Evening Star Newspaper, August 10, 1930, Page 56

TEAMS STEAM UP AS STRETCH NEARS Two Grudge Battles Feature Today—Jack Coombs’ Son Stops Policemen. I ters now. Just when the weather seems to be getting hotter and a| vacation tempting, independent| and league teams must struggle | all the harder now, for with two-| thirds of the season gone, the| home stretch looms and ’tis make | or break. | So despite the soaring thermometer, & | flock of games, promising red hot ac- tion, are scheduled for today. Sandlot followers who like real grudge battles are to be treated to a pair of *em this afternoon when the Northerns | and Bill Flester's Frenchies clash at Mount Rainier_at 1 o'clock. and the Rlver Spring Giants and Washington Red Sox meet in a twin bill at Silver | Ev!xg since the season started, the French A. C. District champion and the Northern Red Birds, have been casting wary eyes upon one another. The Frenchies, though they will not be the titleholders again this year, have known their intention of aveng- ing an earlier 2 to 1 defeat. Bill Jenkin's Red Sox and Brooke | Grubb's Silver Spring Giants have been bitter rivals for some time now, and as this is the first meeting between these clubs this year, fans are expected to flock to Silver Spring. The Giants, though out of the race, ean also keep the Red Sox from cham- jonship contention by handing Jen- gln.l’ charges a defeat, as the latter team has dropped two already. The first game will begin at 2 o'clock. Hamel, former American Asso- eiation player who is banging ’'em out now with the Red Sox, will bear watching this afternoon. Hamel has a reputation of being one of the hardest hitters on the sandlots. ‘Two games will inaugurate the Sport Mart League this morning. King's Palace plays Georgetown on diamond No. 3 at 11 o'clock, and Tris Speakers and Colonials clash on the West El- lipse at the same time. The Washington Policemen, who have Been mnvlu&:fi a merry clip in prepa- tation for annhual battle with the Firemen, are loud in their praise of g Jack Coombs, jr., who is pitch- for the second class team of An- napolis. Coombs, son of the former Athletic star, was the only twirler to set down the Cops this week. Glen Echo will have a choice bit of base ball today when George Haney’s Isherwood A. C. meets the up-and- coming Palisades at 3 o'clock. Phoenix A. C. journeys to Shady Oak to play that team at 3 o’clock. A close battle is expected when Fox- hall and the District Grocers meet on Conduit Road Field. The time is 3 o'clock also. ‘Washington A. C. has a morning game with the strong Langleys at 11 o'clock on the North Ellipse. HERE appears to be no rest for our sweltering sandlot- CAPITAL CITY LOOP OFFERS MUCH ACTION ‘With races in the various sections of the Capital City League rapidly nar- rowing down, plenty of brisk battling is on tap for local and suburban fans today. Headlining the program is the St. Joseph-Anacostia Eagle game in the District section. A defeat for either | battle is expected. NIGHT BASE BALL PUTS NEW YORK, August 9 (C. P. A).— | American Association Clubs are going | slow on night ball, advices from that section of the country state. The ex- | periment of Indianapolis is proving a costly one, as far as team standing goes. It was noted that when the Indians |put in their flashlights, they were in | the first division, with a chance of get- ting somewhere. Today they are in { last place. NATIONA = L CIRGLES Cardinal A. C. Has Twin Bill| Listed as Another Alex- andria Feature. LEXANDRIA, Va, August 9.— Reorganized with the return of | their manager, Willle Andrews, after a prolonged {llness, the National Circles of Washington will get off to a fresh start tomorrow when they come here for an engagement with the St. Mary's Celtics at 3 o'clock in Bag- gett's Park. Andrews' teams have always made things hot for local clubs and a fla.shyi Old Dominion Boat Club is planning to expend approximately $4,000 for the improvement of its mooring facilities and the dredging of the entire anchor- age off its club house to a depth of 6 {eet. Recommendation for the spending of | the money for improved mooring con- ditions was made by a committee headed by Arthur M. King after sev- eral months’ investigation. Thirty-two yachts may be anchored off the club’s float when the work is completed. Cardinal A. C. has arranged a double-header for tomorrow on Haydon Fleld at 2 o'clock, with the Hume Spring A. C. furnishing the opposition in the opener and Columbia Engine | Company in the nightcap. The Cardinals have won one game from each of its opponents. Del Ray A. C. will oppose the C. A. | O'Briens, champions of section “A” in the Washington Capital City League, tomorrow at Duncan Field at 3 o'clock. Colonial A. C. and the Penrose A. C. of Arlington County, will play here to- morrow at 3 o'clock on the former's diamond. Charles Corbett, business manager of the St. Mary's Celtics, has arranged a | three-day trip for his tossers the latter | part of this month in Virginia and West Virginia. The Covington Base Ball | Club will be played in all three games. A fishing party of three Alexandrians, headed by the Rev. D. L. Snyder, pastor of the M. E. Church South, returned yesterday from Delaware. They