Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1940, Page 17

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1940. SPORTS. * * A-17 Stretch-Running Power Makes Mioland Dangerous Kentucky,Derby Contender The SPORTLIGHT Early Date of Derby | } Cutting Down Field By GRANTLAND RICE, Special Correspondent of The Star. NEW YORK, April 20 (N.ANA). —The argument that the Kentucky Derby is held too early is heard again as rain and wind sweep the tracks, keeping the colts and fillies in the barns or otherwise retsrding[ their training. Eligibles are being ~knocked off almost every day either by lack of condition or injuries suf- fered in the rush to get ready. And if there isn't a favorable switch in the weather within the next week or so, it may be that one "' of the smallest Derby flelds of all | time will go the the post. Latest of the well-liked colts to | be withdrawn was Arnold Hanger's Roman Flag. There isn’t anything the matter with Roman Flag that three weeks or so of training won't cure, but the Derby is just two weeks away and Max Hirsch, who trains him, refused io take a chance on hurting him by forcing him beyond his regular routine. E. R. Bradley’'s Bimelech, winter book favortie, has been slow and Mr, Bradley said recently that it was no sure shot his colt would go | to the post. Much has been made of the fact that this may be the last Derby in which Mr. Bradley will have an entry and that he wants almost desperately to win it, especi- ally as Bimelech is a son of Black Toney, the horse that the master of Idle Hour loved more than any other horse he ever owned. But while all this is true, it is obvious that he isn't going to risk breaking Bimelech down—not even to win | the Derby. Foul Weather Brings Sharp Revival of Kick on Date. The original objection of many of the more prominent owners in the East to sending their colts or | fillies to the Derby was that it was | run too soon. They said is whs| foolish to get them ready for so stern a test the first week in May. But with the growth of the Derby’s prestige to a point where it is con- | sidered by track fans to be the| most important 3-year-old race in | the country, they weakened and | the great names of the East are | seen on the owner's list at Churchill i Downs. This year there has been a sharp revival of the old objection because all over the country the weather has been so bad. For once differ-| ences of opinion as to the best sec- | tion in which to winter—North, | South or Pacific Coast—have been unimportant, since no matter where | the candidates wintered, most of | them are far off Derby form. As for those who are sticking a}ong, running well and almost certain to | hear the bugle call on May 4, it didn't seem to make any difference where they spent the winter. Andy K. and Some Others Showing to Advantage Andy K. second choice in the winter book, has been working tpriskly in Maryland, and last week at Havre de Grace beat two other Derby eligibles—Royal Man and Cockerel—in a race in which he didn’t run out and so lose ground as | he did in so many of his races as a | -year-old. £ 2 .y“m Fitzsimmons had the Belair | colts, Fenelon and Dusky Fox, at Aqueduct all winter, but has them in surprisingly fine condition, as they demonstrated on opening day at Jamaica, when Fenelon won the‘ Cedar Manor, beating C. V. Whit- | ney's Carrier Pigeon, which was unbeaten as a 2-year-old. Dusky Fox ran out of the money that day, but ran easily and Mr. Fitz was content with the form he showed. Carrier Pigeon's defeat was not | exactly a shock to Mr. Whitney. He believed the colt was a little short and so he was. With that race be- hind him, he is a little closer to the ak. pe‘“ Keeneland, in Kentucky, A. L. Ferguson has Black Brummel, a real | Derby dark horse. The other day | Black Brummel tangled with three | other Derby hopefuls—Valtite, Tip- pity and Mission Step—and bea_t them handily. Maxwell Howard’s Victory Morn—the smallest thor- oughbred in training, incidemal]y_—- was beaten, along with Carrier Pigeon and Dusky Fox by Fenelon on Jamaica opening day, but came through the race nicely. W. L. Brann, who sent Challedon to the Derby last year and saw him beaten eight lengths by Johnstown (Mr. Brann had his revenge a week later at Pimlico when Challedon won the Preakness) is moving back to the Downs this year with Pictor. The Brann colt, wintering in Maryland, .1s working well. Mioland, “Pocket Battleship,” One of Best Conditioned. Probably one of the best condi- tioned colts at this time is Charles 5. Howard's Mioland, Oregon-bred and called the pocket battleship be- cause his sire, Mio