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than usual and I found an excellent
spirit everywhere among the men in
camp Our clubs are in splendid
physical condition. with only one or
two players absent because Of salary
differences.
The Boston Braves have added real
batting strength to their outfield, and
the Phillies, while holding much of
their batting power, have a stronger
pitching staff than last year. Either
one or both may well battle for the
first division
Reds Are q New Team.
Cincinnati, under Dan Howley, COM
prises a new and young team. After
Howley's performance with the Browns
several years ago, no gloomy predictions
are in order for the Reds. Strong on
defense, the club needs to develop one
hitter to make it bidder for good
position.
The Pirates, the other second division
team OF last year, look to be a dark
illness handicapped this strong team all
last season. 1t is a better Pittsburgh
team now than the one that took the
field year ago.
New York, Chicago, st. Louis, Brook
lyn and Pittsburgh are all formidable
organizations. sixth contender may
spring from among the other three. In
a race between such an evenly balanced
array Of playing strength it would be
hard to select the winner Probably 1t
win he the club that has the least hard
luck, and by iuck I mean streaks of
bad weather when a club is going right,
or players incapacitated by illness or
accident.
do not share the fear of some that
base ball is going back in some parts of
the country. BY the time May rolls
around am confident that professional,
college. semi-pro twilight, amateur and
boys base ball leagues will be playing
in greater number in this country than
ever before. They may have less money
on which to operate, or to equip play
grounds and teams, but the lure to play
the game for the games sake will be
greater for all that.
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HOYAL|NKS TEAM
IS VICTOR OVER B. c.
Meets Washington Clubs Kid
Lineup Today-Beger Tied
in Queer Contest.

~ GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITIES
golf team. fresh from a VIC
~ tory over Boston College yes
terday and just home from a
week of practice at Pinehurst, N. c., is
to meet a kid" team of the Wash
ingtos Golf and Country Club this aft
ernoon over the Washington course.
All of the members Of the club team
to match shots with the Hoya club
swingers are below 25 years of age. and
two of them have not yet reached their
majority. One of them, however. holds
the District amateur championship.
Georgetown opened its Washington
golf season in impressive style yesterday
at the Columbia Country Club, over
whelming the Boston College golf team
by score of 5 Y points to l2 Dick
Boucek, one of the Georgetown lads
who has not figured as extensively in
golf hereabout as have the other team
members, registered the best score-a
card OF 73-to trounce Dick Nugent Of
Boston College by and 6.
Really Inconsistent.
F. j. (Chick) Beger, captain of the
Georgetown team, ran into a surprising
reversal of form on the part of Joe
McGrady, one OF the visitors. McGrady
was out in 40 strokes and was down
TO Beger, who plays from the Shacka-
maxon Club of New Jersey. But then
the lad from the Hub City turned
around and breezed home over the last
nine in 33 strokes to wipe out Bcgers
lead in its entirety. In fact Beger had
to get down in two strokes from of
the eighteenth green to keep the match
square. Here are the summaries of the
match
Dick Wilson G. u, defeated Gerard
Moore, Boston, . ana 8; F. j. Beger,
q. u, and zoe .EIcGrady, Boston, ali
square. Moore and McGrady, Boston.
won the best ball from Wilson ana
Beger, 2 and l.
Dick Boucek, @. u, defeated Dick
Nugent, Boston, and s; Jack Slat-
tery, @. u, defeated Mark Troy, Bos-
ton, and 2. Best ball won by Boucek
and Slattery, G. U.
Jack Powell, G. u, defeated Gerald
Hern, Boston, up.
Wilson. Beger, Boucek and Slattery
will compose the Georgetown team
which will oppose the Washington club
players this afternoon. The Washing
ton cluD team will be made up Of
Frank K. Roesch, club title holder and
District amateur champion; Henry d.
Nicholson, T. D. Webb, jr., and j. G.
Drain.
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n n rs. Is. II. LOSCOMB won tne
MI initial women's event of the
season, played Friday at the
Army Navy Country Club. Mrs.
Luscomb had a score Of 122-4o-82.
Mrs. w. j. Clear finished second with
701-21-86, and Mrs. E. A. Noyes was
third, with 107-l9-S9 Mrs. Hewitt
won in the second division with ST.
14-37. Mrs. CARRIER was second with
57-17-40. Another tourney will be
played next Friday.
Two golf events are scheduled for
tomorrow Early tomorrow morning
the initial tourney Of the 1881 season
for members of the District WomenS
Golf Association will start on the
course of the Chevy Chase Club. 1t
viii be an 18-hole handicap affair, with
players to be paired together at match
play, in addition to the medal play
event.
Tomorrow afternoon most of the pro-
fessionals at clubs in the Washington
Baltimore sector will gather at the In
dian Spring Golf Club to play in a
sweepstakes tourney and then draw up
their schedule Of events. j. Monro
Hunter, PRESIDENT OF LTle NlOQle AT
lantic Professional Golfers" ASsocia-
ton, will preside at the meeting. The
tourney will be the second of the sea
SON for the pros, who held touTna
ment early in March at the Maryland
Country Club Of BaltinSbre.
d P HINES, greenskeeper Of the
N. Manor Club. has been retained
by the Congressional Country
Club to take charge Of the golf course.
Peter jackson, former professional at
Indian Spring, and greenskeeper at Con-
gressioF1al for the past three years, has
resigned and Hines has been named as
successor TO him on part time basis.
Hines will divide his time between
Manor and Congressional. Hines Is the
man who had charge of the construc-
tion and maintenance Of the new Manor
/ Club course and gained for himself an
/ cnyiGble reputation for his work on this
I layout. Hines is president Of the Middle
/ Atlantic GreenkeeperS' Association.
| Entries for the Spring invitation tour
nament OF the Washington Golf and
! Country Club will close with the Club
! Tournament Committee al pm. Satur-
| day, April 25. Invitations for the tour
ney were maled out last week by the
kGof Come Zee. beaded hg Fred p
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Open SandIot Season Today.
CeItiCS viii Play in
Gauzza'S League.
LEXANDRIA, Va, April II

