Evening Star Newspaper, July 8, 1930, Page 26

SPORTS. - JONES AND DIEGEL BEAT LINKS' MARK Each Shoots 70 in Practice. Armour Thinks 290 Will Win Championship. By the Associated Press. INNEAPOLIS, July 8. —Estimates | of the score which will bring victory in the national open at Interlachen, starting Thurs- | day, were revised sharply downward to- | day as Old Man Par stood humbled | after record-breaking rounds Monday by Bobby Jones and Leo Diegel. . But Jones, defending champion, alone | among the competitors was reluctant to | change his estimate of 294 for the four | rounds of tournament play, despite his brace of 72s Sunday and his sensational | shooting with Diegel just before Mon- day’s sunset. The champion and the smili-g challenger from the professional ranks scored 70s, beating the old record of 71 made last week by Jock Henry, 8t. Paul pro. From among the contending pros came the most lavish low score pre- dictions, based largely on the form shown by Jones, Diegel, Walter Hagen and others. 'romntx; Armour, winner in 1927, de- clared that 290 would win this year. ! Denny Shute, young professional from Columbus, Ohlo, said 288 or 289 would be the low net. A few insisted that if playing conditions were ideal, there ! would be a good chance to tle the low- score record for open meets set in Min- | neapolis in 1916 by Chick Evans with 286 at Minikahda, only a few miles . from Interlachen, but this group was amall, indeed. Hagen, who Monday set a record of 32, 4 below par, for the first nine holes, only to play four strokes over par on the last nine, is convinced the course has enough troublesome possibilitiss to upset predictions of a low score. Johnny Farrell, Willie MacFarlane, Jim Barnes . and Gene Sarazen, all former cham- , pions, who are making the most of practice time, agreed they looked for a low total in view of the sensational golf . produced in the preliminaries, but not ‘with any degree of certainty. ' For several days the wea! has been { extremely warm and almost breezeless. ‘The contour of the course ir such that if winds come up, two strokes over par + will be an achievement, in the opinion of Willie Kidd, veteran Interlachen pro, who_himself smashed out a round at r Monday. ! ’.Johxmy Goodman, the young Omaha «amateur, who hunted around to get free * passage to Pebble Beach, on the Pacific +Coast, last Fall to eliminate Bobby Jones, the champion, from the 1929 amateur, rode comfortably to the open in an sutomobile this but he brought the same sticks. made his debut on the course with & par-breaking 71, he said was “just a lucky break.’ Every entry who intends to compete expected to complete one or more prac- tice rounds today. With most of the contenders now familiar with . the course, successful attempts on Inter- lachens record are looked for before the close of practices Wednesday. CHAMPIONS ARE OUT tournament which OF M. A. NET DOUBLES 5. *™ ™™ R Bang-up competition is expected to mark the annual Middle Atlantic dou- bles tennis champlonships carded to start Saturday afternoon on the Con-|Brawner gressional Country Club courts. Billy Jacobs has announced that he and his brother, Eddie, of Baltimore, ‘who won the title last year in that city, will not defend their laurels. Eddie has other engagements. Billy probably will ‘with Dooly Mitchell, with whom he in District cham- ionships. . ‘The tournament is to teams from the five centers making up the Middle Atlantic section, which, besides Washington, are Norfolk, Richmond, Baltimore and Charleston, W. Va. Bob Considine and Tom Mangan of this city. who won the title year before last, and now hoid the District doubles championship, are figured to put up a great battle for 1930 laurels. P Jacobs and Mitchell, should they de- | cide to go it together, probably will show strongly. ‘The vlcm'riou! duo will be sent to the national championships to be held Au- gust 25 at the Longwood Cricket Club &t Chestnut Hill, a suburb of Boston. Entries will close Thursday at € p.m. with Robert E. Newby, 3216 Klingle road, treasurer of the Middle Atlantic Association. Competition will be on the basis of three out of five sets, NON-TALKING TITLE GOES TO JONES, CADDY THINKS MINNEAPOLIS, July 8 (#).—Bobby Jones has another title—the world's most silent golfer. Donovan le, Jones' caddy for the national open play at Interlachen, pro- | claimed the new title. “He’s a swell guy,” Donovan said. “He only spoke to me twice.” In five hours of play, so Donovan reported, Jones only conversation was: “Where’s the water?” and “What's your name?” CATOCTIN NETMEN WIN. FREDERICK, Md., July 8.