Evening Star Newspaper, July 2, 1936, Page 40

SPORTS. HAMP BETTERED INPLATE TOSSING Four Yanks Have Surpassed Anderson—Finns Still : Top With Spear. ! BY ALAN GOULD. Associated Press Sports Editor EW YORK, July 2.—Greek art | and Scandinavian science fur- | nish the historical background for two of the Olympic fleld | events, the discus and javelin throws. | | Greek inspiration and insistence put the discus on the program, but no Greek ever succeeded in capturing an Olympic championship. The Ameri- | cans adapted themselves more quickly | and successfully to the art of plate- | tossing. but a Swede, Harald Anders- | gon, holds the listed world record. | Supremacy in javelin tossing, first gained by Sweden, has since p: d to the hands of Finlanders, who per- fect their skill between Olympiads by epearing fish For some unexplained reason, Uncle Sam's nephews have absorbed th nique of discuss tossing more rapidly than javelin throwing. Whether due of late to the California coaching and climate, Americans have dominated the event in the last three Olympia and look to be well fortified to meet all challengers at Berlin. Carpenter Betters World Mark. UCH is the general improvement that it appears certain the Olympic mark of 162 feet 473 inches set by America's John Anderson in the 1932 games will be wiped out. Three Cali- fornia plate-heavers. Ken Carpenter, Slinger Dunn and Phil Levy. have sur- passed 170 feet this Spring. Carpenter. in the N. C. A. A. championships, got @ | THE EVENING Homer Standings By tHe Associated Fress. Home runs yesterday—Ott, Giants, 1; E. Moore, Bees, 1; Bucher, Dodgers, 1; Klein, Phillies, Atwood. Phillies, 1; Dickey, Yanks, 1; Knickerbocker, Indians, 1; Vosmik, Indians, 1; Kuhel, Sen- ators, 1; Lewis, Scnators, 1; Stone, Senators, 1; Chapman, Senators, 1; Johnson, Athletics, 1; Walker, Ti= rs—Foxx, Red Sox, 22; Gehrig, Yanks, 20; Trosky. Indi- ans. 19: Dickey, Yanks, 15. Ott, Giants. 14: Johnson, Athletics, 12; Averill, Indians, 12. League totals—American, National, 300; total 666. HOYAS AND TERPS CARDED BY NAVY Maryland Is on Four Lists, Georgetown on Three in Dates Announced. By the Assoclated Press. NNAPOLIS, July 2.—Winter and Spring sport schedules for the Naval Academy varsity teams during the 1936-37 sea- son were announced tonight by Com- | modore John H. Brown, jr. grad- uate manager of athletics at the acad- emy. The sports are swimming, boxing, lacrosse, basket ball, wrestling, cross- country. base ball, tennis, and fencing. Schedules for the Navy plebe teams in swimming. wrestling. cross-cmmlrv,! water polo and fencing also were an- | nounced. | The Navy varsity teams will meet 366, off a mighty toss of 173 feet, bettering the Army in basket ball and lacrosse the world record held by Sweden's ace. here, while the base ball team will play | The Olympic champion himself. sud- denly deciding on a comeback this Spring. exceeded his own best previous efforts with a throw of 165 feet, but this may not be good enough to gain a place on the team. Paul Halleck of ©Ohio University has achieved 167 feet Besides Harald Ancerson, the lead- ng Eurcpean threat is Willi Schroeder. anv. who also has excelled the { world standard within the past with a throw of 174 feet. not be a jinx. but discus record-breakers haven't had a great 1 of success in the Olympics. 1 world mark of 156 feet stood for m: vears, finished third in.the 1912 Olympics at Stockholm. The University of Washington giant Paul Jessup. achieved a world-record throw of 169 feet 875 inches in our 1900 national championships. but two years later he didn't even make the Olympic team. The late Eric Kr Stanford ace and champion at the time, failed to qualify in his specialty in the 1928 final American tryouta. Yanks 'Way Behind. A){ER!CAS javelin hurlers have improved to such an extent that three have surpassed the national record. this Spring, but they still are so far behind Finland's best that there's little comparison. Matti Jar- vinen, the bespectacled Oiympic champion, lately achieved better than 253 feet, record. Aside