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The Washington times., 1927-06-01

Red sox may finish higher than
eighth. That's his job right now.
to pull his team out Of the cellar.
Bob Quinn, president OF the Bos.
ton club, who is here with his team.
is philosophical gentleman.
I'm saving newspaper clippings
Of all the stories the boys write
about how terrible my team a. .
says President Quinn. .'I get the
biggest kick out OF the prophecies
that the team viii never do any.
thing. As soon as we do get some.
where, and firmly believe we shall.
I'm going to send back to those fell
lows their own stories. Ha, ha, IL I
could only see the sour faces when
they have to eat their own words"
The Washington times., 1927-06-01

There have been q lot Of up
sets in baseball this year. The
White SOx are way up when
everyone figured them to be
down; the Cincinnati Reds and
the Philadelphia Athletics and
the Griffmen are down when
the experts figured them to be
up, and the answer is pitching.
Evening star., 1927-05-04

"RIENDS' School racketers OF
- the fair sex are competing
now in the ladder net series
/ which precedes the title SIN
giles tourney each Spring.
Twenty girls are climbing the lad
der. Those who gain positions on the
first IL rungs by the end of next week.
when the series closes, will be en-
tered in the elimination event for the
school championship.
Mildred Green holds the cup at
present and will defend her laurels
this season. Strong competition is ex-
pected from several sources, espe-
cially from Setsuko Matsudaira.
Jeanne Richards and Ida Clagett, all
of whom have shown up well In pre-
liminary play. :,
When the ladder series opened all
names were drawn from a hat ana
placed in the order of their drawing.
Hence, some of the best players found
themselves on the lowest rungs ana
have had to work up to their proper
positions. Mary Acker, judged one OF
the strongest players in the school,
is No. II at present, because she was
drawn at the foot of the ladder ana
has not had time to play through, as
she is preparing to sail next week Tor
Europe.
The entire ladder is given below,
showing positions of racketers as re-
mort ad 1ata yaStprdaV.
Evening star., 1927-05-04
COLLEGE. RACkETERS
HAVE THEIR INNING

Tennis will hold the spotlight on
local college fields tomorrow. Ran
dolph. Macon will engage Catholic
University racketers at Brookland
and University of North Carolina will
furnish Maryland opposition at Col
lege Park. In the only ball game list
ed involving a local college. Catholic
University will visit Emmitsburg,
Nd, to engage Mount ST. Marys.
Gallaudet's nine was to mix with
the Marines at Quantico in the lone
attraction carded today.
Preliminary entries have been sent
by Neil Kelly, Georgetown track man
ager, to the officials of the intercol-
legiate meet to be held May 27-2S at
Franklin Field, Philadelphia. They
are Ray Whalen, Eddie O'Shea,
Jimmy McHugh, sprints; Capt
Burgess, George Eastment, quarter
mile; Eddie Swinburne, half mile; Jo-
seph kaiser, Clarence Dussault, mile;
SigmuBd Greenefage. two miles;
Harry Beech, hurdles: Bill Dowding,
Joe Shevlin, Ray Farrell, broad jump
Fred Wiesner. pole vault and high
jump: Tip Maroney, Creth Hines.
javelin, and Adelman, shotput and
discus.
Georgetown tOssers showed their
best form thus far this season yester
day in routing Duke, IL to /. Fifteen
clouts, including trio of successive
homers, rang off the Hilltoppers
bats while Gillespie was limiting the
Durham boys to four hits, two of
them scratches. The Blue and Gray
lost no time in sailing the game
away, collecting three runs in the
first inning and going on to count
two more in the second and five in
the third Gillespie, Phelan.. Graham,
O'Neil and Nork got G. US homers.
University of Maryland racketers
proved easy prey to Virginia Poly
yesterday at College Park, losing to
the visitors, to Z.
Netmen of another local college also
Jared badly yesterday, George Wash
ington falling before Franklin and
Marshall at Lancaster, Pa, 0 to 6.
Evening star., 1927-05-04

