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&OLOnED HOIScShOc PtCllcA
throughout the metropolitan
district are throwing 'em a
~ they never did before. accord
ing to Arthur A. Greene, chair
man of the colored section OF tn
Washington Stars tournament, who ma
toured the territory embraced.
Greene has been busy during the las
several days arranging for county play
offs in Maryland and Virginia. Tomor
row. or Tuesday he hopes to announce
places and dates for county events.
Divisional play-offs in Washington
will start Thursday.
The Howard division play-of will
be held on the Howard Playground,
at Fifth and w streets northwest,
with the winners and runners-up
of the following Fairgrounds en-
gagged: Howard, Bruce, Garnet-Pat-
terson and Shaw Junior High. In
cluded in this group will be the
finalists of an independent tourra-
ment in Brightwood, where there is
no colored playground.
The Rose Park division play-oH
will be staged on the Rose Park
Playground, at Twenty-second and
o streets northwest, with two rep
resentatives each from the following
Fairgrounds: Rose Park, Briggs,
Magruder and Cook.
The Willow Tree division tourney
will take place on the Willow Tree
Playground, at Third, Four-and-a
half and C streets southwest, with
the following Fairgrounds and How
ard University winners and runners
up competing: Willow Tree, Car
dozo, Sixth and l. southeast, Logan
and Payne. ~ -.
The foregoing divisions are in the
west section The winner OF the
Deanwood division will be cham
pion also of the east section.
Deanwood division matches will
be held on the Deanwood play
ground, at Nottingham and Lane
; place northeast with these play
grounds represented: Deanwood,
GARFIELD, Crummell, Lovejoy,
Smothers and Barry Farms.
Competition will start each day
at $50 o'clock.
J Colesv;lle, Md, will start action to.
morrow. Edward Hill, Colesville chair.
man, reports the entrants thoroughly
warmed up. The pairings follow: War
rick Hill VS.. Kenneth Wentworth
Samuel Hart VS.. Collins Mason, Ed.
WARD Hill VS.. george OOOk, WhlLel
Campbell vs. James Howard, Solomar
Hart VS.. Robert Cook Chairman Coles
announces that entries will be received
up to the day of play.
Hyattsyille, Md, is preparing for hot
action. Chairman Walker will start
play there Friday. Walker, formel
Howard foot ball star. is horseshoe
twirler of note. He has a regulation
court adjoining his home. ~
East Arlington, Va, play. will star
Wednesday, according to George Vallin
East Arlington fire chief and tourna'
ment chairman. His men are anxiou:
to meet the Nauck and Fort Berr,
twirlers. ~.
Chairman Catbones Dufans reports
that IS have entered the Rockville, Md.
Action in real tourna-
ment play will be under way by Tues.
day. Regulation courts are laid out
on the school grounds. Tune-uE
are played every evening
Pairings will be announced tomorrow,
Catbones announces that late entries
will be accepted UP to time of play.
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Eo1ses1oe Hold Suay at Spring. Welter Champ Plays Do
Woman's Horseshoe Play
To Be Started Wednesday

The Washington Stars horseshoe
pitching tournament for the wom-
ems championship of washington
will be played Wednesday on the
Plaza Playground. starting at $50
o'clock. Entries viii be received up
to that time.
All Of those who already have en-
tered are requested to report not
later than $50 o'clock Wednesday,
and before that time II possible.
They will play 21-point games on a
30-foot court, the championship dis
lance for women, and with shoes
considerably lighter than those used
in the mems tournament. The shoes
will be provided by The Star.
Scoring rules similar to those gov
erning the mems tournament will
prevail, except in one instance. All
shoes pitched will be counted. In
the mems event only those stopping
6 inches or less from the peg are
scored.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04


