Evening Star Newspaper, January 7, 1937, Page 39

- SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1937. SPORTS. C3 Ideal Golf Match Is Visualized With Record Gate in Picture EX-YANK_BRITSH | CHANPS “PAIRED” Line-ups of Once Amateur Kings Would Sparkie With Brilliancy. BY W. R. McCALLUM. INDE FOWLER, the bespectacled little golf writer, who works for the sedate old Boston Trans- cript, bobs up today with an 1dea for a golf match that would pack ‘em in at the gate as few national championships have done. Glancing back over the list of former amateurs who have forsaken the pats on the back of simon pure golf for the cold cash of professional- ism, Linde dsks, “Why not a match between the star amateurs of the United States and Great Britain who have gone the professional route?” And what a match that would be. Jock McLean, runner-up to John Fischer for the United States amateur championship, would be on the British side, says Linde, but what a glamor- ous bunch the American team would be, all former amateur champions. Jones Would Top List. TOPP!!D by Robert Tyre Jones, jr., ‘who incidentally never has played as a professional golfer, the American team would be composed of Lawson Little, 193¢ and 1935 American and British amateur champion; George Von Elm, 1926 national title-holder, Jerome D. Travers, who won the championship three times, the last time in 1913. For the British side Linde would name Abe Mitchell, Willie 1. Hunter, who now lives in California; T. Phillip Perkins, 1928 British champ, and Jock McLean, the former whisky salesman from Glasgow. And then, to carry out the analogy further Linde would toss in four of our better women stars to carry on their little private feud, two of them on each side of the water. The Ameri- can professional women would be Helen Hicks and Babe Didrickson, while the British women would be Joyce Wethered, who played at Co- lumbia in 1935, and Enid Wilson. No Chance for Match. 'HERE isn’t a Chinaman’s chance of ever arranging such a match of former amateur champions and wom- en’s stars, but if it could be fixed the “take” at the gate would shame the profits of your biggest national cham- plonship. Can you imagine a four- some composed of Jones and Travers playing Mitchell and Hunter or Von Elm and Little against Perkins and McLean? The Americans should win the male side of the argument, but on the women’s side they wouldn't be so sure of victory. Joyce Wethered and Enid Wilson probably would be a lit- tle too tough for Helen Hicks and the Didrickson gal. ‘There probably would be 5,000 fans out to see Bob Jones alone. And from Atlanta comes the news that Bob is not training any more for the coming Augusta national tournament, the one event of the year in which he plays. Bob hasn't done so well in his little jousts with the pros at Augusta, and plans, so his friends say, to take the tournament in stride this year, without making any special effort to train for it. And he hopes the ballyhoo which has surrounded his last two or three starts at Augusta will be lacking this year. To any one who knows golf it's per- fectly obvious that no man who hasn't played in several big tournaments can’t string along with the tournament- hardened pros, no matter how good he may be. — HALL IN FLORIDA MEET D. C. Golfer Plays Cincinnati Man | at Palm Beach. €recial Dispatch to The Star. PALM BEACH, Fla, January T— Clarence Hall of Washington, D. C., teed off this morning in the first round of match play in the annual Old Guards Society tournament at the Palm Beach Golf Club. He is opposing Bernard H. Kroger of Cin- H cinnati in the second flight. Prepares to Defend Title MARIBEL VINSON, National women’s figure skatin ice at the outdoor rink in Roc champion, performing on the efeller Plaza, New York. Miss Vinson, eight times a title holder, is practicing for the meets about to start. BY PAUL J. MILLER, JR. EUBEN FINE, youthful New York chess star, had victory in the Hastings, England, Christ- mas tournament snatched from his grasp in the eighth round of play by & brilliant pawn sacrifice on the fifteenth move of Dr. Alexander Alekhin, former world champion, and a naturalized citizen of France. For seven consecutive rounds the American master led the fleld of 10 chess experts, winning handily all his matches. He defeated the British champion, William Winter; the Aus- trian champion, Erich Eliskases; the Belgian champion, George Koltanow- ski; the woman world champion, Vera Menchik; Feigin, Latvian master; Tylor, English