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. SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1933. SPORTS. ack Has Backers for Brief Spring Toil : Chicago Going After Heavy Title Scrap VET UNP, EXPILOT | SIDE WITH CONNIE Stars Play Themselves Into Form After Season Opens, 0ld-Timer Contends. ONNIE MACK'S statement that next Spring he will keep his Philadelphia Ath- letics in training only three weeks will find numerous advocates. Is a long training season neces- #ary to condition base ball play- ers? A few weeks ago that sub- Jject was thoroughly discussed by ‘:l major league umpire and an old-time munager. For politic sreasons their names will be omit- ted. “I used to be an advocate of long training periods,” said the ex-manager, “but no longer. A college foot ball team gets into condition in two weeks and foot ball players go through a far more | grueling grind than a base ball player does in his six months of activity. “I believe a base ball team can get in fine condition in three weeks. The first week of the training season should be devoted to calisthenics and road work. By road work I don’t mean jog- ging around the park four or five times, but actually getting out and doing sev- eral miles in the open country. The first thing a boxer does is strengthen Y his legs: his boxing comes afterward. 't ‘The next two weeks then would be de- ! voted to pitching, batting and the play- Jing of intra-club and exhibition games. »1 think that if such a routine were followed a team would come North in fine shape to open the season.” Ll LL, I have been umpiring for 20 years,” spoke up the veteran blue-coat, “and it's my opinion that the best pitchers and hitters play themselves into top form after the sea- son opens. Not many pitchers reach their peak until well into June and your great batters seldom turn on the heat until the season is one-quarter fin- ished. When does Ruth hit most of his home runs? After the season is well along. “Ty Cobb seldom reached his best | batting form until after July 1. How | many times have you seen a player who proved to be a flash in the pan batter- ing the cover off the ball in early Spring while the great hitters are slop- ping around at the plate? But when “July rolled around the Spring hitter was gone and the real batter was climbing to the top.” “There is such a thing 2s too long a training season,” declared the old man- ager. “Players get tired of the routine and of training-camp sites. Their in- | terest does not become keen until after the season opens. I believe that if all major league teams would shorten their training seasons so that all would start even we would have just as good base ball and the players would be in fine | trim.” i § | BOYD A PLAYER AGAIN ech Coach Is Making Good in Box Lacrosse League. Artle Boyd, successful Tech High B basket ball coach. is now making good | in a new role. He is playing with zhe‘ Maryland team in the Box Lacrosse | League in Baltimore and is showing | plenty of class, in spite of the fact that | it has been several years since he played lacrosse regularly at the University of | Maryland. Boyd led his teams attack last night in its 7-4 victory over Mount Washing- ton, scoring three goals. Bob Vene- anann, another former Maryland stu- dent, was prominent in the winners’ of- fense, counting two tallies. Roosevelt diamonders are scheduled to | engege the Alexandria High nine to- morrow on the Monument grounds in the lone schoolboy athletic contest scheduled for the da: EAST VS. WEST AT POLO Rrooklyn and Chicago Teams Meet for Class D Honors. CHICAGO, April 17 (#.—The Brook- iyn Riding and Driving Club will meet the 124th Field Artillery Cardinals of Chicago here tomorrow night in the class D finals of the national indoor polo tournament. The Brooklyn team won the Eastern title and the right to represent that section in the national tournament by defeating the strongest class D teams of New York, New England and New Jersey. Shadows of the Past BY I C. BRENNER. NE of the victims of the depres- sion—and there are many of these among old time ball play- ers—is Jimmy Austin. He has been let out by the Browns, with whom he became associated back in 1911. Austin lives in St. Louis, hoping for better times. Jimmy was one of the few major Jeaguers .who was born abroad. He saw the light of day for the first time in Swansea, Wales, back in JIMMY AUSTIN. 