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Evening star., 1932-07-31
BY TERRELL DELAPP.

Y OS ANGELES, Calf, July 3d.
The boys shined up their good
luck tokens, brushed off their
mascots and got their anti-super-
stitian hexes in working order at the
village yesterday.
For the games are on, and who can
hope to win race or smack an op-
ponent in the right spot without lit
tie help from hokum and charm?
There may be nothing in it, but take
a peek around the village and-H you
are lucky enough to find those VINO
will admit they believe in good-luck
signs and superstitions-you will dis
cover some amazing things.
The japanese must eat ka-chi- kuri
before race-victory chestnuts, which
any good Japanese vii tell you gives
him supreme power to conquer.
WHEN Harold Thomas, New zea-
w land lightweight fighter, enters
the ring there will be a stuf1ed
black cat in his corner.
The New Zealand bike rider, Ron
Foubister, has the wishbone of a fowl
tied with black and blue ribbon on his
handlebars 1t has led him to victory
for two years and he wouldn't think
of pedaling a race without 1t.
Italians lay great hope in the
strength and goodness that the charms
Of their church bring-medals-
pended from their necks on cords and
chains. These, however, are sacred
and cannot be regarded in the lighter
vein of the others-they are part of
the Italians lives and go where the
Italians go. Nevertheless, the medaglia
plays a part in the good fortune beliefs
Athletes Of many other nations also
wear their church medals.
Figas-little charms in the shape
of a mans hand-are the lucky objects
carried by the BraZilians. They are
made of composition, usually colored
red and are carried in the seam of a
track suit or around the neck on a
chain.
If an Italian has to compete on the
seventeenth day Of any monitor
draws an entry number Of seventeen
his day is ruined.
1t is the bad luck number for the
Mussolini men.
Thirteen-the opposite for most other
nations-is the Italian lucky number.
See how the Italians come out on
august 1S-tIlcy dlC COdAlthl6 O4 tAAoS
day.
TN the Danish camp is a pink and
i white toy poodle dog.
This is the mascot for the entire
team.
It was carried carefully from Den
mark and reigns in the Danish team
managers cottage.
But when Dane races-particularly
in cycling events-if you look closely
you will see the poodle at the finish line.
One of the Danish officials will wave
it and any good Dane who is behind on
the last stretch will put on a burst OF
speed and race to victory at the sight
Of the pooch.
That's the theory anyway, and the
Danes swear that 1t works.
In the left hand OF Christian Mark
ersen, Danish l.500-meter runner, will
be clutched little wire and fuZZ minia-
ture Mickey Mouse when the Dane
leaves his marks. His wife gave 1t to
him a year ago, and Mickey Mouse Is
| due for another swift gallop.
THE American boys will enter their
l. events with various charms,
lunches and wearing apparel.
| Athletes of this country are noted for
Evening star., 1932-07-31
Off Olympic Games Ticker

her two star distance men, Juan Carlos
Zabala and Jose RibaS, from the 10000
meter fat race tomorrow, in order to
conserve their energies.
Zabala is the choice of the South
Americans to take the Marathon medal
back to their continent for the first
time. Europe North America and
Africa have contributed the previous
victorS. The Marathon is scheduled
Sunday, August 7.
AIURMI, for the first time in four
IN consecutive Olympics, watched the
proceedings from the stands while
his teammates paraded and received
one of the big ovations of the after
Moons ceremonies.
Paavo had plenty of company on the
side hines, however, among ex-cham-
pions and ex-world beating amateurs,
the latter classification including Jim
Thorpe, the famous Indian, and Jules
Ladoumergue, French runner.
THE national nag bearers included
i a number Of prominent competi-
tors, among them Pat O'Callaghan,
the Irish holder Of the Olympic ham
mer-tossfng championship; Morgan
Taylor Of the United States, world
record holder in the 40-meter hurdles
and 1924 Olympic champion. and
Akilles Jarvinen Of Finland, another
world record holder and the favorite
in the Olympic decathlon.
WITH Nurmi out of the 10000 meter
w run tomorrow, a race he twice has
won, In the Olympics of 1920 and
1928. the Firms installed the youthful
Volmari Iso-Hollo as the favorite, pre-
dieting he would lower the Olympic and
probably the world record.
Evening star., 1932-07-31
GRANT WINS AT TENNIS
Captures Virginia Crown-Women' s
Title to Mrs. Thompson.