The Home Run Race.
A T this stage of the show last Sum-
"A mer the home-run scrambleg+w was
between Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
with Gehrig leading up to September.
Then the Babe took over the show.
But 1929 is an entirely different story
Up to the last few days Ruth has been
taking the four-haSe dust of Chuck
Klein, Hack Wilson and Mel OFT. with
Gehrig, Hafey,, Bottomley Hornsby.
Simmons and 'Foxx all in the some
what dizzy scramble. Young Klein has
been the main sensation up to date, and
it will be interesting to see where he
can outSlug the old Sultan down the
stretch, provided the Sultan remains
intact.
There are now six or eight hard hit
terS who have an open shot at the
throne room of clout and too many
things can happen in two months for
any forecast to be worth more than a
guess. But at least the old monopoly
has been broken, although it would be
ridiculous to count Ruth out as long as
he can amble up as far as the plate.
TT has been suggested. that Victor
l. Campolo can make quite a jump in
the general direction of pugilistic am
portance by betting Tom Heeney ever.
This is true enough. But he cans also
make the same jump in the -wreng
direction by permitting Tom Heensy to
outbelt him. Campolo has an,rthe
physical qualifications needed. All he
has to prove is that he can also use his
head and that his heart is established
in the right location. ..~>
The old slogan of base ball still lives
on, This is a great ball town. but We
won't stand for a losing team"
In the Canadian open Tommy
Armour shot a So, SO. 10, SO, ard
then finished three strokes away from
the top. just what is the use IL tISun-
der even Is for 70 holes isn't good
enough to win? 7,sasra
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Any number of ball players would
like to switch around, but few get the
chance after making good at one GER
tain job. Ty Cobb always wanted to
pitch or play. the infleld, but Ty was
a trif1e too useful where he started to
be turned into another department
where he might have been at the best
just along the line of the average.
Lucas with the Cubs or Athletics or,
Pirates would have been good for Is
or 80 victories this season as a pitcher,
crowding Groves or Grimes. Even
star actor has hard time shining IN a
bad production of bum show.
The Old Confidence.
- great chance to win the United
six holes left he had jumped the field.
Then some one yelped or sneezed just
as he hit the bali from the next tee
and he blew the wallop into trouble,
taking on par 4 hole. Even then
he missed Only by stroke. In some
way something has always happened
to Diegel in United States opens ever
since. He has played brilliant golf and
has had several chances but he never
had the confidence in his ability to go
the route.
In the Canadian open, where the
field is one of the finest in golf,
Diegel has different story to tell.
He won the Canadian open some
years ago, and after that felt that
this particular championship was
his meat. He now has won 1t four
times. And the peculiar part is that
Leo enters this tournament down. ,
right sure that he Is going to win.
In the last one, finished a few days
ago, he knew that Tommy Armour,
playing brilliant golf, had finished
ahead of him with 277, just nine
strokes better than even As, Diegel
knew he had to move at top speed
over the last nine. Here was the
nerve test that usually breaks them
all.
But in place of whiting, Diegel came
back in 80, to finish with a IS for the
decisive round. He had felt that he
was going to win this open before he
left, and still felt that he was going to
win when he knew he had to beat a
IS on the last nine to turn the trick.
All of which shows again how strong
the mental or psychological side of golf
is. Especially when 1t is applied to a
golfer with Diegels vivid imagination
and 'high-strung nervous system. II he
could pick up the same feeling in q
United States open he would be hard to
stop by anybody, for Diegel can put on
as brilliant a display Of fireworks as
any one in the history of the game. He
probably has turned In more tourna-
ment rounds between IS and SO than
any other player now swinging at the
bali .An& there Is no golfer who Is
more uni assally liked. s .s A,sa,ssAaA
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Horseshoe Hurting Leaders
Battle Soon in ID. C.: Tourney

the play offs. There will be two impor-
tant changes, however. Instead OF one
21-point game constituting a match, two
out OF three will decide the issue, and
instead of hard-dirt courts strictly regu-
lation layouts win be the order. with
each stake driven In the center OF q
6-foot square clay-filled box.
Matches will start at $50 pm.
Here's @ list of the districts or divi-
sions with the Fairgrounds represented
in each, with the key playground or
which the play-off will take place
named first In each instance:
Georgetown District.
Georgetown, Thirty-fourth and
Volta place northwest; Adams,
Chevy Chase, Corcoran. Montrose,
Fillmore, Wefghtman, Reservoir,
Tenleytown, Gallinger, Mitchell
Park. I'm this group Is included
the Cleveland Park tournament, be-
ing run of on a private court)
BlOOmingdale District.
Bloomingdale, First and Bryant
streets northwest: Brookland. Bur-
roughs. Emery, Brightwood, Tenth
and Evarts.
Iowa Avenue District.
Iowa avenue, Iowa avenue. be-
tween Varnum and Webster streets
northwest: Twin Oaks, Takoma
Park, Park View, Bancroft, Barnard,
. Columbia Heights. johnson. Phil
lips, Truesdale.
New York Avenue District.
New York avenue, First street and
New York avenue northwest: oyster,
Henry, Happy Hollow, Thomson.
Rosedale District.
Rosedaie, Seventeenth and Kramer
streets northeast: Benning, Kenil-
worth, Wheatley, Maury.
Virginia Avenue District. :. -.
Virginia avenue. Eleventh street
and Virginia avenue southeast: Con-
greSs Heights, Ketcham, Buchanan,
Orr. Stanton. .--.
Garfield District.
GARFIELD. Second street and Vir-
ginia avenue southeast: Wallach,
Fairbrother. Hoover, Van Ness.
Plaza District. e
Plaza, Second and D streets
northeast: Edmonds, Hayes. Ludlow,
Peabody. (Greenback Lane tourney
played on private court tncluded)
Only seven preliininaries have been
finished, but semi-finals and finals VIII
be played in many tomorrow.
In Divisional Play.
The champions and runners-up now
in line for individual play, with the
Fairgrounds they will represent, follow:
Bancroft-Dave Watts and Bob Eshe.
Takoma-C. e. Whittlesey and H.
Loving.
New York avenue-Herman FRANKIE
and will Rafferty,.
Plaza-John Myers and Theodore
Murray.
Ketcham-wnl Bragerod and 8. How
ard.
Cooke. p. Cline and J. Birthright.
Greenback Lane-Nathan Miller and
George Kelly.
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ASHTON HEIGHTS T0UTS :.
BOSS AS HORSESHOE WIZ

