Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1936, Page 55

PORTS. THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, '1936. SFOR1S. * Pl | " Government Has Spent Huge Sum in Helping Build Golf Courses W.P. A, MAKES 366 . LAYOUTS POSSIBLE Provides Over 10 Million Dollars—May Give Aid to 600 in All. LTHOUGH you can't get any W. P. A. official to make any statement that “600” golf courses ultimately are to be financed by Government funds, as published statements have revealed, the Federal Government has spent no niggardly sum in aiding the game of golf, according to authoritative figures from the Works Progress Administra- tion. Uncle Sam has reached down in his Jeans and spent more than $10,500,000 on 368 golf courses scattered from Maine to Oregon, while local sponsors | have added more than $1,500,000 more, a totai of well over $12,000,000 in building or rebuilding public golf courses. The Bethpage Park course on Long Island, with four 18-hole courses ra- diating from a single club house, is the biggest W. P .A. golf project in the East. There was held last Sum- mer the national public links golf championship. Municipal Improvements. S EXPLAINED by a W. P. A. offi- cial, requests for funds to be used on golf projects do not come to the Government as requests for golf alone. ‘They come as requests for municipal improvements, which include public golf courses; but however they come, $12,000,000 spent on golf courses is a right tidy little piece of change. But the work is slacking down now and the 600 figure spoken of so glibly possibly never will be reached. For most of the money spent by the ¢ ‘amous devised.” of the year. The dinner in New York last night was attended b . left to right, are: Lawrence W. Kelley, his father; the grid star; Walter L. Conwell, president of the Downton Athletic Club; Mrs. Kelley, Larry’s mother, and Virginia, his sister. Kelley brought the house down with his acceptance talk, which was filled with humor, but wound up with the serious thought, “And when you play your last game and are ready. to play more, you find foot ball stood you in good stead, that it is one of the grandest games God ever ects—s$9,359.699 of it—was spent in| 1935 and on 306 separate projects. | Up to October 31 this year only 62 additional golf courses had been started, involving an expenditure by the Government of an additional $1,234.428. Local sponsors added in 1935 the sum of $1,454,436, and up to October 31 had added $1,696.834. The total amount from W. P. A sources and from local sponsors on public golf courses financed partially | by the W. P. A. up to October 31| last is $12,200,961. The funny part of it all is that even though the new courses will result in more professional jobs, the pros themselves aren’t overly tickled with the new set-up. They should be. for anything that benefits the game benefits them. I Private Clubs Not Aided. | AND one of the angles of the W. P. A. golf work is that no club dues or initiation fees are permittted for play on W. P. A.-financed projects, | which puts the courses definitely in the municipally-operated class and | prohibits privately-operated layouts | from getting a slice of the money. | Another angle, according to Ed | Burns of Rock Creek Park, is that | ‘Washington has come in for the: magnificent sum of a little more than | $600 in this largess from the Federal | Government on golf course construc= | tion. Maybe they used it to build | parking spaces for automobiles at | East Potomac Park and Rock Creek Park. They certainly couldn’t get | very far on golf-course construction | with 600 bucks, the way it costs to build a divot-flinging paradise for duffers. MICHIGAN FIVE TOURS Slated for Three-Game Series | With Huskies Next Week. | ANN ARBOR, Mich., December 17 () —Coach Pranklin (Cappy) Cappon and a 10-man University of Michi- gan basket ball squad left today for the West Coast for a three-game | series with the University of Wash- | ington, North Pacific League defend- | ing champions. The ‘Wolverine team, victor in its | first two games this season, will arrive | in Seattle, Wash., in time for pre- | liminary workouts before the contests on December 21, 22 and 23. ATNORTHWESTERN Wildcats Flashy as They Rout Notre Dame—Pur- due, lowa Triumph, Bt the Associated Press. HICAGO, December < Northwestern's basket tacular as the foot ball Wildcats com- piled lasi Fall. Coach Dutch Lonborg's squad established itself as a powerful threat for Big Ten honors last night at South Bend by trouncing Notre Dame, 38 to 19, the most decisive score of their series. The triumph was North- western’s third straight, the Wildcats having whipped Carleton and Pitts- burgh in previous starts. 17— ball McMichaels Heads Attack. N/IARCELLUS (MIKE) = MICHAELS headed Northwest- ern’s offense with seven fleld goals and a free throw, while the Wildcat defense held the crippled “Irish” to five baskets. Purdue won its third straight by mauling Butler, 44 to 14, at Lafayette, and Towa made it four in a row with 8 34-to-30 decision over Denver at Iowa City. The trio of victories added to the huge edge Big Ten teams have piled up over non-conference foes. In 26 games, conference teams today had lost only two, Chicago having bowed to Marquette, and Minnesota having been defeated by North Dakota State's | strong five. Much Week End Action. IG TEN teams will resume early season activity Saturday night, with Purdue tackling De Paul at Chi- cago, Northwestern entertaining Western Michigan Teachers, Iowa meeting Washington University at St. Louis, Indiana journeying East to play Manhattan, Wisconsin facing Marquette at Milwaukee, Illinois playing Notre Dame at Champaign, Minnesota playing host to Kansas State and Chicago meeting Armour Tech. STOR CLARKE vs. Tony San- tini, in a head-to-head match, | today sent the bowling activi- ties at Convention Hall Satur- day night another notch higher in the | opinion of local pin fans, who already | are awaiting the team match between Occidental Restaurant and the Heur- | ich All-Stars with much gusto. | Sharing the spotlight with the team t match, the Clarke-Santini duel will be | the third between these two top- notchers within the past three years, Santini having trimmed the No. 1 bowler in both previous encounters. Convention Hall officials today an- nounced that the Occidental-Heuricl match would start promptly at 7:15 | o'clock, with the individual scrap be- tween Clarke and Santini following. Incidentally, Occidental Restaurant 1s tackling Heurich Brewery in a Dis- trict League match tonight, while other matches of the major loop find Georgetown meeting ~ Washington Brewery, Arcadia entertaining Rose | Liquor Store and Lucky Strike play- ing host to Convention Hall. ALT DAVIS' Rosslyn team had boosted its lead in the Ladies’ District League to 7% games today, following its three-game sweep of its T Eu v 9 SRy nearest rival, Lucl Blanche Wooton showed the way to the champions with a 367 set, which included a 131 game. By the rout, Lucky Strike not only lost ground to the fast-repeating champs, but even lost second place to Highway Engineers who climbed into the runner-up spot by - blanking ‘Temple. Margaret Lynn shot a 328 set while Billie Butler had & 120 game. Georgetown took the odd game from ‘Anldhmd National Beer nosed 1! |last night, held at the Swanee ball Convention Hall. The R. E. A. Clean- ers took a 2-1 decision from Swanee, A NEW high game set was being held in the Commercial League today after a night which saw Bell Cab chalk up a 617 game. Lou Christiana shot a 381 set during the record-making. Russ Kilby of The Evening Star took high-game honors for the night with a 148. Nearly $300 was on its way today to Everett (Peanuts) Pierce, Arcadia floorman who was injured in an auto- mobile accident last month. The amount came from the benefit dance room, which was donated for the cause by Bill Wood. HUTSON IS REAL GRABBER. NEW YORK, December 17 (#)— Don Hutson of the Green Bay Packers was the National Professional Foot Ball League’s outstanding pass re- ceiver of the 1936 season. Hutson caught 34 passes for a total of 526 yards gained. PICK COLLEGE COURSE. NEW YORK, December 17 (#).