Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1937, Page 15

‘Spirit High as Schoolboy Basketers Swing Into Star Tourney HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, M ST.J0HN'S,B.G.C. HEADLINE TONIGHT Cadets Hungry for Revenge, ' [ Ambitious to Atone for S. A. Failure. BY ROD THOMAS. O THE strains of the ecrack band of St. John's College, the | fifth annual Evening' Star | basket ball tournament, \\lth! eight teams of boys and four girls in | quest of three Metropolitan District | Intercollegiate championships, will | 8et under way tonight at Tech. Eastern High of Washington, meet- ing Sherwood of Montgomery County, Md., will swing into action at 8 o'clock, in defense of the Metropolitan title it has won for three consecutive | years, but the big battle of the evening | will be fought by St. John's of Wash- Ington and Bethesda-Chevy Chase of Montgomery County, starting about 9 o'clock. 4 St. John's, sporting the title of Catholic high champion of the Dis- trict, recently has come through a sensational streak of action with vary- | ing fortune. The Cadets move against Bethesda-Chevy Chase with a triple incentive | Cadets Are Vengeful. [ ’]‘HE]R ambition to win the metro- | politan title is heightened by a | eraving to make up for their second- | round defeat in the South Atlantic | championship at Washington and Lee after they'd upset the defending title- holder, and by a keen desire for re- venge over the team which admin- | istered to them their most decisive | defeat of the season, in fact, the only | loss they suffered by more than a few | points. By a margin of eight, Be-| thesda-Chevy Chase a while back put the bird on St. John's. The metropolitan tournament will be played tonight, tomorrow afternoon and night, Wednesday night and Sat- urday afternoon, with doubleheaders at all sessions except Saturday, when three championship games will be con- tested. The girls will enter the struggle to- morrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, with Mount Rainier battling Bethesda- Chevy Chase. Inasmuch as Mount Rainier represents Prince Georges County and Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Montgomery, this one is a natural, but the boys' contest to follow, too, should be a corker. It will bring to- gether Mount Rainier, which has won 22 consecutive games and the Prince Georges championship, and Washing- ton-Lee of Arlington, title winner in Northern Virginia. There are no odds on this match. Western on the Spot. TOR will there be tomorrow night in games betwe: the girls of ! ‘Washington-Lee d Alexandria’s George Washington and the boys of George Washington and Western Western is as much on the spot as Eastern. While Eastern is defend- ing the metropolitan title, Western is out to uphold its prestige as the public school champion of the Capital Eastern gets a break in the first round, for Sherwood is not expected to be a particularly tough opponent for the bigger school, but Western is hard up against it in tackling George ‘Washington In former years, George Washing- ton, in drawing a Capital team in the opening skirmish, was as good as licked before the whistle sounded, but the reverse is true this time. The Presidents during the last several ! weeks have been touted by some ob- servers as the strongest schoolboy | quint in the metropolitan area. They | are eager for battle with Western, | ‘which early in the campaign handed them a whipping The semi-finals in the boys’ division will be played Wednesday night, and whoever the participants, both games will be naturals. Finals on Saturday. ( N SATURDAY the boy and girl finals will take place and supple- menting the program will be a contest between the two strongest suburban | teams in the tournament, for the sub- | urban championship. The quints for | this battle will be chosen by Jim Pix- | lee, athletic director of George Wash- | tngton and once a sensationally suc- | eessful basket ball coach, and Forrest Cotton, basket coach at Catholic Uni- | wversity. Pixlee and Ootton will judge the out-of-town teams on their show- ings in the first and second rounds. | The largest attendance in the his- $ory of the five-year-old tournament | spperently is assured. There are eight teams where there used to be four in the boys' division and four Where gormerly there were two in the girls, And both divisions are shot through with sharp rivalries. An admission fee of two bits wili be ehargell at each session, with all re- eeipts above expenses to be given to the Community Center Department. | BROWNS FIGHT FOR JOBS. SAN ANTONIO, Tex.