Evening star., 1934-12-27
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.

n AYBE 1t cost you the price o.
N new Fall hat when Wash.
ington ran next to last il
the American League pen.
nant chase, maybe fond hopes came
crashing down on your ears when
Capital golfers failed to win polishing
rights on a single important trophy
or maybe you experienced a pang of
disappointment when not a single
boxing promoter lifted finger toward
importing champion to risk his title
here, but
The passing of 1884 still is worth a
toast to gulp Of your gallon of New
Year eggnog for its thrills alone. The
year could have been more charitable
to Washington's sports standard bear
ers and bookie bettors, but for the
fan in the stands it had its thrills
Base balls biggest thrill in this
bailiwick probably was that 4-to-2 de-
cision Schoolboy Rowe won over
Monte Weaver for the Tiger clubs
sixteenth straight pitching victory, a
sort of left-handed thrill, to be sure
tJoe Penner style), but nevertheless
kick"
Rowe's Hit Wins 1t.
d OWE needed that game to go down
N in American League history,
along with Walter johnson,
Smokey Joe Wood and Bob Grove. as
winner Of Is games in a row. De-
troit was leading the league and
Washington was diving like a South
Sea pearl hunter, but Monte Weaver
was on the slab for the Nationals
and Monte was right.
For eight innings the fading
champs made the champs -to-be look
bad. Weaver outpitched Rowe until
the ninth, and held a 2-to-I lead
until big Hank Greenberg plastered
one OF Monte's curves over the fence
for homer. Then Marvin (the jit-
ters) Owen singled, took third on Pete
Fox's single and crossed the pan with
the deciding run when Rowe himself
dramatically poked out the an-im-
portant single.
There was an anti-climax to that
little mellerdrama, too, If you will re-
member. The Schoolboy's single
started the thunder to roll, and when
the Washingtons came to bat in the
final frame it began to drizzle. A
little more rain and the jumps would
have had to call 1t, with the score
reverting back to the eighth inning
and Rowe's record going blooey. But
Rowe, for the first time in that game,
was right in the last of the ninth.
The Nationals went out one. two,
three. with Pinch-hitter Cecil Travis
tanning on three pitched balls just
as the deluge hit.
Houghton Pulls Near-miracle.
COMEWHERE, somehow, there may
- be better golf scores shot, but it
may be long, cold day in July
before any golfer displays the same
unerring accuracy with his long shots
and the same lethal putting that AL
Houghton uncovered back in April at
the Washington Golf and Country
Club to shoot q world record score of
81 for standard length golf course
What a thrill that was, even in the
next days paper, as the Kenwood
Kleagle ploughed his way around a
golf course beset with all kinds of
hazards in nine under par, bagging
nine brides and nine pars, with q
couple of puts hanging on the lip
of the cup. Playing with him were
Tommy Webb. George Howard, Dorie
Gruver and Walter McCa1lum, golf
editor Of The Star. McCallum shot q
73 and finished IL down! That's the
kind Of golf Houghton shot as he
literally burned up a course on which
the best previous mark was 66.
Never deviating from the straight
line to the pin, barring one shot
Houghton had only % puts to that
round, knocking in at least three from
rs feet, and never missing one OF
those tricky four-footers. His single
bad shot came at the eighth, where
he pulled his second from 220 yards
out Of bounds and came back with q
spoon shot that trickled to a stop 8
feet from the cup. He holed out for
a par four.
Martin William Gallagher Of Foggy
Bottom will never 60 down In local
f1Stic history as q habitual thriller,
but long after Marty hangs up his
gloves his great stand against Tony
Galento will provide fodder for boxing
fans, and remain as a measuring
standard when beatings and game
ness are topics.