Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-19
CHAMP HAS TOUGH
SAILING AT PLAZA
Ought to Go Far if He Can
Get Past Johnson, Crane
and George Kelly.

II OW WOW MYERS, colorful
* champion of the Plaza Sec
- ton Of the Metropolitan
District horseshoe cham
pionshipS, will need many a ringer
to keep his title in the current
tournament, sponsored by The
Star. He has at least three for
midable rivals, two of whom he
wasn't called upon to meet last
year.
He got past a tough spot in the
last tournament when he defeated
Murray johnson, the favorite john
son, former champion of Minneapolis.
Is back with a strong laundering for
Bow Vows scalp. The latter was a
bit fortunate in his battle with john
son year ago. He got the jump in
a>21-point game and before Johnson
could find the range ran out his string.
In a longer match, such as the So
pointers being played in the present
tournament, Myers would have found
johnson at least much tougher picking.
An ominous figure in Bow Vows
path is Earle A. Crane, who competed
in Maryland last year and was beaten
in the State final by Willard E. Peake,
who carried on to the metropolitan
crown.
Cranes prowess is known throughout
the metropolitan area and it was ac-
counted blow to the ambitious Myers
when Earle chose the Plaza prelim-
mary.
And then there's George Kelly, whose
ability hasn't been advertised hereto
fore. Kelly was the runner-up last
fx1 &fA oh
ment but was unable to get away from
business to compete further. Like
johnson, he lost out in the prelim-
inaries when his opponent, Nate Miller
got the Jump on him in a short game
Prior to the tournament, Miller haC
been Georges regular victim.
So If Myers can fend off the charge:
of these three he will have reason to bt
confident of reaching the latest stage:
of the metropolitan tournament
ELTSVILLE, Md, will have one o.
- the largest tournaments in Prince
Georges County, with Ed KruSe in
charge. KruSe was the runner-up las1
year and figures to be a strong con-
tender again. Nearly all of the two
score entered at Beltsville are excellent
pitchers. They include j. Hitaffer, @
A. Scroggins, A. Roby, w. Dwyer, G.
Roby, E. c. Kruse, j. Smith, F. Man
uels, C. Cochran, A. Kerns, w. D. Coch-
ran, j. F. Weingartner, I. Manuels, G
Frey, T. Roby, A. G. Weingartner, ]
Whitehead, G. Brown, W. Roby, j
Moore, H. Pilkerton, F. Bond, G. Roby
T. Reams, j. Thompson, L. Jenkins, P
CLANCY, j. Jenkins and several others
who signed up late.
Roy Stanaert, 1929 champion, has
moved from Beltsville.
HORSESHOE pitching fever has
i i taken hold sure enough at Vir-
ginia Highlands. IN Fairfax Coun-
ty, Va, where Harold E. Christ is di-
recting. In proportion to population
Virginia Highlands has possibly the
largest entry In the entire metropolitan
event.
Writes Christ 1--WE don't have enough
time @before dark to get all the horse
shoe pitching out OF our systems, S
we're Installing lights on the courts
When they're ready I guess. some OF us
will pitch all night"
Christ has four regulation courts, and
they're all kept busy.
Following are the results of matches
played to date: Keys defeated Christ,
800; Hill defeated Smith, 50-26;
Jenkins defeated Sweetheart, 50-46; At
kinson defeated Henderson, 50-43;
Kipps defeated McKim, 51-32; Bonds
defeated z. Thomas, 50-24; Davis de-
feated Lee, 50-38; Wood defeated
Rayle. $40; Ross defeated w. Thorn
as, 5O-14; Balch defeated j. T. Childs,
5O-13; Harris defeated A. Thorpe,
5l-43; C. A. Thorpe defeated Grimes,
5O-6; Herietty defeated Bearse, sos;
Fenisecy defeated Townsend, 500;
Waddle defeated j. McNeal, $50.
COME results in Washington prelim-
- inaries follow:
Virginia Avenue-Tom de Sha-
20 defeated Ben Curtis, 51-15.
Chevy Chase-Charles Rick defeated
Jack Perry, sos.
Iowa Avenue-W. P. Minard defeated
L. Robey, 500; S. Benham defeated
name omitted), 5O-47; w. T. MCGEE
defeated Filliuf. 51-35; Pearce defeated
j. Sherr, SIS
Wheatley-Alvin Kilby defeated Rob-
Columbia Road-H. Mann defeated
Rowland 21-0; P. Leonard defeated
Semia. AT; B. Seidman defeated B..
Smith, 2l-l6; Hodge defeated Ge-
radi, 21-20; R. King defeated c. Sop
pos. 21-11.
PlaZa-Crane defeated Eagle, 0U-o,
Joseph McGlynn defeated j. L. Burke,
50-32.
TN a battle between brother knights
i of Columbus, Edward M. Reidy, chief
counsel of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, defeated John j. Sheehy
81 to "a, the match being feature OF
the Cleveland Park tournament. Sheehy
kept pace until the twenty-fourth in
ming, where Reidy improved and went
on to win decisively.
G. d. Riley, one OF Cleveland Parks
best last year, was eliminated by G. E.
Chartner, so to "a.
Chairman Christoff, runner-up in
1929, took a 50-13 beating from F. A.
Brown. ouch!
Walter Steele bumped off r. D. Bate
man, so to 81.
ST was announced before play opened
i that 50-point games would be played
throughout the metropolitan tourna-
ment. Apparently some of the chair
men missed this rule and are playing
shorter games. In all such cases the
matches will stand.
However, many preliminaries won't
be started until next week and the
chairmen OF these are urged to adhere
to the 50-point rule.
q
HELEN JACOBS HOME.
NEW YORK, July 10 R.-Helen
Jacobs, second ranking women's tennis