Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1936, Page 36

NAT VET LEADER AT SHORT, THIRD Second Only to Kress at Middle Sack—American Loop Defense Fine. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. HE dog bit the man again, as far as 1936 American League fielding averages go. The king- pin of all the infielders still is ‘Washington's Ossie Bluege. Bucky Harris used the 38-year-old veteran at three positions last season and Bluege topped the league in all except one, when he gave way to a teammate, Ralph (Red) Kress. Kress, however, played far less games at the position (second base), and Bluege robably won more honors at the post an he did anywhere else. As a third baseman Bluege played 15 games, handled a total of 48 chances, started four double plays and made only 1 error, for a percentage of .979. The real leader of the third basemen was Red Rolfe of the Yanks, who flelded .966 and played 133 games. As a shortstop Bluege played 23 games, handled 104 chances, figured in 7 double plays and fielded .981. Bill Rogell was the actual leader. The Detroit shortstop, playing 146 games, wound up with a mark of .965. Bluege played most of his games at second base, where he flelded .993. He played 52 games, whereas Kress, who fielded .995 at that position, was in only 33 games as a second baseman. It was at this post that Bluege turned {n a brilliant string by going 37 games ‘Wwithout an error, handling 91 putouts and 114 assists, a total of 205 chances. This perfect felding lasted from June 4 through July 16. Fielding at High Standard. GENERALLY, the flelding in the American League was kept at a high standard, the circuit as a whole flelding .971. This is only a point be- low the 1935 figure and only two under the all-time major league high. De- troit, 1935 leader, held its place at the top of the list, though dropping from 978 to .975. ‘Washington finished sixth in team flelding with a .970 clip. One major league record and five American League records were broken during the season. league marks also were equaled and in & department for which no records appear to exist there were 24 unas- sisted double plays turned in by first basemen. It was in this department that the major league mark fell. Jim Bottom- ley of the Browns topped by one the old mark when he completed the sea- son, with eight unassisted double plays at first base. He was co-holder with three others of the old record of seven. The American League's total of seven triple plays tied the all-time standard set by the circuit in 1922 and equaled by the National League in 1920. Joe Kuhel figured in two of the triple plays. Others in them were Bluege, Buddy Lewis, Walter Millies and Kress of Washington. Outfielder Fabian Gaffke of the Red Box, a rookie, was the only fly chaser to be involved in one of the rare plays, Zeke Bonura of the White Sox, known as a clumsy flelder, participated in 150 double plays from his first-base post, tying the major league record set in 1935 by Joe Kuhel. The third major league record was tied by Rogell, who went without a chance at shortstop for the 10 innings of a game with Washington on June 16. West Still Gets Them. DOUBLI: plays offered the oppor- tunity to set two new league marks, the circuit as a whole turning in 1232 double plays to top the old record of 1,229, set in 1925. Luke Ap- pling of the White Sox beat Rogell's old record for double plays by three when he participated in 119 as a shortstop. Rogell's mark was set in 1933. Sammy West of the Browns created 8 record by making 460 putouts, this being the fourth time he had topped the 400 mark. He and Johnny Mos- til had jointly shared the old record ot 403. A rookie catcher, Charley George of Cleveland, broke the league record for the most putouts credited to a catcher in a single game and later equaled it. He retired 17 in the second game of 8 double-header on September 7 and repeated in the opener on September 13. The old record of 16 had been shared by three players. ‘The other record that was broken was for low in league assists, only 14,215 assists having been scored last season, against the former league rec- ord of 14,247 posted in 1930, BUYS DAVIS SHIPYARD Townsend, Noted Yachtsman, Run Plant at Solomons., Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. SOLOMONS, Md., December 14.