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——eWlid--Dave Sports News @he Foen * 'WITH SUNBS® MORKING EDITION ny Staf. Comics and Classified | WAS HINGTON, D. MONDAY FEBRUARY 16, 1931. PAGE _C—1 Hoyas and Holy Cross in Rubber Race : Ruth Is a Man of Opposing Complexities CONTEST TONIGHT INN.Y.A.C.GAMES Catholic U. Is Basket Ball| Host to Loyola—Cardinal BY H. C. BYRD. ORGETOWN'S mile relay Boxers Fare Well. team goes to New York today to run against Holy | G Cross tonight in the New | York Athletic Club games, one of | the three remaining indcor meets | in which the local school is to taks part. Twice this year has the Blue | and Gray met the New Enz! nders,i and once has it wen and once lost. | Tonight's event seems to be a mat- | wer of more than ordinary interest in that each team has a chance to | get a margin over the other. ' The Georgetown-Holy Cross race has for years been one of the features of the 'N. Y. A. C. meet, and it nearly always has been a nip-and-tuck affair and the fastest of the night. After the meet tonight, the two | events in which Gedrgetown will take | part are the intercollegiates March 7 | and in the Knights of Columbus | games March 14. It was the intention of the K. of C. organization not to | hold its indoor meet this , but at | & meeting last Friday the conclusion | is said to have been reached to sched- | ule it agan. And after that the New | Yorkers lost no time g:tting in touch | with Georgetown to make sure of its | entry. The same four men, Burke, Mara, Carlin and Kelly, are making the trip to New York tonight. And they fecl they have just about an even chance and so does Coach O'Reilly. And by the way, O'Reilly is fairly well satisfied with the showing his men have mads 80 far ths year. He feels that, the material he has, which is not good as he has had in some fo seasons by any means, his men have come through just about as well as | could have been expected. It was O'Reilly’s intention to take | Bonniwell, his high jumper, to New | York, but that athlete received a_bad cut from a spik in the meet at West | Virginia Saturday night and is not in | shape to compe! | o | ATHOLIC UNIVERSITY entertains Loyola College of Baltimore In a basket ball game tonight in the Brookland gymnasium. The local quint is likely to be up against it good | and , a5 Loyola has an exceptional combination. The chances secm very much against Catholic University. It - $o—Sww—better—basket—bal it has been playing or take a rather ‘decisive whipping® Tne same | 1s to begin at 8:30 o'clock. Local colleges had little success in their invasion of the Pittsburgh district last week. Of the seven games played only one resulied in a victcry, that won by American University over Salem Col- lege. Catholic University went down before Duquesne and Geneva, while George Washington got the short end cf the score in its encounters with West Virginia, Duquesne and Carnegie Tech. American University also lost to Car- negie Tech. 'HE announcement that Harvard and | Princeton have resumed relation- ships in athletics will give consider- able satisfaction to followers of both universities. At the time of the break, which came shortly after a foot ball | game which occasicned some unfor- | tunate remarks by a Harvard publica- | tion, alumni everywhere expressed their regret. It seems that foot ball games | are not to be resumed as yet, for some | unannounced reason. but the general expectation is that they will be within | ;:el’r&ezxt two or three years, probably | Catholic University's boxing team did | itself proud at Bucknell Saturday night. | It is doubtful if even C-ach Eddie | 12 Fond thought his men would do as well as tie the Pennsylvanians, that they did come back with an even | break speaks well not only for them, | but for the coach as well. | F, as a newspaper report indicates, a charity foot ball game in the Far West last Fall took in $65.000, vet.