Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1931, Page 51

e — Part 5—4 Pages “ e SPORTS SECTION The Sunday Stae WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1931 Tennis and Golf Griffmen Slide Into Third Place as They Lose a 13-Inning Battle to Tigers - 2y o W Creavy Fine Relief Hurling Against Sorrell. BY DENMAN THOMPSON, " Bports Editor, The Star. NOUGH players to constitute two teams—18 to be-exact— | were called on by Manager | Johnson yesterday in an ef- | fort to bag the odd game of the | series with the Tigers and keep | pace with New York in the battle | for second place, but with dark-| fJudge " | -Harris 1 Jones Totals *Ran for Alexander | tBatted for Bluege 3 armnooma g, [ oosccoseSoostuarud ¥ in_thirteenth, n seventh. iBatted fow Hayes in ninth. fBatted {Ran for Bolton in ninth, for Brown in ninil “Batted for Hadley in thirteenth. ness settling over the stadium |Wercissto after nearly three hours of en-| deavor the Nationals found them- | Runs_batt | ander, Mver. —Stone. selves, on the short end of a 2-to- | PIo" 8, 13-inning struggle. 5 As a result the runner-up berth they |27 had occupled since 'way last May was | ;. in n_of the Yankees, who, by walloping the Browns, now boast a | full game on the niche. | A trio of the extra help—Bolton, | West_and Judge—figured in the rally by which the Griffmen averted defeat | in regulation time, but another, Bill russ, messed up an easy chance or And; Which enabled the Bengals their decisive marker. Bump Hadley, who fell heir to Lloyd | Brown's chucking chores following the score-tieing fiare-up in the ninth, had | Just set thirteen! to register i down Johnson at the start of the th to record his sixth strikeout | in four frames when he walked Gehrin- :;r.s;ho sprinted to third on a single ne. Hadley Does His Part. ‘was yet to be reckoned with. Al there were two out, he ordered Rogell | to bunt toward third. He missed with | his first attempt, then connected for | a little dribbler that any third-baseman i except a nervous youngster pllym?I his | first big league game could have han- ' dled easily. The taj to the front in the fourth. Gehringer's | %5} lout to left center for three was & lusty c! bases, which scored Johnson, who had walked, and Charley counted on a ?lnfle by Alexander. The latter reached | Coon hird on Walker's two-ply blow, but was doubled up at the plate when Gill E)! off & perfect' peg_to Spencer of ichardson’s fly after Rogell had been Purposely passed to fill the bases. The Tigers threatened in the eighth, when they loaded the bases with two gone on singles by Hayworth and Stone, w & pass to Gehringer sandwiched between, .only to have Alexander leave his mates stranded. Tie It Up in the Ninth. The Nationals made a gesture in the sixth, when Manush and Cronin grouped singles, and again in the eighth, when Gill Jooped a Texas leaguer to center and reached third on Cronin's rap, but it was not until the ninth that they were able again to penetrate Sorrell's armor. Then they proceeded to knot the count, helped by | a peir of pinch hitters. The first of these, Bolton, started off with a single to left, and West, running | for him, moved up a notch on Spencer’s | sacrifice. Batting for Brown, Judge | drew a free ticket, and the tieing tally | materialized when Myer came through | with a single to center. The latter was | forced by Rice and Manush was de- | liberately franked to crowd the cor- nets. This put the issue squarely up to Gill, but the newcomer was not equal| to the occasion and succumbed on | strikes. The hopes of the Tigers in the tenth, when Hadley came to the hill to suc- ceed Brown, and passed both Sorrell and Gehringer were snuffed out when | Hayworth, Johnson and Stone proved | strike-out victims. | Again the eleventh, when Spencer ! and Rice singled and Manush was pur- | rosely