Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1932, Page 62

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D , C., JANUARY 193 2—PART FIVE. 2 weswsos wenospesuwsweewmre ~ Inter-Locking Golf Grip Comes to Fore : Southpaw Year Looms in Big Leagues 20 YEARS AGO B THE STAR. TO IN 151 EARN | THTLES THROUGH T Overiapping Rated Superior,| However, Despite Success of Ouimet and Hicks. ALTER JOHNSON and Ray Morgan so far are the lone Washington base ball players to sign contracts for the 1912 season. Directors of the Washington team just eleeted are Miller Kenyon, Rudolph Kauffmann, W. H. Rapley, Edward Walsh and B. 8. Minor. John F. Stowell has been re-elected president of the Washington Cross- Country Club. A. W. Leonard has been named vice president to succeed W. H. Schofield and H. E. French has been re-elected treasurer. Other officers chosen are: H. G. Davis, treasurer; John G. Stecher, athletic director and coach; Marshall Low, captain of the “field” events team, and Brailey Gish, captain of the “short-distance” team. Stowell also will serve as chairman of the Execu- tive Committee, other members of the committee being French, H. G. Robertson, Davis, Wilson Hullfish, Harvey E. Smith, Leonard, E. W. Thrall, W. Pollard and Milton E. Groome. g e EAGLE, VIC QUINTS IN BATTLES TODAY Will Pennzoils, BY W. R. McCALLUM. 8 the interlocking grip becom- ] ing the most fashionable for champions in golf? Does the success of three prominent ex- ponents of it in 1931 presage a les- sening of use of the Vardon or overlapping grip, or is it just a coincidence that the two cham- pions of the amateur ranks in this country both use the interlocking grip, in which the little finger of the right hand locks between the first and second fingers of the left | hand? For many, many years Prancis Ouimet Moo kit i e cristandinglamutans | - IR of this country who used the interlock- | ing grip; Gene Sarazen has been the | outstanding pro who used it, and now Helen (Billy) Hicks, the Hewlett, Long Island, schoolgirl, who won the wom- . en’s national last October, falls in line. Engage Cleveland Latter Take on Hawaijan Aloha Stars. Skinger Eagles and Vic Sport Shop basket ball teams, Washington's entries BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. OS ANGELES, January 2.—Mac- Donald Smith, the Carnoustie Scot, who has been playing this game of golf for many ons, still clings to many of the old ideas of the game. Tbe Smith is one of the few professionals who still ad- heres to wooden shafted clubs, and he will hold to his old favorite so long as it is possible to obtain good hickory. Smith is a master craftsman ip the making of golf clybs—as were most of tbe professionals who learned their trade at the bench in some small club shop back in England or Scotland. Mac shafts aall of his own clubs and carefully makes the heads of his driver, brassie and spoon according to his own fancies. ch club is & plece of art to tbe Smith and he searches long for blocks of persimmon with just the right grain and from the rough pieces of wood develops the E:ot that fit into one of the most flawless swings the professionals have in the entire game. OST of gone in for matched woods and irons, but a few of them still cling to old favorites, although they may be battered and scuffed and hold no rela- tion to other weapons in the bag. Leo Diegel is one player who has a conglomerate collection of clubs. He carries 24 clubs in his big leather bag, | but lugs only 14 or 15 around when | actually playing. Diegel has a set of matched woods, but all of the other clubs are different. | Thus it is that the two amateur champions and one of the outstanding professionals of the Nation use the in- terlocking grip sgainst the horde of | F minent amateurs and pros who ad- | here to the Vardon grip, i which the little finger of the right %and overrides the first finger of the left hand. You could go a long way and search for many moons and not find two finer golfers in their respective fields than | in the semi-pro fiield, will entertain highly-touted opponents this afternoon. Eagles will "engage Cleveland Pennz- oils, boasting the Greater Cleveland, Ohio, championships, at the Boys' Club at 3 o'clock. Opposing the Vic tossers will be the | Hawaiian Aloha Stars, to be met at the Silver Spring Armory at 8 o'clock. The irons all are hickory shafted, Mac Smith, Dieg Golf Pros Who Cling to Old Style Sticks; Cox’s Wad Grows| el Among Few been filed down, built up or so altered as to radically change them from their original appearance. Some of them were hand forged according to Diegel's specifications, and have been with him for years. It is hard to separate a lfer from a favorite club, particu- arly the veterap professionals. Many of the professionals here in California for the big Winter tournaments are sporting the 1932 model ijrons that for the most part feature either a flanged | s0le’ or else a diversified weight bal- ance. HE pros are quite strong for the flanged sole idea and believe it will be of tremendous help to the aver- age goifer inasmuch a§ it narifally B:'svents him {rom digging into the rf too far behind the ball. It also makes it easier to get the ball off the ground. Wifly Cox has been the star of the Pacific Cogst. He won the San Fran- cisco match play championship and finished second to Harry Cooper in the Pasadenia open. The former stoker on the battleship Nevada has at last found of the best money players in the game. He heat George Von EIm soundly at | easily could have won that event. As it is Cox has started out as the big money winner for the Winter season, | and if he can collect