Evening Star Newspaper, May 25, 1931, Page 11

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MAY 25, 1931. SPORTS. A-11 D. C. Colleges Near End of Campaign : Coast Strives for Tennis in Olympics MARYLAND LOOKS - T0 LACROSSE TILT Battle With Navy Biggest of Season—Hoya Nine Plays Ohlo State. BY H. C. BYRD. NE base ball game for Georgetown, four base ball games and one lacrosse contest for Maryland, and the 1930-1931 year for local inter- collegiate athletics will be a mat- ter of histery. When the curtain goes down on these contests col- lege athletes in this section will hang up their uniforms and put away their paraphernalia until the lJocker rooms again are opened for foot ball next September. Georgetown's lone contest is with| ©Ohio State. The ball team that repre- ®ents that university is scheduled to come here Friday and it should give | @ good idea of what Western Confer-| ence diamond play is like. Incidentally, ;this is one of the few instances in vhich a team from that section of the| m:tmry shows its wares around Wash- | on, { Maryland's ball team goes to Phila- elphia tomorrow to meet Pennsylvania. ain prevented the game between aryland and Penn last season. The Old Line nine takes another trip Sat- urday, being scheduled to play Army &t West Point. Originally the Army {:;ne was to wind-up the schedule, but | t Winter, at the request of the| elumni assoclations of the respective | finstitutions, Maryland agreed with ¢Washington and Lee to play two ad- ‘ditional base ball games this Spring, one at College Park on June 6 and the other at Lexington June 8, these being | the dates of the annual meeting of | alumni associations. This runs the | base ball season longer than either of these two schools has had games sched- uled in many years. ‘The University of Maryland has in $ts final lacrosse game its most im- portant of the year. At least, it would set more store by a victory in the one contest that yet Temains than it would by any other. It journeys to Annapolis ‘Saturday to meet Navy in the final| struggle for both elevens, the one that| features the June week athletic pro-| gram. Last year the Old Liners | /Navy into camp by 5 to 1 in what was the first victory ever registered over Navy on the Navy's own field. F the Navy-Maryland lacrosse game Saturday is as closely contested as | the cther meetings between the two | institutions this year, then it is likely to | Rock be some battle. Navy took the foot ball game, 6 to 0; Navy won the basket ball contest by 3 points, and Saturday | Maryland won the base ball game, in | Wwhich it led by only one run until the first half of ths ninth. The struggle between the Midshipmen and Old Liners | last Spring in lacrosse was a remark- | able exhibition, the score being a tie for a long while, and the game this year should be just as evenly fought, | & with the break determining the victor. R two consecutive years Maryland has given a brilliant lacrosse ex- hibition against Johns Hopkins, The Old Line twelve & year ago played sbout 2s perfectly as possible to take a | Pointers on Golf BY SOL METZGER. ‘To insure compactness in iron play, to make certain the arms will not get away from the body and to accomplish the necessary point of swinging the iron clubhead into and through the ball from inside the line, there must be a restricted pivot. ‘This pivot, secured by swinging the left side around on the locked right hip and the braced right leg, enables the golfer to keep his right elbow in close to his right side. Then he can swing into the ball as he rhould, from inside the line. But if he takes his fron straight back from the ball with his arms and without pivot there is no chance to insure a compact swing, according to ‘Tommy Armour, master of iron play. ‘The correct grip for holding a club means distance to your drive. Write Sol Metzger, in care of The Evening Star, and ask for his leaflet, “Correct Grip for Driving.” Be sure to inclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. (Copyright. 1931.) WASHINGTONIANS TOP| WOMEN’S NET LOOP Win Seven Out of Nine Matches. Wardman Team Second, Columbia Third. George Washingtonians, with 7 wins against 2 losses, are setting the pace in the District Women's Tennis League. Wardman Park is second with 3 vic- tories and 1 defeat, followed by Co- lumbia, which has_garnered 12 wins and lost 5 encounters. Team Standing. o George Washingtonians WVardman Pa Summaries of round-robin matches reported to date to Dorothy Kingsbury, secretary-treasurer, follow: D. F. Krucoff (Col) defeated D. Kingsbury (BB -3, 63 Cecyle Raver (B. £, d feated Marion Butier (Col), 3—6, 63, 6—0 . Thompson (Col.) defeated 'W. Harris (B. 