A LEXANDRIA, Va, April IL
~ Charley Deuterman's Virginia
| ~ White Sox will inaugurate the
| Northern Virginia unlimited
diamond campaign tomorrow in game
with the Majestic Radio nine OF Wash
ington at Baileys Cross Roads at 2:30
Charley Corbett. manager of the st.
Mary's Celtics, has announced that the
nine will be entered in the Week Day
League being organized by vic
Gauzza in Washington.
Candidates for the st. Mary's Celtics
team are asked to report to Coach
Art Ludlow tomorrow at 2 O'Clock in
Baggett's Park.
Alexandria High tossers will play
twice next week, visiting Hyatsville
High Tuesday and entertaining Busi-
ness High Of Washington Friday.
Fairfax County high schools will take
part in three games in the county
league next Friday. Clifton will play
at Oakton, Lee-Jackson at Mclean and
Falls Church at Herndon.
A benefit motion picture will be given
by the Methodist Protestant Church
Friday night to raise funds for the Boy
Scouts Junior base ball team.
Jack Parker has been elected man
ager of the nine. with Leo Hale cap
tain. Parker is booking games at Al
exandria, 2053-W.
Columbia Engine Company will prac-
tice tomorrow at 3 o'clock on Haydon
Field.
Coach jeff williams will drill his
Del Raw A. c. squad at 2 o'clock to-
morrow on Edward Duncan Field.
P. P. Clark. manager, is anxious to
arrange games with unlimited teams at
Alexandria 34SW.
Nationwide Grocery Stores are seek
ing games with junior and senior teams
through Manager Theodore Beach and
Assistant Manager Davis Simpson.
Beachs telephone is Alexandria 1880
and Simpsons Alexandria 1891.
Alpha Delta Omega Fraternity has
booked a double-header with the Win
chester Park Association for July 4 at
Winchester and a game with the Front
Royal All-Stars in Front Royal, Va,
July IL.
James M. Duncan. jT.. who has
charge OF the muTllclpal QldInOIluS lIllS
season. has awarded exclusive use Of
Edward Duncan Field to the Del Raw
A. c., while use Of Hayden Field will
be divided between the Cardinals and
Columbia Engine Co.
The annual Banquet of the Old Do
n1inion Boat Club Duckpin League will
be held Thursday night at the George
Mason Hotel, with the Souls, league
champs. guests of their defeated rivals.
Trophies and individual awards will be
presented.
A meeting Of Columbia Engine Com
pany's Athletic Executive Committee
will be held at the engine house Mon
day night at 7:15. q
Members of the athletic staff at Fort
Humphreys-Lieut. George c. Reinhart,
Lieut. George Riber and Sergt. L. A.
Kingsberry-are arranging plans for
opening the Fort Humphreys Base Ball
League.
Clover A. C. will play the Hunters
Station team on the latter's field in
Arlington County tomorrow at 3 o'clock.
scoutmaster Hammond is anxious to
book junior games for Troop 169.
Phone Alexandria 2432.
Lecky Nowland, former utility in
fielder for the Dreadnaught A. A, has
been elected captain of the Columbia
Engine Company nine.
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.155 TEAMS READY
TO START ACTION
Strengthened Leagues May
Take Some Fans From
Departmental Loop.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.