1882, and broke into base ball in the Cleveland City League in 1903. He was at Dayton, then Omaha, and in 1909 and 1910 played third for the Yankees In New York. Then the Yanks traded him to the Browns for Roy Hartzell, and Austin began to develop ffito the best third beseman in the American League. Playing alongside Bobby Wallace, Austin became a defensive wizard. | ‘When his playing days were over he became a coach. ot Y S— i ‘through the quarter-finals. Hadiaen, Miss Orcutt Stands by Wood Shafts That Are Coming Back Rapidly Among D. C. Golfers 'OODEN shafted golf clubs are fast moving into favor again as the steel shafted clubs lose their popularity. Maureen Orcutt, the North and South champion, who is in our midst playing a series -of informal games over local courses, never has played anything but wooden shafts, and to hear her tell it she never will. The personable young lady from New Jer- sey, who hits the ball with all the power of one of the better male play- ers, is strictly a wooden shaft user, from her wooden headed clubs right down to the putter which she uses so effectively. And now Mrs. J. Marvin Haynes, the Middle Atlantic champion, who went to steel shafts two years ago, is getting herself a set of wooden shafted iron clubs, following the lead of her mentor ‘eddie McLeod. The little Colum- bia pro tried out a set of steel shafted implements a year or so ago, and played them fairly well, but nowadays Freddie has but one steel shafted weapon in his kit. That is his beloved mashie- niblick, made up in the McLeod model, a club which has made Preddie famous from coast to coast for the bunker shots he plays with this shovel-nosed implement. OB BARNETT, the popular Chevy Chase mentor, has stood steadfast through the storm of steel shafts and never has gone off the wooden standard. Most of the Chevy Chase members have strung along with Bob on the wooden shaft proposition, and you probably -would d fewer steel shafted clubs at Chevy Chase than at most of the other clubs. Dave Thom- son at Washington sticks to wood. So does Sandy Armour at Congressional, when he isn't experimenting with a set of the steel shafted clubs made famous by his brother Tommy, who designed a head which has become popular. Al Houghton of Kenwood, who grew up with wooden shafts, now plays steel in the Jones model, and he plays it well. ‘The general sentiment among the pros 4s that steel is fitted for the big hitters—those who propel the ball & long way, but that most golfers prefer wood for the “feel” and its torsional qualities. Miss Orcutt, with her wooden shafts, and the remarkable exhibition of golf she has shown around Wash- ington, may bring the big swing among women back to wooden shafts. | ITH 96 entries received up to an | early hour today, entries for the Phylls Keeler Miller memorial tourney at Washington on Thursday may go well above 100. The entries will not close until noon tomorrow, with pairings to be made immediately after the hour for closing of acceptances. Mrs. Douglas Tschiffely of the Wash- ington Golf and Country Club, chair- man of the Tournament Committee of the Women's District Golf Association, is receiving the entries. The tourney, which is an 18-hole medal play handi- cap event, is open to all golfers affiliated with the association. The tourney will start early Thurs- day morning over the Washington course. Miss Orcutt was tp play at Chevy Chase today, unless rain washed out a match in which she was to play with Mrs. C. R. Harbaugh, Mrs. J. M. Haynes and Miss- Susan Hacker. She played Columbia and Kenwood on Saturday, scoring 157 for the twin rounds over both courses, and amazing the galleries with a remarkable exhibition of shot- making. ‘The match scheduled today among first steams of the Women's District Golf Assoclation has been indefinitely postponed. Heavy rain which fell for 36 hours washed out the match, sched- uled at Beaver Dam, and it will be played later in the season. HE rain failed to stop an exhibition four-ball match at Beaver Dam yesterday, in which Cliff Spencer, the long-hitting home club pro, paired | with Douglas Mattison to win by 1 up/| from