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Coach of Gridiron Giants Hard Put to Pick Best in Great Crop of Rookies *The Sportlight There's Still Some Iron In Larruping Lou By GRANTLANO RICE. Pper.al CorrPopondent of The Star. NEW YORK. Aug. 24 (N AN A.'. —Lou Gehrig, his head still up and his shoulders squared, was more than shocked by the story printed to the effect that he had a contagious dis- ease which had infected other mem- bers of the Yankee cast and thereby had been partly responsible for their 1040 crash. I called on Lou at his Riverdale cottage with BUI Dickey and Tommy Henrieh, two of his best Yankee friends. The one jolt to his un- broken spirit was the story referred to. The jolt was such that Lou has brought suit lor $1,000,000 against *the paper in question and this suit may be only the starter. Those members of the Yankee cast who were mentioned as possible or prob- able victims also may seek legal re- dress. “This story is beyond belief,” Lou told me. “Does any one believe that such a famous institution as the Mayo Brothers’ Clinic would let me wander around with a contagious disease that might affect my friends and the public at large? I know they will testify that I haven’t the tvpe of disease mentioned in this article and also that there was and is no possible chance in the way of any form of contagion. “As it is now I am a pariah whom many people shun. I might just as well have been marked with leprosy. Sitting in motion picture houses those near me get up and move away." Recent Record Shows Yanks Not Ailing, Says Dickey “I can speak for myself. Gordon and others mentioned.’’ Bill Dickey ,A'ut In "We all have been in the best possible condition. Lou’s ill- ness has had nothing whatever to do with our 1940 slump. The fact that we have won eight of our last 10 games, up to the Cleveland series. ♦ is proof enough that we are not staggering or headed for any hos- pital. "I roomed with Lou and I know I never felt better physically in my life." Joe Gordon had the same state- ment to make. Mrs. Gehrig felt as Lou did. "I never was so shocked in my life." she said, "when I read that story. I knew the effect it would have on Lou, who has shown the finest courage any one ever has seen. As it is we now probably will have to go into retirement.” His Trouble Not Caused By Germ, Lou Explains "The trouble I have had," Gehrig said, "has no connection with in- fantile paralysis. It is not a germ disease. Certainly the Mayos should know, as I have been under their tare for two years. There is no ► money in the world that would have made me take a chance with my teammates, my other friends and the public in general" The Iron Man has lost some " weight and part of his earlier ac- tivity, but he has lost none of his old spirit. He still is fighting on. He was keen enough about the game to stand and show BUI Dick?y the possible cause of Bill’s batting slump. "You are throwing your weight forward too quickly,” Gehrig told him. "Keep that weight more on your left leg—your back leg—as you start your swing. Don’t let your body get started before the swing." Dickey agreed that in his over- eagerness to get hitting again he was bringing his body forward too toon, "I know you are right, Lou,” Bill *aid. "I can see now just what I have been doing and I’m going out to stop it.” “I always swung from my left leg and hip-joint,” Lou told us. ''The flash of a second when my body moved in ahead of the hand and arm action took away my power. This is one detail of hitting I always watched carefully. But there are times when, in a slump, it is a hard fault to correct at once. It develops gradually and then becomes a habit.” Entire Club on Warpath Over Contagion Story 9 No one is pulling harder for the Yankees than Gehrig is today. ‘•If they can get by Feller and Cleveland, watch their smoke from now on.” he said. “I had intended to be at both the Detroit and Cleve- land series until this story broke about contagion. "As far as my illness is concerned I still am in there swinging and punching. My friends have been marvelous. You can tell them it's still ‘heads up' and not to worry about any contagious or infectious trouble from me in any way.” Mr. and Mrs. Gehrig are living Quietly in a small vine-clad cottage in one of Riverdales most attrac- tive sections. But the Iron Man cer- tainly is on the warpath now. So is the entire Yankee team, referring to the story mentioned above. New Players Scrap For Places Left by Eight Fired Vets Owen Declares Philly Eagles Most Improved Outfit in League 'This is the second of a serte.s on teams in the National Profes- sional Football League.) B.' the Associated Press. PEARL RIVER, N. Y„ Aug. 24- If Stout Steve Owen, coach of the New York football Giants, could put 22 men on the field at once, It would help solve a lot of his worries. The Giants, after losing the na- tional title to the Green Bay Pack- ers last year, said good-by to eight veterans. In their places—or fight- ing for them—are so many promis- ing rookies that Owens’ big problem is one of elimination. The Giant backfield was a head- ache much of last year—and so that's where most of the replacements are to be found. Of course, Tuffy Leemans is back and so are Hank Soar and Feets Barnum. Nello Falaschi, Ward Cuff— but pressing them are George Mulha, Carnegie Tech's great back; Eddie Miller, the speed merchant from New Mexico State: Hoss Nielsen, 215-pound Arizona line buster: Kay Eakin. the Arkansas passer; Grenny Lansdell and Don Principe, two of I the college ranks' brightest backs last year. Nucleus for Great Backfirld. That ought to give Stout Steve a nucleus of one of the finest back- firlds the Giants ever boasted. The line problem is not without its bright aspects, too. Heading the ; parade as in the past nine years is Mel Hein, the leagues greatest center. Flanking Hein are two complete lines of veterans—and enough youngsters who'd liko-to be playing regularly that Owen ought not to have to stay awake nights worrying about his team's chances of retaining the Eastern division title. The tackle situation has been brightened by the return of Gerry Dennerlein, who stayed out last 1 year. Tire St. Mary's behemoth should be invaluable this season. From the Southwest have come two prize tackle prospects—"Cactus I Face" Duggan, whose smashing style ! is particularly pleasing to Owen and upsetting to his opponents, and Bennett Edwards, a 20-year-old giant. Conti Too Hot for Bushes. Jersey City has sent Enio Conti up because he was too good for the minors and Ed McGee of Temple is another guard prospect worth not- ! ing. From little Scranton Univer- sity comes big Carl Tomasello. whom Owen thinks rates some rave no- tices already. Such familiar names as Lunday, j Dell Isola, Poole, Widseth. Tuttle, Oldershaw and Gelatka are all back. But familiar names are missing, too—Ed Danowski, Dale Burnett. Bill Wallis. Ox Parry, Tarzan White. Larry Johnson. Kink Richards and Bull Karcis. The reticent Steve, asked about his team's chances, replied that he thinks the Philadelphia Eagles "the most improved team in the league." will finish first or second in the Eastern division! Bensinger-McNair Tilt To Settle Maryland Junior Net Issue By the Associated Press. CUMBERLAND, Md.. Aug. 24- Bobby Bensinger. red-haired Takoma Park player, and Freddie McNair of Annapolis will meet Monday for the title in the Maryland junior tennis championships. In yesterday's semifinals, Ben- singer continued his all-around good play to eliminate Don Poist of Balti- more, seeded seventh, 6—1. 6—2. Mc- McNair also won over a Baltimore opponent, Bosley Baugher, 6—0, 6—2. Doubles play opened yesterday with the team of Bensinger and McNair drawing a first-round bye then winning two matches. It de- feated Morris Peake and Allen Reisinger. 6—0. 6—0. and Jack Myers and ft)b Biglow, 6—1, 6—0. St. James' Rally Wins A five-run rally in the fifth Inning gave St. James a 9-to-5 victory over Hyattsville Methodist in a Subur- ban Church League softball game. Disbursement Wins Title Disbursement softball team is champion of the Treasury League. It took the title yesterday by defeat- ing Coast Guard, 12-4. ---— Soft Pedal on L. S. U. Band Curbing Ballyhoo, 'Reform' Board Fires Leader Late Huey Long Hired B? th* A^sociat^d Press. BATON ROUGE. La. Aug. 24.