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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-14

v VIRTUAL certainty that next
Y year will find construction of a
W new course under way at the
Congressional Country Club
was forecast today by mem
bers of the club governing board, who
are watching a rapidly growing golf
membership with concern, knowing
the present golf course is already
overcrowded and that new and larger
golf facilities will be needed.
The governing board has set GER
tain membership figure, in the neigh
borhood of 500, as the limit for which
facilities are available on the present
course. and when this limit is reached
steps will be taken to provide enlarged
golf facilities.
The membership of golfers is now
very close to the figure, and is ex'
pected to increase during the Winter.
At the same time, when the arbitrary
membership figure established by the
board is reached, initiation fees and
dues will be increased to carry the
additional burden imposed on the club
by the added golf layout.
A successor to Eddie Towns, profess
sional at the Indian Spring Golf Club
for the last two years, is to be named
by February J., when Towns resigna'
ton, announced yesterday by the
board of governors, becomes effective.
Several candidates for the post to be
vacated by Towns have placed their
names before the board.
The action of the board carried with
ii no officially announced reason Tor
the resignation of the Scottish pre-
who came to Indian Spring after a
short service as private professional
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OUTSMARTING TEX
IS DIFFICULT JOB

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. December 1.-THE
job of outstmarting Tex Richard.
guide of the Madison Square Garden
destinies, is still open to any one
who may wish to apply for the job.
Two weeks ago Jimmy Johnson and
Leo p. Flynn. managers of Phil
Scott and Jack Dempsey. respectively,
as well as many other fighters, con-
tracted with Tex to stage a heavy
weight show in the Garden January
81. agreeing to pay the promoter $20.-
900 for the privilege. Tex stipulated
only that Dempsey, Gene Tunney,
Pauline Uzcudun, Johnny Risko, Jack
Sharkey and Tom Heeney should not
appear on the card
1t wasn't long before whispers"
said that Johnson and Flynn had
Slipped one over" on the promoter.
They said he forgot to mention in his
list George Gofrey, Newest ''black
menace" and regarded by many
critics as the foremost of the heavy.
weight challengers. A match between
Godfrey and Knute Hansen, the Wis
consin Dane, was brewing, they said.
AT any rate. Richard heard the
rumors and the last smile at least
was on his face yesterday when the
New York Boxing Commission ruled
out the show on the grounds that
managers are ineligible to act as pro-
motors in this State.
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TREASURES OF RING
DESTROYED BY FIRE
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ALLENHURST, N. j.. December
14.-Because treasures of lifetime
devoted to the prize ring were in
ashes. Jimmy De Forest, 65-year. old
trainer, was heartbroken today.
The collection, patiently gathered
and stored in trunks for some future
date when display in boxing museum
might keep his memory fresh, was
destroyed in the fire that leveled
De Forests home.
The voice of the man who trained
Jack Dempsey for his conquest of
Jess Willard and helped a score of
fighters to the heights, trembled as
he told of some of his loss.
There were the gloves that Jem
Mace and Mike Donovan fought with,
John L. Sullivan's gloves. Jim Cor
belts. Tom Sharkey's, Kid McCoy's
and. most precious of all, the gloves
Joe Cans and Spider Kelley wore in
their great fight long ago.
There were trunks filled with
trophies and that big bearskin Shake
the drum majors hat wore when
led the Big Tim Sullivan Fife and
Drum Corps down the Bowery. All
gone up in smoke. I'm heartbroken.
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ALEXANDRIA TEAMS
TO PLAY FOR TITLE

ALEXANDRIA, Va, December IA.
NO ) Motor TO. Juniors and
the Alexandria Fire Department
Preps will battle for the 135-pound
title of the city Sunday, in Dread
naught Park at 2:30.
Charles Corbett, manager of the st.
Mary's Celtics basket ball team, is ar
ranging a dance to be given in honor
of the Calvert Hall basket ball team
of Baltimore, Saturday night, in the
Lyceum Hall. Calvert Hall and the
Celtics will meet in Armory Hall at
$50
CORTLAND Warfleld, local boy, who
is an all-round athletic star at st.
James Md School, has announced
he will return to that institution next
year to make up several credits. War.
field was. awarded a gold foot ball and
monogram at the gridiron banquet
there last Friday night.
Tracey AitchesOn of this city is play
ing forward on the third year high
school team, which is one of the
strongest entered in the Intermural
Basket Ball League at st. Johns
College.
Armistead BOOthe, Alexandria youth.
is managing the varsity basket ball
team at the University of Virginia.
Boothe is planning to organize an in.
dependent basket ball team made up
of Virginia students, to play through
this section during the Christmas holi.
days For games, write Boothe at
the University of Virginia, Charlottes,
vile, Va.
Columbia Engine Co. unlimited
basket rail- team will play Mount Yer
non A. c. of Washington here tonight
in Armory hall at S:15. Columbia En-
CINE Co. senior cagers will play George
Mason High IN a preliminary.
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HARVARD AND MICHIGAN
SCHEDULE THIRD SPORT
BY the. Associated Press.