—Catoctin Country Club’s tennis team defeated Leesburg Racket Club netmen, 5 to 2, here. The Leesburg team was crippled by the absence of its ace, South Mor- Fison. Summaries: Bingles—Remsberg (F.) defeated H. Th 053,767, McCardell | (F.) defeate Tick. 64, 84 R icCatn, 63, oma Lar- e 7 &= |course in a vain effort to defer the in- Billy Strickler, Washington boxer, who has just become a light-heavy- weight, will meet Reds Barry, also of this city, tomorrow night at Hagers- 'town, Md.,, and will face Socko Tre- maine July 15 at Cumberland, Md. Atlanta Sets Holiday For Return of Jones ATLANTA, July 8 (#)—Bobby Jones, who already can have any- thing in Atlanta, was all but given title and deed to the place for one day by official act of the City Louncil. A resolution passed unanimously yesterday officially declares July 14, the day Bobby returns from his golf- ing wars in Europe and Minneapolis, a legal holiday. It urged citizens generally to observe the day as such and called upon business men to close shop so that Bobby might be cheered as every citizen would cheer him. The resolution, one of the most unusual ever passed by the council, bore the names of 25 of the 39 mem- bers of the council and was passed amid cheers. It now goes to Mayor & M, Ragsdale for action. Oldest Entrant In Shoe Tourney H. E. BONSTEEL. “Inter-lock-en” Is Name Of Open Tourney Course MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, July 8 () —Interlachen, scene of the na- tional open golf tournament start- ing Thursday, is pronounced “Inter- lock-en,” with the emphasis on the THE EVENING “Big Guns” Make Title Course Look Simple : One Day Left to Enter Shoe Tourney DOUBLES PARTNERS BATTLE IN' SINGLES Considine Plays Mangan and Mitchell Opposes Jacobs in D. C. Tournament. OUBLES partners in the District tennis champlonships will turn foes tomorrow in semi-final singles matches when Bob Con- | sidine meets Tom Mangan and Dooly | Mitchell engages Billy Jacobs of Balti- | more. This evening's schedule was con- | fined to quarter-final doubles competi- tion. Mitchell's victory was the most nota- ble in the singles yesterday. He con- quered Clarence M. Charest, defending champion. With his blistering service working effectively and Charest, plainly off his game, netting frequently, Mitcheil defeated the veteran one-arm racqueter in surprisingly decigive style. The scores were 6—0, 6—2. Considine, once he warmed to the task, had little trou- ble vanquishing Colin Stam, 6—2, 6—2. Eddie Yeomans, crack University of North Carolina netman, gave Mangan a stern hattle before succumbing in the best contested match of the four. In the second set Mangan reached match point five times, only to have Yeomans Tally to prolong the contest. The scores were 3 . Jacobs, Baltimore rlnyer. the lone out-of-town racqueter left in the singles, won without great gflculty over Maurice O'Nelll, 6—4, Considine and Mangan, defending doubles champions, who defeated Daw- son and Freeman yesterday, 6—0, 6—1, were to engage Markey and Elliott this evening in the quarter finals. Several other strong, doubles combinations also came through yesterday. ‘Today’s schedule and yesterday’s sum- maries: TODAY'S SCHEDULE. Quarter-final doubles—3 p.m., Mitchell- Jacobs vs. Howard-Farrin: 4 p.m., Van Viiet- Finley vs. Deck-Seidell: § p.m.. Considine- Mangan vs. ‘Markey-Eliiott and Gill-Bmith vs. Seely-Halstead YESTERDAY'S SUMMARIES. Quarter-final singles—Conaidine defeated e, 6t 604 MiChel! Hefosion O $20,'6"2: Jacobs deteated O'Nelll, 64 gorird-round’ doubles — Gonsidine-Man Yeomans, '6-—3, i jacobs de- feated Burwell-Taylor, 6—4, 6—3; Gill-Smith defeated Coe-Gonbeau, 6—2. a Howard defeated Charest-Phillips. 