passed to load the bases with | {wo down, Gill had {he chance to salt | the game away, but failed with an eas; infiel4 bounder, 0 The Nationals made a bid to once| more haul the game out of the fire after the Tigers had scored in the thir- | teenth, * when Spencer singled and| reachied second on Pinch Hitter Harris'| death, but Jones, who ran for him, was | stranded when Myer lofted and Rlce\ grounded out. Q & > g 4SRRI S IR~ SR P B St @ BR2ERABoRend T>M (oS amoembosoneio R PRETPRRENRSS . pisyxss 5280285, BoatiBo SR 8232 aSeEaBE 5 oo NI ounBons g8 o iaiisiot SO AN PPN IDSDORDND “283BL PRS- cvatman & 3 i 0 - R 25 2a SR Q. H a 3 S ] 52 sausEanE sHazeg=d S 85 B§ose == bt aRan for Spencer in tHirteenth. 000200 1-3 5983088820882 n—Brown, Gehringer, Alex- Two-base hits—Rice, G. Wi 00000 ncer. _Double_plays— Three-oase hit—Gehringer. —Sipe; g8; 0 8 Losing pitcher—Hadley. 'msby, ~ Hil game—3 hour: VANKS WIN EIGHTH -Gl to “Bpencer. ny . 1 in 4 innings ‘Umpires—Messrs, ns. Time of 1t and Owe 1 d 58 minutes. Wonderful Approach Shots . | struck out five. Goslin SUEEESSE BANE Pipgras Allows Only Four Hits | to Two Rivals as Tigers Beaten, 3-0. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, BSeptember 19.— George Pipgras’ shutout pitch- | ing gave the Yankees their | fourth straight victory over the St. Louis Browns today, 5§ to 0, and | v.h;llr elcm}g ]mucuuve‘ v.riun}:‘?a. 2l e] only four and | o ou and Kress com- prised all of the visitors’ attack, each making two hits. Bob , “Browns’ rookie right- hander, was in timely fashion. Ben Chapman, Yank outfielder, ran base total to 61 when he 4 5| conuneascue® el 8 oo well, Chap Runs batted hit—Dicke; inni 1osing pitcher—Cooney. Umpires— | essrs. Guthrie, Campbell and Moriarity. He 5 Qe nour and 45 minutes. ROCHESTER CLINCHES | birdies of his own on the twenly-eighth | | the thirtieth put him 4 up FOURTH FLAG IN ROW, Newark Blows Chance to Tie byt Losing to Baltimore in Next to Last Game. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 19.—The | | Rochester Red Wings, members of the | ' St. Louls Cardinals’ extensive system, | clinched their fourth straight Inter- | national League pennant today, when | their closest rivals, the Newark Bears, | 1 Even if the Wings lose their flnll‘ game tomorrow and Newark is vlcm-‘ rious in its last, Rochester will finish a | full game ahead. 'roglanw succeeded in beating the | champions today, 9 to 5, but Newark | was unable to take advantage of the | opportunity and stay in the race. | Richmond, Baltimore . righthander, let the Bears down with two hits. | Homer Standing By the Associated Press. e il Home runs yesterday: ymons, - | Jetics, 1; Cochrane, Athletics, 1; Fred- erick, Robins, 1; Taylor, Cubs, 1. K The leaders—Gehrig, Yankees, 44; Ruth, Yankees, 43; Averill, Indians, 32; Klein, Phillies, J;" Ott, Glants, 29; Foxx, Athletics, s League totals—American, 554; Na- tional, 482. Total, 1,036. | SUNDA American League | ! YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. | troit, 3: Washington, 2 (13 innings). | Siadeihis, 10-3° Chicago, 3--1 | Boston, 7. Cleveland, 1. 3 ost a 3-to-2 decision to Baltimore. ! out Standings in Major Circuits . SEPTEMDER 20, 1951, ; < id Takes Pro Golf Title : YOUNGSTER BEATS SHUTE BY 2 AND 1 ’ More Deadly Than Foe’s Exceptional Pugting. ROVIDENCE, R. I, Septem-i ber 19 (#).