Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1931, Page 58

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 22, 1931—-PART FIVE. Great Year in Prospect for Sandlotters : Bannockburn Looks to Happy Future Londos Heads Fine Mat Array In Wrestling Carnival Here MANY TEAMS PLAN WORKOUTS TODAY | Dewes cup, emblematic of the ' high school team golf supremacy of Hottest Season Since Days| .« of Independent Series Is Expected. day, weather permitting,| for - the start of another sandlot base ball campaign —one that promises to be the| biggest since the Shamrocks, Tominican Lyceums, Knicker- bockers, et al. staged memorable battles in the old Independent series. Last year the Government League set & new attendance record, averaging close to 3,000 a game, while other week- day loops also showed increases. Sun- day bue ball was followed enthusiasti- cally. All signs thus far this season have iadicated even more interest for the coming season. Virtually ‘every sandlot ball club in the District and environs plans a prac- tice sesslon today. They were rained ‘o;lat last Sunday and rain is forecast for THE barrier goes up again to-| Earland J. Lakin of the Ma- rine rr-c‘::. wants a berth on a strong senior sandlot club this season. Lakin is an experienced pitcher. 'ORTY-FOUR strong, the new Post Office nine will start tice this rnoon on the Monument Grounds under Manager Tom Quill. Post Office, at a recent meeting of the Departmental th&le. was added to the loop and out 44 aspirants who already have made known their intention of trymg for the mne. hm to be represented b, l'oflthn( candidates are asked to wrt Emmy Mwfler. Gus Predericks, fos, e Jrae gk B0 A TS, iomas, Sam Cole, Paul heky:, John Burke, Jim George Armemr wlu rl %al. -.nd Milton' Beck, Tom Blake, Louis Ensor, Blll Allm, John Schweir, Abe Mendel- E. V. Bishop, Jack lnnalee, w%vw Bousman, Bl Krouse, Talcott, Rogers and ‘Whitte. manager of the Wonder "to hold an elimination at 1 o'clock on the East Ellipse | Morma: Practice will get under way at 11 o'eloetxoeml(omeAc. base ballers, l :30. where leave for the North Ellipse. ‘Takoma Tiger Juniors, bound to keep? un with the big s, will start Spri ing y with a light drill “ng -c‘ ¢k _on the Takcma Elementary Schcol fleld. ry Heights Midgets will hold '.hflr flnt base ball mmythe home o! Hln Heights, Ml’ at 3 o'clock. M ot year's players and any new candidates are requested to report. OLUMBIA HEIGHTS tossers are slated to stage their first drill of the_season toda lt the Sixteenth Street Reservoir. will meet at 2:30 o'clock at the AI'M‘ Market. c B Edwards, ex-umpire, who will the managerial reins of the Hel(hu club this season, requests the mlowln. players to report: Goodman, Newman, H. Newman, Lewis, C. Sha- &lro L. 8hapiro, Lee, E. Wsl F. Wes- Y, Ruvpett ‘Wilstshire, Kee!er Kilroy, Scafide, Heaney, Singman, Rhodes, Ortel, Van Horn and Goldman. Any new candidates are welcomed. Washingtoh Red Sox will drill today at 11 o'clock on the Fairlawn fleld and will meet tomorrow at 8 o'clock at the home of Manager Bill Jenkins, 644 Massachusetts avenue northeast. Ine foliowing players are requested to attend both sessions: Mickey O’Connor, Bill Jenkins, Ed Colliflower, Lefty Jewett, Jesse Bowie, Eennie Jenkins, Charlie Booker, George Ortel, Pepco Bcrry Gaby Hamel, Walter Curtls, Turner, Lefly Bean, Eddie Nynnrk and Spencer Usiliton. Manager Jenkins slready is booking games at Lincoln 4311. H. W. Ricker will manage the newly organized [Koontz Service Station Seniors, who plan to enter the Capital CI!V l meeting of the team will be held Wednesday at 8 o'clock at 2202 Shannon place southeast. Meas- urements will be taken for uniforms and refreshments will be served. Ricker, who plans to open the Koontz BService season on either the ucond or third Sunday in April, is king games et Lincoln 9217-J after 5:. so o'clock. All senior and unlimited teams are challenged. Lawrence waeu Juniors get started today, drilling at 11 oclcck on_the Rosedale playgrounds. ‘Tomorrow a meeting of the Lawrence Insect team is slated at 156 Tennessee avenue northeast. WOULD MAKE MAX PAY Promoter Claims That Schmeling Dodged Engagement. GREENVILLE, Miss,, March 21 1")—- F. J. Millette, 3 promoter, dl‘ M Al wl(vh the lllullllppl a claim for $800 Max -ntm hu t champlon, Taiane,of the ‘e holder 1o make an :I'lmyymhedvmhue on March TAKES BASKET HONORS. COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 21 (#).