Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1932, Page 35

SP ORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON , D. C, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1932. SPORTS. Second Olympics in United States Illustrate Tremendous Growth of Games ONLY 3000 SEATS PROVIDED IN' 1504 First Concrete Stand Ever Built in America Fiiled Once at St. Louis. The Good Care By the Associated Press. T. LOUIS, July 5.—Many S sports fans assume this Summer’s Olympic games in s are the first to be held in America, but they are wrong. The third modern renewal of the ancient games was staged in St. Louis in 1904, as part of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. | For this sports carnival the flrst" concrete grandstand ever built in the United States was conszruct-‘ ed, with a maximum seating | capacity of 9,000 | How the Olympics have grown since | > realized when provisions | “fact, even the 9,000 | ¢l the 1904 ev Lost in the vast acti ties of the world's fair, the games at- a comparative handful of | e-wool sports followers of the | marathon race alone | drew a “full house,” American athletes established a record of supremacy for their countrymen of later years to shoot at. Only one foreign- born contestant—a Canadian—succeed- ed in capturing a first place. Uncle Sam's boys, moreover, set three Olympic marks 'way back then which have never been surpassed in the games | Archie Hahn ran the 60-yard dash | (since zbandoned) in 7 seconds flat, | and the 200-meter dash in 213%. Harry Hillman ran the 400-meter hurdles in 53 seconds flat. The latter mark is 25 seconds faster than the official Olympic record as carried in record books, but may have been ruled out because the track here had three laps to the mile | instead of the four which have come to | be standard at Olympic layouts. | Hehn and Hillman each won three firsts in the meet, a real “iron man” performance. OMPARISON of all-time Olympic records with marks made in 1904 reveals great improvement in such events as the high jump, pole vault and discus in recent years. Five feet 11 inches was good enough te win the vertical leap in interna- tionel competition at St. Louis, against an existing mark of 6 feet 6 inches to- dey, while the pole vault went at 11 fect 6 inches, now concidered a fair mark for high school lads. Nobedy could hurl the discuss more than 128 feet 10%; inches back in 1904, compared with a present record of 155 feet 23, inches. Desmarteau of Canada, lone foreign winner, tossed the 56-pound Weight 34 feet 4 inches, a performance since bet- tered at the games by 2 feet 7% inches. CAVOF?T IN MANOR POOL HILE the District Stars Stage Exhibition of ! from the cold wintry winds. Later runs | Horse. The main thing is that the | nish runner in his cwn way tells the whose most strenuous exercise is a walk by Paavo Nurmi in which the great Fin- story of his life and his ccreer in the | | Olympics. BY PAAVO NURMIL (Written for the Associated Press.) WAS asked recently where I have | found the elixir which has enabled | me for 12 years to keep on aston- | ishing the world by my track achievements. People will not believe that I should be able from year to year to beat my younger competitors or by my example to make them zealous and | | full of dreams. It s difficult for them | {to conceive that a runner can remain | | at the top for more than 10 years. | When I undertook my second trip to | same as the first time, I was called “old Nurmi,” but having now since then run better than in my young days even (I am thinking of my two-mile world rec- | ord and at the seme time of my victory | over my most dangerous competitors, | the other Finné), it has been said that | I had grown younger, and every one | was surprised. There is something | magic in this, the world says. | Well, I am prepared to raise the cur- tain and to relate what the sscret of my condition is. First of all, however, I should like to add to the above tha “old Nurmi” whom the Americans s2w | some three years ago was not old at all then. I was only overstrained and stiff | ‘Nurmi Credits Ability {0 Run In Record Time at His Age to A perennial subject of debate among sports fans, remembering all tne talk | about “athletic heart,” is the size of the mighty organ that has furnished Paavo | N¥rmi power for his prolonged