master, and Sir George Thomas, & former British champion, only to meet his Golgotha of bitterness when he encountered Alekhin, probably the greatest living chess grandmaster despite his loss of the world title. Moves Into Cul-de-sac. THE pawn sacrifice of Alekhin led Fine into a cul-de-sac and the American, playing against time, failed to find a way out as the Russian stead- 1ly applied pressure. A year ago Fine made his debut as an international master in the sixteenth Christmas tourney of the St. Leonards Chess Club at Hastings. Victorious against the eminent mas- ters of that fray, it had appeared as though he would duplicate his per- formance this Christmas. But Alekhin, fighting energetically to regain some of the renown he lost when he yielded the world championship to Dr. Max Euwe of Holland, opened up a Ruy Lopez barrage and Fine squared off to meet the attack rather than sidestep at the pivotal move in the opening. Alekhin faces the Belgian Kolta- nowski in the final round with a tous- nament score of 7 wins and 1 draw, whereas Fine meets Dr. Milan Vidmar of Yugoslavia, professor at the Uni- versity of Ljubljana, with a tally of 7 victories and 1 defeat. Apparently Alekhin has come back to win his first major prize in a masters’ parley in a couple of years. Individual summary: Hall qualified yesterday with & net | Vidmar~ score of 42 for nine holes. He had & gross of 51 and s handicap of 9§ strokes. LEWIS, THOMAS MATCHED Meet in Non-Title Go January 15 in Chicago Stadium. CHICAGO, January 7 (#).—World Light Heavyweight Champion John ‘Henry Lewis will battle Harry Thomas, stiff puncher from Eagle Bend, Minn., January 15, in the Chicago Stadium’s first 1937 boxing show. Lewis’ title will not be involved in the 10-round bout as Thomas is & full-fledged heavyweight. Matchmaker Jim Mullen is trying to sign Davey Day, Chicago lightweight stablemate of Welterweight Champion Barney Ross, and Jinny Garrison of Kansas City for a 10-round co-feature. CASCARELLA IN LINE. Reported to have received a slight boost in pay, Jos Cascarells, who fin- ished last season as one of Washing- ton's most effective pitchers, has signed his contract for the 1937 cam- paign, President Clark Griffith an- nounced today. Cascarella is spend- ing the Winter in Ellicott City, Md. VET TO FACE BREWERS. Honey Russell, 17-year veteran of professional basket ball will be one of the featured performers with the New York Presidents, who meet thé Heurich Brewers in the weekiy game st the brewery gym on Sunday aft- ernoon, CROWDER CUE WINNER. Jerry. Crowder won two matches in the District of Columbis billiard tournament last night at the Royal Academy, defeating Gene Flynn, 35-34, and Charles Goodacre, 35-30. The winner’s high runs were 4 and 3. ST. ANTHONY’S AHEAD. ing the winners with 11 poinf FLYING EAGLES DATING. Team Matches Continue. Pamnm E. V. FINERAN states that round No. 5 of the Metro- 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. A CHANGE in the ownership of the Washington base ball club in the near future is probable. Manager Clark Griffith has ex- pressed a desire to own the club, and should the opportunity to buy be offered him, it is certain he would seize it. The Westover Athletic Club held & formal opening in its club house, at 1323 Twenty-fourth street, with the intention of taking an active part in all branches -of amateur athletics in and around Wash- ington. Raymond Devlin is ppesi- dent of the club, Clayton Golding vice president, Gilbert Lansdale recording secretary, Laurence M. Feeney financial secretary, John J. Fahey treasurer and Thomas J. McGuire sergeant at arms. touted Yale five, 23-21. by Jim Collifiower, the team con- sists of Calhoun and Welsh, for- ‘wards; Martin and Warner, guards, and Allen, center. —Wide World Photo. =85 politan Chess Association team tour- nament will be played this evening at 8:30 o'clock at Sloss cafeteria, 818 Fourteenth street northwest. All quintet captains are to be present and be prepared for a new alignment of the remaining game schedule, says Abe Seidenberg, tournament director. Alternates should be on hand in case of absences on the varsity squads. No player may participate on more than one team and once he has selected his colors he must fly the same as long as the tournament lasts. In conjunction with the team fray will be round No. 2 of the individual school championship tournament for the special “Y” trophy, donated by J. C. Ingram, boys’ director, and also the individual