Evening Star Newspaper, January 7, 1937, Page 38

Cc-=2 8 Perry’s Steadiness Tells--Tilden < Briton Wins in Pro Debut as Repeated Errors Mar U. S. Star’s'Game. BY BILL TILDEN. EW YORK, January 7—The steadiness, accuracy and dog- gedness of Fred Perry, cou- pled with an attack of flu ac- companied by & high fever, sent Ells- worth Vines, jr., down to defeat in the opening match of their coast-to-coast professional net tour before the great- est gallery in tennis history which jammed Madison Square Garden to the roof and almost bulged the walls last night. The scores were 7—S5, 3—56, 6—3, 6—4. Vines obviously was nervous and feeling the effects of his iliness in the first set, making errors off both wings. Only his fine serving held Per- 1y even. Perry, too, was tight from nerves, lacking his customary steadi- ness, but he, too, served himself out | of danger several times. | Neither man hit the best of his game, excegt in occasional flashes. In | tie eleventh game, Vines dropped his | service on four bad errors, due to lack | of concentration on easy shots. Perry pushed heme his advantage and took | the set, 7—5. | There was little to say of the set.| Perry did little to win, It was more & case of Vines lacking any part of his | usual game. TNiness Must Have Hurt Vines. DO NOT believe in offering excuses for players, but in justice to Vines his condition with a severe cold and high fever must be taken into full consideration in judging the string of unusual errors that flowed from his racket. Perry was clever in his willingness to let Vines make errors. All he did was keep the ball in play, seldom go- ing for winners, but instead forcing Vines to work for everything. It paid Perry with his win of the first set, but the running sweated much of Vines' cold out, lowered his fever and he grew better. The tennis improved steadily in caliber, becoming worthy of both men as each moved into the attack more in the second set. Vines' shots, which had been short in the first set, gained depth and forced Perry into errors in the deep backhand cor- ner, Vines leading, 3—0. ‘Third Set Is Crucial. ONCE more Perry's running of Vines began to bring results in errors from Vines’ racket, and the Englishman pulled even at 3-all. Vines faced the problem of saving his physi= cal resources to spend at crucial mow ments while keeping even when play- ing under wraps. He wisely made & supreme effort and broke Perry with two great drives to lead, 5—3, in ‘what seemed to be the turning point of the match as Vines crashed through for one-set all. Both men seemed to realize fully the necessity of winning the third set. It spelled victory. Vines had to have it if he was to have enough condition to win, while to Perry it meant almost certain victory, since Vines could hardly last out five sets 4f he had to pull up from two sets to one. Vines showed the effects of his great effort to win the second set and was in distress over the terrific run-. ning Perry forced on him. Vines® &‘“ famous forehand found the net con- |L sistently. Perry made very few mis- takes, either of stroke or judgment, and seemed to completely have ad- Justed his game to indoor conditions. Perry’s fine volleying saved a serious threat at 4—2, after he had a 4—0 | lead, and the Englishman ran out the ot at 6—3. Errors Ruin U. S. Pro. FACING defeat after the intermis- sion, Vines realized his only chance to win was by the net at- tack. He started in behind service at the opening of the fourth set. | oy Z. T2 337 § Harrison__ 38 2} 13 eschi 8 22 11 Rosenberg __ 36 20 112 PORTS. T Record Tennis Gathering That Sees Perry Score Over Vines Simple Tip From Hokie Smith Makes Elkins Bowling Champ; Broken Finger Help to Hurd BY ROD THOMAS. CE ELKINS of the Holy Name and Home Owners’ Loan Corp. Bowling Leagues, who collects $50 and a gold medal as win- ner of The Star tournament, is in- clined to split the dough with Hokie Smith of the Columbia staff. ‘With a simple suggestion Hokie made a champion overnight of Elkins. “Always point your left foot and right thumb at the object pin,” coached Smith, himself an ace, and FElkins, a 103-average bowler, im- proved magically. In the final of The Star tournament, instead of 103, he averaged 133. “I may never shoot that many sticks again in five games,” said El- kins today, “but neither will I ever be the ham I was before Hokie gave me the foot-and-thumb tip.” Hokie Learns From Clarke. BUT even Elkins’ tutor is not above accepting advice in the matter of mauling duckpins. You may have District League w. f 