Evening Star Newspaper, May 17, 1937, Page 19

SPORTS. “Stuffed Shirts” in Sportdom Blasted by Ex-Tennis Champ Tilden "POPPING AMATECR GAMES] . HITBY DICTATORS Ex-Stars, Not Business Men, Needed to Run Affairs, Big Bill Contends. BY BILL TILDEN. ONDON, England, May 17— Why are so many amateur sports officials men who never have been prominent in the sports they govern and often men ‘who never even have played the sport? ‘This question has puzzled me ever since I came up in tennis. I first thought it peculiar to tennis, but the more I meet athletes and officials in other sports, the more it seems a general condition. Perhaps these positions provide outlet for the ‘‘dictator” complex inherent fn many men. Some ama- teur officials, successful generally, nevertheless cannot make their word law at home, in business or in social lite, 80 they find satisfaction in auto- cratically running the destinies of the athletes. Bill Suffered as Amateur. OTHERS who never reached fame in a sport, but who played it, find solace in thinking they control the men who actually gain fame on the fleld. Certainly once this sort gets in of- fice, he has delusions of knowledge of the game, amounting almost to an obsession. Every year as an amateur I suf- fered through hours of advice on how to play tennis, how to make strokes, how to beat this player and why I lost to that one—from men who, at their best, could not win a game in three sets from me. It was amusing most of the time, but not during an important Davis Cup match. Get a group of such officials in solemn meeting and some strange spirit closely allied to mob psychology seizes them. It dwarfs all tact, if not Teason itself. Officials Deemed Tactless. SUOH a situation apparently led to the Eleanor Holm Jarrett case. One ounce of consideration and one person with the athletes’ viewpoint would have averted it. 1t was true again in the Jesse Owens #flair after the Olympics. Certainly I know the famous row, when I was removed from the Davis Cup squad in 1928 at Paris and rein- stated on the eve of play due to the . tactful intervention of Ambassador Herrick, would not have developed had it not been for that peculiar mob psychology in the committee. Sports exist only through the ability of the men and women who play them and need management from the sport- ing angle. Amateur sport must be a game, not a business. Once officials regard it as a commer- cial enterprise dictated by the gate receipts, it is professional even if the Pplayers are not paid. No Business Men Needed. TODAY many amateur sports are 80 highly organized, so commercial- ized by their organizers, that all real game flavor is gone. The only way back is to place players in charge. They still have some part of the “game for game's sake” slant. I can’t solve it, but I will say: If amateur sport is to regain its reality in the old sense of the word it must clean its official house, do away with “stuff-shirtism,” break down overorganization and centraliza- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., DICKEY KERR,) BITSY GRANT, OF e Stan LITTLE THINGS THAT HAVE GONE OVER BIG A GOOD BIG MAN MAY BE BETTER “THAN A GOOD LITTLE MAN, BUT HE'S NO GOOD AGAINST THE BEST LITYLE MAN/ BO8 FITZSIMMONS, AT 165 POUNDS,Took ON ALL: COMERS --AND WHAT s HE DID TO THEM IS BOXING HISTORY..... ADMIRAL... . THE“LITTLE BLACK THUNDERBOLT .. HIS SPEED AND STAMINA HAVE PUT THE DIMINUTIVE COLT "HEAD AND SHOULDERS’ABOVE THE REST OF THE COUNTRY'S THREE-YEAR-OLDS... GUESS IMJUSTA RANK FAILURE!-] NEVER WON THAT NATIONAL OPEN/ EVERY TIME DIS LI'L GUY COMES UP 1 THINK HARRIS 1S N SENDIN' TH' BAT-BOY, IN T PINCH HIT/ MUDDY RUEL,PINT-SIZED SPARK PLUG BEHIND THE PLATE WHEN THE NATIONALS Took TWO PENNANTS IN A ROW...,, AFEWSEASONS BACK, YALE HAD AN UNDERSIZED METEOR IN THE BACKFIELD...A 142 POUNDER WHO HARNESSED AND RODE ALL THE GREAT EASTERN. BEAT FOUR MARKS INSAILBOAT J0UST Nandua, With Dodge at MONDAY, MAY 17, 1937, SPORTS, émas%,vomv HEN the first fair racketer serves her first ball in The Star’s Oity of Washington tournament next Saturday Helm, Makes Best Time |stternoon, it will mark the start of » Over 6,00-Yard Course. EARING over the George