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A—12 SPORTS. BN IN( AR, il T WASHINGTON, D. C., o FRIDAY, JULY 2 8. 193 Venzke Rated Closest to erfect Runner : Baltimore Gets Women’s M. A but Never Found FYENT T0 BEHELD EARLY ALL STARS HAVE THEIR FLAWS Even Jones as Golf Ruler, Johnson as Hurling King, Displayed Faults. BY GRANTLAND RICE. OS ANGELES, Calif., July 8.— There is no official record of how many lanterns Diog- enes wore out in looking for an honest man, but the out- put was more than a carload. If Diogenes had been a track and field coach he would have had just as much trouble in locating some athlete blessed with perfect form. Bobby 1 ample. was the top of form in gol would never claim perfection for his swing. Walter Johnscn, the Coffeyville cyclone, car- ried style and form than any ever saw. But there were more I the m of most coaches e cynical side, the manner of foot ball er e track and field coaches rom 20 to 40 years, where their trained vision can tell the sligh est flaw at one quick look. So it was t urprise to hear Boyd Comstock, the noted coach of the Los Angeles A C., announce that at last he had looked upon the perfect styl of the running game. The Name Is Venzke. OYD COMSTOCK’S nomination for | the closest approach to a perfect Tunner is Gene Venzke, Pottstown's famous fiyer who ran an indoor mile at 410 and then proved his outdoor class in the Boston trials. Venzke is now hard at work for the Palo lto test next week where he will have plenty of competition over the 1,500- route. 1 have studied Venzke's form.” Comstcck says, “from the bottom of -his feet to the top of his head—foot action —knee action—body action—arm action —head action—every detail that a great runner needs. Maybe I am a little optimistic. But if this kid has a flaw I have never been able to find it. He is closer to a perfect machine than any- | thing I ever saw on the track.” | Can He Win? SUTTHAT'S all Tight,” I suggested to Comstock, “but can he beat the fleld in the Palo Alto trials and later at Los Angeles? | “That's another problem,” Comstock | answeret. “When you get around world’s | record time—when the best in the world | are gathered together—it is often a matter of peak and fitness for that one day. The greater Tunner may not be quite at his best. Some rival may be at the top. That will make a difference when it gets down to a matter of just & few icet, or a split second anyw “I think Venzke can turn the trick. Heé has some great competition ahead with Cunningham, Hallowell, Mangin, Crowley and others—and later when the Olympic games start at Los Angeles he | will have a terrific foreign field to meet in Larva snd Purje of Finland, Thomas of Great Britain, Wichmann of Ger- many and a few others who can travel | close to record time. It will take a new | world record to win this 1500-meter race, but at his best I think Venzke will be the boy.” A Few Others. HE argument then developed as to whether he was a more perfect | runner than Nurmi of Finland or Ben Eastman of Stanford. | Comstock was quite ready to pay| unlimited tribute to both Nurmi and| Eastman in the matter of running| form. | There is always a general tendency to figure form and style unimportant | against other qualities—such as natural | speed, power and courage—but don’t overlook the fact that in an Olympic | gathering the winner must have all these qualities—plus form. | Venzke, for example, has all these qualities of determination, courage and natural running skill. From that point on Mike Sweeney of Hill School did the rest—the final development of stride, knee action and other needed details that cut & important seconds. | The Crew Situation. ERE is & matter of deep interest to ose Urited States Crews now ing at Worces ‘The win- e nations to face inner is decided Here they are—Argen- . Italy, New Brazil, Japan ted States entry will ght-oared ¢ greates what invading crew enough to test any elght-oared col- 'his is the first time that the Olympic games have set 10 eight-oared crews in actio So its full water in one of the he winner at Worcester will have of thrills over Californ star events of the sha MERMAIDS S‘ET RECORDS vls Sparkle in Aquatic Carnival at Rye, N. Y. RYE, N. Y, July 8 (@ eanor Holm of the Women’s Swimming Asso- o nd Katherine | set new rec- med T e 200- h she swam in a special claimed record to be a 300-meter 120-yard GOING AFTER EQUIPOISE Gusto and Yonkel Have Weight Edge CHICAGO. July 8 (#).