Evening Star Newspaper, July 18, 1931, Page 13

' Coast Beckons Amateur Links Title : Tilden Still Rates at Top Pointers in Golf CROWN HAS NEVER - BEEN N FAR WEST BY SOL METZGER. To achieve proper timing, relaxa- tion is necessary, as Barnes, Cruick- shank and Jones agree. That is vhy their knees are slightly bent &nd their weight more on the heels. Otherwise, the body will not flow with the arm swing. Here is a sketch of Bobby Jones directly after his clubhead has struck the ball on a drive. Note how his weight is flowing forward, thus pull- ing his right heel off the ground as RIGHT FOOT OFF GROUND el Uy 1 it should. Were his legs straight and | his weight on his heels at stance Bobby would become unbalanced long before he reached this point of his swing. As it is, his timing is perfect. wondering what effect your game? Are you the new ball will have'on If so send for Sol Metzger’'s new leaf- let on the “New Ball” Inclose a stamped, sclf-addressed envelope in care of this paper. (Copyrisht, 1931 DELAY MEN'S SINGLES IN PUBLIC PARKS PLA Moe, Dolp, Willing and Seaver Possess Ability to Win Major Tournament. BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. HERE'S a good chance that the national amateur golf championship may go West this year—far toward the setting sun, where the Pacific| roils on the shores of California, | Washington and Oregon. Never in the long history of the amateur champlonship has a man from | west’ of Minneapolis or Chicago| won the simon-pure title, and in the main the championships have been won by men from the East and South, with Atlanta, Ga., the golfing capital of the Nation over the last seven or eight years. That supremacy is all over now and | Bob Jones, the golfer-lawyer who went Hollywcod, has resigned ‘himself to a life of future inactivity, as far as mafor championship play is concerned. Which naturally brings up the question: Can the golfing cohoits of the East stop the advancing tide of the Far West, where good golfers grow as thick as peas in a New England garden patch. The nise of the Pacific Coast to a position of challenge in national golf is a phenomenon of only the last half- dozen years. A decade ago there were good golfers on the West Coast, men like Dixie Flaeger, Rudolph Whilhelm, Chandler Egan and Jack Neville. But, with the exception of Egan, who is & Chicago product and a graduate of z Harvard, none of these men ever went Put Off Until Tuesday, but Other anywhere in national golf. Along about g 1026 or 1927 we began to hear of | Classes Were to Continue Johnny McHugh, Oscar F. Willing and yol Frank Dolp and Don Moe, along with Competition Today. ® host of lesser lights like Fay Coleman | and Bon Stein. Don Moe broke into | thte national spotlight by winning the | play in the men's singles in the Dis- Western amatcur. So did Prank Dolp. trict Public Parks tennis cHampionships and “Doc” Willing became a member of | will be delayed watil Tuesday becauce several Walker Cup teams. By the time | of various conflicting events, but com- 1928 had rolled around the Far West petition in the men's and women's dou- was a definite factor in national cham- | bles was to continue this afternoon. pionship golf and this year with such The women's singles was completed new players as Charlie Seaver in the | several davs ago. list the West appears about ready to ' — Frank Shore and Tony Latona were garncr a national title. to meet Dooly Mitchell and Bill = Buchanan in a quarter-finals doubles TO date the East has produced no ' match this afternoon. The time and new stars over the last four or five court was still undecided early today. years, except Gene Homans, the be- | Dorothy Kingsbury and Cecycle epectacled Jerseyite, who was runner- |Raver were this affernoon to finish up to Jones last year at Merion. Homaps | their semi-finals doubles tilt with May- is not en impressive golfer to watch, [cita de Souza and Mrs. Margaret but he manages to cling closely enough | Graham, which was halted vesterday in to par to win a lot of matches. The the third set. Play was scheduled for old stars, such as George Voigt, Jess 1 o'clock on the Rock Creek courts. Sweetser, Francis Ouimet, Jesse Guil- Each had won a set at 6—4 and Kings- ford, Max Marston and Harrison R. bury-Raver were leading. 4 to 3. in the Johnston, are past the crest, while third set when rain came. In the other these boys from the Pacific Coast are semi-final Frances Walker, who recent- comers. ly won the singles crown, and Mrs. On the other hand, the East has a Ruth Martinez, runner-up, were to con- few voungsters who may go somewhere tinue the battle in defense of their dou- in the national, if they qualify in the bles title, meeting Mrs. Dorette Miller sectional tests to be held a week from 8nd Corella Morris at 2 o'clock. It may next Monday. Lads like Sidney Noyes be that the women will go on to finish and George Dunlap, the intercollegiate the doubles competition this afternoon champion, may suddenly start off on a | Bud Markey, who put Dooly Mitchel! winning streak. So might Maurice J.