Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1933, Page 11

- SIORLS, - e — it STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 17. 13983. +SPORTS . —11 Krauss, Vaeth Defended as Duckpin “Greats” : Woman Golfers Look for Big Year TRONSKY NO DOUBT BEST OF HIS TIME Game Has Changed Material- ly and in Spirit Since Others Ruled. BY R. D. THOMAS. AYS the once peerless Bradley Mandley, speaking of Nick S Tronsky, national duckpin sweepstakes champ and reigning sensation of the game: “He's the best I've ever seen.” Says J. Bernard Carroll, mem- ber of the famous old Royal team: “He's a standout, past or present.” | And Gletn Welstenholme, once king | of the singles shcoters: “My hat's off | to him. 1 suppose I rolled against all the really good ones in my time, and I've seen all the others, and there hasn'i been any in the bunch as hot &s this bay.” Tnen wuuere's Ben McAlwee: “Tron- ski's Tecoru speaks cui loud. He's the best of ‘all ume.” An authority on bowling ngures, McAlwee translates skill in terms of eritnmetic. GAINST such testimony it may be futile to offer a word in rebuttal, but detend we do, possibly from habit, the illustrious names of Hairy F. Kreuss and John L. Vaeth. Many times in the last 10 years we've had occasion to drag out those names as syncnyms for greatness on the maple- ways, 1n this decade many a comet has flashed across the bowling firmanent, each to be proclaimed by some the brightest ever. And always the ques- tion: “Is he greater than Krauss? Than Vaeth?" And here it is again, in the case of Nikolas Tronowski, called Nick Tron- sky, of Willamantic, Conn., who started his bowling career as a pinboy and cli- maxed it recently with the largest 15- game score ever rolled, to win the Na- tional Duckpin Bowling ~Congress sweepstake.. - "L'nis, however, was merely one of a jeries of sensaiinal ieais perfomed by the young Lithuanian—Nick is in his early 20s. He averaged 130 or better | in a series of intercity matches that led 1p to the naticnal sweepstakes, | and in the big money event at Rich- mond he broke the national records for | 5 and 10 games as weil as 15. He has averagea 127 on a circuit of drives in the Connecticut State League. SITHER Krauss nor Vaeth dreamed of such an average for league play, nor would either have thought | within the range of human skill such a | score as the 2,101 Tronsky rolled at| Richmond. But Krauss and Vaeth played a consderably different game. They shot ¢t smaller pins, they rolled Arequently on,“Rocky Mountain” drives, end there were no shallow, rounded gutters to sccop the maples back onto the field of pl2y. They never averaged | better than 115 in the District League. | Nor did either seem to care a lot abut | the size of his average. In the day of Kradss ana Vaeth bowling spirit ¢mcpg _the sters was different -from now. * The team victory was the thing. With a game in the b2g, few tried for sticks to build their averages. Nor was Krauss cr Vaeth inspired by | money . prizes. ‘There were no large purses,’ Bowling was a sport. Not the pay-off, but a banquet was the big thing in” en ‘intercity match, And what a| royal evening one of those after-the- | match affairs provided! | XCEPT on rare occasions, “Big Mose” Krauss never knew who was | high man on his truly great Royal | team, None of the Royals scemed in- | terested in such & detail. | And when an all-star team was| chosen to represent Wishington, or when & recruit was needed by the regue lar Royal team, a man's standing in the community J‘cunted as well as his| in the averages. day of their careers, would gamble. | This wes a distinct sacrifice, for either | might have “cleaned up.” But there| had been a time when Krauss wagered regularly on his ability to beat 125— | this in a day when an average of 105 classed a bowler with the elite. The | manager of & bowling establishment, | Krauss passed up gambling because he thought it harmful to the sport as a | whole. At the peak of his career, Vaeth quit bowling altogether. He thought it for the best interest of the establishment | he managed for Morris Cafritz. And | Johnny, more than any bowler we've | ever known, loved to shoot duckpins, RAUSS and Vaeth performed 1:-!31 in their day comparable to Tron- sky's achievements in his. There is no | reason to doubt they would have ac- complished more in the way of high | scoring had necessity called or had the | incentives been as high-powered as now. i Krauss long since has given up duck- pin competition, but occasionally takes 8 turn on the mapleways—and kid- dingly shoots scores that would average | 120 or more. | None other than-George L. Isemann, gecretary of the' National