Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1936, Page 40

SPORTS. Three Gamies Left, Griffs Struggle for Fat Piece of Series Coin - RUNNER-UP BERTH STILL ATTAINABLE Worth $500 a Man to Finish Ahead of Chisox—Yanks Invade Tomorrow. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. OR the first time in more years than you'd like to remember, the Nationals today faced of old do-re-mi and & measure of pres- tige hanging on the outcomes. Still holding a mathematical chance of running second and slightly better than an even chance of finishing in third place, they were to oppose the Red 8ox in a farewell affair today at the stadium and then prepare to swing into action tomorrow and Sunday in s two-game series with the Yankees, who might well hold the destiny of the Nationals in the collective palms of their paws. ‘There is one thing about this run- ner-up scrap for second place, as far as the Nationals are concerned, and that is that nobody can help them much. What they accomplish they will do themselves, although co-opera- tion with the Indians and Browns would be appreciated. Today the Griffs found themselves half & game ahead of the fourth-place White Sox, who will play three more games this year and all with the Browns., If Washington loses its half- a-game margin it will lose third place because the White Sox will win by & single percentage point. The second- place Tigers have only two games to lay and both are with the Indians. In order for Washington to finish in second place the Tribe must win both games from Detroit while Washington takes today's game from Boston and the remaining two tilts from New York, Have Best of Schedule. Tfl! Grift's second-place chances, 4 of course, are not bright. Fur- Regatta Parking Plans Are Made Fflfl parking space during thy period of the President’s ‘Jup’ Regatta will be available in back of the Navy and Munitions Build~ ing and the roadways between the Lincoln Memorial and Sevene teenth street. Large commercial parking lots also can be found on Fourteenth street, opposite the Department of Commerce Building, Constitution and Virginia avenues, and Con- stitution and New York avenues. Bus service will be provided by the Capital Transit Co. from all of these parking areas to the re- viewing stands at Hains Point. They will be routed on Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets to Pennsyle vania and Constitution avenues. 160 IN GOLF EVENT AT CONGRESSIONAL Match Play Opens Tomor- row for Club Honors. Nolan Defending Champ. NE HUNDRED AND SIXTY members of the Congres- sional Country Club will start at match play early tomor- row in the opening rounds of the club championship tourney. Two rounds are listed in each of the 10 flights tomorrow, with two more rounds Sunday. M. Parker Nolan is the present title-holder, meeting R. P, Smith in a first round match tomor- TowW. Pairings for the opening rounds, as announced by the club Golf Commit- tee, are as follows: flight, first tee—9:30, Willie 35, L. C. thermore, they have nobody to blame | A3SY except themselves. They threw away *enough chances to win the runner-up berth hands down. But, be that as it may, they have s great chance of finishing in third place and it's strict- ly up to them. As far as the rest of the schedule goes, Chicago has the edge over the ‘Washingtons, at least on paper. Push- ing over the Browns stacks up as an easy assignment and yet the last three times the White Sox tried it they were beaten. For the Nats, pushing over B the Red Sox and Yanks is much harder and yet there is a chance that Boston's Gold Flops will take another on the chin and that Joe McCarthy's Yankees will be too busy thinking of | I ok X the world series to bother with win- ning the final American League series of the year. Right now the Nats' amount to keeping pace with the White Sox. If they lose, the Griffs can sfford to lose, but only then.|® 2/ Any sdvantage gained by the Box | Ristis in the three remaining games for each club will prove fatsl to the thoughts | J flight. first t Bernard Becon: ris va. Larry B. C. Brown: #, Pat Flaherty vs. Wi 05, Bernie ns Third flight, tenth tee—9:30, . Richardson’ vs. Dr. W. V. Ron” siamons.vs. Badley T Ki vs. E William 3. McEvoy . Edd Jim "Nichois Hush _Riley . Les urkinsh: 3 ve Cromwell vs. 10, Giroux vs. Ma; . Bill Prank A M. Ralph Griffith A. C. and by the narrowest | sa of margins. Dough Rides on Each Game. A, PPROXIMATELY 500 potatoes per man will rest upon every pitch | Letts for the Griffmen during three games. If the Pale Hose over- haul the Nats, it will mean that the next|Ww: Chicago's players will collect, per man, | B¢ = about $1,000 as their share of third- | Kunk _place sugar. If the Nats lose out to them, it will mean that they collect only about $500 per man. On the other hand, if the Indians ‘beat the Tigers in their two remaining batties and the Griffs win all three of their games the Washingtons would collect about $1,500 per man when the world series divvy is made. Despite the fact that Buck Newsom has been about as effective against the Red Sox as he has beén against any other club in the league this season, Manager Bucky Harris is con- sidering starting Jimmy De Shong to- day, when the ladies will have their final free fling of the year. Thus, for the two games with the Yanks tomor- row and Sundsy, Harris would have available the rotund Earl Whitehill and Newsom. ‘Whitehill, one of the league’s best left- handers, who has helped the south- of the games, probably Sunday’s. This, then, would leave -either Newsom or Cascarells to pitch on Saturday, and, of the pair, Joseph has been the more successful this year. Popping Off ‘(Continued From First Page.) 55?5 2ERE 11 i LT | J ! ér | i ji gaf EEE | :! g g 24-Hour Repair Service and we mesn s eall o WEst' 3040 b g e McDERMOTT'S GARAGE X N.W, IN MAT VICTORY Queen of President’s clipping 10 seconds off the District record. DOROTHY FORBES, Philadelphia girl, who won the 100-yard backstroke at the Shoreham pool last night in 1:14.2, She also won the 150-yard event—Star Staff Photo, ST. JOHN’S PICKS TEAM ANNAPOLIS, Md., September 25.— To start the game with Maryland at . | College Park Saturday. Head Coach YE. | Val Lentz of St. John's has picked the following gridmen: Left end, Len Di Lisio; left tackle, George Kopp: left guard, Williard Todd; center, Bob Snibbe; right guard, Dick Snibbe; right tackle, Frank t end, Bill Stallings: quarterback, Johnny Lambros: left half, Fred Buck; right half, Warren Hammon: fullback, Ned Lathrop. St. John's will take a squad of 24 men to College Park. Its line will 3 average 175 pounds, and Ned Lathrop, | & now weighing 204, will bring the aver- age of the backfield up to 173 pounds. Lambros, Hammon and Buck are fast, *clever runners, and there is a fair reserve backfield. Line substitutes are lacking for the most part. ' Cup _Svimming | ISTRCT TANKERS GET SHELLACKING Take Only Two Contests in President’s Cup Events. Penn A. C. Stars. ITH out-of-towners pretty sure to dominate the Presi- dent’s Cup regatta over the events, winning the 100-yard back- stroke for women and the 150. The Capital was not without its ‘winners, however, Ma:garet Hoffman, former Olympic breast stroke winner, outclassing the fleld in that event, and Ernie Boggs, the local diving king, showing the best form from the springboard. Woemen's Events. A, Phi ia); inifd, June Booth VLo e e 3y 3 rot Hoftman (imetieched “Weshingion): - Argare Rui wgfll“.eh“« ‘lnoo-nnl l‘l‘l: .m- Wi =28 le—Woi Lubin (Broadwood A, .. Philsdeiphis); e B By G Swimmi ,‘cim. rimer 3 08> ¢ SPORTS, NDAUNTED by the fact thatJames River course of the Coun they do not have s club house, in fact, even though the men’s locker rooms are intact, mele members of the Wash- ington Golf and Country Club will embark on their club championship tourney tomorrow with a new title- holder a certainty. Erwin P. Hair, who won the title last year, now lives in the West and will not defend his champlonship, leaving Tommy Webb, the stalwart young embryo G-man, as the outstanding championship pos: sibility. BUT the main point of the tourney is that even though the fire which destroyed the major portion of the club house 10 days ago also destroyed the historic old-Johnson trophy, which is the ¢lub championship cup, and even though the members must go through’ with emergency measures to have any club house comfort at all, they will stage their championship this year as usual. They couldn’t be blamed if they passed up the tourney, but they are going ahead with it Just the same. ‘The men’s locker rooms and the golf shop escaped the fire, but locker rooms without showers and lights aren't so comfortable. Qualifying rounds will be played tomorrow and Sundsy, with match play rounds scheduled for. next Thursday and Pri- day, two rounds each day. ‘The special Emergency Arrange- ments Committee, headed by Arthur J. Harnett, met yesterday to talk over arrangements for carrying on at ‘Washington, but no information was forthcoming following the meeting. It 13 understood the building was fully covered by insurance and is held to be virtually a total loss. But no an- nouncement has been made as to what the club will do in the future regarding a club house. Insurance details must be arranged and all fa tors considered before any announce. ment is made, one of the committee members stated. Other members of a | the committee, in addition to Harnett, 1a). | are Dorie C. Gruver, V. Calvert Dickey, R. T. Harrell and Ben S. Fuller. Temporary arrangements for serving meals have been made at a restaurant se | Dear the club house. The ironic part & of it all is that the course is in ex- ( riet re . 