Evening Star Newspaper, January 5, 1937, Page 13

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1937. SPORTS. A—13 Two Title Fights Loom for D. C. : Sire’s Spirit Speeds Granville H_Y AMMM I Concee4 Years and 59 ins BHWLER, m' BEATS| Tattooed Man Gets a Break With a Sp ’SPUNK—[:[MJAREU KINGS MAY COME RIVAL, 74, 60341 TO GALLANT FOX'S Montana vs. Gregerson and| Pins Fly at Mount Rainier {Best Horse of ’36 Not as Escobar vs. Jeffra Is Plan for Summer. BY BURTON HAWKINS, WO world championship fights this Summer at Griffith Sta- dium loomed on the local fistic horizon today simultaneously with the information that the Metro- politan Police Boys’ Club, which spon- sored the three most finanially suc- cessful bouts staged here since the legalization of boxing, has withdrawn from pugilistic promotions as & source of revenue.’ The world flyweight title would be at stake in one scrap, with Small Montana facing Charles Gregerson, eighth ranking contender from Can- ada, while the other argument would involve the bantamweight diadem, with Champion Sixto Escobar meeting Harry Jefira, his foremost challenger, from Baltimore. ‘There is a distinct possibility that Matchmaker Goldie Ahearn will com- plete negotiations with managers of Escobar and Jeffra this week. Ahearn ‘who has offered the Puerto Rican title holder $5,000 to defend his crown in a 15-round bout here in May, has reached a verbal agreement with both perties and the matter now hinges solely on whether Promoter Joe Turner and Thearn believe local fight fans will support the match. Managers Awaiting Contracts. LOU BRIX, manager of the colorful Escobar, is receptive to the prop- osition due largely to the fact that Jefira twice has trounced Sixto in over-the-weight bouts and the cham- pion is seeking revenge at the normal weight limit of 118 pounds. Heinie Blaustein, Jeffra’s pilot, also is ready to sign final articles. ‘The Montana-Gregerson bout would be sponsored by the Police Benefit Association and Maj. Harvey L. Miller, secretary of the District Boxing Com- mission, would be matchmaker. Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superin- tendent of police, revealed the Board of Governors of the Metropolitan Po- lice Boys' Club decided at their last meeting to cease promoting boxing shows. This conclusion resulted from a feeling on the part of many that the .club was duplicating solicitation of money for maintenance and henceforth the club will draw its financlal aid from membership drives only. Trammell-Godfrey Main Prelim. THUS the Police Benefit Association enters the picture. That body is anxious to promote the Montana- Gregerson bout, which would be sup- ported by heavyweight preliminaries, with Jack Trammell, ranked third in the heavyweight division by the Na- tional Boxing Association, meeting QGeorge Godfrey {n a colored 10- rounder as the chief supporting fea- ture. The Metropolitan Police Boys® Club ‘was responsible for Washington’s only championship fight to date, backing the featherweight title tussle here last May when Petey Sarron wrested the crown from Freddy Miller's sleek head before a record crowd of 23,000 spec- tators. Otherwise the club promoted the first Marty ‘Gallagher-Tony Galento fight in the Fall of 1934 and another card which featured a trio of 10- rounders involving Bob Godwin and Buck Everett, Joe Rivers and Petey Sarron and Sid Silas and Phil Furr in 1935. Exclusive of the 10 per cent Federal tax, the three shows drew gates total- ing msore than $65,000. Maj. Miller acted as matchmaker in each instance. PECKS ON SCORING SPREE. Peck Memorial courtrhen doubled the score on Arlington Presbyterian, 46-20, in a Georgetown Church League game last evening. Herndon was the winner’s chief scorer with 11 points. g BASKET RIVALS SOUGHT. Games with unlimited basket ball teams are sought by the Seventh Pre- cinct Police five. Call West 2029 be- tween 11 and 11:30 o'clock. Masonic League Barrister . Won. Lost. Naval porot SIS oAt~ D) ‘Whiting T 101 SR DT R 1B D IR NN 519091t 11RO bt kot s SSBRRDSR 5 it bt o b DRI, oIt r =S b Chevy Chase Season Records. ies—Potomac, 627; Pet- High® Geam | seterPotomae, 1719 . i ividual averaj g : lobu‘? 11117»23: Simon, 117. . High 'individusl . sames—J. O'Brien, 173; Brooks, 165: Driver, 159; Bryant, Hish individusl sets—Brooks, 416; Driver. 408 Clears. 400, Hi strikes—Simon, 29: Peterson. 