re- ported catching 199 trout, weighing be- tween one and three pounds. J. F. Wilson, coach of the junior base ball team of Alexandria Post, No. 24, American Legion, his announced that his charges will leave here Wednesday for the Southern division quarter-finals of the Nation-wide Legion diamond series at Gastonia, N. C. ‘The Public Recreation Department has decided to hold swimming meets each Wednesday night at 8 o'clock in | the municipal pool for the remainder of the Summer. Sidney Hancock will have charge. Bauserman Motor Co., champlons f the Virginia section of the Capital City League, will entertain the Virginia Dixie Pigs tomorrow at 3 o'clock. Carter Motor Co. has issued a defl to Luke Hoy's Old Dominion Boat Club nine for a game. would mean a severe jolt to their hopes of overtaking the league-leading Co- | Jumbia Heights nine " ‘The complete card: | DISTRICT UNLIMITED (SUNDAY). | Bt. Joseph's vs costia Eagles, Con- @ress Heights Field. 3 Burroughs vs. Arm: Field. 3 oclock. Woodmen vs. Columbia ment diamond No. 4, o’clock. y ‘Medicos, Murroushs Hkflxhll- Monu- | 3 o'clo | PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY (SUNDAY). | Brentwood Hawks at Mount Rainler, 3 ° ’ D5k Pigs vs. Hyattsville, Byrd Sadium, 3 oclock. MONTGOMERY COUNTY (SUNDAY). _Rockville vs. Colontals, at Rockville, 3 | o'clock. | Bethesda vs. Takoma Tigers, at Silver ®pring, 3 o'clock. Kensington v, Chevy Chase, at Chevy Chase, 3 o'clock JUNIOR CLASS (SUNDAY). Lionels vs. Acmes, North Eilipse, 11 ock i "S:L Stephen's vs. Clifton Barbers, No. 1, 3 | © Lionels vs. St Stephen's, West Ellipse, 1 .:!e:hélfln‘rnk. Clifton Barbers, North El- lipse, 1 o'cloc | INSECT CLASS (SUNDAY). o Jonder Boys 73, Georsetown. No. 4, 10:45 EAGLES DEFEAT POLICE | TO WIN 7TH STRAIGHT ‘With Laney Best and Charley Dingler | contributing timely blows, Skinker Eagles won their seventh straight game | yesterday, downing the Washington Po- | licemen, 6 to 4. | Bob Wilson, Maryland University ath- | lete, shone afleld with several nobby | stops at second base. Manager Otto | Spiess of the Police nine produced the i big wallop of the afternoon, a home run | | Al > 1 o Police Thornett.Zh Wazurski,1b Hiser,ss Spiess.ri ... Campbell.3b Eagles fngram.if. Ing Bestrf ... 3 ‘Wilson.3b, Dingler.cf 2| omoomommnBol » Burdette.ss Lynch.3b.. Bugher.1b Pearson.c Mace.p BemousRnos PRSP al noosooommma Totals ..31102713 _ Totals ..31 kinker Eagles. 1 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 Bl 5 100030 Runs—Best (4), Wilson, Dingler, Wazurskl, Rinker. Errors—Ingrai Two-base hits—Din- e hit -Higer. Home un—Spiess. Btolen base_Best. Sacrifice— s ouble playseWiison to. Busher. Wilso x—6 o4 Busher, Sager to by Sager. pings; off Sine. 5 ine. Um- Pires—Messrs. Gould and Baldwin. Time of Ssme—1 hour and 55 minutes. HARVARD TO HAVE COACH FOR 150-POUND ELEVEN CAMBRIDGE, Mass., August 9.—The first 150-] d foot ball team Har- vard will be coached by David Guarnac- cla, star hal on the Crimson foot ball teams of 1926, 1927 and 1928. Guarnaccia was & teammate of Art French, and both players co-ordinated in the execution of the lateral pass, which featured the Crimson’s attack for those seasons. Harvard's lightweights will play a echedule of games and pre- school teams, Wi 3 Kale eleven is pending. A tombstone tournament has been arranged by the Belle Haven Country Club golf committee for September 1. Three games will be played in the Potomac Yard Base Ball League next week. Inspection and Transportation will battle Monday, the Transportation and Agents Friday and Mechanical and Inspection on Friday. All will be staged on Hunton Field at 3 o'clock. INDIANAPOLIS IN CHUTE| 10 VISIT ceLmes “W | Union Printers, “but you can bet on TYPOS' PILOT HITS TERMINAL DIAMOND | {Lowery Asserts His Team| Will Not Play on Union Sta- tion if It Wins Flag. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. E may not win the Gov- | emment League cham- | pionship,” declared Ed Lowery, manager of the this—if we do win, we'll not play in the | city series if it is held at the Terminal | Park.” | Some sandlot fans may be inclined to take Lowery’s declaration lightly on the grounds that his Union Printers have little chance of winning the Gov- ernment flag, but it is not beyond the capabilities of the ball club to do this. | e Printers have two more games, on-:hwl'h Navy Yard and one with| Naval Hospital. Should they win both | and Naval Hospital beats the Gun-| makers on Wednesday what a merry | time will be had. The Sailors, Navy Yard and the Typos would be tied for first place! Thlg announcement on the part of the Typos will not be taken so lightly should they contrive to cop the pen- nant. It will mean there’ll be plenty of fireworks, for without the Govern- ment League entry, which, along with the Terminal League winner, composes the outstanding threats in the city series, interest in the play-off for the District title would fall quicker than any of our modern heavyweights ever have. Lowrey's reasons for refusing to play in the Union Station Park are obvious, yet nothing can be done ta renfedy the situation. It's the only fleld that is available with sufficient accomodations for both monetary and attendance comfort. “The Terminal