| when the affairs of the game were| wound up, yielded a net of only $1,000, | then somebody connect:d with the charitable part of that enterprise ought to demand an accounting of all funds. | That is such an unusual result that | the public which expended $65.000 in | the bellef that it was a charitable en- | terprise are entitled to know for what the money was expended, if only $1,000 actually was turned in as the net re- ceipts. Foot ball games for charity were beginning to get a black eye be- fore last Fall, but in the future it is unlikely that many college and uni- versities will lend themselves to that type of competition. An unfortunate situation has de- | veloped between George Washing on University and Catholic University. | It seems that, while Catholic Uni- | versity had the impression that the foot ball game for next Fall was| simply a matter of determining whether | or not it would be played on Thanks- | giving day, the Saturday before Thanks- | giving, as day or night game, George | Washington's Athletic Council bheld a | meeting and decided not to play Catho- lic University at all. That probably | would have been all right with Catholic U., but it seems that in one way or another the story leaked to a news- paper, and the publication of the story was the way Catholic University got | the news that such a decision had been reached. That has not left the Brook- land school feeling very pleasantly about the situation. Officials of the two schools apparently are not inclined to £av much about the matter right now, but later both may issue somewhat complete statements. EPISCOPAL FIVE PLAYS Ends Season Next Week—Alexan- dria High Has Dates. ALEXANDRIA, February 16.—Episco- pal High School will take part in two of its four remaining cage frays this week, with Western High School in Washington Wednesday and Swavely Bchool of Manassas here Saturday. Next week Emerson Institute will ‘Wednesday and the Episcopalians :: to Woodberry Forest School Satur- . Alexandria High sclgol was to face planned for the c'a‘ficn this week. St. John's High Schocl be met in anl-nmn on Wednes: | Je Hockey Fans, Too, Cry, ‘Kill Umpire?’ ( : ‘umpir isn't past. Only this case it was hockey, not base ball. After last night's National League hockey match between the New York Rangers and the Chicego Black Hawks, a delegation of the citizenry waited on Referee Mickey Ton in front of the stadium. Their intentions were not for Ion's best interests, for he had declared illegal a goal in the final 30 seconds by Tommy Cook which would have given the Hawks a 2-2 tie instead of a 2-to-1 defeat. Ton, however, made his departure from a side door and police dis- persed the crowd. GONZAGA, TECH FIVES 70 CLASH TOMORRO Keen Rivals Will Battle on I Street Court—St. Albans Has Date ‘With Landon. HICAGO, February 16 (#).— ‘The day of crying, “Kill the in Gonzaga and Tech quints will square off in the Gonzaga gymnasium tomor- row afternoon in a basket ball game bringing together warm rivals. Play will start at 3:30 o'clock. Gonzaga would keenly relish a win as consolation for the 27—0 fool ball | defeat it took last Fall at the hands of Tech. Tech will hold an advantage over the I Streeters in the height of its players and is favored to win. Gonzaga, how- ever, has flashed fine basket ball at times this season, notably in its surprise win some time ago over Eastern. The Lincoln Parkers since have lowered the Purple, but the latter nevertheless has demonstrated it has a team that cannot be_taken too lightly. In the only other schoolboy court match hereabout tomorrow St.” Albans and Landon will have it out on the Epiphany Church court. Snappy battling was expected to mark games scheduled this afternoon btwecn Tech and St. John’s on the Kaydet hardwood and St. Albans and George- town Prep at Garrett Park. TEAMV A BOOTERS WIN American Team A booters won the opening game of the international series sponsoied by the Washington and Southeastern District Soccer Association when they downed American Team B, 2 to 0, yesterday at Silver Spring. Near the end of the game Henry Irving con- verted a penalty kick, and a little later this same Irving, after Knight had put the ball in position on"'& pretty play, | headed 1t into the net. Melvin Anderson managed the win- ning team. Richmond Bowie piloted the losing eleven. HOCKEY LOOP CLUBS AFTER THIRD BERTHS First and Second Place Teams Already Settled in National Circuit Divisions. By the Associated Press. NEW_YORK, Pebruary 16.