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Evening star., 1932-01-28

" YEW YORK, January Zo.-
~ The season of 1881 was the
4 beginning of new era in
pitching, according to the
belief of some of the most expert
pitchers now on major league
clubs, and the coming season may
prove again that a stitch makes
a whale of a difference in base
ball.
The old theory of gripping the
ball by its stitches, instead of try
ing to hold it by its smoother sur
faces, has been revived, and the
pitchers who believe that it can
best be thrown by a grip on the
threads are having their turn
again.
Many years ago, when John Clark
son was an ideal pitcher, when the
duels between Clarkson of Boston and
Keefe of New York attracted huge
crowds for those days in the cities keen
ly fighting for the pennant, Clarkson
would talk for hours of the advantages
in control that every pitcher might have
II he took firm hold of the stitches of
the ball with his fingers.
Tried Freak Pitching.
Some years after Clarksons time less
attention was paid to the stitches. The
pitchers Of modern days, who began to
throw the splitter, the paraffin-Shined
ball and various other assortmentS of
fraakC Parai Lace about tho ctitphec and
more about the manner in which they
released the ball They daubed it on
any old spot and then threw it so the
wetter surface or the shiny spot faced
the batter and whatever air current
might pile up in front of it. The air
CondenSing against this spot made the
ball break
Twenty major league pitchers of 1881
were asked to give their opinion as to
whether they were more effective last
season than they had been before, not
a base ball average effectiveness which
might show figure" improvement, but
a statement as to whether they really
thought they had improved in skill.
Every one of them replied in the afflrma-
tive. With two exceptions, they gave
credit to the newer type ball in use
in both leagues and the fact that they
got better grip on the heavy stitches
than they had been able to get since
the stitches of the modern ball were
counterSunk."
Ball in 1880 Too Good"
When the makers of the ball put it
on the market with counterSunk stitches,
they were sure that they had produced
the most perfect base ball in all history.
AS far as skill and thoroughness in
manufacture had anything to do with
it, there is no doubt they had.
The ball of 1880 in every way was
the ideal base ball of all time. If
anything, it was too good. Pitchers
complained that they could not grip it
we'll and the umpires were permitted
TO rub the gloss from the balls before
each game. In 1881 both major leagues
asked the makers to raise the stitches
after the fashioned way, and they
did. 1t pleased the pitchers and they
are looking forward to a banner year.
Evening star., 1932-01-28
MEY SUB FOR STEIN
ON WRESTLING CARD
Mat Freak to Meet Williams in
One of Two Feature Bouts
in Show Tonight.

An animated pretzel by the name of
Fritz Kley, a German Importation, who
was signed to substitute for Sammy
Stein yesterday, is the latest addition to
tonights Washington Auditorium wres-
ting show.
Kley, a r-contortionist, whose
antics threw Madison Square Garden
into an uproar Monday night IN New
York, will oppose Cy Williams in one
of the peTliminaries.
With Kley to vie with Leo Pinetzki,
Poland'S Tall Tower, who will oppose
Herbie Freeman in one OF the two fea-
ture matches, the card will contain
practically every known type of mat
man.
Leo Pinetzki, Poland's champion, will
trot his size 18 shoes into the ring along
with feet inches of height, 280-odd
pounds Of muscle and feet Of wing
spread, against Freeman in a finish
match.
Sander Szabo, Hungarian champion,
will meet Scotty McDougal who claims
the title in Scotland, In the other
finish match.
Fred Grubmeyer, the 6-foot-4-inch
stringbean from Iowa, will endeavor to
clamp his wiry legs in a hook scissors
around Jack Lewis, who says he is, or
was, champion of the Navy, in one Of
the prelimS, while Doc Wilson and
Norton Jackson will TOSS each other
around in the curtain-raLser.
Evening star., 1932-01-28
WOODS NEW MARK
WHETS AMBITION
Would Add Mile an Hour to
Boat Record of 110.785.
Alters Craft.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
a IAMI BEACH, Fla, January
M 28-Gar Wood, who set new
world speedboat record OF
1lo785 miles an hour yester-
day, had his heart set on increasing
his margin of possession today.
TIE veteran Detroit racer wanted to
tack at least one more mile an hour on
his time over the measured nautical
mile course on Indian River. That
would place him a mile and half an
hour up on Kaye Don, WHO drove
llO223 miles an hour in a speedboat
at Lake Garda, Italy, last July to
break Woods old record.
Changes in Miss Americas hull to
lower her nose further into the water
were rushed by Woods mechanics last
night, and the boat was made ready
for further trials today. These changes
were to cause the racing craft to split
through ripples on the water instead OF
jumping over them as it did yesterday,
Wood said.
Wood said the water was so rough
yesterday that Orlin Johnson, his rid
ing mechanic, was nearly thrown out OF
the boat on two occasions.
Evening star., 1932-01-28
nir e1y H0pefu of Banner Year. Send Young Golfers