Wash- ington Memorial course, off the Old Dominion Boat Club in Alexandris, with a favoring tide and & fresh 15-knot breeze, all of the 20 boats in the third series of the Potomac River Sailing Associa- tion completed the 6,000-yard straight- away in less than a hour to set course records in the four classes yesterday. Fastest time of the fleet, 38 minutes and 13 seconds, was made by Charles Dodge, who sailed his Nandua to first place in the comet class by beating the two recognized leaders, Verner Smythe and Clyde Cruit. Across the line second, Nandua, by staying out in the channel in an ebbing tide, was first around the windward mark and remained out in front until the finish gun. Smythe Gets Bad Start. CRU’IT’B 80-Big, working into sec- ond position on the run to the up-river marker, was second. An ill- timed start and too long a tack on the Maryland shore caused 8mythe's Bassy-Too to fall to third place. Overcoming his recent run of bad breaks, Judge Prentice Edrington in the Lady Avon defeated the only other two boats in the 20-foot open class. Although losing & good minute and & half by jumping the gun, Judge was ahead at the first marker and stayed there until it was all over. Ralph Youngs in his Myray and H. C. Bush’s Cricket IT were second and third. Corinthian Yacht Club Ses Scouts swept the A handicap class by placing first and second on corrected time in their catboats, Bobcat and Wildcat, respectively. The sloop Sea Gull of Arthur Carr finished third in both elapsed and corrected time. Although the first across the start and finish lines and the second fastest boat in the fleet, Ted DeBoer's Sandpiper fell to sixth place on her present handicap allowance. Shaw s Repeat Winner. { NOCKABOUT sloops captured honors in the class B handicap. Dick 8haw in the Katisha again took a first on corrected time. Brent Drane’s Kittiwake from the Old Dominion was less than 40 seconds behind Katishs on corrected calculations; while the Sink Quick of George Dankers actually was the fastest boat in the class, she dropped to third. Because he struck a turning markar John Maloney in the Tralee was dis- qualified. R. Peaslee DuMont served a3 Race Committee chairman in the absence of Paul Tomolin, Bummaries: 20-Foot Open. Cricket II (Bush) Comet Class. Nandus (Dodge) __ ot sl Gwen (Pagan) _. Berens (Zimmer) _ No. 274 (Oochran) Bea Kittiwynk (Levy) Buccaneer (Elgin) Bandpiper (De Boer) _. Zephyr (Marsh) .~ al season in which all but two week ends between then and September are filled with important tennis dates. Although they were given 18 tour- naments and matches formen, women, juniors and girls to crowd into a 14- week period, Larry Phillips and his schedule committee of the D. O. T. A. did a great job in fitting everything together without s conflict. Further, only once during the season do two tournaments begin at the same time, and as they happen to be the Middle Atlantic singles championships for men and the Women's League tourna- ment, no conflict is experienced. Thus, at no time will any player, man or woman, be re- quired to choose between play- ing in two tournaments within the immediate vicinity. Chronologically, the events come oft like this: May 22 City of Washington, women; 26, City of Washington, men. June 5. City of Washington, for juniors and boys: " 12. Hearst, for men sand ‘women; 20, All-Army; 26, District, for ™Fily 6. District. for womi 0. Army- Navy Leéch Cup matches: 17. Middle At- lantic doubles; 24. Public Parks, for men and women: 31, Middle Atlantic singles and women's league. August 14, District Association cham- plonships. for juniors. boys and girls; 21 Governmént champlonships. for_men’ snd women: 30, Army-Navy Club Invitation, for women. Incidentally, that tourney for juniors, boys and girls is the first to be held here in many years, other than the annual Playground Depart- ment competitions. But Phillips’ committee believed that the many promising beginners should be of- ficially recognized by the city’s gov- erning association. for for FUR'I'HER promise of more interest- ing developments along the local male net front this season than this old town has seen for many a day was in evidénce