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Evening star., 1935-01-27

TOMNfY HITCHCOCK, JR, apparently is slipping
from the spot in the sports limeght he shared
with Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones Bill
Tilden. Helen Wills and Paavo Nurmi in those
gamorouS postwar days.
The tumbling Hitchcock from goal eminence the
lofty position he occupied 1922 very likely marks
the end of his playing Serious injuries kept him
inactive last year and it doubtful he will participate
in championship play again
His beginning the of 49, when he played
his first real polo, has been replee with action and
adventure.
At Is he appeared in tournament play for the first
time and helped his team win both the national junior
and senior championships at Narragansett Pier r. l.
Just triumphant career Of malet swinging seemed
to be unfolding ahead of the boy wonder America entered
the and interrupted his efforts the polo field.
Hitchcock Joined the air force and had the honor Of
being the youngest American aviator to destroy
enemy plane He shot down two planes and thrice
decorated before he himself forced down in
territory with bullet in his hip and his plane of
control After months in the hospital and prison camps
he escaped into Switzerland.
Discharged in 1919, he back in his old polo form
in a short time He played abroad, in England and on
the Riviera, in 1920
Evening star., 1935-01-27
Little Gets Competition.

DUT, although these two top the
ID links world today. they are by
no means all that California has
in the way of good golfers. Little
probably is the best amateur in COM
petition today, but the boys out STAN
ford way have been giving him A
merry rub for his spot on the STAN
ford golf team. And no man ever will
know how close that last amateur
championship came to being an all
California final. with young Ernest
Pieper. jr., of San Jose, opposing the
puckiSh-faced Little.
Pieper, of whom no one in the East
had heard before the battle of Brook.
line last September. went to the quar-.
ter-t1nal and lost to young Reynolds
Smith only because one of those 3-foot
puts on the fifth extra hole flipped
out OF the cup. Had he beaten Smith,
probably he would have licked Specs
Goldman and gone on to meet Little
in the final, But there are other Cali.
fornianS who know what to do with a
golf ball. Such men as Jack Hoerner.
another Stanford boy who went
through the fourth round in the Ma
tional last year and gained himself
quite a reputation as lengthy hitter:
young David Davis, who campaigned
around Washington for a few weeks
last Summer; Verne Stewart, Tommy
Teller and Harry Eichelberger Of Los
Angeles.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
WINTER TOO ROUGH
FOR PAL OF M'LEOD
Hinshaw Quits Columbia for Golf
at Augusta-Freddy to Join
Him in April.
rREDD1E McLEoD's PLAYMATE at

T>REDDIE McLEOD'S playmate at
Columbia Country Club has
left him for the Winter. Dis
gusted with the vagaries Of Washing
ton Winter weather. with snowstorm
after snowstorm coming right after
he had built shelter so he could
practice driving in a rain, William
w. Hinshaw. the towering ex-opera
star, has gathered up his golf tools
and left for Augusta, Ga. to spend
the balance Of the Winter
Freddie and Hinshaw played to-
gether every day for more than two
months, with considerable benefit to
FreddieS pocketboOk. but Hinshaw
finally had to quit. He loves golf all
right, but golf with q red ball doesn't
appeal
Before he left he invited Freddie
down to Augusta to spend the week
Of April with him. That week is
the week of the Masters" tourna-
ment at the Augusta National Golf
Club. where Bob Jones will play host
again to his professional friends.
Freddie is going. but he thinks the
tournament is a little late this year
and that 1t won't get the fine entry
list Of last year because by April
most of the lads will want to be back
on the job In the North. That tour
nament also will have AL Houghton
and probably Bob Barnett as entrants.
Evening star., 1935-01-27

