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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07

Under the direction of lube Sullivan,
athletic coach at st. Johns College,
this city, a program of sports is now
being conducted In the Central High
School Stadium under the auspices of
the Community Center Department of
the d. G. public schools. Sullivan will
arrange track meets and various other
sports features for the stadium be-
ginning this week. The track will be
open for use every afternoon OF the
week under Sullivan's personal super
vision, and information regarding de-
tailed plans for this month and next
may be obtained from him at Column
bia 3405-J. Use of the track as we'll
cost nothing. For the time being the
stadium will be open from / to 2
pm, but later If the demand is great
enough it will be kept open from z
am. to 7 pm. Men, women and chill
dren are invited to make use of the
stadiuni's facilities. Sullivan plans to
lay out two courts for pitching horse
shoes and contestants entered in The
Evening Star contest may get in some
good practice.
It is with the principal idea of af-
fording recreation to those who have
no other means or time for 1t that
the facilities at the stadium have been
made available. Sullivan will be glad
to coach persons in various sports and
there will be no charge for this serv-
ice.
Aids Sport Development.
Availability of the stadium will be a
big aid in the campaign here for de-
yelopment of amateur track and field
athletes, it Is, felt.
T. C. Downing, director of physical
education at Powell Junior High School,
will have charge of the swimming pool
at Central, which also will be operated
by the Community Center Department
for the benefit of adults and boys and
girls of the city. The pool will open
Tuesday afternoon and an interesting
program, including contests later, is
planned by Downing. who has had ex-
perience in physical education work.
Downing will give further information
at Georgia 4123-W.
The tennis courts at Central Will
again this season be under the super
vision of Paul Blocker, and reserva-
tions for time on the courts should be
made through him at Columbia 7744
or Main 1925 without delay. The
courts are being put in first-class con-
dition. A small fee will be charged
for their use-10 cents per person per
hour If a reservation is made for a
regular hour, either daily, semi-Weekly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
BASE BALL DECLINE
At YALE DEPLORED
Athletic Head Sees Sports of
All Kinds Lessening Dia-
mond Interest.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
N YEW HAVEN, Conn, July Cool
IN lege base ball has become IAN
4 says Prof. George H. Nettleton,
chairman of the board of con-
troll of the Yale University Athletic
Association, in his annual report, made
available tonight.
Even friends of college base ball
frankly admit the considerable decline
In general interest in the sport" said
the report. Doubtless the major rea-
son for this is the greatly increased par
ttcipation of students in all forms of out
door sports. with the consequent multi
plication of class and scrub teams and
crews and the increased opportunities
for informal and individual recreation
in such sports as tennis and golf
This change, amounting almost to
revolution. in general student attitude,
has, in the Spring at least, largely
emptied the grandstands and crowded
all available playing fields of every
kind
"Yale's early addition and constant
development of the policy athletics for
all are matters of common knowledge.
The general results have been most
gratifying even to those who find them
intimately connected with the now
recognized decline of interest in college
base ball. No one would countenance
for a moment a call back to the
bleachers,' but especially to various
colleges closely associated with Yale in
athletics, the situation in base ball has
become an increasingly veXed problem"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
the Air. Despite Base Ball Season Is at Its Height Right No,v
Central Stadium, Made Summer
Sports Center Under Sullivan

