Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1931, Page 40

D2 PETWORTH,TAKOMA HOSTS T0 HURLERS Pionio Champs to Qualify _for Higher Stages of Metro Tourney. big horseshoe tournaments to be held here July 4, both annual features of the In- dependence day celebrations at Takoma Park and Petworth. The championships of those communities will be at stake and the winner in each instance will be presented with a medal by The Star. As a matter of fact, the Pet- worth and Takoma Park events will be units in the annual Metro- politan District championships sponsored by this newspaper, most of the preliminaries of which will start on July 27. “The Petworth tournament will be held -l the Barnard Sehool playground and the Takoma Park event on the play- nd of that eommunity. Entries will E’“ pted up to time of play, about 1 e'clock. NG OME of the foremost pitchers of Maryland, Virginia and Washington | will engage in an informal tourna- | ment Sunday on the eourts of Joe| Merryman at Bladensburg, a town which will take part in The Star’s event for The first time, ¥ith Vince Osterman, Washingten bluécoat, directing play. The playground department, which will have supervision of the Washington EV!RY!ODY‘! invited to two of the championships, has in- structed all ground directors to have their courts in anr shape within the next week or 50 to give the hundreds of z(:mn looking to the big tournament e to sharpen their gam has been set as a nominal glosing of entries here. Blanks are now Being sent to playground directors, who 'fll distribute thera. The metropolitan area soon will be flooded with more than 5000 copies of @ booklet containing all the 1ules of horseshoe pitching and instrue- en how to become proficient in the sport. TUALLY all the town chairmen of last year have been reappointed #nd & list of towns of Virginia and where preliminaries will be will be published shortly. Any towns not entered during the last two geors that desire to take part should -mlmluu with the Horseshoe Editor. * There's thlnl quite like s hot Sorseshoe tournament to pep up picnics and carnivals and organizations hold- them this Summer, from now until mid-August, will find the Horseshoe Editor a willing helper. Such tourn: ments will be given the same rating as town or ccmmunity championships and the winner of each will be presented a ‘Washington Star medal. Thelr win- flers and runner-up will be qualified to eontinue into a higher stage of met- Topolitan play. 'ASHINGTON and nearby Maryland and Virginia are gaining natfonal prestige as horseshoe centers. A ;I:INI’ of hmous performers ;{- u:hk- n.lffl'n n s @ector and It is not unlikely that Metro- pelitan Dm fans will be given see horseshoes pnchod R !nlr metropolitan cham- m chly to have trouble retaining Big preliminaries are planned at all centers of nopulation, &hd they do say that the northern sec- tion of the county has developed some | formidable ringer !wman BALL TICKET FO!. BIEDIE _ATLANTA, Ga, July 1 () .—Play golf and see base ball games is the new in Atlanta. The Atlanta Crack- " management is ofl-r!.n‘ s pass to fll n\llldc::‘lollfli as well as private who score birdles. Mat Matches B the Associated Press. BALTIMORE—Kola Kwariani, Rus- n threw Dick Daviscourt, California, | m'fl!lnl aight falls fr ndovich, Russia, :00 Brookly: lwundvr. Nw Orleans, 23:35. SAN FRANCISCO.—Joe Savoldi, 195, | Three Oaks, Mich, threw Jack Plum- mer, 205, Nebraska (31 minutes); Gus | “Dutch” Schlagel. 