Evening Star Newspaper, March 20, 1931, Page 47

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1931. SPORT S. Manor Club Golf Players Are Advocating Move to Reverse Their Course SUGREST PLAYING WOODS' NINE LAST Assert Present First Half of Links Too Exacting to Start Round. ~ BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. &« OME, on, Bill, let's play L the last nine first. By the time I get down in those woods, I want the « old swing to be in the groove. When my ball gets to bouncing around in those trees, it would make a trap drummer green with envy and I want a break today, anyhow. I've got a headache. Such conversations as that, combined with the practical consideration that the tenth te: is right alongside the golf shop and caddie house, may bring about a shift in the use of the two g\lugr nine-hole courses at the Manor lub. Sentiment among many of the mem- bers of the club favors a rcversal of the present procedure of playing the L. course by making the present last nine the first nine and making the “woods” nine, which is the present first nine, the second nine for the regular course. ‘There are arguments for and against the change, but according to Ray F. Garrity, president of the club, and D. L. Thomson, in of the greens committee, the change may be made in the interest of smoother running of the golf machinery of the club, and of speeding up play. Not to Affect “Inside” Course. ‘The change, if made, will not affect the “Inside” or short nine-hole course which is used extensively by the fair members of th: Manor Club, and it may be made in advance of the invitation tourney of the Norbeck organization, acheduled for June 16, 17, 18 and 19. “Many of our members feel that they cannot get going on th: first nine holes, and that before they have really gotten « the feel of their clubs their score is shot to pieces on that narrow ‘woods’ “So they 9 open second can get to hitting the ball venture down into the ‘woods. “In addition, the golf shop and cad- die pen is located near the tenth tce and in the interest of better course ‘management it might be an economy of time and effort to play the last nine as the first nine. It would make no difference “in course upkeep or main- tenance.” Up to Board and Members. ‘Thomson agreed with sponsors for the change, but said that the club is laid out with the view of having the finf Thole from the east, ‘where lawns of the clubhouse face east, thus giving the gallery a good view of the closing holes of a match. “We would tunity if thé ninth hole wers made the :‘!:hreenth." he said. “Personally, I feel ch)nf ‘would be & good one, bucause we all have trouble get- ting the kinks out of the swing in the first few holes. But it is & question for the board of governors and the membership to decide. T feel that our %(h'.h hole is not quits strong enough be the seventeenth, although tl ninth would make a very strong eight- eenth hole.” i And while we are on the subject of the hich that tee, wi may we e d sum up the case in a few words, they one-putted seventsen of the eighteen / one - putt greens in eighteen holes. If Thomson was not holing a long one, McClelland was, and if Mc- glfle'nlndmluednmmmtnihkpllfi Frequently, as the statistics show. accuracy from the tee, they gave J, their opponents a bad afternoon. STRONG FOR RECREATION New Orleans to Spend $3,000,000 for Sport Equipment. NEW ORLEANS, La., March 20 (®). —Expenditure of $3,000,000 for rec- Teation facllities of the annex to City Park here has been announced. Plans call for two new 18-hole golf courses, additional foot ball flelds and base ball diamonds, yacht harbor, am- phitheater and a municipal stadium, MAT BOUT PROVES FATAL. HAGERSTOWN, Md., March 20—A Iriendly wrestling match proved fatal to Abraham B. Swisher, 27, Five Forks, Pa., at & farm sale last night near here. Swisher and Beatty Needy, young farm worker, engaged in a bout on a hay| mow. Swisher slipped as he was trying | to toss Needy and fell upon his head, breaking his neck. He died a few min- utes after reaching the hospital. . ' MRS. HURD EASY VICTOR. HAMILTON, Bermuda, March 20 (#). ~Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd of Phila- delphia continued her march toward the Bermuda women's champlonship by defeating Louise Iselin of New York, 7 and 6, in the second round. TAKING TO BASE BALL. Japan is going for base ball in a big way. H. Koshimoto and M. Hongo of Japan are observing big league clubs %0 get some pointers. They say Tokio soon have a park seating 70,000 v Established 1893 SUIT = TOPCOAT Boat Club Holds Show for Stags !