Evening Star Newspaper, June 6, 1937, Page 24

WASHINGTON, SPORTS SECTION he Swuay St D. SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE &, 1937. Belmont Romp for War Admiral : Flies 4,500 Miles to Run Here AMERICAN RECORD TIEDINGREATWIN Kicks Self at Start, but Is Victor by Four Lengths. Pompoon Is Fifth. (Oontinued From First Page.) ‘or the Belmont Stakes was 2:291 et by Peace Chance in 1934. The listed American record which | War Admiral equaled was made by | fandy Mandy, carrying only " 109 | oounds, at Latonia, Ky., in 1927. Win Nets Riddle $38,020. CROWD of 35000, one of the largest in Belmont history, ac- “laimed the 3-year-old king as he _ Jroved beyond- the slightest question _ e has the stamina to combine with 1is amazing speed for any distance or circumstances. ‘War Admiral went to the post the Y-to-10 choice, but won like a 1-to-10 hot. The victory added $38.020 to he colt’s rapidly mounting earnings, - 10w totaling $144,620 for this season ind $159,420 for two years of racing. Mr. Riddle, 76-year-old Philadelphia portsman, whose colors were carried 'y Man o' War as well as the colt 1ow conceded to be the super-horse's ~reatest son, personally received the \ugust Belmont Memorial Cup in remonies following the race. The trophy was presented by Mrs. Belmont, widow of the donor. It remained to be determined ‘vhether War Admiral's injury was severe enough to keep the colt out of training for any length of time or jeopardize his chances of going on to urther triumphs in the East or Middle West. Kicks Foreleg at Start. A TRICKLE of blood showed on the right forequarter as War Ad- wmiral was led from the track. In ‘urf parlance, it was disclosed the colt 1ad “‘grabbed.” or to be more specific kicked himself as his hind hoofs came n contact with the right foreleg Xurtsinger said the mishap occurred in the first few jumps from the stall- gate and that he was afraid, for & moment, War Admiral was going down. Few onlookers, however, were aware anything had happened as the small field was sent away after much dis- turbance at the barrier. War Admiral | was among the most fractious, but was barely beaten on the getaway by, Flying 8cot and went to the front| long before the fleld reached the first | turn. Flying Scot led the pursuit of the favorite around the first turn, then Sceneshifter, trained by the famous ex-rider, Earl Sande. took up the reemingly hopeless chase. On (he} long run down the back stretch, War Admiral never had less than four lengths' advantage over Sceneshifter, which gradually pulled away from the remaining five horses in the field. Pompoon Great Disappontment. UNNING smoothly through the stretch, War Admiral held his own without the slightest urging from | Kurtsinger, and scored one of the most decisive victories in the history of the stake. Trailing Sceneshifter | and Vamoose, a 60-to-1 shot, were E. R. Bradley's Brooklyn, Flying Scot, Pompoon and Melodist. Brooklyn, making his first start #ince being declared out of the Ken- tucky Derby, broke slowly and never threatened. The biggest disappoint- ment, however, was Pompoon. Jerome H. Louchheim's beautiful colt simply didn't run a lick, failing to show any reat speed and finishing fully 22 lengths behind the winner. The fractional times give a graphic | idea of War Admiral's speed. The victor was clocked at the half in 48 - seconds, the mile in 1:37 and the mile | and a quarter in 2:02'5. The latter time, equivalent to the Derby distance, | was a full second faster than what | ‘War Admiral did to win the first of his three big races, at Churchill Downs. | won a pair of matches today as the L 4 Dooly Mitchell is in the foreground of the action shot of the battle with Barney Welsh in the City of Washington singles final at Edgemoor yesterday, but in the other picture the latter is receiving The Star trophy as the victor. It was the third Tennis Feud Is Settled as It Usually Has Been time in four tennis finals tha The trophy was presented by Walter T. Hayes, former national PROS ON RAMPAGE Armour, Thomson Tied With Guldahl, Snead at Top After Tom Spurts. By the Associated Press. OLEDO, Ohio, June 5 —Eighty- | two birdies and five