Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1937, Page 14

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, —_— MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1937. SPORTS. Betting Is Skimpy Against Vanderbilt to Sweep Yacht Series, FEW ARE WILLING TO BACK SOPWITH Change in Course May Help Endeavour Il in Second Race With Ranger. By the Associated Press EWPORT, R. I, August 2—| After trouncing Endeavour II, | T. O. M. Sopwith’s second British challenger, in their initial engagement for the America's Cup, Harold S. Vanderbilt's Ranger ruled an overwhelming favorite to re- peat that performancge today. Along the water front many were ready to wager the Vanderbilt sloop would thwart with four straight vic- tories the British Empire’s sixteenth attempt to recover the trophy. but in | most cases they were unable to place | their bets. The international sailing | duel will be decided upon a basis of | the best four out of seven races | Race officials charted a 30-mile tri- | angular conrse for today, which should test the two big sloops on a greater | number of sailing points than the 30- | mile windward-leeward course of Sat- | urday, over which Ranger led En- ‘ deavour II by more than 17 minutes. | British Take Day Off. ‘ SATURDAY'S race was, 1o a degree a repetition of the first race for | the cup, won by the schooner yacht | America back in 183 s the Amer- | fc finished, Queen Victoria, a spec- tator, asked a British tar who was second The sailor, after squ & spyglass, replied, majesty, | there fs no second.” America’s 16 rivals were that far astern. As Ranger | crossed the finish line Saturday En deavour II was almost lost to sight in the mis It may be due to confidence, a form of confidence Vanderbilt does not understand, but Endeavour II re- mained at her mooring in Brenton Cove throughout the Sabbath, while Ranger was under canvas. Vander- bily tried out some new sails and gave his crack crew another dose of the | drilling which has brought penoml; praise for the smart handling of the defender. If effort, energy and study put into | the current cup campaign deserves | victory, the laurel wreath should rest on Vanderbilt's bronzed brow when the final finish line is reached, nting through Y our Change May Help Britisher. OPWITH'S crew is better immeas- urably than that with which he eailed the first Endeavour to defeat in 1934, but it is reasonable to sup- pose Vanderbilt has gained some ad- vantage by keeping his boat and crew | constantly tuned to a high pitch of efficiency. If Sopwith's claim that Endeavour II is faster reaching across the wind | than his first challenger is well- | founded. the course plotted for today should be more to his advantage than that sailed in the opening race. Bar- ring shifts in the direction of the breeze, & triangular course should furnish & 10-mile beat and two 10- mile reaches, one close and the other broad. Always In a yacht race there is a possibility the fickleness of the breeze may give one craft a lift while the other wallows in a calm. A change in direction of vagrant zephyrs can place the leeward boat suddenly in the wind- ward position and much closer to the mark than the competitor which had been leading. Those are only indications of the risk taken in wa- gering on four straight victories. Four-Mile Wind Expected. TODAY'S start was scheduled for 11:40 am. (E. S. T.), but delay dus to light air was possible. The official wind forecast was for light southerly winds, about 4 miles an hour, increasing in the afternoon. The spectator fleet on hand for resumption of the contest had lost numerous members of the great armada which covered Block Island Sound Saturday, but it also included some new arrivals. In the fleet were seven schooner yachts from the maritime provinces, and W. J. Roue of Halifax, who de- slgned some of them, was one of the most enthusiastic spectators. Roue is the designer of Angus Walters' big salt banker Blue Nose, present sail- ing champion of the North Atlantic | fishing fleets. 