‘-fil‘lt boxing bouts, two wrestling matches and a tumbling exhibition will be among features of a program tonight at the Potomac Boat Club lux affair for members of the club an ‘The doinj their friends. will start at 8 o'clock. A feed will wind up the evening. UNLIMITED QUINTS OFFER FIREWORKS Two Big Games on Card of A. A. U. Tourney Tonight. Marines Advance. EARTENED by their first-round | victory over Potomac Boat Club | basketers, Trinity M. E. tossers | are set for a desperate attempt to upset the United Typewriter quint tonight in an unlimited class game in the District A. A. U. tournament at Mc- Kinley Tech High. This match, carded for 10 o'clock, will end the evening's play. It will be preceded at 9 o'clock by an unlimited clash between Rock- ville A. C. and Capital Awning Aces, | which is expected to develop bang-up battling. | United Typists, with Forest Burgess, Bob Freeman and other luminaries in | their line-up, are favorites to defeat the Trinity gang, but 1t is harder to foretell the outcome of the Rockville-Capital Awning game. Everett Russell, Wilbur and Lou Spinelli are among the players of the Awning team, which trimmed Pontiacs in the firs; round. Rockville brushed aside Company E in another first-rounder. Crescents will face Swann Service in a 145-pound encounter tonight expected to be well contested. In other games Northwesterns and Alexandria Clovers will fight it out in the 130-pound group and Rockville and Chevy Chase sextets in a girls' junior class match. The girls' tilt will open the evening’s activities at 7 o'clock. not_have such an oppor- | A- Quan! ner_of the United M. E. To! as up 21 points last night. a 130-pound clash, Geor, round battle. University semi- tossers pound class to reach the and Als A. C. 8, to reach the senior class. Bl SE T PLAN JUNIOR TENNIS League This Year. Junior play will be pending nmlg'h: as to whether it plans enter the I Newby; ‘William Shreve, treasurer. — . Four Middleburg, Va., Horses Run in Turf Classic. When the s will contest. They are Sun Meadow, owned burg; two from Upperville stables Admiral Cary T. Grayson, by Pass lam Ziegler, jr., of Middleburg. Fistic Battles By the Associated Press. knocked out Kingfish, Omaha (6). Birmingham, outpointed Chicago (10). 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Largest to LEADERS SELECTED FOR “C” CLUB GAMES Chairman Birthright Will Have Many Aides—Gonzaga Starts Base Ball Tomorrow. to With the appointment of committees | plans now are being hustled for the | | annual “C" Club track and field meet | at Central High School Stadium May 16. of | Chairmen of committees to _assist 11, | Parkins Birthright, whose appointment by and Happy Scot, produced by the Ad-|2s general chairman in charge of ar- miral's own Fauquier County stud, and rangements for the meet already has Sunny Lassie, belonging to Mrs. Wil-| been announced, were named last night | at & meeting of the “C" Club s fol- ows: | Officials, James Springman; Medals | and Trophies, Norman Oyster; Pro- gram, Dick Newby; Reception, Eugene Casey; Track and Field, Irwin Porter and Channing Walker; Tickets, Albert Conradis and Robert 8t. John: Police and_Pass, Robert Acorn: Refeshments, Ty Rauber, and Publicity, Jim Rellley. | With just two experienced players at | hand in Dan Dunan and Eddie Dono- | - | hue, Gonzaga’s base ball squad will be- | gin practice tomorrow on what is ku} In foot ball and basket ball Coach | Orrel Mitchell of the I Streeters also lar at. MILD - The same quality tobacco in any other cigar would cost ten cents. You can smoke John Ruskins all day long without the slight- est irritation to your throat ©or nervous system. independent cigar factory in the world. WASHINGTON TOBACCO CO., Distributors, Washington, D. C. | was