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SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1937. SPORTS. G Club Pro Lost in Golf Title Play : Game Needs Real “Gate Puller’’ TROUPERS ALONE k. ) FAST PACE Only One Newcomer a Year Now Makes Grade Into Big-Time Group. BY WALTER HAGEN. N ORDER to win important Sum- mer titles it has become prac- I tically compulsory for a pro golfer to play enough on Winter and Spring circuits to keep his game on ' edge. Especially this year with the P. G. A. championship coming in May in Pittsburgh. For a number of years now it has been proved that the only pros who have any chance at the big money prizes are tourna- ment players who ply their particu- lar trade Winter and Summer all over the United States. No club pro has a China- man’s chance of breaking through th. shock troops of tournament golf for any big or consider- able sum of cash. Tournament play has become a spe- cialized department of pro golf and Walter Hagen. eny young player who seeks to win | honors must join the circuits and be ; prepared to go through a hard school of experience. Records indicate that it is getting more difficult all the time | for unknowns to break in. One player ! a8 year is about all that can be ex- | pected to join the top ranks and stay there. Tournament Stars Rare. HERE is no younger school in American pro golf today. There is @ small class composed of Jimmy Dem- eret of Houston, Tex.; Sam Snead of White Sulphur Springs, and Lawson Little. not yet one year old as a pro. Of these three youngzsters it is diffi- eult to say if any one wi grade and permanently be entitled to | rating as a “tournament star.” They have not had enough testing. They *all look good, but will require another two vears of testing. “Tournament stars” are rare. We have today only a handful of players entitled to such rating and at the mo- ment we do not have a singie one wh stands out above his fellows as Harry Vardon did in days gone by in Eng- land, as Bobby Jones did in America and Joyce Wethered Heathcoat-Amory did among British women or Glenna Collett Vare did among American 4 women. No “Big Three” Now. “,’E DO not have a “big three” as \YY we had in Ameirca a few years #go when Jock Hutchison, Jim Barnes and myself were tops, or later when Gene Sarazen, Tommy Armour and myself rated. ‘We have now a top group which includes John Revolta, Henry Picard, Horton Smith, Harry Cooper, Paul Runyan, Denny Shute, Harold Mc- &paden, Jimmy Hines, Gene Sarazen, ‘Byron Nelson, Jimmy Thomson, Ralph Guldahl and Tony Manero. Cooper stands out on record sheets as a low scorer and big money-winner, but his failure to win a major title holds him back. MacDonald Smith played well enough last Summer to rate in this group, and Willie Macfarlane, when he starts, usually stays up with the leaders, but neither plays enough big-time golf to be included in this group. Iliness Retards Laffoon. THE last school o youngsters to show make the | < | AN a golf ball be driven 400 yards, carry and roll? Are < : the feats of the Paul Bunyan of California, the almost leg- | endary Montague, the fantastic things | they seem when they talk about him | walloping & golf ball 400 yards? |~ Yes, a golf ball can be driven 400 yards and more, given favorable con- | ditions, but it’s doubtful if the pres- | ent sphere can be knocked that far | unless adamant feirways and a big | wind help the roll of the ball. Nor does tremendous hitting n:ean tremen- dous scoring, for fast fairways usu- greens, and queer bounces of the ally mean tricky iron play and fast| was one of the longest hitters the amateur ranks ever knew. Back in 1912 they staged an invita- tion tourney at the old Westward Ho course near Chicago, in which Bob and Chick Evans and Mason Phelps and Albert Seckel, Paul and Bob Hunter and all that great crowd of golfers were entered. It was in July and the clay soil had split under the hot sun, opening wide cracks that sometimes would engulf a golf ball. They had a local rule that a ball down a crack in the fairway could be dropped without penalty. Bob Gardner got hold of one ball. Yes, we saw a ball hit 400 yards around ‘VNashington. It happened at the Washington Golf and Country Club, back in 1927, on a day when a near- gale blew from the west and the fairways were hard. With the wind at his back Roland MacKenzie, then an amateur and now Congressional Country Club pro. stepped into a tee shot on the sev- | enth hole which carried to the sec- 1nnd hill and rolled up the hill