today as the first of the Junior Davis Cup try-outs was re- viewed. Continuing his improved play which already had brought his a victory over Barney Welsh earlier, Hugh Lynch, the fourth ranking racketer of the District, yesterday took a decision from another rated above him. This time Gil Hunt, rated second only to ‘Welsh, proved Lynch's victim by scores of 5—7, 6—4, 6—3. Verily, Lynch ‘will be the man to watch in the men's City of Washington & week from Sat- urds; Y. Probably the next biggest surprise of the day which found members of the local Junior Davis Cup Committee glving careful consideration to some two dosen candidates who pessed in review on the Army-Navy ocourts was the defeat of Welsh and Stan Mc- Caskey by the junior doubles team of David Johnsen and Harry Heffner. Heffner, recently moved here with his father who is stationed at the Army War College, is the ninth rank- ing junior of the country. With Johnsen, one of the most promising of local juniors, he rallied to defeat ‘Welsh and McOaskey after dropping the first set, 2—6, 6—3, 6—3. Hefl- ner also took & set from Welsh at singles before losing, 6—2, 5—17, 6—4. John O'Malley’'s 6—3, 6—1 defeat of Austin Rige, veteran Army-Navy netman, also impressed, while Doyle Royal and Billy Contreras and Byron Mathews and Gene Owens looked good as doubles teams. MAHGARET ROBINEON, Mary Cootes, Edith Clarke, Sara Moore and Mary Greason are favored to win places on the Middle Atlantic section’s Sears Cup team, tryouts for which will be held this week in Balti- —EEE— . more. The teams will consist of six girls and their foremost rivals for the half-dozen posts are Anne Har- rison and Mrs. Mary Wood of Balti- more, Frances Grimes of Morgan- town, W. Va, and Margaret Ander- son of Richmond. The trials will be held at the Balti- more Country Club, the only site in the immediate area possessing grass | courts on which the matches will be played at Boston early next month. The local girls picked there- after will commute regularly between here and Baltimore for as much practice on the turf as possible. Mrs. Charles Boehm of the Balti- more Country Club is chairman of the Sears Cup Committee for this section and will have charge of se- lecting the team. Four sections will play for the cup —Middle Atlantic, Middle States, New York State and New England. WOMAN NET LEADER TOPS TOURNEY LIST Dorette Miller First Entrant in Star Cup Competition—Blanks Are Ready. DORm MILLER, one of the city’s best known woman tennis players and popular vice president of the Women's League, today had the distinction of being the first entrant in The Star's City of Washington ‘Tournament which starts Saturday on the Rock Creek ocourts. Telephoned last Saturday for in- formation upon another matter, Mrs. Miller changed the subject by asking when entry blanks for the city cham- pionship event would be available. Although they were not to be dis- tributed until today, her verbal request to have her name entered was com- plied with., Last year, she set a BRADDOCK AND JOE EXHIBIT THIS WEEK Both Plan Public Ring Sessions. Gould Due Wednesday to Assist Promotion. By she Associated Press. for the world title June 22 at Comis- their training routines. Braddock, who has been doing light Mich., intends to show his wares pub- make his first public training appear- ance Saturday. CHXCAGO. May 1T7.—Heavyweight Champion Jim Braddock and Challenger Joe Louis, who will meet key Park, both plan to begin public boxing sessions this week as part of conditioning drills at Grand Beach, licly Wednesday. North of Chicago at Kenosha, Wis., Louis is expected to Joe Gould, Braddock's manager, was due here today or tomorrow to speed | * A—19 OUTBOARD WINNER CALLS RACE ‘EASY' Eldredge “Just Kept Going”! as He Dodged Driftwood on 130-Mile Course. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, May 17.