Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1936, Page 44

SPORTS. | First Across Line Met Disqualification. O MOST of us, the mere thought of starting out on foot toward | away is enough to cause a sink- Ing feeling in the region of the heart. age even to start in a marathon run, to say nothing of the grit it must take | Of all the events on the Olympic program, the marathon packs the most It all goes back to the greatest foot race in history. In 490 B.C. Pheidip- | victory over the invading Persians from the scene of battle at Marathon | miles and 385 yards. He arrived at the City State with just enough life message. “Rejoice, we conquer!” Then Pheldippides fell dead from exhaus- Two Champs Crowned After | Br the Assoclated Press. a goal of 26 miles and 385 yards It must take a special brand of cour- to complete the gruelling grind. Interest and drama. pides carried the news of Militiades’ to Athens, a distance of exactly 26 Ieft in him to gasp out his immortal tion Race Revived in 1896. | ’I‘HE next time the historic ground was covered in a race was ‘3386} pears later, in 1896, when the Olym- | piad was reconvened and a Greek | sheep-herder, Loues, won. On each occasion of the renewal of the Olympic marathon there has been plenty of excitement and drama to wark its running. Perhaps the most dramatic finish of the marathon in the modern Olympic games was the hectic ending of the London grind in 1908 Dorando Pietri of Italy, the greatest distance runner of that day, was the first to enter the stadium. Half crazed from fatigue he started to run the | wrong way around the track Officials | etopped him and steered him right. | His eyes glazed. his face distorted into @ grim mask. hid legs gave way under | him and he plunged into the cinders— completely out And victory only a | gew yards away. | A doctor leaped down from the gtands, rushed over to the prostrate athlete and plunged a hypodermic | needle into Dorando’s wrist. The Italian’s eyelids fluttered. He leaped to his feet, ran like a wild man for 50 var and again sprawled on his the cinders. le of his countrymen helped the fallen runner to his feet. Half carrying him. pleading and urging, they formed an escort as he fought the remaining few yards across the finish line. Victory for United States. ]OHNNY HAYES of the United | *" States came in a moment or two later and the battle was on. Dorando was finally disqualified and Hayes d clared the winner. It was a tough break for the great Italian runner but a fair decision. He never could have finished ahead of Hayes under his own power. That victory in London was the last the United States had scored in the Olympic feature. In 1904, at St. Louis, Tom Hicks of Boston was de- clared the winner of the marathon, but not until the offiicals had ruied out Fred Lorz, the first man to cross the finish line. Lorz burst into the stadium, surprisingly fresh, and raced across the nish line miles ahead of the next competitor. An investiza- tion disclosed that Lorz had ridden 15 miles of the distance on a truck hopped off outside the city and gal- <+ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1936. Arena last night. Wrestler Taken for Ride Abe Coleman is the horse in this instance and he later threw Ralph Garibaldi (the rider) in the show at Turner’s ~—Star Staff Photo. loped around the stadium and across the finish line to the wild applause of the assembled throng. 'DISMER AND M'GANN but | of BIRDS SWEEP RACE Capture First Three Places in | 610-Mile Flight—Woodside Loft Is Fourth. 0 It was Lorz's idea of a joke, the officials, lacking his sense humor, tossed him out in disgrace. In Los Angeles little Juan Zabala or Agentina picked up nis country’s flag after breaking the tape in the marathon and raced around the track hysterically waving the banner while the crowd cheered him BTAINING results seldom equaled ‘What the coming Olympic mara- in competition among the mem- than over the course in Germany |bers of one club, let alone three, the holds in store no one knows, but it | pigeon partnership of W. F. Dismer is a safe guess that it will, like past |and Ted McGann achieved greater races, develop its share of the dra- | fame than ever during the recent 610- matic. mile race from Attalla, Ala., when birds from their loft placed first, sec- ond and third among 