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Evening star., 1934-08-18

= TILL annoyed by the torn liga-
ment which kept him out Of the
game during the past Winter
~ and early Spring, young Dick
Lunn, the stalwart District golf
champion, is doubtful whether he will
be able to defend his local simon-pure
crown 10 days hence Dick is back
on home pastures after couple Of
months spent in Maine, during which
he played golf only once in while.
II have played only a half dozen
rounds since Spring" the husky young
champion said. Some way or other
this arm keeps on giving me trouble.
can go about II holes and feel fine,
but after that the doggoned thing
begins to hurt. don't know just what
is the trouble. I have been to see a
doctor and after looking me over he
But whether 1 will be in shape to play
through a big tournament like the
District I don't yet know"
Dick, how did the arm get in such
shape?" we asked him.
Some fellow up at Princeton twisted
it" Dick said.
But you're big enough and strong
enough to keep any guy from twisting
your arm" we quizZed. Yes, perhaps
I am" Dick answered. But the guy
was a heavyweight wrestler on the
Princeton team and he jumped on
me when I was sitting down, and
kept on twisting and twisting. OF
course, it was all in fun, and so on,
but 1t hurt.
And now it appears as If that play
full college prank may have ruined
fine golf game, for while at least"
You wouldn't have known anything
was the matter with the, District
champ as he belted the ball around
those first few holes at Kenwood yes
terday, but, just as he predicted, he
began to feel it as the game progressed
and it panied him over the last nine.
He and Bob Barnett played against
Al Houghton and young David H.
Davis. They seemed to have the
match all laid away, coming to the
last hole until Bob Barnett reached
down and came UP with a rabbits
foot, which just about set Houghton
back on his ears. Barnett, from a
spot so yards away, holed a pitch
shot for a birdie g..
Now Houghton. who was / up on
match play and up on medal play,
appeared like loser, for he had
pushed his second shot far to the
right in the rough. Between his ball
and the pin lay a shallow trap, and
the odds were even he would take
and lose. So what does he do?
He wades down into that deep grass
and knocks the ball right into the
hole on top of Bob's ball for
birdie-a 25-yard pitch into the cup
when he needed just that and nothing
else. Either Houghton is awfully
good, or else he is awfully lucky.
Probably a combination of both.
They didn't play the eighth hole
because of the News hole-in-one tour
Evening star., 1934-08-18
20 Years Ago
IN THE STAR.

WASHINGTON defeated New
w York, 10. in the first game
of a double-header. but lost
the second contest by 4-3. Doc
Ayres, who is proving the Nation
ais most consistent pitcher this
year, hurled the first game in
strong style. Washington lost the
second as Pitcher Walter johnson
failed.
Joe Engel was slated to twrl for
Washington today in the opening
game Of a series with the st.
Louis Browns here.
Treasury won the Section c title
in the post-season series to deter
mine supremacy among champions
Of amateur base ball leagues here,
defeating the Post Office nine, 5-l.
Downey. big left-hand pitcher, who
has done so well for Treasury.
again was on the mound. Merrill
Vaughn, Barnhart and Bell
starred
Eastern, with Buck Becker pitch
ing, defeated the Tenleytown team
in the post-season series. In an
other series game, the Union Sta
ton team. with Tommy Thompson
pitching strongly, downed the
Brightwood nine. B. Gist's playing
was q feature Of the game.
Evening star., 1934-08-18
COLLEGE Student Takes Lead
With a Ringer Average of 81

However, his two most formidable
rivals for medal honors have yet to
shoot. They are the defending cham
pion, Lee Fleshman, and the former
title holder, Joe Merryman.
A surprise performer was c. Multi
nix, whose ringer percentage was 81
and his score 141. He tied for sec
ond honors with D. Schnable, who
had AZ ringers and r. Beall, who
had "a. w. Barber trailed with
27-140, and next was Merle He'll
man, former champion Of Prince
Georges County, with 28-133, a low
score for this worthy.
w. N. Mahaffey, director Of the
Maryland tournament, announced an
extra day for qualifying. Due to
inclement weather, many twirlers
have had little opportunity to pitch
and are hoping for a bright day to-
morrow to make their tests at Brent
wood.
Evening star., 1934-08-18
Diamond Dust