— Fertsmouth High Scheol ton'ght won '.h- Ohio class A high cehcol bosket uul 0 t: l:‘nln c‘flnll llnley 20 £ 19, in & vers, 1930 chmplom m the final round. believes that ig | Club are too low when committee drill | they are not right for other courses. o By By WALTER HREE schoolboy golf teams will compete this year in the inter- high ° school series for the the Capital. Only Central, Western and Tech High Schools have been able to muster together enough golfers to enter teams in the annual affair on which C:ntral High School has had a strangle hold for several years past. ‘The first match will be played on Saturday in Easter week at an unde- termined course, and will be followed by a round robin series in which all three teams wil meet twice over neutral courses. The trophy for the high school golf team championship was placed in com- petition four years ago Charles G. gu::;‘ men Vice President of the NEW hl.ndlup system which will give a clearer idea of the game of any golfer over a lengthy stretch of play may be put nto use by the Congressional coumry Club this year, while over at ashington officials of the Virginia club are taking cogni- unee of the fat that the handicaps lifers of ti:c club, if ed on ma Calkins system, are too low when th!! play on other courses than their Both Congressional and Washington are shoi to start a series of intra- club matches handicap affairs, whose main pu members turn in cards which will give the HI icap Cammittees a definite idea as how each player may be hmdlnpred Sandy Armour, the Con- gressional pro, tells us that a new handicapping system called the Bear system, I8 under consideration at Con- system differs from the Calkins system In that it compels the player to turn in all his o not mezely his five best—and thus ‘ill give & definite line on his average play throughout the season, and not on his vel efforts. It seems to me that such a system would work much bet- ter than a sys based on the aver- age of the five it or a percentage of that average, for under the present system it is_almost hopeless for A& golfer with handicap of 5 or less to compete in handicap events with men who have handicaps of 12 or mtre “One or more of 'em,” as r “always gets hot and !omu to e l,i somewhere tlm the Toute.” mum as _explained by will fumhh a graph of me above average and below average ga he_scores. Ray J. Morman, chairman of the Handicap Committee at Washington, the handi at his layers go to other 'nu courses. y_may be all tht for Washington, the chair- man of the believes, but n is cons! er\u recommend:n: to his committee that they secure the average of the five best scores of the is the meat of the " {up the line to the higher handicaps, ;| woul ld work out satisfactorily all the way up and down the scale. Of course, if a man takes particular pride in hav- ing a low handicap, by producing his score cards he may have the arbitrary e it will be to have the | the. two strokes lopped off, but for general | t STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE R. McCALLUM purpoaea addition of the two strokes ill be best, Morman believes. Carl J. Quennll is the hero of the first hole-in-one episode of the year at the Columbia (hunt{z.chlb Quentell scored the ace on seventeenth a few days ago, playing with H. King Cotawels, . The bols 18 being gllyzd to a tem"gonry green about 150 yards from “Never give up a .oll match because you are a few holes down.” How true it is Miller B. Stevinson and Robert Dalgleish now know. Stevinson and Daigleish were &llgngl against W. Carl- ton Evans and vis at Columbia, and when the foursome reached the turn Evans and Davis were 7 up. Stevinson warned Dalgleish that he was