championships, also is highly regarded,
and H. C. Bentley. Lancashire and
French champion, also has his fol-
lowers. 1t is rather obvious that Eric
Martin Smith, the 1881 British amateur
champion, will be given consideration,
and also John DeforreSt, who was run
ner-up last Spring at Westward Ho.
Deforrest is competing in our American
Winter tournaments at the moment and
his development over the past year has
been the subject of considerable COM
ment from the leading professionals.
Jameson in Line.
Another mentioned for a place on the
British team is Andrew Jameson, the
Scotch baker who won fame by defeat
ing Bobby Jones in the 1926 British
amateur at Muirfeld. Had Jones beaten
Jameson he likely would have met jess
Sweetser in the finals and the history
of golf might have been slightly altered
Jameson has done little to attract at
tention since his victory over Jones, but
must be playing fine golf to be con-
sidered for the British team.
If the British select their team from
that group, they, too will have much
younger squad in the competition than
has been offered during the past several
matches. A battle between two teams
composed mainly of young players
would be much better gate attraction
than if well known veterans were in the
combat.
The United States has beaten the
Wethereds, Tolleys and Torrances so
often that there no longer is much in
terest attached to their play.
In the matter Of attracting galleries
the Ryder Cup play is much stronger
magnet than the Walker matches, but
young blood on both sides might instill
some new interest. In so far as golf is
concerned it might be a good thing If
the British were to some time win the
Walker Cup. But on the face of the
probable lineup offered at this time
they hardly can turn the trick in 1882.
Evening star., 1932-01-28
CLUB BOXING TONIGHT

Marion Brooks Charlottesville School
welterweight, will meet LIE Roy zinkman
of Ritz Athletic Club Of Baltimore to-
night in the feature tilt of a Shout
boxing card at the Congressional Coun-
try Club.
Women will be admitted. to the bouts
for the first time since the inaugura-
ton of boxing at the club.
The rest of tonight's card follows;
Jack Baxter VS.. Stan Crielieski; George
Frizell VS.. Ernest Grisett: Angelo Brad
Evening star., 1932-01-28
20 YEARS AGO
IN THE STAR.

A MONG those mentioned in boat
II club gossip are these Corinthian
Yacht Club members: Com
modore Ingling, John Hill, Judge
Stryder, Secretary w. R. Adams
and Capt. j. B. Welcker.
Selden Daniel and Harold King,
Washington canoeists, have planned
a trip, starting at Laurel, Md, on
the Patuxent River and winding up
here
Eppa Rixey, University of vir-
ginia 1eft-hand pitcher, will not
join the Washington team this
Spring, but has promised to give
the Nationals first chance at his
services.
Georgetown u basketers defeated
Virginia, "a to 16, as Collifiower and
Waldron starred for the Hilltoppers.
Western High downed Business,
33i9 to 3oh in track meet. D.,
Evening star., 1932-01-28

