Evening Star Newspaper, January 19, 1931, Page 10

A—10 SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JAN RY 19, 1931. SPORTS. ~ Colleges in Quandary Over Base Ball : Von Elm Big Money Golfer of Winter WA CURTAIL LISTS UNLESS GAME PEPS| Bergman Handles Politics Evil at C. U. With Firm Hand—Cards Play A. U. U in college base ball, it is likely that another year will see some drastic cuts in schedules for this sport. Those in charge of athletics in the univer- sities and colleges, especially in the South Atlantic section, and in other sections, where a good deal of the play comes in competition with the professional game, have been in a quandary for two or three years as to what the future of college base ball is going to be, but if greater interest is not de- veloped on many campuses be- tween now and June, one action that may be looked for is the shortening of schedules. ©One athletic director, interested many years in college base ball as coach, who was here recently, spoke frankly his opinion about the situation as he sees 1t: “In my opinion the time is nearly here when Spring programs in the col- leges will be largely intramural. For one reason or another college students are not taking much interest in any com- Edflu sports unless these sports have them the element of physical con- tact. Foot ball and basket ball are more popular than they have ever been, and are nvrowlnf¢ and boxing is jumping ahead by leaps and bounds, but ball and track seem to me to be falling by the wayside. The Southern Confer- ence schools in the South Atlantic sec- tion are giving their base ball league another trial this year, but if more in- ‘terest is not shown in it then I think this year is likely to mark the end for it. Spring sports are not at a very high ebb, as far as intercollegiate petition ‘{5 concerned, except for some interest m lacrosse, and outside of the State of Maryland very little atten- tion is paid to that. Some reorganiza- tion of Spring sports programs in the colleges must take place, though I am not prepared to say what form that tion is likely to take.” At one or two schools, the matter has been more or less for athletic boards, but no definite conclu- sions reached. Some consideration has been given to a plan to organize a base ball league composed of, say, 20 different campus units, and play a r¢ league schedule during the months of March and April, with about three games go- ing on each day, and then about May 1 pick an all-star team from all the teams making up the league and with that all-star team play an intercol- legiate schedule during May of about eight or ten games. This idea got is birth at the University of Maryland, but whether or not it will ever be put dato effect is not known. ..Oenn.tn"u 1y, nnwev:& college base ball, as some other are due for an ovarmmm”g?:n'gm more water goes under idge. MERICAN UNIVERSITY journeys out to Catholic University tonight for & basket ball game. rican U. and Catholic U. have won the games in which they appeared inst local opponents, 4he former beating Gallau- det and the latter taking the measure of George Washington. The contest is to begin at 8:15 and should develop a §ood deal of partisan interest. Announcement that Georgetown and ‘West Virginia University have finally got together for their foot ball game next year is very gratifying to all those who have watched the two elevens in action here in former seasons. Some differences between the two schools over arrangements for the game pre- vented an earlier announcement, but these have been smoothed over. One: of Georgetown's concessions was in :mel.n( to play at Morgantown in | “Dutch” Bergmann is taking hold of the situation at Catholic University in a way that indicates he is not one to temporize with an unsatisfactory situa- tion. ‘It has been known for years that student politics have hurt Catholic U. athletics in many ways, and one of the chief sources of these difficulties has in the elections of captains of the various teams. Bergmann met that very simply and effectively by stating to the student body that thereafter there will be no elections for captains and that the captains will be appointed by the head coach in each sport before each game. Georgia Tech recently took about the same attitude. 