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d Nile Hardest Cew Race Denuer Altitude Unlikely Hurt Athlete

this mountain metropolis. Life IA
veritably fluid these days. for here lies
one of the great transcontinental motor
routes. Highways are alive with trafiic
and tourist camps all the way from
Colorado Springs nesting under Pixies
Peak through Denver to Boulder and
on are humming like beehives.
Representatives Of every State in the
Union are likely to be in or about
Denver while the athletes Of the Nation
are competing and not few of them
will swell the crowd at the Denver
Stadium
So far as sport is concerned the
A. A. u. has done splendid thing for
the Rocky Mountains in assigning the
1929 senior track meet in this region.
It will stimulate public interest in
amateur sport and this is district. the
remaining section of the country, where
stimulus Of the sort Is needed.
Since track trainers are usually
trainers of university foot ball elevens.
they will have opportunities Of observ-
ing the effects Of climate and altitude
upon their men, and II results are salts
factory, as seems certain they will be
you will find more and more of the big
time teams willing to invade the Rockies
for those international foot ball contests
which the region vitality needs.
Evening star., 1929-07-03
OVER 100 SWIM MERS
IN ALEXANDRIA MEET

ALEXANDRIA. Va, July 3.-More
than 100 swimmers are expected to take
part in the meet which will be held at
the Municipal Pool tomorrow afternoon
at 8 o'clock under the direction OF Sid
ney Hancock, captain Of the life guards.
5O-yard free-style races will be held
for boys and girls, while q 100-yard
free-style event win be staged for men.
In addition, fancy diving contests are
scheduled for men and women and q
relay race Is listed between teams wear
ing the colors of the Hayden Field and
Friends Fairgrounds.
Guests and members of the Belle
Haven Country Club will participate in
q varied program at that club tomor-
row afternoon.
An 18-hole putting tournament Is
scheduled for women and tombstone
tournament for men. In addition,
there will be swimming races for men
and women and foot races for children
under IL years of age.
Louis Hicks, st. Mary's Celtics third
baseman, will pitch for the Potomac
Yard All Stars against the Celtics Sat-
urday at Baggett's Park in the benefit
game for the widow and children of the
late Police Sergt. Charles McClary.
virginia a. y. is ScneQuieQ ZOE
double-header with the Fort Hum
pi1reys Engineers at Fort Humphreys,
va, tomorrow. Play will start at 2
o'clock on the post diamond.
Potomac Yards golf team will meet
the Richmond, Fredericksburg g. Po-
tomac Railroad golfers of Richmond,
Va. on the Mannsfield Hall Country
Clubs course at Fredericksburg, Va,
on July IT.
Del Ray A. c. will entertain the
Boiling Field Aviators Of Washington
tomorrow afternoon at o'clock on Ed
ward Duncan Field In Potomac.
Trainmen defeated the Mechanical
Department, IA to IL. on Eppa Hun
ton Field yesterday in Richmond.
Fredericksburg g. Potomac Railroad
League game.
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LIGHT AIR MAY AID
IN SOME CONTESTS
Long, Distance Runners Are
Only Ones in Danger of
Being Retarded.
BY WALTER TRUMBULL.

tn HERE appears to be q general
impression that the altitude will
work against the athletes in the
Il coming Amateur Athletic Union
championships at Denver, but 1t
seems to me that this is doubtful.
High attitudes do work against curve
ball pitchers. There isn't enough air
resistance to get the hooks they achieve
at a lower plane. Some pitchers on
lofty diamonds lose their curve ball
altogether, but they certainly find no
dificulty with their fast ball.
So 1t seems reasonable to expect that
the great field of sprinters which will
gather for this meet will do as well
or better in Denver as they might in
the lowlands. The weight men also
may find that the discus or shot goes
farther
Long distance runners may be af-
fected by the rarified air. But the
time hung up by Paavo Nurmi is pretty
safe from the present milers at any
height. The events where records are
in danger should not suffer from air
conditions and believe that several
records are likely to be broken.
This meet boasts great entry list.
Almost every performer of prominence
from the Pacific to the Atlantic Is
slated to compete.
(C,opyright, 1929, by North American News
paper Alliance.)
Evening star., 1929-07-03
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