—Competition | for the two infleld assignments be- came keen in the Brown training camp today. Jim Bottomley and Harry Davis are battling for the first sack job, while Gerald Lipscomb is | trying to beat out Tom Carey at the keystone sack. GALAN CUB LEAD-OFF. AVALON, Calif —Manager Charley | Grimm indicated today that Augie Galan, as left flelder, will be the Cub lead-off man, with Bill Herman bat- | ting second, Collins third and D('ma-‘ ree fourth. DYKf.S RUSHES CHISOX. PASADENA, Calif —Manager Jimmy | Dykes ordered the White Sox pitch- | ers to use speed and stuff today and outfielders and infielders were put through a long batting and flelding ‘workout. | Higuera Tackling Ticklish Task b [ 3 \ JIM PIXLEE. These noted basket ball au strongest suburban teams in scholastic basket ball tourname: the chosen pair will fight it out Pixlee, athletic director at Geo: Cotton, basket coach at C. U., showings in the early rounds. FOD COTTON. thorities will single out the two The Star’s metropolitan inter- nt, opening tonight at Tech, and for the suburban championship. rge Washington University, and will judge the teams on their —Star Staff Photos. BOSTON JOURNEY INSPIRES BOYERS Winners of D. C. Tourna- ment Get Places in Na- tional A. A. U. Finals. TRIP to Boston to compete in the National A. A. U. boxing tourney will be the goal of more than 60 local amateur fighters when the District A. A. U. championships get under way Saturday night at Turner's Arena. Dr. O. U. Singer, chairman of the District A. A. U Boxing Committee, has announced at least five winners will make the trip, while three more may go, depending, of course, upon the prowess displayed in respective divi- sions. Two Will Turn Pro. gL‘CH outsanding simon-pure fighters *7 as Buddy Lazear, Mike Morton, Ray Morse, Steve Thompson, Eddie Saugstad, Henry Peterson, Buster Miller, Leo Powell and Bob Grimm will seek titles. Thompson and Saug- stad intend to turn professional after a final effort to garner national honors. Entry blanks for the tournament, which will continue on March 24 and wind up on March 31, may be ob- tained at the Washington Boys Club, Third and C streets. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR MIKE MORAN, the Washington sandlotter now in training with the Nats, may be the first player to be disposed of by Man- ager Griffith. His release will be due mostly to the anxiety of the Augusta team for his services. A college basket ball league for the District seemed assured fol- lowing a meeting at the Y. M. C. A. under the leadership of Prof. Beckett. George Washington, Cath- olic University, Maryland State and Gallaudet have signified their in- tention of becoming members, Georgetown alone being unrepre- sented. Washington's Yannigans beat the Regulars, 5-4, in a practice game at Augusta, Jamieson and Thomas holding the first-stringers to six hits. Both southpaws, Jamieson and Thomas, looked bet- ter than their mound rivals, Ayers and Flaherty, who worked for the Regulars. Racing in Texas Appears Doomed RACING in Texas is holding on to a thin thread. ‘The Governor seems determined to outlaw mutuels. The Legislature is with him, and the chances at present are that the friends of racing in the State Senate will be unable to kill the eliminating bill. P. B BY PAUL J. MILLER, Jr. RESIDENT EARL KUNKLE of the Metropolitan Chess Asso- | ciation says that all players in the District interested in either the amateur District chess championship or the ladies’ chess | championship