d’Arezzo, was im- ported from Germany. Mioland, having wintered in California, ar- rived at Louisville the other day. This is the colt that will carry the hopes—and the bankrolls—of the Pacific Coast. Not too highly re- garded at first, beaten off a couple of times, shut off in the Arcadia Derby when a horse fell almost in front of him, so that the boy had to pull him up just when he was beginning to make his run, and fail- ing to finish in the money in the Santa Anita Derby, he came back to win the San Juan Capistrano Handicap impressively. In that race he not only beat Sweepida, Santa Anita Derby winner, but his time— 1:454—equalled that of Bimelech in the Pimlico Futurity. Racing experts on the coast not only expect to see Mioland win the Derby, but believe he will win it in a cakewalk and that not even Bime- lech or Andy K. or any of the other favored colts will be close jo him at the wire. North-South Skeet Meet Slated Here May 4, 5 Announcement that’ the North- Bouth skeet shoot, sponsored by the National Capital Skeet Club, would be held on May 4 and 5 was made today. 'D:; event annually attracts the| outstanding shots of the Atlantic seaboard. ¢ 1 Distance of Classic Deemed Favorable To Howard Horse Able Training by Smith Has Made Big Colt Remarkable Racer By ROBERT HENRY. Until recently we figured that Col. E. R. Bradley’s colt, Bimelech, would win the 66th Kentucky Derby on May 4, but this somewhat over- looked western runner, Mioland, has captured our fancy. We believe now that he will win the mile and a quarter $75,000 event. So what? Well, nothing, except that after we tell you a little about him we think you may agree. Bimelech, of course, is the hot choice to bring Col. Bradley his fifth Derby, but we doubt that he’ll be the un- beaten colt he was last year when the son of Blaek Toney galloped off with six stakes and $135,000. Only 32 post-time favorites have won the Derby, and unless the un- foreseen happens Big Bim will be the people’s choice when the barrier goes up. But we’ll take Mioland. He's our type of Derby horse—a stretch run- ner. Most Derby winners are those long-striding route runners who don’t warm up till the race is half over. Such colts as Reigh Count, Cavalcade, Twenty Grand and Oma- ha were this type, and they made a rout of their Derbies. None of them, in fact, became truly great until his 3-year-old season, when allowed to race 10 and 12 furlongs. quick-starting 2-year-old colts very seldom amount to much later in their careers, and while we don't put Bimelech in this category, it's our thought that he will have much trouble holding his superiority of last year. Mioland Well Trained. Mioland has much to offer. The fact that he’s owned by Charles S. Howard won't help him when the | bell rings, but in a way it means something. Howard seems to be blessed with strange luck. He bought Seabiscuit for $8,000, and that former plater ended his career the greatest money winner of all time. Howard paid about the same sum for a yearling colt named Kay- | ak IT and has seen that Argentine turn into one of America’s greatest handicap horses. And last winter Howard bought Mioland—for a re- ported $15000. Just as Seabiscuit and Kayak improved greatly as they carried the Howard silks, so has Mioland improved. There's a reason for these How- ard horses to improve the way they do. It can't be just luck—or “one of those things.” It's Tom Smith, trainer for Howard. He's the man responsible for the astounding suc- cess of Howard's color bearers. Right now Smith says that Mioland will win the Derby. A lot of train- ers these days say their own horses will win the Derby, but only one of them is going to be right. But when Smith says his horse will win we take notice, Howard Horse Strong. In the first place, Smith is not the type of man to make rash pre- dictions. He knows what he's talk- ing about—usually. knows horses. His long experience out West with all types of horses has given him a canny insight into capabilities of thoroughbreds. So when he says that Mioland will win the Derby we are inclined to think so, too. Just because Mioland is virtually unknown is no reason why he won't win the Louisville special. Many other Derby winners were unknown'| less than a month before they made good. Mioland has many earmarks of a Derby winner. He's big and strong, and, according to a recent workout at Hollywood Park, he’s fast as the wind. The Derby weight of 126 pounds does not figure to stop him, and that 11 miles will be right down his alley. Satisfied that he has the best two handicap horses in the land in Sea- biscuit and Kayak II, Howard last winter