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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-02
Shires a DOcile Athlete Now
Whattaman Drops Publicity Antics in Minors
and Becomes Valuable Ball Player.

papers, but bad medicine" for his
bosses in the big leagues have been put
away, with excellent results to his play
ing In Glass AA base ball.
Bosses, fans and critics Of the Brew
ers are convinced, now that the former
"Whattaman" has settled down to seri-
GUS pastiming, that the n1annerisms
which gained him columns Of publicity,
but no Advancement with the Chicago
White Sox and Washington Senators,
were not inherent in him, but merely
assumed Cor purposes Of attracting at
tention.
That he did the latter Is now base
ball history. 1t Is also history that In
, the long run his actions redounded to
his disadvantage and his exit from he
major leagues caused few tears.
With the Milwaukee club Shires' con-
duct has been more than docile, and
his playing has shown q corresponding
| Improvement He Is fielding well
hustling all the time, doing his best to
maintain harmony on the club, and for
the first month of the season was bat
ting over 400 most of the time.
The ons-time great one" in his own
well-publicized opinion, has apparently
found that the fans judge by results
rather than by words, his bosses say.
And he's giving them the results.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-02
LEADERS ARE PICKED
FOR HILLTOP TEAMS
EVers, Kelly, Mitchell and Fisher
Chosen for Base Ball, Track,
Tennis and Golf.

John J. Evers, jr.; James J. Kelly,
Dennison L. Oooly) Mitchell and
Louis A. Fisher will next season cap
tain Georgetown University's base ball,
track. tennis and golf teams, re-
spectively. All were chosen yesterday.
Mitchell is the only Washington boy
of the four.
Evers, the son of Johnny Evers Of
the famed Tinker-to-Evers- Chance
combination of the old Chicago Cubs.
has been q regular on the nine for
two years. Like his father, he has dis
played much fielding ability, but has
not shown much Of q punch with the
bat. Evers lives at Albany, N. Y;
Is 81 and Is q sophomore in the Law
Department. He came to Georgetown
heralded rs q second baseman, but
ScalZi for that post. Last season he
played in the outfield.
Mitchell succeeds Gregory Mangin OF
the Davis Cup team as captain Of
the tennis outfit. For two years
Mitchell has been playing at No. 2
for the Hoyas behind Mangin. He has
for several years been q ranking net
man hereabout and has won several
titles. He is 23 and student in the
School Of Foreign Service.
Kelly has been on the track squad
the last two years. Last Saturday he
ran the half mile in / minute SIS sec
onds for the best performance in his
career, to gain third place in the in
tercollegiate championships at Phila-
delphia He also wes a member of the
mile relay team the last campaign.
He is expected to be outstanding next
season. Kelly, who is q, lives in Phil
adelphia.
Fisher has been a consistent mem
Der Of the golf team for the last two
seasons. He is a junior in the College
of Arts and Sciences, his home is in
Detroit and he Is 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-02
TIGER CREW COACH
BELIEVED THROUGH
Logg Is Well Liked, but Has
Failed to Get Results
With Varsity.

|HERE will be Q change, so far as
coaching is concerned, In
Princeton's rowing system.
While no definite statement
has been made to this effect and no
member of Princetons Rowing Com
mittee has divulged plans for the future,
the writer predicts that Chuck Logg will
not be head coach of the Nassau crews
after this season.
Logg is well liked at Princeton, his
character and personality are highly
appreciated and he has high merit as
Q teacher of rowing. His freshmen
crews have always been worthy, but in
the varsity he has shown himself I'M
able to get results out Of older men.
In making plans for the future
Princeton's committee will have to de-
eide whether it is willing to have
Princeton rowing hobble along as It
has been doing, with interest In
aquatics aleak at old Nassau, or
whether it, wishes to have rowing
taught by man highly qualified for
the work.
Right Man Hard to Find.
The first course means a thoroughly
amateur spirit on Lake Carnegie, with
crews thus developed pitted against
rivals who have been under the best
instruction that can be bought. Con-
sistent defeat, of course, Is the price
that will have to be paid. But defeat
under such conditions may be worth
while-assuming consistent defeat IN
rowing, or in any sport, or in any phase
Of life, Is worth while.
The alternative is the engaging Of
a coach who has In him that curious
blend Of rowing knowledge, psycholog-
ical insight. magnetism and q mind at
tuned to the mechanical requirements
of rig which go to make up the sue
cessful teacher Of sweep swinging.
Such a man is hard to find, but
there are such men and at least one
Is now available. The problem in all
its complexities is a dificult one to
decide, but in the main the conflicting
issues are well defined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-02
BY FRANCIS J. POWERS.