|0ut of the District tourncy, and Maurice NMcCeart the Flatbush star who is O'Neill, seasoned left-hander, today are out of college only a year. But in the 'in the semi-final round of the men's main the East must look to the older Singles as a result of victories yester- lavers with the t day. players wi e accepted reputations day. Mar to stave off the rush of the West. ON MOE and Frank Dolp, O. F. Willing _and Charlie Seaver are quite capable of putting on a burst of speed that would overwhelm any one but a Jones. If one of them happens to get real “hot” in the championship to start late next month at Chioago, | don't be surprised to see the nationai title go toward the setting sun. All of | these have had enough national ai international experience not to wilt under fire, and all of them are capable of matching shots with the best the East can produce. | Goifers on the Pacific Coast play under more favorable conditions than do the Eastern stars. 12 months in the year out there on the Pacific Slope, while most of the Eastern goifers do mnot play often from mid- | id-March. ~ All and a finer edge when the big tourna- | ments roll around. Without Jones to | head the crushing caravan the East | Wil have trouble keeping the amateur | champlonship from crossing the Rockie: this year. With the championship be- | ing held at Chicago, the far Western players are only three days away, and | to them that 1s not a long jump. From | Seattle to Boston is quite a distance, but. when you cut this distance by one- third they do not mind the travel. ~So we will probably find all the best of the West, in the strugzle at Chicago this | vear and it would not be at all astound- | ing if the championship journeyed West | for the first time in histor: HE tangled affairs of the Bannock burn Golf Club now are in an-| other stage and one that may | mean the abandonment of the club as a going golfing proposition. Members of the club authorized a resolution last night to empower the board of gover- nors to take steps to close the affairs Markey defeated Barney Welsh of 7—5. 6—4, while O'Neill downed Hugh Trigg, 6—4, 6—4. Both tilts produced interesting battling. NAVY TENNIS FAVORITE | Private Expected to Help Army Make Good Showing. Navy was favored to win the Leech Cup tennis match from the Army for the sixth straight year this aiternoon at the Chevy Chase Club. Play was to start at 2 o'clock. Army, however, strengthened by the addition of Pvi. Dolf Muehleisen, was | than in resent years. IN CHESS 90-POUND MERMAID SETS WORLD MARK |Katherine Rawls, 14, Clips 4 Seconds Off 300-Meter Medley Record. ° | By the Associated Press. | EW YORK, July 18—Four- teen-year-old Katherine Rawls of Hollywood, Fla., and- New | York, is the new women's na- | tional A. A. U. 300-meic= =idley swim- | ming champion and the new world rec- | ord holder at that distance. Less than 5 feet tall and tipping the beam at about 90 pounds, Miss Rawls snlashed her way to victory by 20 yards over the defending champion, Eleanor Holm of New York, here last night and #et up a new universal standard of 4 minutes 454-5 seconds for the event. Miss Holm set the listed world record of 4:494-5 at Honolulu in 1929. Miss Rawls gained a lead of 10 yards in the first 100 meters—at breat stroke style—held on to maintain her ad- vantage in the second 100 meters at backstroke, where Miss Holm has been ~upreme for four vears, and then added (hea!ly to her advantage in the last third ¢’ the race, swam free style. Anciber for Helene. Miss Rawl's reco:-breaking race was the second of the night. Earlier, Helene Madison of Seattle, Wash.. shattered the world standard for 1.000 yards by swimming the distance against time in 13 minutes, 234-5 seconds. Martha Norelius of New York set the listed mark of 13:392-5 at Massepequa, N. Y., in 1927 Miss Madison now holds every world free style mark except that for 1,000 meters and she will attempt to smash that tomorrow. The other championship event last night. the 88C-yard relay. saw the Los Angeles A. C. team of Marjorie Lowe, Jennie Cramer. Norene Forbes and Josephine McKim, retain its title by 15 vards from the first team of the Wom- en’s Swimming Association of New York. | Going into the final day of the cham- pionships, the W. S. A."led the team champilonship with 21 points to 17 for the Los Angeles A. C. The Washington A. C. of Seattls, represented only by