Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1930, Page 59

15-Year-Old Boy Takes.3 of 10 Boat Races : Osborne Sets LOSES ONLY ONCE: | WHEN ENGINE FAILS A. B. Clarke Takes Special Inboard Race From Sole Woman Entrant. 1\ HUSKY, bronze-faced, 15-year- old kid from Westover, Va., Bob Snadecki, just about hogged the spotlight in the speed-boat Tegatta, held yesterday by the Chesa- peake and Potomac Power Boat Asso- clation on the Tidal Basin. This boy, ‘who handled Hits eraft with the polish of & veteran, despite that this is his first year of competition, roared home ahead of the fleld in three of the ten events. In another he was making a bid for victory when. en trouble - écl‘ced him to retire. Incidentally, this lefeat, which came in the first race of the am, the class B contest for out , was the first of the cam- paign to be suffered by Snadecki, who previously had won 11 straight vie- tories in various parts of the country, Some of them against outstanding com- n. It was in the trim little craft, Blue Pigeon, that the Virginia boy streaked to vis yesterday in the class D out- boards, the free-for-all outboards and the free-for-all outboards and inboards. Penna Beats Him. ‘While the kid was making a’ show of the regatta his proud father, Capt. John H. Snadecki, himself a skilled speed-boat pilot, was proudly looking on. Bob Penna of this city, driving Julla, ‘was the pilot who broke {mm‘ Sna- decki’s winning streak in the class B outboards. Snadecki did not win all his races in easy style. In the free-for-all, out- boards, particularly, he was given a rousing battle by Wesley W. Wurback, driving the Kapitol Kid. A surprise was furnished in a spe- cially arranged race for inboards when A. B. Clarke of this city, driving a 77- horsepower Chase-Emerson, conquered Mrs. Katherine Scott, pilof a 150- horsepower Baby Gar. Mrs. tt was the lone woman entrant in the re- tta. Spills Give Thrills. A sized crowd brought out by the e weather enjoyed the races, which were enlivened by several spills. Summaries: SPECIAL INBOARD RACE (2 LAPS)_Won y A. B. Clarke: second, Mrs. Katherine ott: third, Eddie Zimmerman. Time, 5:47. LASS B, OUTBOARDS (4 LAPS) —Won bv Pqp “Senna: second. Leslie Fendall. ' Timd CLASS C. OUTBOARDS (4 LAPS)—Won b eeman Collier: second, Bob Penna; third, gz Scott. Time. 808, . IOARD RUNABOUTS (4 LAPS)—Won by Andrew Dufty: second. Lawrence Miller:| ird, Mrs. Katherine Scoit, Time. 11:38. AR D, SUTROARDS (i LAPS)— WoR by decki: second, Wesl: back: 3 ey W. Wurback: third. Hoger Scott. Time. $:05, LTAMILY ' RUNABOUT, “ d —Won by Dan Miller: secont Clarke: third. Clarke Allison.” Time. . ANOE RACE. OUTBOARD (1 L Won Frank Oywaid and R Scott; second, . Br e. DS (4 LAPS)— : second, Wesley W. of ‘ime, 8:18. R-ALL. OUTBOARDS AND M- LAPS)—Won by Bob Snadecki: ley W, Wurback: third, Prank e, 8: CANOE CLUB FOURS ‘won by senior four (Harry Mawson. H. C. Volimer, Junior four (H. A Bowle Johnson, Lioyd DERRICK HITS BEST IN CHURCH LEAGUE Grace Episcopal and West Washing- ton’ Baptist nines, which finished the « regular first-half series. of the George- town Church Base Ball League in a , will clash tomorrow in the first e of a best two-out-of-three series to_determine the championship. Derrick, of Eldbrooke Methodists, with an average of .421 proved the most consistent batter of the first half. Goodwin of Calvary Drakes stung the apple for .571 but played in only five games. . Carl Bean of West Washington B#p- tist was the most effective pitcher, win- ning all six of his starts. First-half statistics follow: ‘Team standing. West Washington Baptist . g,r-ce Episcopal dbrooke Methodist Episc alvary Baptist ront Avenue Christian Yorm First Baptisi Team Batting. ‘West Washington Baptist Grace Episcopal . Srersio s, a8t a1 dbrooke M. E b gi John T. McCarthy, Martin McInerney, | ‘The exhibition match pl: 4 . 