string of record-breaking long-distance runs. Drawing above reveals how Nurmi's heart compares with the average man’ This is the first of a series of articles | longer in one direcizon and 10 mm. of fully normal peopie of my age, but otherwise it does not show anything| | America in 1929 and then was not the | good | by me. Given His Body| to the office. narrower in the other than the hearts out of the common or wonderful. The | sensational news about my heart having been enlarged three times its normal| size is pure bosh I have never taken kind of medicine for my heart. The only thing I have taken is hip baths, for its benefit, because a hip bath is to the heart nerves the same as manna was for the Israelites. My heart does not beat more than 100 per minute, or just over, even after the most severe exertions; at resu it beats some 55 to 60 to the minute. Often in the evenings, when sitting at home, I Lave noticed how it beats exactly in step with the old clock on the wall in my Toom. any Left Foot the Stronger. Lawson Robertson and a few other | Americans were highly surprised when 1 started “galloping”—just im- agine a trotting match, in which a horse makes that fault, as the experts say!—ie., every alternate step. I still run exactly in the same manner, and the simple resson for this is that there is more latent strength in my left foot than in the right one. Lawson Robert- son urged me to endeavor to get rid of this method by running clockwise along the track, as 1 saw Abel Kiviat do once in the Spring of 1925 on the Columbia track, but that trick was left untried And as a matter of fact, there is no recl hindrance, although my running looks very much like that of an old SHIKAT AND WILS0 INFEATURE TONIGH | Goldie Ahearn Inaugurates Al Fresco Grappling at Bolling Fieid. NCE the high and mighty ruler of matland, Dick Shikat, the Viking of the Vaterland, sur- vivor of the Battle of Jutland |and a high-mucka-muck on the trail of another title, will make his Summer bow to the folks at Bolling Fleld to- | night, when Goldle Aheern starts his al fresco grapnling by the side of the rippling Potomac. Shikat, tall, phlegmatic and as strong as a young bullock, will grapple with | the intelligentsia of wrestling, his rival being Dr. Ralph Wilson, supple and skilled in every strategy of the mat. The Doc now is studying medicine at | the University of Pennsylvania, whither he journeyed after the University of Indiana had gradusted him and gave him a sheepskin. It is a tradition in the Wilson family in Evansville that the eldest son must practice medicine, and Ralph fulfills this tradition. His fether, Dr. Wilson, was killed by an explosion of cxygen, | a martyr to science. The Shikat-Wilson tilt is preceded by | & squabble between Earl McCready and Matros Kirilenko. The former went | abroad as a member of the Canadian | Olympic team, journeyed to Oklahoma, received a coliege education in that hinterland of the alfalfa, and was a| member of the Oklahoma Aggies who twice brought home the bacon in the guise of the national college mat title. Scotty McDougall, the braw son of the Hieland, who sounds the pibroch and also his aitches, tackles George Hagen, who is a tough chap on the mat and a good carpenter back in Brock- lyn. For George can use the ax an the plane just as skillfully as he can the crotchhold and the hammer lock, while the curtain-raisers are Mike Ro- | | mano, the wisttul-faced Italisn from | | the Middle West, and Bull Komar. | | "Da Bool is some percheron on the mat, and either leaves it with every- | | body wanting to kill him or welcome | | him back. A colorful bloke is Da| | Bool, and with these grunters and groaners on the mat the fur should fly. Ladies will be admitted free and a | bus, provided by the promoter, will meet the trolley and afford fres trans- portation to Bolling Field. The matches | will be staged indoors if it rains, out- | doors if fair. |~ Meanwhile Goldie Ahearn, the pro- | | moter, spent last night tooting “It | Ain't Goin’ to Rain No More” on his | ‘ saxophone. “ \HOT BOUTS ARE PROMISED | ‘ | Return Matches Offer Features on! | Twin City Card Tomorrow. i | | Return matches promising bang-up scrapping will feature the Twin City Arena boxing card tomorrow night. Billy Landers, Norfolk bantamweight, lwhn will trade socks with the veteran| | Benny Schwartz of Baltimore, and Nick | Antonelli, Mohawk Club featherweight, | | and Joe Bruno of Baltimore will be | | meeting for the second time within a | | few months. | | Landers, who packs a good wallop, is | | confident 'of again stopping Schwartz, | but the latter, who sports a clever left and is fast afoot, is girding for revenge. | Bruno got a close decision over Anto- | nelll in fast battling at Portsmouth | some time ago, and the Mohawk entry figures he can reverse matters. In six-round bouts Billy Essinger, District lightweight, will face K. O.