from his countrymen, | Jarvinen's only serious rival appesars to be Germany's Gerhard Stoeck, who has exceeded 240 feet. Alton Terry, a Texas collegian, got off the best throw by an American star ever measured when he won the N. C. A A. title at 228 feet 234 inches. breaking his own world | the Cadets at West Point. A four-meet boxing schedule simi- lar to last season has been arranged. University of Maryland will be met in tennis, basket ball, base ball and la- crosse, while Georgetown will be en- gaged in the first three named pas- times. All games and meets listed in the schedules which follow will be played here unless otherwise stated: <@ STAR, WASHING BEVERLY HOBBS, TON , D. C. THURSDAY JULY 2, 1936. Greenwood, Miss., girl who is training at Providence, R. I., for the women’s field and track try- outs there Saturday. Her specialty is the 100 meters. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Notes About Nationals ’ Official By 8 8121 Correspondent ot The Star. HILADELPHIA, July 2.—Those home runs socked by Buddy Lewis and Joe Kukel in the opener yesterday really were tagged. Buddy's clout shot on a low line and still was going up. when it passed over the right fleld fence. Kuhel's started higher than Buddy's, | but was none the less positive. Swimming. | 19—Princeton Un 20—Pennsylvania at Phi —Dartmouth College. —Rutgers Univer —Harvard Univi Basket Ball. March March 8 | around. Jimmy De Shong was a luck young man in the third inning. Wally Moses teed off on one of Jim's fast balls and hit it back at the pitcher so hard that | De S8hong had no chance to get his hands up. The drive struck him on the right shoulder and wheeled him How he escaped serious in- | jury was a myster: 0—William and Mary Collegs 13—Pennsylvania State Col- W—United Boxing. tern Maryland Coll e 6. acuse Univers! Eebruary 13—University of V. Peoruary Pen; lege at State Coliege. “ Lacrosse. | leze States Military Fe! Acad Jar | e i May 13— Untversity of Maryland May 29—Unied States Military Acad- emy. Wrestling. | January 23—Virginia Military Institute SSIE BLUEGE still is the master of all infielders. but he has a promising pupil in Buddy Lewis. In the second inning of the opener, Ossie showed him how its done when he Jeaped high into the air and snagged Frank Hayes' liner with his gloved paw. Buddy drank it in and in the se . with Higzins on base as a result of a single, Bob Johnson hit a terrific low smash just inside of third base. Lewis, diving to his grabbed the ball with his glove on the ground and scrambled to his feet in time to double up Higgins with a | great throw to Kuhel. —- Lewis' recent flelding accomplish- | ! ments bring to mind a remark passed | by Clyde Milan last Spring in Orlando. Milan, who managed Lewis at Chat- right, ! d | Pa and winding op the game with 10 strikeouts, “’HEN Red Kress boots a ball while Buck Newsom is pitching. it seems to cost the Griffs every time. In Chicago last week Kress made an | error with two out and the White Sox scored two runs. Yesterday, in the nightcap, Kress made a two-base muff of Wally Moses’ pop fly with two down and the A's scored two runs to take their only lead of the day. Johnny Stone and Kuhel are staging a close race for the Washington club home run championship. Kuhel's homer in the first game was his ninth of the season, while Stone’s sock | the nightcap was No. 8 for him. Carl Reynolds pulled a great at the same an ultra catch on Higgins in the fifth Prank whacked a vicious low liner right and Reynolds came in fast for a shoe-string catch. Just as he put on the brakes to stop. Carl's feet shot out ahead of him and he sat down very hard and caught the drive When he got up, Reynolds revealed two long marks on the ground, where his spikes had cut through the turf. Scores ' WASHINGTON. AB. Chapman G » 3 ave Finndy PHILADELPHIA. ® e wssa 23 plays Lewis to Kuhel osing pitehe S ng. Losin i U Mexirs. Moriarty. Basii and Kol! Somebody yelled, on his way to the : bench, that Carl o to replace tr ofs if he wants to play the Shibe rk course