3 g lanned f G el B 87| Teo F. Pass, Wililam L. Pendergast, | benefit of Bobby MoWatt Richmen First Beptist . % John C. Shorey, John Thacker and H. | professional golfer, will not be played i e G. Wood. The match is billed to start | until September, probably just before R today at Argyle at about 1:30 p.n. the national amateur championship. It 315 8 38 wi impossible to sec b $ 4 s‘i 1§ 13| Upward of 100 municipal links golfers | for the match before heu;f)u w"{d&'?: 8 9 e 2| are to play "12 holes of medal play to- :gnm.fl a“rccordi{‘u to those in charge of 1 3 MorTow an over East e a , and they h 3 13 3 70| Potomac Park and Rock Creek Park | match on while Joner b oo Do [ 166 y $ 1 :i b o m;e:r to hgm:‘ruw uu‘lo%r of txh'zlr ;;l;::ld:?r ht‘he ul:mamn- championship at (] Wi represent Washington phia in September. ; }2 in the national public links champion- ‘Women golfers %{ the city are teo ¥ ship to be played at Jacksonville, Fla., | play at the Annapolis Roads Golf Club b i el early in August. Sixty-four have en- (on July 8, The tourney originally 4 tered from East Potomac Park, includ- | scheduled for July 7 at the . 1 11 40 ly 7 at the Bannock 11 13 '392|ing Louis Puchs and J. B. Robertson, | burn Golf Club has been canceled, 18 13 17| who qualified last year, and 33, have - 12 11 ‘299 | entered from Rock. 'k Park—a total Tommy Webb of Washington planted i :i .z! 'o.x' u"l Who will essay the qualifying :‘h’: 2,','.:’,‘::, Aql::m‘g la, ";fm r'n':idle of % n e Was| n club 2 :i" The East Potomac Park golfers will | Jast Thursday, and playing the follow- H il Eh' 38 holes' on Monday over their |ing day with Erwin P, l'-lr. watched DIST EPISCOPAL. ome bailiwick while the Rock Creek | Hair knock his tee shot clean over the 9 431 | Park players are going through the |green info the trap. «Rant 1 38 10 14 7| same grind, and on Tuesday the 10 best th Webb and Hare are knocking gley Y 331 | 8t East Potomac will journey up to |the ball tremendous distances these [g.g,h id H ? H ! 331 | Sng e o o o Rock ot o e S neider . “ ang e st a k Creek will immons 4 | Out at Columbia, where Fred Mq - Buryee { }g H i ;g travel down to East Botomac. The four | yeert’ on Showing’ the gorens of “the hioss > 1 338 " Puchs 10 30 8 B % 1§18 | RECORDS OF GRIFFS arrinston 1 38 4 an CALVARY DRAKES. 3 BUY 38 30,80 HR 8H.58 RE1. 4 # : i ceaneaSSeranes oot Secamerise VERMONT AVENUE CHRISTIAN. sooEEsaNEReny b i B SvalSaninttes =t 5 m..................._.. gEaE T mac Power Boat Association. HE Sun 1 Above is Bob Snadecki at the wheel of the Blue Pigeon winning the free-for-all race. Below, Snadecki is shown recelving his many trophies from Commodore Edmund Jewell of the Cheaspeake and Poto- T 3 S AR Bl ’ ITH Argyle playing host to the Bannockburn Club in a team match today, with a day of golf and frolic scheduled for members and guests of the Indian Spring Club on Wednesday, at the annual “stag day” affair of the clyb, and all the country clubs about Washington scheduled to hold holiday tournaments on Friday, July 4, golf will whoop it up this week in a manner to convince any doubter that the middle of Summer does not mean the crack of | the tee shot will be abandoned, nor the click of the niblick be forgotten. Not to mention the qualifying tests for public links 'o’un on Monday and Tuesday. Argyle golfers will send their best team on the course of the Four Corners, Md., course today to do battle wita the clubmen {rom Bannockburn in the hope that Argyle may turn back the Glen | Echo golfers. The Argyle team will in- clude Mel Shipley, John J. Lynch, Mike Oliveri, P. W. Le Duc, Tom Pitt and several others. The Bannockburn team | will be drawn from the following play- ers: W. H. Alexander, Middleton Bea- ug H Grler, C. C. Heath, J. C. Hawley, J. W. Heron, R. G. Kimbell, Harry F. Krauss, e ©000800000HNENL AR s Jna! BocumowEo- senentlluE S ©50000000000HOHBaNOsHarT P e LR BASE BALL,'S24 il ) W AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK Washington vs. St. Louis STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE BY W. R. McCALLUM lowest scorers over the two courses will | qualify. The longest hole in onesabout Wash- ington this year has just been made by John E. McClure, one of Congression- al’s enthusiastic golfers. McClure's ace came on the eighteenth hole and was made with a spoon from the front tee on this par 4 