Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-18
Town CHAMPIONS
WILL Be NUCLEUS
Virginia Highlands Touts
Ross as County Title
Threat Thursday.
JOSEPH KIRCHNER, chair
man of the Arlington Coun-

JOSEPH KIRCHNER, chair
man of the Arlington Coun-
ty section of the Metropoh-
tan District horseshoe cham
pionShipS, will make the first
step toward organizing a county
league next Thursday night when
the Arlington play-offs are held
on his electric lighted courts at
Bancroft.
Eight or 10 towns are expected to
send champions and runners-up TO the
county finals and these Kirchner plans
to enlist to form town teams Tor the
league. Horseshoe pitching has been
big game in Arlington County this sum
mer, and the twirlers don't intend TO
quit with the finish of the Metropolitan
tournament.
Horseshoe clubs are being formed
throughout the Metropolitan district,
and eventually all will be linked in an
association. Monthly handicap tourna-
ments will be held in which the begin
ners will have equal chance with the
best pitchers, but players with the best
ringer averages will be selected Tor the
town teams.
Enzer L. Brandon and George G.
Thompson of Falls Church will take
the lead in organizing Fairfax County
Willard Peake of Bethesda and Guy
Riordan of Laytonsville will do the
same in Montgomery County. and Ray
Panholzer of Seat Pleasant, Tom Gar
rison and Merle Heilman of Hyattsv1ue,
Ted Gardner of Riverdale Heights and
Earl Pryor of Tuxedo in Prince Georges
County.
COUNTY chairmen are trying to out
~ do each other in putting on snap
DIV play-offs. Guy Riordan did every
thing possible to make the Montgom-
ery County event an all-round success,
and the pitchers were grateful.
Quality of the courts will be stressed
by Kirchner at Bancroft and Brandon
at Falls Church.
I'VE have the finest courts In the Me-
tropolitan area" says Brandon.
ours" says Kirchner, ARE a Pitch
er's delight"
George Thompson, who owns the
Falls Church courts, recently Installed
three to bring his total to five. They
are electric lighted.
n 1CHARD S. TENNYSON, assistant
X SUPERINTENDENT of Fairgrounds,
will have a leading part In the
organizing of leagues in Washington.
Few realize how much Tennyson has
ACCOMPLISHED in establishing the game
here. The Metropolitan tournament.
the washington section of which Is
being run off by the playground DEPART
ment, has been q real burden to Tenny-7
son who probably Is the most indie
fatigable worker his department ever
has had. He was largely responsible
for the birth of the metropolitan tour
nament and his pioneering was done in
the knowledge that his own duties
would be greatly increased. Mrs. Susie
Root Rhodes, superintendent OF play
grounds, gave her full Endorsement OF
his ideas on the promotion OF horse
shoe pitching which Tennyson more
than i've years ago said could be made
q major sport here. He was the frSt
called upon when The Star last year
| decided to hold the metropolitan tour
narnent.
TTENNYSON has proposed that the
i grand finale this year be held at
night and Is making arrangements
today for a lighting test at the Plaza
playground where the big event will be
held. More bleachers than last year
will be supplied by the playground de-
partment, which looks for much larger
attendance whether the matches are
held during the day or night.
Due almost altogether to Tennysons
efforts the grand finale last year was
one Oh the IneSG IlOTS6SnOS pltCIllI1B
shows put on anywhere, but this year,
he AYERS, there will be several i'm
| provements.
HAROLD CHRIST, chairman at Viz
i i ginia Highlands, has this to say
about the Arlington County finals:
you've heard a lot about Alex
Kirchner of Bancroft, DR.. Eye and
Glenn Talbot of Ballston and Ed Ed
monston of Cherrydale, but we've O
fellow who'll make 'em all dizzy with
ringers. Jack Ross is his name He's
on the peg in almost every inning and
gets his share of double ringers. He
averages around % ringers a game"
Pairings for the Arlington County
finals, which will be made by the
horseshoe editor at the request of
Chairman Kirchner, who, with his
brother Alex will represent Bancroft
in the event, will be announced to-
morrow.
Judge Fuchs says he offered Sacra~
mento $4,000 for HoagI the player the