35 1§ q wi Rovs Thager Srore™” Occidental Restauran Lucky Sirike [ R 2912000913:0943 SSOR 1 1 ,_HH,_M_ 30 0@ 0000 #2280 urichs Conv'ion Hall Arcadia ___ Georgetown b i ol o o RI53320 .. o aiek 3o S 158 3 For the first time the real Vines g 3uss Was seen as he marched to 3—0, the | power of his attack shattering Perry’s | Newm best defense. However, Vines’ effort was costly, as he served two double faults to give |p' back to Perry the valuable break gained on service. Vines could not hold a sustained effort and once more lapsed into error. It was evident that Vines was having trouble holding 3 critical mo- | &l his concentration at ments. He had four chances to break Perry and lead by 5—3, but missed each by errors of service. The end came at 6—4. The story of the match is told in Vines’ appalling list of errors, due in the main to his physical condition, but cleverly fed and exploited by | Perry’s well-planned method of keep- ing the ball in play. Perry Gets Big Sum. 'ANOTHER singles match and a doubles also were on the pro- |Refson gram, with Lott topping Bruce Barnes of Texas, 6—2, 5—5, in the singles, hlegy and Tilden and Barnes beating Perry Hurd and Lott, 6—3, 6—2, in doubles. The singles match was called off in the second set to permit the feature clash to start on time. Perry got the bigger cut of the Pecord-shattering receipts. His share Was 3715 per cent of the net, as against 1215 for Vines. It was estimated Perry's first pro start netted over $15,000. (Copyright. Reproduction in whole or prohibited without permission " —— J. C. C. CRAVES ACTION. A game with some unlimited team having a gym for Saturday is wanted by the Jewish Community Center five. Oall Joe Cohen at Columbia 2817 be- tween 6 and 6:30 o'clock. ALL LANSBURGHERS HIT. All seven of Lansburgh's courtmen ‘Who got into the game had a hand in the scering of a 30-18 victory over the Rural Electric five last night. . Pin Standings ODD FELLOWS. w.L imbia. 18 Mt. Ple . Pleassat 26 18 Priena 23 33 Sivenent Season Records. 2 e—Cols . 601, B dom e, i iz::':er tlnd;flduu same—George Gloss- : m,x(:” individual set—Georse Glossbren- 1,800, - g; individual l'e;:nl—.mrl:: R o o i g ) te: e s D £ Lasroigne 3 BBSORE 5 aumoos S oo 2WIET 5 838X ot Sstoue e Ry bttt it At Eggass gruces suse gasts . »@wnsfig rd e Boscscomsacs o FRgsse BI2T3NI ] PO o [rt=etetet™y I i noticed the name of Hokie Smith among the high finishers in several big tournaments this season. For years Hokie has been a top-flighter in all sorts of competition, but has improved noticeably in recent months in “pressure” bowling. Smith plucked a leaf from the bowling philosophy of Astor Clarke. It used to be that Hokie's imagina- tion got the better of him. He wor- ried over a bad frame, pressed to make it up, or lost his concentration thinking about what he might do in the boxes to come. “The moment a box is rolled I put it out of my mind, no matter whether it was a good or bad one. And I don’t give a thought to what might happen in the frames to come. I bowl one box at a time, mentally as well as physically. I don't bother about the other fellow’s score. If I did the chance is I wouldn't accom- plish enough to give him anything to bother about.” And Hokie is striving with steadily increasing success for that Clarke- like concentraiion.- Broken Finger a Help. ’I‘HAT brings us to another oddity | of The Star tournament. Ed | Hurd, who, in the preliminary at the Lucky Strike, shot 704 from scratch and 732 with his handicap, for all- TG time tournament records, was forced to give up bowling for a while by a broken finger. When he returned to the mapleways he found it necessary to change his grip. Instead of con- troling the ball with his forefinger, he used the middle digit. Of a con- sequence he s shooting & better game than ever. PLAZA PINMEN SCORE Last-Box Marks. Special Dispateh to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md, January 7.