Mel Shorey and Claude Rippey, East Potomac Park combination. The Spencer-Mattison duo won on the last hole, after turning 2 down, with Spencer and Shorey scoring 77s, Mt tison shooting 78 and Rippey scoring A match scheduled at Indian Spring between George Diffenbaugh and Roger Peacock, home club pro-amateur combine, against Harry G. Pitt and Al ‘Treder of Manor was washed out by the rainstorm. s . W. H. Taylor, Golf Committee chair- man at Argyle. today made public the results of the blind bogey tourney held last Thursday and Friday at the Silver Spring club. Members' prizes were won by A. E. Willmett, with a card of 83-10-73, and H. Arnold, with 85-14-71. The guest prize went to J. D. Grant, who scored 93-15-78 and won after a tie with C. J. Sutphin. The driving contest was won by Roger Peacock. Columbia members were gathering their costumes together today for the | “Boasters” tourney, which will open at Columbia at noon tomorrow, marking the formal opening of the golf course and resumption of Summer rules. The main celebration of the party will center around the eighth tee, where Paul Y. Anderson will preside as “‘chief boaster” at the initiation of new members. SEVENNEW RULERS AT SWIMMING SURE Only Two Women Champions Will Defend Titles in National Meet. e Assotiated Press. UFFALO, N. Y, April 17—At least seven new national swim- ming champions will rise this ‘week from among two score of the leading female stars of the United States and Canada. The women’s national senior swim- ming championships will be held April 19 to 22, inclusive, at the Buffalo Athletic Club. Nine titles are in com- petition and only two champions, Doro- | thy Poynton of Hollywood, Calif., the low-board diving champion, and the medley relay team of the Women's Swimming Association of New York City will defend their laurels. Outstanding among the entries is Katherine Rawls, 19-year-old Florida sensation. She has entered seven in- dividual events and is expected to take the indoor breaststroke and the medley titles. She will mees stiff competition, however, in these and the other free- style events as she will be arrayed against such speedsters as Margaret Hoffman of Scranton, Pa.; Alice Bridges of Whitinsville, Mass.; Leonore Knight, Anna Mae Gorman and Louise Clarke of Homestead, Pa.; Sue Robertson, Lisa Lindstrom, Constance Hanf{ and Joan McSheehy of New York. ITH Eleanor Holm out of the pic- ture because of a film contract, the 100-yard backstroke will be a wide open aifair, as 10 girls compete. Outstanding are Ruth Kerr, Canadian backstroke champion; Ethel Matridge of Los Angeles and the Misses Rawls, Hoff- man, Clarke and McSheehy. The low and high board diving are expected to provide thrills as a swarm of stars attempt to oust Miss Poynton from her throne. A heavy threat will come from a little girl who would have to have a special crown made for her if she succeeds. She is 9-year-old Mary Hoerger of Miami Beach. Others en- tered include Margaret Karson of New York, Elizabeth Harrison, Borghild Johannensen of Detroit and Miss Rawls, VOLLEY BALL HONORS GO TO PITTSBURGH *Y’ Annexes ‘Chqny Blossom’ Tourney Here—Local Team Beaten in Quarter-Finals. ITTSBURGH Y. M. C. A. volley ball tossers—former rational champions and entrants in the national cham- }plumhxps to be held at the Chicago World's Fair June 2 and 3—won the annual “cherry blossom” tournament of the Washington Y. M. C. A. at the Central Y courts Saturday night. Pittsburgh met Philadelphia Central Y. M. C. A. in the double elimination finals. In the first match Pittsburgh won the first game, 15 to 12, but dropped the next two games, 3—I15 and 9—15. In the second match the Pittsburgh players made a brilliant comeback to win two straight games and annex the championship. The scores were 15—8 and 15—3. The Pittsburgh team had been fa- vored to win from the first by reason of its ex-championship reputation. The Smoky City boys lived up to advance notices, displaying a brand of hard service and clever blocking tactics that wore their opponents down. The Washington Y team lasted GRIFFITHS TO DRILL Griffith Blue Coals will hold a base ball drill tomorrow evening at 5 o'clock on Fairlawn Field. The coalmen meet Ballston A. C. nine Sunday at | Loughran to Fly For Chicago Bout By the Associated Press. HICAGO, April 17.