Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1933, Page 13

American Tennis Rated on Upgrade : British Ring Champ Avoids Cauliflowers YOUTH OF CHANPS BABE DIDRIKSON PLANS ers WATSON SCARLESS, | | THE TIMID SOUL. : ' BUSY CAREER AS A PRO T Hfln SIGNIHBANIWorld's Most Fa::us ‘Woman ;;flflv Tells Why /// \ WEIJ--MADE BUXER | | Starts Training for Feather { /// PREETY NEEFTY, HAN ? Broad Geographical Distribu- | She Quit Amateur Ranks—Likes Basket Title Bout January 27 MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1933. SPORTS. Bowling Winners —By WEBSTER Soon Get Prizes RIZES won in the fifth annual Evening Star Bowling Tourna- ment, ended Saturday night at the Lucky Strike, will be awarded in the next few days. Handicaps and scores of winners now are being audited. Cash prizes totaling $500, given by The Star, will be distributed. ‘The champions, Ollie Pacini, in the JOOST-A LIKE-A MINE, // | TOUGHT You LIKE Heem / 7 tion of Titles Also Grati- Ball Best of All Sports. DA LADIES WAS-A LIKE- I WAX-A DA MoosTAcH fying Factor. BY EDWARD B. MOSS, Executive Secretary, United _States Tennis Association, EW YORK, January 9—(®). —The youthful age of championship winners and Lawn the broad geographical dis- | tribution of titular honors were | the outstanding features of the lawn tennis seascn of 1932. These factors form a firm basis for the prediction of continued increas- ing popularity of the game and the advancement of its leading exponents to greater champion- ship honors. Close to 50 players, representing every section of the United States, shared in the 30-odd national title tournament honors won on the ten- nis courts last year. California led with 13 championship holders; the Middle West was second with 11, and the East was third with 10. New Eng- land players collected seven: those from the South three: three titles went to the Soufhwest racket wiclders, and one Wwas , captured by a Middle Atlantic sectior. competitor. In addition, United States plavers won the men's singles and women's singles in the British championships at Wimbledon, and the French women's singles title. ELLSWORTH VINES, JR., just +out of his teens, was, of course, outstanding player of year, both from a national and inter- national standpoint, since he won three championships, including the United States men's singles and doubles, the British singles, and scored two victories over Henri Cochet, until 1932 ac- claimed the premier player of the ‘world. Mrs. Helen Wills Moody still main- tained her position as the world's greatest woman player, being victorious in every competition which she en- tered. One of the most encouraging devel- opments of the year in tennis was the notable improvement in championship play and ranking among the players of the Middle West. This was par- ticularly true among the junior expo- nents of the game, as exemplified by Frankie Parker, Helen Fulton, girls' singles champion, and Helen Grawn, girls’ indoor singles champion. 'HE Eastern Seaboerd is a close con- testant of California and the Middle West in the development of outstanding junior players. Judg- ing from the present trend of junior play, it would appear that the leading championship contenders in the near future would hail from these - three sections, notwithstanding the wide dif- ferences in climatic ahd playing con- ditions. The South and Southwest also are evincing greater competitive interest in terinis and its development work, and should the improvement continue apace, one or both sections can be ex- pected to submit candidates for Davis Cup honiors in the near future. e FORM BASKET: LEAGUE the | (This is the first of a series of ten articles by Babe Didrikson, in which the world’s most famous and most versatile woman athlete tells the story of her life.) | | i | BY MILDRED (BABE) DIDRIKSON. T almost broke my heart to turn professional—but now that it is done T have no regrets. There has been a great deal of discussion and debate about my action. I have never bothered before to attempt any explanation. 