Evening Star Newspaper, August 18, 1931, Page 29

‘s PORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1931. SPORTS. British Olympic Leader Wants English Athletes to Take Olympics “Seriously” FOR SPORT'S SAKE IDEA 15 RIDICULED Lots of Pride and Interest Shown in Any Noteworthy Feat, Says Bowden. BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. NGLAND, long famous for its foot-racing talent, is concerned over the nation’s lack of “m: sive men who throw things about.” The reference, of course, is to the so-called “fleld events,” the mastery of | which has been largely confined to the American, Scandinavian and German talent. “In less than & year from now our team of athletes will be leaving for | Los Angeles to uphold the prestige of Great Britain in the Olympic Games,” writes Harold Bowden, chairman of the British Olympic Councll, in a letter to the London Times. “The performances of the com- etitors in these games will be watched Ev the whole world. . At tbe last Olympic games in Amsterdam, Great Britain scored only three firsts in the 94 men’s events. Placed in order, ac- cording to the total number of athletes or teams who reached the first six laces, the leading countries ranked as follows : “United States 70, Gerrany 49, Fin- Jand and France 34 each, Italy Sweden 33 each, Great Britzin 24, Hol- land and Canada 17 each, Switzer- land 16. O we not still secretly delude our- selves that, though other nations may beat us, it is because they take sport too seriously, whereas we have atfained just that happy mean of playing for the game's sake without striving by excessive assiduity to produce supermen? “I seem to detect something of this note running through the reports of the A. A. A. championship meeting, in which the writers justifiably express pride in the achievements of men like Burghley, Page, Rampling and others, but accept almost unprotestingly our ecmylete failure to jump or throw t.hlnunhllhoru{nnthzmennll other countries can. “It i implied that there is something | ‘un-Epglish’ about these pursuits. If the discus is un-English it is equally un- | Hungarian and un-Austrian. The arms that can throw a cricket ball or toss flu caber should be equally capable of sutting the weight or throwing the ham- mer, if properly trained. Given thz right encouragement and the right or- ganization, we should be as competent te produce champions in these islands | s are the people of Germany or France or Pinland. lncldenuuy our potential cham- pions must not be spoiled by adulation that goes to the head like wine. “I am not suggesting that between pow and a year hence we can breed mew champlons at new events, but 1 do vmt that cvernmnl possible nmuld done by men of influence—an Mllly by those 'ho write for the prfll —to form a new public opinion about international games, both for next year and the future.” N Irishman won the last Olmv(c hammer throw championship, but otherwise the The Yankees, by contrast with tn(- Jand, suffered in 1928 from a lack of championship running talent. Ameri- | can entries won the shotput, broad jump, high jump. pole vault snd dis- | throw, but captured only one fiat Ehce, $bo 400 Toctirs. As & yewtli, our coaches since have been concentrating on the development of runners like Wy- koff, Simpson, Toppino, Vic Williams, Eastman and others for the campuign to retrieve lost foot-racing laurels in the 1932 Olympics. NET LOOP TOURNEY WILL OPEN SUNDAY Yeomans, Capital City Champ, Not to Defend, but Deck, Seidel Aim to Repeat in Doub es. in the annual Capital City Ten- gue tournament, sanctioned by 'fin Middle Atlantic States Association. will begin Sunday momning_on the Friends' School courts. 3001 Wisconsin avenue be plaved on public parks courts. Entry 15 open to any plaver who has performed in one match in the league this season. Entries will close Friday evening at 6 oclock with P. A. (Pat) Deck. 160 M street northeast. or any member of the committee at the Tennis Shop. There will be a fee of $2 for each plaver in the singles and $1.25 for each player in the doubles. Prizes will be awarded the winners in each event Besides Deck, who will be referee, members of the committee are Addison W. Grant. Hy Ritzenberg and Kurt Krause Eddie Yeomans, singles winner last year, will not defend his title. but Deck and Seide!, doubles victors in 1930, again will be on the job Pavorites in the singles include Prank Shore. Alan Staubly. Morris O'Neill, Preddie Sendel, Bob Elliott. Anthony La- tona. Gene Herman. Bill Seidel, Gilbert Hunt, Barney Welsh and Herb Shepard. In the doubles teams expected to make and Seidel hustle