John Terence McGovern, former
Cornell athlete and member of the
Carnegie Foundation Intercollegiate
committee, will be one of the prin-
cipai speakers at Georgetown Uni
versitys annual varsity &c" dinner,
to be given at 6:30 tomorrow evening
at the Willard Hotel.
Other speakers will be Knute X.
Rockne, Notre Dame; Bill Ingram,
Navy, and Father Charles w. Lyons,
S. j., president of Georgetown Uni
versity.
William E. Leahy will be toast
master. He is well known to Wash
ingtonians for his recent activities in
of the oil case trials in this city.
All Georgetown athletes who have
won their varsity letter during the
past year will be presented with an
engraved &c" certificate.
Old-time athletes who received their
&c" previous to the year 1900 are
returning to be presented and also
to be awarded the certificate.
Among those old-timers who will
be on hand is G.. Harris White, for
mer Chicago White Sox pitcher. He
is director of athletics for Washing
toms public schools.
Bernard WeferS, famous intercol-
legiate champion sprinter; James P.
Duffy, former foot ball player and
oarsman, and others will be present.
About 700 are expected to attend.
1t has been announced by Athletic
Director Little, chairman of the ar
rangements committee, that no fur.
ther reservations would be accepted,
the function having been oversub-
scribed.
1t also was stated by Little that
no tickets would be on sale at the
Willard Thursday night.
Evening star., 1927-05-04
TWO MEETS LISTED
BY ALEXANDRIA HIGH

ALEXANDRIA, Va, May ALEX
focusing their attention on two meets
this week end. They will run against
Swavely School at Manassas, Va. in
a dual meet on Friday and in the Uni
versity of Maryland's games at Col
lege Park. Md, Saturday.
Episcopal High also has entered
the Maryland meet. The quadrang-
ular meet between Episcopal, Gilman,
Tome and Woodberry was postponed
on account of the games at College
Park.
Municipal tennis courts will be com.
pleted this week and racketers prob
ably will be allowed to play by Mon
day.
George Mason High Schools base
ball team has finished its program
and will turn its attention to track
and the third athletic district meet
which will be held on Hayden Field
here May IA.
Fruit Growers Express nine will
open its season Saturday, playing the
Alexandria Post Office nine on the
Cameron Park diamond at 4:30.
Episcopal High School entry in the
Preparatory Junior Base Ball Lea que
will meet Dewitt here Friday at $780,
Alexandria High and Swavely clash
in base ball Friday on Hayden Field
qt 3.15
Evening star., 1927-05-04
CONCER OF AMES CALLED
BEST In COLLEGE RANKS
Johnson of Nebraska Also Appears to Be Conner
at Distance-Locke Is Declared to Be Far
Under Form Shown i'm 1926.

ington. and the other at Fresno. Cali.
AT Seattle. in the hundred Borah
did 9.S, better than the time at Drake
and Penn. In the half-mile relay the
West Coast was also superior 30 the
Eastern and Midland meets. the Uni
versity of Southern California team
running at Seattle. turning in 1926. a
new Pacific Coast record.
University of Washington emile
relay team did S:02 f-10 in the meet
at Seattle, which was better than
Boston Colleges time at Penn. but in
ferior to Iowa States 1852 2-10, at
Drake.
At Seattle, Zanbro of Stanford did
"a feet 81 inches in the broad jump.
as against % feet inches by Samson
of Illinois. at Drake. At Frenso, Hoff-
man of Stanford threw the discus 1J4
feet 5la inches, much farther than the
plate was tossed either at Drake or
Penn. Barnes of u. S. c.. at Fresno.
did 13 feet 6A inches in the pole
vault, as against IL feet 81 inches at
Penn and IL feet Q inches at Drake,
and Biff Hoffman of Stanford put the
shot 49 feet inches at Fresno. as
against 46 feet 4 inches at Penn and
AZ feet s inches at Drake.
Evening star., 1927-05-04
TENNIS IN GERMANY
STRONG SAYS .TILDEN
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
Big Bill Tilden's ome-back pros
poets and Germany's strength for a
re-entry into Davis Cup competi-
ton both may be gagged this week
end when the former American
champion and his team partner.
Frank Hunter. meet the Teutons at
Berlin.
The results may not be definitely
conclusive, for it will be the first
competition for the American pair
abroad. but the outcome will be OF
more than ordinary interest as il
marks the official resumption of Ger
man. American tennis relations after
"a lapse of 13 years.
Tilden rates the Germans high on
the international scale. So much so
that before sailing he expressed the
opinion that it would be no shock
for Hunter and him to lose the five
match series in Berlin.
But" he added. cit wouldn't dis
courage us, either This isn't to be
taken as an alibi if we're licked. but.
on top of the sea trip, we don't ex-
pect to reach our best playing form
quickly. 1t will be largely luck if
we beat the Germans
Whatever happens to Tilden and
his partner, no observers will accuse
them of ducking the issue. Over a
stretch of two months they will meet
the best talen in each country they
visit or compete in championship
Journeys in which Europe's top-f1ight
performers will be combined against
them.
Evening star., 1927-05-04
800 Entrants MARYLAND Meet Aes Has Great Mile Runner
WOMEN In SPORTS
by CORINNE FRAZIER