1 do not feel I owe any oOne any | apologies. The only reason I hesitated to lcave the amateur ranks was because it meant I would los> the opportunity to compete in many athletic events The Amatuer Athletic Union will not permit me to join in its games. So when I received offers from (lmvi to time to turn professional and capi- talize my athletic reputation I never gave them consideration. I love nth!M"‘ competition, and take little interest in | anything else. I get a great deal of | ratisfaction out of winning and estab- | lishing new world records. A _profes- | sional athlete—a girl, that is—has few | opportunities for actual competition. So | the many offers I received never | tempted me. | When the A. A, U. suspended me last month I fclt sure I would be rein-| staied, and. although I received many | ofers the. meant a great deal of money to me, 1 still gave them no thought. But when the A. A. U. held an investi- gation and upheld the charges, I was | surprised and terribly hurt. { HIS brought a new flood of pro-| fessional offers, and for the first| time in my life I began to think about | them. Still I did not open any nego- | tiations. I talked with friends in the | A A U. and asked them to help me. | They were personally sympathetic, but | officially aloof. Two weeks had passed | and I was still disqualified as an ama- teur. I reconciled myself gradually to the situation. The offers I had received included opportunities to play basket ball, to give exhibition golf matches, to play tennis and take part in swimming events. I decided the life of a pro- fessional athlete would not be so empty after all. I don't want to give the im- pression I was not interested in mak- ing money. My family is a large one and we are not wealthy. If I could make a lot of money and have fun doing it. then I would not be making a mistake. I had not yet turned professional The A. A, U. had disqualified me, I decided to make the best of the deci- | sion. So I resigned my job with an insurance company in Dallas, Tex. went to my parents’ home in Beau- |mont, and announced that I would withdraw from the Amateur Athletic ‘Umon and would make no further ef- fort to be reinstated as an amateur. HE A. A. U. Committee then was | meeting in New Orleans (although I did not know anything about it), and | six hours after I had announced my | withdrawal they exonerated me of the |original charges of professiosalism, | which had led to my. susp’nsion. In ’other words, the A. A. U. adpitted - it had been in the wrong to disqualify me. 1 might still have reconsidered, als though T am not sure about this, if the national headquarters of the A. A. U. | in New York had not immediately an- * __MILDRED (BABE) DIDRIKSON. and a statement by me praising its car. I owned an automobile of this make which I bought from E. Gordon Perry, a Dallas dealer who had been a good friend of mine since I went to Dallas two years ago. He asked me how I liked the car and I told him. I made a statement at his request. I did not know he was going to use it in an advertisement and I gave no permission, written or otherwise. | Mr. Perry had told me the statement would be useful to him and that he would not use ii in any way that would injure my amateur standing. When the advertisement appeared I was suspended. Although I protested that I had not authorized the adver- tisement, and had received nothing for it, and Mr. Perry confirmed this to the A. A U. officials at a hearing, my | suspension was confirmed. I had only expressed my honest opinion to Mr. Perry and I know he had no intention of using the state- ment in any way that would injure me. Anyway, now that it has all happened I am glad. I am receiving offers to do all sorts of things that will be inter- esting. THINK I like to play basket ball better than - anything else, and I hgve mude a contract to appear in | men's division, and Mrs. Vivien Burns in the women's, besides $50 in cash, will receive a gold medal each. JEBY 15 VENGEFLL [ |Knocked Out in One Round by Battaglia in Previous Battle. By the Associated Press. NHW YORK, January 9.—%'he quest for the world middleweight cham- pionship, a rather doubtiul matter | ever since Mickey Walker ' 2b:ndoned | the crown to compete in heavier divi- s, holds the top place on the Na- fistic program this week, with some competition from a featherweight ;Uflt bout at Chicago Friday, when | Tommy Paul of Buffalo defends his na- tional Boxing Association crown against Freddie Miller of Cincinnati. Ben Jeby, rugged New Yorker, and | Frankie Battaglia, the Canadian slug- | ger from Winnipeg, survivors-of an | elimination series, are the contestants in Priday's 15-round battle at Madison Square Garden. The New York State | Athletic Commission has agreed to !mngnlze the winner as champion, al- ‘though Marcel Thil of France is gen- | erally considered as the title holder, having the N. B, A. recognition among others. | JEBY, for some e an outstanding contender, has decided to pin all his | ¥ title hopes on the bout despite the fact that he suffered a one-round knock- out at Battaglia’s