— The United States Golf Association has announced the 1937 intercollegiate championship will be played June 28- July 3 on the links of the Oakmont Country Club, near Pittsburgh. CONACHER IS SHELVED. TORONTO, December 17 (#).— Charlie Conacher, right winger with the Toronto Maple Leafs of the Na- tional Hockey League, may be lost to. the team for five weeks. Physicians have ordered him to keep his injured right hand in a cast. FOUR ENTER LEAGUE. LANDIS, N. C., December 17 (#).— Four towns—High Point, Lexington, Landis and Mooresville—definitely have announced they would seek fran- chises in the new North Carolina warriors appear headed this | season for a record as spec- | Mc- | that blow-off in the Profecsional Golfers' Association—whereby Bob Harlow, the biggest man in the | tournament game, and promoter ex- traordinary, has been ousted from his job as tourney manager of the P. G. A by President George Jacobus. But | note with the newspaper lads, who ! depend on the former Bostonian and crack reporter as one of the few men in the pro game with an idea of what makes news click and how to get it. | Those on the inside thought it might | break at Pinehurst, where the P. G. A. | has just staged its most successful | | championship. They hardly thought | it would break smack in the middle | of the Winter pro campaign, just as the professional troupers are getting | ready for the California circuit. | | Bob runs a little news syn- dicate on the side, in addition to his job as tournament man- ager. i He works like a horse on both jobs, and he is the best friend the news- paper men have. And the newspaper | men are the best friends the pro tour- | nament game has. Bob doesn't hope work. He has something like 15 or 16 papers at $2 a week, and since the field is limited, he won't get wealthy peddling news at that rate. BUT the big point of the whole in- cident is that Bob and the P. G | A. can't very well get along without each other. Bob is the essence and soul of the P. G. A.. its most ardent, booster, and the guy who pulls tour-| nament money into the pockets of the pros. No man in the game is as well known as the roly-poly Harlow, and the players swear by him. ‘The whole thing seems screwy to us, for as Damon was to Pythias, a| nose to a hound and a bullet to a| rifle, so is Harlow to the P. G. A. One| other. | Harlow and got Prancis Powers, a| Chicago newspaper man, to run their tournaments. Francis did a good job, but he didn't have the contacts Har- low had. Bob organized & tournament golfers' association, just as he has| threatened to do again, and drew the support of a flock of top-notch pros, just as he is doing now in the latest rumpus. For a time the ruckus threatened the very solidarity of the P. G. A., just as the present incident threatens it again, but the dove of peace hov- ered gently over St. Petersburg, where Bob was wintering, they kissed and made up, and Bob went about the merry business of luring between $150,000 and $200,000 in cash into the pockets of the pros via the tourna- ment racket. He did a good job of it, too, and the' tournaments neyer have been quite as successful as they have been with Harlow doing the promoting. PTER all, the tournament play- ers aren't interested in the in- ';Zul politics of the P. G. A. What théy want is bigger and better tour- naments with more money in ‘em. And no man has done more to bring the heavy dough into the tournament game than rotund Robert. Nor are the newspaper men interested in the politics of the professional golf or- ganization. They like to have Harlow around at a tournament, for he can tell 'em out of his memory the facts on any “man of the moment,” what he has won, where he was born, the color of his false teeth and where he spends his Sundays. Robert has been | around so long and kmows so much | about the pros that the newspaper men would be lost without this walk- ANY ae AUTO §iz GLASS PROMPT DRIVE-IN SERVICE Taranto & Wasman, Inc. 