in the Los Angeles and Agua Caliente opens should enjoy a profitable year. Billy Hicks and Francis Outmet. But | in the judgment of most of the pro-| fessionals the fact that these two cham- pions both use the interlocking grip is only a coincidence and not the founda- tion of the skill which brought them national championships in 1981. It would take & ot of winning by the ex- ponents of the interlocking grip or any | blums of the American League 8 few | other grip to make the adherents of | seasons ago, and Joe ‘Adams who. used | the Vardon grip break away from that | {0 hold forth with the Trentcn Tigers | Skinker tossers will be out to add their second win in as many starts at | the expense of Pennzoils, who beast | that they lost just 11 games in 93| played last season. Prominent on the visiting team will | be Al Eckert and Harlan McCord, who | played with the crack Cleveland Rosen- | BY W. R. McCALLUM. OCK CREEK now is in the lead in the race for the all-time rec- ord score for the golf courses about the Capital, with a ringer card of 33. A few days ago we pub- Rock Creek, With 33 Ringer Card, Now Leading Courses- In All-Time Record Scores Thanks, Jerry. That does make the all-time record for Rock Creek Park 83 instead of the 35 which was the best that Harry Graham and a few other old-timers could recall. And that was & great bunch of golfers in those early days at Rock Creek. Let's see. Voigt now is cne of the Nation’s top-notch and the heads of most of them have | Grapples in Feature Match : GREEK MEETS HU two tournaments already played on the | the cenfidence needed to make him on= | San Francisco and only for the super | golf played by Cooper at Pasadena | HE tricky backdrop Sandor 3 Szabo has relied upon to at- tain a top ranking among the East's wrestling forces will carry the Hungarian's hopes, how- ever slim they may appear, when he tackles Champion Jim Londos at the ‘Washington Auditorium next Thurs- day night. One of the best versed grapplers every imported from Europe, Szaho has become the leading exponent of the+ backdrop, in Teality a double- ARIAN IN SHOW AT AUDITGRIUM THURSDAY. JIM LONDOS. eliminates him for near-future chal- lenges. Szabo, as a result, probably has as good a claim to the second ranking position as any matman. That Londos still is the game'’s greatest drawing card is manifest by the unusually heavy demand for tickets at the Annapolis Hotel, where they are available. A packed house of approximately 7,000 is in prospect. All of the action, however, will not come from the main match. The preliminary card stacks up as one of the best of the year. Rudy Dusek, one of the best, will tangle with Jim Corrigan, a newcomer from the Brown andilurke Display Control NLY five of the American League pitchers who worked 100 innings = ,'or more during the 1931 season failed to hit an opposing batsman. ‘Two of them were loumfsws, George ‘Walberg, pitching 291 innings, and Lioyd Brown, who had 259 innings to his credit. The right-handers were Ted Lyons, with 101 rounds; Milton Gaston, with 119 innings, and Tom Bridges, with 173 innings. While not_ hitting a batter, Bridges had § wild pitches and walked 108 men. Only five pitchers failed to display any wild pitches. They were Urban Faber, 184 innnigs; Bob Burke, 129 innjngs; Arthur Herring, 165 in- nings; George Blagholder, 226 in- nings, and Wallace Hebert, 103 innin —two southpaws and three right- handers again. HYATTSVILLE QUINT FACES THREE GAMES Plays Tech, Washington-Lee and Catonsville This Week. Kidwell Shines. HYATTSVILLE, M splif even in six contests so far this sea- with three game listed, two at home and one away. Tech High of Washington is to be ington. Washington-Lee High of Ballston, Va., will be entertained Thursday on the National Guard Armory court here. The Blue and Gold will face Catons- ville, Md., High Friday on the Armory court here in the second match be- tween these guints this season. Hy- ‘attsville squeezed through to a 26-to-23 victory over Catonsville on the latter's court last month. ‘Warren Kidwell, clever forward, is setting the pace in individual scoring for the Hyatigville High School basket ball team. has registered 35 points in 6 games, Ancluding 16 floor goals and 8 foul shots. Burdette Cogar, rd, is runner-up with 30 points, scored on 13 goals from | scrimmage and 4 fouls, in 6 contests. In winning 3 of 6 engagements the January 2.— Hyattsville High's quint, which has son, will return to the court next week engaged Tuesday afterncon in Wash-| | | PILOTS ON LOOKOUT FOR FORKHANDERS Brown of Washington Count- ed Among Best—Red Sox Pick Up Pair. BY GEORGE CHADWICK. EW YORK, January 2— N Major league managers are playing for a southpaw year in 1932. Every now and then that lefthand tidal wave of managerial ambition gathers momentum and sweeps forward as the time approaches for the base ball season to begin. Bobby Quinn, owner of the Bos- ton Red Sox, wandered around the lobby of a hotel here and shook his head sadly because he did not have any lefthand pitchers. “Must you have them?” he was asked. “Well, I haven't got them. Every | other club has some. I haven't,a pen- ny's worth.” That must have keyed him up to trading. Inside of six hours he had | Michaels, a promising left-hander from Buffalo, for whom he was willing to exchange Winsett and Smith. He felt so good over it that he kept on trading and got Weiland, a southpaw, from the White Sox for Gaston. When the southpaw bug bit Quinm, it bit him hard. HE White Sox have their Janky left- handdy, Pat Caraway, the willing worket who couldn’t win in 1931 but never became discouraged. If he can throw the ball as generously foF | Manager Ponseca as he threw it for | Donie Bush, he will earn the reputation of never having had enough. Cleveland stands preity pat on its southpaws and northpaws, with the right-handers bu)ginil out. Offer Manager Peckinpai @ sure-fire southpaw pitched and he would reach |dor him so quickly that he'd sprain his wrist. Detroit isn’t southpawing very time-honored and true-tested manner |of the same league. | lished a yarn to the effect that the all- of gripping & golf club. | " Eagles again® pian to start wi : J. 