20 Years Ago IN THE STAR. HAW, Ayers and Johnson col- lectively, took 13 innings to eke out a 5-4 victory over Detroit yesterday. Alpheus Winter, W. W. Smith, H. C. Train and A. F. Reeves have won places in the third round of match play in the Columbia Coun- try Club’s monthly golf tourna- ment. Ten years ago today Walter Perry Johnson, a big raw-boned youth, corralled from the wilds of Idaho, faced the Detroit Tigers in the first game of a career that was destined to place him in the fore- most ranks of base ball pitchers. Minor Leagues International. Newark. 6-10: Toronto. Jersey City, Buffa Rochester, Baltimore, Montreal," §—1: Svracuse, American Association. Toledo. 9—8; St. Paul, 4—1 Milwaukee, 19—9: Indianapolis. Columbus,'6—SK; Minneapolis, 2 Kansas City, 5—1; Louisville, 1. Southern Association. Birmingham, 9—1: Atlanta. 4—4. Chattanooza, 4—0; New Orleans, 3—7. Little Rock. 8—3:' Knoxville, 2 Nashville, 5—4; Memphis, 1—32, Pacific Coast. Beattle. 5—0: San Diego. 0—9. Oakland.~ 7—0: San_Francisco, 1—10 Portland. Missions. 1—7. Bacramento. 10—4; Los Angeles, 3—35. B—1. 3 Ve, Galveston, 10: Beaumont. 9; Dallas. 8—0 Ban Antonio, 4: Tulsa, ew York-Pennsylvania. 1: Williamsport, 1—4, . R—0: Trenton. -—4. arre. t—::. Hazieton, 2 7—5; Binghamton, 5— Eastern Shore. Pocomoke. 6: Centreville, 5. ‘ambridge. 10: Easton over, 4; Federalsburg, 1. isfield, Salisbury, ‘1. . Piedmont. . 4: Rocky Mount. 1. Ei'c'fi';nghd‘ 11—1: Asheville,” 5—0. orfolk, 6: Portsmouth, 5. South Atlantie, ket A Oty Ckaonviie, 7—B. Columbia, 2. F Oklahoma Houston. 5 Albany. Scranion Wilki Elmira, acon. | Invading Tennis Threat DICK HOWELL Of Miami. Fla., unsceded, but a sturdy contender in the Mid- Atlantic net tourney now in progress at the Edgemoor Club. Howell yesterday trimmed Bob Burwell and if he gets by Henry gh Lynch, seeded second locally, Sweeney today will meet Hu tomorrow. —Star Staff Photo. UT - OF - TOWNERS in the Middle Atlantic tournament —and 16 of 18 original start. ers—remain, were to pay Zor the inability to report over the wee! end for early-round matches when | they reported to the Edgemoor Club today. William T. Tilden, 3d. reputedly the nephew of Big Bill, although he has yet to put in an appearance to confirm it. had the toughest work cut out for | him. Should he win, as is expected of the second-seeded out-of-tow: he will have faced three of the city's better unranked netmen by nightfall Tilden was to start his day's work against Erwin Niemeyer at 4 o'clock and, if successful, meet Alan Staubly at 5 and Billy Turner of the Junior Davis Cup squad at 6. ‘Three others from Pennsylvania faced nearly as hard going. Unseeded | Joe Ford, from Pittsburgh, was to start against Harry March and. if victorious, tackle Ed (Red) Mather afterward. Frank Broida, also from Pittsburgh, was pitted against Ray Sherfy in his opening match wi Allie Ritzenberg, newly-crowned pub- 7 lic parks champion, awaiting him in the next round. Chester Kreska, one of two brothers from Albright Col- lege, was paired against Bob Chiches- ter, promising junior, with Billy Con- treras, playground champion, next in line. The “foreigners” didn't fare so badly in the six matches in which they were involved vyes- terday, winning four of them. One of the two losses, moreover, came at the hands of a fellow out-of- towner, Hubert Simmons of Harris burg scoring over Joseph Hutchinson of Denver, Colo. The three locals to fall were Bob Burwell, an old-time great, who was eliminated by Dick Howell of Miami, 6—4, 6—2; Paul Beretz, who was stopped by Fred West of Lynchburg, 6—2, 6—2, and Ernest Oliveri, who defaulted to Charley Parks of Miami. Indeed, Joe Baker was the only local player to score over an out-of- towner, eliminating Jack Davison of Ursinus College, 4—6, 6—3, 6—4. First - seeded