should be present at 8 o'clock tonight in the Social Chess Divan, 1625 Connecticut avenue. Medals will be awarded the victors in both of these tour- naments to be conducted under the auspices of the M. C. A. Rules of entry are Players must reside in the District or adjacent States In the amateur match only non-profes- sional plavers may compete. Games shall be played according to the official rules of chess as indorsed by the International Chess Federation. (The only chess book on the market today that has these rules is Mitchell's “A Guide to G { Chess.” "A pamphlet edition hed by “the Illinois State ber of the Social Chess Divan as was stated formerly in this column through a MOStL RTAVe error It is not the policy of social chess as countenanced by the Social Chess Divan to reanire obligatory membership as pre- requisite to participation in any city-wide | tournament sponsored by the Metropoli- | tan Chess Association However. the overhead expenses in all city-wide tourneys must be met by a small cover charge for use of facilities and both visitors and players at the ,divan shall pay the small cover charge ‘of 25 | cents whenever the divan is used for | chance or Lournament play. l When any city-wide tourney is in | progress, members of the divanr may | enjoy all privileges as though no tourney were on the schedule. Central and Western Win. OUND No. 2 of the Washington Interhigh Chess Association team | tournament throws Central and Western into the limelight with vic- tory scores of 5-0 and 3-2. Eastern and Wilson succumbing before the onslaught of their peers. Chess among the high boys and girls is flourishing as never before, and six schools are fighting with bulldog deter- mination for possession of the L. S. Turover Trophy. Central vs. Eastern. Revnolds 1 Tugenbeel Dy Schreyver Hostler Kurland 5 Western vs. Wilson. - 0 Margold 1 Dickman ~ 1 Huddleston 1 Maxwell 0 Schutte 3 Parker Lbrand Parr Stovall Millenson Bowie Overlooks Totalizator Earnest Race Fans Neglected—Picking Nags for Maryland Meet No Bargain. UST & couple weeks now be- fore the bugle Wlows at Bowie. The management has announced many re- forms but no totalizator. Picking winners at Bowie's Spring meeting is somewhat like selecting an early cantaloupe. They all look good. There are many reasons. Horses are shipred in from many Lrack.fi&i There is no way for the ordinary mortal to know how well they shipped. Horses that Wintered in New York and nearby Maryland and Virginia will be making their first starts in six months. Are they ready or “short”? By the time these questions have been answered the gee gees will have moved over to the “Graw.” F. B. Central swamped Eastern at East- | ern. while Western trounced Wilson at Wilson. It seems as if the invad- | ing quintets had something on the ball and took the offensive at the very outset of their matches. A conclave of members of Inter- high Association has been announced for Wednesday, this week. Beginners Increase. GROWING steadily, the Social Chess Divan is fostering begin- ners’ lectures in chess play, in co- | operation with the chess editor of | The Star. Already the instruction classes meet with the praise of some 30-odd novices from both sexes and the en- thusiasm for chess instruction is mounting weekly. A canvass of book stores and game merchants reveals that in the past weeks they have sold more chess par- aphernalie than in the last half-| dozen years, that is, prior % Decem- ber, 1935, when this column definitely went on record favoring chess as a most enjoyable pastime for the aver- age man, a8 well as for legendary kings. This Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. another beginners’ lecture will be given at the divan. Visitors are welcome. President 1. J. Cutran of the Social | Chess Divan will receive entries for the championship tournament of the | divan Wednesday night. The tourna- ment will be initiated promptly at | 8:15, and is open to all divan mem-[ bers. Membership dues in the divan is; only $1 monthly, and April fees