hands in Chicago some time ago. He passed up an offer | for an overweight match with Thil in France to meet the Canadian. | In their course through the “tourna- ment,” Jeby made a record which ap- pears to give him the edge. He beat | Paul Pirrone of Cleveland and Chic | Devlin, the coast middleweight, in his | preliminary bouts, while Battaglia met Devlin twice before he could get a | decision, obtaining only a hard-fought draw the first time. SOCCER TEAMS TIED "IN RECREATION RACE | Three Deadlocked in Lead After | .. | Sunday Play—Capital City Pace-Setter Gains. | ate | TYHREE teams are deadlocked for first place in the Recreation League and the leading e'even has an increased advantage in the Capital City League, - INRINGTITLE BOUT | | | | | SN N 55 | I % | You DEEs-A WAY i \ YES INDEED, A BIG IMPROVEMENT | OVER THE OLD i WAY, (M GLAD You THOUGHT OF MAKING THE { CHANGE To Face Fast | | " fending public high school champion, is getting set for a desperate stand tomorrow against Roosevelt, to be met at 3:30 o’clock in | the opening game of the champio.iship series double-header on the Tech court. | Bernie Reichhardt and others, Tech has | | In the second tilt Tech makes its series debut, battling Western, | | Soundly licked by Central, favorite in the current series, on Friday, Easte must win its second game to keep| | among the leaders in the pennant dash. | Roosevelt Team ASTERN'S basket ball team, de- |though admittedly they were few, against | | Central. Roosevelt, however, in West- | ern trimmed the team that unquestion- | ably is the weakest in the series, while Eastern in Central battled a quint that doubtless is the strongest. | Tech is figured almost certain to win over Western. In Waverly Wheeler, | thoroughly seasoned players. St. Albans and Landon, lively foes, face tomorrow on the American Uni- TN | versity court in what promises to be an interesting match. Friends and Eastern Five, Needing Victory, IGNORE DEPRESSION FOR NET TRADITION |Oxford and Cambridge 'Will Visit for Biennial Series With Harvard and Yale. | By the Associated Press. | EW YORK, January 9.—The ten- nis _players of Oxford and Cam- bridge have decided not to let ths troubles that have cut deeply into the international sports program for | | 1933 interfere with their biennial series | with Yale and Harvard. The ninth of these international With Chocolate. BY WILBUR WOOD. EW YORK, January 9.—Sea- man Tom Watson, British featherweight ¢ ham plon, who arrived on the Levia- than this week end, started ‘tmining today in a local gym- l'nasium for his bout with Kid flChocolate for the world feather- |'weight title in Madison Square lGarden on January 27. | Watson is a typical little English fighter, save in one respect. He has no | caulifiower ears. Jem Driscoll, greatest | of them all, had full-blown caulifiowers, and all the other fellows who have come over have been similarly decorated. Since it fsn't likely that the Seaman is any cleverer than Driscoll, it must be that the technic of the sport as prac- ticed in Engiand has changed. ut-up little chap is this Wat- ng more like a lightweight nerweight. As a matter of 133 pounds right C e making the mit of 126. ] WEIGHED 8 stone 3% pounds for Nel Tarleton when I won the title,” he said. Which, trans- !lated into the American scale of | weights and measures, means 121% - | there being 14 pounds to a | collar ‘and has a 3615-inch | He has a high forehead, brown hair, blue-gray eyes, a prominent nase and a thin, straight line for a mouth. His features give the effect of having been caressed, but not too heavily, by the fists of his opponents. That is to say, his face isn't lumpy, but it appears as though it had been slightly mussed at one time or another, Watson is 24 years old and was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne. He's married and has two boys and a-girl. At 16, be- | fore he had done any boxing at all or | even considered taking it up as a means. | of livelihood, he enlisted in the royal {navy, and for six years he served on | the Queen Elizabeth, the Valiant and other big ships of the line. He was on numerous cruises to the Mediterranean and to Africa and became hardened to the sea. 5 | 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. | I RANK CHANCE has signed a three-year contract to manage { the New York Highlanders base [ ball team. Alfred de Oro retained the world pocket billiards title, defeating James Maturo in the final block of their match. Coach Mulligan hopes to develop | a Georgetown U. relay team capable of conquering Virginia, | Virginias won all three games | from"® Linworths in the Southwest- '. | Takoma-Silver Spring several exhibition games, the first in |2s the result of yesterday's soccer com- her encounter on the ermn Duckpin League. On the win- I am | Petition hereabout. nounced that, regardless of cheir mis- ning team were Glasscock, Nevitt, atches will be played at the Newport ' | take in suspending me, I would be sus- | Brooklyn next Friday evening. | Another setback for the Lincoln Parkets | migh clash in anot g s Lo L T | would not definitely climinate them for | priends® floor. Alexandria Senior, Junior Teams Will Meet Tonight. ALEXANDRIA, January 9.