non - resident, Frank (Buddy) Goeltz, was to make his start today against George Botts, with the likelihood that he would meet Stan Robinson in a third-round encounter immediately afterward. Tom Ridge- Wi seeded 3, who was Princeton's No. 2 man a couple of seasons back, faced Jimmy Hardey in his debut. Of the local favorites, Hugh Lynch, Bill Breese, Tony Latona, Frank Shore, Tommy Moorhead, Don Gar- ber, Bob Bradley, Ray Stocklinsl Turner, Baker and Robinson were furthest advanced today. Latona was within 2 points of being a round ahead of the field when Bradley rallied to tie him in their third-round match Yesterday. Latona had taken the first set, 6—2, and was leading in the second when Bradley staged a spurt which carried him to a 9—7 victory. The two were deadlocked, 4—4, when darkness halt- ed the third set. They were to resume today. THE public parks championship re- mained in the Ritzenberg family today, following Allie's victory over Tampa, Fla’'s, undefeated cham- pion, Mel Tarpley, at the reservoir courts vesterday. Tarpley, as emo- tional as a robot, put up a real scrap in all four sets necessary to decide the issue before bowing, 7—5, 6—4, 4—8, 6—0. Only in the last set, as the score indicates, was Tarpley unable to keep pace with the city’s former junior champion. Prone to come to the net when the depth of his shots did not warrant such advancement cost Tarpley many points, Ritzenberg repeatediy passing him with placements. The Floridian likewise erred too frequently on easy chances—errors he could ill afford against Allie's inspired play. - | brief intermission, Ritzenberg returned | | For Allie was inspired, the slender, | sun-tanned University of Maryland | freshman racing after shots seemingly | | impossible to reach and scoring several points from most unorthodox posi- tions | | Once, Allie returned a ball while sitting on the ground and again he resembled an acrobat in what the diving boys might call a half-spinner. Tarpley's rally, when he took the | third set, was short-lived, as, after a | | to take the fourth set at love with the | {loss of only 8 points. The final set | took only 7 minutes. By winning the title which his brother, Nate, took last year, Allie earned the right to represent Wash- ington in the national public parks tournament at Pittsburgh two weeks | hence. Hy, another brother, will ac- company him there for the national doubles competition, the two winning [ the team championship of the local | tournament on Saturday. BAR.\'EY WELSH and Gil Hunt were in more fast company at South- ampton today, where Welsh started against J. D. Anderson and Hunt opened against Martin Buxby in a tournament which included such play- ers as Bobby Riggs, Gregory Mangin, | Sidney Wood. John McDiarmid and Frank Shields. From the looks of the pairings, it seems as if Welsh would meet Riggs in the second round should he get by Anderson today. Riggs, incidentally, had Dwight Davis, jr., as a first-round opponent, DISTRICT ‘Y’ VICTOR IN SWIMMING MEET Bristow, Baker Star as Junior| Team Beats Two Clubs in Richmond Event. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND. Va., August 2.—With Bristow and Baker showing the way, the Washington Y. M. C. A. junior swimming team captured an inter-city meet here yesterday, scoring 31 points to eclipse the Penn. A. C., with 18, and Lynchburg A. C., with 17. Bristow won the 220-yard free style race, while Baker took the 50-yard breaststroke event and finished third in the 50-yard free style race. Both were members of Washington's winning 200-yard relay team, which was rounded out by Pettingill and Grissett. Richmond natators placed fourth with 9 points, while Ginter Park finished fifth with |Hartge Sails Defender to | hind. | brother's | as NEW CRAFT ENDS VANITY'S STREAK Victory Over Hitherto Undefeated Boat. £rceial Dispateh to The Star. ALESVILLE, Md., August 2.