| Kelly of Baltimore and Charley Thomp- son, Baltimore welter, will trade punches | with Jimmy Moran of Norfolk. Battling | Izzy, Baltimore, and Billy Hooe, Wash- | ington, will appear in the opener, & four-rounder, at 8:30 o'clock. | DUTCH RIDERS ARRIVE | | _SAN PEDRO, Calif, July 5 (#—/| | Carrying Holland's entrants in the equestrian events of the Olymglc games, | | the liner Seattle has docked here. | | The Dutch riders taken to the Olympic | village were Lieut. Charles Pahud de‘ | Mortanges, individual champion in the| | 1928 games; Lieut. Aerboud Jonkheer | | von Lennop and Lieut. Charles Schum- | melketel. | of ‘artillery sergeants. o [ as FISHING By Ed Decke: Chiggers and Red Bugs. SURE way to ruin any good 1p is to get a good, doce of red bugs, jiggers, chiggers or giggers. Call this digging devil by any name you want, he’s still & curse and danger to all campers. The first evidence you have that you've got 'em is when you start scratching what looks like a mos- quito bite. Pretty soon it blossoms out like a young boil and the panic 1s on. The chigger buries himself in your skin, head down, and about that time you start scratching and the wound starts burning. And how it TIRsT Ao Jicsers ano ReoBucs wen ek can itch and burn is nobody’s busi- ness. Except, perhaps, the poor un- prepared fellow who must just let t wear out. Carry a bottle of collodian (and don't forget the name) with you. Any drug store will have it. Apply this to the bite as soon as you de- tect it. The chloroform in this solu- tion kills the bug and the new skin heals the wound. As far as I know there is no preventive for these fiends, but collodian is an instant cure. Don't overlook it when pack- ing your kit. What are your fishing and camp- ing problems? Write them to H&g ing, care of this paper, inclosing self-addressed, stamped envelope. Tomorrow—Quill Bobber. T0 GIVE DIVING SHOW. Earnest and Eimer Kern, | 6—4, 6—1. | clown | match defeated Burtz Boulware of Tal- | vers, will give an exhibition tomor- | They brought four horses and a group | ll;owl night at the Airport Swimming | Pool | SHOTTON FILES PROTEST | | Phils’ Pilot Claims Umps Erred in | Game Won by Braves. PHILADELPHIA, July 5 (#).—Man- | ager Burt Shotton of the Phillies and Umpire Dolly Stark waged & protracte verbal duel yesterday over how many | bases & runner may take on an over | throw. Shotton failed to make his {point and filed a piotest with John Heydler, National League president. | " 'with ' Bartell and Klein on second and third in the seventh inning of the first game with Boston, Hurst slammed a ball that went for a hit to the right | of Shires. The first sacker stopped it | |and threw wild to Pruett at the bag. Bartell raced home, Klein took third |and Hurst second. Meanwhile Pruett retrieved the ball, saw Klein off third and tossed for him. The ball rolled |into the dugout, Klein trotted home |and Hurst, on the principle that an | overthrow gives a runner the base he is spproaching and an extra one, also ran in. Stark sent Hurst back to second and Klein back to third. | The Braves won the game, 8 to 6. | TILDEN DEFEATS KOZELUH 1 { Extended to Score Over Czechoslo-| vak, Losing Opening Set. | BRIARCLIFF, N. Y., July 5—Bil Tilden was hard pressed to def | Karel Kozeluh in an exhibition tenn!: match yesterday. | " 'The former United States champion | garnered the triumph over his Czecho- slovak rival only after a_furious rally in the third set, 4—6, 6—3, 7—3. | | paired _with Bruce Barnes in the doubles, Tilden defeated Hans Nusslein and Roman Najuch, 6—2, 6—4 | SUTTER AND GRANT GAIN | MEMPHIS, Tenn, July 5 @ .