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A—12 Squad of BURKE ONLY TARDY ATHLETE UNSIGNED Hurler Demanding Greater Raise—Marberry, Spencer Talk Terms Today. BY TOM DOERER. TLOXI, Miss., February 22.— B Nothing more serious than| feeling the touch of leather and the loosening of their sea legs happened to the Wash- ington base ball club pitchers and catchers today as they in- augurated the Spring training campaign for 1932. Even Al Schacht, one of the great army of coaches on this ball club, found no excuse nor means for fitting celebration of George i Washington's natal day. Thirteen athletes are here. They are pitchers, John Boyle, Lloyd Brown, Alvin Crowder, Carl Fischer, Robert Friedericks, Lynn Griffith, Fred Mar- berry, Frank Ragland, Luther Thomas (Chattanooga_property), and catchers, CHff Bolton, Ed Gharrity, Roy Spencer and Howard Maples. Beside Owner Clark Grifith and Manager Walter Johnson there are Coaches Al Schacht, Nick Altrock: ‘Trainer Mike Martin and Frank Baxter, club house custodian. Only Marberry, Spencer Out. Among the arrivals only two have \failed to show Griffith how their sig- natures appear on 1932 contracts. They are the big right-hander, Fred Mar- berry, who goes into consultation this afternoon with his boss, and Roy Spen- cer, the catcher, who, too, argues it out along some line or another. Bob Burke, the fork-fisted hurler, is still without the fold and, according to information this morning, may balk for some time. Eddie Ainsmith. Johnson's old bat- tery mate of another era, is winging his way to this camp to become a member of the coaching staff. He is | due late today. Eddie is coming from | Brooklyn, N. Y. His home is in Cambridge, Mass. Eddie’s presence on the club will give the Washington team the unique distinction of having only three catch- ers and two catching coaches, figuring, of course, trat the greater part of | Gharrity's work is coaching | Pitchers Monte Weaver and Mike | Delaney are due to arrive. Both have signed. Johnson Likes Small Squad. Manager Walter Johnson, socked by | & slight shower of rays from a hot | Biloxi sun this morning, went into a prophetic mood. Sir Walter looks for- | ward to one of the most intensive and thorough ~ grapefruit _sieges in vears | when the full compliment of the small squad of players arrive to intrench for training activities. “I have been an advocate of com- pact squads for years,” said the very serious Walter, “for the reason that they are fair to player and club alike.” Johnson obviously contends that with only a small group at camp new and veteran men Wwill be given undivided and minute attention, while the man- agement’s pocketbook will not be em- barrassed by the visit of the head waiter. i Jim Mooney, the young meteoric giant southpaw peaflipper, who left a burning trail of eight consecutive wins in his wake at the fag end of last season, is an example offered by John- son to back up his argument for a wieldy outfit of prospective talent. | Mooney was purchased from & Southern loop and given & one-eyed peek by the Giant coaches who had 50 much talent on hand that they be- | lieved the unemployment situation had been put up to them to handle. As a| result Jim was shunted to Bridgeport, | Eastern League, to learn something | about which he knew more than plenty. McGraw lest his services in | the meanwhile. ; Ten New Ones in Group. | There will be 10 new faces for the Gniff management and coaches to look | over at this camp. Two of the group, | Outfielder Reynolds and Infielder Kei late of the White Sox, should present no problem. But 6 of the 10 will have nothing more than minor league | tutelage and experience to back them SPORTS. THE EVENING 13 Griffs Start Training : Card “Ch Preserved Snow Saves Ski Meet By the Associated Press. EAR MOUNTAIN, N. Y., February 22—When nature falled to provide snow for the Palisade ski-jumping tournament today, the artificial ice rink was called upon to fill the breach. Over a period of three months the snow sweepings from the rink have been collected at its three daily cleanings and placed in cold storage. MAT ADONIS FAGES CHANCE T0 GO UP Finish Bout With Dusek May Be Wilson’s Reward if He Beats Smith. R. RALPH WILSON, wres- tling’s Clark Gable to Wash- ington's feminine clientele, ! may earn himself a finish match with Ernie Dusek, with whom he went to & 45-minute draw last week, should he polish off Leon Smith