— An announcement of extraordinary interest to yachtsmen and the com- mercial boat trade was made here today by George H. Townsend of Greenwich, Conn., who revealed that he has purchased the famous yacht and shipbuilding yard of M. M. Davis & Son from the estate of the late Clarence E. Davis. The company, which was estab- lished in 1859, thus passes into the control of one of America’s best known yachtsmen, who was president of the American Power Boat Association for three years. In view of the high quality of work- manship of the Davis organization, no changes will be made in the pres- ent personnel headed by Barnes Tusby, Mcxpmmud superintendent of the to — * INGRAM GETS PURSE Cleared by Maryland Ring Board, But Apice Is Punished. ®pecial Dispatch to The Star. _ BALTIMORE, Md., December 14.— Ray Ingram, Washington lightweight, has been cleared of charges arising from his recent fight here with Paris Apice of this city, the Maryland State Athletic Commission voting his purse be turned over to him following a special meeting here yesterday. “Apice's purse was ordered forfeited by the commission, and he has been sus- pended for six months. The commis- slon expressed the belief Ingram had given his best efforts in the fight, Which was called “no contest,” while ‘Three major | SPORTS. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. MIK! RAEDY will captain the Business High School foot ball team in 1917, having been elected by the 16 letter winners of the past campaign. The backfield man has been a consistent ground-gainer throughout the year, his work on the offensive being especially com- mendable. Gallaudet opened its basket ball routing Baltimore City College, 51~ 35. R. Wenger and Willman were Kendall Green quint. Eastern High School courtmen Friends School, losing, 64-29. King and Harrison got three-fourths of King scoring 12 times from the floor and Harrison dropping in ° Bottle Killed Victory Chance Last Year. (#)—Willle Macferlane car- ried a one-stroke lead into the sau open golf meet today—and hoped there would be no broken bottles on ‘The veteran campaigner from Holly- wood, Fla., recalled he was out in front same tournament last year. With just a few holes left, he picked finger. He promptly lost several strokes and finished in third place, | won with a 2371, A Sunday card of 64 coupled with farlane front-runner in the final com- petitive round of 1936 for the profes= One stroke behind at the final lap in quest of the $800 top prize was Smith of Chicago stayed in the thick of the race with 202. Feature of Basket Ball Clinic at Y. M. C. A. Tonight. basket ball expert, will demonstrate | fundamentals of the court game to- at the Y. M. C. A. and then, with the assistance of the Southeastern Uni- of trick shots. Tony Wakeman, WOL announcer, season with a one-sided triumph, the leading point-scorers for the were no match for the classy the winners’ points between them, eight goals and eight free tosses. Finger Wound From Broken ASSAU, Bahamas, December 14 N final round of the $4,000 Nas- the course, at the three-quarters mark in the up a broken bottle and cut his index while Leo Mallory of Noroton, Conn., two previous par 68s to make Mac- sional Winter circuit. Paul Runyan of New York. Horton - |COURT TALK BY TAYLOR Chuck Taylor, nationally known night at the National Capital clinic versity squad, will give an exhibition will bring the clinic to a close, speak- The demonstration will start at 8 o'clock and is open to the public. Admission is free. —_— IN P. B. C. GRID FINAL Northeast Boys Will Play No. 5 Team Next Bunday. Northeast Boys’ Club gridders earned the right to face No. 5 precinct eleven Sunday for the championship of the Police Boys' Club 135-pound foot ball league yesterday by defeating Washe ington Boys' Club, 13-6. No. 5 maintained its slender half- game lead in the loop by virtue of a safety, nosing out St. Martin's, 2-0, on the Monument Grounds. <H BY PAUL J. MILLER, Jr. LREADY plans are being made for an afternoon of frolic and an evening of fun on New Year day at the traditionai entertainment of