or weekly, small extra charge will
be made. Courts will be open tomor-
row from pm. until dark, and also
on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays
and Fridays. On Saturdays they will
be open from pm. until dark.
Swimming Psol Hours.
The swimming pool will open Tues
day afternoon at l o'clock for chill
Moons each week-Tuesday, Wednes-
day, Thursday and Friday-for three
swim periods, the fee being 10 cents.
For adult use the pool will be open on
Tuesday and Thursday evenings, three
periods each evening for men and
women, beginning at 7 o'clock. Fee is
rs cents for adults. No bathing suits
or towels are furnished, and women are
required to wear caps.
instruction classes will be formed
for both children and adults If there Is
sufficient demand.
At East Washington Community
Center four tennis courts will be In
operation, beginning tomorrw and con-
tinuing every afternoon except Satur-
day from pm. until dark. On Sat-
urday the hours are from l pm until
dark. Ernest c. Rick will be in charge
of the courts, and arrangements for
regular hours for playing may be made
with him now at 1885 Massachusetts,
avenue southeast, telephone Lincoln
4781-W. The fee per person per hour
will be 10 cents.
Summer Recreation School.
Tomorrow morning at $3.50 o'clock
the Summer Recreation School con-
Quoted by the Playground and Recre-
alton Association of America will
open at Armstrong High School for
the second season, in cooperation with
the community center department. The
qualifications for students are this sea-
son much higher than last year. APP
plicantS must be normal or conege
graduates. The faculty includes Roy
Smith Wallace, Kenneth Clark, John
Martin, E. T. Attwell and others.
The school will continue through
August 2, with sessions each day from
$50 am. until 1890 pm, except
Wednesday and Saturday, when the
hours will be from 1870 until 4:30 pm.
The big Dunbar pool will open for
the Summer season tomorrow, and will
be available for use daily except Sat-
urday and Sunday from until pm.
On Thursday there also will be eve
ming swim periods from 6 until $3.50
O'Clock. The fee will be 10 cents.
Free showers will this year be fea-
turc of the Dunbar pool.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
SOUTHERN REGATTA
IS LISTED JULY q
Committee Changes Date and
Arranges Program of
Eleven Events.

A LEXANDR1A, Va, July 6.-The
~ date of the Southern Rowing
II Associations regatta at Rich
4 4 n1ond, Va, has again been
changed by that organizations
regatta committee. The new date agreed
upon is July 81.
The committee has drawn up pro-
gram Of IL events, including the junior
single SOULS, senior single souls, junior
doubles, intermediate doubles, junior
quadruple SOULS, senior quadruple SOULS,
junior four-oared gig, junior eight
cared shells, senior eight-cared shells
and association senior singles.
Magnus w. Bales of the Old Dominion
Boat Club has been named referee of
the regatta, while e. E. Carver and G. P.
Heishley, both of the local club, have
been named timer and judge, respec-
lively. Bales is president of the South
ern body.
With two victories over the Freder-
icksburg Elks, the st. Mary's Celtics
are expecting little trouble when they
meet the Lodgemen here tomorrow at
3 o'clock IN Baggett's Park in the third
game Of their flve-game series.
Jake" Jacobs, former Dreadnaught
A. c. ace. will twirl for the Elks, while
Lefty Hamilton will get the assign
A44CA4t 4O1 VIC NCAI4Sos
Pat Gorman's Virginia A. C., will
tangle with the PetWorth- Yorkes here
tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock on
Shipyard Field. Speed Boy Jones
or Ashby Snellings will toe the slab for
Germans nine.
Superintendent of Public Recreation
J. F. Wilson is planning to hold pub
lie swimming meets throughout the
entire Summer season following the
success Of the independence day meet
here Thursday.
Bobby Voigt's Yankee A. C. will play
the Callie Juniors tomorrow afternoon
at l o'clock on the East Ellipse dia-
mond.
Four games will be played in the
midget section of the Alexandria NUM-
cipal Playground Base Ball League next
week, as follows: Cubs VS.. Clovers,
Monday; Colonials VS.. White Sox, We'd
nesday; st. Mary's Midgets VS.. Cubs,
Friday; Cubs VS.. ColonialS, Saturday.
All games will be played on Hayden
Field at am.
Yankee A. G. will tackle the Clovers
in a junior section game Thursday aft
ernoon at o'clock on Hayden Field.
An 13-hole medal play handicap
tournament will be staged at the Belle
Haven Country Club next Saturday aft
ernoon. Lindsey-Nicholson Corporation
has offered an automobile tire for the
winner.
The monthly meeting of the Old
Dominion Boat Club, postponed this
week. will be held Wednesday night at
o'clock.
The Potomac Tigers, colored nine.
will meet the Belleville (Ind) School
team in a three-game series at Bag
gets Park Monday, Tuesday and We'd
nesday. Play will start at o'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07

University relays this Spring.
Both Minoru Fujii and Jimmy
Rector are supposed to have run
100 yards in 8 2-5 seconds. Fujii, in
1902, ran 100 meters in 10 and
24-100 seconds, better than the
world record today, and Rector. in
May, 1908, covered the century in
Charlottesville. Va, in 92-5, with
the aid of strong wind. Probably
the Jap ran down hill. or the dis
lance was Short-or else he used a
motor cycle.
Charley Paddock told me recently
that he doubted If Simpsons record
would be accepted by the A. A. U.
because starting blocks were used
The erstwhile Fastest Human" is
working out daily, and will be at
the National A. A. U. championships
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
HAYES AND LUDLOW
OPEN TRACK TESTS
Playground Athletes Meet on
Formers Field Tomorrow
Afternoon.
THLETES of Hayes and Ludlow
rnlaNnrnllndS will clash in a dual

