Evening Star Newspaper, June 7, 1937, Page 16

s PORTS. Great Array of Little Men Noted L3 Chigger Brown, 111 Pounds, | Never Took Time Out as Sewanee Gridder. Boy Blue,” was talking a day or two back about little men in sport. Together we dug up Jim Keegan, the well-known foot ball referee, was on hand at the time, and he told again the story of Booth’s those 13 minutes, little Booth ran up 19 points, a big part of it on his own. Booth asked me what little men I ran across an old Sewanee quarterback by the name of Chigger Brown. The Chigger weighed 111 pounds and still through hard schedules, including Princeton, but he never was hurt. He could travel the 100 in 10 flat and he BY GRANTLAND RICE. LBIE BOOTH, Yale's “Little quite a few who have written their share of history. famous 13 minutes against a fine Dartmouth team some years back. In eonsidered the best. This last Winter, in California, I starred through three seasons with- out taking out time He played was harder to surround and tackle than a flea. Bill Johnston Weighed 116. 'HEN there was little Bill Johnston, the California tennis star. Just before the final match of a champion- ship at Forest Hills, I asked Little Bill what he weighed at that time. He re- | plied, “116 -pounds.” And yet his| forehand had just blasted big Gerald | Patterson of Australia off the court. Little Bill crowded Big Bill Tilden to the limit year after year, but he faced too heavy a handicap on the physical side. Even with this handi- cap, he wrecked Big Bill in the cham- pionship of 1919, before the famous | pair left for Australia to bring back‘ the Davis Cup. | Frank Hinkey, Yale'’s four-time all- | America end, was another marvel. { Hinkey weighed 150 pounds. Yet 180 | and 190 pound backs often complained about his rough play. | There was nothing dirty in Hinkey’s | tackling. He merely seemed to explode as he nailed the runner, now and then eracking somebody’s bone. You can't overlook little Joe Sterna- | man of Illinois. Bob Zuppke rates | him the best little man he ever saw. | Sternaman weighed 139 pounds while wearing the Orange and Blue, but he was a hunk of dynamite. Coming into | pro foot ball, Little Joe more than | held his own where he was outweighed | by B0 or 90 pounds, or even more. “I saw him nearly wreck the heavy- | weight wrestling champion one day,” Zupp said, “and his man weighed 220 pounds. It was in a rough-and-tumble where practically anything went.” Little Men Try Too Hard. THERE was Metzger of Notre Dame, Rockne’s 155-pound guard. There ‘was Monk Meyer of the Army, one | of the best backs of many years, who rarely passed 140. There was Cot- ton Warburton of Southern Califor- nia, at 147. Foot ball is full of smnl!" stars who could hold their own against | the giants. | In base ball, we dug up Rabbit Maranville, Johnny Evers, “the hu- | man splinter”; Dicky Kerr of the| ‘White Sox, Tommy Leach of the old | Pirates and several others. Base ball runs more to normal build, from 160 to 180 pounds. “Just what does a little man in sport need most?” I asked Booth. | “He needs several things,” Albie said, “to hold his own against a 30 or 50 pound handicap. He needs speed and timing. And he has to use his head. You don’t have to be a giant to kick a foot ball 60 or 65 yards if your THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, JUNE 7, 19317. SPORTS Notre Dame Grid Leaders Unlucky SOUTH BEND, Ind. (#).—The foot ball captaincy is an honor no Notre Dame man would turn down, but for three successive years misfortune in the form of i1l health has come to elected lead- ers of the “Fighting Irish.” Joe Sullivan, elected captain of the 1935 team, died March 20, 1935, after several mastoid oper- ations. William Robert Smith was elect- ed to lead the 1936 team. Three operations for removal of gall- stones kept him from ever putting on a uniform during the season. Joseph Zwers is the third of the captains-elect to go under the sur- geon's knife, The 1937 captain recently was hustled to a hospital for removal of