the Central Y. M. C. A. C.E. Fleming of the “Y" staff is engaged in making final arrange- ments for a simultaneous chess ex- hibition to begin at 5 pm. and star W. B. Mundelle, who celebrates his 81st birthday anniversary. The vet- eran chess expert will take on all comers in chess and checkers. But this New Year the simultaneous event will be overshadowed by a more progressive step in the direction of chess activity. For some time speculation has been rife as to staging a city-wide indi- vidual chess championship among the local schools — elementary, junior, high, private and public—but the necessary incentive, such as & beauti- ful trophy and medal for the sll- school city champion, has been lacking. Now the school lads have some- thing at which to shoot. J. C. Ingram, boys' work director ing on “High Lights of Basket Ball.” | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. DISTRICT COLLEGE BASKETERS STARTI: Hoyas Play Terrors, Eagles Tackle Hampden-Sydney at Home Tonight. ASHINGTON'S collegiate basket ball season will be launched by two games here tonight, Georgetown opening against Western Maryland at Tech High School and American Uni- versity entertalning Hampden-Sydney | g, in a Chesapeake Conference game in its own gym at Massachusetts and Nebraska avenues. The G. U.-Western Maryland fray will be preceded by a game between the Georgetown Freshmen and Central | g High, starting at 7 o'clock, with the main attraction going on at 8:30. American U’s game is scheduled to [ begin at 8. Despite a squad composed mainly of juniors, Coach Freddy Mesmer will start two sophomores in Georgetown's line-up, Ed Kurtyka having won a | forward post and Carroll Shore, a | regular on Central High's last cham- pionship team, a post as guard. Mike Petroskey, Harry Bassin and Tommy Nolan—three regulars last year—will start at center, forward and guard, re- spectively, Hoya Team Sturdy. HOWMR. Mesmer has capable and seasoned talent in Buddy Don Gibeau and Ben Zola, and newly-found strength in five additional sophomores—Maury Nee, Joe Murphy, Joe Frank, Jim Durkin and Hank Bertrand. Altogether it is a promising squad which will open the court sea= | Morrisse son for the Blue and Gray and one caloulated to give G. U. its first serious bid for the Eastern Intercollegiate Conference championship. Although & member of the conference for three years, the Hoyas never have finished higher than fourth. ‘Western Maryland will start an ag- gregation featured by three foot ball stars, Stan Benjamin, a 6-foot-3 center; Lee Adriance and Fred Coe. Admission to the game will be 40 cents. Battle for Eagles. MERICAN U. will have two incen- tives against Hampden-Sydney, the Virginia school not only becoming a traditional foe of A. U, but the lead~ ing athletic power of the Chesapeake Conference. The Tigers won the foot ball championship last Fall, clawing the Eagles in their last game, 19-0, and hope to repeat in basket ball. Coach Walter Young has decided to | start Capt. Sid Zink and Harrls at forwards, Hudson at center and Brown and Palmer at guards. Zink and Brown combined to give A. U. 19 of its 30 points in the losing effort against | Johns Hopkins last Friday night. Two of Hampden-Sydney's line-up measure nearly 6 feet 4—Capt. Ebel, the center, and Craft, a forward. Kincaid, the other forward, and Mc- Callion and Bernier, guards, complete the visitors' first aggregation. REGALS REAL CHAMPS Unbeaten, Yield No Score as They Win City Grid Loop Crown. Undefeated and unscored upon, the Regal Clothiers today boasted the | pe; championship of the National City 150-Pound Foot Ball League. clinch- ing the title yesterday while being held to a scoreless tie by the Palace A. C. at Dufty Stadium, Seat Pleas- ant, Md. In another league game, Trinity A. ©. captured second place by trimming Washington Cardinals, 19-13, hectic game at Ballston, Va. Palace finished third, while the Arlington A. C. placed fourth and the Cardinals of the “Y.,” says a trophy for annual competition will be forthcoming and the individual chess champion of all schools in the city will receive a spe- cial medal award. This certainly is a forward step in promoting chess play among elementary and advanced