6-—3, 10—8; “lock.” AUL Y. ANDERSON, who writes pleces for the St. Louls Post- Dispatch and is no man's easy meat on the golf course, comes to bat today with a yarn of another of those tough golf tilts where better- than-par lost & match, and the hat tricks of the other chaps did the win- ning. Anderson was on the victorious side in this match played at Columbia, where he partnered Everett Eynon “How would you feel,” Golfer Ander- son asks, “if you traversed the Columbia course in 70 blows and was aided by your partner a bit and lost the fiu Eltth?t N;‘t."wh‘.nod. eh? wwe.!,l. 1 yb just Wi ppened johnn: . and Tommy Bones. For Brother Eynon, who happened to be my partner, knocked that ball around in just 69, with all putts holed. The best ball of the Brawner-Bones combi- nation was 69, and Eynon and myself had a best ball of 87. You see, even my humble efforts filled in and took up t.hedolh:k where Evvie's putts failed to e ‘ohm.hermm. and to make the matter of more cogent interest, the best ball of the quartet was 63. And we'll let Bob Jones and Horton Smith pair to- ,emer with Hagen and some other ellow and shoot at that for a long time. Birdies and pars flew off the clubs of this foursome, while brilliant shot after brilliant shot belied the ad- | mission that golf is a hard game. “No hole was played on worse than par,” Anderson said. “On the 210-yard fourth Brawner laid a brassie shot two inches from the bucket, whereupon Eynon dropped a 15-foot putt for & half in 2. Not to be dismayed, Brother Brawner pitched one dead for a 4 on the fifth, which was good enough to win, although Everett almost reached the green in two shots. We went along in par to the eighth, where I, after acting principally as a spectator, dropped a 30-footer for a deuce. “Johnny Brawner stood on the ninth tee needing a 4 for a 33 out, and the match was all square. He took a 5 there, being out in 34¢—and 1 down. Eynon's 4 gave him a 36 for the first nine. “Eynon had a 4 on the twelfth, which is no cinch from the back tee. He was on with a drive and a No. 3 iron and won the hole. Somehow or other a 15- footer from my putter drcpged in on the fourteenth for a 3, which won the hole. Bones, who had been playing golf that would be good enough under ordi- nary_circumstances, came through with a 3 on the fifteenth, which won, and there were four 3s on the short six- teenth. I got down a 20-footer on the seventeenth for a 3, and my partner holed his 15-footer for a 3. It was not exactly wasted, as we were playing ‘side birdies.’ The seventeenth was the fifth consecutive hole which was played in 3s, and we all got 4s on the eighteenth. “Here 1s the best ball of that blazing foursome, and if you note that the fair- ways at Columbia are burned out, blame it all on them: “Par, out... 333 4—31—63 STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE BY W. R. McCALLUM Seely-Halstead defeated Shore-Welsh, 6—3, 6—3. trickle into the cup on the eighth hole of F course, a 103-yard affair. ‘They didn't win the golf tourna- ment, but Monro Hunter and George Diffenbaugh, that mighty giant-midget combination’ from Indian Spring, left| the boys with something to talk about after the pro-pro best-ball match was over at the Army, Navy and Marine Corps Club yesterday. In the first place little George Diffen- baugh, who is hardly bigger than the next minute, got all of his 125 pounds behind a golf ball on the thirteenth hole and it went away from there—fast. So fast and far did it go that George was the only man among the 15 con- testants who was able to carry the ditch on the thirteenth. And he did it with yards to spare. Then on the fifteenth, Monro Hunter got his mighty frame back of one, and did somet g that is accomplished every once in a blue moon—whenever that is. He hit that ball so hard and S0 far that it went over the top of the hill which crowns the fairway 285 Enim e gl iy man elub, that wallop e McKimmie, the host club pair, and ab- sorbed a . Two weeks ago the Indian Spring pair trounced Hartig and McKimmie at Indian Spring, and the latter combination got sweet revenge yesterday. Had not Hartig and Mc- Kimmie both hooked out of bounds at the third hole they might have cut two strokes off their best ball of 72 and | finished in a tie for second money. As it was, they finished third. Tony Syl- vester, the Bannockburn pro, still is wailing about the three putts he took on the seventeenth and eighteenth greens, for had he been down in the .usn\;nh?ue:fl?’er 3:0 bot:u these greens, he red Jamison—] ‘tner—woul hl‘v)etbeet; ‘I‘Zhnlso. . = % ut of e melee CIliff Spencer, brother of the long-hitting Glen?'hn is Glenn's assistant at the Maryland Country Club, and Julius Platte of For- est Greens, took first money, with a form-fitting and duly auspicious 68, composed of a 33 out and a 35 back. They only picked up two eagles and three birdies in their round, Spencer getting home in 2 at the second, and holding a 15-footer for the eagle 3, and then knocking