a game this season. Peabody also had
a clean slate. and by virtue of its
victory yesterday takes the Lac in
the Plaza League.
Carbery very nearly wrested the
victory from the winners in the fifth
inning, when two players crossed the
plate, tying the score. Virginia
Moore of Carbery brought in a run
early in the extra sixth, putting her
team in the lead, but Peabody's heavy
hitters, Virginia Pendleton and Flea
nor Staldaserre, knocked off two runs
in the last half, giving their team the
decision at IS.
The teams were composed of the
following players: Peabody-Ethel
Dorman, captain; Mildred Adamson,
Aline Hanback,. Eleanor Staldaserre,
Virginia Pendleton, Alice Zeowitz.
Sylvia Bronstein, Rose Caponetti and
Helen Scawingle.
Carbery-Anna LeBuono, captain;
Mildred Dorman, Irene Merturio,
Louise Rossen, Virginia Moore, Ger.
trude Spigonne, Rachel Bell, Mar.
garet Cox and Alice Rosson.
Scores reported from the other divi-
sions yesterday were: Bloomingdale,
Brookland, 10; Emery. 4. George
town, Force-Adams, 8; Janney, 6.
Garfield, Smallwood- Bowen, 10; Dent,
Z. Columbia Heights, Monroe, 5;
Brightwood, 8. Rosedale, Pierce, 8;
Benning, /. Howard, Mott, IL; Slater
Langster, s.
Capitol Athletic Club members out
lined plans for their second junior
senior swimming meet at the monthly
meeting Monday night. The affair
will be held on Wednesday, May 25, in
the old Y. w. G.. A. pool on E street.
Glasses in life-saving instruction
are being held each Wednesday in
the Y pool, with Florence Skadding
teaching. These are replacing the
regular swimming class at present.
The annual business meeting for
the election of officers will be held
on Monday. May 16, at Ills Connecti-
cut avenue northwest, according to
Miss Skadding.
Track practice will be begun next
Monday afternoon, May 8, on the Iowa
avenue playground. The club plans
to hold meet later in the season.
Evening star., 1927-05-04
Team Standing.

Games Played
Central, 5; Business, 8.
Western, Z; Eastern 10 innings).
Future Games.
Business VS.. Tech.
Central VS.. Western.
Eastern VS.. Tech.
Business VS.. Western.
Central VS.. Eastern.
Tech VS.. Western.
Business VS.. Eastern.
Central VS.. Tech.
Western also won on the tennis
courts yesterday. the West End
racketers, who were 1926 title holders,
. cleaning up with Eastern, to 0.
tFive singles and one doubles were
played.
Gonzaga will meet Eastern and
Central will mix with st. Johns in the
only schoolboy ball games hereabouts
tomorrow.
Today was to be an exceedingly busy
one for the scholastics. Diamond bat
ties were to bring together Central
and st. Adams, Eastern and Calvert
Hall of Baltimore, Business and the
Arcadia Seniors, and Gonzaga and
Georgetown Prep. Tennis clashes
were listed between Friends and
Georgetown Prep, a prep school
league test, and Business and St.
Adams.
Aside from the Eastern.Western
game, st. Johns, that bowed to
Georgetown Freshmen, to z, was the
only scholastic nine TO get action yes
! sterday. Centrals scheduled game with
fGeorgetown Prep at Garrett Park was
postponed until later in the month.
The Blue and Gray yearlings scored
four runs in the seventh inning to
down st. Johns in a game that was
evenly contested until that stage.
Georgetown yearIing tennis players,
however, were beaten, bowling to Cen
trail High, to 6.
Evening star., 1927-05-04

