Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1933, Page 11

SPORTS. CLUBS, BALLS,DUES, . BETS NOW MODEST Days of $100 Wagers Gone and Probably for Good of the Game. BY W. R. McCALLUM. O longer can golf be classed as a rich man’s pastime. The boom days of the decade between 1920 and 1930, when prices of golf equip- ment were boosted to the skies and the gent who didn't have a $45 set of wooden clubs in his bag was a back number, are gone, | perhaps never to return. | The day of the 65-cent golf ball is back with us, and every article of the game from the most expensive clubs even down to the wooden tees that are | universally used nowadays has taken a | severe cut. Club dues generally remain | at the old level, but initiation fees have | been slashed to a point where the man | with & modest piece of money to lay on the line for initiation fee purposes | can get into a club which in the old | days charged initiation fees ranging | from $100 up to $500. Indeed, a few | of the local clubs have cut out the ini- tiation fee entirely and are taking in members without payment of such fees. | Professional Golfers’ Association | tells us that the costs of golf now- | adays are 30 per cent lower than they were back in 1930. But how dees this react in individual cases? In those days we bought golf balls at $2.25 for three, or $9 a dozen. Nowadays, not- withstanding the tax on sport goods, can step into any golf shop and golf balls at $2 for three, or at the of $8 a dozen. Some pros will sell them for $7.50 & dozen. The same rate of reduction holds true for golf clubs of the better makes. Clubs which used to sell for $7.50 apiece in sets of 10 now sell for $60 by the set or $6 each. Wooden clubs which used to retail for | 845 the set now sell for $30 for three, a reduction of 3313 per cent. Imported balls which used to sell for a dollar now can be bought for 85 cents, although one imported pill still commands a dol- | lar price. Needless to say, it isn't im- mensely popular. Even wooden tees which used to sell for 25 cents for a | box of 18 now can be bought in differ- | ent brands for as little as 10 cents for | & bag of 100. trieving It's hardly worth re- | them at that price. LUB and ball costs during 1932, the P. G. A. says, were reduced under the cost of manufacturer’s produc- tion by the liquidation of stocks of the old “ and lighter” golf ball and the distress club stocks of “woodshed” manufacturers who were brought into golf by the Tom Thumb or miniature course craze of 1930. Private club ex- penses were sharply reduced by cur- tailment in club house operating forces and reduction in the number of men ed “two-dofiar and the days! when some players wagered as ‘much as $100 on a golf match have gone. Perhaps it is all for the better, for the day when golf re- turns to the simpler form of the game After all, the chief enjoyment of the fer is that he gets out of hitting the Palatial club house equipment «does not reduce his score. Golf club dues showed a steady rise during the prosperous years from 1921 to 1930. But since the year following the stock market crash there has been increase in club dues around Wash- On the other hand, there have few decreases, and these have come in reduction of initiatign e golf courses around Washington [ 2 g ¥ r H H g 153 £ 4 § : R 8 g ¥ 3 to make them soft again. week end they were in first-class inter shape, soft enough so the greens ould hold a pitched ball and yet not too soft for comfortable walking. Now, several more days of wind and sun will be necessary to dry them out. But even so, golfers of the Capital have "EE has been played every- where. All the courses were thronged over the week end. MANOR ELEéTS TONIGHT Ray Garrity to Be Urged to Keep Post s President. The board of governors of the Manor | Club, with five new members elected | last month, will hold its organization meeting tonight and will choose officers | of the club for 1933 | Ray F. Garrity, who has served as| club president for the past two years, | will be urged to run again. Other offi- | cers are Frank Birgfield, vice president; | Stanley D. Willis, secretary, and David Quirk, treasurer. HANLEY HAS INFLUENZA Northwestern Grid Coach Stricken in Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES, January 10 (#)—II with influenza, Dick Heanley, North- western University coach, arrived here | for @ visit yesterday and was taken to the Hollywood Hosptial. Attendants said his condil serious. tion was not | J | By the Associated Press. i NEW YORK.