looked around for a likely 3-year-old prospect. He and Train- er Smith spied Mioland, a bay colt bred and owned by H. W. Ray of Oregon. Mioland only had a fair record last year. He had started five times and won three races. But his record revealed great stretch- running power, and this appealed to Howard and Smith. After some bickering Howard shelled out 15 grand and led the colt home. Improvement Is Steady. Since then Mioland has moved up in company with fair success. In six starts he has won two races and $14,000. His last race was a victory in the San Juan Capistrano, in which the son of Mio d’Arezzo came from far back to score with ease. Before that. in the Santa Anita Derby, Mioland came from last place to be running over horses at the end to finish a close fourth. Mio d'Arezzo, incidentally, is a German importation and once rated tops among 2-year-olds of that country. Iolanda, dam of Mioland, goes back to The Tetrach, fastest horse ever to race in England. We may be wrong, but if Mioland continues to improve as we expect him to, Howard not only will have the best handicap horse in the land in Kayak II but also the next Ken- tucky Derby winner and 3-year-old champion. No fooling. These | And he also | ¢ WISHING HIM LUCK—Mioland, Angeles to Churchill Downs. Mrs. Howard bid the-colt bon holding the reins. , California’s hope for victory in the Kentucky Derby, just before he started the trip from Los Charles S. Howard, his owner, and Trainer Tom Smith is —A. P. Wirephoto. voyage. Pro Football League Changes Rules 1o Ease Penalties Other Alterations Give Officials Assistance On Close Verdicts Convinced that officials would be more prone to enforce penalties if their severity were lessened, the Na- | tional Football League has taken that into consideration in two of | five rules changes announced today | The penalty for clipping, formerly | punishable by the loss of 25 yards, has been reduced to 15, with an | added provision that no penalty | shall carry the ball more than half | the distance to the offending team's | goal line. | Thus, if a clipping penalty or on the offending’s team 15-yard line or within, the ball cannot be ad- vanced beyond the 8-yard line. Formerly, it would have been ad- vanced to the 1-yard stripe. Other rule changes are designed to afford the referee all possible help on close decisions. On field goal or extra point attempts, the field judge now is ordered to stand directly be- kicker, and on line plays involving possible touchdowns, the head lines- | man or umpire is designated to call any score which the referee is not in a position to see. A fifth change calls for the inter- | section of the goal and side lines to | be marked clearly. {Two Chevy Chase Dogs |Score at Loudoun By the Associated Press. LEESBURG, Va. April 20.—Jack Harper of Chevy Chase, Md., and Leesburg captured two seconds here yesterday as Virgil P. Hawse's Beau Essig won the all-age stakes of the spring field trials of the Loudoun Gun Dog Club. Harper's runnersup were Betsy of Carrodoc, second to Beau Essig, and Skipper of Carrodoc in the mem- ber’s shooting dog stake. Beau Es- sig made three bird finds and handled them so impressively that it was unnecessary to call him back for the second series. Potomac Hunt Meet With 6-Class Card Draws Big Field Thirteen locally-owned hunters were to vie for honors in the Riding and Hunt Club plate, feature of a 6-class meet of the Potomac hunt scheduled at Great Elm Farm, Travillah, Md., today. Heading the list was Margaret Sanderson’s Poussin, winner in 1937 and 1938. A victory today by this couple would retire the trophy, Also entered were Patricia Henry’s Gab- by’s Scamp, Mrs. Ernest L. Smith's Seagram, Robin Riddick’s Cheyenna, Lt. Col. William M. Grimes’ Muddy River, Mrs. Marshall O. Exnicios’ Shiftless and Mercer Fadeley's Skippy and Headrock. The junior hunt plate, which was to open the meet at 11:30 am., at- tracted eight entries, including horses owned by Fadeley, Laura Ann Hughes, John Deveraux, Hobart Gay and Shirley Altemus. The Chevy Chase plate, the Mont- gomery County plate and the mas- ters plate also were on the card. Heat Is On in Duckpin Congress AsD.C.,Baltim By the Associated Press. NEW HAVEN, Conn., April 20.