Kenilworth Boys Club, an entry
in the Police Base Ball League, is
seeking a game for tomorrow with q
midget team. The Kenilworth's have
a diamond. Call Atlantic 0444 after
$50 o'clock
Burroughs A. c. has a field avail
able for tomorrow, but no opponent.
Any unlimited nine desiring a little
action is requested to call North
7848-W.
A field day for players Of the
Georgetown Church League was
scheduled for today at 2:30 o'clock
on the East Ellipse. In addition to a
ball game between two picked teams
from the circuit, competition will be
held in fungo hitting, base running
and throwing.
Evening star., 1934-08-18
BRANDT HAS TYPHOID

George Brandt, former local high
school star who is the property of the
Washington base ball club, has been
reported Ill with typhoid fever at
Meridian, Miss, where he is playing
ball in the Gulf Coast League. So
grave is his condition said to be that
his mother has left for Meridian.
Brandt formerly was a star at Cen
trail High School and a three-letter
winner at the University Of North
Carolina, playing foot ball, basket ball
and base ball.
Evening star., 1934-08-18
CANDHI GARB HIS ALL
ON PAYING GOLF DEBT
Claggett Stevens Returns to Congressional Club
House in Towel After Losing to Cobb
in Bathing Suit Match.

Claggett had a new bathing suit,
just purchased, the apple Of the
Rockville boys eye. Cobb had
disreputable pair Of trunks, sans
a top. Twas raining so hard they
agreed to waive customary golf
attire and play in the garb they
use in the bathing pool. Now
Stevens gives Cobb up on each
nine and usually they play a dol
lar Nassau, or a buck each nine,
with an extra buck on the match.
But this time Cobb eyed Claggett's
new bathing suit and thought how
he needed q new one. "I'll play
you> for your bathing suit against
mine" Cobb said. 20. k" said
Evening star., 1934-08-18
EVEN YANKEE FANS PAY
TRIBUTE TO TIGER ACE
Yields 3 Hits. Fans l i'm Second Win of Pinch
Series and 18th in Streak-Coleman's 3
Homers for AS Sets Season Mark.

the Boston Braves took a single con-
test from the second place Cubs.
The Giants pounded Pirate pitching
for a total of 29 hits to win by to 3
and 8 to 8, while Roy Parmelee and
Carl Hubbell held the BucS sufficiently
in check. Among the swats were Mel
Otis thirty-flrst and thirty-secend
home runs, which accounted for six
tallies in the two games, and six hits
by Bill Terry.
TINE Braves continued as Chicago's
link" by pounding big Jim
Weaver for four runs in the
seventh and 5-to-2 victory. 1t made
II triumphs for Boston in 18 games
with the Cubs, and even the return
OF two of the Cubs injured aces, Bill
JurgeS and Chuck Klein, failed to alter
the result. The Cardinals, meanwhile,
cut Chicago's margin to a half game
by blasting Philadelphia pitching for
II hits and 12-to-2 victory as the re-
bellious Paul Dean returned to the
team Just in time to do fine job OF
relief hurting. Jim Collins pitched
in with his twenty-eighth homer.
The Brooklyn Dodgers beat Cincin-
natl, l2-4
THE Senators got the best results
from the American League pro-
gram of four uble-headers
when they took both games from
Cleveland, to 8 and 1 to O. They
had to go 10 innings to take the
opener, punching three hits in the
extra inning. Bob Burke's three-hit
fiinging carried them to the second
victory.
The other bargain bills resulted in
even breaks Boston made it three
straight over the Browns with 60
triumph when Yves Ferrell hurled
two-hit ball for his eleventh victory,
but went down, 5 to 2, in the second
clash before George Blaeholder's six
hit pitching. The Athletics took the
10-inning opener from Chicago, 8 to 8,
as Ed Coleman belted three home
runs for a seasons record, but even
Jimmie Foxx's thirty-e eighth circuit
swat couldn't win the second game. as
Ted Lyons limited the AS to four
blows and won 3 to 2. Coleman's
feat was a record for the season and
has been surpassed only three times
in major league history, although
equaled frequently.
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Sportscope

