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8 PORTS. G _STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. ., SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1937. SPORTS. | Davis Tennis Toss-Up, Says Perry : Greens Experts Flock to D. C. NET CUP CHANCE BIVEN 4 NATIONS Pro Opines U. S. Has Edge on Britain—Australia, Germany Sturdy. BY FRED PERRY. ITTSBURGH, January 16— Although we still are in the | middle of Winter and Davis Cup play does not start until May, every tennis enthusiast through- out the world is starting to predict the outcome of the 1937 competition. Even though these predictions are somewhat premature, it must be ob- vious even to a layman follower of | the game that the competition must‘ necessarily be an extremely open affair this year. However, I defy any one to name the winner right now.! There are perhaps 32 nations from | which to choose, but it is generally | agreed, and quite rightly so, that the ultimate winner will be found among | England, America, Germany and | Australia. So far so good. And. of cour: average man will immediately say | that England appears to have lmleg chance to defeat any of the other | three. On the face of it, things look | that way, but when you examine the | matter more closely I think you will | agree that the English have as much | chance as any of the others. | , the | Latent Talent in Britain. URING the time in which the Davis Cup team was composed of | Austin, Hughes and myself, all we had to do was to find a partner for Hughes in the doubles. We had two players, Austin and myself, to prove, in the same way in which the French had done for six years previous that we could be relied upon to take care of the cup off our own bat. With & position such as this, none of our| go-called “Davis Cup possibilities” | thought it worth while to train like mad in an effort to oust one of us, because they knew it was hopeless. The result was that we found our- gelves without any one actually ready | to step into the breach in case of | trouble. I turned professional andi the trouble was there, but it must be | remembered that there still are eight | months to go before the competition | becomes vital as far as England is concerned, as they have to play only the challenge round at the end of July. In that eight months I am| positive that some one will come | along, even as quickly as I, m,\'st‘u,} did six years ago. I look forward confidently to July, knowing that some one will come along and fight to keep that cup in just the same way we fought to keep it in the last three years. U. S. Needs Second Match Man. | ' A MERICA, too, is in much the same position, though I must confess it has more talent on hand from which to choose its second singles player. Budge is certain to play one single, | and just as certain is the selection of Budge and Mako for the doubles. But they still have to find a suitable player to take care of the second match. They have a wealth of talent in the older school, and such play- ers as Riggs and Hunt of the younger school. But they have a difficult task on hand. If their choice, whoever he is, fails, | then they have made a mistake. This is indeed & great burden to put on any player, particularly a young one, in a Davis Cup match, which means so much. At the moment, Riggs seems to be the logical choice, but I think that Hunt has the greater possibili- ties. Perhaps the choice of Hunt would give him that extra confidence he needs and make him into a great player. The same might happen with Riggs, but there always is a danger it might affect them the other way. Both England and America have a difficult problem on hand, but, whereas we, in England, have eight months to make up our minds, the Americans have only another two or three months at the outside. Now we come to Australia’s chances. They have the best team of any right now. Crawford, Quist and Mc- Grath are a tried and worthy three- some. They have come very near to winning the cup. Their chief trouble seems to be the gradual decline of Jack Crawford. He has been on top of the world and is finding it increas- ingly difficult to keep up the interest which made