Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1932, Page 32

SPORTS. D. C. Basket Ball Booms on Toward SCHOOLBOY FIVES STILL ARE AGTIVE Have 19 Tussles Scheduled This Week—Track Squads Will Turn Out. ISTRICT schoolboy basket ball outfits today will begin their last big week of the season. Next week there will be an ap- preciable falling off in the number of t rercafter only scattering 1 remain ill plenty of interest in the among the scholastics, many of the 19 games | week promisc to produce worthwhile competition. This week also will mark the start of the competitive track season for the scholastics. Central, Eastern and Tech representatives will show their wares in | the Meadowbrook games Saturday in Philadelphia ! UTSTANDING among the court| tilts are the encounters between Eastern, public high school cham- pion. and Catholic U. freshmen and Tech and George Washington yearlings, both to be played Wednesday at C. U. and Tech, respectively. The Gonzaga- St. John's game. to be played Friday night at 8 o'clock, is another high spot These old rivals usually manage to put on an interesting show, regardless of | the sport. A game between Tech and the Charlottesville fives at Tech Saturs | day is another match of more than usual appeal. Central and Catholic University fresh- men will come to grips at C. U. in the chief attraction todav Other con- tests are scheduled between Georgetown Prep and Landon at the Epiphany | Church gymnasium and Hyattsville | High and Gonzaga at Gonzaga. A clash between St. John's and Alex- andria High on the St. John's court at 8 o'clock looms as the best on tomor- row's card. Afternoon games are slated between Devitt and Eastern at East- ern, Western and Wilson Teachers Col- lege on the latter's court and George- town Prep and Maryland School for the Deaf at Georgetown Prep. SIDE from the Eastern-C. U. fresh- men and the Tech-G. W. yearling contests, Wednesday’s _schedule calls for clashes between Landon and St. Albans at St. Albans, Devitt and Gonzaga at Gonzaga and _Georgetown Prep and Takoma-Silver Spring High 8t Silver Spring. Thursday, generally a lean day for scholastics, is no exception this week. Western is to meet Bethesda-Chevy Chase High at Western in the one game listed. The Gonzaga-St. John's game is the only one carded here Friday. St. Al-| bans is to go down to Orange, Va., for | a brush with Woodberry Forest, and | Georgetown Prep has an engagement | with Mount St. Joseph's of Baltimore | at Garrett Park. | HILE Tech is entertaining Char- lottesville fives Saturday, Business will be enjoying its annual trip | to Greenbrier, W. Va. to meet the| Greenbrier Military Academy quint. Central probably will have a half- dozen or so boys in the Meadowbrook | games, but Eastern and Tech plan to have only two or three each in the| competition Dartmouth Hails Its Olympic Hero By the Associated Press. ANOVER, N. H, February 15. Jack Shea, a mild-man- nered fellow who quietly left the Dartmouth College campus to go over to Lake Placid, N. Y., and win two Olympic speed-skating cham- plonships for Uncle Sam, returned last night to receive the noisiest wel- come ever accorded an individual at Dartmouth. The sophomore was met by more than 500 undergraduates. There was bell tclling, cannon firing and speeches, but the cold stalled the intentions of the college band “T'll treasure this reception,” Shea sald, “as one of the greatest things that ever happened to me.” LEVINSKY T0 TEST DEMPSEY'S WORTH Scrap in Chicago Thursday Apt to Show Chance Jack Has to Come Back. By the Associated Press. EW YORK. February Dempsey steps into the ring at the Chicago Stadium Thursday night for the most important battle of his long exhibition tour. The former heavyweight champion has been playing around with unknow in smaller towns of the Far W Midwest, but on Thursday he will be dangercus of the younger heavyweights King Levinsky of Chicago Levinsky. a solid thumper*when he connects, should give Dempsey a brisk workout in the four rounds the match is slated to go: Out of the match may ome some indication of hcw far Demp- sey can travel on the comeback trail. Dempsey will start off the week at Flint, Mich., tonight, boxing two rounds each against Pat McLaughlin of Racine, Wis., and George Kohler, Chicago Other leading shows this week will be