Miss Madison, was third with 15 MARYLAND FOUR WINS Take Second Game to Split With Fauquier-Loudoun Team. No, sieee ! t AN AN WONT LET * KIN | GO. HUR! S N el *\ e gy AYIASW IN THEIR PLACE ME! MEBBE W'eN 'm ABOUT NINETY YEARS OLE | MIGHT MARRY A PRINCESS, \€ SHE'S DARN GoOD LOOKIN' AN' PROMISED SHE WOULDN'T BUTT IN WEN | WANT T' GO FISHIN ER OMETHIN' SATURDA T NEVER GO T' HEV NUTHIN' T* DO WITH NOWIMMEN, THEY TIE A MAN DOWN \™ Do NUTHIN' HE WANTS T'DO, S'POSIN' | WANTA GO FISHIN' AN' | GOTTA AST MY WIFE NOT FER PUTTING WOoMEN (91931 ny TR IBURE, 1ue. JULY 18, 1931. SAY, YA WOULDN'T KETEH ME MARRYIN' NO PRINCGESS! ON YeR LIFE! WHY, | WOULDN'T EveN ™MARRY A BAREBACK PIDER IN A CIRCUS! THEY AINT NONE OF '€r1 WORTH SHUCKS NOT | | MIDDLEBURG. Va., July 18.—Mary- land Polo Club Whites broke even in their two-game series here with the Farquier-Loudoun Polo Association. The score of the match yesterday was 6 to 4, in favor of the Marylanders. | The match was stopped by rain after | the third chukker had been played. | much to the disappointment of the crowd and players. The Virginians were given a 4-goal handicap. Bill Martin, No. 3. for the visitors ' was the individual star by scoring three gonls, Fauquier-Loudoun presented an entire different team than that which defeated the Whites on Wednesday, 12 to 4. Line ups: ‘Whites ‘Wheelwright ... A. Foster. Martin . Lanahan TO GRAPPLE AT CARNIVAL Bouts Will Be a Feature of Fete to Be Held by Engineers. A series of wrestling matches among grapplers who recently have shown their wares at Griffith Stadium will be P-L | .Dr. Randolph . Sabin W. Frost .H. Frost 1. 2. A o 8 a big feature of the carnival of Com- | pany F, 121st Engincers, District of Columbia National Guard, to be held at Third street and Maine avenue south- west, starting Monday night. Many other attractions have been listed. The carnival will continue two weeks. Capt. George W. Johns is general ‘There will be no admission charge. CIRCLES BY FRANK B. WALKER. HE fourth team tournament of ation for the Russell-Hamilton l cup, began its sessions at Prague, Czachoslovakia, July 12. | There are 19 countries represented, viz: Austria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, France, German Holland, Hu Ttal, Jugoslavia, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Rumania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United | States, one more than in the Hamburg tournament last year. Iceland and Finland dropped out fromt last year's entries, and Italy, Jugoslavia and | Switzerland are new. | ‘There is no restriction against mas- | ters in this tournament, and the lead- | ing players of the world are taking | part. | Dr. 8. Tartakower, who played board | the International Chess Feder- | previous record was held by Dr. Alex- ander Alekhine, world champion, who at Paris in 1925, played blimifold against 28 opponents, winning 22, drawing three and losing three, the sitting also lasting 11!3 hours, W. BYLER won the first game in his match with C. C. Bettinger to determine who shall play Walker for the match champlonship of the Dis- trict. The game was adjourned on the scheduled night after 40 moves had been made. Bettinger did not resume play on the adjourned date, but re- signed the game. The match is plaved Wednesday evenings at the Capital City Chess Club. The public is invited to witness the games. ‘The New York Staie Chess Associa- of the club and seek a receivership for | two on the champion Polish team last tion will hold its anaual session at the organizaiton. ‘ ‘ It was pointed out at the meeting, which followed a session of the board on Thursday night, that interest has not been paid upon two mortgages on to participate in a tournament of clusive. The State championship tour- South American players, was expected nament begins August 18. Edward to be on hand to defend the title with | Santasiere of New York City is present Rubenstein, Przepiorka and Frydman. | champion. Class tournaments will be | England will have Sultan Khan, Sir |held, and match games between teams year, and had gone to Buenos Aires Rome, N. Y., from August 17 to 22, in- | club property since early in the ;'h:r and Steypcmatured some time ago. | George Thomas, Yates, Winter and It is hoped that some way may be | Wahltoch; France, Dr. Alekhine; Aus- arranged to mect the indebtedness of | tria, Spielman, ~Becker, ~Gruenfeld, | the club to keep the course open until|and Amoch, who won the title two| further reorganization can be effected. |years ago. ~Germany, Ahues, cham- | pion; Czechoslovakia. Flohr; Sweden, | L. HOUGHTON of the Kenwood | Stoltz, Stahiberg. The number of | Country Club, Washington's lone | players engaged in thestournament will | entrant in the metropolitan oven | be ~nearly 100. Two sessions are | championship, is too far down the list | played dafly. morning and afternoon, | 1o figure as one of the winners as the and evenings are reserved for ad- tourney enters its final phase today.