; ASHTON HEIGHTS, Va, August s.
The merry battle for the horseshoe
pitching championship Of Ashton
Heights, with Fred J. Eden as chairman.
is we'll under way. A favorite to win
the title and carry Ashton Heights well
into the further examinations is c. r..
Boss, a youngster.
Results follow:
:. F, j. Eden defeated II. r. Dinses' Ais.
F. Kelly, ST.. defeated Howard Roland,
M. q. Major defeated George Yeatman.
Jerry Hurfeld defeated Harold Dinses.
c. r. BOSS defeated J. Maycock. 2s-lo.
c. P. Warner defeated r. H. Roland, AIS,
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GRlDIR0N STAR FLlRTS
WITH BOXING CAREER
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Another Southern foot ball star is
contemplating a pugilistic career.
Harry Wolff, star tackle. Of the Uni
versity Of South Carolina Gamecocks
and one Of the best boxers in the
Southern Conference. says he will take
up boxing as o profession If he fails
to win an appointment to West Point.
Two years ago, Add Warren. a North
Carolina University foot ball lumfnary.
went In for boxing and progressed un-
til he broke his arm.
Wolff won the Southern Conference
heavyweight championship last Winter.
He Is q well built youngster with
wallop in each fist.
AS a foot ball player, he was picked
on q half dozen mythical all-Southern
teams. .
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STRIBLlNG USES PLANE
: TO DROP FIGHT TICKETS

By the Associated Press.
w. L. >("Young') Stribling. the
Georgia heavyweight, has found new
use for his airplane.
On the eve of his scrap with George
Cook in Kansas City Stribilng circieo
over the city to drop 100 tickets to the
fight as a promotion stunt. 1t was sug-
gested by Gabe Kaufman, promoter.
Kaufman reneged at performing the
task, himself when he learned that
Stribling had turned over three times
in his flying career.
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/. L. VOWEL CHAIRMAN
OF ORANGE TOURNAMENT

ORANGE, Va, August 3.-Horseshoe
pitching has begun to boom in Orange
County following Its entrance into The
Washington Stars tournament for the
Metropolitan District championship.
This county has several strong can
didates for the big title. Preliminaries
In several towns. will start tomorrow
w. w. Thomerson, who laid the
groundwork for Orange County's horse
shoe organization. has named L. l..
Vowel chairman for this town and will
conduct one at Gordonsville himself.
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COLLEGE PARK T0SSERS
COMPLETE FIRST ROUND

COLLEGE PARK, Md. August s.
First round results in College Parks
horseshoe pitching tournament follow:
Richardson so. j. Powers 46: Seilman so,
Henery 10: franklin so. Woodward As: Wor-
ley SO, Mister Forfeit: Press so, Linkous
SO; Eaves SO. Dix 2l% Ingham so. Gardner
as: Utz so. Easzard Z; Grove so. Shubert Is:
Hertzler 50. 7; Roth tforfeit;. Wesse e,.5 80;
so, Waite 2s: Byrd so. r. Powers 20.
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Y ATCHING the boys toss 'em
I in Washington preliminaries
one notices there are two
distinct types of horseshoe