are | due today. Remittances should be] posted to Treasurer Norval Wigginton, 200 Rhode Island avenue northeast, Decatur 2279. All Washington is co-operating to- ward making the divan a “clearing house” for all chess activities in the | District, where players may come and | go as fancy wills, and the venture is' non-profit, all moneys going toward} a better and finer game roorm and in- creased library facilities. REDS WARN BRENNAN Hurler Kicking About Contract Told to “Take It or Leave It.” TAMPA, Fla—General Manager Warren C. Giles of the Cincinnati Reds said today Don Brennan, hold- 0! out hurler, had telegraphed he would “like to come to Tampa and talk con- | tract.” “I have nothing more to say,” Giles replied, “you have my final offer. Take it or leave it. BEES IN WARM-UP. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—The Bos- ton Bees warmed up today in prepara- tion for their grapefruit league game tomorrow with the New York Giants. Elbie Fletcher, former Buffalo first baseman, will see service at the initial sack, Manager Bill McKechnie said. TWO DRILLS FOR PHILS. WINTER HAVEN, Fla.—The Phil- lies returned to a schedule of two practice sessions a day after their first intra-club training game over the week end. . PAMPAS BASKET VICTOR. SANTIAGO, Chile, March 15 (#).— Argentina defeated Peru, 25 to 24, for the South American basket ball cham- | | L'm | plonshim Y BILL AGEEHASHOT FOOTINGOLD RACE Wins 15-Mile Run in Snow and Sleet—27 Out of 30 Starters Finish. HILE you were lolling at your ease in a warm room yesterday afternoon, or, perhaps, adequately bun- dled up, indulging in your favorite outdoor Winter sport, some 27 hearty athletes, wearing no more then a jersey, trunks and shoes, ran 15 miles through Washington's snow and sleet, Bill Agee, from Baltimore's Stone- wall Democratic Club, added another victory to his long list of marathon conquests, but 26 others today own the satisfaction of having completed & uying task. As Fast as Autos. RECALLING the storm between 1 and 3 o'clock, the time that the marathoners were setting down and picking up their feet on snowy and icy pavements between Third and C streets northwest and the Mount Ver- non Memorial Highway as far as Alexandria, admiration of the 27 in- creases in proportion with the vivid- ness of memory. All that in the face of a near-blinding snow. That Bill Agee won is not so much news as the fact that only 4 of 31 starters falled to finish. Trying to walk at times became bad enough, but running, nearly stripped! It was no record time for a 15-mile route that Agee hung up when he finished in 1 hour 22 minutes and 3; sec- onds, but how many automobiles cov- { ered such a distance in that @me yesterday? Orioles Take Team Trophy. AGEE‘S Democratic Club took home the team trophy when Charles | Miller, Donald Heiniche and Pat Dengis finished third, sixth and eighth, respectively. Along with their team- mate's victory, they scored 9 points. John Clark of the Passon Club of Philadelphia ran second to Agee, com- ing home a minute and 35 seconds after the Baltimorean. Joseph Klein- erman of New York was fourth, George Caspar of Philadelphia’s Pas- | son fifth and Joe Volz of New York's German-American A. C. seventh B. Chitwood was the first local man to cross the finish line, thereby not only winning a gold medal, but also the local A. A. U. marathon cham- pionship. ond local man to finish, coming in eighteenth, while J. Speer, also of this city, was twenty-second. Bill, Agee | (Stonewall Glug), 122 . Clarke (Passon A phin) 3. C. Miller, ir (Stonewall), 1:7] (G. P. O.' Mail Casper (Passon) (Stonewall), 1.25.41; €. 1 A4; 8. D. Heinicke J. Volz (German A 8. P Hengis (Stonewall) . G. Dickson (German A C) . | G. Lieterman (Passon), B. Chitwood (unaitached), H_~ Wesolowski (German) Worthington (Passon) 3 Lichtenstein (Gern 15, G. Gertsmeyer 20 16."J. Harvey (Passon). 1 O'Hara (French Sport H. Clark (Wash. T. J. Beares (Baltimore . 