him so great. Always the artist, Jack is a difficult player to beat, especially in Davis Cup play. Quist has been resting over ‘the Winter and should be in fine feather for the start of fhe season. A player like McGrath would make the actual team in any other country. They have a fine team spirit, these boys, and one worthy of note. But the dark horses of the com- petition come from Germany in the personages of Cramm and Henkel. They have reached the interzone final two years in succession, the first year beating Australia and geiling within an ace of taking care of the best American team. Henkel's trouble was | that he could not win a match from a winning position, as something always seemed to happen to him. Indeed, a peculiar symptom. JJOWEVER, another season might improve that, and if it does these Germans must be regarded as a se- vere threat, for Henkel as a second player is extremely difficult to beat, especially when you have such a *“first string” as Cramm. In Europe, that is to say, on the clay courts of the continent, 1 feel | sure they would win, but the Davis | Cup matches are played on grass, and | this fact alone makes it difficult for them. TERP CUBS ENTER RING Staunton Team Will Be Met by, Freshmen Tonight. Maryland University’s freshman box- ing team will invade Staunton, Va., tonight for its debut match with Staunton Military Academy. Despite green material, Coach Lyman MeAboy has molded a rather formidable Terp cub team. McAboy plans to start the follow- ing against the Cadets: 115, James Kelley; 125, Albert Dieffenbach; 135, Nathan Askin; 145, Thomas Cole- man; 155, George Acree; 165, Ed Daugherty; 175, Bill Morris, and heavyweight, Donald Adams. Kelley, Coleman and Acree are Washington lads, having graduated from Tech, Roosevelt and Central, respectively. . Australia B .t:t Present. Germans Are Threat. GULDARL LEADING O | hole, $5,000 Oakland open today, with . Goose Spreads His Wings MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Janua ry 16.—To stretch those bingles into extra-base hits the old legs have to be in shape, so Leon Goslin, Tiger outfielder, sceks to keep the spring in his aging underpins by a daily romp on th Goose thinks the Tigers, ajter e beach with his dog King. The a none-too-good season last Year, will be in the race this year. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. N DAKLAND 0PN Augusta and Miami Winner Shoots 64 in Rain—Par Takes Walloping. By the Assoctated Press. AKLAND, Calif., January 16.— Par-cracking Ralph Guldahl of Chicago led the way into the second round of the 72-| { Central a pack of golfdom's greatest profes- sionals on his heels. The lanky former automobile sales- man, who already this Winter has won the Augusta and Miami open tournaments, posted a 64 in the rain at Claremont in his opening round yesterday. Par is 34—34—68. Out in 31 and home in 33, Guldahl finished a stroke ahead of Johnny Perelli of Tahoe, Calif. Perelli carded 35 for the first nine, then toured the back stretch in the amazingly low total of 30 strokes. Amateur Among Leaders. ]OHNNY REVOLTA of Evanston, ** 11, and Henry Picard of Hershey, Pa, shot 66s and Paul Runyan of White Plains, N. Y., a 67. | Tom Lo Presti, sacramento pro, and Eddie Monaghan, Stockton amateur, were the only others to join the small | group equalling or bettering par. Each turned in a 68. Grouped at 69 were Herman Keiser of Springfield, Mo.; Charles Congdon, Tacoma, Wash.; Sam Snead, White | Sulphur Springs, W. Va.; Harold Mc- Spaden, Winchester, Mass.; John Rogers, Denver: Larry Brazil, San Francisco, and Harry Cooper, Chicago. Cooper, teed off a favorite, along with Guldahl and Horton Smith of Chicago. Smith clubbed his way into the ranks of 70-scorers. Big Guns Among Stragglers. N THE same bracket with Smith were Craig Wood. New York: Jimmy | Thomson, long driver from Shawnee, Pa.; Ben Loving, Richmond, Va.; Byron Nelson, Ridgewood, N..J.; Mark Fry, Oakland, and Sam Parks, jr., of Pittsburgh, former national open champion. Among the stragglers were such big guns as Lawson Little, former king of American and British amateurs, now hitting the ball for pay; Denny Shute, present P. G. A. champion and former British open title holder; Jimmy Hines of Garden City, N. Y., and Leo Diegel of Philadelphia. Little shared a spot at 71 with 18 others; Shute finished with a 74; Hines took 76 shots and Diegel was behind with a 76. The low-60 scorers after today's, round continue on in the 36-hole finals | tomorrow. THREE WOMEN TIED FOR GOLFING LEAD Berg, Cothran, Hicks Top Field at Augusta—Dettweiler Among Contenders. By the Assoclated Press. AUGUSTA, Ga., January 16.