| journed games. The United States won its first e ot o0 | match, rrm-nl Denmt}rk by the score of | ve: 0 0, but lost to Latvia by the score | Drevioas day for a total of 158 strokes, | 419,90 but Jost 1o Satvn by he sevre one rtioke below the qualifying limit. | United States had a tie with Holland | Gene Sarazen led the field as the| 1 ints 'h, with one ga = t 1'; points each, with game ad. 36 holes of play started over the course | {1 112 POUS eatsy, SO 000 BRI UE | of the Crestmont Club of New Jersey | gngland and Poland started in the | with a total for the first two rounds| ) FRACC, Moo gt o ce: | of 143, The woman's chess championship of i the world again will be contested DOEG IS PLAYING VINES the Congress at Prague. The title is | cld by Miss Vera Menchik of Has- Defending Longwcod Title—Other | Title Matches Listed. for the last tings, England, but a native of Czecho- slovakia, from which country she is entered. She will be opposed by Frau Wally Henschel of Germany, who de- BROOKLINE, Mass, July 18 (A)- Ellsworth Vines, rangy driving ‘West | Coast youth, today stood between the | national champion, Johnny Doeg, and feated her in the individual game at Hamburg last year; Mrs. R. H. 8. Stevenson, of Great Britain; Frau Kalmar-Wolf, of Austria, and Miss K. Beskov, of Sweden. of four each representing the different counties of the State for the Genesce Cup now held by Erle County. E. D. Bogoljubow of Triborg, who was defeated by Dr. Alekhine for the world championship. tled with M. Roedi of Munich in the championship tourna- ment of the German Chess Association, both securing 8—4. Following them came Kurt Richter, 7'.: Karl Helling and L. Rellstab, each with 7. Mieses tled for eighth place. 7. Leslie Hoover, secretary of the Correspondence Chess League of America. 205 Pomander road, Mineola, N.'Y., announces the arrangemen® of tournaments for the Summer months. Places will be Teserved if applications are sent to him at once. So]u!\ur; ‘o end game No. 5, by Heari | A 2 P—R3, K—Ki3; 3 P—RS, K—Q3; 4 P—R P—R8(Q), P—B8(Q); Q—R6ch, and wins. End game No. 6: White, K on QB3, R on Q4, B on QB4—3pieces. Black, K on QKt, R on QBt, B on QB3, Ps on QKt2, QR2 and QR4—6 pleces. White to play and draw. ‘The following game was awarded the 5 6 an Karl Ahues, | jbrilliancy prize in the recent New York tournament. Its winnar now is at Prague, playing on the United States international team; the loser is Cana- dian champion. Irregular Detense. Steiner, White. 13 HE match of 10 games between Jose R. Capablanca, former world champion, and Dr. Max Euwe, Dutch champion, who finished in first place in the last Hastings tournament, ahead of Capeblanca, got under way at Amster- | dam on Ju! The first game re- | sulted in a draw after 20 moves. Capa- | blanca had the white pleces. permanent possession of the eighth, Longwood Bowl tennis trophy. They were to clash twice today, meet- ing in the singles final at 2 p.m. md? in the doubles final at 3. In the doubles encounter Doeg will be teamed with | Ww. F. Coen, ji.. while Keith Gledhill | ‘will be Vines' partner. in the women's doubles Mrs. Helen | wills Moody and Mrs. George W. Wightman, who have coasted through | to the final bracket, will encounter the Palfrey sisters, Sarah and Mianne, of kline. B"?}’le women's singles final will bring | gether Miss Sarah Palfrey and Miss | rothy Andrus of Stamford, Conn. Steiner. i i N om: r 273 A new record for blindfold simul- | taneous play has been made by the Belgian master, Koltanowski. Opposed by 30 players he won 20 games and drew 10, the performance lasting’ 111, hours, with an hour for lugch. The! 2 RBRESTESES, T o2 23y or. ck; | into_ shreds. Q BY GRANTLAND RICE | The Poundage Debate. UST how important is the matter of displacement when two fight- ers step into the ring? This ancient argument has come back on the bound in the matching of Mickey Walker and Jack Sharkey and the matching of, Max Schmeling and Primo Carnera. Walker will have to spot Sharkey something like 30 pounds. But it is nothing to the tonnage Schmeling will have to slip Carnera. Schmeling weighed 189 pounds for Stribling and he should weigh about the same at his | next start where Carnera will be close to 270. This will make a difference | somewhere around 75 or 80 pounds in Italy’s armament above the German al- lotment. Yet st fairly close range a machine gun can be much more effec- tive than a howitzer. Walker and Sharkey are much more evenly matched in the matter of weight