'EORGETOWN and Maryland took one on theis collective nose Satur- day night in losing, respectively, to ‘Washington and Lee by one point and to Loyola by three points. Both George- town and Maryland played good basket ball, but fell down in certain particu- lars. Georgetown's main difficulty was locating the basket. Had it made good the same centage of its attempts that Wi gton and Lee did it would have won. Maryland can attribute its failure to one thing in the maln, its dis- inclination to follow up shots. As soon as some Maryland player took a pot at the basket the rest of the team broke back down the floor in defensive forma- tion. Had the Marylanders left some men around the basket, in proper posi- tion, and had those men fought as hard for the ball to score as they fought for it to keep it out of their own basket they would have whipped a more ex- perienced team. They came near win- ning as it was. | Jess Neeley will be head coach of | foot ball and athletic director at Clem- | son College next year to succeed Josh Cody. Neeley has been assistant at Ala- bama for three years. Cody, it is un- derstood, goes back to Vanderbilt to be right-hand man for Dan McGugin. is change is an indication of the value which the average foot ball coach | on the security of his job, as the | ‘writer happens to know that the job at | ‘Vanderbilt will y Cody $2,000 less | than he would have received had he remained at Clemson. Cody last Fall had some difficulty with the athletic director at Clemson, and resigned. In the showdown, Cody was backed up and | placed at the head of athletics and im- | portuned to remain. Early in December it was generally expected that he would, but apparently reached a different de- cision. i MOUNT RAINIER PLAYS Faces Chevy Chase, Columbia Fives at Home Tonight. MOUNT RAINIER, Md., January 19. —Two es are listed tonight for the uounzmmru&nm'u‘.monm BY H. C. BYRD. ULESS this coming Spring shows a revival of interest | Foot Ball Builds Up Stamina For Life Work, Thinks Fesler (This is the second of two stories on the gridiron experiences and reactions of Wesley Fesler, Ohio State’s famous All- America end and all-around athlete.) BY LARRY BREEN, Assoctated Press Sports Writer- OLUMBUS, Ohio, January 19.— When he leaves school after completing a commerce course and goes into business, Wesley Fesler, all-America foot ball player at Ohio State University, expects his foot ball training to help him a lot in meeting the problems of life. Fesler has found foot ball an in- centive to study. He modestly admitted that he had “made” all his work at Ohio State. He confessed further that his general average in class work was & “little above ‘B,’” which means that he is just a shade below the highest average obtainable in scholastic en- deavors. “What if I hadn’t studied and made good grades?” he asked. “Folks would say, ‘Now there’s Fesler, for example. He's a foot ball player’ "—he omitted the adjectives good, excellent, outstand- ing, any of which might apply—" ‘but he devotes so much time to foot ball he’s falling down in his class work.’ I'd rather they wouldn't say that, so I've found that I can play foot ball, basket ball and base ball and still keep up in my classes.” Makes Honorary Fraternity. Incidentally he acknowledged he had made Beta Gamma Sigma, honorary ccmmerce fraternity, whose members are chosen from among the highest fifth of the class. He was one of 15 men 30 chosen—Dick Larkins, another star of the foot ball team, being an- other. “Why,” he continued, “I believe that my foot ball training gave me the will- power to get good grades in my classes. As soon as you find it is easy to ac- complish the really hard things foot ball expects of you, it's not hard to buckle down and get the most out of studies.” Foot ball doesn't appeal to Wes as & business. He has scouted all sug- gestions that he turn professional. “I don't want to coach,” he said. “That is, I don't care for coaching as a life work. I expect to go into business as soon as I finish school and I'm going to stay right here in Columbus.” ‘Will Assist at Ohio State. However, he expects to serve in an assistant coaching capacity for his alama mater next Fall while be is fin- ishing his course in the College of Com- merce, to which he switched after start- ing engineering. Asked if he thought dirty foot ball ever paid, Fesler was emphatic in de- claring: “Never! It constitutes an ad- mission that the other fellow is better than you are. And when you see a fel- low playing dirty you naturally go away thinking less of him.” Fesler in his s?homare year attracted national recognition. He was named to the Associated Press All-America in 1929 and 1930. He was awarded in 1930 the Chicago Tribune’s Cup presented annually to the Big Ten player consid- ered the most valuable to his team. Asked if he minded being a campus “idol,” he smiled and hesitated. “Oh,” he said after a little, “it's fine | to have every one speak to you on the campus. It's all right, I guess,” he con- cluded, “but I hate to make speeches at “&'3“'" and meetings, and I am expected to do a lot of that.” Bulldog Fastens On Fast Paddock JADENA, Calif., January 19 (#). —Charles Paddock, former world sprint champion, was un- der treatment here today for dog bites. He said the cause of his trouble was his pet chow’s inability to out- distance a bulldog. When the bull- dog caught the chow Paddock went to his pet's assistance and the bull- dog turned on him. Paddock . suffered deeg.nshu on his left arm and right hand. TWO WINTER SPORTS ADDED TO NAVY CARD oy Midshipmen Start Fencing, .liile Shooting This Week—Other Pastimes to Follow. ANNAPOLIS, January 19.