Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19
GAME IS GROWING
AS COLLEGE SPORT
Big Events Held by Hoyas
and Cards-HyattsviIle
Turns on Steam.

~ ing in strong for horseshoe
pitching
Sometime this week a large
portion of the 326 male students
will join the army of iron beavers
in quest of local, county, state and
Metropolitan District champion
ships in the third annual tourna-
ment sponsored by The Star.
Leroy Macke.t. who will be remem-
bered for his feats on the grid.ron but
now head of the Terrapin physical edu-
cation department, has ordered couple
of courts pitched adjacent the dorml-
tories and will urge their use by all
who have The opportunity
The university tournament is expected
to be one of the larges, in Prince
GEORGES County The winner will be
by The Star and along with the runner
up will be qualified to compete in the
county finals.
Maryland Is the third university In
this section to sponsor horseshoe pitch
ing, Georgetown being the first, followed
by Catholic U. More than fifty COM
peted on the Hilltop and about IS at
Brookland where the game leaped to
prominence on the intramural program.
Jerry O'Connor won the Hoya title and
Johnny Oliver triumphed at c. U.
THE Terrapins will start pitching be-
i fore the general staring date of
the Metropolitan championships
which is July 81, next Monday. The
Summer school session will end early
in August and if the field is as large
as expected the Terrap'ns may be
crarped for time to finish their tourna-
ment
Competition at the National Train
ing School for Boys is on full blast with
about 400 in the struggle. The field has
been split into eight sections. each cot
tage having its own title event with
the winners to have it out for the
school championship.
The deadline for entries has been
left to the discretion of tournament
chairmen and most of them plan to
keep open the lists until the start OF
play. There is considerable rivalry in
some sections over size of fields, the
split of enterprise pevailing. Hose
shoe pitching fever seems to be highly
contagious. The fellow who likes the
game intensely has little difficulty in
4CSIAAlS OOAiSAo'
CIVE an ear to Chairman Oscar
" Hiser at Hyattsville, known around
those digginS as Okay:
We're really going after EN- this
year The Hyattsville tournaments the
last couple years haven't been much
to crow about, maybe, but this time
were going after things in big way
Oscar is all steamed up over reports
that Mount Rainier pitchers are prac-
ticing overtime with a view to develop
ing an expert or two to outshine
Hyattsville in the county finals. These
towns are traditional rivals in sport.
That Mount Rainier stuff is music
to our ears" continued Oscar, wei
burn up those fellahs."
A POPULAR entrant in the Hyatts-
"A vile tournament is Nicholas Orem.
superintendent of the Prince
Georges County schools. J. A. Miller.
assistant superintendent of county
schools, also may enter. In announc-
ing his intention to compete, Orem
accepted the defy Of G. Hodges Carr,
leading merchant and former town
clerk. Orem and Carr are now ar
ranging a series of warm-up matches
Owens avenue. They doubtless will be
joined by flock of others who want
to get their eye on the peg
A sizeable group of Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission en-
ployes are planning to enter. Cham
pion Heilman is an employe of the
commission and is urging as many of
his fellow workers as possible to get
in line The commissions plant and
Office is located just across the road
from Magruder Park.
Entries for the Hyattsville tests are
coming in fast. They should be turned
in to Chairman Hiser at the Arcade
bowling alley Spencer street, near the
Washington Baltimore Boulevard. Hiser
urges all planning to enter to get their
names in as soon as possible in order
that the tournament may get under
way promptly July 81 and not be held
up through unnecessary accumulation
of last-minute organization detail.
Mayor Lemuel L. Gray Of HyattSville
will be asked to toss the first shoe
Opening the tournament. 1t has been
the custom here to have the towns
chief executive open the event. and
DR.. H. T. Willis. former mayor, did
the honors the last two years.
You buffers who would learn to
pitch horseshoes with more than an
occasional ringer should not overlook
the battle this morning between the
Vic Sport Shop team of Washington
and the Westminster Stars of West
minister, Md. on the Monument Lot
courts, near the new Commerce Build
ing. Both lineups are composed OF
experts. The match will start at IL
o'clock.