—Bep Van Klaveren, | Holland, outpointed Phil Rafferty, New | York (10); Eddie Holmes, Connecti- | cut, outpointed Gordon Donahue, New York (8). | LEEDS, England—Larry Gains, To- | ronto, Ontario, stopped Paul Hoffman, Holland (6). | HOLYOKE, Mass. — Lou Brouillard, ‘Worcester, outpointed Horatio Velha,‘ Fistic Battles Hartford, Conn. (10), | CHARLESTON, S. C.—Bob Godwin, Daytona Beach, Fla., outpointed Eric Lawson, Brooklyn, N. Y. (10), NEWARK, N. J—Young Terry, Tren- ton, N. J, outpointed Jack Rosenberg, New York (10); Cowboy Owen Phelp-.l Phoenix, Ariz., outpointed Roscoe Man- ning, Newark (10). | TERRE HAUTE, Ind—Jock Roper, Los Angeles, knocked out Paul Pantaleo, | Chicago (3); Jimmy Kelly, Dayton, ©Ohio, outpointed Pat Murphy, Danville, . 6). Oflm. N. cA—KDewee‘yu Kimrey, Oharlotte, and Les Kennedy, Long Beach, Calif, drew (10), NEW ORLEANS.—Eddie Flynn, Phil- knocked out Tommy Jones, alisata ), » | had not gone to G S TAR, WASHI TO LIKING FOR ATHLETICS Babe Didrikson Says Her Love of Competition in All Kinds of Strenuious Games Made Her a Tomboy During School Days. (This is one of a series of articles by Babe Didrikson, in which the world’s most famous and most ver- satile woman athlete tells the story of her life.) BY MILDRED (BABE) DIDRIKSON. 6 NATURAL athlete,” I have | been called. I never have given much thought to the reasons for my success in | sports, but I think the important thing | is that I like games and I like compe- | tition. I enjoy every form of athletics, | and I get satisfaction in improving myself and bettering my records. As far back as I can remember I played with boys rather than with girls. | ‘There was no reason for this except | that the girls in Beaumont, Tex., where | I grew up, did not play games that in- terested me. I preferred, base ball, foot ball, foot racing and jumping with the | boys to hop-scotch and jacks and dolls, | which were about the only things girls did. 'HE boys who were my playmates didn’'t mind ‘having me in_their | games, because I always could hold up my end. In base ball I played third base, pitcher and shortstop and liked On the foot ball team shortstop best. o I usually played in the bdackfield. liked quarterback best of all. I guess the habit of playing with boys made me too rough for the girls’ games. _Anyway, I found them too tame. In those days the only girl T competed with was my sister Lily, who was two years older. She generally could outrun me, and if she had ever had a chance to get proper coaching, she would haVe been a world champion. I have three brothers and three sis- ters. Lily was the only one of my sis- ters who had any liking for athletics, but all three of my brothers let me take part in their games. I they were rather proud of me because I was able to meet most of the boys on even terms. ‘WAS born June 26, 1913, when my femily was living in Port Arthur, Tex. Two years later my family moved to Beaumont, where they still | live. In 1930 I went to Dallas to work for an insurance company as | a filing clerk, and to play on the| company’s basket ball team. It was known as the Golden Cyclones, and was one of the best girls' teams in the United States. Up to this time I had never taken part in track and fleld events. The only athletic coaching I had received was in basket ball as a member of the Beaumont High School team. ‘The first track meet I took part in I won five gold medals—four for win- ning four events, and the fifth for scor- ing tma ‘highest number of points in the meet. Before that I had my introduction into business. Although I was supposed to be working as a filing clerk, people wanted to buy insurance policies from me. The second day I worked for the company I sold 10 policies, UT I think I am ou myself .in this story. I want to tell how I happened to to Dallas. If I and had the en- couragement and coaching of Ool. Mel- | 0 HORSES NAMED INTROTTING STAKE Cracks of Light Harness * Racing Eligible for Rich * Hambletonian. By the Assoclated Press. OSHEN, N, Y., January 10.