Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1932, Page 41

SPORTS. Girls Battle for Dixie Bowling Title 3 LEADERS MEET HERE TOMORRON Washington’s Supremacy in Danger—Three Other Big Events Scheduled. $Y FRANCIS E. STAN. W stakes and a single Sweepstakes, duckpin South. championship of Oddly enough, it was in thef Men’s Dixie Sweepstakes earlier} this Winter that Washington was | itself for an instant before hurtling brought its only 1931-32 major past. & blur of blue. stakes title, and that by a margin| has faded into the distance. of only four maples. ‘Tomorrow's competition, which head- lines a four-ring bowling circus, is ex- pected to be just as closely contested While as was the Men's Dixie Stakes. ASHINGTON'S pin pres- tige, considerably bat-| ending rows of sand dunes. packed with | tered this season in all | thousands of spectators, as far as the except one open sweep- |eve can reach. intercity i match, will be put to another test tomorrow, when at least 35 of the country’s leading girl bowl- ers compete in the Women's Dixic emblematic of the| the Spectators Get Only Glimpse ' As Campbell Does Speed Stunt; Sand Course Rivals Concrete (Note—This is another of an Associated Press series reviewing tite accomplish- ments and touching upon the personality S Sir Aatcoim Campbell, famous British | Shorcsmcny | on this side, involving the expenditure | of many thousands of dollars. Fo: several months, ever since he heard his record was being endangered by the Australian “Wizard” Smith, Sir Malcolm has had a staff of engineers at work on the Bluebird, increasing its horsepower and reducing wind resist- ance. The famous machine has been run many hours on the testing block. Its tires put through the most rigid tests. Four mechanics attended the big speed creation across the ocean and now are spending their waking hours | putting it in top condition for the day | when Campbell again will climb be- | hind the wheel and press the throttle to the floor. F everything is right, that may be no than Monday. But it may be even weeks, before there is the combination of wind and beach requirad for a record attempt. The | two runs—one each way—must be made | at low tide over a beach made smooth by a strong northeast wind. Such a win rolls the waves obliquely up to the high-tide mark, leaving not the| slightest ripple in the surface of the | st By the Associated Press. EW YORK, February 12—Pic- ture an ocean beach, its slope so gradual as not to be discern- ible to the eye. Inland, ris- ing from the smooth surface are ug- It is Daytona Beach's famous auto- mobile speedway, the 12-mile strip that has produced a succession of land rec- ords that would have been deemed impossible a decade ago. It is a caim afternoon, February 5, 1930, and there is a buzz of expectancy as the spec- | tators, many with binoculars, rivet their attention on a point far up the beach, where the thin strip of sand meets the sky. | Comes a low moan, swiftly rising in | volume, and a spot appears on the horizon. The moan becomes a roar as the object sweeps closer and shapes | sand. P ‘When the beach is perfect, the weight of a three-ton car makes no visible impression. The sand is almost as hard as concrete. [ Four to six miles are required for | the Bluebird to reach its maximum speed and the same distance to bring it to a halt. The measured mile is in the center. Last year, when he set the present record, Sir Malcolm said he Almost before heads can be turned, the roaring blur | N a short time there comes back the announcement that Capt. Mal- 1 has shot his Blue- a speed of 245.733 miles an hour for | 4 a new record. Washington will send the majority of its star girl bowlers in#o the only sweep- stakes with a national bearing to be scheduled for the Capital this year, the reign of the local girls at the top of the country's heap is likely to be seriously threatened. the dashing Englishman's successfu he is at Daytona now to resume. That is all the cheering thousands see, but there is another story back of assault on time and space, an attack It is a story of many months of painstaking | preparation, first in England and then | did not attain his greatest speed until almost at the end of the measured mile. The tinging is done by stretching & steel wire at the beginning and at the end of the record mile. Both wires are connected with an electric chronometer, which registers the impact of the tires