—A meet- ing to organize a basket ball league, including “senior and junior divisions, will be held tonight, at 7:15 o'clock, in the home of Wilson Davis, 419 South ‘Washington avenue. It is planned to play the league games as preliminaries to contests in which the Al?‘undxu Fraters and other local gure. - Pirates, Methodist ‘Boys’ Club, Sigma Lambda Nu, St. Rita's, Times-Herald and other quints interested are asked to be represented at the meeting. Alexandria High School basketers play their first game in the third dis- trict series tomorrow night against Herndon High, at Herndon. —_— LAST YEAR FOR TILDEN Tennis King to Give Time to Chain of Sport Centers. NEW YORK, January 9 (#).—Big Bill Tilden, claimed by many as the grealest tennis player of all time, has decided to retire {rom competition at the end of 1933. The 41-year-old professional, once ruier of the amateurs, will make .one more tour of the United States and a final swing through Europe before Jeaving the courts to devote his time to managing a chain of sport centers. “SUNNY JIM” POPiILAR. “Sunny Jim” Bottomley, first sacker traded to the Cincinnati Reds, for years held the “fan mail” record on the St. Lofus Cardinal club. Basket Ball Tips BY JOE GLASS. IVERSITY OF BUFFALO, under Art Powell, uses a smart out-of-bounds play when the ball is in its possession outside de- fensive territory. If the ball is on the left side of the court, left guard (1) takes the ball and passes out to right guard (5). The latter dribbles to the center of the court and passes to center (3), who advances to the free-throw line to meet the ball, After making the pass (5) crosses over and screens the man left forward (4). No. 4 drives into center lane close to the basket. S M&lndmz him the ball as passes, however, (3) passes it to right forward (2), who comes in to gtuuh-\llndmfl.l'lyq\lkk ¢4 wha bas & lay-up shot, | pended for one year' for having an- |nounced I would accept their decision |and withdraw from amateur competi- | tion. They apparently did not want-me. | [ I was first suspended without rea- | son, the suspension confirmed, then I'| was reinstated and finally suspended | agein for a year for deciding not to argue too much with such unreason- able action. I know a woman is sup- posed to have a right to change her Tind. but lthul;l lAhard time trying to | cep up with the A. A. U.'s = attitude. S But now that the step has been taken I have no hard feelings toward the |A. A U. nor any of its officials. We | always have been friends, and I would | be glad to keep things that way. 'HE original suspension followed an advertisement by an automobile company which carried my photograph | ECEIPTS from admission fees at the amateur and open golf championships have cropped off by something like 300 per cent from the halcyon days when Bobby Jones was pulling 'em in_at the | gate, according to figures submitted to | the annual meeting of the United States | | Golf Asscciation in New York. | | The national amateur championship at Five Farms, Baltimore, last Septem- ber, drew a gate of only $6,647.75, while |the open championship at Fresh Meadow, N. Y., last June drew a gate | | of only $9.320, or a total for the two | big_tournaments of $15,967.75. Some of the drop, naturally, is due to the fact | that not so many folks have the $2.20 | to spend to see a golf tournament these | davs. But back in 1930, when Jones | was mowing down the opposition on the |path to winning four major tourna- ments in a single year of campaigning, the gate for the open tournament at | Minneapolis and the amateur tourna- ment at Merion totaled $51,042.25, al- | most three times the 1932 figure. In | 1929 the gate for the two tournaments aggregated $32.656. How the moguls of the U, S. G. A. must pine for another | | Jones to pack ‘em in. The annual report of the greens sec- | tion has some nice things to say about | | the Washington staff. Most of the ac- | tivities of the greens section are di- rected from a building ovet in the ad- | ministrative group of the Department of Agriculture. Here is what the report | has to say: “The greens section for | the year 1932 is glad to report that it | has been able to continue its various | Iacu\'fl\u in an efficient manner, chiefly | | due to the loyalty and services of Dr.