5 Merson (Stonewall), Speer (Wash. T. & s (unattached Jackelski (Stonewa . M_Coven (Wash & F.) +J. Montague (Wash. T. & F.), e S G 7 B.L.W. League Team Standings. LADIES. i Wallace Memorial - 4 Langdon Methodist B. Y. P. U. No. 1 B. Y. P. U No. 2 Sherwood C. E Brookland Methodist B 30 15 Season Records. average—Morgan - (Sherwood), ) 82 ,High individual game—Suess (B. Y. No. High flat game—Goad (B Y. No. 1), 93, (willEh spares—Brincefield (L. M.). Schoer Hieh strikes—Suess (B. Y. No. 1) Hizh team set—Langdon Meth |3 High team game—Langdon Meth., B Y. P.U Langdon Blues Sherwood C. E = Brogkland Methodist No, 2 Langdon Reds Season Records. High average—Sherwood (L B), 109-7 NoHIgh Individual” set—MacMullen’ (B, Y. ividual game—MacMullen (B : 2). 15 High' flat game—Jack Kemper (B. Y. No_ 1), 86, o High “spares—Boegien (B. Y No "High strikes—Boeslen (B. Y. No 1) High team set—B. Y. P. U. No_1, 1 High team game—B. Y. P, U. N, 1, 67 Individual Averages. LADIES, B.Y.P.U.NO. 1. G Finnacom_ Goa E. Nicol _ Bingman 43 Hanneman 44 McDermitt 23 Wilson BROOKLAND METHODIST. 30 74 K. Shrodes 53 77-28 Stackhouse 53 Barber Boyce i Hopkins 53 72-49 LANGDON METHODIST. Brincefield 5 Rodman Clark Rabbitt i 7 56 76 6 _ 30 SHERWOOD C. E Perry Thompson 03 Sweitzer _ 1 Masson 33 90-28 Sutherland Boeglen Carleton Fop C'ton BROOKLAND METHODIST. 19 90-12 Van B. 46 94-4 Willlams 47 92-19 Yenney LANGDON BLUES, 54 98-30 McPhern 38 4 0 Sherwood 51 1 Liggett 20 Shoe'aker 38 1 LANGDON REDS. 97-11 Mayfield 33 94-25 Phelps 7 Rodman 43 SHERWOOD C. E. Morgan 56 39 pes 94 Q. o9 W 00- ampier endall . Lewis Baby'ton Han'man 32 5o pe-1e Kozes erry __ 57 99-37 Peyton ~ 56 104-44 Auio Trouble? 24-Hour Service 614 H N.W. DI. 2776 c. | CENTER JUMP BAN Other Changes in Basketi Ball Rules Are Debated | by Coaches. ' | BY the Assosiated Press. HICAGO, March 15.—Discarded by Big Ten basket ball coaches, the center jump was the main topic for considera- tion today by the National Collegiate Coaches’ Association in a two-day meeting here. Big Ten cage mentors voted unani- mously last night to abolish the center Jump for & one-year trial period. The action is effective at the start of the 1937-38 campaign. Permanent adop- tion hinges upon the reaction of the coaches. Dr. H. C. Carlson, president of the National Coaches’ Group, said the center jump would receive serious con- sideration at the meeting today. Keen Rules Debate Likely. COACHES will view motion pictures of basket ball games and hold a | general discussion of the rules, with | indications pointing to considerable debate on abolition of the center jump | and three and 10-second rules. At the end of their meeting, the | coaches will make suggestions or def- inite recommendations to the national | Basket Ball Rules Committee, which | will meet here Tuesday and Wednes- B TEN APPROVES | | proxies being used. The whole affair ARCH 15, 1937, SPORTS cop BY FEED BOX. HE bill for racing at Benning, which once passed the House without trouble, will have tough sledding as soon a8 the debate on the floor commences. It was barely squeezed through the committee for & favorable report, now has become a political row, and the betting is that it will never pass the House and should that happen, that it is curfew when it reaches the 8enate. Any time a sport reaches gold mine proportions, politics 18 sure to creep in. O'Hara has stated through his sponsor that racing at Benning will pay the District $500,000 annually. We doubt it very much, but the fact remains that if the District should receive that amount, O'Hara and his cohorts would receive much more. It is not a local venture. There |is no real demand for more racing and there are those, too, who are lukewarm on the proposition, that see no reason for dumping such a plum into O'Hara’s lap. If there was some sport’s sake, that would agree to give all the profit except a fair re- turn on the investment to charity, the bill would get many more votes. Dollars Don’t Come Back. one willing to back the venture for | SPORTS Ll Politics Seen Dooming Horse Racing Bill for District. cent. The breakage alone was more than $400,000. At