eagles trickled into the cups today as Tommy Armour, the “silver Scot,” and his long-driving Scottish partner, Jimmy Thomson, shot them- selves from nowhere into a tie for th | lead in the Inverness best-ball match | play tourney which ends tomorrow. Every hole was a birdie’s nest, not | one being able to baffle the 16 top- notch professionals in the battle for the $4,825 in prize money. Two Teams in Lead Tie. PERCH'ED alongside Armour and| Thomson at the peak were Ralph | Guldahl and Slamming Sammy Snead, | the Winter tourney sensations, who two Scotchmen won one and lost one. | Armour and Thomson, however, made theirs the “hard” way, with the veteran former national open cham- pion carrying the brunt of the load. | After losing one down to Guldahl and | Snead in the morning round, Armour The Chief Scores in Sprint. fA FTER the race Kurtsinger, who | has ridden War Admiral to all his 1937 triumphs, said, “After that | mishap at the start, which had me a | bit worried, I never had any doubt | about the outcome. All I had tc do was sit there and let the colt do the | rest. He's in a class by himself.” | ‘The National Stallion Stakes, rich B-furlong dash for 2-year-olds, won | last year by Pompoon with War Ad miral third, went to C. V. Whitney's | The Chief, Eastern favorite, to carry | off 1937 juvenile honors. Pulling away in the final furlong, | Snead, bl the chestnut son of Pennant finished & length and a half in front of Catal- ysis of the Starmount Stable to earn the purse of $12,630. J. E. Widener's ‘Transmitter was another length back to take third place in front of four .other 2-year-olds, including Hal Price Headley's highly regarded Bourbon King. ‘The Chief, now boasting of a record of two victories and a second in three starts, was the split-choice with Bour- bon King at 11 to 5. PHILLY CLEANS UP IN PAROCHIAL MEET Quaker City Schools First and Second in Catholic High Track Championships. B the Associated Press. OUTH BEND, Ind., June 5.—West Catholic High School of Philadel- phia won its fourth consecutive na- tional Catholic high school track and feld championship today with a total of 36'; points. = Northeast Catholic of Philadelphia % finished close behind with 317% points { and Cathedral Latin of Cleveland was 4 third with 26 points. Loyola of Chi- “cago was the fourth ranking team #with 24'; points and De Paul of f Chicago was fifth with 17. 4 The only new meet record set today ¥ was by Prokop of Cathedral Latin in dthe javelin throw. He hurled the 4 spear 163 feet 8!z inches to wipe out Jfhe old mark of 163 feet 1 inch set Dineen of West Cafholic in 1934, and Thomson banged into the tourney leaders, Horton Smith and Lighthorse Harry Cooper, this afternoon. | ‘The result was a four-up victory for | Thompson and Armour, the latter kicking two eagles and two birdies into | the cup, both two-under-par scores coming on chip shots from off the green. ? Scrambled Standing. JITH two matches coming up to- morrow, the scrambled standing tonight was: Armour-Thomson. Guidanl- A Laffoon. Denny 1: Henry Pi- card-Johnny Revolts, minus 2 Ray Man- grum-Jimmy Hines, minus &, and Olin Dutra-Gene Sarazen, minus 7: Today's results, with the best ball scores on the par 71 layout, were: Morning Reund, Smith-Cooper (65) defeatéd Picard-Re- (BR) volta (6R), 2 1p. = defeated Man- Runyan-Laffoon grum-Hines (70). 2 up. (2) defeated Dutra- Barazen (AR). 6 up. (6B) defeated Armour- . plus 8hut Shute-Little Guldahl-Snead Thomson (67). 1 uf Afterneon Round. Armour-Thomson (65) defeated Smith- Cooper (69). 4 up. Mangrum-Hines (65) defeated Dutra- uj : p. Runyan-Lafloon (62), defeated Shute- Little (86). 4 up. Guldahl-Snead (66) defeated Picard- D, Revolta (67), 1 COLUMBIA IS THREAT Names Powerful Five-Man Squad for N. C. A. A. Games. BERKELEY, Calif., June 5 (#).