Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1935, Page 39

. Classified Ads ng Staf G EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1935. D—1 Bigger, Better Golf Year Seen Ahead : Robinette ‘Second in Star Tourney - BUSINESS BRACE ROLLS SET OF 689 || SporTScopE Risko, Yarosz Kayoer, Strived Vainly to Get Bout Here. STAR PIN BATTLE RAGES. —By JIM BERRYMAN - LINKS SPORTS AID Improvement Along Line Forecast by President of National Body. (This is the fourth of an ex- clusive series, written for the Associated Press by sports leaders, and dealing with the new year prospects in all major branches of athletic activity.) BY HERBERT JAQUES, * President United States Golf Association. EW YORK, January 4—The| turn of the year affects us in| many ways, touching even our THE BIG SHO WHO DIDN'T QUALIFY ARE HIDING AROUND THE LUCKY STRIKE WITH VERY, | RED Faces! = “\ golf. It is a season when hun- |~ dreds of thousands of golf devotees subject their games to stocktaking and overhauling, then make resolutions. These personal inventories are quite natural. They are accompanied by a hope of lower scores that springs eternal, Old hooks and slices are for- ¥otten. Great deeds of the champions are recalled and become fresh inspira- tion. So also with the best shots and scores of the last season, which form the bases of innumerable resolves ushering in the new year. This is also a large part of the true spirit of golf—a continual hopeful striving for the best, regarding past . mistakes as stepping stones rather than stymies; and, if we had to guess, we would say it motivates nine hun- dred and ninety-nine out of every thousand persons who play the game. Golfers live in hope and resolution. Hope High for Big Year. OOKING ahead to 1935, there is not merely hope, but solid rea- son for believing a bigger and better golf year is in store. Business which effects our leisure is steadily improving. Golf and country clubs have long since put their affairs in order and are managed better and more economically than ever before. Southern resorts are anticipating one of the best seasons on record. There 1s every reason to be confidently opti- mistic in forecasting the business end of golf. On the playing side, I hope every golfer will realize how closely the United States Golf Association has come into contact with his game through the influence of our 1934 amateur championship. The tourna- ment proper was entirely at match play for the first time since 1903 and embraced a field of 188. Its influence has been far reaching. Match Play Better. T WAS clearly demonstrated that match play provides the more suitable competition for the ama- teur golfer, that a round of 18 holes is sufficient to produce the winner in 90 per cent of championship matches, that the quality of golf is better, the interest keener, and that more than three hours of sustained concentration imposes an unfair burden upon a com- petitor whose livelinood is not from olf. g The greater the appreciation of these time-tried procedures, the more enjoyment the game is sure to provide. May the advent of 1935 bring a happy new year and a renewal of the spirit with which golf enriches us all. LARY OF NATS, HAGEN IN COAST GOLF MEET Paired for Team Play in $2,000 Amateur-Pro Tournament at Riverside, Calif. By the Associated Press. IVERSIDE, Calif, January 4— Half. the field of more than 100 amateur-pro golf teams went into action today in the second an- nual Riverside $2,000 tournament here today. Heading the parade, in quest of $500 qualifying money, were Walter Hagen, Detroit, who has as his amateur part- ner, Lyn Lary of the Washington base ball club, and Wifly Cox, Brooklyn, paired in the best-ball event with Richard Arlen, motion picture actor. Tomorrow the Ryder Cup team players, who returned to the States yesterday from Australia, will tee off. ‘The list includes Paul Runyan, Na- tional P. G. A. champion; Leo Diegel, Craig Wood, Denny Shute, Harry Cooper and Ky Laffoon. NET TICKETS ON SALE Special Lighting to Prevail at C. U. When Pros Visit. ‘Tickets went on sale today at