in a lengthy putt at the fifteenth for the second eagle of the round. Second money went to Ken- neth Allen of Baltimore and Bill Carson of East Potomac Park, who scored a 70. Washington will be thoroughly de- nuded of its golfing dentists tomorrow, for most of them have contracted to g0 to Baltimore, where they will meet the tooth carpenters of the Monu- | mental City in a return match over the Five Farms course of the Baltimore Country Club. They also will play in a medal-play competition. Woman golfers of the Capital, were | playing today in a tourney Il: the An- napolis Roads Golf Club, held under the auspices of the ' | Dot ‘Women's Dlstrlctl | “Of course,” adds Paul, “I am only a poor old golfer, toddling around the evitable hardening of the arteries, and it is quite possible that others have seen better golf than this, but I showid like to know who played it. And how.” ‘The latest golfer to make a hole in one is J. F. Howard, who performed the feat Sunday at East Potomac Park. Playing with Robert Van Sickle, Loren Cluster and George Larkin, Howard had the satisfaction of watching his tee shot TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN'’S, 7th & F —————— BEN “UNDLEYI <HOGD) TIRES The Y Club Swim in the Cool Pool as often as you like Private, locker, shower, lounging room and gymnasium privileges. 4 Months for $8.00 Y. M. C. A. 1736 G St. - NAtl, 8250 | | il | 1 HAWKINS MOTORS B Sales 1529 Fourteenth St. N.W. Decatur 3320 Liberal Allowance on Your Old Tires 3436 14th’ St. N.'W. Adams 8100 Boad Seryfte—Charge Accounts Invited Conveniently Located on Fourteenth Str 8 ENTRY TAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, BLANK Washington Star Horseshoe Pitching Tournament - (Championship of District of Columbia and nearby Maryland and Virginia) Entries Close July 9. Name (print) Address (print) Phone, if any (print) If in Washington, playground nearest your ho Play Starts July 16 state the me. If in Maryland or Virginia, state town or community tour- nament in which you desire to - participate (print) Entries should be mailed to the Horseshoe Editor of The Star, community tournament. Colored oman Will Tosson Y. W. C. A. Court, HE colored women's tournament for the metropolitan ' district horseshoe pitching champion- ship will be held on the lawn of Phyllis Wheatley Branch of the ¥. W. C. A, it was announced today by Ar- thus A. Greene, general chairman of | ‘The Star's secend annual event. Greene has not settled on a date, but it prob- ably will be in August. ‘The women will pitch 30 feet and use the regulation shoe. Every pitch will Swing Through Ball, Do Not Just Hit It BY SOL METZGER. ‘That Lou Berrien’s golf tip about keeping the elbows on the same level at the top is correct goes with- Furthermore, if you week, note the ition of the el- bows of the leaders as they finish their drives. You'll find them, as Berrien points out, again on the same level, in the same relative po- sition as at the top. Here's proof that the clubhead has gone through along the same arc that it took on the upswing. By balancing the elbows in this way (keeping them on the same level at the top) and then swinging through with the arms, the left in control, the golfer will soon rid 1t of any exing slice. But the main thing to do is to swing through the ball. Do mot hit it. When you hit you fall to follow through. A new free illustrated leaflet on “The Art of Putting” has been pre- pared by Sol Metzger. Write for it. Address Sol Metzger, in care of this paper, and inclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope. (Copyright, 1930.) | YOUNGBLOOD QUITS POST AS STUART SPORT HEAD George Youngblood has resigned as director of boys’' athletics at Stuart Junior High School and left for the ‘West Coast, where he has several offers to join coaching staffs of institutions. Youngblood has been prominent in athletic circles here a number of years and has had a successful coaching career. THE NEW Product of America’s Oldest Fine Car Builder * all—the fine th 14th St. at P Open Evenings Until 10 P.M. PEERLESS:“ALL THAT The most gratifying note of say about the new Peerless. Threenewcars; threeprices;all Eights. Custom,under$£3000; Master, under $2000; Standard, under $1500 (at factory) ——cach outstanding in fine car value by all comparisons. e Peerless Motor Company or delivered to the chairman of your town or Shoe Pichers be counted, the 6-inch rule having been waived. Louise Jackson of the Deanwood playground is the champion, and her Deanwood supporters believe she will successfully defend her crown. She plays & smooth, heady game. the pitcher who wins the women’s title this vear will have to defeat Shelley Covington, an experienced pitcher, who is_exceptionally cool when the pinches come. In the city finals she was de- the victory was hardly decisive. It would be pleasing to the horseshoe fans if the two met again this year. Many entries are expected from Halls Hill, Va.; Falls Church, Va., and North Brentwood, Md. North Brentwood, Md.