27; “m Brown, 116; Cleary, High team worth, 616: Lt | who shot a brilliant all-time 169 The portly gentleman on the left is John W. Fenton, 74-year- old secretary of the Washington & Old Dominion Raiway, and the reason he is congratulating 70-year-old Hugh F. (Pop) Crawley has to do with the latter's 120 average for an even 600 set in the first five games of their match for the septuage- narian champion of these environs. But, hist! The games were rolled on Pop’s Mount Rainier alleys and the final set of five will be shot next Saturday night on John's Almas Temple drives, at which time he is confident of bettering his last night’s 108-1 average and 541 set. —Star Staff Photo. ILL KRAUSS, who for several B years has carried on a great | family bowling tradition, to- | day finds himself in a merry battle for top honors as the Capital's leading duckpinner of the season. Since early Fall the kid brother of Harry 'and Lonnie, two bowling im- mortals, has been whanging the maples for a fare-ye-well. But it was not until last night that bowling’s | busy spotlight caught up with the handsome curly-haired pinbuster as: he zoomed his Kilowatt League aver- age to 125-19 for 45 games at the Lucky Strike. Back in league competition after the Yuletide recess, Bill cracked out a season mark of 41_9 with strings of 117, 161 and 141. It was his sixth straight 400 set, the finest streak of | the campaign. His stout 123 District League mark along with 121 in the Columbia Heights League well quali- fies him as a contender. Yet with all his record smashing Bill was forced to share league in- dividusl honors with George James, string, while Joe Overend, of 203-! game fame, all but copped the set laurels. Bill and Joe's teams got tied up in & hot scrap with the latter shooting a sparkling 416 which mo- mentarily broke Krauss’ previous 408. ‘With Overend reeling off 120, 141 and 155 his Schedule quint twice hung | the beé on Krauss’ District Engineers, although the latter ran up top counts of 607 and 1,718. To add to the heavy pin mauling Bill Lanahan tied the former season high-game mark with 164 to lead Sub Station to & sweep over the leading Meter No. 1 outfit, SEV!:RAL hours before many of | Washington’s hundreds of rollers had started to wend their way back to their favorite drives to take up where they left off before the holi- days set in, Earl McPhilomy was ex- erting his bowling prowess at Lucky | Strike in the twilight of the evening. | The veteran Stanford Paper expert cracked two records in the Graphic Arts League with a bang-up 173 and 429 to toss in the scrap heap the for- mer marks of 165 and 4327, held by Tom Kinnahan. His whoppers de- feated Ransdell three times. Collect- ing high set of 1,658, National Capital Press took the measure of Big Print Shop twice, the latter registering top game of 585 for its one decision. Nor- ris’ 375 paved the Caslon-Simonds sweep over Potomac Electrotype. A spare and strike by Dick Heinzman, | coupled by Kinnahan's spare in the last frame, featured the leading Pro- | gressive Printing two wins from Law Reporter. ’I"HE Condor rollers popped up with 645, a season team game record in the A. & P. League, but to get even with the new team set holders, for topping their count of 617, Ann Page | ups and licks them twice, as Martin | Casey led the firing with 132 and 368. Joe Rhodes plunked five more strikes for an exceptional season total of 43. His 354 set paved the way for Red Circle to whitewash Our Own. Tom Brown's 354 was the deciding factor in the front-running Worthmore sweep over Sunnybrook. Hilgenberg's 133-367 gave White House the odd skirmish from Bonday. A 95 flat-game mark stands along- side the name of Sarah Schneider to- day as quite an achievement in the Joe Alters Biting Technique “Won’t Make Me Hit at Bad Ones This Year,” Resolves Spaghetti-Eating Di Maggio. By the Associated Press. AN FRANCISCO, January 5. —Joe Di Maggio, the San Francisco fisherman's son, who as a rookie helped the New York Yankees win the 1936 pennant, resolved today that this year opposing pitchers “aren’t go- ing to make me bite on bad balls lke they did last year.” “Get 'em over the plate for me” this year,” challenged the young outfielder, whose rapid rise to the big time has made him the idol of . young Italians in San Francisco's “North Beach” district. -“I'm through swinging at bad balls,” he sald. “I'm going to walt ‘em out this year. I was just a bit too anxious last year. I felt I had “T used to be mince pie for Mel Harder of Cleveland. He " just pitched inside