Spald- ing’s for the- professional tennis matches featuring William T. Tilden, Ellsworth Vines, George Lott and Lester Stoefen to be staged next Fri- day night in the Catholic University gymnasium. Special lighting arrangements are being made for the matches, which will bring together Tilden and Lott in one singles tilt and Vines and Stoefen in the other. In the doubles attrac- tion Tilden and Vines will engage Lott and Stoefen, the national doubles champs, who turned pros. CUP SOCCER TILT HERE ‘Washington’s lone entry in the na- tional amateur cup soccer tourney, the German-American Club, will engage the Colonials of Baltimore in a quar- ter-final round match Sunday after- noon on the Benning field at 2:30 o'clock. The tourney is an elimination affair. John Brocklander is the scoring ace of the Colonials, who are heading the Maryland Soccer League race. Burton, #~Mitchell and Watson are big shots of i-the German-American attack. % SEES RUTH PINCH HITTER. %. SAN FRANCISCO, January 4 (#).— «-Bellef that Babe Ruth will wear a “New York Yankee uniform this sea- *5on and fill the role of pinch hitter “%and part time outfielder has been expressed by Joe Cronin, new man- ager of the Boston Americans, SOME OF THE BoYs SHOW PLENTY OF THE OLD FIGHT IN THEIR WIND-UPS..... 8uT DIDAT 1 HEAR™ FA SOMETHING DRor / OTHERS JUST CALMLY LAY THE BALL OVER THE FOUL LINE-- THEY ALL GET THE WOOD... SPEAKING OF NUMBERS WHO 15 (/_—/““&\5,] A RECORDING EVERY SCORE ---Some Joa ! Sports Program In Local Realm TODAY. Basket Ball. South Carolina vs. Maryland, at College Park, 8. Bolling Field at Gallaudet, 8. Roosevelt at Gonzaga, 8. Bethesda-Chevy Chase High at Western, 3:30. Hyattsville High at Washington- Lee High, 3:30. Armstrong vs. Cardoza, 3:30. Wilson Teachers vs. Virginia Medical College, at Richmond. Tech vs. Southern High, at Bal- timore. Gaithersburg High vs. Takoma- gilaver Spring, at Silver Spring, :30. Central at Calvert Hall, Balti- more. Alexandria High at Nokesville, Va. TOMORROW. Basket Ball. Drake vs. George Washington, at Tech High gym, 8. Washington-Lee High vs. G. W. Freshmen, at Tech High gym, 7. Eastern and Central in annual tourney at University of Richmond. Alexandria High at Fredericks- burg High. Gallaudet at Fort Meade. Mount Rainier High at Char- Iotte Hall. St. John'’s vs. Mount St. Joseph's, at Baltimore. Howard at Dover (Del.) College. Wrestling. Baltimore Poly at Gallaudet, 8. Bowling. Finals, Evening Star tournament, Lucky Strike Alleys. Swimming. Western High at Massanutten Mili- tary Academy, Woodstock, Va. GIANTS SIGN HUBBELL. NEW YORK, January 4 (#).—Carl Owen Hubbell, southpaw pitching star of the New York Giants, has returned his signed contract for 1935. Manush Basks Palm Beach “Plumber” Big Leaguers Win By the Assoclated Press. ACKSONVILLE, ' Fla,, Janu- ary 4—Dizzy Dean won't let the world forget he spends the Winter at Bradenton, but he is not the only major league base ball player putting in the off season at fishing or golf- ing in Florida. Down at Orlando Joe Stripp, Brooklyn third baseman, lives within & block of Tinker Field, Dodger Spring training grounds. A property owner at Winter Park, Zach Taylor, former catcher for four National League clubs, spends his time looking out for his business interests, with an occa- sional day off for fishing. Heinie Manush, Washington slugger, finds Palm Beach sun and . GAMES -+ « wow / WHAT'RE | YUH TRYIN T'DOo---LAY A SMOKE SCREEN WITH THAT SKINNY O'Connor & “FRIENDLY ENE) Won’t Turn Net BY GAYLE TALBOT, Associated Press Foreisn Staff. ONDON, January 4.—Helen Jacobs, American woman's tennis champion flatly de- nied reports today she intended to turn professional, “at least not this coming Summer.” Miss Jacobs further denied she had received an offer from Bill O'Brien, THE SPORTLIGHT Baer, Smartness Backing Power, Looms as Long-Time Holder of Heavy Ring Title. BY GRANTLAND EICE. Champions and Their Chances for 1935. LOS ANGELES, Calif., January of Max Baer before 1935 closes out, his name at this moment, using all Suppose we enter most of the inti- mate details: 1. Baer not only stopped Carnera, but came near tearing his head off. 2. Carnera barely shades Campolo, fat and out of condition. 