-RACK and field athletes OF the
District area will find plenty of
opposition from representatives
of schools from Virginia and
nearby States in the big an
pual University of Maryland games
Saturday at College Park. over 3UV
athletes from 90 schools will compete.
Sterling teams of Episcopal High,
woodberry Forest and two clever COM
binations from Greensboro, n. G., and
a couple from West Virginia will vie
3, with the local schoolboys.
All the District schools will be rep
resented. Central, Tech and Dewitt
are looked upon as the most formida-
BILE of the local group. In addition to
the 13 open events, there will be five
closed to students of Maryland public
high schools.
While the next game in the public
high school base ball championship
series comes Friday between Business
and Tech, it is to the clash Tuesday
bringing together Central and West
ern that fans are looking with most
interest.
1t appears that preseason dope is
going to hold and that the battle for
the title will be waged between Cen
. trail and Western.
Western yesterday won its first
{ series game. subduing Eastern, 1925
champion, to 4, in 10 innings.
Central downed Business, 5 to 3, in
the opening game of the series. The
Blue and White will have available
for action a number of tossers who
have heretofore been ineligible be-
cause of scholastic studies. They in
clude Colley. third baseman: Hough,
second sacker; Cross, first baseman,
and Fisher, hard-hitting infielder.
Coach Kimble has let it be known
that these boys will have to fight 1t
out with present players for berths.
Yesterdays was a fast tilt, marked
by many exciting moments. The
boys from across the creek won in
the tenth, when Quincy Owens and
Luney were both safe and advanced
on Hilleary's sacrifice. Owens scored
when Hilleary bunted and Luney and
Hilleary also scored before the min
ute was over as the result of some
wild heaving by Eastern fielders.
: Western hit against Clark in the
tenth after having faced Oehman for
nine innings. Clark was handicapped
by having no time to warm.
Oehmann was removed for pinch
hitter.
Evening star., 1927-05-04
PUBLIC LINKS TOURNEY
IS SOUGHT BY CHICAGO

CHICAGO, May CP).-The Mu-
nicipal Golf Association has definitely
decided TO seek the national public
links golf championship tournament
of 1928 for one of the forest preserve
courses. The tournament this year
is to be held at Cleveland.
Chick Evans, former national title
holder and now golf architect for the
Cook County (Chicago) Board of Com
missioners, has pledged the support
of the board to secure the tourna-
ment and promised to have at least
one of the three forest preserve
courses 'in championship form" BY
next year.
Evening star., 1927-05-04
TOO MANY "SECONDS"
ANNOY PENN STATE
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
jinx seems to be following one
of the greatest track and field teams
Penn State College has ever had.
Since capturing the cross-country
team and individual championships
last Fall, Nate Cartmell's pupils have
had succession of bad breaks.
They were favorites to win the
Eastern indoor championships, but
lost to Harvard. Last week they were
contenders for all eight of the major
relay titles at the Pennsylvania carni-
val, but failed to capture a single
one, although finishing second five
times. They lost in the quarter-mile
relay when Pennsylvania quartet
equalled the world record, were nip
ped by Illinois in the four-mile race
and eliminated from the shuttle
hurdle relay by an. accident after get
ting Off to a good lead in their heat
Nevertheless they have the strength
and balance to figure as one of the
East's outstanding hopes of repelling
the Far Western track challenge this
year of Stanford and Southern Cali
fornia.
Evening star., 1927-05-04
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