In 1921 England held the old Westchester Cup when
the United States called upon her to defend the nterna
tional trophy. The American team composed of
Devereux Mlburn at back Watson Webb at No g. Hitch
cock at No and Louis Stoddard at No /. AS result
OF the American victory, all four members OF the team
elevated to 10-goal rating in 1922
Over the years from 1922 to 1882 Hitchcock played
probably the most sensational polo of any in the
history OF the game. In international matches partc
ularly. did his game rise to great heights.
For time. partly due to his experiences in the
HitchcockS health not of the best But he simply
would not stay of the polo fields. In 1924 smuants
needed to keep him going in the cup matches with
England.
There something about his reckless riding and
terrific hitting that caught the fancy Of the crowd He
had the natural gift Of showmanship, without conscious
effort his part to practice it.
Unlike many OF our sports champions his path Of
glory was no long. hard grind. His helped him
there. Polo in the very air he breathed young
Ster. His father before him international polo
player The senior Hitchcock organized and played
the first American international polo team.
Tommy made the acquaintance of horses and learned
how to handle them when he still baby. There is
a tradition around Meadow Brook that "Hitchcocks
weren't taught to walk-they we're taught to ride"
Evening star., 1935-01-27
TOUR A FLOP, PRIMO .
FLIES BACK TO U. S.
Flabby Campolo Is Only Victim
Outside of Exhibitions in
South America.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ID 10 DE JANEIRO. January 26.-
N Primo Carnera, former heavy
weight champion of the world,
and his manager. Louis Soresi. today
left for the United States by airplane
after an unsuccessful South American
tour.
In his only bout to decision Car
lera outpointed fat and painting Vic
torio Campolo. who had been out Of
the ring for two years, and then
bowled over several unknowns in ex-
libltion bouts.
Despite the reported GOODNESS Of
South American promoters TO any
more fights. Soresi said plans were be-
ing made for a bout either in Buenos
Aires or Rio de Janeiro between
Carnera and George Godfrey, former
Black Menace" of the American
heavyweights, who is wrestling in
France
Evening star., 1935-01-27
STRjAgGIHTT OEE TME TEE
by w. R. ms CALLuM

bodied in the District Golf Associa-
tion will gather to ratify the tourna-
ment dates agreed on at the Execu-
tive Committee meeting last week at
the Washington Golf and Country
Club
Although no word has come from
the association. it looks like a skimpy
competitive season. for three clubs
Washington, Columbia and Indian
Spring-do not plan to hold invita-
ton tournaments next Spring. leav-
ing only Chevy Chase and Manor as
the clubs sure to hold their usual
golf affairs.
Congressional Country Club women
will hold a dance and buffet supper
at the club on Wednesday night to
raise money for women's golf affairs
during the coming season.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
HOYA AL|NKSMEN'S
OUTLOOK BRIGHT.
South Will Furnish Lots of
Competition-NationaI
Event Unsettled.

- GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
golfers, looking forward to a
good season Of competition
in the Eastern intercollegiate
League, already are laying plans for
series of matches that will carry
them through most of the southern
territory near the Capital.
The team. headed by Joe Lynch,
has matches scheduled with Rollins
College of Orlando. Fla, at Washing
ton, and with the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Uni
versity of Richmond at Richmond, all
in April.
Matches in the Eastern Collegiate
League will start with Princeton here
on April 29, to be followed by a match
with Villanova. and other contests
with Harvard, Yale. Dartmouth
Brown. Williams. Pennsylvania and
Holy Cross
The Hoya team will be composed of
Lyncn, captain, Joe GAVIN, kenneth
Corcoran, John O'Brien. Bill Byrnes.
with scrap promised between
Wochner. Gamma, Slattery. Barton and
Moynahan for spots on the team. Last
year the Georgetown aggregation
finished fourth in the Eastern Inter
collegiate League.
Meanwhile the possibility of the ma
tional intercollegiate title tourney
being played at Congressional this
year seems to be vanishing. The golf
committee of the Congressional
Country Club has recommended that
the tourney not be held during the
week of July /, the week chosen by
the college boys for their links jam
boree. The recommendation of the
committee will be taken up by the
club board Of governors tomorrow
night
Evening star., 1935-01-27
BANAGAN RATING
CLUb'Sl|NKSMEN
Changes in Handicaps Are
Made for Team Play
at Columbia.

