Evening star., 1932-07-24

Will open MONDAY, August
Is. with eight titles at stake.
Except the date for the city
finals, arrangements for the
Washington section of The Stars
fourth annual metropolitan dis
trict championships were COM
pleted yesterday.
Bernard T McCarty of the municipal
playground headquarters staff again will
be the general chairman for Washing
ton and director Of key Fairgrounds
will have direct supervision of the tour
namentS.
Entries for divisional play will close
Saturday, August l3. Names of con-
testants should be turned in by that
time to the tournament directors or to
the Horseshoe Editor at The Star.
THE Fairgrounds on which tourna-
i mentS will be held and those who
will direct play follows
Garfield-Second street and Vir-
ginia avenue southeast; Clinton
Price.
Virginia Avenue-Ninth street and
Virginia avenue southeast; Louis
Mitchell
Rosedale-S and Rose
Gale streets northeast; Ben Kali.
New York Avenue-FirSt street
and New York avenue northwest;
Abbe Clark
Bloomingdale- Second and Bryant
streets northwest: Sam Chance.
Iowa Acknowledgement avenue and
Upshur street northwest; James
White
-Thirty-fourth street
and Volta place northwest; Paul
Cassasa
Chevy Chase-Forty- and
Livingston streets northwest Ned
No tight territorial lines have been
drawn for sectional play, it being as
sumed that a pitcher will enter the
tournament most convenient to his
residence. Nor will there be any quail
flying competition.
Preliminary play also mas oeen aus
penSed with for the city hnals IN which
only divisional winners and runnerS-up
heretofore have competed The entire
has been revised with town and neigh
borhood preliminaries giving way to
divisional, county and State tourna-
ments with a concentration Of talent.
THE Metropolitan final. in which the
i mpions h p of Washington.
Northern Virginia and Southern Mary
land will be at stake. will include the
sixteen leading players of the area as
determined by ringer percentages made
in a qualifying round of 100 shoes.
Four pitchers will be exempt from the
qualifying round The defending Metro
politan champion and the winners of
the Washington. Virginia and Mary
land titles will pass automatically into
the Metropolitan struggle.
In Maryland and Virginia the same
plan of competition as in Washington
will prevail with county tournaments
to start the campaigns. Arrangements
events to be held in Montgomery,
Prince Georges and Charles Counties in
Maryland and Arlington, Fairfax and
possibly half dozen other counties in
Virginia
The Fairfax County tournament
which promises to be hotly contested
will precede the Mclean carnival invi-
tation event August 3. Sixteen OF the
topnotch players of the Metropolitan
area and Western Maryland and Penn
sylvania will compete in the invitation
event which was won last year by Roy
Woodrow Wilson of Washington.
GONE of the most skillful pitchers OF
- the Metropolitan District will vie
for the Fairfax County title.
Many new faces will be seen among
contenders for the Washington crown
now worn by young John Gourvenac.
large number having wrought improve
ment over their games Of last year
newcomer to the Metropolitan
championships who will bear lots Of at
tention is Henry MaZurSki Of FairlaWn,
Anacostia, discovery" of Vince Oster-
man. the Bladensburg horseshoe major
domo.
"Mazurski is former champion OF
Cleveland. Ohio" says Osterman, and
from what I've seen of him he'll make
it hot for any of the pitchers who have
Won major titles in The Star tourna-
ment"
Osterman who is a policeman in
Anacostia has rounded up quite dele
CATION from Fairlawn to compete in the
Virginia Avenue division tournament
Besides Mazurski. he lists Everette
Robertson. Walter Montjoy. Harry
Buscher, Bill Humphreys. Jim Bailey.
Charles Montioy. Arthur Jacobs Bill
Bailey. Sam Howell, Louis Wood and
Echroeder Wilc0p