'Monro Hunter, Indian | Hosy “and mvane” foraarars’ AU | time score of Rock Creek Park was 35 somersalt, which usually ends with Skabo on top and both of his oppon- Coast, in the semi-final, a 45-minute time limit affair. Hyattsville quint has scored 104 points amateurs; Henry Miller, George Dif- to 120 for its opponsnts. | = 8till have Hog- fenbaugh, Prank Hartig, Cliff McKim- | lm:ch but the Tigers still have Heg pro_at Spring, and Al Houghton, pro at Ken- | wood, both point out that the main reason for using ejther the inferlocking or the overlapping grip is to subordinate center, and Bennie and Radice, guards. | Pete Nee will be held in reserve. Delaware and Hudson Coal Co. quints | will face at 2 o'clock in a Boys' Clulb | strokes, which placed the uptown park all-time record in a tie with the best mark recorded at Columbia. But it mie, are all earning a living as pro- ent’s arm pinned together. ‘The 30-minute bouts contain sev- Individual scoring: Szabo has, next to Londos, the best mat _record eompiled in Wash- ington. Except for a loss to Shikat, fessionals, and our old friend Harry Pitt | is District amateur champion. In | those days Harry was quite a youngster, | eral high-ranking men in Matros Goais. Fouls. Pla; sett. - The Yankees have one of the best southpaws in base ball—young Veinon Gomez, who has become great since he the-right hand to the leit in gripping the club; keeping the right hand in subjection to the left to eliminate the possibility of the ordinarily more pow- erful right hand gaining control of the club. Both also claim that the Vardon grip is better suited to the average unlimited class league match. Pete Rubin, high scorer for Phila- delphia Pros in their losing game against the Vic quint here last week, will perform for the Aloha Stars against the Vic bunch again today, goifer, and, in addition, it does not have | having just been added to the Aloha the demerit of gnarling and kmv.un%lmster Last week Rubin and Jake the fingers that grip a Nation's golf | Goldblatt, eagle-eyed Vic forward, clubs. A look at the hands of an in- |staged a keen battle for points which terlocking gripper who plays a good deal | likely will be rencwed today. will disclose that his fingers are out of | Entertainment will be furnished by shape because of the grip he uses. No | Maria Likons, dancer, singer and guitar such distortion can come from the Var- | player, and two male assistants, who don or overlapping grip. will give a program of Hawallan num- ainst this claim the proponents | bers. of the interlocking grip assert it per- | Sweeney, Goldblatt, Streeks, McMena- rits—may force & complete grip of |min and Banta are listed to start for the club at all times, for they claim |Vic's team with Morris and Tubba that the right hand of the Vardon |Farrell in reserve. Harris, a forward, gripper may open at the top of the|has been released. swing with detrimental results to the | In a preliminary Fort Myer and Gov- shot. ernment Printing Office quints will face Whatever the merits of the matter |8t 2 o'clock in a Government League may be, it is certain that good golf can | encounter. be played with both types of grip for the full shots. ' Bobby Jones, Hagen, | Horton Smith and most of the leading | exponents of the game use the Vardon | grip, but you can’t-laugh off two na- tional chk:mpmmhlp?o;%: h;fil mfigle year with the inter! g grip. Nor | Casua Yo ot Toaget (5o Toochl mage by | © _"ialty Compeny Radketers. Gene Sarazen over the past few years. BALTIMORE, January 2.—Washing- Gene has won everything but the ton tennis team will engage Maryland kitchen clock, using that interlocking | Casualty Co. racketers tomorrow after- grip with those stubby fingers of his noon at 2 o'clock at the 5th Regiment pounding golf balls up and down Armory in a Baltimore Winter Indoor countless fairways. | Tennis League match. - As long es golf balls are hit there Twelve more engagements are on the will be attempts to devise new and |loop schedule as follows: “infallible” methods of play, but the | """fl“,” 9—Mount Washington vs, grip possibilities are limited. Not 8o | il 5% 2, pm. Dumbarton many years ago the palm grip, known January 10—Washingt, Interparks, as the two-Y grip, was the favored one.| 2 BB 16 yarying canaty va 1 vith this grip the club is held like 8 |'nerts, e Apaal base ball bat, in the palms of both | Lepion. € o, oo o Club V8. American hands. It has undoubled power, hut| January 17 it has the fault of permitting the right | ‘“§4 hand to gain too much control of the | parks. 