— Forty 3-year-olds, the crack trotters of light harness horse racing, still are eligible for the rich Hambletonian as the result of the posting of fees of $250 each by their owners on January 1. ‘The number, six more than last year, will be further reduced before post time when the owners will be required to de- posit a starting fee of $500 the day before the race. The date and loca- tion of the sport's richest event will be announced the latter part of this month, according to Will Gahagan, sec- retary of the Grand Circuit. It was re- newed over the Goshen mile track in 1931 and 1932. The Hanover Farms of Hanover, Pa., have named five for the race. Included in the list of eligibles are Spencer McElwyn, the champion 2-year-old trotter with a mark of 2:04 BABE DIDRIKSON. | vin Jacksan McCombs, the athletic coach for the insurance company, I might not have taken the interest in track and field athleties that I later did. I played three years on the girls' | basket ball team in junior high school and in high school in Beaumont. were playing in Houston, and Col. Mc- Combs, who coached the Golden Cy- clones, was “scouting” the game for material for his team. He was not watching me, but another girl on our | team. The Beaumont team was having a hard time. At that time I weighed only | 105 (I now weigh 133 pounds), and most of our team weighed about the same as I did. Our opponents were | much heavier. I was pretty good that night, and was making most of the points for our team, but Col. McCombs was too busy watching the player he :md come to see to pay much attention | 0 me. 'OWARD the end of the game the score was tied at 30-30. In the | final minutes I scored two goals and we won, 34-30. After the game Col. McCombs asked me if I would like to go to Dallas to work for the insurance company and play for the Golden Cyclones. I wanted to do it, but I had to talk with my family. When I got home I did this, and they | gave me permission. A few days later | I received a telegram offering m~ a job | in Dallas at $90 a manth. I accepted and went to Dallas the next day. | I had played base ball and foot ball, | won some prizes for swimming and diving, and had played basket ball three years. Since then I have taken up golf, C| 3 and tra acrobatics, 2 (Next—My introduction to track and | fleld athletics. How I started out to learn which events I liked best and could do best, only to discover that I | &:fid) them all and could do them ail (Copyright, DA 33, by North American News- er Aliiance, Inc.) Club Is Inspired By Chanipion Liar from Philip McCarty of Denver, who was named national champlon re- cently by the Burlington Liars’ Club, Hutchinson, Kans., golfers, hunters, fishermen and others have moved to establish a liars’ club. Sponsors sald members would meet monthly. No minutes will be kept because, as the organizers inted out, they a-mblbly would unreliable any- ¥ BASKET GAMES WANTED Laurel 100 and 115 Pound Quints‘ Seek Tilts and Series. Games for Friday night and Sunday | afternoon for both the 100 and 115 |3 | pound basket ball teams sponsored by the Laurel National Guard company, or for either,” are sought, the Laurel ar- mory to be the scene of action. Capt. Julian Anderson, who is book- ing for the Guard teams, also would | like to arrange series with 100 and 115 pound quints. He can be reached at | Laurel 134 after 6 pm. Basket Ball Tips BY JOE GLASS. RAIG RUBY employs a neat combination at Illinois when it is necessary to jump for the i ball near the Illinois basket in the center lane. The combination calls for the | participation of two tall men in the first stage of