A THLETES of Hayes and Ludlow
~ Fairgrounds will clash in a dual
~ track meet tomorrow afternoon
4 a at Hayes that will mark the
opening of the tests preliminary
to the municipal playground depart
ment's city final meets. The cham
pionship meet for the white boys will
be held August 81 and that for the
colored athletes August %:
other meets scheduled this week fol-
low:
Tuesday-Peabody, Edmonds and
Maury at Peabody playground. Wed
nesday-Buchanan and Wallach, at
Buchanan. ThurSday-BurroughS and
Brookland, at Brookland. Friday
Wheatley and Emery, at Wheatley.
Conference meets will get under way
next week.
It has been announced that no boy
will be allowed to compete in the
white meets who has reached his
nineteenth birthday by August 81 and
no boy will be allowed to compete in
the colored meets who has reached his
seventeenth birthday by August %.
Boys must compete in the playground
meet nearest their home, this rule be-
ing designed to prevent the organiza-
ton of all-star combinations and to
assure each section having a truly
representative group of athletes in
competition. Contestants may enter
only one event and boys viii not be al
lowed to wear spiked or cleated shoes
except in the unlimited class relay race
and half-mile run. This Is because
many boys who cannot afford to buy
these shoes would be placed at a dis
advantage. Boys who have won their
letter In any sport in the public high
schools will not be permitted to take
part In the meets.
Richard S. Tennyson, director of
boys activities for the playground de-
partment, is in charge of the meets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07

former records without the aid of
such things.
I hope Simpsons record is ac-
cepted. There are too many names
down in the books now for a 8 3-5
century" and the $40 time that
several have made will never be
accepted by the International Ath-
letic Federation, which is not up-to-
date enough to recognize watches
that time in a tenth of second.
Simpson, Bracey. THE Dixie Grey
hound; Tolan, the specialized Negro
runner from Michigan, who beat
Simpson in the Big Ten this year,
and Paddock have all run $40
land I believe Roland Locke did a
couple Of years ago, too), and Claude
Bracey ran a 92-5 hundred, with
the wind, in the Southern Methodist
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
CONNECTICUT YOUTH
~ OLYMPIC PROSPECT

BY the Associated Press.
Dan Chubbuck, Connecticut Aggie
souhomore, will put his home town on
the map at the next Olympics unless all
signs fail.
Chubbuck, now 10, broke two East
ern intercollegiate and f1ve Of his own
college records in his first season Of
varsity competition.
He specializes In the shotput and
discus and can do more than his share
in the century, the broad jump and
220-yard low hurdles.
Paul E. Bitgood, Aggie coach, now
Is working Chubbuck in the pole vault
and high Jump to prepare him for the
1929 Penn relays. Bitgood banks on
his protege to show himself worthy
of olympic team consideration at this
meet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
FRENCH RACE HORSE
TOURS U. S BY RAIL

BY the Associated Press.
Light Carbine, I. B. Humphreys sur
prise winner of the Brooklyn handicap
at Aqueduct, can lay claim to being the
most travelled horse in the world.
Bred In France by A. King Ma
comber, he came to America on his long
jaunt. Since then-and ne Is now 6
years of age-he has made the trans
continental hop to Tia Juana every
Winter. AS this is jaunt of some
3,400 miles from the metropolitan
tracks, he has averaged on this one
trip about $500 miles O year.
In between times he has spent his
ing up more mileage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
ASKS BAN ON FALSE
STARTS IN ROWING
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, July 6!--Declaring
that for several years many crews have
taken advantage of the false-start
ruling at Poughkeepsie, John Arthur
Brown, rowing chairman of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania and member
false starts be eliminated.
In q letter to Maxwell Stevenson,
chairman of the Intercollegiate Rowing
Association, New York, Brown also
recommends that three referees be
used instead of one and that crews be
required to appear on the starting line
punctually. Brown urges Stevenson to
have the recommendations taken up at
the Fall meeting.
Due to false starts and late races
the recent intercollegiate regatta at
Poughkeepsie was finished in semi
darkness.
'The regatta for several years."
Brown writes, has been affected by
false starts and, In my Judgment,
many of the crews of today take adj
them to cause a new start within the
first 80 seconds, sometimes for rea-
sons which are not worthy Of consider
alton"
No start should be re-rowed because
of broken oar, or jumped slide at
the start any more than 1t would be
If this occurred in the middle or end
of the race, Brown says. 1.-THE crews
should not be recalled, except at the
instance of the referee In case he
should determine any crew or crews
started before the signal.
ut is most necessary that all crews
be on the starting line at the time
indicated on the program, and 1t
should be distinctly understood by all
crews, and publicly announced before
each regatta, that any crew not COM
plying with this rule VAL be disquali-
ned"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
DOWN THE LINE
WITH w. o. McGESHAN-