lead- ing to the green to where he could { have kicked the ball onto the green with his shoe. Actually that pill ended only 20 vards short of the putting surface jand the hole is 434 yards long and the tee markers were well back. Roland tried to play a cozy little pitch-and-run shot, half-topped the ball and wound up with a six. \FII"I‘I'EN years ago Dwight Part- ridge, a Greenwich, Conn. star amateur, used to come to Washington to play in the Chevy Chase invitation tournaments. Dwight was quite a hitter and a good golfer, although he never managed to get very far in the | Chevy Chase affairs. He was particularly long with the iron clubs. One day he stood on the | back tee at the ninth hole, 260 yards | from the middle of the green, play- ing with Bob Barnett, and pondered as to whether he :hould take & No. 1 iron or a brassie. “Take your spoon,” said Bob. “I don't have one.” said Dwight. “Well, you can't get therc with an | iron.” said Bob. “The heck I can't,” replied Dwight. “Tell you what I'll do,” Bob cracked. “If you hit that ball on the green with that iron I'll give you your choicz of the best spoon in my golf shop.” | Dwight wound up and let | fly and the pill not only made the green 260 yards | on the old fifth hole that traveled 470 yards before it stopped. The hole was 620 yards in length, and Bob was over the green with a drive and & mashie. Nor was Tommy Armour any slouch at hitting around 1927 and 1928, when he was at his best. Tommy drove the seventeenth green at WS T FlagD | Congressional several times, a mere distance of 385 yards, and once in | a while he parked his tee shot on tha sixth green, the same distance from the tee. One day we played the old four- teenth hole (now the thirteenth and the same hole as it now is played) with Tommy and Sandy. The distance then was, and still is, around 510 yards and we saw both of 'em home putting for eagles with a drive and a spade mashie shot, which would be the No. 7 of the present set of irons. MONRO HUNTER was the biggest | hitter among the pros we've had | around Washington. Monroe is work- | ing at the Capitol today and in the Summer he works at a local driving | range. Well into middle age, he retains the sock that gained him Nation-wide fame a decade ago. Not once, but many times we've seen Monro play his sec- ond shot with a No. 3 iron to the middle of the green at the six- teenth hole at Indian Spring. The hole measures 525 yards in length and the green sits on a hill 25 | feet above the fairway. But that also was in the days of the old ball. These away. but also ended 12 feet from the cup. He got the Spoon. things aren’t being done these days.' The ball won't go that far. But it can be hit plenty far enough by a guy who gets the old snap into | the hitting zone. Jimmy Thomson and Lawson Little are proving that | and they don't play with specially made balls either. They pick 'em right | off the shelf just like John J. Duffer. | That stuff about specially wound balls for tournament play is hokum. They're all made the same way and Jimmy and Lawson get the same ball any duffer pays six bits for in the pro shop. | promise has failed to come through. ! This school was composed of such players as Ky Laffoon, Ben Hogan Al Zimmerman, Dick Meiz, Willie Gog- gin, Clarence Doser and one or two others. Of this number Ky Laffoon did come through and reach the top. Il health broke into his career but he hopes to come back and stay there. | Metz and Doser have | been unable to fight their way into | Zimmerman, F*stardom.” Billy Burke more than likely would be up there if he plaved enough tour- nament golf. There are a few other players with the possibilities but they, like Burke, Smith and Macfarlane do not compete enough. Among these is Olin Dutra. There are a number of what might be termed “feature” players. In this section we have Bill Mehlhorn, Vic Ghezzi, Ray Bangrum, Frank Walsh, | Wiffy Cox, Al Watrous and perhaps a few others. One thing is certain. Any pro who rxpecu to rate among the “stars” has a long hard journey and must be pre- pared to take to the road and stay | there for quite a period of time. No matter how brilliant he may be, he likewise must add the experience of the | University of Golf, which is the na- tional tournament circuit. (Copyright. 1 ) Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited without permission, i BARLUND IS GRITTY + IN FIRST U. S. LOSS Beaten by Mann, Finn Proves He Can Take Bombardment and Come Back for More. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, February 25.