3. Steve Hamas gets a faint nod over Lasky, the nod coming from a Lasky foul that did no damage. 4. Lasky fights a draw with King Levinsky, leaving this trio pretty well locked in a draw—so far as any de- cisive margin is concerned. 5. Hamas holds a decision over Schmeling, leaving the German in the same set. © 6. Baer knocks out Levinsky in 4 minutes and 53 seconds. Baer offered to meet any two of his challengers in the same evening. On the records—reading the past performance chart of the last year—this would be no heavy handicap. In my opinion, Baer could pick any two challengers and stop both within 12 rounds of fighting, or maybe less. All Alone. HE unvarnished and unadorned facts are that Max Baer, as heavyweight champion—stands all alone. There is no competition in sight. There was only one matter of doubt about his reign—and that was a matter of condition. ‘When he stepped in the ring against Levinsky weighing 211 pounds, lean and hard, that closed out the debate about condition. Here is a young heavyweight who carries out the two main qualifications in Florida Sun Enjoys Hunting—Other ter in Gator State. ocean bathing good for his some- what erratic legs. In the tele- phone directory he is listed as a plumber, but that does not halt an occasional hunting trip. At West Palm Beach is Dan Howley, former manager of the Cincinnati Reds and the St. Louis Browns. Three pitchers form St. Peters- burg’s Winter base ball colony this year. George Pipgras, one of the trio, recently was reinstated as a member of the Boston Red Sox after a year of inactivity caused by an arm injuury. The others are Russell Van Atta and Johnny Allen of the Yankees., ‘Two of the Detroit 1t flelder Gerald Walker and Pitcher Elden Auker—are at Lakeland. Dizzy and Paul Dean kept Brad- enton in the spotlight so much city fathers passed & resolution naming the city “Deanville.” 4—Some onc may remove the scalp but even Dr. Einstein can't think of four dimensions. for ring success—the ability to give and take—or take and give. | He isn't any light-footed danger. But he can hit with either hand—and he is game and tough and smart. Some fast, high-class boxer might stay away and outpoint him—but there is no such challenger in sight—cer- tainly no one who could keep out of range for 15 rounds. Baer is not only a terrific hit- ter, one of the hardest punchers the ring has ever known, but he has more than his share of ring cunning and ring craft. He was smart enough to meet Schimeling off balance after missing a punch, to break up his counter—and he was smart enough to spot Carnera’s fiw left guard after a minute's fight- g. About Condition. FTER the Carnera fight Baer made this statement during a round of golf. “I'm going to keep in good condition for at least three years. That means women and alcohol. “I had a pretty tough road on the way to the top, and I've learned more | than a few things while getting there. | I've made my share of mistakes—more than my share—but these mistakes bave taught me all the lessons any one should need. “When I get through I want to be fixed for life—and I'm not going to be fixed in just one year. There may not be any one around who can draw this next year. But some one is com- ing along—and I want to be ready when he comes.” The 1935 Champion. ERE is a_ fellow who is just 25 years old. He is 6 feet 212 weighing from 211 to 215 in condition with an ideal build. He has an iron chin—and a terrific lash with either a right or a left hand —where both hands move with sur- prising speed. He isn’t fast on his feet—and he isn’'t much of a boxer. But he has a keen brain—a quick mind—and he knows what it is all about when the leather be- gins to fly. At this early date Hamas, Lasky and Schmeling are just about on even terms as his leading chal- lengers. But at this date none of the three is in Baer's class. There has been no outstanding challenger to prove his place well beyond the others in pursuit of the