Thurs- day night when they grapple in the semi-final to the Tiny Roebuck-Sandor Zzabo match at the Strand Theater. Wilson, however, may find Smith a real obstacle. The Chicagoan is the same gent who s untimely defeated Carl Pojello just before the Lithuanian jumped the Curley circus and joined forces with Gus Sonnen! Pojello, prior to his defeat by Smit! garded by many as the equal of Jimmy Londos, and was himself clamoring for a match with the Greek champion. Should Be Snappy. Szabo and Roebuck, should they fol- low up Thursday where they left off several months ago, will provide one of the most entertaining matches of the year. Almost ridiculously mal- paired as far as physiques go, it, never- theless, was another victory for a David against a Goliath when Szabo won previously on flying tackles. Thursday, however, Roebuck expects to even matters, for the Indian has im- proved mightily. Other matches will bring together Fritz Kley and Wankah Zelesniak and Sammy Stein and Paul Favre, the for- mer Jewish champ and the latter the French title claimant. Women again will be admitted free be available tomorrow at the Annapo- lis Hotel. 'MITCHELL-BUCHANAN PASS UP NET TITLE Washington Well Represented in Maryland Indoor Tourney Opening Saturday. BALTIMORE, February 22.—Dooly Mitckell and Bill Buchanan of Wash- ington, doubles champions last season, will not defend their title in the Mary- land State men's indoor tennis cham- pionships, opening Saturday afternoon at the Fifth Regiment Armory because of inability of Mitchell to compete. Elmer Rudy of Baltimore, present singles titlist, will defend. He will team in the doubles with Eddie Jacobs, also of Baltimore, sixteenth national rank- ing player. ‘Washington will be represented in the tourney by Thomas Markey, Thomas Quinn, Clyde Yeomans, Bernard Losh- bough, Joseph Olhausen, Frederico Sendel, Fred Doyle, John Purinton, Joe Rutley, Clarence Dawson, Hartley Fel- lows, Comdr. C. | Martinez. Entries will close Friday at 6 p.m. with Walter E. Beuchelt at the Mayor's office, City Hall, Baltimore. C. Gill and M. G. if accompanied by escorts. Tickets will | 42 CHAMPIONS VIE FORA. AU HONORS Vonzke, Sexton, Toppino and Spitz Stand Out in Classic Meet Tonight. By the Assoclated Press. EW YORK, February 22.—Led by the season’s four outstand- ing stars, one of the greatest arrays of champions ever as- sembled will go after the national in- door track and field championships of the Olympic year tonight. ‘The meet at Madison Square Garden is one of two this week. Saturday the annual meet of the New York Chapter, Knights of Columbus, will be held, and on March 6 the intercollegiates will write “finis” on the indoor season. The entry list for the nationals shows a total of 42 champlons, holders of American, British Empire, Hungarian, South African, Canadian and inter- collegiate championships. There will be 12 record holders and 16 American record holders. . Four Stars Stand Out. The big four of this group are Gene Venzke, the sensational 4:10 miler from Pottstown, Pa.; Leo Sexton, shotputter extraordinary, of the New York Athletic Club, who recently eclipsed all r with a toss of nearly 53 feet; George Spitz, ineligible New York University high jumper, who has hoisted his in- door record to 6 feet 8'; inches, and Emmett Toppino, sprint ace from Loy- ola of the South, who has equaled the 80-yard record three times. For Venzke, perhaps the most sen- sational performer of the season, it will be the last mile of the indoor cam- paign. He will run Saturday in the Knights of Columbus meet, but, at hifi request, the famed *“Columbian mile’ has been changed to its Olympic equiv- alent, the 1,500-meter run, to give him a chance at another record. 'GRIFFITHS AND SAKS WILL SETTLE TITLE Game Tomorrow Will Decide Flag in Section A of Community Center Basket Loop. Griffith-Consumers and Saks Cloth- iers will meet tomorrow night at 9 o'clock at Eastern High to decide the section A title in the Community Center League. They finished their league schedule tied for the lead. The winner Will meet Delaware & Hudson, section B victor, in a three- | game series for the league flag. Eight teams will see action this aft- ernoon on the Hine Junior High School court in a tournament to de- | termine _the Southeast Community Center championship. Play will start at 1 o'clock. Northern Prep 130-pound basketers will meet Eagles at 7 o'clock and | Nerthern