—The Na- | tional Hockey League clubs failed to reach any definite decision as to which clubs are to occupy the play-off posi- tions through last week's campaign. There is little doubt that Boston and Chicago will occupy the first two posi- tions in the American division and the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto will Lyl land the same places in the Canadian group, but the third play-off berths re- K main uncertain. There are no games scheduled for tonight. The standings: AMERICAN DIVISION, Boston . Chicago Rangers 4 Detroit L hiladelphia CANADIAN DIVISION. Canadiens Toronto Americans Maroons Ottawa 1 136 JLL&D.K Judd & Detweiler bowlers maintained their place at the top of the Typothetae League, three games ahead of Potomac Electrotype, following the week's rolling. TEAM STANDING. V. L EEPS LEAD w. Craftsmen .... 41 43 Fel Forum. ' 38 43 at. Pub. C axwell Jon . Ptg. C w Judd & Detw. Am.” Elec. Co. Big' Print’ Shop 51 0. 37 44 o 38 48 Wash. Typok.. s Btd. Eng Typothetae ... 24 5 Season Records. High in strikes—Pheil, 48 High H High High High High team game_Big Print Shop, 628 team set—Potomac Electrotype Co., 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. NTRIES will close tomorrow night for the South Atlantic Association champlonship cross-country run over the 6':-mile course at Bright- wecod. Officials will include J. E. Tyler, o8 W. C. Thacher, E. rds, J. T. Mulligan, Henry Penniman, J. J. Rettaliata, James O'Shea, W. G. Stuart, Dr. W. B. Hud- C. Edward Beckett, B. R. Green, son, Chase Taylor, J. J. Earley, O. W. Stratton, A. McDonald, J. E. Haas, Gardiner Orme, J. A. Keene, Nils Hensen, W. W. Tenney, F. H. Dampler, G. H. White, H. W. Long, | M. A. Joyce, Prank Young, berg, Dr. M. W. Harrison and Harold | Keats. J. Ed Grillo, sports editor of The Star, warns that the feat of Dixie Walker, pitcher cf the Washington base ball team, in burling five innings and allowing only two hits yesterday at Hot Springs, Ark., may be something to worry Washington fans rather than hearten them. Grillo recalls that Walker in the early part of the training sea- son last year “cut loose,” with the re- sult that he had a weak arm for sev- | L J. K. Moss- | GALAXY OF STARS NNEW YORK MEET |With Conger and Bullwinkle | as Rivals, World Mark Is \ Threatened in Mile. | | | | By the Associated Press. EW YORK, February 16.—Most of the great and near great of the indoor track world are scheduled to turn out again | tonight for the New York Athletic Club | meet in Madison Square Garden. The meet is the first of two this week which complete the preparations cf the board- track spesdsters for the National A. A. U. championships February 25. On| Thursday the clan gathers in Newark | for the New Jersey A. A. U. cham-| pionship meet. | The troupe of foreign invaders, led | | by Seraphin Mariin of France, and | | the Americans who have done such a successful job of repulsing the foreign | | attacks again are slated to provide the | | highlights of tonight's competition. | Sera Martin in 880, Sera Martin, with his first victory safely won, is entered in the Brefney | half mile against the brilliant Russell | Chapman ot Bates College, who beat ! the French ace in his first race. Phil | Edwards of Canada and Dr. Pzul Mar- | |tin of Switzerland also will face the French Martin. | With George Bullwinkle of City Col- lege of New York, who st:pped out Saturday to repulse the s-cond French ace, Paul Keller, in,a 1,000-yard race | in ‘Bostcn, as pace setter, the Baxter | Mile is expected to produce unusually good time. The advance “dope” is that Bullwinkle, a remarkable judge of pace, | will take care of the early running and that Ray Conger, who has brought the | Nation’s topmost mile honors to the | | Illinois A. C., will come through with | his famous last-lap “kick” to win and possibly to shatter the indoor record of 4:12, held jointly by Paavo Nurmi and Joie Ray. ¥ ‘EAGLE-EYE [ Joe 7 ENFF - —NoRTHWESTERN SOPHOMORE SHOOTING SEN SATION WESTERN ConreREncE! iz THE "WILDCATS * ARE S(TTING PRETTY £ ERE's © 0 OOINTS 7, TH TEN FIELD GOALS ANO N Six FOULS AGAINST RE DAME | | | TWIN BILL TONIGHT iMili!ia-CuleniaI Clash Is Only One: at Hyattsville That Con- | ! cerns League. | | Company F, National Guard, basketers | of Hyattsville will face Richards’ Colo- nials in a Prince Georges County | League game on the National Guard | Armory -floor here tonight. The lcsers | virtually will be eliminated from the pennant_fight. Colonials now are in second place with six wins and three losses, a game behind the league-leading Griffith-Consumers and a half game | ahead of Company F. | Mount Rainier and Hyattsville South- | ern Methodists will meet at 7:30 