Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-05
DOUGHBOYS Plan
OWN TOURNAMENT
Patients and Medicos Form
Unit in Stars Great
Horseshoe Event.
.HE horseshoe-pitching enidemi,

TINE horseshoe pitching epidemic
has struck Walter Reed Hospital
Some of us can't play base
l. ball; some are out of luck for
golf or tennis or any other game
that requires full use of all limbs. But
horseshoe pitching-well, now, bring on
those slippers"
No sooner made than granted was
request from the patients and the
medicos that they be permitted to
hold their own tournament as a unit
in The Stars event for the champion
ship of the metropolitan district, in
Guiding Washington and several coun-
ties of Maryland and Virginia.
The soldiers tournament will be
handled by Dave Adamson, Y. M. c. A.
secretary at the hospital He plans
separate sections for patients and medi-
cos, with play-off between the winners.
Another tournament may be held for
the nurses.
In Iowa Avenue Division.
Action at Walter Reed will start
the same day that all the other 200
odd town and community events get
under way, July 20, with July 20 as
the deadline for entries. The soldier
victor will carry on into the finals of
the Iowa avenue division of the tour
nament for Washington. In this di-
vision are 10 Fairgrounds, on each Of
which q neighborhod event will be
held.
Horseshoe pitching is held to be an
ideal sport for convalescents. Hospi-
tails throughout the country are in
shutting it as part of their courses
in body rebuilding. A list of the benefits
of barnyard golf would read like a
patent medicine ad. 1t is becoming
extremely popular with bay-windowed
folk. The constant stopping to pick up
shoes has marked effect on the waist
line,
A half hour of pitching the regula-
ton game considerable effort IS re-
quired to chuck two and half pounds
the distance of 40 feet and attempt to
be accurate) will open wide the pores
Of most people.
Since The Star announced plans for
its tournament the sports goods and
hardware stores handling regulation
horseshoe pitching equipment have done
a record business. One big firm has
ordered a great supply. The shoes and
stakes are inexpensive.
Offer Use of Equipment.
A number of players who possess
regulation shoes and pegs have volun-
teered the use of their equipment in the
neighborhood and town tournaments.
The more shoes the more courts and the
more pitchers that can play at once.
All who care to lend their equipment
should communicate with their tourna-
ment chairmen or the horseshoe editor.
Each of the numerous Fairgrounds
here on which tournaments will be held
are or will be equipped, but Mrs. Susie
Root Rhodes, superintendent, and Rich
ard S. Tennyson, her generallsSlmo,
would welcome any additional supply OF
shoes and stakes.
Play each day will be scheduled at
| O'Clock, but participants will be per-
mitted to arrange for earlier matches
wherever possible. They may set their
own times if able to play before o'clock.
Playground instructors will be available
at all times to supervise contests.
For the competition in Maryland and
I Virginia the date has been set only Tor
town and community events. Dates and
places for county and intercounty
| championships will not be named until
after the entries close.
The larger towns interested In staging
county finals should file applications
with the horseshoe editor.