Evening Star Newspaper, July 24, 1936, Page 11

OFFICIALS REFUSE T0 CHANGE STAND Swim Star Still Fighting for | Post After Tearful Plea I8 Ignored. BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. ERLIN, July 24—Lovely Elea- nor Holm Jarrett, fun-loving swimming ace, lost a frantic appeal for reinstatement on the American Olympic team today. A subcommittee headed by Dr. Jo- seph E. Raycroft of Princeton heard the swimmer's tearful plea as special trains carried the American team from Hamburg to Berlin, but ruled that the decision which dropped Mrs. Jarrett from the squad for repeated violation of the training rules for- hidding drinking and late hours must stand. ‘Warned previously for her partici- pation in an all-night party in which one of her escorts was Charles Mac- Arthur, playwright-husband of the mctress, Helen Hayes, Mrs. Jarrett drew down upon her head the wrath of the Olympie Committee by another escapade yesterday. Mrs. Jarrett admitted she had been drinking, but said she had not realized *“how seriously the offense would be regarded.” She pleaded for another chance and promised she would “train and not touch another drop.” Teammates Ask Reinstaiement. PITE the adverse decision by the subcommittee, Mrs. Jarrett is de- termined to fight on. Other members of the women's swimming team are circulating a petition asking the com- mittee to give her another chance. The committee feels, however, that if | it should yield in Mrs. Jarrett's case | it would lose authority over the rest | of the team. The 22-year-old swimmer definitely has balked at the Olympic Committee’s | ruling that she return to the United States on the Bremen, sailing tomor- | row. In order to catch the boat she | ‘would have to leave Berlin at midnight tonight. Just how the committee could put | into effect this part of its edict was not l clear. It was pointed out that Mrs. | Jarrett is an American citizen, with | her passport and visa in order, and | thus free to go where she pleases. Mrs. Jarrett won the right to a hearing on the train en route to Berlin only after a struggle. Brundage, turning his attention to | welcoming ceremonies, left disposal of | the case in the hands of Raycroft, who 1s vice president of the committee. Mrs. Jarrett was dropped from the | team just before the Olympic ship | Manhattan reached Hamburg. She | was ordered to turn in her uniform and | equipment and return to America on the Bremen, sailing tomorrow. Her entry in the 100-meter backstroke, in | which she was a topheavy favorive to | retain the Olympic title she captured in 1932, was withdrawn. Pleads for Anether Chance. ' A CCOMPANIED by Herb Holm, man- | ager of the women’s swimming team, Mrs. Jarrett carried her appeal to Brundage, Frederick Rubien, secre- | tary of the committee, and finally to | Dr. Raycroft after waking up on a' rainy, cheerless “morning after the night before” to hear the bad news. Mrs, Jarrett had been sound asleep when the committee came to its de- cision after an hour’s meeting. | All told her the decision had been | taken regretfully only after long de- | liberation. There had been no choice, | the officials said, to do otherwise in view of what they called her repeated | misbehavior and violation of all warn- ings. In response to the swimmer's plead- ing. Brundage said: “We gave you every chance. have only yourself to blame. Now you've got to take it. I appreciate how you feel, but you forced our hand and we had no alternative. I can tell you the committee’s mind definitely is made up.” “I know I have been drinking too much and I'm all wrong,” Mrs. Jarrett told Dr. Raycroft. “I can't put into ‘words how badly I feel now. All Iam asking is a chance to face the com- mittee and tell them, on my word of honor, that I did not realize how You ¢ Foening Shat Sporls WASHINGTON, D. Jarrett Crushed by Olympic Ban : Catching Now Nats’ Bi e, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1936. A—11 o Those Yankees—Murderers’ Row of 1927 and the Homicide Squad of 1936 [CROSETTI-1936-309) DI MAGGIO-19 4 4 36-331, §6 The relative merits of the Ruppert rifles of a decade ago and the cur- rent edition never will be settled to the satisfaction of every fan, but here they are—a striking contrast in appearance, especially the revealing story of 10 years’ difference