held in Philadelphia tcnight, Day- tona Beach Wednesday night, Los Angeles tomorrow night and New York Friday night, o At Philadelphia, Tony Canzoneri, lightweight champion, meets Lew Mas- sey of Philadelphia in a 10-round non- title engagement. At Daytona Beach, Maxie Rosenbloom, light heavyweight champion, takes on Bob Godwin of At- title. At Los Angeles, Steve Ham promising young heavyweight from Pas- saic, N. J.. will meet Armand Emanuel of San Francisco. Madison Square Garden's show is t-pped by Morrissey, Cincinnati Rookie, Was Slugger With St. Paul. By the Associated Press The Cincinnati Reds need hitting power. Perhaps Joe Morrissey. late of St. Paul, may furnish a few battigg" fireworks. ¥ . and | called upon to meet one of the most | lanta in a 10-rounder billed as for the THE EVENING §. 1. GROBMEIFR EAGER 10 DROP KIRILENKO Win Here Thursday Would Get lowa Wrestler Bouts With Stars of Mat. RED GROBMEIER, gangling hook-scissors expert, who today in Washington holds’ the same hero role Rudy Dusek, Paul Jones, Sandor Szabo and one or two other mat artists played previously, likely will get chances for bigger and | better shots in the near fyture here if he can manage to wrap his needle- | like legs around Matros Kirilenko's | bread basket Thursday night at the Strand Theater. After a draw match with Kirilenko in his first appearance here, Grobmeier successively squeezed into submission one Sailor Jack Lewis and John Maxos, the latter one of the better second- flight_wrestlers. Judging from his showing against Kirilenko previously, the esthetic Grob- meier should stand a good chance to beat the Russian in Thursday's finish match. Although his hook scissors appears to be his only damaging hold, the comparatively skinny Iowan ranks | with Rudy Dusek as the most colorful matman fo become a stock figure here Thursday’s show also will mark the local debut of Ernie Dusek, ‘little” brother of Rudy. Ernie, though oniy 2, weighs around 220 pounds and has been wrestling since he was 16, but it has been only in the last few months thai he has made a name for himself long the Atlantic Coast. The young- ster promises to rival Brother Rudy in both ability and color, and is expected | to hand the popular Dr. Ralph Wilson |a neat trimming. | Fritz Kley, 90 per cent contortionist | and showman, is down for a 30-minute | exhibition with a newcomer here, Fred- | erico Carone. Kley, like Grobmeer, has been undefeated both here and | elsewhere recently, and is a stellar crowd-puller and pleaser. George Kotsonaras, an asset to any wrestling show, will tackle Tiger Nel on and Harry Nixon and George | | Shabo, Army and Navy champs, will |oppose in the other two preliminaries. Women with escorts will be admitted free to all orchestra and balcony seats. 'WASHINGTON TENNIS TEAM LEAGUE VICTOR Downs Dumbarton, 5 to 3, in Balti- more Winter Loop—Trails Victim in Standing. BALTIMORE, February 15.—The Washington team defeated another Na- tional Capital combination, Dumbarton, | 5 to 3, vesterday in a Baltimore Winter | Indoor Tennis League match at the 5th | Regiment Armory. | In the singles each team won three encounters, but Washington scored in | two doubles, one by default and the other two were not played. Despite its loss, Dumbarten is still | ahead of Washington in the league race, tRut only by half a game. Dumbarton is | fourth and Washington fifth in the six- +team locp. | | other grapplers probably | admit | to admit i TR 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. RESIDENT THOMAS C. NOYES of the Washington base ball team has been assured that the American League schedule meeting will come to the National Capital next year. W. Warren has been named cap- tain of the Twining A. C. base ball team. Business High's basket ball man- ager, Firmantrout, has proved un- usually capable. Washington ball team will play six of its first nine games the com- ing season against the world cham- pion Athletics. Johnson of Maryland Agricultural College is a highly promising athlete. QUESTION LONDOS' CAPACTY FOR PAIN “He Can’t Take It” Will Be Cry if Champ Is Beaten by McMillen Tonight. BY ALFRED DAYTON, EW YORK, February 15—If Jim McMillen should happen to win the heavyweight wrest- ling title from Jim Londos at Madison Square Garden tonight the will rise up to a man and