— The week-old National Duckpin Bowling Congress tournament faced its heaviest week end of firing today with an invading squad of about 300 bowlers from Washington, Baltimore and several Pennsylvania cities ready to take a crack at the standards es- tablished since the tournament opened April 12. Watched with especial interest were the Diamond Cab girls of Bal- timore, defending women’s team champions who rolled at 1,688 for the title at Washington last year. That mark already has been bettered here. the Jules Cleaners five of Hartford boasting & 1,708 score. »‘ ore Stars Roll Another title-defending combina- tion among the invaders is the Bal- timore duo of Hal Tucker and Tem- ple Keene, men’s doubles champions. Their mark last year was 828, four pins better than has been done in this tournament to date. All the excitement in yesterday’s session of the tournay was confined to the booster divisions which saw new teams take over first place in both the men’s and women’s stand- ings. The Seamless Rubber Co. men's five of New Haven topped their di- vision with an 1,818 score, and the ‘Wooster girls of Waterford became ghe women's booster leaders with any other calling for 15 yards, occurs | hind the goal posts in line with the | Rocksie, Good Friday Bid Strongly for Jumper Ribbon Both D. C.-Owned Horses Score in First Day Of Hampton Show | By the Associated Press, HAMPTON, Va. April 20—Two i Washington, D. C.-owned horses, | Margaret Cotter's Rocksie and the | Rose Hill Farm’s Good Fridey, were |among favorites for the jumper | championship to be awarded this | afternoon in the last of the two-day | Hampton Horse Show at Darling | Memorial Park. | Both winners yesterday, despite | rain which left the ring in poor con- |dition. Rocksie and Good Friday | were entered in several events today, | } including the knockdown-and-out and the triple bar. Rocksie, ridden by his owner, took | first place after a jumpoff with Harry | Jonas’ Sanoj in the featured knock- | down-and-out yesterday, and placed | third in the halfbred hunters, won | by George G. Lee's Lee's Birthday Good Friday, ridden by Eddie Tal- | bert, won the touch-and-out class. {He'll Try, also owned by the Rose | Hill Farm, took second in the half- | bred hunters. Three firsts were scored by Mrs. | John Hay Whitney’s horses. Missing Caddy won the hunters-under- | saddle and the model hunters. A | stablemate, Faithful Heart, placed | second in both, then won the novice { hunters over another Whitney entry, | Strong Tea. ! Hunter division doubles also were scored by Senator and Mrs. Robert ‘W. Daniel's Village Miss and Mar- gery Daniel's Brandon's Pride. @Canh; Fanciers Still fCan Wire Entries For Alexandria With the show scheduled just one week from today, prospective pa- trons of the Old Dominion Kennel Club Show in Alexandria have only until 6 o'clock tonight to register their dogs with the Entry Commit- tee in Philadelphia. For tardy en- trants local officials advised wiring of name, breed and class of entry to the Foley Organization, 2009 Ran- stead street, Philadelphia. Filled- out blanks and checks could follow by special delivery. Entry blanks were obtainable at the Atherton and Schmid's Pet Shops and the McKee Service Sta- tion, Twenty-second and N streets N.W. A record entry was predicted by Raymond L. Scaggs, Bench Com- mittee chairman, who pointed out that entries were increased greatly over last year's. Goldstein and Kardos Capture Y. M. C. A, Handball Titles Gus Goldstein and Alexander Kardos have won the class “A” and “B” singles handball championships of the Y. M. C. A. Goldstein captured his crown by defeating George Wendlandt in two hard-fought games, 21-18, 21-17, while Kardos was forced to three games before beating W. A. Brown, 21-16, 12-21, 21-9. Third place in each class was taken by George Newman and Ray- mond Lundgren, Newman defeating Lioneir Moore in the class “A” con- solations, 7-21, 21-12, 21-12. Norbert Seidner forfeited to Lundgren. Kardos won another title when he and George Young defeated Ellis Klein and Paul Gilbert in the class “B” doubles final, 20-21, 21-13, 21-16. Dan Arnold and C. C. Benjamin took third place in the class “A” doubles by defeating Ray Nash and Harry Schecter, 21-12, 21-17, while Quen- ton Gabrielli and Tom McNeil won third place in class “C” by van- quishing Albert Hewitt and W. Brown, 21-18, 21-15. Rain Curbs Pro Netmen PINEHURST, N. C,, April 20 (® — Singles and doubles semi-finals in the annual North and South pro- fessional tennis tournament, post- poned yesterday by rain, will be played here today. The finals will be played tomorrow. A L3 | With 811, | Cecil Harp of the Christian En- deavor League today boasted the second highest doubles score in the | history of Washington City Duckpin | Association. They rolled it last night at the Arcadia in the opening of the thirtieth annual champion- ships and not only gained the lead in Class D but three other marks for that class. | flashed a triple-header strike in the (first and third. He followed