in close-ups of Lou Gehrig and Tony Lazzeri. Batting averages of the old-timers represent their full season of 1927 ; this year’s bat- T. LOUIS. July 24—At the time Max Schmeling partially em- balmed Joseph Louis Barrow, the Brown Embalmer of Detroit, there was a sneaking suspicion that the acme of fistic puzzles had been reached. Today, looking back over recent promotorial developments, there is a suspicion the boxing fraternity’s plan now is to keep the industry on a plane at least as puzzling as the Black | Uhlan’s vietory. , Messrs. Jimmy Johnston of Madison Square Garden and Mike Jacobs of the Twentieth Century Sporting Club, who pull all the strings connected to the perpetrating a promotorial duel that is, to put it mildly, muddling. Re- cently Jacobs excavated the venerable and fat squire, Jack Sharkey, from | his Boston bar and flower garden an signed him for a bout on August 18 with Louis. The dastardly act was the first shet fired in the Jacebs-Johns- ton battle for whith the peepul will pay . . . and pay. 1t all started when Jacobs' cunning | came out, after the Louis-Schmeling | fight. Mike talked of a return match. Folks close to the heart of the prize EHRIG-1936~ e g 379, P ICKEY-1936-. o g — 350 E e [LAZZERI-1936-.304) ting averages include last Sunday’s games. The sluggers of the earlier outfit, incidentally, poled a total of 139 homers during the 1927 campaign: Ruth, 60; Gehrig, 47; Lazzeri, 18; Bob Meusel, 8; Combs. 6. Thus far this year’s quin- tet has accumulated 78—Gehrig, 28; Dickey, 18; Di Maggio, 12; Crosetti, 10; Lazerri, 10. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. | | unless Schmeling did a lot more than knock out Louis last month, the De- | troiter should win. Sharkey’s future definitely is behind |him. He is lucky to get the assign- | ment of being knocked out by Louis, collecting his wad of dough, and wad- dling back to his long bar in Boston, where he can take off his drink-mix- ing apron from time to time and grow his petunias. | The Squire, there is no denying. was a good fighter. Some people insist | that Sharkey had the makings of a great heavyweight. When he was in | the mood, which wasn't often, he bor- ! leading heavyweights, currently are ' dered on greatness, but unfortunately | for the fat gent from the Hub, he never has been in the mood for his big fights. He couldn’t click when he was i his prime. so there is little rea- | | som te expect him teo “arrive” when | he already has gone. | Sharkey’s boast of long standing that he can lick Negro fighters, of course, will furnish the fight's tom- tom beaters with a topic to help build up the old householder and gladiolus grower, Jack convinced many folks he was a great fighter when Jack | Dempsey and other contemporary Barred Swimmer Has Great Record By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, July 23—Out- S standing swimming aceom- plishments of Eleanor Holm Jar- rett: Holds listed world record of 1:52 for 150-yard backstroke. Her world record time of 1:16.3 for 100-meter backstroke has been submitted for approval by Inter- national Amateur Athletic Federa- tion. Holds Olympic championship and record of 1:183 for 100-meter backstroke. Holds 11 listed national records for backstroke events from 100 vards to 220 yards. | OUSTER OF WIFE | DISAPPOINTS ART Sorry Eleanor Won’t Swim in Olympics, but Does Not Criticize Her. By the Associated Press. !Swimming as Paralysis Cure | Taught by Ethelda Bleibtrey (Note: This is one of a series deal- ing with old-time Olympic stars and what they are doing now.) BY SCOTTY RESTON. Associated Press Sports Writer. 1 INEW YORK. July 24—In 1916, Ethelda Bleibtrey, a fair-haired paralytic, spent her Summer days try- ing to swim in a crowded pool on New | York’s sweltering East Side. Four years later, cured by her | swimming, she went to the 1920 Olympics at Antwerp and won the | 100-meter and 300-meter free-style events. Makes Study of Paralysis. DAY Bthelda Bleibtrey is devoting her time to the study of paralysis is a professional instructor in a New York hotel pool. Since her victories in the Olympics Miss Bleibtrey probably has made more money out of her swimming ability than any other woman in the game today. As soon as she finished competing for the United States at Antwerp she toured New Zealand. Australia, Panama, the United States and Canada, meeting all comers, and retired in 1922 undefeated. Then she turned professional. She tried vaudeville at first, diving and and its cure through swimming. She | swimming in a glass-front tank in! Official Score WASHINGTON. Totals CHICAGO. Radehiff, if Rosenthal, Kreevich. Kennedy. p.