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4 ‘A—12 HURLERS CAN T0SS T0 BASE IN STRIDE | Barnard Tells Nats About New Order—Get Few Hits, but Score Win. BY DENMAN THOMPSON, Sports Editor, The Star. ILOXI, Miss, March 21—/ Two of the biggest flgures‘w in base ball, Kenesaw| Mountain Landis and| Ernest S. Barnard, are inf full nc-‘ cord on one question of vital Xn-‘\ terest to all followers of the na- tional pastime. Visiting hereabout | on the same day, although not| happening to meet, they individ-| ually asserted, opined, asseverated and stated that the game is in for a big season. In voicing this belief the commiis- sioner of base ball and the president of the American League simply were ful- filling one of the duties of their exalted offices. They always point with pride | to what has been accomplished and never view with alarm any situation that may confront the sport. so inter- viewing them on the outlook for base ball invariably has about as much news | as_the story of the dog biting the man. Barnard, who has been vacationing in Florida, where he made his head- | auarters at St. Petersburg, the training | base of the Yankees, also looked in at | tha camps of the Browns at West Palm Beach, the Athletics at Fort Myers and | the Red Sox at Pensacola and after spending & few days here plans to visit | the Indians at New Orleans before re- turning to headquarters in Chicago. Finds All Optimistic. boss of the junior major circuit #aid he found a spirit of op - vading the camps of both the St. Louis and Boston clubs and that the Phila- delphia players seemed to feel confident | they would be able to repeat in the race this year. Reférring to the champions, Barnard | T hened back of the bat. with Jonn stre: ent of the Wi john Het IV;’IIIME for nm:c:el;l g::‘:::nl an ng ns to ne Ini“:'i'.h Php Todt, also from the Red Sox, as understudy for Jimmy Foxx at first base, but said that, as far as he can see, they have added nothing in the way of pitchers, which they need | more than an: else. Aside from | that, he gave no intimation of his opin- e prospects for A's landing | their third consecutive pennant. Questioned concerning the interpre- tation given the new balk rule in the | bulletin he sent out to tlub owners and | managers, Barnard admitted that proo- ably too much stress had been put on the necessity for the pitcher to swg toward a base before he yws, whicl would have made thefts numerous base running would have become a joke. ‘What was intended and the point that ‘will be enforced, Barnard said, that the pitcher must first step toward a bag while in the act of making a throw to catch a runmer off. Landis Hits Snappy 106. Judge Landis was arcund for one day only and half of that was devoted to a round of 18 holes of golf in which he teamed up with Clark Grifith against your correspondent and another fellow who cnce broke 100. The ‘eminent former Federal jurist, who also has been vacationing in Florida, got so disgusted with his game several days ago that he shipped all his parapher- nalia back home, but with a set of clubs lcaned him by Griffith and wear- ing a pair of spiked brogans belonging to a club pro he stepped around the sporty Edgewater golf course, his shag- gy white mane rippling in the breeze, and proceeded to bat out a snappy 106. He got off to a rather poor start with & 6 on the par 4 first hole, but in the process discovered a brassie he among the assortment of sticks he was using and contrived one par while never utilizing more than 7 strokes, althcugh he did this five times while going out in 54 and coming back in 52. Thanks to his partner, who chalked up an 86 despite a pair of 7s, the 65-year-old czar of base ball had the satisfaction for the first time in his 20 of golfing of never losing the honor from start to finish. 8o enamored of that brassie did the judge become that Griff, after the round was finished, made him a pres- ent of it, disregarding the fact that the bag and its contents were the property of Col. William A. Smith, as- sistant secretary of the Nationals, who prized that tur{ skinner above any im- lement in his kit. If he can square | glmul! for that Griff will prove his right to that tag-of “Old Fox.” Hadley in Debut. Providing there is mo intesference from the weather the Louisville club| will be encountered in the first of two straight games this afternoon at Bi-| loxi Stadium, with Bump Hadley mak- | ing his initial appearance of the sea-| son on the mound for a five-inning | stretch and being followed by either Bob Burke or Walter Tauscher. Yesterday, before a mere handful of fans and under climatic conditions that made overcoats feel comfortable, th_Nats entertained the Spring Hill Ccllege nine and wound up with a 7-| to-3 verdict for the seven and & half | rounds which started and ended in a drizzle. Art Pidler, making his debut in a ‘Washington uniform, was warmly re- | ceived by the snappy performing varai- ty lads, and was nicked right at the outset for a triple and homer which, with a base on balls, netted the col- legians their trio of tallies He turned them bzck handily during the next four frames, however, and ‘The ths homer and two doubles, went Shortstop Bellande, whom the Cleve- land Indians are said to have under cover. ‘The National regulars in the two in- h, t: nings they played contrived to collect | only one run, but the understudies who | relieved added six more tallies, thanks to some typically woozy fielding on the part of the rah-rah boys, whoss juvenile flingers held the big eaguers 10 & mere handful of bingles. 