n n ANY scouts for both major and
Nh minor league base ball teams
have been proving through
the Western Conference. There
are several promising youngster on con-
ference mines and the old sleuths are
giving them the once and maybe the
twice over.
The big minor league teams no
longer depend upon the majors to dis
cover young talent, but employ their
own scouts. At the recent Northwest
ern-Notre Dame game, Jack Hendricks
Of the Indianapolis club and Mike Kelly,
manager Of the Minneapolis team, both
were in the stands. They were taking
peek at Lee Hanley, Northwestern's
center fielder, and Billy Sullivan, Notre
Dame first baseman.
The youngest of the athletic Hanley
family has developed into one OF the
strongest hitters in the Big Ten and is
fast, nashy fielder. Eddie Herr Of the
New York Yankees watched him during
the Wildcats Spring trip through the
South and several others have stamped
him as promising material.
Sullivan Is a son Of Billy Sullivan, who
was famous as Ed Walsh's catcher back
in the days when the Chicago White
Sox were a power in the American
League. Young Sullivan Is q bit taller
than his father and has inherited much
of Billy's skill on the diamond. A left.
handed batter, he hits the ball hard
and has a neat glove around FIRST base,
but Is taller than others who have
starred at the position.
Weller, the Indiana southpaw, Is
almost certain to graduate into one OF
the higher base ball leagues. A tail,
loose -toirted chap, he has splendid
rast ball and a fair curve. Moreover
he appears to know considerable about
| pitching.
Wesley Fesler, Ohio States all-Amer-
lea foot hall star. is one of the out
standing base ball players OF the Big
Ten and several clubs are eager to get
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-02
THE SPORTLICHT
BY CRANTLAND RICE

pitching streak and Jiggs Donahue. at
FIRST, began playing and hustling ike
q parkful Of centipedes.
$50. From seventh place the Sox rushed
into first place, and then upset the
famous Cubs in four games out OF six,
after the Cubs had broken Q pennant
record with 116 victories. The White
Sox couldn't hit q lick, but they had
great pitching and some Of the smartest
men in base ball, with Sullivan catch
ing, Donallue, Isbell, Fielder Jones and
Tannehill on the job.
The stampede of the Athletics has
produced about everything that winning
base ball needs-a great manager, fine
pitching, heavy hitting and team spirit
Both the old Sox and the present Ath-
letics had great catching in Sullivan
and Cochrane, but the latter stands out
Each depended on three winning
pitchers, but even Grove, Earnshaw anc
Walberg had nothing on Walsh, Altrock
and White. In those days of 1905 the
defensive side was more important
factor than it Is today, when the punch
Is q necessary item.
| Copyright 1881 by North American News.
| paper Alliance, Incl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-02

- foot ball coach at Catholic Uni
versity, is the second former
Notre Dame star to come to the
Brook!and institutions staff in recent
wears. Arthur (Dutch) Bergman, head
coach of the Cardinals. was senior
at South Bend when Cotton was
freshman.
Bergman was a halfback and Cotton
a tackle. Bergman was virtually .
unanimous choice on the All-Amerlca
team and Cotton in his last year, 1927,
was widely mentioned for national
honors. He was conspicuous that year
In a scoreless battle between Notre
Dame and Army. Billy Evans was
among several who picked him for the
All-Amertca.
Cotton. who will report in the Fall,
has spent eight years at st. Ambrose
College, Davenport, Iowa. as head coacn
of foot ball, basket ball and track, ne
is 80 years old, married and mas Two
children, a girl, Jean Morris 5, ana .
boy. Jack. l. .,
He will SPEND the Summer as d.
rector of Davenport's Fairgrounds.
Cotton introduced the Notre Dame
style OF foot ball at st. Ambrose and
his teams there averaged better than
500. though ever so often they COM
peted in a higher class. Over the eight
wears his basket ball teams had a win
ming percentage of $50. :,
This week he will be given farewell
banquet by the st. Ambrose Alumni
Association. one of a series Of such oc-
casions, Gotten having been thus hon
ored already by the schools faculty.
which presented him with a purse: by
the Monogram Club. which presented
him with a watch, the Student Council
and the senior class Of 1881.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-02
JAMESTOWN SEEN
AS BEST AT MILE
Many Turfmen Predict He'll
Beat Twenty Grand in
Belmont Stakes.
BY HENRY v. KING.