Park,” avers Lowery, “though possessing a good infield, has an abbreviated left field, a sloping right field, a backstop that is too close to the catcher and is surrounded by a fence which makes it almost impossible for a batter to be retired on a foul ball. Outside of that,” says Ed, “it's all right.” The Union Printers claim that the field favors the Terminal League win- ner in that the players become ac- customed to the shortcomings and adapt themselves to them. However, A. L. Hightman, secretary of the Ter- minal Y. M..C. A, and the Pullman club declare they are willing to take the game anywhere. But here’s where the catch comes in—the board of di- rectors, composed of league presidents, voted earlier in the year to retain the field as the battlefield and there ap- pears no way to repeal it. So while it is true that the Printers haven’t much show in the Government League, there’ll be something doing in case they do. Manager Ott Speless of the Washing- ton Police nine, announces that his team has added strength for the com- ing police-firemen classic. Lefty ‘Thompson, a newcomer to the squad, he claims, should bolster his mound staff. But Lefty, it has been revealed, hasn't pitched a game of ball for 10 years. There's nothing like new blood, but 10 years is such & long time. One of the reasons why the Nolan Motor Co., is playing bang-up this sea- son is the work of Cleve Jarvis, 17- year-old infielder-outfielder. Cleve harbors an ambition to play professional ball and is leaving no stones unturned in his efforts to work in plenty of practice as well as games. When the Nolans are carded at 3 o'clock, Cleve generally arrives on the field at 10 o'clock and practices until game time. His record is an enviable one, too. He's batting an even .400, fielding well above par, and possesses a powerful arm. DOUBLE NUMBERS II;DIXIE. ATLANTA, August 9 (#)—Foot ball uniforms numbered fore and aft will be in the maj in the Southern Confer- ence this Fall. Georgia, Georgla Tech, Florida, Vanderbilt, Tulane, Auburn, Kentucky and Clemson will use double numbers, and others are expected to fall in line. Along the Water Front By Carrol UST when we thought we had discovered a nice issue that would be good for yards and yards of space during our more dull moments the issues ups and dies right where it's been for 25 years with- out even a sign of illness or high blood pressude. We refer to the celebrated case of Gas Works vs. Anacostia Branch, the question of to oil or not to oil or who | is the guilty party. It's alll over but the shouting. Just as we had gotten | ourselves a nice book of adjectives to hurl at heartless Big Corporations and Capital and had our vituperator all tuned up, the whole thing went to pot. Why? Why, Vice President Wood- head and Chief Engineer Russell have popped out the statement that the ol Will be checked, eliminated, stopped. and that right soon. The really nice thing about their statement is that they have made no conditions, there are no ifs nor buts. Unconditionally and absolutely stopped, and we can ask | no more—except that the stoppage be | accomplished soon, which we are sure will be. Cheers! Right has | umphed! OWEVER, the settling of the oil question doesn’t leave us withou anything to do. That's merely surface matter (no pun intended). We've got to go deeper than that, thcugh Lord knows it isn’t safe. We— all the boatmen and all interested in the river—we have plenty to do, an old matter to clear up and a threatened one to fight. Firstly. The new matter. Our jolly engineer commissioner has proposed the beautiful scheme of closing down the dumps on the Virginia side of the High- way Bridge, loading the refuse on scows and transporting it to some point down the river where it will not constitute a nuisance or litter up the shores, Your duty is plain, roar, and roar loudly in places wgere the roars will be effective. There is no place in the river where coming a nuisance. And as for littes ing up the shores, the Potomac is al- ready littered for miles with the trash and refuse from our city. To carry it farther down river would only increase our influence as it were. At preSent the tip of Buzzards Point is being utilized as a dumping place for trash of all description and every tide adds to the debris in the harbor. The presence of a dump at this point adds little to the beauty of the water front and constitutes a menace to the many pleasure craft that ply the river. Nearby the Corinthian Club is creating a new basin and transforming tri- | Klotzbach: maintenance of this trash heap at their very gates. Now for the old matter. Pollution! And plenty of it! Not new, not re- cent. But constantly increasing, daily the river becomes murkier and filthier with the refuse from manufacturing plants, waste products of all varieties being poured into our celebrated “his- toric Pctomac.” The District of Co- lumbia carefully pipes its sewage to a point below Hains Point in the vain hope that waste matter will be carried away from the city—what actually occurs on each tide is visible in the channel of the Potomac proper and the branch. The waters surrounding Wash- ington actually stink! A blindfold test would be a mere gesture. 