to win sgain are Sendel and Staubly. Shore and Latona. Gould and Ritsenberg and others SMITH, JACOB TAKE HONORS ON COURTS Become Champions of P]Aygmnndl of Washington in Senior, Junior Classes. Washington’s new playground seniot end junior singles tennis champions lr! Clyde Smith of ale and n (Happy) Jacob of Montrose 'rhey landed the titles yesterday on the Chevy Chase courts’ when Smith de- | jeated Bob Smith (they're not related) | of Happy Hollow, 8—2, 57, 10—8, and | Jacob handily disposed’ of Lavelle Dean ©f Virginia avenue, 6—1, 6—2 and | British Isles offered | After Sunday all matches will | They also will be accepted | BY WALTER 2. McCALLUM. §’ ! ND I thought I hit one.” Parker Nolan, the Con-, gressiona) sefge gun, who hits the ball as far as any | away from his bal. In bunker at the eighta hole at Congres- yards in front of his own lengthy poke. Far behind him—3)0 yards back of| bringing his driver down efter waliop- ing that pill a mighty smuck. Nolan stepped back from his ball, re- | addressed it and put his short pitch | shot on the green The fellow mmna him was Mike Palm. former town University line coach, Al Palm Surely Poked That Ball When He Hit One Past Nolan, “Seige-Gun” of Capital Links } | bes el L | the golfing gents who occesionally get | passador Debuchi of Japan hold of & golf ball and cause it t0 g0 | who has held down the pro berth at from here to there with the utmost of | Buena Vista for several Summers many a hooked third shot. But that lengthy tenth also vields its terrors to three well hit shots. Archie Clark had an eagle on it not so many days ago. and yesterday we saw Dick Cook, the young Annapolis Roads professional nd a brassie shot into the green amateur around Washington, Meppzd\wmcn ended his ball not more than front of the!8 feet from the pin. eH did not hole but it proves that the green the putt, in three can be reached comfortably sional as he saw one hop to a stop 5 strokes. Inasmuch as Congressional probably will be in a position to bid for one of the major golf championships within him and more—stocd a burly figure up | five years, it will be interesting to note | there on the elevated eighth tee, just|how those two new holes—the tenth and eleventh—will play. OHN KERSHAW, young golf pro- fessional at Buena Vista Springs Pa., who lives in Washington di ing the Winter, is richer today by & Japanese cigaret case brcause of the generosity and sportsmanship_of Am- Kershaw is dispatch and the lengthiest of carry |credited with having taught the Am- {2nd run. Now Nolan had wall<ped bis pill. The sighth hole at Congressional measures 462 yards from tee tc green. It is a& par 5 affair, but a fair.y easy 5. How- ever, when a man pole: a golf ball so far on & par 5 hole tha! h: can reach | tae green with a mashic riblick pitch of nct more than 140 yards, and then finds enother ball hit fron: the tee roll- ‘ng past his feet as he st'ps up to his second shot, he knows the other gent has done considerable smacting himself. | % olan has not earned his sobriquet cf | “selge Gun” without merit. He has done | hings by way of long hitting that seem | |urbelievable even in thecse lays of de- creased distance with a pll that does not go as far as the old ball. And when he found Mike Palm’s ball 151ling past his own 320-yard shot he had reason to | be amazed. But Mike, after « sologizing for driving into him, expla‘neo with the oli bromide, “I didn't think could Phit 1t so far. | Nolan ras reason to thirk when he really bends his driver at the ball it his gone places few playess can reach. The other day he got hol¢ of one off the seventh tee at Congressional which wound up a paced-off disiance of 340 yerds from the tee. Tru:, the vind wis behind bim and the ground -ras fairly hard, but a wallop «f 340 yaris, even though it is a little off the line, is smacking the golf bali in any man's gu: Yesterday we saw him carry by 20 yards the bunker at the left of the Jllmy at the fourth hole at Congres- | sloral, and If you think tkat isn't a |earry try it yourself some day. Yes, | Nolan had reason to be a little startled | when Palm's wallop traveled past his \own mighty shoot. UT at Congressional they are get- ting ready to open up the two new holes built last year by resodding the new tenth green. The twc new holes, ‘wmch Wil Be the tenth and eleventh will not be ready for use during the Mary- [hnfl open championship, schedulad for decision September 11. The course will | ‘ph as it has played for several years past, with that lengthy par 6 tenth hole stretching its 620-yard distance far out | toward the rock quarry 'Nch