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w. ASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1935. Rookie Pitchers Disappoint Harris : Ruth Counted Upon to Erase Red Ink While trying out a practi But skies are getting blue again and Gives Griffs Trouble for Five | Frames as Albany Wins, | 19 to 14. BY JOHN B. KELLER, SBtaff Correspondent of The Star. ILOXI, Miss, March 16.—No ball club is better than its pitching, so that 19-to-14 pasting given the Nationals by the Albany outfit in the first exhi- bition game of the season may be dis- counted. Bucky Harris’ kid hurlers The Force of Habit. failed to show under fire what they | N AMAZING number of golfers, had in practice sessions, so the Inter- | shooting around 90 10 years national League club had a great :ggéynre just about the same time. But the Nationals are-not that Al star golers| nti 15k or bad and will prove it when the vet-| 20 years ago are just as likely to win eran boxmen get on the job next week. | some big tournament as any of the Harris said today that five of the | younger stars. | 1t all goes back to force of habit, or experienced mngers are ready to take‘ the domignaun; Sy turns on the hill and that they wlll‘ The golfer shooting 90 today has be on the firing line next Thursday | just about the same faults he had 10 iday, whi he Indians are to|Years ago. He has permitted these g:d Fnda; “d ;nrl e | faults to turn into a set of habits that ehoguniered aere. ow rule his swing—largely because {n He named Jack Russell, Monte |said golfer won't give the thought Weaver, Ed Linke, Al Thomas and | and the time to correcting them. Bob Burke as the ones advanced I the same way, the stars enough in training to be assigned to of many years ago are likely to toll fn thssles. And the pilot believes| break out with a low scoring Earl Whitehill will be primed for th = ';‘Y ;""’"‘g i s - , or example, there - gervice by the time the Cleveland| ryjppe ™ willie Macarlane, then a series is reached, | veteran, beat Bob Jones in & playoff With the kind of pitching likely t0 | for the United States open champion- be done by this talented lot the Na- | ship ;; ‘Worcester in ]ggfi P! tionals should appear a team vastly A few days ago, Will Macfar- different_from that which bowed 10 | |anc was trailing Paul Runyan by Albany in the inaugural exhibition. |15 strokes in one of the major Florida THE SPORTLIGHT Power of Habit Comes to Aid of Ace Golfers; Keeps 90- BY GRANTLAND RICE. The Annual Journey. The dub looked sadly at his wife and shook his grizaled head. “I hate to say good-by again, but I must go,” he said. | “I saw a bluebird yesterday—I heard a robin call, ! I think I saw a crocus, too, along the garden wall.” ooked sadly at his wife and shed a briny tear, L - swing that grazed the chandelier; “Tell all the kids good-by,” he sobbed, “and tell them to be good” (Whereat he puts the mashie back and started swinging wood). The dub looked at his wife and sighed—'if some one calls me up, Just tell them that I felt the sun and saw a buttercup; And if the office asks for me and starts to getting sore, Just say I'm on a business trip to Nome or Singapore.” The dub looked at his wife and wept—"I hate to leave you, dear, I love my wife and kids, you know”—once 8 “But I am sure I've found a cure to stop that slice,” he said. @ players Tied Down. Sprong is almost here. more he shook his head— comes rambling along the road. But he takes it out in trying to dream himself into form. . Few golfers will subject them- selves to the mental discipline of eliminating their faulty hab- its. This mental discipline plays a big part among the stars. “Few know how many of us want to quit or give up during tourna- ments,” a leading winner told me re- cently. “The nerve strain, especially around the greens, can tear you apart at times when you begin to get tired and the pressure starts getting heavier.” The average golfer may make stout resolutions concerning greater ease in address, a smoother pace to thk backswing, more body turn and less hurry from the top—but as a rule he won't stick to these resolutions for any length of time. It seems easler to lift the club than to swing it—to let things take care of themselves—which, of course, they never will. The simpler processes of the golf | swing are not hard to work out—as most practice swings will show—but | A third flychaser, young Jim Asbell, | suffered an ankle injury early in the |on the dotted line—and contract ad He Battles Old Team First Time Since 1919. T. PETERSBURG, Fla.