Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1930, Page 41

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1930. SPORTS. Uncle Sam Outrun But Reigns Afield: D. C. Shoe Pitchers Ready for Play-offs 'BRITISH DEFEATED IN STIRRING MEET Record Crowd of 43,000 Sees Americans Win Nine of Fourteen Events. By the Associated Press. ~HICAGO, August 28.—Un- cle Sam still reigns su-| preme in track and field athletics — with emphasis on the “field.” Before a crowd of 43,000 spec- tators, the largest ever to watch | a track meet on the American continent, the United States, for the third time, defeated the pick of Great Britain’s track and field stars, in Soldier Field Stadium last night. g The event, conducted under artificial lighting, was more impressive than meets held in the day time. and provided the throng with one thrill after another, as gnclc Sam triumphed, nine events to ve. The American team won over the llant empire team in the same fash- on they won the 1928 Olympic games at Amsterdam—by immense superiority in the field events. Not a point did the British score in the field, and had their field strength been comparable to_their power in the distance races, the United States probably would have suffered its first. defeat in the duel meet. Eight meet records were wrecked, five of them by the Americans. Start- ing with the 400-yard relay, the open- ing event, the Americans went on to win the pole vault, shotput, high jump, 480-yard shuttle hurdle reiay, hammer throw, broad jump, javelin throw and mile medley relay. The Britans tri- umphed in ‘the 1-mile relay, the 4-mile relay, 2-mile relay, 2-mile steeplechase and 3-mile team race. Thomas Impressive. ‘While the wearers of the American shields were supreme in the field, the British gave them a man-sized lesson in the distance runs. The 4-mile relay 'was a race until R. H. Thomas of Eng- land, hooked up with Ray Conger of the Illinois A. C, in the final mile. ‘Thomas, who did 4:14 in winning the mile in the empire games at Hamilton, Ontario, last week, stayed near Conger | F. until the last half-mile, but from there on he stepped out and at the finish had a lead of 70 yards over the American ace. His mile was run inm just a frac- tion over 4:15 and was as impressive as any performance in the meet. The British were no less superior in the 2-mile relay. The first half of the race was a contest, but Phil Edwards, former New York University Negro star, competing for British Guina, ran R. jr., of the Pennsylvania C., into the ground and left by A. Golding of Australia, W. J. Walter of Sou rica and Alex Wilson of Canada and Notre Dame. Steve Anderson of the Washington A. C., Seattle, formerly of the University of Washington, put the big punch in the record-breaking of .the United States in the shuttle relay. He started just ahead of Lord David Burghley of England, but had a 2};-yard at the finish. The time was 0:59.5, against the former record of 1:0! Lord Burghley, however, was not de- prived of participation in a victory for he raced the last lap of the steeplechase relay in such style as to nullify the efforts of previous Amer- ican runners and cause the British flag to be raised. Javalin Champ Hurt. Both Eddle Tolan, world record hold- er in the 100-yard dash, and George Simpson of Ohio Stete were held out of the special 100-yard dash to save them for the 1-mile mediey relay. ‘The event became an all-American af- fair. Ralph Metealf, Negro ace, from ‘Tilden Technical High of Chicago and national junior A. A. U. champion in the 100 and 220 yard dashes, finished first in 0:009.8, with Hector Dyer, Stan- ford University, second, and Charlie Farmer of North Caroll third. James De Mers of Los Angeles, na- tional A. A. U. javelin champion, wrenched his arm in his first throw and was unable to try again, but the rest of the American team, Lee Bartlett of Albion College and L. D. Weldon of Towa, were good enough to offset his loss and score a vietory. Herman Brix of the Los Angeles A. C. led the United States victory in the shotput with an effort of 50 feet 5 inches, while Walter Party of the Olympic Club, San Francisco, led the high jumpers with 6 feet 514 inches. Tom Warne of Northwestern University was easily the class of the pole-vaulting field with a leap of 13 feet 514 inches and A. H. Bates of Penn St the broad jumpers at 23 feet 3 Won by Great Roger Leighwood, V. E. Morgan, Lord David Burghley): second, United States (Clyde Blanchard, Virgil Gist Russell Pomeroy, Morgen ‘Taylor). Time, ’t Two-mile steeplecha Britain (R. W. Tathi Three-mile team race—Won by Great Brit- : d First, Evanston (England); fourth, Mc- Winner's . time, (England): ' seco . Hillhouse Cluskey (United Stater). 