— Eastern track and fleld circles tossed a powerful threat into the National Collegiate A. A. championships here June 18 and 18 with entry today of a five-man team from Columbia Uni- versity. Ben Johnson, I. C. A. A. A. cham- pion in the 100 and 220-yard dashes and the broad jump, heads the quintet. His individual performances included 9.8 and 21 second victories in the dashes and the I. C. 4-A. indoor broad. jump crown at 24 feet % inch. Competing also for Columbia will be Herbert Weast, credited with 9.8 and 21 in the dashes. Francis Ryan, 51- ul foot shotputter; Danny Taylor, who won the I. C. 4-A. shotput with 50 feet 2 inches and Ganslen, 14- foot pole vaulter, l Final in Doubles On Today’s Slate HE men's City of Washington tennis tournament will be brought officially to a close this afternoon when Dooly Mitchell and Bill Howard meet Barney Welsh and Tony Latona for the doubles championship, starting at 3 o'clock. Welsh shared the title last year with Ralph McElvenny, who now is abroad. Latona, his old partner in high school days, has proved an able aide, however, the seeded No. 1 pair not having lost a set in three matches. Mitchell, runner-up to Welsh in singles, is paired with Howard, a Navy Leech Cup player, former Central High athlete, now stationed in Washington. They were the No. 2 seeded team. MARBLESBEATEN AGAININENGLAND Bows to Polish Maiden for Third Straight Defeat in Tennis Final. By the Associated Press. ONDON, June 5.—For the third | successive week, Alice Marble, defeated in the final round of a British tennis tournament today. The San Prancisco girl bowed to Jadwiga Jedrze-Jowska of Poland, 3—6, 6—4, 6—3, in the St. George Hill tournament. v The Polish girl recently defeated Helen Jacobs, former American cham- pion, in the French hard court tourna- ment at Paris. ERIO FILBY of Great Britain de- feated Charles Harris of West Palm Beach, Fla., 6—1, 7—S5, in the final of men’s singles. America salvaged both doubles titles, however. Harris teamed up with Hal Surface of Kansas City to defeat H. G. N. Lee and R. J. Ritchie, 6—4, 6—3. Miss Marble and Katherine Win- throp of Boston won the women's event from Dorothy Andrus of New York and Sylvia Henrotin of France, 1—5, 17—5. ANDOVER BEATS EXETER. EXETER, N. H., June 5 (#).—An- dover defeated Exeter, 8 to 0, today in the annual base ball game between those famous .preparatory schools. United States champion, was | Special Car, Is Due in Detroit Today. EW YORK, June 5—Mickey N Cochrane, injured manager of | home tonight to complete his | recovery from a triple skull fracture The star backstop, who suffered the | fracture when ‘“beaned” by Irvin 25, was taken from St. Elizabeth's hospital here and placed in a special The train is due to reach Detroit At 8:20 tomorrow morning. as quickly and as quietly as possible. Accompanied by Dr. Robert Emmet the case, and & nurse, he was placed in an ambulance at the hospital, hur- than half an hour and placed aboard the car immediately. clay court champion. Injured Tiger Traveling on E¥ the Associated Press. the Detroit Tigers, started |in a Detroit hospital, (Bump) Hadley of the Yankees May car aboard “the Detroiter.” The transfer to the train was made Walsh, who has been in charge of ried downtown to the station in less Waves to Photographers. M!CKEY waved at photographers as he was carried out of the hospital, but no one was allowed to speak to him. A part of the station also was closed to the public when he arrived and only those in attend- ance saw him lifted through a window into the car. They reported he was somewhat tired after the ride down- town and fell asleep immediately. Cochrane will be taken to the Ford Hospital, near his home, as soon as he reaches Detroit. JAPANESE GOLF VICTOR. PRINCETON, N. J., June 5 (®).— Two under par for 33 holes, Prince Mumitaka Konoye, son of Japan's new premier and captain-elect of the Princeton golf team, defeated Sopho- more Ed Clark of Ridgewood, 4 and 3, on the Springdale links today to win the university golf championship. KATHRYN HEMPHILL WINS. GREENSBORO, N. C, June 5 (#).