BY the. Associated Prees.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, December IA.
Harvard and Michigan completed
plans for competition in the three
major sports which both universities
have in common with the announce
ment today that Harvard would wind
up it's Winter track season at Ann Ar
Dor on March II.
Relationships on the gridiron and
diamond were recently announced,
that in foot ball calling for a home
and home game.
The new track schedule calls for one
of the longest journeys ever taken by
Haryard's field athletes and will re.
suit in prolonging~the customary sea-
son by two weeks.
Harvard has heretofore ended its
Winter track activities with the indoor
coliegiates at New York on the first
Saturday in March.
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Special adjustments, which had been
going strong for three weeks in the
Internal Revenue League. took a fine
humping last night at King Pin. Gen.
eral Counsel stepped out in vigorous
fashion and grabbed all three games
from the hitherto fast-fiying aggre-
CATION. To do this. General Counsel
walloped a set of 1921, second high
in the circuit this season, and it's Sec
ond game of 573 established a season
record Frank Horner contributed
/ heavily toward this record by bang
ing the naples for $50. second best
individual effort of the Winter for the
RevenuerS
| No team will take a licking all the
time. The Hugh Reillys proved this
last night at Convention Hall in their
Athletic Club League match with the
Arcadias. In 80 starts this season
before last night the Hugh Reillys had
! triumphed but once, and they proceed.
cd to lose another game when they
faced the Arcadias. But when the
I thirty-five game came along the Hugh
Reillys came to life and trounced the
Arcadias. 496 to 494. Then they
! dropped the third game of the set
| The Arcadias were SO confident of a
sweep before the HldlCn lIidL tHelI
star" bowlers We're excused for the
evening. Next time. the Arcadias
, probably will have Glenn Wolsten
holme, Hap BURNER and Tommy
Thomas in line.
Dates for the Howard Campbell
| sweepstakes are to be changed from
! January 2, and 6, days originally
set for the event. Now it is pro
| posed to bowl it on three successive
| Saturdays. starting probably on Janu
airy IA. The committee in charge OF
| the affair was to meet today to com
plete all arrangements.
Beeques, who had threatened to run
/ away with the race for the Washing
ton ladies' League championship
were considerably upset last night Oh
/ the Coliseum drives by the Hilltoppers
The latter bagged all three games t
tighten the contest in the circuit.
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RANGERS GAIN LEAD
IN HOCKEY LEAGUE

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 1.-THE
boisterous struggle for first place In
the American division of the National
Hockey League found the New York
Rangers back on top today, but only
after personally ousting Boston's
Bruins from the peak.
The Bruins made the New York road
as rocky as possible last night by
clicking off a two-goal lead early in
the game before succumbing to a
Ranger drive that battered through to
a 81 victory.
Seventeen penalties indicated the
severity of the play.
The Montreal Canadiens, pace-set-
ters in the international group, forged
ahead by whipping the Detroit
Cougars, to /. with a display CT
smooth and speedy teamwork. Another
bump came the way of the world
champion ottawa Senators, who were
polished off by the New York Amer
leans, to l.
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I'LL Angng for Sser Records Are Smashed National League
EX-DIAM0ND STARS
LOOKING FOR JOBS
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 14.-Old
timers, once the object of any man.
ayers eye who sought the top-notch
in pitching wares. are roaming around
the halls of the major league as
semblies today looking for jobs.
Bob Shawkey and Bullet" Joe
Bush, Yankee heroes of other days.
both seek new base ball homes for
1928. Herb Thormahlen, also a for
mer Yank, is in frequent conference
that may bring him another big
league berth.
Shawkey would like a job as minor
league manager. and if that fails he
probably will return TO New York
as a pitching coach.
Nap Rucker, famous southpaw and
knuckle ball wizard of years ago.
came up from Macon, Ga, 10 talk
over achievements for his Sally
League outfit, now a farm for the
Brooklyn Dodgers.
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HAHN TO QUIT RUNNING
AFTER NEXT OLYMPICS

