Evening star., 1933-09-19
|CRON|N TO PRESENT
| TROPHIES TONIGHT
QuantriIIe Bows by Single
Point in Semi.FinaI of -.
Evening Star Event.
THE hottest thing possible
hereabout in the way Of a
i horseshoe scrap will take

TINE notteSt Cn1ng possible
hereabout in the way of a
i horseshoe scrap will take
place tonight when Clayton
c. Henson Of Arlington. Va, meets
Harry F. Saunders of Washington
in the final of the fifth annual
Evening Star tournament on the
municipal playground court beside
the Tech High swimming pool.
Play will start at 7::30 o'clock. il.
After the contest, In which Henson
Will be the defending champion, tro-
ph1es won In the big tournament. which
included the leading ringer fippers Of
the metropolitan area, will be pre-
sented by Joe Cronin. manager Of the
Gri1men
Top prizes will 60 to George c.
Thompson, champion Of Virginia; Levi
freshman, champion of Maryland;
Saunders, Washington title winner and
tonight's victor. -
Quantrille Puts Up Scrap.
DY the skinniest possible margin
ID Saunders won his way into the
grand final and the right to battle,
Tor the title he relinquished a year ago
after holding 1t two seasons. In the
semi-flnal he defeated Hubbard GUAM
tr1ue, former District champ, 5O-49,
500, and the deciding points of the
last game we're made with q ringer that
was measured and re-measured many
times by Referee r. r. James. The
calks were buried deeply in the clay.
1t was Quantrille who removed
Saunders last year from the met
ropolitan finals In . sensational
upset, but although last nights
battle was in the nature Of
grudge affair, there was little
over which the winner could
crow. Saunders was happy
merely to win. 1t had been a
tough evening for him from the
start $50
In the second round he had all he
Charles Chic Darr Darr won the
opening skirmish, 50-4e and Harry
struggled for the next two. 500,
50-35 In the opening match Saun-
ders met Unexpectedly stiff opposition
from Rolph FARRELL, University of Mary
land champ. who went out, 500,
50-32
Easy for Henson.
TN the meantime, Henson was breez-
ing to the final. He opened with
a victory over Roy Wilson, sos,
50-6. vanquished a formidable pitcher
in Ray Brown, 50-28. 50-37, and
then knocked of the Maryland cham
pion. Levi F1eshman, 50-22, 50-39. -.
In only one game out Of six did
Henson drop below so per cent ringers,
and in this he shot a. His average
was IS.
Fleshn,dn, 1rho pitched as much
as 20 per cent ringers in stretches
Uhen he took the Maryland cham
pionship from Joe Merrynldn, 1Dds
meter able to hold the range for
more than an inning or f,Do at
time last night.
He had lots of trouble getting past
,, scrappy Ed Henry Of Falls Church in
the second round. The score was 1880,
50-38, 50-35.
Quantrille, although his ringer per-
centage was excelled by Henson. was
the hot-shot of the evening. Before
reaching Saunders he eliminated Vir-
| g1nta's brilliant champion, George G.
Thompson, and the former champion Of
Maryland, Joe Merrymau. Both Of
these were upsets.
TN each game with Saunders he had
| the former Metropolitan title holder
for while seemingly at his mercy.
He was ahead in the first by 81 to 3
before Saunders got up a gallop In
the second, the popular redhead ran up
a lead Of 267 in 10 innings. And
both margins were well earned. To
start the match Quantrille tossed IA
ringers out of 20 shoes and he was we'll
over SO per cent for the first Is innings
OF the second game. -
the battle of his MISUNDERSTANDING
career. On two different occasions his
opponent fired three straight double
headers to make Harry's cause appear
hopeless. but the former Iron Champ"
stuck grimly to the task and whitfield
away Quantrille's margin q point or
Two at time. In the crisis, however.
he was his old self.
TO nnish each game he put on
| double ringer. Quantrille, with
49 points, was held scoreless for
10 pitches in one game and in ~
| the other, with ~, he was unable
to count in 6 throws.
Not q few among the thousand or
more spectators thought Quantrille was
luckless when Saunders final shoe was
pronounced ringer, but Hub was a
graceful loser.
I never figured to go this far" he
grinned.
He was the last to qualify for the
metropolitan finals, defeating Bill
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