163 entrants of the National Capital Racing Pigeon Concourse. Members of the Washington Racing Pigeon Club, Dismer and McGann extended their superiority far beyond the confines of that organization, as ANNAPOLIS, June 19—Navy has | the concourse includes the three larg- | gained a backfield man of prummi's‘p‘p‘“';’"';“:“ in the ch‘:"'(h o = ¥ 'orce: stop overnight, thus losin in Jack Brenner, Severn School play- [ about 12 hours in the computation ni |er and all-Maryland scholastic back | gverage speed, the winning bird, nev- | for the last two seasons. While Bren- | ertheless, was able to show a rate of ner has had only achool teagn ex-|Dearly 851 yards per minute. His loft- perience, he has all the earmarks Mate, Who came in second, averaged of a great back and has attracted | Slghtly less, his speed being computed | NAVY GETS STAR BACK Brenner, All-State at Severn, in Entering Class. favorable attention wherever he has played. Though weighing around 160 pounds, Brenner is fast and elusive and is conceded to be the best school back in Maryland. Though only a small portion of the members of the new class at the Naval Academy have entered up to the present, it contains much fine foot ball material and promises to be on a par with the two fine classes which have preceded it. | at 849.90 yards per minutes. Twelve of the 25 lofts which were represented failed to report an entry home at the end of the two-day flight, Following is the average speed, shown in yards per minute, the first five being diploma winners: | Dismer and McGann. 850.98: Dismer | and MeGann, 840:60: Dismer and Metvann §is.b4; Woodside Lot 814 98 T Bu ;. Salmon, Pennington Turowski. 0: Hixson. 836.51: 12 Iofts, no report. CAN “MiIcKEY” COCHRANE DO IT AGAIN? Twe pennants and a world'’s championship in fwe years— that's fighting “Mickey” Coch- rane’s record as manager of the Detroit Tigers. What's the story behind this current diamond How does he do it? it again this year? S Th are the questions that keep baseball discussions going till the wee small hours. Every fan has his own answer fo them. But in Sunday's “THIS WEEK" sensation? Can he do they're answered by the one man who's entitled to fake the floor when the subject is base- ball and the Tigers . waeaneandonty “T'Y” COBB The Sunday Star ORDER YOUR SUNDAY PAPER NOW PHC’)NE NATIONAL 5000 Fans’ Delight. l OSING his balance after he had lock” fame hurriedly was pinned to the mat at Griffith Stadium last of the evening. The Chief, caught off stride, fell Detton was upon him in & flash. was a break for the 3,000 faithful who Caught Off Balance, Chief Is Pinned by Detton to been on top for 26!2 minutes, Chief Little Wolf of “death night by Dean Detton just as it ap- peared he was to win the feature bout over backward after almost & half- hour of grunting and groaning and had been giving Woilf the bird all evening. Declares Back Broken. MOST of the fun came in the Cole- man-Garibaldi bout in which the former, Abie Kabbibie threw Gino's younger brother, Ralph, in 20l min- utes. Earlier, it had taken CIiff Olsen only 10 minutes to toss George Lene- han to the boards with a Swedish slam while Jack Donovan had thrown Jean Ledeaux in only two minutes more. The night's quickest finish was brought about by Hank Barber, former foot ball star of Dartmouth, who took but 3'; minutes to defeat Jack Powell of Virginia. Powell claimed his back was broken when Barber threw him to the canvas. —_ EAGLES RALLY TO WIN. Epecial Dispatch to The Star FREDERICK, Md, June 19— Skinker Eagles of Washington rallied in the late innings here yesterday to defeat the local Conoco nine, 10-8, after they were behind for the major part of the game, Lankey had a per- | fect day at bat. BEATS JAVELIN RECORD. HELSINGFORS, June 19 (). —Matti Jarvinen of Finland, Olympic javelin champion four years ago, bettered his | own world record when he tossed the 77.23 meters (253 feet 4! inches), CONTEST AT BALLSTON. Jesse Theater diamonders will travel to Ballston Sunday to meet the Balls- ton Juniors at 2:30 o'clock. It L 4 ONTRARY to the opinion of many persons, you don't have to spend a lot of money to get in a good day's fishing, either here or on the bay. If you have no automobile & bus will take you to Seaside early in the morning and bring you back in the evening. It costs only 10 cents