— Kathryn Hemphill of Columbia, 8. C., the medalist, defeated Mrs, Estelle Lawson Page of Chapel Hill, the de- fending champion, 1 up at the thirty- seventh hole today in the final round of the Carolina Women's Golf As- sociation tournament. » WELSH NET VICTOR INTORRID BATTLE Both Players Exhausted as Mitchell Bows to Champ in Star Cup Final. BY BILL DISMER, JR. N A battle the tightness of which is revealed only by analysis of the point score, Barney Welsh successfully defended his City of | ‘Washington tennis championship in The Evening Star tournament yester- day when he defeated Dooly Mitchell in four sets at the Edgemoor Club, 6-3, 8-6, 4-6, 6-4. Given more serious competition than he, or any of the gallery of 500 | anticipated, Welsh prevailed after a | hot two-hour struggle in which he | made only four more points than his | opponent. | Not until the champion reeled off | the first four games of the fourth set was either contestant able to take a | decided edge. After Dooly rallied to | pull the acore to 4-3, the steaming rivals split the next two games, giving Welsh a 5-4 advantage on his own | service. | At this crucial point, Mitchell hit three successive returns out of the court. But with match-point staring | him in the face, the gallant challenger | still had fight enough to stave off | defeat with two slashing volleys before | & weak return into the net cost him the decision. | Both Players Worn Out. i SO EXHAUSTED were both players | that they neglected the customary | practice of jumping the net to meet each other, Mitchell holding out a| weak, but earnest hand which was | clasped by the equally feeble paw of Welsh. ‘Walter T. Hayes, the national clay courts champion of 1911 and fifth | | national ranking player in 1918, pre- t Welsh has defeated Mitchell. —Star Staff Photos. Welsh Can’t Find Room for Trophy INNING cups apparently doesn’t mean anything any- more to Barney Welsh, District tennis champion Immediately after he had been presented with The Evening Star Trophy for winning the City of Washington championship yester- day at the Edgemoor Club, Welsh walked over to a representative of ‘The Star and held out the sun-gold cup. “Can't you keep this down at the office for the next 12 months?” he asked. “I've got so many home now I don't know what to do with them.” GERMANY ISHELD EVENINNETTILTS Von Cramm Wins, Henkel s Upset by De Stefani in Davis Cup Play. Br the Associated Press. ILAN, June 5. — Germany’s Davis Cup tennis squad, fa-| vored to win the European | zone eliminations, got no bet- ter than an even break in the opening singles matches with Italy today. Baron Gottfried von Cramm de- feated Vanni Canepele, 6—1, 6—4, 1—6, 6—4, but Heinrich Henkel, recent winner of the French hard court title, was upset by the veteran Giorgio de Stefani, 6—3, 6—3, 5—7, 6—2. French Stick in Serap. PRAHA, June 5 (#). — France's Davis Cup tennis squad kept its | third-round European zone series with Csechoslovakia alive today by win- ning the doubles. The veteran, Jean Borotra, and Yvon Petra, defeated Roderich Menzel and Ladislaus Hecht, 6—3, 2—8, 6—2, 6—3. Crechoslovakia, by winning both singles matches yesterday, still held a 2-1 lead tonight, with the final two singles matches to be played tomor- Trow. BRUSSELS, June 5 () —Belgium's Davis Cup tennis team won the dou- bles today and gained a 2-1 lead over 8weden in their third-round European z0ne series. Andre Lacroix and Leopold de Bor- | his gracious losing spirit. | ever, and took three of the next four, sented Welsh with The Star Cup and Mitchell with the runner-up prize. Hayes commended the champion on his fine style and lauded Mitchell for Welsh scored 137 points and Mitchell 133, but the loser had a de- cided advantage in placements, | catching the title-holder out of po- sition 44 times, while Weish hit only | 32 shots unreturnable by Mitchell Continual errors spelled Mitchell's | downfall, as time and again he drove | over the baseline, outside the side- lines and into the net. Welsh made good on his service | 14 out of 22 times, while Mitchell | was closer to the 50-50 mark, win- | ning with his 11 times and having it broken in 10 games. Drop-shots Annoy Welsh. OOLY'S famed drop-shots wor- | ried the champ throughout, two of them in a row in the second game of the third set starting him off to | victory in the only set he won Mitchell incidentally broke Welsh's service at love in the tenth game to win the set. On two other occa- sions, Mitchell set the title-holder back at love, but Welsh was unable | to hold Mitchell scoreless in any one game. Games went with service in the first set until 