crown. There might have been a ballyhoo worked up if Max hadn't left Le- vinsky dreaming on his back in less than two rounds. That episode put the whole argument strigtly up to his challengers to step out and prove something. And this doesn’t mean close de- cisions over second-rate opposition. At this writing Baer outclasses his fleld fully as much as Jack Dempsey did after whipping Willard—as much . You CAN'T Says Jacobs; Denies New Of fer LLING STARS-- AND How [/ At RoLL-= SEE TH’ HEAD PIN ANy WAY Bos McKEEVER " MIES —— Pro This Year, American promoter, since last Sum- mer. O'Brien announced yesterday ' in New York she was considering a new offer. “Mr. O'Brien made me an offer last Summer, as well as in the Sum- mer of 1933,” Miss Jacobs asserted, “but I told him both times I was not ready to consider such a move. “His statement that he offered me $15,000 and I demanded $20,000 is ridiculous.” Miss Jacobs declined to say she wouid never turn professional, be- cause “nobody knows what one might do in the future, but please say for me I have not the slightest intention of turning professional this year.” “I intend to play in the Cairo, Alexandria, Paris, Wimbledon and | th2 American tournaments, defending | my title at Forest Hills,"” she said. The California girl has bcen prac- tising_almost daily for her European and North African tour, and is in | splendid condition. Mrs. Eileen Bennett Whittingstall, | English star, also denied emphatically |she had received an offer from | O'Brien, and said, “In any case I| should not dream of forsaking my | amateur status.” EW YORK, January 4.—Profes- | sional tennis reached out today for two of the amateur game’s champions, and apparently stands a good chance of landing them both. According to Sports Promoter Bill | O'Brien, Helen Hull Jacobs, for the past three years American champion; Fred J. Perry of England, the world's singles titlist, as well as Mrs. Eileen Bennett Whittingstall, one of John Bull's top-ranking performers, are on | the verge of accepting professional offers, aggregating $70,000. For several months O'Brien, who operates a troupe that includes Bill | Tilden. Ellsworth Vines, George Lott and Lester Stoefen, has been nego- tiating with Miss Jacobs. Last night these negotiations apparently reached the point of fruition when the Berke- ley, Calif,, girl, who is in London, cabled for more than the $15,000 O'Brien offered, and he responded with a bid of $20,000. Acceptance by Miss Jacobs would ruin the anticipated revival of rivalry between her and Helen Wills Moody, who is returning to competition this year. Mrs. Moody was Miss Jacobs superior until 1933 when she defaulted to the younger girl in the champion- ship final. Perry has been on the fence for nearly a year. Late last Summer he rejected O'Brien’s offer of $50,000, but before ‘he sailed from San Francisco for an Australian tour he evinced fresh interest in a professional career. as Gene Tunney did after beating ‘Tom Heeney. His margin over any chal- lenger at the start of the new year is too wide to give any one else a chance. It was always largely a matter of condition—and apparently the Liver- more larruper has decided to keep at least fairly close to the old straight and narrow, with only a few minor detours. The crown that Jack Demp- sey once wore has brought him back to earth. Some one, in the next three years, is going to have a tough time knocking it off. Baer is one of the real champions who face 1935. I asked Max if he would like to hold the title as long as Dempsey did—seven years. “I don't think so,” he said. *“I don’t think I'd like to give seven years more to this game—if I can collect what I need in a shorter time. But I want to be right when I am defending my title’ I'm not going to throw it away.” And deep back in Baer’s mind is the idea that Buddy Baer, his kid brother, will be ready to step in when he decides to retire. (Next—Lawson Little, Golf Cham- pion.) pyright. 