Evening Star Newspaper, August 22, 1935, Page 40

Cc—4 s PORTS. THE EVENING .STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1935. SPORTS. Welsh and MElvenny Face Tough Assignments in National Parks Net Tourney Harry Hopkins, Federal Relief Chief, Financed Education With Earnings as a Pro Ball Player QUARTER-FINALS Bayon of N’Orleans. Washington's two entrants in | their toughest assignments thus far in Barney Welsh, defending champon, | Orleans, whom many experts con—‘ Ralph McElvenny, the cap‘tnl‘si ‘Welsh in the final last year. while McElvenny defeated Charles defeated Roy Huber of St. Paul, 6—1,| 6—3, 4—6, 6—4, 6—2, and Wililam 6—3 champ, and Schommer plays Dave Barney, Defending Cham- pion, Even Money Against By the Assoclated Press. EW ORLEANS, August 22— N the National Public Parks tennis tournament faced quarter-final matches to be played here today. was no more than an even choice to defeat Maurice Bayon of New | ceded a fair chance of bowling over| the lanky Scot. other representative, faced Arnold Simons of Louisville, who lost to Yesterday Welsh conquered Max | Davidson, Chieago, 6—2, 6—3, 6—2. | Britbius of Minneapolis, 8—6, 6—8, 6—4, 6—3. In other matches Bayon 7—5, 6—4; Simons went four sets to trim William Hughes of Memphis, Schommer of Minneapolis, whipped | Trevor Weiss of Chicago, 6—4, 6—4, Ted Drewes of St. Louis meets William Laurie, New York City Gillam of Pasadena, Calif, in the other quarter-final matches today. Two Hurt in Auto Crash. | RENT BAXTER, 19, and Walter Smigel, 24, Cleveland. Ohio. en- trants in the tournament, were in- Jjured last night when the automobils in which they were riding collided with a truck. Smigel, public parks singles cham- pion of Cleveland, suffered possible | cerebral injuries, scalp lacerations and general contusions. Baxter, member of the doubles team and also a com- petitor in singles, suffered contusions of the right shoulder and the scalp. Both had been eliminated in singles and doubles in the tournament. Both Baxter and the driver of the truck, listed as Charles O'Connor, 27 were booked on charges of reckless driving, causing damage and minor ! SEEK SATURDAY TILT. The Takoma Tigers want a game Baturday with some team having a | diamond. Call Georgia 5499. On Sunday the Tigers will play the Wash- | ington Clowns. March On in BARNEY WELSH. Title Tennis RALPH McELVENNY. “Gay Nineties” In 30 Events for Fairfax Show Special Dispatch to The Star. AIRFAX, Va. August 22.——Thmy classes will comprise the sched- ule of the twenty-second an-| nual Fairfax Horse and Pony Show to be held September 6 and 7. | according to the prize list, just an- nounced. For the first day of the show 7 | hunter classes will be shown, 4 jump- | ing classes and 3 saddle groups, with ponies holding the spotlight the sec- ond day. 16 classes being listed. A feature of the show this year will be a “gay nineties” class the second day, in which contestants may ex- hibit any old type horse-drawn vehicle in costume of period or appear mount- ed in old-style riding costume. Robert D. Graham, secretary of the | local show, stated the indications are that the number of entries for this| year's show will surpass any previous | affair sponsored by the Fairfax group. | He also announced the show will be run off under the auspices of both the American Horse Show Association and the Virginia State Horse Show Asso- ciation. Events have been listed as follows: Class 1—Green hunters. for horses that have not hunted with a recognized pack of hounds more than one season or won 1bbon in a hunting class at & show prior to 1955 Lightweight hunters carrying up % Ppounds over jumps not to ex- ceed 4 feet Class 3—Middle and heavy weight hunt- ml up to 185 pounds over Jumps not_to exceed 4 feet Class §—Hunter hacks. to be shown at walk. trot and canter and over four jumps not_to exceed 313 feet S—King Joy class. presented by Ra Norton. for horses 4 years and | unger. - Griffs’ Records Whitehill Redmond__ Hadley__ * | aren"18 Ciass 6-—Corinthian. with horses to be ‘nddnn in_hunting colors 7—Ladies’ nunters. to be ridden by iady and Shown over four jumps ot | to exceed 4 fee ass 5—T0\lch and out. to jump four | o—Triple b rs. twice around. " Cinss 10--Time class. to be shown over :u}sldt course. with no jump exceeding eet. Class 