Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-02
OLD LINE PLAY-OFFS
LISTED NEXT WEEK
Champions and RunnerS-up
of Prince Georges County
Will Clash Saturday.

CEAT PLEASANT, in Prince
Georges County, today was
\ awarded the Southern Mary
land finals of the second an
nual Metropolitan District Horse
shoe Championships, sponsored
by The Washington Star, the
play-offs of county champions
and runnerS-up to take place
Wednesday night of next week.
At the same time next Saturday
night was set as the date for the
Prince Georges County play-offS
which also will be held at Seat
Pleasant.
A plan to divide the county finals be-
tween Seat Pleasant and Hyattsville
was abandoned because of the greater
facilities at Seat Pleasant, where cleo
trio lighted courts are available.
Play Saturday will start at $3.50 pm.
with Raymond Panholzer in charge.
Inasmuch as Panholzer, who directed
the town preliminary, also will repre-
sent it in the county play-offs as Seat
Pleasant champion, the pairings will be
drawn by the horseshoe editor, who
also will appoint neutral umpires.
For the State finals it is probable
that Seat Pleasant horseshoe leaders
will place courts in the base ball park
In front Of the grandstand. In any
event, the courts will be electric lighted.
TN the meantime, horseshoe pitching
i fans are focusing on the Northern
Virginia play-offS - be held next
Thursday night at Bancroft, In which
Alexander A. Kirchner Of Bancroft Will
defend his title against the champions
of more than half q dozen counties
Play will start at z o'clock.
The Bancroft Community League Is
prepared to take care of horseshoe fans
at its annual supper from to z o'clock
at half dollar plate, said plate to be
plenty full and enticing. After the
tournament the participants and
number of honor guests will be given
a banquet by Bancroft citizens in the
town hall.
It Is expected the big struggle in the
tournament will be between represent
atives of the rival counties OF Airing
ton and Fairfax. On the one side VIII
be Alexander Kirchner Of Bancroft ana
C. C. Henson Of Arlington, and on the
other George G. Thompson and Sam
barnes of Falls Church.
The pairings will be made in such
manner that Thompson and Kirchner,
provided they aren't eliminated early,
will clash in the lower bracket and
Henson and barnes In the upper.
1t is far from certainty. however
that any of these will reach the late
rounds. for several counties from the
fringe of the Metropolitan district will
send representatives about whose abil-
ity little is known UP this way. Each
bailiwick appears to think 1t has the
next State champion.
MERLE HEILMAN Of Hyattsville will
IVl be the defending champion in the
Prince Georges County meet. His
crown is threatened from many ol-
rections.
Last year Merle swept through the
field of town champions and runners-up,
but number of these, qualifying again
for the county event, are much i'm
proved.
Among Heilman's most respected
rivals are the pair who will represent
Mount Rainier, Frank Bauman and
Ray Ward. These two were easily the
class of the field at Mount Rainier and
ganized preliminary, conceding Bauman
and Ward the privilege Of carrying on
CHAIRMAN PANHOLzER Is another
~ whom Heilman considers tough
The little Seat Pleasant pitcher Is
game to the core and there you have
quality sometimes more important In
horseshoe pitching than mechanical
ability.
WASHINGTON divisional play-offs
w get under way today with con-
tests in six tournaments scheduled
to start at 5 o'clock.
Two other divisions, which were late
finishing preliminaries, will start to-
morrow-the Iowa Avenue and Bloom
ingdale.
winners and runners-up in the divi-
sional tournaments will qualify for the
East and West section play-offs and
the survivors of these will meet for the
city title, the semi-finalists OF each
section qualifying also for the grand
finale in which the Metropolitan Dis
trict crown will be at stake.