o'clock | | to open the evening's card. Both are league teams, but this game will be an exhibition, Team Standing. G. F. Pts. OP. Pet 130 66 326 186 778 52 236 229 41 200 190 g 38 210 276 333 37 211 301 an | John Sherman of Consumers, with 64 | | points. is the leaguc's leading scorer. Statistics of players in five or more b games compiled by William (Ducky) | | Meeds, official scorer, follow: | CONSUMERS. ‘087 | 2 L 3 3 3 ] 8 ll} | Sherman o] anoacRa ann Lambert, | COLONIALS. | Bailey . ; sanmmaoo COMPANY . | | costinett v ! { IR Ehanklin Troy | Pix Lauer 10 P. Cogar Burrhus .. rwunSmes METHODISTS. Thomas .. B. Cogar . Compton Hamm-ane E) MOUNT RAIN anall woasman BEEN wanEEh R Wilkinson o J. C. C. GIRLS BEATEN. } Jewish Community Center girl bas- | keters of this city suffered a 19-6 de- | feat at the hands of the Young Wom- en's Hebrew Association sextet yester- | day at Baltimore. LOS ANGELES, February 16 (4).— The Hurricane polo team from New | York won the Teddy Miller Cup play | at the Winter meeting at the Midwick | Club yesterday by defeating the Mid- | | ker game. ASKET BALL fireworks will pop and row in the Community Cent'r and Independent Leagues. HYATTSVILLE, Md., February_l6o=.. .Tonight the spotlight is focused on| who'll cavort in the Eastern High School gymnasium in the most important Com- munity Center L-ague game of the sea- son. before the eyes of the Clovers. They can clinch the title with a victory over the Whirlwinds, The gam: starts at 9 o'clock. The game in the Independent League tomorrow night will be the big attrac- tion when Skinker Eagles, undef ated in five starts, and C2nsus Enumerators, | with_six wins and one loss, clash for |feated Ellicott City Hoplits, | the first time. They play at the Silver yesterday on the Armory court here.| Spring_ Armory. Should Census win over the Birds, it will b> tied for first place, but Stewart Photographers, also with six wins and | one loss, can make it a triple tie in | this event by defeating the Prench A. C. on Thursday. UKE ALLEN, Skinker Eagle center, is cock-of-the-walk in local bask't ball circles today, despite that the Birds lost their second game of the season yesterday to Cleveland Favorit> Knit tossers, 41 to 25. Duk> was a much sympathized with young man before yesterday's game at Silver Spring. He was opposed at center by Shortv Gil, 7 feet 4 inch tall. But bask‘t ball's “Primo Carner: was no match for Duk~ and Gil was replaced ere the first quarter was over, while Allen played a bang-up game, scoring 7 points. VER since Stewart Photographers blasted the Unicn Printers’ 12- game winning streak, the Typos have encountered bumps on the court. | The Printers took another sock yes- terday. Kensington Howitzers turning the trick, 20 to 16, at the Kensington Armory. Al McAlwee and Izzy Mallinoff played |a nice game for the typos. while Burke and Barry did likewise for H-witzers, Scores of yesterday's games follow: Boys' Club Yorkes, 46; Fort Hum- phreys, 24 Jewish Community Center, Stephen's, 28. Potomac Boat Club, 49; Fort Wash- ington, 31. Nativitv, 25; St. Martin's, 19. . 32; Palace, 22. . 33; Ellicot, 19. Petwort , 45: Hcwitzers, 10. Battery C, 17; Battery C, quarters, 13, Boys' Club tossers will be gunning for No. 21. 22 and 23 this week when this undefeated aggregation plays St. Mar- tins Tuesday and Pontiacs Friday in the District of Columbia League, and oppose the Richmond Y. M. C. A. Sat- urday at the club. Head- Simmons’ Golf wick four, 11 to 10, in an extra chuk- | | | Not .300 Stuff Batting King Sometimes Bows to 12-Year-Old Pal, | but Still Remains Youngster’s Hero. | By the Associated Press. OT SPRINGS, Ark., February 18.—Al Simmons is the greatest ball player in the major leagues, even though his golf is a bit off at times. This is straight from 12-year-old H. King Wade, jr., known in the base ball colony here as “Al's pal.” The 1ad spends every hour he can with the Philadelphia fence buster, and Sunday they tour the links of the country club. It happens not in- frequently that King's szore is lower than Al's—but what's a golf score between pals? One of King's prized pecssessions is a wrist watch Al gave him at St. Louis last Summer. | said, “Al, you're going to get & homer.” “Boloney,” was the answer. But Simmons rapped out his twenty-first home run of the season, and for the favorable prediction gave Kh h inscrij immon: ‘Twenty-first Simmons came here for his annual . bre-season conditioning. KnT is bashful about comparing his golf score with Al's, but there is no bashfulness in Al's comment. “Sure Lou're good, kid. Don’t you break a hundred?” “Aw, The championship 1is dangling | 50; 8t | Georgetcwn A.” C. 130-pounders_are | seeking contests. Call Georgia 2012, Montrose 11 | ikl | DE MOLAY FIVE VICTOR Keeps in Intercity League Race by Beating Hoplites. LAUREL, Md., February 16.