11—Handy hunters. open to hunt- ers znd jumpers over specified course with- | out_wings. Class 12—Saddle horses. oven to all Class ‘13—Saddle horses, thoroughbred type. suitable for an easy ride with en- | durance. . over twoa triple 14—Hunter championship. to be d horse winning greatest number of | awarded pony winning sreatest number Class 1 ncluded Ol 24—Fony hunt teams for teams ponies. with no rider riding Tore 'than "one pony i same tesm Class 25—Saddle ponies. for children 18 under. on ponies not over 14. #—Bantam jumping class. horses 1 over four Jumps not to ex- e 27—Pony championship, to be | of Dnlnu in show, Class 2A—Pair pony hunters, with both to g0 around ring twice it 20 Falrax hunt class. for mem- | bers and residents of Fairfax County. over outside course. Class 30—Bantam championship. to be awarded bantam horse winning greatest Dumber of Doints in show. “Gay Nmeuu class. post entires and open to all i Entries for tbe local show will close September 2 and all entries should be filed with Pobert D. Graham. secreta The Advisory Committee for e show, besides ‘the secrefary. includes Mai. Gen Edwin B, Winans. A. 8mith Bowmi | Emery Galliher and Capt. cR'p. lodnrl Stars Yesterday By the Associated Press. Red Kress, Senators—Scored three runs, batted in two and was in three | double plays in rout of White Sox. | at Helena. Isn't that a high Governraent offi- cial watching that sandlot ball game? Haven't you often seen his picture on the front pages recently? Sure, you have. It's Harry L. Hop- kins, Federal relief administrator, and his weakness for base ball, which halts him at a Monument lot diamond || on his ‘vay to work s only the natural outgrowth of the years during which as a college man he played profes- sional ball to finance his way through his senior year at college. A three-sport star, who was gradu- ated from Grinnell College in 1912, ‘| Hopkins shone at basket ball, tennis and base ball, but it was only from the latter that he ever derived any revenue. A crack pitcher and short- stop, Hopkins found himself up against it after his junior year at Grinnell. The state of the family finances made hazy the likelihood of his returning to pitch for his alma mater in his last year. So for fun and finance, Hopkins | turned to base ball during the Sum- mer of 1911. He joined a semi-pro team and traveled all through the State of Montana during those three | months of June, July and August. He| | pitched at Butte. He played short Wherever the team went | Hopkins was with it, alternating in the positions at which he consistently ‘That wasn't the end of his active athletic endeavors, however, and to- day he plays as much golf as the average business man. Using mostly the Army and Navy Club courses, Hop- kins shoots consistently in the 80s. Alvin Crowder and Charley Gehr-| inger, Tigers—Crowder held Red Sox to four hits in first game, Gehringer's triple brought winning run in second. Frank Demaree, Cubs—Pounded Philadelphia pitching for two doubles and six singles in double-header. Lou Gehrig, Yankees, and Ivy An- drews, Browns—Gehrig clouted home run in each game, one with bases ful!; Andrews held Yanks to six hits in second game. | George Earnshaw, Dodgers—Shut | out Pirates with six hits, faning, six. | Jimmy Foxx, Athletics, and Hal ’rnmky and Lloyd Brown, Indians— | Foxx made four hits, including twenty-sixth homer’ and knocked in five runs in first game: Trosky's two homers drove in five runs and Brown | pitched four-hit shutout. | Dizzy Dean, Cardinals—Rang up | season’s twenty-first pitching victory at éxpense of Braves. Hal Schumacher, Giants—Shut out Reds with eight hits. won in classes in which | | conformation_counts | 15—Saddle ponies. for ponies 12.2 Class and under. to be ridden by children 1 years and under. Class 16—Model pony hunters. to be shown in hand s 17—Child’s class. ponies 12.2 and under. ridden by children 3 years and under Class 18—Touch and out. ang bantam horses. 