Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1936, Page 15

» dean of the bookmaking Maras, is not SPORTS. Giant Gridders Fear Redskins : Walper Shoots for Golf Heights SCHOOLS TO TEST | Trophies Awarded to Owners of Outstanding River Sail aft New York Sees Chance of BY JOHN LARDNER. EW YORK, December 5.— There is considerable commo- of New York, owned and operated by the bookmaking Mara family, have a good chance of not winning the cham- “Our chance of not winning is so good that it interferes with my sleep,” says Mr. Timothy Mara, dean of the Preston Marshall, the laundry king, | dean of the wet-wash Marshalls, is highly elated to think that his own “En avant!” says Mr. Marshall, Japsing into the Gallic tongue. If the Redskins do beat the Giants | cent years that the Mara grip on| first place in the Eastern division has | been broken. The bookmaking Maras | cuit. They have waxed reasonably | plump on the proceeds of their anti- Sherman activities. They do not much Facing Packers in Big Play-Off Slim. N tion in cash foot ball circles over the fact that the Giants pionship of the Eastern division of the National Professional League. bookmaking Maras. on the other hand, Mr. George Boston Redskins are in & position to eop the title. ~—the scrap is scheduled for this Snb-\ bath—it will be the first time in re- | have enjoyed & monopoly, and a tldy‘ one. too, of the honors in their cir-| like the idea of relinquishing the tiara. | A Change Held Helpful. | OR all of that, however, it might | be a good thing if Mr. George | Preston Marshall’s laundered Indians, rather than the Giants, were to meet the mastodonic Packers of Green Bay, | Wis., next week for the cash foot ball championship of the universe. It would shake things up a bit and! bring new blood into the play-off site | uation. Base ball people will tell you | that public interest is apt to ebb when one team obtains a hammer- lock on the top rung of the ladder. Also, Mr. Marshall's Redskins are | sadly in need of bolstering. Always | & pretty good club, they somehow fail | to capture the imaginations of the burghers in and around Boston. Mr. | Marshall points with true Danish mel- ancholy to the fact that only 4,000 customers turned out the other day to | , Watch his boys engage Pittsburgh in what may be described as a crucial | game. He even talks broodingly of | shifting his franchise to Washington, | his own town, where men are men, according to Mr. Marshall, and shirts | are laundered without too much starch. Mr. Marshall's board of strategy has | & theory that the people of Boston eschew the Redskins because they are too broke of a Sunday to scratch up the price of a ticket. For this fiscal pickle, Mr. Marshall's advisers blame the horses and the dogs, who, it ap- pears, hold a great fascination for the people of Boston. Bostonians bet that one dog or one | horse will run faster than a lot of | others at a given time, and they usually lose, which is strictly in ac- cordance with the laws of percentage. | Mr. Timothy Mara, being & book-: maker in his spare time, would ap- | preciate the advantages of this situa- tion. But Mr. Marshall, being a laundryman, does not care for it. Must Meet the Packers. THE Redskin-Giant game this week is just the beginning of the fun, ‘because the winner will meet the Green Bay Packers for the national title, and the Packers are young men full of animal spirits. They eat their meat raw, according to rumor, and -shave with acetylene torches. They ‘wear canal boats for shoes. They | 'pick their teeth with cold chisel *Green Bay is a town where the ca- naries, as Mr. Bugs Baer puts it, sing The Packers will be decided favor- ftes over either of the Eastern teams. | although, of course, one foot ball game being one foot ball game, they ight | lose, That would show up some of the folly of the present play-off sys- tents, because the Western cash teams | ‘are decidedly stronger than the !ast-i erners over the season's span. The: result of one game is too slight a| foundation for the awarding of the; cup and the national title. The| Giants were by no means the best ‘feam in the country two years ago, ‘though they beat the Chicago Bears! “handily in the play-off. Next year the East may close the gap somewhat. This season’s crop of | Eastern college foot ball players was wnusually strong, and the pro teams| -normally recruit their players from eolleges in their own part of the ~ceuntry, which means that the good; -Bastern collegians will be