3:09%. " held I Winlem 100-yard breast stroke— Arth Hucht (Baltimors K- of 0)7 second Mor: o Goldbe Bassador . Bw ‘rela; on (Dan = Taggart. Mackey): second. hird, Washington Y. Event. le _for girls 13 ye Nia Plaier® (28 second, len P A. though the Washington team will cellent condition, with the putting greens in their best shape of the year. A STRONG team of women golfers from the Capital will travel down to Richmond Monday to play a team from the Virginia State capital. Al- lack the presence of such good per- formers as Mrs. Betty Meckley, Helen Dettweiler, Mrs. Landra B. Platt, Mrs. L. G. Pray and Marion Brown, the team will be’ & strong one. Monday they will play in foursomes at the Club of Virginia, and Tuesday t:e‘; ' will play in twosomes at the Lakeside | Country Club. The team members are as follows: Mrs. Roland R. Mace Kenzie, Miss Virginia Pope, Mrs. Hare 1y A. Knox, Mrs. Agnes Bowden, Misy Gloria Rodgers, Mrs. Y. E. Booker, Miss Susan Hacker, Mrs. C. E. Purdy, Mrs. C. P. Medley, Mrs. J. T, Mrs. W. H. Legg, Miss Kate Scully, Mrs. R. L. Rose, Mts. A. W. Tucker, Mrs. E. M. Amick, Mrs. E. A. Rule, | * Mrs. Theodore Lonnquest, Mrs. N, Joy Waldron and Mrs. Oscar Coolican, (GLORIA RODGERS, stepdaughter ™| of Wiffy Cox, Kenwood pro, | loomed as the possible dark horse today in the Post Cup tourney as the | affair entered its semi-final round. Miss Rodgers, yesterday followed her defeat of Virginia Pope, the medalist, with a 5-and-4 defeat of Mrs. J. J, McCarthy of Congressional. - She met Mrs. Leo Walper, the Kenwood champion, today in » semi-final match. ~' ‘The other semi-final lay between Mrs. C. P. Medley of Manor and Mrs. A. W. Tucker of Beaver Dam. The tourney is being played with handie caps. - i Mrs. Walper yesterday defeated Mrs, Roland MacKenzie, while Mrs. Mede ley won from Mrs. W. Thomas of Kenwood, and Mrs. Tucker beat Mrs. Harry A. Knox of Congressional. = = AL HOUGHTON, former Kenwood | pro, is back in town for a few days and will be around to play several rounds of golf, possibly for two weeks or more. Al still is connected with the Cavalier Club at Virginia Beach. The young man has changed his grip and with a driver he obtained from Henry Picard is knocking the ball a mile. If he could putt like many of the better putting pros, he would be a tough man to beat, but Al always has had trouble with his work on the greens, barring an occasional good day. To hear him tell it he is the world's worst putter, but he gets the ball so close to the pin he can’t hole ‘em all, Al intends to play in the P. G. A. qualifying rounds at Richmond next week, and if he is putting he ecan grab one of the three places. The Houghton man is good enough to go fast and far in any company. Races Today ' Havre de Grace 7 Races Daily !8:@ Pe; ’ R. t ""- Standard Time. FIRST RACE AT 2:15 P.M. CUBS VS. GIANTS ar Tie POLO GROUNDS 67/ PREFER MILD VINTAGE TOBAGCO NEW YORK,N. Y., Sept. 11—It’s a sure bet when you back the taste of Vintage tobacco. Its mild, mellow flavor wins every time. At the Polo Grounds, 271 fans, watching the tense pennant drive, madea Win Over Managoff Offers| Plenty of Foul Tactics, Little Wrestling. choo-choo for points North today, ruefully mourning seconds; ClUff Olson won over Eii Fischer in 10% minutes, Henri Plers defeated Floyd Marshall in 18 mine Asing' frame of Booty MeDowgal i m 23% minutes. g Grobmeler, 206, Harlan, Ia., drew, 50 minutes. CAMDEN, N. J—Yvon Robert, Canads, defeated Rudy Dusek, Omaha, Nebr., two straight falls. 5 TODAY BASEBALL 3:00 P.M. Washingten vs. Io;tn AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK Tomerrow—ow York, 3:00 P ’ - taste test. By an overwhelming majority, they pre- ferred the flavor of Vintage tobacco. We picked smokers at random from the crowd « « » gave each two unidentified cigars—a Vintage White Owl and another, representing the leading nationally advertised brands. No names or familiar bands on the cigars ... not a thing to prejudice the smokers . . . Taste alone counted. Each man smoked both cigars, then indie cated the one he liked best. 67% preferred the Vine tage White Owl’s mildness. Wherever. you are, you can get the same mild, uniform cigar that won these taste tests. It costs but 5¢ at your nearest cigar store.