Evening Star Newspaper, August 20, 1935, Page 13

.w and plays his shots when the Senate | u . | of the 11 sectional qualifiers to get [~ SPORTS. <« | | 15" WiTHOUT " TAKING TRYOUTS E'D rather be president of l‘ college—than of the United 'Would Rather H our;ds rather strange com- Ten Former Winners, Five | | ing from the son of a member of| | President Roosevelt's cabinet, but it's Invaders Exempt—Play | the honest conviction of James George | Is on 26 Courses. I Dern, whose father is the Secretary | A of War. Jimmy—a tall, & By the Associated Press MATEUR golfers numbering | 903 sought today to qualify | for the national championship. There were 176 places open. | ‘The championship proper will be de- cided in Cleveland September 9-14. ) Ten players qualified last week in the | Far West. ¥ifteen others, comprising | 10 former winners and five foreign entrants, are exempt from the 36-hole sectional tests on 26 courses today. | W. Lawson Little, jr., the defending | champ; George T. Dunlap, jr., winner | in 1933, and big Tony Torrance of | England are among those automat- jcally qualified. Johnny Goodman, | who won the open crown two years| ago, decided to take the test in the Omaha district with Rodney Bliss, jr., Goodman's nome town rival, and Jack | Hoerner of Stanford University. | Is Difficult Task. 'WENTY-THREE, including Dave Goldman, finalist with Little in the 1934 play at Brookline, Mass.: | # Reynolds Smith, Leland Hamman, Ed White and young Charley Dexter, jr. | are among the contestants for eight | places in Dallas. At Oklahoma City | Waiter Emery, Zell Eaton and Harry | Gandy are in the field of 16 seeking four places. Charley Yates, the Georgian who | holds the Western amateur crown, competes at Atlanta: Gus Moreland and Jack Westland, 1934 Walker Cup- | pers, are entered in the Chicago dis- | likeable | ,blnnd—crushed the Capital's sports| pages over the week end when he| entered the Embassy tennis doubles tournament as the partner of Leon- ard L. Nicholson, 3d, & bank clerk at Riggs National, and it was at the‘ Embassy courts yesterday that what little infermation could be gleaned from the young man himself was forthcoming. Jimmy's not the average man's con- ception of a politician. He has none of that fluency of congersation which usually pours from the lips of men in public life. Indeed, he won't talk about himself at all. Rather, here is a future adminis- trator, the able executive, from whom orders are dictated with all-knowing discernment. And already Jimmy's had his first taste of administrative duties, for he’s left a record in the admissions office at George Wash- ington University since coming here from Dartmouth as one of the most | efficient and ambitious young men ever to give information to a flustered freshman. | Jimmy's done everything in that | office from directing strangers about | the campus to looking up Ph. D. re- quirements, and he's done them all well, according to university officials. But to get back to his athletic activities. Tennis seems to be the only sport to which he's devoted any ap- preciable amount of time and his| main bid to fame since he started trict with George Dawson, Don Arm- |Plaving on the Dartmouth freshman strong, Johnny Lehman and Freddie | team three years ago was accom- Haas. Johnny Fischer plays at Cin- | Plished this Spring in the badminton cinnati. | tournament at G. W., from which he emerged as a member of the winning doubles team. He made his bow in District com- petition last Saturday when he played 48 Fan, Home Run Decides in 13th By the Associated Press. LAION, Ohio, August 20.—Forty= eight men struck out in a 13-inning soft ball game last night. The Globe team of Galion won, 2 to 1, over Lemert, a Northwest Crawford County team. Ben Fried of Galion, the win- ning pitcher, fanned 31 men, the first 15 in a row; George Klingen- berger of Lemert struck out 17. A home run in the thirteenth inning decided the contest. Frankie Strafaci, newly crowned public links champion, competes in | the New York district, where a field of 133 seeks 23 places. Watts Gunn, Gene Homans, George Voight, Dick Chapman, Willie Turnesa and Tommy Goodwin are among the mmpemon.l In Detroit, Robert (Bobby) Jones, who eliminated the veteran Frances Ouimet in the first round at Brookline. shoots for one of the places in his| section. ROSE WILL FIGHT HERE Jack Rose, New York heavyweight who sent Battling