again. MAT SUPPORT BOOKED Judson-Coffield Bout Is Added to 1y J30uary 30—Unveirsity of North Caro- “Pebruary 6—Pennsylvania State College. | Peoruary 13—University of Pennsyi- This is an improvement over the record he set at the Drake relays and indicates Terry is the No. 1 U. S. tanooga. listened to praises of Buddy's | remarkable hitting from critics in Florida. Then he put his oar in: | “It isn't his hitting that is going to = for Griffith Stadium tonight, out of re- Next Week's Card. Although ne wrestling 1s scheduled | hope to gather a point or two in this event. Bob Parke of Oregon and Lee Bart- lett, the Michigan veteran, may com- plete our Olympic trio. They have both done around 223 feet. Manhat- tan's Horace (Hop) O'Dell, the na- tional A. A. U. champion, and Iowa's Mark Panther are other contenders. ¥D ro;)gi; (Continued From First Page.) v sary 20—H; University | February 27—University of Nebraska lerfareh 8—Lehigh University av Beth- ehem. i Crass-Countrs. October 23—University of North Caro- Hna i \ October 31'—Princeton University, at Princeton November 14—Duke University 21—University of Pittsburgh. | y of Vermont 3! nia State College. 7—Harvard University 1 10—Princeton University, 14—Gettysburg College 7—Univi of Michizan Washingion and Lee Univer- the cellar by splitting a double- | header with the Dodgers, winning, | 10-3, after losing the opener, 6-1, to Van Mungo's three-hit pitching. | Just whas is wrong with the Bos- ton Red Sox isn't appareni—unless | it’s a little of everything. The pitch- | ing is fair. but neither Lefty Grove nor Wes Ferrell is going as well as he should. The Sox hitting, too, is passable. But outside of Jimmy Foxx. the bejt- | ing beauties from the Hub city aren't working any wonders, what with only | three regulars batting better than .300. Griffs Records @ o SRE e T ,_.__ S3LR2E Ees a3 ) I DRI I R33N W PN SR8533333 ™ o S REA- [ R =S CRENREET oo000293 33558 D2k wowsuasok s S - CETEE SRR Q o3 s 0Fo0uanBb3E Q oosimIaw i Lom 220 arg 25w mavisont 32 019m® 13- 1o 1332 15 SE5-m oo30wHoNn S Rl PR et oo R HomoRRa! o -~ il il pril 24—University of Virginia. Avril 28—University of Maryland Msy 1—William and Mary, at Wil- lHamsburg. Va May 5—West Virginia University. May R_—Duke University. Mavy 12—Temple University. May 15—University _of Richmond. May 19—Lafavette College May 22—Georgetown University May 29—United States Military Acad- ems. Tennis. April 3—Yale University April Georzetown Unive: v R—University of North Carolina. 2—Lafavette College fax inceton University, Princeton. at Fencing. January 30—St. John's University of rooklyn February 6—8word Club of Philadel- phia. Pa Nr"»hrunry 18—University of Pennsyl- nia February 2 February 2 March ven March March & . —Yale University —Cornell Univ sity. 8—Yale University, at New Ha- 13—Columbia University. 20—Princeton University. MAL BIFF JONES NOW By the Assoclated Press. Promotion of Lawrence M. (“Biff”) Jones, noted foot ball coach, from captain to major has been announced by the War Department. Jones, former coach of the Army teams at West Point, now is in charge of Reserve officers training at the University of Oklahoma. He is a native of Washington and a Central make such a big hit with Washington fa said Clyde. “It will be his flelding. He's a better fielder than a hitter.” Buck Newsom's pitching range seems to extend from “‘walk-a-dozen” | days to “whiff-a-half-dozen.” Yes- terday he was striking the boys out, fanning the side in the second inning | | day between Frank Ji spect to Mike Romano. who died of a heart attack in a bout there with Jack Donovan last week. Promoter Joe Tur- ner has closed for a match next Thurs- son, former Harvard mat coach. and Jim Coffield. The Judson-Coffield bout will be a 30-minute grapple in support of the | feature bout between Ernie Dusek and Ivan Managoff. High graduate A 0 \mhm.,uwmw‘.;‘.