up | with a spare and strike and finished |with a spare. To his record 178 his partner added his second 109 for a Class D game mark of 287. | Wydro delivered a triple-header | in the last game to top off a 366-set with 148. Finishing with 121, Harp | registered 445, the second highest | set ever recorded in the classic and | a record on Class D. Their triple- | headers are worth $5 each. After a first game of 146, Harp| | fourth, fifth and sixth frames of | | the second game after spares in the | Harp fouled on the last spare in | 151—626. . Fameless Bowling Twosome Chalks Up Four Records 'As City Tourney Opens Johnny Wydro and,take over the Class C doubles top spot. Dome Oil, Takoma Duckpin Asso- ciation champion, with 1,781, rolled to the front in Class B, with Traffic the team leader in Class D with 1,663. with 1,603. V. Leitch's 137—352 was high for the Interstate Commerce League representatives. Arlington Fairfax Motors led Class F with 1514, Rolling 396 last night at the Lucky Strike, F. Edgerton Parks won the National Resources Planning Board Sweepstakes, Malcolm Foon was second with 379. Dr. Gardiner C. Means won a special prize with a game of 137. Star bowklers of the Kilowatt League with a count of 3,017 swamped a picked team from the Electrical Union Employes Union League at the Lucky Strike by a margin of 167. Pacing the victory was Johnny Herbert and Joe Over- end with exactly the same scores— Bill Behncke also shot ihis big game and the two pins he | 151 in a 620 set. Carl Rittenhouse’s | established his mark at Columbia in 1935. The old Class D doubles | vention Hall in 1937. doubles record holders their mark at Convention Hall in 1937. Three Rosslyn woman graced the opening night's program with Lucy Rose’s 372 leading the | place in Class C with 1,649. Blanche | combination. W. Foer and Lou Ruche of the | Hebrew League shot into first place in Class B doubles with 710. Billy Streeter and Bob Tucker, the Cen- tral High rollers who shone as their team took the lead in Class C with | Bauserman Service team into third | | record of 746 was rolled by Horace | Men's | Simpkins and Monte Potter at Con- | chase, swept Brookland with Paul |Jarman’s 383 and Bill Krauss' 372 Astor Clarke and Bill Krauss with | featuring | 848 are the all-time tournament |After losing the first tilt by a wide rollers | games by close scores. Wootton and Alice Pearson were | as the teams, members of the Quality Shop mixed ! 1666, came through with 691, to| title with an average of 106. made would have tied Clarence|608 and Ed Meredith's 160—604 were | { Purdy’s all-time high of 447. Purdy i high for the losers. Chevy Chase, District in the pennant runnerup League the invaders’ triumph. Ellett 361, dropped the final two The winners had kigh counts of 605—1,799. Total pinfall gave Sanico Meats | the Brookland Ladies’ League cham- pionship over Willis Service Station led, respectively, by Martha Biggs and Anna Reynolds, deadlocked in games won and lost at Brookland. Ruth King was cap- tain of the third-place Brookland Hardware quint. Federal Lithog- raphers finished sixth despite top | pinfall and the individual efforts of | Miller Vickie Weinecke, who won the league By WALTER McCALLUM. The Old Duke said so himself, so it must be so. | thunder and lightining, said Hagen. | “And I'll play with any one Tommy | Doerer wants me to play with.” | Which would seem to settle the mat- | ter of the only public appearance Walter Hagen, the Old Duke of golf, will make in Washington during his stay in the Capital this spring. Or if you don’t think spring is here you might write the weather man about it. As far as Walter is con- cerned that fulsome season of the year is with us. Walter has been late for some of his tournament appearances in past years. He has annoyed tourna- ment and match sponsors in a few spots on this cosmopolitan globe by appearing late. But when he turned on the full effulgence of the Hagen charm it disappeared, just as the cherry blossoms are disappearing around the Tidal Basin in the face of the northeaster that has hung around Washington for the past week, disrupting all ordinary ath- letic schedules and in particular putting the well known kibosh cn women’s golf. To Teach Hagen, Junior. Walter has to go out to South Bend, Ind, to do a little chore before he comes back to Washing- ton to play here on April 23. Walter Hagen, jr, a strapping youngster who has many of the mannerisms and a lot of the charm of the Duke himself, happens to be captain of the Notre Dame golf team this year. Hagen, senior, being among other things a dutiful pappy, thinks his scion would