THE ever-fertile noodle of John
Blick has produced an idea in
that 25-game marathon-sWeep-
stakes for woman bowlers, Sched-
uled for Saturday afternoon at Con-
vention Hall, that, from this corner,
looms as one of the spiciest pin tidbitS
OF the season. When Blick curtailed
the event from so games to rs, he
changed what would have been nothing
more than monotonous test of stamina
into an event that will require an
evenly portioned measure of skill,
stamina and luck to win.
Charlie Bell, manager of Convention
Hall and its bowling stadium" in
which the neutrality-suspicious. Will
be rolled, said today that from 10 to
II girls, at least two OF whom VIII nall
from other cities, are sure to be in the
field Saturday. They include Edna
johnson, Evelyn Ellis, Evelyn Ream,
Merceda Isemann and Doris Goodan OF
Washington and Lotta Janow1tz OF Bal
timore and Mary Stapleton OF Norfolk.
Whether a girl can roll 25 games with
in three hours, the time limit under the
rules, is question that probably never
has been actually answered Twenty
five strings is a bigger task than many
would suppose, as proven last year when
the l00-game marathon for men was
held in the same pin plant. Several of
the pinmen, some of whom had de-
nveries which never should have al
lowed them to think of rolling 100
games, were forced to drop out around
the 25-game mark because of bhstered
finger-tips. =,
Blistered finger tips will be, in all
probability, the biggest difficulty the
girls, seeking the $50 first prize Satur-
day, will have to confront.
Rare is the bowler who delivers
ball from a place of the hand other
Evening star., 1932-01-28
Fistic Battles

BY the Associated Press.
OAKLAND, Calf. - Jimmy Evans,
Vallejo, Calf, outpointed young Jack
Thompson, San Francisco Q0).
SAN FRANCISCO.-Gabb Bagdad,
New York, outpointed Bobby Vincent,
Tulsa, Okla. 00); Max Tarley, Manila,
outpointed Benny Gallup, Duluth,
MINI. Q0).
ST LOUIS. - Eddie Shea, Chicago,
knocked out Henry Falegano, Philip
pines o..
Evening star., 1932-01-28
CROWN FORFEITED
IN NO CONTEST CO
BattaIino Is Charged With
Quitting to Miller After
Weight Failure.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
- INCINNATI, Ohio, January 2s.
The featherWeight trail
Y 4 which Bat Battalino of Hart
ford, Conn, followed to the
championship ended in a no contest
match with Freddie Miller, Cincinnati
southpaw challenger, last night
Shorn of his title by the National
Boxing Association yesterday when he
failed to weigh in under the feather
weight limit of 1875 pounds, Battalino
put up such poor exhibition that Ref
cree Lou Bauman stopped the fight in
the third round, calling it no contest,
and the Cincinnati Boxing Commission
ordered all ticket money refunded.
Carl Wilzbach, chairman of the COM
mission, said both fighters probably
will be suspended.
Battalino went down in the third
round with right to the chin, which
Bauman said was light" He was
there approximately IS seconds, but
Bauman wasn't counting. Instead he
was telling Bat to get up and fight"
Meeting with no success, Bauman
picked up the erstWhile champion and
again told him TO fight, but down he
went again.
Bauman walked out of the ring to
talk with the commission members and
returned to declare the bout mo con-
test" Miller claimed the title and Bat
talino shouted through tie amplifierS
that he was weakened by trying to get
of poundage. The commission gave
them no attention.
Battalino weighed in at 129&. The
N. B. A. had permitted the fight ana
ruled that Miller would be recognized
champion if he won and if Bat won
the title would remain vacated.
Battalino also lost recognition in New
York State recently when he failed 10
weigh in under the featherweight limit
for a title match with Lew Feldman.
Battalino's 81 900 forfeit, posted to
protect the commission against his
failure to scale l26 pounds or under,
will be turned over to charity.
Evening star., 1932-01-28
MUST PICK GREEN
WALKER CUP TEAM
England Has Few Leading
Linksmen Able to Bear
Cost of Trip Here.
BY FRANCIS J. POWERS.