to me and I always hit the ball on the handle of the bat. “This year I'm going to let them " He hit in the neighborhood of 345 his first year in the majors. Joe still is waiting for his 1937 _ contract and will not say what price he expects. Meanwhile he is fatening up on his mother’s spaghetil. | mer-up W. A. C. 8. in two tilts. % PINS- What's In a Name League. Scoring honors went to Irene Scott with nifty | counts of 132 and 342, which led the two-game winning charge of W. M. C. against H. O. L. C. Lena Miller's ‘Transportation cracked down on the first-place Stand- ards twice, while Agriculture’s 517 and 1,477 top team totals routed the run- Record smashing continued when the Normans chalked up an all-time 617 team game in the Procurement as Crawley Tops Fenton in “Match of Ages.” BY BILL DISMER, JR. 14-YEAR-OLD BOWLER aver- agéd 108 for five games last night and lost s head-to- head match—to a contempo- Tary four years youngster who aver- aged 120! Calmly rolling a straight ball down the center of the alley at the Mount Rainier plant which he has maine tained for a number of years, Hugh F. (Pop) Orawley, 70 last month, shot an even 600 set in an hour and & half to take a lead of 59 pins on John W. Fenton in the first block of a 10-game match, i In addition to the fact that both finished with averages of which any of their nine grandchildren could feel Justly pro}:‘,‘ a glance at the game- by-game res reveals the remark- able fact that neither bowled under 100 in any of the five games. Fen- ton's lowest scores were two of 104; Crawley did not dip under 1151 All Games to Crawley. CR:WLEY won every one of the ve games, rallying after the sixth box to grab two of them and leading from the start in the other three. Fenton, whose quick flip of the wrist sent the ball down the mapleways with all the speed of one 50 yeary younger, staged counter- rallies in the second and last games, only to be met by an undeniable fighter who gave what it took. And the large crowd, which turned out more from curiosity than from expectancy of the bang-up battle which it turned out to be, remained fascinated throughout the set to watch the patriarchs in action, They, and many more it appeared today, | Will be on hand at Almas Temple next Saturday night when the match is concluded on Fenton’s home drives. George Isemann, executive secre- tary of the National Duckpin Bowling Congress, acting as master of cere- monies, gave the setting a real big- league atmosphere when he intro- duced the contestants with all the pomp of a world championship match. Fenton became “John (Bull) Fenton, the fightin® wildcat of the old Masonic League, with Carl Sonnemann’s 145, Havens’ 133 and Moffat’s 130 the big wallops. Eddie Wilson crashed through with top set of 379 to feature the pace- setting Saxons' two wins from the second-place Romans. The Normans' 1,602 set sunk the Corinthians. STOR CLARKE and his Bureau of Investigation team held com- manding leads in the Federal League as a result of popping a 389 for an average of 123-23, while his club, aided by Bill Miller's 376, took two games from Navy Department. Carroll Daly League.” Crawley he termed “For | height, weight and fight, the toughest | hombre in Mount Rainier.” At the end of the second game, however, which found Fenton trailing by 22 sticks, Isemann facetiously asked, “Where is that ‘Fenton’ of youth?” | Rallies to Trim Fenton. MORE like two kids in their 'teens than men who had been born |in Civil War days, the be-spectacled | rivals started out like & couple Astor | Clarkes, Crawley marking in the fifth, | sixth, seventh and eighth frames, to A the feature bout at Turner’s ROPER WINS FIGHT AS MADER IS HURT Has Slight Lead in Hectic Bout When Foe Injures Ankle in Eighth Round. BY BURTON HAWKINS. | IKE christening a ship with & bottle of beer, Washington's fistic New Year was launched in somewhat unorthodox style today, following Jack Roper's eighth- | round technical knockout victory over Eddie Mader last night at Turner's Arena at a moment when both boys were producing some of the most hec- tic action witnessed at the indoor fight center this season. Mader’s right ankle, injured as he stalked the stoic Roper, was to be placed under an X-ray today to de- termine whether it was broken or of Navy stepped into one of the high | catch Fenton, whose two marks in his | merely sprained. Eddie sustained the spots of the night with top game of 153. His set was 374. The second-place United States Senate outfit bagged a 2-1 verdict from P. W. A., with Kramer's 360 and Thompson's 343 instrumental in the win. G. P. O. picked up a game on the leaders by downing Veterans' Admin- | first three rolls had put him 14 pins ahead of his box in the opening game. ‘crlwley, who seemingly always had | & strike or a spare in his arm when he needed it, spared, struck, spared | and struck again in rapid succession | near the close of the game, to finish with & 132 and an 18-pin lead. Penton. 