‘m LT 'Orge€ BEER AN s SOLE DISTRIB! VALLEY FORGE DISTRI 901-905 7th St. 8.W. . . Phome.NAtional 3021-302% [ 'TOR UTING CO. AT VALLEY H A patriotic shrine which the people of America will hold deep reverence as long as the Nation exists. Here W ington spent the long, dark ‘Winter of 1777. What more appropriate place for your 4th of July pienic amid scenes of historic interest and natural beauty. ADAM SCHEIDT BREWING CO. GE Olympic Discus, Javelin Champs Discus. 1896 Garrett. U. S. A.... 95:07'% 1900 Bauer, Hungary... 118:02% 1904 Sheridan, U. 8. A.. 128:10'; 1906 Sheridan, U. 5. A. 136:00'3 1908 Sheridan, U. 8. A.. 134:02 1912 Taipale, Finland._. 148:03% 1920 Niklander. Finland 146:07'¢ 1924 Houser, U. 8. A.._. 151:05 1928 Houser, U. §. A.__. 155:02% 1932 Anderson, U. 8. A.. 162:047s* *Olympic records. Javelin. 1906 Lemming, Sweden. 1908 Lemiming, Sweden. 1912 Lemming. Sweden. 1920 Myrra, Pinland. 215:09% 1924 Myrra, Finland. 206:067 1928 Lundquist, Sweden 218:06 1932 Jarvinen, Finland.. 238:07* 175:06 178:072 198:11°% ‘Wold records: Discus, 171 feet 113} inches, by Harold Andersson, Sweden, 1934 Carpenter, U. 8. A.) 1933, (Bettered within past year by Schroeder, Germany, and Javelin, 249 feet 8 inches, by Jarvinen, Finland, (Bettered this year by holder with throw exceeding 253 feet.) Atlantic City Over the Fourth enjoy yourself at Atlantic City, and as you go, w you’ze there and as mun% aukp AM oco s, i Boiton Millies, d'u:p —zoe> ol S0k Temu3 Runs g - 5P Newsom. Hizgins. Kuhel | —Kress. Hiil. Johnson. Home runs—C! man, Stone. Stolen base—Newsom. Sacri- | fice—Biuege. ~ Double ~plays—Higgins _to | Warstler to bases— Pirst ullock. Hits- ock, inney. Left on 7. _ Philadelphia. 7. Newsom PFink, 11 in ¢ in 5. Wild pitches — By 2. Passed ball—Haves Pink. Umpires— Moriarty. Time— ANY ANY 2 AUTO 2 GLASS PROMPT DRIVE-IN SERVICE TARANTO & WASMAN, Inc. 1321 L St. N.W. NA. 2966 Losing pitcher— ‘r!. Basil, Kolb and < -« OWENS SHOOTING AT MORE MARKS 'Gets First Fling Saturday on Tiger Track, Noted | for Its Records. ¥y the Associated Press. EW YORK, July 2-—-Jesse Owens, who hus cracked 10 world records at sprinting, low | hurdling and broad jumping | during a meteoric career, will be turned loose on the celebrated Palmer Stadium track at Princeton this week | for the first time, The Ohio State Negro ace will toe the marks with some of his foremost rivals, including Marguette’s Ralph Metcalfe in the 100 meters, a feature of the National Senior A. A. U. track and fleld championships Saturday. Under favorable conditions the listed | world mark of 10.3 seconds as well as | Owens' recently achieved figure of 102 may take a beating. Jesse can put on the pressure in the century | because the only other event in which | he is competing during the afternoon | is the broad jump. This is only half his usual competitive quota. Record Makers Back. WITHIN the last three years | Princeton’s track has furnished the setting for world-record races at three classic distances, the half-mile, | the mile and two mile. The heroes of | the best performances in each of these events, Ben Eastman, Glenn Cunning- ham and Don Lash, will be back on| their favorite foot-racing grounds Sat- urday for the national championships. Eastman, close to his best again after a year's lay-off, will encounter | the strongest field of 800-meter run- BY BURTON HAWKINS. damage, for the most part. School Board Would Have, Coaches Hoist Selves by Own Boot Straps. be miracle men even to drill funda- mentals into the lads. Opening games already has been done and high | will have to be played within twn school athletics have one foot in the grave, but the week- kneed policy of a faint-hearted Board of Education in draining school sports of its life blood by dras- tic and nonsensical regulations will interhigh | rise to slap their faces in future years. | Incorporated into the program which virtually rips the heart out of local scholastic competition is the state- ment that coaches shall be judged by their “ability to build bodies rather than tear them down and to win games in such numbers as is consistent with the available material” That is just like handing 2 man a snow shovel with in- structions te cut a tunnel through the Blue Ridge