Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1934, Page 39

= PORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, D ECEMBER 19, 1934, SPORTS. Nineteen Masons Roll Better Than 600 in Evening Star Prelim < EMMONS HAS HIGH SCRATCH SET, 605 Krauss Justifies Praise of Duckpin King—Girl Shoots 95 Flat. BY ROD THOMAS. ANY a record has been made by Masonic League bowlers, but the venerable fraternity has one today which is unique in the annals of the game. No less than 19 of its members have turned in scores of better than 600 for the qualifying round of The Eve- ning Star tournament. Three or four sets of this size con- stitute an excellent showing for the average league. ‘The Masons, however, have numbers in their favor, their league consisting of 30 teams, which is three times the membership of v.he ordinary loop. Emmons Needs No Help. HE fraternalists present a striking | example of how the handicap | system is working out in The Star tournament. Of those 19 “600s” only one was made from scratch, this being Emmons’ 605. K. Sonneman, with a handicap of 55, tops the Ma- sons with 645, but more have yet to roll. Thus far 104 have taken their turns in the Convention Hall pre- liminary. Handicaps are not despised by mem- bers of the Income Tax and Farm Credit Leagues, who also are shooting in the Convention Hall section of the tournament. By virtue of a 40- stick gift, Duncan tops the Taxmen with 605, with Holcamp, 70—597, second. In the Farm Credit League, W. B. Young rolled 120 or better in every game for a gross 678, having a han- dicap. of 30. His 648 from scratch is one of the best scores achieved in any preliminary of The Star tourna- ment. Trailing Young in the Farm | Credit circuit are Stewart, with 50— | 627, and Woods, 8—616. Navy Yarders Will Compete. 'ACK O'CONNELL and Hugh Craw- ley, leading lights of the big Navy Yard Machinists’ League, promise & big entry in the tournament. Young Bill Krauss, whom Joe Har- rison, No. 1 ranking duckpinner of the country, rates as one of the leading contenders for his crown, justified Harrison's estimate last night by shooting a game of 176 and set of 404 for the Highway Engineers in the Co- lumbia Heights League. This brilliant bit put the Engineers in first place on total pins. Tom Caponnetto’s 164 game and 403 set in the Times League was remind- ful of Bubbles Cahoon, when Bubbles | was the hottest shot among the news- paper men. With a fat handicap, | ‘Tom will be one of the lads to conjure with when the big dough is distributed in The Star tournament. Forty-two of the CENTURI Here is another of a series of articles depicting the great fights and fighters of the days when pugilism was young. BY TOM HENRY. HE early years of the nineteenth century found the Epglish, the Irish and the Jews fighting it out with flying fists and bloody knuckles for the championship of Great Britain. The great Mendoza—whose portrait might be mistaken for that of Shelley —was past his prime and “keeping & public house at Whitechapel.” Lon- don’s ghetto sought in vain a man with as tough a jaw and as stout a heart to take his place. The Irish, now settling in London in great numbers, tried to make a prize fighter out of every strong- armed young stone mason. And John Bull's hostlers, bruising butchers, tin men, old clothesmen, feather-bed .mnkers and the rest fought gimly | to hold the fistic crown for the native population. There was a battle some- where nearly every week, all faithfully reported by the Sporting Magazine. Betting on the fights was extrava- gant. On July 1, 1800, Andrew Gamble, an Irish stone mason, de- molished Noah James, an English butcher, for & purse of 100 guineas. ‘The Sporting Magazine reports the “moneys won and lost on the above occasion: “From a certain great personage, Sir H. V. T., won 2,000 pounds. “From Lord C. the Hon. C. B. won 1,000 pounds. “From C. L. there was won by G. 8. W., Esq, 1500 pounds. From a stranger G. S. W. Esq, won 500 pounds. “A rabbit merchant in Newgate | market won 600 pounds.” Charity Tempers Brutality, OR the fortunes of the fighters | personally there was no more | concern than for fighting cocks | or dogs, but among these men who would beat each