BY HENRY v. KING.
n YEW YORK, June flames
nj towns great victory in the
l Withers Stakes on Satur-
day proved concluSively
that the son of st. James is the
best miller among the 3-year-olds
in America and 1t caused an army
of turfmen to proclaim him the
champion Of his age and predict
that he will defeat Mrs. Payne
whitney's Twenty Grand, winner
Of the Kentucky Derby, when they
meet two weeks hence in the Bel
mont Stakes.
But. despite his brilliant race, the
men who lay the odds refuse to make
him favorite over Mrs. Whitney's colt
for the mile-and-a-half contest on June
IS. They say Twenty Grand Is their
choice now and that unless jamestown
turns in a noteworthy trial over q long
distance Of ground between now and the
big race he will go to the post favorite.
MANY horsemen and professional
landscapes disagree with them on
this point, though They assert the
Widener colt will have the most sup
porters and that the Withers victor will
hold the place Of honor when the f1eld
parades to the post for the $4,000 stake.
Wasn't Extended.
It Is the opinion Of scores Of experts
that jamestown is q slayer. They de-
clare that he could have run any dis
lance and beaten any colt his age on
Saturday. They point out that he was
extended for less than furlong IN the
Withers and that II he had been per-
mitted to do his best all the way, he
would have run much faster and have
come nightly close to equaling the
world record of :35 for the mile.
Jamestown's time of 1886 3-5 was o
remarkably fine performance from a
time standpoint. but 1t wasn't the
CLOCK" that convinces his supporters
he is q great colt. 1t was the way he
accomplished his task; the way he fol-
lowed q sizzling pace for half mile and
then stepped to the point and, with
little apparent effort, ran away from
his opponents. He was under stout re-
straint during the final furlong and
came back to the scales in fine condi-
ton.
He was lite tired. as any horse
must be after running mile in such
fast time, but he wasn't distressed. He
cooled out quickly and ate his dinner
with q relish. In his trainers opinion,
the race will do him lot OF good.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-02
M|DD|[S' DESIRE
NOT REC|PROCATED
Soldiers Appear Satisfied
With Grid Games With
Other Big Teams.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

w VEST POINT, N. Y, June a.
M West Point Cadets do not
share the enthusiasm which
was manifested at the Naval
Academy last week over the possibility
of a resumption of efforts to break the
deadlock in athletic competition be-
tween the two service institutions The
writer today found a state of mind
ranging from mild interest to down.
right indifference.
At a recent meeting of graduate and
Undergraduate letter men at Annapolis
Ernest Lee Jahncke, Assistant Secre-
tary of the Navy, advocated a resump-
ton of relations, and part of what he
said was construed to mean that the
question might be put up to the Cadets
and Midshipmen for settlement.
Want Foot Ball Game.
There is no question that the corps
Of Midshipmen is in favor of a renewal
of relations, particularly in foot ball
No other rivalry has taken the place
of the Army contest. So far as foot
ball Is concerned. games against insti-
tutionS other than West Point are mere
~ games. They lack that fine, elusive
essence which goes beyond mere sport
and reaches into the roots Of fervor de-
veloped in the soil of tradition. Fall
seasons that lack o contest with the
Army on the gridiron are comparatively
drab and spiritless.
West Point, on the contrary, has the
Notre Dame game and contests with
Yale and Harvard. all Of which are in
vested with a color quality of peculiar
vividness. The attitude toward the
Navy game was impressively manifested
after the charity clash at the Yankee
Stadium last Fall when the Cadet regi-
ment dispersed without observing the
traditional formality Of messing before
the Navy stand and exchanging the
usual compliments.
The Middies stood waiting with their
chins out, ready and willing to take it:
but the Cadets simply ignored them and
made their individual way out of the
field. 1t was not pleasant incident
for any older observer who holds brief
for the amenities of sport to witness.
Purely Cadet Action.
The writer learns that what amounted
to a snub was purely cadet action.
Before leaving West Point for the game
the student OIncerS mace IL KNOWN 10
the academy authorities that, unless
they were ordered to do so, they would
not In event of victory mass before the
midshipmen's stand; or, in defeat
await the massing of the naval cadets
All of which causes the writer to be-
lieve that any one who expects the
cadets to be enthusiastic over a project
to bring the two academies together In
sport is going to be greatly disappointed
Just now, as a matter of fact. the
student body at West Point is spending
its enthusiasm over the assurance that
1t will be taken to Pittsburgh next Mo-
vember to the game between the Army
and Pitt. This fact Is not generally
known. The writer happened to be in
West Point today when permission
from Washington for the cadet corps
to make the trip arrived. 1t will be q
fine show for Pittsburghers, and will
cost a bit more than $4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-02
Winning Streaks
Fair Sex Tennis on Rise Here
Newcomers of Ability Promise to Add Much
Interest to Tournaments This Season.