— Chairman Wheeler is diligently training Tilghman for the State and metropolitan battles and reports the champion was never | better. = The Brentwood tossers are priming for tune-up matches with the four horsemen .of the Twelfth Street Y. M. C. A. The matches will be played on the Brentwood courts Thurs- | day at 5:30 p.m. NAUCK, Va.—The Nauck champion, | Bryce is ready to go, reports Eugene | James, the local chairman, but accord- | ing to James Bryce, will have to hustle to repeat. Two or three dark horses have appeared on the Nauck courts. | Because of an injured shoulder, James | will not enter competition this year. LINCOLN PARK, Md.—The Rev. James Davis has been appointed Mont- gomery County chairman by General | Chairman Greene. Rev. Davis is a star | twirler ,and a real horseshoe fan and | expects to be in some pitcher's path to the Lincoln crown. He has a private court adpoining his home, where many tune-up matches are played daily. ROCKVILLE, Md—All is well in Rockville, announces Chairman Cat- bones Duffin. He says “the boys are set for the big fireworks and a Mont- gomery pitcher will journey to Wash- ington for the metropolitan crown.” HALLS HILLS, Va—Chairman T. W. ‘[ Tyson announces a record entry for | Halls Hill and is hopeful that the Vir- ginia champion will be from his town. Smith, the local title holder, is showing class in his workouts. LAKELAND, Md—The Lakeland tune-up matches are drawing large gal- leries, regom Chairman Mack. A large | entry list is expected. MUIRKIRK, Md.—Ben Conway, the Murkirk champion, is taking on all comers. Chairman Felix Brewer re- ports horseshoe interest at high pitch. He expects Patton Taylor to capture the crown from Conway. MAT BOUTS TOBGHT. Milo Steinborn and Karl Vogel will grapple in the feature match of the weekly wrestling program tonight at the Washington Auditortum. In other en- counters John Maxos will meet George Calza, the “Masked Marvel” will have it out with Frank La Marque and Carl Pojella will come to grips with Jim Lucas. The first bout will go on at 8:30 o'clock. PeerLESS ings old owners Decatur 3400 After 6 P.M., North 9697 THE NAME IMPLIES" JULY 8, 1930. BAME PROSPERING, D. C. LEADER FINDS More Prince William County | Towns In—O0etogenariap to Play at Plaza. NE DAY remains for Wash- ington horseshoe pitchers | to get in line for the sec-| ond annual metropolitan | district championships, sponsored | by The Star. | Entries postmarked tomorrow | will be accepted. They should be | isent to the Horseshoe Editor, the ‘flayground department or turned | n to a playground director. A survey just concluded by Bernard McCarty, general chairman for Wash- ington, reveals that enthusiasm over horseshoe pitching is keener even than | no_tournament is SPORTS. Hubbard Quantrille, Plaza division champion, led Peake, by 19 to 10, in a 21 t game, but the mt.mrouun king pulled a typical Peake rally and emerged a victor. 'HE Washington champion, Charles | A. Fort, hasn't selected his pre- | liminary, but it looks like Bethesda or Silver Spring for him now that he's become a resident l:: u‘:"“ Echo, where | If he enters at Bethesda a battle be- | tween him and Peake would be almost | inevitable. As things are, there is a| strong possibility of them meeting | somewhere along the line in Montgom- | ery County competition. 1 RINGMEN GIVE BENEFIT | TO AID FELLOW BOXER y the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, July 8.