BOSTON, December IA CP.-Wher
the Olympic games are over next year
Lloyd Hahn, Boston Athletic Associa
ton track star and Americas leading
middle distance runner, is going tC
hang up his shoes for all time.
Hahn, who is here conditioning foi
the coming indoor campaign. made
that unqualified declaration in an in
terview published today.
The Nebraskan is in good condition
although he has not competed since
last Summer.
Hahn's chief ambition this season
he said, is a race with DR.. Feltzer
the German ace now visiting this
country.
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HELEN WILLS TO TOUR
EUROPE NEXT SEASON
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, December IA
Helen Wills, American and British
tennis champion, will tour Europe next
year as a member of a two-woman
team officially representing the United
States Lawn Tennis Association.
This became known when Miss Wills
telegraphed acceptance of the invita-.
ton extended by the national tennis
body.
Matches will be played with the
leading woman racqueters of France,
England, Germany and Belgium
The other member of the team has
not been selected. but it is understood
that Penelope Anderson of Richmond,
Va. and Mrs. Charlotte Hosmer Chaplin
of Springfield, Mas, are being con.
sidered.
Miss Wills plans to leave either in
April or early in May.
The Berkeley Miss has definitely de-
cided not to play in the French cham
pionships, June 81. as the date is too
close to that of the Wimbledon tourney.
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MANDELL MUST FIGHT
TERRIS TO AVERT BAN

NEW YORK. December IA R.-
The National Boxing Association, rep.
resentative of the commissions of "a
States and outspoken opponent of the
New York Commission, has posted no.
tice that unless Sammy Mandell, light.
weight champion of the world, defends
his title against Sid ferris, New York
youngster, before January Is, he will
be barred in all States affiliated with
the association.
Since Sammy is already barred in
New York. failure to comply will allow
him only Pennsylvania and California
as campaign territory
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HUGH DUFFY TO COACH
BOSTON COLLEGE NINE

BOSTON. December IA R).-Hugh
Duffy, one of professional base balls
best known figures as player. man.
ager. coach and scout, has been signed
as coach at Boston College for 1928.
The position became vacant this Fall
when Jack Slattery resigned to be.
come manager of the Boston Braves
Duffy comes to Boston College after
four years as scout for the Boston Red
Sox. He coached base ball at Har.
ward for several years.
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WITH THE BOWLERS

~ IRL bowlers of the Bureau of
Mines are doing plenty of
II shooting at the little naples
~ these days, but not saying
much about it. However. one
visiting the Arcadia alleys on Tuesday
nights will notice group of maple
shooters on several of the drives going
about their duckpinning in an earnest
manner. The counts on the score
sheets NAV not be SO high. bat the
girls will be making much noise.
nevertheless. Thatll be the Bureau of
Mines bunch.
II is somewhat modest concerning
us ability on the drives. this Bureau
~ Mines bunch. but what fun it gets
out of its Tuesday night bowling.
There are four teams in the league
Woodpeckers. Lucky Strikes. Meteors
and Ducklings. Notice that all of the
names except Meteor smack OF the
6uckpin game.
At present the teams stand in the
iea pIIe in the order named above. But
this standing is only for the first half
az the season that will end on January
10. There may be some shifts in the
last section of the schedule. for some
of the bowlers with teams low in
standing are improving so rapidly
that they should make opponents wor'
The Bureau of Mines League was
started last Winter, but ii is now in
it's first full season. 1t is going along
in great style, too, due as much to
the good work of its officers as to the
enthusiasm generally displayed by all
its members.
Those in charge of the circuit. so
far as known, are Florence Harris.
secretary; Alice Peter. treasurer. and
Mabel Winslow. scorer. There prob
ably is a president of the league, but
AZ so, she was too modest to mention
the fact last night at the Arcadia.
Thus far but two bowlers have
turned in 10-game totals for the quail
fving round of the annual elimination
tournament at King Pin. They are
George Pickett, with a count Of 1,253.
and J. c. Shackleford with a similar
count. Others have posted from one
IN eight games with Charles QUAINT,
Who is booking qualifying scorers.
Jimmy JoIiffe has turned in three
lame total of 400. Sam Sugar a four
,ame total of 514 and Charley Lyons
siy-game total of 767. All qualify.
ing scores so far registered, however
re subject to change, as the bowlers
I've until midnight of December "a to
urn in their 10 best games.
Leader and runner-up in The Eve
rinp Star League took two-game lick
;nos on the Coliseum drives last night
h,,t the standings remain the same IN
1I,s circuit. The Indians, in front b,
fve games. were able to beat the Cubs
hui once, and that was all the second
,,iaca pirates could do to the BUGS. The
i|ards bagged the odd from the Yanks
Marie Frere cleared her bowling ,ey'
8, her last game for Petworth las
irht at the King Pin alleys and en-
lied that team 10 cop the odd from
The King Pin girls in the Ladies Dis
,rict League. After losing the flrst
1tin1 Pin had won the second sett'
t'.,s nins. Marie hit for 81 and 81
g., her first two efforts. then finished
with a 1O.frame count Of III. Mar
iorie Bradt, bowling with Petworti
Tor the first time this season, socke'
? 400 set. with scores of 1o2, 80 an'
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MCCOY SIGNS FOR BOUT
WITH BROWN JANUARY 8