—The leader who marie the late Huey P. Long's junketing football band at Louisiana State University one of the Nation’s greatest was dismissed yesterday by the new “reform'’ Board of Administrators. When Long started his ener- getic campaign to make L. S. U. a top university, he ex- panded as well in the ballyhoo end by hiring Castro Carazo. a dance orchestra leader from New Orleans, to put life into the mili- tary band. Carazo soon raised its person- nel from about 70 to more 200, and Long, on several junketing expeditions on which he took the whole student body to awav- from-home fotball games, would lead the colorful outfit. Musicians, as well as football players, were recruited, and the ► band was recognized as one of the best, if'not the best, in the | country. Rome sections of It made a tour of Europe. The board gave no reasons for Carazo's dismissal, but ever since Gov. Sam Jones took office the soft pedal had been applied to the L. S. U. extravaganza. The board approved the ap- pointment of Willem Van de Wall, formerly with the Metro- politan Opera, as director of the school of music, to succeed the retiring H. W. Stopher, director since 1915. Although the board did not say so, it was expected the band would be under Van de Wall’s direction, but that he would name an assistant to take charge of it. Kavakos Blanks C. C. C. Kavakos Grill softball team shut out Civil Service. 2-0, as Lefty Botta turned in a five-hit job on the Kav- akos mound. PLEASANT PROBLEM—Such is that of Steve Owen, coach of the New York gridiron Giants, who has so many star rookies it’s tough to determine which to keep, even though eight vacancies on the squad were left by released veterans. —A. P. Photo. West Virginia Turns Out Its First Traps King in 41 Years Auditor Wolfe Captures Grand American; Skeet Shooters Seek Home By FRITZ HOWELL. Associated Press Sports Writer. VANDALIA, Ohio. Aug. 24 —The roar of 800.000 shotgun shells has died away today, and the Grand American Handicap title—highest award in the trapshooting game is on its way to West Virginia in pos- session of Ernest H. Wolfe, 38-year- old Charleston auditor. The dapper marksman from the hill country ignored a heavy wind in the grand finale yesterday to break 98 targets of 100 from the 23- vard hne in outshooting 823 of the Western Hemisphere's top-flight scattergun enthusiasts. He was the first West Virginia resident to take the “roaring grand’’ in 41 years. Mrs. Hall Wins Again. Mrs. Lela Hall of Strasburg. Mo., national women's clay target queen five of the last six years, annexed the feminine end of the laurels with 95 of 100 from 22 yards, adding to the belief that if a woman ever wins the big handicap, she'll be the one to do it. While the trapshooters were split- ting up some $50,000 in prize money as a result of the week's big barrage, skeet shooting stepped into the center of the stage. The rival sport, watching the Grand American grow to huge pro- portions after the Amateur Trap- shooting Association established its permanent home here in 1923. is planning to settle down in one spot, too. instead of shifting its national classic around the country year after year. Skeet Shooters Rebuffed. Henry Joy, automotive executive of Detroit, former national skeet champion and one of the game's outstanding figures, met with A. T. A. directors here. He offered a plan under which the skeet group might use the trapshooting association's grounds for its national event, but was turned down. However, Joy said the skeet asso- ciation was planning its own perma- nent home, and that Ohio was the favored spot, w’ith special emphasis on this locality. Net Ratings at Stake As District Aces Open Rec Meet With 1940 rankings hanging in the balance and a few personal scores to be settled. Washington best tennis players took up their rackets and prepared to swing into the seventh annual District Recrea- tion tournament this afternoon on the Sixteenth and Kennedy streets courts. Favorites were Barney Welsh in men's singles and Willie O'Steen Herbert in women's singles. Welsh, who recently won the District men s crown, hopes to meet up with Davey Johnsen, George Washington Uni- vesrity star who took Barney over the jumps in the Middle Atlantic, but was eliminated in the semi- finals of the District. Welsh is competing in the Bing- hamton <N. Y.) tournament whicn ends today, but will be ready for action in the Recreation grind to- morrow or Monday at latest. C. Alphonso Smith, defending cham- pion, is competing in the Virginia State tournament at Lynchburg, but also will be available early next week. Tournament officials will give the higher ranking players who are competing in outside tour- naments all the consideration pos- sible in the schedule in an effort to help untangle the currently jumbled ratings. The tournament this year is spon- soring play for women for the first time. Eleanor Voith, Willie Herbert, Dorrette Miller and Margaret Keever are a few of the better known play- ers to complete. Girls Reach Semifinals In Softball Tourney Palisades and Langdon girls' soft- ball teams meet Monday at the West Potomac diamond in a semi- final game in the Community Cen- ter girls’ tournament. On Tuesday the winner goes against Virginia Avenue for the title. All three teams advanced with wins yesterday. Palisades defeated McMillan, 11-7; Langdon won over Georgetown. 16-12. and Virginia Avenue staged a nine-run uprising in the 10th inning to down Ta- j koma, 10-5. Middle Atlantic Golf Coin Is Predicted For Rut Coffey Pros and Amateurs Play Monday; Linksmen Pull For Injured Voigt By WALTER McCALLVM. Middle-Atlantic P. O. A. members will move over to Winchester, Va„ Monday to play In an amateur-pro tourney and pro sweepstakes over the tricky little course of the Win- Chester Country Club. That hap- pens to be the club where one of the te playing golf pros of this sec- tor holds forth. Rut CofTey is his name. Rut is a chunky little fellow who would be—if he had more good competition—one of the toughest of the lads around this area. He will be a favorite to grab most of the money in the pro sweepstakes tournament over his home layout, but there's one rub about this com- ing tourney. The pros won't get most of the high class amateurs. Most of the better-playing simon pures will be thumping the ball around the immaculately groomed course of the Chevy Chase Club, where Tuesday they face their big- gest test of the year—the sectional qualifying rounds for the national amateur championship. They won't be willing to pass up a chance to work out at Chevy Chase for the amateur-pro affair at Winchester, an affair which happens to be badly timed, if the boys want the better amateurs to play. Monday is the only dav open for practice at Chevy Chase before the crucial 36-hole trial Tuesday. Friends Hope Voigt Recovers. From every side among Washing- ton's amateur golf colony—and from a good many of the pros—came the hope today that George J. Voigt, once Washington's leading amateur linksman. will survive the automo- bile accident which put him in a Baltimore hospital with a skull frac- ture. The accident occurred a week ago. but news about it came out only yesterday. Voigt was on his wav to Washing- ton from New York to visit his ill father. His car was hit from the rear by another car traveling at a high rate of speed, the door fiew open, and George was catapulted to the street. Mrs. Voigt had several teeth knocked out. X-rays at Mercy Hospital. Balti- more, disclosed the skull injury. Ac- cording to Otto, a brother of George, he will be in the hospital about six weeks. Which means that George will not play in this year's ama- teur championship, if he plays golf at all for a long time. George Voigt was one of the two top amateurs developed around Washington. During the years from 1925 to 1928. when he left the Capi- tal to live in New York, he was al- most unbeatable. He won something like 16 tournaments In a row. and suffered only one defeat in that time around the Capital. That came in a Bannockburn tourney, where John C. Shorev beat him. George also won the North and South amateur title thrice, was a member of two Walker Cup teams, medalist in the amateur championship and a semi- finalist and in any sense of the word was one of America's top amateurs. George's many friends in Wash- ington were shocked to learn of the accident and all of them—in which we join—wish him a speedy re- covery. He was a very fine golfer, and in recent years he hasn't trod the victory trail so often he ’■e- mains one of the best of a gen- eration which produced the finest amateurs America has seen. Women Hold Tourneys. Feminine golfers, not to be kept out of competition even though the bigtime women's schedule hasn't yet started, held tourneys at several clubs. Th,ree of them were flag affairs. At Congressional the winner in Class A was Mrs. D. H. Henderson, who played her final shot, with a 14 handicap, on the eighteenth fairway. Winners in Class B were Mrs. M. B Daniels, who finished on the seven- teenth green: Mrs. H. R. Harringan. who finished on the edge of the seventeenth green, and Mrs. F. E Berquist, who was short of the seventeenth green. Mrs. H. R. Harper, who was in charge of the tourney, won the putting prize. Mrs. O. M. Reed won the flag tour- i ney at Washington, playing her final shot into the cup on the eighteenth green, an incident which shows pretty good handicapping. Other winners were Mrs. Lafayette Franklin. Miss Elsie Stavely and