some time bookakers who are nature lovers at heart have
highly commemorate and comparatively easy because
men The method Of consists OF having the
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track
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Some of the advanced naturaSts working expert
with the of
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disclose developments detail
from the Bigger Better Association
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07

When George Simpson of Ohio
State University ran 100 yards in
2-5 seconds at Stage Field, Chi
cago, on June 8, he did what sprint
ers have been trying to do for more
than quarter of century, but he
did it with the aid of starting blocks
for his feet.
Starting blocks unfair to old
timers" say the head lines over
signed articles by portly gents who
were great athletes in the gay
nineties. But these authors forget
that when the Kelleys and Duffys
set the marks they hate to see
broken now, they used spiked run
ming shoes, the crouch start, and
abbreviated running costumes. which
gave them great advantage over
still older birds who had set the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
OREGON AND FLORIDA
GRID TEAMS TO MEET

BY the Associated Press.
University of Oregon and the Uni
versity of Florida will clash on q Miami
gridiron December Z.
Present plans indicate that Miami will
build a stadium in conjunction with the
Madison Square Garden Corporation to
afford seating space for 10000 to $4,000
spectators.
Its probable location viii be the
county fair grounds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
BRITISH TRACKMEN
DEFEAT CANADIANS
Oxford-C Cambridge Invaders
Down Hamilton Club in
Field Events.
BY the Associated Press.


s; e: 4: 4: ?: :::: &;
team a victory over the Ham
ilton Olympic Club in the invaders
first dual meet of their American cam
paign today The final score was to
5, first places only counting in the
scoring.
The eight track events were evenly
divided, but the invaders took three
of the four field events to capture the
meet by two first places.
Phil Edwards, Negro middle distance
star, and Johnny Fitzpatrick, members
of Canada'S last Olympic team, each
accounted for two of the Hamilton
Clubs five first places.
Edwards, making the 1,600-mile trip
from Denver, where he competed in the
national A. A. u. championships on
July 4, by airplane and train, won the
half-mile and mile runs, while F1tz-
patrick was romping away with the
100 and 900 yard dash events. The
other Hamilton victory went to A. Gil
bert in the pole vault.
Against these triumphs the English
men could point with pride to j. M.
Humphreys victory in the 2-nile run
in 9:33 2-5, a new Canadian record, and
won in the 120-yard high and 900
yard low hurdles; the 440-yard run, the
broad jump, high jump and 16-pound
shotput.
high hurdles, and the 220 low hurdles
went to his teammate, r. M. N. Tisdall.
r. Leigh-Wood of oxford took the 440-
yard run to give oxford and Cambridge
an even break in the running events.
Caleb G, Gates of oxford, former
Princeton star, won the 16-pound shot
put; the high jump went to G. E. S.
Gordon of oxford and the broad Jump
to r. w. Revans Of Cambridge.
AS a general rule times and distances
were far behind the records, Humphrey
being the only man able to shatter exist
ing Canadian marks. Edwards, however,
turned in a fine half mile in 1:532s. and
then came back to take the mile from
C. z. G. Green of Cambridge in 4:253s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
EX-STAR NOW COACHES
ALMA MATTERS WINNERS
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The lure of winning for the school
that still regards him as one OF It's
greatest athletes puts an added kick"
in the coaching profession for Clyde
Littlefsld, University of Texas track
and foot ball tutor.
While at the Longhorn school Little
field earned IL letters, more than any
other man in Southwest Conference his
tory. He made letters in track, basket
bali and foot ball for four consecutive
years.
The past year his foot ball team won
the Conference title and his track squad
placed second. He has coached In one
capacity or other since his graduation
and two years ago was appointed head
coach.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
Colts Haunting Phantom.

