Evening Star Newspaper, June 30, 1932, Page 47

SPORTS TH SNIN STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1932. e oeeorrn . wms esgiig) s Rowing Was Killing Sport in Early Days in College Ranks VETERAN RECALLS MISERES 0F 167 Ostrom’s Tale of Ignorant Training Methods Makes Game Seem Easy Now. BY ALAN GOULD, Associated s Sports Editor. HE sport of rowing may stiil \' | be a tough enough grird | for the average college | oarsman, with long weeks of drill leading up to climaxes of a few heart-stirring minutes, but | it’s a nice quiet, comfortable af- | fair nowadays for the boys who | row at Poughkeepsie, compared | with what they were up axainstf 60 years ago. John N. Ostrom of Chicago. long | famous as the er of Cornell row- | ing,” has unburdened himself in a| Teminiscent fashion about those early | days. | PEAKING of the paign of 1872, when Cornell by effort man- aged to scramble together the lads and money for an intercollegiate entry, | he recalls “The misery of that terrible cam- | aign comes back like a nightmare o the writer, whose red blood was proof against’ all sorts of ignorant abuse, and so he is left to tell the story. “The diet had an of variety and balance. Beef and potatoes three times a day; stewed | prunes for breakfast, but no raw fruit | at any time, and no green vegetable salads. For drink, hot tea and a bottle | of Bass ale were provided, but no milk. ‘A much restricted quantity of water was prescribed in:order to keep | down the weight, for the plan was to reduce every man 25 pounds, whether fat or lean, and & syre way to do it was through the loss of perspiration from violent exercise, without an adequate supply of water to restore the balance. “Under this rule of ignorance the crew steadily lost weight and strength and was soon afflicted with ‘Job’s com- forters’ until the daily routine became almost unbearable " STROM blamed the old profes- sional oarsmen who were the first college coaches for the lack of proper training methods. “He was usually a man who trained | faithfully the time required to get into| so-called condition and then went into | excesces and idleness the balance of the year. The result was that he be- | ceme & jumbo of fat which had to be trained off each succeeding race. “His natural formula, therefore, was to unbroken lack | | THEY DON'T SPEAK OUR LANGUAGE. OH, YEAHT ’ r " NS LITERATURE ! VYEAH, THA'S so! AW, NepTS! WASTE. AN EVENING WITH THEM? NERTS! WHY, THEY DON'T SPEAK OUR LANGUAGE! ALL THEY CAN TALK 1S ENGLISH —By WEBSTER WOE IS DEFEATED | N COLLEG GOLF Walker Cup Nominee Put Outi in First Round—Howell ( Scores Twice. ‘ HOT SPRINGS, Va. June 30.—Yale came threugh individually yesterday al- most as well at it did as a team Tues- {day tn the national intercollegiate golf championship. Sidney F. Noyes, jr., of Dobbs Ferry had difficult going in both his matches, but John E. Parker of Orange, N. J., breezed through the first and second rounds. The two Eli stars gained the quarter- | finals, and Ohio State, with Bob Kepler and Johnny Florio, also put two men in that bracket. | The big surprise of the first round was the elimination of Don Moe, West- ern amateur champicn and Walker Cup team member, by Harvard’s captain elect, Jock Heath, who won by 3 and 1. | Moe has not been on his game since he came to Hot Springs a week ago. Medalist Is Beaten. | . Hank Kowal of Colgate, medalist, also | faltered yesterday and lost in the fir | round to Robert Moffett of Princetor Moffett beat Heath in the afternoon, 13 and 2 | Billy Howell of Washington and Lee, also picked for the Walker Cup squad, was a popular attraction. He had an easy time with Fred Damaske of North- western and came in with 2 7-and-5 victory. In the afternoon he was pressed by Chester T. Birch of Dart- mouth, but finished brilliantly and won by 3 and 1. Gordon Extends Fischer. | Johnny Pischer of Michigan, second amateur in last week's national open, | won handily from R. G. Bchnen of | Chicago_in the morning, but Jim Gor- | don -of Princeton, New York City, took him to the nineteenth yesterday after- | noon before he could win 1 up. Noyes and Bill Nacios of Penn State | were all square in the morning when |they teed off on the eighteenth. Both | were on the par-3 hole in 1 and Noyes dropped a 15-footer to win. | In his second-round match he got off to a bad start against