'HE Ike Walton League labors un- ceasingly for the betterment of these intolerable conditions, carry- ing their fight into the halls of Con- gress and into the White House itself. We read of their activities, we witness the results. They battle gallantly against enormous odds, against red tape, inertia, precedent. Hurrah for them! But! The yachtsmen, the very ones to expect in the thick of the fight, the very people most affected by this prob- lem, except in a few isolated instances, are to be found sitting smugly back with folded hands letting George, or in this case, Ike, do it. It isn't sport- ing! It isn't what one might expect of men who are inclined to regard themselves and their sport rather highly, yet what yacht clubs possess pollution committees or .what might pass for such? One, the Washington Club and that committee but recently formed, to cover a specific purpose, the elimination of oil in the Eastern Branch. It is hoped that their task when ac- complished will lead them on to fur- ther effort with regard to other varie- ties of polllution. ‘The one committee that might, if given the proper powers, act effectively in matters of this sort, the Interclub Committee, is practically a dead letter and entirely ineffective so far as any real action is concerned. Their one accomplishment, the dragging of the Gunston Channel is one that might have been effected without their serv- ices were there any real co-operative spirit between the clubs. Why not em- power this committee to be the ad- vance guard of the battle of the clubs against pollution, without being com- pelled to refer every trimmed hangnail, every near effort, back to the clubs for further action, thus automatically kill- ing any real constructive ideas that may develop and delaying action for ime that the original issue by the time it is slated to ting Ike do it? CAPITAL ANGLERS FARE WELL IN SOUTHERN WATERS A catch of nearly 400 The Washington men and charter jr. of the Street; Dr. Kalorama road. D. C, AUGUST 10, 1930—PART FIVE. Sandlot Races Keep Pace With Weather : Carey Is Chasing Rainbows in Heavies in the Gulf Stream and adjacent waters near Miami by a group of Washington anglers. 1,500 pounds and was made from the charter fishing boat Amron II, under command of Capt. Clarence R. Fine of Miami. deep sea fish, including several of the elusive sailfish, dolphin and bonita, was made recently | The catch weighed about boatmen with them, as shown in the picture (left to right) are: John H. Wilkins, Wilkins Coffee Co.;: Harry Quimby, Miami, second mate; Capt. Fine; Dr. Francis H. Miner, John R. Sharp, 1861 Wyoming avenue; Charles Fine, Miami, second mate, and Dr. Gregg C. Birdsall, 1832 1842 Sixteenth Dr. Miner landed the largest fish, a 54-pound sailfish, during the week’s cruise, which started from Miami. By FRANK ‘The Star of July 12 contained sug- gestions from J. W. Byler, with com- ments thereon, with references to prep~ arations for the next cable match be- tween London and Washington, the date of which has been fixed for March 21, 1931. It was proposed that there be preliminary tournaments open to players who would contribute $1 to a fund to defray the expenses of the coming cable match. These tourna- ments were for thepurpose of ascer- taining the strength of the different players in the city, and for practice and development. To this suggestion N. T. Whitakes has made reply. He regards the sug gestion as a good one; but he thinks there should be a modification of the plan. He states: “The main objection I see to this plan is this: In a tourna- ment many games are decided in the ending. Modern play means the ac- ending. One might win the tourna- ment by getting an equal or inferior ending. The cable chess matches are only opening and middle game play. Unfortunately, as you state, we have never reached an average of 30 moves. Even with the increase of playing hours from 9 to 10 there will be no end-game play. It would be ideal if we had a tournament to adjudicate games after 30 moves. This would force players to try to get a winning position in the opening.” Byler thinks the suggested modifica- tion & good one. He also suggests for the purpose of practice and in aid of the finances that three or four of the leading District players engage all- comers in simultaneous play, all games to be adjudicated at the end of 30 moves, and each participant to pay a fee, to go to the expense fund of the cable match. ticipant to pay a fee, to go to the ex- Local players are taking a great deal of interest in the forthcoming match, and players are brushing up their chess knowledge. Libraries report an active demand for modern chess books. It is probable that early in the Fall there will be a getting together of some of the best local talent for purposes of practice. HE annual championship tourna- ment of the Southeastern Chess Association was held at Tampa, Fla, from July 14 to 19 last. There | were 11 entries in this feature, includ- ing representatives from Albany, Sa- vannah, Macon, Atlanta and Thomas- ville, Ga.; Birmingham, Ala.; Tampa, Jacksonville and Winter Haven, Fla. It was & double-round affair, and de- veloped into a lively three-cornered fight for first place between Nestor Hernandez of Tampa, P. J. Walker of