educational institutions in Washing- ton and the District of Columbia and New Year day will see the largest gathering of school chess players ever assembled competing at the “¥™ in the initial round of the triple round robin school tournament, each con- testant playing every opponent three games. i . i For All-School Title. HE “Y” Trophy will be awarded in co-operation with the Metropoli- tan Chess Association, which, will sponsor the tourney, and the Wash- ington Interhigh Chess Association will lend 100 per cent assistance, ac- Apice was penalized for his apparent unwillingnéss to fight. last. =83 present time any school below col- lege rating are eligible to enter the tournament. An entry fee of 25 cents will be charged. Each aspirant to the school title will file his name, address and remit fee at once to the chess editor of The Star, who will act as official umpire and be assisted by several referees. Contestants will fur- nish their own playing equipment and the rules adopted by the International Chess Federation will govern tourna- ment play. A complete schedule of entrants and respective matches will be published shortly. EVIN as initial play of the Metro- politan Chess Association team tourney commenced at Sloss Cafete- ria 50, likewise, round 4 will be played there through the courtesy of T. J. Sloss, quintets to engage this Thurs- day at 8:30 o'clock instead of 8 p.m. Captains of all teams are expected to be present with regular personnel and alternates, states Abe Seidenberg, tournament director. - An instructional chess lecture for beginners will be featured. Novices are reminded to fetch boards and chessmen for demonstrative positions in actual play. Capital City Bouts, MARTIN C. STARK, by virtue of his recent victory over Ernest Knapp in round No. 8 of the major tournament of the Four C's at Hotel Gordon, literally has wrapped up the bacon and carried it home for a year of feasting. Club companion in 1935, Stark dropped the title to Donald Mugridge | Tu in the tournament of a year ago. To- day Stark again has captured the elusive crown, no doubt due to the occasional bad health of Mugridge, which affects his chess form greatly. However, the battle is not yet over as the final round remains to be played Saturday evening. But a loss for Stark and a win for Knapp, Mu~ gridge or Ponce won't jar one iota Stark’s clear claim to the club’s major :l:; There is no whistling in the In the minor fray of Capital City W. B. Mundelle maintains his lead although closely pressed by Gay, C. W. Stark and E. M. Weeks. In round No. 9 Porter lost to Gay, C. W. Stark (Martin’s dad), won from Rubin, Bol- ton dropped a game to Guy, de Porry ‘Topnotcher in a|f American League Fielding Record oston Cleveland Washingt 8t. Louls Philadelphia Totals le: Lou Greenberg. Detroit Foxx, Boston inney, Philadelphia . Philadeiphia _ Trosky. Cleveland PrLT LSS Sullivan, Cleveland Oglesby,”_Philadelphia Detroit Louis R.. Philadelphia. leveland EEELIEL LR TS Throws. ver, Washing Melillo, Boston Hayes, Chicago _ Gehringer, Detrolf Hughes. Cleveland arstler, Philadelphia McNair, ' Boston Niemiec, P Mihalie, Lazzeri, Ne Carey. St. Louls PBiet. Chicago Kroner, Boston Bejma.' St. Louis | Johnson. Philadelphia Thiple plays—Bluege, Gehringer. Plet. EEREE PP EEEEEEES Hale. Cleveland ____ | Hefner. New York Peerson, Philadelphia Trosky, Cleveland Clifton, Detroit Saltzgaver, Travis, Berger, Cleveland Luby. Philadelphia Peters. Philadelp) Werber, Boston R R R R R R 3 R R B, R R S R THIRD Washington __ Bluese, 7 New York 15 Saltzgaver 18 Cronin, i Hale, Cleveland “~ Higgins. Philadelph Werber. Boston Lewlis, Washington Peters. Philadelphia McNair. Boston Triple plays—Cronin 43 o 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 EELEEEEEEEEEEEL] Lewis. Sullivan, Cleveland Hayes Chicago Rogell, Detroit _ English. Detroit | Foxx, Boston ___ Cleveland Morrissey. ChicAgo Beyma. St Louis Seeds. New York_ - Travis, hingion Kuhel. Washington Clifton, Detroit - Berger. EELEEEEREEEELERS Throws. G. | Bluege. Washington __ 23 Boston < Lary. St Louis Knickerbocker. Appling. Chicago Crosetti, Travis. Washington Cronin, Boston __ Kress. ' Washington Kroner, Boston ____ Peters. Philadelphia om0 00 0 Lazzerl. New York | Culler, Philadelphia | Carey” 8t. Louts | Morrissey Parker, Detroit __ Berger, Cleveland Bejma. St. Louis...