Mrs. W. E. Baker. Army Navy held a flag tourney, j won by Mrs. M. Rutledge. Second | was Mrs. M. J. Torlinski. while Mrs. A. A. McEntee of Kenwood won the guest prize. Mrs. J. A. Marr scored an 87 to win the gross prize in a tourney at Columbia. Mrs. W. E. Hall and Mrs. J. P. Harper tied at net 44 in the affair held on the odd holes, while Mrs. W. D. Barkdull w’on on the even holes with a net 36. followed by Mrs. J. Epperly at net 36. Mrs. J. Franklin Gross, the club champion, won the putting award with 30 putts. Local Pros at Hershey. At Hershey, Pa., today, working out their shots In advance of a tournament in which they are strictly horses of the darkest hue are two local qualifiers for the P. G. A. championship. Gene Larkin of Woodmont. the strawberry- blond who believes he plays better without much practice, and Lewis Worsham, the 22-year-old Burning Tree pro. reached Hershey today, and were to get in a practice round. Worsham plans to play 36 holes tomorrow, but Larkin will satisfy himself with hitting a few practice shots. The boys are good, but are they good enough in such an all-star field as the P. G. A. tourney has at- tracted? Time and skill alone will tell. The odds are heavily against them. Columbia Country Club is getting ready to elect a slate of officers at the annual meeting scheduled for October 30. M. J. Oormley, former president, has been named chair- man of a nominating committee. Other members are Albert R. Mae- Kenzie, Howard O. Nichols, Briggs O. Simpich and Capt. E. G. Watson. COOL CHAMP — Edward Perry of Venice, Calif., who earned the title of rul- ing life- guard of that city’s recent an- nual Mardl Gras fes- tivities. He is giv- ing a dem- onstration of his skill in riding a boat in the choppy waves o f the Pacific Ocean. Despite his expert- ness in h andling the boat, he had plenty o f competi- tion for the honor. — Wide World Photo. Skins' Second Clash Promises Sharper Action Than First Arguments Hot as West Team Holds Mistaken Horn Lost Battle By BILL DISMER. Jr., Star Staff Correspondent. SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 24— Re- united physically, if not yet fra- ternally, your Redskins resumed training as one big controversial family today, with prospects of un- ceasing arguments raging until their second intrasquad game here next Wednesday night. Because only 3 points separated the rival Eastern and Western fac- tions at Seattle, contrasting defies of "We ll get even" and "Aw, we'll win even more decisively next week indicate an even more brusing bat- tle in the return game, after which the squad will be cut for the first time. Admitting that it will teach his charges a lesson, but using it as an alibi nevertheless, was Coach Turk Edwards' assertion that the reason Dick Todd was able to get away for his last 15-yard touchdown run was the fact that his players mistook the umpire s horn for the referee's and stopped chasing Todd, although the ball was still in play. • The umpire tooted because Edwards' team was offside, but the Easterners naturally refused the penalty after scoring. Jimmy Johnston Injured. "If we'd kept chasing Todd.” Ed- wards declared, "we'd have caught him and might hate won thp game." 'The West was leading 14-7 at the time Dick broke loose to tie the score.) There was a possibility today that Edwards' team would be deprived of one of its most valuable backs next Wednesday as Jimmy Johnston, the sophomore from the University of Washington who went great guns in the early portion of the game in Seattle, has come up with a bruised shoulder and may not be able to play Johnston's ball carrying in the opening minutes of play was a revelation, the tall speedster gain- ing 11 yards in two cracks at the line before plunging through for the game's first touchdown. If Johnston continues to demonstrate that he has caught on to Flaherty's system after a rather faltering be- ginning last year, he should prove an extremely handy man to hate around. Tough Buneh—Farkas. In contrast to brilliant work on the part of such veterans as Sammy Baugh. Max Krause. Bob Masterson and Jim Meade. Andv Farkas ac- cepted his singular impotency rather philosophically. "Thank goodness. I don't have to run against Redskin lines in the National League." said Farkas. "Al- though they usually knew what I was going to do Thursday night, espe- cially on passes from Filchock. they're a tough bunch to get through. I think we're again going to have the best line in the league.’’ Williams and Janazzo End Heavy Ring Work Today Izzy Janazzo and Holman Wil- liams, welterweight rivals whose paths cross Monday night at Grif- fith Stadium, were to wind up heavy training this afternoon in public workouts at Turner's Arena. Williams, second on the program at 2 o'clock, will enter the ring a de- cided favorite for the 10-round go. His aggressiveness, ability to absorb a punch and all-around ring skill were to be too much for Janazzo. clever but light puncher. Janazzo. however, was not without supporters who figured he could outsmart his opponent. Izzy was to begin work at 1 o clock. Tiger, Friendship Nines In Big County Clash Takoma Tigers and Friendship clash at 3 o'clock tomorrow on the Four Comers diamond in one of the feature baseball games of the Mont- gomery County League. In other games Colesville goes to Silver Spring. Four Corners travels to Kensington fend Bethesda plays at Rockville. Goode Pigeon Is Victor Miss Moose from the loft of Paul Goode won the special open young bird race from Charlottesville, Va.. by the Greater Washington Racing Pigeon Association. Fifty-one birds from 18 lofts were In the race. Henson Qualifies In Ringer Event Special Dispatch to The Star. DES MOINES, Iowa. Aug. 24 — Clayton Henson of Arlington, Va., tossed 80 per cent ringers to be sixth among the qualifiers for the world championship horseshoe tournament, a feature of the Iowa State Fair. With 200 shoes. Henson scored 513 points. 19 behind the leader, Fernando Isais of Los Angeles. Ted Allen of Fresno. Calif., de- fending champion, was second with 526. he and Isais tying for ringer honors, each with 83 per cent. Casey Jones. Waukesha, Wis, was third with 523; Grey Zimmerman. Sac City, Iowa, fourth with 521. and Dale Dixon, Dos Moinps. fifth with 515. TIip lowest among 37 who quali- fled pitched 68 per cent ringers. West Coast Skipper Likely Star Yacht Title Winner Cowies' Craft Has Slim Lead for Trophy Now Held by German E*> the A'socia’ed Press SAN DIEGO. Calif. Aug. 24 —The chart for the three races sailed in | the International star class yacht championship indicated today a Pacific Coast skipper would succeed Germany's Walter von Hutschler as the world titleholder. The German von the title at Kiel last year, but is not competing in the present series. Barring startling upsets in the two remaining races today and tomorrow, only 8 of the 18 challengers were accorded a chance to win. and 6 of the 8 were from the West Coast. The Los Angeles Cowie brothers, James and Gordon, who won the initial race Tuesday, and again yes- terday. were leading the parade with 49 points. The Jade, skippered by Robert J. White and Gordon Hol- combe, West San Francisco Bay, stood second with 47. The Twin Star, sailed by Lockwood M. Pirie and R. K. Miller. Wilemette Harbor. 111., and ranked as the main threat, to date, to the Pacific Coast mariners was tied for third with San Diego s Whitecap III, Pepco in Flag Fight After Naval Air's Ace Is Upset Pepco and Naval Air Station were to meet today in the third and de- ciding game of their series for the United States Government League championship and a berth in the city series opening Monday. Pepco evened the count at 1-all yesterday, upsetting the Tars. 4-3, and beating their ace pitcher. Charley Meads, in the bargain, j When Lt. Tom Hamilton pulled a ! Connie Mack on the boys and sent Jesse Fairley to the mound for the first game Thursday and was re- j warded with victory, fans figured Naval Air was "in” with Meads ready for his regular tour of duty, j But Pepco surprised ’em. Meads went the full nine innings and gave up only six hits while his mates were pounding Garvey and Morgan for nine, but the Power nine jumped on him for a run in the first and three more in the sec- ond inning to clinch the game j Ironically, Meads contributed the only extra base hit of the fray—a triple in the fourth—but was j stra tided. Shepard has a perfect day at bat J for Naval Air. connecting safely on 1 each of four trips to the plate. Smith Virginia Net Vidor, Meets Buchanan Today By the Associated Press. LYNCHBURG. Va.. Aug. 24—C. Alphonso Smith of Alexandria and Landon Buchanan of Charlottesville 1 were scheduled to meet this after- noon on the Oakwood Country Club courts in the final round of the; sixth annual Virginia closed tennis' chpmpionships. In yesterday's semifinals Smith won over Fred West, local min- isterial student ,2—6, 6—2, 6—2. while