HOT SPRINGS, Va, July 80 Up
Bryan Grant, diminutive Albanian
smashed his way to victory over Teddy
Burwen of Charlotte, N. c., today, to
win the Virginia State tennis cham
pionShip.
Grant, after taking the first set, suf-
fered two defeats from his steadier op-
ponent, but rallied in time to win q
grueling decision. 60, 6-8, 3-6, 6-3,
6-3.
Mrs De Lloyd Thompson Of Wash
ington, Pa, won permanent possession
of the woman's singles trophy by scor-
ing her third successive tournament
championship. Her victim was Mar
garet Carspecken of Morgantown, w
Va, West Virginia champion, whom she
beat, IS, Is, Ga.
Burwell, one of the most consistent
entries in the tournament, was compen-
sated to some extent for his singles de-
feat when he teamed with Doc Barr OF
Texas, to whip Grant and Henry Holden
Of Austin, Tex, for the mems doubles
championship, Ga, 96, 6-3.
In addition to her singles title, Mrs.
Thompson had a share in another
championship She paired yesterday
with Jake Hess, jr., of Texas, dethroned
singles champion, to defeat Eliza Coke
of ASheville, N. c., and Bob Stewart
of Pensacola, Fla.
Evening star., 1932-07-31
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
~ LYMPIC STADIUM Los An
geles, July 3o-Percy Williams.
y the Canadian flyer, who will
start the defense of his Olym-
pic sprint championships in the 100
meter trials tomorrow, thinks Ralph
Metcalfe, Marquette Negro and Amer
lean title holder, is the man he must
beat The Canadian sharps figure Ed
die Tolan, the other American Negro
contender, is a bit too slow off the
marks.
Metcalfe will race the 18-year-old
Canadian sensation, Bert Pearson, In
the first series of 100-meter trials.
THE Olympic press section, with seats
l. for 900 experts, also numbered
former bail players such as Ty
Cobb, dozens of foot ball coaches, actors
and, as VIII Rogers remarked. comeo1-
ans among the occupants.
Rogers remarked that Paayo Nurmi
apparently had been eliminated In a
preliminary race in which he trailed
seven oficials.
A FTER watching the athletes Of SO
"A nations parade and stand for
nearly two hours Of ceremonies un-
der a boiling sun, it was easy TO un-
derstand why Head Coach Lawson Rob-
ertson of the American team, as well
as other squads, kept most Of tomor-
rows track and field entries out of
these formalities.
Figure what our sprinters' legs
would be like If they had to go through
that" said Robertson.
A RGENTINA now figuring on cap
~ turing the classic Marathon, with
Nurmi out Of the race, Withdrew
Evening star., 1932-07-31
Track and Swimming Meets
Now Occupying Boys and Girls
OfD.C. Municipal Fairgrounds

are required to be held to keep interest
keen
Because of hard times the play
grounds throughout the city are
thronged this year with boys who ordi-
narily would spend most Of the Sum-
mer away This has stimulated interest
in the various sports and is certain to
result in more entries in all the meets.
It is estimated that from 600 to 1000
will compete in the conference affairs
and upward of 5000 in the city title
meet.
Athletes from u Fairgrounds will
compete in the Southern Conference
games. They will represent the Fair
brother Jefferson, Hoover, Potomac,
Garfield. Virginia Avenue, Wallach,
Buchanan, Orr, Van Euren. Congress
Heights and Stanton groups.
Fifteen Fairgrounds will be repre-
sented in the Eastern Conference, in
cluding Kenilworth, Rosedale, Maury,
Edmonds. Ludlow, Peabody, Stuart,
Hayes, Wheatley, lexington, Noyes,
Brookland, John Burroughs, Stanton
and Woodbridge.
Boys and girls of the Eastern and
Western sections will hold swimming g
meets this week to pick teams to rep
resent them in the city championships
to be held next week. The eastern sec
tion trials will be held in the Rose
dale playground pool and the western
section in the Georgetown tank.
Evening star., 1932-07-31
Younger Queer Marathon May Gets Stars in New 4ebe Glass
O'Callaghan, Mighty Irishman,
Makes Versatile Use of 247
Pounds; Popular at OlymPics