2 p.m American Legion vs. Maryland club. Bigger and better hooks came Casually. & pm from the oid grip. F jreorusry 1—Dumbarton Club ‘vs. Wash- Chick Evans, the old-time Chicago | 30—M¢ amateur, has his own version of the |jand Cas 2 palm grip, with variations. Chick does | “pBarks: 4 not overlap nor interlock, but holds | inston, 2 p.m. the club in the fingers of both hands | with the thumbs pointing down the shaft. This grip has brought him three national championships and a host of | Carl Fischer, Washington southpaw, lesser crowns. did some fancy relief pitching against 50 you can take your choice of grips. | the Yankees in a game last May. Ydnks They are all good, or bad, depending |were two runs behind going into the on which way you look at it. But the | ninth, but Pinch Hitter Lazzeri hit a | interlocking grip has the strangle-hold | home run. Combs followed with a sin- on championships this year. | gle and Pischer replaced Sam Jones. | NETMEN IN BALTIMORE Washington Team Plays Maryland Ameri- Club vs. 4 pm on vs. Washington vs. Mount Wash- p.m. ry 13—Mount Washington vs. Inter- ount Washington vs Mary- o2, P Dumbarion Giub vs n. —American Legion vi. Wash- WHEN FISCHER SPARKLED. — He fanned Pinch Hitter Byrd and Babe Ruth and made Lou Gehrig pop up. PLAY LATE GRID GAME Meridians and Firemen Meet in Alexandria Today, Foot ball apparently is nearly an alf- vear-around sport for at least two teams of the Djstrict group. Meridians, 150-pounders, are to meet Columbia Engine Qompany No. 5 eleven this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in Bag- ren'sdsmdnambnlt All,cxundrn Merid- ians downed Columbia, 12 to 0, last| U; Assoc o Sunday, and the latter will be uekmg\hLFdei S"ij gl jation “l.'l Tevenge. Meridians are to report ay|Dold its annual meeting in New York, Fourteenth and Chapin streets at noon. | 8t which time the new 1.62x1.68 golf COLUMBUS.U BOXE [ball will be ratified as the om-| \WO meetings of considerable im- | portance to golfers, both na-| STRAIGHT O this week. . Next Saturday the | RS |cial ball for 1932. The new ball be- came the official sphere for play on New Year day, but no one became ex- | cited about it because 1t differs so little | from the ball in use last year. Also | | Herbert H. “Tack” Ramsay, one of the finest presidents the U. §./G. A. ever | had, is due to be re-elected as presi- | dent. which presages another success- | ful year for the national golf body. That is aboyt all the business the U. 8. G. A. will have to take up for there rre no other matters of pressing interest, | unless the Walker Cup matches come up | for discussion. These matches are due to be payed in the United States next year, and hings have come from Britain that the Eritish may not send a team over. | Hove Group of Sturdy Ringmen ‘With Which to Cope With Strong Rivals. Four engagements have been booked | for Columbus University’s boxing team. Under the direction of Coach Dick | ©O'Connell the Crimson squad is drilling | every night. 3 { A ‘group of sturdy battlers, several of | whom already have displayed much mnore than average ability, are avail- eble and Columbus has high hopes of showing strongly in its first season of formal competition in the ring sport. Carrying the Crimson's ho Eddie Marmel, bantamweight; Harry Allen, captain, featherweight; Johnny Russo, lightweight; Joe Covaleski, wel- terweight; Mickey O'Connor (1931 D. C. | amateur champlon), middleweight: Gus | Mirman, light-heavyweight, and Fran- cis Jahn, heavyweight. Washington and Jefferson, Spring- field, Mass., College, South Carolina and Brooklyn, N. Y., College are teams listed | Club Greens Committee, is the latest on the attractive Columbus schedule. Fhey February 4, Adm is: by Columbus University Athletic sociation books or invitation 13, 22 and March §. As- G street; the Southern Buildin ister’s office of Columbus U, svenue, The books at will be | will be met here in that order!3 on the par 5 fifteenth. hole at the lon to the bouts will be either | came from a full brassie shot from be- Books will go on sale tomorrow at Vie Sport te have bee: Shop, 716 Ninth street; Spalding's, 1338 | ffl?f,,., s aftair. gEinatonyon Ehle American Legion offices in and at the reg- 1314 are The Women's District Golf Associa- | tion will hold its annual mesting next {Friday morning at the Chevy Crase Club, where o Slate headed by Mrs. Harry A. Kriox will be laid before the voters of the association. This list Was drawn up by & nominating commit- tee headed by Mrs. Dorothy White Nicolson, Mrs. Knox was the first presi- | dent of the assoclation, Mrs. Frank R. Keefer now is president of the women's assoctation. Dr. James T. McClenahan, chairman of the Washington Golf and Country | seems that Harry Graham, the manager at Rock Creeck, and myself over- looked a bet or two, which have been recalled by Jerry Wolf, a member of the old Brightwood gang and eme of those old-timers at Rock Oreek who really started the popularity of the course in the big park out along Six- | teenth street. | Jerry Wolf is one of those who played | Rock Creek back in the old days when there was no such thing as a standard golf ball, public links golf was just that and most of the youngsters who played there then were golfing just for the sport of it. Here is what Wolf has to say about those early days: “Read your article in The Star about Rock Creek with much interest, having been a booster for Rock Creek Park. This dates back to the time when .Henry Miller was pro there; Frank Hartig, Cliff McKimmie, Harry Pitt, George Diffenbaugh, George Voigt, the Di Estes, Bill Storey, Dave And, the McAleerz and myself used to meet at dawn every Sunday and choose up sides. They were the real days of the old ball. “According to your article, Rock Creek has a real distinction—the low record score for the entire city. Here is how it comes about: “On Hole No. 2 Bill Storey and Dave And both have made 1s. (Harry Gra- ham told us the best score was 2 on that hole) Once Dave went through that old barn window in 2 into the hole. One Sunday McKimmie, Diffen- baugh and Hartig, playing in a four- | some, reached No. 6 with their first shot and were waiting for our fourtome | to drive, their balls restirg in a.ring vithin 8 feet of the hole. Storey hit end reached the green hole high. | Voigt followed znd sank his tee shot, his ball going betwean several balls to go into the hole. This ties Sam Parks’ | ace on that hole, but the remarkable | feat was that the other two balls in | the last foursome also came within that | 8-foot circle, and what a sight—all | eight drives with either No. 2 or No. 3 irons, seven balls on the green within 8 feet of the hole and one in the cup | for an ace. “On No. 16, which used to be old No. 6 with no difference in the hole unless there was more follage, I sank a spoon | shot for a 2, playing against Luther | Florine with Robert Isbell caddying. “This brings your all-time record down to 33, and, as far as I can recall, | the players I have mentioned have | equaled that themselves on the course, with the exception of No. 1.” FF THE TEE sional whose term of service at the club | is to end March 15. | TAR professional golfers abandoned the jdea that golf instruction is ruinous to their playing, according to the Professional Golfers’ Association of America, which states today that golf instruction, as sold to the average player by members of the P. G. A. on the highest plane in the history of the game. The modern fro, the P.G. A. says, no longer teaches by one set rule, but regards each pupil as an individual | and adapts the game to suit his or her | physical qualifications. Among the crack their time instructing puplls the P. G. A. | lists Horton Smith, Al Espinosa, John | Farrell, Gene Sarazen and Willie Mac- | Farlane. Professionals, the P. G. A. adds, also are making a careful study of the teaching of women golfers. Statistics gathered by the professional body in- dicate that 75 per cent of the instruc- tion sold during 1931 was to women. Has Billy Howell become too big for golf in the Midatlantic territory? A dispatch from Richmond yesterday stated that the youthful Middie Atlantic champion, who was the sensation of the last amateur championship, will forfeit his Midatlantic title this year and confine his tournament play to other events. Howell plans to’ play in the national amateur, the Southern amateur and the Virginia State cham- plonship. Billy is a fine player, but he is not unbeatable, as Harry Pitt proved last June in the final of the umbia tourney. The Middle Atlantic is due to be’played at Columbia this year and the chances are Billy will be in there defending his championship. | member of the club to obtain an eagle Washington Club. McClenahan's eagle | hind the ditch, which went into the cup | for & 3. Ou several other occasions full The board of governors of the Indian | Raymond J. Wise, who.was supposed [to be the weakest one of the foursome at Washington, in which the other members were Henry D. Nicholson, the club champion; Dorie C. Gruver and Gruver and Dickey to end the old year in fitting fashion by shooting a 76. That 76 enebled Nicholson and Wise to score their fourth straight victory over the other pair, and is the best firnnx Golf Club will meet tomorrow ght and probably will choose & suc- cessor to J. Monro Hunter, the profes- score Wise ever has made over the | Washington course, v but if there is a better school to de- velop a youngster in golf than the public links we do not know where it is. today could you find a group of golfers of the ability of those you have men- | tioned? Those were the best days of | Washington public links gelf, and no fooling. In latter years along came John Shorey, Page Hufty and Al Hough- ton, but those early years were the years | of real golf. And, Jerry, where on the public links | sustained when he' fell through the ropes, injured himself, and was counted out, the Hungarian has been undefeated. .Londos, of course, is expected to continue where he left off last year The Greek still is bowling over all opponents, one of his latest victories being over Rayv Steele, until then his most persistent challenger. Steele's ss, following a string of other de- by Londos, temporarily at least Kirilinko, Herbie Freeman, Chief White Feather, Doc Wilson and George Hagen, Kirilinko, who had the last crack at Londos here, will meet Herble Freeman, who has had his share of matches with the Greek. White Feather will attempt to repeat his viciory of last Summer over Tigeg Bill Nelson, while Wil- son and Hagen will round out the bill. This week women will not be ad- mitted free. | | L | | By the Associated Press. ETROIT, January 2.—Charles F. Navin, secretary of the De- troit base ball club, announced tonight that the Detroit Tigers will play 33 exhibition games between March 8 and the opening of the Ameri- can League season next April. The players will 1eport at Richard- son Springs, Calif,, for Spring training February 19. The exhibition games start March 8 and continue until April |10, The schedule follows: March 8-13, seven games Wwith San Prancisco at San Francisco; March 14- 18- five games with Oakland, Calif., at | Qaklend; March 19, Portland at Los | Angeles; March 20-23, four games with |New York Giants at Los Angeles; March | 24-25, two games with Hollywood at | San Diego; March 26-28, three games with Pittsburgh at Los Angeles; March 29-30, two games with the Chicago Cubs at Los Angeles; April 2-5, four games | | with Kansas City at Kansas City; April |6, New York Gisnts at Kansas City; | April 7, New York Giants at Spring- field, Ill.; April 8 9 and 10, New York Giants at Detroit. Giants to Play 31 Games. NEW YORK, January 2 (#).