Evening Star Newspaper, June 22, 1931, Page 28

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1931. SPORTS. Schmeling Held to Have Improved Greatly Over Ring Form Displayed YearAgo HAZARDS OF LAST FIGHT DISSIPATED German Will Have Chance to Show T:ue Worth in Bout With Strib. BY SPARROW McGANN. 5 EW YORK, June 22.—Max N Schmeling enters the home stretch of his training ac- tivities for his fight with Young Stribling at Cleveland on July 3 showing a decided improve- ment over his form last year. Max was severely handicapped while training for his bout with Jack Sharkey by a number of in- cidents and his conditioning plain- ly indicated that he would not enter the ring fit. But Max will not have any excuses to offer if Stribling lifts the heavyweight crown from his brow at Cleveland. Mental hazards are a source of an- noyance to an athlete, Last year Max was harried by lawsuits. A bad ankle and a trick right hand, which threat- ened to go back on him from a hard impact, made him move around like a truck horse instead of the fasi-step-| ping boxer he really is. Schmeling ad- mitted none of these things, but his astion in refusing a September engage- ment proved that something was Wrong and he was not taking any chances. His willingness to take part in two en- gagements this Summer indicates that everything is all to the merry and that the German has supreme confidence in | his ability to come through with fiying colors, Sparring Partners Okay. Considering his long rest from actual ring warfare, Schmeling is shaping up; fine. Joe Jacobs, his pint-sized man-| ager. has been able to get the right sort | of sparring partners for the belting| champion. In signing George Panku,; & big, rough, tough fellow who can| take a punch and still carry on; Tiny | Debolt end Tony Marullo, the aggres- | sive little Jacobs has done well under the civcumstances. Panka has been doing some fine work with the big mittens and is not smart enough to go Into a clinch and hold. - -.Thus Schmeling has been able to fight himself free of clinches without danger of breaking his hands on a knobby head. Debolt has been on the receiving end of some smart, snappy inside punches. Marullo, a veteran of 12 years' cam- paigning, is a wise battler with more fghting sense than the ordinary run of the lot. He has had three opportu- - nities to study Stribling in action and can show Maxie some of the tricks the - Georgian is apt to try on the cham- pion. Tony has made a change of pace + and forces Schmeling to use his think- | ing apparatus all the time he is in the « ring. If you don’t think this counts for . much in the ring, just watch a veteran feint a youngster into a knot and then _belt him off balance. Strib on His Guard. Schmeling today is decidedly a better -boxer than he was a year ago. He makes a serious mistake Iwith his right, but as Max says, he only leads with the right to the body “and his jaw is well covered by the cuahigl;ed muscle og his shoulder. This may true enough,against a sparring At bt ot workout, g0 wel against - Stribling. Srib is just wily .enough to let’a few blows land and then come inside with an upppercu - One can point to defects in a fighter's YATTSVILLE, Md., June 22— Hyattsville High School ath- letes won champlonships in three out of the four boys’ sports during the school year just closed in Prince Georges County. Hyattsville girls, however, wers victorious in only one of three sports. Boys triumphed in basket ball, track and base ball. Maryland Park won the soccer crown. Hyattsville girls landed honors in basket ball, but Brandywine High won volley ball and Upper Marl- boro High was the winner in field ball. Maryland Park’s victory in soccer marked the first county title ever gained by that school. The Parkers were elim- inated in the quarter-final round of the State championship tournament con- ducted by the Playground Athletic League of Maryland, going down before Glen Burnie High of Anne Arundel County. Has Lone Rival. In basket ball Hyattsville achieved county honors by twice beating Mount Rainier Junior High School, its lone rival. In the State series the Hyatts- ville quint battled its way to the West- ern Shore final, in which it was over- come by Allegany High of Cumoerland, Allegany County. Hyattsville won 19 of 25 games during the Winter. defeating among others several fast Washington quints. . Hyattsville was active in indoor track, its team winning a relay race in the Catholic University meet, but was the | >nly county school to engage in the sport indoors. In the annual Spring meet on the University of Maryland track, Hyattsville, as has been the case for | years, finished far ahead. Maryland Park High was a poor second and Upper | Marlboro High third. In the State { meet heid at Baltimore Prince Georges | athletes made a strong showing, finish- | ing