—Re- gardless of the prestige Gunner | Barlund lost in his first American Jdefeat, the Finn demonstrated to the satisfaction of all concerned that he ean “take it” and come back. But aside from that, and a more pleasant feeling in the state of his bank roll. “The Gunner” had little else to show for the 10-round surprise beating he took last night at the hands of Natie Mann, New Haven's heavy- hitting youngster. Mann, on the short end of 7-to-5 odds in unusually heavy wagering, had Barlund close to a knockout in he third, fourth and fifth rounds. Barlund came back strong from the sixth round on, and, but for low blows, 'which cost him the eighth, might have | pulled up to a draw or even have taken the decision. Mann, come-backing after a long fliness, demonstrated he still can hit like a pile-driver, but was unable to take advantage of an opponent ob- viously groggy in the third and fifth * founds. It was Barlund's first setback in five American starts. They don't do those things now- adays. The present ball just won't go that far. But the old jack-rabbit pill could be hit unbelievable distances. i 54y | JROB GARDNER, twice amateur champ, was quite a hitter. Bob was the first pole vaulter to clear 13 feet, and the muscles he developed in lifting his six feet of litheness over the bar at that height helped him to pole out tremendous tee shots. Bob 1 i Would Bring “0ff Going,” Be Blow to Money Angle | at Santa Anita. By the Associated Press. OS ANGELES, February 25.— Possible rains and what the ex- perts call “off going” for ihe $100,000 added Santa Anita Handicap wrinkled the brows today of both track officials and horse owners. | Weather forecasts for Saturday— race day—were awaited with deep | concern by Santa Anita Park's official | | family. Dr. Charles Strub, general manager of the lavish racing plant, sighed audibly when rain fell here !ast night. He hopes the turnstiles click in more than 50,000 customers on the big day—customers with a deep casn | affection for the bangtails and moist- ure-proof pocketbooks. Would Hit Receipts. IP IT rains, the crowd will be cut| down—and so will the cash betting | figures on the “tote board.” Santa Anita wants the 1937 handicap pro- gram to break last year's record, when $1,246,497 trickled through the pari- mutuel machines. To the horsey set the weather was important for other reasons. For one thing. the entry box closes Priday at | 10:30 a.m. It costs $1,000 per horse to run for the biggest purse in the turf, | not counting the initial $100 nominat- ing fee paid out last November. This $1,000 may not mean much to | the rich Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, | Mrs. Ethel V. Mars or William du | Pont, jr., but it's considerable hay | money to some of the less wealthy | horsemen. Strikes Double Blow. AN OWNER with a candidate that doesn't like to run in the slop hates to gamble on anything as un- certain as the weather. | In the probable handicap field are | several horses that like the mud. The | Foxcatcher’s Rosemont will remain a | | favorite, fast track or not. | | A. A. Baroni has been promising all | Winter that his Star Shadow would succeed his Top Row as the Santa Anita Handicap king provided the track was heavy. | Maj. Austin C. Taylor has a great mudder in Indian Broom, and won’t mind if it's rainy or clear. He's got Special Agent to depend on if the track is fast and Indian Broom isn't. . ARGYLE CLUB ELECTS Norcross Again President, Le Duc Made Vice President. Dr. Alfred C. Norcross has been | re-elected president of Argyle Coun- {try Club by the club board of governors. Other officers chosen by the board are: Vice president, P. W. Le Duc; secretary-treasurer, Charles L. Gable; assistant secretary-treasurer, Ray- mond E. Gebie. | “Lone Star” Dietz, former Haskell | 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR EORGETOWR UNIVERSITY'S mile relay team won the cham- pionship of the South Atlantic In- tercollegiate Athletic Association in the Johns Hopkins-5th Regiment indoor track and field meet at Bal- timore. Dorsey Griffith and Bill Gates, former Ceniral High star, were members of the quartet. George Washington's basket ball team ended its home season with a 28-19 victory over the University of Tennessee. Hall led the Buff and Blue scoring with five fleld goals. The Potomac Boat Club crews | are scheduled to begin practice this week. Coach Clarence Hecox plans to get his men on the water around March 1, provided the river is free of ice