the play. One of these must be the jumper (3) and the other must be the receiver of the tip (1), who, incidentally, must be a very fast thinker for this is a speed play in which there is no use for a slow mover or a slow thinker. As an example, center (3) tips to the floor guard (1). At the jump, right ‘orward (2) and left for- ward (4)—both of them fast men— drive past 1 on either side. He bats the ball to whichever one is free and a try' for basket follows. To get into’ this play properly, 2 and 4 have to work very fast, for, before driving ‘toward the basket, they must feint their defensive guards out of position and then roll around them,. Even then they may neither one get free. In that event 1t is possible that 1, by a pivot and one-hundred shot, may score goal. Next—Fordham's outside play at enemy end. | Dallas ki AR | Charite " Bar Ve miiiian /AMATEURS T0 BOX AT CONGRESSIONAL Seven Bouts Will Constitute Pro- gram Thursday of D. C. Legion and Orioles. A BOXING team representing the American Legion and a Baltimore combination will figure in an ama- teur show Thursday night at the Con- gressional Club, in connection with the monthly smoker and entertainment. Seven bouts total 21 rounds will be offered, starting at 8:30 o'clock. Jack ‘Whitely, coach of the Legion team, has arranged the card. Eddie Lafond will referee. 112 s~ Falmer Wy v3. Charkie Bas 147 pounds—Benny Jenkins (W.) vs. ranco (B.); 147 pounds—Herb . Tom Kaldaros (B.): 0 pounds—Jack Bexter (W) vs. Georzs k (B.): 175 —1 o Pt gL el WS Nick Pal- pounds— ie Barranzio 161 1 tw = e WEEKS IS RE-ELECTED Fraile and Fowler Also Retained as Canoe Club Officers. A. Earle Weeks last night was unan- imously re-elected president of the Washington Canoe Club and M. J. Fraile and Henry M. Fowler again were chosen secretary and treasurer, re- spectively. They also were unopposed. Other officers elected were E. 8. Mc- Guigan, vice president; W. D. Havens, commodore, and Howard Florance, vice | commodore. Joe Aronoff, Harry Knight, J. E. Boninj, L. H. Barnes and George V. Reckert were named members of the board of governors. EDDIE FLYNN WINNER | | ond Ring Bout as Pro. NEW ORLEANS, January 10 (#).— Eddie Flynn, former Olympic champion, swept through his second professional | fight here last night scoring a knockout |over Tommy Jones of Atlanta at the start of the fourth round of their sche- duled 10-round bout. | ¢ Flynn weighed 154% pounds to Jones’ | T00 ILL TO FIGHT | BUFFALO, N. Y., January 10 (#)— | A 10-round boxing bout between Tony | Sciolino, Buffalo lightweight, and Fidel |La Barba, California, scheduled for | January 16 at the Broadway Audi- | torium, has been postponed until Jan- | uary 23. Illness of Sclolino is given as the We | | Enocks Out Tommy Jonmes in Sec- | by W. H. L. McCourtie of Dallas, Te: | W. N. Reynolds’ Mary Reynolds, 2:05%., | of Winston-Salem, N. C., and Allan J. | Wilson's speedy Sir Raleigh, 2:04%, of Boston. ' Taxi Spill Worst Sharkey Ever Had AN FRANCISCO, January 10 (®). —Tom Sharkey, barrel-chested ring gladiator who fought ‘em all 40 years ago, hasn't the rheum- atism after all, as was first thought to be the case when he was located laid up in his hotel Toom here last Saturday. He slipped while getting out of s taxicab New Year eve and suffered a ‘wrenched knee and @ sprained ankle. “That was the toughest knockdown I ever had” Sailor Tom said. “It took three men to lift me up. I guess I've put on weight” D. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1933, LIFE’S DARKEST MO ) MENT. WELL, | GUESS WELL HAVE TO cHoP '€R UR WE BURNT LP TH' LAST PIECE OF FIREW00OD on TH PLACE LAST NIGHT | national rank- | glan tiger v | ing; the other an ambitious, | hard-hitting Irish id from Philadel- phia—clash tonight in Portner’s Arena | in a bantamweight battle that may wind up <in a real upset of the dope | buckst. - | From the stable | of Charley John- ston, brother of | Madisdn Square’s | irrepressible Jim- my Johnston, will come Pete Sanstol, flyweight and ban- tamweight ghanfp of eiorway and fourth ranking| among