Buchanan earned a decision | over Bobby Leitch, 6—8, 6—4, 6—4. j Rain Delaying Semis Break for National Net Doubles Gate Officials Look for Big Week-end Crowds With Keen Matches Due By th» Associated Press. BROOKLINE. Mass.. Aug. 24 — Although the players complained of the delav caused by two days of rain, the officials conducting tlve National Doubles Tennis Tourna- ment were happy about it all today as they prepared to run off the semifinal rounds at Longwood. Two postponements have forced the tourney over until Sunday, much to the delight of the committeemen, who relish the prospect of two large week-end crowds. Rain has inter- fered with this tourney in five of the past six years, but never before in such helpful fashion. Women in Big Match. Weather permitting, un.seeded Russell Bobbitt of Arlan-a and Frank Guernsev of Orlando. Fia w ill open the semifinal program by engaging Gardnar Mullov of Coral Gables, Fla., and Henry Prusoff of Seattle. Top-seeded Frank Parker of Bev- erly Hills, Calif., and Don McNeill of Oklahoma City will attempt to gain the championship round at the expense of two Californian young- sters, Jack Kramer and Ted Schroeder. Defending Champions Alice Marble and Sarah Palfrey will high light the competition in the women's di- vision against the all-California team of Patricia Canning and Vir- ginia Wolfenden. Rain Jumbles Minor Play. Valerie Scott and Mary Hardwick, the British Wightman Cup stars, will vie with un.seeded Mrs. John Van Ryn of Austin. Tex., and Dorothy Bundy of Santa Monica, Calif., in the other second last-rounder. The ram. however, jumbled all of the other four divisions, the mixed, father-son and men's and women's veterans’ doubles to such a degree that their finals may be delayed until Monday. District Goiters Rank High In Negro Amateur Golf By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Aug. 24—Dr. Remits Robinson of Detrdit once again is back on top as national amateur champion of the Negro United Golfers’ Association. Champion once before and runner-up last year, Dr. Robinson regained the crown yes- terday by defeating Tut Holmes of Atlanta, Ga., 4 and 2. The national open crown was won bv Hugh Smith of Thomaston, Ga.. with a 295 total for 72 holes. Only two strokes off the pace in second place was Clyde Martin. Washing- ton. D. C. Another Washington golfer. Dr. A. R. Harris, won the first-flight consolation title. Geneva Wilson of Chicago cap- tured the women's amateur cham- pionship with a 9 and 7 victory over Lucy Williams of Indianapolis. Transit Bowlers Start Season September 5 Capital Transit Bowling League will start its third season on Thurs- day, September 5 with 22 teams on the floor, at the New Lafayette Al- leys. Fifteenth and I streets N.W. Officers of the big loop are G P. Nutwell. president: F. Burgess, vice president; I. B Goad, secretary- treasurer, and R. Lawson, official scorer. On the Board of Directors are Nut- well. E. McKenna and S. Raver. From the Press Box Baer-Comiskey Meeting Will Shock Somebody By JOHN LARDNER. Bpeceiai Correspondent o 1 The Sfar. NEW YORK, All*. 24 (NANA) — No match more insulting to both parties ever has been made than the one which joins Patrick Edward Comiskey and Max Baer, for better or worse. Mr. Baer, the former white hope, and Mr. Comiskey, the coming white hope, will meet later this year, prob- ably In New Jersey. They ought to be good and sore by the time they come together, for each man has coldly insulted the other by accept- ing the match. In the last few weeks Mr. Baer has been looking high and looking low for an opponent who would draw good money and offer no risk. He wanted a soft touch—a fellow who could not possiblv spoil his beauty and hurt his chance for a title fight later on. At the same time he wanted a guy whom the customers would pay to watch. Nova was too tough. Savoldi was too tough. Conn was too tough, Pastor was too tough. Mr. Baer was growing restless the other day when his manager. Cousin Ancil Hoffman, burst into Maxie's boudoir with good news. Motch All Grovy, Velvet To Money-Hungry Max “Patrick Edward Comiskey will fight us!” yelled Mr. Hoffman. "Great!” barked Mr. Baer. “I'll murder the poor young sap, and. what is more, I will get good dough tor doing so. This is the touch we have been seeking. Ancil. old fel- low. All velvet. All gravy. Lead on!” Meanwhile, what had they been thinking about in the camp of Pat- rick Edward Comiskey? You guessed it. They were seeking up and down the country for a sucker with prestige, a soft touch, a man whom Patrick could wallop with glory at no personal risk whatever. Thev wanted to graduate the boy to the : ranks of the "name'’ fighters. They didn't want a tough guy with a name. They wanted a nice, rolling name with nothing behind it. "Eureka!” shouted Bill Dalev, Comi~ke\ s manager, one warm aft- ernoon this week. "I have it. The fellow we want is Max Baer." Old Bag cf Bones Easy To Beat, Pat Thinks •'Perfectly suitable. my dear Daley.” said the young Comiskey. But will he fight us? Is he sucker enough to get in the ring with me?” •'I don't know.” said Mr. Dalev, frankly. "He's probably too smart to do it. But I'll try and get him, anyway. What a beautiful touch that old bag of bones would be!” Briefly, then. Mr. Baer and Mr. Comiskey. both looking for some- thing soft to land on. have elected each other. Mr. Baer is the lowest ranking fighter in Mr. Comiskey s book, and vice versa. What makes the prospect of the match so inter- esting is that one of the boys—I I don't know which—is in for an ugly shock. Comiskey's handlers have moved very gently and carefully with their tall, sandy, square-jawed young Irishman, because they figure he can be maneuvered into the heavyweight | championship in two or three years ! and the heavyweight championship is a valuable property. Somebody's Judgment Is Greatly Awry They have picked the spots I shrewdly for Patrick up till now. He has been licked only once, and that was a fluke rather than an overmatch. He is ready to take an- other step forward row. Whether he is ready for the crude Mr. Baer I cion t know. But you can bet that I Manager Daley thinks he is. Other | wise there would be no Baer match. Mr. Daley is a carelul man. Down ! in his heart he must be positive : that young Patrick has advanced i far enough to peck Mr. Baer at will ! with his newly developed left hand and shake him up with his savage right and keep from being hit. Anri Mr. Ancil Hoffman must be mortally certain that Comiskey is too young and green to cope with Baer. Thus the boys hold each other in the keenest of mutual contempt. It s hard to imagine a prettier set- ! ting for a prize fight and if neither man gets wind of the other's genius between now and then it ought to ; be worth going to see. if only for ; somebody's look of surprise. St. Anselm's McLean Star in Grid Debut With Chibears By the Associated Press. IRON MOUNTAIN. Mich Aug. 24—The Chicago Bears of the Na- tional Professional Football League defeated the East Chicago. Ind Cal- umet, Indians of the American Pro- fessional League, 39 to 6. in an ex- hibition game here last night. Robert McLean, halfback from St. Anselm's College, Manchester. N. H., playing his first season with the Bears, furnished thrills with 80-yard and 52-yard returns of punts. Bad Breaks Aid Slab Rookie Left Arm Fractured Three Times, Head Of Dodgers Finally Stars as Right-Hander Bv the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Aug. 24.—Eddie Head, Brooklyn rookie pitcher, who reached the big leagues his second year in gro baseball, didn't use his right arm for any- thing but wielding a fork until a few years ago. A natural southpaw. Head broke his left arm the first time when he was 7, in his home town of Monroe, La. He broke it again in his first game of footbajl as a Monroe High freshman. At the odd times that his left arm was well, Head pitched with a side- arm delivery. But about five years ago Head, then a lad of 15. suffered a broken left arm for the third time, this one coming in a bus accident. Then he started throwing right- handed. Last season, his pro debut, he won 19 and lost 8 for Abbeville, La., in the Class D Evangeline League. Promoted to Elmira in the Eastern this season. Head racked up 12 victories against 7 losses before he was recalled by Brooklyn in July. He was knocked out of the box in one starting assignment and has held the opposition scoreless in three relief chores.
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Sportlight There's Still Some Iron In Larruping Lou
By GRANTLANO RICE. Pper.al CorrPopondent of The Star.
NEW YORK. Aug. 24 (N AN A.'. —Lou Gehrig, his head still up and
his shoulders squared, was more than shocked by the story printed to the effect that he had a contagious dis- ease which had infected other mem-
bers of the Yankee cast and thereby had been partly responsible for their 1040 crash.