Eddie Day- ton of Michigan and had to shoot near-par golf to come to the eighteenth again all even. | This time his tee shot was off to the left in the rough, while Dayton had two easy putts for a 3. Noyes showed his mettle by chipping beautifully up | to the pin and dropping an easy putt {for a ‘half. Then he won on the nine- teenth, [ set a new unofficial record for the fiy- | |ing time between Detroit and Newark | NOHOT FAVORITE at the end of nine holes and stayed {in the driver's seat during the remain- | ing 63. | fined to nine holes by the majority of | players who were content to quit after Practice rounds yesterday were con- | Gus Dugar of the Pirates is a left- handed hitter, but bats as well against southpaws as he does against right- hand pitchers. tained the lead. But in the fourth chukker the Yellows counted five times and then coasted in. Third Cavalry Greens and Fort Humphrey Engineers were to clash at | 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. RRORS behind Walter Johnson enabled Philadelphia to take the third straight game of a series from Washington, 2 to 1 Eddie Plank pitched strongly for the Athletics, Washington was weak- ened by the absence of Danny Moeller and Ray Morgan, who are injured. Howard Shanks played a beautiful game in left fleld for the Natfonals. E. O. Leech and George P. James have gained the semi-finals in dou- bles in the Columbia Country Club tennis tournament Correll again cleaned up in the | Poughkeepsie regatta yesterday. Smith, pitching for G. P. O., al- Jowed not a hit as his team defeated War, 6 to 2, In the Departmental League. Zapoleon won the District chess . defeating Walker. Mercersburg Academy, h of Syracuse and Young of are leading quarter-milers who will represent this country in | the Olympics. ! GAR WOOD VERSATILE Speedboat King S acorditor De-| troit-Newark Air Hop. NEWARK, N. J. June 30 (#).—Gar | Wood, veteran motorboat racing pilot, Airport yesterday. He left Detroit at | 28 pm. (Eastern standard time) and ached here at 4:54, covering the dis- tance in 2 hours 26 minutes. The former mark, held by Lieut. Frgnk M. Hawks, was 2 hours 35 min- utés. SPECIAL OFFER TO MOTORISTS Let us help you celebrate the holidays free from motor worries. $950 $450 POLISH ‘ 52.00 Called For and Delivered General Auto Truck Co. 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This Company considers that its part ‘reduce every man 25 pounds in weight.” This was accomplished by 3 o'clock this afternoon in the con- | | battling a high wind over the short golation round. walking and running the candidates, when overdressed with ‘sweat clothes’ and putting them in bed under quilts| upon return to quarters to parboil for 15 or 20 minutes. . . . There can be no reasonable doubt that this barbarous method caused the early breakdown and untimely death of many & prom- ising and naturally healthy athlete.” Under Ostrom’s leadership, radical reforms in training were instituted shortly, in 1875. Its first public test came _against, Charlie Courtney's big crew from Union-Sptings, Charlie row- ing stroke whenyhe was in his prime, | and Cornell won by two open lengths on Lake Cayuga. WASHINGTON SWEEPS | IN SCHUYLKILL RACES| Potomacs and W. C. C. to Compete for Places in Olympics in Rowing, Paddling. OTOMAC BOAT CLUB and Wash- ington Canoe Club will be repre- sented in the Olympic trials that will feature the Peoples day regatta, which opens tomorrow on the Schuyl- kill, at Philadelphia, to continue through Monday. Potomac's colors will | be seen in both the canoeing and row- ing events, Washington will have com- - petitors in only the paddling tests. Potomac has entered a quartet com- rising Paul Brower, Norman Marden, orris Donohoe and James Nutwell in the squad and probably one of this number will compete in the singles, in the shell races. Clarence Hecox, grand | old man of rowing here, is coaching the Potomac boys in this sport this | year. Jimmy Burch, George Shorb, John Long, Buddy Millar and Ernie Millar will carry the Potomac standard in the canoe events Washington Canoe Club, dominant in paddling here, a dozen entries, but, asid Knight, the ever youn Fore, Herman Vollmer Rodman, its squad will be made up largely of men of limited exparience. Irving Rothrock and Karl Knight. for- mer W. C. C. sialwarts, have given up paddiing and their loss is