the world's 118 - pounmers. Halling from Max “Boo Hoo” Hofl's stable will be Jim- my Mack. If the bout to- night had been bilted for 15 rounds, or even 10, which it yet may be, there would be | | little trouble installing a favorite. San- | stol appears to be blessed with almost | limitless endurance. But an eight- round route would be very much in | Mack’s favor. Jimmy is speedy and | |can hit while moving. Sanstol, with | his plodding, relentless attack, must be- | | gin early if he means to whip the Phil- | adelphian. Sanstol undoubtedly will be the fa- | vorite, but Mack is a dangerous un- derdog. OWBOY OWEN PHELPS failed to | set the local fistic colony agog with | his performance at Portner’s, but | now Jimmy Erwin is hoping to put | | | Paul Jomes. . Lloyd gets another chance to- | Phelps. | night when he tackles Joe Chaney, veteran Baltimorean, in the eight-round semi-windup. A six-rounder features Doug Swet- nam and Izzy Caplan, the latter a promising amateur from _Baltimore. Four-rounders bill Leroy Dugan and Young Gentile and Leroy Zinkham and Izzy Rainess. CCORDING to Joe Holman, who got | | £A it from Joe Turner, lean-shanked | | Paul Jones, the reformed Texas | | florist, was one of the first matmen to | | recognize Washington as a potential | “rassling town.” It was back in Turner's pioneer day as a promoter when the rasslers were | getting only meal money in Washing- | ton. On the occasion of Jones' mltm; appearance in the Capital the “house” | was unusually small and Jones' share | was only $13. As Joe was paying off Jones said, “Keep it, Joe. You may need it I'll |get mine later, because Washington’s | gonna be a good town.” | A little over a year later Joe watched | Paul and Jim Londos draw an indoor | | “gate” of $9,500, perhaps the largest |ever drawn in the Washington Audi- |torium for rassling. | " Jones returns Thursday night after | |an absence of 18 months but in a | semi-final role of a Londos-topped show. Jeems defends his world mat champion- ship against Frank Judson, who, like | Jones a couple of years ago, is Wash- ington’s latest fair-haired boy. Other bouts: Joe Cox vs. Abe Cole- man, Rudy Dusek vs. Jim Clinkstock, | and "Tiger Nelson vs. Babe Caddock. | Women with escorts will be taxed half price. EROY DUGAN, classiest of the pre- liminary boys to show at Portner's this Winter, is challenging, through | George King, the winner 6f the Doug | Swetnam-Izzy Caplan joust tonight ., . | | ' Penn Had to Wait 45 Years To Defeat Y. HILADELPHIA, January 10— Resumption of foot ball rela- tions between Yale and the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania has recalled the first grid game between the two institutions 53 years ago—and the fact that it took Penn 45 years to beat the Elis. Playing with ¥5 men on a team, the Quakers, captained by Frank Madison Dick, now & broker in New York, lost to the Elis by three goals and three touchdowns. ‘The only other teams on Penn's schedule that year were Princeton ale on Gridiron and Pensylvania Military Academy, now Pennsylvania Military College at Chester, Pa. That first tilt with Yale proved an ill omen for in the years that fol- lowed, the Bulldogs administered some severe trouncings to the Red and Blue. The score books show Penn always in the losing column with such scores as 53 to 5, 57 to 0 and 50 to 0. It was not until 1925 that Penn scored her first victory over Yale when Capt. Joe Willson's team triumphed, 16 to 13, at New Haven, w In the Squared Circle WO rugged little species pugilis- | Dugan will box “winner-take-all” over tica—one a wee blond Norwe- & six-route . . |Also Will Determine Make-up of | across the cowboy's kid brother, Lloyd | SPORTS; A—11" Golf Cost Cut 30 Per Cent Since 1930 : Wood Strikes Gold on California Links GIRL STAR LAYS SUCCESS —o wessten] pp (S §] 5550 1983 N.Y TRIBUNE, . . Pete Sanstol's initial | sports ambition was to represent Nor- way in the Olympics . . . A_clever | skater, skiler and bobsledder, Sanstol | changed his mind when he glimpsed a fellow-clubman, Otto Von Porat, then ama@ur heavyweight champ, working out at the Oslo Athletic Club . . . Jim Londes was the thirteenth child . . . when it is considered he has a million salted away and only one slightly bulb- | ous ear to show for it, 13 can’t be so | unlucky. PIEDMONT LEAGUE 70 NAME NEW HEAD Circuit at Meeting Today. Branham Unburdened. By the Assoclated Press. REENSBORO, N. C,, January 10.