—De Mo- |1ay tossers of Washington advanc:d an- | other step toward the title in the Inter- | city Basket Ball League, whenzshey de- to 19, |In another league game Headquarters | Company, National Guard, of Laurel. kept in th> flag scramble by soundly licking Laurel Independents, 41 to 20. Both De Moiay and the Soldiers won through big first halves. | GIliLS PLAY BEN}i‘IT. | Als A. C. and Eagles will face in a girls’ basket ball game tomorrow night in the Wilson Norma! School gymnas- ium at 9 o'clock. Proceeds will go to | Sidney Goad, young court player, who'§ was injured recently. | Saks Clothiers want a game for to- sputter merrily tonight and tomor- | morow night. Call Distrizt 3050. $-pounders—are booking '- the Clovers and Eastman Whirlwinds, gimes at North 7111. COUNTY FIVES PLAY Basket Fireworks Due to POPENORTHWESTERN FIVE iIn D. C. Tonight and Tomorrow | SPEEDING IN BIG TEN | | Loop When It Engages Illinois Tonight. By iie Assoelated Press. CHICAGO, February 16.—Riding high | at the head of the Big Ten basket ball championship race, Northwestern's un- defeated five will seek its straight conference victory and its twelfth of the season, tonight against Illinois at Evanston. If the Wildcets can whip the Illini tonight a victory over Iowa's last-place i | | assure them of their second major title of the school year. While Northwestern is “entertaining” Illinois, Chicago will go to Ohio State, Purdue will battle the second-place Gophers of Minnesota at Minneapolis, and Wisconsin will attempt to repair its battered fortunes at Iowa. The wlm:l‘le league will be in action Saturday night. The standings to date: Q Northwestern Minnesota Michigan Indiana Purdue Wisconsin e TIP3 arawawwwnor ROD AND STREAM | BY PERR ‘ T the last session of the General , Assembly of Virginia a law was enacted giving the Commission on Game and Inland Fisheries | full authority over brackish and fresh streams. Acting under this | water authority, the commission closed all the creeks and coves in Virginia to the use of practically all kinds cf nets | effective January 1, 1931. The ruling | of tre commission takes in all places | from Hallowing’s Point to District of | Columbia waters. The commercial fishermen of Acco- tink, Va, are protesting against the |order, saying they have been making their livellhood from the waters of Pohick, Dogues and Occoquan Creeks of their community have been paying into the State treasury at least $1,000 a year for this privilege. They say they have been taxed $1.50 for each net or seine used in their operations end that some of the fishermen have paid as high as $45 a year in taxes. Harry Shephard of Accotink, speaking for the fishermen of his community, says that they have invested from $300 to $500 apiece in nets. ‘The creeks and coves on both sides of the Potomac are natural breeding grounds for fresh-water fish, white and yellow perch and the large and small mouth black bass, and the commission, in the opinion of Rod and Stream, should be commended for its action If the best breeding grounds are not protected by law from the commercial fishermen it will only be a question of a short time before fishing in this area is ended. ‘There seems to be a difference of opinion regarding the law. The fisher- men say the ban was placed by the Cammission on Game and Inland Fisheries without authority of the Gen- eral Assembly. Judge William S. Snow, a member of the commission, says the commission was given such authority by the last session of the Virginia Legis- lature, Last Thursday night a &l‘efl meet- ing was held in Odd Fellows’ Hall at Accotink, Va., when Judge Snow pre- sented his views. The matter later was to be taken up by the commission at & meeting in Roanoke. Rod and Stream urges that the law prohibiting the use of nets in the Potomac bstween the above-named points be not rescinded. OCAL anglers who have been visiting