—A couple of 3-year-olds, Gusto, winner of the Ameri- | Derby, and Abe Bartelstein's Yonkel will have a try at the one and | only Equipoise in the $20,000 added | Arlington Gold Cup tomorrow The younger thoroughbreds will get in with 114 pounds, wnile the rest of the field, all aged horses, must carry 126 pounds in the weight for aged af- fair, which will be av a mile and & quarter. The field probebly will be small and Il include several which have tried, hout suecess, to stop the C. V. Whit- ney star this se Jamestown, Mate, The Nut, Polydorus and possibly Epi- togt are the other probable starters, » on Whitney Star. wi y | was non-committal on other subjects Gave “Everything” in Running It Hard, as Some Would Paint It, Nurmi Asserts Paaro N his 1ife BY PAAVO NURML Written for the Associated Press OME one has said that run- ning is my life. There is reason for that assertion. With running constantly be- fore my mind’s eye I have always arranged other parts of my life, although I ought to have done exactly the opposite in the opinion of others The magic attractive power of run- ning matches has conquered everything else in me—for that reason I @elayed getting married. The impulse for com- petition continues still to drive me to the track, although I may have left it miles and miles away . 1t is nevertheless a mistake to believe that my tra more severe than that of anybody e That is not the case. Shrubb, Rit and Purje, instance, have trained harder th: ve. But in one respect In exactitude and regularity they are left far behind. I tainly run fast in my exercising, al- hough it is heavier than running a longer Considering that I must fulfil more than the program I have set myself, I run every day some distance according to my watch. Still T never forget to take care that my running is not injurious. If you do not run and train in an all- round manner, you will soon get si all running. That truth you must never forget. In this connection I will give you here the other golden rule 3 do not set a purpose for yourself I 5 of | will stagnate or be left behind. No Simple Formula. There is no standard training method by means of which any one can become | a great runner. the individual, and therefore every one must develop his own system which is best suited for his particular individual- ity. Ladoumegue has asserted that the French “mile school” is the best in the world. That is pure bosh. France can- not show any three such men on the mile as Finland rmi, 4:10.4; Larva, 4:11.0; Purje, 4:11.0. A man may arise in America who may beat Ladoumegue’s record. Then, of course, one will begin to talk of the American “mile school.” What do you think of the matter, you great Jack Ryder of the Boston A. A.? | I Start at 7 AM. | ‘When I was a boy and when the “run- | ning fly” stung me, I knew nothing about training, but that it was neces- sary to run and run and keep on run- ning. It was cnly in the years 1919-24 | | course of the ¢ AT RODCERSFORC Not Yet Decided Whether It Will Be First or Second Week in October. HE woman's championship tournament of the Middle Atlantic Golf Association will be played over the course of the Rodgers Forge Golf Club, near Baltimore, during either the first or second week in October. The Executive as- sociation has detided to accept in- vitation of the Rodgers Forge Club to play the tournament over the fine b lying between Balti- more and Towson, Md. Rodgers F has had a bid in for the to for more than four months, and the only club to put in a bid for the tournament aj the annual meeting of the association in March. Subsequently another bid came to the assoc from the Country Club of Virgin the association has decided to the tourney to Baltim with probability ‘that the 1933 tournament will go to the Virginia club in Rich- mond Rodgers Forge has the largest nu ber of active women golfers of any cl near Baltimore and the club offi asked for the tournament because of the excellence of their course