other to death there was a certain sense of brotherhood. | On this occasion, James, who thought | himself dying, sent for Gamble and assured him of his forgiveness. And the grieving Gamble split his poor purse with the expectant widow, while the young lords caroused on their winnings. They argued over the points of fighters as they argued over the points of horses. “Snake-heads” were sup- BATTLES 10—English Irish and Jews Greatest Ring Title Rivals ES posed to be the best—*one whose head is long measured from chin to pell, a string so encircling the head being much longer than when encircling the cranium just above the eyes.” But a big British-Irish fight was no matter for wagering or discussion among the lower classes, especially in the great Irish district of St. Giles in London. The St. Giles champion in 1803 was a man named O'Donnell. He soundly thrashed Pardo Wilson, brother-in-law of the great Belcher, and the Irish on the ground “hoisted their hero on their shoulders and car- ried him to a coach, swearing they would make all St. Giles ring that night for joy.” A few weeks later he gave an equally severe beating in 48 rounds, which lasted an hour and 20 minutes, to one Smith, a boot closer at Wormwood Scrubs. An immense crowd attended the fight. After. O'Donnell's victory “there was much rejoicing among the Irish visi- tors. They threw up their hats and flourished their siicks in token of ex- altation over the heads of the friends of the vanished hero. He was carried in triumph from the field of battle in a hackney coach on the top of which were stationed y of his friends who were regaling each other with ‘sky-blue’ and whisky, whilst an old blind fiddler played ‘See, the Conquer- ing Hero Comes.’ " Racketeer With Pickpockets. HE practice of employing “whip- pers,” armed with either clubs or horsewhips, to drive back the crowd and make a ring was common. They usually were themselves prize fighters. It was charged that they sometimes had agreements with the pickpockets who attended the fights. First giving a signal to their friends, they would throw the crowd into a turmoil by lashing it with their whips, while the pickpockets would reap a harvest in the confusion. Partisan frenzy sometimes reached a point where it could not be restrained. When, in the 74th round, it seemed that a fight in 1803 with “Pitton, the Jew,” was going against the Irishman, George Maddox, “the latter's brother with a strong party of friends broke into the ring and stopped further progress of the battle on pretense of its being dark. This brought on a sort of general engagement on Wormwood Scrubs and a googl deal of bloodshed tgx:k place from blows of sticks and ists.” (Copymht 1034, by North American Newspaper Alllance. Inc.) L. C. Auditors Team Standings. Files . Debits Pay Roll ", Bon, Genl. Ledger Executives . Disallowance: Credits ... Esciow . wortgage members of the Times League are en- | Mai tered and among them are several | dark horses besides Caponnetto. 1t requires lots of accuracy to shoot a big flat game and for that reason a 95 rolled by Mae Sperber rates as the outstanding performance of the season in the Ladies’ Internal Rev- enue League. To win_their entry fees in the Northern Virginia Sweepstakes, Bel- | vin Weakley rolled 404 and Galt Da- vis, 302, at Rosslyn. Both are mem- bers of the Rosslyn Independent League, Davis is the defending cham- pion. Following are the scores of Expense Season Records. High team game. Bond, 565: high team set, Executives. 1.665: high individual average, Morgan (Bond), 116; high Vidual eame, Morgan 1Bond1 individual set_Mo: 22 Siikes. Bl (Debite). 210 hish spares. BIls (Debits), 88 Individual Averages. Fling Denis Cooke Hayes Howard . Hierling Smith - the | BES elp Convention Hall preliminary in The |§ Star tournament: Masonic. 113 90 00114 N)ll!_'lim 90 Conners. .. Cardin Lawrenson. Fenton Bittenbe der Coll o a6 107 98 114101 114 87110 90 1k 109199 § 91 91 108 10: 5 10: E eitork Bennetts 20 & 90 114 109 g3113 81102 171 Del Vechio® W. Koontz. Sops ey EEERZEEEES 2! et S R3BHERS Ao SSEn SIS e 9553 St SRttt P 2D=BELS 00295 min EERAEE] SRIEZERRRRE | Kemon . Baker ... Sheckles Mintzer Lovell . Vincent’ Levine . Finnell Barrett b o Thompson Plaskett . HESaab @ e woBman> Bickerton Roberts Kraatz . [ e Potter . Rose . Keefer Bnickn: Hill . ] ey D oumEBn Quigley Wilson HBaRDAD Ring Pollard COLLINS SHINES IN RING. LEONARDTOWN, Md., December 19.