Duckpml Bowling Congress and foremost au- thority on the game, recently voiced a | thought in the minds of not a few long- | time observers of duckpins when. he fajd: “What would Harry Krauss and Jobnny Vaeth, at their best, do with a set of modern duckpins on modern leyson .]:fizbody knows, of course, but. you can raice a fog any time by classing any duckpin bowler by himself to the dis- paragement of those two immortals of | fhe gam~ and sterling sportsmen, Harry Frederick Krauss and John Leo Vaeth NEW LOOP IN RING “ hl “““‘ i A | @7 —By WEBSTER THE MOST FeRoclouS GRIZZLY BEAR IN ALASKA IS CORNE ALL REO D933 m.y e w“7 . THE SPORTLIGHT BY GRANTLAND RICI CHAMPIONS AND THEIR CHANCES. | No. 5—Helen Wills Moody. SHORT while ago Mrs. Helen Wills Moody arrived in New York after a nine-month ab- sence abroad. Only a day or two after her arrival she had Manual Alonzo, former Davis Cup star, working to the limit to beat her in two sets. After losing to Elmer Griffin, she proceeded to beat him in two sets. And later in the week she won and | lost a set against young Sidney Wood, one of the country’s leading stars. i In these exhibitions Mrs. Moody put | on a display of tennis which dazzled | the experts. She seemed faster afoot | and hitting harder than ever before. | Her combination of speed, power and | control lifted her far above any female competition now around. But the main point of these recent | matches was that she finished each | afternoon’s play as fresh as she was | at the start, She wasn't taking an extra breath. One_of the marvels of Mrs. Helen | | Wills Moody 1is the close attention she | has given to her physical condition | year after year. She is today, not only exceptionally strong, but amazingly tireles. She doesn’'t drink and she doesn’'t smoke. She eats plain, simple | food and she makes & point of getting | exercise at every chance. ERE are a few characteristics of the women's tennis champion | which few know about. ‘When a match is over, Mrs. Moody leaves her tennis on the playing court. She doesn't take it home with her. She does no brooding or fretting about some mistake she may hate made. With the game over, she has other interests in life to think abcu.. And then, 30 minutes before her next match starts, her concentration on tennis be- comes complete, She allows no other subject to distract her attention frcm the main issue just ahead. Some time back Mrs. Moody felt that she was nct using enough speed on the courts. One or two stories were written | Basket Ball Tips BY JOE GLASS. 'HOUGH out of the running for the title, Southern Methodist really decided the Southwest Conference championship last year by beating Texas Christian when it was tied with Bayvlor. This year Cotch St. Clair has much better material with which to work out the tactics which always have made 8. M. U. teams winners One of the departments in which | St. Clair's men excel is getting the ball back to their own territory from a rebound at the enemy basket. A typical play is the following: Cen- Southeastern Conference to Crown | 1 Champions in March. A, January 17 UP)—The Conference's first kings be crowned in New March at the opening probably will be held 11 1 cefinitely decided institutions will make team or individual honors ¢ 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. 'OM CANTWE! town U and will coach diamonders. He now & Terre Haute » 3 former George- held triais for th Morn, Pield. Oapt Keliey | Wellorter. Derby and Keegan showed well Baward Reu'bach has o . Plen fur the signed o hicagy Anthony Mapes ™ although final dates | ter (4) gets the ball and passes to right forward (2). & good dribbler, who is Simultaneous- Iy and ' 43 De Mdes Dasket. No 2's first eflort is ¢ to ome of them. but If neither 18 froe he starts & fas doibbie No. right guard), the fiee ciome behind hum ‘”' 3 M froe, Wil try for ) Mimsel at b W his Moo in thednole. AL Vbt free Thiow line, If not free, he makes & back vot which blocks his guagd. and nde the Ball to & The y I eapecially good If the ebonad W . I--v.klhm . Wenw. Then o) he players o0 st with oen', ¢ near Mie basket e play goara Mewt avy o | and fire a gun as she raced 30 or 40 that her footwork seemed to be slow- ing down and that she was not cover- | ing as much court as formerly. The result was she went in for train- ing just as a sprinter does. She had some one stand by the starting line vards. This was done over and over, | day after day, until her foot speed had been greatly increased. In working over a service, a forehand or a backhand, Mrs. Moody might put) in a full hour on ore stroke, playing it over and over, until she was satisfied with the results. This calls for patience and unusual determinetion.