declare that the Greek never could take it. While none will it publicly, there is a feeling among the wrestling fraternity that Londos cannot absorb punishment, and the first man who gets him right will take over the championship. So far no one has been able to put Londos on the spot where he was forced defeat rather than endure further suffering, but this, too, perhaps explains why fellows like Ray Steele, George Calza, Sandor Szabo and Mc- Millen keep coming back time after time trying to secure the title. Always there is the hope that Londos will slip into an unbearable position and the title, which he has held for almost two years, will slip out of his grasp. Jim Discards Bike. No doubt. too. the wrestling follow- ers entertain such a hope. They recall the days, before his ascension to the | throne, when Londos was a runner. | He was one of the best back-pedalers | in the business and, while this proved a most successful piece of strategy, it did not increase his popularity. Since | Ed White became his manager, though, he has changed his tactics. He no longer runs, at least only when the oc- casion demands a neat little gallop, and from an almost purely defensive wrestler he has turned into one of the most_aggressive, However, the old picture on Londos when he was working his way up, still | sticks, and there are those who feel | that there will come a time again when he will have to beat such a hasty and disorganized retreat that he no longer will be able to protect his title suc- cessfully. And apparently they believe that McMillen and his flying tackle form just the combination which is most likely to put Londos to rout. ECLIPSES TANK RECORD N, DG - Finish : Toil Makes Rickey Dia "THE TIMID SOUL. Z | 222\ HE 1S PLACED AT e <rigy THE SAME TABLE WITH A ROUGH AND READY FEEDER AND DECIDES NOT TO EMBARRASS HIM BY OBSERVING ANY RULES OF ETIQUETTE @D 1392 Ny Tmisune, nc. SPORTS, —= —By WEB TER The First Olympic Games THEY STARTED HOW This is the first of eight daily articles on the origin of the Olympic games and their traditions and an- cient customs. BY WALTER TRUMBULL ECESSITY drove prehistoric man to the practice of athletics. The prizes were life, love and the pursuit of happiness. Unless the cave dweller was strong enough to take a girl from a fighting family and overcome rival suitors, he maintained a bachelor apartment And, having obtained a mate, unless he was swift enough to finish first in every race with a sabre toothed tiger the little woman lost a good provider. with a stone or a club. It until ages later that he was with anything so light as a But slowly the spirit of sports- manship improved until friendly com- petitions extended from families to tribes and there came into existence those contests known as games Among the first of these public con- | tests of which we have any record are the Tailtin games of Ireland. held about 1829 B.C. and won by Cuchulain the Ulsterman, son of Lugh of the Long | Arm. But the most celebrated games were those of Greece and most famous | of all were those held in the Valley of lis at Olympia. The ancient Greeks always set great store by athletics, but their four great Is were the Olympian. Isthmian. | crowned was not crowned wreath. | By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, February 15.—Gene | Since the Cards in those days could Sarazen, the veteran Long Island cam- |DOt bid for stars against wealthy own- 'SARAZEN'S GOLF BEST ‘IN NEW ORLEANS OPEN ::" Hits 290 Score to Win Tourney and fifi,‘d $1,000—Cooper Second, With Total of 291. Gene put wpiher four rounds for mond Genius BULDER OF CARDS FGHTS TOHEGHTS School Teacher, Lawyer and Soldier, Branch Finally Is Champion-Maker. BY SHERMAN McNALLY, Associated Press Staff Writer. T. LOUIS, February 15.