4 ew meet recerd: 14:358, by Booth. United States, in_1929.) 480-yard "shuttle hurdle re on by United States (Lee Sentman, J. E. Hatfield, Charles Kastor. 'Steven erson) . Lord :59.5. (New meet 1:016, by United States, 1024. Four-mile relay—Won' by Great Britain (J. Walters, Willlam Whyte and second. United States (G. kers. Rufus Kiser and Ray » 17:22.4. (New meet record: former ‘record, 17:226, by British Empire team, in 1928.) -yard ' relay—Won by United States (Russell Sweet, Oy Leland, George Simpson Ed, ; ‘second, Great Britain P. Page and t Britain (K. J. Walter and States (Riley Lewis and e, . Golding. W. second, United Nate Long, John e land’s T. Hampson with nothing to | wood Wrisht, R but hold a 20-yard lead over Orval rtin of Purdue, Western Conference national collegiate middle-distance chaapion. Yanks Step Lively. Records started falling in the first event. Russell Sweet, former Montana sprint star; Cy Leland of Texas Chris- tian University; George Simpson, Ohio State comet, and Eddie Toland of the University of Michigan, did 0:37.5 in the 400-yard relay to defeat Leigh Mil- ler of Canada, W. B. Legg of South Africa, E. L. Page of England and Johnny Fitzpatrick of Canada and bet- ter the formed mark of 0:378. Great Britain came back with a su- perb performance in the mile relay, rac- ng it in 3:16.8. K. C. Bragwin, first British runner, drop) the baton near the end of his lap, but no protest was made, and the victory was allowed to stand for the empire. He was followed by Ralph M calfe (Chase Park A. C., Chicago); ector ~ Dyer (Leland ~ Stanford): harles Farmer (University of North Caro- lina). (Points did not count in this event.) Time, 0:09.8 Won by the United States with height 38 feet inches (Te feet 11 inches inches). Shotput—Won by United States with ag- gregate disiance of 148 feet 1% inches (Her- feet 4 inches; Harlow Rothert, Paul_Jessup, 48 feet 1% reat Britain, 133 feet 9% ng R. L. States, in 1928.) Two-mile relay—Won by Great Britain (J. SPECIAL ABOR DAY OFFER FREE TUBE With Every New Tire Purchased Don’t Take Ch ances! BUY FEDERALS MAKE YOUR TR IP IN SAFETY ‘When tire prices are so reasonable as you find them here, there’s no argument treads ready to blow at any trips by tire changes on the road. for taking chances with minute. Don’t spoil your Replace your old ‘ones with brand new, guaranteed mileage tires offered here at sensational saVings. Come in and inspect these tire bargains today at lower prices than you usually pay for seconds or mail order tires. 2-mile | former record, | By Colored ITH & majority of playground and neighborhood cham- pions established, Washing- ton colored horseshoe pitch- ers are waiting for the call to bat- |tle for the divisional titles, dates of |which will be announced shortly. |The playground and neighborhood courts have been grouped into four divisions, two in the FEast section and two in the West. The Willow | Tree division will compete in the East | section, which is & change from last year's grouping. Arthur A. Greene, general chairman the colored metropolitan tourns- ::ent, suggests that all contestants | study the rules of the games carefully. | Copies of the rules may be obtained |from playground and neighborhood | officials. Greene avers. that the rules |'will be followed strictly, and in all | cases protests should be made imme- diately to referee and judges in charge | of tournament. in the final | round, a match will consist of one au- | point ‘game. The final match will be two out of three 50-point games. | 'Two players (winner and runner-up) | will represent each division in the next stage of the tournament. In the divi- sional play-offs runners-up will be | paired with champions in the first | round of play. In a few days divisional groupings and playground and neigh- borhood champions