his appendix. FAST FIELD SEEKING SUTTER’S NET TITLE Riggs, Hunt and Hendrix Offer Formidable Opposition to Southern Champion. By the Assoclated Press. NASHVXLLE, Tenn., June Ernest Sutter, Tulane ace and national intercollegiate champion, opened defense of his Southern ama- teur tennis title today against a fast field of 72 players in the fifty-second renewal of the fourth oldest net event in the Nation. Chief obstacles in his path were Bobby Riggs and Joe Hunt of Cali- fornia, ranked fourth and ninth na- tionally, and Arthur Hendrix, the steady stroking Floridian who won the Cotton States tournament at Birmingham, Ala., yesterday. Sutter, who trimmed Hunt in an exhibition match at Atlanta yester- day, was paired against D. L. York of Nashville today in his opening match. Riggs was idle, but Hunt drew Joe Davis, national interscho- lastic champion, of Nashville. Hendrix of Lakeland, Fla., was seeded third behind Riggs and Hunt, and met Leland Richter of Nashville today. Competition in the women's singles and other divisions will not start until tomorrow. T— —_— timing is right. Little fellows too often try to get in too much effort. They press too much, when they don't have to.” Grant a Notable Mite. 'HEN there’s Bitsy Grant in ten- nis. The Atlanta atom is lit- tle larger than the racquet he swings. But he has beaten almost every star | in tennis at one time or another, and is now in the middle of a Davis Cup scrap. Bitsy is around 5 feet 1 or 2 in height. He weighs from 115 to. 118 pounds. But hitting a tennis ball in his general direction is like hit- ting one against a stone wall. It keeps on bounding back. He can cover more ground than a tennis- playing centipede. ‘When Cyril Walker led Bob Jones, Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen and others at Oakland Hills, where the next open will be played, Cyril weighed 110 pounds. He had run into some form of stomach trouble and in one big tournament, where he finished second, he dropped down to 106 pounds. Yet he was hitting the ball about as far as any of the bigger men who could spot him 60 or 70 pounds. Walker had fine, fast hand action and perfect timing. That's what brought him those 250 and 260 yard drives. (Copyright. 1937, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) TEXAS. Houston. 4-1: Tulsa. 3-0. Oklahoma City. Galveston, 0-9, San Antonio. Dallas. 1 Him Title for 20-Foot Open Sailboats. ROVING his right to the 20-foot | series of the Potomac River Salling Association, Ralph Youngs at the tiller of his seawitch and sixth races of this group off Hains Point yesterday. In a streaky wind that blew from west to northwest and Myray beat Cricket I, of Twig Bush by nearly three minutes in the after- noon and the Lady Avon sailed by gin of 10 minutes in the morning. Judge Edrington placed second in the series of this class which sailed season here and permit some of the skippers to begin the Summer of the West River Sailing Club at Galesville Two Victories in Day Give open class crown of the Spring class Myray took two firsts in the fifth as high as 13 knots in the morning, Judge Prentice Edrington by a mar- & doubleheader in order to close their next Sunday. De Boer Beats Handicap. 'ED DE BOER'S Sandpiper beat his handicap allowance and won a first and a second in the class A. The Kittiwynk of Frank Levy beat out De Boer in the afternoon on corrected time, although coming at the tail end in the morning due in part to a foul by the Wildcat. Nelson Elgin in Buc- caneer was No, 2 skipper in the early | race. Tom Tremearne in his moth Ihochu | 11 led the class B boats on corrected time in that class’ morning event with A. L. Greever in snipe Alvern second. In the afternoon Bill Preston in his dinghy Flighty and George Dankers in the sloop Sink Quick were first and second respectively. Record Field for Comets. RECORD fleet of 15 comets for the season, sailing a single race in the afternoon, was led home by Verner Smythe with Priscilla Bobb crewing for the Sassy Too and Clyde Cruit in his