ntchrs | bassador the fine points of golf. The other day, when Maj. Y. Hirota of the Japanese embassy was the week end guest at Buena Vista of the Am- | bassador, the latter arranged a game | b-tween 'Hirota and Kershaw, the prize to be a richly engraved cigaret case They played and after a closely con- tested game the young professional won. Women golfers who plan to compete omorrow in the tourney for the E. S. | Kennedy Trophy at the Kenwood Golf and Country Club, are asked to report |at the first tee by 8:30 o'clock. Mrs Prank R. Keefer, president of the Wom- en’s District Golf Association, under whose auspices the tourney will be run off, explains that this early start will enable the competitors to escape much | of the heat of midday and early after- | donor of the Kenncdy Trophy Women with handicaps be permitted to play up_to The is the noon. 24 will | president of the club, and the tourney is the first women's event to be held at Kenwood by the Women's District As- sociation. ASHINGTON advertising men are preparing for an invasion of Balti- more. Most of the golfers among thevmembers of the Washington Ad- vertising Club are making plans for an early start for Baltimore Thursday morning. wher- they will play golf at the Rodgers Forge Club as the guests of the Baltimore Advertising Club and engage their fellow golfers from Balti- 10re in a team match. They will be tk» gussts of the Baltimoreans &t din- ne. following the match. Tcrmy Bones of Columbia, one of Washington's three entrants in the na- tional amateur championship, plans to drive 4o Chicago next week in his new automcdile in time to get in several practics rounds over the Beverly Coun- try Club course, where the champion- | ship will start’ August 31. John C.| Shorey, another Washington qualifier, will go by train, and Roland R. Mac- Kenzie will go to Chicago from the Pacific Coast by train. Roland is liv- |ing in Los Angcles, where he is em- ployed by one of the large film con- cerps. INMUNY NET PLAY Al Washmgton Players Ar Among Those to Survive in Title Tourney. NO UPSETS OCCUR NAVY PLEBES TOILING | 2abilei Sasiaing Watctalimeen 1o New Annapolis Squad. | ANNAPOLIS, Md., August 18.—While the varsity squad will not report for practice until September 9, the Naval| Academy fourth class prospective grid- | @ men have turned out to undergo a light | practice under Head Coach John N.| | Wilson, also mentor of the Navy basket | ball team. | The plebe squad has a month and a half practice in store to be in readi- < ness for their first tilt on October 3 By (he Associated Press ETROIT, August 18 of the second day’s play in the Public Parks tournament today eight seeded players in the me) still in the winning brackets them having advanced to round. Three seeded women players had reached the third round, end one cha'ked up & first round victory Wester- day. Numerous byes the women's singlcs reduced the first round to.small proportions, end several second round games were out of the way. A number of first round games remained to be played today, howevcr ¢ George Jennings of Chicago, defend- g his title, reached the third round yesterday without losing a game fim defeating Rex B, Norris of ‘und then taking the second round h | default from Nate @anger of Cleveland Reaching the third round with him were George O'Connell, Chicago, sceded No 3; C'ay Mahoney, Los Angeles, seeded No. 6, and three unseeded players. Pred Andrews, Birmingham, Ala. Edward Nowack, Ann Arbor, Mich., and Hobart ‘Wrabbel, Detroit Women players who reached third round were Mrs. Virginia Duel St. Louis, defending ch mpicn: Hele Germain, New York, seeded No 4 Helen Schuman, Louisville, seeded No 6. #nd the following unseeded players Ancre Russell, Cleveland: Charlotte MecQuiaton. Dallas; Lydia Kayser, Buf- falo. Hel'n Swistowski, Pontiac; Goer- aldine Leitner, Toledo, and Marion Craig, Cleveland Mary Zga McHale other seeff’d woman pl yesterdasl advanced round All four Washington, D. C., players were in the second round Dooly Mitchell 4nd Bud Markey advanced as the result of victories. while Mrs. Ruth Martinez .qnd Frances Walker drew und all singles three of the third the Dallas, the only er to compete to the second " Both Mitchell and Markey were essy winaers. The former defeated Ralph Burkheiser of Detroit, 62, 6—2, 6—4 and the latter scored over @ Burton Craig of New Otl-ans, 6—0, 6—3, 8. Mitchell's fpore potent service and fore- hand told Markey outgéneraled his opp(nent. Ms. M to sve thel iner and Miss Walker were first action today, the for- mer aginst Mrs Jopn Sample of Mismi, Fla. and the lafter against Rita