Continued From Tenth Page.)
foot ball squad-all of it happy stuff,
by the way-but doubtless you'd
rather hear about other things he had
to tell.
For instance, the Middies
were given a grand old time in
England and Italy, but in
France-ouch! 1--WE might just
as well have owned England for
WHILE" said Jimmy, "and
Mussolini personally saw to it
the boys were treated royalty
in Italy.
But, the French-man, they we're
plain mean. There was no firing of
guns in salute. no invitations to lawn
Evening star., 1934-08-18
TERRY BECOMES
TOP MI. BATTER
Hits Hard to Gust P. Waner.
Gehringer Is Pressing
SIumping Manush.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
N YEW YORK, August 18.-Bill
M Terry Of the Giants pounded
VI his way up to the National
4 League batting lead during
the past week, while Heinie
Manush of Washington, American
League leader for many weeks, almost
tumbled himself out Of first place in
the American.
Terry did some heavy hitting to get
the better of Paul Waner of Pitts
burgh by wide margin in the seven
day period which ended with yester-
days games.
In contrast, Manush made only
4 safe blows in % trips to the plate
and suffered an II point drop to .375.
His nearest rival, Charley Gehringer
Of Detroit, kept his .371 mark un-
changed.
Records of the first 10 batsmen in
each major league follow:
Evening star., 1934-08-18

parties, teas, din
ners, t h e a t ers
and W at not
that made Eng
land a joy; none
of the cordiality
that greeted us
everywhere W e
W mt in Italy.
The mayor Of the
town we docked
at in Fra n c e
didn't even bother
to gre e t t h e
Americans.
But the boys
didn't mind that
Evening star., 1934-08-18

nament, but Al had SO for the II,
while Bob had SO, Lunn had IA and
Davis had IS.
n EEANWHILE, over at the eighth
1N1 a fellow who has played golf
only few months proved once
more what you always have sus-
pected-that a hole in one is 80 per
cent luck and 10 per cent good judg-
ment and shot-making ability. A
flock of good golfers like Barnett,
Houghton, Al Trader, Roland Mac
Kenzie, Martin Mccarthy and others
have tried to get into a 10-foot circle
drawn around the cup 1876 yards from
the tee. And at the end 'of the day
player named Elmer Jenkins, who
halls from the Washington Golf and
Country Club and has been failing
away at golf balls for only a year and
a half, came up with first prize His
best effort stopped Is inches from the
hole.
Quite few Of the better golfers
couldn't get the pill into the circle,
and flock Of the shots that ended in
the circle were hit on top. 1t seems
that the way to make hole in one
Is to take your stance, a firm grip on
the club, glare haughtily at the hole,
take stiff1sh swing and top the ball
merrily on its way. For the rolling
ball is more apt to drop than the fine
pitch shot that bites in with little roll
Fletcher Henderson finished feet
10 inches away to win second place,
while Dick KreuZberg was third with
a shot 4 feet 8 inches away.
NVER at Five Farms, where a lot
~ of our leading aspirants for the
amateur championship went to
practice for the qualifying round on
Tuesday, Helen Dettweiler of Con-
'gressional showed Brother Bill that
he doesn't know all there is to know
about golf. Bill bet Sister Helen that
she couldn't break 100 on that rugged
golf course Sister Helen took the
bet-with alacrity. and then stepped
out and played the soft course in "a
from the mems tees, disdaining the
shorter tees made for weaker folk.
She had a A on the first nine, but |
wasted a lot of shots for so on the |
second nine Bill did himself a II, |
of which he wasn't so proud, but he |
AYERS that a pair Of 'em on Tuesday |
will qualify him for the title chase at |
Boston next month.
Harry G. Pitt, the Manor Moose" |
who knows more of the tricks Of Five |
Farms than any of the local anna |
teurs. blazed his way around in 72 |
whacks. Harry should have little |
trouble qualifying on Tuesday Maury |
Nee had rs, Luther Steward 79, |
Fred Mcleod a rs. Harvey johnson
an 80 and Frank Emmett an 81 |
Many Of the boys are at Five Farms |
today, growing their shots against
the day when they. really count-next
Tuesday. l
Evening star., 1934-08-18