1035 North | P e madane: Aante e 7 WITH HANICAP Isemann Takes Third Place e With 676—Bethesdans | Gathering Coin. C. day for a fat prize in The ‘ Evening Star Yuletide bowl- ing tournament, the finals of which | will be concluded tomorrow night at| the Lucky Strike. In the best tournament performance | of his career, Robinette rolled 681 last night to take second place behind Melvin B. Rock of Bethesda, who created a sensation on opening night with a set of 689. Like most of the leaders, the Elec- trical Leaguer was favored by a large handicap, his 40 franked sticks saving him from the long list of also rans. Without the handicap, however, Robinette rolled a fine set. He missed next to nothing in the way of breaks and his wood gathering was duckpin art. A ning Star champion, observed, | “Others may roll better scores than Robinette, but nobody in this tournament is likely to shoot better duckpins.” George L. Isemann, secretary of the National Duckpin Bowling Congress, BY ROD THOMAS. A. ROBINETTE of the Elec- trical League was in line to- Wins Ex-Champ’s Praise. S CARROLL DALY, former Eve- | | hied himsclf to Atlanta, Ga., last night with a singing heart, the result of a 676 performance, which put him in third place in The Star roll-off. The hardest worker in the game, George's | enthusiasm as a bowler and his win- ning spirit match his industry as a promoter. He accompanied a sizable group of Washington rollers to the United States Sweepstakes, which will (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) New Nat Papers Don’t Hurt Myer 'HAT may be bad news to some of the Wachington ball club is speeding through Uncle Sam’s mails today, but Buddy Myer is iearning with pleasure that a rose has been pinned on him by the new manager, Bucky Harris. Some of the boys are apt to find thet contracts for the new season sent out yesterday by Clark Grif« fith, president of the club, call for pay cuts, Myer, however, §§ not likely to be among the disappointed as he was one of the club’s bul- warks last season. And besides, he seems in line for at least a $500 raise. Buddy is Bucky's choice for field captain of the Nationals and that brings the automatic boost in sal- ary. Harris spoke in glowing terms of Myer in a radio broad- cast last night and again declared he never had that rumored run-in with this “grand little ball player.” T e BY FRANCIS E. STAN F YOU, like Prankie Mann, had never heard of a middleweight fighter named Babe Risko before, a debt (if you care) Is owed Maj. Heinie Miller, secretary of the District Boxing Commission. The reason I mention Frankie is that he received a flock of letters from a guy in Scranton a few weeks ago, begging the now-reformed matchmaker for a chance to box in Washington. That was the first Frankie had ever heard of Babe Risko. The second time was when he and the rest of the fistic world awoke the other day to read where an unknown battler had assaulted Middleweight Champion Ted- 1y Yarosz so severely in the prize ring that the Pittsburgh title holder became a seven-round technical knockout vic- tim. Babe Risko probably is the most talked about fistic figure at the moment. Heinie Miller enters the pic- ture because about the only dope on Risko was that he once fought in the Navy. Some Record! HE word Navy to Heinie is like the clang of a street car bell to a punchdrunk fighter. When Heinie heard that Risko once sailed the seas under Uncle Sam, he leaped into action. The telegraph companies showed a profitable day. Maj. Miller even phoned the Navy Department. He left no stone unturned. And the resuits: Yarosz was the seventh straight knockout victim of Babe Risko, alias Sailor Pulaski, alias Henry Rylkowski, | his real tag. That win was Risko's fifty-fifth in 56 fights. The other was a draw. Twenty of his wins were by kayoes, 26 of his 56 bouts were as a professional, and the other 30 were fought in the Navy and as an am- ateur. As a member of the crew of the destroyer tender Dobbin, Risko won the Navy middle- weight title in 1931 and success- fully defended it in 1932, At that time he was fighting as Rylkowski. He became Sailor Pulaski when he first turned pro in California in 1932, Honorably discharged from the