playing for the Eastern pro clubs. R West the Better Field. JEVEN so, the West remains a bigger < and richer fleld to pick from. Mr. Steve Owen. coach of the Giants, listing the 1936 college players on whom he has heard the best reports from his scouts and agents, mentions | five Western boys and only two East- | erners. The latter are Kurlish of | Penn and Dulkie of Fordham. Of course, Mr. Owen is not giving| the question of college players his un- divided attention just now. His chief | + concern at the moment is to keep the | Eastern pro title in the possession of | the bookmaking Mara family, which | pays his wages, and he does not see how the approaching contest with Mr. George Preston Marshall's Red- skins can be called a soft touch in any sense of the phrase. “On top of which.” says Mr. Owen, “there are those Green Bay Packers, waiting for the winner. Boy, what & ball club!” Thus, the future is fraught with peril for the Giants Rnd their title monopoly, and Mr. Timothy Mara, catching up on his sleep. It is a very interesting situation, * (Gopyright. 1936, by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.» Sports Pn;ogram F or Local Fans TODAY. Foot Ball. ~ Maryland vs. Western Maryland, Inmme Stadium, 2. Basket Ball, . Mbuu Teachers at Wilson “Reachers, 8. . A | halfbacks, | for general admission and $1.65 for |from the flag. He was one over par | gathering gloom and decided he| | and the other 19 still to complete the 20 YEARS AGO. IN THE STAR. Jm WILLARD, world- heavy- weight champion, has signed to meet Georges Carpentier, heavy- weight champion of France, with- in the next two months in New York City. The sum of $40,000 from the profits of the match will g0 to the French War Relief Fund, and it was on account of this ar- rangement that permission was given Carpentier to leave the French Army at the front, F After playing 13 years in the major leagues, Mordecai Brown, famous three-fingered pitcher - of the Chicago Nationals, has been given his unconditional release. Charles H. Weegham, president of the club, has offered to do.all he could to obtain a minor league manager’s job for Brown. Armstrong Manual Training School's foot ball team defeated Dunbar, 7-0, in their annual game at American League Park. Arm- strong's touchdown came near the end of the second quarter, Makal slipping off tackle for the score. Champion if It Defeats fessional Foot Ball League, the | they stack up against the New York In two previous games the Sham- | while in the second fray they grabbed Boston Is American League Yanks Tomorrow, ATTLING to clinch the cham- ! pionship of the American Pro- | Boston Shamrocks are ex- | pected to darken the sky with passes | tomorrow at Griffith Stadium, when | Yankees at 2 o'clock. Should the | Yankees win, however, they will tie the Shamrocks for top honors. | rocks have emerged victorious by nar- row margins. In their first meeting | at Boston the Shamrocks won, 7-0, a 12-7 triumph despite the fact the Yankees amassed 22 first downs to their 3. Yankees Reinforced. | REINFORCED by the addition of| W' Harry Newman, former Michigan | | All-America and a pro star for three | years, the Yankees are confident of breaking the Boston jinx. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SPORTS AT NIGHT Nocturnal Foot Ball for High Teams Likely if Basket- ers Draw. OSSIBILITY of public high school foot ball games being played at night loomed on the local scholastic horizon today as Birch E. Bayh, supervisor ef school~ boy athletics, admitted the plan may be tested if an experimental basket bal] double-header to be played at night this season meets with public approval. Admitting the failure of the split system, whereby single basket ball games were played at Tech and Roosevejt gyms on the same day, school officials have returned partially to the former popular double-header plan and eight twin bills will be featured in the scholastic series schedule of 30 games this year. The series next year probably will revert to that basis un- less the board of principals allows nocturnal frays. SHOULD the night double-header, to be staged on January 32, February | § or February 12, be a success, future basket ball games might be played solely at night, and the way thus would be paved for foot ball under the arc lights. The next meeting of the Interhigh Athletic Council, sched- uled for Thursday, will decide on one of the three dates for the night court bargain bill. ! In contrast to the crowds which used to pack