to the hundredth part of a second 1 RICHMOND girl, Dorothy Lawson, and a Baltimore maid, Lotta Janowitz, are being hailed today as the most dangerous of the out-of- town entrants, who will come from Bal- timore, Richmond, Norfolk and possibly from one or two of the Connecticut towns. Both have been the leading 'GELBERT REPORTED CARDINAL HOLDOUT ALEXANDRIA FISTIC CARD IS COMPLETE bowlers of their respective hamlets this year and will be outstanding favorites to win. A measurable mixture of stamina will be necessary in addition to skill in to- morrow's headline pin attraction. The Dixie Stakes call for nine games, which are to be rolled in a trio of three-game sets. The first block will be rolled at 2 o'clock at the Luck: Strike. From the Lucky Strike the classic will move to the Columbia, where at 5 p.m. the second block will bé shot. The grand finale will be staged at the Rendezvous at 8 pm. Another duckpin champion will be erowned tomorrow night at Clarendon, where at 8 o'clock the final five-game block of the annual Maryland-Virginia Suburban Sweepstakes will be rolled. Like the recent Howard Campbell Sweepstakes, the suburbanite contend- ers are fairly well bunched, and it really is anybody's stakes. IORROW'S other two attractions 1 matcihes between star iuo, Wes skew nes, in & 10-game match noon and 5 at night, -The after- noon’s bowling will start at 2:30 and the night's at 8 Rosenberg and Harrison have mot been defeated in doubles competition in five years, and hold two decisions over Connecticut’s best duo, Nick Tronsky and Bill Tato. In singles Rosenberg will engage Barnes and Harrison will tackle Askew. At the Lucky Strike still another star battle will be held. The original Washington Juniors and the Howard Campbell All-Stars will hook up in a five-game match starting at 8 o'clock. The Juniors include Jack Wolsten- holme, Joe Harrison, Johnny Anderson, Hokie Smith and Eddie Espey. All-Stars probably will use Earl Mc- Philomy, Bradley Mandley, Howard Campbell, Astor Clarke and Clem Weidman. WASHINGTON girls tem was to entertain a Baltimore eggregation this afternoon at Convention Hill at 3 o'clock when team, doubles and two singles matches were to have been contested. In the team match, the Rendezvous girls of the Women's District League were to tackle an all-star Oriole outfit. In doubles Peggy Babcock and Lucille Young were to engage Viola Racomb and Shirley Wigley while the two singles encounters were to bring together Lor- ratne Gulli and Lotta Janowitz end Pauline Ford and Helen Snyder. Northeast Temple rollers succumbed to the Victoria quint of Baltimore by 50 pins, 2,889 to 2,939, last night in the Maryland Metropolis, despite a 650 effort by Ollie Pacini, District sweep- stakes victor. Pacini rolled 170 in the third game of the string of five. LEADING QUINT PLAYS Headquarters Company Opposes Sport Mart at Laurel. LAUREL, February 12 —Headquar- ters Company. heading the Intercity Basket Ball League race. will meri Sport Mart quint of Washington, stand- ing second, in the feature game of a league double-header tonight at the armory. At 7.30 o'clock Brooklard Boys' Club will engage Ellicctt City Hoplites. Team Standing. 1 Silver Spring Tonight. al School basieters will s tonight in the ur2 The aled to go on at 8:30 o'clozi Bliss is especially kean to defeat the Marines, as the latter handed the Elec- triclans their lene: defeat this sceasen. Bliss has won 10 games. including 4 victories in the Washington Collegiate Conference series, which it is heading. YOUNG RINGMEN CLASH Noel House and Boys' Club Put on Seven-Bout Meet. Noel Houss and Boys' Club boxers will battle it out in seven bouts tonigh® | at_the Boys' Club. The pregram: Pl‘loag\‘;; mr a: Anlt‘\n Papas (B. C.) Vs o ~Willie Fears ( ‘”?l‘; boun “i' ie Fear: B. C) vs -pound class—Gus Koustenis (B. C.) Vs .Yo&’l;)n\fl d cl i -pound class—Joe Beckert ( . Joe_Van Pelt " BN 130-pound class—Ollie Drieser (B. C.) vs. Harry Guchini 40.pound " class—Edward Perruzi (B, C.) n Claston Lowry et -pound_clas 1 wSZond clate Louis Scarletina (B, C.) v | Albany mos’ of last £ € | jts bo: « Burns and Jallos Are Matched for Semi-Final Go—Preliminaries Also Arranged. Catcher Ferrell of Browns Also Argues—Johnson of Yanks Has Appendicitis. By the Associated P: PHILADELPHIA, February 12—The Record says Charley_Gelbert of the world champion St. dinals, is holding out for more mone; His two-year contract expired at