Evening Star Newspaper, June 30, 1930, Page 34

SPORTS. 4y HE fiVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1930. SPORTS. Henri Cochet Carrying Burden for France in Tennis Tournament at Wimbledon AMERICA HAS FIVE IN QUARTERFINALS Dope Points to Last-Round| Battle Between Tiiden and Frenchman. By the Associated Press. IMBLEDON, England,| June 30.—A semi-final | round in which Henri Cochet of France would | stand alone against three Ameri-| cans was foreseen in men’s sin-| gles of the British tennis cham- pionships today. Play in the quarter-finals today found fleld narrowed down to five Ameri- two Frenchmen and an English- The Americans were Big Bill den, George Lott, John Doeg, Greg- ory Mangin and Wilmer Allison. Co- ¢l d Jean Borotra were the French ntatives. J. C. Gregory was the English survivor. As this double quartet was aired off experts predicted the advance of at Jeast two of the Americans, and pos- sibly three. Cochet, who was matched with Allison, was conceded victory in advance, despite the fine showing Alli- son made during the first week of the championships. Tilden was rated as almost certain winner over Gregory and Doeg and Mangin were matched in a battle that perforce would put one or the other in the semi-finals. In the fourth quarter- | final round encounter Lott was pitted against Borotra, with the Chicago youth slight favori Tilden vs. Cochet Likely. Critics have picked Cochet, Tilden, Lott and Mangin to reach the semi- finals and Cochet and Tilden to fight it out in the finals on Saturday. Other matches on today's schedule in- eluded: ‘Women's doubles—Helen Wills Moody and Elizabeth Ryan vs. Mrs. A, D. Stocks and Mrs. L. G. Owen. Men's doubles—J. M. Hillyard and Baron von Kehrling vs. H. W. Austin and J. 8. Oliff. Mixed doubles—Tilden and Cecile Aussem vs. either E. O. Mather, Ameri- can student at Oxford, and Mrs. R. E. Haylock, or Jacques Brugnon and Mme. Henrotin; Cochet and Eileen Bennett wmmngmu vs. Hans Timmer and . J. Grandguillot and Allison and Edith , VS. opponents to in early round matches, ‘There was a lull in women's sin; Ies play, which also has reached the eight. Quarter-final round matches, w be played later in the week, are: Mrs, Moody vs. Phyllis Mudford, England; Betty Nuthall, England, vs. Miss Ryan; Mme. Rene Mlflfleu France, vs. Joan Ridley, England, and Helen Jacobs, Ber- keley, Calif., vs. Fraulein Auum SEVEN HIGH-RANKERS IN CLAY COURT PLAY By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, June 30.—Seven of the first 20 ranking tennis players in the United States, including Prancis T. Hunter, ranking No. 2, have entered the twenty-first annual national clay courts tennis tournament here, starting July 14. ‘With the opening of the tournament #ill two weeks away, those in charge are hopeful of having in the entry list all the Nation's leading stars who are not now engaged in competition abroad. Play is for men's singles and doubles only, no women competing. Entries include, in addition to Hunter, F. (Junior) Coen, Kansas City boy star, who recently returned from a campaign abroad and who ranks No. Prederick (Pritz) Mercur of Harris ‘burg, Pa., No. E , New York, No. dianapolis for the singles titie and Hal | with Mercur, won the doubles. | J. B. Adoue, jr, of Dallas, Tex., has been naraed official referee. NATIONALS ARE LEADING | WOMEN’S TENNIS LOOP Nationals are holding to a slim lead h the stirring championship race in the Woman's Tennis League as the re- sult of having won both the matches n which their representatives competed last week. Louise Berryman, whose play has been outstanding, scored one of the Nationals’ wins. TEAM STANDING. Hationals ‘ HILE God's chillun got ¢ wings,” and what a wing this fellow George Uhle's got! Back in 1926 he was the Ameri- can League's leading hurler with a won and lost percentage of .711, having 27 victories to his credit against only 11 defeats. Incidentally, no pitcher in the younger circuit has won more than 37 games in a season since Jim Bagby rang the bell 31 times in 1920, Bagby was with Cleveland then, as was George Uhle in 1926. Now George is in his second season as a_ member of the pitching staff of the Detroit Tigers, and so far he has yet to equal his records made when he was younger, and an Indian. It is unlikely that he will do so, although pitchers have been known to go through surprising changes when they are sold or traded into new uniforms and environment. Look at Adolpho Luque of Brooklyn as a case in point. Uhle's record Hail and jarewell! Unknowing as they seek The Best in the Game. N energetic searcher for the truth has written in to ask an opinion on several subjects pertaining to our national pastime. He wants to know about as follow. s hat team has the best catcher? 