- It also -shows the strength of her determination. And this is no light matter, once her mind is made up. T was just 10 years ago when young | 17-year-old Helen Wills won her first, | national title at Forest Hills. She was still in the pigtail period of hairdress, but when the pigtails be- gan to get in her way, she had them braided up. Shortly after this she adopted the white eve shade which she later made famous. It was only a year or two later that the California star picked up the sobri- quiet of “Little Poker Face.” No matter how the match might be going—in her favor or against her—there was not the faintest show of emotion in her set countenance, which retained its com- plete immobility under any type of pressure. Mrs. Moody has lost few matches since her arrival at the top. Her one outstanding defeat came from Suzanne Lenglen, the bounding French marvel, whose greater speed and greater experi- ence ruled the day in two hard tests in Southern France. But the Helen Wills who fell before the Lenglen of “1925, or thereabouts, was not the Helen Wills Moody of today. Tor che is now faster on foot than she was then, a harder, surer hitter, and a far more experienced competitor. It would be only a shot into the fogs t> say whether the Helen Wills Moody of today cou'd, or could not, beat the Suzann: Lenglen of 1922 or 1925. Any. cne who could answer this could tell | how Dempsey and Sullivan would have | made out. | Mrs. Moody plays a large part of her | tennis today against male opponents | | who can force her game to the limit. “I expect to play in championships for severe] years,” she says. “Why not? kncw of no greater fun.” At the age f 27 she chould have five of six years ft around the heights. Possibly | longer. |, Any athlete who pays as much at- | tention as che does to the physical and | mental necessities of competitive play can extend the ch-mplonship playing | time through mo: | Mrs. Helen Wills Moody may easily be the women's tennis champion of the United States in 1940. | (Copyright, 193, bv No th American News- paper Alliance. Inc.) PR REDS LIMIT BROADCASTING. | CINCINNATI, January 17 (#)—Off- cials of the Cincinnati Reds have an- nounced that there would be no broad- casting of Saturday and Sunday Na- tional League games played here in the coming season. Broadcasting of the i opening game here also will be banncd. | AUTO FUEL PUMPS OIL FILTERS A Specialized Service Any Car—Any Make Tompkins Sales & Service Co. 1631 You St. N.W. North 6656 637 - N-STREET, N.W. @ WASHINGTON'S OLDEST o STUDEBAKER DEALER Four Ranking U. ENTER BERMUDA TENNIS §. Players to Play in February Tourney. HAMILTON, Bermuda, January 17 (#)—Four of the United States ranking tennis stars—George M. Lott, jr., Clif- ford Sutter, Gregory Mangin and Sid- ney P. Wood, jr—have sent in their entries for the Bermuda champion- ships, beginning February 24. American players also will compete in a team series against an English team, composed of K. C. Gander-Dower, E.R. Avory, R. K. Tinkler and G. W. Cooper. THE Bayuk Philadelphia Perfecto Cigar enjoyed, for many years; tlie largest sale of any 10-cent brand on the American market. This position of leadership was secured because millions of men fouqd in the Bayuk Philadelphia Perfecto their ideal of cigar value and satisfaction. Today—you can five cents will give the same ripe PPOTIUNILY 10 enter & pay o Smal) down payment per week buys a new Pord ok for Me Belding T MOTOR COMPANY New Yoark Avesus MW BAYUK'S Philadelphia Perfecto for five cents. TOURNEYS GALORE Association Meets Tonight to Arrange Schedule. Handicaps Help. BY W. R. McCALLUM. ORECASTING another active | F golf season among the fem- | inine players of the Na- | tional Capital, again to be | marked by inter-city, inter-club; and tournament competition sur- | passing the activities of the male | golfers, the Executive Commit- | tee of the Women’s District Golf | Association is to meet tonight at | the home of Miss Elizabeth C. The !’venlnf Star trophy, first of the larger medal play events, probably will be played at' Congressional on a June date. The schedule-makers have left a date in October tentatively open for the playing of the Middle Atlantic wom- en’s title event, for the championship TENTATIVELY LISTED = 5&us 'HE usual extensive schedule of inter- club matches, which keep the fair ] golfers busy playing matches be- tween the several clubs during May. June and July, will be resumed again this year, with first and second teams again participating in the contests, The inter-club matches last year found Co- lumbia’s first team victorious, while the team of the