affair of about 240 yards. From the back tee the hole measures 256 yards and is uphill all the way. McClure was playing in a match with J. H. Shepherd in the monthly tourney at Congressional. The ball struck on the short edge of the green and trickled into the cup. It marked the first time the eighteenth at Congressional ever has been made in one. McClure and Shepherd played their first 18 holes in the tournament to a tie, and McClure :en dthze extra match on the sixteenth, and 2. Indian Spring golfers are looking for- ward with considerable expectancy to the stag party planned at the club on July 2. There will be no regular golf tournament, but the members are ex- pected to play during the day. A bar- becue dinner will be followed in the evening by a number of boxing bouts, and George W. McCarter, chairman of the golf committee, hopes several hun- dred members and guests will turn out for the party. McCarter is planning to open golf championship. A Wallace Motor Company guaranteed USED CAR to Drive on Your VACATION Our Many Satisfied Customers Signify Their 14 alue Wallaee Motor Co. 1709 L St. N.W, TICKETS ON SALE AT PARK AT 2:00 AM, 80 to Minneapolis to watch the national club how to play chip shots $put of bunkers dead to the pin, plans‘are in the making for changing the twelfth and ninth greens later in the year. Al- though the ninth is regarded as one of the hardest par 4 aflairs on the course, the greens committee is represented as not being satisfied with the green. Arthur B. Thorn of Woodmont, Mel Shorey of East Potomac Park and Al Houghton of the Harper club plan to leave Washington about July 6 for Min- neapolis, where they aré scheduled to play in the national open champion- ship starting July 10. Roland Mac- Kenszle will leave from Wilmington, where he is employed, and George Voigt will go from New York, A number of local amateur golfers are planning to go to Sherwood Forest for invitation tourney on July 11, 12 and 13. Entries will close July 9 and must be sent to the tournament com- mittee at 411 North Charles street. Bal- timore. An 18-hole qualification round on July 11 will be followed by twin match play rounds. Oldsmobile De Luxe Sed $: Decatur 2280 FELLED BY ACYCLE BUT NS LONG RUN 98-Pounder, 42, Takes Marathon After Motor Of- ficer Knocks Him Down. By the Associated Press. ETROIT, June 28.—Percy Wyer of the Monarch ‘Athletic Club of Toronto, despite his 42 years and a mishap in which he was knocked down by & motor cycle, jogged his 98 pounds to victory in the annual marathon of the Cadillac Ath- letic Club here today to win the event for the third time and gain permanent possession of the marathon trophy. He covered the 26 miles and 385 yards in 2 hours and 59 minutes. Alec Burnside and Ezra Lee, alsc of the Monarch Club, finished fourth and seventh, respectively, to give the To- ronto organization first place in points for the day. Albert Michaelson of the Millrose A. C., New York, finished 7 minutes be- hind Wyer to take second place. Wyer was almost eliminated from the race at the end of the 15 miles, when an escort of motor cycle police- men, who were clelrlnzo the way for the runners, swerved into the path of the marathoners to avold striking an- automobile and one of the machines hit him. He was knocked to the ground but was uninjured. Eddie’White, running under the colors of Staten Island Club, New York, came in third in the time of 3 hours and 13 minutes. Wyer first won the marathon in 1926. He also took the event last year. SR T MARYLAND POLO CLUB DEFEATS MIDDLEBURG BALTIMORE, Md., June 28.—Mary- land Polo Club Whites played splendidly against their Virginia rivals, the Fau- quier-Loudoun Polo Association four, Middleburg, Va. today at Stevenson and scored a well earned victory, 9 to 8. The Old Dominion representatives earned: four goals and had a similar handicap. . Summary: MARYLAND POLO CLUB WHITES. 1—John W. Foster..... 2—Edwin Warfield, ir SR Walked s Total *Earned 4; handicap, 4. Md. Polo Club Whites. Pavauier-Loudoun NAVY PLEBES INCLUDE TWQ CLEVER GRIDMEN ANNAPOLIS, Md., June 28.