Claggett, wiping a COB Of mud
from the skirt of the new suit.
They started out through the
rain, Cobb In his ragged trunks
and Claggett in his new and
gorgeous suit. Claggett played the
first nine in So strokes and had
gained back holes Of the 10
handicap he gave Cobb. Go into
the club house" Cobb said to his
caddie, and get me a bath towel
and three safety pins 1t looks like
this guy is not only going to take
my suit but my modesty, too"
Then the fireworks started. Where
Cobb had been terrible on the first
nine, he got fairly good over the
Evening star., 1934-08-18

so much as they did the gouging they
had to take when they wanted to buy
something. You remember reading
about a riot over there? Well, here's
how it started Some American
sailors were drinking beer at a res
taurant.
when the check came 1t was
about five times what they
thought 1t ought to be. Natu-
rally they squawked. They got
no satisfaction, then one Of 'em
up and suggested:
Take it out Of the war debt
"And bang went the fireworks"
Evening star., 1934-08-18
SOFT BALL POSTPONED.

Because Of wet grounds yesterday,
play in the city championship soft
ball series was postponed. The two
games scheduled-Naval Air Station
VS.. Farm Credit and Playground
Supervisors VS.. Northerns-will be
played at the end Of the regular title
series schedule.
Evening star., 1934-08-18
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

~LAGGETT STEVENS, as
sistant golf professional at
the Congressional Country
~ Club, is out for Harvey
L. Cobbs scalp, and hopes
another big rain may come along
soon so he can turn the tables on
his lawyer opponent following a
match in which Cobb literally
made Claggett come home in
bath towel.
Cobb holed a pitch shot from
q bunker with the aid Of a stream
of water, knocked in a couple Of
40-foot puts and otherwise proved
himself just about the luckiest
Evening star., 1934-08-18
RAINBOW VICTORY
NIL AS CUP TRIAL
Breeze Shift, Ripped Sail
Undo Yankee in Race for
Kings Trophy.
BY LEONARD NJ. FOWLE, JR.

n EXPORT, r. l., August 1S.-
nj Harold S. Vanderbilt's Rain
4 her Americas Cup candidate
rivals, Vanitie and four Glass
M sloops, but, as test Of the relative
merits of the boats competing for the
defense honors, the race was meaning
ingleS. The Yankee led until shift
of breeze put her in the worst position
of the entire fleet.
The start witnessed reversion to
ancient practices in that each boat
crossing the line within two minutes
has her time taken from the moment
she passes between the committee
boat and the Brenton's Reef lightship
rather than from the actual starting
signal. Thus, one craft may finish
ahead of another, as Yankee did with
Weetamoe. but still have a slower
elapsed time
Evening star., 1934-08-18
Colonials Face Trouble.

TN A quiet way, Kirkland has been
an effective worker for foot ball at
George Washington University,
where now, by the way, he is teaching
law.
A big bother to Head Coach Pixlee.
he says, is the game October with
Denver University, at Denver. The
Colonials will enter the battle with the
Rocky Mountain Conference champs
without previously playing good con-
ditioning game.
Evening star., 1934-08-18
Am erican League.
VICTORY POST WINS.

With Otto Nielsen hurting three-hit
ball, Victory Post of the American
Legion defeated Internal Revenue in
Government Soft Ball League game
yesterday at Central High, to o.
Evening star., 1934-08-18
Mrs. Draper Is Winner.