—Three women shared the lead today in the second round of the Augusta title- holders’ golf meet, but par—and the rain—still led the field. Patty Berg, Minneapolis schoolgirl, | Jjustified her favorite's rating by firing & steady 40-40 for a one-over-par 80 in the first round ybsterday of the 54« hole medal test. Jane Cothran, Greenville, 8. C., crowded into the first-place tie by coming home in a fine two-under-par 88. Helen Hicks, hatd-hitting former national champ from Woodmere, Long Island, missed a chance to win a clear lead when she slipped to a 41 after a neat 39. Rain thoroughly soaked the rugged hill course of the Augusta Country Club and had many of the entries fighting to stay under 90. Dorothy Kirby, schoolgifl Georgia champion from Atlanta, won clear title to fourth with an 83, three strokes to the good over Kathryn Hemphill, Columbia, S. C.; Helen Dettweiler, Rockville, Md., and Isabell Ogilvie, Au= gusta. Helen Waring of Pinehurst, N. C., at 87, and Jean Bauer, Providence, R. 1, sharpshooter, who disappointed How They Stand In School Series Pet. 1.000 667 500 500 500 .000 Tech - Eastern Roosevelt Western Wilson . Results Yesterday. Eastern, 40; Wilson, 12. Roosevelt, 24; Central, 22. Tuesday’s Games. Eastern vs. Roosevelt at 3:30. Tech vs. Western at Tech Previous Results. Central, 28; Eastern, 17. Western, 24; Wilson, 12. Tech, 22; Roosevelt, 19. Eastern, 25; Western, 24. Roosevelt, 3:30. DOUBLE-LOSS HTS * ST 0BN'S QUNTE Ankle Hurt Ousts Swaggert, HIEH SCHOOL RACE SPRINTERS GIVEN | Ex-Champ’s Son Loses Debut PARLE 1S NAD SCRAMBLE All But Wilson Conceded Chance for Title as Upsets Abound. BY BURTON HAWKINS, 1ED into more knots than are displaged at a Boy Scout con- vention, the public high school basket ball series today assumed more angles than a solid geometry problem, with every club in the campaign except Wilson con- ceded an excellent chance of annex- ing the champlonship. Continuing the crazy-quilt pattern, Rocsevelt dragged forth ‘its finest show of court wizardry this season to upset Central, 24-22, while Eastern accomplished somewhat of a miracle by spilling Wilson ingloriously, 40-12, Yyesterday before 2,000 spectators at Tech. Roosevelt’s victory over Central thus injects a shot of strychnine into the series, every team but Tech hav- ing been defeated at least once. Wil- son, which has dropped both its starts, is the only quint which has failed to win a game. Roosevelt Inconsistent. ters against Tech, Roosevelt stepped lively against Central and was riod. | lead shortly after the opening of the | second quarter. | The Rough Riders, however, did not | wilt. Ray Fridrich, a determined lad, ! pulled Roosevelt to the short end of & 13-11 count at halftime. Ray short- | ened the gap in those few moments | by tossing in three field goals and a foul shot, while Central struggled along on Vermillion's charity flip. wicketing and tied the score at 13-13, ‘Ihu! Charley Clark again sent Central in front with a snowbird. Joe Comer again tied the count for the Rough Riders with a neat follow shot and then followed a series of foul shots which found the score at 17-all fol- lowing the exchange as the third pe- riod ended. Capt. Frank Bailey uncorked an ae- curate heave from midcourt and Roose- velt took the lead only to see Ver- million tie it up on an out-of-bounds play. Felix Silverstein then fouled Fridrich and the lanky Rough Rider calmly bucketed a charity basket to give Roosevelt the lead at 20-19. Bailey scored another field goal and followed with a foul, as did Fogel, to send Rooscvelt ahead, 24-20. Ver- million’s pot shot in the last 10 seconds of play proved fruitless. | Central Matera.{ r 1 i Wickleing - 0 Stein.g L Messrs. 