unlimiteds will face United | Typevriter Grays at 9 o'clock tonight at_ the Takoma-Silver Spring High School. Jewish Community Center basketers evened scores with Knights of Columbus for a recent defeat, when they triumphed, 29 to 22, in a preliminary to the Eagle-Vic game yesterday at silver Spring. Other Results. ‘Tremonts, 27; Laurel Guards, 22. J. C. C. Girls, 20; Schiff Girls (Brook- lyn, N. Y)), 7. Investigation, 45; Interior, 9 (Govern- ment League). Fort Myer Cubs, 50; J. C. C., 37. Fort Washington, 49; Company M (Annapolis Guards), 33. Calvary M. E. is after a game for tomorrow night on its court. Menager goa(or.v‘vyala may be reached at Georgia M’FARLANE’S PUTTER up, while the rookie, Johnnie Bo_\'le:: FAILS, HUNYAN wINs the bashful sandlot right-hand hurler | from Bayonne, N. J. has nothing to | offer, but much to show. Among the six, too, ib Pitcher Mike Delaney, the Chicago right-hander, who has been seasoning at Youngs- town. He was on the mound for the Nationals in batting practice last sea- son on several occasid‘ns. and is 100k(‘di on favorably by Johnson. P e outsider of the flock, Luther | Thomas, Charlottesville, Va. blond, who right-handed his way tb 20 vic- tories in 21 games in Washington last year, as_a member of the Olmsted- | Grill outfit, is property of Chattanooga | and will report there at bell time. But Griffith says ke wants him here for a | full-sized peek as well as to have him | get into condition by serving the bat- | ters. Biloxi Bunts Citizens of Biloxi turned out en| masse to greet Walter Johnson's band early last evening, backed up by the Boys' Band which turned out “Hail, | Hail, the Gang's All Here."” | CIiff Bolton. sun-tanned and bronzed from a Winter of farm work. brought | ® deluge of rain with him at Winston- | Salem late Saturday night, when he | hopped aboard the special. It contin- | ued all of vesterday. 1 Johnson recalled that this is his | twenty-fifth training trip, matching 1[" against Al Schacht’s twenty-third and Nick Altrock’s thirty-third. | Clark Griffith is burned the tone of a nice juicy strawberry. He has been digging up divots on the local golf course and is boasting of his game. Biloxi verdure is as green as Wash- | ington’s in July. Garden truck has far advanced and the breezes coming from the Gulf are warm. Griff is predicting ideal prepping weather. Altrock’s greatest: momentary concern 1s to find some one here to letter initials | on his golf bag, while s clowning mate, Schacht, fretting from a beating at cards by Walter Johnson, is trying 10 decide whether to imitate Mahatma Gandhi or the Democratic party at the | next world series. Else Jacobsen Does 3:8 345 for: 200 Meters With Breast Stroke. COPENHAGEN, Denmark, February 22 (#).—Else Jacobsen of Copenhagen established what is claimed to be a world record for the 200-meter breast stroke today when she swem the dis- tance in 3 minutes 8 3-5 seconds, beat- ing Miss Kerston Isberg of Sweden by one ya r%xll compete in the co;:,\lng Both Olympic sames at Los Angelgs. $625 in Gasparilla Open Event at Tampa. PALMA CEIA GOLF CLUB, Tampa, Fla, February 22.—Paul Runyan of Porchester, N. Y., was $925 richer to- day and Willle MacFarlane of Tucka- hoe, N. Y., his runner-up in the u.ogg Gasparilla open golf tournament here, was $625 to the good, but kicking him- self for blowing some putts that cost | him the championship yesterday in th final 26-hole match. g MacFarlane, usually a deadly putter, missed in the pinches, several times the | ball halting on an inch or two from birdies that would have won holes. Willie went down, 3 and 1. Runyan made few mistakes, and when he did falter came right back with dazzling shots that more than re- gained lost ground. In the semi-finals Runyan eliminated Tony Manero of Elmhurst, N. Y., and MacFariane put out Bill Mehlhorn of New York. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. AUTILUS Swimming Club of the Y. M. C. A. has been sus- pended by the South Atlantic branch of the A. A. U. for compet- ing against the Naval Academy team. A meeting of the Amateur Base Ball Commission of the District has been called by President Robert Young. Northern A. C. base ball team has reorganized. Among its players are Brown, Jenkins, St. Clair, Biegler, Lewis, Lacey, Trumble and Keller. Georgetown and Virginia quints are to meet in another basket ball game this season, it has been de- cided. Alvi. Williams, catcher, has been obtained by the Washington team from Boston. Joe Turner is to meet Bob Berry in a wrestling match at the Gayety. The purse is $500, winner to take all. It will be a finish match, best two of three falls. Abe Attell has been matched for & . boging bout with Johnny Kilbane. Participants in preliminaries of the Memorial A. C. wrestling tourna- ment were Marshall, Freene, Burton, Santite, Moore, Connolly, Lang, Van- aman, Mayhew, Randell, Baker, Weihle, Langley, Gledhill, Paxton, Donahue and Thompson. Washington chess team, without A. W. Fox, defeated Baltimore in an_intercity match. Reuter and Blackistone of the Central High track team are taking a rest. WELTERS TO BATTLE | INHE-NIGHT FEATURE | Victor Collects $925, Runner-up Eleven Events on Program to Be Offered as Rockville Fire Department Benefit. Lou Raymond, sturdy Baltimore welterweight ringman, will square off against Pepper Young, veteran Norfolk (Va.) battler, in the feature bout of the fistic card at the annual He-Night boxing and wrestling show of the Rockville Fire Department to- night, at Congressional Airport, on the Rockville pike. There will be, in all, 11 events. Competition will be- gin at 8 o'clock. Tickets are on sale at Vic sports shop, Fairway sports store and the airport. Raymond and Young are slated to go eight rounds and the semi- windup, between Arthur De Beve, former lightweight champion of France, and Jimmy McKenna, also is slated for eight rounds. Jimmy Tramberia and Marino Marini, lightweights, of Baltimore and Washington, will battle in the main preliminary at six rounds, and Billy Essinger and Sailor Oden, Soldier Clark and Billy Britten and Tommy Horn and Bob Portna will mix in four-rounders. Joe Turner, wrestling promoter of this city, will meet Frank Cray in a time-limit mat encounter that will be sandwiched in the ring program. Colored women will appear in a fistic encounter and Mary Hipple's dancers will perform in added fea- tures. HOPPE GRABS CUE AGAIN Plays in Special Three-Cushion Tournament Tonight. CHICAGO, February 22 (#)—Willie Hoppe, former world balkline billiards champion, will return to competition for the first time since 1928 tonight in a five-handed special three-cushion tournament. Hoppe will meet Jay Bozeman of Vallejo, Calif., in the first night match. Bozeman also was down to meet Augie Kieckhefer of Chicago, world three-cushion title holder, in the first afternoon match. Welker Cochran and Arthur Thum- blad of Chicago were scheduled for the second afternoon game and Cochran and Kieckhefer will meet in the sec- ond night engagement. SQUASH TENNIS VICTOR. ST. LOUIS, February 22 (#).—Paul Goessling of St. Lopis won the Western Squash Tennis Championship by de- feating Jack Gordon, also of St. Louis, in the final round of the tournament. Goessling won three out of four games, the scores being 18—14, 10—15, 18—13 and 15—10. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DOWN TO GYM WORK TODAY. TICKETS GO ON SALE FOR COLISEUM CARD | Four Referees to Handle Five Bouts on Bill at Maryland U. Next Monday Night. A referee has been selected for each of the four eight-round boxing bouts to be presented a week from tonight in Ritchie Coliseum at the University of Maryland as an unofficial feature of the District of Columbia Bicentennial sports celebration. The officials will be Goldie Ahearn, | Heinle Miller, Charley Short and Billy Whipp. Antol Kocsis will meet Dick Welsh in the feature bout, a bantam affair. In addition to the four eight-rounders, a four-round preliminary is scheduled. ‘Tickets for the bouts may be had at |the Willard Hotel, Vic Sports Shop, | Goldie Ahearn's and Spalding’s. Prices are $1, $1.50 and $2. HYATTSVILLE SQUAD TO RUN IN C. U. MEET High School to Be Represented in Three Relay Races and In- dividual Events. HYATTSVILLE, Md., February 22— Six entries in individual events and three relay teams will represent Hyatts- ville High School in the Catholic Uni- versity track meet Saturday night at Brookland, it was announced today by Manager Harvey Love. Hyattsville has scored in both the previous C. U. games and is hopeful of counting in Satur- day’s affair. Paul Smith, former Uni- coaching the squad. Capt. Tom Hayes has been entered in both the mile and half-mile runs. Willlam Garman and Eckert also will compete in the 880, and in the quarter- mile event William Toole, James Camp- bell and Manager Love will perform. Hyattsville’s