and weather conditions are not too unfavorable. | f i | NEW JOB FOR BOHLER. UNIVERSITY, Miss, February 25 (#)—George “Doc” Bohler, assistant basket ball coach and trainer at Mis- sissippi University, will replace Bill | Indian mentor, as assistant foot ball coach at Ole Miss. BY PAUL J. MILLER, Jr. ARTIN STARK, champion of Capital City Chess Club, won his match with Kessler in| round No. 2 of the tourna- ment for the champlonship of the Dis- trict of Columbia. Knapp won his game from Sournin, Eaton and Dubois played to a draw and Ponce wrested victory from Carl Hesse. One of the better type of kibitzers opines: “Sournin had & clean win against Knapp and threw it awsy through mere carelessness; Kessler had & decided draw game with Stark and overlooked the proper continuation, while Carl Hesse had Ponce whipped and lost by a fluke.” It just goes to show that the best err and in a championship tournament you have to be on Your guard at all times against slips that may have portentous effects. ‘To every player comes the moment of decision in a match game and if he fails to “shoot the worl at the psychological moment, in all proba- bility fate then will favor his adver- sary at the next turn. Although only eight players are competing for the championship titie now held by Donald H. Mugridge, & player of stellar ability, the line-up indicates that it is strictly a “quality” tournament. There are no dark horses and untried foemen. All have proved themselves in individual matches and in official tourney matches to be first- PETHATES OF MAT FANS EMBATTLED Baxter and Hader Tangle Tonight—Katan, Olson in Co-Feature. HE pet hates of Washington's I mat populace will display their varied forms of villainy to- night at Turner's Arena when Laverne Baxter and Jack Hader tangle in the most promising of two finish matches. The other bit of feature squirming involves Cliff Olson and John Katan. Baxter now holds the dubious honor of being ranked as the favorite villain of local caulifiower addicts, although Hader, at least in the estimation of one frenzied fan who cracked him over the head with a chair here recently, is & worthy contender. Needs Police Protection. AXTER usually needs police pro- tection more than he needs a hair cut. The pugnacious pachyderm re- cently was involved in a post-bout melee with Abie Coleman which was terminated only by the intervention of police, referees and seconds. In his last match here Baxter con- fined most of his unorthodox tactics to Referee Benny Bortnick, ripping two shirts from the back of the rotund arbiter. Katan formerly was a villain, but now has turned sissy and is employed as a hero. Olson, shorn of his claim to the championship by Crusher Casey, now is just one of the boys and probably will be relegated to the pre- liminary ranks ere long. Three 30-minute preliminaries round out the card, with Matros Kiri- lenko facing Floyd Marshall, Hank Barber meeting Les Ryan and Harry Finkelstein toiling with Mike Mazurki. The first preliminary will get under way at 8:30 o'clock. BLUE DEVILS START FOR RING TOURNEY Two Defend Titles in Southern Conference Meet—Team Has 3-Year Clean Slate. DURHAM. N. C, February 25— Duke’s boxing team, unbeaten in dual competition for three years, leaves here today for College Park, where it will compete in the 1937 confer- ence ring tournament. The Blue Devils will make head- quarters in Washington, as will the ¢! other teams, going over to College | Park each day for the events. Two of the Blue Devils will be defending champions — Capt. Jack Kneipp, 135-pounder who never has been beaten in dual competition, and Ray Matulewicz. light heavyweight, who also won the national title and was a member of the United States Olympic team. Another Blue Devil who is looked to come through is Danny Farrar, southpaw welterweight who won the national title after having been forced out of the 1936 conference affair due to a cut eye. Duke entries: Bobby Koger, Charleston. 8. €. 118. Bobby Price. Scranton. Pa 25. 