—It isn’t by accident that Branch Rickey, base ball genius of the Cardinals, has been able to bring four pennants and two world titles to St. Louis in six seasons. Born 50 years ago in a small Ohio village, his boyhood on a farm was the preface to a life full of difficulties. Overcoming them proved ideal training for lifting the Cardinals from a debt- ridden, tail-end club to prosperous world champions. As a young man Rickey taught for two years at a “tough” country school where no other teacher had lasted more than one term; started with $68 and worked his way throug 2e came a ng and seri finally—in 1913—turned froj chosen profession of law to a base ball career primarly in order to safeguard his_healt He was no t Near ranger to the national 10 vears before he had Browns Part of tt pro foot ba letic direct Ohio Wesleyan A year as sec and two as di its feet wh interrupted by served ove: chemical the 19 laying the groundwork for the club’s later success. Organized “Knothole Gang.” One of his early ideas was the “knot- n whereby he built » Cardinals by giving membershi good five days a week, 1 Not only did 5 pread to d receipts, ' members became cash they plemented by " the passes to the up a f ustomers as gang” helped lowing for the team long ed. T Rickev had u rm or ° tem as a means of develo Fromising young players instead of buy- | ing them after they had made good. ers like Jacob Ruppert and the late paigner, had a crisp check for $1,000 wiljjam Wrigley, some such plan was and another tournament victory to his | imperstive. credit today, after leading a stellar fleld over the multiple hazards of Metarie | | Golf Club in the $5000 New Orleans |base ball history Piques Fans With New Faces. How well the farm system worked is Scouts and minor league clubs in the Cardinal org: A= | tion have kept a continuous stream of | new material moving in, with new faces pique the interest Yesterday's summardes: ‘ SINGLES. ingsor a 200, which just shaded Harry Cooper | every little while to : erday. | Of the fans. of Chicago for first money yesterdsy.|™ picrey.” fairly tell well built and Cooper finished second with 201 and pogsessed of an intense, rather cra- - collected $750. matic personality, is an unusual base ball have some record of them through| 'The best round of the tournament | character in more ways th welve centuries and the flaming glory | yqg pln%fl! yesterday by Denny Shute Holder of four college degrees. s of their memory still lights every field | of Cleveland, who turned in & morning | trustee of Ohio Wesleban and a popu- L thletic endeavor. =\ . american| C&Td Of 67. 5 under par. to match the |iar public speaker. M Newspaper Alliance. Inc ) course record and tie Sarazen at the| He has continually demanded that = ’fil-hole turn. It was a real come-|his men conduct themselves with the (Next: When Athletics Was Religion.) | back after a first 36-hole total of 151 |utmost sportsmanship both on and off P — - and added to his Sunday afterncon's |:he field. Ak a 4, gave 292 for third money. $600. e never touches alcohol, and never PLENTY OF RELAY TALENT. | ™800 " facked par on the final day |goes to the ball park on Sunday. When Last year Manhattan College had the | under perfect playing conditions, but|he was directing the team on the field, | best relay team in its history. This sea- | Denny's 67 proved the thrill. along the club had @ “Sunday manager.” son the sophomore stars are so good the with ‘an ace scored on the 150-yard| His favored recreations arc hunting veterans of last year's quartet may see little major competition. ian and Nemaean games. All had their part in the history of the land and people, but of the four the Olympian were the oldest and the greatest. We Inducements were great for the aver- age citizen to become a sprinter, a long and quick leaper and an expert marks- man with rock. arrow and spear. The idea of athletics as & sport grew with the growing of families into tribes If the best fighter killed off all the others it left him at the mercy of the| women and the neighbors—neither of whom had any. It followed that when there was no T0 BIG DIAMOND YEAR infield for the last few vears. Starred Dr. | Ratherine Pawls Breast Strokes 440 in 6:46 2-5 for U. S. Mark. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. Febru- : teq |8TY 15 (P)—Katherine Pawls, Fort cian’y : on Club) defeated | 5y gerdale swimming star, clipped i | Sonner Elected President of | U'% Vo, 1", M pottop. He bat- | on Club) defeated | 432; seconds off the national women's 2 | 440-yard breast stroke record at the el S n. 8 —Allof Tast: W [tec 831 A8st Season fker (Dumbirton Club) defeat- Base Ball Club mbarton, Club) defeat- | 440:¥aTC, breast steoke ™ A right-hander, Morrissey is 6 feet | oo itk B ranan: ooy Year's Men to Return. 