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TA-10 * s Specialis PORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, U. 8. Titles and Olympic Jobs PANKS MUSTPCK At Stake as Oarsmen Compete ALL-AROUND TEAM Task Made Difficult With Other Nations Stressing Particular Events. BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. EW YORK, July 4—America’s ability to develop specialists, if not world record smashers, in every branch of track and field competition is the main reason why this country generally has mo- nopolized Olympic team-scoring honors. Rival nations, by choice or neces- sity, narrow the range of their ath- letic guns. The result is that the U. S. A. bumps into one collection of | specially developed athletes after another. Britain, disregarding the field events almost entirely, concen- trates on the short or middle dis- tance foot races. Finland's distance running class is proverbial. Japan's agility in the jumps is paying divi- dends. The Scandinavian countries, ad a group, have produced more and better all-around performers than | any other part of the world. Most cosmopolitan of all Olympic events is the classic marathon. Seven | nations have shared the laurel wreath. France, the United States and PFinland have had the only re- peaters in the long - distance race. Paavo Nurmi had hopes of crowning his glorious career with a triumpl in the 1932 Olympic marathon, bul Nurmi was barred from competition on the eve of the games. Now it ap- pears Japan is concentrating on & bid for the winner's prize at Berlin, but, for the first time. the defending champion probably will set forth on the long jaunt as favorite. Zabala May Repeat. UAN CARLOS ZABALA, running ¢ for the Argentine, capitalized the results of the most intensive kind of preparation four years ago at Los Angeles. Zabala came to the United States months ahead of time, accom- panied by a trainer, to become thor- oughly acclimated. He has repeated the process this year by going to Ger- many well in advance of all other dis- tance runners. This semi-professional procedure has caused some eyebrow lifting in international amateur cir- cles, but strong pressure likely will be brought to bear to prevent a recur- rence of the Nurmi debacle. America already has named its marathon trio, Ellison Brown. Bill McMahon and Johnny Kelley. They will be newcomers to the Olympi grind, but they shape up as the best we can send in quest of the laurel wreath. Irish hammer-throwers have dom- inated the Olympics with the excep- _tion of 1924, when big Fred Tootell, then a Bowdoin College undergraduate, interrupted the dynasty founded by John Flanagan and carried on by . Matt McGrath, Paddy Ryan and Pat O'Callaghan, winner of the last two Olympic titles. Tootell, now the track coach at Rhode Island State, has now founded a dynasty of his own. His pupils, among them Henry Dreyer, Irving Folwartshny and Bill Rowe, are likely to dominate American try- outs as well as the Olympics. Dreyer has surpassed the Olympic record of 179 feet 7's inches set by McGrath in 1912. Finland in Decathlon. JNLESS the U. S. A. turns up an- other “Jarring Jim" Bausch in the | decathlon, all-around honors likely | will be out of this country’s reach. Fin- | land's favorites, upset by Bausch at | Los Angeles, will make another strong bid. Germany has developed a world record performance since 1932 in Hans Sievert, but poor condition may keep him out of competition. Robert Clark of the Olympic Club, Ban Francisco, is American cham- pion, but the best-looking prospect de- veloped this year is Glen Morris of Denver. Clyde Coffman, a member of the 1932 team, is making a come- | back. Chicago's all-American half- | back, John Jacob Berwanger, has| great potentialities in all-around com- petition, but lacks experience. The hopes for a continuation of American supremacy in the gentle art >f heaving the 16-pound shot rest upon a comeback by Jack Torrance, 300- pound product of Louisiana State Uni- versity. §7 feet 1 inch put him in a class by himself two years ago. He has not come close to that mark since, but he still is the No. 1 man, providing he gets into condition. John Lyman, the