1;Sapt. Jack Kneipp. Washington. D. C.. Danny Farrar. Youngstown. Ohio. 145. Wilton Mann ' Durham. N. C.. 135. Al Mann. Durham. N. C.. 185 Ray Matulewicz Mount Carme]_Pa_ 175 weDon Schmitt. White Plains. N. Y.. heavy- wht. HAND BALL STARS PLAY Baltimoreans Visit Saturday for Matches at Y. M. C. A. intercity hand ball An doubles match will be played between Wash- | ington and Baltimore Saturday night at the Y. M. C. A, when Joe Cowley and Channing Walker of Washington meet L. Blum and Stanley Hitts of | the Monumental City. After the doubles match, which will start at 8 o'clock, Jack Schwartz, local singles champion, will meet Hitts. LEGION PINMEN DELAY. ‘Tonight's scheduled bowling match | between the American Legion teams | of Baltimore and Washington has been postponed. No date for the meeting has been arranged. Round 3 is scheduled for Saturday night at 8 o'clock at Hotel Gordon. Visitors may find championship chess outwardly a bit slow, but those boys’ | mental machinery is running wide | open and the number of variations that they evaluate before making their completed move is sometimes appalling. | Quick, Watson, the needle! Social Divan Meets. ORVAL WIGGINTON, treasurer of the Downtown Washington Social Chess Divan, is very optimistic these days. He reports a favorable in- crease in pledges for the support of ‘Washington’s eclat chess club. President Curran declares the membership drive is at fever pitch and that the grapevine build-up of eontacts is making the Nation’s Capital cognizant of the fact that chess is a most entertaining pastime and well worth the support of the public. ‘The ladies are sold on the idea and Mrs. Mabel McPherson says that when the women get interested in a club then what follows is crasier than Marx Brother’s “Duck Soup.” Chess is easy and the amazons in Russia— 10,000,000 strong—have one of the most extensive chess units in the world. ‘Tonight, promptly at 8:30, members and pledges of the Downtown Wash- ngton Social Chess Divan will have & friendly congress at Sloss’ Cafeteria, 818 Fourteenth street northwest. Visitors are invited to attend the chess play of the evening. Each should fetch his own chessmen. An exhibit of chess books will be featured by the chess editor of The Star. The customary fee for the eve- ning’s entertainment will be 25 cents for every ome, excluding none. School lads contesting for the “¥™ bronse trophy are advised to be pressnt | 1321 L S¢. N.W. for official pairings. < Masculine Touch in Women’s Sport Clothes td"the comfort of the wearers. CORAL GABLES, Fla—All these costumes are on parade here and their “manly” features add Left to right: Blue linen play suit with pleated trousers, for archery; thin cotton beach suit, three-piece tennis costume, with trousers pleated; the latest in riding habits, two-piece sharkskin golf costume, bicycling costume with wrap-around skirt which may be removed and used as a cape, fishing outfit, the blouse of which has side vents. N ALL-STAR line-up of mixed A doubles, containing some of | the brightest bowling names in the country, will hold the calcium tonight at Rosslyn in the Virginia State championships. Notable pairs to shoot will be Astor Clarke and Lorraine Gulli, Ed Blake- | ney and Gladys Lynn, Johnny Roper |and Lucy Rose, Joe Harrison and Rena Levy and Galt Davis and Blonche Wootton. The 10-team Agriculture Interbu- reau League will roll in a body. along | with Jack's Bowling Alley team of Leesburg. Va., and the Health Center team of Richmond, featuring Gordon Caldwell, one of Dixie’s leading per- formers. The leading Rosslyn quint of the Ladies’ District League suf- fered one of its rare defeats when Lucky Strike swept three close games at the Arcadia. More than a hundred entries are expected for the second annual Pop | Crawley Sweepstakes to be rolled next Saturday at Mount Rainier. Perce Wolfe won last year from scratch |in the roll-off of a tie with George ‘Hoflmnn. who shot 678 with a handi- | cap of 26 sticks. Entrants are given half the differ- ence between their league averages and 120. The fee is $2. Competition | Satusday will start at 2 p.m. and con- | testants may shoot their five games at any time from 2 to midnight. Hot Matches Promised. ’I‘WO of the hardest-fought duck- pin matches of the season are promised in the District League to- night when the leading Rose Liquor Store invades Convention Hall to tangle with Occidental Restaurant and Washington Brewery rollers travel to Georgetown to tackle Brewers, defending champions. Still smarting from the three-game lacing handed them by the Chris Heurich entry last week, the Occi- dentals are in a fighting mood. A loss to the Ben Rose sharp- shooters would shove them far down in the pannant race. One game back of the pace setters, the champion Heurichs, making a grand stand in defense of their title may be a tough nut for Washington Brewery to crack, but the Northeast- ers from Temple are no set-ups and an exciting match is forecast. The four second-division clubs will be opposing one