NEW YORK, July 3.-With the hold
ing of the National A. A. U. senior
track and field meet in Denver, follow
ers of athletics will be likely to witness
one enduring result of the first ma
tional amateur sporting event which
has ever been held in the Rocky Noun
tain region, inasmuch as 1t promises to
mark q new phase In sport in this
country.
With athletes from the West Coast,
the Southwest, the Midlands the South
and the East in Denver there may be
no doubt that the bugaboo of high
altitude will be dissipated once and for
all. And as certain consequence the
claims Of Salt Lake City and Denver
as available centers of intersectional
SPORT foot ball, track and the like will
In the future be respected and met. In
a sentence, new era in Rocky Noun
tain sport will, 1t seems to the writer,
be ushered in as direct result Of the
national track and field meet which will
occupy the Nations holiday and the
week end.
In that mile-high altitude where the
air Is rare. but not too rarefied, ath-
letes now in Denver, unless the writer
Is greatly mistaken, are already feel
ing an unwonted resiliency which will
alO thcLl ia ulelh AneCl CAPtoAeS oA hCAu
and cinder paths. Records may not
fall profusely, as Rocky Mountain
dwellers seem to think-although they
well may-but in any case the various
specialists will find their tasks accom-
plished with less effort and their quick
recuperation will astonish them.
Even Charley Paddock, whose prime
in lower attitudes has passed, may find
II, as Is reported, he really intends to
enter the sprint events, that on the
mountain top track his pristine speed
and endurance has returned.
Denver should be vivid place from
today on. The great athletic meet is
but one Of the national expressions Of
Evening star., 1929-07-03
TO COACH
ROWING AT MARIETTA

SEATTLE. July 3 LP-word has
been received her from Ellis Macdonald,
captain of the 1929 University of Wash
ington crew. that he had accepted the
position of head rowing coach at Mari
eta College, in Ohio. Macdonald is at
Marietta comforting with the school
officials.
The husky oarsman, who was gradu-
ated this year, is veteran of the Wash
ington rowing system. He learned his
first principles as freshman from Rus
sell Callow, at present head coach Of
Pennsylvania. Macdonald's three years
of varsity experience were taken under
the direction of AL Ulbrickson.
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tract is a matter for the civil courts
But the New York State Boxing Com
mission takes the stand that 1t has
precedence Of the civil courts. The
commission gets away with this arro-
gance because nobody connected with
the prize fight game wants to go to law
Somehow the boys feel nervous and
self-conscious when they are near a
court.
fight his way to the championship re-
gardless Of the financial considerations
But that hardly is probable. There is
no percentage in becoming q heavy
weight champion II one has to train
in an alrnshouse.
Evening star., 1929-07-03
PYLE LOSER In ONLY
ONE OF FIVE CLAIMS

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, July SC. G. Pyle
OF Transcontinental Bunion Derby fame
was a five-time winner and one-time
loser at a hearing before the California
Labor Commission yesterday.
Five claims against Pyle, filed in con-
nection with his recent coast-to-coast
foot race, were dismissed by Commits
sioner r. Richardson for lack of juris-
diction. But Eden Allen, a patrolman,
was granted $69.26 for services. At
torney John j. Wilson, representing
Pyle, said he had never heard of Aliens
claims before, but he paid it immed-
lately.
Charles Thompson, publicity agent,
told the commission Pyle left him and
his wife stranded In Arizona with only
20 cents and two nat tires" Thompson's
claim was denied, however, because he
had not served Pyle in California.
Attorney Wilson informed the COM
mission none of Pyle's Is runners, who
won prizes totaling 100000 had COM
planned. He said seven Of them had
been paid and settlement with the rest
awaited payments on contracts by cities
through which the race passed.
Evening star., 1929-07-03
MAKES SOR BREAKS
IN RACE ON HUDSON
Columbia Eight, Like Others
in Past, Let Rivals Row
Themselves Out.