- BVBDDIVDIDD ‘Throws. % gl‘l!l’. N. Y.-Chicago. Simmons, Detroit | West, St._Louis | werber Boston - deen it Cramer,_Boston Moses, ‘Philadelphia Louis___ Bell. 8t. Selkirk. New 0! Finney. Philadelphia Weatherly. Cleveland Cooke. Boston Averill. Clevelan Revnolds, Washington Fox. Detroit Powell, Wi Stone, Kreevich, Chicag! SAMPSON GREATEST TRAVELER FOR G. W. Averages 6.05 Yards in 77 Tries. Reeves and Kaufman Close. Three Do Heavy Work. C SAMPSON, flashy sophomore halfback, led George Washing- ton's backs in ground gained during the late foot ball season, according to statistics compiled by the Colonial Athletic Department. The speedy Watseka (I1l) youth carried the ball 77 times for 466!, yards, averaging 6.05 yards for every try. Closely trailing Sampson are Herb Reeves, & senior who finished his ca- reer on Thanksgiving day with a total of 441, yards in 103 carries for an average of 4.28, and Joey Kaufman, triple-threat junior halfback who toted the ball 97 times for 4242 yards and an average of 4.37. Jay Turner, husky sophomore full- back, compiled an average of 4.97 DORPIIRIVDDD DD WD W e DDV SECOND BASEMEN. ASEMEN. Triple plays—McNair, Rogell. Knickerbocker, Less Than Ten Games. Throws, OUTFIELDE! yards per try, with a total of 204 yards in 41 runs, while George Jenkins, senior quarterback, collected 185% yards in 50 efforts for an average of 3.70. Following are the complete statis- tics on George Washington's backs and ends who carried the ball: Tries. Yards. Aver. 7" 400 6.0 - e U DS bt O ADID S BB DD TINSLEY KEEN HUNTER All-America End Houses His Dogs ‘Near L. 8. U. Dormitory. BATON ROUGE, La. (#).—Gaynell Tinsley, Louisiana State’s all-Ameri- ca end, keeps four bird dogs in a small house just outside his dormitory ‘window. He's s great hunter—and likes to be | the # 2¢ 95 32802 14216 1406 INDIVIDUAL FIELDING RECORDS. ‘Ten or More Games, == L 33 WA DD wooe st w0 SD 1D, 13 e8! SR B! - 5 Triple plays—Kuhel, 2; Bonura, Greenbers. Foxx, Trosky, Dshisren, 1 each. 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Unofficially there may be a yard or two added to the length of the golf ball, but it will come from greater perfection in manufacturing processes rather than from any delib- erate attempt to step up the power of the ball. The plain truth of the golf ball matter is that an extra 7 or 8 yards can be added to the current sphere simply by wind- ing the rubber threads around the core a little tighter. ‘This can be done at any time, but the United States Golf Association frowns on it. To do this, in the opin- ion of the U. S. G. A, immediately would involve tremendously expensive changes in golf courses to match the OUR 1937 golf ball won't be any 5 / longer than the 1937 edition increased length of the sphere and that's exactly what the governing body of the game doesn’t want. SO THE U. 8. G."A. has imposed a ban on the mamufacturers not to increase the present yardage of the present golf ball. As one manufacturer told me not so many weeks ago: “We can lengthen our ball several right away if we want to do it. But we also want to work whole-heartedly with the U. 8. G. A. and to increase the length of the ball would be to vio- late our agreement with them. All the manufacturers feel the same way and it won’t be done, in 1937 at least. “But this is true,” he added. “The cheaper golf balls of today (meaning the 50-cent varieties and even the 35- cent brand) are better golf balls than 75-cent balls ‘of five years ago. w' manufacturing processes, 8 | Whitehead. Chica OUTFIELDI Cleveiand Gleeson. Cleveland Miles, Washington Coleman. . Washinglop, Chicaso Rudelin Chicaso 9 Tiple piay—Cagl e 4= - s for 1936 SPORTS. Bluege Fielding Wonder of League : Youths Threaten Sweep in Golf- 3 > i ) O 13 D NI b i 21 T 4 o DI DD ] WO B 0300 DO A 3000 3 M09 D B BT, PR DR RS A D Het Dot s par T A Y o s 203000 HIHHROO! » - [ Less Than Ten Games. Seeds. New York iladelp) Nicholson. Philadeiphia Peters. Philadelphia Sullivan, Cleveland Newsome, Philadelpl Kroner, Boston Relber,’ Detroit ___ Gumpert Flythe, Philadelphia Newsom. Washington Rowe, Detroft __ Ostermueller. Pearson. New York Appleton, Washington Bridges, Detroit _ Lawson, Detroit _ S0 Bt bt s N0 Waiberg. Boston | Brown. Chicaso _ Whitehill, Washington Blaeholder, Cleveland Phelps, Chicago - Auker. Detroit __ Russeil, Wash.