— Directors of the Piedmont League are meeting here today, with two important business matters to settle— | election of a successor to President W. G. Bramham and determination of loop members for the 1933 season. Judge Bramham announced last month he would retire as president of the Piedmont, after nursing the league | through many crises and keeping it go- | ing when other minor loops were blow- ing up because of lack of money. The judge has recently been elected president of the National Association of | Professional Clubs and his retirement as head man in the Piedmont is to enable him to devote more time to the bigger b. Dan Hill of Asheville and John T. Rees of Greensboro have both been prominently mentioned as possible suc- cessors, but Rees has .unounced he will not be a candidate for the position. Golf Analyzgd BY JOE GLASS these articles on the 'run-up shot we will deal with short shots, from lies near the green. Of course, “run-up” shots may be of varying distances, some of them long, but we will study those which are so close to the green that they offer a good chance for the player to lay his ball dead to the cup, thereby saving an approach putt. These shots are really exagger- ated putts, so far as the stroking of the bell is concerned. The club to be employed usually reaches the maximum of loft in the mashfe, although today I find that a great many players are using putting cleeks from just off the green. These are apt to be very effective. However, with them, the shot is nearly all roll, and I do not think that there is as much satisfaction in playing it as there is in executing the orthodox shot with its real de- mand for skill and finesse. But, if the shot is played as an exaggerated putt, a putting grip is not used. You grip your shaft as you would for any iron shot. This is necessary to stroke the ball with necessary firmness and _crispness. ‘The grip of Glenna Collett Vare, shown above, is ideal. Golf is a form game. Correct your pivot and you will add yardage to your shots. Joe Glass has pre- pared a free illustrated leaflet on “The Pivot.” Send for it in care of this paper and a st addressed e) 10334 Basket Ball Notes ! ‘ FOUR-WAY deadlock for first place in the Departmental Bas- ket Ball League will be par- tially broken tonight when War Department A. G. O. tossers clash with Post Exchange at 7 o'clock on the floor | of the Y. M. C. A. War Department | and Post Exchange are two of the teams tied for the lead. | Six games, four in Section A, will be | played tonight| in the Community Center League. ‘Tonight's schedule: SECTION A. Rhode Island Avenue vs. Terments, 7:30 Central; b vs. oc! . “Utal oclock. t Roosevelt: Atlas, 9:30 o'clock at Central. SECTION B. Potomac Boat Club v, ness 'Men. 8 oclock, at Eastern; Olmstead Grill ‘vs Grifith Consumers, © o'clock, at Roosevelt. HEADQUARI“S DETACHMENT'S | 23—13 victory over Battery E | gave it a tie with Battery A for the lead in the Coast Artillery League. | Each has two wins. A game for Saturday night with an out-of-town team is wanted by the Battery B team. Address Athletic | Officer, 260th Field Artillery, Water and | O streets southwest. Standing of the league: Won. Lost. Pet. 0 1.000 0 1.000 ents vs. Anacostia Busi- He: 2 adquarters Det, & C. T. ttery A Naval Reserve and Alexandria Fraters will clash tonight at 9 o'clock on the | Eastern High School floor. Olmsted Grill and Griffith Blue Coals meet tonight in one of the outstanding | independent courts tilts on the schedule. They will play at Roosevelt High at | 9 o'clock. Grifiths will play the Mercury A. C. | at Eastern tomorrow, and on Thursday oppose the Hyattsville A. C. Sholl's Cafe and