|HEY are going after this team
handicap tournament in a big
way at Columbia Country
Club. With everything else in
readiness for a series OF intra-club
team matches this year between seven
teams of club members. all that re-
manned was the figuring out Of handi-
caps.
Usual club handicaps wouldn't do.
for they were figured on the best
game of the players and what was
wanted was the best average game.
So they called in old DR.. Banagan.
the handicap specialist. and as 1t
happened, along came a snowfall, so
DR.. Banagan would have time to
work. He is going over the club mem
bership list and scanning handicaps
so that they may be properly ad-
justed.
Miller StevinSon, the club champion,
for example, is rated at scratch on
the big board which carries the OFF,
cial handicaps. But Steve, accord
ing to Banagan's figures, rates a
handicap of 3 strokes against par
in the team matches. Banagan figures
that Stevinson's best average game
will net him a 70.
Maurice L. Nee, the young Notre
Dame foot ball player. who rates a
handicap of on the big board,
gets 4 from Banagan's figures. And
so it goes, down the list.
No man is going to be dissatisfied
with the new handicap ratings, for
even though they are made up from
memory and a complete understand
ing of each players game, they will
be fair DR.. Banagan is that way in
everything.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
TRIES FOR RECORD
IN 0IL-BURNING CAR
Bill Cummings, Champion Driver,
Will Attack 1904 Mark
at Daytona Beach.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS. Ind, January 90
Wild Bill Cummings, American
race driving champion. will try
to establish a record for oil-burning
automobiles at Daytona Beach. Fla.
He will drive car prepared by
ClesSie L. CumminS, local engineer
who created a sensation several years
ago when he drove a seven-pasSenger
oil-burning automobile from Indian
apolis to New York at fuel cost OF
$189.
The worlds record for a mile on a
Straightaway course for an oil-burning
automobile is 1904 miles per hour.
A new six-cylinder motor will be
placed in one Of the'scars Cummins
entered in the last 500-mile race for
the assault on the mark
Evening star., 1935-01-27
R, Cup Golf Team viii Be Best Eue California Land Champions
Try and See Free
Army'Navy Clash

A NNAPOLIS, January 26.-There
"A will be no admission charge
for the basket ball game be-
tween the Naval and Military
Academy teams here on February
%, but unless members Of the gen.
eral public can secure tickets from
members of the Navy Athletic As
sociation or midshipmen, they will
not see 1t.
There will be no tickets issued
generally. and seating capacity.
about 5000, permits only two tick
cts to each member of the asso-
citation and one to each midship-
man. in addition to his own ad-
mission.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
THREE BIC TITLES
LODGED ON COAST
Little and Dutra May Owe
Much to CIimate--Evans
Proves Prophetic.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

THERE must be something TO
that California climate after
all. Any State that can pro-
duce the winners of three of
the four major golf championships Of
the world must have something be-
sides movie queens, oranges and
chambers of commerce.
OF course, California, with its
American and British open amateur
champion, w. Lawson Little, jr., and
its American open champion, DIN
Dutra. still has a parasang or two TO
travel before it can match Georgia's s
stunt Of producing a winner of all the
major world championships in the
links world, bit California, when it
did break through. did a good Job. It
may do better in 1885, for from where
We sit 1t appears that Lawson Little,
when he gears himself to 60 places,
has the Indian sign on the rest of
the amateur field. And Olin Dutra is
good enough to win another national
open.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
Dutra Is Top Pro.

TN THE professional field Olin Dutra
is tops, but the burly caballero is
only jump ahead of Fay Cole
man. the reformed amateur who gave
Bob Jones his closest match in the
1880 amateur title tilt; Charlie Guest
and Willie Hunter, a former British
amateur champ. Olin is great
player who has been too long denied
his national championship and he has
a great chance to win this year, but
he Is only one of a group OF fine
golfers who learned the game out
there where the Pacific beats against
the California Coast.
Years and years ago Chick Evans
came out with a prediction that from
California would come in future years
many of our national golf champions.
Chick pointed to the climate and year.
round golf as a developer of future
champions, together with the Cali
fornia spirit. His prediction surely
came true last year and it will be in.
creasingly true as the years go on.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
Sisters Charges Dropped, Mana
ger Settles Suit.