team in the mile relay for high and prep schools will be picked from Charles Childress, Andrew Bev- eridge, Jack Reisinger, Stanley Kernan, John Tucker and Arnon Mehring. Its quartet in the two-thirds of a mile re- lay for junior high schools will be Francis Heid, Carlton Baker, Ernest Newman and Owen Chaney, and in the club relay for boys under 100 pounds it will have a team under the name of the Hyattsville Hornets, comprising Thomas Beardsley, Charles Heid, Wil- liam Baldwin and David Moran. Basket ball teams of Company F en- joyed a field day yesterday, winning three games. The Soldier Regulars won twice, defeating Sport Mart, 39 to 16, and Dixiana Barbecue, 12 to 9, while }gewksservu downed Maryland A. C., Company F has entered a team in the unlimited division in the District A. A. U. championship series. This is the seventh of eight daily articles on the origin of the Olympic games and their traditions and an- cient customs. BY WALTER TRUMBULL. HE first preparation for each set of the old Olympic games was to_select the judges and other officials. At "first there was only one judge and he always was selected from améng the descend- ants of Oxylus. But there would seem to have been a little home umpiring going on, for at the time of the fiftieth Olympiad the numbe: of judges was increased to two and they were chosen by lot. The two were increased to nine and then to 12. The final number set- tled upon was 10, one chosen by lot from each of the Elean tribes. A competitor had the right to appeal from a decision of the judges to the Elean Senate. This again shows the importance attached to the games. Imagine a base ball player in a world series having the right to appeal from an umpire’s decision to the Senate of the United States! After the judges were chosen an alytarches was appointed. He roughly corresponded to the modern referee and his assistants to clerks of the course. All free Greeks were eligible for the games. They were obliged to prove that they were of pure Hellenic blood, had not been !flflt{V of sacrilege. or branded with loss of citizenship or dis- honor. Thav vere further required to make oath that ihey had been in con- | At versity of Maryland athlete, again is| The First Oly RULES FOR ANCIENT ATHLETICS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1932. e | | | | BY ORLO ROBERTSON, Associated Press Sports Writer. 1 EW YORK, February 22.—1In her | own way, she's one of the pret- | tiest young ladies in America, s mincing, prancing young | lady. | | She's quite the catch of the season, as far as horses go, this Miss Top | Flight. Daughter of the very aristocratic Mr. Dis Donc and Mrs. Flyatit. Despite her youth, 3 scant years, she already | has banked $219,000 As a matter of fact she is the richest young lady in all | the history of horse racing. * | Perhaps her face isn't as beautiful, | classically, as some feminine faces that appear at race tracks, but she can wig- | gle her ears. Her nose is rather long, but her legs, her back limbs rather, are | !slim and shapely and snow white. | | Otherwise, she’s a soft, glossy bay color, all but the white blaze across her face. Her eyes are big and brown. She seems | to know it. | QHE'S a most affectionate young lady | and a very good housekeeper. She | has a spotless white home in the C. V. Whitney Stables at Brookdalc | Farm, near Red Bank, N. J. She eals| her oats and hay in the dignified man- ner of a grande dame, never scattering | food about the house as some ill-bred horses do. There is nothing upstage about her; she is just “choosy.” She loves to have her sleek coat brushed and shined, her legs oiled. Her affections, however, are none too stable. For a lump of sugar she'll make a grand play for an utter stranger. She nuzzles around in the pockets of vis- itors if the sugar isn't forthcoming. She has a way of looking disappointed, |even a bit disgusted, if the search is fruitless. “Mimi” is her name around the stables and Top Flight just a title that goes into the record book. Her constant companion is Pintail, one of the home- | liest fillies in the barn, and it may be that “Mimi” is just feminine enough to know that she suffers nothing by com- parison. She doesn't seem to ke good-looking horses. Neither will she bave anything to dp with Brownie, & little mongrel dog that goes from stall to stall, inspecting the work of the grooms. | LTHOUGH she likes apples, one caused