—This week ‘Winter sports at the Naval Academy will advance materially, initial contests in two additional lines being on the program. Fencing and small-bore rifle shooting on the indoor ranges are the sports which take their places on the lists with basket ball and wrestling. , gymnastics, swimming and water polo will have their first matches shortly, completing the list of sports of this season. On Wednesday the Naval Academy basket ball team meets Randolph-Ma- con at Annapolis, and on Saturday it will meet the University of Pennsylva- nia at Philadelghia, its first contest of the season away from Annapolis. On the same day Business High of Wash- ington comes to Annapolis for a game with the Navy Plebes. Much interest will be taken in the wrestling match here next Saturday be- tween the Naval Academ; d the Uni- versity of Toronto, the Navy grapplers having never before e in an in- ternational contest. They opened their season Saturday with a victory over North Carolina. ‘The naval fencers will meet the crack blades of the New York Fencers' Club here on Saturday, ha registered a victory over Yale, last year's intercollegiate champions, last Saturday. The small-bore rifle match on the same day will be with Georgetown. EAGLES VISIT C. U. FIVE Brookland Clash Tonight Opens Varsity Eight-Game Week. Catholic University’s clash with Amer- ican U. at Brookland is the lone col- lege basket ball attraction tonight and the first of eight tilts local quints will engage in this week. Five will be played on District floors. ‘Tomorrow Randolph-Macon visits George Washington, while Southeastern and Strayer's oppose in the Washington Conference. Mount St. Mary's engages Georgetown Wednesday, and Columbus U. meets Ben Franklin in another con- ference game. Maryland plays Johns Hopkins in -Baltimore Thursdgy, Gal- laudet tackles Maryland State Normal at Towson Friday, and Georgetown gnilu with N. Y. U. Saturday at New ork. A preliminary between the A. U. and C. U. Freshmen will precede the varsity game. It will start at 7:30 o’clock. Pointers on Golf BY SOL METZGER. ‘There are some points in common in all golf shots, whether played with wood, iron or putter. While the position at address differs in regard to the placing of feet, grip, angle of body and the point from which we KNEES ARE SLIGHTLY BEN; AT ADDRE S5 play the ball, practically every golfer has one point in common. All ’u.:mekneullll‘;ngy‘::d?d- dress, enough to avoid rigidity. You'll note this in the stance of Jones, Tony Manero, Tommy Ar- mour and other cracks. The reason is to avoid tenseness and rigidity, factors that contribute to pressing, Junior High School court here. In the first game, at o'clock, the worst fault of the golfer. Good ‘Write Sol of requesting his leaflet mm ’ 'HIGH STANDING FIVES "IN COUNTY LOOP PLAY Two Prince Georges Contests on Hyattsville Court Tonight. Militiamen Win, HYATTSVILLE, Md, Jdnuary 19.— Leading teams in the Prince Georges County Basket Ball League race are listed for action tonight on the Na- tional Guard Armory floor here. A double-header will be staged, starting at 7:30 o'clock. | In the first game Griffith-Consumers | will meet Dor-A Boys’ Club, followed by a match between Company F, Na- tional Guard, of Hyattsville and Bent- wood Hawks. League standings follow: Grimth-Consumers k4 Company ¥ Dor-A ... Hyattsville Brentwood Hawk Mount Ratner . 3 3 3 2 Company F basketers were victors in a palr of court battles yesterday on | the Armory floor here. In the big game the Soldier regulars easily over- came Company M of Annapolis, 43 to 129, in a 1st Maryland Regiment eham- plonship contest. Company F Reserves had to battle stoutly in the preliminary to overcome Imperial A. C. of Wash- ington, 23 to 22. Getting off to an early lead, the Hyattsville Militiamen were always in front of Company M, the half-time count being 18 to 10. Bobby Shanklin was the big gun for Hyattsville. Jack Williams' court goal in the final | minute of play gave Company F Re- | serves its winning margin over Im- | perials. Company P Reserves have listed two games this week, both to be played on the Armory floor here. Palace-D. G. 8. | will be entertained Wednesday night and Hawkins Motors Friday night. G00D WINTER LAY ON DISTRT LN Fine Weather Keeps Many Golfers Out—Columbia Not After U. S. Meet. ASHINGTON golfers have been lucky in the matter of fine weather over their week ends this Winter. For the third successive Sunday the golfers who have not put their clubs away in moth balls found themselves yesterday with a fine Midwinter day for play, and they flocked out to revel. For the first time in several days the greens were soft enough to pitch to and the golf was almost like that of late Fall. Roy Morman, vice chairman of the Washington Club Golf Committee, found | the going so good he ‘played the club course in 73 strokes, picking up no fewer than 5 birdies en route, securing 4 of the 5 in the first 6 holes. He was | playing with Dr. B. 8. Taylor. Many other golfers found the going much easier than it has been lately, what with frozen fajrways and putting greens. LYDE B. ASHER, president of Co- lumbia Country Club, declared to- _ day that the club is not actively in the position of bidding for one of the major golf championships in 1932. Reiterating the position of thée club, stated more than a year ago, Asher said that Columbia will take a major cham- pion ship only if requested to do so by the United States Golf Association. ““We have had a national open cham- pionship,” Asher said, “and we feel that our members should not be deprived of the use of the course for such time as will be needed for the playing of an- other big tourney. However, if the na- tional golf body wishes us to hold a champlonship, we shall be glad to do |s0. We are not bidding for a tourna- ment at this time.", Reports that Columbia was secking a national tourney emanated from Balti- more last week, when A. S. Gardiner, representing the club at the annual meeting of the Maryland State Golf As- sociation, said that Columbia might wish to have one of the major title events if it is not awarded to Baltimore in 1932. Gardiner said he had not spoken with Asher or George P. James, chairman of the Golf Committee, and did not rep- resent Columbia as being in the field for a major title event. He said it is possible if the Baltimore Country Club does not stage a major tourney in 1932 and the U. S. G. A. wishes to award it to this section, Co- lumbia might be willing to take it, add- ing that the Maryland State assoclation should circularize its clubs before set- tling on_a club where a big tourney should be held. Baltimore Country Club already has submitted a bid for the 1932 amateur championship to be held over its Five | Farms course. HACK WANTS BIG PAY Home Run King Tells Friends He ‘Will Demand $40,000 for '31. CHICAGO, January 19 (#).—Having read of Babe Ruth’s reported salary of $80,000 a year, Hack Wilson has de- half that much. The pudgy Cub outfielder, who de- throned the Bambino as home run king of the majors with 56 circuit clouts last year, said he would demand a contract calling for $40,000 next @eason. President Willlam Veeck of the Cubs is vacationing at Catalina Island, Calif., the training site of the Cubs, but is ex- pected back soon for a personal con- ference with Wilson. Wilson's contract, calling for $22,500 a year, expired at the end of the 1930 campaign. ROD AND STREAM BY PERRY MILLER. the New Yorkers| STUDY of the offshore waters of Chesapeake Bay brings to light some interesting facts which may be useful to anglers. i A bulletin of the United | States Bureau of Pisheries says that | the bay is rather a shallow body of | water and that there is not a great | deal of difference between the upper and lower parts, 30 or 40 feet being about the average for deep water. Here | and there, the report states, especially | along the Eastern Shore, there are very deep holes; 150 feet off Kent Island, | 114 feet off Poplar Island, 118 feet off | Tilghman Island, 114 feet off Taylors Island, 156 feet off Barren Island, 134 | feet off Hooper Island, 122 feet off .Poin‘ No Point, 139 feet off Smiths Point and 150 feet off Cape Charles | City. All of these are close to the Eastern Shore except the one off Smiths Point, which is near to the Western Shore, and those off Taylors Island and Point No Point which are in the middle of the bay. ‘The deep holes along the Eastern Shore are connected with one another by regions of greater depth than the average of the bay, so that there is a natural deep channel hugging the East- ern Shore more or less closely and ex- tending from the head of the bay to Point No Point, from which it crosses over toward the Western Shore, becom- ing lost near Rappahannock Spit (Wind- mill Point). The deep water then con- tinues nearer the Eastern Shore almost to Cape Charles. 9 ‘These deep holes are of special in- terest on account of their permanence, their comparatively rich and unusual invertebrate fauna and their relation to fishing grounds. It is at the bottom of the deep-water channel that the most saline and densest water is found. Geologists have generally ‘f"'d that Chesapeake Bay, in part at least, is submerged river and that the deep- water channel is the old bed of the Susquehanna River before the sub- sidence of the coastal plain. Chesapeake Bay has, in general, a muddy bottom, resuiting in part from the deposition of large amounts of organic matter brought down from the land by the rivers. While the bottom of the bay is largely muddy, the shores are usually sandy, and this latter con- dition is especially characteristic of the southern half of the bay. 