— Small counts on last-box marks sent the Shaffer Flower Shop bowling team from down to & 3-pin defeat at the hands of the Plaza five here. Despite a 625 in the fifth game, Shaffer ended up with a 2,928 total, compared to Plam's 2,931, Lou Knoche of the winners had the highest set, 645, 13 more than George Honey of the losers was able to knock down. Guethler's-516 for four games | 394: V. Geos for Shaffer's was outstanding. _— HOWARD BACK TO COURT. Howard University’s basket ball team will play its first game since the Christmas holidays on Saturday night, when it encounters North Carolina Btate College in the Howard gym. Perry Like Vet in Pro Debut Due Much Credit for Net Victory, Despite Vines Is Handicapped by Hiness. BY JOHN LARDNER. EW YORK, Janusry 7— Frederick John Perry, known until recently as “Mr.” Perry, gave the ten- nis bookmakers a thorough thump- ing last night before the biggest crowd" that ever watched a tennis match in this or any other solar system, defeating H. Ellsworth Vines, the profestionsl of the world, 7—8, 3—8, 6—3, 6—4. It was Perry’s first professional match, but he behsved as though he had been hustling for cash money all his life. He went straight to work, and Vines co-operated with him. The tall Californian was & 2-to-1 shot to win, but, for all his three years with delirlum tremens. There was none of the smash'ng, ecrashing player who curtails a rally as quick- ly as possible. He drives for the lines, gambling on his controlled speed to handcuff the other guy. He didn’t handcuff Perry, because he was putting them right down the middle of the alley. Vines had pleaded guilty to a slight stomach ache before the match and Perry was plowing through the aftermath of & brief siege of grippe. Of the two afflice tions, it appears that stomach trouble is the tougher. At any rate, Vines didn’t do himself justice and 'Pmy' took full advantage of the act. Vines was crédited with a tem- perature of 102 when the match Was over. His condition may have had something to do with his showing. But you can’t take it away from the Loquacious Limey, though, that he played magnificent tennis under the circumstances. He was new to the professional game, he was new to the indoor surface and he was new to the tricky lighting. (Copyright, 1987, by North Ameriean A Shaffer Rollers Fail to Profit by | Early Sale Set For Net Ducats HEAVY demand for tickets for the Ellsworth Vines-Fred Perry professional tennis match at the Uriversity of Maryland’s Ritchie Coliseum on January 25 will result in the ducats going on sale tomorrow instead of Monday, as first announced. Only the cae pacity of the house will be sold. About 1,500 reserved seats at $1.65 will be sold, the approxi- mately 2,300 additional seats, un- reserved, selling for $1.10. Al seats give a direct and unobstructed view. Tickets will be sold at the sports department of the Hecht Co, Spalding’s, the A. A. A. and Key- stone Automobile Club and at the College Park athletic office. SILAS, CRAVEN FACE IN. RING SEMI-FINAL Ahearn Gets Welters Together, Fears Gallagher Is Lost for February Bout. MATCHMAKER GOLDIE AHEARN has his troubles getting the boys SPILLING PECTATOR space will be at a premium tonight at the Lucky Strike when the Capital's two mightiest duckpin combina- tions, Rose Liquor Store and Occi- dental Restaurant, square off in the feature match of the District League which swings back into action on three other bowling fronts—Northeast ‘Temple, Georgetown and Convention Hall. Statistics released today reveal Rose Liquor is shooting at a terrific 608- game average pace, with Occidental but four sticks a game behind. Six of the 10 first high-average howitzers of the major circuit will line up for the second-place battle at which position both are tied today. ON ‘THE Occidental side will be Astor Clarke, top average shooter of the circuit with 126-2; Bill Krauss, fifth, with 123-33, and Perce Wolfe, ninth, with 122-2. The heavy artil- lery of the Ben Rose entry, Johnny Anderson, Henry May and Joe Har- rison, with 124-11, 123-8 and 123. respectively, are fourth, together for battling in Joe Turner’s Punch Bowl. He has signed 8id Silas and Johnny Craven for an eight-round weleter semi-final for the show next Monday, but now fears he will have to pass up a Marty Gallagher-Jack Roper go that had been planned for Feb- ruary 1. Gallagher, eminent Washington heavyweight, has an infected right arm that is stubbornly resisting treat- ment. There are fears that the infec- tion may end Marty's fighting career. ‘The blood poisoning followed a small scratch Gallagher suffered while work- ing at his riding academy. The infec- tion is being drained, but physicians state that Marty will be unable to do any more boxing for some time, if at all. Ahearn is endeavoring to match Phil Furr, Washington welter, and Lew Raymond for a bout January 18. Lutheran (Men’s) First Half Standings, WL Hg 12 ol Luther Place_ 8t. John No. 2. EFEL St. Paui No. Trinity Atonement _ Keller Memori, Christ Church Incarnation ount Raini 20 3 2 i 1 i: Pirst Halt Records. Loieh tesm games—8t. Paul No. 1. 608; axu'i: team gats—Luther Place, 1,702: . John's No. 2, 1.698. High individual games—Reiley (8t Paul's No. 2). 