— Weather conditions permitting, Tommy Loughran, Philadelphia heavy- weight, will be winging through the air today, headed for Chicago, to finish training for his 10-round fight with Izzy Gastanaga of Spain at the Chicago Stadium Friday night. Loughran desired to remain in Philadelphia for Easter, and with the approval of the Illinois State Athletic Commission, planned to make the trip westward by airplane to meet the requirements of being on the battleground five days in ad- vance of the contest. 9. | tackles Hans Birkie of Oakland, Calif. FIVE CHAMPS BOX, BUT NO TITLE BOUT Jeby and Jones, Both Crown Wearers, Open Busy Week Wednesday Night. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, April 17.—Five cham- plons and a one-time ruler of the light-heavyweights add the necessary “tone” to the national boxing schedule this week. There isn't, however, a title bout on the card. Ben Jeby, recognized in New York as world middleweight champion; Gorilla Jones, the National Boxing Association's American middleweight title holder; Tony Canzoneri, king of the world lightweights; Maxey Rosenbloom, light- heavyweight title holder; Freddie Miller, N. B. A. featherweight champion, and Tommy Loughran, once master of the light-heavies, are the headliners. Jeby and Jones get together in & 12- round catchweights match at Cleve- land Wednesday night; Canzoneri meets Wesley Ramey of Grand Rapids in a 10- rounder there Thursday; Rosenbloom fights Martin Levandowski of Grand Rapids at St. Louis Wednesday; Miller faces Abie Israel of Seattle over the six- Tound route at Seattle tomorrow, whil Loughran engages Isidore Gastan | hard-hitting Spaniard, at the Chicago Stadium Friday night. ‘The stadium is offering & double wind-up, in the other half of which Otto von Porat, Norwegian heavyweight, 'NAVY HOT ON TRAIL OF TERP STICKMEN | Wants Revenge for Three Straight Defeats in Tilt That Tops Saturday's Program. ANNAPOLIS, April 17—University of Maryland occupies the important place on the big athletic program at the Naval Academy next Saturday, as it will send its lacrosse and track teams to Annapolis to oppose the midshipmen. | Stung by the defeats that the Old Line stickmen have administered reg- ularly during the three-year period in which they took the place of the Mili- tary Cadets as the Middies’ opponents in the final lacrosse game of the season, the Navy team will make a desperate | effort to turn the tables. After the tie game with Harvard on April 8, the Navy spemt a week iIn strengthening the weak places and last | Saturday defeated Lehigh, 16 to 2. Its practice during the week will all be di- rected toward the Maryland game. The | track men, also, and their mentors, will | also have their opponents from College Park specially in mind. | Two plebe matches will also interest | District people, the base ball nine meet- | ing Central High, and the tennis team | opposing Episcopal High School of Alexandria. ‘The Naval Academy will meet the | crews of Massachusetts Tech in their annual regatta. There will be matches | for the varsities, junior varsities, plebe and 150-pounders. The Tech squad, under Coach Bill Haines, will spend the week working at Annapolis. The only other varsity event at An- | napolis will be tennis with Davidson, { the nine going away to meet the Uni- versity of Virginia. Two events are booked for Wednes- | day, base ball with Western Maryland | | and tennis with Lafayette. Golf Tourney C To Strain, Jones Pointing Out That Pace Setters Seldom Win; BY BOBBY JONES, The only man who ever held the American Amateur and open cham- pionship and British amatuer and open championship in one year. HIS letter from D. A. Brauner, asking me to explain sudden blow-ups of really fine golfers under the strain of competition, | brings up several angles on the tourna- ment side of the game which nfay be interesting. In seeking an explanation of the startling things which happen one must appreciate that golf is a game requiring perfect co-ordination between mind and muscle—at least to | the extent that a’harassed mind will not prevent the muscles from perform- ing according to long established habit —and that in any field the margin en- joyed by any one of at least 