do well with a few fatherly hints on how a golf ball should be massaged with the utmost skill. So the senior Hagen (it’s funny thinking of Walter as a father, at that) will move out to South Bend to bend down and impart to the youngster some of the Hagen golf tricks. But forget that golf match at East Potomac on April 28? Far be it from a Hagen to do that. “T will be here ready to play that day, even if I have to fly from South Bend,” says Walter. ‘Two or three thousand golf bugs will turn out to see Walter do his stuff, in all probability. At least Walter hopes so. He also says he will be here. You can’t have any better word than that. ‘The feminine golfers around town finally have caught up with those missing team matches. Not that any one can do anything about it, and it even is getting boresome to talk about it any more, but the | this spring. Latest of them came |Sullivan 1 “I willy play at East Potomac Park | Yesterday, when they were supposed | on April 28, come rain, snow or|to play their second matches, after Straight Off the Tee weather has caused three postpone- ments of their team matches so far the first series twice had been poned. Well, It Rained. It sounds funny, but that's the way it was. Well, after yesterday's postpone- ment, occasioned, in case you didn't | look out the window, by an all-day rain, they decided to dig up and otherwise revive their twice-post- poned first series. If the weather- man relents a little bit and suh dries off the golf courses they’ll play them Monday. First team contests will be played at Argyle, and second matches are slated at Chevy Chase. The second matches, postponed from yesterday, will be played May 17 at Woodmont and Washington. Both courses were closed yesterday. So they are back on schedule again, only a week or so behind. Now they are praying they’ll find enough open days to keep it all straight. Columbia Country Club's Golf Committee chairman, Dr. Paul M. Stewart, conferred at length with Greens Chairman Dana C. Belser. Both of them took a squint at the weather and went into & huddle with Fred McLeod and “Red” Banagan, and out of the conference came the decision that by May 11 the weather may turn warm and the golf course may be in first-class shape. So May 11 was set as the opening day. M will be celebrated at Columbia with all the old-time formality and fun that always greets resumption of summer rules. Two Schoolboy Postponements. By now (if you've gone this far) you may be tired of reading about the weather, but it does seem to be with us. It was with the schoolboys yesterday and caused two postpone- | Rron: ments in the metropolitan schoolboy series. Matches between Gonzaga and St. Johns and Anacostia and Western, scheduled at Manor and Washington, were called off by a slight precipitation. Slightly more than a few thousand gallons. But six other schoolboy teams were more rugged. Rockville played Montgomery Blair at Capital, and Scotty Ross leading the way with & 74 the Rock- ville lads trounced the Blair boys, 8 to 1. Bethesda-Chevy Chase, the defending champs, licked George- town Prep at Congressional, 51 to 3%, with Bob Boylan and Jack Brayer of Prep both scoring 77. Roosevelt, defending Dawes Cup champs, licked Central in a match &t Columbia, 6 to 3. Tabulations topped Class F | (C post- | Stage Finals Tonight For Junior A. A. U. Tank Laurels Preliminaries on Tap This Afternoon at S. E. Boys’ Club Finals in the District A. A. U. Junior swimming and diving cham- plonships will be held tonight at the Boys’ Club of Washington, Southeast Branch, at 7:30 o'clock. Preliminaries were to be staged at 3 o’clock. Junior championships will be de- cided in six events, the 50 and 100 yard freestyle, 100-yard breast- stroke, 100-yard backstroke, medley relay and fancy diving. Other di- visions will find youngsters com- peting in a class for 12-year-olds and under and another for 15- year-olds and under. Following are the entries: and Under. ee e—J. Baker (E). H. . R. Martz (E). E. Thomas ) M. Mellett (E), R._Gatton (E), J. i J. Potter’ (E.). . Hughes (E). R. H. Gatton (E). J. Potter (E). rd breaststroke—J. ‘Baker (E)._E. (E). M. Mellett (E.), J. Boyer (E.), Ayres (Boys' Y.). 15 Years and Under. 50-yard free style—R. Watson (N.E.). D. Bradley (N.E). R. Geller (N.E.). H Adams (E). G. Lazzari (E), F. (E.). L. Brandts (E srt Thomas R. B . . J. Puller . D. Wyveil (Boys' backstroke—R. Geller (N, s (E). F. Reckeweg (E). L. . R._Benson (E), G. Hans- er (Wil)." C." Walker *Y.). B. Rolan ~J. Berger (N.E). G. Lazzari (E.). Watterson (E) L Jarboe (E). J. Wratten (E) | brough (E.). J. Rocha (C. H. 8, Junior Championships. 