—The New York Giants, who will do their Spring training at Wrigley Pield, Los Argeles, this year, in their first visit Tigers, Giants, Phils, Bucs, éubs Reveal Spring Exhibition Dates | Haven; 24, Newark at Winter Haven; 26, open; 26, Yankees at Bt. Peter burg; 27, open; 28, 29, 30 and 31, At- | 1anta at Atlanta | _ April 2—Athletics at Philadelphia; 3, Baltimore at Baltimore; 4, Athletics at Philadelphia; 5, Reading at Reading; | 6. 7, 8, Athletics at Philadelphia; 10, Newark at Newark. Pirates Schedule 30 Tiits. PITTSBURGH, January 2 (#).—The Pinttsburgh Pirates’ Spri training | schedule was announced tonight. - Thirty games will be played after the tclub has rounded into shape at Paso Robles, Calif. A dozen games will be played with major league teams, 14 | with class AA outfits and four wlth; clubs in class A. The date for the assembling of the team has not yet been definitely set, but the first exhibftion game will be against Oakland at Oakland, Celif.,, the morning of March 13. Another con- test will be held in the afternocn. The Pirates will meet San Francisco or the Missions at San Francisco in & series begining Monday, March 14, and continuing until Sunday, March 20, when two games wil be played. The Bucs will play the Chicago Cubs at San Prancisco, March 21, will play | Oakland the two following days at Oak- land. March 24 and 25 will find them bastling the New York Giants at Los Angeles. ?‘he team will meet the Detroit Americans at Los Angeles March 26, 27 and 28, will play Los Angeles at to the Pacific Coast, announced today | Santa Barbara, March 29 and 30, and a schedule of 31 exhibition games, most- | then will meet the Chicago Cubs in & ly against major league opposition. four-game series at Los Angeles. The Giants start their exhibition in Cubs at Los Angeles, play nine games with the Detroit Tigers and two with the Pittsburgh Pirates. All of these teams also will train in California James J. Tierney, secretary of the Glents, in giving out the schedule, ex- a six-game series with the Chicago | The Cubs will be Pittsburgh’s oppo- nents at Fort Worth, Tex., April 5 and at Dallas the following day. The Pirates play Fort Worth at Fort | Worth April 7, Dallas at Dallas April 8, Memphis at Memphis April 9 and 10, will rest the next day and April 12 the National League curtain will be ¢ | sist of pitchers and catchers. pros who Dow are spending much of | o V. C. Dickey, threw a bombshell. into | lained that the Cubs shifted the train- | rajseq. g location of their Pacific Coist S — League farm, Los Angeles, in order to| CHICAGO, January 2 (#).—The Chi- give the Giants exclusive use of Wrig- | cago Cubs will play 30 games during ley Field. This park is modeled after |their 1932 Spring training season, in- | Wrigley Pleld, Chicago, seats 25,000 and | cluding sets with the New York Giants, is expected fo be filled for the first | Pittsburgh Pirates and Detroit Tigers, Spring _training series ever played by | President William L. Veeck announced the Cubs and Giants. | tonight. The first consignment of player| The Cubs will open against the talent, bound for Los Angeles leaves | Giants March 11 and, as usual, wil New York February 14, and will con- | close with the Kansas City Blues April The rest | 10. For the first time since Willlam | of tre squad leaves 10 days later. Al- | Wrigley, jr., became the owner of both | together 35 players are expected to be | the Cubs and the Los Angeles Pacific in camp. . | Coast League club. the teams will not The exhibition schedule follows meet in training battles. March 11-16, inclusive, Chicago Cubs The schedule at Los Angeles: 17-18, Hollywood at San | March, 11-16. inclusiye, Cubs s, Glants ; 19, Los Angeles at Pasadena: | 3% Los Anseles; 17-18. C. s thelusive, Detroit Tigers at Los | fna B’ .05 Thelisive (mogning and Pittsburgh, Pirates at | 3fternoon, ‘March 27), Cubs vs, San Pran ; 26-27, Oakland at Oak- | ¢! an Prancisco 5. 2e- Jand (morning and ‘afternoon, on 27th | Mosve® ‘cube®ys Mirisbureh 4t Los Anseics March 28, April 3, inclusive, San Fran- | ( Apiil 5. Cubs ‘vs. Pilisburgh at Fort clsco at San Francisco: April 6, De. | Sorih: Texi &, Cibs, ri; "Eltubiret ac trolt at Kansas City; 7, Detroft at|sas City ai Kansas Oity. g Springfield, Ill.; 8-9-10, Detroit at De- troit; 11, Army at West Point. The second team is scheduled for FOUR STAKES SCHEDULED four additional games, as follows March- 20, Los Angeles at Pasadena April 23, Missions at Woodland, Calif.: Churchill Downs Lists Dates for Events at Spring Meeting. April 10, Jersey City at Jersey City, N. J. | LOUISVILLE, Ky, January 2 (P).— Phillies List 25 Contests. PHILA ST A, “yamomee s (p_ |Four stakes, headed by the $50,000 The Philadelphia Nationals have sched- | added Kentucky Derby, will be run at uled 25 games for the training period|the Churchill Downs Spring meeting grlor to the opening of the regular base | apri| 39 to May 21. The Grainger es will be played with the all season. hSeven mn Memorial Handicap for older horses has Philadelphia Athletics, two in Florida | be ontinued, and,the other five at home. eIy d R Phils also will play games with | o Stakes: the Cerdinals, C.ncinnati Reds, Brook- ril 30_Clark Handicap, $5,000 added, 3- lyn, St. Louls Browns, Yankees, At- solds and up; mile S, 9350,000 added: lanta, and the Newark, Baltimore and olds; _mile and guarter Reading clubs of the International 2 May 14— Bashford Manor, $5,000 added: League. O e TRty ks, 15,000 added; “The Phillles’ Florida training base will | 3-véar-oid Allies, mile and clebih. be winm; Haven. The schedule, which A PR | contains four open dates, is as follows: | “March 11, Cardinals at Bradentens. | THREE-CUSHION DATE SET. 16, Cincinnati at Winter Haven; 17,| CHICAGO, January 2 (#).