—Boxers of main- | event caliber tomorrow night will give | Walcott Langford, promising Negro | middleweight of a year ago, the chance | to knock out the blindness that floored him recently. A costly surgical operation which Langford could not afford might bring back his sight. A card ot 15 three-round no-decision | bouts has been arranged for Barry's gvm, the proceeds to make up an opera- Horseshoe Tourney Plans Are Outlined 'NTRIES close July §; play starts July 16. No entry fee nor any other cost. Neighborhood Chlm%‘ofl!hln tour- naments on all Washington play- grounds. = Town champlonship tournaments in all towns of Maryland and Vir- sinia within metropolitan area. ‘Winners and runners-up in Wash- ington tournaments to advance into divisional play; divisional winners and runners-up to meet for sec- tional titles; sectional winners and runners-up to play for city cham- plonships. ‘Winners and runners-up of town events in Maryland and Virginia to compete for county titles; county winners and runners-up to meet for State honors. ‘Washington, Maryland and Vir- ginia champions to play for metro- politan title. All prizes to be presented by The Washington Star. The winner of every preliminary will receive @ medal emblematic of the champion- ship of his town or community. Prizes will increase in value as the eliminations . Playground directors will be in charge of Washington neighborhood last year when the modern game was | on fund for Langford. events and town tournaments will feated by Miss Jackson, 50 to 48, but | introduced here and took hold sensa- tionally. “Some of us thought last year,” Mc- Carty said today, “that the game might turn out to be a movelty. But, believe me, that was wrong. Horeshoe pitching is here to stay—and watch it grow!” UCH the same thought was. con- tained in a letter today from Ma ‘William County, Va. terial district. Says Maj. Patterson: of Aden of the chairmanship of The Brentsville i towns enters lists. | district will compete for community honors with a play-off of winners and runnersup at Nokesville. The county finals will be held at Manassas.” ERHAPS the oldest pitcher in the igned up today. He is H. E. Bon- steel of 310 Indiana avenue northwest, approaching his eighty-fifth year. Bonsteel is a newcomer to Washinj ton. At his old home town, Chau- tauqua, N. Y. there is a horseshoe | pitching club with more than 150 members. The octogenerian will compete in the Plaza plaground preliminary, in which John (Bowwow) Myers will be the de- fending champion. F Myers and Bonsteel mee. it will be at least a colorful contest. Each has a distinctive pitching style. and the shoe takes a low trajectory. generally comes to rest somewhere in the next neighborhood. He uses a | three-quarter turn. On the other hand, Bonsteel lobs the shoe. He grasps it in the middle and throws it in such manner that the slipper revolves perpendicularly. | can be made that way,” laughed the | veteran, | have become lost, swiped or broken, but-all will be replaced before play time, & week from tomorrow. Play each day in the Washington ,ranged by pitchers who desire them | and know beforehand whom they are matched with. The playground direc- numbers of all entrants. o objection to miatehing piayers in no n to mal players in the first round who desire to meet. For instance, Glenn Wolstenholme, the bowler, and his Herculean daddy- in-law, Big Chief Burkhalter, will settle grudge in the first round of the Buchanan School preliminary. Wolstenholme pitches a horseshoe with the same rhythmic, sweeping de- livery that brought him fame as a bowler. To one who appreciates form in sport Glenn is ever a delight. | QPEAKING of bowlers, Wesley Milt- City Duckpin Association, is helping Andrew Tallmadge round up the horse- shoe pitchers Summering on the banks of the Potomac. The Potomac pre- liminary looms as a_humdinger, Tall- madge stages a weekly tournament at his camp, near Feeder Dam, in which some of the city's best players compete. Tallmadge is the only pitcher who has been able this Summer to hold his own with the metropolitan champlon, M. E Peake. In last week's tournament young steps Only three towns of Prince William | held tournaments last year, but this time there will be one in every magis- ‘With the acceptance by W. B. Kerlin | Star's horseshoe tournament in the | strict another group of | “Under the plans of Mr. Kerlin repre- | Horseshoe enthusiasts have it that | sentatives of the small towns in the | Metropolitan tournament Myers puts lots of steam in his delivery When Bowwow misses the peg the shoe | “You'd be surprised how many ringers NUMBER of playgrounds’ shoes | determines the ac- preliminaries will start at about 5| o'clock, but special times can be ar- tors will have the addresses and phone | AIRINGS for the most part will be | ner, treasurer of the