= ANDLOT base ball clubs to-
day will begin what gives
~ every indication of being the
greatest sandlot season since
the old Independent Series -four
ished nearly a decade ago.
The sandlot renaissance, judg-
ing from the flock of teams on the
lots, began last year, but even at
this embryonic stage of the 1881
campaign, last years number al
ready is surpassed. Thus far there
are approximately 155 teams,
league and independent ready for
action.
Last year the Government League
averaged nearly 5000 spectators a game,
but this season, according to sandlot
sages, this is not likely to be repeated
as the general strengthening of the IN
dustrial. Georgetown Church and De-
partmental and the organization of a
new weekday league, will more evenly
distribute sandlot followers
While the Government Is not expected
to show much of a change, the Indus
trial League has four new clubs in line.
The Washington Red Sox, one Of the
strongest independent teams hereabout
last year, are entered under the name
of Constructioneers. Pullman, 1890 city
champions, is another entrant, as is
Terminal. Both Pullman and Terminal
Tnnyed tn the Industrial from tho do
funct Terminal "Y" League The Loeff-
Ter and Judd g. Detweiler mines round
out the loop
THE Georgetown Church League,
i while final arrangements have not
been made, is sure to expand some,
according to President Earl Bowman.
The league needs one more team to fill
a vacancy and any church interested In
sponsoring team Is asked to have its
representative communicate with Herb
Tucker at Metropolitan 7685 during
the day and at Potomac 4270 after 6
o'clock.
The Departmental League has added
one more team-City Post Office-and
all of the other mines have reported
strengthened line-ups.
And the new league, which is prac-
tically completed, advises Vic Gauzza,
also is expected to draw its share of
fans. Among the teams applying for
franchises are the crack st. Mary's Gel
tics. claimants of the independent title
Of the metropolitan district: Takoma
Tigers, Capital City League champions
of Montgomery and Prince Georges
Counties Northern Virginia and Wash
ington; Columbia Heights, runner-up
to Anacostia Eagles for the District
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Capital City League championship, and
CAPITAL CITY LEAGUE officials
~ also report that last years entry
list Is expected to be exceeded and
the races, especially in the smaller
classes, closer.
The only fly in the ointment, it is
feared by sandlotters. is that there will
be a shortage of diamonds when the
campaign is in full swing
A PROMISING game looms when the
IA washington Red Sox and the Ber-
Wyn-DiXie Pigs clash at 2:30 O'Clock on
the Berwyn diamond.
Nolan Motor and Palisades will oppose
on the Nolan field at 2 o'clock
Langleys and Palace-D. @. S. will be
entertained by Fort Washington this
afternoon.
Two pitchers are sought by st. Joseph
Insects. Call Lincoln 1868.
Ted Otte will have all Congress
Heights tossers out for drill on the
Congress Heights field at 2 o'clock.
Wonder Midgets will open with a
practice game, opposing Lionels at 2
o'clock ON the West Ellipse
Koontz Seniors will play q prac-
tice game, taking on the Washington
A. G. at 2 O'Clock on Fairlawn field.
They also will meet Tuesday at 8
o'clock at Fourteenth and U streets
southeast.
Rialto candidates will practice at IL
O'Clock on Reservoir field.
Saks Clothiers will work out on the
East Ellipse at l o'clock.
Moose Seniors could use a few more
players and interested parties are re-
quested TO communicate at National
$500, branch IA, after 5 o'clock. Moose
will practice at IL o'clock on the North
Ellipse.
Georgetown Midget and Insect teams
will practice at IL o'clock on the South
Ellipse.
Columbia Heights will open its season,
opposing the Bethesda A. G.. Columbia
Heights players will report at 2 o'clock
at the Arcade Market
Ross Juniors will practice at IL o'clock
on diamond No. /. The Capital City
League team will be selected.
The Big Brother A. C. will meet to-
morrow night at o'clock in the Holy
Comforter Church hall.
Victory Post needs a third and second
baseman. Victory players will meet
Tuesday at O'Clock at 4508 Thirteenth
street, Lincoln 3667-J.
Lindbergh tossers will drill at 1890
o'clock on the Mount Rainier field.
Skinker Eagles Will practice at 2
O'Clock on Friendship field, Wisconsin
avenue and Upton street.
Evening star., 1931-04-12
Woodnont Issues Valuable SandoHeS Open Promising Campaign
Dempsey Admits
Spat With Wife