and to, as they expressed it, “show our ap- preciation of the efforts of our club members in previous Middle Atlantic championships.” Mrs. M. Louise Bell won the 1930 championship of the as- | ommittee of t ward the Nurmi is shown above in costume he wears while training in his home coun- | sociation, playing under the colors of try. Sports grounds at Turku, Finland, where the great Paavo first started his the Rodgers Forge Club. training, are pictured below. Inset is the former Sylvi Laaksonen, recent bride of the Finn. Nurmi remained a bachelor for years to devote his life to running. Everything depends on | that I found out my present training | hand, from one-quarter to the arrangement. In the Summer T start the circle at 7 am. I begin by walking some 6 to 10 miles at a fair speed, approximately 11 minutes {o the mile. The object of this walking is to get the body loose | and supple, but it helps at the same time partly In the actual running. You will see that when you walk such a stretch at my speed you will not need to run as much as you would other- wise be obliged to do without the walk. I am pouring with sweat when I get ome again, h: a thorough good wash and then start gymnastics. I have prepared a special program—six minutes’ series of movements tending to extend and contract the sinews Then 1 have a small snack, generally coffee and bread, after which I go to the sports grounds. There I start with a number of sprints for 70 to 120 yards, and alter that, with my watch in my NURMI HERE, SEEKS ONE NORE TRONP Says He’ll Quit for Keeps if Victorious in Marathon at Olympics. BY the Associated Press. EW YORK, July 8—Paavo Nurmi, as stolid and uncom- municative as ever, arrived with nine other Finnish track and field stars on the liner Mauretania to- day, intent on winning the Olympic marathon at Los Angeles and then hanging up his track shoes. Interviewed as the big liner slowly felt her way up the bay through 2 light fog, Paavo said ii his suspension was | lifted by the International Athletic | Federation and he won the long grind | at Los Angeles he planned never to race | again. | H by the I A. A., which investigated charges of excessive expense a counts and failure to appear at sche- duled meets, and answered most of the questions put through an interpreter with a shake of the head or a nod. Nurmi did say he was glad to back in the United Stat liked this country v declined to discuss his suspension | be and that he much, but he including his own condition and the chances ri athletes in the games. IONG the members of the Finnish party was Lauri Lehtinen, hs as Nurmi's successar at the distances and recentl broke Paavo's world res for 5,000~ meter and 3-m ins. Lauri speaks no English and efforts to interview hi through an interpret Janusz Kosocinski, 0 Was & passe The Finnish de! ist ¢ to gation traveled t; ss, expenses. University's an, to work off their They will leave at noon to- Los Angeles sea legs. morrow for MARGUARD WRITES BOOK. Rube Marquard, former star pitcher for the Giants, later leader of a band on the stage and now coach of the At- lanta Crackers, has taken up writ Marquard is the author of a book, to Pitch.” Weigh By the Associated Press EW YORK, July 8—Earl Sande, who rode to fame on some 's greatest thor bre s packing his kit invasion of the French turf nding it difficult to make the weight ry to keep busy on American , the popular little rider intends France within a fortnight my ' Sande of affairs here I'll be on my wa said. How long he will remain abroad de- pends on his ability to obtain moun and win with them. If successful, Sande probably will spend the remainder of his riding days showing the French how he became America’s premier jockey. ANDE returned to the turf this Spring after a year in the movies and on the radio, but he has found it difficult to keep his weight dc n. He has frequently made 115 pounds, but | this has entalled much hard exercise and dicting. He figures he can easily | make 118 pounds, and that weight | France, where tinere are more weight for age and scale weight events. “It keeps me working hard to make 115,” Sande told the Associated Press, 4“and I believe Ill ke much better of | | should get him plenty of mounts in | s ASHINGTON are getting set large week end. Many bright games have been arranged, but there are many | teams which have been unable to list | opponents Some of the contests carded, aside from the Capital City League, follow: | American Legion Series. Lincoln Post vs. George Washington . 