the end of last season and Gelbert is re- | ported to be dissatisfied with a slight | | increase provided in a new one. | At his home, in Fayetteville. P Gelbert did not deny he was a “hold- out,” but declined to comment. Kocsis, fifth ranking bantamwelght in | | NEW YORI, February 12 0P —Word | thE, World: and ‘Sailor Billy Landers, has come to the New York Yankees' | Prigs O NOTIOU | office that Henry Johnson, star pltcher, | peli0's prelimtnary card aiso has had suffered an attack of appendicitis at Hot Springs, Ark. where he had been indulging in some preliminary training_and had been forced to Te- turn to his home, at Bradenton, Fla. ‘The kee headquarters has re- ceived signed contracts from George pgras, Cordon Rhodes and another pitcher, Hormit Aube, who was with n. GREENSBORO. N. C., February 12 (#)—Dick Ferrell, catcher of the St. Louis Browns, has revealed that he has turned ntract to the Browns | the ring game. ;il;]igwdm% = Kocsis is the Hungarian bantam- He has been catching for the Browns | Welght and fiyweight champ. for three years. BURKE IN RING LINE-UP | = Makes 123 Points in 21 Games for | Columbus Will Try Heavyweight Hyattsville Quint. ALEXANDRIA, Va, Bobby Burns, Baltimore ligh end uie Jallos, coming youngster from Cleveland, have been booked by Frankie Mann for the eight-round semi-final go of the Alexandria Day ner's Arena Tuesday night. The fight rounds out @ 32-round program, which will be featured by| an eight-round setto between Antol Young Van, Washington middleweight, | and Johnny Edwards of Warrenton and | Bingo Brodie of Goldie Ahearn’s stable | and Johnny k of Baltimore. Both d for four rounds. Van, Brock are newcomers to | s section. Jallos, a stablemate of Kocsis, will be making his debut in this section also. | Kocsis and Jallos fight under the man- agement of the wily Jimmy Bronson of New York and are regarded as two of the most promising youngsters in | | | in Meet With Springfield. | EFYATTSVILLE. Md. February 12— (N pRaymond Burke, red-head scrapper. | Warren Kidwell, with 123 points in 21 s been picked to represent Columbus | 1 is leading Hyattsville High University in the heavyweight class in | B‘m"'_ il b L o xing meet against Springfield | School's basket ball squad in scoring. A ) College mitt slingers tomcrrow He has counted 51 floor goals and night at the Strand Theater at 8:30 made 21 of 50 foul shots. Burdeite o'clock. in drills this week. Admission to the bouts will be on | school athletic books only. a total of 110 points. Although Hyattsville has won 13 They may games and lost 9. it has scored only be bought at Goldie Ahearn’s, Vic Sport | one mor> poirt than its opponents, 433 Shop and Spalding’s. e |KENSINGTON BOUTS DRAW against 432 | “Seven ‘miore games, Charlotte Hall contest tonight on the armory court here, remain, aside from the State competition. Players with 10 or more points: | Brisk Ticket Sale for Show to Be Presented by Guardsmen. A brisk sale of tickets for { amateur boxing and wrestling program | to be offered Wednesday night at the | Kensington Armory for the benefit of | ! the Kensington Guards is reported. | The pasteboards are on sale at Vic and | Fairway Sports Shops and Silver | Spring and Kensington bowling alleys. | Jack Baxter and Stan Creileski will | | face in the feature boxing bout. Hubert | Barber and Tom Clayton will meet in | the only wrestling match. Kidwell . Cogar Lutz the | Hownsend . two hard-femght games last night in the armory here, the Soldier Regulars bowing to Naval Reserves of Washing- | ton, 25 to 26, and the Reserves suc- | cumbing to the McLean (Va) A. C. 145-pound quint, 15 to 19, in the pre- liminary. » | SECTIONAL CUE WINNER |40 \;gja, NAVY CHUMMY Wallgren Master in Northwestern | 18.2 Billiard Tourney. EVERETT., Wash.. February 12 (#) —Mon Wallgren of Everett won the Pa- | cific Northwest 18.2 balkline billiard | championship last night, taking the final block of play in a three-night | match with Cecil Olaguer of Portland. | The score for the match was 900 to 515. | Wit the victory went the right to rapresent the Northwest at the national tournament at French Lick, Ind., open- ing February 29. Meet in Foot Ball and Base Ball First Time in Many Years. NEW YORK, February 12 (@ — Marking a further resumption of ath- letic relations between the two schools, Columbia will play the Navy at base ball Friday, May 6. It is the first game between them in 20 _years. . Navy also appears on Columbia’s 1932 foot ball schedule for the first time in many years. Hign Ind. Stewart 29 DeGlantz High Team Game. High Team Purs't u) Pur. Gr Gro G 9 L. P. Steu Times-H'ald Post Circu.. Fount. Ham! 3 Tieasury . 