too short for his bulk, but he even can
Scamper over that distance with speed
THERE is no more popular figure in
l. the Olympic village than the
young physician. The other after
noon when the various nations were
at practice, OCallaghan was found
teaching several Italians the knack of
throwing the hammer.
Aren't you afraid to be teaching
other nations how to toss the hammer?"
he was asked.
"Oh. not the little Italians. I could
beat them in me street clothes They're
lust taking up hammer throwing and
they are too small to be formidable with
the big weight. But 1 will not be
teaching those Swedes or Firms any
thing about hammer throwing. Those
lads are good enough without any help"
Another giant in the games and also
a boxer is Alberto Lowell from the
Argentine. He leaned against a portion
in the village and a carpenter had to
come and put on new side. Lowell
learned to fight along the Argentine
water front and carries hunk of dyna-
mite in each fist. He is one of the
favorites in the Olympic boxing con-
tests and what a scrap it would be If
he met O'Callaghan.
IN ANOTHER corner of the city we
/ stopped by to see some of the
wrestlers go through their workouts.
When Jack Riley OF Northwestern
climbed into the ring a certain well
known manager Of boxers was heard to
moan: 'Oh, the pity of it, making a
wrestler of that boy. Putting knots in
his muscles. What a boxer he would
make and the world looking for another
Dempsey. And he's a rassler"
But of all the events on the Olympic
program the modern pentathlon de-
mandS the most diversified skill. In
that contestants must engage in target
shooting with rife and pistol. 300-meter
freestyle swimming. fencing, riding a
horse 5000 meters at top speed and run
ming 1000 meters across the country.
The winners in that event are good
soldiers, nothing less. and most Of the
entrants are military men with some
of the best performers from every Euro
pean army competing
Evening star., 1932-07-31
Leaders of Navy
Pastimes Fitted

A NNAPOLIS; July 3O.-The three
N officers comprising the staff Of
the department of physical
training at the Naval Academy are
the holders together of letters in
eight sports, received while midShip-
men.
Capt. John w. Wilsox, jr., head
Of the department received letters
for foot ball and rifle.
The two other officers of the de-
partment, Lieut.. Comdr. John L.
Hall. jr., graduate manager of ath-
letics, and Lieut.. Comdr. Harvey E.
Overesch, gymnasium officer, were
both three-letter men and winners of
the. Navy Association sword as the
best athlete of the year
Lieut.. Comdr- Hall won letters in
foot ball, basket ball and base ball,
and Lieut.. Comdr Overesch in foot
ball, rowing and basket ball
Evening star., 1932-07-31
SuPerstition's Slaves, Olympic
Athletes Put Faith in Queer
Lot of HOkum and Luck Tokens

having their little lucky ideas, but are
cagey about admitting anything along
this line.
It is known in the camp, however,
that when the new track pants of the
United States team are passed out to
the boys, many will wear them-plus
their old ones underneath.
To take away from some of the
American boys these panties in which
they have run to victory for a year
in many cases more-would be as seri-
Gus as breaking a leg.
The same goes for lucky swimming
suits, track shoes, shirts and rings and
vaulting poles
They all have yen for something or
other that will see them in first at the
tape.
1t may be bunkum, but it seems to be
universal
tCopyright 1922
Evening star., 1932-07-31