—The S biggest gate in the history of pected today at Waterfront Park as Babe Ruth plays against the It is the first of a series of nine games for “the championship of St. Temporary bleachers have been erected for the expected throng, mates, will number well over 5,000. MIAMI BEACH, Fla.—Unless things of the New York Giants will have to send some of his extra pitchers to the Mel Ott is nursing a stone briise on his heel and Joe Moore has de- Record Gate Expected as By the Associated Press. Braves’ training camps was ex- Yankees for the first time since 1919. Petersburg.” which, Manager Bill McKechnie esti- quickly improve, Manager Bill Terry outfield. veloped a first-class “charley horse.” training season and hasn’t been able to play since. Reds Sign Lombardi. \AMPA, Fla.—Big Ernie Lombardi, first-string catcher for the Cin- cinnati Reds last night signed troubles for the National League cel- lar champions are at an end for the year. It was a compromise, but was satis- factory both to Lombardi and to the VOICE BEHIND THE WELL, BUCKY 1 THINK ITS PALMS. A el ABOUT TIME To START WEEDING THEM out / —By JIMBERR?MAN éEVERYN_I_BI.UB WILL BE HELPED Inspired by Bahe, Team Is Likely to Be Dangerous Throughout Race. (This is one of a series of stories on major league base ball pros- pects.) By the Associated Press. T. PETERSBURG, Fla, March | finish in this year's National League pennant race—and they ous factor at all times—the Boston Braves, featuring the one and only in the circuit discard the financial red ink this season only outfit to slice up any profits {n 1934 and that was due exclusively world series The novelty this year of having the first t shooting at fresh targets, may mean an aggregate He is not only a life-saver for the Braves, who were close to tossing the business on his first swing around the circuit. ROM the actual playing stand- point Ruth’s mere presence has spiration for the Braves, but there's no telling what the big fellow will | be said for him is that any time he steps up to bat he will be a menace. 16 —Regardless of where they can be rated definitely as a danger- Babe Ruth, will help every club The champion Cardinals were the to participation in a seven-game Ruth in the National League for increase of 500,000 cash customers. in the sponge, but he will boom Babe Inspires Club. already served as a fresh in- do personally. The best that can Like that other famous old cham- s | tournaments. Runyan is P. G. A.|the average golfer lacks the mental Only Pitching Is Bad. champion and was) one of the best |training needed when pressure ar- N WORK other than on the hill the | of the field. Yet Willie Macfarlane | Fi¥eS: ball club shaped up well yester- | came bounding along like an antelope | AS Joe Kirkwood says, “If only they | club. { | ORLANDO, Fla—Casey Stengel, | the Brooklyn Dodgers’ leader, has two graceful fielding first basemen m'xnx‘ pion, Jack Dempsey, he is danger- ous as long as he is in the arena and BILON1 « M1Ss.0e upright. 4 day. It hit solidly, flashed a lot | with a 65-69, to pick up 14 strokes of speed on the bases and was not so|in 36 holes. The answer is that sloppy afield as the three errors|after more than 20 years of competi- charged against it might indicate. |tive golf, Macfarlane’s correct habits Sixteen hits leaped from the Wash- | in the way of swinging came to his ington bats, half of these off the| help. pitching done by young Henry Cop- pola in the first five frames. The others were gleaned off Orville Arm- brust, the somewhat rotund rookie carried over from last year. Both hurlers had been loaned to Albany for golfer will stick to the same set the day. | faults or habits year after year, and Coppola was the standout among|then wonder why he doesn't improve. the five chuckers who saw service in | How can he—when he keeps on swing- the merry-go-round. Although he had | ing in the same incorrect way?” been regarded as a fair prospect by| “Just what are some of these Manager Harris, this Northeastern | wrecking habits?” I asked Macfarlane. League product sent to camp by the| “Usually,” the lank Scot replied, Albany club for inspection was not | “average golfers keep the same bad believed as good as Reese Diggs or|grip. Then they are so tight and Arch Scrivener. He had not revealed | tense from feet to head that there in practice anything like the pitchmg‘ can be no chance for any flexibility. ability displayed by Diggs and Scriv- | They are like fence posts stuck in the ener. | ground. Their working muscles are Yet in his five innings he gave the } tied up in knots. From this beginning first-string Nationals plenty trouble.