Stanford shotputter, who rivaled Tor- rance for a time and has exceeded 54 feet, is not available. Two other | Stanford men, Slinger Dunn and Bob Reynolds, can do around 51 feet, as can Dimmy Zaitz of Boston College, but this won’t be enough to win at Berlin, even if it suffices to make the American team. SARRON WOULD LIFT CANZONERI'S CROWN Feather Champ, Who Fights Here Tuesday, Eager for Go With Lightweight King. Petey Sarron, world featherweight champion, who meets *Bobby Dean in a non-title go at Griffith Stadium Tuesday night, would fight for the challenger’s end of the purse, 131 per cent, if world lightweight boxing champion Tony Canzoneri agrees to meet him here Columbus day, Octo- ber 12. ) Admitting a long-time eagerness to box Canzoneri, Sarron emphasizes that he will gladly spot Tony pounds and inches in order to get him into title combat. “It's & funny thing, but I've always had » sneaking hunch that I could beat Canzoneri” Sarron said today. “I've studied his style and think I know how to fight him.” Preliminaries on the Tuesday card here feature six-rounders bringing together Tommy Spiegal and Bobby Dechter, Ritchie Mack and Mickey Page and Joe Green and Jackie Car- ter and a four-rounder pairing off Al Dintman and Joe Bingham. - TWIN BILL AT BENNING. Le Droit Tigers will play a double- header against the Suburban Black Sox at the Twenty-sixth street and Benning road diamond -tomorrow starting st 1:30 o'clock. [T Jack’s world record toss of | B. Soud: Py the Associated Press. HILADELPHIA, July 4.—Five P places on the United States Olympic rowing team and nine national titles were the stakes today as the country’s leading oars- men went into the second and final day of the Schuylkill rowing classic. Preliminary heats were rowed yes- terday in two of the five Olympic events, the senior four-oared shells (with coxswain) and the single sculls, In addition to the finals in these two, other Olympic final tryouts sched- uled were the pair-oared (without coxswain), the senior four-oared (without coxswain) and the senior double sculls. In all of these events the winner qualifies for the Olympic team and is named national champion. Penn Sweeps Victors. JOUR other national title events . not listed in the Olympic pro- gram were scheduled for today. These were the 145-pound quarter-mile single sculls, the senior singles over the quarter-mile course, the senior 145-pound double sculling event and the intermediate eight-oared shell event. All events except the two quarter- mile races were over the Olympic distance of 2,000 meters (13 yards less than a mile and a quarter). program, in the pair-oared race with coxswain. . National championships, however, were won by Joseph Angval, Long Island City, N. Y., in the 145-pound single-sculling event; the Undine Barge Club of Philadelphia in the 145-pound four-oared shells | coxswain), the Bachelors' Barge Club | of Philadelphia in | sculls, and the Malta Boat Club, also of Philadelphia, in the 145-pound quadruple sculls. Today's schedule called for four separate races in the traditional People's Regatta, in addition to the | national and Olympic races. (with | The Penn A. C. crew won the only | final Olympic trial on yesterday's | the quadruple | RINCETON, N. J., July 4 (#).— The crews of Washington and California, which placed one- two in the college champion- ship 4-mile race at Poughkeepsie two weeks ago, ranked as slight favorites today in the trial heats of the rowing tests to select a United States repre- sentative in the Olympic games. ‘Washington, with its personnel un- changed from that which swept to victory on the Hudson, was matched against Princeton and the New York Athletic Club in the first heat, sched- uled to start at 5:35 p.m. (Eastern standard time), while California drew Navy and Pennsylvania, the East's main hopes, in the second race. Only two of the eights were to be eliminated, the winner and runner- up going into the final trial over a 2,000-meter course (approximately 1 mile and a quarter) on Lake Carnegie tomorrow at 5 o'clock. Neither the Princeton nor New York crew was expected to press the Washington Huskies. The Tiger boat was hampered in its