than Schmeling and Carnera, especially when you consider that Walker is built | like a heavyweight in every detail ex- | cept height. He has the chest, neck, arms and legs of a heavyweight and he can hit about as hard as most of the heavyweights now infesting the scene. Relative Speed. iIT | gets down to a combination of relative speed. A good big man can whip a good little man—if the good | big man is just as fast. Metzger, the 154-pound Notre Dame guard, swarmed all over a lot of first-ci: 200-pound | guards because Metzger was about twice | as fast. Jack Shar- key isn't slow by any manner of means, and if he is about 'as fast as Walker, those 30 pounds’ will make a tremendous differ- ence. Bchmeling would have almost no chance against Carnera, who s fast for a masto- jdon, if Carnera could punch. But if he couldn't hurt | Maloney in 20 | rounds, there is no particular reason | why he should an- | nihilate Schmeling in 10 or 15, as | Schmeling is a better defensive boxer than Maloney is or was. Harry Greb had more trouble with the Tiger Flowers and the Mickey Walkers than he had with most of the bigger boys. Jack Dillon could murder the Frank Morans, but he had | much rougher parties with some of the | light heavies. Dempsey's Angle. ACK DEMPSEY always wanted to take on the glants in preference to the smaller men. He stopped big Fred Fulton in about 18 seconds. When he met Willard, Dempsey weighed 183 and Willard about 255. to give away 72 pounds at least, and et he had Willard on the floor seven times n the first round. He slaughtered the Carl Morrises and the Firpos. But he couldn't knock out Tom Gibbons in |15 rounds, and he took two beatings from Tunney at 20 rounds. The an- swer is simple. Gibbons and Tunney, with far more speed than the big heavyweights, were much harder to hit. It “docsn't matter how big a shell you might fire if it doesn’t land on the target. Big heavyweights are not accustomed to aiming at much smaller targets, and this always affects their timing. Dempsey was almost 100 per cent offense. He was always throwing a punch with one hand or the other. He was fast enough for a heavyweight and a first-class marksman. Yet he hit_Gibbons and Tunney few effective blows in 35 rounds of fighting, his most damaging punch being the Tunney knockdown. Strong Little Men. IFFERENT games have been full little men. ::ossf,h::l:nnble was Joe Sterna- man, the Illinois back, who wem;\ed about 140. Yet even in the profes 1d rip a heavy line sional game Joe could b 8 BCCe the story of how Sternaman one day be- clm}; involved in a heated argument with the heavywelght wrestling cham- They have golf | figured to make a stronger showing 'chairman in charge of arrangements. | HE‘:‘Y.I}!&N‘ ime hen B | pion, weighing around 220, and Wi & | Phe"smoke lifted Sternaman had his heavier opponent tied into & number of knots, emitting & flock of anguished mi;l:‘;k'ty of Yale was apother strong "TILDEN AND KOZELUH. THE SPORTLIGHT, | < to acquire a more compact build. IN FEATURE NET TILT |little man—a 150 pounds of dynamite, Big Bill and Hunter Also to Play | who could stand the 190-pounders on their beam's end. | Greb was a little hercules in addition | to his blinding speed. Whey speed and power are hooked together they | can handle any amount of mere weight without worry at all. | in Doubles Here Tomorrow on Wardman Courts. Bill Tilden will face Karel Kozeluh in the feature match of the profe: sional tennis exhibition tomorrow after- noon on the Wardman Park Hotel | | courts, following a clash between Em- | mett Pare and Francis T. Hunter that | will open the program at 2:30 o'clock After the Tilden-Kozeluh match Til- den and Hunter will meet Kozeluh and Bobby Seller in the doubles. ‘Tilden, who recently won the world pro title, will face in Kozeluh the fer- mer national pro champ. Pare, who not so long ago played on the Georg town University net team, is former national clay-court champion. Hunter is an erstwhile amateur doubles champ. Seller has shown class on the Pacific Coast. Winfree Johnson, president of the Washington Tennis Association, has appointed 10 leading figures in net cir- cles here as linemen for the exhibition. They are: Louis I. Doyle, Herbert L. Shepard. Capt. A. J. QGore, Mortimer | D. Rathgeber, John Ladd, Stanl When you get weight, speed and power combined, then you get some: thing. Carnera may have lifting power, but nc_ hitting power. as he scems to lack the snap. Mickey Walker hasn't_the power that Sharkey has and he can’t hit as hard. He isn't any faster to speak of. But Mickey's main chance is a two- handed attack and | the old battle| spirit which still means a lot. He |is fast enough and extremely fast | with his hands, which, after