By the Associated Press.
@HE third mile Is the long mile
in a crew race and another
Poughkeepsie regatta has been
4 rowed with that next to the
last mile still supreme.
Columbia won from field Of nine,
four Of which we're swamped by the
lumpy water, and it is not likely that
Washington or the Navy could have
rowed the New York eight into the
water. But it was that same third mile
which tore out the hearts of the Huskies
and the Midshipmen, leaving nothing
for that fourth long haul.
The lead is tempting to any crew
after q Poughkeepsie race has divided
into its several sections at the two-mile
mark and coxswain cannot be criti-
cized too severely for seeking it. even
when he has to make his crew fight for
every inch.
Is an Old Story.
But history reveals that in this Sec
ton of Hendrix Hudson's river lie
swamped the hopes Of score of poten-
tial winning eights of years gone by.
Columbia remained unruffed as the
river claimed the Massachusetts Tech
shell, with washington and the Navy
dashing to the front. The light blue
and white oars dipped their same
rhythmic, monotonous 80. and this un-
ceasing beat rowed the Navy into
oblivion and Washington into defeat.
Eight months of training for this
20-odd-minute race made 1t impossible
for the washington coxswain to do
anything but challenge the Middies fof
the lead when the third mile was
reached. Out they went, fighting for
the river and the old third mile smlrked
in the heaVy dusk
Just Sticks to Task.
On came Columbia, rowing steadily
and spurning the challenge of the third
stretch of water. Theirs was an out-
side lane and theirs was the only out
side boat to finish. The inner lanes
were smoother and the inner boats
made the line, but behind Columbia q
bold crew of Vikings, careless of storm
and needless of the gage thrown down
by the Huskies and the Navy.
Rowing in an unguarded lane. the
Columbia crew won victory doubly
deserved. Probably they could have
won from Washington and Navy under
any plan of battle, but theirs was the
safest-a steady beat of oars, .pulsing.
dogged, while the river and the pace
could be left to others. They conquered
first of all the old third mile.
Evening star., 1929-07-03

matter what the condition of the
field or the weather. Hamm's WIN
ming jumps at the Olympics was IS
feet 434 inches, a new record for the
game.
The next nearest man was S. P.
Gator of Haiti, nearly inches far
ther back. On September 8, in
Paris, Gator jumped 26 feet 27-128
inches, but that record has not yet
been accepted. If it is 1t will displace
the mark Ed Hamm made in the
final Olympic tryouts and national
A. A. U. championships at the Har-
ward Stadium last July, when he
leaped q distance of 25 feet liza
inches, to break DeHart Hubbard's
record Of 25 feet 107s inches made
In 1925.
Evening star., 1929-07-03
VARIOUS EVENTS LISTED
FOR REGATTA TOMORROW

Swimmers, divers, canoe racers. out
board motor speedsters and others in
terested in water sports are invited
to take part in q program tomorrow
at Herald Harbor, Md.
The program, which Is TO start at
l pm, includes two swimming races,
a diving contest OF three events, a
canoe-tilting contest, a rowing race,
surf-board races for both men and
women and a free-for-all outboard han
dicap race. A substantial number Of
entries already has been received.
Many prizes viii be awarded.
The various events are open to every
one. Those wishing to participate should
see a member of the entries committee
at Herald Harbor.
Evening star., 1929-07-03

they is," said Number Two. "It
means to look through a keyhoIe."
Another inf1elder was baffied by
nine-letter word that began with
s-y-m-p and finished with i-u-m. 1t
was suppored to mean collection of
gested the scribe. But that's an
orchestra" objected the tnfielder.
RING LARDNER.
p. s.: Did you know some of the
clubs were numbering their players, or
isn't that new? Anyway, It occurred
to me that an INSCRIPTIONS manager
might fox (or foxx) the opponents by
numbering his men wrong. Let us
presume there are Yankees on second
and third bases in the ninth inning.
Philadelphia is leading, to o, and two
men are out. It is Ruth's turn to bat.
HIS number Is 8. Mr.. Higgins tears
the on Ruths back and substitutes T.
which Is the number of MFR. Durocher
(and. Incidentally, found out that his
name Is pronounced funny. Connie
Mack, instead Of removing his socks,
which means walk him." would snap
his suspenders, meaning pitch to him.
The pitcher would obey, the ball would
sail out of the park and the score would
be tied. "Gracious!" Connie would say.
There Is always some consolation,
even In regard to these modern home
runs. II "Wahoo" Sam Crawford had
been playing ball In this age, think
OF the heavy casualty list from flying
base balls, even three and four blocks
away.
Ability to take q lot Of punishment
usually leads to unusual skill In cutting
out paper dolls about six years later on.
Connie Mack had Rube WaddeI and
now he has Bob Grove. There has
been some argument as to which had
the greater speed and the faster break
ing curve ball There is at least one
big diherence-Bob Grove hasn't any
thing like the same passion for acting
as bartender and going fishing. Rube
was more versatile In his various pas
times.
'Some one" says an expert, "will
soon run the 100 yards in nine seconds
nat" He viii probably be the only
surviving pedestrian. provided he can
also broad jump 26 feet.
A number of those after Donnie
Bush's scalp are now trying to fasten
crown around it. Which Is one of
the playful modes and manners Of the
ecstatic fanatic.
Evening star., 1929-07-03