15 pins behind at the sevenih injury almost on the identical spot and in much the same fashion that Yvon Robert, Canadisn wrestler, frac- tured his leg there several weeks ago. His face a gory mess from a blood faucet turned on inside his nose by one of Roper’s smashing left hooks, and a nasty cut under his left eye, | adding further to his misery, Mader istration three times. Wally Burton's box of the second game, spared on a | nevertheless withstood a storm of au- 369 was featured by seven strikes,|strike to finish with 111, apparently | thoritative v: /. 3 # gloves and was retaliating | which topped Clarke's total by one.|ecnough to beat his rival, who had 96 | gamely and effectively when the acci- | Lee Brown's 363 co-starred in the sweep. Taylor of the Vets shot 370. The champion National Parks defeated War two games, with Compton’s 144 and 373 the deciding wallops. 1. B. E. W. disposed of Labor | twice after an exciting battle. THEY'RE already looking to The Star's tournament next Christ- mastime over in Alexandria’s Health Center alleys, according to a note from Manager James T. Luckett, jr. | Although none of his rollers got very hot on the night of the roll-offs, Luckett promises a lot more entries next year. ‘Top-notchers who rolled this year were: ‘Howard, 55-606; Brookfleld, 60- 585; Kidwell, 45-574, and Berkow, 70-531. el G. P. 0. NINE TO DANCE. Be:nie Jarboe's Nighthawks will furnish the music for the dance to be given Saturday night by the Gov- ernment Printing Office base ball team in Harding Hall of the G. P. O. in the ninth. But Crawley came { through with a spare and counted 9— | in the third game Fenton had a 91-87 edge in the eighth frame, only to sce kis host spare in the last two boxes to outcount him 123-108. Both were proving remarkably accurate, Fenton not having one box -under 9 and | Crawley’s two 8 boxes being his worst. Wind Up Match Saturday. A SPARE in the seventh box en- abled Fenton to catch Crawley in the fourth game after the latter had capitalized on a second-box spare to lead him throughout. But again, Pop retaliated with spares in the ninth and tenth to pick up another 11. Crawley’s three spares in the first six boxes of the last game found him with a 15-pin margin by the eighth frame, and at the end of the game he was ahead, 115-104. Althcugh the strikes throughout th2 cvening were almost evenly divided, Crawley getting three to Fenton's two, the former had an advantage of six in the spares, getting 16 in the three games to Fenton's 10. Soon Fred Perry (left), amateur tennis cha:inon . pro debut tomorrow night, here is shown i g; f’"" with Elsworth Vines, kingpin of the paid racketers (not too many e’s, please, compositor), his nent t of horse the Scene Changeth who makes his ulging in a friendly at Madison’s more or less square Garden, where clients will Jork over $9.90 apiece to choicest locations. from_the 3 their neck-pivoting —Copyright, 4. P. | | dent occurred. Eddie twisted suddenly | and started to throw a right when his Capital | for 115, another 4-stick gain. Again|leg rebelled after 1 minute and 20 | seconds of the eighth round. Then | the referee halted the fight. Roper Confounds Critics. | ROPRR, whose punching prowess | was underestimated greatly, as evidenced by the meager gathering of 759 spectators, blended stiff left hooks with an apologetic grin to completely capture the following of the fans early in the scrap. The customers shifted their affection to Mader, however, as the courageous New York heavyweight absorbed Jack’s most damaging blows while forcing the fight. Probably not since the days of Gene Tunney have ringworms viewed & fighter who conserves his strength through the art of relaxation as prac- ticed by Roper. Lackadaisical when the fighting is not carried to him, the | solemn Irish-Indian capitalizes on | virtually every miscue made by his foe. Mader conducted himself nobly as long as he elected to keep his distance, dancing