| John Monteith, Kenneth Welton and | the assistants of the greens section | staff, with the very cordial co-operation |of Dr. Karl K. Kellerman, associate chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry, | of the Department of Agriculture.” | | _Of the work at the Arlington Turf | | Garden, the report states: “Experi- | mental work was continued as usual at | Arlington, supplemented with tests on | | local golf courses under playing condi- | tions. Interesting observations were | | continued on different species and | | strains of grass for putting green pur- | poses and different mixtures for fair- | way purposes. Some of the new strains | under trial, particularly velvet bent, continue to show promise. Some opportunity was afforded for | studies of cutworms and sod webworm | control, and it is now felt that these pests may be satisfactorly controlled on fine turf by several poisons. | worms were particularly troublesome | they were elsewhere in the country and | remained <o in spite of remedies hither- to effective. More work should be done on this problem. Particularly good m&nfity was afforded for advanced of brown patch on the shaded, STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE | gotag to meet Rabe Ruth in a series | of contests, including running, jumping, | swihming, tennis, golf, billiards, bowl- ing, hand ball, and possibly a singing match. * That will be fun. I couldn’t | have matched myself against Babe | Ruth if I had remained an amateur. I was picknameq after Babe Ruth be- cause I hit a lot of home runs when I played base hall with the boys in Beaumont. In this series of daily articles T am writing for The Star and the North American Newspaper Alliance I am going to tell the story of my life, why I like competitive sports, how I train, the experiences I have had, and what I think of the various sports figures I | have met. Next—Why I Was a Tomboy. (Copyright, 1233, by North American News- paper Alliance, Inc.) | more humid garden recently nllnted\; in a low area beside the Potomac River. This garden continued to prove its value, as due to its location disease studies may be continued there at times | vhen diseases are inactive on the main garden with its open exposure. An experiment on the effect of turf diseases of morning, night, heavy and light watering was conducted on putting greens under actual play on a local | course and nformation regarding cer- tain theories of watering was obtained. Weed control studies were ‘continued and some promising results were ob- tained in the control of crab grass on fairways. If the results of this par- | ticular work continue to be satisfactors after further experiments, they shou prove extremely valuable to the many golf clubs having difficulty with this | weed."” { O you know that a golf ball can- not be considered lost until a | search of at least five minutes has | been made for it. This little-considered Tule of the game may have meant a win | or a loss to Beverly Mason of Chevy | Chase the other day, as he hit a long tee shot toward the fence at the eighth | hole. The ball may either have been out of bounds or lost. In the first | case the penalty was only loss of dis: tance. In the second case it was los: of stroke and distance. The best way to overcome the ambiguity is to make | the penalty uniform for lost ball and | ball out of bounds. | In lots of cases a player does not want | his ball found, preferring, if the penalty | is not too severe, to abandon the ball, | even though it must be searched for | for five minutes. One day a few years back Bob Barnett wes playing at | Friendship, E. B. McLean's private cours: on Wisconsin avenue. It was | in the Fall of the year and the course | was covered with leaves. Under the conditions, a local rule was invoked permitting the player to drop a ball without penalty at the spot where he thought the lost ball stopped. | Bob hit & booming tee shot well down | toward the green at a drive and pitch | hole. The pill nestled down under a | bunch of leaves and couldn’t be found, | although it was diligently searched for. | So he dropped another ball and knocked | it into the hole for an eagle duece. Just as the ball was