| they have small chance for timing Not a run was earned off him until |and balance. Their body turn will be the fourth inning. Wabbly support |limited and there will be almost no had forced him to work so hard in | shift of weight from lgft to right foot.” the first three rounds that he began| “So you think one of the first habit tiring in the fourth, to be hit heavily. | changes to make is that of finding Good and Bad Habits. T IS astonishing,” Willie said a while back, “how the average I Sloppy Stuff Wash. AB. Schulte.cf 2 Powell.¢f o > EPEETEY AB. Q oociwo® Albany. Brick'l.ct Pk 23D Wright It M'N'ly.2b Peters, Bellc. LEEIR! Sorzm Coppola.p §Jones . A'hurst,p 1 EEETTINSIPRPEPINoN s b 5 3 3 [ 1 i 3 1 i S But, as Manager Harris said today, | the right grip and taking a more in the five innings on the hill Cop- |comfortable position in address?” pola did as much as he would be| “Without any argument,” Willie called upon to do in seven innings |said. “I don't mean to be flabby. under ordinary conditions. Henry had | You can be firm without turning to dig himself out of several deep |yourself into solid steel or concrete. holes into which his teammates had | Most golfing faults come from grip tossed him. and address, and the starting move- ments of the backswing. If these Not Ready for Big Time. | are taken care of, the swing has a HE young right-hander showed a |80od chance to take care of itself. l Iot of speed, a good curve and |If they are not watched, there is al- fine control. He kept the ball |MOSt N0 chance that the swing will low much of the time and had such |lead to anything but trouble—loss of veterans as Myer, Kuhel and Bolton | direction and power.” waving wildly at his offerings. Cop- | This is advice you can take to the pola is not yet ready for the big show, March tee and put into effect right but his exhibition yesterday indicated 3Way. Every golfer has dreams of a that he 1s not far off. | big improvement as each new Spring The flinging done by Diggs and | Scrivener was most disappointing toj Manager Harris. He had considered them the best prospects of his young flock. Both failed him. Diggs had | nothing on the ball and was ham- mered for seven hits and as many runs in the first three innings. He could not get his pitching across most of the time, and when he did man- age to send the ball through there was nothing on it and the Albany batters sent it on long trips. Scrivener, the left-hander picked up from the George Washington Uni- versity nine, sandwiched one good round between two terrible qnes. Five hits and five runs were made off him in the fourth inning. Arch struck out two batters in a scoreless fifth, then was found for six hits and seven runs in the sixth. Albany seemed to like everything he threw. e tLan'np. 1 Mulcahy 1 Totals 43172711 Totals 441837 & *Batted for Scrivener in sixth fnning. fRan for Travis in seventh inning, iBatted for Lanahan in ninth inning. §Batted for Copola in sixth iRning. « 142 507 000—19 201 312 041—14 O E e - CENEETREsont Soom: Lanahan Looks Good. r SURPRISE of the game was-the pitching done by Dick Lana- han, Washington sandlotter, in the last three sessions. This husky Jeft-hander allowed the Albany bat- ters nothing more than one pass and two safeties. He was fairly fast and pitched intelligently. Lanahan cer- tainly had it all over Diggs and Scrivener for this game. ‘There was little noteworthy about | Armbrust’s term on the slab. The Nationals found him quite easy to hit and he was pitching mostly to |2 reserves, too. He must develop much more pitching ability than he showed yesterday to make the big league | Lanahan. 