Narragansett, where O'Hara rules, high-powered press agents in- form the world of the huge amounts wagered daily and of the total for each of the several yearly meetings. It only makes the grafters and small time politicians hungry, and fur- nishes ammunition for the reformers. amount taken from legitimate chan- headed: “Question.” Then follows, “Are you playing the races or paying s that you cannot do both. It is only a question of a little time | before racing will become a political foot ball in California. There will | be an election. Racing will be the issue, and history probably will repeat itself. There will be no racing in Celifornia for many years to come. The problem for the tracks to figure is whether they need most the poli- ticians or public opinion? If racing is to survive, it is our guess that pub- lic opinion is the biggest asset. Let the tracks combine and get a czar as both base ball and the movies did mutuels, if allowed to run long enough, is sure to milk the com- day. Action taken by the Big Ten coaches calls for the center jump only at the beginning of the game, at the start of | the second half, at the opening of | overtime periods and after double and | technical fouls. On all other occasions, the ball will be placed in play in the end zone of the team scored upon, the same pro- cedure now in effect after a free throw scored on a personal foul Coast Change Followed. CTION by the Big Ten follows that of the Pacific Coast Confer- | ence which officially eliminated the Jump last Winter Represented at the Rules Committee sessions Tuesday and Wednesday will be the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the National Federation | of High School Athletic Associations and the Canadian International Ath- letic Conference and Canadian Ama- | teur Basket Ball Association. munity dry, provided, of course, the comunity wagers, is wagered and expect that dollar to come back whole. Sit down any night with half a dozen friends in a poker game. All jack pots. The kitty is a white | chip. You play later than you probably should. The answer always | is the same if you play long enough You have had a lot of fun. No one won but the Kkitty. to how long you play as to whether the kitty gets all the chips ‘The race track owners never learn Racing has come back with such a bang that it is running away with itself. At the Santa Anita meeting more than $28,000.000 was bet. The State of California allows the track 8 per cent and breakage. The track | voluntarily eut the take to 6 per They race Sunday Haskell Clark was the sec- | Democratic | OGER PEACOCK won't around the big golf tourna- ments very much this year. The District amateur cham- pion of 1932 and 1935, one of the finest simon pures ever developed around Washington, and a shotmaker who | ranks with any amateur in the land, hasn’t swung a club more than twice since last Fall and he doesn’t arftici- | pate that he’ll be able to do much in golf until June or thereabout—if then. Roger is a married man now with | a little family and he finds that golf | has to take a back seat in the Pea- | cock scheme of things. But the main | drawback to his link activities this | year will be his law studies. Yep, | | Roger is studying to be a barrister and | no budding young lawyer ever took it | more seriously than does Roger as he pores through precedents and rules of objections and other legal pro- cedure | | He married a lawyer's daughter. Mrs. Peacock was Mary Shields, | daughter of one of Washington's well- | known attorneys, and it's natural | enough for Roger to study law. But it raises hob with his golf game and probably will continue for a couple more Years. Sure, he has a job in the Treasury | Department, where he works for Ad- miral Peeples in the Procurement Division, but between his office du- | tles in the daytime and his studies | |8t night he doesn't have much time to click golf balls off the face of his | big driver. | He hardly has touched a club since November, and in two appearances at Congressional did