3. Use 27 Players. ’l‘HE Eastern-Wilson game served only to illustrate that the Presi- dents are consistent and that Clint Totals. 71074 Mitcheli and En- | Quantrille, Lincoln Park center, will! be dangerous throughout the re- mainder of the series. Wilson also scored 12 points in its debut against Star Tosser, Cadets Bow to Western Five. ESTERN HIGH'S basket ball team’s prestige was raised considerably today and the hopes of St. John's courtmen were dimmed appreciably as a result of the 29-24 victory of the former yesterday. St. John's pes- simism wasn't due merely to the de- feat, however. While Western was impressing with a decided superiority over the prep school champions, who had forced sev- eral members of the inter-high group to the limit, St. John's was seeking to get along without little Johnny Swag- | gert, crack forward, who went out of the game with a sprained ankle in the first few minutes of play. Western. | Eastern stepped in front, 19-6. at | the half and held Wilson scoreless in | the third quarter. Twenty-seven play- ers raced in and out of the game. Eastern. 5 Coiton { S5 Clinton.{. Groves.f __ Lombardy.f Miller.{ Wilson i Swagart.f_ Hurdle f Don M'oney.{ Flather.{ o 0 | | Totals _ 17 630 Totals 4 412 eppeterees—Messrs. Keppel and 0. Mitch- 6. W. OUTSHOOTS HOYAS ECIDEDLY feeble for three quar- | a potent package after the first pe- | Central, paced by the scrappy | | Billy Vermillion, jumped into a 12-4 | Pridrich continued his sensational | Regiment Meet—Distance Stars Separated. EW YORK, January 16.—For N the first time since the Venzke- matches became “the thing” several seasons back, the spotlight on middle distance doings to the sprints tonight in the 69th Regiment track While both Gene Venzke and Glenn | cunningham will show their stuff, a eral outstanding dash men, including Columbia’s Herb West, who set a | ago, tops the bill. Gene and Glenn Not Matched. such other speedsters as Robert | Rodenkirchen, the Jersey City school- | American Olympic team last Summer because of a technicality; Eddie York University'’s Manny Krosney. Venzke and Cunningham are entered a chance to renew their rivalry. Each will start from scratch in different handicap events. The third of the series finds Manhattan's fast Lou | Weast Tops Bill of 69th By the Associated Press. Cunningham - Bonthron an indoor track campaign shifts from and field games. 60-yard sprint, bringing together sev- | world 100-meter indoor record a week EAST will find competition from | boy who missed a chance to make the O'Sullivan, New York star, and New in 1,000-yard events, but will not have races of the series of three 1,000-yard Burns as the scratch entry. Hoya Runner Formidable. A 500-YARD event shares interest, 3 with Milt Sandler of New York | the standout entrant, but expecting | stiff going from Jim McPoland of | Georgetown and Howard Borck, New | | York. | Joe McCluskey, ex-Fordham distance | runner, in the 2-mile event, and Al| Threadgill, Temple University's lanky | Negro leaper, in the high jump, lre! O PN STAKES DR FARSTARS is more or less a tune-up for major | meets to come, | Simmons, Gulli in Women’s Field Bowling on Three Drives Here Today. DA SIMMONS and Lorraine Gulli | were meeting on local mapleways again today, but instead of another } head-to-head clash between the first two ranking woman bowlers of | the country, both were shooting for the $100 first prize of the sixth an- | nual Dixie Sweepstakes. More than 50 of the best feminine duckpinners of the East and South were to be found at the Columbia, Lucky Strike and Rosslyn alleys after 12 o'clock noon for the three blocks of the nine-game event which will be rolled in thirds at each plant. { e | Stakes Start at Columbia. | "HE firing started at Columbia at noon, was to shift to Lucky Strike for the fourth, fifth and sixth games at 3.30 o'clock and will wind up to- night at Rosslyn, starting at 7:30. Miss Gulli won last year for the third time since Gino Simi originated the sweeps in 1932, but her winning score of 1,072 was 47 pins below Miss Simmons’ record pinfall of 1.119 es- tablished in 1935. The only other girl | to win the prize during the five previ- ous tournaments was Lotta Janowitz of Baltimore, who won in 1933. Her score of 1,027 was the lowest that ever won. | Lucille Young won second place last year, six sticks behind Miss Gulli, while Catherine Quigley, 17 back, took | | National | | | BOSTON, January 16.