training when Stroke Fred Warner was sent to the hospital for two days this week after being hit with an oar, and the New York A. C. has not been impressive in its workouts. Washington Oarsman Hurt. WASHINGTON may not be at its best, however, as Jack White, its No. 4, pulled a back muscle in yesterday's practice run. Coach’ Al Ulbrickson said White would row to- day and “probably will be okay. Few observers knew what to ex- pect from Penn or Navy, but both were considered strong over Olympic distance. Coach Rusty Cal- low has revamped his Quaker eight since the Poughkeepsie race, putting in three Penn graduates and a new coxswain. Navy, third in the Hud- son River grind, did not arrive until today, but has been showing good form in its workouts on the Severn. 43 HARRIERS TRY FORBMLETITLE in Playground-Takoma Contest Today. ITH 43 entries from New more, | annual’ 10-mile race for the District the Municipal Playground Depart- ment and the Takoma Park Citizens’ Association is being run today, with | the start a short distance below the railway bridge on the Mount Vernon boulevard at 1 o'clock, and the finish in front of the swimming pool at Takoma, on Van Buren street. Bill Agee of Baltimore goes to post a strong favorite, having won the race seven times. This is the ninth annual. Defending the District title is George Shorb of the Washington | Track and Field Club. German-Americans Defend. ‘HE team winner last year was the German-American Club of New York, which is back with a strong line-up. possession of The Evening Star Trophy. of District playgrounds, founder of the race, is directing it today. Fol- lowing the entrants and their numbers: 1, William Agee (Stonewall Democratic Club, Baltimore): 2. Mel Porter (German- American A. C. New York): 3, Mitchell (Southeast Business Men's ciation. Washington): 4. Larry Cece ( man-American A, C.): *Pop (Stenewall 6. Jackelski (Stonewall Democratic Glub): 7. Bill_Wilson_ (Passon A. C.. Philadelphia)! 8, George E. Lieberman, M. D, (Passon A. C); 9 George Casper (Passon A. C.) Joseph Kleinerman (German-Ameri- can A. C.): 11, Harvey Lichterstein (Ger- man-American ' A. C.: ‘12, Fred Blum (German-American A~ C.): (German-American "A.~C.): Dunn (German-American ' A A, George Gerstmyer (German-American A. C): 16. James H. Montazue (Washington Track and Fieid Ciub Washington): 17, and Field); k. (Washington Track and Field): uder (Washington Track and Field): 3i. Willlam' H. Zimmerman *iSoutheast Business Men’'s Association): 22. Virgil Dyer (Southeast Business Men's Assox tion): Albert Poynton (Southeast Busi- Men's Association): 24. Mark Maguire (Southeast Business Men’s Association): 25. George ‘Tait (Southeast Business Men’s Asscciation): 6. Jimmy Carrick (Southeast Business Men's Association): 27, Hymie Benner (Southeast Business Men's Association); 3R, Isadore Davis (Irish-American Newark. AR H. Carnegie (Nativity A. C.. Pa): 34, Bern: cCoy Asso- Ger- Herz Philip Democratic Club): Charles Philadelphia M ound, 137, €. (New er " College. Va: L Mudd Ellis Bloom A C. 41 Vernon Glendenning (Han- <, Donald E. Heinicke (Hanlon ; 43 John L. Risdon (unattached, Washingtor): 44. Robert E. McCullough. unattached. Washington). — DONOVAN BACK ON MAT Wrestles Fischer in 30-Minute Bout Next Thursday. Irish Jack Donovan, one of the most popular wrestlers to show here in recent years, returns to Griffith Sta- dium Thursday night in 30-minute support of Ernie Dusek and Ivan Managoff. Eli Fischer, former Rut- gers foot ball star, will be his op- ponent. Donovan had considered retirement after his match which resulted in the death of Mike, Romano last week, but his decision to stick to the game :fll be acclaimed by hosts of admirers ere. 38, Larry lege): 40 Baltimere) lon A, C): ALEXANDRIA COPS LEAD Gain Top in Commercial League With 6-1 Win—Johnson Stars. £1ecial Dispated to The Sta, ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 4.—The Alexandria police base ball team is leading the Alexandria Commercial League today as a result of its 6-1 victory yesterday over the Parnell A. C. P. Johnson, the cops’ ace pitcher, held the losers to one hit, a triple.in the first inning by Beacher, who scored Parnell’s lone run a moment later. Sergt. Simms led the police at bat, getting three hits in four trips to the o TEXAS. n Antonio. 