2. What team has the best in- fleld? 3. What team has the best out- field? 4. What team has the best pitch- ing staff? Here are the answers as they hap- pen to look from this outpost: 1. The Athletics, with Mickey Cochrane. 2. The Net Critz, York Giants, with Jackson and Lind- 3. Close to a toss-up between the Cubs with Stephenson, Wilson and Cuyler and the Athletics with Sim- mons, Miller and Haas. 4 A matter that has yet to be proved for 1930 where pitching all along the line hu been so erratic. M-dlu Champions. 'I'HI easy Summer Mack's Athletics and McCarthy's Cubs fell heir to in 1929 will not be repeated in 1930. The Athletics should win again and the Cubs have a better chance than any other single club, but the Georse Washingtonians . s | Ples Soumvia cqueters k Creek latter's margin is extremely slim with (he]Dudgers and the Giants on the trail. ‘The main rveason for the big change the improvement of the Yankees the BSenators, especially, in the | American, and the same uplift on the {part of the Dodgers and the Giants. |son and the injury to Hornsby. defending champions can be counted | Louise a»nym»«‘ <an u-xuuu Dars Heston (Cor). 6 SEMI-FINALS ON TODAY IN ARMY NET TOURNEY Maj. Robert C. Van Vliet, jr., defend- ing champion, was to face Lieut. David D. Hedekin and Lieut. John W. Strahan, runner-up last Lieut. Stanley K finals in the an vear, was to engage Robinson in the gem ial Army tennis cham afternoon at Columbia starting at 2:30 o'clock final will be played at the same time and place at the same time tomorrow Doubles y nals Wednesday and will be played al Thursday The Brooklyn club is the most im- proved outfit in base bell cver a year ago. The Athletics are still the class of The Cubs have proved their | class by pounding along in the face of a double disaster—the loss of Carl- Both on in the rougher going that come later. will About Tilden, ILL TILDEN'S tennis game is al- most as good as it ever was. What he has lost in the way of speed and | dash is almost matched by his greater | experience and control. ‘The hard handicap that Tilden has to face is the toil of the ars taken in the closing matches of a hard tournament. He | might be favored to beat even a Cochet | on the first or second day But as one passcs 35 or 36 one doesn't quite as quickly from weariness only physical weariness but train. you recall the fact that Tilden v rst-class tennis player 16 years, even 18 years, ago, you get some idea of | how long he has made those wiry legs | him over the ground —not For Used-Car DON’T OVERLOOK 1930 —Tudor—Almost officials. 1930—Sport Coupe — TFransportation THESE BARGAINS used by new; one of our Dark Blue; 2,200 Miles 1929—Fordor—Guaranteed. Many Others, Including All Type Model T's WE CAN TAKE YOUR CAR, ANY MAKE, IN TRADE HANDLEY MOTOR CO. 3730 Georgia Ave. 29 :mwnz»n-&m _....--—---—---.- An IRON TIGER. —PBy Feg Murray w292 for 1929, in which he won 15 games for Detroit and lost 11 in his first season since he was traded by Cleve- land for Tavenor and Halloway, is | comparable to his 1921 record with the Indians, when he won 16 and | lost 13. In '22 he won 22 while losing 16, and in '23 he won 26 and lost 16 again. That makes 64 vic- tories in three consecutive seasons, and what I'm getting at is that George will have to win around 25 games this year and next to equal the three best years in succession that he had with his former team. Uhle went right to the Indians in 1919 from the sand lots of Cleve- land, too, without any previous col= lege or minor league experience. The big righthander probably would have won more games for Bucky Harris last season had he not nearly pitched his arm out in a 21- Inning clash with the White Sox early in the Spring. Uhle toiled 20 innings, his team winning 6 to 5 in THE SPORTLIGHT BY GRANTLAND RICE A SONG OF SPORT. And that, my friend, is all, Fame and then silence—past the final thrust; Today you hear the endless millions call, To turn and find the laurel thick with dust. Now from the heights they look down on the world, How soon their broken banners will be furled Along the weary road that leads to night, Here, then, is luck—not for some brighter crown, Nor greater glory which they hope to gain, But when at last they break, and flutter down, The ghost of one dim dream that isn't pam, | future. | the comparison is extended on to the the twenty-first frame! for higher flight been a better tennis p\l}er this year th-nhewunyerl Past and Present History. HEN Bobby Jones and James Braid tackled Harry Vardon and Ted Ray there was almost a 40-year link in ch-mpmmmp golf. These four