Mimms crashing to the canvas six times to score a| technical knockout in the sixth round in his last appearance here, will fight | Willie Reddish, Philadelphia, in the main bout of the all-colored boxing show ta he staged by the Lincoln Ath- letic Club at Griffith Stadium on Au- gust 27 in conjunction with the per- sonal appearance of Joe Louis, rapidly- | rising young heavyweight. Thirty-eight rounds of boxing have been scheduled. Tommy Cross, Phila- ‘ delphia. and Meyer Rowan, New York, | fast lightweights, will tangle in the | THE k.iuninNd Jimmy Dern (right), LON, Jim Dern, War Secretary’s Tennis-Playing Son, Head College Than Be U. S. Prexy pictured with Leonard Nicholson, 3d, his doubles partner in the current Embassy tennis tournament. —Star Staff Photo. | his first doubles match in the Em- bassy tournament. Jimmy exhibited the bulld and form of a seasoned | veteran in slamming a pretty mean racket for one who claims he's always been an “also-ran.” What little play- ing he's done this year has been on the courts of the Army and Navy month with his father for the Philip- pines. Jimmy’s going strictly for pleasure, | | but his heart's set upon re-entering | matches. George Washington next February. Not because he will have more time for tennis or soft ball games, in which he now plays on Sunday mornings, Club, because young Dern left the bt because he’ll be able to get back game alone while studying at G. W. He won't play much more this vear. either, for he's leaving early next COLORED TENNIS LISTED A colored tennis tournament, spon- sored by the Washington Tennis Asso- ciation and under the auspices of Grand Lodge convention, I. B. P. O. Elks of Washington will open next | | | inio the work he loves. It may be President Dern, some day—president of Whatta College. D. C., TUESDAY ¢ DISTRICT NETMEN START WITH WINS Welsh, McElvenny Singles Victors as New Orleans Tourney Opens. By the Associated Press. EW ORLEANS, August 20— Barney Welsh, defending champion from Washington, D. C., wasz to meet his first | seeded opponent today in the second | round of the thirteenth annual na- | tional public parks tennis tournament if not untoward result occurs in the completion of a first-round match halted by darkness yesterday. Roswell Lee, who is one of the 18 seeded players and the champion of Miami, Fla., is leading Milton Bielfield of Detroit, 10—8, 6—2, 4—6 and 3—2, and will tackle Welsh later this after- | noon if he succeeds in taking the | fourth set from his opponent. | Welsh, who swept Richard Uible of Norwood, Ohio, into the discard yes- terday by scores of 6—0, 6—4, 6—1, | will team up with his doubles partner, Ralph McElvenny, in the first round |of the doubles play which is sched- uled to start today. | McElvenny, seeded No. 5, likewise had little trouble in advancing to l.hef second round of the singles yesterday, | | taking a straight-set victory from | | Hobart Wrobbel of Detroit, 6—3, 6—3, | 6—3. All Aces Come Through. IN ADDITION to Welsh and Me- Elvenny the other 15 seeded stars | all successfully completed first-round | The most interesting match of the | day was promised between Arnold | Simons, Louisville, Ky., star, who has | twice won the public parks title and who last year was defeated by Welsh in the finals, and William Hughes, the Tennessee State champion, from Mem- | phis. Hughes defeated Simons the| AUGUST 20, 1935. 903, Seeking 176 Places in U.S. Amateur, Take Golfing Test in Vario ISTRICT playground officials were congratulating them- selves today upon the man- ner in which they have been proved adept judges of their boy tennis players. Out of 500 junior and senior doubles teams, they seeded Melvin Dower and Delwin Blue as the senior favorites and Doyle Royal and Harold Landsman as the most likely of the juniors to win the championship. Yesterday both teams justified their choices as the No. 1 selections by triumphing in the final rounds to win the titles. To do so, however, they had to repel two fighting teams from Chevy Chase, which was represented in the championship matches of both divisions. But Dower and Blue, representing ‘Takoma Park, whipped Cheyy Chase's senlor champions, Sam Root and Paul Borden, 6—1, 6—3, and Park View's Junior title holders, Royal and Lands- man, trimmed Angelo Valenza and Richard Buckingham, 6—2, 6—1. At the conclusion of the matches young -SPORTS. 