Mrs. w. F. Draper today holds the
Muncaster trophy. chief prize in the
36-hole medal play handicap tourney
concluded yesterday at the Washing
ton Golf and Country Club.
Evening star., 1934-08-18
Totals 9S o "a
'Batted for Burnett in ninth.

Cleveland ............ 900 900 000-0
Washington ............ O1O 900 OOx-1
Two-base hits--Susko (2), Trosky Stolen
ba a-e-Schuite. Standardization. Pear
Susko: Hale to Trosky Left on bases
Cleveland. =: Washington. 7. First base
St Struck outOBy Pearson. .: By Burke. :.
wild pitches--Pearson (2). Umpires-
Messrs. MCGOWAN and Summers. Time
1888.
Evening star., 1934-08-18
Mats Need No Hits.

NdSS NccO NO dlLSs
THE next Indian to reach first was
Seeds, who scratched a hit by
Travis at the start of the sixth.
Pearson sacrificed, but the next two
batters skied out. Trosky doubled
off the right field fence with one out
in the seventh and never left the
middle base. Pearson walked with
two out in the eighth to watch Galat-
zer ground into retirement.
Susko. the rookie first sacker, got
three of the four hits of Pearson.
Two we're doubles. These hits and
Cronin'S single. however. were made
after the score had been hung up.
A pass to Myer after one was out in
the second session blazed the way
to the tally. A wild pitch advanced
Buddy and Bolton sacrificed. Came
another wild pitch and the only score
Of the fray registered.
Evening star., 1934-08-18
Like Old Times

C!eveland .,,.....,,, O20 600 0O1 o.
Washinston .,,,...... 900 00l 002 II
Runs batted in-Berg Hildebrand Myer.
base hits-HldebTand Berg Bolton Har-
lis Thres base, hit-Bers Sacrifice
to Susko t2). Left on ba ses-Cleveland
=: Washington, II. First base on balls
OF HildebraHd. IL of Whitehill. g. Struck
out BY Hidebrand /; by Whitehill l.
Umpires-MeSsrs. Summers and MCGOWAN.
Time 40.
Evening star., 1934-08-18

golfer in brogans to win a match
from Claggett and make him trade
his bathing suit for a bath towel.
1t all happened at Congressional
as the rain drove down, soaking
fairways, Transforming putting
greens into miniature lakes, and
the relentless Cobb, whom Bill Ull-
man claims to be the luckiest
golfer in the world, gave Stevens
q licking and won his bathing suit.
Have Course TO Selves.
THEY started out in the rain
these two-just about the
only golfers on the course
who dared brave the steady rain.
Evening star., 1934-08-18
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR.,
Associated Press Sports Writer.


~ ASE BALL fans-even those
- who Sympathize with the
Yankees, 512 games away
IL from the American League
lead and without much pros
pect of getting closer soon-today
again paid tribute to Lynwood
(Schoolboy) Rowe, the william" in
the piece from a Yankee viewpoint.
1t was Rowe, conqueror of the
Yanks on the first day of their i'm
portant series with Detroit's pace
setting Tigers, who came back yes
terday with an even finer perform
ance to shut them cut. to 0, in the
final clash. The schoolboy gave just
three hits in that final performance
for his fourteenth consecutive triumph
after Vernon (Goofy) Gomez had
pitched the Yanks to 5-to-0 tr umph
in the first game of the double-header
and squared the series.
Gomez Barely OutdOne.
u OMEz did some fine pitching on
IT his own account to win his
twentieth game, although he
gave eight blows while the Yanks got
only six from Vic Sorrel. He was
more effective in the clinches as the
Yanks punched four hits and walk
for three runs in the first and fin
ished their scoring when Tony
LaZzeri hit homer in the sixth.
TT WAS Rowe, however, who pro-
vided the greatest thrills for the
crowd Of 46,571. He was wild,
but he made up for that weakness
with IL strikeouts. some of them in
the most troublesome spots. In addi-
tion, he survived a third-inning mis-
hap when he stumbled over base in
the midst Of the Tiger rally which
won the game and barely escaped a
serious ankle injury. His single helped
along the rally, although it was Pete
Fox's triple after Marvin Owen had
been hit by one of Jimmy Deshong's
pitches and a single by Manager
Mickey Cochrane that drove in the
runs.
While the Tigers won one game for
their 5la-game lead, the Giants at
tanned the same margin in the Ma
tional League race by blasting out a
double victory over Pittsburgh while
Evening star., 1934-08-18