9—Seat and hands class. chil- ears and under with horses 13.1 for ponies | and under H Weaver won 1. lost urke won 2. lost 8; Stewart lost 3| aves won 2. lost 4 ! Class 20—Bantam saddle class. not over 15.1. ridden by children not over 18 years. Cl 1—Pony hunters, for ponies over s. for two or more —Pony Corinthian. to be shown over outside course. for pomies Dot over 14.2 Trapshots Rehearse Classw Event Today Modeled on Same Lines as Grand American Handicap, By the Associated Press. ANDALIA, Ohio, August 22. —America’s premier marks- men staged a dress re- hearsal today of the out- standing classic of the clay bird sport—the Grand American Han- dicap—preparing for the grand finale of the week's prcg‘ram to- morrow. Champions of all kinds have been crowded this week. Hun- dreds of thousands of targets have been broken in one of the wildest scoring sprees the sharpshooter: ever have staged. Now, however, no shooter dares mention any othcr shoot in the same breath Slated Tomorrow. with the Grand American Handi- com. Today's event, 100 targets at handicaps—the marksmen being set back from the traps at gradu- ated distances, according to their recorded ability—is exactly the same as the “grand” will be Fri- day. But while today’s is just another shoot, tomorrow’s, over the same route, will be packed with drama. No one ever has won the event twice, and no one classed as a favo- rite ever has been crowned. L. G. Dana of Derrick City, Pa., ‘won the title last year. Other Scheidt Brews Diamond Dust | Heurich's Brewers need only to win | today's game with- the Southwest | Market nine to clinch the champion- | ship of the Industrial League. The second of the three-game series, ‘whh:h Heurichs opened with a ! victory on Tuesday, is to be played on the East Ellipse at 5:15 p.m. Carl Wahler is expected to start pitching for the Marketman, while “Ev” Rus- gell may go to the jmound for the Brewers. Another title play-off also was to | resume this afternoon when Acacia 1lnd Center Market play the second | tilt of their five-game series for the | National Capital League flag. Joe Suillivan will attempt to make it two straight for the Insurance boys, who won the first affair, 1 to 0. A second game ended in a 3-3 tie. | Riggs National continued very much in the running of the Bankers' League yesterday when they pounded | across eight runs in the third inning to feature a 13-1 rout of the Union | Trust Co. “Mike” Hunt, former | Western High star shortstop, and Sam | | Cherry, diminutive second baseman, | led the assault with three hits apiece. | “Chick” Hollidge allowed the losers | | but two hits. Results: League. Riggs, 13; Union Trust, 1 (Bank- ers). National Metropolitan, Bank, 6 (Bankers). 13; City The ale for those who know the urge to live « « stirs the senses . .. keeps you fit...but never lets you down. Valley Forge Special Beer, Scheidt’s Norristown Porter, Valley Forge Dark Beer outshone his more experienced team-‘ He also is a good swimmer and divides mates. At the beginning of the Fall| his aquatic enjoyment between the term he had enough money to carry | Mayflower and Army and Navy pools. | him through graduation. But his biggest kick in sports still That was his last base ball play- | {s pase ball. ing. Barred from collegiat. diamond | activities by his semi-pro status, Hop- kins gave up the active playing of the game altogether. He still gets a great kick out of watching it played, however, hence his haunting of the Ellipse. e Three-Eye. Decatur, 6—4; Springfield, 0—0. 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Klaerner left a sick bed to take the mound. Only two balls were hit hard, and they were lined into flelders’ hands. First Baseman Frank Couska doubled with the bases loaded in the seventh to produce the three runs by which Longview won the game. NHNES LIST TITLE SERIES Bokar and Rajah to Open A. & P. League Clashes Sunday. Rajah, second-half winners in the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. League, will tangle with Bokar, first-half | champions, Sunday on the West Ellipse diamond at 11 o'clock in the first of a three-game series to determine the loop title. Composed of phyerx who work in | Northeast and Southeast stores, Rajah | | fought its way to the finals by trim- ming Bokar, 12-4, last Sunday in & | play-off for second-half honors. Manager Al Konouch boasts the fol- | | lowing standout sandlot stars on his | Rafah nine: “Babe” Moore. Bob Newell, Shelby Smith, George Rhyme, | Joe Murillo, Bob Howell, Bill Schmidt | and “Mac” McIntosh. Middle Atlantic, Charleston, 5; Akron, 4. 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