Army-Navy Country Club won in the competition for second teams. The first team of the Army- Navy Club may be strengthened this year by the addition of Mrs. D. H. Clarke, Virginia State women's title | holder, whose husband, a naval officer, | by, the fumes he inhaled during the fire. is scheduled to be detailed to Wash- ington within a few months. Intercity matches with Philadelphia, be played this year if negotiations now being carried on are successful. Middle Atlantic tourney probably will be played at Richmond, a city which never has held the event since it was inaugu- rated, in 1926. Major events staged by the Women’s District Association_in- clude the following: The women's Dis- trict championship, The Star Cup tour- Harris, newly elected president. | It will go over the tentative schedule ward final arrangement of the most comprehensive schedule ever arranged for the fair golfers of th: The growth of interest in around Washington has been enal over the last half-dozen years. Six or seven years ago only a corporal’s guard turned out for the big events. In those days the slogan of the women | seemed to be: “We have no chance, so why play?” | | UT for the last three or four years, by a modern system of graded handicaps, kept strictly up to date through contacts at the various clubs, this mental attitude toward the tourna- ments has been changed until even the minor tournaments nowadays have | entries running up to 50 and 60 women. | The larger tournaments have had entry ’ lists of 100 and more and interest stiil | continues to grow until the day may | come when the size of the women's events may parallel those of the men. Much of the credit for the growth of | interest in women's golf has come | through the efforts of such leaders Mrs. Frank R. Keefer, until recently president of the association; Mrs. J Marvin Haynes, former chairman of the Tournament Committee; Mrs. Frank Gross, Mrs. Jerome Meyer, Mrs. Harry A. Knox, Mrs. Alma von Steinner and others whose “missionary” work has resulted not only in added interest but in growth of entry lists, OMMITTEES are to be named at the meeting tonight, with Mrs Douglas _Tschiffely, chairman of the Women'’s Tournament Committee at the Washington Golf and Country Club, | slated to become chairman of the im- portant Tournament Committee of the | District association. A schedule of the larger tournaments, including the inter- club and inter-city events, is to be| drawn up. The women's District cham- plonship, blue ribbon event of the local season for the feminine club-swingers | | about the Capital, is to be played in | May, either at Kenwood, Beaver Dam | or_Army-Navy. | This tournament for the champion- | ship now held by Mrs. Dorothy White | Nicolson has been held at all the other | clubs, and none of the three mentioned | having held it, one of them now is in | | line for the event. Last year it was, played at Manor. 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Golf Analyzed BY JOE GLASS N important feature of the stroke for the short run-up shot is the way in which it is finished. I was watching Walter Hagen playing a run-up shot from about 30 feet off the green. After his club- head brushed through the turf, pick- ing up the ball, it went straight on out on the line of direction very HAGEN A:T FINISH OF RUTT CLUBHEAD Is wow AT FINISH low. At the finish when the club- head stopped, it was only a few inches above the ground, probably not three or four inches higher than if he had been making a long putt. You must practice the run-up to play it in the way Hagen does. Joe Glass offers an illustrated leaflet on “Driving” which will help every golfer having trouble off the tee.” Send stamped, addressed en- velope for it. Address Joe Glass, in care of this paper. (Copyright, 1033} Warnlug o Price reductions are , the order of the day. Many cigars nre.being offered the public at mere fractions of their former selling price. 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Millions were sold during the past few months at MILLIONS O 10C FOR THESE arri UMATEA WRAPPE £ FINE 1P £ HAVANA AND DOMER Baltimore and Richmond again are to| The | In addition to these,|Ppj, But, in many cases, price re- ductions were made because value at the higher price was not appar- ent to the smoker. | | FANWHO 'mscovénzn'] 'WADDELL DEAD AT 70 Risher First Met Rube, Who Later | i Became Great Left-Hand Hurler, on Farm 40 Years Ago. | By the Assoclated Press. | ]PITTSBURGH, January 17—Carried | | from a sick bed when his home | __burned several days ago, Howard | Risher, 70, credited with “discovering” | Rube Waddell, famed southpaw pitcher, | is dead. | |, His death at the home of a daugh- | |ter, Mrs. George Weckesser, yesterday, | may have been induced. physicians say, Prominent in local base ball circles in years gone by, Risher managed sev eral independent clubs, piloting them to successful seasons. 