the Tech gym for the double-headers several seasons ago, the largest number of spectators to view a | single game last year was 420. Bayh, | from the basket ball hotbed of Indi- ana, proposed the return to the twin bills, which will be played only on Fridays, as & means of remed.vtni the situation. Scholastic foot ball also has taken' a decided drop in spectator interest in the past few years and Bayh feels nocturnal gridiron tilts may solve the | problem. Night schoolboy games have | | proved extremely popular in Balti- more. Decides Date Thursday. Wilson’s Debut Bopsts List. ‘OODROW WILSON HIGH will make its debut in the basket ball' series this season, thus necessitating 30 games instead of the usual 20. Wilson also will enter the foot ball series next Fall. Newman will call signals for the Yankees, with Ken Strong, former N.| Y U. all-America, at fullback. Bill Abee, another N. Y. U. ace Wycofl, twice picked for all-America honors at Georgia Tech, will start at Jim- Mooney, Georgetown grid great, ! and Hermit Davis, who has served with the Chicago Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers, will have the end assignments with the Yankees, while Coach Jack McBride plans to start Bob Emerick and Martin Ossowski, formerly of Stanford and Southwest- | ern respectively, at tackles. Vince| Farrar and Ernie Concannon will be | at the guard posts, while Hank Bo- gacki gains the center job. Local high school and college stu-' dents who show their athletic asso- | ciation cards will be admitted for half price. The regular prices are $1.10] reserved seats. POSTPONED PUTT BILTMORE TOPIC Darkness Forces Mehlhorn to Delay Shot—Meet Led by Horton Smith. BY the Associatea Pres:. 5.—Bill Mehlhorn's overnight ( putt took conversational hon- ors today amid second-round firing in the $10,000 Miami Biltmore | open golf tournament. 1 Horton Smith cracked par 71 by| three strokes yesterday to lead the| unwieldy field, and Jack Forrester and | Abe Espinosa canned aces, but the| meet's No. 1 yarn was about Wild| Bill's postponed putt. Darkness came before the 223 start- ers could finish the first 18 holes. No Markers Needed. ON THE eighteenth green was “Wild Bill"—on in two and 12 feet through the seventeenth, and he had a good chance to wind up with a 70, one under par. | Mehlhorn gauged the extent of the | wouldn’t hit that 12-foot putt that day. He marked the spot where his ball lay and the spot where the hole was unk and stalked into the locker room announcing, if they moved the cups| tomorrow before he putted (the holes | are bored in different places each day). | he was just going to hit the ball over the spot he had marked, and if it connected, that was his round. Tournament officials assured him first round that the cups would not be changed until they finished. FOOT BALL SCORES Miami, 10; Georgetown. 6. Northeast L. S. U., 47; Southwest Junior College, 0. Rollins, 13; Stetson, 0. Slapnicka Stirs Landis’ Ire Probe by Judge of Indian Official’s Moves in Feller Case Reported Under Way. LEVELAND, December § (#).—The Plain Dealer says today that Judge Kenesaw M. Landis, high commissioner of base ball, is “in- vestigating the conduct of Cyril C. Slapnicka, Cleveland Indians’ gen- eral manager,” in the American League club’s fight to retain Pitcher Bob Feller. “At Montreal, where base ball officials met for the annual minor league convention, Landis, it was ¢ and Doug | . | vs. Roosevelt. at Tech.* = Influvel( Vl Wllmnv l! Tech Peb R00! ORAL GABLES, Fla., December | $15¢h50, Following is the basket ball sched- ule: January 8 Central vs, Eastern. West- | 2" Ve Wils, Jantiary §3—Tech vs. Roosevelt, n‘ Tech: Western vs. Eastern, at Roosevelt. January 15—Eastern vs. Wilson, Central January 19—Western vs. Tech. at Tech: Eastern vs. Roosevelt. at Roosevelt. nuary 22—Central s ‘Tech, at Tech.® \ Roose- | veit vs. Wi January 6—Roosevelt vs. Western, at Roosevelt: Tech vs. Eastern.'at Tech. January 20—Tech vs. Wilson, Central Vs Western."st Tech.® ary 2—Central Wilson, Moleu t. February 5—Central vs. Eastern, West- ern vs. Wilson. at Tech. o Roosevelt. rn. at Tech February ., Wilson, Cen- vs. at at Rogsevelt; Eastern vs. We: February 12—Eastern tral vs. Roosevelt. at Tech. February 16—Western vs. Tech Rogsevelt: Eastern vs, noomeu ot Tech: Febru, 1 vs. 