ON the Detroit River. where
~ Americans look across to The
Canadian side. there is a row.
ing rganization. It Is the Detroit
Boat Club-one of the outstanding
QUITS of its kind in this country.
The king Of this little realm Of
sweeps and SOULS, shells and bargeS,
is Jim Rice. 1t was from Detroit
that Jim went to the Atlantic sea-
board to become a famous college
rowing coach, and it was back to
Detroit that Jim went when the
turn of the wheel brought a new
man to the post at Columbia.
You will remember jim as men,
tor of Columbia crews-especially
that Columbia eight which fought
its way down the Hudson to glory
in the 1914 intercollegiate regatta
at Poughkeepsie. You may recollect
the peculiar style of that Blue and
White eight-the long layback, and
the long Dull in the water.
Rice maintained that this was the
ideal stroke. and he fought for his
ideal at time when rowing became
somewhat confused Now the most
successful rowing colleges are using
the Jim Rice Stroke. II isn't called
that, not even at Columbia, where
the Gleondons now are teaching
rowing But it is the Rice method,
nevertheless.
Jim sits out on the float on the
Detroit River, and he gazes eastward
to the Hudson-and he thinks of
the days that used to be- And his
Detroit crews are winning just as
Columbia won under Jim's viborouS
coaching.
(Copyright 1922
Evening star., 1932-07-31

HOY and girl athletes Of the Mu-
K nicipal Playground Department
this week will swing Into the
most important phase Of the
Summers track and swimming pro-
gram.
Conference track meets foE boys will
begin Tuesday when the tests for the
Southern group will be held on the Vir-
gtnia avenue playground. The Eastern
Conference meet will be staged Thurs
day on the RoSedale grounds and the
Northern Conference meet is scheduled
Friday IN Central High. School Stadium
The Western Confere nee affair will be
held next week. Pdl the conference
meets will start at 1890 am. Hitherto
they have been held in the afternoon.
Heretofore six conference meets have
been held preliminary to the city cham
pionships, but playground officials be-
lieve that four meets Will create more
interest because of the larger number OF
competitors.
First, second and third place win
ners in the conference tests will be
awarded conference stripes, but all ath-
leteS will be eligible to compete in the
city championships August rs at Gen.
trail High School Stadium.
The conference meets will be con-
Quoted in addition to the intra-play-
ground and inter playground tests that
Evening star., 1932-07-31
EASTERN ON PLEBE LIST
Only D. C. School Booked on Fall
and Winter Schedules.

only d. c. School Booked on Fall
and Winter Schedules.
ANNAPOLIS, July 3o.-Eastern High
School, to be met January % at An
napolis in basket ball, is the only Wash
ngton school that has been booked for
an athletic contest next Winter by the
Navy Plebes.
The card follows. all contests to be
held here:
BASKET BALL.
January l+Baltimore City College
January 2l-Newton Academy.
January y26-EaStern High.
February 4-Valey FORGE Military Acad-
February 1l-Staunton Military Academy.
February 18-Hun School.
WRESTLING.
February l-Newton High School.
February l1-V. M. l. Freshmen
February l0-Augusta Military Academy
February 25-Franklin and Marshall Acad-
emy.
SWIMMING.
February 11-Massanutten Military Acad-
amy.
February 1s-Penn Freshmen
February 2S-Rutgers Prep.
d March 4-MercersburE Academy.
WATER POLO. +
February I1-Bedford Y. NJ C. A. 4
February 18-Penn Freshmen
February 25-Baltimore City COLLEGE.
March Baltimore Poly.
Evening star., 1932-07-31
SHUNS FISTIC BODIES