I called on Lou at his Riverdale cottage with BUI Dickey and Tommy Henrieh, two of his best Yankee friends. The one jolt to his un-
broken spirit was the story referred to. The jolt was such that Lou has
brought suit lor $1,000,000 against *the paper in question and this suit
may be only the starter. Those members of the Yankee cast who were mentioned as possible or prob- able victims also may seek legal re-
dress. “This story is beyond belief,” Lou
told me. “Does any one believe that such a famous institution as the Mayo Brothers’ Clinic would let me wander around with a contagious disease that might affect my friends and the public at large? I know they will testify that I haven’t the tvpe of disease mentioned in this article and also that there was and is no possible chance in the way of any form of contagion.
“As it is now I am a pariah whom many people shun. I might just as
well have been marked with leprosy. Sitting in motion picture houses those near me get up and move
away." Recent Record Shows Yanks Not Ailing, Says Dickey
“I can speak for myself. Gordon and others mentioned.’’ Bill Dickey
,A'ut In "We all have been in the best possible condition. Lou’s ill- ness has had nothing whatever to
do with our 1940 slump. The fact
that we have won eight of our last
10 games, up to the Cleveland series. ♦ is proof enough that we are not
staggering or headed for any hos-
pital. "I roomed with Lou and I know
I never felt better physically in my life."
Joe Gordon had the same state-
ment to make. Mrs. Gehrig felt as Lou did. "I never was so shocked in my
life." she said, "when I read that story. I knew the effect it would have on Lou, who has shown the finest courage any one ever has seen.
As it is we now probably will have to go into retirement.”
His Trouble Not Caused By Germ, Lou Explains
"The trouble I have had," Gehrig said, "has no connection with in- fantile paralysis. It is not a germ
disease. Certainly the Mayos should know, as I have been under their tare for two years. There is no
► money in the world that would have made me take a chance with my teammates, my other friends and the public in general"
The Iron Man has lost some " weight and part of his earlier ac-
tivity, but he has lost none of his
old spirit. He still is fighting on.
He was keen enough about the game to stand and show BUI Dick?y the possible cause of Bill’s batting slump.
"You are throwing your weight forward too quickly,” Gehrig told him. "Keep that weight more on
your left leg—your back leg—as you start your swing. Don’t let your body get started before the swing."
Dickey agreed that in his over-
eagerness to get hitting again he was bringing his body forward too toon,
"I know you are right, Lou,” Bill
*aid. "I can see now just what I have been doing and I’m going out to stop it.”
“I always swung from my left
leg and hip-joint,” Lou told us.
''The flash of a second when my
body moved in ahead of the hand and arm action took away my power. This is one detail of hitting I always watched carefully. But there are
times when, in a slump, it is a hard
fault to correct at once. It develops gradually and then becomes a
habit.”
Entire Club on Warpath Over Contagion Story
9 No one is pulling harder for the
Yankees than Gehrig is today. ‘•If they can get by Feller and
Cleveland, watch their smoke from now on.” he said. “I had intended to be at both the Detroit and Cleve- land series until this story broke about contagion.
"As far as my illness is concerned I still am in there swinging and punching. My friends have been marvelous. You can tell them it's still ‘heads up' and not to worry
about any contagious or infectious trouble from me in any way.”
Mr. and Mrs. Gehrig are living Quietly in a small vine-clad cottage in one of Riverdales most attrac- tive sections. But the Iron Man cer-
tainly is on the warpath now. So is the entire Yankee team, referring to the story mentioned above.
New Players Scrap For Places Left by Eight Fired Vets
Owen Declares Philly Eagles Most Improved Outfit in League 'This is the second of a serte.s
on teams in the National Profes- sional Football League.)
B.' the Associated Press.
PEARL RIVER, N. Y„ Aug. 24- If Stout Steve Owen, coach of the
New York football Giants, could put 22 men on the field at once, It would
help solve a lot of his worries. The Giants, after losing the na-
tional title to the Green Bay Pack- ers last year, said good-by to eight veterans. In their places—or fight- ing for them—are so many promis- ing rookies that Owens’ big problem is one of elimination.
The Giant backfield was a head- ache much of last year—and so that's where most of the replacements are
to be found. Of course, Tuffy Leemans is back
and so are Hank Soar and Feets Barnum. Nello Falaschi, Ward Cuff— but pressing them are George Mulha, Carnegie Tech's great back; Eddie Miller, the speed merchant from New Mexico State: Hoss Nielsen, 215-pound Arizona line buster: Kay Eakin. the Arkansas passer; Grenny Lansdell and Don Principe, two of
I the college ranks' brightest backs last year.
Nucleus for Great Backfirld. That ought to give Stout Steve a
nucleus of one of the finest back- firlds the Giants ever boasted.
The line problem is not without its bright aspects, too. Heading the
; parade as in the past nine years is Mel Hein, the leagues greatest center.
Flanking Hein are two complete lines of veterans—and enough youngsters who'd liko-to be playing regularly that Owen ought not to have to stay awake nights worrying about his team's chances of retaining the Eastern division title.
The tackle situation has been brightened by the return of Gerry Dennerlein, who stayed out last
1 year. Tire St. Mary's behemoth should be invaluable this season.
From the Southwest have come two prize tackle prospects—"Cactus
I Face" Duggan, whose smashing style ! is particularly pleasing to Owen and upsetting to his opponents, and Bennett Edwards, a 20-year-old giant.
Conti Too Hot for Bushes. Jersey City has sent Enio Conti
up because he was too good for the minors and Ed McGee of Temple is another guard prospect worth not- !
ing. From little Scranton Univer- sity comes big Carl Tomasello. whom Owen thinks rates some rave no- tices already.
Such familiar names as Lunday, j Dell Isola, Poole, Widseth. Tuttle, Oldershaw and Gelatka are all back. But familiar names are missing, too—Ed Danowski, Dale Burnett. Bill Wallis. Ox Parry, Tarzan White. Larry Johnson. Kink Richards and Bull Karcis.
The reticent Steve, asked about his team's chances, replied that he thinks the Philadelphia Eagles "the most improved team in the league." will finish first or second in the Eastern division!
Bensinger-McNair Tilt To Settle Maryland Junior Net Issue By the Associated Press.
CUMBERLAND, Md.. Aug. 24- Bobby Bensinger. red-haired Takoma Park player, and Freddie McNair of Annapolis will meet Monday for the title in the Maryland junior tennis championships.
In yesterday's semifinals, Ben- singer continued his all-around good play to eliminate Don Poist of Balti- more, seeded seventh, 6—1. 6—2. Mc- McNair also won over a Baltimore opponent, Bosley Baugher, 6—0, 6—2.
Doubles play opened yesterday with the team of Bensinger and McNair drawing a first-round bye then winning two matches. It de- feated Morris Peake and Allen Reisinger. 6—0. 6—0. and Jack Myers and ft)b Biglow, 6—1, 6—0.
St. James' Rally Wins A five-run rally in the fifth Inning
gave St. James a 9-to-5 victory over
Hyattsville Methodist in a Subur- ban Church League softball game.
Disbursement Wins Title Disbursement softball team is
champion of the Treasury League. It took the title yesterday by defeat- ing Coast Guard, 12-4. ---—
Soft Pedal on L. S. U. Band Curbing Ballyhoo, 'Reform' Board Fires Leader Late Huey Long Hired
B? th* A^sociat^d Press.
BATON ROUGE. La. Aug. 24.—The leader who marie the late Huey P. Long's junketing football band at Louisiana State University one of the Nation’s greatest was dismissed yesterday by the new “reform'’ Board of Administrators.
When Long started his ener-
getic campaign to make L. S. U. a top university, he ex-
panded as well in the ballyhoo end by hiring Castro Carazo. a
dance orchestra leader from New Orleans, to put life into the mili- tary band.
Carazo soon raised its person- nel from about 70 to more 200, and Long, on several junketing expeditions on which he took the whole student body to awav- from-home fotball games, would lead the colorful outfit.
Musicians, as well as football players, were recruited, and the
► band was recognized as one of the best, if'not the best, in the |
country. Rome sections of It made a tour of Europe.