Savannah and W. N. Woodbury of Birmingham. Hernandez won first place with a score of 172 won and 21 lost, and Walker and Woodbury tied for’ second place with the score of 16 won and 4 lost. Next year's tourney will be held in Atlanta, Ga., the week of July 14. NITED STATES Champion Frank J. Marshall plans to remain in Europe and may take part in the international tournaments being planned either at Frankfort, Germany, or Liege, Belgium. The Frankfort tournament is to be held the latter part of this month with 10 or 12 entrants. Meantime he is to give a simultancous exhibition at HE solution to the George E. Car- penter _two-move last week, is Q-KR3. A solution was received from Jacob Frech, the well known local problem solver, who has an original method of solving problems by a system of logic. Concerning Car- penter’s problem he says: “The ingeni- ous two-mover generates about 2,000 series, among which is carefully con- cealed one forced two-move mate. Any chess player, who is not conversant with this species of problem, of whom I unfortunately found myself to be one, may have to carefully inspect nearly all of the 2,000 series before he tries the key move and then may misjudge it at first, as I did, and only find it to be effective after ample reverification of premises.” PROBLEM. which may be consid- ered a companion to the George E. Carpenter problem is a three-mover by John Hane. It has identically the same pleces on the board as the Car- penter problem and embraces the same theme. Position: White—K at QB5, Q at Q5, R at KR6, 3 pieces; Black— K at KB5, 1 plece. Solution next week, Fans Are Thumbs Down On Pugilistic Game Now CHICAGO, August 9 (CP.A)— ‘The turnstiles that hummed a golden tune for boxing promoters during the past 10 years are becom- ing rusty and the business of modi- fied murder is slipping into the financial doldrums. Either the fight fans are showing their disapproval of the odious fouls that have besmirched the game so often in recent months or else ‘money is becoming too scarce to ex- pend upon the antics of the gladi- ators. A well known boxing manager told the writer a story of financial flops in recent bouts that would in- dicate the game is in r condi- tion and that the highly paid fight- ers of the soon will be forced to gamble main o.nnpemnunurelvt cumulation of advantages to win an | problem, given | IN CHESS CIRCLES B. WALKE Send solutions and comments to Chess, | 1486 Meridian street northwest. ERE is the score of a game played by J. R. Capablanca against Dr. O. S. Bernstein at Moscow in 1914. It is noteworthy for-the beautiful combina- tion by which Capablanca won the game. Queen’s Gambit Declined. Black. White. _ Black. bl B'rsteln, Cap'bI'nca. , P-gi 1o KR-o" KRG P—QB4 P B_Kt5 . Kt—QBS3 Kt_KB3 QR_B | Kt_B3 B_K: PXP B_Kt5 __Cas BXKt . P—K3 QKt—Q2 Kt—a¢ R_B P—QKu PXP PXP. ] Q—R¢ BKiz R—B3 BXB B2 = . QXB . BXKt 3. PXP . Castles %) PB4 26 Ki_Kt5 KtXB 27, PXP 28, Q_Ki3 29, P—B5 Capablanca made_his _twenty-ninth move, whereupon, Dr. Bernstein re- signed. What was Capablanca’s twen- ty-ninith move? _ If Bernstein had played 22 RXP, the reply would have been Ki—B6, winning. ERTAIN members of the Metro- politan Police force are wonders at catching criminals, but when it comes to catching fish, well, the less sald the better. District Attorney Leo A. Rover, Harry Deitz- baugh, clerk of the Criminal Court, Lieut. Charles J. P. Weber, Detective George Weber, detailed to the District attorney’s office and Detective Howard Ogle recently visited Point Lookout on a fishing trip. These anglers landed 20 hardheads, 29 trout, some Norfolk spots and a big flounder. After the | party had been fishing for some time, | Detective Ogle remarked: “This is too | slow for me” and thereupon started | to pull in his line. Much to his sur- | prise he found he had a fish on it. said | fish being a trout which turned out to the largest landed by any. of the party. Some people are just lucky. Donald N. Carpenter, local filshing enthusiast, told us of a trip he made last Sunday down the river to Piscata- way Creek. He said he had the time of his life landing rock weighing about a pound each with a fly rod. Car- penter said these fish weer caught in water about three or four feet deep and the battle they put up using a fly rod was really great sport. RABS have been caught in local waters for the last three years. Last Summer some were caught in the Tidal Basin, but this year reports reaching us say that they are being caught on a commercial basis within 20 miles of Washington. Salt water fish are also being caught in the Po- tomac around Fort Humphreys. Owing to the lack of rain there is practicall no current in the Potomac below Wash- ington, and in consequence the tides have backed up the salt water much farther than usual. And the salt water is not the only | thing that has backed up toward Wash- ington. The city's sewer system flows {into the Potomac this side of Alexan- dria, and when there is a good breeze |from the southwest each incoming tide brings some of this waste material right back to Hains Point. This is very unpleasant to the many thousands of motorists who flock to this attractive place these hot days and nights, espec- ially when one’s sense