will be announced with places and dates of matches. ‘Chairman Julius Wheeler of North handler, H. 8. Townsend, Phil Edwards, F Gnskon) second, United States (EQwin Genung, L. , R. Beetham, ir.; Orva Martin). Time, 7:423 (New meet record; former record, 7:48.8, by Great Britain, in 1928.) High fump—Won by United States with agsregate helght of 19 feet 92 inches (Wal ter Marty, 6 feec 5iy inches: Anton Burg and H. Laailette, tied ay 6 feet 4Vs inches): second. Great Britain, 17 feet 91, inches (C. E. 8. Gordon, 6 feet 112 inches: C. Starglatt | and J. Portland, tied at § feet 10 inches). | (New meet record; former Tecord, 19 feet, by United States, in ) Broad jump—won by United States with aggregate distance of 69 feet 51a inches (A. H. Bates, 23 feet, 3% inches: George Martin, 23 feel 3% inches: Sol Furth, 22 feet 113 inches): second. Great Britain, 64 feet 1% inches (R. W. Evans, 21 feet 8% inches: C. Smith, 21 feei 7 inches; L, Hutton, 21 feet), \Divisional -Play-Offs Awaited Horseshoe Pitchers Brentwood will run off semi-finals to- morrow evening. The pairings lghman Pirst match—Felix uel Williams. Second match—Lawson Lewis vs. Bernard Tilghman. Third match—Loser of first match to play winner of second match for run- ner-up position. Fort Berry, Va., finals will be staged today. Robinson and Marshall will com- pete for the title, and a tight battle is expected. Vista twirlers are drilling hard, re- | ports Willlam Hackney, chairman of the Vista and Lincoln tournaments. Semi-finals will be played tomorrow night. Hackney is defending the crown. Samuel Murray, Falls Church chair- man, will finish preliminary play Fri- day. Games are played up to the late hours of the night on illuminated courts. Candidates for Falls Church are exhibiting extraordinary ability. Mnlny have mastered the open shoe style. ‘vs. Sam- Sergt. A, Hayes, title holder of the Cook pjayground, is convalescing after attending the Spanish American War Veterans Camp at Philadelphia. The miles of marching was too much for the vet. He announces he will be ready for his_divisional opponents. FLASHY TROTTING FILLY WINS TITLE, RICH PRIZE GOSHEN, N. Y, August 28 (#).— Hanover’s Bertha, a speedy little filly from the Hanover Shoe Farm of Han- over, Pa., is the new 3-year-old trotting champion. In a brilliant exhibition of speed, the daughter of the famous sire Peter Volo yesterday won the classic Hlmble!onhnl Stake and $3570690 to add to her| great 2-year-old laurels. After finishing far back in the first heat, which was won by Mrs. Charles F. Adams’ Larkspur of PFramingham, Mass., Hanover's Bertha, driven by Thomas Berry, came back to take the | final two heats in the fast time of 2: " B Oy LISTERINE Shaving Cream No jamps for your rasor. 2 5 ¢ the glycerine uced by the thick creamy lather, Try ittoday. FREE Until Labor Day With every new tire par. chased we will give a first- class, hfhvy duty, red inner tube free of charge. Make this saving by seeing us today! DIVISIONAL MEETS 10 START TUESDAY Tallmadge, Ranking Twirler, Faces Stiff Struggle. Crane a Standout. ‘ the Washington section of the Metropolitan District horseshoe tournament will start play next Tuesday for divisional titles. Almost as many more will get under way later in the week. Pairings for next Tuesday’s play were being made. today by Ber- nard McCarty of the playgroun department staff, who is geners chairman of Washington’s horse- shoe organization. The winners and runners-up of di- visional tournaments will advance into the sectional play-offs and vivors of these city title. Five divisional meets will ppen Tues- day -on the Georgetown, Rosedale, Plaza, Garfield and New York Avenuve Playgrounds, play starting at 5 p.m. Later in the week, the Virginia Ave- nue, Bloomingdale and Iowa Avenue divisions will start. Several prelimi- naries in these have not been finished. Pitchers who have qualified for the divisional meets are asked to watch the horseshoe column daily for an- nouncements. HAMPIONS and runners- up of 26 preliminaries in HE ranking pitcher of Washington, | based on performances in the 1929 | Metropolitan _tournament, is An- drew Tallmadge, who will play in the Georgetown division meet as the cham- pion of Pillmore Playground. Tallmade last year won the West