One of the "nicest guys" as well
as one of the best athletes on the
United States Olympic team last year,
was Ed HamY1, worlds record holder
in the running broad jump. Bill
Alexander, foot ball coach at Geor-
gia Tech University, tells me that Ed
has fully recovered from his appen-
viii compete at the national A. A. U.
meet in Denver. In that high alti-
tude Ed ought to jump from one
Rocky Mountain to another.
Ed Hamm was one of the "old re-
tables" of Uncle Sans team at Am
sterdam. Would that there had been
more like Hanm, Bob King, Sabin
Carr and Bud Houser! They are the
kind that always come through, no
Evening star., 1929-07-03

If those in control of the sport ha
they probably will call special
ways and means of further incree
In one of the recent New York-Phila-
delphia games the Yankees came to
bat In the last half Of the eighth IN
ming with the score 3 to against them.
Combs doubled. Larry sacrificed him to
third and Gehrig fouled out. Dykes
played back on the grass for Ruth and
the Babe hunted toward him. He was
caught flat-footed and Ruth easily beat
scored the tying run. A Bronx fan
near me roared his disapproval.
Whats the matter?" said in dialect.
That was the smartest play I've seen
in two or three seasons" "Smartlr
cried the Brongian. "If he'd socked it,
we'd be ahead instead of even" And
when the Babe walked out to his posi-
ton at the end of the inning the ap-
plause could have been heard q foot
away.
Well, your Mr.. Rennie and
talked things over and decided that
the magnates hadn't gone far
enough. What they ought to do
now, your Mr.. Rennie and decided,
Is abolish the foul lines and rule
that every ball hit into or over any
of the stands be counted home
run, even II 1t lands in the press
coop. We elaborated on this scheme.
Mr. Rennie suggested an analogy to
community singing.
The fans themselves should be per-
mttted to play-that Is, if the ball is
hit into stand and fan catches 1t
the batsman is out instead of being
credited with home run. The screen
that now protects the fans seated be-
hind the plate should be removed and
such fans equipped with mask, pro-
tector and mitt, so that balls which
now hit the screen and are Just fouls
would be either home runs or outs. A
ball hit into a field box would be q spe-
cial kind OF home run called q box
score and would count double; pro-
vided, Of course. that it was not caught.
ball caught by woman would count
for two outs; caught by very old
woman It would retire the side, regard
less Of how many were out before.
That something Is still required TO
speed up the game was shown in a dou-
e-header played by the Giants In Phil
adelphia the other day. At the Phillies'
park the first and third basemen sit on
the fence and the outf1elders go across
the street and play crazy pool till it's
their turn to bat. Yet In the double
header the Giants hit only eight home
runs and the Phillies only two. Ten
home runs in two games played in that
alcove Is small potatoes. The abolition
Of the foul lines would prevent future
fanlines of the sort.
During my visit to the stadium
was made aware of other advances
in base ball since Hughie Fullerton
and were trying to make out what
park we were In. It seems that now
adays the athletes spend their fore
moons solving crossword puzzles and
are SO intent on same that they don't
even cough when a girl walks
through the lobby. A well known
infielder recently had his puzzle all
made out, but. there was one word in
his solution which could be nothing
but e-k-e. He showed it to an equally
well known inhelder. you've got it, %
said the latter. "Yeh, but it can't
be right" said the first. "E-k-e.
They amt no such word" Sure
Evening star., 1929-07-03
HUNT EARNS DECISION
IN BOUT WITH SYDNEY

TULSA, Okla, July R.-Babe
Hunt, strapping Ponca City youth, still
was supreme today In Southwestern
heavyweight circles by virtue Of a deci-
sion last night over his outstanding
der Of Dodge City, Kans., in IL rounds.
It was Hunts second decision In four
bouts with the Kansan. Snyder had
won one decision and one fight was a
draw,
Evening star., 1929-07-03


Segfred Adolf Otto Schmelng is destined be the next
49, heavyweight champion of world remember that
27 the Schmayling
Smelling, used when applied to unpleasant odors.
matter of write after
the Of this Prlssian right It
become prophetic the cauower industry
the larenous tendencies in it, but predict that
Sharkey
always that he does Schmenghe garrous
he is called will be knocked entirely spechless
For the benefit of the 800 monaeS the others dependent
the cauower the victory Schmeng the Fiddler
Grab OF the Pyenes was life # had been dansant like
Battle What of It at Miami Pauline
the BASQUE had bounded through to decision
BasqueS while bounding CauhowerS
the STOCK Exchange would have dropped least 20 points
Evening star., 1929-07-03
GALLAGHER rs BEATEN.