The board gave no reasons for Carazo's dismissal, but ever since
Gov. Sam Jones took office the soft pedal had been applied to the L. S. U. extravaganza.
The board approved the ap- pointment of Willem Van de Wall, formerly with the Metro- politan Opera, as director of the
school of music, to succeed the retiring H. W. Stopher, director since 1915.
Although the board did not say so, it was expected the band would be under Van de Wall’s direction, but that he would name an assistant to take charge of it.
Kavakos Blanks C. C. C. Kavakos Grill softball team shut
out Civil Service. 2-0, as Lefty Botta turned in a five-hit job on the Kav- akos mound.
PLEASANT PROBLEM—Such is that of Steve Owen, coach of the New York gridiron Giants, who has so many star rookies it’s tough to determine which to keep, even though eight vacancies on the squad were left by released veterans.
—A. P. Photo.
West Virginia Turns Out Its First Traps King in 41 Years
Auditor Wolfe Captures Grand American; Skeet Shooters Seek Home
By FRITZ HOWELL. Associated Press Sports Writer.
VANDALIA, Ohio. Aug. 24 —The roar of 800.000 shotgun shells has died away today, and the Grand American Handicap title—highest award in the trapshooting game is on its way to West Virginia in pos-
session of Ernest H. Wolfe, 38-year- old Charleston auditor.
The dapper marksman from the hill country ignored a heavy wind
in the grand finale yesterday to
break 98 targets of 100 from the 23-
vard hne in outshooting 823 of the Western Hemisphere's top-flight scattergun enthusiasts. He was the first West Virginia resident to take the “roaring grand’’ in 41 years.
Mrs. Hall Wins Again. Mrs. Lela Hall of Strasburg. Mo.,
national women's clay target queen five of the last six years, annexed the feminine end of the laurels with 95 of 100 from 22 yards, adding to the belief that if a woman ever wins the big handicap, she'll be the one to
do it. While the trapshooters were split-
ting up some $50,000 in prize money as a result of the week's big barrage, skeet shooting stepped into the center of the stage.
The rival sport, watching the Grand American grow to huge pro- portions after the Amateur Trap- shooting Association established its permanent home here in 1923. is planning to settle down in one spot, too. instead of shifting its national classic around the country year after year.
Skeet Shooters Rebuffed. Henry Joy, automotive executive
of Detroit, former national skeet champion and one of the game's outstanding figures, met with A. T. A. directors here. He offered a plan under which the skeet group might use the trapshooting association's grounds for its national event, but was turned down.
However, Joy said the skeet asso- ciation was planning its own perma- nent home, and that Ohio was the favored spot, w’ith special emphasis on this locality.
Net Ratings at Stake As District Aces Open Rec Meet
With 1940 rankings hanging in the balance and a few personal scores to be settled. Washington best tennis players took up their rackets and prepared to swing into the seventh annual District Recrea- tion tournament this afternoon on
the Sixteenth and Kennedy streets courts.
Favorites were Barney Welsh in men's singles and Willie O'Steen Herbert in women's singles. Welsh, who recently won the District men s
crown, hopes to meet up with Davey Johnsen, George Washington Uni- vesrity star who took Barney over the jumps in the Middle Atlantic, but was eliminated in the semi- finals of the District.
Welsh is competing in the Bing- hamton <N. Y.) tournament whicn ends today, but will be ready for action in the Recreation grind to- morrow or Monday at latest. C. Alphonso Smith, defending cham- pion, is competing in the Virginia State tournament at Lynchburg, but also will be available early next week. Tournament officials will give the higher ranking players who are competing in outside tour- naments all the consideration pos- sible in the schedule in an effort to help untangle the currently jumbled ratings.
The tournament this year is spon- soring play for women for the first time. Eleanor Voith, Willie Herbert, Dorrette Miller and Margaret Keever are a few of the better known play- ers to complete.
Girls Reach Semifinals In Softball Tourney
Palisades and Langdon girls' soft- ball teams meet Monday at the West Potomac diamond in a semi- final game in the Community Cen- ter girls’ tournament. On Tuesday the winner goes against Virginia Avenue for the title.
All three teams advanced with wins yesterday. Palisades defeated McMillan, 11-7; Langdon won over Georgetown. 16-12. and Virginia Avenue staged a nine-run uprising in the 10th inning to down Ta- j koma, 10-5.
Middle Atlantic Golf Coin Is Predicted For Rut Coffey
Pros and Amateurs Play Monday; Linksmen Pull For Injured Voigt
By WALTER McCALLVM. Middle-Atlantic P. O. A. members
will move over to Winchester, Va„ Monday to play In an amateur-pro tourney and pro sweepstakes over
the tricky little course of the Win- Chester Country Club. That hap- pens to be the club where one of the te playing golf pros of this sec-
tor holds forth. Rut CofTey is his name. Rut is a chunky little fellow who would be—if he had more good competition—one of the toughest of the lads around this area.
He will be a favorite to grab most of the money in the pro sweepstakes tournament over his home layout, but there's one rub about this com-
ing tourney. The pros won't get most of the high class amateurs. Most of the better-playing simon pures will be thumping the ball around the immaculately groomed course of the Chevy Chase Club, where Tuesday they face their big- gest test of the year—the sectional qualifying rounds for the national amateur championship. They won't be willing to pass up a chance to work out at Chevy Chase for the amateur-pro affair at Winchester, an affair which happens to be badly timed, if the boys want the better amateurs to play. Monday is the only dav open for practice at Chevy Chase before the crucial 36-hole trial Tuesday.
Friends Hope Voigt Recovers.
From every side among Washing- ton's amateur golf colony—and from a good many of the pros—came the hope today that George J. Voigt, once Washington's leading amateur linksman. will survive the automo- bile accident which put him in a
Baltimore hospital with a skull frac- ture. The accident occurred a week ago. but news about it came out only yesterday.
Voigt was on his wav to Washing- ton from New York to visit his ill father. His car was hit from the rear by another car traveling at a
high rate of speed, the door fiew open, and George was catapulted to the street. Mrs. Voigt had several teeth knocked out.
X-rays at Mercy Hospital. Balti- more, disclosed the skull injury. Ac- cording to Otto, a brother of George, he will be in the hospital about six weeks. Which means that George will not play in this year's ama-
teur championship, if he plays golf at all for a long time.
George Voigt was one of the two
top amateurs developed around
Washington. During the years from 1925 to 1928. when he left the Capi- tal to live in New York, he was al- most unbeatable. He won something like 16 tournaments In a row. and suffered only one defeat in that time around the Capital. That came in a
Bannockburn tourney, where John C. Shorev beat him. George also won the North and South amateur title thrice, was a member of two Walker Cup teams, medalist in the amateur championship and a semi- finalist and in any sense of the word was one of America's top amateurs.
George's many friends in Wash- ington were shocked to learn of the accident and all of them—in which we join—wish him a speedy re-
covery. He was a very fine golfer, and in recent years he hasn't trod the victory trail so often he ’■e-
mains one of the best of a gen-
eration which produced the finest
amateurs America has seen.
Women Hold Tourneys. Feminine golfers, not to be kept
out of competition even though the
bigtime women's schedule hasn't
yet started, held tourneys at several clubs. Th,ree of them were flag affairs.
At Congressional the winner in Class A was Mrs. D. H. Henderson, who played her final shot, with a 14
handicap, on the eighteenth fairway. Winners in Class B were Mrs. M. B Daniels, who finished on the seven-
teenth green: Mrs. H. R. Harringan. who finished on the edge of the seventeenth green, and Mrs. F. E Berquist, who was short of the seventeenth green. Mrs. H. R.
Harper, who was in charge of the tourney, won the putting prize.
Mrs. O. M. Reed won the flag tour- i ney at Washington, playing her final shot into the cup on the
eighteenth green, an incident which shows pretty good handicapping. Other winners were Mrs. Lafayette Franklin. Miss Elsie Stavely and Mrs. W. E. Baker.
Army Navy held a flag tourney, j won by Mrs. M. Rutledge. Second | was Mrs. M. J. Torlinski. while Mrs. A. A. McEntee of Kenwood won the
guest prize. Mrs. J. A. Marr scored an 87 to
win the gross prize in a tourney at Columbia. Mrs. W. E. Hall and Mrs. J. P. Harper tied at net 44 in the affair held on the odd holes, while Mrs. W. D. Barkdull w’on on the even holes with a net 36. followed by Mrs. J. Epperly at net 36. Mrs. J. Franklin Gross, the club champion, won the putting award with 30 putts.