about to start going from there, dug his spikes into the turf of the tenth tee, cracked his heels together on the Eumnl green and won the hole with a irdie 3. That started the procession, and Stevinson and Dalgleish wmmfl up the nine with a best ball of o square the matel From Congressional comes & yarn which illustrates the fact that a hole never is won until the last putt is in the cup. Capt. W F. Smith of Havana, Cuba, was playing with Maj. C. A, Ben- nett it A. J. Walker and V. A. suler On the eighth hole Walker and Sisler were 1 up and thought they had| Mr. the out nine all folded up. At the eighth Smith put his ncond shot in big bunker in front of geen and then played out into the left hand trap, from which apparently the best he could get was a 6. But Smith fooled ‘em. Carefully taking his stance, he knocked the ball into the cup for & birdie 4, winning the hole. Much the same thing happened a few days ago at Washington, where Dorie C. Gruver sliced a wild tee shot onto the hill opposite the ninth green and apparently would do very well to [et a par 3. Instead of that e knocked the ball into the hole for a birdie 2, causing cflvert chkey to ll!in remark: “It tsn't his golf strokes t you have | will to beat. It is that lplflt M optimism.” Rice's “R.lunomrl." captained b Dr. Thomas J. must give Dr. cause they lost mins | Thursday night. the two teal Washi e | past two Winters. Wel lhlmlfl( a8 captain; DC Little. The Ross Caldwell Dilm desperate shots the of dlyn that resulted in lookedbhck!urhhli nll and his their tee shots on B0 | where they stood 1 up, so far he thought he eouldn't make the green and had almost decided to phflnnle His partner advised him to tee ti on & wooden tee (which is requested at ‘Washington) green. He took & whack came off with mch skill that it carried high over the trees and ended six feet from the hole. Taylor put his second a;)’alhgl\ a bunker and Caldwell won e hole. ALEXANDRIA NINES OUT FOR PRAGTICE -2 Celtics, Firemen, Del Rays Drill Today—Basketers Finish This Week. LEXANDRIA, Va, March 21.— Base ball will crowd basket ball out of the local sports picture next week, with virtually every athletic club in the city turning its at- tention to the diamond sport. Bvery diamond in Alexandria will be crowded with ambitious tossers tomor- row afternoon. Richmond, Predericksburg & Potomac Railroad Co., Alpha Dell‘ Omega and Mary’s Lyceum, the only quints still tlmpdmm(, will bring their schedules to & clcse before the new week runs its course. Art Ludlow, new coach of the St. Mary's Celtics nine, will get his first limps: of his candidates at Baggett's strk tomorrow afternoon at 1:30. Manager Charley Corbet has si & strong array of talent. New can are asked to report. ned tes lp\kes for the first time tomorrow at o'clock, when Columbia Engine Co. u.nd!dnes report to Coach Harvey Lunsford. Twenty-three players have been sign- ed, as follows: Gillie Lee, Larry Kersey, Bob Rober- son, Dave Shapiro, Bob Brenner, Joe rulmt Bernard Vance, Vincent Brad- e: fotd, Louis Latham, “Hoodles” Elliott. Arthur Wingfield, Dick Kemper, Billy Travers, Sammy Berman, Buddy Zim- merman, Ellett Cabell, Billy Padgett, Wilson Davis, W. Curtis, Armstrong and | Noble Smith. Richmond, Predencuburl & Potomac Rallroad Co. cagers have canceled their reau. ‘The rallroaders will play two ents will be host to the loca's Wednes- dly night, while Census will be met at the Armory hereson Saturday night. Del Ray A. C. diamond performers | will work out on Duncan Field here to- morrow at 2 o'clock under Coach Jeff | ‘Williams. (3 Protestant Church Scouts. He has a 'quld which includes P. Wells, J. Wells, J. Parker, L. Hall, L. Amold C. Carter, e, H. Payne, Enoch, R. Her- Dobson and W. ———— HYATTSVILLE NINE OUT son, W. | High School Boys Open Play April 8—Girl Pasketers in Tie. HYATTSVILLE, Md, March 21— Candida‘es for Hyattsville High Bchocl's base ball team, who have been drilling informally for several days, a::: to get down to serious prepara- Monday on the school diamond. r Arnon Mel of the nine hltl Just care o e