—Tom Creavy, 20- year-old Albany, N. Y., pro- | fessional, today won the | Professional Golfers’ Association 36-hole championship match, de- | feating the seasoned Densmore; Shute of Hudson, Ohio, by 2 and 1 on the difficult: Wannamoisette | course. | This highly exacting competi- | tion, which demands an entire| week of air-tight golf, and its $1,000 first prize went to the Al-| bany youngster because his mar- velous approach shots were more effective than the deadly accurate | putting that Shute employed to defeat the world’s outstanding | champions, Tommy Armour, Brit- iish open winner, and Billy Burke, | holder of the American open title, |on two successive days. | Shute's greenswork against Creavy | was even more spectacular than against | Armour and Burke y and | the day before. Denny, during the 35 | holes, used his putter only 58 times and had 10 one-putt greens. He sank 10 and 15-footers with g ease, and on the twenty-fifth hole he got a birdie | by canning one that was fully 25 feet g’om l:hes hm; m’lms .fih!evement‘ al- oug] uf e appear easy, stunned the gallery and caused Mrs. Shute, who stood in the front row, to scream excitedly and loudly. 15 One-Putt Greens. ‘That sharp-shooting, however, could not be compared with Creavy’s chip and explosion shots. He put them so close to the pin that he had to putt only once on 15 greens and only 54 times during the entire match. Both Creavy and Shute had many lapses getting over the fairways. They trapped many drives on the numerous tricky short holes and sometimes were ragged with their distance irons. Tom carded at 73, three over par, on his morning round, which contained three birdies, and used up 68 strokes on the 17 afternoon holes, cracking par on "'&f.fh morning trip, during which 's p, ] he snared a pair of birdies, gave him a 76, and in the afternoon, when he :ll'mt three more birdies, he required 67 lows. Two down at lunch, Denny gamely set after the approach-shot wizard early in the second round and, by hole- extra-long putts on the nineteenth and twenty-fifth for birdies, cut Creavy's lead in half, Spurt Is Decisive. Creavy met this challenge by snaring | | | | and twenty-ninth, and his par 3 on | on his | valiant foeman. This three-hole sweep | ® | spurred Shute on to greater efforts, and he captured the next hole with a par 4, and when Creavy missed a ort ! putt halved the thirty-second in 5s. He became only 1 down by winning the thirty-third with an 18-footer, which gave him a birdie deuce, and the next with a par 4, when Creavy blew another | short putt after chipping almost dead to the pin. | Then Shute tossed away his last chance to win. He had the honor and hooked his drive into the rough. Then, i gambling with a spoon, he put his sec- | ond shot outside the fairway and it cost | him a stroke to get back on. He ! reached the green in four and took the | usual two putts, dropping the hole to the ‘now cautious Albany boy, who played safe for the par 5 that ended | the match. | MORNING CARDS. Creavy— 3712 | out 5—38 | In 6—28 76 e - 3 Shu out . | o 3 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. |OC WHITE once in a great while loses a game to Washington. The Nationals beat Chicago's stellar southpaw yesterday, 7 to 3. Bob Groom hurled well for Wash- ington. Clyde Milan, National out- fielder, slammed three doubles and a single in four tries. Magner and Parker, the latter formerly of Eastern High, are ex- pected to make a stern bid for posts on: Georgetown University's varsity grid eleven. Birck and Battiste, backs, are being counted upon heavily in foot ball by Gallaudet. National League YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. %’:mnm. 2-3. Pittsburgh, 7; Bosten, 0. uopsausem TTPUSIAIND 2amuaazag RIOX_MIN £ HH EHESH i Fhiladeiphia TIIT/1814717 1615 103431705 | St_Louis - 1214111121130 | New York __./10i--1101 7114/16/16/15 88157 .607 New York ....110/—) AI10112/16/14115!86/62..51 | Washington —TT4/141181141111 871581600 Chicago oo .1 8/10/—i 7112114/14114'80/69..37 | Cleveland —I 91 9116/15( Brooklyn. B[ 9114'—I1111113(10176/72..513 | Detrott__ (=TT Pittebureh . ../10/10] 8I111—111 8161741751487 2/ 591871404 Boston 1 0] 6/ 8111/11/~—I10] 8163186423 ma 591881401 Philadeiobis . 