NV one notices there are two
distinct types of horseshoe
pitchers, Che fellow who
plans for ringer and the chap who
aims to be near the peg and accounts
himself fortunate If he shoes 1t.
The first calculates the turn of the
shoe in such manner that it opens
as 1t nears the stake. The other merely
twirls it up there, with no idea what
position it will land in. One might be
termed ringer thrower and the other
a Single-point scorer.
In a contest between experts of the
two styles there would be no doubt of
the outcome. A COW racing a mustang
would have more, chance than the
twirler, even If all his losses leaned
the shoes against the peg.
Twirlers who lose by poor scores to
ringer throwers in the current tourna-
ment should not be discouraged. The
''three-quarter turn" and other styles
of manipulating the shoe favored by
experts are learned with little practice,
and when one of these is only partly
mastered the game takes on new at
traction. The thrill of a ringer is
comparable to that which comes to the
golfer who makes a perfect shot.
There IS more science to horseshoe
pitching than imagined by folk who
IlGVeI nave IEBdIuCN ~ oGAAOASAy.s AhOeC
who reach the top in this sport spend
many hours of studious practice. Not
infrequently the merest slip in CO.
ordination Is sufficient to decide q
battle between masters. An inch on
line in direction. or little inaccuracy
in the turn of shoe and the contest
is over. An incident was recorded in
these columns recently in which two
players in Iowa each threw 80 ringers
before there was miss.
Endurance is vital factor in long
matches. Your expert In preparation
for an important tournament goes in
for strenuous training. Even the short
matches played In The washington
Stars tournament have been physical
test for some, particularly beginners.
When George w. Phillips of $40
Longfellow street northwest entered the
tournament a little over week ago he
weighed 200 pounds. Yesterday ne
weighed 1870. :.
IAN hour day takes pound away
laughed Phillips, who has INSTALLED a
ce-lllaticn court on the lawn chat Dor
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FLASHY BARNARD COLE
(. is EXPECTED in TOURNEY
Carnival to Draw Farmers i'm From Countryside and
Some Fancy Flinging of Lucky Irons
Is Predicted for Week.

championship horseshoe hingng will
section washington Stars metro,
billed OF the nremans annua
- carnival til
60 pitchers had filed entries with
Charles Clark and by the time the hrSt
is expected the number Will
have been boosted to nearly 100
until Saturday night the horseshoe
batte will a evening 49,
hasiest barnyard gong OF the entire
championship
ourishng Maryland stake but this doesn't mean
pitcher will win it. number or
MARYLAND farmers coming tournament
whispered Of them are really hot
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PURCELLvlLLE TO START
SHOE PITCHING TUESDAY

.PURCELLVuL, Va, August 3.-Com-
petition In Pnrcellfiiles section of The
Washington Stars horseshoe pitching
tournament will start next Tuesday
Chairman Robert Carruthers today
announced the following pairings:
Dewey Case VS.. Clayton Paxson.
Ernest Lemon vs.. Johnnie Mercer.
Ray Hawking VS.. William Halves.
Carroll Hirst vs. Grant Little
Irwin Little VS.. Bernard Halves.
Lester Workman VS.. 8. P. Edmondson.
Robert Carruthers VS.. r. r. Robey.
Donald Seay vS. II. c. Mock.
w. z. Rogers VS.. 8. Jacobs.
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BERwYN SHOE RESULTS.

BERWYN. Nd, August 3.-Competi-
ton grows warmer and warmer in Ber-
wyns horseshoe pitching tournament.
Most of the games have been hard
fought. The latest results follow: A.
Baker defeated Lee Kierney, 2l-17, al
10; owen Burgess defeated Aubrey
Parker, 21-1S, 21-1O and Stuart Parker
defeated Allen Hardy, 2I-l5, 2l-14.
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HAS HORSE CEMETERY.

g A plot of ground on j. Z. Widener's
Elmendorf Farm, i'm Kentucky. is being
Play. sire Of Man o. War, will be placed
on the grounds as the central monu-
ment.
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wichita rails.
FRENCH REWARD ATHLETES.

The French government has a deco
ration which is given to all athletes who
merit reward of their country, and to
persons who devote themselves to de-
velopment Of sports. The decoration
consists of silver medal on q bright
blue ribbon.
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continue on into the Montgomery
County play-ofT.
up our way said Howes last night,
we're backing Wilkerson to win the
county title. He's easily the best
around Sandy Spring. He threw so
many ringers against me / had trouble
keeping track of them. He finished
the final with O double header. In
one match he threw eight straight, to
END one game and start another"
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TEXAS LEAGUE STANDING.

DALLAS, Tex. August (Pl-Ofn-
cial standing of Texas League clubs for
the second half of the season through
games Of Friday:
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CRoME PLAYS TR1ANGLEsss.