1t would seem that the Grimen this Spring can't hit even schoolboy pitch- ers. RAMBLERS MEET TONIGHT. Rambler A. C. diamonders will meet tonight at 7:30 o'clock at 3121 N street. All members are urgently requested to | Cro attend 5 > Middies, Terrors Favored in Ring 'TATE COLLEGE, Pa., March 21.— After a reries of the finest bouts seen in intercollegiate boxing, at Penn Stete College, the semiffinal round of the tournament of the Intercollegiate Boxing Association resulted in five qualifications for the Naval Academy and four for West- ern Maryland, leaving these two prime favorites for the finals, whicl will be determined today. Pennsylvania State and Syracuse each elified in two fights and W Tech was the winner SPORTS. Training Games By the Assocated Press. Results Yesterday, At New Orleans, La.—New Orleans (8. A), 8; Cleveland (A), 1. At Winter Haven, Fla.—Philadel- phia (N.), 7; Columbus (A. A), 3. At West Palm Beach, —8 Louis (A.), 8: Buffalo (L L.). 4. At St. Petersburg, Fla.—Boston (N.), 7: New York (A), 6. At Fort Myers, Fla—Philadelphia (A.), 3; Cincinnati (N.), 2. At San Francisco—Chicago (N.), 6; Pittsburgh (N.), 3. At Biloxi. Miss.—Washington (A.), 7; Spring Hill College, 3. At Los Angeles—Portland (P. C. L.). 5; Detroit (A.), 3. ‘At_Galveston, Tex.—Chicago (A.), 13; Galveston, 12. Games Today. At St. Petersburg, Fla—New York (A) vs. St. Louis (N.). At Tampa, Fla.—Cincinnati (N.) vs. Philadelphia (N.). At San Francisco—Pittsburgh (N.) vs. Chicago (N.). At_Houston, Tex.-—New York (N.) vs. Chicago (A.), night game. At Miami, Fla.—St. Louis (A.} vs. Toledo (A. A.). At Los Angeles—Detroit (A.) vs. Portland (P. C. L.) At Pensacola, ~—Boston (A) vs. House of Davi At Mobile, Ala.—Washington (A.) vs. Louisville (A. A). At New Orleans—Cleveland (A.) vs. Baltimore (I. L). 'S HAVE T0 DRESS LIKE BIG LEAGUERS Mu;t Not Wear Ilil-Fitting Uniforms When Training, Mack Tells Them. By the Associated Press. ORT ‘MYERS, Fla., March 21.— One might think a bunch of ball players away down in Dixie cn a training trip wouldn't care what kind of uniforms they wear. That isn't so. The Philadelphia Athletics are quite fus-y about their working clothes, and i~ fusslest man in the | outfit about ap. 1rance is Manager Mack. None of his young men are permitted to run around with shirt buttons off, a hole in his rompers or his cap draped over one ear. A “If they are going to be big leaguers, says Mack, “they might as well begin right now and look the part. We're going to look like champions, anyway. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., March 21 () —Infielder Lin Storti Outflelder Frank Waddey, the former from Wichita Falls and the latter from Mem- phis, continue to attract much atten- tion in the St. Louis Browns' training camp. Stortl, who is assured at least a utility berth, collected 6 hits cut of | | seven trips to the plate lgl.nn Colum- bus and Buffalo, while ddéy, who is fllling in for the injured Schulte in center field, has been flelfing bril- liantly and getting more than his share of hits. GALVESTON, Tex., March 21 (®)— After rolling up a 11-to-0 lead in the first two hoops of their exhibition stop- over with Galveston Buccaneers, the White :‘o.x finally won a game, to 12 yesterday. . Bill Cissell and Fred Eickrodt sené a couple over the left fleld fence and were allowed the conventional two-baggers. They are still trying to find the base balls. 10S ANGELES, Calif,, March 21 (). | —Joe Dugan, once considered one of | the best third basemen in base ball, is liked | not as fast as when he covered the hot corner fcr the Yankees, but he is mak- | ing a great showing with the Detroit | Tigers in exhibition games. = 0y NEW ORLEANS, March 21 (#)—Sec- | ond base is Manager Roger Peckin: paugh's chief worry for his Cleveland Indian€ these days. Johnny Hodapp's trick knee will be mended before the season_starts, but the prospect that it may slip out of place again is bothers| some, PENSACOLA, Fia, March 21 (®)— Gene Rye, hard-hitting rookie cutfield- er, will handle & bat again for the Red Sox in about three weeks' time. His wrist was taken out of splints yesterday and camp medicos say that the break he suffered a few weeks ago is coming along fine. . R PLAY FOR CUE TITLE Appleby, Collins to Meet Tonight in 18.2 Balkline Match. NEW YORK, March 21 () —Edgar | T. Appleby of New York and Percy Col- lins <f Chicago will meet tonight in 300-point match with the national ama Manager teur 18.2 balkline billiard champlonship | Cardinals told him he was to start| at stake. Appleby won the title from E:lllm in a challenge match Jast Octo- T, Appleby chalked up his fourth straight victory in the championship round robin tournament last night by whip- ping Ray V. Fessenden of Madison, Wis., 300 to 292, inr 36 innings. Collins pre- viously had beaten Fessenden for his | fourth triumph in & row. GAME AT LEESBURG. LEESBURG, Va, March 21.