—Though the athletic material in the new fourth class at the Naval Academy appears below the usual level, two foot ball players of promise, a back and a line- man, have already been noted. The? are Baird, a 180-pounder, who played center last year on the fresh. man of the University of Iowa, and Biesecker, 187 pounds, a freshman back at Purdue. A youth of Swedish weighing 240 pounds and with some foot ball experfence, failed the physical tests because he had a minor affection of the heart. FARRIS TO I'IELI’ COACH. CHAPEL HILL, N. C., June 28 (#).— Ray PFarris of Charlotte, All-Southern foot ball player and captain of the 1920 University of North Carolina team, to- | day signed as assistant freshman coach | t the university. extraction, 8-Cylinder 1927 7.Pass. Sedan Price, $785.00 SWIM RECORD CUT BY ELEANOR HOLM Mark of 6:52:2 for 400 Yards Unofficially Made in an Exhibition. By the Associated Press. O8 ANGELES, June 28—In an exhibition swimming contest preliminary to the nationsl A. A. U. championships at Long Beach, July 3-6, Eleanor Holm, 16-year- old member of the Women's Swimming Association, New York, bettered 'the world record for the 400-yard back stroke, covering the distance in 5 min- utes 52 1-5 seconds, here last night. ‘The time, which eclipsed the mark of 6 minutes 10 seconds set by the late Sybil Bauer of Chicago in 1925, will not stand as a new mark, since the petite New York mermaid raced alone. Buster Crabbe, Los Angeles A. C., and Raymond Ruddy, New York A. C., battled to a dead heat in the 300-yard free style in 3 minutes 26 1-5 seconds. Two world record holders, Helene Madison of Seattle, and Josephine Mc- Kim, Los Angeles A. C., put on a close contest in the 100-yard free style with Miss Madison winning in 1 minute 3 seconds. Bob Howlett, Illinois Athletic Club, beat Maiola Kalili, Honolulu, in a 300~ yard medley in 3 minutes 58 2-5 seconds, while George Pissler, New York A. C., defeated Rohn Howland, Yale, in the 100-yard free style exhibition in 54 ¢-5 seconds. WILNER GETS SIXTH LETTER IN 3 YEARS PHILADELPHIA, June 328.—Morton H. Wilner of Washington received his sixth varsity letter in three years when he received his “P” in base ball from the council on athletics of the University of Pennsylvania. For three years Wilner won his awgrd in both foot ball and base ball. He was quarterback on the gridiron team and captained the diamond squad for two seasons. John Utz, foot ball captain and member of the lacrosse team; Rolf Carlsten, foot ball and base ball; Bill Graupner, foot ball and base 1; Walter Masters, foot ball and base ball; James Peterson, basket ball and base ball; Paul Becker, base ball and bas- ket ball; Walter Magal, foot ball and lacrosse; Bill Raffel, foot ball and la- crosse; Paul Riblett, foot ball and la- crosse, and Harry Warren, foot ball and lacrosse, were the two-letter men. MARINE FOUR ROUTED. BALTIMORE, Md, June 28—The ‘polo team representing the Quantico Marines was snowed under an ava- lanche of goals to the tune of 14 to 1 at Pikesville today by the 110th Field Artillery. Summary: 110th PIELD ARTILLERY. 1—-Maj. A_R. Koontz.. $E0 deoree & Fante e Y Sachamat ‘apt. Roland Fenton Totals .... QUANTICO MARIN] 1—Capt. Campbell Brown. 2—Lieut. Edwin Ferguson. 3—Capt.”Charl IR aghi Pae ookt 4—Capi. 'R, H. “Holiday NECKWEAR Regular $1.00 Ties 69c Regular $1.50 Ties Handmade and Silk Lined $1.15 Regular $2.00 Ties $1.55 $1.95 Paiémal Plain and Fancy Broadcloth 5155 Linen Knickers Reg.* 5295 $2.15 Sport Shoes Black or Tan and White Leeds Straw Hats Milans and Leghorns ‘Regularly to $5 $195 «==d0on e SAVIN ST. JOHN’S IS FINDING LACROSSE ‘RIVALS SHY ANNAPOLIS, Md., June 28.—Dif- culty in arranging & schedule of suit- able opponents has followed the great success of 8t. John's College in lacrosse. 8t. John's was un champion in this 929 ml& share ”f place in the standi with one or two others for the pasf season. The Military Academy, Rutgers and Swarthmore are among the former op- ponents of the Johnnies who have de- clined to play them during 1931, However, the local collegians will meet Maryland, Johns Hopkins, Prince- ton, Union, Western Maryland and Vir- ginia, and have augmented their sched- ule by a game with Mount Washington, the strong club team, to be played in Baltimore on April 11, . plotihn. A DASH STARS CLASH IN VANCOUVER RACE VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 28 (#).