Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-31

~ championship August 10, with
five preliminaries listed, one on
each playground.
Prex Wilson, superintendent OF public
recreation, will direct competition, as
sisted by Jack Tulloch. sports editor OF
the Alexandria Gazette.
The finals will be contested at night
on lighted courts at Hayden Field
Playground, where warm-up battles are
now being fought. This will be Alex
andria's first big splurge in the metro
politan championships sponsored by
The Star, most of the prelim1narleS VI
which are now under way.
The Alexandria neighborhood cham
pionships will be held on the Haydn,
Edward Duncan, Friends, Windmill Hin
and Washington School fields. The
events are open to all residents OF Ale1-
andria and nearby communities. Entry
blanks may be obtained from Wilson or
Tulloch. or applications may be mailed
to either.
Champions and runner-upS of the
preliminaries will qualify for the city
play-offs, and the city winner and run
ner-up will carry on into the struggle
for Northern Virginia honors. Alexan-
dria has applied for the State finals.
I'D HENRY, new tournament chair
u man Of Falls Church, Is out Tor
a larger duffer entry.
1.-The stars will take care OF them
selves" says he, what We want most
Is a tournament that will be of greatest
benefit to the majority. We have a
firm conviction that pitching horse
shoes would save lot Of folks doctors
bills"
Heretofore Falls Church has had a
small tournament made up almost al
together of crack pitchers. Its event
last year was the most brilliantly con-
tested in the entire Metropolitan area,
but only eight competed.
Another new tournament director re-
ports progress William Sullivan, at
Indian Head, Md is calling for more
entry blanks and rule books and AYERS
the pitchers down there will make
showing this time" in the Southern
Maryland championship scrap.
CHERIFF w. CURTIS HOPKINS of
- Prince Georges County was entire
" too good" for T. Van Clagett,
former circuit court judge and chair
man of the board of town commission
ers, in the opening contest OF the MARI
boro, Md, tournament. TIE sheriff
now looks to clash with State Sem
ACOr LanSQale u. SaSScer.
In other Marlboro matches, Ed
Shrewsbury defeated Reverdy Sasscer,
21-13, 21-13. and Hal Sasscer defeated
Charles Kerr, 21-5, 2l-5 Late entrants
include Give Wilson, Nick Wyvill. M. T.
Wyvill, Charles Kerr. Reverdy Sssscer.
Irwin Buck, Albert Wells and Gibbons
Talbot, bringing the total to 80.
George Miles, who has been placed in
charge of the giant preliminary at Cap
ttol Heights, has named ]. Theodore
Crown, Joseph Lare, Robert w. Carr
Jesse Varnell and Ed Hutchinson a
committee to give him a much needed
lift. The field will include more than
$50 and will be divided into sixteens
Play will start Monday.
Nightly gatherings at the courts ad-
tacent Percy Bradburn's gasoline sta
ton at Meadows, Md, number around
q hundred.
7 ATE results at Seat Pleasant: Ed
~ ward F. Robinson defeated John
Quirtrell, 500; George Cady de-
feated o. Lamp 50-36; John Berry de-
feated William Belts, 52-36; Walter
Huntington defeated George Mangum,
51-32.
washington playground results: Hol-
1an-L. Johnson defeated C. Dingler,
50-43; j. Richards defeated S. Carroll,
50-46.
Hamilton-Owens defeated Tabler,
Soil: B. Hawkins defeated ]. Weaver,
50-12
Garfield. Day defeated B. Quinn,
SOFAS.
Tenley-R. Burdette defeated A.
Parks, 50-46; L. Scarnegie defeated w.
Raymond, 50-35; J. Gould defeated c.
johnson, 50-42
Bloomingdale-R. Madigan defeated
G. Squirer, 50-42.
Pitchers out Petworth way are CRATE
full to Doc Richwine, director of the
Petworth playground who. on his own
time, has obtained terra Gotta clay and
built two of the finest courts in the
metropolitan district. He has applied
to Bernard McCarty of the playground
headquarters staff, in general charge
Of the Washington section Of metro
politan play, for some of the major
play-offs.
With Albert Bauman directing, Mount
Rainier's pitchers are going to it with
a vengeance. Forty-three are entered,
but Bauman Is keeping open entries
until the first round is completed. The
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