High' for April 15 on the Tech diamond in Wi ‘Fhus far Hyattsville, wi will open its season against the University of Maryland freshmen April 9, hes ed- uled 10 games from the Prince Georges [coufl.v championship series. In all it is planned to book 15 matches outside of the title competiticn. Sentors and juniors hlVl nmsneu in fose, 1 the "annuai Hyriteviie High the anni s girls' Dasket ball Hayden Field will feel the imprint of draw. Lest®r McNenamin, Harvey Luns-|afarcey game for tomorrow with the Census Bu- | Cook. games next week. Leesburg Independ- |5 Ralph Ecrlv!ne_r,Tzrmer Alexandria | Parson: High captain. is ccaching Methodist | 23! F. Payn: rell, W Moriarity, L. DeMoll 1.. Robin- Rush YACHTSMEN CHALLENGE Seek Scandinavian Gold Cup Now Held by Sweden. NEW YORK, March 21 (#)—Clifford D. Mallory, vmmem. of the North American Yach! Union, an- nounced today the United States for- mally had challenged for the Scandi- navian Gold Cup, international trophy for 6-meter yachts. Sweden is the cup 1:1 1931 ¢riel. for 'h.lch mul wfllbehem mmm.ml 5, y 8, MARCEY IS WINNER IN CLOSE TRAPSHOOT Shatters One More Target Than Williams to Take Feature Event at Benning. Julius Marcey, with.45 hits out of 50 from 20 yards, led Washington Gun Club -trapshots in the special trophy event in the weekly shoot yesterday at the Benning traps. He nuud oul by & Ione target Comdr. F. P. Willlams, C. G. Bowie and C. C. Fawsett, who were tied for second prize. Bowie won the There also was firing in three classes on the Franklin trophy, concluding events in which competition will be shot at Benning next Saturday after- noon, with ties being decided at the same time. Yesterday's scores: 50-TARGET HANDICAP. Hunter Bartholo; Burrows Shelton 90K . oodwa Brits .. 52 sevpny 823282 Marcey’ Sheiton Wilson | Britt | Wynkoop | Biirrows ssick . Sa3asmesis B33 [T SEERENRNNLS BTB2R22RET gl BRBRNE TAKES UP BASE BALL Mount Rainier Junior High to Put Nine on Field This Year. MOUNT RAINIER, Md., March 21— Equipment for the Mount Rainier Junior h s:h*ol‘ has arrive start a5 soom & n weal The coming wll be v.he Arst the Mount mmser institution hes been ted on the diam a game | o, WINS “Y” TRACK TITLE. DETROIT, Mich,, March 21 (@).— Adams Avenue of Detroit won the North American Y. M. C."A. indoor track and field meet tonight, leading the defend- ing title holder, Brooklyn Central, 46 . |to 36. Toronto Central was third with 17 and Buffalo Central Syra made £ Apurth with 13. NEW SECOND HOLE NEAR COMPLETIONz President Fulbright Tells of Improvements to Be Made in Course. BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. E Bannockburn Golf Club, l which is much in the lime- light these days, what with some $35,000 to be spent on the golf course and with another 50 grand to be expended on the club house and the area around it, 18 moving forward to a finer and better organization than it ever has been, in the opinion of R. C. Fulbright, newly elected president of the club. “The new second green, constructed this wm::ar. now is being completed,” feet of putting surface, its \oenlm eliminates the steep climb to the old green and gives a gradual rise in the new fairway. Perfect drainage is pro- vided for, and the green will be re- surfaced and planted to stolons of met- ‘The right half of the h to the new green is level ut 30 yards, while on the left there is a depression that will penalize a short shot. We have s work on the new fourteenth green and on the new thirteenth green and fairway. Reasonable Penalty. “The fourteenth lr!en from 6,000 to 7,000 square feet of St e present feen. of the p cation & long 1 or brassie can be iayed with conflavnu. uuo to tho land- space made available by abandon- ment ol the old green. grassy hollow to the rear and nuht of tm green will reduce the pen- alty for any re-somble srfor in dis. tance or accuracy. sand trap will be puced at the )Efi of the green. “‘on ;eehlneekl nltl;‘ e :hen the green n inf D) the new tee 0 ‘be Jocated about 75 feet north of the present one. It will be large, sur- faced with grass and sufficiently