fourth. Hyattsville's team also ap- peared in several other outdoor meets. Easy for College Park. College Park Elementary School was an easy winner in the annual rural schools track meet. Silver Hill was second and Pine Grove, third. In winning the State title in base ball Hyattsville High's nine accounted for the first State championship athletes of that institution ever have gained. It dowfled Chestertown High, Eastern Shore standard bearer, for the title. Hyattsville swept through five opponents to land State honors. | " Hyattsville High girls defeated Mount Rainiet's sextet to establish their claim | | to _county basket ball supremacy. | Brandywine High lassies won the icv.rum)' volley ball serles and went on armor, but there is no telling what may | happen in the ring when the going gets hot and a hard blow gets through. | Mistakes which would never happen in | training jousts have lost real battles. | When two big fellows get in the ring, | striving for the highest honor in pu- | gilism, anything is liable to happen. | The one who takes advantage of the breaks will be returned the winner. Stribling is too old a hand not to | show up well in training. Reports from the camp of his rival fajl to disturb| him. The Georgian knows what it is all about, and while he has been known | to fall down in the past, he has learned | a bitter lesson and vows he will not | be_caught nappirg this time. Pa Stribling is doing all the talking for the camp and offers a_ convincing in leading | argument why his boy will be the next | title holder. He says Strib's greater ex- "'perience and punch will be the decid- ing factors and points out that he has | had four hard fights, while Schmeling | has been idle. v e | “Barring a mieritaf lapse, Stribling fig- ures to make the best fight of his ca- | reer. Physically the men will be at | their best. At this writing the chances | are even up and take your choice. Hyattsville Schoolboys Win ! Three Titles; Girls Gain One to finish first in the tournament held in connection with the county track meet. They were eliminated, however, in the State tournament at Baltimore. Upper Marlboro High School girls, | after winning the county field ball title, succumbed to Lackey Hign School of Indian Head, Charles County, in the State series. FAUQUIER-LOUBOUN POLO HOPE ASCENDS Victory Over Maryland Club Bodes Well for Virginians in Tournay Here. Fauquier-Loudoun team's chances for victory in the War Department invita- {tion polo tournament, which was to |open this afternoon on the Potomac Park oval, were brighter today follow- | ing the victory of the Virginians yes- terday in the Riggs Memorial tourna- ment at Baltimore, They conquered Maryland Polo Club Whites, 6 to 5, in the final. The Marylanders earned three goals and had two as a handicap. Previously Fauquier-Loudoun had de- feated 3d Cavalry Yellows of Fort Myer and War Department Whites, re- garded as their most formidable foes in the tournament here. Richard Kirkpatrick, No. 1; J. H. (Jock) Whitney, No. 2; Baldwin D. Spilman, jr., No. 3, and William P, Hul- bert, No. 4, made up the Virginia team | yesterday. ‘Third Cavalry and Fort Humphreys were to clash in this afternoon’s game at 3:30 o'clock in Potomac Park and 6th Field Artillery of Fort Hoyle and ‘War Blues will battle it out tomorrow. Fauquier-Loudoun will play its first game Wednesday against War Whites | in a match expected to prove red hot. SCHNEIDER WINS AGAIN Captures 100-Mile Dirt-Track Auto Race at Roby Speedway. CHICAGO, June 22 (&), —Louis Schneider of Indianapolis, victor in the | annual 500-mile automobile classic at Indianapolis, today was even up with | Lou Meyer of Los Angeles in dirt-track | competition. Schneider yesterday won the 100- mile A. A. A. sanctioned race at the Roby Speedway to square a beating administered by Meyer at Detroit last week and add points to his champion- ship total. He covered the distance in |1 hour 23 minutes 5 seconds for an | average of better than 71 miles per hour. Bill Cummings was second, Sammy Ross of Ann Arbor, Mich., was third, while Meyer, the only other fin- | isher’ out of the starting field of 12, | was fourth, FORESTVILLE VICTOR | Juniors Add Gulf Refining Nine to Long List of Victims. FORESTVILLE, Va. June 22.—For- estville Juniors, who have lost only two games and piled up a bunch of diamond | victories this year, added another vic- | tim to their list vesterday when they | swamped Gulf Refining Co. tossers of | Washington, 17 to 4. ‘While Mitchell Reid was holdifig the losers to four hits and fanning 12, he | and his mates were shelling Babbington for 17 bingles. Shroy, Lanham and Oliver, each with three hits, led the | winners' attack. Fisher with three bin- gles was the visitors' best stickman. IS THE GREATEST ENEMY OF TIRE SAFETY e oo AVOID DANGEROUS ACCIDENTS THE BLOWOUT- SAUREZ HAS TOUGH FOE IN PETROLLE Argentine Meets Worthy Rival in Opening Second Invasion of North America This Week. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 22.—Justro Suarez, Argentine lightweight contender, has picked a tough foe for the first bout of his second North American campaign this week. He battles rough-and-ready Billy Petrolle of Fargo, N. Dak, in Madison Square Garden Thursday night. Justro's first trip north was a suc- cess. He whipped Joe Glick, Herman Perlick, Bruce Flowers, Ray Miller and Louils (Kid) Kaplan. None of these, however, 'rates quite as high as Petrolle, Petrolle broken even with Jimmy Mc- Larnin in his last two bouts in the Garden. Jackie Purvis of Indianapolis takes on Mike Pavan of Arizona in the fea- ture six-rounder of a new talent show at the Garden tonight. Tony Canzoneri, New York holder of the !uhtwelfht championship, meets Herman Perlick of Kalamazoo in a 10- round non-title bout af Conn., Thursday night. At Newark tonight Jack (Kid) Berg of England, still another lightweight contender, battles Tony Lambert of Newark over the 10-round route. Fidel Labarba, Los Angeles feather- weight, meets Claude Varner of Bakers- field, Calif., in a 10-rounder at Holly- wood Friday night. It will be Labarba’s first appearance since his poor showing against Bat Battalino, featherweight king, in a 15-round bout in New York several weeks ago. PLUM FOR GALLAGHER Marty Gallagher, Washington heavy- weight boxer, who been making Boston his headquarters for some time, will meet Charley Retzlaw, husky, in a Schmeling-8tribling world champion- ship card, July 3, at Cleveland. Retz- law recently has defeated Jack Gagnon and Johnny Risko. Gallagher, who will face Harold Mays in a 12-round bout tomorrow night in ronlhnd, Me,, has won several fights ately. Chicago | 10-round bout on the | Collins Keeping Bottomley Idle IM BOTTOMLEY has been one of the snapplest first basemen in the major leagues, and he isn’t exactly minus his snap now. But he seems to be in hard luck. Some little physical affliction bit him, not seriously, just a nip, and Jimmy Collins, who played first for Rochester in 1930, now h2ids Sunny Jim’s position on the St. Louis Cardinals. That's of the trials of being a good bafl player. Some chap as- sumes the pressure for a moment and that moment prolongs indefi- nitely. Here now is St. Louis with two good first basemen, and other major clubs are gnashing their teeth because they have none worth the name. MT. RAINIER WINS AGAIN MOUNT RAINIER, Md., June 22.— Mount Rainjer unlimited class base ball team marked up its fifth straight win when it downed the Kanawha nine of Washington, 5 to 1, here yesterday. Prancis McMahon, Mount Rainier pitcher, proved a puzzle to the visitors, letting them down with five hits and fanning 15. Sykes, Kanawha hurler, was reached for 12 bingles. After Kanawha scored its lone run in the first inning, the Mounts came back to hang up two in the second and added one more each in the fourth, fifth and seventh. Nelson Colley, Duke University ath- lete, and McDevitt each got three hits for the winners. Colley also stole home. Mount Rainier is after Sunday games. Bud Bellman is booking at Hyatts- ville 1043. SATURDAY GAME SOUGHT. Hyattsville Southern Methodist Church base ball team is after a game for Saturday afternoon, either at home or away. Challenges are being handled by Vernon Clarke at Hyattsville 1672-J or Ardley Hart at Hyattsville 18-J. EARL CLARK IS FARMED. KANSAS CITY, June 22.—Earl Clark, former Washington, D. C., sand- lot base ball player, has been released on option to the Kansas City team of the American Association by the Boston Braves. cutfielder. HEAVYWEIGHT BOUT ' fBlI.LED AT MID-CITY Weiner and Sullivan Slated for Ten-Round Semi-Wind-up in Show July 1. Horrian Weiner, Ba'timore, weighing 202, and Mike Sullivan, Philadelphia, 205, will meet in the 10-round semi- final to the Babe Hunt-Pletro Corri main bout in the opening card of the Mid-City boxing arena near Laurel, Md., the night of July 1. LY In announcing the of Weiner and Sullivan, Angy Gerrin, general manager of the uuf-ycny plant, pointed out that Weiner had been showing in heavy and light weight ranks in this section for the last four years, htflm confined his battling to the unlimi division the last year or so. Sullivan is described as an ambitious oungster who has made & favorable pression in Philadelphia. Announcement of other supporting bo‘l:’t.s will be made this week, said. COGGESHALL NET VICTOR Defeats Rainville Western Men’s Singles Championship. CHICAGO, June 22 (#).