the only accident she has ever figured in. She was more interested in a romp with Pintail in the paddock than in an | apple offered her by a stableboy. As she wheeled away from him, she kicked up her heels, striking the boy in the face. His jaw was broken. ‘The grooms say it was an accident. To show that she was sorry, they in- sist Top Flight stopped her romp, left her playmate and stood sorrowfully by wat as the boy was given first aid. mpic Games stant and diligent training for a period of not less than 10 months. When accepted as competitors their names, parentage and city were record- ed and they were subjected to a final training of 30 days under famous in- structors in the gymnasium at Elis. In connection with this gymnasium were steam, hot and cold baths, rub- bers and attendants. The ancient Greek knew considerable about physical training and hygiene. One trainer, Herodicus, was noted for his knowledge of diet and the value of regular hours of sleep and exercise. For a long time the diet of athletes consisted principally of cheese. Dromeus was the first man known to have added meat to his training diet. It must have reed with him, for he many victories, but it probably had a bad effect on those who followed him. They seem to have concluded that the more meat they ate the stronger they would become, and some of them altufled themselves to the point of sl ess. As the Hellenes had no watches, we do not know what time they made in their races, but it g:‘obthy was not fast for the dashes. the first place, they ran from a standing start over a sandy course, and in the second their [form doesn't appear to have been any too good, from pictures of runners ‘which have come down to us. (Copyright, 1933, by the North American Newspaper Allianeg, Inc.) (Next and last instaliment: Nudist thietes.). SPORTS, —By TOM DOERER Top Flight, Rich in W innings, First Filly Derby Favorite, Has All the Feminine Traits Her life today is serene. There wml be no really hard work for her until it is time to ‘start active training for | the races preliminary to the Kentucky Derby. Already she is the favorite for | the 3-year-old classic, first time in the history of the race that a filly has been the first choce of the Winter book- one filly, Regret, ever | won the Derl Three times a day Top Flight's hoofs | are inspected and manicured and she | insists they be thoroughly cleaned. She eats only twice a d but not for any | need of dieting, mgh she has | gained 75 pounds since the close of her | 2-year-cld campaign. Breakfast is a | large order of oats, served shortly after she rises. She waits then until nightfall | for a concoction of hot bran mash that | has been simmering in large iron pots | since morning. | Like any lady with a mind of her | wn, she has her preference in jockeys. ‘Sonny” Workman rides her to the races, but her pal is Arthur Nelligan, | the stable's head exercise boy. She runs | fast for him. NINE TO REORGANIZE ; Miller-Roamers Will Hold Meeting Wednesday Night. A reorganization meeting of the Miller-Roamer base ball team, runner: up to the Olmsted Grill nine for the | senor class Capital City League cham plonship last season, will be held Wed- nesday night at 8 o'clock at the home | of Manager Thompson, 343 Tennessee | avenue northeast. Candidates old and new are asked to report. GRID CAPTAIE HONORED. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., February 22 (#).—The Brooks Memorial Medal, awarded annually to the Willlams Col- lege foot ball player whose work is ad- judged of most value to the college, has been presented to William Fowle of Winnetka, Ill, captain of last year's eleven. Pointers on Golf To putt well the golfer must un- derstand the action of the clubhead. To that end we have sketched the putter’s view of a clubhead stroking the ball. In the upper panel the motion that imparts a hook is shown; in the one under it, the slice. The putter cannot depend on curv- ing the ball, but must putt it on & line to the cup; in other words, his clubface must come into the ball on the line to the hole and continue to hold that line after contact. That is the only way to avoid slicing or hooking. Watch the head of your putter as you make contact with the ball when you practice. See that the line of 3 Il o o HOOK, A 'i U j o Blgns awting the swing. ORly In of flight e x ly that way may the ball be stroked and kept on line. At the same time, play