9: Beaumont. 4. alvesion. 4 Houston, 3. sames sl Agee Seeks Eighth Victory‘ York, Philadelphia, Balti- | Newark, Washing- | ton and other cities, the | A. A. U. championship, sponsored by | | The top individual prize is a year's | Dick Tennyson, assistant supervisor | Louis | | | t National Junior Track Champions the | ARE SET BY LASH Tops Six-Mile as Well as l0,000-Meter Record at A. A. U. Games. By the Assocliated Press, RINCETON, N. J., July 4—Gal- loping along the road to Berlin, where he hopes to achieve America’s first Olympic tri- umph at distance racing—exclusive of the marathon—Donald Ray Lash, the iron-legged Indiana collegian, today claimed two new national foot-racing records. As his first contribution to the two- day National A. A. U. track and field championship program at Palmer Sta- dium, where an all-star galaxy shoots for senior titles this afternoon, Lash won the 10,000-meter title run and final Olympic tryout last evening in record-smashing style. He was slated to run the 5000 meters this afternoon and seek a few more marks, while such other head- liners as Ohio State's Jesse Owens, California’s Archie Willlams and Geor- gia's Forrest Towns sought national champlonships. Lash negotiated the 10,000 meters, | approximately 6% miles, in 31 minutes | 6.9 seconds. This was the fastest | time ever recorded by an American citizen, indoors or out, -and stamped the Indiana collegian definitely as an Olympic “double threat.” Beats Old 6-Mi | RUNN!NG on 2e same track where he broke avo Nurmi's world 2-mile record three weeks ago, Lash was more than a minute behind the great Finn's 10,000-meter world mark of 30:06.2, made in 1924, but he left the impression he could have done considerably better if pressed. In the process of spread-eagling the best available field, Lash passed the 6-mile mark in 30 minutes 96 seconds, wiping out the national out- door record of 30:20.4, set by Hannes Kolehmainen at New York in 1913. Kolehmainen, a Finn, who made his | home for years in this country before | the war, was the Nurmi of his day, le Mark. By the Associated Press. PRINCETON. N. J., July 4—The National A. A. U. junior track and field champions crowned yes- terday: 100-meter Norwood ~Ewell Robert Rodenkir- (153 ) 400-meter run—George . New York 0:48.4 N00-meter "run—Marmadke _Hobbs. Indiana University. 1 (x) 1.500-meter run-—Henry Prederick- son. New York A. C._4:06.6 5.000-meter_run-—Eugene Hart Salt /City Chamber "of ~ Commerce Arnold 15°41.1 10.000-meter run—A. A Zamparell Northeastern University “33:11 (x) 1.000-meter _steeplechase — Norman Snanahan ~ Catholic Club. York! Calde- Wite Patter- A. New ix) 110-meter hurdles—Dan meyer. Indiana 0:14 .5 x) 200-meter hurdle: tens. Newton. Mass.. 400-meter” hurdles. son. U.'S. Fackert, cark A. C_ 4 feet 4 nches Hon, step and jump—William Brown Baker. La. 38 feet /1%, inches Pole vaul'—Richard Ganslen. Shore ‘A ’(‘7 Asbury Park. N. J. 12 feet 1 nic Shot _vput—Danny Tavlor Street Boys”_Association. 49 feet 33, Inches. Discus _throw—Hugh 8. Cannon Brigham Youne University. 15: feei Belam & ammer throw. Miller. Ogden Park A A Chicago 163 feet 7 inches Sti-pound weight — throw—Harry Northwick. Detroit police. 312 feet 1174 inches Javelin throw—Jack Thornley. Uni- versity of Utah 201 feet 2 inches 1X)" New meet record 1v) Patterson set record onds in trial. final in 0:53 Grand New York. of 53 sec- e e Minor Leagues INTERNATIONAL. 5. Syracuse. Rochester-Montreal. rain AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Minneapolis. 