205, former Washing- | ton State foot ball player, and Abie Coleman, 190, New York, wrestled one Ml’ toa drl' | :Here s Lowdown On Shoe Tourney annual metropolitan dis- horseshoe championships, memefld by The Washington Ptar. |~ Play starts July 27. Entries elose July 25. = Titles at stake: Neighborhood, di- ' wisional, sectional and city cham- plonships of Washington; town, sounty and State championships of Maryland and Virginia. “ Tournaments in Washington un- der supervision of municipal play- Ll;’l)und department; those in Mary- d and Virginia under direction of local chairmen. < Entry blanks to be issued shortly luy be obtained from playground @irectors and chairmen. - There is no entry fee. = All prizes will be given by The ashington Star. Town and neigh- ‘est ST oTer me - tan fl;m mk ualify four ! - Washington &l’m Iar the Fr finale and land Virginia two each, the eixht to plly a round robin. ! Detailed information may be ob- | tained by phoning or writing the Horseshoe Editor, Washington Star sports department, phone National 8000, branch 335. = PFor information on the colored of nu w«mument com- - SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY Y, 1931, To Show Mat Skill Here Tomorrow Night CLEVER HUNGARIAN TO APPEAR ON GRIFFITH STADIUM CARD. SANDOR SZABO. ITTING his speed and skill against the strength of Milo Steinborn, holder of some 14 weight-lifting records, San- dor Bzabo, youthful Hungarian mat- man, will make his first appearance here tomorrow night at the Grifith Stadium in one of the preliminary matches to the Rudy Dusek-Wladek Zbyszko bout. Szabo is reported to be one of the few recent forelgn imports with a well-founded knowledge of the mat game. In Steinborn he will be tack-+ ling & colorful foe whose remarkable strength offsets whatever he may lack in wrestling skill. Rudy Dusek was the only matman of the array Zbyako challenged to accept the defy. The gl-nl l’(lev who has defeated Ed “Strangler” Lewis four times; Joe Stecher four times; Jim Londos three times and Henri de Glane, present “champjon” of the S8andow-Bowser chain, twice, challenged each of these men again in addition to Dusek, Steele, Son- nenberg and George. match ‘The champion many times over, Dusek, master of the now-famous rocking split, will be to a finish, The semi-final bout, finish, will find Dick squaring off with Earl McCready, the latest Western sensation. v, & former ccllege s tagged & comer closely connected with the game. The other preliminaries in addi- tion to the Szabo-Steinborn match will bring_together Son Jennings and Mike Romano and Sammy Stein and Nick Nestor. The first bout tomorrow will start at 8:30 o'clock. Tickets will be sold at Turner's Annapolis Hotel office and at the ball park Women with escorts will be admit- tad free to all seats except those at the ringside. Crea star, between Zbyszko, and also to & Daviscourt Me- foot ball by those CLINCHES TENNIS FLAG e 6—1; Co Treasury Defeats Navy to Insure |1 g Departmental Honors. Scoring & 4-to-1 victory over Navy yesterday, Treasury clinched the De- partmental Tennis League champion- ship at the Monument_courts, Colin Stam and Bill Seidel, Treasury, No. 2, combination, won the feature engagement from Serat and McVey by scores of 6—1, 4—6, 17—15 The last set was plaved in semi-darkness. Chagest and Purinton (T.)_ defanted Gil -6, 2, Sta and Train, |UseD 2()(() TIRES { m and Seidel 1, MAY WEIGH IN “ON AIR” CLEVELAND, Schmeling and Young velgh in on the air tomorrow night. e plan was under consideration today by the Cleveland Boxin mission to have the German tif LT defented Serat and Clar! & Packer an MJL ieq Brown wson_an lson, 8—3. Dempsey, July 1 (#).— \hx\champlon. Stribling _may eholder | The DEMPSEY DECLINES BID 657 | Has Offer to Meet Winner of Fight | at Cleveland. RENO, Nev., former heavywelght boxing has made known that he | has turned down a tentative offer from Cleveland to meet the winner of the Com- | Stribling-Schmeling bout. bout would have been staged July 1 UP).—Jack and the Georgia challenger for the |there in September. The offer, he said, world heavyweight championship jump | came from Ed Bang, Cleveland news- on th cales in a broadeasting station. paper man. CHRISTEN LAUREL STADIUM TONIGHT Hunf Is Favorite Over Corri in Feature Battle of 42-Round Show. T'S fight night tonight at the new Laurel punch emporium, where 42 rounds or 'less of boxing will be served up, starting at 8:30 o'clock. ‘Two better known boxers, Babe Hunt and Pletro Corri, will be the principals in the feature bout, a scheduled 10- rounder, with Hunt, the angular Ponca City, Okla., boy, reigning the