Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1934, Page 37

S PORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1934. SPORTS : Cc3 Fuchs Looks to Base Ball, Not Dogs : Frank Cunningham Is Pro Golf Hope DUE SOON TO OWN BRAVES OUTRIGHT Has Paid Back $210,000 of $289,000 He Borrowed. Scores Meddlers. By the Associated Press. OSTON, December 18.—Emil Puchs, president of the Boston Braves base ball club, today stated that he had no inten- tion of giving up base ball to conduct & dog track, a subject that raised con- siderable furore at the recent major league base ball meetings in New York. Fuchs' recent application for a license to operate a dog track, a re- quest that has yet to be acted upon, created a wild storm in base ball cir- cles. “I am and always have been,” he said, “the majority stockholder of the Boston Braves. I was indebted to Mr. Charles F. Adams of Boston to the extent of $289,000. I have paid him $210,000 of this, and the balance, plus interest, is not due until next Summer. Tells Real Situation. “YF I am permitted to work out my own solution without the issuance of further comments, well in- tended or otherwise, these remaining payments will be made as promptly as the $210,000 I have already paid and will enable me to enjoy my home life here without further embarrass- ment.” Several days ago Adams, who not only directs one of New England's largest chain store combines but also the Boston Bruins club in the National Hockey League, expressed the hope that he would not be compelled to add a major league base ball club to his already heavy responsibilities. During the New York base ball meetings Adams met his chain store business associate, Jacob Ruppert, owner of the New York Yankees, and they engaged in what the Boston man described as an “aimless discussion” about Babe Ruth’s future. During their conversation Adams told Ruppert that the Boston Braves ‘would be delighted to sign up Ruth as their assistant manager if the Ameri- can League was unable to find a place for the former Sultan of Swat. TARS LIKELY TO GAIN IN ATHLETIC TALENT Enlarged Plebe Class Will Have Much Sports Material, Belief at Aunapolis. " A NNAPOLIS, Md., December 18.— On account of the expected monster plebe class next year and a change in the rules for admis- sion by which candidates who have completed a year’s work at a recog- nized college may be admitted with- out mental examination, much fine foot ball and other athletic ma- terial is expected to enter the Naval Academy. If provision is made for the extra appointment of candidates, as is prob- able, the new class will number 900, and the improvement in the athletic character of the new midshipmen has been very notable in the last few years. It is also thought that the rule obvi- ating the necessity of the mental tests to those who have completed a year of college work will prove attractive to athletic collegians who are unable to make special preparation for them. GYMNAST 104 YEARS OLD “Grand 0ld Man” of Mexico Has Class of 32 Young Men. By the Associated Press. LAREDO, Tex.—Veteran athletic di- rectors like Amos Alonzo Stagg are really youngsters compared with Lare. do’s grand old man, Pioquinto San- chez, who recently celebrated his 104th birthday. As athletic instructor for the Aso- ciacion Cultural de Jovenes Mexicanas, he trains a class of 32 young men who meet every Friday night. For several months they have been re- celving instruction from their cen- tenarian coach in acrobatics, trapeze, rings, bars and other gymnasium work. Sanchez hegan his athletic career at the age of 12, and for several years was with a circus. Former Auto Ace Owns Night Club By the Associated Press. NDIANAPOLIS. — Leon Duray, who used to thrill the speedway crowds with his daring in auto- mobile races, is a night club owner here. Duray holds the one-lap and four-lap speed records for the In- dianapolis motor speedway. He has retired from active racing himself but owned the car which finished second in both the 1933 and 1934 Memorial day classics. - HROWING a stream of water from the center of the fair- ways well into the rough on either side, the new fairway watering system at the Chevy Chase Club is having today its initial tryout under full force of water-head to de- termine the pressure and the working of all units in the complicated system. Because of the possibility of freez- ing weather at any time, and because the pipes have not yet been covered in some of the fairways, the trials are only temporary. As soon as the initial tests are found satisfactory the ditches in which the pipes have been laid will be filled in and the Chevy Chase course, all cluttered up with piles of sod and criss-crossed with ditches for a couple of months, will again resume its normal condition. Dick Watson, Chevy Chase greens- keeper, who has supervised the in- stallation of the first fairway water- ing system at any club around