TOLF is q game that even the cnam-
~ pion must hold in the deepest re-
spect. There is always the haunGlng
phantom of disaster. Take BOLDLY
Jones final round before the play-on;
He had taken a IL in the third rouno
on Saturday, a week ago. He was on
his way to what looked to be a romp
and another II or 70. Before he knew
what had struck him he had at
the eighth hole, after hitting me
drive and q good-looking IRON. ae
rallied after this wallop. He got gong
again. He was six strokes ahead OF
his nearest rival, with six holes to play.
And then at the So hole Of the match,
with everything set, another seven ex-
ploded under his heart. And again
the explosion took place before he knew
any shadow was swinging across the
scene.
That is way golf has. One can
be slipping along evenly and serenely
and without warning he can md
himself in the coils of trouble. Bill
Mehlhorn, for example, had great
hopes In this last championship, and
at the sixth hole of the first round,
hole only 325 yards, that many had
almost driven, he ran into 10. ANY
average dlffer playing well over 100
would have raved at taking . or
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07
NEW VIRGINIA COACH
WAS GREAT SPRINTER
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Archie Hahn, recently named head
track coach at the University of Vir-
ginia, stands out as one Of the greatest
Sprinters of all time, in the opinion OF
Keene Fitzpatrick, Princeton mentor.
Hahn's record of winning the Olym-
pic I00-meter championship twice never
has been eQualed. He accomplished the
feat at st. Louis and Athens back in
1904 and 1906.
Archie received his training in sprint
ing under Fitzpatrick, who was head
coach at the University of Michigan
when the sprinter was a student there.
For the last six years Hahn has sat at
the feet of his old teacher in the role
of assistant coach Of the Tiger track
team.
At Princeton Hahn has been in charge
of the 100 and 220 yard dash men,
broad and high jumpers, pole vaulters,
discus and javelin throwers, also coach
ing the cross country team and con-
ditioning the freshman foot ball squad.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-07

the carnivorous jack rabbits of the San
Joaquin. 1t was not long before they
drove the grizzlies to the highest peaks
of the Sierra Nevada. Even here the
bears were not safe.
Even when a small pack of bears
sought refuge from the jack rabbits
by climbing to the tops of the Sequoia
gigantea or giant redwoods, some of
them reaching higher than the Wool
worth Building, the jack rabbits would
climb up, and the slaughter in the
tradition that a San Joaquin jack rab-
bit would 60 anywhere to get his grizzly.
Everything Grows Taller.
A NYBODY who knows the valley OF
"A the San Joaquin in California
knows of the giant jack rabbits. In
fact, everything grows more luxuriantly
in the San Joaquin than any other
place in the world, and that includes
foot ball players.
The vegetation of the San Joaquin is
truly Gargantuan. can recall the
tragic fate of a neighbor near the city
of Stockton. He was climbing up a
blade of San Joaquin asparagus to cut
of few tips so that the family might
have some Of the succulent vegetable
4OI O11ISEs Up TWO Oh LklTG6 uuuQESQ
feet he became SO interested In select
ing some of the choicest tips that he
fell and broke his neck. Some said
that it served him right for being so
fusSy. He should have known that any
portion of San Joaquin asparagus would
have been delicious.
Another neighbor got delirium
tremens from violating the spirit of
the Volstead act. He picked one
Tokay grape grown in the San Joa-
quin, and instead of shipping it by
truck to the station he permitted it
to ferment. In a short time the one
Tokay grape of the San Joaquin
yielded him 40 gallons of Tokay
wine, which he drank with fatal
results. It was the quantity.
Before California entered the Union
the Mexican governor, Gen. Castro, used
to ride a golden hoodah or hooey after
the fashion of an Indian rajah riding
on the royal elephant. forgot to say
that the jack rabbits of the San Joa-
quin could be domesticated and, when
they were, they were noted for their
fidelity. A jack rabbit of the San
Joaquin was strictly one-man rabbit.