11 am.; Stuart Walcott Post vs Bunker Hill Post, 1 p.m.; Spengler Post vs. Bunker Hill 3 pm., West Elipse diamond, Sund Skinker Eagles center, South o'clock. Griffith Blue Coals vs. Mount Rainier, Mount Rainier, Sunday, 3 o'clock Skinker Eagles vs. Leesburg (Va.), at Leesburg, tomorrow. Auth’s vs. Army War College, tomor- | row, 3 o'clock. Auth’s Middleburg (Va.), at Mid- dleburg, Sunday Gaithersburg A. C. vs. Bethesda, Sun- day | Congress Heights vs. Diamond Cab at | sandlot teams for another s. Rock Creek Servi- Ellipse, tomorrow, | Congress Heights, tomorrow, 3 o'clock. vs. Times-Herald, to- Field, vs. Ballston Fire De- , Phoenix Field. Midgets vs. Phoenix A. C morro Phoenix A. C. partment, Sun West Washington ashington ment diamond No. West Monu- Washington Terminal was to meet Dixic Pigs this ng on the East Ellipse at 5 oclock in an Industrial ame. Terminals were to meet Refining, but the latier has drop- out of the league. nines lock on should Dixie Polish and Wheeler Clu were to face this ev Monument. diamond No Wheeler win it will gai title of the Capital City League juni fon. A Dixie victory w the te for the flag. Bumps Welch, 13-year-old pitcher of Sears In turned in a no-hit srmance in trimming Hawks in the c L He fanned 17. Anacostia Eagle base ballers will meet tonight at 1812 Fourteenth street southeast at 8:30 o'clock. Resul Prints mer League) West Washington Baptist, 6: Ninth Street, 5 (Georgetown Church League) Brenizer, 5; St Motor Co., 4. Sears Restauran Hawks, . 95 6; Treasury, Agriculture, 4; Com- 2 (Departmental 3 t a Worry, Sande Quits American Turf to Try French | in France, where I will not have to worry constantly about diets, road work and steam boxes.” EIGHT has been a constant bug- | bear for Sande since he gave up riding and turned to tralning his | own horses three years ago. In 1930, however, he entered into a contract with William Woodward to ride Gal- lant Fox, and with Fox carrying 126 pounds in most of races, Sande was in his element. William Ryan, American sportsman, racing a large stable in France, was in- Strumental in persuading Sande to de- sert the American turf. In invading Europe, Sande will be following in the footsteps of other great American jockeys, notably Tod Sloan, | who rode with great success both in rance and England. PLAY GOLF Semi-Public Golf Course White Flint Golf Club, Inc. Rockville Pike & Edson Lane Green Fees Saturdays and Sundays, 75¢ DANCES neement can be made to rent the Phone management, ton 315, or write for reservatios zindlotters Loiok to 7Bustling Week End; Many Seek Games | full | at full speed. A few minutes’ | and then I go on the track and two to three miles at an easy peed. Then a wash again. Now I am ready to go to my work. In the years 1924-28 I trained twice a day. When I hurt my knee in 1924 and had to keep in bed for a long time I was obliged when better to go in for harder training again, so as to be fit for the Olympic Games. I there- fore trained twice every day. I held out and found the training good for me, so I continued in this way for four years, I have found out later, how- ever, that one thorough exercise in the day'is quite enough. | And I have stuck to this one time a day since then. (Copyright, 1932, The Associated Press. Al Tights reserved in all countries, includ- | ing Finland, Norway and Sweden. Repro- duction in whole or part forbidden.) mile, T . | | | b SRS | Cornell, 8;: Manchester, 2 Potomac Robins, 9; Cronin Insects, 3 ‘Teams after games include: Mount Rainier, with out-of-town un- limited teams. Greenwood 2568-J after 5 pm. Horning Jewelers, out-of-town foe for Sunday. Atlantic 1671 Potomac Robins, insect games. Cleve- | land 6558. Washington A. C., unlimited foe for | Sunday. Georgia 9454. Burroughs A. C. unlimited foe for Suncay afternoon on Burroughs Field. North 3802. Civil Service, unlimited having a field for tomorrow. 