— By a scant four seconds, the new Defender of Dick Hartge handed the first defeat of the season to Osbourn Owings’ hith- erto invincible Vanity and took top honors in the 20-foot open class of the West River Sailing Club’s eighth Sunday race off here yesterday. Designed and built by its owner and launched only this week, the black-hulled Defender appeared a threat from the time she went across the starting line in a light breeze | from the northeast. Defender's time | for the 4-mile course near the mouth | of the river was 1:23:03. Another | newly launched 20-footer, Carroll | Smith’s Wings, racing for the first | time yesterday, followed astern of | Vanity by one minute. Lady Avon in Front. ADY AVON of Judge Prentice Edrington, maintaining a good windward start, led the 20-foot re- stricted class home, with Cricket II, owned by Twig Bush, 20 seconds be- Young Frank Wallace, sailing his albatross, the Osprey, led a field of seven boats to trounce the top-ranking skipper, John Harding, Jr, in his Raven, by 30 seconds. John Nairn's Whistler trailed the two lead- ers for third place. Proving his ability in heavy as well light going, Ernie Covert sailed his Escapade in the flikey winds to first place in the comet class for the second consecutive week. The Freva, sailed b ac Lambone and Ra- leigh Daniel, was a pocr second, but led the champion Sas:y Too home by six minutes. Lawence Hartge, sailing the Dot in fast time, was | first in the 16-foot division. Light Breeze Fulls Race. L!GHT airs proved too little for a fleet of eight cruising craft that were competing .n the second of a | series of long-d stance races. Under | way from West River at 10:45 in the | morning for 4 13-mile course out | into the bay, a majority of the yachts called it a day and motored port when. at 3:30 pm, was only half run. Summaries 0-Foot Open Class. Defender (D. Hartge) Vanity (Owings) into | the race By GeorGEe £ HuBER- GOOD percentage of the space | in this column recently has | been devoted to Ocean City, Md. It has deserved it. It is exactly 126 miles from Washington, Just a hop, skip and jump which can | easily be made in the evening, leaving | you ready for a full day's fishing the | next morning, and scores of Washing- ton anglers have been taking ad- vantage of the opportunity to get game fishing so close to home. Take a look at the record. Satur- day the party boats brought in 32 white marlin, said by Capt. Bill Hatch, the man who discovered mar- lin fishing there, to be a world record for one port in one day. The Townsend brothers on the Jacpau were high boat with five. Next was the Susie B, captained by Clarence Carpen- ter, with four. The marlin covered a space of about 10 miles around the Jack SDOI’ and ran in schools of from 5 to 10 and 15. Some of the captains said they were as plentiful as bluefish, and sev- | eral partics, fishing for blues, hooked | marlin | Last week Washingtonians did | themselves proud there. F. W. Conick, E. R. Brooks L. A. Tuell fished with Capt. Jim Whaley on the Empress II. Brooks landed an 88-pounder in 50 minutes, Tuell a 70-pounder in 1 hour and gates. They were there for several days catching hardhead and spot. Another party which put in at Solo- | mons Saturday included 21 Congress- men on the Maryland pilot boat J. W. Sanner. They were headed by Repre- sentative John J. O'Connor of New York. Fish Film the Goods. game fishing, one of the best yet to come to town. Financed by sports- men who were dissatisfied with the usual fishing short, film, “Fish From Hell,” shows capture of an 800-pound tuna, a huge shark and a manta. Elaborate equipment was used to show both above-water and under- water scenes at the same time. Worth seeing. Weekly Condensed Reports. r Md. E. L Warner now cloudy but clearing, outlook good for Tnter on Potomac at Williamsport—Riv condition fair catches of bas Conowingo Dam Bass streams low. ‘good catche and parrows Point L F. M 1d ‘a few ha soon Lee R Fishing tweek, T THE Rialto Theater this week is | a spectacular short subject on | this three-reel | the | rkel rdheads | plenty of | DESOTA SURPRISE OF TROTTING GAME Favorite for Hambletonian| Little Known Before He Won Two Weeks Ago. By the Assogiated Press. OSHEN, N. Y., August 2.