4] 81 8 911110/ 185901379 Cincinnati 171 8112/ 61111 Games lost. 1681721751861 GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. S Bl GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. & | them away . |8 man . accident” and closed mouths leah over ralls to iR, BN s L <3 L] Three fl“ %.DOEV-ER < Whitn A RoAR A BURSTING SHOWER. OF WATER.,AND MIss PHILADELPHIA ‘LEAPED INTO THE AIR ,TURNED A SOMERSAULT AND WENT DOWA KEEL UF/ o 0N THE POTOMAL, ABOARD THE CUTMER BOUTWELL Sadness Mixed With Thrills | .Tragedy Puts Damper on Great Speedboat Regatta. BY TOM DOERER. OR thrill, color and expectancy | I'm doffing my admiral’s cap to speedboats fleeing down on the Potomac River. There was everything there yester- day as the speedsters contested for the President’s Cup on the Eastern Branch. Speed, excitement, Navy efficiency balked by civilian enthusiasm, tragedy’s marring ~ hand water festival where thousan sipping ginger Winning what, why and where . . . land admirals with badges and yachting caps . . . smart dresses and old blue jerseys . . . marine bunting, spangling riggings . . . yawping radio tunes, with crooning tenors’ volces getting an awful beating as they competed with blowing whistles, ns, toots and roaring motors. And what peculiar seacraft! Most of it more varied in shapes than the line on parade in a boardwalk beauty contest. Boats that are three-quarters nozzle, and stick all of it sassily out of the water as they leap and fly through wakes of mountainous spray to add a few more locks of gray to the brow of | harrassed Pop Time. | While dozens of | gray Coast Guard | cutters and their | boats loll spurt through the | water delivering | messages, trying to | be helpful and| trying to maintain their importance | in a bedlam of noise, craft and curiosity. | Sailors wigwag- | ging messages to one another. . . Bob- | bing buoys in varied colors . . . Virginia’s shores fringed with hundreds who never miss water fete . . . Airpla g overhead, darting down like hawks be- hind a fringe of trees bordering Bolling Field . . . Strange craft wandering out A DRVERYS GARB | into the racing course and frantic ef- forts on the part of the officials to warn . . Secretary of the Navy's boat without him ncsing down stream after an accident . . . ter- rible lull following the first tragedy to mar the fight for the President's Cup . . . The Navy's valiant efforts to save . . Shouts of “put out to that for the silent and crazily cocked Ml&l’ Philadelphia speedboat as it bobs up and down with its hull up . . . A drowning while hundreds watch and wonder . . . Hundreds of grim faces vacently watch a sad task . . . An- other lap to go . . . Diving for a lost | man and flying boats roaring past the rescuers by inches . . Drama . . . But the show What price thrills? . . | must go on. e How those boats cut the water. For | been had fate withheld its hand. | been one of those fellows who thought and scurrying craft heading |, with it and down they came racing to | | the starting buoy like a sleeping hound | dog stung by a bumblebee. On their sides at the turns until there | was nothing but mist and spray, boats roared and leaped and then straight- | ened out like a thoroughbred in the stretch. Past the judges’ boat and the hundreds of craft 3 pa odd-shapsd boats with grim lpoking men leaning for- ward to balonce them. And down the lane comes the winner, roaring and spitting castor | ~ oil into the air as |, it bounces with the swells, tilts ir. the air and comes smacking down up the water with | hurried flashes. What a thriler this event would bllve 've this motor boat stuff was handpicked for the babies with a lot of shinplasters. A sort of class sport where a bird with a derby hat and no shoe shine was out of place. No more, gentlemen; it's a_sport with |a punch played by men with as much courage as I have seen on any sports fleld. take a long chance. And for tense situations it can't be whipped. Foot Ball Games South. University of Virginia, 18; Roanoke, 0. Davidson, 13; Elon, 2. University of South, 18; Alabama 0. 