Chesapeake Bay fishing quest of their favorite ing the fishing season had of their time in the waters of the Pommm year the ln:pr ol dur better for years past and that the members | 1n | he bowled 134 w Y MILLER for the blues, which ran unusually large. George M. wrote in that large rockfish still are |in the lower Potomac and that many | anglers, when the weather permits, have een having good sport trolling for them. L. B. Huntington is reported | to have caught his share right along in | January. Knight also informs us that Ernest Lane of Valley Lee has been catching many good-size perch and mud | shad in his nets. One day last week | he caught 48 fish, including 4 large mud | shad. | _Over on the Maryland side of the | Potomac in fresh water anglers have |been landing some big-mouth bass. The open Winter is responsible for this, | there being little or no ice on the river. | This fact speaks well for an early start in the fishing season. Many good-sized | catfish are being caught in the Potomac | around Washington. ~Just at this time | cf the year these big “cats” seem to get hungry and many of them land on the end of a line. During the Spring and | Summer months just a few of the really | big catfish are caught, so now is time to get them. 'BEEQUE GIRLS CLING | Hilltoppers Supplant Shamrocks for Only Washington League Change. Beeques and Columbians maintained | their respective positions in the Wash- ington Ladies’ League, the former quin- |tet retaining its six-game lead by sweeping over Daughters of Isabella dinals. The only change in team stand- ing in the first division occurred when the Hilltoppers displaced the Sham- rocks in third place by taking three from Veterans’ Bureau, while the Agoes upset the Shamrocks. Margaret Leaman shot high set when she rolled st s of 106, 105 and 127 in the Columbians’ victory over the Cardinals. Her 338 set was six pins better than that of Catherine Quigley, who starred for Beeques. Grace Purdy was high when the Agoes nosed out the Shamrocks, shoot- ing 311. Frances McNamee carried off the weekly for high game when inst Poll, “'}‘l’l“rg:emllh" agal yannas. The Parl won three and ousted D. of I from ffth place. Alice McQuinn's 309 -was high in the Veterans’ Bureau-Hilltoppers clash. w. Beeques .. . of I... any # ] Will Seek Eighth Straight Win in | eighth | team Saturday night would just about | Knight of Leonardtown | the | with Bob Barnett TO SAFE ADVANTAGE and Columbians taking three from Car- & BITTER FIGHT GAMES, HE WEEPS EASILY Babe Will Give Away Mo Note—This is the first of a series of stories on the little known side of promi= nent sport personalities. BY EDWARD J. NEIL. | ‘W YORK, February 16 (#).— | Babe Ruth gave away the | sixtieth home run ball he | hit in 1927. You can have | the 500th homer, the only ball he | ihas saved, as soon as he has | marked his major league t:tal up to 600. Ileil grab the dinner| | check, no matter what its size. | But just try to concede yourself | a six-inch putt againt him and| he’ll bellow like a broken-legged | calf. | “Waddeya think they put those holes there for?” “To hold up the flags?” | He moans over every bad shot, | exults at the good ones, demands that | you sympathize with him, but he's a fine audience too. He's a great alibi artist. His favorite bet is “$5 Nassau.” He has a pair of light brown knickers, “good luck” pants, he wears in all im- Must Have His Chew. i Next to base ball he loves goif. Shoots | in the low eighties. He chews a half | | dozen plugs of tobacco going 18 holes. | | He forgot his tobacco at Wingfoot one | day and lost every hole. Almost went | goofy. Sometimes chews a plug an | inning in an important series. Can't | smoke playing golf, but likes cigars at | other times. The Babe was never meant to be a leser. He must win at every game he | plays. He'd rather be the clouting champion of the majors at $10,000 & year than second at $100,000. Fights bitterly over every point at handball. | Feels deeply about Hack Wilson cop- | | ping his home run title last season. | | “Why I can spit farther than he | | can hit 'em,” the Babe insists. | He is deeply attached to his home | and family, his wife and two children, | | Dorothy and Jul Brings loads of | toys home 24 wears most of them out | | himself. He plays ping pong with Mrs. | | Ruth. He was out with the boys until | |2:30 the other morning