M. Cole of Dearborr, Mich TO HOLD TENNIS ‘EVENT Washington Tennis Association will |kold its first annual tournament this month l*)m August 24 to 29. The af- fair will be open t» other cities. En- itries froh Philadelphia, Baltimore and {New Yok are expected. Many of the | participanis competing wt the colored ‘mnnul tournament at Tuskegee, Ala will stop over for this event. For detalls concerning the tournameat call the Tuclfth Street |¥. M. C. A, North 1004. TROUSERS /" i To Match Your Odd Coats 7&&!" local | with Kiskiminetas School. This, usuai- ly their hardest game of the schedule. Beginning will place them et a handicap, espe- cially in view of the fact that the re- cruits present one of the lightest groups tennis | to report in years Very seen at present, most of light Practice will be held unti! their opening date. little of promising material is the boys being continuously HARNESS STARS IN MEET. AURORA, Il August 18 (#).—Calu- met Butler, Willlam Wright's 3-vear-old trotter, winner of the 000 Hamble- onian Stakes at Goshen. N. Y., last week. headed & star band of harness horses in the opening today of a four- and circuit meeting at Exposition THE BEST POLICY always in TOP because its QUAL- ITY VERY BEST and FLAVOR de- letous on RED is the Prepare tempting foods with RED TOP! N S At All Dealers! N R dyarers (; ¥ ] Ty 77 BRITISH NET STARS FACE ROUGH GOING Perry and Hughes Must Meet Ranking Yanks at Newport. D. C. Players Beaten. By the Associated Press EWPORT. R. I, British Davis Cup entries in the Newport Casino tennis tourney today faced the stiffest kind of competition for a quarter-finals place Frederick J. Perry's advance in the draw brought him up to a third-round clash with the experienced Wilmer Alli- son, former internationalist. G. Pat- rick Hughes, the other Briton, was due to mark time until Johnny Van Ryn and Junior Coen settled their second- round match Champion Johnny Doeg, who squeezed into the third round yesterday by the scantiest of margins, was also due for a late match today. He will meet the winner of the Eddie Feibleman-Eddie Burns second-rounder. Sidney Wood, American Davis Cup player, and Greg- ory Mangin experienced Newark rac- queter, werd down to clash for a quar- ter finals berth. The path of another internationalist, Francis X. Shields of New York, blocked by Bruce Barnes, youth Six of the seeded list of eight, topped by Doeg and Shields, gained the third round yesterday. Johnny Davis Cup doubles player, but_one match defeating Keith Werner of Los Angeles Orleans gained a second-round bracket on a default. Ellsworth Vines, California sensation | f the Eastern court season and seeded | August 18 able Texas of The | into the fourth round was| Van Ry, | engaged in | Clifford Sutter of New | fourth, was due to face a sturdy oppo- | nent Clayton Burwell of Charlotte, N . but the latter has been conceded hul llt.tl! chlnceho! h.ll.ln' lhe Welt | Sostern teune thmplnmh!v Eddle Yeomans and Jock McLean, Washington entrant, are out of the pic- ture. Yeomans fell before George Lott in | a 6—4, 6—2 match, in which the Dis- | trict boy fought pluckily, and McLean { after surprising by defeating Willlam Caswell, Dallas, Tex, 6—1, 7—5, went down before the smooth-stroking Bryan | Grant of Atlanta in the second round The scores were 6—2, 6—1 LOTT AND NUTHALL AGAIN COVET TITLE Pair in Auempt to Begnm National Mixed Doubles Championship They Won in 1929. . By the Associated Press BROOKLINE, Mass. August 18— George M. Lott and Betty Nuthall, the 1929 national mixed doubles champions, will attempt to regain their title in the 1931 tournament at the Longwood Cricket Club next week. Wilfred P. Shepard-Barron, manager of the British Wightman Cup team, announced today this partnership and the partnerships of the other British Wightman Cup players as follows Mrs. Dorothy P. Shepard-Barron and George P. Hughes of Great Britain: Miss Phyllis Mudford and Fred J Perry, English internationalists; Mrs. Fearnsley Whittingstall, the former Efleen Bennett, and Sidney B. Wood, jr. Arerican Davis Cup player, and Miss Dorothy Round and Lester Stoef- 'fen, a Los Angeles player making his | first appearance in the East. U. S GIRL DEFEATED. WIESBADEN, Germany, August 18 (#). —Helene Mayer of Germany, Olympic | | | | | | women's_fencing_champion, easily de- | feated Marion Lloyd, American title | Miss Nuthall's next test presented itself | holder, 10 to 4, in & special match here. LONE CHOICE BOWS INWOMEN'S TENNIS Baroness Levi Is Eliminated. Other Leading Players | Score Easily. | By the Assoclated Pre: FOREST HILLS, N. Y., August 18— The women's national tennis champion- | ships moved into the second round to- day, with 15 of the 16 seeded players still in the running. ‘The only seeded star eliminatedsin the first round yesterday was the Baroness Glacomo Levi of Rome and New York, szeded eighth in the for-!