2—2, when Welsh took the next three before splitting the last two. Singularly, games went against service in the second set| until the seventh game when Mitca | ell won his for a 4—3 lead. Later he held & 5—4 lead and was only 2 | points away from set when Welsh | rallied to tie the score. The latter | broke Dooly and won on his own service for & 2—0 advantage in sets. Mitchell established a 5—2 lead in the third set before Welsh took two games with the loss of only 3 points, | but Mitchell pounded out a love game for the set. | A 10-minute rest period seemed to | give Welsh more power, for he start- ed out as if he were going to win the final set at love. Mitchell won | with service in the fifth game, how- before Barney ended it all on his own service. Point scores: First Set. 4 242442 wel it 2 Second Set. sh Mitchell Welsh— Mitchell— 26341 Welsh -0 Mitchell ~ ¢ Meitehen BOSTON WOMEN SCORE Capture Sears Tennis Cup From New York Team, 6 to 1. BROOKLINE, Mass, June 5 (#)— The Boston women's tennis team re- gained the Sears Cup today by de- feating the trophy-defending New York forces, six matches to three, on the Longwood courts. The victors, paced by Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan, the internationalist who ranks third nationally, captured man won from Karl Schroeder and Kurt Oestberg, 6—0, 6—4, 6—4. three of the singles and swept all three doubles. Ranger Beats Yankee Again to Keep Slate Clean Vanderbilt Sails to Third Victory in Series to Determine America’s Cup Defender BY TOM MORGAN, Associated Press Sports Writer. EWPORT, R. I, June 5.— Unbeaten Ranger continued her triumphal procession today in quest of America's Cup defense nomination by defeat- ing Yankee by a 2 minute, § second margin over a 27.5-mile course in a light wind. It was Harold S. Vanderbilt's third successive victory, his second at the expense of Gerard B. Lam- bert’s veteran of the 1930 and 1934 international sailing engagements. Ranger also whipped Chandler Hovey's Rainbow, the boat with which Vanderbilt defended the trophy in 1934, in their only meet- ing of the currght trials to nomin= ate an opponent for T. O. M. Sop- with's second British challenger. ‘The 1934 champion also was beaten by Yankee in their first engage- ment of the series. Light air hae prevailed thus far in all the trials and today's race was started in a 7.7 mile south- westerly zephyr which had increased to 11.5 miles at the finish. Yankee took starting honors as the two sloops began to beat out to a buoy off Block Island, the first leg of the windward-leeward course, and held an advantage un- til she spproached Point Judith. ‘There she lost her precarious lead and Ranger continued to draw away from her until they reached the turnihg mark, which the Van- derbilt entry rounded more than five minutes in the van. On the run home, Yankee again demonstrated her liveliness when traveling before a light breeze and she whittled three minutes from Ranger's lead. . Vanderbilt held so wide on the course on the second leg he was compelled finally to reach for the finish line without his spinnaker. It was a maneuver often followed by the skipper, who twice has sent back challengers for a trophy the British have been trying to recover ever since 1851. 5 ‘Vanderbilt apparently felt he could make better time reaching than running before the wind, but Yankee, meanwhile, was surging along with every ‘stitch of her huge spinnaker drawing. Tardiness in handling Ranger's canvas was thought by observers to have con- tributed to Yankee's gain, for the ‘Vanderbilt sloop was without head- sail more than a minute. Endeavour II, T. O. M. Sopwith's new challenger, poked her slim bow out on the ocean course while the American candidates were sailing - the last leg. She was steady as a church in the light air, but Ned Heard, her professional skipper, permitted no opportunity for com- parison with her rivals. He ordered headsail doused before they were anywhere in the neighborhood and leisureiy returned to her Brenton T | is listed officially. “> Marathon Guest DR. LEO S. ROWE, President of the Pan-Ameri- can Union, who will make the presentation of the champion- ship trophy