'S.), 4—8. 63, 6—3; Margaret Butler (Col.) defeated M.’ Pineite (B. 8). 60, .0 &, Hubbell (8, 8, defeated M. Di ‘Tol 6-t0-0 contest, the only one in which | Ju98 Hopkins ever was blanked, and Satur- day it won again as a result of a great drive in the closing minutes of play and an even greater exhibition of offensive g}a}' for a few minutes in the first half. ith the second half Saturday about | 3 15 minutes gone and the score 6 to 4 |8 in favor of Maryland, Hopkins staged & rally that produced two goals in quick succsssion to tie things up. During the 10 minutes that remained after that second goal some of the hardest, rough- est and most inspiring play ever seen on & lacrosse flield took place on the part of both tcams. It was the kind of lay that two teams could not keep up definitely, and it was just a question as to which of two good teams first would break. Hopkins Aunate, and within two minutes of the close of time Maryland shot the two tgoals that settled the issue. It was the :kind of struggle in which there is plenty ie{ glory for the loser as well as for the ctor. | GAME AT HYATTSVILLE. * HYATTSVILLE, Md, May 25.— De | fekted Neatron proved unfor- | 33 73" (ol . Thompson (Col.), 0—6, 6—4, M Tilley (Ward.) defeated R. Ford (Col.), 6—8. . 6—3; Margaret Butler (Col.) defeated A. Dunlap (Ward.), 6—2, 6-3: Myers 4, 6—2: Edna Vest 8, 64, 1 Wassman (Ra feated L. Berryman -(Nat), 86, 6 2 de Souss (RC) defested T McKelvic Rac . $—7%, 6—3: M. Sproul (R. C Mrs. Shaw (Hac), 6-2, 86 X deteatéd’ Ann Eversoi ;8. Moore (Ward.) de- Butler (Col), 75, 4—6. 6 -2 ) defeated A. Eberson (R. C.) |36, 62, 6—2: Margaret Butler (Col) de. | feated” Edith McKelvey (Rac.): 62, 62 | Prances Krucoff (Col) defeated Mary Ryan | (Rac). 62, 6—3; R, Ford (Col.) defeated | 8. Redd (B 8), ‘¢4, 386, Ford | (Eol') " detented M. de” Soura (R.'C.. 61, 640 Mrs. Poppe (G. W) defeated M in :'C. Raver (B. 8 P. % D ina’ Vest (M1 P.), 1@, e Wassman MA STRIBLING ON JOB. it 3:30 o'clock. Schmeling. Ma Stribling plans to supervise the | dentall SCHOOLBOYS STILL HAVEMUCH ACTION Gonzaga Busy in Base Ball, G. U.-Prep and Devitt in Net Title Match, ITH the 1931 publie high school base ball and track champlonships now history, schoolboy athletes here are school year is concerned. 'There are | several contests listed this week, though, cf more than usual interest. Heading the card are ball games | | which will bring Gonzaga against Western Wednesday afternoon on the | Monument Grounds and Gonzaga and | | Georgetown Prep together Friday aft- | ernoon at Garrett Park; a tennis | match tomorrow afternoon on the Con- gressional Country Club courts between | Georgetown Prep end Devitt, which may decide the Prep School League flag, and the annual Prep School Ten- | nis ‘League singles tournament, which ‘IA carded to begin Wednesday after- nocn and Congressional Club courts. Gonzaga Will be striving to even scores for a 4-3 defeat handed it by clash Wednesday on the Mounment Grounds at 3 o'clock. The teams are old rivals. Georgetown Prep will be hot after a win over Gonzaga Friday at Garrett Park to get back at the Purple for a 11-2 bumping several weeks ago. Play between these dear foes will start at | 3:30 o'clock. Devitt and Georgetown Prep will enter their tennis match tomorrow on | the Congressicnal Club courts ted for | first place in the Prep School League. | Competition will begin at 3:15 o'clock. Should Georgetown Prep win it will | ennex the league flag for the second straight season and its second leg on the Spalding trophy, which must be won three times for permanent posses- sion. Should Devitt, which also has a leg on the trophy, triumph, another | match will be played Tuesday on neutral courts. This is in accordance | with an agreement reached some time ago. | All the other teams are out of the | league race. St. Albans, which finished fourth in the league this season, already has two legs on the Spalding cup. Sixteen have entered the Prep School ‘Tennis League singles ' tournament, starting Wednesday, including repre- sentatives of Devitt, Georgetown Prep and St. John's. St. Albans and Gon- zaga have no entrants. ‘Willis and Nicholson of Devitt, O'C: lshan and Cole of Gecrgetown Prep and Smith and Buchanan of St. John's are looked upon as the most formidable entrants. Play will begin at 3:15 o'clock, as follows: Friends court—Smith (St. John's) Ackin (Friends); Austin (Friends) vs. Dabney (Devitt); Boyle (Friends) vs. Scheele (St. John's); Clark (Friends) vs. Ccle (Georgetown Prep). ‘Georgetown Prep courts — Willls (Devitt) vs. Cannon (Georgetown Prep); Kendall (Devitt) vs. O'Calla- han (Georgetown Prep); Buchanan | (St. John's) vs. Dumlar (Georgetown Prep). anneuloml courts—Nicholson (Dev- itt) vs. Jones (St. John's). GAME TO MOUNT RAINIER Defeats Bladensburg, 10 to 4, as Both Open Season. MOUNT RAINIER, Md, May 25— Mount, Rainfer A, C. unlimited base ball team took the measure of the Bladens- burg nine, 10 to 4, yesterday. It was the opening game for both nines, each having been organized during the last few days. Francis McMain, southpaw, Wwho pitched the last eight innings for the winners, allowed only four scratch hits, fanned 17 and walked one. He relieved Dutch Gerhardt, who retired after the first ning because of a sore arm. Burroughs, _ starting Bladensburg pitcher, was blastr1 out of the picture in the fourth. Gasch replaced him. A pop fly by Guyer which, carried by the wind, went fo~ a homer accounted for three of Bladensburg’s Tuns, two runners being on at the time. Inci- this was the only ball hit )f the infield by Bladensburg. ‘The teams will meet again next Sun- day, also on the Mount Rainler fleld. Free Auto Parking Space for Customers—E St. Between 6th and Tth THE HECHT CO. NAtional 5100 $6 Buys a Man a F St. at 7th Handsome Sport Shoe model with medium width toe In black and white or tan and white colors A new wing-tip Not only handsom sensible as wel Light and smooth an e « . but thoroughly 1. d easy, especially on hot days. Y ou needn’ t confine it to sports, either. body wears it to wor « « . and at night. Almost every k | nearly all “washed up” so far as this| on the Friends, Georgetown Prep | Western a few days ago when the nines | " | Sagscer went into a one-stroke lead at | TH both the sectional quali- {fying rounds for the Na- tional open and the Nation- al amateur championship awarded this year to Richmond courses, to be played in early June for the open and late July for the amateur, ‘Washington golfers, who hope to com- pete in both these events are wonder- ing when, if ever, & Washington course is to be chosen for the secticnal rounds for these two events. Not in many years has the sectional qualifying round for the National open been play- | ed here, and under the new scheme of sectional qualification for the ama- | teur champlonship, it is about time a | ccurse about the National Capital was | chosen as the scene of the qualifying round for the Middle Atlantic section. | Two weeks from today & group of more | than 30 professionals and a smatter- ing of amateurs from the clubs | about Wasnington, Richmond, Norfolk, Petersburg, in Ncrth Carolina and near Baltimore, will gather at the James River course of the Country Club of Virginia to find out which three of their number will qualify for the Na- tional open champlonship, and on July 28 a group of amateurs from the same citles and sections will gather to quali- fy for the National amateur. Rich- mond thus has both seetional qualify- ing tests and while the course of the | Country Club of Virginla ~and the Hermitage Country Club are fine lay- outs, there nr:’wcoursen ‘Just as fine ound Washington. l‘-II'A awarding the sectional qualifying rounds for both open and amateur championships to Richmond, the United States Golf Assoclation Champlonship Committee apparently has overlooked | the fact that Washington is the central city in this section of the country. Both the Columbia Country Club and the Baltimore Country Club offered their courses for the open and amateur qualifying rounds, but the committes | insisted that they go to Richmond. And to Richmond they will go. Next year | a change may come about. Some of | | the clubs near Washington and Balti- | more want these sectional rounds and one of them probably will get one or | the other of them next year. E of the largest fields ever to | start in the championship started | play today over the Chevy Chase | Club course for the District women's golf champlonship. Mrs. Betty P. Meckley of Indian Spring is to defend her title in the tourney, whose match | play rounds start tomorrow. An 18- | hole qualifying round today will see the | contestants paired in several flights for | the first match play round tomorrow. Leroy W. Basscer of Indlan Spring, in addition to being runner-up in the | invitation tourney held last week at | Indian Spring, also is the medalist in | | the tourney. Tied with Charles R. | Morrow of Indian Spring at 76 in the qualifying