— Dixie’s two outstanding tennis rivals, Cliff Sutter of New Orleans and Bryan | Grant of Atlanta, breezed through their | first engagements in the men's singles | of the Southern tennis tournament yes- ‘ terday. | Sutter advanced to the third round | by defeating Hudson Hamm of Miami, | Grant in a first-round lahassee, Fla., 6—-3, 6—3. In the sec- | Olympic 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. 'OLFERS of the Washington group had a busy vasterday. At Columbia Country Ciub, Edward B. Erron. John C. Davidson and George P. James finished one, two and three in the qualification round of the Midsummer tournament. C. L. Prailey won the electric handi- cap contest at Chevy Chase, with Gen. E. M. Weaver second and Mor- ven Thompson, Samuel Dalzell and Col. McCain tied for third. Alan Lard and Col. T. N. McAboy tied in an 18-hole handicap match against par in another Chevy Chase com- petiticn. R. B. Looker, Gus Worth- ington and R. Talbott finished one, two and three in a handicap match against par at Washington Country Club. W. G. Campbell won a driv- ing contest at that club. C. V. Piper ‘was second and W. H. Wood: and Gus Worthingicn tied for third. Dr, ‘Taber Johnson gave & box of golf balls to the winner. At Bannock- burn, H. M. Hall, Daniel L. Hazard, Dr. T. J. W. Brown and Walter L, Travers starred. Washington drubbed New York, 12 to 1, in the afternoon game yester- day. Bob Groom allowed only five hits. Danny Moeller and Eddie Foster hit hard. Jack Johnson, world heavyweight boxing champion, had an easy time with Fireman Flynn. Johnson has signed for bouts with Sam Langford and Sam McVey Johnny Kilbane, featherweight boxing champion, defeated Tommy Dixon. Boxer Ad Wolgast scored cver Joe Rivers. Olympic contests get under way today at Stockholm. Ted Sullivan pitched Pepco to a 9-0 victory over Manhattan in the Independence League. Hughes and McMahon hurled for the losers. Howard, Fury and Green led the ‘winners at bat. -~ ‘Washington Cricket Club mem- bers put on an exhibition at Rock Creek Park. Among the participants were Capt. Jimmy Rose, John Mor- ton, Dr. J. 8. Cannon, Will Reeve, Duncan Morten, John Roberts, Arth= ur Wright, Henry Branch, Lee John- scn and Will Warren. —_— BERLIN, July 4 (#).—Germany's team, just announced, in. ond round he defeated Dr. John Metz, | cludes 81 performers in 55 events. The Memphis, 6—2, 6—4. e . g | team will sail on the Europa July 10. have proved tbis. When the Body Slackens. | running is fast and with long steps; | remember, long strides. You get into | long strides by moving your loins, and Swimming and Diving. Leading man and woman swimmers | and divers of the District area took | part in an exhibition yesterday at the Manor Club. They included Norman Smith, Bob | 8MONg sportsmen. Sure signs of this|lar stretching and any special jumping. | Knight, Vincent Gomez, Buddy Hodson, | aTe the disinclination for exertions and | Everything must go like a dance. Mahlon Glascock, Lois Bates, Onalene Lawrence, Marion Duvall, Florence If any man in his young days already | can hear the tapping of the messenger | of old age on his door, it is the end | | the growth of the love of comfort. The | sportsman begins to think that com- | Skadding and Lenora Taube. The last | Peting is something belonging to chil- named depicted the evolution of swim- ming by various strokes Shadows of the Past BY 1. C. BRENNER. MANY pugilists have come to these parts from Ireland with the tab of champion labeled on them, but none received the spo: us greeting that did Peter Ma- goes the honor of being ular Irish-born pugilist ited America. Whether nquished, Peter remained e idol of Erin. Almost 30 years have passed since 1z up his gloves and bid roped square, yet in all ears, not a man from the land shamrock has been discovered Id take the place left vacant ‘When Maher recently took became known to ends came to his cient funds to see ter they saw to it ken care of until carry on, and today, r the hale and hearty Irish- carried T. N. T, cally petered out, Jake Kilrain, he is working as up at Quincy, Mass., employed at a Hoboken, N. J., pier rviewed a few weeks ago, Ma- her declared that the best man he ever met was Bob Pitzsimmons, who stopped him in 12 rounds in 1882 at New Orleans, and then finished Peter with one punch ‘L the celebrated af- fair at Langtry, Tex., in 1895 ‘I think Fity was the greatest of all heavyweights” said Maher. “He had it on every one in