LOS ANGELES. December IA LP).-
Johnny Mccoy, recognized in Cali.
fornia as f1yweight boxing champion
has been matched with Newsboy
Brown of Sioux City, Iowa, for a 10
round bout here January 3.
Announcement of the bout described
Brown as a contender for the crown
recently vacated by Fidel La Barba
The Iowan tackles Corpl. Icy
Schwartz in New York Friday, and
the winner will be recognized as cham
pion by the New York Boxing Com.
mission.
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The pace was so fast I'm the first
five rounds that the spectators
shook their heads and said 1t could
mt last longer than 10 rounds.

shook their heads and said 1t could
not last longer than 10 rounds.
In the tenth round l discovered
that Burgess strength was going. MY
belts to the body were showing re
suits. But in the thirteenth he came
o { evidently under instructions to az
or die. He started a red-hot offensive
| was feeling stronger than when the
fight opened.
The crowd stood up on their seats
Yelling like mad. 1 broke ground fol
minute and let Burge shoot his bolt
Four rounds later came the END
which the same press dispatch de
scribed thus:
Then came the seventeenth and
the end. A terrible right swing to
the Jaw closed the battle. Burge
was not knocked out the way Ordi-
nary melt are. He was standing up
bravely before his opponent when
his knees began to sag. He sank
to the floor, I'm the center of the
ring as limp as a rag, beaten but
not disgraced. After Dicks head
cleared bit, tears rolled down his
cheeks and he cried like a child.
Other strong men wept with him.
All England mOurned the defeat
of Burge, but all who saw his col
ors lowered said that the victor
was the greatest fighting machine
England had seen i'm action.
Another newspaper account said:
1t was the fiercest and most
gruelling battle that has been
staged i'm London for years. La
yigne proved himself to be tougher
than the man who was given his
unusual nickname because he was
considered the toughest, hardest
and gamest boxer i'm the world.
Hereafter all who saw tOday's bat.
tie between Lavigne and Burge will
saw that if Burge is an iron man.
Lavigne is highest.tempered steel.
l met Dick Burge often after thu
fight before / left London. He was
good fellow.
On my return to New York learn
ed that Jack Everhardt had been clam
oring for a return match with me
He had recently beaten Billy Ernst
had knocked out Horace Leeds ant
had fought two draws with Critic. 4
match for % rounds was promptly ar
ranged.
Next, the philadelphia Light
weights.O
(Copyrjght, 1877. uy the North American
Newspaper Alliance
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champion Dick Burge.
tAs told to f. p Ruckerl
A we shaped up for the start OF
" our famous fight in London,
~ suddenly realized how much
4 a Dick Burge. the British iron
man" of the ring. had on me
! in height. reach and weight.
/ l saw I had to win by beating Burge
at his own game, terrific, incessant
fighting.
He was a better boxer than Joe
Walcott. and it would never do for me
to attempt to box with him. l would
have been cut to pieces.
decided to car. the fight to BurSe
al the way, as ! had done with Wal
colt.
In those days I was tireless. The
minutes rest between rounds freshened
me up as much as five minutes in
later years. l felt that night as if |
could sock like a heavyweight, as |
probably could.
What a slamming Burge gave me
for 10 or IL rounds! Perhaps it might
be more correct to say what a slam
ming we gave each other, for | landed
plenty of solid Shot.
In the first round Burge caught me
several terrible cracks on the head,
and l saw the milky way. l said,
You're starting off well, Dick. I'll
try to get even."
Burge laughed. A little later l sent
one smoking hot into his kitchen. and
he bent over like bear.
Nov it amt goin' to be so funny,
/ said.
Rocked Time and Again"
quote now from press reports
cabled from London:
There was not a time during
the contest that both men were not
fighting just as hard as they could.
During the early rounds the height.
weight and reach advantage pos
sessed by Burge seemed to be an
obstacle almost too great to be
overcome.
The American fighter was
rocked time and again by Burgess
hard swings, and several times
fairly lifted off his feet by vicious
uppercuts. The harder he was hit
the harder he fought. Lavigne
lowered his head so that his chin
rested ON his chest, and bored i'm re-
lentlessly without seeming to care
how many times he was hit, so
long as he was landing his fists on
his opponent.
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FAMOUS RUNNER DIES.