5: St. Paul. 4 Kansas City-Milwaukee, rain. Only games schedul SOUTHERN Birmingham. Memphis. Atlanta, 6; Newark. Little Rock. 1. Nashville, 3. PACIFIC COAST. { holder of numerous records and win- | ner of three Olympic championships. | Lash finished 100 yards ahead of | Eino Pentti, Finnish-American star | of the Millrose A. A., New York, and | 300 yards in front of the third man, 'Smnlty Wudyka of Philadelphia. All | three qualified to compete in the | Olympics, although Lash alone dem- onstrated enough ability to warrant );ceing taken abroad to meet the world's | best. Some of the country’s best-known | | distance runners either were lapped | or failed to finish in the 10.000. Tom | Ottey of the Penn A. C. former | Michigan State cross-country star, | {and Clff Veysey of Colby College, | ‘- former intercollegiate A. A. A. A. | champion, dropped out. | | Titles to Other Hoosiers. | ] ,ASH and his Indiana teammates | contributed largely to the open- | iing day’s record-breaking, which saw | marks fall in eight events, and the | team honors in national junior cham- | pionship competition captured by the | New York Athletic Club. Marmaduke | Hobbs, slim middle-distance runner from Indiana, flashed home a winner |in the 800 meters in the new record | time of 1:52.8. Another Hoosier flyer, | Dan Caldmeyer. set another champion- | ship record by winning the 110-meter high hurdles in 14.5 seconds. The 200-meter dash record was low- ered to 21.2 seconds by Robert Roden- kirchen. Jersey City boy, running for | I‘he N. Y. A. C, equaled by Bob Gra- | ham of Whitman College. ‘Washington, | |and touched again by Rodenkirchen | |in the final. Joseph Patterson, Navy captain, won the 400-meter hurdles in | | 53.2 after reducing the junior record | to 53 flat in a trial heat. The only rec- ord tumbled in the field events went | | to the credit of Hugh Cannon of Brig- | |ham Young with a discus toss of 157 | feet 215 inches. . Five vears ago—George von Elm sank 15-foot putt on last hole to tie Bill Burke with 292 at end of l:‘r;ited States open golf champion- ITH the public links cham- pionship over and Claude Rippy established again as champion, Harry Graham, W East Potomac Park manager, is looking | ahead to August, when he will stoge a Midsummer tournament for his troupe of trained shot-makers. In order that all the lads, including the boys who qualified for the national, may play in the affair, Harry will not stage it until after the tourna- ment at Farmingdale, Long Island, but he assures the boys it will be one of those bigger and better things, with gobs of prizes aand (he hopes) plenty of entries. He has set July 16 as the opening date, but probably it will be postponed until after the national, which opens July 20. Didrikson Cracks Record. | THE amazing Didrickson girl, who holds a flock of world records in track and field eveats for women, still goes about the business of bust- ing women's records for tough golf courses with the greatest of ease and aplomb. Today the Babe had added still another course mark to her string, and she may whack a few shots off the Congressional record tomorrow. The record she so nonchalantly bust- ed was the old mark for the Chevy Chase course, which she played yes- terday in an honest 76, seven shots above par for the layout. And to show you how good she was, that round included five putts of 6 feet or less that were missed. She bagged two birdies and blew a 4-foot putt on the third green for another. “There’s no standard to judge her by,” said Bob Barnett after he finished the round in whicli he played with the Babe, Roland MacKenzie and Kent 'Legg. “She plays from the champion- | ship tees and gets around the course |in 76. The former women's record for | this course was 77, made by Helen | Hicks, and the record of one of our members was 78. But both those scores | were made from the women's tees. Here is a girl who comes along, plays the championship tees on a day when the course is slow after heavy rain, and make® a 76. How are you going to judge her game by comparison with other scores made by women? I guess the only way is to compare her with men.” Miss Didrikson played the nines in 38 and 38, and the card included three 3-putt greens and two other spots —the third and seventh—where her putts for birdies were less than 6 feet in length. The gal positively is amaz- ing, with her length and accuracy. That exhibition match tomorrow at Congressional won't find her badly outdriven by the pros with whom she is slated to play. Driving with a brassie yesterday she pounded the ball as far in many cases as her male escorts. McLeod Is Injured. 