ele~ vated to bring the’green into full view. It will be located on the border of a wooded ravine, and a drinking foun- tain furnishing cold spring water is on the path just south of the new tee. The new location of the tee greatl improves the gnfln of the hole wit] timber extend! fway on the south slde and the enflrl distance on the north side of the fairway. Practice Course Soon Ready. “We are now installing a series of sand traps to the right or west of the present seventeenth green, tly im. pmnng the play of this hole, as wnu J;lncln{hn!w sand traps at the sixth ‘”rheu are t«he “firat stepe in our ex- tensive golf course improvement pr gram, which will be pushed to comple- tion and will give Bannockburn a course that we sre nuured will be one of the finest in the Eas Arthur Brb, eh-lmm of the board of governots at Bannockburn, announces that new bunkers are going in on the fn:tlce course, located where the first airway has been located for several cll'l and that this practice course will ady for play in & short time. HEADS CAPITAL CITY Russell Is Elected President. Full Slate Chosen. Willlam B. Russell has been elected for president of the Capital City Base Ball League with Richard 8. (Dick) Tenny- son, vice president; Col. Hjalmar Brik- son, chairman of the Protest Coinmittee and Willlam Sanderson of this city, Barnard Weish of Rockville, Jack Tul- loch of Alexandria and Hugh Waldrop of Bladensburg, directors. A meeting to outline plahs for the -uon wlll be held by of An_embank- | o'clock. IMMY LONDOS, who wrestles al- most every night and wins as many times as he wrestles, re- turns to the Washington Audi- torium Thursday in another Joe Tur- ner production and, aided by nine other hyderms, hailing from Turkey, pG‘rieZe Michigan, Pennsylvania, De- troit, Iowa u:d ah Indian wigwam in Jimmy will tackle George Hag who rose to a star grappler virtually | Ol overnight. Pe'. u my.&ck Hagen to beat Londos, e_unanimous opinion of loenl fl.ndmn that Hagen uu.ood unmbmcr (hlnbnym fihmp been called upon to meet ere. And then those who like to champions fall now and then may get what little encouragement they frf: d‘lhl:fl n;:’a flash tthlt Dll:k shik‘ at, ayed great form in _topplin Kirelerko here a week and & m}w o beat Jim McMillen last Friday nuhc in Philly. Maybe the “Reign of Terror” is over, because McMillen usually has lost nil to To pa for the battle of the fl-nfln m ex-weight lifter, four fil-lt.u vl! aries itle boy 'u".: bt Sows, ‘meets .;'::&"E‘m Detrolt, and expeets to win. Mike Romano, Italy, tackles the mus- hem man, Khan, hanistan. 5hul White Feather, the scowling kiahoma Indian, absorb the Bronx cheers this week instead of Rudy Dusek, who 18 not the program. Chinlock The semi-; 1 back to the D. O, Paul Jones, who lost to Londos when his brake-band legs slij and .Ylmmy. see | with an airplane mb. sent him into a tatlspin. Paul Nazarine Pog- pples will | g1, whose pet “holt” is a head twist. Pmmnter Joe ‘Turner, who he Ay 0 .em g do Tu':?nfl“im.m O In| luct Hote 116 seree. CALLS VICTORY NINE Manager Kleindienst to Have Boys Gather Tuesday Night. All candidates for the Victory American Legion, base ball team are asked to attend a meeting Tuesday night at 8 ‘o'clock, at the home of Manager Pop Kleindienst, 1336 D street northeast. Players from Eastern Hi zaga will be el Victory nine a scholastic season, 8ccording to dienst. h and Gon- POLO STAR AT AIKEN. 8. C., March 21 (Azm my lnu:heock uflmn of the man international ylorAmanmMme of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hitchéock, . Howley Picks A’s To Keep Gonfalon RT MYERS, Fla., March 21 (). —After seeing the world cham- plons in action against his own out- fit, “Smiling Dan" Howley, manager of the Olneinnati Reds, picks the Athleties to win another pennant this year. But is & big if in the and Barnshaw, “ the business,” says est because they are hard and work in so nnn‘y fmu. worked in nearly . games Grove won in FORTY ENTER EARLY IN BOXING TOURNEY Lists for District A. A. U. 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