1 in 3 innings: off Armhurst, 9 grade. in 4 innings. ~Balk—Coppola. Winning 4 pola. Almost everybody who broke into | Hismiies cyioors, Coetuny Ak, s the Washington line-up—and Harris | 0f 8ame—2:3 sent in all but some of the pitchers— hit, with Jack Stone leading the of- fensive. Jack hit safely the last four of his six times up. One of his shots was a triple that went lining over the center fielder’s head to the fence. It was a prodigious wallop. Red Kress was up there swinging every time to get just one hit. It was a wonder, though—a power- fully lined triple that landed against the faraway fence on the first bounce. s—Schulte, Pow Stone * (2) Redmond (2),_ La . Packard, Susko, Pick: Wright (4), McNeely (2). Peters. Bell ola, “Jones. Errors—Myer, eely (2), Peters (2). Rune battes Susko (2). Bell (4). Brickell (2). Packard (2). Wright (3). Pickens (2). Wilson, Mc- Neely, Sington, Stone, Travis, Bluege (2), Jon Redmond. Powell (3). Two-bgse hits—Bell. _Sington. ~McNeely. = Wilson, Stene. - Three-base hits—Brickeil, Schulte. Wright ~ (2). Stone. Kress, McNeely. Stolen base—Susko. Left on bases—Wash- Bases_on balls— ‘k; off Scrivener, By t;ogl o off Diggs, 7 in 3 in 3 innings: off ell (2), Myer. Bluege, 2 Holbrook: Lanahan, By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ILOXI, Miss,, March 16.—A good-looking pair of catch- ers has been picked up by the Nationals in Sam Hol- brook, bought from Chattanooga, and Jack Redmond, a purchase from Birmingham, it appears... Each had a three-inning session behind the bat in yesterday’s ex- hibition and did an impressive plece of receiving...The one steal of the game came while Holbrook was working, but Scrivener, with his wind-up, gave the Albany run- ner such a start that Holbrook never had a chance to get his rhan. ‘Washington was up in the game Sports Mirror By the Assoclated Press. ‘Today a year ago: As protest against Florida Racing Commission’s action to stop horse “doping,” 125 horsemen went on strike at Hialeah track, Miami. ‘Three years ago: Babe Ruth accept- ed $75,000 contract for 1932, a cut of $5,000. Five years ago: Wichita Henrys won national A. A. U. basket ball title, defeating Olympic Club of San cisco, 29-16, in final at Kansas City, would relax a little and concentrate a little in the right way, they all could | play good golf. Nearly all bad faults start from tension and ther® harden | | and settle in the system.” | | (Copright. 1035 by North | America ewspaper Alliance. Inc.) 2 CENTRAL TANKERS | HAVE BEST CHANCE Three Other Local High Schools | Compete in South Atlantic Championship Meet. | | ENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL was con- | ceded the best chance of any of the four local teams competing this afternoon and tonight in the| al South Atlantic High School swimming championships in the Shore- | ham Hotel pool. | Eastern, Western and Bethesda- | | Chevy Chase High also are entered in | the meet, as are Baltimore City Col- | lege, Calvert Hall and Gywnns Falls. | | Trials were to be run off this after- | noon, beginning at 2:30, while the | | finals will be held tonight, starting at | 8 o'clock. Entries follow: | | . 200-Yard Relay—Baltimore Cits College: | Team A (Fern. Abrams._ Pardew. Wilson and Booth); Team B (Etridge. Hunt. T.| Weinberger. Zimmerman, tzpatrick). Central High School: Team A (Jordan, | Kelley. Jamison, Pleet): Team B (Brown, | Skipnon. Beatty, McQueen): Team C (Pow- | ell, Setterstrom, Martin, Webber). Western High: (H. Reinberg, Russell, Sherline, G. | | Reinbers. Carney) | 50-Yard Free Style—Baltimore City Col- | lege (Fenn. Pardew. Weinberger. Zimmer- | | man): Central (Skipnon, Setterstrom, Beatty, Chamberlain); Western High (G. | Reinberg, Hamm, R. Reinberg); Calvert | Hall (Farber). 100-Yard Breast Stroke—Baltimore City College (Hunt, Etridge, Kessler); Central | (Leetch, Cullinane. Goldberg): ~ Western | High ~(Bondham, Harding): Calvert Hall | | (Huckt): Gywnns Falls School (Blumbers). | 930-Yard Free Stvle—Baltimore ~City College_ (Prinz. Sowbell. Keiser): Central High (Brown, Porterfield, Powell, Webber): | Western (Brown, Bowley); Caivert Hall | (Farber): Bethesda-Chevy' Chase High | (Murohy) | 100-Yard Back Stroke—Baltimore City College (McClees, McGuire. Reckford): Central (Fahrenback. Thacker. Fitzhugh) Western High (Moynelo, McKee); Eastern | High (Marmon) 2 100-Yard Free Style—Baltimore Cily College (Abrahams. Wilson): Central (Kel- ley, i Western (Dorman, Sherline, Russell), High-Board _ Diving—Baltimore City College_(Goldberg. Crawford. Sones): Cen- tral (Tarbett, Shipley. Thomas, Briggs); Western (Harding. Carney). 