favorite. The recently constructed arena, one mile from Laurel toward Baltimore, will seat some 7,500, and a banner crowd of Washingtonians and Balti- moreans is expected to be on hand. Hunt and Corri already have met twice, with Hunt gaining Q’ll decision once and the other scrap being called s draw. Corri forced the fighting and intimated today that he would not try to box with Hunt, admittedly his superior in ring skill. | Other Bouts Listed. While the feature naturally is at. tracting most of the interest, the semi- | finalists, Herman Weiner, Baltimore heavywelght, and Mike Sullivan, Phil- adelphia slugger, are expected to throw some punches that will keep the crowd entertained. | Special musical features will be | heard during the intermissions to en- | liven the occasion. Charley Short, Baltimore, will referee and Jimmy Lake | will lend the Joe Humphries touch with his announcing. The complete card follows: ‘Tod Morgan, Baltimore, Haas, Washington, four bantamweights. Jim Reed., Baltimore, vs. Billy Bschinger, Washington, four rounds, lightwelghts. El Kadir, Washington, vs. Gorilla Jones, New York, six 1rounds, mid- dlewvights Artlzur de Beve, France, vs. Mickey Diamond. Phifadelphia, eight rounds, welterweights Philadelphia, vs. Mike Sullivan, Herman Weiner, Baltimore, 10 Okla., vs. rounds, heavyweights. Babe Hunt, Ponca City, Pletro Corri, New York, 10 rounds, heavyweights. . Harry rounds, QUAIL CALIFORNIA'S BIRD. SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 1 () — Gov. ‘ih has signed a bill designating l,he California quail as the official State | All Makes of Shock Absorbers Serviced L.S.JULLIEN,Inc. 1443 P St. N.W. North 8076 SOME PRACTICALLY NEW “A Good Used Tire Is Better Than a Cheap New Tire” ALL MAKES IN STOCK 100 1,500 Blowout Patches, 25¢ 500 Inner Liners—4-Ply, $1 each A LARGE STOCK OF NEW TIRES AT COST SAVE THE DIFFERENCE 4 EXPERTS TO SERVE YOU—NO WAITING NATHAN GRADY CORDUROY NEW TUBES ;100 Each GOODRICH USED TUBES 1306-8 14th ST. N.W. 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MAKING DEBUT AS HEAVY CHICAGO, July 1 (#).—Ace Hudkins, the rough mauler from Nebraska and erstwhile contender for the world mid- dleweight chnmpkmshlf will make his first start against a full-fledged heavy- weight at Mills Stadium tenight with King Levinsky, the former fish monger, as his opponen SPOR TWO-YEAR-OLDS RACE Eigteen Likely to Go to Post in Arlington Feature Today. CHICAGO, July 1 (#).—Twenty-six eager 2-year-olds were named for the Hyde Park Stakes with $10,000 added at Arlington today. ‘There was every indication that at least 18 would start, making a gross of $25,200 for the stake won last year by Siskin and in 1929, the inauguration of the event, by Try Too. The distance was 8% furlopgs. Osoulator, winner eof the National Stallion Stakes .at Belmont and the great Amferican at Aqueduct last Satur- day, was paired with his stablemate. Jambalaya, as the W. R. Coe entry and established as the favorite in the betting at 5to 2. Proteus, the Western juvenile champion, st 4 to 1; Texas Knight at 5 to 1; Sun's Son, the California eham- plon; The Bull, from the Cornelius Vuudurbut ‘Whitney Stable; Amerieana and Phanton Legion also were well supported. TS. e Two Big Horseshoe Tournaments to Enliven Independence Day Celebrations Commission Puts Curb on Carnera N!W YORK, July 1 (#).—Primo Carnera has been ordered by the N!' York aues M.hm.lc Commission to engag z'“ boxing bouts im this lh’l 'l! it the -mvfl of the commission. '!'ht immediate result of this yul- was to force cancellation of a ;’mm bout between Carners and letro ‘Corri of Italy at Rochester, e solons did net ain their ruling, but it was gen ly under- stood they did not consider Corri a suitable omnent for Carners. ANKABAR WINS “STEAK.” CLEVELAND, July 1 (#).—Ankaba driven by Parshall, won the $3,000 Ta ern “steak,” a 2:18 trot, which was ye: terday's gr: nd cireuit feature Nort Randall. Cllumet Armistice, driven b Daniel, won the first heat in 2:02°. 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