A. Z. A. quints will oppose_tonight at 8:30 o'clock in the Central High School gymhasium. es_yesterda Score Les Amis, 27; Ingram, 18. Flashes, 92; Epiphany, 32. Griffith-Consumers, 31; Shade Shop, 9. Athlisos, 33; Vista Club, 11. Company E, 34; 260th C. A, 21. Potomac Boat Club, 45; Heights, 10. Saranac A. O, 30; Atonement, 13. Mount Pleasant, 30; ‘Washington Preps, 6. - War College, 40; Triple Tau, 19. Investigation, 43; Bolling’ Field, 23." Edgewood, 33; Colonials, 24. Mlaay;'1 Clyb, 382; Takoma Business en, Immaculate Conceptien, 20; Congress | Heights, 16. Games Wanted. Capitol Towers, with 130 and 145 pound quints. Call Distlict 5260, branch 198, during thw day. Carleton A, q,\w!th 100-pound foes. Adams 4922. | s 8 C., unlimiteds. Lincoln Public Documents, with unlimited teams. Lincoln 0660. Palace A. C. unlimiteds, with teams having gyms, (larendon 321 during | | the day. 5088 after 6 p.m. Authorized Service Wico—K-W and Webster Magnetos MILLER-DUDLEY CO. 1716 14th St. N.W. North 1583-4 SEE Y=k TOM 637 = N-STREET, N.W. @ WASHINGTON’S' OLDEST o STUDEBAKER DEALER AUTO | REWIRING COILS—CONDENSERS POINTS—PLUGS MOTOR TUNING Tompkins Sales & Service Co. 1631 You St. N.W. North 6656 Congress [Jim McMillan - 215, Thicago, drew, 30 Wood Is Apollo Of Pro Golfers HO is this Craig Wood who has been moving so fast in Cali- fornia? ‘Wood has shown here only once, when he played in the Kenwood open of 1931, and didn’t go any- where. The warm climes seem to be good to this big blond links warrior, for he has cleaned up everything in =ight on the Coast this Winter, cli- maxing his spectacular campaign yesterday with a victory in the Los Angeles open. Wood is a physical giant, and a handsome one to ‘boot, the Apollo of the professional golfing clan. More than 6 feet tall, he is a decided blond with wavy hair gnd a fine golf style. He is one of the longest hit- ters in the professional ranks. Wood never has done a great deal in the FEast, although he hails from New But out in Honolulu two vears ago he won a tournament. His deeds in Pacific Coast tourneys this ‘Winter speak for themselves. He is s0 long from the tee that he makes most golf courses look short. BARRY FACES GASTANAGA Local Heavy to Box Spanish Kayo| King Monday at Holyoke. Donald = (Red) Barry, Washington heavyweight who formerly represented the Mohawk A. C. will box Isadore Gastanaga, Spanish heavyweight, in & 10-round bout next Monday at Holyoke, Mass,, it has ben announced by Mushky | Jackson, manager of Barry. Gastanaga has won 34 of his last 36 bouts by knockouts, it is reported. Mat Matches NEW YORK—Rudy Dusek, 214, Omaha, Nebr, defeated Floyd Marshall, | 222, Los Angeles, 24:15; Paul+Jones, 212, | Texas, defeated Frank Brunowicz, 212, Poland, 25:30. CHICAGO—Joé Stecher, 220, Omaha, Nebr., defeated Hans Kampfer, 225, Ger? many, 38:43; Abe Coleman, 195, New York, defeated Tom Marvin, 213, St ‘Louis, , decision ends=of 30 minutes; Joe Savoldl, 202, Three Oaks, Mioh., and minutes; Ivan Leskinowich, 347, Russia, defeated w Plummer, 225, South Bend, Ind., 9:08. " BUFFALO—Jim Browring, 236, de- feated Ed+Don Geprge, 214, 12:27. KANGAS CITY—Everett Marshall, 220, La Junta, Colo., defeated JOh‘ni Katan,“220, Toronto, straight falls, 25:00 and 7:50; John Plummer, 220, tral City, Yowa, defegted Steve Hundley) 225, Chicago, 6:55; Fred Peterson, 215, He Mo, defeated Darna Ostopavich, 249, Kansas @ity, 20:10; Charlie Fischer, 180, Butternut, Wis., defeated Jack Ray, 205, Salt- Lake City, 17: IN WILSHIRE LODE Runs West Coast Winnings Above $3,000 in Triumph at Los Angeles. BY PAUZ ZIMMERMAN, Associated Press Sports Writer. 0OS ANGELES, January 10.