'HE movements of the waters of the bay are complicated. The ebb and flow of the tide, the outflow of many rivers which ald the ebb and hinder the flood, the greater volume of river water entering from the inequalities on the bottom, currents moving in more or less opposite direc- tions at surface and bottom in the same locality, variations in rainfall seasonal chan in temperature, and strong winds aré factors which govern the movements of the bay. There are no very strong cur- rents, a ‘condition which s heen noted by the Coast and Geodetic Survey. “’l‘hc salinity of Chesapeake Bay, like tmotofl:mmhy:nmd estuaries, |land and the saline waters of the sea to mix completely, and the variation in the volume of fresh and salt water en- grees of brackishness. One of the most striking characteristics of part of Chesa- peake Bay is the higher surface salinity on the eastern than on the western side of the bay. This condition is due to the fact that the deep-water channel, which contains the most saline bottom water, lies on the eastern side of the bay and to the fact that a large volume of fresh water from the rivers of the western shore presses the more saline water toward the eastern shore. This undoubtedly accounts for the fact that the best fishing grounds are to be found on the eastern shore. Salt water fish after they have deposited their spawn like the saltiest water they can find until the time arrives for them to re- turn to their ocean haunts. This is especially true of the trout and bluefish. The rockfish or stripped bass are be- lieved to remain in the bay and deep waters of its tributaries the year round. HESAPEAKE BAY is a large estuary. It forms a deep indentation into the States of Maryland and Vir- ginia, extending inland about 160 nau- tical miles, varying from 5 to 20 nauti- cal miles in width, and covering an area of approximately 2,800 square miles. Sounds, small bays and many small in. lets make the outline very irregular. Several moderate-sized rivers empty their waters into the bay. On the west shore, beginning at the head of the bay, are the Susquehanna, Patapsco, Severn, Patuxent, Potomac, Rappahan- nock, York and James Rivers; on the eastern shore, the Elk, Sassafras, Ches- ter, Choptank, Nanticoke and Poco- moke Rivers. The Susquehanna and Potomac, which are the largest, and the rest of the rivers of the western shore supply by far the greater part of the fresh water emptied into the bay. AST Sunday a local angler visiting St. Clements Shore, on the lower Potomac, observed many set nettles. He reported this fact to Rod and Stream, saying that he counted over 50 of them, and asked if it were not un- usual for them to be found in these waters at this time of the year. Austin H. Clark of the National Museum, an authority on sea nettles, informs us that there is nothing unusual in seeing net- tles in the waters of the lower Potomac or the bay at this time of the year. He sald there were two kinds of sea net- tles, cold and warm water ones, and that the cold-water nettles can be found all during the Winter. He also informs us that he has some very interesting facts on fresh-water nettles to be found in the Potomac River above Great Falls, a report of which will be pub- the data, 'HE Luncheon Club of the Washing- cided that he should be worth at least ' tering the bay, result in different de- | lisHed as soon as we are able to get | Fram OF NOIRE DAME = [STD CONCH AT PURDOE NEXT “ HE. KNOWS HIS FooTmALL. BoR WAT // CNWED- bre B /’//// —THE OUTSTAND/NG FOOTBALL. OLAYER_ OF THE (1930 SEASON *~-~ = SOUTHERAN CALIEORN/A AND OHERS WiLL VOucH TH the first week of play| in the Independent League completed, three teams, Skinker ~ Eagles, Census Enumerators and the French A. C, | look to be the clubs to battle it out for | the pennant. Overwhelming defeats | have been adminstered to the other | teams. Enumerators and Frenchies are tled for first place with two wins each, while Eagles have played in only one game, winning with ease. Prench A. C. tossers had too much | | class for Naval Air Station yesterday, winning 57-27. It was the third loss in a row for Naval. | Eddle Collifiower, Freddy Mesmer | |and Ellett Cabell led the Frenchies’ scoring with 39 points among them. Colliflower scored 20. With the exception of tonight, games | in the Independent League will be | played every night this week. | card follows: ‘Tomorrow. Skinker Eagles vs. Anacostia Eagles, Silver Spring Armory, 8:30 p.m. ‘Wednesday. Northerns vs. Stewart Photographers. Thursday. Marine Barracks vs. Anacostia Eagles. Friday. Stewart Photographers vs. Enumerators. Census Saturday. Census Enumerators vs. Marine Bar- racks. Sunday. | Northern A. C. vs. French A. ©. | JR RE this week's play in the Commu- nity Center League is over, a big change in standings is likely. Ten | games, all told, are booked. Tonight's | Three Quints Are Standouts i In Independent Basket Loop clash at Central High School brings together Mount Vernon and Clovers at 8 o'clock and Drakes vs. Crescents at 9 Each of the four tcams has a chance for undisputed first place. The schedule for the week follows: ‘Tomorrow, at East Washington—8 p.m., Mercury vs. Petworth Mets; 9 p.m., Eastern