Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13
HALF OF PITCHERS
START THIS WEEK
Others Get Under Way Seven
Days Later-Kentucky
Star Enters.
A BOUT one-half of Washing
~ tons entrants in the sec
a ond annual metropolitan

~ tons entrants in the sec
n ond annual metropolitan
District horseshoe cham
pionShipS, sponsored by The Star,
will start competition next
Wednesday,. The others will get
under way the following Wednes-
day.
This division Of the field has been
made at the request of large number
of pitchers entered in preliminaries on
Fairgrounds which for some time have
been without regulation equipment and
are now being supplied. These
pitchers want time for practice.
Due to the'late starting date, entries
have been extended until next Monday
1t the following Fairgrounds:
Bancroft-Nineteenth and Columbia
road northwest.
Barnard-Fifth and Decatur streets
northwest.
Brightwood-Thirteent and Nichol-
son avenue northwest.
Brookland-Tenth and Monroe streets
northeast
Buchanan-E street southeast be-
tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth.
Burroughs and Monroe
streets northeast
Congress Hei g h t s-Nichols and
Alabama avenues southeast.
H. D. Cooke-Seventeenth and Euclid
streets northwest.
Corcoran-Twenty-ei street and
Olive avenue northwest.
Edmonds-Ninth and D streets north
east.
Emery-Lincoln road and Prospect
street northeast.
Fairbrother-Tenth and e streets
southwest.
Fillmore Thirty-fifth between r and
8 streets northwest.
Hayes-Fifth and K streets northeast
ry-Polk-Seventh and o streets
northwest.
Johnson-Hiatt place and Lamont
street northwest.
Kenilworth-Kenilwort avenue be-
tween Ord and Polk streets northeast.
Ketcham-Fifteenth and U streets
southeast.
Key-Conduit road and Danna place
northwest.
Langdon-Franklin and Twentieth
streets northeast.
Maury-B street between Twelve
and-a-half and Thirteenth streets
northeast.
Orr-Twenty-second and Prout streets
southeast.
Peabody-Fifth and C streets north
east.
Petworth-Shepherd street between
Eighth and Georgia avenue.
Raymond-Tenth street and Spring
road northwest.
Reservoir-Conduit road and Clarke
place northwest.
Stanton-Alabama avenue and Good
Hope road southeast.
Truesdell - Ninth and Ingraham
streets northwest.
Wallach-seventh and D streets
southeast.
weightman - Twenty-third and M
streets northwest.
Woodridge-Central avenue between
Carlton and Vista northeast.
, Tenth and EvartS streets northeast.
Murch-Thirteenth and Elliott streets
northwest.
IN all ether preliminaries of play
L grounds pitching will start next
Wednesday. Delay of the others
was caused by Congress late action on
the District appropriation bill. Play
ground money was included in this, and
some was needed to purchase horse
. shoes.
THESTERBROOK, Va, In Fairfax
~ County, where Tilman Grimes is
chairman, will have another bang
up tournament, judging from indica-
tons.
Leslie Shanholtz is the defending
champion. Among those after his title
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Tflman Grimes, William Shanholtz,
Richard Saunders, Clifford Heath, E. E.
McCauley, Roland Heath, Russell Hill,
William Stalcup, Floyd Cockrill, Ohio
Saunders, Loring Boyce and Samuel
Stalcup.
A HOTLY contested tournament is
IA expected at the Park View play
ground where one of the entrants
u j. Saunders, runner-up for the anna
teur championship of Arkansas in 1928
Among those who are giving him lots
OF competition in practice matches are
John Boteler, former Texas cowboy,
and James Beck, the Park View cham
pion.
WILSON L. JONES, entered at Trues-
Wv dale, is a dark horse to win the
metropolitan crown. Jones held the
amateur championship of Kentucky for
three years, relinquishing it in 1928.
In a title contest in 1927 he defeated
the champion Of Indiana.
Due to a lack of practice Jones Is
not as Sk1llful as he was several years
ago, he says, but those who have seen
him work out on the Truesdale court
declare itsll take a crack performer
to put him out Of the coming tourna-
ment.
Jones, q Government employe now.
helped much to make horseshoe pitch
Ing popular sport at Louisville. He
organized numerous tournaments. He
plans to form a horseshoe club here.