'ro‘:;chen o . M. ; Hampden-Sydney, 0. William ‘and u-rg.da; Langley Field, Quantico Marines, 32; Newport News Apprentice School, 0. : University of Mississippi, 13; Western Kentucky Teachers, 6. - Mercer, 20; Erskine, 6. ch-tmnoogu, 19; Murfreesboro, 0. Howard, 72; Marion, 0. Carson-Newman, 44: Biltmore, 0. Atlantic U, 6; U. S. 5. Northampton, Appalachian State Teachers, 20; ‘ampbell College, 6. East. Connecticut Aggies, 6; Arnold, 6. Davis-Elkins, l£ St. Vincent, 0. est. Stanford, 46; West Coast Army, 0. South Dakota U., 21; Yankton, 6. Adrian, 18; Manchest’r, 14. o SCOTS DEFEAT ENGLISH. GLASGOW, Scotland, September 19 (m.—e:nmfid defeated’ Treland between < ey Stake Wins Include F uturity | | WHEN TRAGEDY STALKED THE POTOMA! —BY TOM BOERER. 3 to 1|dent. series L4 REPAIRING AN ENGINE AT FULL . SPEED ~JUST @ > P AN ADDED THRILL 'J,/ o \TTLING FOR POSITION AT THE TURN- THE ACME OF SPORTS THRILLS = LET TGO, AND MAY THE BEST MAN LOOK OUT FOR WASHES {Gup Race Thrillgilimaxed - | By Death of Pilot Freitag {Continued From Pirst Page.) s and was rescued by a Coast Guard patrol boat, suffering from severe shock. He sald he never saw Freitag after their boat, the Miss Philadelphia, entered by John Shibe, owner of the Philadelphia Athletics, struck the wash of another racer and catapulated into the air. Dozen Boats to Rescue. A dozen rescue boats immediately put out toward the overturned Miss Philadelphia, crossing and recrossing the churning paths of the remaining racers, which continued their perilous course through the rescue fleet at speeds of more than 50 miles per hour. While silent crowds watched for nearly an hour, the combined rescue forces of the Codst Guard, Red Cross, Navy and District harbor police re- sorted to every known method to locate Freitag's body. Life savers in bathing suits dived repeatedly, police boats dragged with grappling irons, the navy yard sent a diving crew. Finally, 50 minutes after the accident, a grappling hook caught in Preitag’s clothing and he was dragged to the surface and taken in a speed boat to the Navy Yard. Here examina- tion show:d he had died instantly. His skull was fractured and his shoulder | dislocated, probably by the gunwale of | the boat as it turned over on him. There | was ‘no water in his lungs, indicating | that he had not drawn a single breath | after the boat leaped clear of the | churning water. So great was the force of the impact that Freitag's life jacket was torn off his body in three pleces and most of his coveralls were torn away. Accident After Wide Turn. ‘The accident occurred in the second lap of the race as Miss Philadelphia rounded the northern end of the course below the Navy Yard and was coming into the straightaway for the judges’ boat after a wide turn. Observers near- est the scene said the speeding racer, timed at 47 miles per hour on the first lap, struck the wake of the Louisa, en- tered by John Wannamaker, jr., of New York, leaped clear of the water, rolled | over in the air and landed upside down, ‘Those fellows down on that water | stern first. ‘Wagner was hurled clear, but Preitag disappeared under the boat and was not seen by any of the witnesses until his lifeless body was raised nearly an r later. hn\‘)‘vngner's comment to his rescuers was: .“Just the luck of the e. | was stunned for a moment by the force the impact. I didn't see anything :g P‘r:mz.p-W= just flopped over; that's Freitag, about 51 years old, was head of the F{'enu Boat & Motor Co., Phil- adelphia, and lived at Westville, N. J. Wagner was employed in his plant and both were engaged to pilot Shibe’s boat Tace. m?