—It doesn't look easy. Not 130 miles of the Hudson River, even when’ the weather is clear and the sun bright. Not in a tiny boat with the temperament of an opera ainger and the sturdiness of an egg-shell. Not with the motor pounding and your arms and shoulders aching from keeping the craft clear of driftwood. But Marshall Eldredge says it is. | Marshall should know. Yesterday he piloted a class C outboard hydro- plane down the Hudson from Albany to New York to win outboard motor, boating’s most spectacular race. “Wasn't 50 bad,” he shouted, as he | rested shortly after coming ashore at Dyckman street boat house near the finish line, Way Easy, Despite Driftwood. HAD easy going. Just gave her the gas and came on through. | There's a lot of driftwood, though. Gosh, I didn't even see Clayt (Clayton Bishop of Onset, Mass., who finished second) when I passed him. Only stopped once. Shoved in 10 gallons of gas at Poughkeepsie, and kept a-comin’.” Eldredge’s business is *boats. I guess that's it, boats.” A mechanic and professional driver from East Weymouth, Mass., he races most of the year, overhauls and ree peirs racing engines for Clint Pere guson in the off-season. He looks like an Elizabethan seaman, stocky body, thick neck and the alert look of & man who battles engines and ele~ ments impartially. “Got two fine boys, one 5, one 7, Going to make drivers of 'em now,” he said with a chuckle. Wins in Seventh Try. IT ‘WASB his seventh try for the $250 that goes to the winner in the race and a year's possession of the trophy. For the others, 41 finished in nine classes, out of 115 starters, the race contributed its usual helping of dan- | ger and disaster. Two drivers were halted by fire, others arrived in New York so battered and helpless they had to be helped ashore, But, unless it was absolutely im= possible, they kept on coming. For, like Eldredge, they wouldn't admit it ‘was tough. CLEANERS RAMPAGE. Goode’s Cleaners’ 25-68 wallopi of Brightwood gave the winners uhem‘du- tinction of being the most prolific scoring team of any of the city’s sand- lot nines yesterday. It was an inde- pendent game Rackets Restrung $2.00 ® AND UP o Y.M.C.A.] SWIMMING POOL HANDBALL, SQUASH GYMNASIUM up action in the title-holder's camp | and Mike Jacobs, New York promoter, probably will arrive Wednesday to as- sist Joe Foley in promoting the con- tion and appoint men who have played the sport. We need stars and ex-stars, not business men, at the head of amateur Class B Handieap. Katisha (8haw) Kittiwake (Drane) _ Sink Quick (Dankers) Fliehty (Preston) _ tournament endurance record for one 3 | day's activity when she played 95 | games in three different matches. LINES. ... OUTDOOR SUN COTS Special Membership aports. (Copyright, 1937.) FELDMAN, BIRKIE SIGN. OAKLAND, Celif, May 17 (P— Abe Feldman, New York heavyweight, and Hans Birkie of Germany have been signed for a 10-round fight here Dext Wednesday night. Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY. Base Ball Boston vs. Washington, Griffith Stadium, 3:15. George Washington vs. Mount 8¢. Mary's, Emmittsburgh, Md. Wilson vs. Eastern (public high title series), Eastern Stadium, 3:30. ‘Washington-Lee vs. Maryland Frosh, College Park, 4. Boxing. Buddy Soott vs. Hobo Williams, 10 rounds, feature bout, Turner's Arena, 8:30. Track. Oatholic University vs. Guil- ford Oollege, Guilford, N. C. TOMORROW, Base Ball. 8t. Louis vs. Washington, Grif- fith Stadium, 3:15. V. M, L vs. Maryland, Oollege Park, 4. Central vs. Roosevelt (public high title series), Roosevelt Sta- dium, 3:30. Tennis. 8t. Albans vs. Georgetown Prep, Garrett Park, Md,, 3. WEDNESDAY., Base Ball. St. Louis vs. Washington, Qrif- fith Stadium, 3:15. Georgetown vs. Quantico Ma- Chase, Garrett Park, Md., 3:30. Landon vs. Episcopal, Alex- andria, Va., 3:30. Tennis. Tech vs. Western (public high title series), Pierce Mill courts, 4. THURSDAY. Base Ball. 8t. Louis vs. Washington, Grif- fith Stadium, 3:15. ‘Western vs. Tech (public high title series), Western Stadium, 3:30. Central vs. College Park, 4. ‘Washington-Lee High vs. Be- thesda-Chevy Chase, Garrett Park, Ma., 3:30. Maryland Frosh, Track. Preliminaries, public high achool meet, OCentral Stadium, 3:15. Eastern vs. TFrosh, Hilitop eourts, 3:30. » PAUL RUNYAN HAS ANNEXED ALL BUT ONE OF THE Bl& 'TAINT GITTIN Too HEAVY FER YUH.1S 1T LLOYD? TITLES OPEN To PROS.... BY PAUL J. MILLER, JR. ONTROSE CHESS CLUB is seeking & match with any five-man team in the city. Paul Hodges, the foremost