keenly felt i KNOCKOUT IS COSTLY Injured Hand Causes Retzlaft for years will have from Harry veteran: Marc and Everett to Cancel Gastanaga Bout CHICAGO, June 30 () —A to his right hand, suffered d quick triumph over Les M day night, has forced Ch Duluth heavyweight, to c gagement to meet Isadoro C the Argentine at New York ff suffered the i in_less For 12 years, Mis flying feet have becn smashing running records. Now Paavo Nurmi reveals the inside story of his training and racing technique in the series “MY LIFE a n AND THE OLYMPICS” An cxclusive festure written per. sonally by this great runner. Starts Tuesday, July 5 In The Star INWESTERN OPEN 19 Potential Champions and Many Dark Horses Start Title Play Today. By the Associated Press LEVELAND, June 30.—A field chock full of dark horses and a herd of par shooters who are capable of breaking locse at any time and burning up the place, | teed off this morning in search of the Western Golf Association open cham- plonship at the Canterbury Course. This morning, even before the r\rstl twosome had left No. 1, there was | pleaty of conjecture among players and gallery as to the ultimate winner. : Prom the fleld of some 130 one| could select no less than 15 potential victors without stretching the imagi- nation. With the withdrawal of Gene Sarazen, the Western is a wide open affair. Light Ho:se Harry Cooper established himself as a big threat yesterday after- noon when he toured Canterbury's wind-swept hills in 68 strokes, 4 under par. He was 2 under Tues giving him a card of 138 for the 36 holes Even if Cooper kept up this pace he would be 3 strokes over Tommy Ar- mour’s all-time record of 273, scored at Ozaukee in 1929, Then there’s Walter Hagen, four times winner of the event and tied for second a like number of times. The Haig is very much on his game right now, and the critics say if he jumps into a sizable lead the first two days he’ll be hard to beat. Jose Jurado, from the far-away Argentine, who has been striking at American titles for some time, has his followers. However, all seem to forget the de- fending ch: n, Long Ed Dudley from Concordville, Pa. Last year at Dayton, D jumped into the lead WE KNEW WE WERE RIGHT AND OUR SALES PROVE IT THE BIG SWING is TO U.S.TIRES 1234 147 ST.NW. 624 PA.AVE.SE. 2250 SHERMAN AVE. 2423 PAAVE.NW. 3001 14 ST.NW. route. Alexandria Municipal Pool Scene of Independence Day Meet. ALEXANDRIA, June 29—Races, diving events and a water polo game | will feature a program July 4 in the | Municipal Pool, planned by Joe Dun- can, municipal recreation director. Duncan also hopes to arrange tennis tournament to be played soon Two insect and midget base ball| ] leagues are in operation here, having been organized by Mrs. Virginia Wade der. | | "“An ‘outstanding event of the play- | | ground season here will be a field day | to be held next month, the date to be | announced. PLANS WATER PROGRAM {‘L c: W. D. White, Ma). Whites ...... *Marines ... minutes, W. D. Elue. Ma) Capt Lieut Truscott Li Timer—Lieut. 7i3_minutes, Yesterday's summaries: FIRST GAME. Post ti . 1 . Capt. Brown ut._Good Stadler Ferguson 1—11 o—9 2 o Lie Lieut Lieut, 820 Back.. I e 008 i3 Bk 7-goal handicap. ). Rogers (2), Patton (2), tadler. Ferguson. Timer Time of periods— 7' Marines. | | | Devers | *Marines had & 25¢ and 35¢ HOSE Seven Pairs for .. s1 00 75c Rayon SHIRTS and SHORTS 43c SECOND GAME. Pe pt. Truscott Lieut. Noble R e o 1.1 0 0 0 o—¢ *Blues had a 4-goal handteap. | Goals—Smith_(4), Noble (4), Bennett (3), (2), Estes. McDonald. ~Referee— | Holbrook, Umpire — Capt. Buckle: O'Keefe. Time of periods— avalry s jeut BLUES AND MARINES OUT OF POLO EVENT| Mrs. Hoover Sees War Whites and Cavalry Yellows Advance in Cup Tournament. AR WHITES and 3d Cavalry Yel- lows galloped their way toward the final round in the Argentine Polo Cup Tournament yesterday at Potomac_Park, eliminating, respective- ly, the Quantico Marines and the War Blues. | While Mrs. Herbert Hoover and some 3,000 others looked on, the Whites | overcame a seven-goal handicap to| bombard the Marine goal with shots, | winning 11 to 9. The Cavalrymen | checked the Blues by 13 to 6 | The Whites at times played brilliant- | ly. Maj. J. Devers pounded the ball home five times, while his running mate, Maj. Jack Eager, contributed three more. 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