'RED MCLEOD, Columbia pro, who was scheduled to play tomorrow, will not be able to appear because of an injured leg. In his place Bob Barnett of Chevy Chase will play with Wiffy Cox against the Didrik- son girl and Roland MacKenzie, the guy whom she claims is the finest teacher in golf. “I can get more real instruction out of 10 minutes with Roland than out of any one I have seen,” she said last night, between “hot” numbers on the harmonica. “He seems to have the knack of telling me what is wrong with my game.” Miss Didrikson’s score, against mens’ par for the Chevy Chase course was as follows: ‘Varied golf events were being staged at all the local clubs today, with fiag tournaments heading the list of pop- ular affairs. SATURDAY, i JULY 4, 1936, ts Test U. S. OIympians : Open Seen Beyond Woma TWU U s MARKS C0peting Toda Afo U.S. Olymic B SPORTS. erths | | thrill n Golfer NO TITLE CHANGE GIVEN DDRIKSON § | Girl Is Heading for Rude Jolt by Male Pros, Even With Game Improved. BY W. R. McCALLUM. ABE DIDRIKSON, the lusty lass who probably will be bal« lyhooed into a spot where she may be regarded as the top feminine golfer of the world somef day, is readying herself to play inl the national open golf championsh: two years hence—in 1938. By tha time the Babe will be 25 years of a and will have been knocking golf baj around sundry pastures for someth in the neighborhood of four yed according to her own estimate her golf career. She claims she has been playin “serious” golf for just 19 mont although she gave Grantland Rice back in 1932 with some the tee shots she hit. “But I wasn’ playing golf then. I was just dabbling with it. I really took up the game a little more than a year and a half ago.” she says. Good as she is, the determined Did- | rikson gal has a rude shock in front of her when she gets ready to play in the national open. There isn't any reason in the world why a woman shouldn't play, provided she is good enough. But first the Babe has to jump the qualifying hurdle and that in itself isn't so easy. Then, to make an impression, she has to play a rea- sonably good brand of golf or her attempt to grab a major crown will become a joke. Cruickshank *“on Limb.” PROVIDENCE, R. I., July 4—Shown going through their paces for the final Olympic trials here today are a quartet of stellar women athletes. Parks District team, a timber topper. cialist. Catherine Fellmeth Upper left: , hurling discus. Evelyne Hall, captain, Chicago Upper right: Ida Meyers, also of Chicago, high jump spe- Lower left: Leora Johnson, Illinois Catholic Women's Club hurdling star, LC W€ Lower right —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. HELEN STEPHENS A. A. U. Girls’ Meet. One hundred and fifteen 11 events of the National A. A Six of the 11 events will give their All but three of the defending na- i Shotput, Discus, 100 Keep Missouri Star Busy in | Fy the Associated Press | ROVIDENCE, R. I, July 4— | women from every section of the country competed today in u. senior track and field championship meet. first three finishers places on the Olympic team. tional champions are entered, with Helen Stephens of Fulton, Mo., letting iher 200-meter crown go by default so that‘she may concentrate on the 100. the shotput and discus. She faced Rena MacDonald of Bos- | ton, winner a year ago and a 1928 Olympic team member, in the shot- put. Heading the group of 1932 Olympic team members are Simone Schaller | of Los Angeles, who was fourth in | the hurdles final; Mrs. Evelyn Ruth Hall of Chicago, who was second in | the same event at Los Angeles; Nan | Gindele of Chicago, who was fifth in the javelin, and Annette Rogers of 5 EANE JUDD deserves more than this. His name should be constant headline material D for every paper in town. But, because the newspaper reading pub- | lic, and you too, my tennis friends, demand only the names of the win- ners. Judd has been treated more like a dud—which he’s not. For some vears now, probably more than the number that a great many of the city's younger players have heen alive, Judd has occupied a con- spicuously inconspicuous place in local tennis circles. Conspicuous in his matches. Inconspicuous in the resulls. He wasn't always inconspicuous in the resuits. Not