contest Tor the horseshoe
pitching championship of the, Old
Line State. ~"
He has assured himself Of at least
a place in the play-offs of the Mary
land section of The Evening Stars
annual tournament, to start Monday
night at Brentwood.
FARRELL led the field last night when
the twirlers began the qualifying
round. Shooting 81 ringers, he scored
189 points in the 100-shoe test, and
a continuation of this pace likely
would land the title. At any rate, no
Maryland pitcher ever has averaged
81 ringers through an entire tourna-
ment.
Nearly a score took their turns last
night in spite of the heavy footing
and FARRELL was a sharp standout.
Evening star., 1934-08-18

last nine, and where Claggett had
been good on the first nine he
played like a ham over that last
nine. Claggett won the tenth and
eleventh, but on the twelfth the
miracle happened. The youngster
knocked his tee shot onto the green,
across which a river Of water
flowed down the HILL while Cobb,
with customary grace and skill,
whacked his tee shot into bunker.
Then he stepped down into the
trap. niblick in hand, and walloped
the ball out feet past the hole.
The swift-flowing water caught the
ball and washed it back into the
hole for birdie, beating Claggett's
par 3. On the long thirteenth Cobb
holed a 40-footer for a half in 5,
leaving him up Harvey halved
the fourteenth when Claggett
three-putted and he halved the
fifteenth in 6 when Claggett's Sec
ond shot buried in the bank of
gone out Of bounds, and then holed
another 40-footer with a mashie
for a 6. That left Cobb dormie 8
up and he reached down in the
grass and came up with four
leafed clover. He holed another
35-footer across the sixteenth green
for a half in 4, to win the match
and sternly said: "Claggett, take
that suit off. Here Is the towel"
Stevens Pays OF.
OLAGGETT, falling into the
spirit of the thing. doffed
his new bathing suit out
there in the pouring rain, and
put on the towel. He played the
last two holes in even par, attired
only in shoes, socks and a bath
towel. The suit, meanwhile, hung
on the top of the flag pole from
the old l612 hole, proudly carried
by a caddie.
And to top it all off. Cobb gath
cred the gang around the eight
eenth green as they came up to
witness his triumph "I'll give you
10 cents for every person you get
out here to watch us finish" Cobb
told his caddie. The youngster
produced Is people to watch 'em
finish, and collected Sl.60.
And now Claggett wants a re-
turn match, preferably in a cloud
burst. I'll get that guy yet" he
says. "And I need that bathing
suit. 1t was a beauty, but I'm
afraid Mr.. Cobb will stretch It,,
Gee, isn't it going to rain any
more?"
Evening star., 1934-08-18
Bottoms Hits Tell Heavily.

Bottoms Hits Tell Heavily.
DUT when Bolton ripped q double
u to left at the outset Of the home
ninth, the victory drive was on.
The right-hand swinging Harris sur
prisingly doubled to right for a score,
and after Whitehill sacrificed Schultz
singled across the dealocking counter.
With the Tribe in its extra turn
stopped deftly by the Earl, the Ma
tionals went on to win. It took a
great bare-hand stop by Kamm to
keep Cronin of the runway, but mo-
body could get to Travis single. Myer
hit for base. So did Bolton, and
the game was in the bag.
In the second game only five Tribal
batters got on the paths. The first
inning was the only one in which
as many as two were on at one time.
Galatzer began the first for the Wis
itors with single and pulled up at
second when Knickerbocker singled.
Averill's hoist let Galatzer reach third,
but Knickerbocker was shared with
TroSky in a double-play.