1 He became interested in Waddell after | meeting the latter on a farm pear But- | ler, Pa., about 40 years ago. | Realizing the man, who was later to | be hailed as one of the greatest left- handed pitchers in the game, had real ability, Risher set out to land Waddell in the big leagues. He was unable to gain a try-out for the pitcher at that time, however. Wad- | dell went to the majors after playing | with teams at Pranklin and Homestead, | Besides Mrs. Weckesser, curvived by his widow, daughters 2nd two sons. 'LARRY BOERNER GIVEN RELEASE BY RED SOX| | S | Pitcher Sent to Nashville in Shake- up That Brings Four Rookies to Boston. Risher is two other By the Associated Press. OSTON, January 17.—President Bob Quinn of the Boston Red Sox to- day was prepared to start making out his 1933 contracts. Before tackling that job he did a bit of house-cleaning, releasing two young batterymen, Pitcher Larry, Boerner, a native of Washington, D. C.) and Henry Patterson, a catcher, and signing four pitching rookies. | _Boerner was released outright to the | Nashville Club of the Southern Associa- | tion and Patterson was sent to Holly- |wood in the Pacific Coast League, his | home town. | _ The pitching youngsters added to the | Red Sox roster for the Spring training | |trip were Mark MaeComisky of Law- | rence, Mass, who had a few wecks'| service with Erie in the Central League | ‘ast season; Arthur Mahoney of Taun- | | ton, Mass.. recent Holy Cross graduate; Mike Neola, a 24-year-old product of {the New York City playgrounds, and | Harley Moneal of Lakewood, Ohio, late | of the University of Michigan. SHORT-WEEK LEAGUES DURHAM, N. C., January 17 (#).— A ruling permitting membership in or- ganized base ball to leagues playing three games a week if they can meet other qualifications has been announced by W. G. Bramham, president of the National ~ Association of Professional Base Ball Leagues. The ruling is ex- pected to apply only to leagues of clu-‘ D rating. Breedon Sees Pay '/ Cuts as Essential 'T. LOUIS, January 17 (#).—The St. Louls Cardinals, frésh from their 1931 triumph in the world series, lost money last season. Minneapolis, 1932 pennant winner in the American Asociation alse ran into the red. That should give John P. Fan and Eghert Q. Player a rough idea of the fiancial situation in the world of organized base ball, thinks Sam Breadcn, president of the Cards. Breadon predicts, however, that salary limits recently adopted will come to the rescue of numerous mi- ndr league clubs. The Millers, he figures, would at least have broken even last year had they been oper- ating under the reduced budget voted for 1933. “Do I think the players will take their cuts? “They'll have to,” Breadon opined “and they'll do it with & smile if they are smart.” Golf Gossip NE of the rare eagles being made these mid-Winter days, when golf courses are soft and soggy and the ball flies only a limited distance, was bagged yesterday at Washington by Davie Thomson, the club professional. Dave put together two pin-splitting wopden club shots on the 485-ya fourth hole laying his second shot within eight feet of the pin. He rolled the putt in for the eagle 3. Al Hough- ton, who was playing with Dave, missed an eagle by Inches on the lengthy fifteenth hole after reaching the green with two mighty wallops. Holes which ordinarily play as drive and medium iron holes in Summer now play as two full wooden shots for most golfers these days. But have you, Mr, Golfer, taken advantage of the Spring- like weather to try out your new Christe mas ciubs? he last two weeks ocer- tainly have been great for golf. Page Hufty, Congressional Country Club titleholder, who used to be classed as one of the best amateurs Washington and probably still would be so classed if he made a few tourna- ment appearances, holed a putter shot from a bunker at the twel hole at Congressional two days ago. He was playing with Bill Jones, Jack McCarron and Luther Steward,' jr, and after fluMing a shot in the trap, he knocked the next one into the hole for a par 3. Tom Mather, who like Bill Di Este, plays his golf cross-handed, made a shot for the books a couple of days ago at Washington. Mather hooked his tee shot for the fifteenth hole over near the rourteenth tee. Between his ball and the green was a wilderness of trees and ditches, with the odds long against his getting anywhere at all. 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