—De- sota, rangy bay colt owned by Paul Bowser of Boston, has | raced out fo comparative | obscurity into the enviable role of | favorite for the rich Hambletonign, which wiil be trotted at Good Time Park August 11, The chances of the son of Peter Volo were considered no better than 8 to 1 in the first line of the Winter book. Then, just before the Grand Circuit opened at Toledo late in June, his odds lengthened to 10 to 1. There | was little to make the exp s believe that the colt owned by the “Down East” wrestling impressario would be capable of matching strides with such | top-notch 3-year-old trotters as Bill | Strang’s Twilight Song and W Reynolds’ Schnapps. Desota Gains in Importance, ‘BL‘T in less than two months the situation has been altered con- 15 minutes. Dr. Douglas Tschiffely, Dr. L. A Martell and Harry Zehner fished with Capt. Harry Gilbert on the Pal. Dr Martell landed a 50-pounder in 20;' Md = Capt. Harry Woodburn ng made here now, rock H. C. Elliott took 4% on . M. Sprigg: r Cheseldine— 50 woll, fair Mears—Big and - porgies. trout due any s . S. Corl sea bass Capt. T rip. outlook POLO RATINGS CHANGED “Good catcn, to 00 hardhead per minutes, Dr. Tschiffley a 60-pounder in 1 hour and 20 minutes. H. B. Stelle, with Capt. Josh Bunt- ing on the Evelyn, landed a 60-pounder in 40 minutes. George O. Sutton, on his private cruiser, boated a 75-pound marlin in 25 minutes. Bullock, Maryland Club, Among Lot With Reduced Handicaps. NEW YORK, August 2 (P, —Mid- summer handicap changes have been announced by the United States Polo Association. Ratings of top-flight left unchanged in accordance with precedent. The hig} ranked play to be changed were Gerard S. Smith of Ox Ridge and Carl Crawford of Wichita, both of whom were boosted Officials at Solomons. 12-YEAR-OLD youngster, Billy | Savage, son of the well-known | Capt. Crawford Savage, got his father | to let him try marlin fishing and he | brought to gaff a marlin tipping the | scales at 85 pounds in 40 minutes red Fletcher, fishing columnist New York City, got his 50-pound fish | players were - | may be another sh - | Greyhound in w in 30 minutes Blues also are hitting there, last week running from 50 to 250 a boat. Last week officials were all over the place in Chesapeake Bay trying their | luck on such stuff as hardhead, rock Albatross Class, Osprev (F. Wallace) Raven (Harding) Whisiler (Nairn) Cardinal (Wells) _ Falcon_(Cox) Guil D W Hawk (E. Hart ce) ge) - Comet Clas Escapade (Covert) Freva Lamborne) 8assy Too (Daniel) Serena (Zimmer) 16-Foot Class, Dot (L. Hartge) Sue_ (Dixon) *Signifies restricted cl DORAIS IN COMMAND CHICAGO, August 2 (#).—Charles | (Gus) Dorais of the University of De- troit still led the field today, but Lynn Waldorf of Northwestern's Big Ten | champions and Elmer Layden of Notre Dame were making a fight of the poll to select a coaching stafl for | the all-star collegiate gridders against | the Green Bay Packers September 1. Dorais, poll leader from the start, had 373,560 points; Waldorf had climbed to a good second with 307.885 points and Layden to third at 286,165. Other leaders: Pete Vaughan, Wa- bash, 89.396; Jimmy Phelan, Wash- ington, 85,552; Bo McMillin, Indiana, 85,441; Bernie Moore, Louisiana State, 74,16 Music Heads Now In Coaches’ Boat CHAMPAIGN. IllL—Foot ball coaches aren't the only men- tors who compete for “material.” Director A. A. Harding of the University of Illinois band said today it's getting increasingly diffi- cult to maintain the organization's high standards because other schools are enticing prospective and trout. Solomons particularly had