—The Leesburg Independent basket ball team closes its season next Wednesday, meet- |ing the R. F. & P. team from Alexan- dria here. The game is to begin at 5 /8:30 o'clock. e et A { SHIKAT PINS McMILLEN. PHILADELPHIA, March 21 (#)— Richard Shikat, Philadelphia, last night uies 17 seconds in the feature wres- tling bout at “the Arena. " | GOING COLLEGIATE Spring H. AB. uc! g A = Dumoumsss~s30000ue” | H. Rice.r1’ Manush.if.. TRT 55 ontague.ss Judge.Tb. Kuhel.1b West 5 soss-cou~cen P —) 3 3 3 L4 3 3 2 ] 2 1 Kurhan.n, Richards.p EARTTRERE R Totals. .. Washington Spring Hill . Rune—£. Rice. H. Rice (2). Montague, Rul Mattina, Bilgere, Bel- I ligere. Runs batted Sbencer, Hontague. wo-base hi 1 hit—Bilgere. bases—H, baser Washingion. n. base on balis-Off Fi o de” (2). ‘Three-base de. SL 5 5o’ its—Off Pidle) | place for him. 13 Poles threw Jim McMillen, Chicago, with a | crotch hold and body slam in 55 min- | < THdE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1931 W—————‘—-——?———__—M Balk Rule Not to Make Base Running Joke : Sun Beau Goes After Money Record WILLINGHAM WILL TOIL FOR PHILLIES White Sox Liked by Shotton—Vance Worries ‘Robby. INTER HAVEN, Fla., March 21 (#)—Hugh Willingham, in- flelder, who said he didn't get much of a chance the White Sox, is likely to get plenty of cpportunity with the Phillies. He joined the Shottcnmen three days ago, after the Sox decided they had no “I don’t know why the Sox didn’t give us more chance,” Willingham sald. “There were several of us at camp who didn't do much more than report at the park.” Willingham played third base for Dallas last year. this season.” persistent holdout, Dazzy Vance, starting to ®worry Wilbert Robinson, | rotund manager of the Brcoklyn Rob- ins, Dazzy was among the missing| when the Robins embarked for a series | of intraclub games at Havana and Robby admitted he didn't like it. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif,, March 21 (#).—Charley ‘Root, who went out like a busted lamp, with a brittle fin dur- ing the last month of the 1930 Na- tional League season, beat off the Pirates, 6 to 3, in the first of the Spring series between the Cubs and the Buccaneers yesterday. Root stuck the whole nine-inning | scamper, holding the Easterners to| seven hits. | TAMPA, Fla., March 21 (9 —Efforts of the Cincinnati Reds management to | acquire a% least one additional out- fielder have become almost frantic. In- juries to Harry Heilmann, key man in | the outfield, and failure of several Tookies to show what was expected of them, has Manager Dan Howley worried. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 21 (). —After looking over the situation for a couple of weeks, John McGraw, manager of the New York Giants, has come out with a cautious statement to | the effect that Freddy Lindstrom will remain in the outfield. That is, Freddy will stay there until | McGraw is_convineed neither Johnny | Vergez nor Urban Pickering can fill the | third base post Lindstrom leaves vacant. | ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, March 21 | (P —A talked of trade between the| Braves and Cincinnati has been nipped | in the bud. The talk around the camp | is that the Tribesmen would have wel- comed Larry Benton, but as badly as they need him they need Richbourg ! more. RUTH HITS HIS FIRST HOME RUN OF SEASON| One Over Left-Field Wall, Close to"Foul Line in St. Petersburg Field. By the Assoclated Press. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 21.— not considered enything remarkable unless he does it in St. Petersburg. In seven seasons that the Babe has trained here with the New York Yankees, he has hit only four homers. Three of them went over the right field which started his 1931 homer hitting yesterday, crossed the barrier so close to the left field foul line that Ruth stood at the home plate until the um- pire decided the hit was fair. Distant fences, except where they ap- age of Ruthian homers. CARD ROOKIE EAGER Would Shine in Pinch Against Yanks, but Street Decides Otherwise. Infield Diseard, iust three weeks with the Chicago | After seeing him In' one game Manager Shotton’s comment | was: “He has the best arm I've seen | MIAMI, Fla, March 21 (#).—That 15 When Babe Ruth hits a home run it is| fence near the foul line and the fourth, | proach the foul lines, explain the short- | TO FAN RUTH, GEHRIG BY H. C. BYRD. BOUT the most difficult job the University of Maryland has ever had in lacrosse is the de- velopment by Coach Jack Faber out of the squad with which he now is working a team capable of coping successfully with the difficult schedule arranged for this Spring. Not only did the university lose just half its team of last season, but in that half were included the key man in its offense |and the key man in its defense. It be developed who can play the lacrosse | that Heagy did on defense, or that Evans did on offense, and it will be a | problem of trying to find six men who can show as great aggregate strength | as the six who graduated. His Hardest Task. | t one we've | 3 | Faber this morning. ninth year that I have been connected with Maryland lacrosse teams, either as a, player or as & coach, but in all that time I doubt if we have had anything like as hard a Job as now confronts us. | We have faced tough schedules before. whom to build our_teams; we have had | not have as hard schedules. “We just are not going to have any was, and I doubt if we shall have any- body as clever as Heagy was on de- fense. ‘Therefore, it stems that our problem is to try to weld together evenly balanced team and develop a strength of that kind instead. of at- tempting to build our play around one | or two men. The fellows are showing | fine