'McKinley, February Western Mareh mmm 8 Wilson. louble-header. st Tech. | Indica LITTLE HOYAS UPSET Georgetown Prep looked to the re- turn of two regulars to bolster its| chances of annexing its second basket | ball victory of the season Monday ya when it plays host to Bethesda-Chevy | Chase. The Little Hoyas were thwart- ed in their attempt to grab their sec- ond win yesterday, when Rockville High chalked up a ¥1-25 triumph at Garrett Park. French and C. Woodward, with 14 and 11 points, respectively, paced the winning attack, while O'Shaughnessy, with 11 points, led Georgetown Prep. Grorsetown, G F Pts. Rockville. QFPis o'8h’ 4 311 Prench.f Cavasg__ | misssmrmsal WilcoX. 8-~ Totals.._ 11 375 Totals _..1 Referee—Mr. Cleary (Penn). Mat Matches By the Associated Press. SCHENECTADY, N. Y.—Steve Casey, 230, Ireland, defeated Frank Judson, 218, Boston, two straight falls. PHILADELPHIA —Dean Detton. 205, Salt Lake City, threw Man Mountain Dean, 325, Norcross, Ga., 19:44. NORTH BERGEN, N. J—Ernie Dusek, 220, Omaha, Nebr. threw George ' Koverly, 218, Hollywood, Calif., 38:25. Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA. — Ben Bass, 133, Philadelphia, outpointed Davie Fine, 13715, England (10). NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Lou Brou- illard, 16612, Worcester, Mass., out- pointed Carl Knowles, 174%, Rome, Ga. (10). MILWAUKEE. — Gorilla Jones, 153, former middleweight cham- plon, Akron, Ohio, knocked out Mickey Bottone, 166', Newark, N. J. (1); Oscar Rankin, 152%, Los Angeles, outpointed Tommy Free- man, 1591;, Hot Springs (10). HOLLYWOOD. — Lou Salica, 117%, Brooklyn, outpointed Joe Mendiola, 116%2, Hollywood (10). SAN DIEGO, Calif.—Lee Ram- age, 195, San Diego, knocked out Leo Lomski, 184, Aberdeen, Wash. (6). ol 33955m; LTS Tters = said, had called in witnesses on this phase of the battle for the 17- year-old schoolboy,” who holds the league strikeout record, the Plain Dealer says. Slapnicks denied any irregu- lnrmuxnnneflcmto-n Peller | extend Wilson, and Doc, former star | pitcher with the Chicago White Sox, [As L3 WILSONS LAUNCH COURT CAMPAIGN Game With Frostburg First' of Season for District College Team. IRST of the local colleges to launch its basket ball cam- paign, Wilson Teachers Col- lege tonight will open against Prostburg State Teachers College of Maryland at the Wilson gym at 8 | o'clock. Minus its two high-scoring for- wards, Billy Mitchell and Phil Fox, | the Owls nevertheless expect a suc- cess{ul season, the high light of which | will be reached when Duquesne in- vades Washington for a tilt with the Teachers on February 18. Fox has been graduated, while Mitchell has transferred to George Washington and will perform for the Cclonhl] yearlings. Banks on New Talent. 'OACH DOC WHITE expects new | members of the squad to bolster | last season’s veterans. Phil Fishbein, | Flash Gordon and Spec Fairall will be | supplemented by recruits in Gil South- | comb and Shorty Thomas of Tech,; Bernie Gilliam of St. John's and Donald Gaw, Rodger Erwin and Jake Lunson of Wilson Teachers. While Coach White has had little | opportunity to discover just what, if | any, talent is available on the Owl squad, Prostburg is not expected to | plans to draw a line on the capabllities | of the club. Wilson Schedule Given. IDE from the Duquesne fray, Wil- son will stack up against such foes as Baltimore University, Shenan- doah and Shepherd College. Follow- | ln( is the schedule: December_ 11. Kutztown Teachers st Kutztown. Pa. '18. Millersville Teachers; 19. East Stroudsburg Teachers. January 7, Baltimore U. at Baltimore; 9. Shenandoah at ayton. Va : oW Shepherdstown. W. 2. Towson at Tow- Md.: sburg Teachers at Shippensburs, Pa. February . Alumni: 12. Shepherd; Millersville Teachers at Millersville. 18, Duquesne; 19. Newark Teachers Newark L: 28, Newark: 27, Balti- more U. at e. March 6. K Teachers. COLONELS GET NIEHOFF Manager Taken From 'Nooga Has Won Many Minor Flags. LOUISVILLE, Ky., December 5 (#). —John A. Niehoff, whom Louisville unsuccessfully sought as manager of | the Colonels in 1928, will pilot the American Association club here next | season, succeeding Burleigh Grimes, who took over management of the Brooklyn Dodgers. William Neal, general manager of the Colonels, announced at Montreal he had obtained Niehoff’s release from & contract he had signed to manage the Chattancoga club in the Southern Association next year. Niehoff played here in 1912. During his long base ball career he has played from coast to coast. Since becoming a manager in 1922 Niehoff led Mobile, Atlanta, Chattanooga and Oklahoma City to flags. His Oklahoma City, Mobile and Chattanooga teams also snared the Dixie series title. REYNOLDS PLAN UP AT BIG TEN SESSION No Action Expected on Scheme to Subsidize Atheltes That Wisconsin Backs. By the Associated Press. 