Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-01
PANHOLzER PLANS
BANG-UP TOURNEY
Entry List May Reach 100,
With so Working Out
Daily on 5 Courts.

EAT PLEASANT, Md, is bent
upon making a strong bid
~ for high honors in the
Metropolitan District horse
shoe championships, opening July
Is. 1t did fairly well last year
when its champion, Ray Pan
holZer, reached the Southern
Maryland finals.
This time Panholzer is manag-
ing as we'll as playing in the Seat
Pleasant preliminary and he is no
less a manager than a pitcher,
which is saying no little. Since
he took charge horseshoe pitch
Ing has been on the boom in the
Prince Georges town.
From the looks Of things there will
be in the neighborhood of a hundred
entrants at Seat Pleasant. Five courts
are being kept busy out there now, with
about so twirlers taking daily workouts.
One OF the courts owned by Edward
F. Robertson, is electric lighted and the
battles go on far into the night. Two
courts near the fire house, on land
belonging to Irwin l. Main. assistant
chairman, will be used in the tourna-
ment and these also will be lighted
dOCO 1IIOob VI Illo
pitching on the Masons court, near
Masonic Hall. The other court is in
the middle of Vine street.
DANHOLZER hopes to make Seat
L Peasants tournament a model af-
fair. He picked up number of
excellent ideas while knocking about in
last years tournament. He played
through the Seat Pleasant preliminary,
the Prince Georges County play-offs at
Hyattsville and did well in the South
ern Maryland finals at Rockville. He
attended the Northern Virginia finals
at Culpeper and was official scorer of
the grand finale on the Plaza play
ground.
He saw more Of the tournament
probably than any other person and
made observations with view to help
ing develop the game.
THE Seat Pleasant chairman will
l. have charge of semi-final play-offs
in which champions and runners
up of towns in Southern Prince Georges
County will compete. The other semi
finals will be played at Hyattsville
under the direction of the esteemed
John Henry Hiser.
Winners of these sectional play-offs
will clash for the county title Where
remains to be determined. The match
will be played on a court suitable for
the accommodation Of many spectators.
THE Prince Georges County final
L looms as one of the hottest
matches in the entire metropolitan
affair. Rivalry is sure to be intense, and
the competition likely will be tight A
close horseshoe match, believe it or not,
you folk who have never seen one under
championship conditions, is a puncny
show. The yelling of excited spectators
at the grand finale last year was heard
blocks away.
Nobody remained seated when, in the
final of the congressional tournament
at Griffith Stadium, Representative Fred
@. johnson of Nebraska and Repre-
senta Albert H. Vestal of Indiana ba--
tied nip and tuck. The excitement was
electrical when they paired off for the
last inning with the score 1920 and
one point needed fer victory. Repre-
sentative johnson got it.
EAIRFAX County expects to make a
L bigger showing in the tournament
than last year, although 1t was one
of The best represented counties. Among
the new preliminaries will be those at
Fairfax Court House, with Thomas P.
Chapman, jr., in charge: Baileys Cross
Roads, with Joseph Hummer as chair
man. and Andrew Chapel, where Vernon
Leigh will direct play. All the towns
and communities that took part last
year will be represented again.
A NY chairman who runs out of entry
"A blanks or rule books may obtain
more by communicating with the
horseshoe editor. Chairmen are re-
quested to send in the applications as
soon as they have made pairings.