rattling around in | the bottom of the tin, Al Burton. who | was caddying for Bob, said: “Here's your ball, Mr. Barnett.” And Bob had to play the pill. He wound up with a 6 instead of a deuce. At Oakmont a few years back Gene Larkin was playing the sixteenth hole, a one-shotter of 210 yards, with Al Heron, well known Pittsburgh pro. Heron cut loose with a wild wallop from the tee which wound up over in the woods, 40 yards off the line. “Go over and hunt for that ball” Heron in- structed his caddie. “But don't find it.” He had meanwhile played a pro- visional ball within g foot of the Rosedale and Park View fought to a 1-1 tie, while Virginia Avenue, the pre vious pace-setter, idled, to bring about the three-way tie among these teams in the Recreation loop. In other matches in this circuit, Bloomingdale defeated Raymond, 4 to 0, and New York Avenue conquered the Dux booters, 2 to 1. Columbia Heights Grays bettered | thelr hold on first place in the Capital City League in turning back Marlboro, | regarded as their main foe in the flag battle, in a 4-2 struggle. Other encounters in this loop produc- ed surprises as Brandywine defeated Gaithersburg, 6 to 2, and Concords held Columbia Heights Blacks to a 1-1 tie when Copper for the Blacks acciden- tally kicked the ball into the wrong | goal. LISTS EVENT FOR PROS. ALBANY, Ga. January 9 (P).— Major professional golfers on their way North after the Florida Winter season will be invited to stop off in Albany and participate in the $1,500 Radium Springs Open Tournament, tentatively scheduled for March 13-18. Golf Analyzed o SPOT Picic seoT )5 waY To FLAG-BALL CARRIES THERE, ROUS | REST OF WAY 7 & FARRELL BY JOE GLASS OT a great deal of space is re- quired for practicing run-up shots and the short ones can be tried in any ordinary basement, using a coarse doormat from which to play the ball and a net, or blan- ket, or some such thing, to re- ceive it. On ordinary level ground, the run-up shot will be half carry and half roll. Willie Macfarlane, Johnny Farrell and other stars judge their shots in that way. If you are practicing indoors, then, you can work merely for carry. That is, use whatever space you have for learn- ing to hit the ball certain estimated distances, which you can easily mark off, through the air. You can be certain that when you are able to play in the open again, the amount of roll desired will take care of itself —making allowance, of course, for down-slopes, up-slopes, and so on. To have a well adjusted run-up shot for use when your ball is close, or fairly close to the green, means a great saving of strokes. Under certain conditions, when a green is very sodden, or very slippery, it is preferable to a short pitch. 1-9-33 and taking the stroke and distance Ppenalty, was sure of a 4. That dumb boy went over there in the woods, and just as Heron was about to putt his 1-footer, he yelled, “Here it is, Mr. Heron.” Heron had to go over and play the ball. He wound up with an 8. So you see it isn't always wise to find & ball. Sometimes 'tis best to consider it lost and let it go. Certainly Heron would have been willing to call that one a lost ball, for it cost him qualifi- | consideration for the title they now hold, but it would certainly make their chances of retaining the crown slim. Central meets George Washington | | freshmen at Central and Takoma-8il- | compete in the nationa | Tennis Association has announced. The English players also are expected to 1 intercollegiate | The game appears a natural. Roose- | ver Spring High matches baskets with | chlmg{nnmips in several leading tour- | velt showed well in lacing Western Fri- | Washington-Lee High at Ballston in Damenis and other team matches. |day and Eastern had | | its moments, | tilts today. J ROD AND STREAM BY PERRY MILLE! HE passing of Calvin Coolidge, thirtieth President of the United | States, recalls to Rod and Stream | an incident which took place at | the White House during his second | | term in office. When the bathing| beach was discontinued at the Tidal Basin, the writer thought it made to| order for a bass pond. So did Glen C., | Leach, chief of the division of fish | culture of the United States Bureau of | | Fisheries, and we sought the approvai | of the Secretary of Commerce, Herbert | | Hoover. Mr. Hoover told me he thought |1t an excellent idea and wished us | | success in our undertaking. It then| occurred to me that the President of | the United States might be attracted " by a fishing spot so near his residence, | and I suggested to J. Russell Young,; | who covers the