___ Totals washington - ) Chicago - 010 031 02 Runs batted in—Chapman (2} Lewls Stone, Newsom. Rosenthal. Kreevich. Dvies, Kenneds. %e hits—Chapman. Kuhel. Stone. Rosen- al, Kresvich. Dykes. Sewell Kennedy Sacrifice—Kress. _Double plays—Kress to Travis to Kuhel: Travis to Kress to Bolton to Lewis to Bolton to Left_on hases — Washington. 9 off _Ne OFF SLAB 4 YEARS, * PITCHES VICTORY Webb of Typos Celebrates 8 Worry SUNP Y BOLTON L0SES CHSDX S Harrismen Are Hopeful of Brace in Battles With Shaky Browns, | BY FRANCIS E. STAN, Staff Correspondent of The Star T LOUIS, July 24.—The kindlier | shores of St. Louis were offer= ing prospective respite to the Nationals today as, weary from beatings administered by the White Sox, they opened a four-game series with the seventh-place Browns. The big worry of Manager Bucky Harris now is not pitching. The Griffs received enough good hurling during the Chicago series to sweep the set, instead of losing two of the three games. The current headache is what seems to be a recurrence of the Spring catching ailment To the Washington catching can be traced both of the defeats in the Sox series. Despite Walter Millies’ weak throwing exhibition in the opener—he was removed after three ‘White Sox runners easily stole sec- ond—the Griffs managed to get & 6-to-5 decision. In the second game Earl Whitehill dropped a 3-2 heart- | breaker in 12 innings, but if Bolton had held a pop foul Wa: ington would have won in the regu- lation distance 2 to 1. Y Bolton again was the “goat | the Griffs were beaten, 7 to 6. Tmprovement Magnifies Flaws. NOTHING, of course, can be done H about the Nationals’ backst | ping. High-class catchers, like pitch ers, are scarce these days. Then, too. | any criticism of Bolton is a form of tribute. A year ago, for instance, Clif could have played the same kind of a game as he played in Chicago and it would have gone unnoticed, | perhaps. But so rapid and complete was his improvement this year that now the tiniest of defects is noted because it contrasts from the stand- ard Bolton had been maintaining for the last three months The crime Bolton committed yes- terday came in the eighth inning. | The Griffs, by pounding Vernon Ken- nedy, held a 6-to-5 lead going into the last of the eighth inning. Buck Newson, who was hit freely but who was fairly tight in the pinches, seemed well on his way to his thir- teenth victory of the campaign. Jimmy Dykes. however, opened the game-winning frame with a single and Lhke Sewell doubled to right fleld. Carl Reynolds then made a fine throw to Red Kress, who wheeled and whipped a beautiful peg to Bol- ton. Obviousiy, Dykes would have | been out by several feet but Clif missed the ball completely and when | order finally was restored Dykes was | across the plate and Sewell was rest= | ing on third. Should D’ni JEWSOM got Better Here. one of his many tough breaks of the game when Kennedy won his own game by loop- ing a fluke double to left, scoring Sewell. but with nobody out and Luke on third after Bolton's error it was a foregone conclusion that somebody would have scored him It ism't in the books for the Nats to beat the Sox this year. That was the Pale Hoses' twelfth win in 17 games with Washington vesterday and the difference in the scores has not indicated a supremacy anywhere near what the difference in games won and lost suggest. All three games in the last series, for instance were decided by one-run ma and “breaks.” such as Boiton’s miscues, decided which side was going to fin- ish with that im ant run. How the Nats will fare in 8t Louis still is a matter of conjecture, despite the spell woven by Washington over the Browns all season. Rogers 12, (See SLUMP, Page 1 ANNOUNCEMENT TO HARDWARE DEALERS AND PAINT STORES His 44th Birthday With Unusual Comeback. EW YORK, July 24—Art Jar- rett, band leader husband of Eleanor Holm Jarrett, said he was greatly “disappointed” to- theaters throughout the country. She made the country fair circuit