—Bernard Collins of River Springs, who enlisted in the Navy last June, is making a reputation as & boxer. He has won all 57 fights he has had in the service, 22 by knockouts, and is considering turning pro. Sa= 9 = =28 BEGRARITRETS i—bo4 B55—562 45—550 5 65—b58 G5—541 F & Ehooon xon e FITTRO TO LEAD V. P. L BLACKSBURG, Va., December 15 (fl’) —Louis Leonard Fittro of Clarks- mn "of the 1935 Virginia Tech foot ball team. Fittro played a comdsf.- u’:;]v good glme at end through | flower that he expected the Middies | | the , W. Va., has been elected cap- |3 fareret 2220 lwlcm 19812 80 LN 102 lfl 94 100 88114 78101 SREBSZR BRIB8223 2822 oo Faon (= bt - HAMILTON FORESEES HARD 1935 NAVY JOB Loss of Stars Present Problem, He Says at Devitt Banquet Honoring Gridders. IEUT. TOM HAMILTON, Navy grid coach, told a gathering at the first annual foot ball ban- quet, of the Devitt School Alumni Association last night at the May- would find it tough to develop another outstandingly successful eleven next season, in view of the graduation of | Borries, Clark and other standbys. | Schmidt, he believed, is the most | likely candidate for Borries’ job. | Gen. H. E. Ely, former captain of | Army eleven: Dr. George R. ‘ Devitt, founder of Devitt School; Capt. Randolph Ridgely, in charge of the Coast Guard School; Arthur J. (Dutch) Bergman, Catholic Univer- sity director of athletics; Walter | Young, American University director of athletics; Mush Dubofsky, George- | town line coach, and Stanley Pearson and Pete Grogan, who had much to do with arranging the banquet, also spoke. Dr. Devitt presented letters to mem- bers of the 1934 foof' ball squad. They were Capt. Joe Aronoff, Bill Farquhar, William Riddell, Joe Mills, Charles T. Ely, Arthur Farquhar, W. H. Woodson, Henry Walsche, Bill Keefer ,John Boyle, Tom Dunnington, J. A. Crain, Jack Cemeron and Everard Smith. National Capital Team Standings. Heurich Brewers . King Pin ... Sholl's Cafe Book of Washington Georgetown Avenue Grill Lucky Strike Fountain Hams Washington Times Tea: PR 8355 SERRE8SE! 8t, H. Brewers... 102 Ki 92 Samiyppnl o Somaz Wash. Times.. 63 33 Individual Averages. HEURICH BREWERS HG. 180 Clarke ... %o 100 160 4 Anderson Litchfield J. Harrison. . Blakeney Rosenberg . 24 1 141 37 SHOLL'S CAFE. 21 110 160 26 99 152 ]4 108 165 21 83 146 388 1 S 74 106 115 858 BOOK OF WASHINGTON. 1 6 20 16 110 1 TMAT, FISTIC BOUTS FOR CHARITY FUND Pros and Amateurs to Take Part in Nine-Event Affair at @ W. Gymnasium. ITH Roy Manley and Stanford Carrier, local professional welterweights, clashing in the feature, a boxing card involving pro and amateur ringsters of Wash- ington will be presented tonight in the George Washington University Gyfhnasium for the benefit of the needy in the Capital. ‘The card, which is being sponsored by the Student Council of George Washington in conjunction with the Hatchet, student publication, will be- gin at 8:30 o'clock. Each of the nine bouts is slated to last four rounds. The card: 100 pounds—Sammy Fusco vs. Bobby Herndon. 135 pounds—Whitey Prance vs. Harry unds—George Abrams vs. Steve undsTD:n Petro vs. Charles Petro nouna's—chmu Justie vs. Buster Ard " pounds—Eddie’ Arnold vs. Charley 110 pounds—Joe Petro vs. El Brook- :‘:l:;‘fl:ounds—lddh Saugsted vs. Debs De Welterweight—Roy Manley vs. Stanford Carrier, GIBBS WHIPS REED IN SNAPPY BATTLE Outpoints Rival Welterweight in Colored Show, Which Draws Less Than 1,000. M udl, ITH one of the most impressive welterweight performances of the local indoor season, Georgia Gibbs of Atlantic City outpointed Cal- vin Reed, veteran Philadelphian, in the 10-round feature of a colored box- ing show last night at the Washing- ton Auditorium. A portion of the proceds were turned over to the Boys' Summer Camp fund by the Washington Athletic Club, new boxing organization which de- butted with last night's card. Gibbs, speedier and a sharper puncher, led all the way to win a unanimous decision from the Phila- delphia battler, who