Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-15
PEAKE WILL MEET
INELIGIBLE EXPERT
Jim Chinn of Lyon Village, of
Stars Staff, Matched
With Champion.
. NE HALF of the Washing
ton field in the MetroDOli-

~ HALF of the Washing
ton field in the Metropoli-
tan District horseshoe
championships, sponsored
by The Star, will start action to-
morrow at $50 pm. on about AZ
Fairgrounds.
The rest of the pitchers, num-
bering many hundreds, Will get
under way a week from tomorrow.
Tournament matches will be played
tomorrow in most OF the out-o1 Town
preliminaries, too. The lists have oeen
kept open in a number of these and 1t
will be a week or more before some OF
them are started.
1.-THE Horseshoe Editor accounted 1t
i an excellent break when Brooke
Grub accepted the chairmanship
of Silver Spring and Maj. F. H. Con
took over the management OF the CAR
endon tournament. Both a:e expert
enced and enterprising sports pro-
noters and the towns they represent
are assured successful horseshoe tour
naments.
NHILLARD E. PEAKE. who viii de-
wi fend the metropolitan crown, Is
much in demand as an exhibition
PLAYER and instructor. He has been gen.
erous handing out tips to pitchers VINO
hope eventually to knock him on MS
throne.
incidentally, Peake hasn't lost many
decisions and he has pitched many
matches. The only toSser who has been
able to extend him consistently Is An
drew Tallmadge, runner-up last year
for the washington title.
Over in Lyon Village, where Forrest
Etieg is chairman, they're looking for
ward to a battle between Peake and
Jim Chinn, definite date for which
will be announced shortly. Chinn has
been touted as the equal of any pitcher
within the metropolitan area, Peake
not excluded, but he's ineligible for the
tournament because of being q mem
Der of The Stars reportortal stan. All
Star employees are banned ana some
haven't taken kindly to this rule. Cy
Perkins, photographer, insists ne couio
whip Peake or any other champion IN
these parts If given opportunity. He'll
have a chance to prove his mettle next
month when q special tournament Will
be put on for The Stars family.
MENTION horseshoe pitching to the
IVl average fellow and he'll come back
with this. or something ike IL:
'Friend. can really throw those
He's been used to the old-fashioned
horseshoes, the chance is, and also an
tiuuated rules. Try him ct the modern
game, with 212-pound shoes chuckeo
40 feet. a ringer counting three ana
not five and a leaner only IS o close
shoe, with nothing scoring which Is
more than inches from the peg, ana
his corlceit is no more.
When a crack horseshoe pitcher last
rkHe three
years to become q first-class slipper
slammer he got horse laugh from
even the horseshoe editor, who thought
the game was easy, having played only
the old style.
In the sense that anybody can play
It, after fashion, 1t is an easy game.
But we're convinced now. that the
three-year dope was correct. Your
horseshoe scrivener toiled ike beaver
for one solid hour recently trying TO
get the hang Of throwing an open
shoe. He not only failed to make q
ringer, but seldom was close to the
stake.
A CHAP who will be watchd closely
"A by metropolitan title aspirants Is
Wilson Jones, entered in the Truesdell
preliminary. Jones, three times anna
teur champion Of Kentucky, has thrown
as many as Is ringers In a 21-point
game, most of them, Of course, being
covered by his opponent.
Gan experienced pitcher" says Jones,
"can throw ringers in the dark. Long
practice has made him know instinct
lively where the peg is"
At Tallmadge's Potomac camp re-
Gently Champion Peake finished a
game with a double-header ringer
made in complete darkness. 1t was
$3.50 o'clock and what little light could
have come from the heavens was shut
off by large trees.