BOSTON. December IA R.-Wil-
liam Prouty. veteran distance runner
died suddenly at his home here last
night. He was in his forty-eighth
year, but still was in training and had
planned to take part in a cross-country
race of 3,100 miles from Los Angeles
to New York next Spring.
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WALKER SUED FOR $4,000.

NEW YORK. December IA CR.-
Mickey Walker, middleweight boxing
champion. is defendant in a $25 5000
breach of contract suit by Stadium
Pictures. Inc, it has been revealed
The film company said Walker re-
fused to meet the terms of picture
making contract because he said they
interefered with his boxing work.
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Fights Last Night

By the Associated Press.
ST. PAUL, Minn.-Billy Light ST.
Paul, won by a technical knockout
from Earl Lilliedahl, Minneapolis az.
INDIANAPOLIS Wallace. In
dianapolis, won from Jack Chief
Elkhart, Pueblo, Colo. 10).
LOS ANGELES-Charley Long,
Omaha, defeated Bert Colima, Cali
fornia Q0).
York, and Doc Smell, Tacoma, drew
49,
WINNIPEG, Man.-Del Fontaine,
middleweight champion of Canada, de-
feated Walcott Langford, Chicago Q0).
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GRID STAR TO MARRY.

MADISON. Wis. December IA GP).-
Capt. Edwin Toad" Crofoot of the
University of Wisconsin foot ball
team. and the choice of several sports
authorities for all-conference quarter
back this year, has announced his
engagement to Eva Bamford. teacher
in Madison grade school. Both live
in Mason City, Iowa,
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NOTED HORSE DESTROYED.

CHARLOTTETOWN, p. E. l.. De-
cember IA OD.-The trotting horse
Yank, holder of the world one-mile
record on ice and well known on
maritime race tracks, has been de-
stroyed, having broken a leg in a
fall. He was owned by Col. ID. A.
MacKinnon. Yank lowered the
world record on ice from 2:17A to
PISA at the international meet at
Mount Clemens, Mich. January IA,
1924.
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REIsELT Is CUE VICTOR.

PHILADELPHIA December IA
R.-Otto Reiselt. Philadelphia. began
the defense of his world three-cushion
billiard title last night against Allen
Hall, st. Louis. by winning the first
block of their 300-point match, so to
AZ, in SO innings.
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TILDEN IS INDEPENDENT

BOSTON. December IA CR.-When
William t. Tilden, I'd. invades Eng4
land, in the near future, the American
tennis ace is going to write and be
interviewed as he pleases. despite the
latest edict of the British Lawn Ten
mis- Association.
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GAME COCKS PICK COOPER.

COLUMBIA. S. c.. December IA
P).-William Cooper of Florence has
been elected 1928 foot ball captain of
the South Carolina Gamecocks. He
is a Junior. played halfbaek last sea-
son and has been a regular for two
years. a.
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HERB JoEsTING MARRIEs,

MINNEAPOLIS, December IA P).-
Herb Joesting, all-America fullback.
was married last night to L.ora L.
Davidson, a classmate at the Univer.
sity of Minnesota.
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When Fights We're Fights!
The Historic Battle With Dick Burge, ''Iron
Man. Among British Boxers.
Seeking Like Heavyweight, the Kid Car.
res Fighting to Briton All the Way.
X
End Comes i'm Seventeenth Round, When
Englishman's Knees Sag and He Sinks,
Weeping.
T he m Gus
Kid Lduigne's
Memoirs Of
a Sdudge
Ring
BY GEORGE OKID) LAvIGNE.

Former lightweight champion of the world
whose many victories included two over Joe
Walcutt and one over England's famous
champion. Dick Burge.