to get out on the long pier there, and fish are plentiful. Some big hardheads have peen pulled in there, Charles Press having caught 23 in one afternoon, using shrimp for bait. He also brought in two spotted trout. Others are doing equally as well. | A whole day at Seaside, including transportation, admission, meals 'ndl bait, will cost about $2.50. Another place where you will find | the fishing inexpensive is Plum Point. You can get a rowboat for 25 cents an hour. Row Yourself out about a mile and you will do almost as well as that fellow way out there in that cabin cruiser. Headheads, trout and other bottom-feeding fish can't tell the difference between your bait and his. It sounds easy, and it is. Just keep your sinker on the bottom when the tide is running and you'll have HREE horse shows, two of them | I offering two-day meetings, will be held in nearby Virginia and | Maryland during the next 10| days, promising the busiest interlude | so far in a year marked by unprece- dented activity in equestrian sports in the vicinity of Washington. The first on the calendar is the second annual Marlboro horse show, which opened this morning at 10 o'clock at the Prince Georges County fair grounds in Southern Maryland With 34 classes scheduled, this affair will continue through tomorrow after- noon. A special group of draft horse events has attracted entries from Belair, the | estate of William Woodward, and | other prominent establishments and there is to be a wide assortment of hunter, jumper and saddle horse tests. The hunter classes include those for pairs, teams and Corinthian horses, | and there are several competitions for open jumpers. Prize money, trophies and ribbons will be offered in all the major con- | tests. The judges are to be D. O.| Furr and Dr. Robert Humphrey of | Middleburg, Maj. Henry Leonard and | Humphrey Finey. TAMBARK+~TURE % ROD AND STREAM BY GEORGE HUBER. no trouble. You probably will never catch a blue fish that way, but every now and then, if you're lucky, a king- fish will take your bait. RIGHT here at home it costs prac- tically nothing. Car fare down to the Tidal Basin or the Speedway will be the only investment other than bait. Perch are about gone, but rock and cat still are here and worth going after. If you want to go out in the river after some of the bigger ones, Capt. Joe Fletcher will let you have a sturdy little rowboat cheaply. Bass continue to be & problem local- ly. You really have to go out and hunt them for hours before being able to take even one. A spot that usually proves to be productive is right off the mouth of Pimmet Run, just this side of Chain Bridge. They usually are taken there with live minnows down near the bottom, but a river rant with the mere suggestion of a sinker on the leader might do the trick. Get it in deep, and let the current, which is rather swift at that point, play it for you. Its hardly necessary to reel it in. It's no use trying to lure bass to the top there with plopping plugs, N NEXT Saturday, the twenty-sev- enth, the second Columbus horse show, sponsored by the Forest Glen Council of the Knights of Columbus, | opens for two days at Bradley Farms | with 32 classes on its roster, a tempt- ing collection of trophies posted and prize money offered in some classes. The Columbus meeting features seven classes for junior riders and ponies, a diversified array of hunter and jump- er events and several for bridle path hacks and other saddle types. W}EN the first half of the Colum- bus session opens on Saturday, SPORTS. == Marathon Race Packs More Drama Than Any Other Olympic Event as there's too much noise from the water to make them notice any little additional disturbance. FIBHD{G for blues in the bay around the middle grounds, of course, runs into a bit more moncy than going |atter hardheads at Seaside or Plum Point. Boats are rather expensive and {you have to bring along your own |chum if you're going chumming, or your own drones, spoons, spinners, feathers or what have you, if you're going trolling. ‘What method you use depends large- ly on how the fish are disporting them- selves. If large schools are playing |on top the water, then trolling is the |thing to do. If none are in sight | you'll have to put out a chum line and | lure them that way. Catches of blues there haven't been 50 good in