around the slow Roper, flick- ing left jabs and occasionally sand- wiching a right to the head to take the first round, but Jack reached him with a stinging left hook in the sec- ond session, and Mader was dropped for no count. In the third round, which was con- fined chiefly to heeling and mauling, Eddie earned a margin, but Jack staggered Mader in the fourth frame with another viclous left hook that backed Eddie to the ropes and ripped both fists to the body. Eddie Battered in Fifth. IT ‘WAS in the fifth round that Roper connected with a left to Mader's nose, which streamed blood, but Eddie countered in the sixth with effective rights to the head. Jack opened a gash under Mader’s left eye in the seventh, but Eddie landed blow for blow in a torrid exchange against the ropes. The Btar’s score sheet showed Roper in front by half a point at the end of the seventh, with four rounds be- ing awarded the Pacific Coast veteran and three to Mader, The preliminaries were uniformly poor. In the best of these Tom Ponte, former Eastern intercollegiate heavy- weight champion from Western Mary- land, took a four-round decision from Dixie Davis of Richmond, who was floored twice in the third round for nine counts but managed to stick the distance. In other bouts Tiger Red Lewis, Richmond light-heavyweight, and Joe Finazzo, blubhery Baltimore veteran, fought to a six-round draw; Buddy Lynn, Baltimore welterweight, was stopped by Angelo Meola in 1 minute and 30 seconds of the second round; Hunter Crostic, Richmond middle- weight, chilled Jimmy Ortiz, recently out of amateur ranks, in 1 minute and 10 seconds of the second round, and Bob Anderson and Billy Temes battled to a draw in the four-round opener. LEAGUE BERTHS OPEN. Entries for two basket ball leagues of 100 and 143 pound teams are be- img accepted at the Merrick Boys' Club by Tom CGearty. "N The leg injury suffered by Eddie Mader (left) isn’t apparent in this Afi Arena last night for the rather plausible reason that it didn’t occur until round 8. Then Referee Charley Reynolds declared Jack Roper the victor by a technical kayo. X-rays due to be taken today will disclose which was what, if not why. Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA —Al Ettore, 191!z, Philadelphia, outpointed John Henry Lewis, 183, Phoenix, Ariz, world light heavyweight champion (10 rounds—non title). CHICAGO.—Art Oliver, 192, Chi- cago, outpointed Eddie Boyle, 177, | Cleveland (8). MIAMI.—Tommy Speigal, 134, Uniontown, Pa., stopped John Cruz, 135!,, Havana, Cuba (5). LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Chuck Woods, 147, Detroit, and Dominic Mancini, 1373, Pittsburgh, drew 10). . LANCASTER, Pa—Charley Burns, 137, Johnstown, Pa., out- pointed Lew Mazzey, 138, Phila- delphia (8). BALTIMORE.—Andrea Jessurun, 149, New York, outpointed Jimmy Jones, 15274, Baltimore (10). NEWARK, N. J—Joey Ferran- do, 14334, Jersey City, outpointed Frank Williams, 142, Newark, (10); Sollie Ambruso, 136, New York, outpointed Sammy (Red) Panico, 135, Bayonne, N. J. (8); Joe Sofia, 189, Philadelphia, knocked out Warren Brown, 185, Paterson, N. J. (. PROVIDENCE, R. I —Ralph Zannelli, 150, Providence, out- pointed Eddie Davenport, 1443, New York (8). AL IS LOOP’S “CLOWN” ny Man for Coast League. By the Associated Press. | SAN FRANCISCO, January 5.—Al Schacht, former comedian-cozch of the Washington Senators and Boston Red Sox, will have an official reason to be funny during 1937. He has been appointed the Pacific Coast League “clown” for the next base ball season. Schacht is to be employed by all eight clubs of the circuit, working & week in each city. His start to clown- dom came during his stay with Wash- ington, where he teamed with Nick Altrock in what became bese ball's prize burlesque act. THREE HEURICH VICTORS. Little Tavern, Sterling and Fire De- partment court men were victors in Heurich Basket Ball League games last night, none of them by very large | margins. Little Tavern tripped Fort | Myer, 32 to 28; Fire Department nip- ped C. C. C. Sterling defeated Delaware & Hudson, 37 to 29. —_— FENCERS TO ORGANIZE. A fencing club is to be organized to- night for members of the Roosevelt Community Center in the armory of the Roosevelt High. Instruction with the foll, epee and saber will be given for both beginners and veterans. A cost of 35 cents per member will pay for the use of the gymnasium. S SHELTON HEADS GUNNERS. H. H. Shelton is the new presi- dent of the Washington