spirit, though, and with the kind ' Some Outline of Sport. Gilded Age of the prize | fight racket was the creation of one man. He first was discovered in & bar and gambling house in the little mining camp of Goldfield, Nev., which has since gone back to the original desert and sage- | brush, or practically that. There was a boom in Goldfield. They had struck it rich, and there was the gold rush. vada desert was George L. (Tex) Rlck-l This makes the | but we had some star players around | worse material than now, but we did | player in our offense as good as Evans | Loss of Key Men Places Terp Lacrosse Coach in Hard Spot of effort that such spirit produces they may develop & lot more rapidly than ordinarily might be expected. We cam: through four years ago with the greenest kind of material, and we may do so again. But there's not the least doubt that we are going to have to work harder and to make a greater advancement than we have had to make in former years if we are to come through this Spring.” Faces Severe Schedule. As a matter of fact, Maryland plays this Spring what probably is the hard- est scheduls it has ever faced, and the fact that it must do this with one of its greenest squads does not add luster to the picture. It starts off with what ought 1o be two easy games, Georgia and Washington College. ‘Then comes Western Maryland, con- siderably more difficult, and after that in succession are to be played Syracuse, Penn State, St. John's, Rutgers, Johns Hopkins and Navy, and these opponents represent what has for years been very close to the “summun bonum” of la- crosse. Faber, however, is not the kind of chap to whine about difficulties. He gets on the job, takes the best ma- terial he has and does what he can with it. ‘And, incidentally, it should be said to his credit that he does about as much with his material as any coaclr could. His remarkably successful work with the lacrosse squad last sea- son was one of the finest coaching jobs ever done at Maryland. It may be that he will pull his men through much better than now is looked for. In fact, Faber himself is more doubtful about the easier part of his schedule than about some of the later games, as he feels that by the time the team enters the May stretch he will be able to develop a twelve capable of putting up a good battle, DOWN THE LINE WITH W. O. McGEEHAN to that roaring camp than ever was dug from under the sagebrush. HAT might be called the | Hog Mo thern, Rickards saloon, was | ‘They | running night and day full blast. used $20 gold pleces for chips, and the champagne flowed like water with the arrival of every train. Florida never saw anything like it. It was as crude and as wild as any Bret Harte setting and quite as glamorous. I never expect to see anything like it again. The fight was held, and to the pleas- | ant_astonishment of the boomers who had backed the thing did not show a deficit. anced. The camp profited, but Tex Rickard profited most of all. He was ard, who had been a cowboy in Texas, | established as a picturesque and daring who had carried pack over the Chil- | fight promoter, this man who promoted koot Pass during the early days of the | Alaskan goid rush and who wound UP | e fights in other places. For the | the first big fight he ever saw. There came offers to Rickard to pro- at Nome, a partner in & saloon and |time he was amazed no little ‘at the gambling house which was known as the Northern. Rickard and his partners hit the camp of Goldfieid early. They did not | for gold, Instead they founded a re- plica of their Alaskan saloon and gambling house, which has been highly | profitable and it, too, they called the Northern. » Now, as they wanted to put the| camp of Goldfield on the map and to | bring in Eastern capital, the leading | spirits of the place cast about for ways and means to get the alluring name of Goldfield into as many newspapers as promoters, George Graham Rice, I al- ways believed, suggested that a prize fight of great importance would draw to Goldfield all of the sports and the spenders of the country. It sounded reasonable, especially when put forward by the persuasive George Graham Rice. T any rate, Goldfield bid $40,000 for the Gans-Nelson fight. This wes verified by the managers of the two fighters. They went to Goldfield window of a Goldfield bank. en | what_the promoters of Goldfield had ceeded their fondest expectations. Makes $40,000 Bid for Bout, try, if not of the world, and frequently hoped for happened. The results ex- | Goldfield was on the map. The name | was on every sports page of the coun- | | it 'was on tHé front pages. For $40,000 for which the newspapers nothing whatever. | | out to be the start of the Gilded Age | | of the prizefight racket. points as distant” as London. clamoring for “news” from Goldfield. ballyhoo By the Associated Press | BRADENTON, Fla, March 21.— “Dizzy” Dean was disappointed when | Gabby Street of the St. Louls | today's game against the New York ‘¥ankees. He explained he had hoped for a situation like this: Going into the ninth inning, the Cards a run ahead, the Yanks with men on second and third, one down and Ruth and Gehrig coming up. Distressed, Gabby would send him in to pitch, “Then,” he said, solemnly, “I'd strike ‘em both out, and they wouldn't get a foul off me.” Gabby said it would b Just as well to strike out Babe and Lou earlier in the game. | STRADA SCORES KAYO. LAKE WORTH, Fla., March 21 (#).