ANNAPOLIS, July 3O.-Lieut. Comdr
John L. Hall. jr.. graduate manager OF
athletics. has denied all reports that
the Naval Academy would re-enter the
Intercollegiate Boxing Association or
any other organization for the sport
among the colleges
At the same time, Lieut. Comdr. Hall
said that the Academy would maintain
its interest in the sport and engage in
dual matches.
Evening star., 1932-07-31
Athlete Speedy
In Cleaning Jail

nALO ALTO, Calf, July 80 (P1.-
L When it comes to topping the
hurdles at Stanford University,
August Meier is fast man, but he's
never broken any records. In fact,
he was just another athlete until
he set a new indoor mark in the city
jail here.
He washed five cells, q corridor
and jailer's Office in / hour 22l2
minutes. eclipsing the former rec
ord of hour and 80 minutes.
Meier was driving IS miles an
hour in a 25-mile zone when the law
caught up with him. He wes fined
SIS, but decided to work out the SEN
tence. He's been invited back be-
cause he did such fine job setting
the record.
Evening star., 1932-07-31
GERMANY CLAIMED
1928 TEAM HONORS
Scored Over Rival Nations in
OIympics on Basis of All
Around Achievements.

- CORING a total OF 451a points
- Germany carried of the honors
considered by team achievements
in the ninth Olympic games. held
at Amsterdam in 1928. The United
States was runner-up with 80 points,
while Holland, with 34l2 points, took
third place.
Scoring was on the usual basis, with
10 points for first place, points for
second, 4 for third, 5 for fourth, 2 for
fifth and / for sixth.
Other countries which finished we'll ur
on the list were Italy. with 33lz points
Sweden, 321z; Finland, IS: Great
Britain, 18; France, IS, and Argentina,
1912.
THE events which were included in
L the scoring were track and field
rowing swimming, boxing, catch
as-catch-can wrestling, reco-Roman
wrestling. fencing, gymnastics, yachting,
cycling, modern pentathlon, equestrian
sports, weight lifting, soccer foot ball
and field hockey.
The women's track and field events,
which were won by Canada, with the
United States second and Germany
third; the lacrosse demonstrations.
which ended IN triple tie among the
United States, Great Britain and Can
ada and the Winter sports, which were
won by Norway. with the United States
second and Sweden third, were not in
cluded in the scoring.
The tabulation:
Track and Field.
l. United States. 4 Germany.
q Finland. 5. Sweden.
). Great Britain. 6. Canada.
Rowing.
/. United States. 4. Italy.
2 Great Britain. S. Germany.
g. Switzerland. 8. Australia.
Swimming.
!. United States. 4. Sweden.
z. Germany. 4. Holland
3. Great Britain. g. Japan.
Tied for fourth place.
Boxing
/. Argentina. 5. Sweden.
l. Italy; 6. New Zealand.
T. Holland.
Tied for frst place. tiled for sixth place.
Cateh-as-YOu-Can Wrestling.
J. Finland. {. United States.
3. Switzerland. No sixth
Greeo-RomAn WRESTLING.
/. Germany. 4. Hungary
Z. Flnland. S. Estonia.
8. Switzerland 9. Egypt
Fencing.
l. Italy. = Germany
2. France. S. United States.
s. hungary. s. Argentina.
Gymnastics.
+ S::s:i:%i: SSs:;:;5:s E5s5ss
Yachting.
l. Norway 4. Holland.
2. Sweden. S. Estonia
3. Denmark. 8. Finland
Cycling.
!. Holland. 4. France
2. Denmark. S. Italy.
8. Great Britain. No sixth
Modern PentathIon.
l. Sweden 4. Italy.
2. Germany. s. Finland
j. Holland. s. Great Britain.
Equestrian Sports
/. Holland. 3. tSpain.
]. POLAND. s. Sweden
3. tGermany. 6. Norway.
Tied for first. tiled for third.
Soccer Foot Ball.
|. Uruguay. g. Italy.
2. Argentina T. Spain
No fifth or sixth.
Field Hockey.
l. British India g. Germany.
2. Holland. 4. Belgium.
No fifth or sixth.
Weight Lifting
.. France s. Egypt.
3. Austria. s. EStonia.
Evening star., 1932-07-31
Tardy Fans Lose
Out ON Olympics