Local Pros at Hershey. At Hershey, Pa., today, working
out their shots In advance of a
tournament in which they are
strictly horses of the darkest hue are two local qualifiers for the P. G. A. championship. Gene Larkin of Woodmont. the strawberry- blond who believes he plays better without much practice, and Lewis Worsham, the 22-year-old Burning Tree pro. reached Hershey today, and were to get in a practice round.
Worsham plans to play 36 holes tomorrow, but Larkin will satisfy himself with hitting a few practice shots. The boys are good, but are
they good enough in such an all-star field as the P. G. A. tourney has at- tracted? Time and skill alone will tell. The odds are heavily against them.
Columbia Country Club is getting ready to elect a slate of officers at the annual meeting scheduled for October 30. M. J. Oormley, former president, has been named chair- man of a nominating committee. Other members are Albert R. Mae- Kenzie, Howard O. Nichols, Briggs O. Simpich and Capt. E. G. Watson.
COOL CHAMP —
Edward Perry of Venice, Calif., who earned the title of rul-
ing life- guard of that city’s recent an-
nual Mardl Gras fes- tivities.
He is giv- ing a dem- onstration of his skill in riding a
boat in the choppy waves o f the Pacific Ocean.
Despite his expert- ness in h andling the boat, he had plenty o f competi- tion for the honor. — Wide World Photo.
Skins' Second Clash Promises Sharper Action Than First
Arguments Hot as West Team Holds Mistaken Horn Lost Battle
By BILL DISMER. Jr., Star Staff Correspondent.
SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 24— Re- united physically, if not yet fra- ternally, your Redskins resumed training as one big controversial family today, with prospects of un-
ceasing arguments raging until their second intrasquad game here
next Wednesday night. Because only 3 points separated
the rival Eastern and Western fac- tions at Seattle, contrasting defies of "We ll get even" and "Aw, we'll win even more decisively next week indicate an even more brusing bat- tle in the return game, after which the squad will be cut for the first time.
Admitting that it will teach his charges a lesson, but using it as an alibi nevertheless, was Coach Turk
Edwards' assertion that the reason
Dick Todd was able to get away for his last 15-yard touchdown run was the fact that his players mistook the umpire s horn for the referee's and stopped chasing Todd, although the ball was still in play. • The
umpire tooted because Edwards' team was offside, but the Easterners naturally refused the penalty after scoring.
Jimmy Johnston Injured. "If we'd kept chasing Todd.” Ed-
wards declared, "we'd have caught him and might hate won thp game." 'The West was leading 14-7 at the time Dick broke loose to tie the score.)
There was a possibility today that Edwards' team would be deprived of one of its most valuable backs next Wednesday as Jimmy Johnston, the sophomore from the University of Washington who went great guns in the early portion of the game in
Seattle, has come up with a bruised shoulder and may not be able to play Johnston's ball carrying in the opening minutes of play was a
revelation, the tall speedster gain- ing 11 yards in two cracks at the line before plunging through for the game's first touchdown. If Johnston continues to demonstrate that he has caught on to Flaherty's system after a rather faltering be-
ginning last year, he should prove an extremely handy man to hate around.
Tough Buneh—Farkas. In contrast to brilliant work on
the part of such veterans as Sammy Baugh. Max Krause. Bob Masterson and Jim Meade. Andv Farkas ac-
cepted his singular impotency rather philosophically.
"Thank goodness. I don't have to run against Redskin lines in the National League." said Farkas. "Al-
though they usually knew what I was
going to do Thursday night, espe- cially on passes from Filchock. they're a tough bunch to get through. I think we're again going to have the best line in the league.’’
Williams and Janazzo End
Heavy Ring Work Today Izzy Janazzo and Holman Wil-
liams, welterweight rivals whose
paths cross Monday night at Grif- fith Stadium, were to wind up heavy training this afternoon in public workouts at Turner's Arena.
Williams, second on the program at 2 o'clock, will enter the ring a de- cided favorite for the 10-round go. His aggressiveness, ability to absorb a punch and all-around ring skill were to be too much for Janazzo. clever but light puncher. Janazzo. however, was not without supporters who figured he could outsmart his opponent. Izzy was to begin work at 1 o clock.
Tiger, Friendship Nines In Big County Clash
Takoma Tigers and Friendship clash at 3 o'clock tomorrow on the Four Comers diamond in one of the feature baseball games of the Mont- gomery County League.
In other games Colesville goes to Silver Spring. Four Corners travels to Kensington fend Bethesda plays at Rockville.
Goode Pigeon Is Victor Miss Moose from the loft of Paul
Goode won the special open young bird race from Charlottesville, Va.. by the Greater Washington Racing Pigeon Association. Fifty-one birds from 18 lofts were In the race.
Henson Qualifies In Ringer Event Special Dispatch to The Star.
DES MOINES, Iowa. Aug. 24 —
Clayton Henson of Arlington, Va., tossed 80 per cent ringers to be sixth among the qualifiers for the world championship horseshoe tournament, a feature of the Iowa State Fair.
With 200 shoes. Henson scored 513 points. 19 behind the leader, Fernando Isais of Los Angeles.
Ted Allen of Fresno. Calif., de- fending champion, was second with 526. he and Isais tying for ringer honors, each with 83 per cent. Casey Jones. Waukesha, Wis, was third with 523; Grey Zimmerman. Sac City, Iowa, fourth with 521. and Dale Dixon, Dos Moinps. fifth with 515.
TIip lowest among 37 who quali- fled pitched 68 per cent ringers.
West Coast Skipper Likely Star Yacht Title Winner
Cowies' Craft Has Slim Lead for Trophy Now Held by German
E*> the A'socia’ed Press
SAN DIEGO. Calif. Aug. 24 —The chart for the three races sailed in
| the International star class yacht championship indicated today a
Pacific Coast skipper would succeed
Germany's Walter von Hutschler as
the world titleholder. The German von the title at Kiel last year, but is not competing in the present series.
Barring startling upsets in the two
remaining races today and tomorrow,
only 8 of the 18 challengers were accorded a chance to win. and 6 of the 8 were from the West Coast.
The Los Angeles Cowie brothers, James and Gordon, who won the initial race Tuesday, and again yes- terday. were leading the parade with 49 points. The Jade, skippered by Robert J. White and Gordon Hol-
combe, West San Francisco Bay, stood second with 47. The Twin Star, sailed by Lockwood M. Pirie and R. K. Miller. Wilemette Harbor. 111., and ranked as the main threat, to date, to the Pacific Coast mariners was tied for third with San Diego s
Whitecap III,
Pepco in Flag Fight After Naval Air's Ace Is Upset
Pepco and Naval Air Station were
to meet today in the third and de- ciding game of their series for the United States Government League championship and a berth in the city series opening Monday.
Pepco evened the count at 1-all yesterday, upsetting the Tars. 4-3, and beating their ace pitcher. Charley Meads, in the bargain, j When Lt. Tom Hamilton pulled a ! Connie Mack on the boys and sent Jesse Fairley to the mound for the first game Thursday and was re- j warded with victory, fans figured Naval Air was "in” with Meads ready for his regular tour of duty, j But Pepco surprised ’em.
Meads went the full nine innings and gave up only six hits while his mates were pounding Garvey and Morgan for nine, but the Power nine jumped on him for a run in the first and three more in the sec-
ond inning to clinch the game j Ironically, Meads contributed the only extra base hit of the fray—a triple in the fourth—but was j stra tided.
Shepard has a perfect day at bat J for Naval Air. connecting safely on
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each of four trips to the plate.
Smith Virginia Net Vidor, Meets Buchanan Today By the Associated Press.
LYNCHBURG. Va.. Aug. 24—C. Alphonso Smith of Alexandria and Landon Buchanan of Charlottesville 1
were scheduled to meet this after- noon on the Oakwood Country Club courts in the final round of the; sixth annual Virginia closed tennis' chpmpionships.