—Another onslaught on the world 100-yard dash record will be waged next Tuesday when several out- standiny inters of the United States and Cat compete in the Dominion day track and fleld meet here. Percy Williams, Vancouver, king of the Olympic sprinters; George Simp- son, the “Buckeye Bullet” from Ohio State; Eddie Tolan, Michigan colored boy and official holder of the world 100~ yard mark of 9.5 seconds, and Russell weet, Francisco Olympic Club, will be among the contenders. ‘The meet has been sanctioned by the British Columbia A. A. U. primdae ROCKVILLE RACING PROGRAM ARRANGED Plans have been completed for the three-day racing meet to be staged in connection with the annual Rockville Falr, celebrating its seventy-seventh anniversary, August 19-22, Members of the committee include James W. Brown of Rockville, chair- man and racing secretary of the fair (g association; Clarence L. Gilpin of Olney, president, and Willlam Walters of Gaithersburg, Md. The races will be run under the rules of the Maryland Jockey Club. Entries will close st 10 o'clock on the_day before each race. The big event on the program fo» the opening day, August 20, will be the Montgomery Steeplechase. Other events, August 19: AUGUST 19. Running race—' mile dash Handicap ra mil Runaing race Runnine_race—8_furlon Handicap race—17s miles AUGUST 31. s 350 g Ti mile piake, stake’added 200 Running race—§ furlongs, for horses running back ef money on Wednesday 150 AUGUST 22 Service 1529 Fourteenth St. N.W. Decatur 3320 Conventently Loeated on Fourteenth Street A Selected Group of CAMELOT Tropical Worsted $ 2.PC, SUITS Were $25..... A Carefully Chosen Group CAMELOT 3-PC. Tropical Worsted SUITS Were $35.... SUITS $18:8 to $38.:88 506 9th Street N 3 | was_hit on 8128 | 180 Pace in Zone Shoot BREAKS 99 OF 100 INCLASS A MEET Fawsett and Strewger Top Capital Gunners With 97 at Benning Traps. most perfect score of 99 out of 100, Charles E. Osborne of Aber- deen, Md., victor in the recent District-Maryland trapshoot champion- ships, yesterday gained first honors in class A in the opening zone shoot of the season held at the Benning traps. Three of the five zones scheduled to compete, Baltimore, Washington and Maryland Line, were represented by five or more entrants. Bob FPawsett and Strewger, each with 97, topped the Washington scatter- gunners. Fawsett was high in class B and Strewger pointed the way in class C. Wetzel carried off the zone trophy from Maryland Line with 94. Hopkins with 98 won the trophy for second high gun in the competition. Lewis class trophies went to Osborne with 99 and Britt with 90. In a special event of 12 pairs of dou- bles Williams and Morgan divided first honors, each with 22, The scores by classes: CLA! SHATTER!NG the clays for the al- Osborne Btrewger Glatty .. Beckwith 8tine Randall . ott OUTFIELDER’S BAT SPEAKS TO STAVE OFF PINK SLIP MINNEAPOLIS, June 25 (.—Add to those who come back—Nick X Minneapolis, American Association, fielder. . Early in the season, Cullop was slated to be shunted out of the league because he coundn’t hit. Now he is at the top among AA sluggers. N On the orenhl; day, April 15, Nick he head by a pitched hall. ©On May 9 he was hitting only .128. By mid-June he had raised this to .335 and had bagged a dozen home runs. Play Golf Today on one of the finest and largest 18-hole miniature courses in the United States at Bladensburg Road Near 15th & H Sts. N.E, Prices: Week da. 't forget elebrate Now By Taking Advantage of These GS Vi 23 75 Still'a Good Selection of Camelot and “G G G” eSuggest: —for your Holiday sports outfit—a tan coat with flannel trousers harmonizing or in eon- trast. For your het— one of the very mew BURTON - TAYLOR Summer < weight Aannel - erush hats. THE SMART- EST HAT IN TOWN. For your footwear— you'll select a pair of the very smart ANKLE. FASHIONED exfords made by NUNN BUSH.