player in the Montrose aggregation, declares that although his club may not have the large following some of the other District clubs possess, it does have quality players and wishes to take on a few quintets now. Bookings for a match with the Montrose club may be arranged by writing the president of the Metro- politan Chess Association, Parkside Hotel. For current interclub tourneys the facilities of the Social Chess Lounge will be available at no cost to actual players on the ecompeting teams. Morphy C. C. Initiates Tourney. -ONE chessists are ocom- peting for the championship of the Paul Morphy Chess Club in an intraclub fray initiated on May 13. Players are bracketed into two classes, A. and B. In the A class are ¢ veter- ans, with 14 enthusiasts seeded in the B class. The scoring after the first intraclub round: CLASS A, DOUBLE ROUND ROBIN. Naidel Kessler Neufeld Eaton CLASS B. SINGLE ROUND ROBIN. w, MacCready. Gallant_ " ) .= AND THE WANER KIDS, STANDING ALL OF 5 FEET -8, HAVE 'TOTE;“A POTENT CLUB AROUND THE NATIONAL LEAGUE ..., northwest, by the Washington Social Chess Divan. Intradivan matches will be featured and a rotary tourney conducted— players playing as many opponents as poasible between 8:30 and 11 p.m,, the high scorer to receive & modern chess book as first prize. Preceding the rotary tourney will be a brief lecture and an informal exhibit of rare chess pictures and chess prints. No fees will be charged any one. The entertainment is merely part of the policy of the divan to encourage beginners and tyros and give the gen- eral public the opportunity of acquir- ing an appreciation of the art and science of chess. The chess editor of The Evening Star will sponsor the educational ex- hibits. Ladies are welcome. . Marshall Vindicates Himself. E ABDICATED his throne as premier chess playér in the United States that s younger man might have the honor he had en- Joyed for a quarter of a century. The “wise boys” said he was through. But when Frank Marshall success- fully met the strongest players the New York Marshall Chess Club em- braced in its very high-grade mem- bership, he proved conclusively that he has a brand of chess that still is CHANGES ARE FEW INSANDLOT RACES Ross Jewelers. Edged Out fl of First-Place Tie in N. C., Section B. OSS JEWELERS drop from a share of the leadership of Section B of the National City League was the only notice- able change in the city’s major sand- lot league standings today after a Sunday crammed with activity. The Jewelers were nosed out, 5-4, by the Cardinals, who thus accounted for their second victory in three games and rose to a triple tie for second place with their victims and Read's Pharmacy. The latter continued on Gonen. = their winning ways a 13-2 rout of the | Flach D. C. Plumbers. Keep Siates Clean. EW DEAL MEN'S 8HOP continued at the top of Section B, with their third straight victory, trouncing Georgetown, 11-3, while White Haven also remained undefeated with a 14-4 pasting of Leary Motors. In Section A, both the Heurich Brewers and Gordon’s Cafeteria accounted for their third win in as many starts, the| Brewers tripping ‘Shady Grove, 16-7, | and Gordon's nosing out Mount | Rainjer, 9-8. Chevy Chase’s 15-13 win over its | deadlocked rival, Friendship, on Sat- | urday, and its 9-7 defeat of the Chevy Chase Cubs yesterday while Priend- | ship was dropping its second straight to Somerset, 11-5, gave Chevy Chase & two-game lead in the’ county league. Costello Siazle (Tilp) __ Tralee (Maloney) —————e GOLF DATES ANNOUNCED 9 _ 0:24:43 | isqualified Virginia State Open to Be Held at Farmington August 14-158. OCHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., May 17 (#).—The Virginia State Golf Associa~ tion has announced the Btate open tournament will be played at Farming- ton Oountry Club, Charlottesville, Au- gust 14 and 15, Dates for the State amateur toure nament may be moved up one day to July 2-5, but & final decision will de- pend on whether July 5 is declared & legal holiday. Both the amateur and the State women’s tournament will be played at Hot Springs, the women competing from July 1-4. 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