men had won 23 national champion- ships, and the only pity is that J. H Taylor could not be included. Vardon and Braid were winning championships before Jones was born. Most arguments of golf greatness cen- ter around Vardon and Jones. Vardon was king of the past—Jones king of the present, and at least a section of the There are many who rate Vardon as the greatest of all golfers from the tee up to the green. But when bottom of the cup, Jones comes far| forward, taking the lead as a scoring | machine, since putting is a big part of scoring Not even the great Vardon ever hi ny such eight years as Jones has known from 1922 to 1930, and this has been against a greater bulk of hard competition than the old-timers knew when golf was limited in popular scope. ASKED Mickey Cochrane of the Ath- letics what he thought of the pres: ent-day ball. “One day,” he said, “I think it must be a piece of rubber. But the next day some pitcher proves that it might be a rock. I don't see them ting good pitching all over the lot.” Mickey rates Al Simmons of the Ath- letics as the most dangerous pinch- hitter in base ball. *“Put him in a tough spot where runs are needed and he es through as well as any man I ever saw, day in and day out,” is the Cochrane estimate. Cochrane didn't care to compare the speed of Johnson and Grove. saw Johrnison in 1925, he says, “and he had been around 18 years at that time, So I couldn't have seen him at his best. I can say tHat the Johnson of 1925 was not as fast as the Grove of today. This big left-hander can turn a base ball into a buckshot when he decides to crowd one through and put on the smoke.” (Copyright, *930. by North American News- paper Alliance.) PACING STARS RACE CLEVELAND, June 30 (#).—The sec- |ond “harness race meet of the grand circult was scheduled to open at the North Randall track today with the opening program presenting a duel be- | tween Chancellor Cigar, holder of 18 | public parks champion in the finals “I only | — STAR FIELD STARTS WESTERN NET PLAY Title Tourney at Chicago In- cludes Nearly All of Best Performers. By the Associated Press. HICAGO, June 30.—Western tennis stars collected on the hard courts of the River Forest Club today for another drive for championships and high rankings. It was the annual championship tournament of the Western Tennis As-| sociation for both women and men and | almost every good player, excepting| those now campaigning in Europe, were entered in the competition, which will last the entire week. Heading the entrants from a stand, point of favoritism were stars from Illinois, California, Ohio, Texas and| Indiana who emerged victorious in the Chicago City and State championships here last week. Catherine Wolf Entered. Among them were Catherine Wolfl of Indianapolis, who upset Clara Loulse Zinke of Cincinnati, first ranking West- ern woman star, to win the Illinois State woman's singles; Jay Cohn and Jack Lynch, California’s pair of 15- year-old net artists, who defeated Karl Kamrath and Joe Bralley of Austin, Tex., in the junior State champion- ships doubles yesterday; George O'Con- nell, Chicago, winner over George Jen- nings, another Chicagoan, and national of the men's singles; “Chuck” Garland and Luke Willlams, Chicago, new Illinois State men’s doubles champions; Ruth Oeman of Cincinnati, who paired with Miss Zinke to win the State dou- bles championship, and Earl Bossing of Cincinnati, who fell before Kamrath in the State championship singles. Clifford Sutter of New Orleans, newly crowned intercollegiate champion, and Harris Coggeshall of Des Moines, Iowa, were other outstanding entries in the men’s division. Jjunior COMMERCE, FIL!PINO TEAMS WIN AND LOSE‘ Commerce and Filipino teams 'on\ and lost and Edgewood was a winner | and Kann's a loser yesterday in Capi- | tal City Tennis ul;ue matches. After bowing to Filipino in a 6-3 engagement, Commerce took the meas- ure of Kanns racketers, 5 to 1. Edgewood downed the Filipino net- men, 6 to 3, in another match, ‘The summaries: Filipine, Silva 6 Commerce, (B) udclented Btaubly 5 def¢ d 5, 6 ed —2; d Boyd, 64 d Bessemer, ‘—0‘ I—Z Keifer, 62, 48, acAtels Mopan (. Sllllbly and Martinez, 4 T d Bord' (G} defeate 4™, Toreiden, 3 omez and Ruppert, (C.J Geieated Erana and Bogento, 65 b4, Edrewood, 6; Filipino, 3. (E.) . 6 nd Sinclair and Moncure, 1 Commerce, 5; K Singles—Gould (C.) ds 8—4; Roberts (C.) . 