for the first | t'me in years and he phoned Mrs. Ruth every half hour. His money is invested in insurance | and trust funds. If he dies between | |now and 45 he will leave an estate of | $800.000. At 45 his income will be $2,500 a month. Mrs. Ruth arranged BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. OB BARNETT, Georj Diffen- baugh and Ralph B-ach are getting along quite well in Florida, thank you. Between playing golf over a course which is as ‘go:)d as any championship layout we ever have se:n, fishing for kingfish and amberjack in th: ocean, attending the | dog races and the horse races in that | land of the sun that is Miami, the three | Washington golf professionals who journeyed down to Miami to be asso- ciated with the Indian Criek Golf Club of Miami Beach for the Winter are getting along rather well in the land of | | the lotus eaters, | And what a club that Indian Creek | Club is. Two years ago the location of the golf course and club li-use was just | a narrow little sand spit, covered with mangroves, sticking out into the waters of Biscayne Bay, where the towers of | the Miami city water front raise their | ragged fringz seven or eight miles away. Today on that former sand spit is a | magnificient golf course, built by Rill Flynn of Ardmcre, Pa., who built the Washington Golf and Céuntry Club | course and has had a hand ‘in the | construction of many first-class golf | courses about the East. They do things like that around Miami. Pirst they | stick out a sand scoop, to pull up the sand from the bcttom of the bay. Then they get out a lot of dredges and scoop up a mud top layer. Andathen they build a golf ccurse. La Gorce was built | that way. So was most of Miami | Beach. It all is a miracle of what man | can do when nature aids him. | And on that former sand spit is go- ing up a club house whose magnificence is surpassed by none in the North. It is only about one-third completed and | yet that part which is finished is as | large as the entire club hous: at Con- | gressional. It costs $5,000 to jdin. ‘hat is the kind of club it is. Such folks as the Firestones, Fords, the Fish- of the great fortunes of America belong to it and some day it is destined, from what I saw, to become one of the great play places of the South. 'HE day before I played the course and Ralph Beach, Tommy Armour had come down from Boca Raton—40 miles away —to play with Bob. In that rouna Tommy set a new course record of 73 strokes. But the course is so new that anything below 75 would almost make a record. In that round Bob said that Tommy had a_couple of 3-putt greens. And when I played with him Bob himself wasn't so bad. He was around in 75 strokes, missing a couple of 4-foot putts and playing golf with all the skill and ability that he has shown so often around Washington. During that réund Bob complained of the heat. So did Jimmy Corcoran of the Washington Club, who spends his Winters at Miami Beach. Think of that, in the middle | And it ‘'was hot down | th cold winds sweeping Chase course, while we are playing &o.ll without a sweater down here. See that little sand spit out there? That's the| finest place around to catch fish, and yft‘l’w don't freeze while you are doint l!‘. either. xpect to gef it’s Tough out there, but that will be all right. Give my regards to the boys back home and teil them to keep their overcoats buttoned up tight. We'll be back home around April 1.” courses jummer. But just no of the Winter season, portant matches—Winter and Summer. | BYm er brothers and representatives of most | ¢ ER IN ALL st Anything but a 6-Inch Putt—Buys His Kids Bundles of Toys, Wears ’Em Out Himself—Has Four Luck Pieces. that He made $245,000 & year in 1926 and 1927. 'His poorest year in the last | five netted $175.000 from writings. base ball, barnstorming tours. He wants to do nothing but play when he retires from base ball. Has Perpetual Diet. ‘The Babe lives on a perpetual diet to keep his weight down. Eats nothing but lean meats, fish, vegetables. Loves sweets, but can't have them. In his heydey, bef: he contracted in 1926 the stomach-ache whose rumbles were heard around the world, a typical break- fast consisted of three orders of hash, ix fried eggs. a stack of toast, six cups of coffee at the rate of a swallow a cup. Now he has cereal, dried toast, fruit. Used to average a dozen hot dogs a day during th~ base ball season. 