T OS ANGELES, Calf, July 80 (P).
IL Olympic games ticket offices
were besieged by several
thousand persons who tried without
success to buy tickets to the open
ing ceremony this afternoon.
The last of the los, 900 seats in the
great Olympic Stadium had been
sold three hours before noon.
There is not a ticket to be had
at any price" one Of the ticket
officials said.
Evening star., 1932-07-31
U. S. MODEL YACHT LOSES
British Craft Gains 43-17 Margin

British Craft Gains 43-17 Margin
in International Event.
GOSPORT. England, July 80 [P-
The International model yacht cup
races began here today with the British
defender. Flame, defeating the Ameri-
can challenger, BoStonia, 43 to II on
points. Belgium and France scratched
their boats, leaving only the United
States to challenge for the trophy.
Bostonia, sailed by John Black of
Rhode Island. lost valuable points in
the opening heats when Flame forged
ahead in a duE1y wind. In the after
noon. however, with a steadier wind
blowing, the American boat showed i'm
provement.
Evening star., 1932-07-31
WILL HOLD MIXED SWIM
Quarter-Mile D. C. Championship
to Be Decided on Potomac.

Man and woman swimmers will COM
pete in the quarter-m District Of
Columbia A. A. U. championship race
this afternoon of the Washington
Canoe Club on the Upper Potomac,
starting at O'Clock The public is
invited to view the contest from the
club house.
The race will be the first of a series
under Washington Canoe Club auspices,
at varying distances for District A. A. U.
titles.
Entrants include Lorenzo Snyder,
Crystal Pool; william F. Monohan, un-
attached; Constancio Alvarado, Ernest
Oberti, Emily Chapman, Ambassador
Club; Al Walton, Camp Conway. Law
renee BuScher. Robert Wrenn' Frank
DAILY, Robert Hogan, John MolyneauX,
Alden Smell, Washington Canoe Club;
Lenora Taube. Evangelne Rice. Lois
Bates, Mary Maurine, Rita Augusterfer
Madeline Augusterfer and LYDIA Cord,
Shoreham Club.
Evening star., 1932-07-31
PALAIS ROYAL SPLURGES
Scores Is Runs in Sth Inning to
Beat Kanns, 1S to 8.


Beat Kanns, 1s to 8.
Entering the eighth inning leading,
6 to 8. Kann base ballers appeared an
almost sure winner Of their Department
Store League game yesterday with Palais
Royal, but the latter went wild in their
half of the frame to score Is runs and
win, Is to 6.
Palais Royal ;ained a SO lead in the
second inning, but Kann's counted a
trio of marker, in the sixth and three
more in the SET nth.
Not only did the winners hammer the
ball with guSto in the big eighth, but
they were aided by complete break
down in the rival defense.
Bowman and Reuling, both of the
winners, got a homer apiece. and
Holmes, mate, Socked a double and
two singles. Regan made three of the
losers bingles, including a double and
a pair of one-basers.
Evening star., 1932-07-31
GRAY WINS SKEET SHOOT.

J. C. Gray with 10 hits won the sec
ond weekly Montgomery skeet shoot
yesterday at Chevy Chase, Md. Cy
Cummings held the former record, ID,
which was equaled yesterday by his son,
Cy. jr.
About 200 witnessed the competition,
a form OF trapshooting new TO this
Evening star., 1932-07-31
ALEKHINE CHESS VICTOR
Nine Moves Win Him Final Game
in Masters Tourney.

BERNE, Switzerland, July 80 P.-
Or. Alexander Alekhine of Paris today
won first prize in the international
chessmasters tournament with final
score of 1212-212.
He defeated his last opponent, Colin
of Switzerland, in nine moves.
The other prizes depend upon the out
come of the seven games of the f1f-
teenth round still in progress.
The leading scores: Alekhine, 1212-
212; Flohr, 11-3; Euwe, 10l2-312;
Sultan Khan, 10-4, and Bogol-
jubow, 9-5.