Whirlwinds vs. Tremonts. ‘Wednesday, at Central—8 p.m., Com- pany E vs. Pontlacs; 9 p.m., Crescents vs. Mercury. Thursday, at East Washington—9 p.m., De Molay vs. Clovers; at Central, 9 p.m.,, Potomac Boat Club vs. Mount Vernon. Friday, at Macfarland—9 p.m., Pet- worth Mets vs. Monroe A. C. Saturday, at East Washington—9 pm. Griffith-Consumers vs. Company Skinker Eagles piled up 19-4 lead at half time and went on to win, 32-21, over the Connecticut Yankees for their fourth straight triumph over a road team. The Yankees, unlike the Connecticut bowlers who recently battled Washing- tonians, gave the locals little trouble. Goldblatt and Bennie starred for the Eagles with nine points apiece. TEWART PHOTOGRAPHERS, ever one of the preliminary teams at the Eagles’ Sunday tilts, won over Takoma cagers by the same score the Eagles were victorious by, 32-21. The game, a Montgomery County League clash, gave the Stewarts frst-half honors. With Hirsch, Miltoffl and Lester piling up baskets, Jewish Community Center dribblers ran away from Fort Myer yes- terday, 45-23. People’s Hardware, displaying a well balanced attack, upset St. Martin's by & 27-16 score. Shoe Repair five downed Delicatessen tossers by 30-23. RUDEL GOLF FINALIST Youngest Entrant in Pinehurst Event Meets Phillips. PINEHURST, N. C., January 19 (#).— Tom Rudel of Chicago, youngest of the 28 golfers who entered the tournament, will clash with Howard G. Phillips of | | New York today for the Pinehurst mid- | January golt championship. Rudel, for- | mer Princeton golfer, ousted C. B. S. Marr, Carnoustie, Sootland, star, in the semi-finals. Marr had disposed of George A. Law, jr., of Boston, the med- alist, in a previous round, but lost on the eighteenth hole to the young Chi- cago linksman. Phillips scored a 6-and-5 semi-final | victory over Harold C. Buchminster of Boston, | CINCINNATI IS CHOSEN Municipal Base Ball Association| Awards 1931 Tournament. ST. LOUIS, January 19 (#).—The first annual convention of the Municipal Base Ball Association of the United States ended with Cincinnati being awarded the tournament to decide the championships next Fall and Louisville being designated for the convention. | All officers were re-elected, as follows: Judge Frederick Hoffman, Cincinnati, | resident; Reuben W. Tapperson, St.| uis, first vice president; J. K. Koberly, Coluriibus, Ohio, second vice presidertt; | R. Ray Head, Louisville, third vice president; C. . Brown, Cincinnati, secretary and treasurer. ~The officers | and C. W. Schnake, Canton, Ohio, com- pose the board of directors. 100 IN PINEHURST éKOOT. PINEHURST, N. C,, January 19 (#.— One Hundred crack marksmen, from many sections of the United States, start today in the twenty-fourth annual Pine- | hurst Midwinter target shoot. Cuss, Then SO(k Is Landis’ Golf ELLEAIR, Fla., January 19 (#).— Kenesaw Mountain Landis, czar of base ball, is very emphatic on what to do when one's golf ball gets into a trap. interviewed an inter- Primo to Punch For Stage Money EW YORK, January 19.—The signing of Primo Carnera and Jimmy Maloney for a 10-round battle in Miami, Fla, early in March has been accomplished, but nobody seems to be much excited over it. Meanwhile, the vast Venetian is going to do an act in vaudeville, starting in New York, for a reward announced as $10.000 a week. This will not be the first time Primo has been in an act. He intends to give exhibitions with the gloves. Will the New York Boxing Com- mission be able to stop that? One'— 7 o 1931 The A. P AN Righin Reprved | Leaps 147 Feet Into Olympics | ARY, Ill, January 19 (#)— Casper Oimen, the flying Scan- dinavian from Canton, S. Dak., still rules the national ski slides. Oimen retained his national ski- jumping championship ) yesterday, with leaps of 147 and 144 feet over a course slowed by a heavy thaw. A field of 71 jumpers competed. By his victory Oimen became the United States’ representative in the Olympic games ski event at Lake | Placid, N. Y., in 193! UNPOPULARITY SEEN FOR NEW GOLF BALL| ORREST THOMPSON of Beaver Dam is one of those who do not believe the new golf ball will be as satisfactory for general play as the old ball, which went out of legal existence for tournament play on | January 1. Although he admits he has | not given the new ball a thorough trial, | the golf he has played with it leads | him to the belief that it will be much | harder to handle off the tee than the smaller, heavier pill. Thompson leans | to the view that many golfers will not | like the new ball, but that they are | inarticulate as far as making their views known and will be satisfied with | it perforce, | “In friendly play,” Thompson says, “I do not think we will find many men playing the new ball when they can get the old one. However, I think | there should be some agreement reached between the members of a foursome when they leave the first | tee, for it would not be fair to the | men who play the new ball to have | their associates outdriving