White House for The | Star, that he mention the matter to | President Coolidge. Later in the day Russ reported back: “I placed the mat- | ‘ ter before the President and he informed | me that he thought fishing was a sport | for the youth of the country, and did not think much of grown-ups spending | | their leisure time in such a manner.” | | | STAR published the story. It! was published by nearly every | paper in the country in the news | columns and editorially. The cartoonists | | took it up and so it went the rounds, being vigorously protested by the anglers | | of the country. That year the President | | spent his holidays in" the Adirondacks, | | and, under the personal direction of Col. | | E. W. Starling of the Secret Service, a | | warm friend and bodyguard of the President, took up fishing as a relaxa- | tion, and soon became a confirmed | addict. The next Summer, when he | visited Wisconsin, the Presdent engaged | George Baff, an’ expert on fishing, to | teach him the art of fly fishing. As in | other matters in life, Mr. Coolidge took | his fishing very seriously and mastered | | all its varied art. He was particularly | fond of dry fly fishing, but at the start | | of his fishing experience used a worm | to lure the native brook trout. | ALBOTT DENMEAD, in a radio address for Rod and Stream last week, said that Commissioner Swep- | son Earle of the Maryland Conservation Department reported that in one week 116,000 anglers fished in the waters of Chesapeake Bay. He said it has been | estimated that there are more anglers | than base ball fans, foot ball fans, golf | | players and tennis players all combined. | “I call this to the special attention of those newspapers that ‘publish columns and pages daily on base ball and foot ball, in season, and an occasional dis- patch about some big kill or bunting experience that every sportsman knows has no foundation in fact, while at some time grudgingly devoting a little space- once or twice a week to a rod and gun column. It might pay the editors of these publications to give consideration to the 10,000,000 anglers as readers and assist in conserving our natural resources for the good of all the peple by devoting a little more space to the activities of those who are faith- fully laboring to improve our game and fish laws,” Denmead said. presenting a word picture of the black bass situation in his home State of Maryland, Denmead said he doubted if there were more than 200 fishermen in the entire State that caught and sold black bass and that . $hey made very- little moneg, ‘HOW,0f the old Washingion Chess could they buy nets, pay for trans-| portation, ice, etc.,” he asked, “and | make anything when black bass sold | for 10 or 12 cents a pound wholesale in the Baltimore Fish Market last year?” If any profit is made, he said, | it is made not by the man who catches the fish but by the commission mer- | chant in those cities where black bass may still be legally sold. At present there is little fishing in this part of the country. A recent re- port states that a large number of crappie has been caught in Roache's Pond, the other side of the railroad bridge, just east of the Highway Bridge. | During this month and February big catfish are caught in the Potomac from Georgetown to Chain Bridge, some of these fish weighing as much as 20 pounds. Some member of the Crowe fam- | ily has won an athletic monogram at Notre Dame every year since 1924 either | in foot ball or basket ball. IN CHESS The visitors will be aided by two Americans, David N. Jones, formerly of Columbia, and Clayton Lee Burwell from North Carolina. Jones now is a Cambridgs student and Burwell a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. Sam Byrd Sets New Golf Mark By the Associated Press. AM (DEWEY) BYRD of Birming- mingham, the best golfer among major league base ball players, has added another record to his list. The New York Yankee outfielder recqntly fired a 65 over the Roebuck course in Birmingham, Ala, for a new amateur record. His score was 6 under par and tied the mark which stood as the professional rec- ord. Sam made seven birdies and was over par on only one hole. In his fine round Sam had the pleasure of beating his brother, Curly, who is the professional at the Hill- crest Club in Birmingham, by 11 strokes. Earlier last week Byrd had 68s over this course and also the east course at the Birmingham Country Club, CIRCLES BY FRANK B. WALKE! entries in the D. C. flve-men] am tournament number five, | viz.: Agriculture, Chevy Chase, | Model Basin, Jewish Community i