proved of so much use laft Summer in training Jimmy McLarnin for his second fight with Barney Ross. The main event’ easlly was the most | Interesting on the program, which was | attended by a crowd of less than 1,000. One knockout marked the evening's fisticufing. Sammy Williams, local middleweight, flattened Kid Clay of | Norfolk in the first round of a sched- | uled six-rounder. In the eight-round | semi-final, Jimmy Rose of New York | outpointed Wildcat Thomas, Roanoke | middleweight. In other bouts Ted King of At- lantic and Carlos Zavolla of this city, | lightweights, drew in six rounds, and Tod Green decisioned Bobby Miles in a four-round all-local lightweight go. PIN STANDINGS MASONIC LEAGUE. w King David. . Albert Pike Petworth ... New Jerusalem Potomac Naval ... Singleton Whiting Lebanon. . Takoma Columbia National La Fayette Gentennial Mt. Pleasant Hudmg Congress .. High team Inmes—Km National. 620: Lebanon. 60 High te: sus—mm Lebanon. 1702 ol & Anacostia ..’ West Gate. . . Barrister n opPa), 115-12 Homer' (Petworth) individual games — Billheimer J09; Phillips (King David). 168; House (Potomac). 164. Hish Individual sets_Billneimer (Joppa). 44%; Stevens (Potomac), 399; Deputy (Pet- worth) s—Gray (Naval). 26; Guer- rier (leomnl 26; Voorhees (King David). 26; Rflu;n (Lebanon), 25; Taylor (Gon- gress). 2 High “spares—Billheimer (Joppa). 104: Phtll;lnx 4?("1( David), 101; Homer (Pet- ‘wortl 99 High weekly games—Malcolm (Mt. Pleas ant), 158, and Emmons (New Jerusalem), HOLY NAME SOCIETY. SECTION A. 20 16 Natlvity . “7 Holy Co 8t. Peter's... 19 14 St Anth'y Season Records. High team set—St. Jerome's, !fi:n z:nm game—Our Lady ox Vlcwry 626. High team average—St. Jerome's. 543-8. High individual set—Wholen. 4 High individual o naey. High individual average—Pacinl, High strikes—Pacini, 57, High spares—Pacini. SE(T)'ION D. St. Joseph's.. w. Season Records. average—St. 537-14 High' team llme;fltAnAtr;,fl:‘o’niy; filn High team set—St. ony's, 1.7 ngh individual average—C. Bet (Bt. Ga- bricl Hien ndlv (lis] game—Colliere (St. An- h e individual set—Colliere (St. An- ‘hmh‘nnkes—sum (8t. Peter's). High spares—Feeney (St. u-mmu) 75, PRINCE Gxowls COUNTY. .Pu 'n Whistle 34" 11' Dairy Pr. 30 7 18 18 Lanhardt's. 1 Uthnxnbhers 20 Try-Me 20 Elfl s Bnom 31 Peop. L& F.. ’0 Season Records. High team same—Maryland Dairy Prod- ufla‘ g team set—Prigidaire, 1.852. High individual game—lsemann Hilh individual set—Isemann, 454 individual " mith. 12 ELECTBICAL LEAGUE. Anthony's, Wlllllms & B. Architects ... Frigidaire ... iser, Tl’lnxfl Co. c'p Warren & G ll 12 24 618 1. CW Leaders. High team game—Western Electric No. - l-';i?n' team set—Capital Transit Co.. llh Individual nme—mller 156. High individual set—Overend. 387 “m:n v daal “Weekly - Same— Vitale, Clements, L e o A Overend.. 114-11: 12-34; v"-ll! lll'D &. Lawhorn, West. Elec. No. Dollbledly- hig ufi“u ir‘;';n. % 0"35':':;;4 98 uale o1, GIANTS IN COAST GAME. NEW YORK, December 19 (#).— The New York Giants, National Pro- Ball League champions, have signed a contract to play in the annual Knights of Columbus charity game in Kezar Stadium, San Fran- cisco, on January 20. The Giants’ opponents have Dot yet begn Damed. SPORTS Her Name Coined a Sporting Classic PARADE F YOU ever had a free ticket to a sporting show you must know how it was listed. An Annie Oakley? called an “Annie Oakley” because of holes. And the track shot who traveled so many years with Buffalo Bill's Wild West shows could punch anything full of holes with a gun, This happens to be Annie Oakley in her —Photo from the collection of Harold Seton. (Copyright, 1934.) from a cardboard to a glass ball. prime some 30 years ago. By Grantland Rice ‘That happens to be correct. It was free tickets usually are punched full By the Associated Press. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—Ray Swanson, 178, Atlanta, outpointed Keith Weaver, 176, Sioux City, Towa | (10); Buddy Holinbeck, 165, Terre| Haute, and Tom Williams, 160, Moore Haven, Fla., drew. SIOUX CITY.