. EMO, New, April IL P)-Jack
N Dempsey and Estelle Taylor
have quarreled; and there may,
or may not, be a divorce.
The former heavyweight boxing
champion, arriving today for a visit
Of possibly six weeks-the minimum
time required before instituting ac-
tion under the new Nevada divorce
law-admitted q rift between him
and his film actress wife.
"Our little difficulties may be
patched up, and again they may
not" he said.
Dempsey declared, however, he
came here for a rest and to look
after mining and other interests, and
not with the intention of starting
divorce proceedings. He said he did
not know what plans his wife may
have.
Evening star., 1931-04-12
Pointers on Golf
BY SOL METZGER.

Consider the backswing for the
orthodox golf swing The straight
left must control it in order to bring
the clubhead into the ball from in
side the line. When the right enters
into the backswing it tends to lift
the club up too sharply from the ball.
1t does another thing that is not
conducive to good golf-it forces the
clubhead outside the direction line.
Note the heavy black line in the
sketch. r. S. stands for your right
shoulder. L. S. for the left. Imagine
swing
When the straight left controls the
backswing the clubhead swings back
and inside the direction line But If
we let the right arm take the club
Evening star., 1931-04-12
0PTIMISTS PLAY GOLF

Marking the opening Of their golf
season, members Of the Washington
branch Of the Optimist International
win compete IN a blind handicap tour
nament at the Indian Spring Club next
Wednesday.
Play ;S:I start following the luncheon
meeting Of the club at the Hamilton
Hotel
The speaker Of the meeting Wednes-
day win be Liefur Magnuson, director
of the International Labor ONCE. He
will speak on Unemployment: fact and
fancy"
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MRS. HILL GOLF WINNER

sEDGEFIELD COUNTRY CLUB,
Greensboro, N. c., April IL GF9.-Mrs.
Opal s. Hill Of Kansas City shot l6
holes of golf in 2 under women's par
today to beat Peggy Wattles of Beffalo,
N. Y, 3 and 2, for the championship OF
the Sedgefield women's dogWood golf
tournament.
A veteran of tournament play, Mrs
Hill outlasted her less experienced rival
10 take the victory on the homeward
nine.
They were even at the turn, each
hAxn9t acGe oG -
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Swim Mark Set
By Eleanor Holm