Phil Furr. District welterweight
champion boxer, rid himself of pursu-
ing process-servers yesterday when
Mrs. Matte Pullman, the fighters
sister, dropped charges Of assault and
battery against Fur and temporary
financial agreement with DR.. William
Goettling, manager Of Phil, was
reached.
1t was understood that Of the 1888
purse for the recent Johnny Jadick
fight Furr received 500 and Goettling,
who claimed the fighter owed him sew
eral hundreds of dollars, collected the
remainder.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
HOWARD U. TOSSERS
TRIM ST. PAUL FIVE
Take Early Lead and Better 1t
as Tilt Advances-Wynne
Gets Is Points.

y AIMING an early lead and in
II creasing it steadily as the game
progressed. Howard University's
basket ball team went on to trim the
st. Paul College Institute quint of
Lawrenceyille, Va, 1923, last night
on the Bison court. 1t was the second
time this season Howard has downed
st. Paul in a Colored Intercollegiate
Athletic Association Conference game
Howard, led by Wynne and Jones,
who scored 13 and points, respec-
lively, were in the van, 1913, at the
half.
In a preliminary, the Howard Jay
wees scored over Clark Hall, 5o-27.
Summary:
Evening star., 1935-01-27
Forfeit Breaks
Tie i'm Pin Race

THE tie for first place in the
i Recreation Bowling League
was broken when the Uni
versity Shop took a forfeit from
the Army and Navy Sports Center
while the Washington Herald
nipped Pirrone & Wolter for a
game.
The high honors for the week
were cleaned by A. G. Robinette
Of Brodt's. who rolled 1856 and
408. Close behind were Abe Bea-
vers with 386 and Sam Simon, 38l.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
Hospital Invalid
Runs Court Team

By the Associated Press.
LAYS. Kans.. January 26.-Lying
i i in a cast on q hospital bed is
not keeping Paul B. c"Busch)
Gross, basket ball coach at Fort
Hays State College, from super
vising the work OF his team.
BY means of telephone in
stalled In his room. he hears each
home game play-by-p!ay from Jim
Yeager, track and assistant foot
bali coach, and gives suggestions.
Each night the outcome Of the
days practice is reported to him,
and he outlines plans for prac-
tice and selection of teams.
For several years Gross directed
his team between periods of severe
pain in his back. He had hoped
to delay an operation on his spine
until the end of the current bas-
ket ball season, but was>forced to
submit to 1t two weeks ago.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
w YHAT is probably the Oldest
M golf club in actual use in
v v any mans golb bag around

Washington rests today in
the bag Of James NJ. Barnes, a FORM
er Washington Golf and Country
Club champion and one of the regular
golfers Of the Washington club.
It is an old niblick. SCARED and
worn by encounters with sand and
rocks over 80 years Of use, still with
the same wooden shaft it had when
it was first purchased in England.
and still a very useful weapon from
bad lie in sand or high grass.
Barnes thinks it is the oldest club
in use in any mans golf bag around
Washington these days and it prob
ably is, for Freddie McLeods famed
maShie-niblick, the progenitor of a
flock of clubs made with the original
as a model. has been retired after 80
years Of use and now Freddie uses
one Of the models.
A WEEK from tomorrow two i'm
~ portant golf meetings to have
considerable bearing on the
coming competitive year. are slated in
Washington. Members of the Execu-
tive Committee and women's golf
chairmen OF the various clubs will
gather on the afternoon Of February
4 at the home of Mrs. Charles K.
Wing, president of the Women's Dis
trict Golf Association, to go over the
embryo schedule Of the association
and assign tentative dates for the big
cup fixtures They also will make a
start toward arranging the schedule
of inter club team matches.
That evening at the Racquet Club
the local fathers of the game en-
Evening star., 1935-01-27
SAINTS DROP ERICKSON.

ST. PAUL, January 26 (R-Walter
G. Seeger, president of the st. Paul
American Association base ball club.
has announced the outright release
of Ralph Erickson, southpaw pitcher,
obtained from Dallas during the 1884
campaign.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
Southern Conference Indoor Games
to Be Held March 8.