and took in as much as $1,000 a week. In| her first year as a professional she heavyweights were steering clear of Harry Wills. Sharkey came along, plunged fearlessly into a match with | ETHELDA BLEIBTREY. finest swimmers in the world. Miss | fight game, if it has a heart, say that | Jacobs wasn’t so anxious to make the | return match as he was to force seriously the offense would be re- garded. ° Won in Trial After Party. "I‘VE been night-clubbing and hav- ing a good time for the last three years, always doing as I pleased, go- ing where I lked, drinking what I wanted and when I wanted. “The night before the final tryouts I was up all night partying with my husband (Art Jarrett, singer and| actor), but I won my race the next day. “Nobody ever told me that was all | wrong, but it was my fault that I didn't | realize that circumstances were differ- | ent on an Olympic trip. “I'm on the spot now. I feel like Jjumping overboard, but will train and not touch another drop if I'm given another chance.” i Dr. Raycroft, who has a daughter of about the swimmer’s age, talked to Mrs. Jarrett in fatherly fashion, but told | her he saw no prospect of the commit- | tee changing its mind. | He agreed, however, it would only be fair to give her a hearing despite the difficulties involved in the last-minute | bustle of getting the team off the boat | and onto trains for Berlin. Dr» Raycroft authorized arrange- ‘ments for taking Mrs. Jarrett along to Berlin. “Can I wear my uniform, doctor?” the swimmer pleaded. “I'm unable to authorize that now,” he replied, “but I am willing to take the responsibility for giving you a hear- ing.” i “What you don’t realize, Eleanor,” Dr. Raycroft continued, “is that your case is not just your own affair, but has affected the entire team and re- flected on us all. Wouldn't Remain Below. “Y/ OUR friends tried in every way to convince you that good be- havior was essential if you wanted to remain on the team, but you openly (See JARRETT, Page 13.) A ! Johnston to broach a counter-proposal | involving Champion Jim Braddock and Schmeling. Braddock, of course, is tied up with Johnston and the Garden. Jacobs has first call on Schmeling. Johnston Evades Garden Trap. 'HE Jacobs trap failed, however, to ensnare the wily Mr. Johnston. Instead of scaring the boy bandit into putting up Braddock against Schmel- ing in conjunction with Jacobs, the Garden spoke up and said they thought another Max Baer-Braddock fight would interest people. This, of course, set the wheels turn- ing in the Twentieth Century organiza- tion and the result is the Sharkey- Louis affair. ‘The aim of Jacobs obviously is to re-establish Louis as quiekly as pessible so as to be able to present anether ace in the Twen- tieth Century fighting deck, such as it is. The manner of conducting heavy- weight boxing always has been disay, but this current business by Jacobs and Johnston to top all. The logical mateh is Schmeling- ‘Wills, and showed him up for a tired, | aging fat man, who did not have the ability suggested by Dempsey’s reluc- tance to fight him. Later, the Squire followed up by whipping Geerge Godfrey when People were regarding the self- | styled “Black Panther” as a menace. ! Thus Sharkey provided sound basis | | for his argument that he had the!‘ | “Indian sign” on colored fighters, but | even with this proof it is difficult to conceive of the old Squire beating| Louis. Sharkey has finished his im- portant fighting. He beat Wills AMU Godfrey, but that was years ago. The really funny part of the whole affair is that people will pay on the line to see the Louis-Sharkey thing. P. T. Barnum never lived to see himself bat 1.000. S e EIGHT SONS BACK DAD Senior Martin Will Pitch for Soft Ball Aggregation. CLINTON, Mass, July 2¢ (P— Martin P. McNamara, pitcher of & soft-ball team, will step into the mound today with eight sons backing him up. ‘The McNamaras will play the Hanks Spa team in an adult educational pro- gram game. The McNamars line-up: The father, Martin, ; James, first; Thomas, day that American Olympic officials had barred his wife from the Olym- pic swimming team. “It may have been necessary for the morale of the team,” he said, “but | it means the loss of the best swimmer on the team. “Eleanor isn't a 10-year-old any more,” said Jarrett at the Long