medal. Additional school entries will. be permitted tonight. After the evening's play no belated players may compete for prize awards. An instructional chess lecture will be featured for novices and visitors. Tariff for the evening’s entertainment is 25 cents for every one. Pledged members of the Washington Downtown Social Chess Club will con- vene between matches to discuss ways and means of operating the social clup and the best location for the umit. Ladies as well as gentlemen may be- come members or associates of the downtown organization. GENERALS’ QUINTET AGAIN IS POWERFUL Declared Leading Contender for Southern Conference Title Held by Tarheels. LEXINGTON, Va., January 7 (P).— Washington and Lee’s basket ball squad, leading contender for the Southern Conference crown worn by North Carolina, is preparing to com- bat & heavy schedule. Coach Cy Young is building his of- fensive this season around one of the South’s tallest basket ball combina- tions—Bob Spessard, 6-foot-7-inch center, and Bill Borries, 6-foot-4-inch forward. Spessard found the basket for 71 points in three practice contests be- Miskevics. fore Christmas, while Borries made 44. The latter, & sophomore end on | Peise: the foot ball eleven, is & brother of Navy’s famous Buzz Borries. Six letter men are available, includ- ing the brilliant Norman Iler, guard and captain, who was named to the ajl-Southern team after the confer- ence tourney last Winter. Others in- clude Earl (Kit) Carson, forward, who made the second all-conference quin- tet; Frank Frazer, Fielder Woodward and John Tomlin. Three major losses from the 1936 squad, which reached the finale in the conference tourney, were Capt. Joe Pette, Bill Ellis and Wes-Heath. Coach Young has a capable group of replacements, including Al Szy- manski, Ernst, Doane, Wiley, Crane, Shannon and Lindsey.. Future games are: January Maryland: 11, Virginis, 8 , Wil nd Mary: 16, Long 5t New ;"x-'za. V.P.L LIST BASKET GAMES. Games with teams in the 130 and 145 pound classes are being scheduled by the Silver Spring Merchants through Robert Linkins at Silver Spring 257-J. Call between 5:30 and 6:30 o'clock. DETTON TOSSES STEIN. LOS ANGELES, Janusry 7.—Dean Detton tossed Sammy Stein in & pro mat match here last night. Each grappler scaled 250. Asks Open Aid for Gridders Oklahoma Dean Wants Room and Board Given Openly to Big Six Pigskinners. “The council felt ‘it would like After Fourth Straight in Mount St. Mary’s Tilt, G. U. Bows, Terps Win. EEKING their fourth straight victory in as many starts, George Washington's point-a- minute basketers play another undefeated team, Mount St. Mary's of Emmitsburg, at Tech High School in the lone local intercollegiate game on_tonight’s schedule. The game, starting at 8:30 o'clock, will follow & preliminary between the G. W. Freshmen and the George Washington High School of Alex- andria, scheduled to begin at 7. The varsity game will be the last test for the Colonials before meeting the crack St. John's five of Brooklyn in the same gym on Saturday night. Out at Catholic University the Car- dinal Varsity five will entertain a C. U. alumni aggregation, while two other local college quints will play away. Georgetown makes its second Eastern Intercollegiate Conference start in two nights agajnst West Vir- ginia at Morgantown after losing to Carnegie Tech, 25-17, last night at Pittsburgh. American U. invades Bridgewater. Terrapins Rout Jays. MARYLAND. which opened its home season auspiciously last night with its first victory of the campaign, a 54-31 rout of Johns Hopkins, will rest until tomorrow night, when it begins a two-game week end invasion of Virginia. It was a sophomore, George Knepley, who led the Old Liners in a free- scoring game which compared favor- ably with G. W.'s 44-21 rout of the same victim. While more than 2,000 watched, Knepley dropped in six field goals, although four other Terps had hot hands of their own. Ben Allen, center; Bill Guckeyson and Charley Keller, guards, and Waverly Wheeler, forwards, all scored at least three times from the floor in a 26-fleld-goal at- tack which had the Baltimoreans dizzy. The game gave Coach Burton Ship- ley a chance to see all of his squad in action and all but two of the 12 men he sent into the game took a hand in the scoring. The walk-away became apparent early in the first half, which ended 25-9. Maryland. GF. | momsieamisewalis | cosonosssom by Totals____26 254 Totals____11 931 Refereés—O. Mifchell and Enright. Hoya Streak Is Broken. EORGETOWN