— Jose Strada, 137 pounds, Mexico City. last night won a technical knockout over Joe Lockhart, 140 pounds, Evans- ville, Ind., at the end of the fifth round | of & 10-round bout here. the thirg would look better with a one- | man promoter. | naturally they development himeelf. But he could not be lured away from-mining camps, his bar and his gambling tables. There he felt at home and the profits were waste any time prospecting or dIg¥ing | certain. Even with this first success Rickard was still incredulous concern- ing the gullibility of the prizefight fans. He would stick to the racket he knew. The Gilded Age. 'HE mining camp of Goldfield began to peter out, as they say in the ‘West, after the one big orgy. Tex Rickard became interest in Some cop- | possible at the lowest cost. One of the | par properties in Nevada. He set about to get backing, for he was not yet fully aware of the gold that might be wrung frem the caulifiowers. He found his prospect on the golf links of his country club. He expati- ated on his copper properties. The prospect had heard of his Goldfield | venture. “Tam jot interested in your copper,” said the prospect finally. “But if you will promote a fight between and saw the money —two gleaming | Jim Jeffries and Jack Johnson I will pyramids of $20 ;gold pleces in the underwrite you.” . You will remember that Jack John- son at the time was the heavyweight champlon—to the indignation of all the Nordics and near-Nordics. There was the clarion call for a white hope to bring back the championship to the Caucasians. Jeffries was appealed to in vain. He had retired and no mere chicken feed would lure him back. ‘They were bidding for the fight in the mining camp of Goldfield got more | New York when Rickard came out of than $40,000,000 worth of advertising. | the West with a bid of $101,000 to top recelved | the highest of the other bids. That got the match. Jeffries would attempt to Rube Goldberg, the cartoonist, and I |vindicate the Nordics and the near- were the first newspaper men to come Nordies for the major part of that from the outside and to see what turned sum. The articles were signed. From this bout, at which he per- Papers from | sonally officiated 'as referee, Rickard 211 over the country, and in fact from |drew gate receipts of about $300,000. were | That convinced him that there was more gold te be taken out of the fight By this time the committee for the racket than out of the mountains and of Goldfield had decided that deserts of Nevada. He was established as a prizefight promoter. Destiny was Tex Rickard was the |calling from the East to the frenzied | leadin mbler and saloonkeepcr, so | financiers of fistiana. sy they figured that he would |Of the fight racket' reached the full ‘The Gilded Age be the representative sporting character- dawn at Reno. to_aet this part. Backed by the not t00 heavy bank- roll of all Goldfield, Mr. Rickard ac- cepted the post, though I am quite sure that he never in his life had seen a pro- | fessional bout of any importance. The | ballyhoo increased until the camp filled | up with visiting sports, one of the most rominent of whom was Nat Goodwin. | It was the biggest and most picturesque | gathering that fistiana ever had pro- duced. | The Caulifiower Boom. i ! al st gt FRYE LEADS TO WIN His Fine Bowling Helps King Pin Put Rendezvous Out of Race. Led by Bernie Frye, who has proved the King Pin standby this season, | Howard Campbell's bowlers smashed out a two-game victcry qver Rendezvous last night to virtually eliminate the Tad Howard crew from the District League | race. i UNDREDS of thousands of words |™"prye who rolled 388, aided the King | were telegraphed from Goldfield | pinners to take 4 e sty | Simies S0 take s loudiqF g o ’ballyhoo for such a small outlay, not | even in the palmiest days of the Florida | realty boom. I do not know how much gold was taken out of Goldfield. but |on this point I am willing to lay a | small wager that this fight, with the | attendant ballyhoo, brought more gold By the Associated Press. UTNEY - ON - THAMES, Eng- land, March 21.—Old “grads,” sportsmen in general and London's cockneys jammed the banks of the Thames today for the eighty-third rowing duel"between Oxford and Cambridge. Oxford's sweep-swingers had two major incentives—to end Cambridge's string at seven victories in a row and to pull up to even terms with | the Light Blue in the century-old | rivalry. Cambridge's victory a year ago gave the Cantabs 41 triumphs ageinst 40 for Oxford in the series that began 4n 1829. One race—that of 1877—cnded in a dead heat, ‘Trains, autos, busses, airplanes— all _methods of transportation— brought more than 750,000 persons to witness the outstanding college rivalry in the Bsitish spofls calendar, Huge Throng Sees Boat Race 750,000 on Hand as Oxford Strives to Break Cambridge’s Streak of Victories. Cambridge, which has flashed past the finish line at Mortlake's brewery ahead of the Dark Blue in 10 of the last 11 years, again was favored in the betting at 7 to 4. but Oxford generally was conceded & good chance to win. Strangely enough, students of the two schools show considerable re- straint in their attendance at these races, leaving the bulk of the crowds to London cockneys, who have been partisans to one university or the other from their childhood days. Boat race