Wash- ington, turned the water on yester- day, and was pleased with the result. The pipe lines run down the center ot each fairway. At intervals nozzles have been placed with a valve on each nozzle. When this valve is turned a stream of water shoots 20 or 30 feet the rough on either side, completely spraying the fairways from rough to rough. The fairway watering will be done at night next Summer. The | installation is being financed by a small additional charge for each golf- ing member of the club. Critics of fairway watering claim that such systems raise nothing but a fine crop of crab grass during the first year or two, but they laugh at this claim at Chevy Chase. Watson says he anticipates some crab grass trouble, but insists that with proper | watering crab grass will be crowded out by the finer fairway grasses, as it has been at the Five Farms course in the air from each vent out toward | New Fairway W atering System Getting Test at Chevy Chase of the Baltimore Country Club, which also has watered fairways. IRDIES galore are flying from the blazing clubs of Roland Mac- Kenzie these days as the young Congressional pro tunes up his game for the Pacific Coast and Florida tour he intends to make, starting about January 1, with Mrs. MacKenzie. Ro- land picked up five birds in a round at Columbia (his old stamping ground) yesterday, to score a par 70 for the round. He bagged birdies on the first, third, twelfth, thirteenth and sixteenth, missing putts for birds on the seventh and seventeenth. Fred McLeod, with whom Roland played, scored a 72, while Albert R. Mac- Kenzie, Roland's father, scored 76. Freddie is playing 36 holes every day, his regular routine calling for 18 each morning with William W. Hin- shaw, the former opera star, and 18 more in the afternoon with another member or group of memebers of Co- lumbia. Hinshaw scored a 76 yester- day, witha 5 on the par-3 seventeenth, covering the first nine in 40 and get- ting home in 36, where a 3 on the seventeenth would have given him a 34 and a 4. But Freddie gave all the boys some- thing to think about by playing a round of the course in company with Warren W. Wheaton in one hour and |25 minutes. Always a fast player, | Freddie steps up and hits the ball { without wasting any time, and in a course. An hour and 45 minutes is slow time when the little Scot plays in a two-ball match. Freddie arrived at the fifteenth tee the other day just in time to see an ace made on the seventeenth. It came from the clubs of G. H. Mattingly, who used a mashie on the hole, now being played to a temporary green below the hill while the regular green is being resodded after having been re- built. The present seventeenth plays about 150 yards in length. twosome he fairly flies around that | U. 3. PROS' PLAY AMAZES NASSAU New Tourney Mark Looked for in British Colonial Open Golf Event. By the Assoclated Press. ASSAU, Bahamas, December 18, —Nassau's first big money golf tournament since the boom days of 1928 started today as a fleld of 67 players teed off in the $5,000 British Colonial open. Gene Sarazen, winner of the last tournament after a play-off with Johnny Farrell, has remained the island’s unofficial open champion for six years. . This year, however, Col. Henry L. Doherty, hotel owner, and Gov. Bede Clifford bid for the prize-seeking golf artists. Headed by Olin Dutra, United States open champion, many of the prize winners in the Miami Biltmore open last week flew here during the week end in special aerial ferries to try | for the top prize of $500. Nassau fans still were gasping over the disdain the American pros showed for par yesterday in their practice rounds. Al Watrous, Birmingham, Mich., cracked perfect figures by three strokes with a 65, going out in a 30 with the help of four birdies. It was generally conceded the 64 shot by MacDonald Smith for the best round in 1928 might be lowered. Dutra, victor in the Miami Biltmore tournament, turned in a 66 yester- in a best ball match against Billy Burke and Willie Macfarlane. The tournament will end Thursday. Its Rep, Coach BY FRANK H. THOMAS, Head Foot Ball Coach, University of Alabama. NIVERSITY, Ala, December 18.—The coaching methods which I employ at the Uni- versity of Alabama are simple, yet I believe that they cover all that is necessarily required to produce a winning foot ball team. Rules and regulations are not strict and hard. However, we have a code ot training rules which the boys are expected to live up to. There is the essential requirement that they watch their diet and be in shape at all times during the season. Sufficlent hours of sleep and rest must be had and then—the most important requirement—that their scholastic average must be upheld by a proper amount of study. ‘The boys here at the university have co-operated 100 per cent. We sched- ule our practices and meetings before time. Hence, absences are unknown. A winning spirit is carried by