at The Star’s na- tional A. A. U. marathon Sat- urday. The first three Yankees to finish will represent the United States in the Pan- American Olympic marathon July 18 at Dallas, Tex. CUNNINGHAMSETS MARK FOR 2 MILE Beats Venzke by 10 Yards in Winning Feature of New York Meet. Br the Associated Press EW YORK, June 5—Kansas' N the colors of the New York Curb Exchange, put a new Glenn Cunningham, running in American record for three-quarters | of a mile on the books today as he de- feated his old rival, Gene Venzke, and kis club-mate, Bill Ray, in the feature event of the New York Athletic Club's Spring games at Travers Island. ‘While 5,000 track enthusiasts gath- ered around the natural amphitheater at the N. Y. A. C. Summer clubhouse, Cunningham covered the distance in 3:00.8, three-fifths of a second faster than the American record established by Joe Mangan, former Cornell ace, in the same event two years ago. The world record for the distance is 3:00.6, made by Jules Ladoumegue of France in 1931. Wins by 10 Yards. CUNNKNGHAM finished 10 yards shead of Venzke and 40 in front of Ray, the only other starter. The former Kansan went to the front at the start and, except for a brief bid by Venzke shortly after the start, led all the way. He had little difficulty pro- tecting his lead in the final drive for the tape. Irging Folwartshyn. the blond giant from Rhode Island State College, got off the best hammer throw of the sea- son when he tossed the iron ball 179 feet 27 inches. Francis Ryan of Columbia reversed the decision his teammate, Danny Taylor, scored over him in the recent intercollegiate cham- pionships when he threw the 16-pound shot 50 feet 335 inches. Taylor took third behind Howard Brill of the N. Y. A.C. Hucker Beats Handicaps. J HAMILTON HUCKER. newly * elected captain of the Cornell track team and intercollegiate low hurdles champion, conceded up to 6 yards in handicaps in the timber top- | ping event, but won handily over Gilder Farrow of the Shore A. C.,, and George Foster of the Winged Foot A. C. His time for the 120-yards high hurdles was 15.1 seconds. The curb exchange foursome of Eddie O'Sullivan, Ben Johnson, Harry Hoffman and Jimmy Herbert, won the 1,000-yard medley relay, a scratch event, in 1:43.4 to establish an Ameri- can record. No mark for that event They fnished 2 yards in front of the New York A. C. team with Fordham third. Richard Libbey of Connecticut State College, aided by an 18-yard handjcap, won the 440-yard run in 48.4, defeat- ing Wesley Wallace of Fordham and Edgar Stripling of the curb exchange in & blanket finish. Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY. Base Ball. ‘Washington at Cleveland, 3. Tennis. City of Washington men's dou- bles final, Edgemoor courts, 3. . Skeet Shooting. North-South tournament, Na- tional Skeet Club, Bradley boule- vard, near Bethesda, Md, 10. Tomorrow. Base Ball. ‘Washington at Cleveland, 3. Tuesday. Base Ball. ‘Washington at St. Louls, 4. Wednesday. Base - Ball. ‘Whashington at St. Louis, 4. Thursday. Base Ball. ‘Washington at St. Louis, 4. Maryland vs. Vermont, Burling- ton, Vt. ‘Wrestling. Steve (Crusher) Casey vs. Hank Barber, feature match, Griffith Stadium, 8:30. Friday. Base Ball. Washington at Chicago, 3. Maryland vs. Vermont, Burling- ton, Vt. Saturday. Base Ball. Washington at Chicago, 3. Maryland vs. Dartmouth, Han- , over, N. H. ' Stowaway Turns Out to Be Hero of South American Olympics in 1935, BY ROD THOMAS, HEN it comes to covering distance we give vou dJose Rios of Peru, South Amer- ica. Jose is a marathon runner—a corking one—and tom Tow he will begin a prodigious mara- thon of sorts with the finish mark in Washington. | _Flying up from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, an airline distance of appro | mately 4.500 miles, Rios hopes to ar- | Tive in time to gallop for the national | A- A. U. championship in The Evening ‘Slars sixth annual classic of pave- | ment pounding, to be held next Satura day with the start at Mount Vernon and the finish at the White House It probably is the longest trip ever | attempted by a marathon runner tn get to a race, excepting an Olympic | contest, and he’s been in