NEW YORK, May 4.-Ray Conger
of Iowa State. whose running ability
materially contributed to the victory
of the Ames medley relay team at
Drake last week, is an athlete who
will bear watching.
ScrutiniZing students Of track form
believe that Conger right now is the
best college miller in the country,
ranking next to Lloyd Hahn among
the amateurs.
Conger does Alp pretty consistently.
He may have a rival next year, If not
this, in Glen Johnson. the University
of Nebraska miller. who beat the best
collcgians on the coast recently in the
$50 and the mile. Just now the Corn
husker runs several seconds behind
Conger's best, but he is developing all
the time.
When the writer saw Roland Locke
at the Penn relays he looked sCme-
what overweight as as a matter OF
| fact he was carrying some six or
seven pounds of adipose tissue.
Locke Needs Training.
What the track men out in Ne
| braska have been needing very badly
| is about two weeks work under an
ardent sun. Locke came to Phiradel-
phia with two days of outdoor train
| ing in two weeks behind him. He
probably is 25 per cent below his best
form of 1926, as was shown by the
| deft manner in which jackson Scholz
and Hank Russell took him in
| the hundred at Franklin Field. At
| the same time, in winning the furlong
| he turned in 21.3 as against 21.4, the
| best time he had been able to make
| this year, prior to the Penn relays.
| Both he and Scholz will run in the
century and the furlong at the Mis-
souri, Valley Conference champion
ships at Lincoln, Nebr., on May ~
and 81.
| Lincoln, by the way, would like to
| have the national A. A. u. meet and
with the best track in the West-a
track for that matter as fine as any
| in the landA-there is no reason why
these games should not be held there.
| There is a stadium with a capacity
of $4,000 spectators, 5 large hotels and
40 commodious fraternity houses.
Has Plenty of Enthusiasm.
This region is literally boiling with
track enthusiasm, as the A. A. U.
officials probably know. And if they
don't they are herewith advised.
From to 20 sectional meets are
held every week and when there is a
varsity dual meet at Lincoln the
ruralists pour in from 800 miles
around. One interesting phase of this
interest in track is that base ball has
all but died out there, regretable
phase, too.
Farley of Missouri, who won the
| 10O-yard event at Drake in 10 fiat, is
credited with one 9.6 achievement in
dual competition and he has done 9.S
consistently; SO has Grady of Kan
sas, Ray ALI Of Doane College; Crete,
Nebraska, is a 9.8 man, and Edginton
of Missouri can run under 10 seconds.
All Of which shows what can be done
in section when genuine interest is
/ stirring.
While athletes at Drake and Frank
| lin Field were competing in relay
events last week end. two relay meets
were in progress on the West Coast
one at Seattle, University of WASH
Evening star., 1927-05-04

Base ball enthusiasts from the in
termediate and high school depart
ments of Friends School are planning
a diamond series for the latter part or
May. Preliminary practice is under
way and the intermediate team will be
selected next week. according to d1lda
Molesworth, athletic director.
Dates for the series, which will be
two-out- of three game affair, will be
announced later.
A ''high hat tea and garden party
are to be given by the Girls Athletic
Association at Friends, Friday of this
week at the School Country Club, on
Wisconsin avenue. The proceeds will
be used for the promotion of athletics.
Members of the dancing classes will
give an exhibition as the main feature
of the program being arranged by
Miss Wordsworth and Virginia Brown,
assistant director of athletics.
Several matches i'm the first and sec
ond rounds of the Central High School
interclass tennis tourney have been
reported as a result of play Monday
and Yesterday on the Sixteenth Street
Reservoir courts.
In the Junior loop, Frances Brant-
ley and Sally Norbeck advanced to the
third round. defeating Elizabeth Fran
zoni and Jane Burke, 7-9, 6-1, 6-3,
in their second-round tilt.
The losers put up a stiff fight. but
were outsteadied in the critical rallies
by their opponents.
Gertrude Wagner and Dorothy
Friedman are the first senior team to
reach the third round. They defeated
Flora Haslacker and Constance Sny-
der yesterday in straight sets, 6-1,
6-3.
Adeline Alexander and Josephine
Dunham scored decisively in their
opening encounter, allowing Dorothy
Darby and Julia Maletti but one
game in each set.
Play was to be- continued this aft
ernoon, with one match to be com.
-pleted in the first round and several
seeond-round encounters scheduled.
For the first time i'm several seasons
the Peabody schlag ball team de-
feated the aggregation from Car.
berry, present title holders in the
Plaza Division League of the ele-
mentary school series. /.
Carberry has held the cup for two
years and until yesterday had not lost
Evening star., 1927-05-04
CHISoX SHIP A PAIR.