LARGO, Md, August 3.-Trianeie A.
G. and Crome base ball teams win clash
tomorrow afternoon. on the formers
diamond here at 3 o'clock In d game
bringing together sturdy Prince Georges
County rivals.
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PLAYGROUND WORK IS BIG.
Municipal Fairgrounds and recrea-
last year. 90,
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than that said Mccarthy "he is great ball player Lucas
wchirds of his with aend club but he
hitter nhelder and coed outeder Which is
where
Other ball players ball players Babe Ruth Jimmy
and George Uhle.
pitch play first the outfed hit and
will
be again. pitch first play third play almost
needed There Others but Ruth Lucas and Foxx the leaders
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u VOW comes the battle Of cham
nj pions and near champions in
VI Washington's section OF the
4 metropolitan horseshoe pitching
tournament, sponsored by The
Star.
BY next Wednesday, the deadline set
for Washington preliminaries, the
starting field that numbered many hum
dreds will have been reduced to COM
parative handful.
ONLY the neiRhborhood champions
and runners-up will engage in the
second stage of the tournament, in
which divisional honors VIII be at stake.
The same general plan of competition
as in the preliminaries will prevail In
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THE SPORTL.IGHT
.Bv GRANTLAND RICE.

catchers pitchers neders
players. asked Mccarthy of The
Cubs ne thought Red Lucas was good pltcner he Is NOR
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~OLORED horseshoe pitchers
throughout the metropolitan
district are throwing 'em as
~ they never did before. accord
New Britain herald., 1929-03-07
PORTLAND VASE, FAMOUS
ANTIQUE, WILL Be SOLD
ti1prary Urn, in British Museum
Since 1910, to BE Put Up at
Auction Sometime in May.

London, March Gp-One OF the
worlds most famous antiques, a Ro-
man glass cinerary urn known as
the Portland vase" which has been
on loan from the Portland family
in the British museum since 1910,
is TO be offered for sale.
The vase, which is supposed to
date from the first century OF the
Roman empire, was bought in 1870
by England s representative in Rome,
Sir William Hamilton, for 1000
guineas. He sold it 10 the Duchess
Of Portland. In 1S45 lunatic
smashed it and thereafter it was ex-
hibited under guard in a special
room Of the museum
Announcement that the vase
would be sod came as a surprise
TO British antiquarians classicists,
art lovers and considerable sec
ton Of the general public. Unless
It is bought for the nation it viii!
be alationsd in May, and undoubt-
ed'v VII fetch fabulous price.
In the event il reaches the auc-
ton rooms it is generally regarded
as certainty that il will be lost TO
Britain as It was 20 Italy in the
18th century. Such g treasure, IT is
contendad. will command such a
high figure that no one but an
New Britain herald., 1929-03-07
CLEARING HOUSE SYSTEM
FAVORED BY WAR EXPERTS
Conferees Still Reiuc-
tant to Come Down to Definite
Figures Germany Must Pay.

Paris, March I LPt-The experts
its attention today on the clearing
house idea for handling Germanys
annual payments but postponed
once more the hour when figures
and demands must be laid on the
table.
Examination of the clearing
house project opened wide posi-
bilitIes II is understood that the
committee is so much attached to
The idea that fur her study was de-
ci1ed upon tor the purpose OF de-
termining whether or not huge
International banking organization
could be set up afording fullest
guarantees 10 both Germany and
her creditors.
An argument thought 70 have
been urged in favor OF a "repara-
lions bank" is that it would be sus-
tanned by the principal banks Of is
sue and would be able to support
European exchanges by opening
credits in favor OF any country
whose currency required them. An
other advantage Ct the plan is seen
by some in that Germany would no
longer he a debtor to the former al
lies but TO an orga nization.
A plenary session Of the commit
tee tomorrow is expected TO study
these and other aspects OF the
clearing house plan.
New Britain herald., 1929-03-07
Mussolini Spokesman Preside.
Over Council Of Nations League

Sonnino Cabinet in 1soS.lo. During
the war he vas minister. without
any special portfolio. He was foreign
minister from 1919 to 1850. In this
capacity he represented Italy ct the
peace conference Ut Paris. His juri.
dicial sagacity caused his colleagues.
and especially President Wilson. i'm.
mediately to invite him to ut on the
commission which arranged for the
creation Of the League Of Nations.
and composed the text Of the league
covenant
~ League Since 1894
Since 1874. Senator Scialoja. in
whom Mussolini has complete conf.
dence has represented Italy on the
council OF the league.
Scialoja u often skeptical. Appar-
emily he 10 not 80 sure Of the per-
lection Of states and men. and Of
institutions. He thinks, after all. it
is better to work things out on q
juridical basis which all men may
accept and possibly bow to.
1t il significant that with Elihu
Root. former American Secretary Of
State. and other prominent lawyers,
he will stay In Geneva after the
March council xession to revise the
statutes Of the Permanent Court Of
International Justice. He collabor-
ated with MIR. Root a decade ago In
the writing OF the original statutes