Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-10
BIG PICNIC HELPS
TO ATTRACT THEM
Varied Entertainment Due
Crowd at Montgomery
County Finals.
TITLE Laytonsville, in the
heart Of Montgomery Coun-

heart of Montgomery Coun-
IL ty, Md, will become the
horseshoe pitching capital
of the Metropolitan area of WASH
next Thursday when town cham
pions and runnerS-up get to-
gether in what promises to be a
corking battle for county honors
in The Stars second annual
tournament. Action will start at
1870 pm.
There will be a double attraction at
Laytonsville. The horseshoe tournament
will be one of the most important events
of the metropolitan affair. and by itself
would attract many horseshoe pitchers
from Washington and Virginia as well
as Maryland. But the visitors will be
offered a variety of entertainment.
There's that Modern woodmens picnic.
and, oh, boy, wot a party!
A full 1000 attended 1t last year and
more are expected this time. There will
be something doing every minute
through most of the day, and In the
evening an outdoor dance will cap the
affair. Laytonville still owes some
money on its new town hall and figures
TO wipe out the indebtedness with Thurs
days picnic.
pitchers will be the metropolitan cham
pion, Willard z. Peake of Bethesda, and
Charles A. Fort of Glen Echo, who was
defeated by Peake in the Bethesda final
in the most sensational duel ever fought
in championship competition hereabout.
Fort is the Washington title holder, but
Is ineligible to defend his crown because
of lately acquired Maryland citizenship.
He's bent upon taking from Peake the
Southern Maryland title by way of get
ting even for a FASTING the tall Be-
theSdan handed him last year in the
metropolitan grand finale.
Both are popular with horseshoe fans
and neither will want for backing at
Laytonsville. Some who have kept tab
on the leading pitchers of the tourna-
ment believe Fort will win the Mont
gomery County title. He and Peake
are easily the class of the county's
tossers, and the dopesters calculate it's
Forts turn to win. He has lost two
tough decisions to Peake in metropolitan
play.
COME of the best Washington and
- Virginia pitchers will try their
strength against the Marylanders
in an informal tournament to follow
the title matches. There will be two
courts, and they likely will be kept
busy all day. F. Guy Riordan, county
chairman, promises that the courts will
be kept constantly in tip-top shape.
Riordan rounded up nearly 100
pitchers for Laytonsville's preliminary,
and they won't finish until day before
the county finals. Not having seen
any other participants in the Metro
politan tournament, Riordan is making
no boasts regarding his own charges.
We're not very hopeful of our cham
,>s4
finals" he said yesterday, but next
year it will be different story. Horse
shoe pitching has taken hold sure
enough at Laytonsville and the towns
near US, and we guarantee to make
showing in 1881"
a WEEK following the Montgomery
n county event the ArlinRssn County.
Va, finals will be staged at Bar
croft.
Bancroft has no picnic to offer but
it's safe to say the town viii be
swamped with pitching fans August
81 The county chairman, Joseph
Kirchner, and his brother, Alexander,
Northern Virginia champion, are doing
much to put the game forward ana
their tournament likely will be MODEL.
Glenn Talbot of Rosslyn will be the
defending champion.
TALBOT would do well to retain his
J. title. He has suffered one de-
feat already, having lost to Dr..
Eve In the Rosslyn final. Or. Eye Is q
newcomer to the metropolitan tourna-
ment and something of q dark horse.
He got most of his horseshoe experience
in the Middle West where the sport is
on high plane.
IN the meantime most OF the Wash
i ington preliminaries are nearing
completion and some time this week
dates for divisional play-offs will be ar
ranged. There will be eight divisional
| tournaments, to be followed by Eastern
and Western sectional events and then
Washington final in which the sec
| tional champions and runners-up VIII
compete The field here Is dotted with
| dark horses, several experts having
come to Washington within recent
months from hotbeds of horseshoe
| pitching.