of smell is a least bit sensitive. ASHINGTON is going to be in a few years the most beautiful city in the world. Why not turn the est rivers in the world and allow it to one of Washington’s recreational centers, for bathers, canoeing parties, anglers and whatever other sports it can be used. Why not cut down the sea grass along the seawall which at low tide is not only an unpleasant sight but adds materially to the odors which continually offend motorists. A motorist on a recent visit to Rock Creek Park where he intended to spend children and eat his supper was forced to move owing to the odor arising from the waters of this beautiful creek. And in this same water on any afternoon early evening may be seen hundreds of children wading and splashing water all over them. Last year the children were warned not to wade in Rock Creek. Nothing has been done so far to correct this evil, yet three times as many are using the waters of Rocl Creek this year to keep cool than in past years. THE health authorities of Fairfax County have warned all residents not to use the waters of the Poto- mac for swimming. They know how polluted it is. Some time, somehow, something will be done to correct this growing evil, but why wait? Must we wait until there is a disease epidemic? GREAT many of us remember the days when we could sit on a rock along the Potomac between George- town and the Chain Bridge and catch all the white perch we wanted. I re- member when I could get a market basketful in little or no time. Now one historic Potomac into one of the clean-| a few hours with his wife and small| R | wants 40 per cent for Singer. | | | | SINGER-BERG CLASH HITS A MONEY SNAG NEW YORK, August 9.—Negotiations were launched yesterday for a light- weight championship battle in which Al Singer would defend his recently ac- quired title against Jack (Kid) Berg, English conqueror of Kid Chocolate, at | the Yankee Stadium on September 11, but without producing a definite result. ‘The Madison Square Garden Corpo- ration sought the match in a discussion with Hymie Caplin, Singer’s manager, and Sol Gold, manager of Berg, but found a wide discrepancy in the finan- cial demands of the prospective rivals Singer is entitled, under the rules of the State Athletic Commission, to the champion’s percentage of 37% per cent, while Berg, as challenger, qualifies for 121, per cent. But, weighing the re- spective drawing powers of the cham- plon and challenger, Gold is demand- ing 25 per cent for Berg, while Caplin It is pos- sible that the negotiations will be sub- mitted to the commission for adjust- ment. Monte Weaver, one of the pitchers | with the Baltimore Orioles, gave up a | professorship in mathematics at Vir- ginia to play base ball. ROD AND STREAM BY PERRY MILLER is lucky if he returns with a dozen. You can't fool the fish, they know when they reach polluted water. This year for the first time in the memory of the oldest angler the herring did not pay us a visit. We waited and waited for the run of herring, but none came. On a lesser scale the same condition has ap- plied to the annual runs of other deni- zens of the deep. These fish can be lo- cated in large numbers farther down the Potomac, but not around Washington. Why? The answer is as plain as the mose on your face—POLLUTION. This column has been calling atten- tion to the pollution of the Potomac River for at least five years. It was backed up by a survey made by the Public Health Service and an analysis of the waters made by the Health D partment. When the President ha the District officials at his camp re- cently it is safe to say that he called their attention to this subject. The Health Department, it was learned last week, has been busily engaged for the | past week or 10 days assisting the Public Health Service in testing samples of water taken from the Potomac. The result of these reports is eagerly awaited. | STAGG, GRIDIRON N?ENTOR, Berg Fired 2,426 Blows To 1,410 for Chocolate NEW YORK, August 9 (CP.A).— By actual count, Jack (Kid) Berg fired 2,426 punches at Kid Choco- late in their 10-round boxing duel at the Polo Grounds Thursday night. The chart shows that the Cuban was a busy boy himself, with 1,410 attempts to park his gloves on the British boy. The grand total was 3,386. That's a lot of punches, whether they Janded or not. The fight lasted 1,800 seconds, so the boys were heaving leather at an average of more than two punches per second. If you think that is play, just try it some time on your punching bag. You'll find out, even though the bag doesn’t hit back. The figures show, then, that Berg turned loose slightly more than 1,000 more punches than his oppo- nent. The White Chapel Whirlwind proved once more that he deserves that sobriquet. 