'HICAGO, December 5.—The “Rey- nolds plan” for a modified type of subsidy to foot ball players and other athletes came before the West- ern Conference annual Winter meet- ing today. Prof. Robert L. Reynolds of. Wis- consin, who has proposed that Wis- consin hold a free Summer school course for high-school student-ath- letes and award & $400 scholarship to each passing the test, prepared personally to place his pian before the Big Ten Faculty Committee. It was understood the plan, which conflicts with a Big-Ten rule on sub- sidization, would be discussed in the closed session, but that no action would be taken. The plan was briefly discussed last night at a joint meet- ing of faculty representatives and athletic directors. ‘The athletic directors yesterday awarded the Big-Ten outdoor track and fleld championship to Michigan, May 31-322. The indoor meet was given to Chicago, March 13-13. The tennis championships also will while the golf by Northwestern May 17-18. | gan also will play host to confer- ence wrestlers on March 13-13. Herbert L. Stone (center) Mrs. J. W. Marsh, in behalf of her husband. In the left to ri Elgin, J. Luckert. %)'lt Maloney, E. D. Blou 'HILE golf generally around Washington has had a vast upward surge over the last decade and a half, women's | golf has shown the biggest increase. The days when the game was the | exclusive sport of members of swanky | country clubs long since has gone, | and golf today is the democratic sport of millions—thousands around Wash- ington in 1936 where mere hundreds played the game 20 years ago. Back in 1916 a women'’s golf organ- ization was formed to foster the bud- ding spirit of competition among the feminine club swingers of the Capital. Mrs. Charles L. Frailey of Chevy Chase | was the first president of the associa- tion, and one of its first champions. In those far-away days a field of 30 or 35 in & women’s tournament was | large, and the dear gals went around telling each other how the game was growing and what & good turn-out there had been for the Whoozis Cup. ’I‘ODAY women's golf around Wash- ington is more active on the tournament side than golf among the mere males, and just as proof of it you | ought to see what the figures of the | women's association show. Of course, figures is used in the statistical sense, ¢ in case you have a funny turn of mind. Two hundred and ninety handi cards were issued dur- ing 1936, for 290 golfiers who planned to play in the little tournaments of the tremendous- ly strong Women's Distriet of Columbia Golf Association, the outgrowth of the little organiza- tion founded back in 1916. ‘The handicapping system of the as- | sociation shows a total of 511 handicap | cards on file, covering the golf activi- ties of 511 women over the last 14| | years, or since the new association took over the functions of the older organ- | ization. That gives you an idea of how women’s golf has grown. But over and above these figures, if you look over the records you'll find that once each week last Spring 132 women gathered to do battle in team | matches for the glory and honor of dear old Goose Creek Country Club, or its afliated club, and that & turn- out of 125 for the major cup tourna- ments was not at all unusual. So has women's golf grown from the meager fields of 30 or 30 20 years sgo. And , are Clyde Cruitt, Bill Heintz, D. V. Smythe, N. C. |entry fees and have many more | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1836. is shown presenting trophy to ackground, % nt, P. E. ton and Charles tar Staff Photo. Edn_g lit's still growing by the well known | leap-and-bound method. There's some agitation now to expand the team matches to include fourth teams, and {to start other links activities for the fair sex. Contrast this picture with the small fields in men's events and you'll get an idea, for where it's un- usual to get a field of 130 or so in men’s events where an entry fee is | charged, the women run up to that figure all the time. And they charge tournaments than the men. The Women's District Golf Associa- tion is a lively organization, mm} what we believe to be the most effi-| cient handicap system in use around Washington. They've done a great, job with their organization since they divorced themselves from the Men's District Golf Association back in 1923 | and took over operation of their own | affairs. And the end is far xrom..m sight. Perhaps some day Wuhlnl- ton will equal the tremendous golf affairs around Philadel- phia, where some 500 women gather each week to play in their sectional tournaments. ‘Then the local women may develop | enough fine golfers finally to lick | | Philadelphia in & team match. They haven't yet been able to do that. THATh:wylmueywmont face of Dan Moorman, | known railroad man, these days, isn't | due to heavy Florida travel. It comes because Dan, who does his aivot- flinging at Congressional, got his put- | ter working one day recenily and | whacked his way around that iengthy | | course in 77 wallops. It's his best of | ail time, although he’s broken %0 before. Miller B. Stevinson, Columbia Country Club champion, is going lo‘ | have the newly-formed lake in front| of the sixteenth hole named after | |nim. Its all on sccount of Steve! being the first man to christen the new pond with a new golf ball. Try-| ing to match the perfect pitcn she Freddie McLeod had flung onto the sixteenth green, Steve knocked his ball into the muddy water, and now | the boys are calling it “Steve's Lake.” McLeod, whose lame knee is O. K. | again, got around the soggy course in 72, finishing with a brace of 5s. 'AID FOR SCHOLASTIC GRID COACHES URGED One Tutor Can't Handle Squad Properly, Sylvan King Tells Central Banqueters. N URGENT need for assistant| foot ball coaches in each of thef public high schools was expressed last night by Sylvan King, former Cen- tral High and Princeton grid ace, in addressing Central pigskinners at their annual banquet at Collier's Inn, where 15 players were presented their letters by Coach Hardy Pearce. With four schools now developing talent through the medium of light- weight clubs, King emphasized the fact that it is impossible for one coach to devote enough time to indi- viduals and recommended assistant coaches be appointed to remedy the situation. Assisting coaches this year with- out pay were Nick Pistolas and Phil Fox at Central, Larry Pinckney at ‘Tech, Sid Kolker at Roosevelt and Doc Buscher at Western. Birch E. Bayh, who also addressed the 82 banqueters, said he would take the plan under consideration. The supervisor of physical education in the public schools congratulated the team on its sportsmanship in the recent scholastic series, while other speakers included Dr. Morris Silver- man, John F. Brougher, Phil Fox, Coach Pearce, sports writers who covered the series, and Principal Law- rence E. Hoover, who served as toast- master. Letters were awarded to John Chamberlain, John S8wank, Bill Noo- nan, Louis Chacos, Billy Vermillion, Capt. Bill Wooton, Bill Ickes, Sam Fox., Hugh Cramer, Charley Jones, Bernie Askin, Frank Hodge, Joe Feus, Bill Mandis, John Pistolas and Man- ager Nick Mallus. SKEET SHOOT FOR CUP 'LAYTON SETS PACE IN THREE-RAIL PLAY Holder of World Angle Laurels Seven Times Takes Lead by Beating Reiselt. BY the Associated Press. HICAGO, December S5.—Johnny | Layton of Sedalia, Mo.. who has | won more three-cushion champion- ships than any expert in the business, | was the front runner in the current world angle tournament today. Layton, seven times champ, has| won four games and lost but one. He annexed his fourth win yesterday at the expense of Otto Reiselt of Phila- delphia, 50 to 30, in 49 innings. The | ruddy-faced Layton took a lead at the | nineteenth inning and held command to the end. Willle Hoppe, the defending. cham- | pion, who had been at the top of the heap since the tournament opened & week ago, skidded into a third-place | tie when he dropped his second straight game. Art Thurnblad of Chicago took Hoppe into camp last night, 50 to 4, in 52 frames. In second place with four victories and two defeats—and a definite threat on the form he has shown—was Kin- rey Matsuyams, the little Japanese star. He defeated Earl Lookabaugh of Chicago yesterday, 50 to 40. Allen Hall of Chicago won from Jay Bose- man of Detroit, 50 to 49, in 54 in- nings. — = STAR CUP AT STAKE | Police Boys’ Club Basketers to | Open Play December 26. The Evening Star will award s trophy to the champion of the un- limited class in the Metropolitan Police Boys' Club basket ball tourna- ment, which gets under way December 26 and continues through December 130, at the George Washington Uni- Morris E. Fox, assistant director of the clubs, expects nearly 150 teams to compete in the six divisions. Twenty-one entries already have been received for the unlimited class com- petition and similar progress is re- ported in 85, 100, 115, 130 and 145- pound class groups. Fox will reciive applications, available at any sports store, at Police Headquarters or No. § precinct. 