5895. Skinker Eagles, for Sunday. 5681 after 6 p.m. French A. C., for Sunday, especially | with an out-of-town team. Metropoli- | | opponent Adams Georgla tan 6764. Diamond Cab, unlimited foes for Thursdays and Saturdays this month and ne: Columbia 4707-M. Celmar Manor Juniors, double-header for Sunday with team having a dia- gwnd. 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Fer the past two years the association has had a bid for the woman’s championship from the club at Hot Springs, Va. but many of the prospective fair competitors have protested against award of the tourney to that club because of the long distance to be traveled and the expense necessary to play there for a full week Mrs. J. Marvin Haynes of Columbia is the present holder of the Middle At- lantic woman's title, won last year in a stirring battle with Mrs. E. Boyd Mor- row of Elkridge. IOME of the men who play golf at Chevy Chase have been giving Frank P. Reeside a lot of good- natured joshing, for whenever Frank hits a fine shot he calls out, “That's it, boys. I've got the secret now.” The other day Bob Stead, chairman of the club Golf Committee, played in a four- some with Gene Larkin, C. Ashmead Fuller and Richard P. Davidson. Stead was going badly and they told him about it plenty. But as he crashed out a 140-yard tee shot on the sixteenth hole he laughingly said, “Boys, I've got the secret now.” Davidson and Fuller both sald, “Yeah, you've got the secret, all right. “You have three birdies for a 90,” which Stead laughingly admitted. The following day the same four got together in another friendly links joust and Stead came in for much of the same joshing. But he turned the table on them, for when they started to kid him on the eighteenth tee, he said. “Well, I don’t think you fellows are so hot. I've got a 4 for a 79, and further- more, I'll get it.” Which is just what he scored. Fuller also scored a 79. PILOTS ARE DEFEATED. Washington Pllots were defeated by Pittsburgh Crawfords yesterday in ittsburgh, 6 to 4. The Pilots will be home July 25, 26 and 27, when they will appear in their first local night game with the Crawfords as their oppo- | nents. 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They ¢ winding up a tournament which ted in June, which has progressed he semi-final round in one bracket, h the following results W irst round—Horner defeated Adams 1 up, In 19 holes; Dickinson defeated Anderson; McGill defeated Goranson. 1 up, in 19 holes; Tarbett defeated Phillips by default; Mandell defeated | Bowly, 7 and 6; Bryant defeated Cum- | mings, 2 up: Davis defeated Burton, up; White defeated Prendergast, 7 and ‘Second round—Tarbett defeated M- | ill. 1 up in 19 holes; Mandell defeated | Bryant, 2 up; White defeated Davis, | In the semi-final round Mandell defeat- n the nineteenth hole, with most fifth b seve 2 k. Golf Analyzed BY JOE GLASS ESTERDAY'S article told how Abe Mitchell, in playing with the wind at his back, opens the face of his driver in order to get the ball up into the wind quickly and let it lengthen his shot. Mitchell also stands a little more back of the ball than usual when chooting in & down wind. But this is not, as the duffer might suppose, for the purpose of having the club- head rise as it comes into the ball. A heavy wind makes balance diffi- cult. If it is from the back the body ABE MITCHELL IN DOWN-WIND TAKES CLUB / BACK SLOWLY IN SHORTENED SWiING BRACES LEFT HIP O PREVENT FORWARD SWAY forward slightly on the downswing. So, if the player stands a bit behind the ball he will get into the proper position at im- pact. In a heavy following wind Mitchell also takes the club back slowly and braces his left hip to preserve bal- ance. And, as the duffer might not suspect, he shortens his swing. This further increases accurac: Mat Matches i to mov By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y—Ed Lewis, 240, Los Angeles, threw George McLeod, 210, Omaha, 24:00. MONTREAL.—Sam Stein, 202, New- ark, won two falls out of three from Earl McCready, 226, Oklahoma. (Strangler) Fistic Battles By the Associated Press. SCRANTON, Pa.—Ernie Schaaf, Bos- ton, stopped Salvatore Ruggirello, New York (4). 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