Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17
THOMPSON PICKED
TO CAPTURE TITLE
Falls Church Champ losses,
ID Successive Ringers. I
Stars Fear Kolb.
TAILS CHURCH, which has,
~ much to sho& Il in a
horcaeooeA Y,itckiNp WaV

'ALLLO SEO1S|AA, wiz $500
r. much to SHOW - IN
horseshoe pitching way, /
VIII haie ample opportunity
next Saturday. afternoon when
Fairfax County holds its flNals in
the second annual metropolitan
District championships, sponsored
by TIE Star.
The games will be pitched on
the courts of George c. ThQmpsoI- |
and this worthy will command
lions share of attention NIT oEly
as host, but probably the best
horseshoe thr0Wer in the county.
At Falls Church they'll tell you tnat
he's the best In Northern. Virginia de-
spite the fact that Alexander Klrciner
off Bancroft in Arlington Q'unty Is te
State champion. Eszer l.. BRANDON
Fairfax County chairman, WILL go iur-
ther. r,.,.
now is ene best horseshoe pitcher in the
whole Metropolitan area, and say TINS
after having read about that new star
at Laytonsville, Saunders, OF Washing
ton, Peake of Bethesda, Crane OF wash
ington and al. the others you fellows
have been touting.
IF Peake and Thompson ever get to-
gether and Thompson is in trim, your
Metropolitan champion will need four
or FIVE more ringers game than mes
been making to beat our man.
Yes, and he may need more. In
game against me the other night George
threw IA straight ringers, and 4 OF his
next shoes were on the peg. He's been
averaging about 80 rings game. Sam
barnes had him Al to II and couldn't
win. George put on a streak and took
the game by 81 to Al"
Not only Thompson is to be feared
at Falls Church. The runner-up to
him in the town preliminary, r. E.
barnes, is nobody's Set-up. Thompson
barely whipped him for the town title.
WHEN Thompson threw Is ringers
w out of % shoes, he Appropriated
the record established recently by Harry
F: Saunders. former all-round athlete
of Westminster College, Missouri, who
put % shoes on the stake out of 26
pitches.
The new star Brandon had in mind
Is Walter Kolb, whose home is at
Poolesville, but who won the preliminary
at Laytonsville. Saunders was one OF
Kolbs victims in impromptu matches
that were held in connection with the
Montgomery County finals at LaytonS-
Vile In one of these Kolb also took
the measure of Peake. In the cham
pionship competition he eliminated
Charles A. Fort, who was good enough
last year to win the Washington title.
outside of his defeat by Peake in
the Montgomery County final, Kolb
lost only once during about five hours
of pitching, in which he met half a
dozen formidable players. He was
pitched out when he encountered -Peake
in the big battle, but Peake, too, had
been at it long enough to be fatigued.
Earle Crane of Washington was the
~, 70 {olr kol1 Il oIl~
He beat the Marylander in three games
out of four.
EARLE was undeniably proud of his
~ victory, too, for by this time Kolb,
whose ability was not known out
side of his portion of the county until
that day, had gained a sudden reputa-
ton. Crane is a stanch admirer of
the Metropolitan champion but was one
Of several experts who predicted Peake
would lose to Kolb.
ToLB's unexpected showing at Lay
N louisville doomed the interest of
folk up that way in the Southern
Maryland finals for which he qualified
by reaching the county final. Thus,
Peake is not yet through with his new
rival. Washingtons leading pitchers
are keenly interested in the Montgomery
County feud, too. Several fully expect
" UlcSO cIILlcI 1cdhC VI kNOlD anu pei
haps both in the grand finale in which
will be the champion and runner-up of
Southern Maryland, the Northern Vir-
GINA finalist and the four last survivors
of play in Washington.
And wot a boss shoe party this will
be! Eight crack pitchers and some of
them red-hot rivals. The usual elmina- |
ton system will prevail and this means
there will be seven matches-probably
all close.
nEOPLE who have never witnessed a
L tight horseshoe battle with a big
title at stake know not what ex- |!
element one arouseS The yelling OF !
the gallery that packed around the !
court last year in the grand finale was
heard for blocks around
When Peake threw the shoe that won |
him the championship of Bethesda
several weeks ago, one spectator leaped
three feet off the ground and his ex-
citement hardly exceeded that of the |
gallery as whole.
TOWN champions and runners sup
l. who remain out of county finals |
through bashfulness or because they |
are hopeless of victory might gain a |
lesson from the things they throw |
Horseshoes are durable because they |
are tempered. Only the fire of compe- |
tition can temper an athlete.
The tension was tight at Laytonsville |
and all the pitchers were viSibly affected. |
but kid from Germantown stepped to
the firing line like a man and though he |
took thorough beating, he won the
admiration of the crowd. This lad, r. |
L. Greene, who won the Germantown |
title appears to be headed somewhere |
as horseshoe pitcher. He has an ef- |
fectiVe shoe, a smooth delivery and
keeps trying no matter how far behind.
Your true gamester is the fellow
with nerves who can make those things
behave, and experience in championship
battles is a marvellous teacher OF how
its done.
A N uphill fight for the Emery Play
"A ground title was won by E. Keefe,
who dropped the first game, 1880,
to j. Frank and then took the next
two, 50-38 and 1920.
COMPETITION is under way at
~ Leesburg, with Lawrence Cooksey
directing, assisted by Will Norris.
Following are the first-round. pairings:
j. A. Ward VS.. Kenneth Lambert,
Harry r. Hippo VS.. L. S. Hutchinson,
S. R. Royston VS.. w. B. Ridgeway. V:
N. Jackson VS.. v. L. Myers, E. l.. Ward
H James, Robert A. Wolf VS.. M. D.
Atwell, j. l.. Mcintosh W. F. L. Slavin,
z. H. Norris, jr.. VS.. Emery Dunn
Joseph Drake VS.. Harry r. Smith, Rob-
ert E. Curry VS.. Lowell Jackson, Rob-
ert w. Edmonston VS.. r. NJ. Jackson.
Loudoun County finals will be play
ed next Saturday.
At Purcellville, j D. Edmonston won
the title, with his father s. p. run
ner-up.
CONTESTANTS in the Arlington
~ County finals. to be held at Bar