So-Big little more than two min- utes behind. The tailender Freya with MacLamborne at the tiller and a new crew, Herb Budlong, surprised by fin- | ishing only 30 seconds astern of the So-Big. Rip DuMont sailing the Minx of Barbara Meyers followed in 45 sec- onds later for fourth. Summaries: MORNING RACE. 20-Foot Open Class. Myray (Youngs) Lady Avon (Edrington) ___ Cricket 11 (Bush) ________ " 1:01:07 Class A Handic Corrected time. Levy) "~ Wildcat (Sea Scouts) _ Class B Handic: Thochu II (Tremearne) Alvern (Greever) Tralee (Maloney) _ AFTERNOON RACE. 20-Feot Open Clasi Myray (Youngs) Cricket II (Bush) dy Avon (Edrington) - Comet Class. Sassy Too (Smythe) _ So-Big (Cruit) Freya (Lamborne) Minx (Du Mont) Litl " (Jacobs) Tangier (Degges) Serena (Zimmer) _ Nanq 1 1 i (Pagan) Cygnet (Diehl) Frolic (White) ‘ocl Van O (Van Orsdel) - Class A Handic; Kittiwynk (Levy) Sandpiper (De Boer) Bobcat (Sea Scouts) _ Wildcat (Sea Scouts) Buccaneer (Elgin) 1 1 1 i 1 I i 1 1 1 Zepl T (Marsh) Bea ull (Carr) Class B Handlc! (Preston) . _ ick “(Dankers) Black Cat (Barnhardt) Katisha (Shaw) _ Alvern (Greever) = Ihochu II (Tremearne) Kittiwake (Drane) Tralee (Maloney) Flighty B8ink ROSE LIQUOR SCORES. Rose Liquor Store’s nine had little trouble with Mount Rainier in & Na- tional City League game yesterday, crashing out 24 hits for a 17-4 tri- umph. Cinotti led the assault with five for six. TURF MEET GOES ON DESPITE FATAL FIRE Two Men Killed in Ak-Sar-Ben Blaze Sacrificed Lives for Horses, Is Belief. the Associated Press. OMAKA. Nebr,, June 7.—Racing went on as usual today at the Ak-Sar-Ben track, where two men and at least 60 race and show horses died in a fire. Ak-Sar-Ben officials estimated the loss at between $220,000 and $230,000. The two men who died when flames swept one of the main barns yester- day were Ed Kelly, about 25, a race horse “rubber,” and W. T. Lochlear, 60, trainer, of San Sabo, Tex. Firemen found their bodies in the ruins of the barn and expressed be- lief they died trying to lead race horses to safety. Track men said better known racers lost included Jack Murphy, owned by R. C. Graff of Chicago; ' Queen o’ Gold, owned by J. C. Elfer of Chi- cago; Trans Pecos and Square Dance of the Reynolds Stable at Fort Worth, Tex., and Lady Peenzie and Hustle Away of the D. Christian Stable, Big Springs, Tex. IVY LEAGUE CREW MEET IS PLANNED Influential Band in Seven Eastern Universities Favors Regatta. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. EW YORK, June 7.—A mam- moth heptagonal regatta on Lake Quinsigamond, at Wor- cester, Mass., involving crews of the so-called Ivy League, may be the next important development in intercollegiate rowing. Proposal for such a race among crews of Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Columbia and Dartmouth comes from an influential source in this group of ancient East- ern universities, and reaction from the various alumni is decidedly fa- vorable. Recent accretions to the list of aquatic colleges, as Manhattan, Rut- gers, Willlams, and, in the Middle West, Marietta, is accepted generally as a strong indication of the return of wide interest in sweep swinging, and the proposer of the seven-boat af- fair on Quinsigamond, launching his idea in a Big Three graduate publi- cation, thus feels the time is ripe for such a meeting. Would Fit Into Schedule. ENNSYLVANIA has abandoned four-mile rowing at Poughkeep- sle, and, with Yale, Harvard and Princeton not included in this classic intersectional race, it is felt that a regatta among the crews of the seven institutions would stand as a thrilling climax to the preliminary race sea- son, and, being included in such a category, would not conflict either Hudson River on on the Thames at New London. Held in late May, or even early in June, such an event would leave room for all the traditional dual and tri- angular regattas now on the schedules of these seats of learning. Daitmouth Takes to Water. ARTMOUTH recently has entered aquatics and has yet to row in an important intercollegiate regatta, but the impulse is there. Princeton, too, and Pennsylvania probably would co-operate. In fact, Yale and Harvard, with their late June regatta on the Thames probably would be the omly colleges to hesitate. Minor Leagues AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Indianapolls. 