13 CLUBS ENTERED INCANOE REGATTA : . | A. C. A. Championships on; Upper Potomac Course Include 14 Events. | land, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York are expected to compete here in the Delaware-Chesa- peake division of the American Canoe Association championships to be held September 13 on the upper Potomac course under the auspices of the Potomac Boat Club. The regatta, composed of 14 events in the junior and senior classes, is one of the outstanding water events of the season and is expected to draw many of the best bladesmen in the Middle At- lantic section. Six perpetual trophies will be award- ed winners who hold A, C. A. member- ship. The Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy is to be awarded the A. C. A. club scoring the greatest number of points. The Evening Star Trophy goes to the crew first across the line in the senior four-single-blade race, the Washington Post Trophy to the winning crew in the senfor four-double-blade race, the Washington Times Trophy to the win- ning crew in_ the junior four-double- blade race, the Potomac Boat Club Trophy to the crew first across the line in the junior four-single-blade race and the Red Dragon Trophy to be awarded to the first Delaware-Chesa- peake man across the line in the senior man_ one-double-blade event. All races will be over the half-mile | straightaway course from the Colonial Boat Club to the Potomac Boat Club. Gold, silver and bronze medals are to be awared for first three palces, includ- | ing paddlers who do not hold the A. C. A. membership. Capt. Ernie Millar of the Potomac Boat Club has been appointed chairman of the committee, with J. W. Birch, Delawarc-Chesapeake division, as assist- ant chairman. Clubs expected to enter are as fol- lows: Yonkers C. C. of New York, Pen- dleton C. C. of New York. Inwood C. C. of New York, Indian Head C. C. of New York, Young Men’s Club of Bristol, Pa.; Red Dragon C. C. of Edgewater Park, N. Philadelphia C. C. of Phil- adelphia, Pa; Cacawa C. C. of Tacony, Pa.; Dundalk C. C. of Baltimore, Md.. City Island C. C. of New York. Old Dominion B. C. of Alexandria, Va.; Potomac B. C. of Washington and the ‘Washington Canoe Club. ‘The list of events: Junior—One man single blade, tan- dem single blade, fours single blade, one man double blades, tandem double blades, fours double blades, tilt. | -Senior—One man single blade, tan- { dem single blade, fours single blade, | | one man double blades, tandem double | | blades, fours double blades, tilt. | HIRTEEN canoe clubs from Washington, Virginia, Mary- Sense of Humor Lifesaver for Art BY AL DEMAREE. | Former Pitcher, New York Giants. | Art “The Great” Shires, who is | now pastiming for the Washington Senators, s one of the few real col- | orful athletes in modern base ball WILL BE 68 AUGUST 16 A. A. Stagg, veteran foot ball coach, will be 68 years old August 16. A month later he will start off his thirty-ninth season as coach of the University of Chicago Maroons. The | boys have grown up and are helping | him, the oldest son an assistant coach ' and the youngest & player. | His thirty-ninth year isn't going to be a light assignment, either, for he has only eight veterans back. BRITISH TRACK SQUAD SEEN AS REAL THREAT J. Lyman Bingham of the A. A. U, | sounds a warning fo the athletes of | America who meet the British Au-| gust 27: | “The British team will be the strong- est ever to represent the empire. It offers the most serious challenge ever made of American supremacy.” STRIBLING IS WILLING TO BATTLE SCHMELING LONDON, August 9 (P).—Young Stribling, American boxer, left London today for his Georgla home and a holiday. i All he would say was “I had a good time. The British public is great and | I hate to go home” ¢ | The fighter said thathis father was handling his business arrangements and that he hoped to would be put into 8 Ting with Max Schmeling, German xer. i { All-National Lea;;; . Team Picked by Cain “If T were picking an all-star Na- tional League team on the basis of the season’s play so far,” writes Cul- len Cain, from his conning tower on John Arnold Heydler’s gallant craft, “the following would be my unhesitat- ing choice: Pitchers—Collins, Phillies; Malone, Cubs; Walker, Giants; Clark, Robins. Catchers—Lopez, Robins; Hogan, Giants. First base—Terry, Glants. Second base—Frisch, Cardinals. Third base—Lindstrom, Giants. Shortsto elbert, Cardinals. Left flel ‘omorosky, Pirates. Center field—Wilson, Cubs. Right field—Klein, Phillies. “‘Honorable mention for thoss com- in, close to earning places in such a line-up should go to Cuyler, Critz, Jackson, Lucas, Kremer, Seibold, Vance, Paul Waner, Ott, Herman, Whitney, O'Farrell and ‘Wright. Babe Ruth, Hack Wilson, Babe Her- | | man and Rabbit Maranville are the | only others I can think of at the | present moment. Shires first began to attract pub- lic attention when he socked Lena Blackburne, the former White Sox manager, for calling him an ingrate AN INGRATE, EN? NOBODY CAN CALL A STOVE AND GET AWAY WITH 1T~ 1S ;{xunr all the favors Lena had showed The players tell me that Art took a swing at Blackburne, then saying that “nobody could call him the ‘in- side of a stove’ and get away with it,” thus showing he had a sense of ‘humor. I think it is a sense of humor that makes colorful ball players. Maybe that is why there is such a dearth of them. Warren wn, the famous sports writer, claimed once that if a ball player had & sense of humor he wouldn't be a ball player. Shires has disproved this, for he is both. More power to him and others like him. The Babe Ruths, Rabbit Mar- anvilles and Art Shires are always " (Gppyrisht. 