when he held the| Indiana State championship before | coming here shortly after the start of the '20s. That has been his chief bid to tennis immortality—that cham- pionship which will always be on the record books. Nearly Upset Mitchell. But he's never been out of the | | Tourney for Youngsters. ! THE most juvenile of all tourna- ments is current at Edgemoor Club this week where a tournament for “boys and girls, 14-years-old—and under” is being conducted with all the pomp of a senior affair. Although | none of them were seeded. four small | lasses—Barbara Gray, Ruth Johnsen, Flavia Lee and Peggy Spencer—went at the boys with a lot of spunk. Bar- bara is the daughter of Edgemoor's | maestro, Jack Gray, while Ruth is David Johnsen's sister. Skip Fratt was named the ranking | boy contender with John Lincoln, Bill | Rerr and Jack Hoopes seeded in that F COURSE, Didrikson, the pro- fessional athlete, isn't as good as she is going to be some day. but probably at her best she won't be as good as Joyce Wethered, the tall En lish girl, who showed in this count last year and had the populace ga- with her shot-making technique. Our good friend Bobby Cruickshank stuck his neck away out last Fall, declaring that within five years Babe will win the national open. k and also tush, Bobby. You shou know better, and the Babe should know better than to make a seriou attempt to win a national open ‘Women just aren't that good, and never will be in the game of golf. When you consider that there are two dozen very fine male golfers who never have been able to win the na- tional open championship who prob- ably could start the Didrikson gal 10 strokes up in 72 holes and gite her a fancy licking, you can see what chance she would have to lift the crown. It would be a gallant gesture for the Babe to play, if she could qualify, but as for her chance of winning, there just wouldn't be any. De- termination is all right, but you've got to have more than that to win a national, You've got to have quite an array of golf shots and, while the Babe may have ‘em some day, they still will be short of enough to go anywhere in & national. Golf Tests for Babe. (COULD the Babe, for your moner. win a match against Wiffy Cox or Harry Cooper, Gene Sarazen, Henry Picard, Ralph Guldahl, Paul Runyan, Ky Laffoon, Craig Wood, Vic Ghezzi, Ray Mangrum, or any one of a dozen more, including 46-year-old MacDon- ald Smith? If she could, then golf is even screwier than we think. The Babe, dear girl that she is ! and good as she is in the business of whacking a golf ball around a hun- dred acres of manicured turf, will do better to stick to exhibitions and not attempt to lift the national. Her box office will be better, too, if she stays in a spot where she won't look bad by comparison with men who really know what the golf business is | all about. ROD AND STREAM BY GEORGE HUBER. BOUT a month ago when the blues first were rumored to be | in the lower Chesapeake Bay, | Maryland authorities gave or- | ders to all its patrol boats to see that | the use of gill nets and purse nets | was stopped What happens? The ’neurrs are in the middle grounds as big as life and twice as bold. They ! slip up to a school of blues and beg Chicago, who tied for fourth in the |limelight as far as the active players | practically every one. They have not high. jump and also was a member of the citv are concerned and, like even begun to be stopped of the winning relay team from the United States. Other veterans included Louise Stokes of Malden, Mass.; Ethel Har- rington and Tidye Pickett of Chicago. Added to these are Miss Robinson of | Chicago and Miss MacDonald and Olive Hasenfus of the Boston Swim- ming Association, members of the 1928 | spectators follow his matches to the | —_ team at Amsterdam. G-MEN SLUG TO WIN - OVER DISTRICT NINE Open Second Government Series With 13-6 Victory—Gas Team Makes Triple Play. ESUMING the pace with which it won the first half champion- ship, Bureau of Investigation's crack ball team got off to a fast start in the second series of the United States Government League yesterday when it cracked out a 13-6 victory over the District Commissioners. Pepco Barry led the Sleuths with four hits, but every other regular, except Taylor, got two safe blows. Taylor smashed a triple, however, and scored two runs. A triple play by Washington Gas Co. featured that team’s 6-3 victory over Chestnut Farms in a National Capital League game, Tribby and Clark collaborating in the rare feat. A three-run rally in the eighth sewed vp’r;:e game for the Gas nine. only other important of the day found the F. A, A, nln?lh.:nd- ing P. W. A, a 3-1 licking in a Federal League contest. DONOVAN WINS ON MAT. MILFORD, Conn., July 4 (#).