In yesterday's semifinals Smith won over Fred West, local min- isterial student ,2—6, 6—2, 6—2. while Buchanan earned a decision | over Bobby Leitch, 6—8, 6—4, 6—4. j
Rain Delaying Semis Break for National Net Doubles Gate
Officials Look for Big Week-end Crowds With Keen Matches Due
By th» Associated Press.
BROOKLINE. Mass.. Aug. 24 —
Although the players complained of the delav caused by two days of rain, the officials conducting tlve National Doubles Tennis Tourna- ment were happy about it all today as they prepared to run off the semifinal rounds at Longwood.
Two postponements have forced the tourney over until Sunday, much to the delight of the committeemen, who relish the prospect of two large week-end crowds. Rain has inter- fered with this tourney in five of the past six years, but never before in such helpful fashion.
Women in Big Match. Weather permitting, un.seeded
Russell Bobbitt of Arlan-a and Frank Guernsev of Orlando. Fia w ill open the semifinal program by engaging Gardnar Mullov of Coral Gables, Fla., and Henry Prusoff of Seattle. Top-seeded Frank Parker of Bev- erly Hills, Calif., and Don McNeill of Oklahoma City will attempt to gain the championship round at the expense of two Californian young- sters, Jack Kramer and Ted Schroeder.
Defending Champions Alice Marble and Sarah Palfrey will high light the competition in the women's di- vision against the all-California team of Patricia Canning and Vir-
ginia Wolfenden. Rain Jumbles Minor Play.
Valerie Scott and Mary Hardwick, the British Wightman Cup stars, will vie with un.seeded Mrs. John Van
Ryn of Austin. Tex., and Dorothy Bundy of Santa Monica, Calif., in the other second last-rounder.
The ram. however, jumbled all of the other four divisions, the mixed, father-son and men's and women's veterans’ doubles to such a degree that their finals may be delayed until Monday.
District Goiters Rank High In Negro Amateur Golf By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Aug. 24—Dr. Remits Robinson of Detrdit once again is back on top as national amateur
champion of the Negro United Golfers’ Association. Champion once
before and runner-up last year, Dr. Robinson regained the crown yes- terday by defeating Tut Holmes of
Atlanta, Ga., 4 and 2. The national open crown was won
bv Hugh Smith of Thomaston, Ga.. with a 295 total for 72 holes. Only two strokes off the pace in second
place was Clyde Martin. Washing- ton. D. C. Another Washington golfer. Dr. A. R. Harris, won the first-flight consolation title.
Geneva Wilson of Chicago cap- tured the women's amateur cham- pionship with a 9 and 7 victory over
Lucy Williams of Indianapolis.
Transit Bowlers Start Season September 5
Capital Transit Bowling League will start its third season on Thurs- day, September 5 with 22 teams on
the floor, at the New Lafayette Al- leys. Fifteenth and I streets N.W.
Officers of the big loop are G P. Nutwell. president: F. Burgess, vice
president; I. B Goad, secretary- treasurer, and R. Lawson, official scorer.
On the Board of Directors are Nut- well. E. McKenna and S. Raver.
From the
Press Box Baer-Comiskey Meeting Will Shock Somebody
By JOHN LARDNER. Bpeceiai Correspondent o 1 The Sfar.
NEW YORK, All*. 24 (NANA) —
No match more insulting to both parties ever has been made than the one which joins Patrick Edward Comiskey and Max Baer, for better or worse.
Mr. Baer, the former white hope, and Mr. Comiskey, the coming white
hope, will meet later this year, prob- ably In New Jersey. They ought to be good and sore by the time they come together, for each man has
coldly insulted the other by accept- ing the match.
In the last few weeks Mr. Baer has been looking high and looking low for an opponent who would draw good money and offer no risk. He wanted a soft touch—a fellow who could not possiblv spoil his beauty and hurt his chance for a
title fight later on. At the same
time he wanted a guy whom the customers would pay to watch.
Nova was too tough. Savoldi was
too tough. Conn was too tough, Pastor was too tough. Mr. Baer was growing restless the other day when his manager. Cousin Ancil Hoffman, burst into Maxie's boudoir with good news.
Motch All Grovy, Velvet To Money-Hungry Max
“Patrick Edward Comiskey will fight us!” yelled Mr. Hoffman.
"Great!” barked Mr. Baer. “I'll murder the poor young sap, and. what is more, I will get good dough tor doing so. This is the touch we
have been seeking. Ancil. old fel- low. All velvet. All gravy. Lead on!”
Meanwhile, what had they been thinking about in the camp of Pat- rick Edward Comiskey? You guessed it. They were seeking up and down the country for a sucker with prestige, a soft touch, a man whom Patrick could wallop with glory at no personal risk whatever. Thev wanted to graduate the boy to the
: ranks of the "name'’ fighters. They didn't want a tough guy with a
name. They wanted a nice, rolling name with nothing behind it.
"Eureka!” shouted Bill Dalev, Comi~ke\ s manager, one warm aft- ernoon this week. "I have it. The fellow we want is Max Baer."
Old Bag cf Bones Easy To Beat, Pat Thinks
•'Perfectly suitable. my dear Daley.” said the young Comiskey. But will he fight us? Is he sucker
enough to get in the ring with me?” •'I don't know.” said Mr. Dalev,
frankly. "He's probably too smart to do it. But I'll try and get him, anyway. What a beautiful touch that old bag of bones would be!”
Briefly, then. Mr. Baer and Mr. Comiskey. both looking for some-
thing soft to land on. have elected each other. Mr. Baer is the lowest ranking fighter in Mr. Comiskey s book, and vice versa. What makes the prospect of the match so inter- esting is that one of the boys—I
I don't know which—is in for an ugly shock.
Comiskey's handlers have moved very gently and carefully with their tall, sandy, square-jawed young Irishman, because they figure he can be maneuvered into the heavyweight
| championship in two or three years ! and the heavyweight championship
is a valuable property.
Somebody's Judgment Is Greatly Awry
They have picked the spots I shrewdly for Patrick up till now.
He has been licked only once, and that was a fluke rather than an
overmatch. He is ready to take an-
other step forward row. Whether he is ready for the crude Mr. Baer I cion t know. But you can bet that
I Manager Daley thinks he is. Other
| wise there would be no Baer match. Mr. Daley is a carelul man. Down
! in his heart he must be positive : that young Patrick has advanced i far enough to peck Mr. Baer at will ! with his newly developed left hand and shake him up with his savage right and keep from being hit.
Anri Mr. Ancil Hoffman must be mortally certain that Comiskey is too young and green to cope with Baer.
Thus the boys hold each other in the keenest of mutual contempt. It s hard to imagine a prettier set-
! ting for a prize fight and if neither man gets wind of the other's genius between now and then it ought to
; be worth going to see. if only for ; somebody's look of surprise.
St. Anselm's McLean Star in Grid Debut With Chibears By the Associated Press.
IRON MOUNTAIN. Mich Aug. 24—The Chicago Bears of the Na- tional Professional Football League defeated the East Chicago. Ind Cal- umet, Indians of the American Pro- fessional League, 39 to 6. in an ex-
hibition game here last night. Robert McLean, halfback from St.
Anselm's College, Manchester. N. H., playing his first season with the Bears, furnished thrills with 80-yard and 52-yard returns of punts.
Bad Breaks Aid Slab Rookie Left Arm Fractured Three Times, Head Of Dodgers Finally Stars as Right-Hander
Bv the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Aug. 24.—Eddie
Head, Brooklyn rookie pitcher, who reached the big leagues his
second year in gro baseball, didn't use his right arm for any- thing but wielding a fork until a
few years ago. A natural southpaw. Head
broke his left arm the first time when he was 7, in his home town of Monroe, La. He broke it again in his first game of footbajl as a
Monroe High freshman. At the odd times that his left arm was
well, Head pitched with a side- arm delivery.
But about five years ago Head, then a lad of 15. suffered a broken left arm for the third time, this one coming in a bus accident. Then he started throwing right- handed.
Last season, his pro debut, he won 19 and lost 8 for Abbeville, La., in the Class D Evangeline League. Promoted to Elmira in the Eastern this season. Head racked up 12 victories against 7 losses before he was recalled by Brooklyn in July.
He was knocked out of the box in one starting assignment and has held the opposition scoreless in three relief chores.