| eign list. fortune of catching Virginia Hilleary just when the Pbiladelphia girl and N 4 in the national ranking reached Iop‘ form. The result was a 6—3, 6—4 vic- tory for Miss Hilleary. L All the other favorites, including Mrs. Helen Wills Moody of San Francisco. Helen Jacobs of Berkley, Calif, and | Betty Nuthall and Phyllis Mudford of | The baroness had the mis- | D) “Mess” Made by Is Quickly Shown as Needless BY J, P. ALLEN. EW YORK. August 18.—Two things stand forth as the open- | ing round of the women's na- | tionel champianship takes its 1pllce on the record. First, there is the sad, sad mistake of heralding unwl.scly | a young player of mediocrity, and, sec- | ond, the blunder, made before in lawn tennis history, of robhing a player of individuality. Take the showing of Alice Marble against Mary Greef as a fair sample of what she may be expected to do and it leaves the tourngment officials not a leg to stand on 'y an excuse for reopening the draw. Granted that Miss Greef, ranked nationally‘No. 9, should v all odds cefeat the young girl from If, however, oclaimed her to | 'd indicate it. California. is what Californians be then the score sh In the past, to the wrjger’s knowledge, ' players have come f from Cali- fornia possessed of far greater possi- ! | bilities than this girl, who'is -eunhy\ Miss Marble | Tennis Redraw | the victim of too much trumpeting. |Thm is unceniably a certain | attacking game at which Miss M displays more than the usual unount | of atflity. Like the majority of the | players from the Pacific Coast, she ls :!ptctlru]lr overhead. She has no de- fensive game to speak of and is apt to be uncertain on her ground strokes | She is the 18-year-old girl whom Mist | Greef overwhelms, 6—2, 6—2, and whc | was responsible for the redraw—a sorry patch aside of the original. It is not to be wondered at that Mrs. Arthur M. Duncan, who was displaced by Misé Marble, registered a protest to Franklin Devitt, referee of the tourna- ment, in the hearing of the writer. She has real cause for disgust at lawn ten- nis officialdom. Especially is her cause just as Mrs. Duncan made a proper entry, while Miss Marble and the Cali- (ornl assoclation failed in this respect. a little inside story of this bnmder Learning of the intense feel- ing thet Miss Marble's failure to make the tournament list would bring about, \ officials were ready to substitute her for Mrs. Philip B. Hawk, as that woman was \ ready to make a sacrifice of herself. The luee 3""3‘..“ xvtmm-. stepped_forcibly to the fore nd came through without trouble. | New York. Miss Mudford wes to play | !mlnl in no small voice that she would rs. Moody swept through Edith | Sigourney of Boston without the loss of | & game; Miss Jacobs dropped four, two | in each set, in beating Mae Ceurvorst of | Wichita, Kans. i Miss Nuthall, who won the title last| year when Mrs. Moody elected to re- | main in California, Defeated Mrs. Ber- | nard F. Stenz of Garden City, N. Y., 6—2, 6—1, and Miss Mudford elimi- nated Mrs. Anna Fuller Hubbard of | Lancaster, Mass., 6—3, 6—0. | Mrs. Moody was matched in the sec- nd round today with Mary Greef of | ansas City, No. 9 in the national | ranking list = Miss Jacobs drew Vir- | inia Rice of Boston as her opponent. | "in the person of Clara Greenspan of | Wheeler, Santa Monca. Cecelia Riegel of Philadelphia. Other second-round pairings cluded: S oan k land, Rub; Bishop, Los Amelgw i Dorothy Weisel, cnw‘ vs. Pen- elope Anderson, Richmond, Dorothy Round, Eglapd, vs Gntm Mrs. L. A Harper, (’lfl!nd Calif,, vs. Nol'ml Taubele, Forest Hills. vs. B! Mrs. John Van Ryn, P adel hia, Sarah Palfrey, SI ycn. u p Mianne Palfrey! Sia: an! vs. Mrs. D. C. Shephesd-Barron. Eleanor Cottman, a-mmore. vs. Mrs,, Efleen Bennett Whit 1L i m‘ Go the lawn tennis officials made a rehssh. Mrs. Duncan and some of her | followers held that she was badly treated |and Miss Marble moves like a lamb to [ the slaughter. It's one of the worst ‘mtmml tournament messes in mny years, A-lhormd Scrwea A. C. & Northeast Speedomeger Repairs MILLER-DUDLEY CO. 1716 14th St. NW. North 1583- that the same qualities which have made Conoco Germ-Processed Motor Oil outstanding in/ the field of motor lubricants, are increasingly important in the air, where the oil must not fail. 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