Center and Mixed Ladies and Gentle- | men. A meeting is to be held the com- | ing week to complete arrangements. ‘} The Philadelphia Chess League has | 10 entries in its five-men-team tour- | nament. The leaders are: Mercantile | Library Chess Club, 14-10; North City, | 13-6; West Philadelphia, 1215-81. | In the Intercollegiate Chess e | tournament which had eight entries, City College of New York won the title. A match of 10 boards a side, by tele- phone or telegraph, has been arranged between the City Club of Boston, which | recently celebrated its seventy-fifth an- niversary, and the Mercantile Library Chess Club of Philadelphia, to be played within the next six weeks. | The Mercantile Library Club also | contemplates a match with the Mar- | shall Chess Club, to be played in New | York on February 22. | EW YORK UNIVERSITY and West Point Chess Clubs recently con- tested a team match, New York University winning by 5 to 1. In the Manhattan Chess Club tour- | nament A. Kupchik leads with 71 and Robert Willman is second wi 612—11%, one game being adjourned. Alexander Kevitz won the last rapid transit _tournament at the Marshall | Chess Club, 3—0; Reuben Fine was sec- | ond, 8—1. | The tournament of the Metropolitan | Chess League of Boston resulted in a victory for the Independents by the score of 11 to 1. Matches, 45%,—1415 games. The Cambridge team, composex of Harvard men, was second, with 9—3 | matches and 431,—76'. games. | Dr. Adajah Behrend, known as “phy- sician to the poor,” who died here re- cently at the age of 91, was a member |6and QR T; and | was a regular attendant, dropping in nearly every day for a game, or to see others play. He bad hosts of friends among the players of former days. He was a good player, though not given to match play. § Problem No. 64, by A. G. Stubbs, in C. S." Mopitor: White—K on Q R, Q on K. Kt 2, Rs on Q 8 and Q Kt 8, Bs on Q 3 and 2, Kts on K 5 and Q R4, Pan ; 9 pieces. Black-=K onQ4.Q , Rs on K B 6 and Q R4, Kton KR 7 Pson KKt 6 QEt 8 pleces. White. to play and mate in two. Send solution.to chess, 1486 Meridian place northwesty Solution to end game, No. 6: wins; 1 P—B 6 ch, KxB; 3 KitxB, and up Q to stop mate in 3. RICH ELISKASES, a 19-year-old Austrian, defeated Rudolph Spilel- mann, the Austrian master, in a 10-game match the past Fall by ithe score of 52 to 4%;.. Following is the score of the second game of the match: Q. Gambit Declined. t 5 3, BURNS — RIPS FABRIC REWEAVING CO. 0000000000000 000000000000 INVISIBLY 907 15th St. N.W. Met. 7375 fl MOTH: HOLES - MENDED Work €alled for and Delivered BxP; 2 BxP eh, | Black must Jre Nelson, Hickman and Roedffer. M. | Wood, Whalen, Owens, Beard and | - V. Wood represented the losers. t BREAKS OLD TRADITION. Coach Clarence (“Doc”) Spears, who came back to the Big Ten this year and led Wisconsin to one of its best foot ball seasons, broke an old Badger tradition when he let the co-eds attend | the annuzl foot ball banquet. One for the —It happened on the diamond BY CHARLIE WHITE, COBB still holds the lifetime record of making 3,052 one-base hits. Hans Wagner holds Na- | tional League record, with 2,432 singles. | _ Ed Konetchy, playing with St. Louls, Pittsburgh, Boston and Brooklyn, and Joe Judge, Washing- ton, led the National and American Leagues, respectively, in fielding percentage, as first bacemen—seven years each. ‘Thirty bases on balls were given in the game of May 9, 1911, be- tween Detroit (18) and Philadelphia (12). The National League rec- ord, 24, is Chicago (17 vs. New York (7), May 30, 1887. The work of Ray _Hayworth, catching for Detroit, and Earl Grace for Pittsburgh, in 1931 and 1932, has caused debate as to which should be credited with the best record. There is | little to choose between them, as the following official figures will show. Hayworth, from September 3, 1931, to August 29, first game, 1932, played 98 games, had 381 putouts, 56 assists, no errors, total chances accepted 437, | with one passed ball. Grace, from Au- | gust 29, 1931, to September 8, 1932, | played 111 games, had 378 putouts, 53 assists, no errors, total chances accept- ed 431, with three passed balls, | _ Walter Johnson, Washington, and Bob Grove, Philadelphia, have led the merican League six years each in earned-run average. Grover Alexan- | der led the National League for five years. SAY GOOD OLD DAYS WEREN'T SO GOOD “Few things as good then as now,” comment | old-timers. f All the talk about the glamour and glory of the good old days is being punched full of holes. 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