all, is where you wear the gloves and what you hit with. torles before crashing into the 30-game | “riciets for the exhibition not sold | yinning class, to' be the frit since | by noon today were to be put on sale Jim Bagby turned the trick for Cleve- | 0¥ fio0n, today, were to ¢ [land 11 vears ago. That ought to be 2 | simple enough for a left arm thai carries so much stamina and all-around stuff, plus the Athletics to help carry out the assignment. \ Bob Jones and Bill Burke both be- |long in the deep-chested, broad-shoul- | dered class rather than in the tall |and rangy department. If this keeps |on any number of duffers will soon be cutting off thelr legs or their heads 6. W. U. LISTS OKLAHOMA George Washington will meet Univer- sity of Oklahoma in foot ball here Thanksgiving day, 1932, and will re- turn the visit in 1933, it has been an- nounced by Jim Pixlee, director of athletics and head grid coach of the Colonials. Towa University also has been sched- uled by the Colonials for 1933, who plan | to bring several well known elevens here that year in line with the cam- vaign to bulld up G. W. foot bail prestige. i (Copyright. 1931. by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) 'SARAZEN IS ONE UP IN METRO TOURNEY | Sinks 30-Foot Putt for Birdie taj Gain Lead—Farrell and Runyan Trail. BY WALTER HERE is a grand race in the American League. No, not for Dempsey had | By the Associated Press. WEST ORANGE, N. J, July 18— Gene Sarazen, title holder in 1925, held a one-stroke lead over the field of 52 in the metropolitan open golf champion- ship as the final 36 holes of play got under way today. He sank a 30-foot putt on the home | green for a birdie 4 that gave him 70 for the second round yesterday and a 36-hole total of 143. A stroke behind were Johnny Farrell of Quaker Ridge, another former champion, and Paul | Runyan of the Metropolis Club. Run- yan, who led the fleld with a 70 on Thursday, fell back to a 74 yesterday, while Farrell added a 73 to his first day's 71. Third place, after two rounds, be- Jonged to the defending champion, Willie MacFarlane, who followed a par- equaling 72 with a 73 yesterday for 145. DISTRICT POLICE SECOND National Pistol Title Is Captured by Los Angeles Team. Washington police placed second in the national police pistol team cham- pionship, which was conducted by the first place. The Athletics still are a bit too far in front to | make a good race there. The really ! hot competition is for last place. Before the season opened ‘the rabid | | rooters already had conceded the Bos- iton Red Sox last position. They were supposed to have a long, unbreakable lease on the cellar. Now Detroit, the team Connie Mack warns base ball writers to look out for each Spring, and Chicago, picked by some as the league's dark horse, ap- pear to be trying desperately to move into the quarters to which the Red Sox had been assigned. The truth of the matter is that those Red Sox are no | | doormat for anybody. ‘Washingion and New York may yet have a thrilling fight for second place. ‘That would not satisfy Washington very well, as the Senators really ex- pected to win the flag this year. Last season was the time the Senators had their big chance. Judge had a great year. Kuhel is a fine young player, but he has not the experience of Judge. LWAYS Bill Tilden has been to me the greatest tennis player I ever saw. Norris Williams at the peak of his game was invincible, but Wil- liams was only at the peak of his game for about two National Rifle Association as a part of its Summer program of pistol and rifie matches. Los Angeles won the match with a score of 1,421 against 1,382 for Wa: Michigan police placed One of the | ingto: third. . Scores of the members of the Wash- were: ndahl, '282; Moore, 278; Stewart, Bridges, 273; Phelps, 273. REACH FINALS AT TENNIS. CHARLOTTE, N. C, July 18 (#). Wilmer Hines, Columbia, 8. C., and “Lefty” Bryan, Chattanooga, won their way to the finals of the men's singles g; t“he‘ }':‘"’"ln“l"’h'“_}“u 1boun’;amenl e elv] ‘arpley, Tampa, Wright, arlotte, 3—6, 1—5, respectively. Fo! 276; had the forehand of . a giant and courage that would bring a mist to the eyes; Vinnie Rich- ards is one of the greatest volleyers who ever lived and a sportsman ai- ways; Lacoste, the 3 perfect machine, and Cochet, the genius, have been marvels of ghe courts; but Tilden is Tildin still. SPORTS of Shoe Tourney TH.IRD annual metropolitan dis- trict horseshoe championships, sponsored by The Washington Star. Play starts July 27. Entries close July 25. ‘Titles at stake: Neighborhood, di- visional, sectional and city cham- plonships of Washington; town, county and State championships of Maryland and Virginia. ‘Tournaments in Washington un- der