300-Yard Medley Relay—Baltimore City: Team A (McClees. Hunt. Etridge); Team B (McClure, Kessler. Battenfeld). Central High: Team_ A (Fitzhugh. Goldberg. Jor- dan): Team B (Tacker. Tarbett, McQueen). Western High (Moynelo, Bonham. Dor- man). | HOYAS, CARDS COMPETE Each Have Two Runners, Latter Relay Team in Action. Eight college trackmen from Cath- olic University and Georgetown will Columbus games at Brooklyn. The Cardinals will be represented by Bill Walker, promising freshman; Bill Lajousky, a veteran of three years, and a mile relay team which had not ‘Walker and Lajousky are sprinters. Georgetown will be represented by a pair of runners. Doug Hanks and Ed Brown, both former Mercersburg Academy stars. Neither has been de- feated this year while running for the Hilltop school. Hanks will run in the 1,000-yard handicap invitation, while Brown will compete in the 600-yard invitation. only once...Aided by a brace of errors it got two runs in the first ...Albany had scored but E the second session, though, the International team reached Diggs for five hits and & pass to roll up four runs...And it was a coast for Albany after that until Lanahan took the hill in the seventh, Lary, at bat twice, got nothing... He was struck out by Coppola in the first frame. . .Kress made some fancy plays at shortstop...He in- sists he really is fighting for the post. . . Bluege relieved Myer at sec- ond and figured in one of the fun- niest flops of the fray...Peters, Albany shortstop, opened the ninth with a looper to right. Bluege ran back for the catch,/lost compete tonight in the Knights o!‘n been chosen definitely this morning. | {0 dislodge Sam Leslie. Both John McCarthy and Mario (Mike) Farrotto have astonished the camp with their fielding feats around first base but the chances are that Leslie will be at his accustomed sta- tion when the season opens. Sam definitely can hit major league pitching. McCarthy and Farrotto still have to prove they can. Sends Vets to Slab. OS ANGELES.—Lonnie Warneke and Larry French, one-half of the Chicago Cubs’ prospective pitching “blg four,” were Manager Charlie Grimm's nominees to work #gainst the White Sox in the open- irg game of the abbreviated city series, The other half, Bill Lee and Tex arleton, will do the pitching against he American Leaguers tomorrow. | | MIAMI BEACH, Fla—Smarting | under a 2-t0-0 shut-out at the hands | of the New York Giants, the national champion St. Louis Cardinals girded | themselves for revenge in their sec- ond exhibition game with the Giants this afternoon. Although the Cards took the hitting | honors by a 9-to-6 margin, they were | unable to push over a run. | C: 1} Dedicate Pirates’ Camp. AN BERNARDINO, Calif.—The flags are flying and the paraders are falling into line to San Ber- nardino today, because it’s Community day and the Pirates’ training camp is being formally dedicated. ‘There also will be a ball-tossing- out by the mayor as the Bucs and Angels open a two-day series. WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — Jimmy Wilson's Phillies journey to the jun- gles of Lakeland today, bent on secur- ing a pelt from the Detroit Tigers, George Watkins, center, who had the susficion of a charley horse to- day, ‘may be missing from the safari, keeping company with Lou Chiozza, whose bad knee is not quite ready for work. BLOW IS SOCCER CHAMP Defeats Park View, 2-0, in Third Game to Take Honors. Blow School, ever a power in graded school soccer circles, today was in possession of another city champion- ship following a 2-to-0 victory scored over Park View yesterday on the New York Avenue Playground. The game was the third and final of a series to determine the annual elementary school tournament. The first tilt ended in a 1-1 tie, but Blow took the second by a 2-to-1 score and then followed up with its victory yes- | terday. Botts and Stasulli scored the | goals. Summary: | Park View. Fowler . 2./ Jordana " Vermilion™". Goals ‘scored by Botts, Stasull, stitutions_Taranto for- Cosiin, Wagman for Yowell. Lawrence for George. time score—1-0, Referee. D. Adamson. BADGERS WIN IN RING. MADISON, Wis, March 16.