— Cralg Wood, a sturdy young Easterner who had heard that there was gold in California’s golfing hills and vales, has struck his third lode. The blond and beaming profes- sional of the Hollywood Country Club, Deal, N. J., won the eighth annual Los Angeles open cham- pionship at the Wilshire Country Club late yesterday with a sub- par total of 281 for 72 holes. Victory brought him $1,525.50, which, coupled with his triumphs in the San Francisco match play tourney and the Pasadena Open recently, made his earnings in less than a month of divot digging exactly $3,232.39. Cool as a veteran under the fire the other members of the field of 5 players, Wood came home with a final round of 71, even par, to win by four strokes. He never was over standard figures for the barranca - burdened course. He started out in a tie for first with a 69, two under; slowed down to & 71 on the second round, giving him & tie for sccond, and then yesterday morning banged out an impressive 70. ‘00D won the battle from a man in his own threesome, Leo Diegel, Agua Callente, Mexico, profes~ sional, who twice has won the National P. G. A. title. Larrupin’ Leo trailed by four strokes at the end, with a 285 tle for second place with methodical Willie Hunter, Los Angeles. They col- lected $932.25 each in prize money. Diegel was & bit unsteady on his last two rounds after starting out with two 70s. He wavered to 73 in the morning and rallied to 72 in the final 18. Hunter, former amateur champion of Great Britain, but now a driving range professional, lost his chance for first place on his third round. He started with a 72 on_ the first day and then added 68, the lowest round of the tour- ney on Sunday, but slipped to 74 yes- terday morning. A steady par T1 brought him back into the golden glow: Into fourth place swept Harold Sampson, Burlingame, Calif, with a sparkling 68 for his final round. This gave him a 287 total and $565. Charlie Guest, another of Deal, N. J’s profes- slonals, after leading at the hllf':ly ;!;lpr,k, finished fifth with 288 to edm THE tournament was hard on the champions. Gene Sarazen, New York, national open champion of the United States and Great Britain, who made a flying trip here for this and the Agua Caliente tests, was forced to quit after 54 holes and was taken to a Santa Monica hospital with a high fever. His condition was reported favorable today. He played the third round despite & severe cold which left him in a near Smith, New York, three times winner of the tourney and defending champion, was in a tie for sixth place at 289 with Eddie Loos, Chicago, and Pred Morri- son, Pasadena, Agua Caliente champion. Each won $226. ‘Ten thousand persons attended the tournament over the three-day period, making the gross gate receipts $5,636.98 available for the prize money. Five thousand -dollars had been guaranteed. The golfing parade was headed toward old Mexico today, for the annual Agua Caliente open W. ALEXANDRIA CAGERS BUSY Scholastics Meet Herndon Tonight in Third District Play. ALEXANDRIA, January 10.—Alexan- dria High basketers open their third district competition tonight against Herndon High at Herndon. Girl teams of the schools will meet in the pre- liminary. St. Rita’s A. A. elects officers for a year tonight in the church auditorium at Mount Ida at 7:30 o'clock. A meeting of the Le Paradis Junior A. C. is scheduled tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in the home of Allen Moss, 230 North Payne street. gt CLEMSON COACH TO SPEAK Neely Will Address Annual Alumni Meeting Here Thursday. Jess Neely, head coach of Clemson College and ,vice president of the Southern Conference, will be the prin- cipal speaker at a dinner meeting of the Clemson® Alumni Assocfation of Washington Thursady evening at the Kennedy-Warren at 6:30 o‘clock. It will be the association’s arnual . meeting and officerse will he elected. Almong prominent parsons invited are Senators Ellison D. Smith and James F. Byrnes and former Gov. t. | Robert A. Cooper of South Cgrolina. Plans for welgoming the ~Clemson foot ball team here October 13 whem it meets George Washington will be discusse: - & 4 {2 s ' A Z. A, for Wednesday and Friday with teams having gyms. Call Geumal 3 a i » 4 ® The “BLUE : BLADE,” provided with a petented slot | - “the center, is guaranteed to No package con- tains genuine “BLUE B BLADES" unless 1 carries the portrait of King C. Gillette. give you shaving comfort you have never before experienced.