10 players can be only the difference in being on form or slightly off. If any proof is needed that these Golf Analyzed BY JOE GLASS. FULL body turn is essential if the aim is to hit a long ball. ‘There is no other way of giving the arc of the swing plenty of width. And by no other means can that uncoiling of the body which attains such great power-giv- ing properties in the forward swing be_attained. Here is a good tip to follow. Watching a good many duffers, I observed that they thought they had made a full body turn because they succeeded in obtaining a full backswing. The fact was, this was due solely to letting the arms get well away from the body. Thus freed, they lifted the club high. Bill Burke and the other stars hold thé left arm close in to the body and keep it there. To attain anything like a full swing, they then, have to turn the body and turn it fully. The left side goes around until the back faces to the point where they are shooting. Emulate them and you won't fool yourself about the amount of your body turn. A nevw illustrated leaflet on “Long Iron Shots” bas been prepared by Joe Glm.‘n rite {o'l:ml‘t Addres; Joe Glass, in care o paper an inclose a self-addressed, stamped COVEORS: st AR, ollapses Laid sudden collapses are caused by the in- | terference of fear and anxiety, numbers | | of instances can be cited in which | players, apparently out of the running and so relieved of the strain and the overwhelming responsibility, have gone back to playing free and easy golf and won championships. % It is a fact that the winner of an important championship rarely starts | out in the lead, holding it straight through to the finish without once be- ing overhauled. Time after time it has happened that the ultimate winner has begun his last round two, three or four strokes behind the leader, and often playing early and almost unattended has posted a low finishing round and a total score which the others could shoot at in vain. NE of the most striking examples of the effect of the sudden relief which can come with disaster was furnished by Al Espinosa in the same Winged Foot championship where I had one of my shocks. Al and I finished with the same 72-hole total, but we compiled it in vastly different ways. As I have said, I started the last round with a lead, and the two sevens which hit me on the eighth and fif- teenth holes were never enough to put me so far down that I could be counted out. They just kept me in hot water. But Al started with a deficit to make up, and his play for 10 holes, though not good enough to make up much ground, was yet sufficiently good to keep him up at the front where he could feel the pressure. Then the thing blew up all at once and he took an eight on the eleventh hole. 1 Of course, everybody, including Al knew that was the finishing touch. He was the first of the leaders to come around, so he had no idea that the rest of us would have as much trouble as we did. Already a few strokes behind, he had dropped four more on one hole, and o, with only a few holes left, he was definitely out. And so he would have been if he had played par golf on the remaining holes. But the eight which would have come close to paralyzing him if he had held & lead of two or three strokes, was & relief for him in his actual position. With no thought now of winning, he started out to play golf, to hit the ball freely and in the old accustomed way. Four fours and two threes, two under par over six really tough finishing holes, and he had a score which landed him in a tie for the championship. NE newspaper writer said that this tournament was a contest to see who could throw away the cham- pionship the greatest number of times. It did look that way, but every cham- plonship is like that to some extent. Over the long stretch, after the race has really settled down, the burden con- tinually shifts from one man to another. The early leader falters under the strain; one behind, who has had no lead to protect and nothing to worry about, forges to the front; the strain gets him and another takes his place. Troubles may come early, or late, or in the mid- dle, but they all have them sooner or ) ' (Copyright. 