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, w.
w Va, April II (P.-Champion
Eleanor Holm broke her own
300-meter backstroke mark
here today and established a new
world record for the event.
She covered the distance in 4
minutes 33 seconds. Her previous
record, made at Brooklyn, March 81,
1928, was minutes 40 2-5 seconds.
Today'S mark was made at q
swimming meet of the Women's
Swimming Association.
Evening star., 1931-04-12
TITLE GAME rs TIED.

GLASGOW, Scotland, April II up.
-Motherwell and Celtic fought to q
2-an draw in the Scottish Foot Ball
Association Cup final at Hampden
Park today.
Evening star., 1931-04-12
Many Factors Can Cause Putt
To Fall Short, Jones Asserts
BY BOBBY JONES,

American Open, British Open, American AM
ateur and British Amateur Champion.
- ONE ONE wants to know why it
is that SO many long puts finish
short of the hole. This certainly
does seem to be a rather common
failing among the average golfers. 1t
can be caused of course, by several
different things, among which are in
accurate striking, faulty Judgment of
the speed Of the green and plain
timidity.
The puts which stop few feet short
can very often be laid to the fact that
the player has midjudged the speed of
the putting surface, for 1t is quite pos
sible to strike the ball truly and well
and still leave it short of the hole.
But / do not believe that this Is the
real reason for the considerable pro-
portion of long puts which go only a
little more than half the desired dis
tance.
My own experience has been that
when l am consistently or 6 feet
short with the big puts, the fault is
not in the stroke itself-that is, in the
length of the backswing. or the power
of the stroke-but rather in the appli-
cation of the blade Of the putter to the
ball. I mean, to be blunt about it, that
l usually am striking the ball a bit
above the center-half-t topping it, in a
word. For it is painfully easy TO top a
putt. the smallest of the golfng shots,
where a good player very rarely COM
mits this crime with any Of the other
strokes.
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VIRGINIA NETMEN WIN

Take Seven of Nine Matches From
Washington and Lee
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, April IL.
Virginia opened its new tennis courts
today by defeating Washington and Lee,
7 to 2.
The Cavaliers swept all Of the doubles
matches.
Summaries:
Shields, 60, Go. Dame CV) defeated VIII
SON. Ga, e-4 Newell tV) defeated Cog,
G--3; Brady w. and L. defeated Delafield.
90, 6-2; Graham (W. and L. defeated
DoUBIEs-Capt. Smith and Martin w.
defeated Shields END Pilly; Al, 6-2; Dame
s@2, 2@e. eE4; surnette and Aeiafield aV.j V.
defeated Cox and Veachs e-N e-a.
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Don't Look UP.

Don't Look UP.
NOW the partially topped putt,
IN where the ball is struck just a
shade above the center, is due to
one of two causes-hurrying the stroke
or lifting the head too soon. I know
that in my case-and think in most
others-the long putt is the one stroke
on which it is easiest to look up too
soon and, further, to make this vital
mistake without being aware Of It,.
Many times I have gone for days Won
dering what was the matter with my
putting and never finding out until
some one told me that 1 appeared to
be looking up too soon. have at last
reached a point that when start putt
ing badly, this is the first thing look
for.
Swing Through.
DUT there is one common fault in
ID the stroke itself, which produces
a tendency to half-top the long
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NET BODY TO MEET
Officers Will Be Elected
at Tuesday Session.