It appears that the tennis season
now under way here win prove par
ticularly interesting rs to COMPETE
ton among the women. Judging
from their showing in the City of
Washington tournament, which Is all
over so far as the feminine racketers
are concerned, several newcomers
among the women must be reckoned
with In the various tournaments,
aside from the group which has been
gaining most of the spoils here in
recent years.
Foremost among the new players
are Mrs. Charles P. Stone and Mrs.
John L. Newbold, jr., Of the Chevy
Chase Club, and the Tabler sisters,
Clara and Amy. Mrs. Stone and
Mrs. Newbold both have been play
ing at Chevy Chase, but until the
City Of Washington tournament had
not appeared in city-wide title COM
petition. The Tabler sisters for
merly held forth ON Baltimore courts,
but more recently have been in Cali
fornia.
Mrs. Stone and Mrs. Newbold
paired to overcome the TableTs In
the final Of the woman's doubles,
and Sunday Mrs. Stone yAnQuiShen
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-02
TR0JANS MAY SET
POINT SCORE MARK
Southern California Conceded
N. C. A. Championship in
Track Meet Saturday.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June ALI the experts
have conceded the National Collegiate
Association track and field champion
ship. which will be decided at Stage
Field Friday and Saturday, to Southern
California, and about the only other
mark for the Trojans to aim at will be
q new point score record.
Under the N. C. A. scoring system,
which gives 10 points Cor first place
eight for second. six for third, four for
fourth, two for fifth and one for sixth,
Southern California. performing as it
did in the East last Saturday. may run
up close to 100 points. The record is
72 points, set by Stanford in 1928.
Southern California scored SIS 27-70
to win last years renewal Of the event.
The Trojans' 46 and fraction points
In the I. c. A. A. A. A. meet last week
is the approximate equivalent of 90
points in the N. c. A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-02

Clara Tabler to gain the woYnan's
singles crown. Clara Tabler ap-
peared to considerably more adj
vantage in the tournament than did
her sister.
Mrs. Stone showed herself an un-
usually heady player She exhibited
a hard service, o good forehand and
had no hesitancy in coming to the
net.
Mrs. Newbold displayed softer
game than Mrs. Stone, but an effec-
tive one in which steadiness. caution
and headwoTk predominated.
Clara Tabler's game was character
lied chiefly by her hard hitting, her
service containing unusual power for
a woman. Amy Tabler showed only
fairly well. but may be heard from
later.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-02
NINE READY FOR ACTION.

MOUNT RAINIER, Md, June a.
Mount Rainier unlimited ball tossers,
who recently organized, have elected
Johnny Fitzgerald manager, and Bud
Bellman has been named acting bust
ness manager. The Mounts are after
games with leading unlimited mines
Call Bellman, at Hyattsville 1898, after
5:3o pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-02
LOSES GIRL ATHLETES
Five Of Hyattsville's Volley Ball
Team will Graduate.

ANNAPOLIS, Md, June 2.-Hyatts-
vile High girls volley ball team. which
won championship honors in the upper
section of Prince Georges County, but
lost to Brandywine High. lower section
victor, in the championship match, will
lose five Of its eight regulars by gradu-
alton.
They are Jean Hamilton, Kathleen
Hannigan, Jean Goss, Roberta Hannum
and Nellie Samson. Those listed to
return are Elizabeth Wetherald, Char
lotte Schrom and Mabel Scllrom
Dorothy Clark, Jean Miller and Ruth
Pierson, reserves, also will be available
Hyattsville High State title series bal
game with Towson High, which was
rained out yesterday, was scheduled
today in Baltimore.
NyattSville Southern Methodists have
booked q game with the Southern Rail-
way nine for Saturday in Magruder
Park at o'clock. u. S. 8. Reina Mer-
cedes nine of Annapolis will be met
June IS at Magruder Park.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-02