PHILADELPHIA. July 3-Phil Mer-
curio defeated Marty Gallagher, WASH
ington heavyweight boxer, in a prelim-
mary to the Jimmy Byrne George Cook
match In Philly Park last night. Mer-
curio proved much cleyerer than Gall
lagher.
Evening star., 1929-07-03

of concentration that Is in the face of
Dempsey when in action, minus that
sinister killing expression. He seems
without fashion, coolly, deliberately,
like Tunney; and, like Tunney, he pun
isheS them methodically and deliberately
with an accumulation OF beating rather
than with the one magnificent thrust.
After the bout with Uzcudun,
Schmeling explained that he hurt his
hand in the fifth round when he hit
the Basque on that little patch of
skull, the only spot that the Basque
with his f1ddler-crab motion left ex-
posed. This was not by way of apology,
for Schmeling had the man from the
Pyrenees as badly battered as fighter
could be and still remain on his feet.
This is entirely plausible, for hitting
advisable as taking q hard punch at
something constructed of solid concrete
The remarkable thing of the bout
with Uzcudun was that Schmeling met
him at his own game, which was the
action Of goat of the Basque's native
Pyrenees He butted with him and
he wrestled with him, but he wrestled
with intelligence. AL In all, he showed
that he was a champion when he
pounded that apparently impenetrable
barrier to the title out of his way.
The Financial Aspect.
There is one bar to the swift and
smooth progress of Max Schmeling to
the heavyweight championship. He is
fairly well cluttered up with parasites.
OF course, every successful prize fighter,
with the exception of the lone Bull of
the Pampas, Senior Luis Angel Firpo,
has collected as many parasites as a
ship collects barnacles. It seems that
If one is in the fight game one must
collect parasites, just as trenches COL
lect coolies. But Schmeling has more
than his share of this sort of an
noyance.
At the current writing he is trying to
get rid of German manager and place
all his interests in charge of those three
very practical business men, Uncle
Joe Jacobs. the pugilistic pawnbroker; !;
Pete Reilly and Will Mccartney. To
give this triumvirate credit, the Ger
man seems to have progressed under
this management and certainly Is "in
the big money" as the boys say.
But the New York Boxing Commits
sion takes the side OF the German
manager, Bulow, and has ruled that
Schmeltng must give him a third Of
his earnings. It strikes me that the
matter Of the legality of Bulow's con-
Evening star., 1929-07-03
LITTLE MISS CALIFORNIA,

Ethel Burkhardt, this years cham
pion of California woman tennis stars,
is barely feet tall, but plays hard
hitting game.
Evening star., 1929-07-03

The golf champions of six Southern
States are under 10 years old.
Evening star., 1929-07-03
THE SPORTLICHT
BY GRANTLAND RICE

EAR Sir: Inasmueh as get into ball packs
don't suppose any one cares what think of national
full Of hop Do you honesty? Well then think it's the
pieces moving Ike queens that It very unfair to the pitcher that
features base running almost null and void and that later
balls that when is scheduled between Athletics
those in control of the happen to read this opinion
they probably will call
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SchmeIing and Dempsey.

Schmeling has been compared to
Dempsey. He looks little like the
Manassa Man Mauler about the brows.
but there the resemblance ends. Demp-
sey probably is the most magnificiently
built athlete that ever stripped for ac-
passion for his game, fighter by
build and emotionally fighter.
It strikes me that Schmeling fights
with his BRAIN, as Gene Tunney did.
In action he is more like Tunney than
he is like Dempsey. He has the look
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Metropolitan Newspapes Sefvtes

Gator and Hubbard are both Negroes,
as have been most of the other great
broad jumpers Of recent years; for
instance, Sol Butler and Ned Gour-
din. So Ed Hamm, the Southerner,
is sort Of white hope among the
leapers. And how that boy can run
a and leap! He Hell 2 As man ,,,..s IN the the
broad jump in the American British
empire dual meet at Stamford
Bridge after the Olympics, it made
the sixteenth consecutive meet, II
memory does not fail, in which he
had jumped IS feet or better.
Hamm has been selling ladies'
"ready-to-wear" attire in an Atlanta
department store to help pay his way
through Georgia Tech University.