1933.) Do you want to get a longer, straighter ball off the tee? Write for Bobby , “Fundamentals of the stamped, self-ad- THE TIMID SOUL. i Jrm) i 7% / 77 fi;/ NN 17277 NN MR.MILQUETOAST, On A RoAD 60 NARROW T TURN AROCUNO N ON, CONTINUES FoR Ten | MILES RATHER THAN BACKk INTO A PRIVATE DRIVEWAY AR T <\ oy 83} 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. ANS WAGNER, Pirate slugger, must undergo another operation on the leg which has been giv- ing him trouble. Eastern Presbyterians defeated the Eastern High freshmen in\a ball game. Boteler, Brooke and Garman starred. The Maryland Aggies trimmed the Richmond College nine. Hoffecker and Loomis pitched well and Shipley starred afield for the Farmers. A meeting of the East Washington Sunday School Base Ball League, called by President Love, was at-’ tended by F. E. Arnold, A. D. Butz, Charles G. Newman, J. C. Easter, G. C. Foltz, A. Reler and R. L. Con- ners. Green. Bowie and Slade stood out as the Young Hilltoppers conquered the Sumner ball tossers, 15-14. Manager Mansfleld is organizing the Ardmore A. C. ball team. Crescent A. C. tossers squeezed out a 7-6 twelve-inning victory over the Quincey A. C. Lewisy Stude- g:ker, Culliton and Teney played t st. E. Richard Gasch has been elected president of the Potomac Boat Club. Other officers are C. R. Zappone, vice president; Joseph T. Daly, sec- retary; Frank Russell Underwood, treasurer; John T. Evans, captain; ‘Walter H. Thrall, first lieutenant, and John S. McKenney, second leutenant. The officers are on the Board of Governors, along with Douglas Spencer Bliss. John J. Nolan and John Hadley Doyle. Ty _Cobb says President Navin of the Detroit ball club has shifted his gmmcn'when he says, the dispute etween Cobb and the club is one of discipline rather than money. Meridians_are after ball games with the Yankee A. C. Tigers, Climbers, St. Joseph A. C., Young Stantons, Roland A. C. Seconds, Rosedale Juniors and the Garfields. Meridian players include Wiltse, Nevitt, Lyn, Boteler, Drescher, Blake, Shultz, Marshall, Wingfield, J. Blake, Morrison, Lewis, Whittaker and Harrington. Philip Nevitt is booking at 416 B street southeast. One for the Book it BY CHARLIE WHITE, ABE RUTH, New York, Amer- ican League, and Hans Wagner, Pittsburgh, Natiopal League, have the honor of leading their leagues seven seasons in making the e TSt loNg hits in & season, The most sacri- fice hits made in & game, four, is a rec- ord credited to Ray Chapman, Cleve- land (1919) and to nine other players. Babe Ruth has received 100 or more bases on balls in a season 11 times. ' Babe holds the all-time record for most bases on balls in a season, 170, in 1923. ‘The Chicago Nationals in the sew- enth inning of a game on Septem- ber 6, 1883, had 15 runs batted in, making the all-time record for an inning. The American League rec- ord is 12, made by Philadelphia in the fifth inning, May 22, 1929. Babe Ruth has the world series record of pitching and winning the longest game, 14 innings, mber 9, RS ATTENTION Tonight—hear, Alex Morrison. famous €olf | teacher. Tune in on the Richfield Couns try Club program. Learn the secrets of that cost famous celebrities $200 for bre —TKQ - A1 . Evel H In Young BY FRANCIS E. STAN. Young Van to you—apper- | ently knew what he was about when he held up Fight Promoter Frankie Mann for champion's guarantee for his 10-round tiff with Henry Irving tomorrow night at Portner's Arena for the ‘“middle- weight championship of Washington.” For this fight-goofy township appears to be buzzing more over the prospect of preliminary boys turning main- eventers than the coming Tommy Paul- Pete Sarron scrap, sisted for a week from tomorrow. Undoubtedly the reason fight fans— other than Van's followers from South- west and Irving's from Northeast—are hopped up over the battle is because they feel reasonably sure one of the kids will be flat on his back ere the 10 rounds are spent. The same feeling pervaded when Warren and Henry squared off a few weeks ago in an eight-rounder and fought to a draw. At the end they were both on their feet, but what held them up was a mystery. It was Van's longest fight and Henry's second over that distance. Tomorrow's bout calls for six more minutes of actual milling and how the boys, if they again “shoot the works,” are going to take is what will vindicate, through the medium