round, Sasscer and MorTow played off their tie yesterday, with Sasscer winning by & single stroke. The | scores were 80 and 81. Morrow, who is | the son of former Gov. E. P. Morrow of | Kentucky, had a one-stroke lead at the end of the first nine, with 39 to 40 for Basscer, but the pair stood all even on the seventeenth tee. Morrow's tee shot at the seventeenth was trapped and | that point, retaining his advantage | when the last hole was halved in Ss. | Sasscer was runner-up in the tourney, | which was won by Harry G. Pitt of | Manor. Henry C. Phipps won the competition D. C. Is Due to Stage Qualifying Play for National Golf Events to win. Martin P. McCarthy was sec- ond with 87 and M. H. Maler was thitl with 88, OLFERS of the Hermitage Country Club yesterday defeated a team of at the Hermitage Club. S played for Washington included James D. Herrman, W. R. McCallum, *D. C. Gruver, Frank K. Roesch, R. T. Har- rell, Dr. T. D. Webb, Ralph S. Fowler, | R. J. Morman, Ward B. McCarthy, Paul | V. Keyser, George T. Howard, J. G./| Drain and T. P. Noyes. The resuit of | the match was in doubt until the last | foursome came in, with the Richmond team of Gordon Wood and Fred Mackay settling the issue on the last hole. The Richmond team was led by J. Davis Ewell, champlon of the Hermitage club. The Washington team was captained by R. T. Harrell. Ralph A. Drain and Charles' D. Ger- man tied for first place in the week | end competition held at the Washington | Golf and Country Club, both with nine- | hole net scores of 33. The event was at nine blind holes with handicap allow- ance. Harry D. Cashman, Charles W. Healy, G. E. Truett and V. C. Dickey tled for third place with cards of 34. RS. GEORGE F. MILLER palred | with Harry G. Pitt yesterday to win the mixed Scotch foursome | event at the Manor Club. Their card was 81-12-79. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Hasley | finished second, with 102—22—80. Walter Nordlinger, with 95—22—73, and H. M. Shapiro, with 98—25—7. tied for first place in the sweepstaks tourney held yesterday at Woodmont. Dr. Willlam I. Ogus was second, with 93—18—75. In Class B the leaders were | Herbert Glaser, 102—36—66, and Jesse 1. Miller, 103—35—68. Johnny Ruane of 8t. John's defeated | Tommy Webb of Devitt Prep by 2 up | yesterday to win the second annual Georgetown Prep golf tourney. The event was played over the Georgetown Prep | School course. SEEKS DIAMOND FOE. Seabrook A. C. is after a game with a strong unlimited nine for May 30 to be played at Seabrook. The Mary- | lenders have won five out of six games. | Call C. P. Brown at Bowie 14-F-23, Diamonmealent Oakland’s Pride EW YORK, May 25.—When base ball is mentioned these days, the well known City of Oakland, Calif,, sits back, throws out its chest | and tells the world, “Observe me | cachinnate.” It's a pardonable pride, for there are good reasons. ‘There's Buzz Arlett leading the National League in home runs and ponderous hitting; there's Johnny Vergez playing a bang-up third base for the New York Giants; Lyn Lary playing shortstop for the Yankees and by his side covering the second sack is his old-time pal of Oak- | land days, Andy Reese, bringing joy to the heart of Joe McCarthy and games to his team; there's Ernest Lombardi catching for the Brook- Iyn Dodgers and batting out base hits like a champion bowler knock- ing over tenpins. Why is chesty? | for the Grosner Cup at the Beaver Dam Country Club yester scoring an 86 Priced to y Osakland so It mothered all these boys before they came up to the big time. FUSS OF LONG AGO ELIMINATED GAME | only 17. | Reconciliation Between Net Body and World Meet Authorities Seen. CALIFORNIA. ambitious to| make the 1932 Olympic games the greatest ever, is campaigning to have ten- nis restored on the program in time for next year's competition. Olympic program, but was with- drawn years ago because of dif- ferenaes between the International Lawn Tennis Federation and the Olympic authorities. The tennis body, it is understood, s willing to come back in the fold pro- viding the Olympic body will make sgm: concessions, chief of which is that: “The holding of the Olymplc games in any one year not to cancel or super- sede the holding during that year of any officially recognized lawn tennis champlonships or competitions, and the Olympic games not to be regarded as a ‘championship of the world’ in lawn tennis.” The tennis body also insists on other | points considered minor in comparison with the foregoing. The tennis people want at least one representative on the