~HICAGO, January 28.-Al-
| though Robert Jones and
" George Won Elm no longer
are available for amateur
competition, 1t Is unlikely Great
Britain will be able to muster
sufficient strength to defeat the
United States in the Walker Cup
matches when the international
amateur golf duel is staged some
where in the East next Septem-
Der.
With Britain suffering severely from
economic conditions it is improbable
that all of its leading amateur stars will
be able TO make the trip to the United
States and the team may be one OF
convenience rather than skill. Still
Great Britain is to be commended in
its desire to keep the Walker Cur
matches alive, even at the expense of a
serious financial effort.
Americas team for the 1882 matches
likely will be a young one. Capt
Francis Ouimet could select a very
capable squad from a roster that in
cludes Billy Howell, Jack Westland, Dor
Moe, Charles Seaver, George Dunlap
Augustus Moreland, Eugene HomanS
Roland Mackenzie, Lawson Little, NAL
colin McNaughton and Johnny Lehman
That group, steadied by the presence
of Ouimet and one other veteran, WOulC
be rather difficult to defeat on its ma
tive fairWays.
Wethered Apt to Lead.
Great Britain will depend upon Roger
Wethered to captain its Walker CuE
squad in case the tall Surrey star is able
to make the trip. The British also
would like to have Cyril Tolley in the
lineup, but the big Englishman has
been making mis- home in the United
States a good share of the past two
years and there might be question ot
his eligibility
According to British golf writers, the
only two members of the 1880 British
team assured of places on this years
squad are Rex Hartley and J. A. Stout
Hartley has developed into one of the
best of Britain's younger players anC
Stout is a golfer who thoroughly lives
up 10 his name. Among other outstand-
ing candidates are Lister Hartley
brother Of Rex, who holds the st
George Golf Vase Leonard CraWley
the English amateur champion, anC
Eric McRuvie, young player who holds
the Irish open championship.
j. A. BookleSs, a Scotch player who
| has competed in only a few major
Evening star., 1932-01-28
Phar Lap Likely
To Race in East

BY the Associated Press.
NIEW YORK, January 28.-An in
N ternational race. bringing to-
gether Phar Lap, the wonder
horse from Australia; Twenty Grand
and Mate, is in the making as the
Australian champion prepares for
his North American debut in the
$4,000 special race at Auga Caliente
February 81.
David J. Davis, part owner OF
Phar Lap, is considering bringing
him East for a crack at Americas
3-year-old co-champions of last
year. Much depends, however, on
Phar Laps showing against DR..
Freeland, Plucky Play and Marine
in the special race and in the $780,
900 Aqua Caliente March 20.
Evening star., 1932-01-28
WILL NOT RISK TITLE.

PHILADELPHIA, January % LP.-
Johnny Jadick's first fight as junior
Welterweight champion will be with
Harry Dublinsky of Chicago here Feb
ruary g. Articles have been signed for
the set-to in which Jadick's newly won
crown will not be at stake.
Evening star., 1932-01-28
WOMEN SET COLE DATES.

CHICAGO, January % LP.-The
Women's Western Golf Association has
picked the Ozaukee Country Club, Mil
waukee, for its 1882 open champion
ship. The dates were set for July II
to is. inclusive
Evening star., 1932-01-28
Pin Honor Roll Last NIGHT

ario VS.. Don Burgess; Frank HOSEA VS..
Joe Sweatman; Mike Clannos VS.. Ralph
Smith, and Nick Franchitta VS.. Harry
Haas
Evening star., 1932-01-28
MAY BECOME HOGGIsH.