1321 L St N.W, NA. 2966 Another “Pass” Is Snagged by Kelley of Yale énd is receiving John W. Heisman Trophy for being the oustanding foot ball player y 750 admirers. In the picture, —A. P. Photo. T'S been coming for a long time— | ing encyclopedia of the professional | game. If the moguls of the P. G. A. make Harlow’s enforced resig- nation stick, you may look for a big blow-off in the pro tour- nament game. It won't do the game any good, the ousting of Bob won't hit a popular | and it might bust up the whole thing. | Personally we have thought for years | that waste tournaments for about $5.000 a year. | The liquids are good, and Bob lives | well, such a good promoter that he prob- | Boo his is too good a man to talents promoting golf but he’s such a live wire, and ably could double his income in some job that gave him a few moments to get acquainted with his family. hasn't had much of that He kind of time for half a dozen years. LEADS WAKE FOREST. DURHAM, N. C., December 17 (#).— | Wake Forest varsity foot ball players have elected Bruce (Boots) Mumford, 165-pound center from Ayden, N. C, | to captain the 1937 team. ‘ . College Quints Georgetown, 25; Princeton, 22. American U, 34; Maryland State Normal, 27. Duke, 33: Clemson, 25. North Carolina State, 49; William and Mary, 21. Northwestefh. 38; Notre Dame, 19. Purdue, 44; Butler. 14. Southern California, 35, Texas to become wealthy from his syndicate Tech, 17. Idaho, 30; U. C. L. A.. 26 Texas, 30, San Marcos Teach- ers. 12, Idaho (Southern Branch), 51; Col- | lege of Idano. 21 Western Reserve, 76; Adrian Col- lege, 17. South Dakota State, 41; Augus- tana, 34. New River State, 33: Pikeville, 26. Nebraska Wesleyan, 27 Hebron, 17. Morehead Teachers, 54, Morris- Tllinois College, 45; Southern Illinois | Harvey, 37. Teachers, 39. Kansas, 36; Baker, 35. New Mexico, 45; Hawaiian All- Stars, 42. Detroit Tech, 27; Western On- tario, 11. Eau Claire Teachers, 42; Luther, 22. North Dakota State, 34; Jamestown can hardly get along without the College, 22. House of David, 48; Mayville State Four years ago the P. G. A. fired Teachers, 35. St. Cloud Teachers, 41; Winona ‘Teachers, 31. ‘Wabash, 48; Anderson, 38. Indiana State, 33; Eastern Illinois | Normal, 29. Washington College, 47; Westches- | ter Teachers, 39. Towa, 34; Denver, 30. BOTTLES 901-905 7th St. S.W. Phone: Nathnal'OZl Costly Changes Planned to | Provide Redskins Big League Plant, BY FRANCIS E. STAN. OR better or for worse,, Boston's | I foot ball Redskins definitely will move into Washington next Fall to furnish the Capital with its first big-league gridiron team. Deftly carrying out his threat to re- move his Eastern champions of the National Professional League out of the apathetic Hub, Owner George Marshall lifted them, lock, stock and barrel, reorganized his company and went on record today as saying it was by no means an expenmenul‘ move. “They're here for keeps, not for just 1937 announced Marshall. “I have no intention of placing Wash- | ington on trial as a potential big- league foot ball center. This is some- thing I've always wanted to do, so sure have I been that Washington is a first-class sports town.” A slap on the back, mayhap, but from other sources today came votes of confidence in the Redskins and not to be overlooked was a heargy ballot by | President Clark Griffith of the Wash- ington ball club, whose stadium will house the hitherto homeless wanderers of pro foot ball. In anticipation of a long term in Washington, Griffith an- nounced today that his ball park will undergo costly changes to provide a fitting setting. Okay of League Assured. VWHEN the Redskins actually move | into Washington next Fall for the first of & half dozen home games, Grifith promised, a new and modern lighting system will have been in- stalled, together with a rebuilt tem- porary section to replace the low-lying bleachers now running the length of the field. A new, up-to-date public | address system will take the place of | the veteran cluster of microphones in center field and the entire