—Wis- consin scored a 7-to-2 boxing victory over Haskell Institute here last night in a dual meet. the ball in the sun, tripped and sprawled, face down...and the sphere struck him squarely in the middle of the back. Cohen came to camp to train as a pitcher, but the left-hander brought up from the Chattanooga farm got a turn at first basing in the exhibition . . He relieved Kuhel in the seventh . . . and accepted two chances like a regu- lar firstsacker . . . Kuhel had & ington ‘working out with the squad, played two innings at third base . . . did not get a chance afleld . . .¥ind popped b mhuonhflb.‘un;‘m N ILLNESS MAY COST ROOK BIF; CHANCE Milnar of Indians, Making Strong Slab Bid, Faces an Operation. By the Associated Press. was making a strong bid for a place on the Cleveland In- dians’ pitching staff, was in & hospital today, preparing for an ap- pendicitis operation. His illness means he probably will spend another year in the minors. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—Johnny Broaca's strict adherence to the busi- ness at hand is paying dividends in the New York Yankee camp. The former Yale right-hander, in bed at 11 and up at 7 religiously, is further advanced in his training than any of his pitching rivals. Chisox Testing Rookies. OS ANGELES.—Still more inter- ested in finding out the capabil- ities of his new men than in winning exhibition games, Manager Jimmy Dykes of the White Sox planned to use as many recruits as possible against the Cubs today. Joe Vance and John Whitehead, right-handers from Dallas, Tex., were assigned to pitch, while Rip Radcliff and Vernon Washington were to start on either side of Al Simmons in the outfield. LAKELAND, Fla.—Mickey Coch- rane will send his rookies to the firing line today in a “grapefruit league” game with Jimmy Wilson’s Phillies. It will be Cochrane’s first chance to get a line on Dixie Howell, Chester Morgan, Bob Seeds and the southpaw, Clyde Hatter. Hatter and Alvin Crowder are slated to pitch. Browns Trim Red Sox. EST PALM BEACH, Fla.—Paul Andrews and Jim Walkup were the choice of Manager Rogers Hornsby to carry the pitching burden for the St. Louis Browns in today’s exhibition game with Balti- more of the International League. The Browns defeated the Boston | Red Sox, 15 to 2, yesterday. Manager Hornsby and Pilot Cronin of Boston both said a proposed deal whereby Mellilo, Browns’ second sack- er, would go to the Red Sox, is off for the time being, at least. FORT MYERS, Fla—Connie Mack’s Athletics will be at home today to the Boston Red Sox. They meet in an exhibition game on Terry Field, the fifth the A’'s have played in the grapefruit series. ‘Tomorrow the Athletics will play Joe Cronin’s boys at the Red Sox fleld in Sarasota. Holbrook and Redmond Beacons in “Dark” Contest Rookie Catchers Appear to Have “It”—All Kinds of Things, Mostly Bad, Happen. ‘Powell, the Washington boy, and n, the former all-America foot ball player, both bought from Albany, crashed the outfield. Both were good defensively . . . Powell contributed the fielding gem of the game with & running one-hand catch that ended hostilities . . . The Washington boy looked bet- ter at bat . . . He walked three times and got two singles, both sharp drives . . . Big Sington got a double the first time up, then was helpless at the plate. AL at Biloxi Field was gmm the Nationals this afternoon . . Tomorrow they again will hckll; Algmy ina game at Gulfport, miles away, where the Internatidpal Leaguer: are training. EW ORLEANS.—AI Milnar, who | FROM THE BY JOHN OU may talk about the Duseks, the Baers, and all the rest, but the most remarkable fam- ily of athletes now at large on this continent is the Stevens family of Lake Placid. No other family dominates its field the way the four Stevens boys, Paul, Curtis, Hubert and Raymond, dominate the field of bob- sledding, free style. Bobsledding in America means bob- | edding in Mount Van Hoevenberg, that sleek and treacherous Adiron- coasted to victory in the Olympics of | 1932, The Stevenses know Mount Van Hoevenberg forward and backward, upward and down. They could stand in the mid- dle of the Gobi Desert with their eyes shut and catalogue every bump, twist, and speck of snow on the Hoevenberg run. Frost-Bitten Suckers Plentiful. OBSLEDDING is a funny sport. In 1930 the average fan would have chuckled gaily at the thought of