all This I believe to be one of the main reasons for their great record. The desire to win as well as to co-operate with the coaching staff and the other players on the team is one of the most important requirements of any player. Up to Player Himself. T 1S an obvious question as to how I feel to be the coach of a cham- plonship team. To win is a pleas- ure to any person. I am glad that the boys have come through the season so will make a good showing in the Rose Bowl game. The method of developing a player really goes back to the player him- self. We begin with the fundamentals | of the game as regards the position he plays. It is our purpose to teach the man every detail possible concerning his place on the team. We strive to equip the man so well that he is able to meet any attack which the opposition might throw in his direction. Co-operation is the by- word of our team. It is a foregone conclusion that a man to be of any value must play in accordance with the other 10 men on the team. I amount of work should be done throughout the period of Spring training. The Crimson Tide is a good example of this. We do all our real hard work during that period of train- ing. We show the boys the plays that we have in mind for the coming sea- son. They execute these plays in slow motion fashion. - Therefore, we are able to point out what is the necessary requirement of each man for the play to be effective. During the season we limit the number of scrimmages. Our work during the game time is mostly to maintain a standard of perfection, speed and condition which is necessary for a winning ball team. It is hard to believe, yet Millard Howell, the great halfback of the Tide, has not been in one scrimmage Spring Training Important. T IS my belief that the greatest successfully and I am sure that they | Spring Grid Drills, Condition And Mobile Defense Net ’Bama Thomas Asserts since the week preceding the open- ing of the season in the latter part of September. Howell starred in every game. He had been trained to maintain the condition and funda- mentals to be able to meet the re- quirements of an outstanding player. Varies Notre Dame Attack. system of attack. We use a huddle system rather than the usual method of the Rockne-coached teams in having the quarterback call signals from open formation. I have added several innovations of half punt formation which I have found to be successful. This forma- tion calls for speed, accuracy and blocking. The defense which we use is the seven-man line with a diamond- shaped backfield. However, sometimes necessary to change the defense to meet with the attack of the enemy formation. Therefore, we often are using a six-man line with the center roving behind the line of scrimmage. The defense of a team is not estab- lished. Enemy coaches are too apt to change their offense to do this. A team well drilled in the fundamentals is able to fit itself into a defense which can halt the opposition. SECOND WISTERT LOOMS ANN ARBOR, Mich. (#.—The name of another Wistert may appear in University of Michigan line-ups before many seasons have passed. Alvin Wistert. brother of Francis “Whitey” Wistert, star foot ball tackle |and base ball pitcher for Michigan the last three years, has moved here and enrolled for the Summer at Ann Arbor High School. Alvin, only 18, already is an inch taller and 10 pounds heavier than his older brother, who stood 6 feet 5 and weighed 212. He played foot ball and base ball at Carl Schurz High in Chicago and expects to enter Michi- gan in the Fall of 1935. BURL FIGHTS QUARLES. NORFOLK, Va., December 18.— Eddie Burl, veteran Washington lightweight boxer, meets Norment Quarles, former Southern Conference lightweight champ, here tomorrow night. il e e BEARS LIST TWO TILTS. CHICAGO, December 18 (#).— Chicago Bears, former national Pro- fessional Foot Ball League champions, will meet the Brooklyn Dodgers Sat- urday at Knoxville, Tenn. On Sun- day the Bears will tackle the Memphis Tigers at Memphis. —_— ICE STARS TURN PRO. LAKE PLACID, N. Y., December 18 (#)—Jack Shea, Olympic cham- pion skater, and Raymond Stevens, holder of bobsledding records, have turned professionals. Both are resi- dents of this village. HE Tide employs the Notre Dame | my own to the system. We use a| it is| FIGURES JUSTIFY Money a Yearling Won’t Win as 2-Year-0ld. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, December 18.