—Jack Donovan, 222, Bosfon, defeated flw.r:e Koverly, 218, Californis, two out of three falls in & wrestling contest last night. ' a ball player's ball player, Judd al- ways will be a tennis player’s tennis player. He never has failed to give any higher-ranking player he met the hardest kind of a match. Nearly always, he has the gallery in a state of expectancy over a possible upset. He has come so close to winning that end, clinging to the law of averages that the man can't lose all the time— and they want to be “in” on the big match that he doesn’t lose. ‘The most recent typical Judd match came Thursday when he had Dooly | Mitchell hangin’ on for dear life in the quarter-finals of the District tour- nament at Columbia. Mitchell took the first set easily enough, but Judd won the second, 7—5, after taking 5 of the first 7 games. If you could have seen Dooly sweat- ing it off after that third set which he took at 6—2, you'd have dismissed all thought that it was as easy &s it sounds. Currently he is ranked No. 17 among | local players—high enough for a man nearly old enough to be the father of almost every star rated above him. Homer Standings By the Associated Press. Yesterday’s Homers — Appling, ‘White Sox, 1; Gehringer, Tigers, 1. The leaders—Foxx, Red Sox, 22; Trosky, Indians, 20; Gehrig, Yanks, 20; Dickey, Yanks, 15; Ott, Giants, 14; Johnson, Athletics, 12; Aver- 111, Indians, 12. League totals—American, 374; National, 300; totals, 674. LOUIS-SCHMELING FIGHT PICTURES Lyric Theater, Gaithersburg, Md. Tnmorr:" every hour !#m 5 to Monday 3 midnieht: N miaaight. Galleries_for colored patrons | our friend Malcolm Major went down to Ridge the other day. » 2 | long drive and you have to carry a | mess of greasy chum with you. After |a trip like that you should get fish. | What did he get? Four blues. It was not because no blues were there. Ma- | jor ran across a nice school, but be- fore he was able to get a chum line {out the netters had taken every last | one of them. Capt. Willoughby has phoned from there that as far as he has been able to see, there has been no decrease in net- ting, the fishing is being ruined and | nothing is being: done about it. Here's how these netters operate. They cruise around much in the man- ner of an ordinary fishing boat hunt- ing for a place where the blues are bit- ing. When they find such a place, bang, out go the nets and before you know it there is one less school in the bay. Major says there were three netters operating around him right in the middle grounds, and not a patrol boat was in sight. These netters must know all the native boats around ! that section, and are not afraid of op- erating unless a strange one is in - sight. Perhaps the patrolmen might go to Ridge or St. Jeromes Creek, hire one TODAY BASE BALL '), DOUBLE HEADER Washington vs. New York AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK It's a | = of the boats there and go out in the manner of the ordinary anglers. They thén would have no trouble locating netters. With bluefish bringing 12 cents a pound wholesale at Baltimore its a great temptation for the netters to go out and get several hundred pounds when nobody is looking. However, if this netting keeps up there will be nc bluefish left, and anglers will be de- prived of the greatest sport fishing on Chesapeake Bay. SWIM-SWIM-SWIM CHILDREN: 10 to 10:30 A. M. UNDER 14 YRS. —_— ADULTS: 10:30 to 11 A.M. AND7 TO7:30 P. M. ON MON. WED. & FRI. FOR THOSE EMPLOYED DURING THE WEEK SATURDAYS SUNDAYS AND HOLIWDAYS Tickets at Park, 9 AM. ‘Tomosrow—Washinsien vs. Now York. kS P o DURING MONTH OF JULY SWIM-SWIM-SWIM