agother, when Lucky Strike engages Georgetown at Lucky Strike and Convention Hall visits Arcadia. Stage Intercity Battle. T}E start of & home-and-home series between the Tivoli Alley All-Stars of Baltimore and a picked Lucky Strike team will get under way Saturday night at Lucky Strike. Harry Aiken, Howard Parsons, Johnny Anderson, Clifton Hollis, Joe Freschi and Joe Harrison will form the Luckies’ line-up. The final five games will be rolled in Baltimore Sunday. With Hand Set practically clinch- ing the pennant by drubbing Govern= ment three times, the battle for the runner-up position in the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. League heightened when Dial dropped three games to Accounting while North won the rubber game from Cleveland. Bill Widmayer’s 145 and 396, which paved the way for North’s two wins, were tops for the night. Joe Gooch's 141- 377 led the winning Hand Set quint. Harry Hilliard, who won lasting fame as a Howard Campbell Sweep- stakes champion, shot 130-370 in one ANY ANY 2% AUTO &% GLASS PROMPT DRIVE-IN SERVICE Taranto & Wasman, Inc. NA. 2966 Heurich | | of his few appearance in the league this season with Cleveland. | Wholesalers continued to mop up in the Chestnut Farms Dairy League, with Seal Test its latest victim as Rus Kidwell's 343 aided his club on its way to a league championship. Homer Nick whanged the maples for top set of 355 as District Men closed in on the second-place Cream Tops with a | sweep over Orangeade. Schroth Loses Mother. OWLERS today join with Norman Schroth in mourning the loss of his mother, Mrs. Anthony T. Schroth, who passed away yesterday morning at the family residence, 702 Maryland | avenue northeast A former president of the District | League. once one of its topnotch | bowlers, Norman lately has confined his rolling to the Elks' League. | _The pennant battle in the Lucky Strike Ladies’ League was intensified last night when the runner-up Com- merce team pulled up within a game of the first-place General Land Of- fice by sweeping H. O. L. C. No. 1 while the league leaders were trounced by Buforcom three times. Ruby Gregg led the Bufor- com attack with high string of the night, 108, and 290 for her sot. Agnes Thaxton featured the Com- merce victory with 102-300. Social Security, aided by Maude Fuschine's 291, smeared Holmes Bakery. ‘The last-place Mount Pleasant girls were celebrating their ninth straight game win in the Eastern Star League today, with Treaty Oak their third | victim. Mizpah went into undisputed possession of first place when hang- | ing the bee on Lebanon three times, | while Joseph H. Milans dropped to | second place by losing & skirmish to Unity. Washington Centennial swept Miriam to gain a contending positior. | | Abe Kline was the winner of the National Capital League Sweepstakes with a score of 667 for his five strings. H. Franke was second with 664. Kline | was franked 140 pins and Franke, 100. | The scratch rollers have been howling | ever since last Saturday night, when the two duffers received the full handicap to win the event staged un- der the direction of Murrell Dawes, floorman at Lucky Strike. REINER DISTRIBUTING CO., Inc. (Exclusi Tune In! Gorden Hittenmark—"The Man in the Street”—WRC—Tueedoy and Thursday, 7:45 —A. P. Photo. JEWELS STILL SEEN AS “WONDER” QUINT Carry on as Pros Shining Name They Made When Playing for St. John's. ERHAPS the greatest compliment which can be paid the Brooklyn Jewels basket ball team, which meets the Heurich Brewers Sunday after- noon at the Heurich gym, is that they still are being called the former St. John's Wonder Five, this despite the fact that fully seven years have elapsed since the Jewels, playing un- | der the colors of St. John's of Brook- lyn, hung up an enviable college record. During the three years this quintet performed at St. John's it lost only four games. The original starting team of Capt. Max Posnack. Mac Kins- brunner, Rip Gerson, Allie Shuck- man and Matty Begovich still starts every one of the Jewels' games. What's more, the man who coached these lads during their college days—Buck Free- | man—again is their mentor, having | been signed this Winter after resign- ing at St. John's in the Summer. In their first pro season the Jewels won the American League and world pro championships. Since that time they either have tied for the American flag or finished close to the top each season. Sunday’s Jewels-Heurich game will start at 3 pm. and will be preceded by a game at 2 pm. between Rinaldi and Sterling, who will clash for the Heurich Cup League championship. JOHNNIES AMBITIOUS | Hope to Beat Mount St. Mary's and Terrors on Court. ANNAPOLIS Md., February 25.