its share. Capt. George Bowen had out Gov. Harry Nice of Maryland and 21 members of the House of Dele- 'POLL ON RACE TRACK AS MIAMI PROTESTS Dade County Voters to Decide To- morrow if Resort Area Gets Third Plant. By the Associated Press JFORT LAUDERDALE. Fla. August 2—Whether the Miami area is to have a third horse race track will be decided at the polls tomorrow. but no Miamian can vote. Joseph ‘M. Smoot, once balked in an attempt to build & new track on an island in Miami's Biscayne Bay. proposes to operate a $1,300,000 plant Just aeross the Dade County (Miami) line. The State Racing Commision has approved the venture and now voters in Broward (Fort Lauderdale) County here will decide whether the permit shall be granted. A dissenting Miami faction remains officially helpless, al- though not altogether silent. The track, planned by the Holly- wood Jockey Club, of which Smoot is president. would be located on the Federal highway, Miami, about the same distance from the resort as Joseph E. Widener's Hialeah Park and William W. Dwyer's Tropical Park. A ministerial association has ex- pressed the only local opposition, but Miami merchants have protested. “If racing continues at the present rate of increasing activity,” they de- clared in a published report, “it eventually will destroy itself.” In adition to the horse tracks, four greyhound plants operate within 20 musicians with scholarships. miles of Miami. el svavinca admission 10 SWIM CARD FOR ONE DOLLAR 0: FOR ADULTS BY BUYING A 10 SWIM CARD. /E ) = ADMISSION PRICE INCLUDES METAL LOCKER AND FREE CHECKING OF VALUABLES AND IS THE SAME ON WEEK DAYS, SUNDAYS AND MNOLIDAYS iy, L ."m. ’1 U“hl’ s 1220 13th w il BY REPLACING HALF-WORN TIRES Wa are authorized to make a special change- offer to a limited number of customers. To enable you to enjoy the advantages of GOLD CUPS, we will buy back the unused portion of your present tires in_exact ratio o their original cost. Example—if vour tires are half worn. we will eredit you with balf their cost if applied to the pur- chase of new Gold Cup Tires. 6.00-16 4-ply GOLD CUP TIRES $15.55 Allowance on Any Hall. sStandart Make) S $1.717 GOLD CUP TIRE, NET COST ..cc....conee $7.78 Worn Tire of Other Sizes in Proportion “LEETH BROS. St. N. W. MEt. 12 miles north of | ay Howard of San Mateo, Calif , ‘ was reduced from six goals to five, and Robert Bullock of the Maryland Polo Club, J. B. Gilmore of Santa Barbara and George Fope, jr, of San Mateo, from five goals to fo IT’S AN ILL GRID WIND Florida's Five Leading Ball Tot- ers Are Born in March. GAINESVILLE, Fla. (#).—Are good foot ball players born in March? Well, the University of Florida has five ball carriers who celebrate their birthday anniversaries this month. Capt. Walter Mayberry's came March 14. Alternate Capt. Ken Willis had his March 12. Halfback Paul Brmki was 20 on March 4. Moon Mullin and | Bob Ivey celebrate March 15 and March 20, respectively. Foot ball men look upon these play ers as the main cogs in Florida's machine next Fall PER BOTTLE Buy It Ice Cold Wherever Soft Drinks Are Sold siderably and so have the odds. Today | | Desota is being held at 4 to 1, with | Schnapps and Twilight Song quoted | {at 5 and 6 to 1, respectively. There | ft in the odds after | | the trio meet again in the American | Stake at Agawam, Mass, Wednesday. The Bowser colt first jumped into | t Old Orchard Beach | ago when he beat both | Song and Sc Pl the | 1 Stakes. He ed 1 mile th time made by | the 1935 Ham- bletonian. And if just to prove his tri | was no fluke, Desota came bac week to trounce other Hamblet colts, including C. W. Phellis’ York-owned Southland, and Holl | | GOOD GOOD F Major Leaders By the Associated Press American League. %_—Genrig, Yankees, Yankees 47 Di_ Magg Greenbere. Tigers. Rii Runs hatted 105 DI M, D, 37%; DL 93; iwers, Yankees, Greenberg, 10. 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