—Harris Cog- geshall of Des Moines, Iowa, Harvard law student, has kept ths West- ern men's tennis singles title in these United States for another year. Coggeshall yesterday retained the crown by a fine 3—6, 7—5, 6—1, 6—3 victory over Marcel Rainville of Mont- real, Canada's Davis Cup star, in the finals ' of the annual tournament at River Forest Tennis Club. Coggeshall also gained his second leg on the Mc- Clintock Cup, whichi has been in cir- culation for 24 years, and must be won three times before pascing into | permanent possession. Catherine Wolf of Indianapolis suc- cessfully defended the women's singles title with a 1—6, 6—0, 6—3 win over Mae Cuervorst, who is playing her first season in major comp-tition. Coggeshall and Richard Mason of Chicago were not so successful in the | doubles, losing to Louis “Red” Thal- | heimer and Luke Willlams of Chicago, 6—2, 6—2, 6—3, while Miss Wolf and | Mrs. Barbara Duffy of Cleveland fell befors Clara Louise Zinke and Ruth for young | be TURNER MANAGES TRIP Washington Wrestling Fans Will Bee Londos-Steele Bout. Joe Turner, wrestling promoter, will be in charge of an excursion trip from Washington to New York, where the Jim Londos-Ray Steele match will be held June 29 for the Milk Fund. The gate is expected to exceed that of the Hackenschmidt-Gotch match in 1911, which was ,000. Thousands :t ‘p:g':gt‘-‘:ommmgm followers sre e = dium for th: bouLy s o mat promoters in chargw o ex- cursion trips from other cities are R!:y Fablani, Philadelphia; Jim Downing, New Haven, and Alex McLean, Boston. bemm.al;r;unu for wu;mln‘wnhnl can communi Wil at his. Annapolis Hotel of th e HOYA ATHLETES BUSY Seek Intercollegiate Golf and Ten- nis Championships. Georgetown University was repre- sented in both the golf and tennis in- tercollegiate championship tournaments, which were to open today at Chicago and Merion, Pa., respectively. An array of veterans was to repre- sent the Hoyas on the links, including Chick Berger, captain: Dick Wilson, Louis Pisher and Pete Monahan. In tennis the Blue and Gray was to carried by Dooly Mitchell, City of ‘Washington champion and captain- elect; Clyde Yeomans, Fred Doyle and ;Voalur Berberich. All are Washington ys. MAKE ARMY NET DRAW All Areas Represented in Event Opening Tomorrow. ‘The draw for the annual Army tennis | champlonships singles, play in which will begin tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock on the Columbia Country Club courts, was to be made late this after- noon. More than 35 have entered the tour- ney, all the col areas being repre- sented. The doubles final, according to plans, will be staged Saturday. Doubles competition is slated to begin June 29 and end by July 3. The singles winner will have his name DENNING CONGEDED EDGE OVER HUTTICK Ex-Navy Champ Made Fa- voritz2 in Feature Bout at Fort Washington. ACK DENNING of Norfolk, three times winner of the All-Navy heavyweight title, is given the edge in his battle with Arthur Huttick of New York, former national heavyweight amateur champion, tha will feature the four-bout boxing car tonight at Port Washington. The first bout will start at 8:30 o'clock. Denning will weight 187 and Huttick 182. Denning is 24 and has scored knockouts in 28 of his 90 battles. Hut- tick 1s 23 and has achieved 30 K.O.'s in 67 starts. He overcame a five-pound handicap last Thursday in outpointing Benny Edell in Madison Square Garden. In the semi-final, at eight rounds, Eddie Buell, Washington bantam, will trade punches with Sailor Landers, Vir- ginia National Guard champion. Buell, a veteran, will be making his first ring appearance since last Summer when he showed to advantage in three of the Fort Washington shows. Landers is said to pack a strong punch, and Buell is expected to encounter all the bat- tling he is seeking. George Goldsby, 3d Corps Area welter champ, and Harry Green, Fort Wash- ington, will face in the main prelimi- nary, at eight rounds. Goldsby was slated to face Green earlier in the year in the 3d Corps tournament, but was injured in training, and the match did not materialize. Roddy Davis, lightweight, of this city, and Soldier Clark of Fort Washington will mix Jn the opener, at six rounds. Free boat transportation to the fort will be available to fans, the boat leav- the Washington Barracks promptly at 7 o'clock, with stopover at Alexandria. Tickets for the show will be on sale at Vic Sport Shop, 716 Ninth street, until 5:30 p.m. inscribed on the famed Sheridan Cup, | the gift of Henry C. Sheridan of this | | Oexman, the Cincinnati pair, 3—8, 6—1, 6—4. city. | WINNERS in the La Palina Navy and Penn have been rowing since 1880, the 1931 race being their 45th meeting. 10000 SLOGAN CONTEST FIRST PRIZE 85000 THOMAS BARRETT, 807 Beverly Road Second Prize $1.000 LAWRENCE KLYBERT, 510 S. 46th St. 20 Prizes of $100 Each Helsin V. Barnard, 2847—31st Aveq So., Minne- Minn. Philadelphia, Pa. Brooklyn, N. Y. 30 Prizes of 850 Each Louis D. Balthasar, Ellis Apartments, Paducah, Ky. Toledo, Ohio 'W. S. Reynolds, 825—11th St., Hu Jacob A. 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