—The 1932 2t Winter Haven; 14, Athletics at Win- | world's championship three-cushion bil- ter Haven; 15, Brooklyn at Clearwa liard tournament will be held in Chi- lNG. CS‘:ncn:ml:kall \zlmu; Haven; | cago starting January 18, with Arthur ewark al eland; 18, open; 19 | T ago, defending the title Brooklyn " at Winter Haven: 20, & | ne wons Sear & he won a year ago. Twelve players Americans at West Palm Beach: name: eligible to compete, 21, open; 22, Athletics at Fort Myco | Paicth 4 the o & 3-yer 17, ALEXANDRIA TOSSERS RESUME WEDNESDAY School Quint to Play Two Road Games in Four Days—G. U. in Charity Contest. ALEXANDRIA, Va, January Z— | Alexandria High School is to return to play Wednesday. Two road games and a local appearance ere listed in four days. ‘The Charlottesville Fives are to enter- tain the locals at Charlottesville, Va., Wednesday, while two days later the team will hit the road again for a con- test with the Manassas High. A home game is booked with Lee- urday n‘ght. | A foot ball banquet will be held by Mason Hotel Wednesday night. Dr. Carl T. Dreifus, coach of the |team, is chairman of the Banquet | Committee. Tickets for the charity benefit game to be-played here January 16 by the Georgetown Varsity and the St. Mary's Lyceum Five will be placed on sale next week. Proceeds from the game, which will be steged at Armory Hall, will go into the Children’s Home and Day Nursery. Two local clubs probably will appear in the preliminary. Ralph Scrivener, manager of the Fraters’ basket ball team, is anxious to book games with units having the use of a gymnastum. Telephone 1700 between 6 and 7:30 p.m. Two other local teams are after opposition. They are: J Virginia Five, unlimited. Telephone John Watt at Alexandria 2020-J be- tween 6 and 7:30 p.m. Crusaders Sextet, girls’ senfor. Tele- phone Mary Carne at Alexandria 1384 between 5 and 6 p.mg THUNBERG. NOT COMING Finn Skating Champ Passes Up Olympics for European Event. HELSINGFORS, PFinland, January 2 (#).—Charles Thunberg, Olympic skat- ing champion at 1,500 meters and co- champion at 500, has notified the Skating Union he will not be a mem- ber of the Finnish team 2t the Winter Olympics next month at Lake Placid, Y. N X Thunberg objected to the American starting regulations. He said he was too old to learn the new style of start- ing, which he described as “springing.” He will participate in the European’| Alexandria idwell Eopar 3 3} | reformed his teeth apd increased his Jackson High, at Armory Hall, Sat- Sigma Lambda Nu Fraternity at George | Lulz 1 5 2 2 0 Bealor 0 Competition will be renewed Monday night in the Prince Georges County Duckpin Association after a holiday recess of two weeks. Close races are on in_both sections of the loop. In feature matches Washington Sub- urban Sanitary Distriet Survey, which is leading in Section 2 by a single geme, will meet Lustine-Nicholson Motor Co., runper-up, Mopday night and Collegiates, pace-setters in Section 1, will engage Dixie -Pigs, champigns last season, in a Friday night en- counter. Hyattsyille Junior rollers will visit the Clarendon, Va. alleys Tuesday night to conclude a 10-game home- and-home series with Clarendon Jun- iors. The latter gained & one-pin ad- vantage in the first five games last night on the Arcade drives here. The score was 2,673 to 2672, . Company F, Naticnal Guard, bas- keters of Hyatsville have listed a ga with the Palace A. C. five of Washing- ten tomorrow afternoon on the Armory courf, here at 3 o'clock, The Guards- men will be out to start a winning streak at the expense of Palace after losing four out of five starts to date. LAUREL BASKETERS IN FOR SNAPPY WEEK ‘Fonr League and Two Independ- ent Games Blated at Armory. Pair Tomorrow. LAUREL, Md., January 2—Basket ball will be brought to the front in a big way here next week, when six games are listed for the National Guard Arm- ory court. Four contests are scheduled in the Inter-City League and two in independent competition. Play will start tomorrow afternoon with & pair of non-league games, Head- quarters Company of Laurel meeting Silent Five of Washington in the main attraction following & clash between | the Guard Reserves and St. Phillip’s | Boys’ Club at 2:30 o'clock. The latter quints will renew an old town rivalry, Two league matches are booked Tues- day night, with Ellicott City Hoplites and Sport Mart of Washington meeting in the first game at 7:30 o'clock and Headgquarters Company coming to grips with Brookland goys' Club, also of Washington, in the second contest. Hoplites and Sport Mart will be making their debut in the circuit this season. Kenilworth of Washington and Hop- lites and Laurel Independents and Sport Mart are scheduled in league contests Friday night. Headquarters Company and Kenil- worth are setting the pace in the loop with victories over Independents and Brookland Boys' Club in the only Bames to date. HONOR CLEMSON COACH. Jess Neely, grid coach at Clemson, Will be the honor guest Monday night | At a dinner to be given by the Clemson Alumni Association at the Cosmos Club. Guests will include former Gov. Robert | A. Cooper of South Carolina, William'| champlonships at Davos instead of go- | ing to the United States. M. Willlams, Robert J. Cheatham, J. G. Littlejohn andg Jackie Woodward. BY WILL WEDGE. EW YORK, January 2.