the ball off the left heel so your clubhead will be swinging upward at or just after contact in order to im- art the overspin that drops the ball into the cup when it reaches its target. Balls stroked in that way fall into ‘Those stroked on a down- WATTS-ROUSE SCRAP FEATURED IN MEET umbus University Team Takes on South Carolina Tonight. Brailsford Formidable. Heading the South Carolina Univer- sity boxing team that appears tonight at the Strand Theater against Colum- bus University glovemen will be Jim Watts, who will face Gerald Russo in the 135-pound class. He is described as a hard puncher and crowd pleaser. The card will open at 8:30 o'clock. Jim Brailsford, featherweight, is an- | other Gamecock expected to show strongly. He is apt to find the going tough, though, against Mite Tardugno, an aggressive ringman. Capt. Eddie Marmel will get action in | a meet here for the first time when he meets John Scott, South Carolina ban- tam. Columbus’ other opponents here | have had no entry in the 118-pound class, Mickey O'Connor, Gus Mirman and Leo Covaleskie are other Columbus bat- tlers upon whom Coach Dick O'Connell is counting heavily. Athletic books covering admission to the bouts as well as other Columbus sports events will remain on sale at Goldie Ahearn's until 6 o'clock this eve- ning, ‘The card: 118 pounds—Capt. Eddie Marmel (Colum- bug) Vs, 1 vs. Jim Brailsford. 135 _pounds—Gerald Russo (Columbus) vs. Jim Watts. 145 Dounds—Lee Covaleskie (Columbus) *160” pounds - “Mickey” 0'Connor (Colum- John <°Albert McCraves. pounds—Gus Mirman (Columbus) vs. Henry Willard Uniimited—Donald Burke (Columbus) vs. J. R. De 3 CLUSTERS BALL STARS Joe Brown Gets Speaker, Bancroft and Alex for Coast Game. LOS ANGELES, February 22 (#).— Three great ball players of other years, Tris Speaker, Grover Cleveland Alex- ander and Dave Bancroft, will play on the Joe E. Brown base ball team against the Buston Keaton team here next Sunday. Brown and Keaton are assembling all-star nines for the game, with all the proceeds going to the American Olympic Finance Committee, Southern Division The money will be used to train and transport Yankee stars to the games here next Summer. STEFFEN CURTAILS JOB Agrees to Help Coach Carnegie Gridders “When Convenient.” CHICAGO, February 22 (#).—Judge Walter P. Steffen has agreed to con- tinue as advisory foot ball coach for Carnegie Tech, “only whenever it is convenient for me to do so.” Judge Steffen, who last Fall said he had terminated his connection with Carnegie Tech, has agreed to return on the same basis as previously. He will not be able to be with the Skibos for every game, and probably would be able to zpend little time in the East. HURRICANES WIN POLO Brandywines Pacific Coast Tournament Final. SANTA BARBARA, Calif., February 22 () —Laddie Sanford’s Hurricanes won the Pacific Coast high goal cham- plonship here, defeating John Deblois Wack and his Brandywine combination. 18 to 13, after spotting them eight goals handicap. A pony ridden by Eric Pedley, Los Angeles star, collapsed with a broken blood vessel and died. injured in the spill. Four Tilts Today In Prep Tourney Down in UR games are scheduled this afternoon for George Washing- ton University jum in first-round play in prep school basket ball championship tourna- ment. Semi-finals are listed tomor- row afternoon and night and the 5. Tom Sca | ounds—Mike Tardusno (Columbus) | Pedley was un- Lin ain” to Try Nearly 700 Players SOUADS WILL TOLL - AT SIX BIG CAMPS “Lottor™ Players to Crowd Largest Tralning Base at Springfield. BY SHERMAN J. McNALLY, Associated Press Staff Writer. T. LOUIS, February 22.—Al- most 700 young men soon will show their base ball wares before critical scouts, coaches and managers connected with the St. Louis Cardinals’ fa- mous “chain system” of clubs. That was the estimate of Charley Barrett, veteran chief of the Redbird “ivory hunters,” he described plans for tryouts at the six Cardinal training camps—the big league camp at Braden- ton, Fla., and minor league plants at Springfleld, Mo.; _ Houston, Teg.: Greensboro. N. C.; Scottdale, Pa., and ADnsnv!lle, T, even hundred aspiring young ath- | letes—that is as many as the Cardinal | organization can handle of the 15,000 | to 20,000 boys, who Barret says, would | like to get started in organized base ball, but cannot because only two class D leagues remain in the United States. Big Camp at Springfield. Largest