Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-02
SIXTEEN EXPERTS
LISTED AT M'LEAN
Metropolitan Area Combed
for Invitation Event.
buffers Have Own.

OlA1EEN OuCSId1lOlL1S AAOAoC
shoe pitchers of Metropolitan
- Washington will fight it out
for midSeaSon honorS next
Thursday night at Mclean, Va,
in what promises to be the most
brilliant tournament the game has
known in this part of the country.
It will be a featured event on
the weeks program of the Mclean
firemen's annual carnival, which
opened yesterday.
The all-star tournament will be
a strictly invitation affair, another
event having been arranged for
all others who care to participate.
Both will be supervised by Henry A
Huschke of the Carnival Committee,
but he will receive important assistance
from Andrew Casper, secretary Of the
Metropolitan League.
To Casper has been given the respon-
sibility of selecting the star players: AS
secretary of the league and captain OF
the ever-active Vic Sport Shop team
which incidentally will perform To-Day
at Gambler, Md, he maintains q con-
slant check on the relative merits OF
leading pitchers.
A CCORDING to Casper, the pitcher
"A who wins the invitation tourna-
nent will have averaged close TO
SO ringers out of every hundred shoes.
A number have been averaging better
than 40 per cent all Summer IN all
sorts of competition and, to quote Cas-
per, the outcome is a toSS-up.
One of these 40 per centers" is Clay
ton C. Henson, who won the Northern
Virginia championship last year in The
and Henson will be a central figure in
next Thursday nights battle. Northern
Virginia will look to him to repel the
invaders from Washington and Mary
land, and his is the most coveted scalp
at this time in the metropolitan area.
The Arlington youth has been widely
acclaimed 1.-The pitcher to beat" for top
honors in The Stars current tourna-
ment, which embraces Washington and
the nearby counties of Maryland and
Virginia The Star will present medals
to the Mclean victors.
CASPER has not named his invita-
~ ton list, but promises to have in
line virtually all those who have
won major titles during the last two
years in the metropolitan event.
notable absentee will be Harry Fraser
Saunders, the 1880 metropolitan cham
pion, who returned to his home in Mis-
souri, shortly after lifting the big crown.
Among those under consideration for
places in the battle of bambinos are
Charles A. Fort, former Washington
champion; Millard E. Peake, Southern
Maryland champion and former metro
king; Alex Kirchner, former Northern
Virginia title holder; George c. Thomp-
son, Fairfax County champion; Ed
Henry, Sam barnes and Enzer Bran
don, hot rivals of Thompson at Falls
Church; Woodie Wilson, Leonard West
by Ed Pierce, Vic Riston and Hubbard
Quantrille, members of the Vic Sport
Shop team and leading contenders for
the Washington title; Ed Edmonston,
Cherrydale champion; Andrew Tall
madge, another Washington ace; Walter
Kolb, Harry M Fowler, Flohr, Nichols
and Campbell, Western Maryland
cracks; Joe Merryman, newly risen star
OF Bladensburg, Md, and John Gour-
venec, finahst last year in a State
wide Maryland tournament, but now a
resident of this city.
Casper himself is capable of giving
worthy battle to all of these, but will
remain out of the contest to give his
entire attention to the mana gerial end
He and Chairman Huschke expect to
make it model tournament in every
respect.
TTTHE Mclean tournament for non
l. stars will start Wednesday night
and will be open to all pitchers
regardless of residence, but the Mclean
player who advances farthest will be
declared the community champion and
he and the second best will be qualified
to compete in the Fairfax County finals
Falls Church will have its largest
tournament ever, starting next Satur-
day at 4:30 pm, on the courts Of
Champion George Thompson. Twenty
two have entered so far but more are
expected by Ed Henry, chairman
Henry will cut a figure in Metropoli-
tan play if he continues his present
pace. In a recent match with the
formidable Sam barnes he won three
Of four games. Thompson, too, has
been "hot" at times, having at least
one stretch of So per cent ringers
Pairings for Falls Church will be an
nounced in the next day or two.
COMPETITION for the Italian cham
~ pionship of Washington will get
under way today on the Rosedale
playground courts at pm. Between
80 and 40 entries are expected. Among
the latest to enter are the thrse FreSchi
brothers, Joe, Lou and Mike, all-around
athletes.
These and Ollie Pacini. Frank and
Joe Palma John Micro, Mike Rinaldi
and Tony Leone will be seeded.