days to the poor Londoner are the equivalent of the circus day parades of America, combining, as they do, spectacle and sport. Tonight London's West Side will be converted into a college town, while adherents of the winning crew make merry in Piccadilly, Leicester Square, Regent and Oxford streets. These “boat race night” celebrations, according to old-timers, are getting tamer every year, ~They're sustained nowadays mostly by shoe clerks “on i the locse WYNN WINS BOAT RACE Takes All Heats of Willis Event for Woman Outboard Pilots. PALM_BEACH., Fla., March 21 (#)— Wilma Wynn, Jacksonville, yesterday piloted her outboard, Small Daughter, Willis race, which opened the Sir Thomas Lipton Regatta here. Miss Wynn won all three of the 5-mile heats. her best time being 8 minutes 42.62 seconds. The race was restricted o women. HE'S CHECKER WIZARD. A demonstration in which he defeated 35 opponents, playing five games blind- folded, was given by Nowel] W. Banks of Detroit, United States checker cham- ‘p:lnx‘ last night at the Central Y. M. Lacrosse Trials May Come Here FFORTS are being made to ob- tain the entire 1932 Olympic Iacrosse tryouts for Washing- ton T feature «;'t‘ rtlhe ‘ellllbonu sports program which will mark the George Washington Bicenten- nial celebration. 4 B. Lawrence of the Bi- Commission has dis- matter with Charles L. | be lnid hefore the'full committee. 2Ornstein, chairman of the Olympic Lacrosze Committes. Later it will Instead of that it showed a| Among those who sped into the Ne- | slight profit when the books were bal- 'SUBURBAN AND ‘DUB’ | his old boats, puts them in a Miss !land in 1920 and lifted the Harmsworth to victory to win the Ambassador John | A A U TANK FINALS ONIN NINE EVENTS| .. Central and W. S. C. Place Most” Aspirants in D. C. Meet Tonight. ENTRAL High School and the ‘Washington Swimming Club will have the most representa- tives in the men’s and women's events, respectively, in the finals to- night In the second annual South At- lantic indocr swimming champlonships in the Shoreham Hotel pool. 'The schoolboys and the W. 8. C. mermatds led in the qualifying tests last night. Nine events are to be decided, start- ! ing at 8 o'clock, as follows: 50-yard free style for men, 100-yard free style for women, 220-yard free style for men, 150-yard backstroke for men, 100-yard breaststroke for women, 100- yard free style for men, 220-yard breast- stroke for men, 100-yard backstroke for women and 200-yard special relay | for men. Results of the fancy-diving events, men and women, were com- pleted last night, but will not be an- nounced until tonight, Lois Bates, crack little mermaid of tha Washington Swimming Club, and Richard Maurer of Central High grabbed"the individual glory last night. Miss Bates swept to a new District reccrd in winning the 220-yard free | style final for women when she flashed | over the course in 21 3-5 seconds. Mary Chadwick formerly held the mark for the event at 243-5 seconds, having made it last year. Miss Bates achieved | further honors by bagging first place in the 50-yard women's free style final. In both events she was pr by her W. S, C. mates, Onalene Lawrebce and Rita Augusterfer, who placed wecond and third in each test. It was Maurer's victory over Con- stancio Alvarado, Filipino Olymplic swimmer, in the 200-yard breaststtoke for men which furnished_the big putich of the evening. Maurer triumphed by | inches by dint of a gallant rally in the htfltw yards, after trailing from the start. Central qualified five for the finals, Georgetown University, four, and Cath- olice University, three. Last night's summaries: 50-yard free style. women. final—Won by Lois “Bates (Washington Swimming Club): second. Onalene 5t ond. Onalene Lawrence (Washiuton Swim- | ming Club): third, Rita Augusterfer (Wash- | ington Swimming Ciub). ~Time, 3:213;. (New Distriet of Columbla 'record; old record, 100-yard free style. men. heats—Won by Beverly Carter (Central Righ School): sec- ond. Arturg Aballi (Georgeiown Universit: Time, 1:03%. _Scor —Won by M Rote (George W second, John Care: (Swaveler). Time. 1:00% > 3 1:00%5, 220-yard ~breaststroke, men, heats—Pirst heat won by Jack Diener (Central High School): second. Walte: Briges (Georgetown University), Time, 3:35. Second heat won by Richard Maurer (Ce; High_School): | secord, Constancio_ Alvarado (\Washington Swimming Ciub). Time, 3:19%. 50-yard free siyle. men. heais_Pirst heat D'Esopo_(Catholic University); . Burns (Central High School). d heat won by Georse nd, Frank Mullen Time. 5.~ Third (Georgetown University) and L. town University), " tied for first. | PINMEN VIE TONIGHT | Four Alleys to Be Used as Big Fields Roll Second Blocks. “Hour Test” On. Duckpins will fly in four pin plants tonight as local and suburban bowlers roll the sedond five-game blocks in two | - sweepstakes—Bill Wood’s “Dub Sweep- stakes” and the Maryland-Virginia Suburban Sweepstakes. Swamped with entries in his ’stakes, Bill Wood has béen forced to split the 109 duckpinners of the first squad into two groups tonight, one to roll at the Lucky Strike, the other at the King Pin. Forty crack pinmen will vie in the suburban event, half to roll at Bethesda and the other half at Boulevard, two blocks farther down Wisconsin avenue. Sam Parks, who rolled 623—a whale | of a score for “105” bowler—is the leader by 22 pins in the “Dub Sweep- Stakes.” Joo Preschi has 612 to top the suburban maple shooters. SPORTS., Basket Tourney - Pairings, Results sumers vs. St. Martin's, unlimited class (second round). 