a combination of science, hitting power and strategy. Bob made many enemies during ‘his fighting career, but I always found him a square shooter and a good fellow.” " (Copyrisht, 1033.) | dren and youths, wherewith a man | who has attained his full age will find | | it useless to burden himself. | This is brought about by the de- terioration of the body's elasticity and tone. By the law of nature, a man | Who has reached 26 or 27 years already | | has seen his best physical flowering | | time. This period can be lengthened, | however, by one method—and one only—and that methoa is good care of the body. I hasten to say that the secret of my continuing to keep fit lies |in_the proper care of my body. | _Every one knows that the oftener a metal is heated the more brittle it be- | comes. In a manner of speaking, the | same phenomenon can be observed in | the sportsman who gets warm enough to perspire in every exercise and com- petition. Only a very few sportsmen avoid this overheating to some ex-| tent, among others the swimmers and | skaters, who never come to perspire |in the same degree as, for instance, a | | runner. This explains also why, for in- | stance, the Norwegian champion skater, | Oscar ‘Mathiesen, was ab'e, in spite of his 40 years, to do 500 meters in 43 seconds, and why my compatriot, Clas | Thunberg, with his 35 years, managed | on the same distance to win the ama- teur world record of 42.6 | My Heart Stands Up. | The table of world records on me- dium and long distances may be par- | ticularly thankful to the build of my body, particularly to my strong inner organs. My heart has stood the most severe strains in a wonderful manner. 1 beg Einstein's pardon, that I com- | pare my heart with the shaft of a| | perpetual motion conurivance, which does not exist, of course. That chaft has been overburdened often and heav- ily. but not even once have the bear- ings run warm too much nor the| metal shown any signs of breakage. | or—to explain my simile—my heart has not become enlarged nor are there any signs of trouble in the valves. Twice a year I have its Roentgen-pic- ture taken, to avola surprises. The last time such a picture was taken was on December 3, last. The picture reveals that my heart is 10 mm. OLVED! @ Gillette solves, believe it or not, a prob- lem that has bafflea metallurgists for years. We have just automatic process for achieving uni- formity of hardness method typifies the skill that makes the Gillette BLUE SUPER-BLADE possible. a good help is also to turn your body | with your steps. It is essential that the | step becomes long without any particu- | (Copyright. 1932, by the Associated Press. All rights réserved in all countries. inclu ing Pinland, Norway and Sweden. Repro. duction in whole or part forbidden.) GROBMIER HAS BIG JOB Will Tackle Garibaldi in Feature of Turner Show Thursday. | Fred Grobmier, one of the most pop- ular wrestlers ever to show here, is expected to find the going plenty tough Thursday night when he come to grips with Gino Garibaldi, a tough hombre, in the feature of Joe Turner’s | card at Griffith Stadium. Grobmier has been dusting ‘em off consistently | here, save for Jim Londos, but in Garibaldi he will be engaging a foe| who mopped up last week with Rudy Dusek, a grappler whose ruggedness is well known. In other encounters Rudy Dusek will meet Lou Plummer, Vic Christie will engage Pat O'Shocker, Chief White | Feather and Marshall Blackstock will | mix and Brunowicz and Zarnos will have it out Fistic Battles By the Associated Press RENO, Nev.—Max Baer, Livermore, Calif., outpointed King Levinsky, Ch cago (20); King Tut, Minneapolis, knocked out Madison Dix, Bellingham, Wash. (2); Jack Silva, Seattle, stopped Chet Shandell Prancisco (2); Frankle Battaglia, Winnipeg, Manitoba, stopped George Breselton, San Pran- | cisco (3) SYDNEY, Australia Stribling, Macon, Ga Palmer, Australia (10) PARIS.—Marcel Thil, France pointed Len Harvey, England (15) VALLEY CITY, N Pruitt, Watertown Angelo Puglisi, Duluth, Minn POCATELLO. Aberdeen, W Hanna, Poca W. L. (Young) stopped Ambroce out- @) Lomski, pointed Jimmy | Idaho (10) | developed a secret in razor steel. This L Listen to LOWELL THOMAS SUNOCO NIWS VOICE oF ¥ Monday to Friday Evenings, T™e AR inclusi; 3 6:45 E. 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