12-10; 8t. Paul, 5-10, Minneapolis. 2718 Loutsville, 0-7, Milwaukee 8-11: Columbus, 1-6. Toledo. 5-7; Kansas City, 3-1. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. COASTAL PLAINS. Greenville. 3; Ayden. 2. Willlamston. 5. Tarboro, 8. Kinston. 13; ern. 7. Newb Goldsboro. 5; Bnow Hill, 3. PIEDMONT. Norfolk. 4: Durham. 0. Richmond.'16; Rocky Mount. 13, Portsmouth. 2; Winston-8alem. 1. MIDDLE ATLANTIC. Charleston, 10; Johnstown. 1, SOUTH ATLANTIC. Macon, 4; Augusta, THREE-EYE. Decatur. 5: Clinton. 4. o JACKSON LIQUOR DEALER. Shoeless Joe Jackson, fired from Pprofessional base ball for his part in the famous Black Sox *“scandal” series of 1919, is the proprietor of a liquor with the long-distance race on the ' store at Greenville, S. C. Tests* by car owners in 14 cities proved Jor Climbing Sports Heights CONTRERAS BEATEN | IN LEAGUE TENNIS Youngster Who Gave Welsh Scray Loses to Stocklinski—Rock Creek, Fairlawn Win. AIRLAWN and Rock Creek were victorious in matches of the Na- tional Capital Tennis League yester- day, the former defeating Potomac, 6-3, and Rock Creek trimming Monu- The feature of the Falrlawn-Po- tomac encounter was the decisive de- feat of Billy Contreras, playground champion, by Ray Stocklinski. Al- though Stocklinski is a ranking player, Contreras’ recent showing against Barney Welsh in the City of Wash- ington tournament had seemed to point the way to better things for Contreras. Yesterday's scores were 6—2, 6—1. 8: Potomae, 3. (P.) defeated Con- 1; Deck (F.) defeated . 6—4; Bmith (P.) defeat- y. 3—6, 6—4. 6—3; (P.) defeated Poretsky, A 6. H—7. Doubles—Bradley and Goidsmith (P.) | defeated Deck and Smith, 4—6. 6—4, | 8—2: Btocklinski and Poretsky (P.) d feated Cranston and Burns, 4—6, 9 6—2: Herbert and Lichliter’ (F.) defeated | Freedman and Smitter. 6—3, ek Creek. 5; Monument, Singles—Allie Ritzenberg (M.) defeated | Baker. 5—7. 6—i; default: Judd (M.) de- feated Goubeau, 68, 6—>2"6—4. Haney {R. C.) defeated Heiskell 8. Pierce (R. C) defeated Silva, 8—: 7—B: Doyle (R. C.) defeated Nolan, 6o, Steinhauser (R. C.) defeated Loney. snd Judd (M) de- 8—2 8—2: Btein- hauser and Higbie (R’ C.) defeated Silva and Nolap, 2—0, default. AGGIES, COSTELLO WIN. Agriculture and Costello Post were winners in the Junior American Legion | League yesterday, the former out- | slugging Fort Stevens, 14-11, and Cos- | ' tello nosing out Nash, 4-2 | 86 zenberg feated Dnyle and Baker, Believes Higher Raskets Coming L ARAMIE, Wyo. (P —Willard A. utch) Witte, Wyoming Univera Bily atbletic director and a member fhe National Pasket Ball Rules mmitiee, predicts the committee e thoughtful consideration to sals the baskets be elevated Baskets 12 feet above the floor have been urged by Dr. F. C. (Phog) Allen, basket ball coach at the Univer-~ sity of Kansas, for many years. They are now 10 feet from the court. SPONSORS HORSESHOES Colorado School of Mines Puts Game on Intra-Mural Basis. GOLDEN, Colo. (#).—The lad who thinks there is no sport in the world like horseshoe pitching has won rec- ognition at the Colorado School of Mines. Intra-mural horseshoe teams have been formed. This is but another sign of the flex- ible athletic program at the mining institution which has the only soccer team in the Rocky Mountain Confer~ b2 | ence and one of the few hockey teams. EASY FOR KENSINGTON. A six-run splurge in the second in- ning started Kensington on the way to & 11-3 victory over Capital Transit yesterday. SALES AND SERVICE L.S.JULLIEN.I. 14 8076 43 P SLN.W. NO, tested Blue Sunoco against 54 other well-known gasolines stated that Blue Sunoco improved the performance of their cars. *Tests conducted by Ross Federal Research Corp. _ONLY ONE QUALJTY Y 2 (% NO SECOND NO TH GRADE IRD GRADE