50-yard free style—F. Planagan (N.E) W. Fletcher (N_E.), L. Rodgers (N. E.), W. McGrath (N. E.. R. Specht | Thomas (E.)\ E ‘Hass (E) H. 5. T Holloway ( | Bernhard (c. H. 8., F. Seal (C. | Burch (Wil\). D. Lewis (Wil (un.). R Means (Boys ¥) (Men's ¥) 100-yard free styl E.). L. Rodgers (N E). W E). J. Thomas (E) E _Haas (E). H Crawford (C. H. 8.). J. Burch (Wil), D, Lewis (Wil) 100-yard breaststroke—G. Greene (N. E). T. Clarke (N E). J. Redman (E). J White (E.) H. Esten (C. H. §). B. Williams Wil). g Bender (Boys' Y).' G. Sandel | rd backstroke—W. Fletcher ). . Rixey (E.), J. White (E.), W | Kelw; « H 8). W. Falaradeau (Wil.), B. Sawyer (Wil) W, Dizard (Men's ¥) Fancy dive—F. Reilly (Air). R | (€. H.'8). J. Martin. D._Lewis (Wil), | Preyburger "(Wil). T Dayne (un) Krepps (Men's Y), G. Gibbs (Men's Y) | Roland (un.) 150-yard medley relay—(N Fletcher. Flanagan. R. Spech’ | man. Thomas_ White 'W. Rixes. E_Haas v 8) Esten. Crawford McKelway: (Wil.) J. "Burch. B. Sawver B Williams (Bovs' ¥ Clark. B Means, J. Bender; (Men's Y)' C. Kreps. H. Hines. W.C.D.A. Tourney Scores TEAMS. CLASS B un))! 80-yard breaststroke. ) H. 8. J D. 'Pinnow R. Hines —F. Flanagan (N v. McGrath (N. N 8. c B E)_Greene, (E) [ Simm'ns Patrick | e ard They posted | margin, Brookland, with Leonard | | Smith banging out 381 and Perce | Gibs ray; 02 JHar'on 112 01 Thomas Neuman 114 104 140 | Belonr | Pine | Hoitz Mieh's'n 105 149 168 100 1 (1.803) 530 586 487 | col. Heights. No. 1 | G.Harp 100110104 R | C.'spik’r 105 85 a3 ‘E Spik'r 111130 08 | Rob’s.jr. 105 100 1090 | C.Harp 118 95116 | asm Chief Clerk | Huntt 19 Robin'n | Hottell Wetrick (1.641) 5 1191 115 12 (1.640) 541 56 Central, Rose Hurd 109 ¢ (1.666) 3 CLASS D. Graphic Arts Press Bever a2 R2 09 | Tamazni S8113 7113 | Hartung 81 94 | 108116 | 124127 | a.578) 503 | (Washington Winner | Yingling Sauls | (656 5 i | Quality Shop. i Wooton ! Pearson S Alkons Micker Brown (1.682) B Hood 9 Riney 02128 04 98 9 2 1i (1.585) 512 | Construction. Chandler 85 92 Stuart | Rhodes (1,599 Traf Feldman 1 2 Bell 1 T D Nys 1 Bensetler Tavlor 109 Kidwell . 117 100 Proctor 111 99 | Steohens "85 R0 (1.539) 510 493 Gru'well 1 Jones Leigh Incas. 103 86 84 96106 88 79 R0 RE Chafin 119 102 102 Mann 104 105 108 (1.457) 501 488 468 Class and_Records. CLASS F. Miller 93 94 111 Arl Fairfax Moto; Cowan 79 95 08 Redmon 08 Wright 5 87 Schifett 84 S Waple 101 99 R2 Loveless Runyon 114 90126 Scott (1.495) — — — Etter 467 523 505 Tyson Glesg Conroy h 5 A Zim'm'n 1031 Ke'rney 110 10 (1.603) 543 50° rs o 8B 1 DOUBLES. CLASS B. Foer __ 08100133 Clark _ 106104 11 Ruche ™ 106 141424 Neuman 95128 0 (710) 204 249 257 (840) 201 23 Hawkes 117127 7 Johnson 127 05 04 (652) 222101 (89D cLASS C 95120 88 Strieter Feldman 12! 113102 102 Tucker McMil'n Me- Kohn | Red- 2 a5 90108 91 Bauserman _Service. ose 117121 87 94 102 103 96114 108 115 100 100 KR 105 86119102 20 104 8 M C Il 94 91107 | M'Mil'n 109 135 01 | 't 116 105 0 A 5 | for humble commercial reasons, still a4 100 (1.514) 449 561 504 o 207 C.Spiker 95106103 ESpiker 111 130 146 From the Press Box Pure Motives, It Seems, Don’t Thrive in Boxing * By JOHN LARDNER, Speclal Correspondent of The Star. YORK, April 20 (NANA). —Wnhile still fighting under Jacobs auspices, little Henry Armstrong, | thes world welterweight champion, deffounces Michael Jacobs as a dangerous dictator. He refers to Mike as the duce of boxing. Those are hard words in caull- flower ailey, where Duce is pro= nounced deuce. Even in pinochle, the national pastime of the alley, a deuce is not very good, and Michael's pals are defying little Henry from safe distances, ranging | from one to three thousand miles. | “If I heard him say that, I would | poke him in the puss, if he wasn't | Henry Armstrong,” says Mushky Jackson, gnashing his teeth. Mr. Jackson is one of Michael's stanch= | est adherents, official masseur and | talent scout to the Deuce. | The Deuce himself 1s scornful of | little Henry's blast. “I made Armstrong what he is today,” growls Mr. Jacobs. “He was | peanut fighter when he started | fighting for me. The best he could | do was $3 tops, ringside. Look at him now—a $16.50 fighter, thanks to Mead Dangerous Enemy Of Boxing’s “Deuce.” | Uncle Mike is the Deuce’s af- | fectionate name for himself. There may be something in what he says. | On the other hand, it may be that | little Henry Armstrong would have | done just as well in the service of some other dictator, or even in a democracy—aside from the .fact that all the opponents worth fight= ing were under exclusive contract to the Deuce. I know little Henry to be a poet ,at heart. and thus, while I have