of clicking turn- stiles, Van's hold-out act for more lucre. ESPITE their previous battle which produced a new high in action for visiting big-shot ringmen to shoot at, Matchmaker Frankie Mann is tak- ing no chances on tomorrow's not pan- ning out. A feeling that the right-hand socks of either Van or Irving is sufficient to end the bout in the first round as well as the ninth or tenth heats, has caused the chubby promoter to line up some pre- lims capable of “carrying” the show in the event the faulty defenses of Van Sandlot Notes JRGANIZATION of a new unlimited base ball league will be furthered tonight at 8 o'clock at the Central Y. M. C. A. Pepco, C. & P. Telephone, Sanico Warehouse and Acacia Insur- ance nines already have announced they will compete for the flag in the loop, ‘Which has yet to adopt & name. One or two other teams are wanted. Vic Gauzza will give further information at Metropolitan 8878. Rained out yesterday, sandlot ball tossers are hopeful the skies will clear without delay so they can get in some stiff drilling in preparation for games next Sunday. Ballston Fire Department tossers are to gather in the fire house tomorrow night at 8 o'clock to be measured for uniforms. ‘Woodmen of the World are after a foe for next Sunday. Call Armstrong at Atlantic 2815-W. Goodacre Juniors will drill tomorrow at 3 o’clock on the Bouth Ellipse. SEE THE SENATORS IN ACTION WHEN THEY PLAY ON THE ROAD JFans All Know Coleman’s New Invention TELEVISION'S ONLY RIVAL ‘Will reproduce with moving pictures g!r! play fast as it is made upon e fleld. . Thrown Upon s 30-foot Screen IN CONJUNCTION WITH BURLESQUE SHOW Both Shows for One Admission Every Afternoon Starting April 20th, 1933 GAYETY THEATRE 9th and F Sts. N.W. Fistic Fans Anticipating Kayo Van-Irving Embroglio At Portner’s Arena. Tomorrow and Irving leave their stubbled chins uncovered. The Roy Manley-Jimmy Reed six- rounder is capable of developing into a two-man riot. Reed can’t hit nor is he the best boxer in the world, but the Jacksonville “whattaman” can talk his way into victories. Whether he will succeed with Manley, who needs only to flick Jimmy's glass jaw once, is & some- thing to speculate over. In other six-rounders Nick Antonelli and Willle Essinger. local boys, and Jackie Simpson of Florida and Harry Kid Groves of Baltimore will clash. A be cdm; four-rounder lists Bob Lowry and Whitey Graham. JIM HENRY, 220-pound importation from Colorado, and Ernie Dusek, headed for the ol' build-up, today whre slated rassle in a 30-minute time-limit match ‘Thursday at the Washington Audito- rium, completing the card. Unless the other 238 rasslers in the ‘White-Londos troupe come under the same heading, only one of Washington's prize boo-instigators will be around to create much annoyance after Thursday, { when George Zaharias and Dick Raines, selfmade toughies, grovel at the Audi- torium. Slated to rassle to a finish, both de- clare they’ll win by the nearest thing akin to a knockout allowed in rassling. ‘The remainder of the card also bris- tles with toughies. Rudy Dusek, former klnfnot all elbow-slingers, tackles Hans Steinke, Marshall Blackstock “engages Vic Christy and Tom Alley punches with Everett Marshall in other bouts, the last named being the 45-minute semi-final. Marty Gallagher and Reds Barry, perennial opponents for the “heavy- weight championship of the District,” will see action this week in Northern rings. Barry will battle Babe Hunt in a 10-round bout tomorrow in Holyoke, Mass., and Gallagher will engage Inno- centi Baiguera, Italian heavy, in a 10- rounder Friday in New York. HAS TO PLI{Y AT HOME Lorton Nine Cannot Take Trips if They Were Permiseible. Lorton Reformatory's base ball team is playing strictly a “home” schedule, but it isn't because itmhasn’t had the chance to play on alien diamonds. Only a few days ago one D. C. scho- lastic team in accepting a date with the Lorton nine for a game there expressed the hope that arrangements could be made for a home-and-hcme series. Failing to arrange for a game here, the coach of the Washington team ob- | Yai served that the Lorton management probably figured “there’s too much ‘Wwoods between here and Lorton.” “'We would be delighted to have the Lorton team come here and play us” said a