8till loves tgcm dcfends them, but doesn't eat em. “It wasn't the dogs” he insists. “It was the skins I couldn't digest.” . He's a great bridge player. He can bid, play one trick, lay down the cards and call all the rest. He never misses. But he can't remember names. Every one is “kid” to him. The Babe has known Alan Gould for years apd still calls him “Parker.” He has to_be wheedled into Winter ym work. But he’ll get up at 6 am. the coldest day of the Winter to play golf. He can't walk two blocks without drawing a crowd, so he takes taxis. Eats all meals vn the road in his hotel room, but he walks his daughters to school every morning. Has Four “Charms.” He wears only brown and blue suits, buys four at a time. His peaked brown caps and polo coats come in half-dozen lots. He likes to sleep raw. ‘When feeling good he calls his home runs before he steps to the plat:. After he gets cne with a particular bat no one else can touch that stick. He car- ries at least four good luck pieces at all times. He smashed a half-dozen cars before he learned to drive slowly. The Babe is_very soft hearted. He | cried when a Hawailan orchestra and the entire cast of a picture in which he had worked gathered in Hollywood Sta- tion tg see him off. He put his arms around the di and wept. Kissed the members of the cast. Took in one of the bystanders, a woman with two chil-. dren at her side. The photographers took the picture. The .next day the papers carried a kiddies.” Wife and kiddies were in New York. He's still trying to explain that. STRAIGHT OFF-THE TEE since the middle of Jast Summer, when the heat wave stari>d on July 18. Florida, cn the whole, is not having the finest season in its history. Tourists there are, in plenty, but not in the num- bers that the enthusiastic press agents would have you believe. season around Miami lasts only two months, and yet today, right in the middle of the season, rates are far lower than they have been in former Winters, Here and there “for rent” signs are up at a pretentious villa or a big apartment. They were not there in former Winters. vgene-r the north end of Miami Beach, where Tex Rickard bullt a big night club, gambling casino and dog track & few years back, Deauville, has closed be- caus> of lack of patronage. S of the business depression are everywhere. But Summer remains, and the sun beats down into the blue of the ocean, golf is great and Winter seems far away. Secretary William C. Barr of the Dis- trict of Columbia Golf Association an- ncunces an executive committee meet- ing of the association at the home of Herbert “T. Shannon the evening of February 24. At this meeting plans for the annual meeting to be held later will Dave Thomson, the Washington Golf and Country Club professional, who has been hcme on a visit to Scotland, has left for this country and is expected backk at dWumn‘um during the coming week end. | be_discussed. e SCHOOL TOSSERS HURT Hyattsville, Mount Rainier Apt to Miss Injured Stars. HYATTSVILLE, Md., February 16. Both Hyattsville High and Mount Rain. ier Junior High quints may have to bat- tle ‘in their Prince Georges County scholastic basket ball championship game on the National Guard Armory floor here tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock without the services of depend- ables. Alvin McChesney, Hyattsville forward, is nursing an injured leg, and Mathias, Mount Rainier forward, has a wrenched side. Should Hyattsville win it will gain the county title and the right to repre- sent the county in the State champion- shipk series that go°ts under way next week. In addition to playing Charlotte Hall School Friday Hyattsville High's quint also will engage Leonard Hall School that day. Hyattsville defeated both teams Saturday on a Southern Mary- land trip. ENTERS WINTER SPORTS. OBERHOF, Germany, February 16 (®). —The International Ski Union de- cided to pnucllplte ia the Winter sports of the 1932 Olympic games to be held ‘at Lake Pl , N. Y. Lady Astor Stirs Cricketers’ Wrath ONDON, February 16 (#).—Lady Astor’s claim in the House of matches with England because they do not drink, with its obvious impli- cation that the British lose because Another gl:y!r. A. W. Carr, who, like Lord Tennyson, played against suggestion Ways are as green as WJlnlton are in Midmay. 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