Gun Club, which held its annual elections last night at the Army-Navy Club. H. M. Bingham was named vice president, while Walter S. Wilson and R. D. Mor- | gan were re-elected treasurer and sec- | retary, respectively. SCORE IN S. E. CENTER. Merrick Boys’ Club and Loans and Currency, leaders in the American and National divisions of the Southeast Community Center Basket Ball League, won games last night, Merrick trounc- ing Navy Yard, 43 to 17, and Loans and Currency defeating D. C. Paper, 36 to 20. ENTERS PRO GRID LOOP. The American Professional Foot Ball League has voted Rochester into the league, according to an announce- ment through the Associated Press. The franchise was awarded to Mike Palm of Rochester and Harry New- man, former Michigan star. Mat Matches By the Associated Press. NEW YORK (Hippodrome) —Dave Levin, 198, Jamaica, N. Y., threw Gino Martinelli, 190, Italy, 36:39. "PORTLAND, Me.—Cowboy Hughes, 182, Tulss, Okis., threw Chuck Montans, 180, Detroit. Q'r th round shot of Schacht Officially Appointed Fun-, (Ole), 31 to 27, and | —Star Staff Photo. | Hard-Won 10-Round Deci- sion Restores Ring Prestige to Philly Heavy. By the Associated Press. HILADELPHIA, January 5.— | Al Ettore, Philadelphia h-avy- weight knocked out in the fifth round by Joe Louls last S:p- tember, is back today in the front row | of fizliana, clutching a hard-won 10- | round decision over John Henry Lewis | of Phoen'x, Ariz. Ettore ignored both the betiing cdds | agamnst him last night and the bat- | tering he took in the early roundl.‘ He started his comeback in the fourth, | carried the fight to Lewis again in the seventh and had most of the 13,000 | spectators standing on their seats as he hammered the light heavyweight champion in the tenth. Judes Are Divided. T!m judges were divided on the de- | cision in the non-title bout. Nat Lopinson, one judge, and Joe Mc-| Guiga, referee, awarded the bout to | Ettore. Al Levit, the other judge, gave his dec: 10 Lewis. Levit gave the first eight rounds to | Lewis and the last two to Ettore. Lop- | inson gave Ettore four rcunds, Lew:s | three and three even. McGuigan gave Ettore five and Lewis four, with one | even. Lewis cut Ettore’s eye at the outset of the fight and later drew blood to his nose. Fight Draws $30,000 Gate. THE fight drew a gate estimated at| $30,000. Half of the net proceeds will go to Mayor S. Davis Wilson's Christmas fund for charity. In otber bouts, Paul Pirrons, 164, Cleveland, beat Johnny Duca, 159, Paulsboro, N. J.; Willie Reddish, 190%3, Philadelphia, won from Otis Thomas, 203, Chicago, and Holman Williams, 140, Chicago, beat Tony Falco, 145, | Philadelphia. All were 10-round de- cisions. . LANSBURG FIVE AHEAD. Webb and ‘Andrus led the Lans-| burgh quint to a 33-28 victory over the A. 2. A. Fraternity five last night. ‘Vines (Continued From Twelfth Page.) speed and control is obviously an um- beatable combination and, if Vines has his control, he will whip Perry. | like an old cow. ‘That's & big block “if,” to be sure, since Perry, a tactician of the Tilden school and of Tilden caliber, will do his best to put Mr. Vines' control on the blink. This Vines has profited more heavily | from professional tennis than any one | else you can think of, including the | promoters. As the game stands todey, there isn't room for more than | one big money-maker. The rest of them are biding the time when tennis will be open, as it should be, and 8 good performer can make himself steady cakes and coffee by playing it. il then it's the top man who picks | was game (Copyright. 1937 up the chips, and H. Ellsworth Vines mllmynthewpnloncnhu can—being, as he says himself, a bloke who ylelds to no man in his honest affection for the doliar. Perry Snipes st U. 8. Amateur. PIR.RY. side-stepping talk of the big teams. “All this Winter tennis may catch up with them in the one big match they want to win,” he said. “Budge may find that he would have,more reserve had he teken it easier in the off-season. When I played him in the final round at Forest Hills last year Don was over the edge and I knew it and ran him. If he had been Great as Daddy, Though, Earle Sande Holds. BY EARLE SANDE. RANVILLE deserves to be called the best horse of any age seen on the American turf in 1936. He isn't so much to look at. The ladies would never pick him out. But he can “scat.” After all, that's what counts. Horse racing is a sort of equine ath- letics. As in sll other forms of * athletics, hand- some is as hand- some dces. It is a matter of rec- ord that Gran- vill has done all right. I have felt a sort of personal interest in Gran- ville ever since he began to act as if he had the mak- ings of a race’ ‘ horse as a 2-year- A dest veur. In Earl Sande, & lot of ways he reminds me of his daddy, Gallant Fox. I rode old Fox in all his races as a 3-year-old back in 1930, when he rolled up a money winning record of over $300.000 in a single season’s campaign. I guess it was for the same reason I was in- terested in Omaha. No, I don’t thing Omaha or Granville, first-ciass horses that they are, is as good as Gallant Fox. Everybody asks me that. And usual- ly they “Oh, that Sande just says that because he rede Gallant Fox. He never rode Omaha, and he never rode Granville.” Hard to Compare Champions. J TS pretty hard to compare cham- pions. That's one of those ques- tions like “Who's the best, Dempsey or Fitzsimmons or Joe Louis (who isn't | yet & champion), or maybe a couple of other fellows?” There's only one way of finding out for sure. That is to put two men or two horses in there and let 'em go at cne another toe to toe or head and head until one of tiiem has enough. But I still feel very sure that Gallant Fox hasn't vet out- bred himself, as we say at the track. Granville has been a good champion for racing. He has helped the game, bec-use he has always put on a gocd show. He should keep it even more, now that he has been retired to stud. stud. T doubt if any race of recent years drew so much attention over the country as the match between Gran- ville and Discovery in the Saratoga Granville won. And he won as it he couid beat Discovery from one Ettore weighed 191% and Lewis 183. |y o“until they starved to death. It would be difficult to say what was the best race Granville ran last year. They were all good. He dropped the Wood last Spring to his stablemate, Teufel, by a nose. Then he Jpst his rider, Stout, in the scramble at the start of the Kentucky Dexby. In the Preakness he lost a whisker decision to Bold Venturc and Firee thorn nosed him out cf the Suburban. Adout this time, they calied h.m tne tough-luck horse of the season. Gran- ville had dropped some $50,000 worth of stakes by less than 2 yards. Then Wins Five in a Row. HE WAS improving right along, though. In the mile-and-a-half Belmont—America’s nearest approach | to the famous Epsom Derby—he beat Mr. Bones by a nose. From there, he went on to win the Classic, Kenner, Travers and Saratega Cup in rapid or- der. “Rapid” is used advisedly. It was in those Spring races Gran= ville showed some of the traits of his sire, Gallant Fox. Great as he was, Fox was not an easy horse to ride. He couldn’t leave the starting gate as fast as Granville. You had to be careful he didn’t get left, for he'd stand there If you moved too socn with him in a race and got & lead of a couple of lengths, he scemed to think it was all over and would start to ease up. If you allowed him to lag too far off the pacemaker, he sort of lost interest. What that horse liked was competitior, a fight. It was this same competitive spirit that made Gallant Fox and his sons, Omaha and Gran- ville, championship performers. When Fox had a rival capable of looking him in the eye for a while— one able to run right along with him— then you realized his greatness. He to the core. So is Granville. 7. Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited without permission.) 20 YEARS AGO IN THF STAR TWO local colleges, Georgztown and Catholic University. will meet Navy in foot ball next Fall. Although the Brooklanders will play the Middies at Annapolis, there is a possibility that the G. U. game will be played in Washington. Next season will be the most prosperous, financially, that the Washington Base Ball Club has experienced in several years, in the opinion of Benjamin S. Minor, president. The club made about $30,000 in 1916 and Minor looks for an even greater profit in °17. Bill Carrigan has concluded to adhere to his decision to retire from base ball. Carrigan has written Harry Fraszee, one of the Boston Red Sox owners, notifying him that he intended to devote his full time to his personal business. It is thought that either Heiner Wagner, former shortstop, or Jack Barry, second baseman, will succeed him as manager. TFeNDER BeNT: ‘Bovy DeNT?. See Us! COMPLETE AUTO SERVICE Friendly Prices Always CENTRALLoxss WORKS OFFiciAL KevysTone Station 443 EYE ST.NW DI1.6161