—Col. Florida sportsman who once told a Senate investigating committee he would “gamble on any- thing,” offers a standing wager at even money that no single thorough- bred selected as a yearling will win a race the following year. At first blush this looks like a good proposition for the player, but the figures of 2-year-old performance re- veal that Col. Bradley, the layer, has an advantage in the odds of at least 5 to 4, and probably more. Charts Are Deceptive. ACING charts for the last two weeks reveal, as the year nears its close, that the ratio of win- ning 2-year-olds entered to maidens entered is 5 to 4—that is, five out of nine of the juveniles have won races | while four never have won a race | during almost a year of competition. This would indicate the odds are in favor of the player, but there are scores of yearlings which, because of death, illness, lameness or other rea- | sons, never go to the post as 2-year- |olds. The fact that many leading juveniles had been retired for the | Winter when the figures were com- piled is offset by the large number of 2-year-olds which annually go wrong during the season before they have won a race. So a conservative estimate would | give Col. Bradley the advantage of 5 to 4 odds, with likelihood the odds | against the player are much larger. | Even if the bettor chooses a horse of first-class breeding he has no assur- ance he will win, because many royally bred horses prove failures at racing. ———— MAE LIKES TROTTERS. Mae West has developed a sudden interest in harness racing. She has purchased two horses, Elizabeth Heb- erling, 2:06'2, and Senator Leon, 2:09%. Merchants Build Stadium in China By the Associated Press. IENTSIN.—An athitic stadium built at a cost of United States $65,000 was formally dedicated at the opening of the eighteenth annual North China athletic meet here. Paid for out of funds contributed by Tientsin and Peiping mer- chants and by the provincial gov- ernment of Hopei, the stadium is one of a number which are being built year by year in important North China cities. Japanese Defeat Americans at Their Own Game This photo shows a play in the first foot ball tilt ever staged in Japan. It was a Thanksgi €an residents of m‘hd:{,d p'e > encounter between an eleven formed by Ameri- day as he teamed with Gov. Clifford BRADLEY WAGER Has Standing Bet at Even E. R. Bradley, Kentucky and SPORTS Base PARADE D at driving in runs, Last season he at the age of 31 Iron Man By Grantland Rice Ball's Greatest OMETHING over nine years ago, early in the race of 1925, an ex- Columbia student by the name of Henry Louis Gehrig supplanted Wally Pipp at first base for the New York Yankess. In the course of more than 1,400 ball games he never has missed a battle since, breaking all records by a wide margin. Overshadowed as a slugger for many years by Babe Ruth, he has come into his own at last as one of the main maulers of all time. Gehrig more than once has led his league was the star slugger of both leagues —Acme Photos. (Covyright, 1934.) EXT time Morris Simon, Wood- mont Country Club president, goes out to play golf with Leo- score. Of course it's all in fun, and Simon is joshing, but he insists that Leo forgets certain little matters in connection with score-keeping. For instance, Simon says, he was | playing with Bill Ilich against Freud- | berg and Stanley Fischer a little while | ago, giving them a half stroke on the | low ball. “We were about eight points | up at the eleventh. After winning the next two holes I turned to Freudberg, | who was keeping score, and asked him | how many points we were up, and he | replied, ‘Five’ At the end of the | round we were fortunate to get out at all. | “On the following day I told the story to Fulton Brylawski in the pres- | ence of Freudberg, and asked Brylaw- ski if he knew by what type of arith- metic such results could be obtained, pencil is mightier than the club.’” Freudberg was kidding, of course, as all of ’em are. Between 'em they have a lot of fun out there at Woodmont. O ONE ever would suspect it, but Gene Vinson, District champion who has gone back to Meridian, Miss., to take a job in a shirt factory, has been married. When a schoolboy, | Gene fell in love with a young woman |in his home State and married her. The marriage didn’t stick, for it was | annulled before many days. | e VERY year about this time a flock | of members of Washington Golf and Country Club get a screed | and a hopeful promise of better things | from Clarence Jones, the colored boy who has held down the job of chief locker boy and servant extraordinary | at the club for more than two decades. Here is Clarence’s latest literary effu- sion: “As happy as the golfing gink Whose 15-footers always sink May this year’s Christmas be. “As merry as the cheery mutt Who never missed a 10-inch putt May this year's Christmas be. “As joyous as the son-of-a-gun Who never lost on number one May this year’s Christmas be. “As blithesome as the son-of-a-cook Who never sliced one in the brook May this year’s Christmas be. “As carefree as the lad of skill Who does his golfing in the grill May this year’s Christmas be. “And for a year that hears no moans From partners who at best are drones Accept the wish of Clarence Jones.” ‘There are locker boys and locker PRACTICAL GIFTS FOR THE CAR FIRESTONE Service Stores 13th & KNW. 3rd & B S.W. NA. 3323 NA. 1021 pold Freudberg, he is going to keep | whereupon Freudberg answered: ‘The | boys—Jackson, Dodson and Lawrence at Columbia; Graham at Burning Tree; Pleasant and the others at Chevy Chase; Shorty at Kenwood, but Clarence probably is the best known of them all. He leaves 'em all smiling, and he supports a big family up at Hall's Hill. Washington and it isn't confined to members of the club either. BOY BOXERS CHALLENGE. Boxers of the Metropolitan Police No. 5 Precinct Boys’ Club challenge any ring teams in the city able to produce scrappers in the following weight divisions: 50, 60, 70, 80, 85, 95, 115, 135 and 145 pounds. Call Fox or Meshkoff at National 4000, Precinct Silks ... 