Oficers will be elected and plans for
the season will be discussed at the an
nual meeting of the Washington Tennis
Association Tuesday night at o'clock
at the Racquet Club.
Winfree johnson is the present presi-
dent of the association.
Evening star., 1931-04-12

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1931-04-12

A benefit motion picture will be given
by the Methodist Protestant Church
Friday night to raise funds for the Boy
Scouts junior base ball team.
Jack Parker has been elected man
ager Of the nine. with Leo Hale cap
tain. Parker is booking games at Al
exandria, 2053-W
Evening star., 1931-04-12

Capital City League championship, and
Patent ONCE and State Department.
Evening star., 1931-04-12

Fairfax County high schools will take
part in three games in the county
league next Friday. Clifton will play
at Oakton, Lee-Jackson at Mclean and
Falls Church at Herndon.
Evening star., 1931-04-12

Columbia Engine Company will prac-
tice tomorrow at o'clock on Hayden
Field.
Evening star., 1931-04-12

Coach JEFF williams will drill his
Del Ray A. c. squ9d at o'clock to-
morrow on Edward Duncan Field.
P. P. Clark. manager. is anxious to
arrange games with unlimited teams at
Alexandria 346-W.
Evening star., 1931-04-12

Alexandria High tossers will play
twice next week, visiting Hyattsville
High Tuesday and entertaining Busi-
ness High of Washington Friday.
Evening star., 1931-04-12

Nationwide Grocery Stores are seek
ing games with junior and senior teams
Manager Theodore Beach and
Assistant Manager Davis Simpson.
Beach's telephone is Alexandria 1880
and Simpsons Alexandria 1891.
Evening star., 1931-04-12

" GEORGETOWN UNIyERsITY's
golf team. fresh from VIC
~ tory over Boston College yes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
POLICY KINGS FARLEY
ON SHIFTING FIGURES
New York Game Netting $500, 900
a Day Threatened With Ruin
by Disruption of System.
BY the Associated Press.

0y the ASSOClateo RreSS.
NEW YORK, February THE big
shots OF the game called policy, which
has taken as much as $500, 900 a dav
from persons of sporting tendencies in
the New York area alone, have been
holding a series of frantic conferences
during the last few days in an effort
to save their profitable industry from
ruin. The policy operators, euphemis-
tlcally known as bankers, have not yet
reached an agreement on the best
method Of selecting the three-digft
number which daily determines who
wins their lottery.
Until recently the number was taken
from the New York Clearing House
reports, but that source was wiped out
when the Clearing House began pub
fishing It's statistics in round numbers.
The New York stock and curb ex-
changes and the Chicago Stock Ex-
change, each of which served as a tenn
porary substitute, have followed suit
emanuel Kline, a colored plain
clotneS man, says operations have al
most ceased during the last few days.
some OF the bankers want to take the
winning number from statistics pub
11Shed by the United States Treasury.
The search for dependable numbers
which cannot be tempered with at
the sources-has resulted In requests
to news and financial agencies for sta
tisticS that could not conceivably in
terest even the most painstaking COL
lector Of financial data-unless. Of
course, he was thinking of policy slips
instead OF investments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
FAVORS REFERENDUM
ON DRY LAW REPEAL
Wickersham Commission Member
Says Provisions Must Apply to
ALI Intoxicating Drinks.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
FRESNO, Calf, February IA ref
erenoum on repeal Of the national pro-
hibition act, United States District
Judge Paul ]. Mccormick, a member
OF the Wickersham Commission, said
yesterday, would indicate the present
attitude OF the Nation and would aid
In bringing about some change from
the present unsatisfactory national con-
ditions."
Judge Mccormick, in a statement
said until provisions of the national
prohibition act were reconciled and
made to apply uniformly to all intox-
lcating beverages there would be re-
sentiment against the law.
Judge Mccormick declined to com
ment directly on the sale of fruit Juices
by Fruit Products, Inc.;y "a Government
financed organization, or to discuss
legal points involved. u He pointed out.
inferentialiy, that beer and hard liquor
drinkers would resent the sales of Juices
/ that later become wine.