2+ A—13 us Sectors > GOLF CLUB TO OPEN POOL ON SATURDAY 10 stay in the Embassy doubles tou | Washington Arranges Number of stay e assy doubles rna- | hied . ment. At 5 o'clock they were sched- E‘h‘hm_“'—uembefl will Dine and Dance. uled to resume their dlrknm-hlludl maich of last evening with the tourna- ment’s doubles favorites—Hal Gch-jWAE:!NGTON CvO L AnDOOuN. smith and Gene Fowler—and the re- | TEY CUNE v cuimmieg sult of the first set leaves their fate P00l latest of the country club pools a dubious one. Goldsmith and Fowler 3r0und the National Capital, is to be swept the initial encounter, 6—1. | formafly opened next Saturday after- ‘The No. 2 seeded team of the Sherfy brothers will play Charley Channing and Harold Cranston in a second- | round feature match at 4 p.m. | Incidentally, this combination of Johnny Hatch and De Witt Bennett looms as one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Hatch, the West- ern High boy, and Bennett, the George Washington graduate student, looked most impressive yesterday in turning back Hy Ritzenberg and Sam | Love, 6—2, 6—4. BOBSEY ‘TURNEY'S long-suffering chiselers’ tournament, which be- gan only (!) 12 days ago, sees the end | in sight—if young Hatch doesn’t find noon. An exhibition of fancy diving, | swimming strokes and racing by a group of well known aquatic stars will | mark the formal opening of the pool. | A dinner and dance for club members will follow. | Something approaching a record in | construction time was recorded in the building of the pool, which is located almost directly south of the club house above the sixteenth green. The pool | was started on July 23, and will be | opened a little more than a month | after the first shovel of dirt was lifted. It is of standard A. A. U. dimensions, and will use the most advanced method of water purification. Dorie C. Gruver has been in charge Borden, who is playing his first year | the Embassy tourney taking up too|of the pool development work. of tennis, was pronounced the most improved player in the tournament by officials. JIMMY DERN and his partner, Leon- ard Nicholson, have a lot to do with their rackets today if they are | much of his time to play for the chiselers’ singles final against Arthur | Simmons on Thursday. The doubles still are being held up as Murray | Gould, one-half of a semi-finals team, is out of town until the latter part of the week. last time the two met, in the quarter- finals of the national clay courts championships in Memphis in 1930, but Simons is a much more polished player now. Yesterday Simons routed Brent Baxter of Cleveland, 6—1, 6—1, 6—0, while Hughes defeated Felix McGiv- ney of Galveston, Tex., by the same scores. Other seeded players won their first-round matches just as easily. The only contest in which an upset loomed was one in which Dave Gillam, Pasadena, Calif., champion, seeded sixth in the tournament, dropped two sets to John Thorn of New Orleans before sweeping through the next three sets, 4—6, 46, 6—0, 6—3, 6—3. Steel Grid Posts To Baffle Rivals LOS ANGELES, August 20 (#).— Southern California’s Trojans and U. C. L. A's Bruins will score their touchdowns this season through or around steel goal posts. Steel goal posts, imbedded in concrete, will be installed in the } WOULD ADD SWIM TITLE Ewell, 220-Yard Winner, Will Go | After Half-Mile Honors. | Bartiett Ewell. newly crowned 220- ! yard swimming champion of the Dis- | triet and recently revealed as the Big | Ten's oustanding athlete of 1934, goes after another District A. A. U. title | tomorrow night when he meets Ernie Boggs, Y. M. C. A’'s star, in the half- mile local championship in the Mary- land Club Garden Pool at 9:30 o'clock. Although Ewell has beaten Boggs both times they have met this season, the “Y"” swimmer and present holder Los Angeles Coliseum, it has been learned. The Trojans didn't have a win- ning team last year and lost sev- of the half-mile championship enters this competition newly encouraged by his record-breaking victory in the same event at Baltimore last Sunday. eral goal posts to victory-flushed visiting students. ‘The Coliseum also will put back- Tests on the players’ benches. Entries will continue to be taken by Arthur Hepburn until tomorrow night at the Gardens. All contestants must i+ be members of the local A. A. U. Another Contribution to semi-final, while a special attraction will bring together Billy Eley, local welterweight, and Phil New