‘:’:‘t:\s‘g hody was taken from the Navy Yard to the funeral parlors of William H. Sardo, 412 H street north- east, where services will be held today, after wrfiioh the body will be sent to Philadelphia for burial. Narrow Escape Recently. and Wagner, it was recalled, esc':;:tl. rom a Simiiar fate during trials a few days ago on the Delaware ‘l}xm near Philadelphia. At that time “bus- tles” were constructed on the sides of the boat to give it greater stability in an effort to prevent just the sort of accident which killed Freitag yesterday. leu?nt.hu year drove Miss Phila- delphia tauk Point, N. Y., and Red Bank, N. J. He was widely known among followers of motor boat racing as a heady an skilliful pilot. - John Shibe, witnessing the c from a stand at the Anacostia Naval Air Station, was picked up in a 8] boat and taken to the scene of the crash a few minutes after the acci- mflm'mmch:cam Philadel- and WWM over the Gold Cup races at Mon- | J d | Secretary of the Navy Cup, the river bottom, officials immediately shrill whine of darting outboard racers warming up for the next event. Miss Philadelphia, half sunk and with keel up, was towed to the Navy Yard, where her side was crushed as a heavy crane lifted her clear of the water. Fl Largarto, which flashed to victory Priday when Hotsy Totsy stove in her side and lost the lead, took the lead at the start yesterday and never lost it. Seven Cross Starting Line. Seven boats crossed the starting line for the second heat of the President’s Cup race yesterday afternoon. One of them, Miss Columbia, Red Bank, N. J, was a newcomer, entering in place of the Arctic Tern II of Phila- delphia, withdrawn after finishing last in the first heat Friday. Only four of the seven were able to finish without accident. Hotsy Totsy made it a real race for two laps and then dropped out with motor trouble. She returned on the fourth lap, with a mechanic struggling with the engine, , only to drop out once more and then to respond to a flag from the judge’s boat to attempt gne more lap so as to was run. Bill Horne’s Delphine IV, from Hampton, Va., dropped out on the third lap and made fast to the sea- wall near the War College. This left Richard Loynes’ Califor- | nian, Long Beach, Calif., to finish sec- | ond 'and Wannamaker’s Louisa to fin- |ish third. The Louisa was fourth in the first heat Friday and the Califor- nian fifth. Theodore Hall's Miss Co- | lumbia finished fourth. Freitag’s fellow pilots in the Presi- dential race met immediately after the race and voted, out of respect to his | memory, to cancel the third heat. The judges then decided to award the cov- | eted $10,000 gold cup to Reiss, and he |is to receive it from President Hoover at '.l’aemgwhllz Hofuse]:: ‘Wednesday, aceor to present plans. On the basis of points for the two completed heats, ~ Californian named ‘for second place and Hotsy Totsy for third. Blaze Causes Excitement. ‘The first excitement of the afternoon came in the second race, when Dr. Paul S Burnham of Wilmington, Del, went out on the second lap of a hydroplane race with his motor compartment and control cockpit a sheet of flames fol- lowing the backfiring of his motor. He coolly headed off the course, out of the path of his wife’s boat, Chotsie III, cut his ignition and went to work with a hand fire extinguisher, getting the blaze under control before patrol boats reached him. One of the greatest thrills of the day, however, came late in the afternoon, when a large field of tiny outboards jockeyed for favorable starting posi- tions in a five-mile race for Class F outboard boats. Just after the starting g‘l;lkmcked. Nagel, driving his little c] sistent, P’“! winner in previous con- tests, close by the judges’ boat, was crowded by another racer. As Nagel swung aside his tiny shell leaped sideways out of the water, came down upside’ down and rolled . over twice. Grimes, close behind, could not swing clear. He