standing on a mountain with a thousand other frost-bitten suckers and listening to an announcer broadcast the progress of a sled down- kill. But in 1932 a thousand people were doing that every day. Most of them did not know the of their hands, or better. The high- lights of the run, reading from top to bottom, are as follows: Eyrie, the first tough turn, which the bobsled boys usually reach in less than half a minute from the start. White Face, the heighest turn on the run, a sheer wall of ice rising 30 feet from the slide. Cliffside, two-thirds of the way down. Shady Corner, a hairpin curve that is probably the most dangerous and bewildering of all. Zig-zag, where the German Olympic sledders shot off the course three years ago and nearly killed themselves. Mount Van Hoevenberg and the rest of the Adirondack slopes are old stuff to the Stevens boys, who grew up on skis and bobsleds thereabouts. ‘They are happy only when they're going down hill. They dabble in motorboat racing, hotel keeping and golf courses now and then, but the true function of an Adirondack Stevens is to slide down mountains at 50 miles an hour. Repelling Swiss Invaders. HE Stevens boys know all there is to know about their racket, the science of braking and steering, the proper width of runners, the danger of frosted goggles, the ideal condition for a run (the going is said to be fastest when a thin layer of snow By the Associated Press. Yesterday’s Results. New York (N.), 2; St. Louis (N.), 0. Chicago (N.), 7; Pittsburgh (N.), 5. Los Angeles (P. C. L., 5; Chicago ‘Washington (A), 14. St. Louis (A), 15; Boston (A), 2. Today's Schedule. At St. Petersburg—Boston (N.) vs. New York (A.). At Miami Beach—New York (N.) vs. St. Louis (N.). At Tampa—Cincinnati (N) Brooklyn (N.). At Lakeland—Philadelphia (N.) vs. Detroit (A.). At San Bernardino—Pitts! (N.) vs. Los Angeles (P. C. L.). At Los Angeles—Chicago (N.) Chicago (A.). At Fort Myers—Philadelphia (A.) vs. Boston (A.). At New Orleans—Cleveland (A.) vs. New Orleans (8. A.). At West Palm Beach—St. Louls .(A.) vs. Baltimore (L L.)s L), 19; dack hill where the Stevens boys | Hoevenberg run as well as the palms | PRESS BOX Bob Sledding Stevens Family Is Most Remarkable Quartet in Sports Realm. LARDNE! coats the ice walls). Knowing all this, !!hey were prepared, when a crisis | came, to stand off any foreign threat | on their home grounds. The crisis came in 1932, when the Swiss Olympic team tried to steal the two-man, or boblet, title from under the very noses of the Stevens boys. The Swiss almost got away with it. They piled up a big lead. Curtis and Hubert Stevens, handling the boblet franchise for the family, were in the toughest sort of spot. So Hubert produced a blow torch and applied it to the runners of his sled, for the honor of the house. The runners gleamed and steamed. They spurned the sticky snow as Hubert and Curtis shot down Mount Van Hoven- berg. Hubert steered and Curtis was supposed to brake, but instead of braking on the turns he bobbed, heaved and spurred the vehicle on to better things. The Stevens cracked the record once that day and twice the next. and the Swiss also ran. And they will be “in there” defend- ing their honors when the next Olympic bobsledding is held in 1936. (Copyright. 1935, by North American CopYr AR wspaber Alance, Tne.] RECORD-HOLDING RUNNERS OPPOSE Cunningham, Hornbostel in Casey “1,000”"—Former Also in Mile. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, March 16 —Featur- ing an all-star field of record- breakers, the Knights of Co- lumbus games furnish a fit- ting wind-up for the indoor track sea- son at Madison Square Garden to- night. The Middle Western stars, Glen Cunningham, Chuck Hornbostel, El- ton Brown, Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe, as well as such Southern luminaries as Glen Hardin of Louis- jana State and Harry Williamson of North Carolina, will be on hand for their final whirl at the Garden boards this campaign. Against them will be arrayed the East's best. Cunningham and Hornbostel have run away from their respective fields 50 consistently this year that the K. of C. has lined them up against one another in a special 1,000-yard race in which Brown, the Pittsburg, Kans., Teachers' College flash, and Glen Dawson, national 1,000-meter champion from Tulsa, will be