Navy in 1932, he returned to his home town, Scranton, as Risko and today probably | could be elected mayor if he wanted the job. Shades of Young Corbett. T IS nothing new, by the way, for Navy fighters to do tricks like that, proudly avers Maj. Miller. “When Beltimore Joe Dundee was ‘tops’ he was knocked out in one round by Sailor Eddie Roberts of Tacoma Wash., who later was identified as one | Seaman L. L. Rowland, Navy welter- | weight ch_lampion from the U. 8. S. Arkansas Heinie is too much of & boxing man ta predict a championship for Risko, but the upset provided a swell excuse for a little reminiscing. “A then-unknown William Rothwell (Young Corbett I),” recalls Heinie, | “flattened Terrible Terry McGovern, world featherweight champion. Like the Yarosz-Risko bout, it was an over- weight affair and, therefore, the title was not at stake. “‘You don’t win the title, you were overweight,’ fumed Mec- Govern to Corbett. ‘That’s all right, Terry,’ replied the pudgy Corbett, ‘you keep your title, but when I walk down Broadway p” | FLOR $ A FEW, the crowd will point to me as the man who knocked out Mc- Govern.” “That’s the way with Risko,” opines Heinie. “By the way, wouldn't he and Ken Overlin make a good match for Washington to see who's who among these ex-gob middleweights?” Two Masters Too Many. HY,” Uncle Clark Griffith was asked, “must Joe Judge choose between operating a restaurant and coaching the Nationals this season? Why not both?™” “Simple,” explains Griff. “It just | doesn’t work, no matter how smart a | base ball man may be. He just can't | give his best efforts to either business. | I found that out back in 1915—or was it 1916?—when John Henry was catch- ing for Washington. “Henry came to me at the end of the seascn and told me he was going to open a box factory at Amherst. ‘All right,” I said, ‘but I'll have to give you your release.’ That was the sex- son that Connie Mack named him as the American League’s all-star catcher. “‘Well, replied Henry, ‘Ge Stallings of Boston wants me.’ | right,’ I angwered, ‘send Stallings | see me. Stallings came, sure enough, and bought Henry for $6,500, which was a nice sum those days. The next season he came again. ‘I ought to wring your neck,’ said Stallings, ‘for selling me Henry. His mind isn't on base ball, it's on paper boxes.” “And,” so Griff closed the case, “Henry never ‘came back'—he never | was a star again. You just can't ser<e two masters in base ball.” Judge, incidentally, has until t end of this month to decide. LEVERTON MAY GET JC. Jokn Marshall h School’s ball squad may be ccached next F.ll | by Roger Leverton, Washington bc | according to reports. Leverton, one of the best all-around athletes to be produced at the University of Rich- mond in recent years, will graduate from that school in June. He was a swimming and diving | luminary at Central High here before entering the Richmond institution. Hubbell in Line At Same Old Pay By the Associated Press. EW YORK. January 4—Con_ tract troubi: i beset the Giarts b cpens, but none of them will be caused by Carl Owen Hubbell, LEE left-hander. Hubbell's contract was sent out | from the Giants' office here Sat- urday and yesterday the club an- nounced it had come baca— signed—via airmail from Meeker, Okla. Although the exact figures were pot announced, Hubbell's quick acceptance indicated he would get at least as much as he did in 1934, reported to be around $18,000. The club could not very well give him a cut in view of the fact that he led National League pitchers in effectiveness for the second year in succession. 0 SHEIM SHOES STYLES '795 ® It’s an insult to a man’s intelligence ta expect him to buy shoes solely because they are reduced in price. But when the shoes reduced are Florsheims . . . that’s a different story. Every shoe, every style . . . all sizes, including yours . . . are marked down for this Semi-Annual Sale. No “special’’® mer- chandise, nothirtg held back, no reserva- tions in this legitimate and liberal event. NOTHING CHANGED BUT THE PRICE! *Open Nights 14th at G St. 7th and K Sts. *3212 14th St,