heard him denounce Mr. Jacobs with a fair show of zeal, I do not believe that the idea originated with him. Henry's mind is too much | occupied with dactyls, anapests and trochees. I believe Mike's most dangerous enemy in the Armstrong camp is the man behind the man behind the gun, fat Eddie Mead. Mr. Mead is Armstrong’s manager, | Unlike the majority of contemporary fight managers, he never has fawned on the Deuce. Fat Eddie is a restless. independent spirit, and from time to time he has gone =0 far as to bark out loud that the Deuce and his hirelings were job- bing him. }Eddie Believed Sniping At Jacob’s Throne. He may be right. It's no secret that the Deuce considers it the poorest sort of taste in Mr. Mead to go around barking when every- body would be happy if he just shut up. The Deuce has nothing to hide, that T know of, but Mr. Mead has a great deal to gain by sniping at him. It is all part of a very ine ! teresting situation which has dee | veloped in boxing in the last year, a situation which I cannot cover in one story, but which centers about the efforts of certain rebels to dislodge Mr. Jacobs from the Deuce-ship. They feel that Michae! is past his peak and vulnerable to a sharp attack. Their motives are the very worst, for while Mr. Fat Eddie Mead, for instance, is firm in denouncing dictatorship, there is nothing he would like better than to be the Deuce himself. Having prospered with little Henry Armstrong, Mr. Mead would like to expand, metaphorically speaking. There are other rebels—James J. Johnston, Jack Dempsey, Nate Drux= man, and some of the State commis- sions allied with the National (well, | fairly national) Boxing Commission. Mr. Mead is the strongest and the ) most outspoken rebel on the field at the moment, even though his fighter, is fighting for Jacobs. | Weill Might Take Shot At Big Promotion. Next to Jacobs, it may well be that 347 | the most powerful figure in boxing | today is a stout, but sinister gentle- | man known as Al (Weskit) Weill The Weskit is the sworn foe of Mr. 03 | Mead, and therefore they do not co- | operate. Instead, the Weskit and his | strong stable of fighters work hand- in-hand with the Deuce. There are some observers who be- o4 lieve that Mr. Weill plans to beat {Mr. Mead to the mother lode by engineering a peaceful revolution s | from within, which will end with | himself as Deuce and Mr. Mead out in the cold. If Mike Jacobs holds | firm, however, the boys may bury 5| the ax temporarily and form a common front. Misery makes strange bedfellows, to use a phrase which I coined in 1610 while using the name of | Shakespeare. | 1 would like to emphasize at this }ume that nobody’s motive in this battle, not even the N. B. A’s, is wholly pure. Pure motives do not thrive in boxing and so long as the | boys confine their tricks to one « | another—round-robin larceny, so to (629) Stuart 208231180 (691) 132 92106 Turner Homan_ 103 120 103 Billsb'h (656) 235212209 (643) Wallace 109120111 Winneke Btep'ens 123 98 92 Hilge'an (653) 232 21 (563) Herbert Kramer (665) 3 127114 98 100 122 104 227 236 202 CLASS D. 128 99102 Harmon 99103 88 Thomas 227202190 (667) 107114 90 Wydro 104 96 97 Harp._ (811) 98120 93 Widmer 112 85107 Hesse 210 205 200 Sauire Frye (619) Weiner_ les (808) Proctor Kidwell (815) 109109 1 1461781 211210187 255 287 100 119 131 88 73 01 188192 PFletcher Heyser_ (586) 102 90103 92110 89 194200 192 Minor Leagues By the Assoclated Press. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Toronto, b: Newark. 4. hers ' post . “rain and srounds. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. City, 4: Toledo, 0. post] , rain wet Kansas i Others and wet COAST LEAGUE. Bacramento, 9: Oakiand, fiGu' Hollywood. 11:'San Diego, 6. Othera mwoms.. u&n.!m 103 106 114 210220 213 110 87 88 79112 87 189 109 175 104 120 11 80 138102 184 253 220 0 255 287 269 | speak—and do not bilk the public |more than is strietly necessary, it | should make good watching. Keep your eyes on the Deuce, Fat Eddie Mead, and Alphonse (Weskit) Weill. Travelers Play Falcons Washingion Travelers will play the Washington Falcons on the North Ellipse diamond tomorrow at 1 pm. Travelers should report at 12:30 p.m. Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. CHICAGO.Nick Castiglione, 134, Chicago, outpointed Gene Spencer, 132, Chicago (8) MINNEAPOLIS —Johnny _Hanschen, 198%, Minneapolis. outpointed Arne Anderson_195. Sweden (10). pnfi"é‘afi‘fim’“‘? o Eddie pditler, 108, a ia. outpointed Irmy Rully, 169, Philadelphia (6). RACES TODAY Havre de Grace Chesapeake Stakes—$15,000 Added & 0. train leaves 12 noon. E. FIRST RACE AT %:30 P.M.