one of these, | too. Jose will board a Pan-American Airways plane tomorrow morning at | Rio, and, barring storm and crack-up, should alight at Miami, Fla, Thu: day afternoon. There the schedule calls for a switch of planes, after a | night in Miami, and a flight Frida; to Washington. t Jose Has a Sponsor. AS A contestant in The Star race, | Rios is being sponsored by the Pan-American Exposition, which will open Saturday at Dallas, Tex. He will | represent Peru in the Pan-American | Olympic Marathon to be run at Dallas | July 18 as the climactic feature of | a great meet, bringing together the | crack athletes of 22 Pan-American countries. George P. Marshall of this city is director of the games and was instrumental in bringing Rios Washington. Jose received specia permission of the Peruvian Goverr ment to compete here. He was in Brazil when the invitation came If Rios triumphs Saturday it will be quite a Pan-American party cowr there on the El for the na ship, and the grand trophy Leo S. Rowe, president of the Pa American Union, who accepied an invitation yesterday to do the honors The National Broadcasting Co., over Station WMAL, will carry a running report of the race. and Dr. Rowe's words will be picked up and amplified over the exposition grounds at Dallas just when the big show 1s gsiting under way. Rios is one of the most colorfu athletes the world. Until 1935 he not only was unknown as a distance runner but despised by his fellow countrymen in his ambition to become one, which leads to a quaint slant on this fellow. will be Ridiculed, Becomes Hero, JHEN the South American Olym- pics were neld in Chile in 1933 Peru was without a recognized con- tender in the marathon. Up spoke Jose for the assignment, He was ridiculed The boat bearing the Peruvian team pulled away without him—or so t | athletes thought But below the decks they trod, ignominously hidden, | was the ultimate hero of the games— Jose Rios, stowaway. Rios came home in comfort and glory, with the South American mara- | thon crown on his brunette brow And |in the field he conquered was none | other than the world-renowned Juan | Carlos Zabala of Argentina, who in {1932 won the Olympic marathon a | Los Angelés In the 1936 Olympics at Berlin Rios was the first South American to finish. Just what condition Jose will be in when he arrives here is a study. He will have spent five days in tha air with little opportunity to stretch his Jegs, but in view of the lad's back- ground it's a safe wager he’ll make it from Mount Vernon to the White House—over a devious route of 26 miles 385 yards—under his own power. According to report, he leaves Rio in perfect trim. Meets Lots of Class. | RIOS will be up against a field here | of almost Olympia class. Entri are expected from virtually all noted marathoners in this country and Canada. By wire last night came the tidings that Dave Komonen, winner of The Star race in 1933 and 1934, the only runner to score two vict 3 nere, would come along with a strong delegation from Canada Special invitations have been sent 0 Johnny Kelley, the great little runner from Arlington, Mass, and Tarzan Brown of Rhode Island, the only marathoner to win two full distance gallops on successive days. The Star's race is the only major American mara- thon that neither Kelley nor Brown has won. The runners will leave the gates of Mount Vernon at 2 o'clock Saturday with the winner expected to finish at the Zero Milestone sometime between 4:30 and 4:45. A meeting of the Marathon Commit- tee will be held tomorrow night at 8 o’'clock at The Star sports department, The course will be checked tomorrow afternoon by Dick Ham of the Ameri« can Automobile Association. No major alterations are contemplated in the lay= out used for the last five years, HUSKERS HEAD PARADE Four Big Six Titles Won, Another Shared by Nebraska. LAWRENCE, Kans. (#).-—Nebraska is by far the “most athletic” university in the Big Six. Kansas State is sec~ ond. Kansas and Missouri tie for third, closely followed by Oklahoma and Iowa State. Nebraska won foot ball, track, golf and swimming championships the past school year. It also shared the basket ball crown with Kansas.