Washington | wn, be conducted by local leaders. American Horseshoe Pitchers’ As- sociation rules will govern, Other information may be ob- tained by phoning the Horseshoe Editor st National 5000, branch 135, or by writing. | Tuffy Griffith, Sioux City, Towa, | heavyweight_contender; Larry Johnson, | Negro light-heavyweight, and Bud Tay- lor, Terre Haute, Ind., and Earl Mastro, Chicago, ranking featherweights, are lmodng the stars who will appear on th card. Your step forward must not carry you beyond the box, or more than 3 feet from the stake, The Modern Horse- shoe Game, 'O other game curacy of Suggesti How to Pitch Horseshoes Given Begi ORSESHOE pitching experts can throw ringers when the stake is hide den behind & blanket and there are some who can make a fair average of ringers when blindfolded. They maintain that the average pltcher could do the same if he practiced long and earnestly, With scores of newcomers expected this year in the Second annual tourna- ment for the Metropolitan area of Washington, sponsored by The Washington Star, a few hints on the game at this time may help beginners, How to Hold & Shoe. WHIL! ;m ;;o e]::pel';rl :-m agree on the best way to hold a horseshoe and ou_doubtlessly w! levelop your own particular » two meth 'v'lzrzwlth illustrated for Lhepbe;em of th: n!vphy'&mp b s It is important for your success at the game that you adopt one hold and continue to use it. The man, woman or child who makes ringers consistently must practice until the pitch is made easily, with the eye judging the dis- tance and directing the movement of the arm and wrist. Grip the shoe in one of the two ways illustrated and make ready to pitch. How to Pitch a Horseshoe. first rule of pitching the horse- shoe is to keep the eye on the stake, ‘The three illustrations will aid you in assuming the proper position and “following through,” as they say in golf. First, you grip the shoe and stand with feet together, close to the stake. Next you bring the shoe at arm’s length and sight it as you would a rifle, so that the opposite stake appears in the center of the shoe. (Figure 1.) Second, you m he right arm with an easy swinging motion and bring l‘tn ml: gc)st the » &t the same time stepping forward with the left foot. | ~Third, you_pitch | the shoe by bring- ing the right a | forward and at the same time stepping forward with the right foot. (Fig: 3 | ure 3.) The rhythm | with which you per- | form this motion offers a com- bination of your sport, skill and | pitch, provided you ] healthful exercise | have properly gaug- at such low cost. ed the distance. You can lay out a& horseshoe pitching court in your back yard or in a vacant lot and you can invite your friends to play at a moment’s notice, Tournaments and clubs can be easily | organized and when you become adept at the garae you will find opponents al- | ways handy. Horseshoe ylwhinm a universally played game. ‘Time was when horseshoe ing was a barnyard sport. Old Dobbin fur- nished the shoes and the stakes were crude affairs improvised perhaps from bits of pipe. Now the game has assumed a national popularity and thousands of | people are playing, more in the city, perhaps, than in the country. Shoes of sturdy drop-forged steel and stakes of the same material, made in style and weight to meet the specifications of the American Horseshoe Pitchers’ Association, are necessary to play the modern game properly. Laying Out the Court. WH!LI you can merely drive stakes in the ground 40 feet apart and start to pitch, a permanent court of exact dimensions can be lald out easily and will add much to the game. | | soreer The {llustration shows how an official court should be laid out, f tions of 2 by 4 and nail together 50 as to make two 6-foot squares. The stakes | showld be driven in the ground in the center of these boxes, inclining slightly | toward each other. Fine clay should then be placed around the stakes and | tamped down. This clay should be moisteried occasionally, The diagram indie | 511" & ot conrentent 10 Retall che clay-Alled boxes the ground should b e clay- s the | spaded up 5o as to prevent the shoes from bouncing and sliding. ¢ Place sec- free , wheelin /s coming! One of the most important forward in automotive history: -+« Shift from high to second at FORTY- - -FIFTY miles per hour ~and never touch the clutch! STUDEBAKER Builder ngImlnf ns Greater horsepower - logger wheelbases: -New /uxuiy- =0