Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-29
THOMPSON DOWNS
VIRGINIA CHAMPION
Kirchner Shy Opposition at
Bancroft, but Finds Too
Much Elsewhere.

n ny plCcner VINO taxes the
n measure Of George C.
Thompson of Falls Church
in the Metropolitan District
horseshoe championships opening
July Is, probably will need slip
on ringer with every other toss,
II not do even better.
Anyway, that's the latest from
Falls Church, where Thompson
not only has been cleaning UP the
best in his bailiwick, but a num-
Der Of visiting toSsers.
Among his recent victims was none
other than the northern Virginia cham
peen, Alexander Kirchner of Bancroft.
Kirchner was unable to find worthy
competition at Bancroft and, like an
other Alexander, went far afield for
trouble. He found 1t at Falls Church
when he encountered George Thomp-
son.
All George did was win six out of
seven games and Alec trekked back to
Bancroft doubling the security of his
Virginia crown.
THE champion caught Thompson at
l. his hottest and with his own game
not quite up to snuff. Even so, the
decisive victory marked the Falls
Church man as formidable candidate
for the Metropolitan title. He has been
playing better than Willard Peake did
last year to lift the big crown.
S'nON'T take Kirchner's defeat too
- seriously" laughed Thompson,
because that boy is plenty good
when his game is right. Neither I nor
any other pitcher figures to beat him
that badly often. 1t wouldn't be sur
prising If he reversed things the next
time we met"
EALLS CHURCH has at least four
i pitchers to consider when. doping
winners Of high honors in the
Metropolitan tournament. Besides
Thompson there are H. E. barnes and
his brother Sam, and the colorful Ed
Henry. You might add to that list the
Falls Church chairman, Enzer L. Bran
don.
It's almost cinch that one of these
will win the Falls Church tournament
but the run Of pitchers out there are
urged not to pass up the event because
OF the others pronounced supremacy.
After all, the main purpose of the
tournament is to afford an opportunity
for everybody to enjoy clean, interest
ing sport and it's lot more sport put
ing up battle against star than 1t
Is to knock of an easy vistim. That
goes for any game.
THOMAS ]. CRACK, the Ballston
Il chairman, looks for Glenn Talbot
to go far in the tournament, and
some OF the Ballston pitchers are tout
champion. Talbot reached the North
ern Virginia finals in '29. but was sadly
OF form at Culpeper. The Ballstonians
hold that Glenn Is a far better pitcher
than generally rated.
MANY pitchers have discarded the
4V4 old-fashioned grip with the fore
finger hooked around a heel and
are developing one Of the controlled
turns Considerable practice is neces-
sary for most to gain even fair success
with a controlled turn. To keep a
shoe from webbing and to make it fall
nat after full, half or three quarter
turn Is almost an athletic art.
1T takes three years to make horse
shoe pitcher" is an axiom of the game
A snap Of the wrist Is used to give
the shoe balanced flight.
Much less effort Is required to toss
one Of the turns than to use the crooked
1ore-fnger grip. With the latter hold
the shoe Is unbalanced and firing to
the fingers, wrist and forearm.
Entry blanks and rule booklets are
available at all Washington Fairgrounds
now open. July l will be opening day
for many Of the grounds.
Directors arc competing for the dis
ttnction Of holding the biggest pre-
1in1tnary.
Here's an odd rule: The pitcher who |
scores point has first toss in the next |
inning, but If there's a tie the player !
who failed to score in the previous
inning pitches first.