coach of one Washington team today. “District teams frequently go there to play and all are treated hand- somely, with the home players proving themselves fine sportamen.” by Promoter Joe Turner to | the 10.K OF 15 ROUNDS BIVES CITY CHANCE Cause Will Be Aided if Big + Bouts in New York Fail to Attract Crowds. BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. ITH the Illinols State boxing law amended so that 15-round bouts are’ legal, Chicago expects to make a strong bid fot the heavy- weight championship fight that will be staged in September. The 15-round limit was not an actuality when Jack Dempsey was shopping around the loop in an effort to locate his Baer-Schmeling scrim- mage in Chicago, and Joe Jacobs would not consider his Black Uhlan engaging in a shorter melee. That was just one ol: the reasons why Dempeey trucked the Baer-Schm K ch}k‘, eling affair ‘to New icago's chances of getti) the heavyweight scrap between.chenfrlnner of the Baer-Schmeling and Sharkey- Carnera fights depends upon several things. One is how those two fights draw in New York. Another is the attendance at the Century of Progress Exposition here. If the crowds are up to expectation Chicago would be a lucrative spot for a heavyweight cham- plonship, since more than 100,000 can be _packed into Soldier Field. Since the promoter of & bout in Chicago must be a resident of Ilinois the new stadium operating- company is in a fine position to bid for the Sep- tember match. The new stadium crowd has both money, enterprise and civic standing, and n more is needed save the consent of part, first part. o es of the A FOOT BALL game between all- star teams representing the Far West and the East—which will include the Middlewest, South and Mis- ss‘:a%erv;fiufi—“ tgemg plenned for eld on the 24 as a feature oyt of Progress sports event of the Century Howard Jones. coath &t U , COAC] af Ve of Southern California, will dl?:cirm Western team, with Dick Hanley of Northwestern piloting the Eastern con- tingent. Jones will be in Chicago for 8 fortnight as a member of the culty at Northwestern's coaching school and the game will dove-tail nicely with his mlfl East. It 15 believed that Jones will round up most of his 1931 and 1932 Southern California champions m& uc::;gl;!;r hx? aqutéd ).&ml recently s from Califor - ord and Washington, e n. | _Hanley will have a range from which to select the e 5 | Eastern for the most part it will be“me bl‘x‘p‘ of former Big Ten and Notre Dame stars. The two squads will train at the Nonhw‘e.‘xltlern c:dchlxég school, and their drills provide demy the Jones-Hanley lenu?&r.,m et tor WESTERN LOOP TO OPEN | Reorganized as 8-Club Circuit With Four New Teams. ST. JOSEPH, Mo, April 17 —_ Following weeks of negatinuom{’)the Western League has been reorganised as an eight-club base ball circuit with four former members and four teams from the Western Association of 1932, The league, a class A circuit, will posed of St. Joseph, Omaha, Des Moines and Wichila as the holdovers, and popringheld ‘and Joplin, Mo.: ans., an ne;flmemhem preuin e Gear, formerly head of Western League and wesurnb:llh- sociation, was elected president, secre- tary and treasurer of the new organi- zation. The owners voted for a split femntweenmh:ldeg”edd on an opening date 'y 9 and 12, closi = st s ng the sea. ARMSTRONG GETS REVENGE Armstrong base ballers {gl; .s;:!:d‘;.‘x?: dneelelt when t‘g:y;;:e:e': e ars, 5-1, in Walker Pin Standings COLUMBIA HEIGHTS LEAGUE. Sool's Drinks.70' 26 Pord Electric 4 cor...03 3 adia Chaconas’ Mkt.54 42 'ador © Are: - .80 Amb'ador * Ldy 44 Conv. Hall Lucky_Strik Bill ‘Woods Petworth Meyer Mt. Raing Georgetown Racreation Arcadia NATIONAL CAPITAL LEAGUE. King Pin ... olonial Ice' C. ing's Py our:tain Rinald Tatlorsds 7230 Ye Olde Tob.qy 30 Parnan’s ... 36 48 B. & O. MEN'S DISTRICT LEAGUE. Conv. Hall Occidental | Lucky Strike. Temple | Georgetown N 5 30 King Pin 33 Hyattsvill 6 35 Columbia 850 40 Beaver Da; 47 43 Petworth ' INTERCOLLEGIATE ALUMNI LEAGUE. w. Michigan Princeton Maryland " {3 . M. Lehigh Cornell ... Prrovem SER3LR Pe, Oregon " Harvard HOLY NAME LEAGUE. Section “C.” Holy Trinity. . Holy Com{'ter.50 50 WELDED *1 Taken OFf and Put On, 50c Other Metals Welded WELDI 516 1st St. N.W,, Bet. T INC. E&F ME. 2416