—Of all the old- familiars of the sports pages, none faces the barrier of the new year with prospects of higher adventure than Bob Shawkey. The erstwhile skipper of the Yanks has turned his back on base ball. The lure of the North Countree is calling him—the North Countree where they don't have diamonds, grass, skin or otherwise, but they do have gold. Gold! That's to be Shawkey's game from now on. It's an old game, the search for gold in new coun- tries, and it has always enticed hardy adventurers. Shawkey has weathered nearly two decades of the adventures of base ball and now, ‘with enthualasm still keen, he turns Gold Quest Lures Shawkey Turns Back on Diamond to Wring Riches From | zea] for eating hig meals. | Of course, the Athletics have the cream of all the southpaw zone, and when the work of Robert Moses Grove is gone over again and again the greatl- er his value is realized. The calm as- | surance with which he enters a bail game and pulls the foundation ou® from under the other team is one of the grandiose things of base ball. HE St. Louis Browns have three | southpaws who have possibilities. They are Coffman, Horbert and | Stewart. Stewart displayed his wares | o good advantage in 1931, and if Her- bert hones his pitching hand sharp enough, he will be a great pitcher next | seascn. Some folks think Brown of Wash- ington is one of the eagle birds of base ball, and in a season when two left- hand pitchers led the American League | he finished fifth. In the National League, observe Ed | Brandt of Boston. They all want him Sherdel is cunmng. Brooklyn hes Bill Clark and woud glye more than a half interest in'the bat boy to get another like him. The Cubs have pulled Henry back. They let Teachout get away, They retained Jakie May and Sweetland. Cincinnati has its southpaw shelf, on which Rixey, the veterans, is the most-sought volume. ‘The others are less so. Giants have a bunch of left- handers who shine like 18 carats in a platinum setting. Bill Walker, Carl Hubbell and Jim Mooney may try | to_southpaw the National League be- hind the fence in 1932. The Phillles have uncertain south- paws in Bolen and Milligan. Pitts- burgh thought it had the southpaw | wender in Wood, who stumbled in 1931. | French, less a wonder than at first ex- pected, has developed into. a pitcher who can work. St. Louis has Bill Hallahan. It has taken over Teachout, but Branch Rickey thinks Teachout can do something bet- ter than pitch—at least such is the story—and he is going to make him over into a ball player, who will be to i‘°°d that Rogers Hornsby will gnash his teeth. Hallahan is one of the most enter- taining pitchers in base ball. He goes on inning after , leadipg the fans from one uneasy seat into an- other. Just when they get ready to clamor, “Take him out!” he strikes the side out with three men on bases. | BATTERY RESERVES ONLY YET UNPICKED (Continued Prom First Page.) Pat Gharrity is too awell on in years to fill the bill. It is hoped to pick up a performer better versed in the art by the time pennant race gets under way. At the Winter meetings in Chicago last month President Griffith got no- where in his efforts to land a seasoned catcher, but hopes to have more success when the time comes for the other club owners to reduce their rosters. LOYD BROWN, Carl Pischer and Bob Burke, southpaws, and Fred Marberry and Al Crowder, hold- overs all, are assured of regular jobs on the hurll staff, as is also Monte Weaver, the big ex-Baltimorean, who made such a good Impression here last Fall, but which three of the half dozen other pitchers on the roster will be re- tained is something that will have to be determined after they have been in- spected in the pre-season drills and exhibitions. ‘The most likely candidate is Prank Ramland Ragland, the 6-foot-1 right- hander of 185 pounds hauled up from Chattanooga, where he won 13 and lost 8 games last season. Probabiy next most promising on the list is Lynn Griffith, equally hefty and of even Mine in Desolated North. greater height, a somthpaw Wwho alsa spent last Summer with the Lookouts and who appeared promising at tramn- ing camp last year. Occupying No. 3 spot among the can- didates, but who is credited with pos- sessing greater raw ability than any, is Robert George Priederichs, a Holy Cross College product, who made his rofessiong] debut with Terre Haute ast July and finished the season as a Senatorial farm hand. This sizable lad of 23 is said to have more sheer stuff than any boxman on the roster, but how well he can be taught 1o use it remains to be seen. Contesting with these for the three | open jobs will be Walt Masters, the ex- | Penn U. star. and a pair of youthful righthanders President Griffith has ac- quired for a looking over during the | sojourn in Dixie. They are John Boyle, who hails from Bayonne, N. J, and Del Delaney, a Chicagoan, who was with the Youngstown club last season. Then there is Ad Liska, provided the champion invalid of last Summer Tlgaromance of the quest for gold ha, Id Robert Red Shirt and b is now too tame for him. He sees real sport ahead, an entirely different sort of existence, and at the end of the trail possibilities of profit far greater than he might make out of pitching or manag! In organized base ball. It is no chimerical pot of gold at the end of a rainbow that Shawkey is chasing. He actually has a gold mine that has a vein of high-grade ore. But the mine is a long way from here—even a long way from the jumping off place of civilization. Getling to the mine is one of the difficuities and getting the gold out is another difficulty. It will take time, it will take work, and it wil take capital. But all these things Shawkey sees only as the hazards to new tralls for what may be the mak {.the strongest flelds in 23 8. Louis Americans at Wister | yeam® ¥ °°¢ o biggest thrill of his career, isn't shifted to essay his 1932 sub- of the most fascinating e upon which marining elsewhere, he has ever embar) S