—Bobby Britton of New York, son of the former welterweight champion, Jack Britton, in his corner last night after his losing bout with Honey Melody of Boston. At the left is “Dumb Dan” Morgan, erstwhile manager of Jack, and, at the right, the former champ himself. —Copyright, A. P. i | | By W.R McCattum ONGRESSIONAL COUNRY CLUB members may have to wait for that new nine-hole course which has been O. K.'d by the board of governors. They couldu't agree last night as to just how the construction of an extra nine is to be handled and deferred voting on it until a later meeting, which probably means it will come up to the board again for action, inasmuch as 13 new members of the board were | chosen last night at the annual meet- ing. 12 of them for 3-year terms and one for a 1-vear term. R. P. Hines. manager-green- keeper of the club, had prepared a statement showing a total cost of $25.000 for construction of the new nine holes, which also would have fairway watering apparatus. Had authorization for construction been given, work would have started in about a month and a half with the course to be ready in M mmer of 1938, but that start now will be deferred. Stymie Panned Again, HE stymie is on the pan again. Knocked grogey by the action of the District Golf Association last year, it's worrying the solons of golf in Maryland now. They tried to get a vote on it at the annual meeting of the Maryland State Golf Association | last night., but they couldn’t because the delegates didn't come eq with authority from their clubs to speak | Martin R. West, president of the District Golf Association, and James A. Crosgrove, who will become presi- dent on February 1. both arose at the annual meeting at Green Spring Val- ley Club last night and told of the action of the local golf body. But | they foreshadowed what may be with- | drawal of the local ban against the stymie when West said he favored | events, Harry Takes Fi AL E s AT Bt i | Takes irst Match Between Teams JHANDICAPPED without one of its| in Six Years, 1,346-1,282. | most important cogs in the usual Prepping for the opening of the last-minute punch, St. John's hopes Middle Atlantic Intercollegiate Rifle expired shortly after it had taken a League. George Washington Univer- three-point lead at the start of the sity’s marksman outpointed Georg second half. The first half ended 14- | town’s rifle team, 1,346-1,282 in a all. Paul Heil and George De Witt got | match last night at the Hilltop. | hot for Western in the last two quar-| Mulligan and Wallace paced the | ters, keeping the Red and White about | Colonial shooters with totals of 275, ; five points ahead of the Johnnies cverl which was tied by Lewis of George- | that period. | town. The shoot marked the first | Western. time the teams had faced in six years. Ronnet GEORGE WASHINGTON Holloran.f Kneel- Stand- De Witt.c__ ine. To Schulze.g - R4 Needle.s .. Tavlor. Totals Referee. 8t. John': Swazart.{ Neuland.t _ 1 GF.Pts 000 Prope. ing. 96 91 Mulligan - Wallace _ Harlan Wotzel _ Griges Totals Battista.g Totals_.__ 75 | 1 | 4 | : — 450 16 Friends 5 Ahead All the Way. | FRIENDS SCHOOL avenged a foot | Lewis 04 ball defeat by St. Albans last Fall | Niecire ~--"__ b i | | of 387 and 150, respectively. Young’s i ton Team Score 40-37 Win. | waiting for the ultimate decision of iiiiniin} | the United States Golf Association. Manor Club Holds to Lead. Both West and Cosgrove attended the MANOR CLUB pinmen still were | annual meeting of the U. 8. G. A in front in the Country Club | last Saturday in New York. League today having whitewashed | So the Maryland fathers of fipmne s yame i SN 0 |PPED CARDINALS FACE LA SALLE FIVE slipping a game farther back when CL Individual honors were divided be- | | $35 third-place money. tween Dr. Marvin Parks of Kenwood | No. 1 and Charles Young of Beaver Dam, who scored high set and game | Lose to St. Thomas as Schmarr Is Handcuffed—Ambrose Is Brookland Star. Special Dispatch to The Star. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., January 16— Catholic University’s basket ball team will be after an even split on its week end trip tonght as it tackles La outfit 10st two to Argyle No. 1, however. HOWARD QUINT BEATEN | Big Crowd Sees Champion Hamp- Losing a 13-point lead established | in the first half, Howard University's | when it conquered the Saints by a Afaro - 9 goodly margin on the Friends court, 36-28. Although Hilton, center of the loser, proved the individual high scorer of the day with 15 points, Friends never lost the lead which it | assumed in the first moments of play. Newmyer, Wannan and Alexander each dropped in four field goals for the winners. Fleury Totals _. 340 1981 | INTERCITY RING TILTS Twelfth Street “Y,” Philly Boxers in 12 Bouts Tonight. An intercity boxing match between | basket ball team was defeated by | | Hampton, defending champion of the | i C. I A. A, 40-37, last night in the! | Howard gym. A capacity crowd saw Larry Owens’ | last-minute fleld goal give the visitors | a l-point lead to climax a second- half rally. Paige dropped in another double-decker a moment later to put | Scranton last night, 31-26. Salle’s five here for its second game in as many nights. The Cardinals had | their wings clipped by 8t. Thomas at | Effectively shackling Hermie Schmarr so that the visitors’ biggest | threat was held scoreless from the | floor, St. Thomas bvercame a 1-point | advantage held by C. U. at the hll(‘ Pts, Friends. Wannan.f Newmyer.t GF the Benezet Boys' Club of Philadel- St. Albans. G.F. 08 5 317 phia and the Twelfth Street ¥. M. C. White.{ SlinglofL.t _ 0 4 Jennings.f _ 2 ¢ 0 4 the game on ice. Howard, G.F.Pt Jonest' __ 3T Gouldf = " 3 Brown.t | which ended 17-16. Whitey Ambrose | proved the Cards’ greatest point-com- | | piler with five field goals and a free toss. | Hampton. Taylor.f G FPts. 0 with an 89, were the only others able to crack 90. 5 Al A. will be held tonight in the gym- 0 2| nasium of the latter. bouts will be fought. Representing the local club will be | Billy Banks, Willie Moore, Willle Mc- wie Hilton.¢ 7 fplexanders. 0 0 ane.g 0 Graysong 1 Totals 11 828 Totals Refetee—Mr. O'Meara. BASKET DATES SHIFTED 4 ST H - E 000 16 436 Central Swap Sends Eastern Into; Night Game With Tech. Because Central High School’s class night interferes with its scheduled night game with Tech next Friday at Tech gym Eastern has been named by Birch E. Bayh, public high school athletic head, to substitute for Coach Jack Ray’s team. The game will get under way at 8 o’clock. Originally slated to clash January 26, Tech and Eastern have been moved up and the Tech-Central game shoved back to that date. CLOSE FOR W. P. A, Courtmen of the Federal W. P. A nosed out Rural Electrification’s five, 24-20, last night in a Community Center Leagué game at Central High Schook At least 12 | Bride, Jimmy Briscoe, John Gatlin, | \' Marshall Mays, Washington Alexander | and Henry Johnson. Tickets are on sale at the Y and the Capital Pleas- | ure Club, 1228 U street northwest., B ‘WIN BASKET BATTLES. | Special Dispatch to The Btar LAUREL, Md., January 16.—The St. Martin's basketers from Baltimore and the Arundel Laundry courtmen were winners in a double-header court program here last night. St. Martin’s defeated the Poists Electric, 38-25, and the Laundrymen defeated Dixie Pig, 36-21. Sports Mirror Today & year ago—Ernie Nevers named head foot ball coach at Lafayette. Five years ago—Dazzy Vance & Brooklyn Dodger holdout; Carl Hubbell and Mel Ott signed with Giants. | outstanding paid teams this Winter. Spaulding.c Parker.c Gaines.c Pluminer.g Luck.g x.€ e.R ith's 2 Smi 8. 