plaving fleld will be fenced in, as at the Polo | Grounds. In addition, unless rain actually is falling at game time. the pros will be assured of a dry field be- | cause of a tarpaulin designed to cover the entire fleld “Like Marshall, I think the pro game is here for keeps” stated Griffith. “The glimpses I've had at the Red- | skins in New York this year have con vinced me that they hardly can miss. | ‘Washington is lucky to get a made-to- s | Only permission of the National | League now is necessary to sign and | seal the Redskins to Washington, and | this permission is sure. From no less a source than Joe Carr, league presi- | dent, was Marshall assured recently that Washington would be an ac- ceptable home for the team. Six| games certainly will be played in the | Capital, said Marshall, although the schedule makers of the loop will not meet until the second week in Feb- ruary. It is likely that three of the games will be played at night and three on Sunday afternoons. The famed Green Bay Packers, who defeated the Red- ! skins last week for the National | | League title. definitely will be among the invading teams. Predicts Stronger °37 Team. UNBLUSHINGLY. Marshall predicts an even more formidable Redskin team in 1937. This is a prediction | based chiefly on the result of the re- | | the Washington team drew such | standouts as Sammy Baugh, the Texas Christian passer; Flash Falaschi, Santa Clara quarterback; Cain, a back, and Bond, a tackle, both from the Uni- | versity of Washington: Elder, a back from Kansas State; MacCarra, North | Carolina State end, and Eaves, an | Auburn end. Baugh, Falaschi and the | | two University of Washington players | are almost certain to turn pro, accord- ing to Marshall. These rookies will battle it out with | a team of youthful veterans for the 25 jobs allowed under National League | law. The new backs will face the trying task of beating out such rec- ognized stars as Riley Smith from Alabama, Pug Rentner of North-| western, Ernie Pinckert of Southern | California, Cliff Battles of West Vir-| ginia Wesleyan, Don Erwin of Col- | gate and Ed Justice of Gonzaga. The new linemen will face the equally | trying task of easing into what is rec- | ognized as the best forward wall in pro ranks. | ‘The Redskins will mobilize in Aug- | ust and set up a training camp with- in 10 miles of Washington. M SURE GETTING BETTER SHAVES | Lq SINCE | SWITCHED l BACK TO USING GILLETTE BLADES IN MY GILLETTE RAZOR YoU CANT FOOL THE BOSS_ | HE KNOWS WE ALWAYS GIVE! HIM PERFECT SHAVES. WE WERE MADE FOR EACH OTHER WH!N you use a Gillette Blade in your Gillette Razor, a few light strokes remove your beard without razor drag or burn. That'’s because the Gillette Blade and the Gillette Razor are made fo function perfectly together. It is this teamwork of blade and razor that makes possible those clean,- smooth shaves which men every- where say aré matchless. Buy a package of Gillette Blades today. Reputable merchantsnever offor substitutes for Blades. Always ask for them by name. “Original Com- Sunday ht at P.M. P etwark—Coast t6 Coist: Gillette lades m--dllnfisclllw'lw | & order championship team.” | & cent draft of the colleges, in which '3, LI =85 S ——————————————————————————————————————— BY PAUL J. MILLER, Jr, Slx quintets of chess addicts clash | tonight at 8:30 o'clock at Sloss | Cafeteria, 818 Fourteenth street northwest, the last team round of 1936, according to Abe Seidenberg, tournament director of the Metro- politan Chess Association. President E. V. Pineran says that in order to speed up the team tourna- ment the remaining six teams may place also their squads in the battle tonight, thus making a total of 12 teams engaged in over-the-board matches. D. 8. Burch and his “Aggies” en- counter Abe Seidenberg and _his Maryland University aggregation, Rob- ert Knox and his school players grap- ple with the picked team of Samuel Bass, the Deutschmen, under Conrad Willnich, tackle tHe War Department five, headed by Earl Kunkle, and teams captained by Dr. George W. Hervey vs. George Senge, E. V. Fin- eran vs. Reamy Pierce or D, Magold and the ladies, under Maud G. Sew- all's wing, will probably play. & b & FOOT BALLS All Needle Valve, Newest Styles, Streamline $1.50 Value_ $2.00 Value $2.50 Value $3.50 Value_ Others Regularly wp to $11.50 Equally Reduced NS 3 Other Reels, $7.50 !075507.5"5, i;ducod i;'rmmon G GLOVES of Four_$2.25 of Four.