them with the old ball.” J. E. Baines of Columbia feels much the same way, although “Pop,” who is a reasonable man like Thompson, holds that every man should be entitled to | play the ball he wants to play, within the limits of courtesy to his fellow players. Sooner or later, however, the supply of old golf balls will give out and then every one will be forced to play the new standard size pill. Already there are few old size golf balls avail- able around Washington, for produc- tion on them was stopped by manu- facturers on October 1. British golf ball manufacturers, however, still are making the ball in the old size, which may lead to domination of the market by them, depending on how the rank and fille of American golfers react to the ball. The present 1.68 ball, which ounces ¥ weight, as against the old ball, which was 1.62 in inches and ounces, probably will be the only domestic ball on sale locally within a few months. THE LISTENING POST BY WALTER TRUMBULL. O matter what boxing commis- sions may think of him, pro moters regard Primo Carnera as a very valuable asset. The N last Thursday in November is not the | only day which ballyho men set aside to hippodromes, or they may be on the are not in business for their health. Ability means little to them, unless accompanied by drawing power. What they are looking for is a gate attraction. Carnera may be a champion or dub; he may be referred to as “Cinderella,” or “Old Violin Cases"”; his bouts may be hippodrones, or they may be on the level; the promoters don't care. The thing which interests them is that Carnera can draw customers to the ticket window. The Italian mammoth drew a gate of $60,141 to Madison Square Garden when he appeared against Big Boy Peterson. Practically every one knew that the affair had been set an hour long past Peterson's bedtime. They knew that Big Boy would lie down to pleasant dreams, but they paid their money. They haven't had so profitable a bout at the Garden since. In St. Louis, they say that Carnera drew something like $110,000 against an opponent unknown even to bed time stories. In Philadelphia, he pack- ed them against George Godfrey, who was in grand shape, if you refer to the shape of an egg. You may remember that some of us guessed in advance that Godfrey was likely to lose that bout on a foul. he did it before s large and paying| sudience, 5 Godfrey, the d that Well, he did, but | na | Carnera was no hitter, but that he certainly was a tough boy, who could take it. Anyhow, his managers have never been hurt yet. But I think the most remarkable achievement of Carnera was to draw the sum of $85000 in Vega, Spain. If that was real money, that performance broke all records. Regardless of what you may consider Primo's real ability as a fighter, you readily can see why promoters favor him highly. And there seems to be no real reason the people shouldn’t have what they want. If the fans are hot to pay, say $750,000 or more to see Carnera in a ring with Sharkey, Stribling, or Scheml- ing, it is, after all, their own money they are spending. It is hard to under- stand why any commission should deny the rooters that right. They might g0 so far as to search Carnera's asoci- ates for guns and towels, but after | that why not let the performance go on? Nobody is compelled to buy & ticket, and promoters must live. The story that Rene Lacoste will return to tournament tennis this sea- son, must be rather discouraging to the Davis~Cup, if that trophy had any idea of returning to America this year. Cochet and Lacoste are a pretty good pair in any tennis hand. Whether Bill Tilden is or is not ranked by the Committee prob- ably will make I difference 100 years from now. Only, they omit Tilden’s name, it will be'g little like ranking prominent Italians and leaving out Mussolini. % s Harvard d Princeton, Arfgy and vy, and $8abe Herman and Hfooklyn is 1.68 doches in diameter and 1.55| w, [commmo—mue oo —w ew] i e O BY ‘BUSINESS MAN' Agua Caliente Split With Golden Puts $6,750 in George’s Pocket. BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. GUA CALIENTE, Mexico, January 19.—Golf is a pay- ing business when a fellow can hew a par as well as George Von Elm. The former United States amateur champion, who instituted a new class of golf- ers when he resigned from the amateur ranks in September, now is the big money winner of the Winter season. According to unofficial returns, Von Elm has collected approximately $12,- 000 since he became a business man golfer, and that is no mean income in these days of economic tightness. Von Elm profited to the extent of $6.750 in the Agua Caliente open, after | tying with John Golden and then losing to the Connecticut professional in the play-off, 79 to 75. The contest- ants in the play-off elected to split the combined first and second money that | totaled $13.500, so Golden now ranks second to Von Elm among the money winers of the Winter season. Von Elm Profits Elsewhere. Von