York. Two six-round bouts will complete the card, with Tommy Mollis, Balti- more, trading socks with Johnny Free- man, Philadelphia, and Knockout Clark, Miami, facing Bobbie Green, Philadelphia. EASTMANS CHALLENGE. Eastman diamonders are seeking action. Call Lincoln 8174 between 6 and 7 pm. i — New York-Pennsylvania. Wilkes-Barre, 4; Williamsport, 2. Binghamton, 6; Allentown, 4. Hazelton, 8; Scranton, 6. Elmira, 10; Harrisburg, 6. Western. “Keokuk, 8—2; Sioux City., 6—1. St. Joseph, 2; Cedar Rapids, 1. Southern Association. Birmingham, 4—2; Nashville, 2—3. McQuilan, | Monday at the Banneker Reecreation Center. Men's and women'’s singles and dou- bles and mixed doubles are planned. | The entry fee is $1 per event. All registrations should be made with Clyde C. Freeman, 3005 Eleventh | street northwest. | Sports Mirror By the Associated Press. Today a year ago—Dizzy Dean re- instated by Cardinals, but paid $486 fine for refusing to play in exhibition and tearing two uniforms. Three years ago—Clyde Martak won national A. A. U. marathon. Gus Moreland took Western amateur golf title. Five years ago—Lefty Grove won twenty-first victory for Athletics. Rube Williams replaced E. A. 8. Hop- ping at No. 2 for United States in- ternational polo team. STRAIGHT OIF THE TEE by W. HE high sheriff of the Senate, otherwise Chesley W. Jurney, e sergeant at arms, is getting his goifing education in large and liberal doses this Summer. With his second birdie of his career behind him, the jovial Texan has gone in for gam- bling on golf matches, the sure sign of advancement in skill and confi- dence in trat advancement. He is going to Italy shortly after | Congress adjourns, and according to| Harry J. Gerrity, with whom Jurney {frequently plays, he is trying to; finance his golfing trip by contribu- tions from Gerrity. Further inquiry reyeals that the High Sheriff has piled | up no less than $8.50 toward his trav-{ Maryland State title holder. eling exnenses, all from Gerrity's Ppockets, at the rate of 50 cents Nassau. “Big Boy” Evans, the 275-pound | colored boy who totes Jurney's clubs | official gets in serious trouble, says the strain of gambling on golf is telling | on the Sheriff, because, he says, “Mr. Jurney nad to shoot 105 to beat Mr. Gerrity the other day, it was so close.” Jurney would win & lot of money, “Big Boy” says, if Gerrity would let him tee up in the sand traps all Summer 4n# let him play Winter rules.all dur- ing the hot weather. A Rotary Club golf tournament at Sherwood Forest Thursday will have as its chief trophy the Mack L. Lang- ford Cup. L. J. Goode. heads the committee in charge of the affair. \AREAL taste of national amateur 3 ' golf championship weather came ® tbighe entrants in the sectional quali- fying rounds at Indian Spring today 88 a steady rain beat down on the early starters, slowing Dp the course and making its already great length of 6,800 yards much longer. The boys Had to change their style of play over- ight, for in practice rounds they ve been knocking their second shots of the greens. Today they obuld fling ’em up almost anywhere d be sure they would stick. Rain is almost axiomatic at the ateur championship, played early September, when the rainy season gets well under way, and the lads who fere doing their stuff out there at * « Thdian Spring had a foretaste of what ~happen at Cleveland next month » those lucky enough to qualify. Rig rain today may shoot the scoring ton, course manager, REX T last night thake s top of R.MeCALLUM 156 would qualify, just before he set out in his car to place the pins and tee markers. “You are going to be | surprised to see how high the scoring | will be,” Al said, “and don’t raise an | evebrow if 156 gets in.” It may be | higher today, with slower fairways !and slower putting greens brought | about by the rain. ‘The starting field today is just about on a par in ciass with the flelds in other sectional tourneys played around | Washington. But it does lack two | stars, both of whom probably would grab places were they playing here. These two are Billy Howell, Virginia State champion, and Ernie Caldwell, Howell | has gone to Charlotte, N. to qual- ify, while Caldwell is essaying his qualification trials in New ork. The five “floaters” at Indian Spring will have to equal or better the top mark into the national tourney. One of them—W. D. 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