among the camps will be that at Springfield, where the Cards are investing $8,000 in a new clubhouse. ‘There 72 players under contract and about 200 “letter” players—men who have written letters asking for a trial— ‘will gather the latter part of March. “Letter” players who have not been inspected by scouts pay their own ex- penses, with the understanding that if they are signed they will be reimbursed. Recruits at this camp are handled much like incoming troops at an army cantonment. A record is made of each man's name, height, weight, position and so on, and he is given a uniform and a number for identification when the “judges” see him perform. Groups Closely Watched. Beparated into groups, the recruits then work out in 90-minute periods be- fore scouts and managers, who take notes on them. Three things sare watched closely—the player's arm. his batting power and his speed. Should he fall short in any one respect he i3 likely to be dropped. However, so long as any scout. mana- ger or coach believes that the aspirant has possibilities, he will be kept for | further inspection. “If we get two good prospects out of 200 ‘letter’ players we figure we're lucky,” Barrett says. “And while we've | placed many such men in small minor leagues, we've never had a single one who developed into & big league star. “Another thing—no player we turned down at one of the camps has ever | made his way to the big leagues, or been a star in the minors.” 92 BOXERS ENTERED | IN COLLEGE TOURNEY | Seventeen Teams Will Compete for Dixie Conference Honors This Wezk. By the Associated Press. UNIVERSITY, Va, February 22.— Seventeen teams have entered 92 box- | ers in the Sixth Annual Southern Con- ference Boxing Tournament here | Thursday. Friday and Saturday. Nine conference institutions, the same number that entered last year, have placed full teams in the seven | official weights. The University of Vir- giania ringmen, defending the confer- ence title won last year. will be joined by Tulane, runner-up in 1931; Clem- | son, Florida, Louisiana State, Missis- | sippi State, North Carolina, South Car- olina and Washington and Lee. Duke and North Carolina State have | entered incomplete teams of six men. | Virginia Military Institute will have | five, Georgia four, Virginia Polytechnic | Institute three. Georgia Tech and Maryland each two and Tennessee only one. SQUASH RACQUETERS PLAY FINALS TODAY Harvard Meets Philadelphia Team Match, B. Pool Faces Jansen in Singles. in By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE. February 22—The national squash racquet championships entered the final round here today with Harvard pitted against Philadelphia in team play and Beckman Pool, Harvard, and T. E. Jansen, Boston, facing each other in five games to decide the 1932 champion. ‘Two champions fell by the wayside yesterday. J. Lawrence Pool. brother of Beckman, was eliminated by Jansen in the first game of the quarter-finals. W. Harry Baugher, Maryland State champion, was defeated by R. F. Coffin, Philadelphia, who in turn was forced out of the running by Jansen in a semi-final match. Harvard climbed to the final by de- feating New York, 4-1, in a quarter- final match here yesterday. The vic- tory was followed by Philadelphia's triumph over Buffalo, 3. Play in the championship matches started Saturday. WASHINGTON TEAM THIRD Gains Position in Indoor Tennis Loop by Beating Legion. BALTIMORE, February 22.—Wash- ington indoor tennis team closed its sea- son in the Baltimore League yesterday when #t trimmed American Legion racketers of this city, 8 to 1, to jump from fifth place to third in the league standing. Summaries: Singles_Keiles (Legion) 6-—4. 86: Buchanan_(Washington) defea " defeated Beuthell, 8o ir o3 Mat- f n) defeated Cohen. 6—0. : Clara T (Washington) won by de- fault: Mrs. Martines (Washinkton) won by S Dubles—Washington won three matches by default. MARLBORO SOCCERS WIN Remain in Capital City Loop Race by Beating Concord. As a result of their 2-0 triumph yes- terday over Concord in stern battling, Marlboro booters still are in trte fight for the Capital City Soccer League pen- nant. There was only a little more than 45 minutes of play, the competi- tion being a continuation of a previous match that was halted by a disagree- ment, with Marlboro leading. 1 to 0. British United drubbed Brancywine, 8 to 1, in the only other league game played. -2. defeated Shore. e ted n)