International Olympic Committee; to be permitted to co-operate in the organization of Olympic tennis, and that the definition of an amateur ten- nis player in the Olympics be that as set forth by the tennis body, and no other, Pressed for Time. Prospects are bright for a “reconcili- ation,” but the time is very short and whether or fot the two bodies can be gotten together in time for the Los Angeles games is the big question. California is taking the initiative and V\;lol do all in its power to bring this al America should have a fine team in thebiggames. This year's Davis Cup team. is made up of youngsters who, not with- standing their present brilliance, will be much better next year. And, of course, there is California’s own favorite daughter, Helen Wills Moody, for the woman’s side of the game. No doubt Mrs. Moody’s status has something to do with California's eagerness to restore tennis—one of the greatest amateur athletes of the world right on the ground and no place pro- vided for her om the program. California also has Helen Jacobs, not to be compared with the other Helen, but very good nevertheless. ~ Coast Talent Abundant, Should the two Helens get in the Olympics, by means of a reconciliation between tennis and the Olympics, Cali- fornia will have many native daughters in the big games. Girl athletes of the coast have been very prominent in all competitions the | last few years. Of the 19 girls who went to the 1928 Olympics, seven of them were from California. They were Elta Cartwright and Anne Vrana, sprinters; Rayma Wilson, half | miler; Maybelle Reichardt, Lillian Cope- land and Margery Jenkins, discus throwers, and Marion Holley, Jumper. 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Betty was | winner of the 100 yards in the 1928 Olympics and has improved so much | since that time that she no doubt will | be on the team again. Lacrosse just recently was added to| Olymplc program. Other team games are field hockey and soccer. And the Winter games will, of course, in- clude ice hockey. T ORI HOPPE WINS SERIES Kieckhefer Beaten, Seven Blocks to Five, in 3-Cushion Play. CHICAGO, May 25 (#).—Willie Hoppe | took the final twd blocks of & 600-point, | 12-block three-cushion billard Mml-; ment from Augie Kieckhefer last night by & total score of 600 to 533. The| tournament started last Tuesday and | Hoppe took seven blocks to Kieckhefer's ve. Monday Kieckhefer played Walker Cochran in the first game of a three-| handed, three-cushion tournament.| Hoppe met the loser of the match Mon- | day night. The tournament is a round- robing affair with each playing four times around for a total of 12 games. PR AT R, FRONT ROYAL VICTOR Johnson Bests Three Washington Typo Pitchers to Win, 13-4. RIVERTON, Va., May 25.—The Front Royal All-Stars = defeated the Union | Printers’ club of Washington, 13 to 4.| Johnson, pitching for the locals, was in fine shape and allowed only seven scat- tered hits, while the visitors used three hurlers, the All-Stars gathering 17 hits. Gun Scares Pony, ;e Man Wins Spurt D Peté Gehart of San Pranciseo, former Olymplc games sprinter, beat a polo pony by 2 feet in & 40-yard race at a sport carnival yes- terday, but the pony was conceded & bad break. The starter fired the gun close to the pony, which reared and shied. By the time it got straightened away, Gerhart was off to a good lead. Even 50, the pony nearly caugbt him. EL MONTE, Calif., May 25 (#).— ST. JOHN'S SPURNS HOPKINS STICKMEN Baltimoreans’ Loss to Maryland, Beaten by Johnnies, Held to Make Tilt Unnecessary. Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., May 25.—Athletie Director Talbott Riggs of St. John's College today asserted there was no chance that his team would meet Johns Hopkins this year. According to Riggs’ opinion, the management of St. John's did everything possible before and dur- ing the early part of the season to arrange a game with Hopkins, and the matter has been definitely dropped. The fact that Hopkins lost to Mary- land Saturday, after St. John's had won from the former, eliminated any reason for a game, it is felt here. Riggs said the only contingency that would make another game by St. John's possible, was its selection to meet the Canadian team. He favors the selec- tion of one team rather than an “all star” amefntlnn. ‘The elimination of the possibility of a St. John's-Johns Hopkins game is directing even more attention to that game between the Navy and Maryland, which will be the star attraction here next Saturday. 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