2~ | the Lady Avon. ‘M SPORTS. POTOMAG SAILORS RECEIVE TROPHIES Awards Widely Distributed | at Banquet—Stone Makes Presentations. H and yachtsman of New York City, . presented trophies to the winning skippers in the ERBERT L. SETONE, five classes of the Potomac River Sailing Association at a dinner in the | Hamilton Hotel last night. John W. Marsh, commodore of the | association, received the first place prize in class A with his yawl, Zephyr. Nelson C. Elgin, skipper of Buccaneer, was presented the trophy for second | honors. John W. Maloney and| Charles Luckert won cups in class B, sailing their boats Tralee and Lucky IL Comet Trophy te Smythe. modore of the sailing association and skipper of Sassy, received the first-place trophy in the comet class. Clyde Cruitt was runner-up in his| | comet Serena. Edward D. Blount was the winner in the moth class. ‘The 20-foot open-class trophy went to Judge P. E. Edrington, skipper of dore of the West River Sailing Club, received second place. Stone, who is the editor of Yacht- | ing magazine, showed motion pictures of the list Bermuda race. He sailed aboard the yacht Brillant, second- ished four minutes behind the funous Vamarie. Guests included representatives of | the Maryland Yacht Club in Balti-| more, the Hampton Yacht Club and | the Norfolk-Hampton Sailing Asso- ciation. COLLEGE QUINTS Augustana, 38; Western Union, 3 Gustavus Adolphus, 36; La Crosse Teachers. 32. Alma, 23; Muskegon Junior Col- lege, 16. Indiana, 46; Cincinnati, 13. DePauw, 27; Oakland City, 26. Iowa State, 37; Central, 30. Indiana Central, 38; Hunting- ton, 26. Olivet, 34; Calvin, 21. Wisconsin, 38; Ball State Teach- ers, 33. Columbia College, 32; Plattsville Mines, 20. Cornell College, 38; Iowa Success BY PAUL J. MILLER, JR. YER SCHULTZ, essaying a French tonian to tarnish the brilliant show- ing of Israel Horowitz, champion of the American Chess Federation, in the public simultaneous chess exhibition given at the Jewish Community Cen- ter Thursday evening, when 22 expe- rienced amateurs challenged the mas- ter's skill. Horowits literally mowed down his opponents, dispatching his counter | moves with great ease and without undue hesitation. It was an occasion for rapid chess play and the six-foot master, with a shock of black hair, dark eyebrows and an Adolphe Menjou moustache, strode hurriedly around the quad- rangle of chessboards, sniping his ad- versaries in the least expected places, driving home swift attacking moves | with well-timed precision. The opening that was most popular | during the play was the Vienna and Horowits conclusively demonstrated that it is one of his favorites. The roving spectators included Mrs. J. 8. Burlew, R. W. Held, Dr. Alexander Brooks, R. H. Johnson, R. Hyser, Col. J. A. Kirby, Albert Fox, Dr. B. Karpman, R. O. Marchetter, H. Barts, T. W. Philbrook, Dr. George 'W. Hervey, Anton Y. Hesse, M. Gray- ball, J. F. Kelly, C. C. Taylor, P. L. ‘'Ree, F. H. Goldman, J. Terrill, C. Sims, W. H. Mutchler, 1. Rosenblum, H. Abercrombie, J. de Porry, Mrs. I | 8. Turover and Nathan Freehof. The exhibition was under the aus- | pices of the Jewish Community Center by the courtesy of 1 8. Turover, one of the most eminent retired chess masters in the United States. £ orc = fE el =t P 20 f 1B b e editor | VERNER SMYTHE, vice com- | Bill Heintz, commo- | defense, was the enly Washing- | Fi's0200223232332 * A-15 From 25 to 32, H the best professorial opinion one to let “expert” opinion divert him this same Leo Walper. Determination Middle Atlantic area. And that same looking guy with a weak chin, wh» BY W. R. McCALLUM. E'S STARTNG to play first- places the best years of a champion's life between 25 and 32. But Leo Wal- from his chosen ambition. If there's one guy in the upper sticks out all over the imperturbable pan of the one-time ambulance driver, determination isn't all surface stuff, either. You can have all the determi- happens to have considerable mechan- ical ability and the knack of makin: |At 38 Defies Accepted Idea That Linksman Is Best class golf at an advanced age, when you consider that per, the larruping Bethesda, Md., driv- ing professor, at the age of 28, isn't flight of professional golf who is de- termined to go places in the game it's who today stands right around the crest of professional golfers in the nation