Is- land Country Club, where he is vacationing. “She’s been around long enough to know how to handle her- self. She always seems able to win, even if she doesn’t go in for the heavy training of some of those athletes.” Doesn’t Mind 3 JARRHT said he saw nothing wrong in his wife's drinking champagne if she wanted. “They ought to give some more of those swimmers champagne. | they could win a couple races.” Jarrett said he had not heard from his wife since she had been ordered from the team. He said he would cable her today as soon as he learned all the details of her dismissal. “Of course, I'm greatly disappointed pitcher; second; John, third; Martin, jr., short; Braddock. Giving Baer another crack | Joseph, catch, and Albert, Will, Fran- | tember, 1933, said he had no criticism at the title against Braddock doesn’t seem to be necessary. And why an- other Louis-Schmeling fight? Jack’s Victory Agreement Weak. le', of all the bouts that could be staged for a big Fall extrava-| weight, pounded out s 10-round de- their hands taking ganza, they pick Sharkey and Louis.|cision over Charley Weise, New- York, crowd. T don't know wi It may be an interesting affair, but| here last night ¢is and Raymond in the field. MIGNAULT IS VICTOR. nault, Brockton, Mass, light-heavy- right or not.” averaged $500 a week. Now those days are past. As swim- ming instructor she earns enough to live well and support her 7-year-old daughter, Leilah, who, incidentally, gives promise of developing into quite & swimmer herself. Blind Pupils Her Pets. MIBB BLEIBTREY in the last year has developed young Toni Red- fern of New York into one of the | Bleibtrey first put her in the water, and put her into her first race last The youngster won the | ‘ National A. A. U. 100-meter outdoor | ' December. free-style title last month. But Miss Bleibtrey's interest does not lie primarily with the competi- tors. She has a class of blind pupils in addition to the paralytics, and her heart lies with them. Sports Program For Local Fans Port Hoyle va. West Shore Coun- try Club, West Potomac Park, 4. Tennis. Public parks tournament, Rock Creek courts, 3:30. TOMORROW. Tennls. : Public parks tournament, Rock Creek courts. Horse Shows. Boulevard Farms, 4 miles south . of Alexandria, 10:30. Leny Manor Show, John Bu- chanan estate, Warrenton, Va., 10. Pele. " Iroquols Polo Club of Lexing- ton, Ky. vs. Loudoun-Fauquier Club, Phipps Field, near Middle- burg, Va, 3. MIDGETS WANT PITCHER. Sanitary Grocery Midgets are looking for another pitcher. Prospective can- didates are requested to call Bill Grier st Adams 9771-J. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR Although idle, Washington slip- ped back into fifth place when Chi- cago defeated Detroit to move into the first division. Harry Harper was to pitch the first game in the ‘West for the Nats, who entered that section after winning 11 out of 18 games at home. Eddie Tomlin, who ldst Spring pitched good ball for the Eastern High School team, was responsible for the great showing of the Rex A. C. base ball team against the W., B. & A. team. The latter, com- posed of the city’s best sandlot players, defeated Rex, 3-1. Molly Bjurstedt, woman tennis- champion of the United States, in a series of article for The Star, says no woman should attempt to play* s man’s game. She advises & policy of accuracy first and speed sec- ond. 5 s TAKOMA NINE IS HOST. Takoma Tigers, leaders of the Mont~ gomery County League, will play host to the strong Kensington nine on the District Line fleld Sunday at 3 o'clock. Kensington has lost but three games this season, one of them to the Tigers. Henry (Heinie) Webb, sandlot pitcher, celebrated his 44th birthday anniversary yesterday by twirling the Union Printers to an 11-7 victory over the Green Belts in | an Industrial League fray. The Green Belts, who cracked out a victory over the Heurich Brewers earlier in the week, were limited to seven hits by Webb. Charley Hol- ETURNING to the diamond R after an absence of four years, the winning attack with a home run. Furniture diamonders took ad- vantage of alien errors and bunched their bingles to score an 8-7 win over Coffey Sales. Clark clouted a four- bagger for the victors. Drug Store tossers to a 3-2 triumph over Pepco. 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