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Winners and runners-up in ‘Washington tournaments to advance into divisional play; divisional winners and runners- up to meet for sectional titles; sectional winners and runners- up to play for city champion- ships. Winners and runners-up of town events in Maryland and Virginia to compete for county titles; county winners and run- ners-up to meet for State honors. Washington, Macyland and Virginia champions to play foz metropolitan title. All prizes to be presented by The Washington Star. The winner of every preliminary will receive a medal emblematic of the championship of his town or community. Prizes will increase in value as the elim- inations progress. Playground directors will be in charge of Washington neigh- borhood events and town tour- naments will be conducted by local leaders. American Horseshoe Pitchers’ Association rules will govern. Other information may be | obtained by phoning the Horse- | shoe Editor at National 5000, brlnch 135, or by wrmn[. BURROUGHS RACKETERS VICTORIOUS AT LEESBURG LEESBURG, Va., June 30.—Bur- roughs racketers of Washington scored over Leesburg Club Racquet Club net- men, 8 to 4, here yesterday in spirited competition. The teams will meet in a return engagement in Washington July 27. Summaries: SIN Trige (B.) defeated Morrison, Hermann (B.) defeated Larrick. Grant (B:) defeated H. Th Lavine (B.) defeated R. Thomas, 6—3, Krayse (B) defeated Simpson. 8, - 4Thomas defeated Liebmaj York (B defeated Leflerts, 6— o_d e britte () aelented Lamrence: &~ DOUBLES. Hermann and Trig (B.) defeated Larrick and Morrison. 6—4. 6-—2: H. Thomas and R. LOOK AT ..58.40 ...58.75 ..$10.45 .$10.80 WHILE YOU WAIT OPEN NIGHTS AND SUNDAYS 95 ANY CAR NO TIPPING VACUUM CLEANING 75¢ SIMONIZING, $5.00 up Bill Lynch’s Auto Laundry, Inc. Washington’s Most Modern Auto Laundry 632 NEW YORK AVE. Polishing—Greasing—Engine 627 K ST. NW. Cleaning—Top Dressing, Etc. REMEMBER THE ADDRESS—NEAR GOLDENBERG'S { 1602 14th St. N.-W. 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These glaring new low Goodyear tire prices—yes, sir, they do include ALL WEATHERS—dazzle even our eyes, ac- customed as we are to seeing new low pricse for even finer Goodyears. If all of the motorists of Washing- ton realized the exceeding goodness of Goodyears (and please come see these extra-style, extra-service new all- weather Heavy Duty tires) police would find it a job to keep the pre-holiday Goodyear tire buyers in line In front of our place. As it is, the news is abroad and spreading that Goodyears were never 80 low in price—never so fine in per- formance. We are as busy putting on new Goodyears, as the Service Depart- ment of a Pink Lemonade Stand, on a nhw‘y»el‘h‘ degree F. circus matinee. Virginia nghlands Plans Blg Prelim in Horseshoe Tourney IRGINIA HIGHLANDS, in Arling- ton County, Va, will make its debut this Summer in The Star's annual Metropolitan District horseshoe championships and its start promises to be auspicious. Within an hour after Harold E. Christ was named chairman of the Virginia Highlands tournament he had 23 entries in hand with many more in prospect. “We will Liave one of the largest pre- liminaries #f the entire tournament,” | said Christ today on applying for more entry blanks and rule books, “and some of the best pitchers. There are several in our village who used to be really good and all they need to get back in trim is some practice. I'm on the way now to buy some shoes and pegs for 'em.” Christ named O. W. Reynolds, Jack Ross and Livingston Smith as Virginia Highlands' most likely prospects for | high honors. Livingston once was a star quoit pitchef. Reynolds gained his | horseshoe experience down in Florida, where the game probably is more popular than in any other section of the country. EOPLE who haven't tried the modern game of horseshoes,” ob- served Christ, “can’t realize what & darned good sport it is. It will be the first experience with regulation ers at Virginia to were hot for giving the game a fling. “A lot more people would pitch if only the chairmen of preliminaries would steam ‘em up. As it is I've never known a sport to grow as fast as horseshoe | pitching around Washington.” NTRANTS at Vil’lln a Highlands in- clude Jack Ross, Livingston Smith, Edward Rayle, Floyd Henderso: Edward Lee, Harry Bond, George Har- ris, James T. Childs, Ed Childs, Zack Thomas, Charles McNeal, James Mc- Neal, D. G. Heflin, Percy Finesecy, T. D, Hewitt, Wade Thomas, Malcolm Hel Picture the supreme quality of Good- years; the gripping safety of the thick All-weather tread; the elastic strength of the Goodyear Supertwist earcass— world’s greatest shock absorber. THEN—picture buying Goodyear All- Weathers at ROCK-BOTTOM prices Uke— 29x4.40 GOODYEAR All-Weather $7.85 The last barricade is down between you and a One Hundred Per Cent Holi- day Trip. Goodyear prices are down. Come in. Put less money down. 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