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(1); Babe Triscara, Cleveland, knocked cut Jackie Power, Youngstown, Ohio ). KANSAS CITY.—Tony Herrera, El Paso, Tex., outpointed Mickey Cohen, Denver (12). MCKEESPORT, Pa.—Tony Marino, McKeesport, outpointed Franklin Young, Detroit (10). INDIANAPOLIS —Tracy Cox, In- dianapolis, outpointed Santiago Zorilla, Panama_(10); Al Holden, Boston, out- | pointed Ray Drake, Indianapolis (6). | TACOMA, Wash—Paddy Sullivan, | New York, and Pastor Calope, Seattle Filipino, drew (6). | MATMEN ARE PREPARING Central “¥" Team Will Visit Jew- ish Community Center. Central Y. M. C. A. and Jewish Com- munity Center wrestling teams are prepping for their meet Wednesday night at the center to determine the District team amateur title. Both teams boast bang-up records. ‘ There will be competition ranging nlrom the 115-pound to the heavyweight class. Each team won three matches in last season's title meet. J. C. C. members will be admitted without charge to Wednesday's show. There will be a 25-cent charge to non- members. BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. OWING or boxing; it doesn't make much difference to Maxwell Stevenson. He pulled a great oar for Co- lumbia at Poughkeepsie in 1901. He went mining in Nevada, ran a }mm in Tennessee, toured the | world, almost landed Knute Rockne for Columbia’s foot ball coaching job, sponsored the Glendon regime on the college |seas and now runs a trading company in British Guiana, among other enterprises. Now and then he presides as chair- man of the Board of Stewards of the Intercollegiate Boxing Association. “The greatest fight I ever watched was the Gang-Nelson match at Reno in 1906, he Yemerked. The rowing experts cocked an at- tentive ear. “For nearly 25 rounds it was | | a mar- velous exhibition of skill and hitting by Gans, of courage and aggressiveness by THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1932, Stevenson Rates Gans Master Boxer Nelson. Nelson was a boxer him- self, but he was grad cut to pleces by Gans. “Nelson was frequently groggy and almost blinded throughout the last half of the fight, but at the bell for every round he came out at a trot to meet Gans more on a foul, second round. WAS Gans the greatest boxer he ever ehw? “He was, but there’s another Il never forget—Kid McCoy. He was a cruel, gun!.smnx hitter, too. I saw him all but knock out Tom Sharkey one night, but he was overanxious when he had the old sailor in distress and Sharkey came back to win on a knockout himself in 1899.” McCoy met a master in another superlative boxer, Jim Corbett, who knocked out the Kid in five rounds in | 1900 in New York. “For pure defensive boxing skill, however, I have never seen the equal of Jack Johnson,” declared Stevenson. “He could hit, too, but he seldom was | aggressive.” | way. Gans won you know, in the forty- HE two smartest and most resource- | ful boxers this observer has ever watched are Benny Leonard and Gene ‘Tunney. | Sammy Mendell comes close to being in the same class, although he was a weak hitter. ‘'Tommy Loughran, | artist though he has been with tho gloves, lacked sufficient recuperative powers except on one notable occasion when he got up after several knock- | downs to whip Leo Lomski at Madison Square Garden. 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The old Strangler, at first sight, appeared to be merely an asthmatic old gentleman, with a sagging roll of lard around his middle and a bored expres- sion on his battle-scarred pan, but he proved he had plenty between the ears, acquired through the course of some 20 years of grappling, and indi- cated he will prove a first-class attraction in the circuit Daddy Joe Turner trains with, since the lean pickin’s in the Middle West induced him to quit the Bowser mob. W. & J. COACH RESIGNS WASHINGTON, Pa., February 12 (P). | =sBill Amos, who learned the rudiments ‘Wilson Davis, center of the Fraters,|of foot ball within earshot of bursting Armory Hall. WIRELESS Cigar Lighter “g” guaran- teed full strength Regular Price $29.95 S'I 5.95 REAR VIEW MIRROR 17¢ Pentode and Screen Grid Tubes—All powerful speaker. 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