supervision of municipal play- frouna department; those in Mary- and and Virginia under direction of local chairmen. Entry blanks to be issued shortly may be obtained from playground directors and chairmen. ‘There is no entry fee. All prizes will be given by The ‘Washington Star. Town and neigh- borhood champions will receive bronze medals, suitably engraved. Divisional winners in Washington and county champions in the neigh- boring S will receive stlver medals. ld medals will go to ‘Washington, Maryland and Virginia champlons, ' trophies to East and ‘West section winners in Washington and silver plate will be awarded in the grand finals for the metropoli- tan district title. ‘Washington will gullfly four players for the grand finale and Maryland and Virginia two each, the eight to play a round robin. Detailed information m‘f’ be ob- tained by phoning or writing the Horseshoe Editor, Washington Star sports department, phone National 5000, branch 335. For information on the colored section of the tournament, com- municate with Arthur A. Greene, ‘Twelfth Street Branch Y. M. C. A, 1816 Twellth street northwest, phone North 1054. MARLBORO EXPERT SHOE TITLE THREAT jTownsend. Winner of State Event in 1929, Enters Star’s Tournament. ARLBORO, Md. making its debut in the Metropolitan Dis- trict horseshoe tournament, didate for the championship of South- ern Maryland, Northern Virginia and ‘Washingtor: in the person of S. G. Townsend, jr., who hails from Brandy- wine, but wiil compete in the Marlboro preliminary. Townsend won a State- wide tournament two years ago and now is priming for the third annual Metro- politan event sponsored by The Star. Among other notable contestants at Marlboro, where play will be directed by Lansdale Clagett, probably will be State Senator Lansdale Sasscer and Sheriff Curtis Hopkins, neither of whom is expert, but both of whom enjoy the game. A court has been pitched back of the court house and the court staff mem- bers are staging daily battles. 'ARLBORO'S entrance will swell considerably the entry from Prince Georges County, which Is out to set a record for participants in the Metropolitan event, which includes mar‘;y counties of Maryland and Vir- ginia. Ted Crown of Seat Pleasant has been appointed general chairman of Prince Georges pitchers and is recciving gen- eral co-operation. He has in line nearly 30 towns and communities, but some of them will be grouped. About 20 preliminaries will be staged. Joe Plummer is acting chairman of Mount Rainier, but another is sought to give Joe ample opportunity to concen- trate on winning the town title. H is one of the best pitchers in the county. Mount Rainier has another in Ray Ward. and Frank Bauman is not a set- up. This town hopes to “put the bee” on Hyattsville, its ccnstant rival in sport. EAT PLEASANT and Capitol Heights, too, have a feud on and both will have large entry lists. The Seat Pleasant experts have been sharpening their games for several weeks, with Gene Lamp, Duke Greenwell and Chair- man Irvin I Main showing the best form. { Meadows, another town to make its debut in the Metropolitan, presents a pair of skilled twirlers in Frank Cook. jr, and Percy E. Bradburn. The Meadows tournament will be plaved on lighted courts. E. T. Edwards, chairman at Boule- vard Heights, is building a first class court, which he figures will have few idle moments after the boys have knocked off work for the day. THE LISTENING POST in Tennisdom HIS SKILL SUPERB AGAINST RCHARDS - |“Unbeatable by Pro or Ama- | teur,” Veteran Follower of Game Asserts. BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. HAVE seen Bill Tilden play championship tennis for upwards of a dozen years,” remarked a veteran of the journalistic wars | upon leaving the Forest Hills stadium after Big Bill walloped Vincent Rich- ards in the professional finals, “but I | never saw him play better than he did today. He was, in my opinion, un- | beatable, by pro or amateur.” Dempsey, Jores, Tunney, Cobb, Speak- er, Milburn ard others have retired from the competitive arena, where they were in a way contemporaries of Tilden in the golden 2ge of American sport. Yet Big Bill carries on, not with mere | gestures, but with as magnificent a dis- | play of tennis artistry as we have ever | seen. Tilden is 38. His trick knee was handicapping Him as far back as 1926, v,)':en he lost the American champion- ship. The youngsters of American amateur ranks finally caught up with him last September, but since his conversion to professional ranks he has put on an amazing comeback for a tall, elderly gentleman whose future was supposed to be well behind him. | The Tilden that walloped Richards | with such consummate ease on & quiet | Sunday afternoon in July would be ii to 1 to beat Doeg, Shields or any | other ~ American, and at least even money to “take” Henri Cochet, the one- time Nemesis of Big Bill. Polo Is Spreading. 