-Boston Harder. Cleveland Chelini. Chicago Hudlin, Cleveland Tietje, Chicago-St. Sullivan.” Detroit lley. Philadelphi Dietricn. ” Phija -Wash.-Chi Ross, Philadeiphia __— S Rhodes. Philadelphil 0363 508 55 5912131 33 G301 30t 50 3003 G194 SR CIL3 39290 3300 ST CILI h 30 | Liebhardt Wade. Detroit Mahaffey, St. Louis- Less Than Ten Games | Thiows. G Detroit __ . 8t. Louis FPhilageiphia . Chicago Philadelphia Bosion Coppola, W | Wicker. New Y Smith, ‘Philadelphia = Zuber' Cleveland Poindexter. Boston . Galatzer, Cleveland Bokina, Washington —_ Naktenis. " Philadelphin Upchurch. 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Boston = K Ttiple play—Millies, o > HO B TIDND D DD AR RDIH RO s b, PRDDANDI! i ron & - @355 78a 320l ot one _ M EIE R~ 5 23 o GBI D Gl 125D 00 b O D T o ta 19005t Onn P % e 37 [T ' 3 Less Than Ten Games. Throws. G. 4 1 binding of the cover to the winding and many other new ideas have made cheap golf balls good golf balls. And | the improvement in the higher-priced balls has been just as marked. One major betterment has been in the wearing qualities of the golf ball of today. “That vuicanizing invention has increased the life of the hall until today the average goifer in America buys fewer balls be- cause they last longer. It hurts our resale business but we are putting out a better product and we aren't having so many squawks about the ball cutting from a topped iron shot. The 1936 ball has been and the 1937 golf ball will be the finest product that ever sliced from one fairway to the other.” In the field of clubs the changes won't be so marked. There's a trend toward shallower faces for the wooden clubs, toward longer pear-shaped heads and toward stiffer shafts. The whippy steel shaft that was the rage two years ago is out—definitely. It did knock the ball a long way but the direction was hard to control. Iron heads will be a little deeper, but that had to come. The older heads were a shade on the shallow side, even though they got the ball up fairly well. ND the trend in shafts ranges from a step-down arrangement of rib- bing to a construction whereby a little (very little) whip is placed in just be- low where the grip stops. There won't be one wooden-shafted club sold in 1937 to every 100 steel-shafted affairs. It will be practically all steel next year, even though Johnny Perhaps the next big change will and abandon- ment of the wooden head, so the clubs can all be turned out in a metal shop. But that hasn't made any headway as | PO. 09‘.\; S. E. LOOP GRIDDERS DRAW 1,095,000 GATE Lounisiana State Has Top Total, With 199,000 Attendance at 10 Contests. BY the Associated Press. TLANTA, December 14.—South- eastern Conference teams played before approximately 1,095,000 specta- tors in 91 foot ball games this year, an Associated Press survey showed today. An estimated 546,000 at 36 inter- conference contests and 549,000 for 55 engagements outside the circuit gave the 13 members an average of 13,000 for each game. Louisiana State's two-time cham- pions led with approximately 199,000 in 10 appearances, including the South’s record turnout of 48,000 for the Tulane tussle. Tulane was second with 183,000 for 10 showings. e FENCING AT ROLLINS Florida College to Clash Eastern Teams—Also Will Row. WINTER PARK, Fla, December 14 () —Rollins College fencers are practicing for matches in the Spring with Princeton, Army, Navy, Brown, Harvard, Yale and Pennsylvania. Sports activity here will be cen- tered around fencing and rowing. The oarsmen meet Washington and Lee here April 2. Intercollegiate basket ball is off the sports agenda this year. . Sports Mirror By the Associated Press. - Today a year ago—Maj. R. R. (Bob) Neyland to return as Ten- nessee’s head foot ball coach under five-year contract; retiring from Unifed States Army. Three years ago — Richard (Young Dick) Glendon, Columbia rowing coach, found dead of gun- shot wounds, apparently a suicide. Five years