— Inspired by its victory over Maryland Tuesday and with the full strength of its team available, since Johnny Lambros and Bill Ross. star forwards, returned to the game, St. John's hopes to trip Mount St. Mary's and Western Maryland, first and second in the Maryland Intercollegiate Association race, and raise its own standing. St. John's now is tied for third place. having raised its position from last in two weeks. It will be unable to reach Mount St. Mary's but hopes to win enough games this week and next to pass Western Maryland. Johnny Lambros is high scorer of the team, with a total of 126 points \ RECEIPTS DECLINE AT CROWN MEETS Only Magnet Like Jones on Big Streak Apt to Get Dollars for U. S.G. A. BY W. R. McCALLUM. HE United States Golf Associa= tion badly needs another Bobby Jones to pack 'em in at the gate. Either that. or it needs a return of the cld days when dollars weren't so important as nowadays. Now that Lawson Little has vanished from the amateur ranks there isn't any spectacular links figure popping up over the bunkered horizon to carry the gallery appeal that was Jones’ and that would have been Little'’s had the burly San Franciscan continued as a Simon-pure. John Fischer. the reigning amateur champ, is about as colorful as an old overshoe and John Goodman, probe- |ably the best amateur in the land, doesn't begin to carry the gallery ap- | peal of Jones or even of Little. And | Lawson never had half the gallery kick that Jones carried, even with his mighty sock from the tee and his “killer” tactics. Crowd at Peak in 1930. ’I‘HE 1936 championships did show an appreciable: jump in receipts, but they were far from the take of the old days when Rob Jones tossed in his chin in every major champion- ship and usually stuck it out in front at the finish There was something about the Jones man that brought the gallery out in droves and mobs, even though they weren't ardent golf fans. And there may never be the equal of the howling throng in American golf that followed Bob down the eleventh hole the afternoon in September, 1930, that he put away Gene Homans at Merion ;lo win his fifth amateur title. The | squad of Marines that policed the gallery that day had a real job and 80 did Tack Ramsay, then the wheel horse of the U. 5. G. A. | That championship grossed more | than $50,000. There never had been one like it before and there may never be one like it again. Prob- ably there won't be until some kid with a great golf game and gallery | appeal like Jones comes along and begins knocking over the pros and the amateurs like duckpins. Striking Example Cited. LAST year the amateur champion- ship at Garden City, just to give you an example, grossed $12,703. which included the entry fees of more than $5.600. It was held at Garden City. 20 miles from New York, which'should have given just about the right com- bination of a metropolitan center with plenty people to draw from Yet it grossed less than one-fourth of the Merion show. ‘The open championship at Baltusrol, not far from New York, grossed $20,- 281 for a three-day show. the sum also including the entry fees of $6.385. Admissions for the open were pretty good—reaching the tidy sum of $13.- 076, which is by way of a come- back But if Bob Jones had been in either championship with a chance to win he alone would have pushed the fees up to double those taken in. Yep, the U. 8. G. A. needs another Jones—badly. SOCCER BIDS AWAITED Juniors’ Teams Given Chance at National Tourney. Junior soccer teams of the District who desire to enter the national junior soccer cup-ties matches must notify | officials at the District of Columbia | Plavground office in the District Build- ing before 5 o'clock tomorrow evening. The winning team in the local com= petition will be sent to meet the win- ners of other sections. | Entries of teams whose members will not be 19 vears old before March 1 can be made by calling National 6000, branch 192. YALE COACH TO SPEAK Pond to Address Alumni Dinner Gathering Tomorrow. Raymond (Ducky) Pond, Yale's head foot ball coach. will be the prin- cipal speaker at the dinner meeting of the Yale alumni of the District to- morrow night at the Cosmos Club. | Pictures of last year's Yale-Prince- | ton game will be shown in conjunc- tion with the dinner, which starts | at 7 o'clock. S B o S F e Distributor) 1073 31st ST. N.W. M. A