missed Nagel, who had been thrown clear, by a hand'’s breadth and crashed clear across Miss Wildwood amidships, tearing the bottom of his boat open. Both boats, stnking, were towed ashore by Coast Guard patrol boats. Nagel and Grimes were unin- In the second most important race of the afternoon for the big silver postponed from just after the President’s Cup race until shortly before sunset, C. Roy Keys, Buffalo, N. ¥, drove his mahogany Carsnaught to its third straight victory his race, giving him his third ot in Tor R e TOP FLIGHT FIRST N S115,000 RACE Green Cheese Takes Classic Chase and Twenty Grand Annexes Gold Cup. BY the Assoctated Press. ELMONT PARK, NEW YORK, September 19.—Sweeping America’s richest thorough- bred racing program, the silks of the Whitney clan flew high today at Belmont Park as three champions from the family’s barns accounted for the $115,000 Futurity, the $32,000 Grand Na- tional Steeplechase and the $10,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup. Top Flight, unbeaten filly flying the famous eton blue and brown capped colors of C. V. Whitney, led a classy field of 2-year-olds home in the Futurity; Mrs. John Hay Whitney’s Green Cheese outgamed a smart band of jumm in’ the Grand National and . Payne Whitney's Twenty Grand again won a galloping victory in the Gold Cup. m’rwelve of tmdle_;g'{n. n,:;ly‘az—og: training opposa rich short seven-furlong dash down the Widener straightaway, but they were 1o match for the heavily as she bounded away in the final fur- and limped around through the seventh | be in the running in event a third heat | to and white Miss Wildwood, a con- | in 3 straight leg and permanent possession |to of the long. ’ Victor Emanuel’'s Morfair kept pace and at one time led the Whitney In victory, Top Flight her right to rule the smk carried I?Tked package ever picl led off Lhev tal postponed all races and silenced the Cree, Wi up fast to nip Cree in ¢! ‘The victory was worth Carenaught's m.mewu 1:4 45.178 miles ‘hour. ave spe % per X Keys tely went back for the | last race of the day, the Potomac fres- for-all, but lost to John Bramble of Baltimore, who pushed his Pep III around the course at an average of 48453 miles per hour to an easy vic- Ty, Though the races were marred by accidents, not a single traffic accident | attended the handling of automobiles en route to or from points of vlnhge along the river, according to Ollt C. Montgomery, chief of the parl lice force and chairman of the Committee on Trafic and Public Order. | There were 2,600 automobiles ed at Bol - Fleld under direction of Lieut. Hol R. Yeager, Army | Corps, and military and park police, Capt. Montgomery sald. elve thou- sand spectators viewed the races from the Bolling Field sea wall, it was esti- mated. Another 1200 cars parked around the Speedway and a throng estimated at 10,000 viewed the races from. Hains Point. A Navy and Park Police force under Lieut. Robert H. Rogers, handled 350 cars and 2,000 peoj the Anacostia Naval Air Station, Tr: fic to and from Bolling Field and the naval station was handled by a large police detail under command of In- | spector O. T. Davis. At the Army War College some 5,000 | speclal guests viewed the races” from | stands erected for the purpose and 3,000 other spectators mfi% '.el:: unds. Traffic arrange: gr;e handled by Lieut. ward H. | Young, Infantry. Buzzard’s Point Crowded. Buzzard’s Point provided 4ringside seats for 2,000 persons, who, to Capt. Montgomery, perched in trees, on cinder piles, and sat_on high clay river bank. Five hunfsed cars parked in the Corinthian Yaght Club grounds and 2,500 spectators “Witnessed . the races from tkere or yachts | anchored in front of the grouinds. Emergency wrecking cars ‘of the | so they could be rushed to of any accident without saving lan_ in off tgep:nwul: case any