Elm also profited from the Salt Lake and San Francisco tournaments and, in addition, is drawing a nice .re- tainer from a prominent manufacturer of golf equipment. With numerous tournaments still to be played, the Utah blonde has an ex- cellent chance to become the big money winner of the Winter, which evolves few cheers from the professionals, for in his position of a business man golfer, Von Elm is a sort of hybrid, neither professional nor amateur. The Agua Caliente prize was the sec- ond money ever won by Golden. He. got $5.000 in the Southern open in 1928. John has been one of the best profes. slonal players for several years and par- ticipated in two Ryder Cup matches, but never was rated among the leading winers on the Winter circuit. He came well on to his game at Agua Callente and headed some of the best profes- sionals in the sport. Golden, wnh»: 70—73, led the Agua Caliente field for two rounds, but on the third he surrendered the lead to Wiffy Cox of Brooklyn, when his putt- ing touch went wrong. He came back on the final round, when Cox and Ed Dudley began shooting wildly, to score a 74 and tie Von Elm, who had a 71. In the play-off he maintained a pace to defeat Von Elm, 75 to 79, ‘There is little style to Golden’s play, for he is of the short, stocky type of player, who well has been dubbed the “Joe Savoldi of goif.” Von Elm as Good as He Putia, Were Von Elm’s putting more sound, he unquestionably would one of the best in the game. When he is putting well, few can manufacture more bril- lant scores. But when his work on %hid“em fails, he is just one of the eld. Von Elm putted himself out of the Los Angeles open after starting. with & par, breaking a 68, and at Agua Caliente he led off with rounds of 74— 73—75. But on the final march, when the field was well bunched and the ‘going rough, he showed his real skill to score & 71. Both Golden and Von Elm missed many fine chances for a clear claim to the $10,000 first prize. Golden, in the fourth round, lost two strokes to par on the fourth, where he took six imme- diately after consuming a four on the short third. Then he reeled off two birdies in a row, but the lost strokes could not be recouped. Von Elm messed up his own fortunes when he took three putfs from within 18 feet on the thirteenth and hit a wild mashie shot on the fourteenth. On the play-off Von Elm's putting again was off color, and while Golden did not play nearly as fine golf as in the first four rounds, he managed to head the former amateur without any worry. But for beating George he ob- ulx;Led only glory and no additional cas| Breaks Into Money. Horton Smith, who_finished second in the 1930 Agua Caliente open, was third this year, due to the tie, and col- lected $2,000. The Dutra brothers, Olin and Mortie, who tied for third place last year, were all square with scores of 296, but shared the money with Ed Dudley of Wilmington, Del., and Clar- ence Clark of , Okla. So each of the four received $1,012.50 for four days’ labor. Wiffy Cox, with victory at his call, blew up on the fourth round and tied with Leo Diegel at 207 and received a smaller cut in the cash. ‘The play throughout the $10,000. Los Angeles and $25,000 Agua Callente opens had all of the sensationalism of a national champlonship. In both tournaments the final round found sev- eral players with a chance for victory, and in the final analysis it was the fellow with the best putting touch who on. Ed Dudley putted sensationally at Loa Angeles, and here it was the work of Golden and Von Elm on the ens in the crucial rounds that won them the big purses. ‘The professionals now return to Lod Angeles, where they will prepare for the motion picture industry match play tourney, in which the gate receipts w{o to charity. After that the brigade will head for Texas and points East. Leading Winners. ‘The leading money winners of the Agua Caliente tournamen:t Johnny Golden, Noroton, Conn. George 293—$6,750 293—$6,750 295—4$2,000 ‘Wilmington, . /206—$1,012.50 ta Monica, Ed_ Dudley, Del. .. Olin Dutra, San Dutra, Beach, Calif.. Tulsa, Clarence Clark, 9 Okla. ..... - -296—$1,012.50 Leo Diegel, Agua Caliente, Mexico . Wiffy Cox, Brooklyn. Gene Sarazen, New York. ‘Walter Hagen, Detroit. HERBERT, TURFMAN, DIES Illness Contracted in September Fatal to Sportsman, 47. HOT SPRINGS, Ark., January 19 (#). —Clarence Herbert, 47, Eastern turf- man, is dead of heart trouble after an illness contracted last September. ‘The body will be taken to Al a Y., his former home, for burial. bert’s widow and his sister, Mrs. Cotha Frazier of Covington, Ky., were at his bedside when he died. He also leaves a brother, Mark Herbert of Covington. . HANSEN IN COMEBACK. CHICAGO, January 19 (#).—Haakon Hansen, Norwegian middleweight, will attempt to come back in the ite City arena tonight when he ,Joe Long .....206—$1,012.50 298—$500 have still t t?e 3 (Copyright. I"Ee by "gae:-"mn - Sharkey of Albion, Mich,, in an match. Hansen has of £ i N \ 3