'HE sensational growth of polo in the Urited States within the past few vears shows no signs of slack- ening ducing a period that has hit other branches of athletic activity. ‘The galloping game is one of the | oldest of known sports, going back to the times when they used a stylus to mark up the scores, but it has caught the popular American fancy only in re- | cent years, beyond some of the more cloistered Easterp confines. The Universit} of Arizona boys went home after their round trip to New York with renewed zeal for pushing polo's development in the Far West among the collegians. Chicago has witnessed its first inter- national play, featuring the Argentines. | The Black Hills Polo Association has just been organized to promote compe- tition in South Dakota and Nebraska, where the Army outposts help to stime ulate interest. Meanwhile, the Eastern sectors are warming up for the high-goal competi- tion that will find nearly all of the top-ranking American horsemen in action, led by the boss mallet wielder of them all, Tommy Hitchcock. Army-Navy Rumors. LD MAN FOOT BALL is still in the bullpen warming up for an early getaway. but there is an occasional , suggestion around Broadway thc > Mid- | summer days that the Army and Navy |are “on the verge” of patchine it up again. The service rivals haven't $oe_ed any- thing at each other, exceot ple: it words, since they joined ha. in cele- brating the Poughkeepsie regatta vic- tory of the sailors. It is understood the Navy wants to move one of its outstanding foot ball games to New York this year, perhaps the contest with Southern Methodist, now booked for Baltimore November 21, the week before the Army plays Notre Dame in the Big Town. No doubt S. M. U. would be willing, inasmuch as the Texans are looking for “spots.” The only metropolitan ; opposition November 21 is the Ford- ham-Bucknell contest. ENTERS OLYMPIC HOCKEY British India Will Have Team at Los Angeles Next Year. British India will be represented by a fleld hock>y team at the Olympic gaTes at Los Angeles in 1932. Other countries which have indicated intentions of entering teams in this sport are France, Austria and the United States. Try-outs for the American team will be held in the Fall either in New York or Philadelphia, with the winning team likely to be strengthened by additions of other star players. British India won the Olympic championship in this sport at Amsterdam in 1028. BIKE RACES TOMORROW Two bicycle races. a mile sprint and a five-mile handicap, will be staged to- morrow morning on the Polo Grounds course in West Potomac Park by the Century Road Club Association, start- g | ing at 9:30 o'clock. TRUMBUL A 38-year-old athlete who, with legs none too sound, can go through a tournament as he just has gone through one, mixing guile with force, experience with power; making his head do @ lot of the work, but blazing out wi® the old blinding speed when he had to have it—that man is close to a tennis | miracle. ACK KEARNS, the old doc, already | is beginning to try to talk Jack| Sharkey out of his match with Mickey Walker. Kearns first states that he will take every precaution against fouls, knowing that there are | no fouls in New York, but also know- ing that a man who lost the heavy- | weight championship on one of the most foolish fouls of all time is likely to be sensitive on the subject. Next Kearns dwells gruesomely on | the picture of Walker pounding | Sharkey's stomach out through his | backbone. Now, nobody cares a whole | | stomach, and it is irritating to have some one contin- ually gloating over such a sibility. Aside frém inti- mating that Shar- key is a confirmed foul fighter and that he also is saffron, Kearns has scarcely said a word, but he will. One thing, & clean shot on the jaw. 3 Just why Sharkey made this match is a little hard to see. He will get some money out of it, but he is taking a chance of missing another shot at a fortune. If he beats Walker, what of it? It Walker beats him, he is through. The match should draw, even if it didn't have every one, in- cluding Commissioner Farley, bally- hooing it. (Copyright. 1931, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, ‘Loey Leading bikemen from Baltimore are slated to vie with members of the host club for honor: ANOTHER D.C.A.A.U. SANCTIONED Swimm MEET - GLEN ECHO CRYSTAL POOL AT 9 O'CLOCK NEXT MONDAY NIGHT uly 20 EVENTS FOR MEN AND WOMEN AND JUNIORS GOLD Al SILVER:| Eyents BRONZE | 14, 2nd, 3rd MEDALS Winners SILVER CUP To Lady and Gentleman " Winner of the - 240-Yard Relay Race