the other principal starters. “Compromise” Distance. each has one world record to his credit this Winter, the Kan- san setting up a new indoor standard of 3:5.05 for 1,500 meters, and Chuck, the fleet Indianan, a new record of 1:11.3 for 600 yards. Their duel at the “compromise” distance may re: 13-year-old record for the distance— 2:12 flat. Cunningham also will run the mile against Gene Venzke of Penn, Daw- son and Willlamson. Hornbostel and Brown also will try for “doubles.” Chuck will run in the “Casey 600" against Hardin, the national collegiate quarter-mile champion and world record holder for the 400-meter hur- dles; Milton Sandler of New York, Elliott of Villanova. Brown is an odds-on choice to cap- ture the half mile. Other features of the meet will be the 60-yard the 2-mile %nd the 60-yard high hurdles. UNNINGHAM and Hornboste! | sult in the breaking of Hal Cutbill's | Ring of Holy Cross and Jim int, the broad jump, | The Babe won't break any more | home run records, much as he ap- preciates the vote of confidence from | Rogers Hornsby. All things con- sidered, he will have a big year if | he plays 100 games, slugs 30 or 35 | home runs and drives in 100 base runners. | Such an output would mean a tre- | mendous lift to the Braves, who have | been long on pitching, but short on | power during Bill McKechnie's six vears as manager. Last year, in 125 games with the Yankees, the Babe drove in 84 runs, hit 22 homers and drew 103 passes. R spot, and combine with Wally Berger, the rangy centerfielder, to give Boston the toughest pair of distance hitters it has ever had. ‘The Babe will patrol left field at home, however, to avoid the sun and that means an extra burden on the big fellow's aging legs. The fact is Ruth will be obliged to play in left everywhere except New York and Pittsburgh This is bound to cut down the big fellow’s endurance. The Babe has had an idea he would experience less strain on his legs by playing first base, but McKechnie doesn't agree with him. Moreover, the Braves' first baseman, Buck Jor- dan, was the only player on the club to hit over .300 last year and he can- not be sidetracked. Ratbit Maranville, the gritty little veteran who broke a leg in an exhi- bition game here last Spring, is try- ing hard to make a comeback, but it will be a miracle if he ever plays regularly again. | Less Mallon, a base ball tourist, is |slated to start at Maranville's old | position, second base. Bill Urbanski, |a much improved shortstop, and Arthur “Pinkey” Whitney, ex-Phillle, due for a good year at third base, complete the infield. Bats in Customary Spot. UTH will bat No. 3, his customary Have Biggest Catcher. | cKECHNIE has an outfield sur« prIus in an otherwise limited | squad. Ruth, Berger and Hal Lee are the first-string trio, with Rupert Thompson, Joe Mowry and | “Handy Randy” Moore for utility | roles. Frank “Shanty” Hogan, the biggest backstop in the major leagues, and Al Spohrer will handle a pitching staff that shapes up as first class if the youthful Bobby Brown and the veteran Ben Cantwell effect come- | backs. | Brown, of little service for two years after making a sensational big league start, seems to have a sound arm | again. ~Cantwell, a 20-game winner in 1933, pulled a ligament ¥ his throwing arm last Spring and did not recover fully until September. He figures to take his regular turn again along with Huck Betts, Ed Brandt, | Fred Prankhouse and Flint Rhem, The Braves finished fourth last season, 17 games behind the Cardinals, | despite the loss of Maraaville and the | falure of Cantwell to come within 15 games of his previous year's record. | With the prospect of better pitching, more power generated by Ruth's big | bat or influence and general improve= ment otherwise the club will cut & serious as well as an artistic figure |in the championship campaign. (Monday: St. Louis Browns.) SEEK MAT REVENGE. Central Y. M. C. A. wrestlers will | seek to avenge a previous defeat at the hands of the Wilmington “¥” grappling team tonight at 8:15 o'clock in the local gymnasium. The score of the previous match was 12 to 9. lF you have Eczema, Ringworm or Athlete’s foot CLAYTON will give you immedi relief. CLAYTON is sold at all People’s and other good drug stores in Washing- ton, D. C. Distributed by ON P. 0. Boy 1538, Washington. D. €.