section title and was defeated for the city championship by Charles A. Fors, East section winner, who later took up residence in Maryland. ‘Tallmadge had a soft time in the Fill- more preliminary, but looks for trouble in the division tournament. One of his most respected rivals is Walter R. Wil- et the sur-| compete for the | | pion. 5 son, who was some shakes as & horse- shoe pitcher back home in Iilinois be- fore coming to Washington recently. Wilson won the Montrose preliminary, but only after a stiff struggle with Leonard A. Westby, who will toss ig the Georgetown tournament as Montrose runner-up. OBERT and Jack Davidson, cham- Dpion and runner-up of the George- town preliminary, also are capable of making the going rough for Tall- madge. The Georgetown division fleld, consisting of 22 eligibles, is dotted with dark horses, INLY six men are eligible for the Rosedale division tournament, with Henry Irving and Joseph Auth representing the Rosedale playground, William Greiner and Jack Harding, Benning, and Alvin Kilby and E. Ben- Jjamin, Wheatley. ¥ Greiner appears to be the favorite here. He-is a youngster. ARLE CRANE is a standout in the Plaza division. This colorful pitcher not only distinguished himself in the metropolitan tournament last year but developed a coterie of pupils who have done well in the current event. Crane, beyond doubt one of the best performers in the metropolitan area, reached the final of the Southern Mary. land tournament last year, where he was eliminated by Millard Peake, cur- rent metropolitan titleholder. Bow Wow Myers, if he gets hot, may annoy Crane at the Plaza. NLY the Garfleld, Fairbrother, Hoover and Wallach playgrounds will be represented in the Garfleld division contest, which promises to be closely fought. George Mullin of Hoover, won the largest preliminary in this division. ke 'HE New York Avenue division is not as strong in talent as last year. In this event the New York Avenue, Happy Hollow and Emery playground representatives will meet. N point of numbers and class the Towa Avenue division tournament ranks high. In this event is a pitcher, of whom much is expected, in Harry F. Saunders, Park View cham- Of the 24 eligibles Saunders has most respect for Edward L. Pearce of Towa Avenue, Wilson L. Jones of Trues- dell, former Kentucky champion, and Nelson Pixton of Phillips. 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McCarthy got a late start on his preliminary, but lined up one of the largest events in the Washington sec- tion. Not only as a horseshoe promoter has McCarthy attracted attention lately. With comparatively little to work with he turned out a track and fleld team that was the sensation of the play- ground city vchampionship meet the other day. The lads he developed won moré first places than any other group, cracked four records and all but won the meet, finishing 1 point behind Rose- dale, when the latter scored a second place in the last event of the day. Johnson-Powell, with skimpy facili- ties and not more than 50 boys to draw from, never before had been a con- tender in the city meet and sometimes had not been represented. Richard S. Tennyson, assistant super- intendent of playgrounds and boss of boys’ activities, has an eye ever sharp- ened for men like McCarthy and the hustling Johnson-Powell director isn’t likely to be overlooked when promotion time comes. Your horseshoe editor al- ready has a spot picked for him in the business of conducting next year's metropolitan tournament. SPORT MART GAMES. King’s Palace will meet Georgetown on Monument ‘diamond No. 3, at 11 am., and Tris Speakers and Colonials will face on the West Ellipse at the same time, in games Sunday in the Sport Mart Base Ball League. HAWAIIAN TOURNEY OFF. HONOLULU, August 28 (#).—The Hawaiian open golf tcurnament will not be held this year, it was announced today, because most professionals who usually compete in the event are enter- ed in mainland tournaments which would prevent their pl here. YOUNG IOWAN TAKES $10,000 SWIM PRIZE TORONTO, Ontario, August 28 (#).— Marvin Nelson, bronzed young Hercules from Fort Dodge, Towa, has conquered the waters of Lake Ontario and won the world professional marathon title. 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