dropped its first game of the season to Carnegie Tech after four straight victories had aroused Hoya hopes of going some- where in the Eastern’ Intercollegiate Conference. But employing a zone defense and adhering strictly to a defensive plan of action, the Skibos called a halt to Georgetown's scoring which previously had averaged nearly 40 points per game, limiting the Blue and Gray to five field goals. In fact, it took George- town 15 minutes to break through for their first score of the game and that one field goal, by Tommy Nolan, repre- sented G. U.’s only points of the first half which ended, 9-2. ‘The Hoyas looked to be an entirely different team in the second half, being outscored by their hosts by only 1 point. Scoring twice in succession after the resumption of play Georgetown held Tech to a 3-point lead until the last five minutes of play when the Plaid again spurted. No Georgetown | player scored more than vne field goal, K but DQen Gibeau’s defensive play was outstanding. In a conference in that city, Pitt 32-28. Carnegie Tgch, counter-attraction defeated Temple, ... 3 oo 5l 5] nwonmeont [UORT al oommounssr; DUKE, WISCONSIN BOX DURHAM, N. C., January 7 (#).— A six-match schedule reveals the Duke boxing team will meet Wiscon- sin at Madison March 7. The Blue Devils, with two national collegiate champions in Ray Matule- wicz, light-heavy Olympic team mem- ber, and Danny Farrar, welterweight, will open against South Carolina Gamecocks here Saturday. The schedule: January 9. South Carolina; 16, Catholie U r&wu"g'w:iz Virginia. at Morgan i e Sergleh B’ oh R meet. at’College Park. March 7, Wisconsin. at Madison. DIMICHAS SOCCER STAR. Michael Dimichas, center-half, was outstanding as 'k View School soccer team def the Seaton School eleven, 2-1, yesterday on the New York Avenue Playground. PAINTER BASKET STAR. Painter led the Pire Department five dent of the Riggs Bank, is the new president of the Burning Tree Club. Fleming, who is one of the better golfers of the club where much of Washington officialdom does its divot-flinging, succeeds Joseph E. Davies. Davies has been appointed, United States Ambassador to Soviet Russia and already has left for Moscow. Fleming had served as vice president during the presidency of Davies. ‘Walter R. Tuckerman, former Mid- dle Atlantic and District golf cham- pion, has been named vice president of the club, succeeding Fleming. Tuckerman is one of the founder members of the Burning Tree Club and one of the leading golfers. Wn‘fi complete plans for the new clubhouse approved contracts will be let within the next 350 days for construction of a house to cost around $75,000 at the Washington Golf and Country Club. Members of the club met at the call of President Garnett and approved plans for the club- house reconstruction. ‘The old house was destroyed by fire in September, 1936, but a roof was put on the remaining portion and it has been in use for several months. Meanwhile those repairs which have been made to the old house were made with the idea of incorporating them in the new structure, to be built on the site of the old house. YOU don't often find a fellow mak- ing successive birdies on two such tough holes as the 13th and 14th at Washington, but Ralph Fowler, the club champion, did it. Ralph knocked an iron shot 8 feet from the cup at the 13th and holed the putt. He followed by canning a downhill 12- footer for a deuce at the 14th. Al Houghton, Bannockburn pro- motor and Maryland open champ, does rash things sometimes. Al tried to take on the best ball of Al Jamison, associate pro at Kenwood, and Maury Fitzgerald and what the boys did to Al was a shame. They got him in the middle and kept him there and Al couldn’t do much abeut it. WILLXAM ‘W. HINSHAW, former opera singer, comes to Washing- ton every Fall for a series of instruc- tional rounds of golf with Fred Mc- Leod, and annually when the weather ROBET V. FLEMING, presi- . | gets bad he hops down to Augusta to continue his golf there. But the weather Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI—Freddie Miller, 127!3, Cincinnati, former N. B. A. featherweight champion, outpoint- ed Prankie (Kid) Covelll, 12713, Brookllyn (10). TORONTO.