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F ALL the group of younger golf professionals around Washington—the lads who will fill the headlines of fu- ture years—young Frankie Cunning- ham of Burning Tree, one of that group of red-headed Cunninghams who figure so prominently in the local tournaments, seems destined to go places in the professional end of the game. Overshadowed by the Houghtons, MacKenzies, McLeods, Barnetts and Diffenbaughs, the younger pros around | Washington haven't done much in| the way of winning, but their star! will advance as the years roll on| and they will take the places of the | men now winning the lion’s share of the purses and the glory. And | of them all, Frankie Cunningham, | at the age of 23 years, comes fairly | close to the top. Shatters Par Often, UT at Burning Tree, that mascu- | line golfing heaven, where women are not permitted to play, they have developed some good | golfers. Such men as Jimmy Thomp- | son, the blond smiter, now living in California, who won a recent tourna- ment in Australia, and Ralph Beach, | the Baltimore lad who ranks close | to the top among the Maryland pros. And now Frankie Cunningham, another product of Burning Tree, is coming to the fore. As a lad of 20, | three years ago, he topped the local parade over the first round of the| Kenwood open, with a par-equaling‘ round of 70. That was a prelude to many rounds of golf at and below | par which the little Burning Tree red head has turned in. | Many times he has shattered that| elusive par of 72 at his home course. | |and once in a while he has dipped | down as low as 67 for that rugged | | golf layout where most of Washington | | officialdom does its divot-lifting. If| a few of the members of Burning Tree could play half as well as the | little sorrel-thatched lad who hands | out their golf bags, they would come | fairly close to being the top amateurs |around the Capital, as Frankie does among the pros. Has Smooth Swing. QUIPPED with a smooth swing and a good putting stroke, the Cunningham boy hits the ball almost entirely with his right hand. His style is unique among top-notch golfers, who have been taught to hit with the left hand, but Frank has B PR EERRRRRRRN Authorized Service Lockheed Hydraulic Brakes MILLER-DUDLEY, M6 144 ST.NW. NORTH 1583 Fhhk Ak Ak NRRERREEEY N S, A 2] :‘v, Lisle-lined Wools. likes them...made Dixie Grid Team Loses Garretts By the Associated Press. IRMINGHAM, Ala., December 18—For 10 years “Red” Gar- rett has been listed as one of the players on the Howard College foot ball team, but this rule will end with the clash with Birming- ham-Southern here today. Norman (Red) Glrrett, fifth of his name, will end his gridiron career, and there are no more of the Garrett brothers at Albert- ville, Ala., to carry on. The five brothers are John, full- back, who first played in 1925; Wheeler, tackle; Gordon, tackle; Russell, end, and Norman, quar- terback. All are redheads and have been known as “Red.” COOK PRESSES PETERSEN British Champ Beats Older Foe Through Late Rally. LONDON, December 18 (#).—Jack Petersen, British heavyweight boxing champion, rallied in the closing rounds last night to win a 15-round decision over George Cook, Australian veteran, and save his title. Cook, who is 36 years old—13 more than Petersen—gave the champion a terrific battle and put up an excellent defense which Petersen couldn’t pen- etrate until the last three rounds. After he broke down Cook's rugged defense, Petersen swept into the lead and floored the veteran Australian for a count of six in the fourteenth round. developed that punching style until he has it in a groove. A good hitter from the tee, he plays the ball with a hook, and he is accurate enough with the irons. Frank has held the assistant professional's championship of the Maryland clubs, and although he doesn’t get much time or chance to play in the pro events around Washington he does well in all of them. Tab this red-headed lad from Burning Tree for future reference. He is going places in the professional golf game, if early promises mean anything. ADVERTISEMENT. THE ADVENTURES OF GRACIE— WITH GEORGE BURNS AND GRACIE ALLEN | [GRAGEE, ™M BUYING YOUR FATHER SIX = BOXES OF VINTAGE | THANKS 6 MY UNCLE WILL WHITE OWLS FOR STEALTHEM RESOLVE TO ; SMOKE THE