Dixiana Barbecue basketers have
been presented a unique mascot. It's
a baby pig.
Evening star., 1932-01-28

A ND only day or two ago he played
n the last nine at Columbia again in
80 strokes, in one of his usual
morning rounds with William HinShaW,
a New York man with whom Mcleod
has been playing a good deal lately.
This card also shows consecutive deuceS
at the sixteenth and seventeenth holes
The seventeenth at Columbia is being
played from the short tee which means
that the green may be driven, but is no
light task to hit the golf ball straight
enough and far enough to carry that
green 100 yards away situated up on
top of hill 80 feet above the tee
To our mind the prize stunt the little
Scottish wonder worker has done is that
string of IS at the first hole. Second is
that string of four 3s to start his 66
round. Yes, Freddie is back on his
game, and the finest part Of it all. to
his many friends, is that no more does
he get tired out after a few holes Of
golf. At the end Of 36 holes he is hit
ting his shots with all the old Mcleod
vim and skill. He will be tough nut
this year and no mistake
Al Treder, the Manor Club pro- has
been notified by Warner Mather, secre-
tary Of the Middle Atlantic Professional
Golfers Association, that the boys who
like to hold a tourney at Manor next
Monday. To this both the club and
Treder have agreed, and SO an 1S-hole
sweepstakes tourney will be held by the
Mid-atlantic pros at Manor next Mon
day, to be followed by dinner and a
short business meeting
A MEETING of the Tournament
n Committee Of the Womens District
Golf Association will be held to-
morrow at the home of Mrs. j. M
Haynes, chairman of the committee
The tentative schedule, already drawn
up, which provides for the champion
ship tourney at Manor, The Star Cup
event at Kenwood, and other Journeys
throughout 1882. will be discussed, and
arrangements will go forward for COM
pletion of the list of interclub team
matches.
Mrs. E. Boyd Morrow of the Elkridge
Hunt Club, former women's champion
of the Middle Atlantic Golf Associa-
ton and runner-up to Mrs. Haynes for
the title last year, has been elected
president of the Baltimore Women's
Golf Association, which again will CO.
operate this year with the local wom-
ems golf body in promoting team
matches.
The little fuss caused by the COM
plant of a Baltimore player last No.
vember, following tournament at the
National Womens Country Club, is a
closed incident and matches between
Baltimore and Washington will again
follow their usual smooth-running
course this wear
Evening star., 1932-01-28

-
canny little Scotsman who Is
in the middle Of grand come
back and who may, if he continues his
present scoring pace through the COM
ing season, cause a lot of fuss among
the men who have been contracting the
winning habit in golf tournaments
hereabouts. The Scot is Freddie Nc
Leod, and if you have any doubt about
the Mcleod comeback listen to the bare
facts as told by figures. Freddie has
played a lot of golf this Winter-more
than in any recent Winter-and he has
been knocking the ball around that
Columbia course in figures so low even
the old-timers have been gaSping as he
returns score after score in the low 7Os
or the late COS. He has had something
like a score of consecutive rounds OF
70 and better, has been down In the
COS half a dozen times and has done
the seemingly impossible by birdteing
the first hole at Columbia 81 times in
90 consecutive starts. If you think
that's easy, try it some time, for the
first hole has caused plenty Of grief
for lot of folks, including Bobby Jones,
who opened the 1921 championship with
wild on that hole and very nearly
ruined his chances of qualification right
off the bat
EOR couple of years prior to last
l. Summer Mcleod was a sick man
and didn't know it. Eighteen holes
tired him out and 36 holes was virtually
impossible. Many a day he came in
tired out after single round under a
hot sun. But last Summer he had his
tonsils out and after the doctors had
a crack at him he laid off golf for six
weeks. Only last Fall did he start play
ing golf again and during those fine
Fall days and those Of early Winter
the Mcleod game Of golf, that had been
badly decayed by the long lay-off and
the general feeling of lassitude that
had been his during his illness, began
to come back. Right now Freddie has
his game back at the old crest of ef-
fectiveness. He is hitting that ball a
mile from the tee, socking his iron
shots close to the pin in typical NC
Leod fashion as of old, and chipping
and putting like he did in the days
when the name of Mcleod was one to
Evening star., 1932-01-28
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

TULL up your chairs, you fireside
- golfers, and listen to the tale Of
| a canny little Scotsman who is
In the middle of a grand come
Evening star., 1932-01-28
BALL Of 81 BRAND
AID, PITCHERS SAY
Now Accustomed to Raised
Stitches, SIabmen Expect
Better Results.
BY JOHN b. FOSTER.

