Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-18
.SAGER, HELEN WIN
. TITLES IN VIRGINIA
Every Match in Shenandoah
PIay-offS CIoSe-0range
Victor Surprised.
.HE Metropolitan District
Horseshoe Championships
sponsored by The Star,


Horseshoe Championships
sponsored by The Star,
with preliminarieS in scores
of towns and communities, barely
are under way, but already two
county champions have been
crowned.
They vanuuished small but choice
fields. Down in Orange, Va, farmer
named j. E. HELEN declared he had
never won anything in his life and sur
prised himself by taking first prize IN
the Orange County tournament, which
was a feature of the county flremen's
annual carnival.
At Woodstock Va, in Shenandoah
County, B. E. Sager not only was an
efficient chairman, but also the pest
pitcher. In the final match he defeated
Gene Pence, so to IA. Hellems last
round opponent was A: W. Simms. The
runners-up are eligible to carry on into
the State play-offs along with the
champions. Where and when these
will be held won't be settled until most
of the preliminaries have been nm
ished.
INCIDENTALLY, this year marks the
debut of Orange and Shenandoah
Counties in The Stars tournament.
According to the chairmen, B. E. Sager
IN Shenandoah and w. w. ThomasSon
in Orange, they will have much larger
fields next year Horseshoe pitching
under championship conditions is
something new in both counties
Both champions showed class enough
to warrant ranking them as formid-
able candidates for Northern Virginia
honors.
tnh in
IL play-offs was closely contested ex-
cept the final, in which Sager got
hot. S. B. Hepner defeated c. A. Kib-
Ter, 1923; Eugene Spence defeated c.
E. Lambert, 1929; T. r. Golladay de-
feated w. o. Riley, 1924; B. E. Sager
defeated j. M. Drummond, 30-25; Rob-
ert Lambert defeated Coffman, 1929.
Hepner defeated T. r. Golladay, 30
90; Pence defeated Lambert, 1929, and
Pence defeated Hepner, 1920.
Sager defeated Pence, SOFA.
A GROUP of stars scared out some of
"A Hyattsville's buffers. but stable
tournament is being conducted by
John Henry Hiser, the first round of
which likely will be completed tonight
Play in Magruder Park will start at
$50 o'clock.
Two members of the Garrison family,
last night Thomas H. Garrison, the
father, defeated Albert Lewis, 20-2l,
21-11 and 21-2, and Carroll (Toots)
Garrison, the son, was victorious over
Anthony Hiser, Ala, 20-2l and
2l--19.
In other matches Gene Burgess de-
feated A. G. Halstead, 21--9 and AT:
Jimmy Leverette defeated j. E. Hill,
1921, Ale and 21-13 and l.. M
Smith trimmed c. H. Badger, 21-17
and 2l-8.
EVANSVILLE, which produced the
i l. Prince Georges County champion
last year in Merle Heilmann, is
bent upon gaining even higher honors
this time. When the Hyattsville pre-
liminary Is finished the winner and
runner-up will go into siege of train
ing, according to the plans of Chairman
Hiser.
All of which is fair warning to Mil
lard Peake and Charles Fort, who are
Montgomery CountyS brightest stars.
THREE matches remain of the first
i round in the tournament at East
Riverdale, in Prince Georges Coun-
ty. under the direction of Mark Moran
Play will be continued tonight at $50
o'clock.
NOJ Oufy TIE pItCHSIS, UuG toWnololh
in general are keenly interested in the
horseshoe doings at East Riverdale.
The matches are drawing stable gall
lerieS.
In the remaining first-Tound en-
gagements. F.. l.. Freshman will meet
p. c. Steele Ed Abel will tackle Elmer
Ridgeway and Jim Skinner will have it
out with Ernest Greer
Howard Earle Moran, son of the
chairman and defending champion, got
off on the right foot when he defeated
Stafford Howard. So to 81. In other
matches Levin Fleshman, runner-up in