0 o'clock, main court—Clovers vs. Palace-D. G. 8., unlimited class (second round). Last Night's Results. Unlimited class — Capital Awning Aces, 70; Rockville, 24 (second round). 130-pound class—Northwesterns, 2; AJexardria Clovers, 0 (forfeit, quarter- Zmal round). 145-pound class — Crescents, 54; Swann's Service, 21 (second round). Junior girls—Rockville Girls, 35; Chevy Chase Girls, 26 (first round). WALOWITZ SHINES AS QUINT MANAGER Late to Organize United Tybists, but Has Them Well Up in Title Tourney. Wally Walowitz, who has won more than one man’s share of laurels in an independent basket ball managerial role, appears destined to guide another crack quintet into the semi finals or finals of a District A. A. tournament. Onited Typewriier Gravs. copped, the T Grays e coveted championship a few years back, was somewhat dilatory in organizing a club this s°ason but at the same time, the Grays of 1930-31, as rival basketers will attest, are far from being dilatory once the whistle blows. ‘The victory of the United T ter Grays last night over the Trinity M. E. five put them among the prime favorites. Despite the lopsided score— 12 to 13—it was not the shooting, but the all-around teamwork of the winners that was most gnpressive. Scheele, Hank and Al Durye; Burgess, Freeman and Hunt, all former scholastic players, divided up the 72 points with almost premeditated exactness, ‘Tonight's battles are e: ted to in- creass pargisanship in unlimited class when ths Clovers and Palace- D. G. 8. and Griffith-Consumers and Martins clash in "second round games. Another club to impress last night was the Capital Awning Aces, 70-to-24 Vllctorn over Rockville in the unlimited class. Scores of other games last night: Petworth Baptist, 40; Meridians, 24. Brightwood, 63; First Baptist, 21. Brightwood, 37; Wallace Memorial, 30. Mercury Juniors, 27; Company C, 22. Western Presbyterians, 27; Ecki tons, 26. Nativity, 33; St. Martins, 21, Stewarts, 29; St. Martins, 21. D. C. POLICE LOSE i | Beaten by Dayton Force Team in National Pistol Shoot. ‘The Washington police pistol team, competing in the Interstate Police Pistol League “C” competition, being conduct- ed by the National Rifle Association, Afopped its second match to the Day- ton, Ohio, police, 909 to 935. | ‘The scores of the Was] |ers were: Fondahl, 193; Brodies, 181; R_’l;hlfl-‘ 197; Stewart, 179; McCormick, 171. The standing of the teams: Bell Makes Last U.S. Tennis Stand 'EW YORK, March 21 (#).—Only Berkeley Bell, mighty tennis atom from Dallas, Tex., stands between the invading French tennis team and a clean sweep of the Amer- ican indoor titles. Bell, who outlasted big Frank Shields of New Ycrk yesterday in a semi-final match, meets Jean Borotra Charlie Grant, over at the Alexandria Health Center, expects plenty of iron-| man stuff over at his alleys tonight in | his novelty affair. Grant offers $50 to | the bowlers spilling the most maples in exactly one hour. | in the singles final today. Borotra, three times winner of the singles crown, already possesses the double title with young Christian Boussue as his partner. Bell beat Shields, 9—11, 6—4, 12—10, 6—4. Gar Wood Saves Old Engines To Hang Up Speedboat Marks By the Assoclated Press. ETROIT, March 21.— Here' the way Gar Woed, first human to go faster than 100 miles an hour in a speedboat, breaks records. . He takes the engines out of America with a higher number, and the record falls. Since Commodore Wood went to Eng- Trophy, emblematic of the world's championship in speedboating, it has been his ambition to be the first ‘man to better 100 miles per hour on water. This hope was realized in trials at Miami Beach, Fla., yesterday with an average speed of 102.256 nautical miles per hour. The time must be approved by the Union Internationale du Yacht- ing_Automobile, whose headquarters is in_Brusscls, Belgium, " Two Plants Used. The Miss America IX, latest of the line with which he has kept the trophy for more than a decade, was used in yesterday's effort. It was powered with an engine from the Miss America VII and one from the Miss America VIII, with which he defended the Harms- worth Trophy in 1929. Beforejthey were put in the “hine” the “seven’s” engines had been at_the bottom of Lake St. Clair, above Detroit, and at the bottom of the sea at Venice, Italy, as the result of racing accidents. ‘The Miss America IX was designed and built in three weeks last Summer after the speedboat king had taken a trip to Ontario and seen Miss Marion Barbara Carstairs’ Estelle IV and Estelle V in action. Wood announced then that the new Miss America would be built to do 100 miles an hour, but that speed Was not. necessary to retain the trophy against Miss Carstairs’ best efforts. At that the English girl made the best showing of any invader since Wood took the Harmsworth trophy. She was the first to finish a heat against him. Foes Are Unlucky. Misfortune always has appeared to *| thwart the efforts of challengers u-lnn: Commodore Wood's supremacy o @ water. Breken propellor shafts, flaming engines and broken fuel lines are only a few of the troubles which have beset them. Maj. Sir Henry O. D. ve, one of the few speed champions believed to have the skill necessary to regain the Harmsworth trophy for England, was killed last Summer in England just after he set the record of 98.76 miles per hour which Wood broke yesterday. Segrave had challenged Wood 16F the trophy. If Kaye Don, another Englishman, races for the trophy next September he prob- ably will drive the Miss England II, in which Sir Henry lost his life. TWO MILES A MINUTE IS NOW WOOD'S GOAL First Man teSpeed Boat More Than 100 Miles an Hour Is to Try New Engine. By the Associated Pres: MIAMI BEACH, Fla., March 21.