163: Groft (Luther Place), ¢ (Luther PIate and Rowy """I%Zfl- No. 3. Luther Place). 390. ff (Luther Place). 31: A Di3n! 33 " '.'q-'n'v-?.'ag'a'al)n SRt et e 233 303 r&flé = Tukerse b spereo Rodsbush (8t Johm's No i : ; 2).08: Zanner (8t Phuls No. 1)) 93, Individual Reeords. LUTHER PLACE. G. _Ave. .. Ave. %10 e B o8 3 109-12 Walters ~ g 99-20 8T. JOHN'S NO. 2. Roudsb'h 39 110-16 Wendt__ 30 106-8. Fraca™ 33 14015 Wondt- 39 x§g»9 Jennings 38 106-8 W Dering 34 0.2 &T. PAUL'S NO. 1. 19 Hoover s -§‘ 12 't - 13 B B 1 =2 9813 -1 i e 34 B 3 CHRIST CHURCH. 101-1 Johnson mo-ga jebert__ 100-22 INCARNATION. 36 =3 By EmCR MOUNT RAINIER. BRhiEsh i REE ZION. Shller B g1 ST. PAUL'S NO. 2. 102-1 fi B g GRACE. Reile: 38 it 38 109-2! 108-2 103-3¢ i ST. JOHN'S NO. 1. Hagel ___. PRe=B i) fa e e | Ackerman sy TTyman Beman xlflg‘.-- Smith. = 7-22 -19 R vidual supremacy. ‘The first-place Washington Brewery, steaming along with 25 wins in 36 games, mets the champion Heurich Brewers at ‘Temple. i Action will start at 10 o'clock. Ed Schlegel and his Georgetowners play host to Howard Campbell's Lucky Strikers, who just before the holiday recess were cutting quite a caper, forging into fourth place, four games back of the pacemaker. Evenly matched, Arcadia invades Convention Hall for a tussle with Eddie Espey and his gang. Howard Parsons, the Luckies’ lead- off shooter, grabbed the runner-up spot in the individual averages just before the holidays with 124-29, shoot- ing sets of 396, 410 and 411 in & row | to pass Ollie Pacini, who almost sin- Brewery in the lead with 124-27. OUT of the limelight of the city’s big-league bowling for several years, Helena Kohler still is to be counted among the best of the girl bowlers hereabouts. More often than not her scores top the Eastern Star League. Last night her 138 top string punctuated Unity’s 555 high game, which tripped Bethany in the odd Pleasan ‘Turning in & set of 349, Jean Cory led Treaty Oak to s 3-1 verdict over Washingten Centennisl. Luey Owen, star member of the latter team, shot & sparkling 347. * Bob Osgood, who gets a slice of the $500 Star tourney prize with his 690 score, shot top game of 147 to feature the front-running Hand Set team’s rout of the Northerns in the C. & P. ‘Telephone League. The second-place Centrals begged two from Cleveland with high counts of 605 and 1,696 Bill Wolfe, with 362, was Central's heaviest E Oausing & mild surprise, the last- place Holmes crew trimmed Social Security three games in the Lucky Strike Ladies’ League. With Sadie Curtin hitting the high spots with 123 and 310, the leading General p of honors with 138 and 357. ANY ANY SHAPE AUTO $IZE GLASS PROMPT DRIVE-IN SERVICE Teranto & Wasmen, Inc. 1321 L & N.W. NA. 2966 | with a 2-1 setback of Temple. |Takes Third Match of Cricket , | team defeated England by 365 runs to- sixth and| day in the third test match between seventh in the hectic race for indi- | ANOTHER BIG OPENING! |gle handed has held Washington | HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1937. Davis Cup Now Looms for U. 8. L ENGLAND HARD HIT BY LOSS OF PERRY Yanks Need Only Seasoning Apparently—Budge Eyes Amateur Throne. (This is one of a series of stories written for the Associated Press by outstanding sports leaders. They deal with 1936 developments and 1937 prospects.) BY WALTER MERRILL HALL, t. United States Lawn Tennis Frosiden Association. EW YORK, January 7 (#).— From an international com- petitive standpoint the sea- son of 1936 will go down in tennis history as disappointing to the Uhited States because the Davis Cup was not regained. Nevertheless, the Margin really was very small even though our team did not get through to the inter-zone final and challenge rounds. The defeat by Australia in Phila- delphia was no disgrace as the out- come of the five-match series really was settled by the hair-trigger doubles | match in which Budge and Mako lost |* to Crawford and Quist in five sets| and which was so desperately close that another point or so at the criti- cal times of the fourth or fifth sets would have swung the victory to our side. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. T &2 The Luckies, however, found a capable substitute in Irene Mischou and took two games from Swanee. Polly Shugrue and Catherine Quig- ley led the winners with respective sets of 345 and 342. Neither of them, though, touched the high set of Maxine Thompson of Swanee, who shot 350, including & 135. Other loop matches found Rosslyn adding a game to its league lead with a whitewash of Georgetown, while Highway Engineering was dropping one to R. E. A. Cleaners. Conven- tion Hall soared over the .500 mark AUSTRALIA IS VICTOR Series With England. MELBOURNE, Australia, January 7| (Thursday) (#).