up against it for seasoned talent, but managed to turn out credl!ablci hi | Basket Ball Team Loses First Five George Norris will award a cup to| teams, and it is believed he will be able also to do this in base ball. the boy who this school year is out- standing in athletics and scholastic and moral standing at Central High School. Norris announced his intention at the | meeting of the “C” Club last night.' The award will take the place of the Robert E. Acorn Trophy, which will not be presented this year. TO COACH AT RUTGERS. | ILLINI FINISH STRONG Games—Wins Seven in Row. By the Assoclated P University of Il'inois basket ball teams are strong finishers in Big Ten races. In the 1931 campaign Coach Craig Ruby's team dropped its first five games, then rallied to win all seven re- maining contests —including the one NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., March 20 | 8me which the champion Northwest- ()—Thomas F. Kenneally, on Notre Dame’s foot ball team in 1928 and 1929, has been signed as assistant coach at Rutgers University. He was assistant to John Law at Manhattan last season. FREE FEDERAL TIRES ARE ern five lost. In 1924 the Illini record was similar. After losing four of their first six starts, they finished with six straight wins to get a tie for first place. 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While plenty of bang-up battling is expected in the men's class the battl: for points between Lois Bates and Onalene Lawrence of the Washington Swimming Club has attracted particu- lar attention. Their meeting tonight in the high-board diving, in which they are both past masters, is figured a high spot. p’.}'hese old rivals have triumphed over the others several times in the past. Bates is champion of the high and low board outdoor events and Miss Law- rence is the low-board indoor title holder. The high-board event is the first scheduled here in several years. To the winner of the high-board event, both men and women, doubtless will go the honor of representing the District A. A. U. in the trials for the United States Olympic team. Basket Tourney Pairings, Results Tonight's Games. 7 o'clock, north court—Rockville vs. Chevy Chase, girls’ junior class (first round). 7 o'clock, south court—Northwest- erns vs. Alexandria Clovers, 130~ pound class (quarter-final round). 8 o'clock, main court—Crescents vs. Swann Service, 145-pound class (second round). 9 o'clock—Rockville A. C. vs. Capi- tal Awning Aces, unlimited class (second round). 10_o'clock—United Typewriter Co. vs. Trinity M. E., unlimited class (second round). Last Night's Scores. Senlor Girls—Als A. C., 40; Aloys- ians, 8 (semi-final round). 130-pound class—Georgetown A. C., 24; Dumbarton, 19 (second round). 115-pound class—University Shop, 31; Bumns A. C, 21. 145-pound class—Saks Clothiers, 36; Night Hawks, 26 (second round) Unlimited class—Quantico Ma- | rines, 52; Boys' Club, 35 (second ‘ round). | MB‘(‘)OTHiDOUBLE CAPTAIN Will Lead Yale Basketers as Well as Foot Ball Team. NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 20 (#).— Albert James Booth, better known as Miss | Alble, Yale's small athletic star, has | received his second successive captaincy of a Yale team, He has been elected leader of the 1931-32 basket ball quintet. Booth recently was chosen to captain the 1931 foot ball team. Stewart Patterson of Chicago was awarded the Elper Ripley Cup, given by the Yale coach to the man showing the greatest improvement in basket ball during the year. Sasse Scouts for Grid Ideas Army Coach Figures to Get “Lot of Foot Ball Knowledge” on Tour of Spring Camps. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. AJ. RALPH SASSE, head coach of the Army foot ball eleven, accompanied by Earl Blaik, U. 8. A, retired, of Dayton, are making a tour of the Spring practice camps in the South, picking up information of various sorts. ‘Wallace Wade, now established at Duke, where he is conducting prac- tice, was host to the Army men at Durham. Wade likes the material which Jimmy Dehart handed down %0 him and thinks that Duke will make a pretty fair splash next Fall. And by 1932 and 1933 the general expectations of who know are that Duke will be way up in front battling_for national honors with Notre and other gridiron leaders. PFrom Durham Sasse will go to various camps, finally ending up in Georgia, at Atlanta and at Athens. “A’ coach,” he writes, “can never pick up too much information, and there is a lot of foot ball knowledge G, < 7L 722 14th St. N.W. 14th and N. Y. Age. Stores Open Fridq__y;and Saturday in this country that one does mnot get by staying at home.” When Capt. McEwan was head coach of the Army they used to ship him to points remote immediately after the season was over and have him return to the point in Septem- ber. Mac never fancied this idea, and as a matter of fact, it was one of the principal factors leading to his retirement from the service. McEwan's successor, Biff Jones, and now Ralph Sasse were given full-time coaching assignments at West Point; but whereas Biff took classes, Maj. Sasse has nothing tg do but concentrate on foot: ball, which is as it should be. The Army is holding no Spring practice and her coach is taking advantage of this by studying various systems of coaching and various formulas of play. It is quite certain that as a result, the Army next season will reveal certain important changes in the 1931 scheme of offense. tht be ornia remain on the schedule of the South Bend team as a hardy annual ENGLAND FOCUSES . ONCREW CLASSIC Great Crowd to See Oxford and Cambridge Tomorrow in Ancient Event. | By the Associated Press UTNEY-ON-THAMES, England, March 20.—England's sportsmen | put aside their daily tasks today | and centered their attention on | the traditional Oxford-Cambritige boat race up the Thames tomortow, ©On both sides of the river from Put- ney to Mortlake's brewery thousands will lins the course and other thousands will pack trains pulled out on the bridges overhanging the 4!4-mile course. Because of considerable jockeying for positions in the Cambridge eight, racing experts give Oxford a bit of an edge over their rivals despite the fact that the Light Blucs have won seven consecutive victories in the annual serics and lead, 41 to 40, in the 82 races rowed since 1829. Oxford's crew remains virtually the same eight that stepped into the shell early in the s‘ason, while Caml coaches have altered men in positions and changed oarsmen in an effort to hit on a winning combination. Oxford Crew Heavier. Wind conditions play an important art in the race because of the wid: p made in the river's course which s almost “U” shaped over a great part of the 414 miles. Oxford wil have an advan n weight, averaging at 168 pounds, about 4 pounds more than the Cambridge boatload. Cambridge continued the popular choice today in the betting at 7 to 4 and 3 to 1, but rowing men believed thenodds ';re unfair .I:“eoxtord has & really good crew Wl Caml hardly has reached the level of m% eight. Oxford made faster time than Cambridge in the latest trials and showed exc:llent form on Thursday in final, calm weather which according to weather forecasts probably will cont! over Saturday. ‘The race will at 2:20 pm., Greenwich time (9:20 am. Eastern time) and will end about 20 minutes later. Oxford set the course record at 18 minutes 29 seconds in 1911, TOSSERS SPRING UPSET Wallace Memorial Defeats Bliss in Silver Spring Tilt. Wallace Memorial _basketers today boast a surprise 34-28 triumph over Bliss Electrical School. The church quint turned the trick last night at Siiver Spring. Wallace Memorial was eliminated in top honors. Palace-D. G. S. tossers tonight at the Boys" o'clock. Some other basket ball results: Imperial A. C., 46; D..C. Paper Co., 21, Peerless, 49; , 40. Colonial A. c.'}"p:gmyp. O. Federals, INCLUDING A GREATER STANDARD OF VALUES, SUITS TOPCOATS TUXEDOS b4 bo e B W With Greater Value — Finer Quality and Larger Assortme economic conditio: that are the talk dustry. ) K& smart styles—the own_shops, to DRESS before. 77 508 9 make it BBTTBRWM FIELDS today meet with gs for ‘you of the entire clothing in- The beautiful new SPRING woolens, the choice patterns and shades and the hand tailoring of garments in our o for every man to save ds never St. N.W. (OppyGeyety) fings Till 9 PM.