$2.95 of Four_$3.95 $5 $6 $8 NN NN NN Men's and Women's BOWLING SHOES $5 Value____ 52-75 LEFT and RIGHT HAND BOWLERS * SKI EQUIPMENT Skis, Harness, Hose, Ski Boots Complete Stock at Reduced Tennis Rackets 1936 Models, Standard Makes 331-3% Off ‘Wright-Ditson Tennis Bolls 3 for $1 AS SPORT GIFT $650 Kit guoranteed again: canti trays - $10.00 N EXHIBIT of modern chess mag- guages—will be on display during the evening at Sloss Cafeteria. Beginners’ instructional chess lecture No. 3 will be a feature of the program, and visitors, this means the ladies, are wel- come. The tariff is 15 cents for tourna- ment players and 25 cents for visitors. School Players. NTICIPATING a large number of entrants in the city-wide individ- ual school championship tournament, the M. C. A. committee suggests that all chess players attending any local school below college rating, be present | at the assoclation assembly tonight. The initial round of the indi- vidual school tourney will be played New Year day at the Central “Y,” which has donated & beautiful cup and will award a medal to the school champion. Robert Knox, president of the Wash- ington Interhigh Chess Association, Cd e 50 Brigantine Selt Water, free spool 00 Bay City, 250 » star dreg _ RODS value____ $2.95 (oww value_.__ $4.95 FISHING TACKLE KITS st (orro:«:,:. : IL'E: $ 4 . 9 5 lever Shotguns Standard makes, includ- ing Parker, Fox, L. C. Smith, Ithaca, Reming- ton and Browning. reduced prices. ALL GAUGES RIFLES, $5.25 UP Value DAISY AIR RIFLES Also Crossman and Benjomin 95¢ up WILSON GOLF CLUBS In matched sets for men and women. Chro- steel mium heads, azines—English and foreign lan- 250 yard § | 95 # value__._ $3.75 |s10 t s30 Reduced in proportion OTHER KITS 95¢c up declares all affiliated members of the interhigh group favor the tournament and welcome the opportunity of come peting for the “Y" trophy. Robert J. Feeney, one of the better players among the junior high class, avers that the medal will be won by & non-high school player and enig- matically refuses to reveal the name of the party. i | Registrations for the school crm'pa should be posted to the chess editor of The Star and the tournament fee is 25 cents. The official chiss rules of the International Chess Federation will govern match play. PUTS TWIN OAKS OVER. Russ Lampson led Twin Oaks to a 29-16 decision over Federal Alcoholic Administration basketers last night at Roosevelt High, Lampson tallied 8 points. SAN JOSE STATE WINS. HONOLULU, December 17.—San Jose State’s foot ball team defeated the Kamehameha Alumni here last night, 3306, - S BOGER GETS 17 POINTS Boger’s 17 points were largely in- strumental in the 27-16 victory of Labor over R. E. A. last night in the | Central Center League. ESTS FARRARRRA T Gloves Q‘/;,ij{{ $3.00 value $1.95 $4.00 value $2.95 $5.00 value $3.50 $6.00 value $3.95 All Base Ball Equipment SOCCER BALLS $3 value $4.50 value___$2.95 $6.00 value __$3.95 Others Up to $15.00 Proportionately Reduced Men's and Women's ICE SKATES With shoes attached. sizes. $295 $395 $345 9495 $4.50 to $10 Values At An ARG A AT AR R AR AR G R A R R R R R A R R R AR AR AR TRRR R AR R IR AR AR AT TR AR ISR HHRER AR Winchester, Remington, Savage, Stevens, Mossberg LEATHER SHOTGUN GCASES $695 5 S5 with Platforms Siting ™ % with Al 295 A :‘l‘l‘h ‘“l" Other Striking Bags $4.50 Al $2.95 (Others to $12.00 propor- tionately reduced) RRGIRS SIS R AR RB AR AR RIS RAGTS shafts, 1937 models. Set of 5 IRONS $8.75 $15.00 value Match Set 3 Woods Steel shafis to match wil model. $ 5 .50 irons. $9.00 value All Golf 3 off * Ping Pong Tables Official SI 4.95 Size 539" Ping Pong Sets, 95¢ Up * Union Hardware Roller Skates of 19087 Equipment