not score with the | old-time ease that made him the most- | feared single figure among the local amateurs since 1932, - BL‘T don’t let any one tell you that | Roger Peacock is through as a golfer. Give him two weeks of prac- tice and he’ll be as good as ever, even in those days when he was shooting 625 over that tough Indian Spring course. Roger’s swing is so good, his game such a natural one, that he needs only & minimum of practice to get it back | in scoring trim. It is not likely that Roger will be |around when the firing starts for | | Johnny Fischer’s amateur champion- ship at Portland, Oreg., next August. | A trip like that costs money and Roger |isn’t in the bracket yet where he can | lay three or four hundred bucks out} to play in a golf tournament. Factory Replacements Standard Makes Guaranteed AUTO Guarante YEAR UNCONDITIONAL 4.40x21 4.50x20 450x21 4.75x19 5.00x19 5.00x: 5.23x17 ce . 345 } 3.75 5.25x19 5.25x20 5.25x21 £ 5.45 } 5.95 } 6.75 8.95 LI aes 3 szsas 4'95 6-Ply Slizhtly Higher 5.50x17 5.50x13 5.50119 .00<17 6. 6.00x18 CONSOLIDATE 2801 Georgia Ave. N.W. OPEN EVENI! S AND SUNDAYS - Why Pay More? THOUSANDS OF TIRES—TUBES Standard Makes—Nationally Advertised GOODRICH and FEDERAL BATTERIES Closing Out Our Entire Stock of GUARANTEE—TIRES OTHER MAKES—ALL FIRSTS—NEW 1937 STOCK AMERICAN STORAGE BUILDING—Sale by But he will be if earnestness means anything. ! He's plenty earnest about his studies, even more so tkan when he was trying to learn the intricacies of a cut nib- lick shot. He learned that and he'll master law precedents, too, but its ex- tremely doubtful if he'll show up for the Spring tournament parade. There's just & chance that Roger may have a whack at the Chevy Chase tourney, but even that is doubtful. "[HAT sixteenth green at Columbia, which the boys had figured was going to be strictly an island green surrounded on three sides by water and on the fourth by a big bunker, isn’t going to be such a tough propo- sition after all. Greenkeeper Fitts has progressed in his work of arranging the fairway watering system to the point where he has outlined the limits of the water around the sixteenth, and he's | y, left a space of 15 or 20 yards di- rectly behind the green to shoot at. Every one had thought the water in Lake Stevinson woula come right up to the edge of the green at the right and at the back. An overstrong shot will leave a chip shot back to the pin, but don’t go to the right. You'll be likely to lose your pretty little golf ball. Three tees now are being built for the new sixteenth hole GOOD deal of the improvement in Helen Dettweiler’s golf game | (and there’s no doubt it's a finished | article now) may be traced directly to Babe Didrikson, the Texas gal with whom Helen has been traveling | for the past six months. | The Babe is quite a golfer, a hitter | with plenty of power, and she’s put | punch into Helen's game that Helen | lacked last year. The Babe herself isn’t eligible to play in the women's amateur tournaments, but that doesn't prevent her from playing and prac- ticing with Helen. To this fact and the competition may be traced the very definite im- | provement in Helen Dettweiler's game, | an improvement that has put her up | in the very forefront of woman golfers of the land. 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Oaklawn, at Hot Springs, had & near-record attend- ance and the management of the Fair Grounds announced Saturday that for the remainder of the season eight races instead of seven, would be sched- uled daiy. They have been racing at New Orleans since Thanksgiving , too BOYS’ CLUB QUINTETS CONTEST FOR TITLES Elimination Tourney for Five Classes Is to Get Under Way Tomorrow. BASKET ball teams from four boys’ clubs are entered in the third annual elimination tournament, starting tomorrow, which is spon- sored by the Boys Club Workers Association Competition 1s divided into five weight classes and contestants in each class will be entered from the Mer- rick, Northeast, Georgetown and Washington Boys’ Clubs Pairings for tomorrow follow: 90-Pound Class. T y. 7 pm—B. C Georgetown B C. at Northeast B. C Thursday. & p.m B. C. Tigers vs M. B. C. Lions. at Northeast B. C. Thu day & ‘pm.