the last few days, due large- ly to winds. Each boat has been able to bring in only from 4 to 10 per trip, but any day now you may expect‘ things to pick up. Tomorrow and Sunday should see some fairly large catches made, down at Solomons, tells us that trout (spotted) are coming in rather well now, along with the usual large catches of hardheads. Except when the bay windd make things tough for | anglers each of his boats is bringing | in from 150 to 200 fish. Tuesday was | about the best day this week Small rocks, running around a pound or a pound and a half, are breaking all | the time near Ceder Point, Woodburn reports. When the wind makes fish- ing in the bay impractical you usually can bring in a fairish number from the mouth of the Patuxent or even up in the river. Other Bay points are equally as good as far as hardheads and trout are concerned. Recommended spots— | Up in the West River near Galesville, | Shadyside or Niggerhead Buoy, Cove Point, Hooper Island Light, Honga | River and the Gooses. Perry Spears, George Neale and A. 8. Gentry caught nearly 300 hardheads at the Gooses early Wednesday morning. | Fishing on the bay all depends’ on | | | | | SKIPPER HARRY WOODBURN, | black bonito. enthusiasts will be torn in two direc- | the weather, though. If the wind is | tions, as it were, for the regular Lou- | COMing from the north or northeast, it doun Hunt horse show also will be |Means & bad day. It's hard to pre- under way down at Belmont, the Qict just what the weather will be, estate of former Secretary of War |!00. as usually it doesn't come from Patrick J. Hurley. Having the ad- Somewhere else, but originates on the vantage of an exceptionally attrac- |bay. Sometimes it's even difficult to tive setting, the Loudoun exhibition | tell from one hour to the next just | is adding further to its attractions by | ROW it will be. [ offering silver prizes for first, second Lower Potomac points—Piney Point, | and third places in its more important | Tall Timbers, River Springs and Rock classes. Eighteen divisions are listed | Point—are just fair at present. Early | in all, with particular attention paid | this week some very good catches of | to young breeding stock and suitable hardheads and rock were made, bu(’ types. in the last few days they seem to have “disappeared. Winds are again to blame, EVERAL years ago good catches of bluefish were made about 10 or 15 miles out, but boatmen haven't been going after them recently, There's talk of giving it another try, though, and it might be wortk while, If you go out with bluefish in mind, it's best to let your captain know in advance, so he can arrange for chum. Right now channel bass are the main attraction, averaging about 12 | per trip. Gray sea trout and large kings are biting also. A. H G, | Mears caught 50 trout and 17 kings in one afternoon. Channel bass also are biting good | at Ocean City, especially at Fox Hill |Levels. W. L. Turner, William Tur- | ner and O. E. Birch brought in four, | weighing from 20 to 35 pounds. There {1s no limit to the number of sea bass | and porgies which may be taken, ac- | cording to James Jarman In regard to blues there, a catch | made by a party of local anglers speaks for itself. James G. Hayes, | Martin Codell and O. M. Johnson | caught 44. They also brought in s BASE BALL LEADERS INCREASE MARGINS Resettlement Teams Score Victories in and Procurement Government Leagues. I EADERS of two Government base ~ ball leagues today are slightly better off as a result of victories over their nearest contenders. Resettlement Green Belts and Procurement Division were the two to widen gaps separating them from second-place teams The Green Belts broke a tie in the sixth inning with a three-run rally which enabled them to defeat Reset~ tlement Federals, 6-3, while Procure- ment Division players banged out 17 hits to trounce the A. G. O. War De- partment nine, 12-5. The Green Belts' victory, however, was practically handed them by their opponents, who made four errors, the winners getting but five hits Colliflower led the Procure: t ate tack. getting four for five, including a home run Other league scores: Departmental. Nawy, 11; H. O. L. C,, 10. Washington Church. Metropolitan Baptist, 8; Temple, 2 Colored Departmental. 5. Treasury, 4. 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