ago—New York Unie versity announced sweeping reform in athletic policies - following 'FINE GAME SHT NLESS all signs of 1936 are playing the leading roles in winning bing the District championship and Brownell, Shea Look Ready to Give All Opponents Fight Next Year. BY W. R. McCALLUM. cockeyed, 1937 is going to be @ year of victories for the kid golfers around Washington, with Bobby Brownell and Billy Shea the little jousts that will dot the sea= son from April to November. One of these lads—Brownell—was the sensation of the 1936 season, grab- his own club title; qualifying for the amateur and missing qualification for the open only by two or three shots. The other youngster—Shea—won | the Middle Atlantic junior champion- 000 | ship, gave Brownell his toughest scrap in the District tourney, and played a so consistently fine game through- out the year that with a few tournae ments under his belt he is going to be as tough to lick as the Brownell boy. Careers About Parallel. 'HE careers of these kids (Brownell is 17 and Shea is 18) are parallel ina way. Bobby lost time from school | at Roosevelt High last Winter and will graduate next Spring. Shea is & freshman at Georgetown and a gradue ate from Western High of last June. The two lads clashed frequently in team matches over the past two years and played a lot of golf together. They look from where we sit to be just about as good a pair of boy golfers as has come up in =kill in a good many years, and it won't be any complete upset of | the dope if these two juveniles push through the opposition next year to win a flock of tournaments. Of course, Billy Dettweiler is no- body's toy on any golf course. Big | and strong, the Dettweiler lad has it in him to become one of the best golfers anywhere. A few changes in style, a little more practice and he can become very good. Among them these three youngsters can do & lot of winning in any field. Kids mature in golf very fast. No better example of this could be found than in the rise of Bobby Brawnell. The tow-headed Bobby was a so-and- so golfer last year, a kid who had his good rounds once in a while, but who couldn’t consistently shoot down in the low 70s. Brownell's Rise Fast. E SPENT last Winter in Florida, cleaned his teeth with a niblick and came up with the hottest hand of golf any boy has shown around the city since the Roland MacKenzie of 1923. Shea is much the same way, although Shea has been playing good golf longer than Brownell. Indeed, in their high school matches the record shows that Shea whipped Bobby rather cone sistently before Bobby had that Wine ter of golf in Florida. And 1 can hear ’em now, those ambitious youngsters, saying to theme selves, “If that’s what a Winter in Florida will do. lead me to it.” But that isn't all there is to it. There's lots of hard work and practice and will to win and all that sort of thing. But a Winter in Florida does help. There will be at least three invie tation tournaments, the Middle At lantic and the District titles to be settled around Washington next year, If Shea and Brownell. between ‘em, don't account for three of the five they won't be as hot as they were this year. And it wouldn't be any eyebrow-lifting show to see Shea, Brownell and Dettweiler win all of ‘em. despite the Yoders and the Pea cocks who will be in there pitching. | NE BOYS CLAM TITLE > | | Defeat Anacostia Lions, 6-0, in 115-Pound Grid Clash. By virtue of Jimmy Bresnahan's 30« yard run for a touchdown after grabe bing a pass from Sam Fusco, Northe east Boys' Club 115-pound gridders today claimed the local title following its 6-0 victory over the Anacostia Lions yesterday at Anacostia. The Lions thwarted Northeast in- vasions of its goal line four times before Bresnahan scored. Allen Every, center, was outstanding for Anacostia. FLASHES COURT VICTORS. BALTIMORE. Md., December 14 (8pecial) —Lavelle Dean, former Easte ern High School star. and Huck Cav- anaugh, former Roosevelt High ace, paced the Heurich Flashes to a 26-23 victory over the Baltimore Y. M. H. A, here last night. Dean scored 9 points, while Cavanaugh tallied 7. GUARANTEE USED TIRES POTOMAC TIRE CO. 28th & M N.W. 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