__Northeast B. C. vs. Falcons, at Merrick B. C 105-Pound Class. r p.m.—Georgetown B. C B. C. Red Birds. at Merrick B. C. Friday. 7 pm—Northeast B. C. vs. Merrick B.C at Washington B. C. 120-Pound Class. Saturday. 3 pm —Georgetown B. C Americans heast B. C Celtics vs Friday. 7 e Sat- Mer- 135-Pound Class. 8 pm.—B. C. Fleetwings vs B C.'at Northeast B. C ¥ty E B. C. Aces vs sen Washington B. C. Unlimited Class. Monday. 8 pm—Merrick B Vs ortheast B Monday B C. W Tuesday. eorgerown hursda N.E. B, C Ge & pm 8t Northeast PIRATES PRESS Ti{AiNING, SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.—The | Pittsburgh Pirates started a week of | sUfl drilis today to get ready for Sun- | day’s first game between the regulars | and the rookies, | The merchants yell about the huge nels. On Wilshire boulevard, in Los | Angeles, there is a large electric sign | your bills?” The inference, of course, | Let the spongers, dopers, “fixers” | A—15 COLLEGE QUINTS - ONA AU COURT 'Long Island One of Seeded Teams to Play in Title Meet Tonight. BY the Associated Press. ENVER, March 15.—The men’s national A. A. U. basket ball tournament had a collegiate tang today, as it picked up loose ends of the first round Five of the 10 games scheduled were first-round affairs, four of them bring- ing together college quintets. The | two seeded college teams, Central Mis- souri Teachers of Warrensburg and Long ILsland University of Brooklyn, will go into action tonight in second- round games after drawing first-round byes. | Two other seeded entrants also | make their debuts tonight The Denver Safeway, rated one of the | teams to beat, meets scrappy little | Oberlin, Kans,, quintet, and the Hol- | lywood Stars, runners-up last year | under the name of Universals, meet | the Eckers of Balt Lake City. | One Upset in First Round. ON‘E overtime game, one upset, a pair of victories by comfortable margins and several games tig than a new boot were incorporated in the opening contests yesterday. The Mohawks of Amsterdam, N. Y., and the ton Oilers of Slaton, Tex., won in real breath-taking finishes The Mohawks defeated rugged little | Cowley, Wyo., 34 to 33, in overtime. The Slatons, using a vocal defense of yips and nodles when the oppo- siton was about to shoot, downed the New York Furniture quintet of Den- ver, 51 to 48. The most impressive team was the West Texas Teachers. These “stilted” youngsters, ranging in height from 6 feet 2 to 6 feet 8!, inches, crushed | Adams Normal, Alamose, Colo, 62 to 24 American Beauty Surprises. HE American Beauty quintet of Denver, a gangly, ribby bunch of lads, provided the upset in defeating the Bendix team of South Bend, Ind 43 to 34. The Hoosiers wilted in the closing minutes. The Eckers of Salt Lake City and Club Sar of Gary, Ind, put on a thriller, the Eckers winning, 37 to 35. District W. P. A. Boils As Another ‘ Error Damages Prestige. Federal W. P. A. and District W P. A. basket bell teams are having trouble for the umpteenth time this year. Yesterday the Federal unit was ! trimmed, 32-26, by the Dorsey Market- ers of Hagerstown, Md., and the game was publicized by the Marketers as a triumph over District W. P. A. District W. P. A. play final fray tourney tonight at Heu ¥ Keyser, Noonan, Dean, Hollidge, Leib, Lucas, Scheible. Tipton and Mayfleld while Federal players are Fones, Bad- ger, Evans, Routt, Pfau, Bieser and Gleason. YANKS CORRECT PLAY Flaws Seen‘in Games Won From Bees—Di Maggio Due Today. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla —The Yan- kees returned to training camp prac- tice today to iron out the faults un- covered in their pair of slugging vic- tories over the Boston Bees. The regular outfield will be com- pleted today with the expected arrival of Joe Di Maggio. DODGERS LIKE ROOKS Three Expected to Make Club's Regular Line-Up. 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