Untangling the T1nghe
z YAVING been awarded the Gus
- tody Of Primo Cameras 40
pounds, including both feet.
the smartest move Madison
Square Garden could make now would
be to put on q Sharkey Camera party
of its own and 80 clear up the heavy
weight tangle.
As the case stands, it still Is sadly
muddled. It would be something OF o
ioke To throw Camera In against the
winner of the Schmeling- Stribling fight
and leave Jack Sharkey on the outside.
There still are more than o few who
believe that Sharkey is the best heavy.
weight in the game. Maybe he Is ana
maybe he isn't. The point Is that ne
must be figured In the picture until
some one now around beats him.
The Garden has Stribiing. Schmel.
ing and Camera cornered. The logical
move to make would be to match
Sharkey and Camera and then throw
the winner against the winner Of the
Schmeling-Stribling fight. This would
prove something and decide who Is the
real champion.
A program Of this sort also would
increase public interest In each OF the
shows to be offered, and public interest
has to be fairly keen now to start any
wild rush Of spending.
Fesler Keeps It Up.
WESLEY FESLER gave an exhibition
w of all-around foot ball playing ct
Ohio State last Fall which has
~.,&I,, kaev adt,oIAd Y,a1INh laee calP-
passed. He stands today Is one OF the
best all-around athletes any university
has vet developed. Only q few days ago
he gave an exhibition in base ball, which
must be a college record, although there
are no statistics at hand to prove the
case.
In a game against Illinois Fesler
came to bat five times and blew him.
self to three home runs and two doubles
for q total Of Is bases. This Is only
one base back Of the record set by Ed
Delehanty and Bobby Lowe, who fired
four home runs and o single for a total
of II bases.
Two of Fesler's home runs came with
the bases filled. The Ohio star also Il
one of the leading students in the uni
versity, a Phi Beta Kappa man, and one
Of the most popular athletes that ever
wore the scarlet and gray.
Winning Streaks.
THE recent rush Of the Athletics re-
/ calls the American League record
the White Sox hung up Is years ago
They were in seventh place, with q
team batting average around .2l8
earning their title as the "hitless Won
ders." But about this time Ed Walsh,
Nick Altrock and Doc White began Q
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West Point Cadets Are Cold Resumption of Athletic Relations
HUDAK GRID COACH
Ex-Hoya Star Named Assistant
Mentor at Lehigh u.

M1uGor dC 4eNIBH Va
BETHLEHEM, Pa, June 2.-Appoint-
ment of Johnny Hudak, former George
town University gridder, as assistant
foot ball coach at Lehigh University
has been announced. Hudak, who pre-
pared for college at Bethlehem High
School, will succeed William SPRING
steen, former Lehigh captain and tackle
who was forced to resign because OF
business interests.
Hudak was for three years q half
back with GEORGETOWN and later helped
the Apache eleven win the District Of
Columbia sandlot title.
He will serve under Head Coach A.
Austin Tate, from whom he learned hts
foot ball In high school, Hudak viii
assume his new post in the Fall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-02
SCHOOLS HERE LIKE PLAN
willing for Title Teams to Take
on Navy Plebes.

Naval Academy athletic officials have
been advised that the principals Of the
District public high schools favor ac-
cepting their offer to have the plebes
meet the championship sohoolhoy COM
binations In base ball and track each
year on the last Saturday in May at
Annapolis.
However, the principals, through
Charles Hart, Eastern head, have sug-
gested to the Academy ofncials that the
track meets be arranged with an ALL
star combination instead of with the
school team that wins the Spring meet
here. This would assure better COM
petition. It Is thought.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-02
GETS HIGH SPORT AWARD
Williams, Alexandria Boy, Wins
Medal at Hargrave Academy.


ALEXANDRIA, Va, June Frank
Williams, former Alexandria High
athlete, has been presented with the
medal awarded annually at Hargrave
Military Academy for the schools best
all-round athlete.
williams, the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank L. Williams. 220 West Howell
avenue, Alexandria, won five major
sports letters for track, base ball.
basket ball, foot ball and tennis during
the past year, his first at Hargrave.
It Is expected that Little JEFF" as
he is known to his friends, will enter
Georgetown or Richmond U. this Fall.
Four other Alexandria boys played
foot ball at Hargrave. They are George
Beach, captain of the Hargrave eleven
and all-State center; Parke Bell and
Russell Sutton, halfbacks, and Robert
Arnold, linesman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-02
Majors Scouting in Big Ten
Several Promising Youngsters on Teams, lnciud'
ing Son of Famous Bill Sullivan.

him. But Fesler has refused all offers
! to become O professional.
Lew Hinchman, son of the old Pitts
burgh and Cleveland outflelder, Is an
.otner of promise, but only sophomore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-02
CUBS ARE "DOGGIEST. !"

Chicago Cubs are the "deggiest" club
in the majors. Besides the snappy
un YES Of the players, the ushers are
arr Eyed In royal blue and gold braid
and refreshment vendors wear gaudy
outf ~