n IEW YORK, January %
N The season of 1881 was the
4 ' beginning of a new era in
The Washington times., 1932-03-31
DOUBLE SUICIDE
EXPLAINED
BALTIMORE, March 81 d.N.s0

BALTIMORE, March 81 G.N.S.O
DIR. Frederick B. Jennings, jr.,
~, voluntary pathologist at the
John Hopkins Medical School,
committed suicide during one of
his spells Of detection in which
he felt his work was useless, his
hospital colleagues said today.
His private nurse, Miss Mona
o. Rittenhouse, 81, killed herself
when apparently temporarily
deranged by the shock Of his
DEATH" the coroner said. Both
swallowed the same kind of
poison.
DR.. Jennings estranged wife,
who lives in Colorado Springs
and is now visiting her parents
in Grand Rapids, Mich, was re-
ported here as saying her hus-
band was subjected to fits OF
depression.
The Washington times., 1932-03-31
FOUNDPROWLER.
AIMING GUN
At WIFE
Negro Ex-EmpIoye Critically
Wounded in Mouth After
SCuffIe

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va,
March 31.-Lindsey Herndon,
negro, 50, is in serious con-
dition in University Hospital
here from a bullet wound from
his own gun which a promi-
nent member of the University
of Virginia faculty had to use
to save his own life and that
of his wife when the colored
man burst into their home
with the drawn weapon.
DR.. George w. spicer, associate
professor in the department Of
political science, shot Herndon in
the face after a desperate strug-
gle in which both DR.. and Mrs.
Spicer we're in danger Of their
lives.
Former Employe
Herndon, who had been for.
merly employed by the instructor,
came to the Spicer home Tues
day night and asked to speak to
Mrs. Spicer. Thinking it con-
cerned some duty the negro had
performed about the place. DR..
Spicer summoned his wife from
another room. A minute after ne
returned to find the negro
threatening Mrs. spicer with a
revolver.
A fierce struggle ensued before
the gun was wreSted away from
the aSsailant. Even after being
disarmed he continued beliggerent
and the teacher shot in self
defense. The negro then fled and
was arrested an hour later at the
home of his brother. He was
suffering from a wound in the
mouth and had lost a great deal
Of blood.
Fear Student Anger
Commemorative Attorney w.
o. Fife indicated today that
charges of attempted robbery and
The Washington times., 1932-03-31
FACING ARREST,
Va. ATTORNEY
ENDS LIFE
Warrant Out for Arrest of
Staunton Lawyer Charged
With $3,771 Theft

STAUNTON, Va, March 81.
Facing arrest for alleged mis-
appropriation of funds, Will
liam Marvin Bass, jr., 81,
Staunton attorney, shot and
killed himself in his office here
yesterday.
His secretary, hearing a shot,
opened his door and found him
on the floor with a .30-caliber
automatic pistol nearby.
A warrant had been issued
charging him with misappropriat-
ing $3,771.87 from the estate of
Homer B. Benson, deceased, of
which he was administrator.
He leaves a wife and one child.
The Washington times., 1932-03-31
Children InUited
To Bi-Fete M1U IL

Prince Georges school children
and their parents have been in
vited by the county board of ed.
ucation to attend a Bicentennial
celebration at Ritchie Coliseum,
College Park. on the morning Of
May l.. The program will be
given in conjunction with the an
nual rural field meet, to be held
in the afternoon.
The Washington times., 1932-03-31
TdkOn1d Park Plans
NeUU Catholic Church

Plans for a church to cost
$1,000 together with application
for a building permit, were filed
yesterday with Martin F. Iverson,
building inspector for the Eastern
Suburban section of Montgomery
county, at Silver Spring, by
Henry j. Connor, contractor, in
behalf Of Nativity Catholic
Church., Takoma Park, Md.
The church, of which Rev.
John F. Fanron is pastor, will
be erected on the northwest
corner of Ethan Allen and Jack.
son Avenues, and will be of brick
and hollow t'1, construction.