CHICAGO, ILL.,. May P).-Homer
and Leslie Cox, recruit
pitchers have been turned back to the
minors by the Chicago Americans.
Blankenship, brother of Ted. SDx
ace, was returned to the Shreveport
club of the Texas Leange. Cox was
sent to the Petersburg club of the
Virginia League.
Evening star., 1927-05-04
BOXING ARENA LEASED.

CHICAGO, May 4 CP.-The con.
crete arena at Michigan City, Ind,
called the "Sku Blue Bowl" built by
Floyd FitZsimmons, has been leased
by Edgar III. Lawrence, South Bend
promoter. Two boxing shows are
planned for this Summer, 4th of July
and Labor day.
Evening star., 1927-05-04
COLLEGE BASE BALL.

Georgetown. IL; Duke, /.
Pennsylvania, 8; Columbia, 8.
Cornell, 15; Princeton, 5.
Harvard. IL; Wesleyan, /.
V. p. l., Z; North Carolina. d.
OglethOrpe. 4: st. Xavier, 3.
Indiana, 6; Wabash, S.
Butler. Z; Indiana Central. 5.
Depauw, 6; Rose Poly, O.
Evening star., 1927-05-04
DC. ATHLETES WILL FACE
DIFFICULT TASK TO SCORE
90 Institutions Will Be Represented, Among Them
Episcopal and Woodberry Forest-Western
Nine Wins Series Contest.

Racketers of st. Adams School, who
last spring won the schoolboy title,
swent their first match in the prep
school tennis league, downing Wood
ward, 6 to O.
Gonzaga's base ball team has suf-
fered a severe loss in William McNaf-
rish, catcher and first baseman. WHO
will be out for the remainder or the
season as the result of an attack OF
scarlet fever.
Evening star., 1927-05-04
The score:
Totals. SO 8 3010 Totals. 40 30 10
sBatted for Langhenry in eighth inning.
fBatted for Oehmann in ninth inning.

Western. Western. y. 2 g ! 9S ] -
Runs--McAllister t2). Munroe; WOOD: Hill
Tmnev Errors1wiison Gei. schneider t2,.
stevens Luney. z. Owens, Rankin. McAfhs-
@McAliister Lisensky Rankin, Knarr. Hli-
leary Walcott. Stevens t3l. Wilson Douoie Ie
schneider. Left on bases-Eastern. y;
western. IL. First base on balls--o0m Gen
mann. s: off Schneider. 3 H,ts3on m oen- en-
ring: off schne1der & in 8 innings; Hit hy
nitched ball--By Oehmann tWalcott., s..
Ovens Lupeyl by Schneider tLisenskya- ;
Struck out--Bv Oehmann. g. by Sehneider
10 Wild throw--Schneider. Passed Dall--
Wilson Losing pitcher-Clark.
Evening star., 1927-05-04

NEW YORK, May P).-Erwin
Rudolph, pocket billiard champion of
the world, defeated the veteran.
Thomas Hueston, last night in the
first block of 6. title match, 156 to 129.
Evening star., 1927-05-04

Harmon Gym, which houses the bas-
ket ball court at the University of
California, was built 81 years ago, but
has been enlarged four times.
Evening star., 1927-05-04
COLLEGE TRACK.

Richmond L., 73; Wake Forest, 48.
Duke, 761s; North Carolina State,
492s.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-05-09
CRUMBL|NC RUINS ARE
 FOUND ID BE MISSIONS

BRUNSWICK, Ga. May 9. P)- Old ruins which generally have been known 70 residents of this section as abandoned sugar mills and English colonial stables now have been re- vealed as early 17th century Spanish missions. Some of the ruins ante date those of the Spaniards in Cal ifornia, having been established dur ing the period 1856 to 1868 by monks who followed the early explorers of Spain. They set up a chain of missions along the South Atlantic coas, from St. Georges Island, South Carolina, to St. Augustine, Florida