19300 LACK OF MATERIAL HIS BIG PROBLEM Sharkey-Stribling Bout Seen as Just Another Box Office Disaster. i N Bill” Carey, director of Madi- son Square Garden, continues | to seek the pot of gold at the | end of the rainbow. The intrepid Irish- _ ! man has achleved world fame by build- | ing tunnels through the Andes Moun- | tains, laying steel rails in the wilder- ness and bullding airplane landing flelds at the foot of steep crags. But there is one job in which “Wild Bl has failed, and that is in staging a heavyweight extravaganza on the scale set by his predecessor, the late Tex Rickard. Bill is still trying. Rickard had e material to work with and Cary hasn't. That sums up the story in a few words. Carey became disgusted with the tac- tics of Joe Jacobs, manager of Max Schmeling, and vowed he would fot do any business with the Teuton or his ad- viser. Always a good spcrt, Bill stepped aside when a Sclemeling-Sharkey match was in the making and permitted his genial general manager, Frank Bruen, to conduct the negotiations. But Bill had an ace up his sleeve, and that was that in the event Schmeling won the world title he would defend it for the Madison Square Garden Corporation. And so it turned ous. Schmeling is tied to the Garden management, and Carey has everything his own way, provided he can produce a standout opponent for Schmeling. Sharkey-Stribling Doubtful. With this thought in mind, Carey made a hurried trip to Boston to con- sult Sharkey concerning a match with Young Stribling. Assuredly Bill Carey is an optimist of the first water if he thinks he can put over a Sharkey- Stribling contest within the confines of New York. After weighing Sharkey and Stribling’s worth as box office_at- tractions, one is apt to wonder how carey could nave the temerity to in- fiict such a contest on the fans of New York. Both men have had their chances and signally failed. Contests in which they participated were ballyhooed to the skies only to prove more like wrestling matches or else wind up with one man writhing on the floor in agony from foul blows. This writer considers Jack Sharkey the outstanding heavyweight of the day. Stribling’s recent feats in stop- ping Otto Von Porat and Phil Scott have redeemed him somewhat. But both Sharkey and Stribling have a wholesome fear of each other and this speils a dreary contest such as was enacted at Miami Beach two years ago. No one would want to witness such a flasco again. Idleness Hurting Jack. Idleness is playing havoc with Shar- key’s condition. A bankroll running into six figures is changing him fMto a smug, contended capitalist with an exaggerated idea of his importance in the boxing world. This, more than anything else, is wearing the polish off fighting formi. If he continues this mode of living and thinking, Mr. Shar- key will be pie for the first ambitious. youngster to come along. Stribling is fired with the ambition to become a champion. He is a seeker of color. While he has the ability to come through with convincing testi- mony of his worth, he has besn handi- | capped by too solicitous care of his parent-managers. Pa and Ma Stribling have doue more to retard young W. L.'s career in ring than anything their son has perpetrated. The fight racket is a tough one. It is a case of give and take with the best man coming out on top. Pa Stril 'S idea is that it’s all right to beat a man into insensibility, but he is not willing to see his son take a chance of getting the same dose. H: is willing to see his offspring score a knockout, but he is the first to counsel caution if his boy BY SPARROW McGANN. EW YORK, August 9.—"Wild | is on the receiving end of the exchange. ‘These tactics cost Stribling a victory over Sharkey and there is no doubt that young W. L. disliked the instruc- tions he followed when he went out for the concluding round of his fight at Miami Beach. Bilk Carey has had his ups and downs since he entered the promotional end of the fight game. His heavyweight matches have drawn little more than cover costs that should be a lesson to him. An attempt to put over a Shar- key-Stribling fight in this city in the closing months of the outdoor season would surely entail another loss. 'MARCEY WINS TROPHY IN GUN CLUB SHOOT Scoring 49 times in the fifty 16-yard target match, J. Marcey yesterday an- nexed the high scratch trophy in the weekly shoot at the Washington Gun Club. Marcey also won a leg on the Lane miss-and-out prize from a field of nine. Keen competition marked the Singer handicap contest, with Dr. Stine scor- ing a win in the first 25 by going straight. Frank Burrows was high in the second 25-match with 23 hits. R. D. Morgan won the last match of the afternoon, the 12 pairs doubles, while Monroe, Shelton, Britt, Livesey and Burrows decided a tie for added-target trophy by drawing lots. Livesey drew the lucky number. ARD TARGETS—Marcey. tine, 47 Britt, 48; Burrows, Mo: 44, S 21 INGER . WANBICAF o > ORES — 4 5210 Burrows. 33233 Wankbop, 25 31: Sheiton, 18—20: Livesey, 22—321: Monroe, ;C;F"Z‘l le‘rce!y 24-20; Morgan, 23-31; 12 P, DOUBLES—! : 20; Shelton, 18, Morgan, Gac " 20¢ Monroe. Song of Service! Many sing our praise be- cause of our unusually efficient and courteous service in serv- ing them. Gas, oil, greasing, lubricating, ‘washing, FI“ST%NB TIRES :‘I‘ TUBES and a complete line es.