Moun- tains. They expect coaches to build bodies do they? And just how are foot ball coaches supposed to accomplish that when the Board of Education forbids Spring practice and cuts the season from the opening day of school to Thanksgiving day? The proper training necessary to adjust muscles and minds to a game that demands the utmost of condition- ing, brainwork and precision has been eliminated. It's Asking a Lot. NO LONGER will large squads of boys answer coaches’ call to prac tice shortly after Labor day. They'll wait until school opens before they are drilled in the calisthenics that strengthen muscles. And the essen- tial lessons in blocking. tackling and running. all vitally important if in- | | [ | juries are to be avoided, will be ne- glected. Picture Hardy Pearce at Central Hap Hardell at Tech and Artie Bovd of Eastern. all of ¥hom handle squads ners this country ever has produced.| ranging from 60 to 90 in number, Cunningham meets his perennial whipping their charges into shape in Bullock. | rivals, Bill Bonthron and Gene Venzke, in the 1500. Lash will be chal-| lenged by Eino Pentti, Finnish-Ameri- can star, in the 10.000-meter run, scheduled Priday evening as a final American Olympic tryout. Bonthron. spurred by his comeback at Cambridge, where he turned the tables on Venzke, will be particularly anxious to win this Saturday. It may ! be his farewell to foot-racing at his alma mater. for he plans to retire after the Olympic campaign. 5 The junior A. A. U. title meet to- morrow inaugurates the two-day na- | tional track and field program at Princeton. Stars Yesterday E: the Astociated Press Van Mungo. Dodgers, and Or J-rzens. Phillies—FPormer p vee-hif ball to win opener eader, and latter hits for seven innings to 1 i ghteap. Charley Ruffing, antn straight vic cut Red Sox with se Gerald Walker, homer and three cingles i win over White Sox. Gus Subr, Pirates—Ied winrirz attack against Cardinals with three hits, Joe Kuhel and Buck Newsom Senators—Former drove runs with homer, double and sinzie to lead assault in opener of twin bill with Athletics, and Newsom struck out 10 to win nightcap. Bill Urbanski, Bees—Drove in two runs with double in winning Giants. . Browns—Had two les and three singles. batting in three runs against Indians. Yanks T WELL BROKEN-IN BRIAR Take one on your vacation | [§ hardly more than a fortnight Birch E. Bavh. who was imported from Indiana following the Tech- Western foot ball “riot” of 1934 to ent of Health and Physical repeatedly has said he was ing to institute a pro- gram of athletics that would reach every boy. That's one of the system, but didn't sq regulation. A Complete Job. DO YOU believe as turn out to play for a team ich . four ayed against i owledge th will not take a © season? If fo. h school atl letes. Thevre a ever, because a fairly heur and a T and stand a weeks after school opens, and if ¢o, the teams actually will have had 12 hours of practice. You ean bid farewell te crack high school foot ball teams as far as Washington is concerned. The Board of Education has broken down high school athletics from stage where games would draw 12.00 fans to a point where they're luck if they draw flies They've shifted games all over the city, boosted admission prices and paved the way for broken bones. Th one body which could establish a t spirit of sportsmanship in the hizh schools has failed. Instead of ex- pressing faith in high school spor and doing something to develop ath- letics here, they have taken the ea way out with a set of regulatior that would do justice to a Pedern! penitentiary. It's taken them a year and a half ¢ disintegrate a fine thing, but the should be satisfied with the knowled- that it's a mighty complete job. RADIO MEN CHALLENGE Any out-of-town team seeki A game on the Pourth of July shouid contact George's Radio nine at Wes 2446 League Statistics THURSDAY. JULY 2. 1936, American & RESULTS YESTERDAY. 4 Philedelphia. 8—4. Toals: P phia. 5—4. Deiroit a Cleveland at Sf veland a¢ Chi. 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