and will to win in the world, and yet you can be licked by some dumb- the right shot at the right time, Practices by the Hour. WALPER'S determination carrie; itself to practical lengths. No- where along the tournament circuit on which he now is embarked for the second straight Winter will you find & man who works harder on his game than the phlegmatic man from Shep- | herdstown, W. Va. Your ordinary pro | spends & half hour on the practice tee and calls it a day. But no such sissy stuff goes for Walper. He spends hours and hours on the practice tee, at least two hours a day, getting the feel of those woods and | irons. And when he has a spare half | hour you can find him around the | putting green, knocking down the putts that have put him up in the forefront of the campaigning pros. The guy is a horse for work, and he | has the equipment of a horse. Leo is a farm boy, born on a little home- stead in West Virginia, where his early years were spent in the field. cutting corn and doing the other odd | chores that fall to & farm lad. | Knows Value of Work. 'HERE he learned that hard work pays, and he's carrying that idea into his golf. No guy anywhere along the golf circuit works harder than Walper and certainly none has shown | the swift results he has shown. Those hours on the practice tee have de- veloped him from a ham golfer three years back into a darned good com- petitive player. “Waddye mean, three years?” asks Leo. “I've been playing golf seriously one two years,” he says. But he's been at it for three years, | just the same. How about that entry in the 1933 National Capital open, when he was doing his 84s and taking ‘em? Now they are 74s and better. He's going somewhere. and if determi- well- | place wimner in class A, which fin- nation will do it, he’ll get there. GRID I.ETTERS GIVEN 21 AT WESTERN HIGH | Bergman, C. U. Coach, Is Princi- pal Speaker at Dinner Held for Foot Ball Team. A ROSY future for Western High School's ball teams was predicted last night as 21 Red Raiders received | letters for gridiron prowess at tlie | school's annual banquet at Sholl's | Cafe. Coach Arthur (Dutch) Bergmau, Catholic University head coach, made | the principal address. Other speakers, introduced by Prin- | cipal Elmer S. Newton, included Bryan | Morse, former Western star; Frank | (Buck) O'Neill. local sports writer; Arch McDonald, radio sports come | mentator, and Coach Dan Ahearn. ‘Chfl' Moore, who coached the light- ‘weight squad, presented minor letters to members of that team. Those awarded varsity letters were | Jim Farqubarson, John McCracken, | Manuel Iglesias, Phil Crabbe, Camp- bell Oliphant, Len Weinstein, Sam Stonestreet, Charley Emmerick, Prank Donohue, Charles Ritt, Charles Krause, | Tommy Ward, Mason Morse, Robert Nye, Blackie Brewer, Morris Snead, Don and Hugh Nicklason, Georga Smith, Emory Prince, Dick Lynham and Manager Gene Cleary. McGEE TOP A. A. HURLER | | Yields an Average of Only 2.93 Earned Runs Per Game. CHICAGO, December 5 (#).—Bill McGee, Columbus right-hander, topped | American Association pitchers this ;yelr with an earned-run average of | 2.93 per nine-inning game, official sta- tistics show. He won 13 games and lost 8. Lou Fette, St. Paul right-hander who steps up to the majors next Spring, won the most games, 25, while losing eight. His won and lost pers | centage topped the field—.758. Jim Peterson of Louisville lost the most games, 19, while Archie McKain, Minneapolis, allowed the largest num« ber of safeties, 327, and the most runs, 162. Clyde Smoll of Toledo worked in | the most games, 49, while Reggie Grabowski of Minneapolis allowed 143 earned runs. Strikeout honors went to Clyds Hatter of Milwaukee, who fanned 190 batsmen. PURDUE PLAYS EIGHT. LAFAYETTE, Ind, December ‘5 (P).—Noble Kizer, director of ath. letics, has announced an eight-game foot ball schedule for Purdue for next year including five Big Ten tilts. ‘The complete list: September 25. Butler at Lafavette. tober 2. Ohlo State at Columbus: 9, Carnegie Tech at Lafayette: 16. Northy western at Evanston; 30, lowa at Lafaye tte. ‘November 6. Torgham at New York: 13 | Wisconsin at’ Mad 20. Indians ‘af Bloomington. GRID PROS ON AIR. Francis (Red) Fleming, . [ormer Catholic University end, .and Ken Strong, New York University foot ball immortal, will be interviewed over Station WJSV tonight at 6:15 o'clock by Arch McDonald. Fleming and Strong are members of the Boston | Shamrocks that play the New York ‘Yankees tomorrow at Griffith Stadium,