—Gar ‘Wood, first man to through water faster than 100 miles an hour, today had a new goal of 2 miles a minute. After streaking his 12-cylinder Miss America IX across a measured course on Indian Creek here yesterday to claim an international record of 102.256 miles an hour for a nautical mile, Wood said he plans to build a boat capable of greater speéd. In an earlier run he was clocked at 101.154 miles an hour over & statute mile in his bid for an Amer- ican recor “I'll buy engines capable of 4,000 horsepower for the new boat,” he sald. “I may have to go to England to buy them, il do it if necessary.” RACES TOMORROW FOR RICHEST STAKE Fans Hard Put to Find Pony Worth a Bet Against Caliente Favorite. By the Associated Press. March 21. — Shakespearian words, “My kingdom for a harse,” were paraphrased today by thousands of turf fole lowers seeking a thoroughbred which might have a chancg against the big short-odds bay, Sun Beau, in the world's richest stake, to be run tomorrow. Four years ago this son of Sun Briar could have been purchased for $5,000, vet today he stood the favorite by a wide margin to lead eight other prob- able starters in the second renewal of the $100000 Agua Caliente Handicap and become the greatest money winner of all time, Coltiletti Rides. The Willis Sharpe Kilmer 5-year-old, with Frankie Coltilett! astride, will go to the post with 129 pounds in the boot, 13 pounds more than his nearest nent. Even in the face of this and the threatening possibility that McGonigle, & trouble-maker at the gate, might b= allowed to go, Sun Beau stood st odds of 4 to 5 on the future books. Lady Broadcast was quoted mext at 4 to 1, even though the question of what jockey would pilot the 5-year-old filly remained unanswered. Should ! GUA CALIENTE, Mexico, =5 &0 the post 16 pounds lighter than Sun Beau. Several 6 to 1 Bets. ‘Third place in the future books was held by Mike Hall, packing 116 pounds, and Pigeon Hole, carrying 113. These geldings, ages 7 and 6, respectively, both representing the Hal Price Headley Stable, are quoted 6 to 1, as is The Choctaw, which recently bested se: eral of the outstanding starters in prep race. Hope for a ific Coast winner rests entirely with Alexander Pantages. Fig- | ured as an outsider last year, this harse, owned by the theater magnate’s sons, Rodney and Lloyd, placed second to first running of the recreated Coffroth Handicap and has appeared in better form this season as luc lay and Sandy the latter shipped here from mm oy a few weeks ago, along with Caruso, are considered as the other probable starters, although Schooner and De Swasey will go if there is mud. ‘Weather forecasts are clear, how- ever, and only twice in eleven rain’ marred the classic. TR LEW HARVEY BEATEN THIRD TIME IN U. S. British Middleweight Champ Is Victim of Prelim. Fighter in New York. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, March 21.—A in managers has failed to save %"%’n. vey, British middleweight ;rogn his third succesive American de= eat. s Beaten twice by Vince Dundee in the last couple of months, the pale Briton took a solid trouncing from a young Néw York preliminary fighter, Ben Jeby, in 12 rounds at Madison Square Garden last night. Jimmy Johnston, who recently took over Harvey's contract, was a some- what em] spectator in _the crowd of 8,000 persons. Jeby fought a rushing, body-punching battle at close l;'m:;- and Harvey solved it only in ashes. LA GORCE GOLF LED BY SARAZEN, TURNESA Each Goes Into Final Day’s Play With 139 Score for 36 Holes in Open Meet. . By the Assoclated Press. MIAMI BEACH, Fla, March 21.— Gene Sarazen and Joe Turnesa led a reduced but hopeful guard of golfers over the La. Gorce open champlonship battlefield today to final assault on I')l;:t $5,000 top prize of the $15,000 y. Only 67 of the starting army included in the 36-hole advance. rest were casualties of the days of qualifying play. Sarazen and Turnesa were in front with 36-hole scores of 139, two strokes ahead of their nearest competitor. Joe Kirkwood followed with 141, Tom- my Armour 142; Walter Kozack and Frank Walsh 143 each. STECHER BEATS GAGNON. ROCHESTER, N. Y., March 21 (P). —Joe Stecher, Nebraska, took two_out of three falls from Jack Gagnon, = ton, last night in the wind-up bout of wrestling card here. . ‘were The two 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. LYDE MILAN now appears to be the only outflelder sure of a job with the Washington base ball team the coming season. Shaggy Rawlings is- figured to lead the Bankers League pitchers in effectiveness this year, A writer in The Star dep the controversy between the Capital City and District Leagues, which are diamonds. n nn'-fgen;entm can only hl:'. the game here in the opiniom of The Stara observor. Co., Al- and Ameri- amateur nines here- The Commissioners ‘are counting upon Jack Hurley, second baseman, and Dutch Hessler, 2wst and outfielder, to help