9 R 0 X 3 3 R s0n. | 1 Fo: | 0 E o 1 3 Tayvlor.g ___ 1 | Lees g 3 Totals _ 14 937 Totals - Referee—Mr. Westmoreland. | M1, Mactin. BREWERS FACE TEST | Virginia Pro Foe Tomorrow Well Coached Combination. ‘What is reported to be Virginia's No. 1 professional basket ball team invades the Heurich gymnasium to- morrow for a game with the Brewers, conquerors of several of the country’s Umpite— The visiting outfit will be the Na- tional Business College of Roanoke that has won 111 of its last 120 games. Its only loss this season has been to the New York Celtics by a one- point margin. Dutch Dehnert, coach of the Celtics, proclaimed the Roa- noke quintet the best coached team the Celtics had played all season. Dick Price, former Roanoke College athiete, coaches and captains the team. Lemly. A | mainder of the first half. Catholic got off to a 4-0 lead in the first few minutes of play and | more than held its own during the re- However, | the Pennsylvanians moved into the | lead shortly after intermisson and | were boasting a 31-22 advantage as | the game neared its end. Sam Brown's only two field goals of the game merely reduced the difference between the two teams before the final whistle blew. §t Thomss. GFPtg, Catholic . GFPts 0 9 Schmarr. 1 1 §‘1,1 WEISSMULLER TO TEACH. Six leading local swimmers, four men and two women, will receive a public swimming lesson from Johnny | Weissmuller in the Shoreham Hotel | pool on Monday afternoon, starting at | 4:30 o'clock. They are Ann Bono and Rita Augusterfer, woman sprint cham= pions of the District, and Ernie Boggs, Karl Schmitt, E4 Murphy and Fred the game, unable to get a vote on the stymie, deferred action until a meeting in April, when it is expected they will outlaw the thing in the Old Line State. Basil Wagner of Green Spring Valley became president. succeeding William D. Waxter, jr. Emmons S. Smith, jr, of Chevy Chase was chosen vice president to represent the Washington district. Other officers elected were First vice president, John V. Tweedy; vice president, Cooper R. Drewry: vice president, | P. Galligher; general counsel, Albert E. 8teinem, Wood- mont Country Club; secretary, Em- mett Gary, Hillendale. Shows Way to Didrikson. ELEN DETTWEILER usually plays second fiddle to Babe Didrikson when they play golf together, but today Helen is esconced in a spot well in ront of the Babe as the Augusta woman’s tourney moves into its sec- ond-round phase. Helen shot an 86 yesterday over the | Forrest Hills layout at Augusta, while the Babe, off form. took 90 whacks. The Babe's usually immaculate tee shots were finding the woods. Helen - —— e TR 2 & was 6 shots back of the two leaders as the second round of the 54-hole tourney started today. Patty Berg and Helen Hicks. the latter a pro, tied for the top spot with 80s. ‘The Middle Atlantic Golf Associa- tion will meet tonight at Congressional Country Club, where delegates will gather for dinner about 6:30 p.m. It's unlikely that any action will be taken on the stymie. The annual men’s champion- ship will be awarded to Con- gressional on dates late in June. A member of Congressional will be chosen president, in line with the cus- tom of the association of electing a president from the club where the championship is held each year. BY PAUL J. MILLER, Jr. | SPLENDID spirit of co-opera- | tion was exemplified by the pledged members that at-| tended the first exclusive ses- sion of the Downtown Washington Social Chess Club recently in the sports department of The Evening| Star Building. ‘ Expressing themselves as heartily in | accord with the submitted plan of | promotion for the social chess club, | the membership advocated a city-| wide drive to acquaint the general public with the many advantages of- fered by the organization. | People who do not play chess but who would like to learn the simple | elements of the game—for chess is| really an easy game to play—may af- filiate with the club. Special instruc- | tional lessons will be given weekly for | the beginners, novices and amateurs. "Ladies are welcome to become ! club members and to enjoy all | facilities of the club. | ‘Youth—boys and girls—may become | club members and compete for the| prizes that will be offered in intra- club play. | Retired business men and women will find the club offers the oppor- tunity for the personal enjoyment of an excellent pastime and the library —current magazines, modern chess studies, quaint and curious chess items —will be a constant source of pleas- ure. Club for Average Man. A BOVE all, the average individual will welcome the chance to have | a club where chess may be played in | all its forms, where chess players of | the eity may mest for friendly bouts, where visitors will be welcome tl'ay.