—Frankie Wolfram, 125, Winnipeg, outpointed Everett | “Young” Rightmire, 126, Sioux City (10); Al Pahl, 138, Sioux City, and| Willie Davies, 135, Kansas City, | drew (8); Wesley Martin, 127, Akron, | stopped Speedy Clayton, 130, sloux‘I City (5). QUINCY, Il—Jack Charvez, 160, Kansas City, stopped Ellis Bradley, | 154, Quincy (6); Kart Martin, 141, | Kirksville, Mo, _outpointed Bert | Shepherd, 135, Peoria (8); Skip | Clemons, 135, Macomb, outpointed Bill Johnson, 136, Peoria (6). FARGO, N. Dak.—Eddie Gillespie, 140, Staples, Minn, knocked out Jack Thompson, 140, Minneapolis (4); Harry Larson, 135, Staples, | stopped Eddie Dyer, 135, Mlnnnpohs‘ (5); Stout Petrie, 150, Park Rapids, outpointed Joe Bowen, 150, Minnne- apolis (4); Christ Reinhart, 140, Re- gan, N. Dak., outpointed Sam Spiv- ack, 140, Salt Lake City (4); Chuck | champion featherweight the Ilatter | AIDS WITH NAVY BOXING Lieut. Fitzgerald, Former Champ, Joins Webb's Staff. Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, December 19.—Lieut. John Fitzgerald, of the Navy boxing | team of 1931-1932 and intercollegiate year, has joined the staff of fistic | coaches as assistant to Spike Webb. Other former Navy athletes who will assist with coaching this Winter are: Basket ball, Lieuts. George Car- michael, Fred Stelter and Warren Graf; wrestling, Lieut. Heyward (Tex) Edwards, and rowing, Lieut. Howard | Shelton and Ensign Robert Fulton. Indoor rowing practice will start| under Coach Charles Walsh about | January 15. D. C. BOY NAMED CAPTAIN. HAGERSTOWN, Md., December 19. —Election of Jack Marston of Wash- ington, three-sports star, as captain | of the 1935 St. James' School foot | ball squad, has been announced. He | also is a letter winner in basket ball and track. Marston graduates in 1936. Carroll, 145, New York, and Earl Burch, 144, Spokane, drew (4); Harold Nelson, 145, Salem, Oreg., outpointed Joe Raik, 145, Mad.lwn,l Wis. (4). FURR SEES SPEED AS TRUMP ASSET Phil and MeCadon Polish Up for Scrap Tomorrow at Auditorium. ONFIDENT that his greater speed will bring victory, Phil Furr, the Foggy Bottom wel- terweight hope, today was to wind up training in preparation for his scheduled 10-round battle with Jay MeCadon of Newark, N. J., to- morrow in the Washington Audi- torium. MeCadon, who was to pitch camp here today, llm was to taper off with a light wa The tussle, which will headline a 34‘round card, will bring together a pair of two-fisted ringsters who, be- | tween them, hold three victories over Washington's former favorite, Bob | Wilson. Officially, MeCadon defeated | ‘Wilson only once, but in the first of | two tilts they fought, he appeared to | have won with plenty to spare. Furr | followed up MeCadon's “second” win | over Wilson with a handy triumph over the hard-hitting but slow-moving blond. A quartet of six-rounders will com- plete the card. In these Mike Scipio of Baltimore will meet Bob Lowry, local welterweight; Frankie Litt will box Roddy Davis, another local welter; Le Roy Dougan of this city will en- gage Joe Rivers, California feather- weight, and K. O. Riley, Mohawk Club 147-pounder, will oppose Mickey Flan- nigan of Pittsburgh. CHANGES GRIDIRON LIST | Clemson Puts V. P. 1., Wake For- est on 1935 Schedule. CLEMSON COLLEGE, S. C., De- cember 19 (A).—V. P. I. and Wake Forest replace Georgia Tech and Ken- tucky as foes for Clemson College’s 1935 foot ball team on the schedule announced by Coach Jess Neely. The list: September 21, Presbyterian at Clem- ‘ son; 28, V. P. L, site undecided. t October 5, Wake Forest, site unde- cided; 12, Duke at Durham; 24, South Carolina at Columbia. | November 2, Mercer at Augusta, | Ga.; 19, Alabama at Tuscaloosa; 16, open; 28, Furman at Grgenville. CHISOX RELEASE GASTON. CHICAGO, December 19 (#).—Mil- ton Gaston, veteran right-handed | pitcher, has been released unconal-‘ tionally by the Chicago White Sox. Gaston has been pitching in the American League for 11 seasons, serv- | ing successively with New York, St. Louis, Washington, Boston and Chi- cago. He joinec the White Sox in | 1932. Mat Matches By the Associated Press. BROOKLYN.—Maurice La Chapelle, 178, France, threw Victor Werber, 175, Brooklyn, 56:21. NEWARK, N. J—Ed Don George, 220, North Java, N. Y., threw Dr. Karl Sarpolis, 218, Glen Lyon, Pa., two straight falls, 28:08 and 18:16. 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