1 inch tall. TRk | 'The event was timed and sanctioned | and Clyde Yeomans (Wash-|by the A. A ACh i 5 | outsider visible as a target men began Jonn Purinon and Patrick | Her time was 6:462;. The old rec- | o shoot at an inanimate mark. Thus Thomas Quinn | OFd Was set in 1925 by Agnes Geraghty.|form was evolved and questions of | alt from C The present world record is held in | gstance and grip became matters of | Holland. e = = The good loser is a product of civili- Beginners always find putting dif- 5 zation. In those davs it took an alert ficult. Star golf irequently have 1 s 3 TENPlN RECORD CLAIMED ‘\\‘inner to keep himself from being this shot go wrong for them. They Ms i LI s S have periodic slumps. Perhaps an s CHICAGO, February 15 (#)—Frank J 1 idea of Glenna Collett Vare's will help either class. defcated Comar. Holy Cross College. He sif d with Hartford in 1926 and after a "'t term with that club and with Clarks- |fa burg. W. Va. and Evansville he went nan’ (Washington) defeated 6. 86, 11 | gton) won by de- FRONT ROYAL, Va.. February 15— ¥ront Royal All-S who showed strongly in base b: ranks last season, many times against District of Cnlum-‘ bia teams. have reo ized and are looking to another successful campaign. | All last vear's players are expected to | be available again along with other ma- | nan__and by defa seventeenth by Ky Lafoon of Denver. and golf who finished outside the money. Rickey has a wife and six chil 2 desian Benkovic rolled up what was believed | v - to be a world record for nine games RESUME FANCY CUE PLAY today in leading the Plankington Ar-| LEARN TO (n = | cade five of Milwaukee, into the lead PUTT _ALONG \J_ 4 Peterson, Ribas in Second Round of | in the Greater Chicago handicap bowl- X/ aolgines ing tournament. COLLET® Tourney at Chicago Tonight. Benkovic rolled 774 in the five-man CHICAGO, February 15 (®— Edd Ifigee , in which his team collected 3,274 | Charles Peterson of St. Louis and pi scored 729 in the doubles, in| which he and C. Gordon totaled 1.420, | | Tsdro Ribas of Spain tonight will open and in the singles piled up a 756 score. | the second round of their world cham- | His all-events total was 2,259 for a| pionship fancy-shot billiards battle. The program calls for 100 shots, 34 | grand average of 251. tonight and tomorrow night and 32 BOWLS PERFECT GAME. Wednesday night. Each player is per BUFFALO, N. Y., February 15 (#)— | mitted four tries at each specified shot, | Ray Schultz of Buffalo. rolled a perfect | the victor being decided on a low- score of 300 in one of the ten games of | <core basis, Peterson gained a 13-point | his bowling match with Frank Caruana | |1ead in the opening round at St. Louis open its season around the rg;?dle of s bowline et April and Business Manager Shiner is : 1 g 4 v vi Other legs of the tournament will be | = arranging a _tentative schedule with fast | plsved in Washington, D. G New York = HEADQUARTERS FOR e DR fnd Havana, Cuba. AUTO TRUNKS L.S.JULLIEN,Inc. 1443 P St. N.W. North 8076 a well attended meeting of play- ers and fans held in the court house, Dr. Willard W. Sonner was elected resident of the club, Dr. Lyle F. Hans- rough vice president, S. C. Payne sec- etary and treasurer and E. T. Shiner Buciness manager. Dr. Sonner and Dr. Hansbrough, to- gether with W. R. Thompson, S. B. Downing and Judge W. G. Olmstead | form the board of directors. George Riddick, Randolph - Macon Academy coach, will manage the team. Last season the All-Stars defeated among others Olmstead Grill nine of Washington and St. Mary's Celtics of Alexandria g Extensive improvements are being made on the diamond. The Front Royal nine expects to 2-0-32 MEXICAN NINE VICTOR. MEXICO CITY, February 15 (P).—- The Aztecas of Mexico City made it five in a row over the Pirrone All Stars lof Los Angeles in their base ball series yesterday, winning 21 to 6. ‘The big thought in putting is to stroke the ball on a line to the cup. When unable to do that, Mrs. Vare suggests that you stretch a string straight over the surface of a putting green, place your ball as close to it as possible and practice putting it on a line parallel to the string. e T RUTH st win %l “You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people BREAkST!AND IN BRAWL Captain of Montreal Hockey Team Hors de Combat for Month. TORONTO. 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