—Ted Keating, 182, ‘Winipeg, outpointed Hank Palmer, 177, Cleveland (6). PLIETEE Y TERP FRESHMEN AHEAD Find Briarley Easy in Opening)| Basket Ball Game. University of Maryland's freshman basket ball team scored a crushing victory over the Briarley Military Academy courtmen yesterday after- noon at College Park, winning 48-16. Scott of the frosh, however, shared individual honors with Knight, the only visitor able to score consistently. Both caged the ball five times from the floor for 10 points. Maryland Frosh Briarly M. A, 2 GF) F PYTERITE IS & ® 4 oomish i ausuce g SO DNDDT; o 2K g H OO eceos 21 648 Totals____ 8 01 Referee—Mr. Chase. — SHUFFLEBOARD CHAMP with the towering Hinshaw, well over 6 feet and weighing more than 200 pounds. “He plays pretty well, too,” says Freddie. “He’s been as low as 74 and he plays in the upper seventies nearly all the time. And we don't take long to get around that course, either. We gallop around in two hours or better every day.” Hinshaw is one of those golfers who will have his golf regardless of the weather. Two years ago he gave to the Columbia Club a lesson shelter house, out near the eighth tee. The house is open on all sides and in bad weather he and Freddie go out there and Hinshaw takes a lesson, driving balls from under the shelter of the house. Lefty Harrell and his Augusta crowd are making plans for their an- nual Washington's birthday Southern golf junket. This year they are plan- ning a smaller party of around 20 golfers, to leave Washington about February 18, returning the morning of February 23. & - y : . Prgl:ectf?:n‘fo = - Ld . . . Guaranteed for 36 SUPER Power Flo Cross Country 7 63 and old battery 51 oversized high type plates, 12 more plates per battery, 105% greater starting power at zero, and other features make it America’s greatest battery buy. 45-Plate Cross Country Batiery. $5.45 and eld battery. 30-Plate Peeris Battery, $1.25 ‘and old_ batters. Poulos Takes Playground Title by | Defeating Quigley. James Poulos, jr, won the Judi- ciary Square Playground Schuffieboard League championship by defeating Francis Quigley in the play-off, 25-3, 15-25, 25-12, 15-25, 25-10. Each had tied for first-place honors with 27 victories, as against 12 defeats. John Sfarnas placed third with 25 victories and 14 defeats while Jack Creslein finished fourth, three games behind the leaders. Fourteen boys be- tween the ages of 9 and 12 started Durobilt, extra strong, heavy- gauge harden- ed steel PIERS' 108 TOUGH IN MAT TOPLINER Steps Up Several Notches . in Meeting Garibaldi in Tonight’s Show. \URNER'S temple of twist will resume its weekly grapple shows after a three-week lay- off tonight when Henri Plers Plers, long & preliminary favorite Washington's caulifiower colony, addicts, many of whom feel Piers is ready to be featured here. Henrl, in his last appearance here, pinned Jim Coffield in the local record time of 29 seconds and other- wise has thrown Jack Donovan, John Katan and Mannie Canto in Tecent weeks. Garibaldi, on the other hand, re- peatedly has aroused the ire of grap- pling patrons with his unorthodox tac- tics. His last match here saw him disqualified for booting Danno O'Ma- hony a bit too much, while other re- cent tests have seen him win and lose to Joe Cox and flip John Katan. ‘Thirty-minute matches will pit katan against Ed Meske, Stanley Pinto against Mayes McLain, Hans Kampfer against Lord Albert Mills and Ernie Powers against Jack Hader. The first of these will get under way at 8:30 o'clock, r -YOU r . - . ® ' . 4 af. fav.mgs._ Months ® L Auto Robes Warmth in aplen- th 19° Por tires from 3% to 4.95. Tires 5 in. to 537 ... 28e to_correct tem- perature in half Gophers, Francis Top His Grid List SAN FRANCISCO, January 7 (#)—Earl T. (“Curley”) Lam- beau, who coaches the pro cham- plon Green Bay Packers, thinks Minnesota was the best college foot ball team in the country, and that San Francis of Nebraska is the prize college player to be sought for the 1937 professional season. Next to Francis he likes Kent Ryan of Utah best as a pro pros- pect. Lambeau thinks the Pacific :Jdout is not ready for pro foot L GRID TAX CHECKED Court Enjoins U. 8. From Taking Georgia Schools’ Funds. ATLANTA, January 7 (A .—The Federal Government has been en- Joined from collecting taxes on ad- missions to foot ball games from the State-supported University of Georgia and the Georgia School of Technology in a ruling by Federal Judge E. Mar- vin Underwood. Regents of the university system filed suit to prevent Internal Revenue Collector W. E. Page from collecting $4,180 in taxes for the 1934 season. Another suit, seeking return of $20,« 148 collected in 1933, is pending. This case, it is said, undoubtedly will reach the Supreme Court. 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