\ | Y IS SLATED FOR NEXT MONTH More Than 2,500 Expected to Confer With Federal Grass Scientists. BY W. R. McCALLUM. F THE local meeting lives up to ex- pectations there'll be quite a flock of our leading grass manicure men from all over the United States around Washington early next month, when the golf greenkeepers of the United States and Canada come to the Capital for their ference with the hig Department of Agricu greens section of the United States Golf Association. John Anderson, president of the Greenkeepers’ Association, as been in Washington for several ays working out details of the gath- ering and predicting that the meeting, scheduled to start at Wardman Park February 2, will set an attendance record. More than 2,500 people at- tended the sessions at Cleveland last year. Site of Meeting Befitting, HE coming meeting will take on very much of a gree section slant, for it is being held in the back yard -of the largest greens experi- mental staff in the count: hard by the workshops of Dr. John Monteith know these are the men who the forefront of most of from a rehabilitated pasture into an expanse of manicured and highly cultivated greensward During the meeting keepers will visit the extensive Arling- ton tur! gardens, over by the airport, to look over the newest developments in turf culture. And there are plent of 'em. Those lads in charge over there never stop ling to keep America’s billions of dollars worth of golf courses in proper c on. th green= Gartner Aids Treder. BILLY GARTNER, a good-l youngster of 19 vears from Rock- ville and a former Manor Club caddie, is taking Eddie St in Al Treder's golf shop e left for a Texas job late in December and probe ably won't be back the District amateur champ. his first round of gol days ago and although he was ru he managed to get around the Manor course in 78 blows. Bobby had planned to spend the Christmas holidays in Miami, but couldn't make the trip. VIRGINIA AWARDED 8 HORSE SHOW DATES Pony Event at Warrenton Also Is Sanctioned—Keswick Hunt to Open Program. Br the Associatea Press. \"ARRENTON. Va,, January 16— Dates for eight Virginia horse shows and one pony show have been approved by the American Horse Show Association. The association. at its New York meeting, fixed the dates for 87 shows. The Ormond-Daytona exhibition at Daytona Beach. Fla.. will open the season March 19 and 20, and the Garden show, November 3-9, will close it. Dates for Virginia shows set are: Keswick Hunt, April 24-. Cava- lier Horse Show at Vireinia Beach, May 8-9: Warrenton Pony Show, June 18-19: Bath County Horse Show at Hot Springs, August 5-6: Clarke County Horse and Colt Show, Berry- ville, August 19-20: Fairfax, Septeme ber 11: Orange, September 17-18: Warrenton Horse Show, October 1-2, and Farmington Hunt, Charlottes- ville, October 2. Varied Sports Collége Hockey. Michigan Tech, 4; University of Alaska, 1 Minnesota, 31: Michigan, 0. College Boxing. Appalachian State, 613; “Arcanum, 115. College Wrestling. Lehigh, 23; Michigan, 13. Royal % % and a few minutes of leisure may be spent pleasurably in wholesome enter- tainment and friendly discourse. Membership monthly will be $1 and the club room will be available at all reasonable hours. It is decided to open game rooms as speedily as possible. All interested beginners and chess players should fill out the membership pledge and mail fee at once to the chess editor of The Star. If the player chooses, in order to make the opening of the club a suc= cess, he may pay five months in ad- vance, Many have committed them- selves to this plan, namely: Henry F. Hock, William E. Bryant, Arthur J. Hall, I. J. Curran, Guy K. Cam- den, Dell Floyd, H M. Meacham, I A. Rosenblum and L. S. Gross, A number already have paid the $1 fee. Additions to the list include Louis Kram, Maud G. Sewall, David E. Brand, Ted M. Rogers, 8. A. Ger- bich and Rabbi J. T. Loeb. Y. M. C. A. GYMNASIUM SWIMMING POOL HAND BALL, SQUASH NEW HEALTH CLUB MASSAGE TURKISH BATHS, ETC. 18th and G N.W. Na. 8250