—Australia'’s cricket | the teams of the two countries. In completing the match, Australia limited the English batsmen to 323 runs in their second innings. The current test series now stands at two matches to one in favor of England. Two matches remain. il - SPORTS. * Budge Has Fine Record. THE Australian team went on to win the inter-zone final against Germany and lost to the champion English team by only three matches to two. A little more experience in international competition with conse- quent more steadiness in the pinches and our players easily may sweep the competition in 1937, The record of our leading singles player, Donald Budge, was outstand- ingly fine throughout the season, even though he lost to Fred Perry, the world amateur champion, in a close match at Wimbledon and again in| the wonderful wide open final match | of the American championship at | Forest Hills. Only his much greater | tournament experience and slightly | stronger physical condition at the | end won that gruelling struggle for Perry, 10-8, in the fifth set. With the single exception of an early season defeat by Grant, Budge lost no other matches throughout the year. His record included victories against both the Australians, Quist| and Crawford in the American zone finel at Philadelphia, as well as de- feats of both Perry and Austin in the English-United States match at Eastbourne, England, plus a late sea- | son defeat of Perry in the Pacific Southwest at Los Angeles. Budge Appears to Be Tops. T NEEDS no stretch of the imagi- nation to envisage Budge at the top of the amateur tennis world in 1937, with possibly Baron von Cramm of Germany the only player in sight to question seriously his supremacy now that Fred Perry has crossed over into the professional ranks. ‘This action by Perry puts an en- tirely different complexion on the Davis Cup competition and appears to change the status of the champion English nation from a distinct fa- Hoppe, Schaefer In New Cue Tilt CchOO. January 7 (#).—The latest thirg in billiards—28.2 balkline—will be inaugurated in big-time competition in the United States when Willie Hoppe and young Jake Schaefer clash in a 3,000-point match January 25-30. The two masters of the cue, who have held every major billiards title between them, will play the new angle game for a side-wager of $1,000 and 60 per cent of the gate receipts. The 28.2 game, devised in France, where it is called “super- billiards,” gives more opportunity for open play than 18.2, the favorite of both stars. P e e e B vorite to defend successfully again in 1937, to & psition in which the chal- lenger, whether that proves to be Australia, Germany, the United States or some other nation, would seem likely to have the advantage. ‘The loss of Perry to the professional ranks is the first important defection of an outstanding amateur player suf- fered by England, and while Austin still is first class in world caliber, there appears to be no one in sight in England of anything like equal skill to carry on with him. While deploring the loss to the ama- teur game of such an outstanding and colorful figure, it well may be that re- newed interest and stimulation to the Davis Cup competition may result. Certainly interest and preparations for the 1937 campaign are at a high point in all the leading tennis countries. In the United States the association is supplementing usual plans for sea< soned Davis Cup players by the ore ganization of a comprehensive proe gram for formation of a junior Davis Cup squad to develop actively prome ising new material from all quarters of the country. L R I COLORED BOYS’ CLUB Police Plan Organization Apt to Open in Spring. A police boys' club for colored youngsters of the Capital probably will be in operation in Spring. Plans for an organization patterned after the clubs the police have sponsored for white boys for some time have been made by Maj. Ernest Brown, superintendent of police, and nego= tiations for property in the neighbor- hood of Twelfth and U streets to house the club are under way. Maj. Brown has announced it probe ably will be two or three months before the project will be ready for the youngsters, - WANNAN PACES FRIENDS Shows Way in 24-15 Win Over Western B Quintet. 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