- sionals are at Pinehurst, N. C, today, practicing for the North and South open championship, which is due to open Thursday. Frank Hartig, professional, and Maj. R. D. Newman, manager, of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps Country Club, left last night by auto- mobile for Pinehurst, and Bob Barnett of Chevy Chase left yesterday morning by motor with Col. Harrison Brand, jr., a Chevy Chase golfer. Fred McLeod ot Columbia, A. B. Thorn of Town and Country, A. L. Houghton of Harper and Sandy Armour of Congressional were to g0 to Pinehurst by train. Greenkeepers of the clubs about the Capital looked on the rain of last night and today with a feeling of thanks for the moisture which is certain to put the | courses in far better condition than they have been for a week. The winds and the cold weather of last week end dried out the ground to such an ex- tent that putting was very difficult and the courses as a whole were almost as fast as they are in Midsummer, With the Annapolis Roads course scheduled to open on April 1, Green- keeper Gurley claims that-much of the grass seed which has been planted on the fairways is being eaten up by thou- | sands of Spring birds, who have found in the seed a veritable harvest of food. Gurley is not driving the birds away, however, claiming that:they will be of service later in the year when grubs and the Japanese beetle will be expect- ed, and the birds will help in keeping them down. The course already is in excellent condition and will- open on schedule. A women's tournament for members of clubs about Baltimore is to be held over the course June 24, wmul:u {QUINTS LIST SERIES FOR COUNTY HONORS ‘Takoma Firemen and Brentwood Hawks, winners of the Montgomery County and the Printe Georges County Basket Ball League titles, respectively, will fight it out for the championship of the two counties in a series which will get under way tomorrow night in the Takoma Fire Department gym, starting at 8:30 o'clock. No date for the second game, to be played at Hy-m‘:tm. has been w‘iflt'be game is necessary it ed on a neutral floor. i ‘Woodlawn t_took the, measure of National Circles, 37 to 30, last night, in an Independent League game. West Washington Church basketers ?’e':n!ledyc;n%nn{:l, 21 g 18, to win . Y. P. U. League championship. It was a play-off for the crown. ANGLERS, TAKE NOTICE! A Michigan fish hatchery has 26,.- 000,000 eggs and fry, including 3,350,- 000 brook trout, ready for distribution. on ARRAY OF MEETS ARE ON SCHEDULE Twenty-One Listed, Starting April 11 and Running Through May 24. BY EDWARD A. FULLER, Jr. CHOOLBOY track and field devo- tees are on the threshold of an exceptionally busy season. More- over, it promises to prove a cam= paign marked by much fine competi- tion. Beginning April 11, when the annual | interclass meet under auspices of the Parent-Teacher Association takes place at Central, and Tech engages Episcopal in their yearly dual meet at Alexandria, there will be few idle moments for the scholastic cinder-pathers. Headlining the program will be the usual annual fixtures, including the public high meet expected to take place in the Central Stadium May 23; the “C” Club championships, which have been set for May 17 in the Central Stadium; the University of Maryland interscholastics May 3, which are be: revived; the junior high school mee likely to be staged May 24; the Eastern Catholic high school games in the Catholic University Stadium May 10 and the cmmglmmp elementary school championships under auspices of the municipal playground department May 24 on the Plaza Playground. Though the Devitt meet will not be renewed, the revival of the Maryland affair will offset the loss of these games. | Here are the schoolboy track dates: April 11—Tech vs. Episcopal, at Alex- andria (dual meet). April 11—Central High interclass | meet. April 19—Eastern vs. Episcopal, at Alexandria (dual meet). April 23—Eastern_ vs. Maryland Freshmen, at College Park (dual meet). April 25-26—Eastern, Central and Tech in Penn relays. May 1—Catholic parochial school meet (probable date). May 3—University of Maryland scho- lastic meet, at ce]lege Park. ‘May 10—Eastern Catholic high school meet, at Catholic University. May 10—Tech in triangular meet with Maryland Freshmen and Navy Plebes, at Annapolis. May 10—Central in Princeton scho- lastics. May 13—Rosedale division elementary school playground meet, Plaza Play- ground. May 14—Park View division _ele- mentary school playground meet, Plaza Playground. May 15—Garfield division elementary schoof playground meet, Plaza - und. 'fll’uly ls—vurlnh avenue division ele- mentary school playground meet, Plaza ound. Dgl‘; 17—“C” Club games, Central Stadium. May 19—Bloomingdale division_ele- mentary school playground meet, Plaza Playground. . May 20—Georgetown division elemen- tary school playground meet, Plavground. . Mey 23—Public high school cham- plonship meet, Central Stadium . 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