CHAPEL HILL, N. c.. January 26
R.-Announcement was made here
today that the sixth annual Southern
Conference indoor games will be held
at the University Of North Carolina
on March 9.
The games are divided into four
sections-Southern Conference var
sity, non-conference, freshman and
scholastic.
Invitations to participate in the
meet have been sent to members of
the Southern Conference. % nom
conference universities and colleges
and to 80 high ard prep schools.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
WHITEHEAD TOP GOLFER
Shoots 73 to Take Florida East
Coast Tourney Medal.

Coast Tourney Medal.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, January IS
R.-CharleS Whithead of Lawrence
Beach Golf Club. South River, N. j.,
today coupled 81 and Sc to take the
lead in the first 18 holes of the
Florida East Coast Handicap medal
tournament.
Celeste Durand of Temper Point
Club. Long Island; E. H. Peterson of
Watertown, Mass. and Charles Ben
nett of st. Augustine tied in second
place with 74s. Bennett, however,
with a handicap of five. had the low
net score of the day. at SO.
Talbot T. Speer, Baltimore, and Sam
Wilcox. Wilmington. Del. followed
closely in third place with 76s.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
HOYA YEARLlNGS WIN
Keeps Basket Slate Clean With
54-16 Victory Over Tech.

Swamping Roosevelt by a 54-l6
score, Georgetowns undefeated fresh
man quint chalked up it's fifth victory
of the season last night at Mckinley
High School in a preliminary to the
Georgetown Carnegie Tech game.
Paced by Carroll Shore, former Gen.
trail star, who accounted for IA points,
the Little Hoyas jumped into a 15-4
lead at the end of the first quarter
and then held the Rough Riders score
less In the second period for 29-4
score at half time.
Buddy Nau, Tommy Nolan and
Shore. frosh stars, pleased the fans
with a brilliant passing exhibition.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
EASY FOR CAVALIERS.

UNIVERSITY. Va, January 26 (4).
-Virginia's varsity swimming team
outclassed the mermen from Ran
dolph-Macon College here today, de-
feating them 50 to IA
Evening star., 1935-01-27
MANGIN; BELL IN FINAL
Clash Today in Pittsburgh Golf
Club Indoor Tennis Event.

CIuU 1HuOUI 4cHaAS VCAI'
PITTSBURGH. January 26 P.-
Gregory S. Mangin, Newark. N. j,
and Berkeley Bell, New York, will
meet in the finals of the fifth annual
Pittsburgh Golf Club invitation in
door tennis tournament tomorrow.
In semi-final round matches today
NMangin defeated j. Gilbert Hall.
Orange. N. j., 6-3. ST, 6-4 and
Bell vanquished DR.. Eugene McCauli1i,
Yonkers, N. Y, 6--3, IS, 6-a.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
EASTERN IN WALK0VER

Uses Regulars Only Part Time IN
Swamping Riordan.
Eastern High basketers ran away
with the Riordan School quint, 57-36,
yesterday on the Eastern court.
Using their regulars only about half
the game, the Lincoln Parkers had
little trouble with the visitors. East
ern led at the half, 1912.
Capt. Iavelle Dean. with Is points,
headed the winners attack.
Summary:
Evening star., 1935-01-27
ALL-CHAMP MEET
FOR FAIR GOLFERS
Florida Promoters Devise
New Tourney for Links
at Punta G0rda.

ND now it's going to be the
~ women's championship of
~ champions"
This synthetic champion of
champion idea, started seven or eight
years ago by ST. Augustine, bursts
into its most effulgent bloom in flow
cry Florida, where the naive natives
hope to entice Northern cash and
golfers by staging frequent Champion
ship" tournaments.
Sleepy little Punta Gorda, alive
along in April and May, when
the tarpon come in, is to be the
scene late this month of the latest
champion of champions" tourna-
merlt, which already. according to
the advance press agent stories, has
gathered entries from women'S golf
champions from some dozen States
and is due again, according to the
press monger, to draw all the gals
who make the Florida circuit each
year.
If it goes across it may take some
thing away from the glamour OF Ray
McCarthys personally conducted
junket along the East Coast. for Ray
has been in the habit for some years
Of corralling all the available fem
mime golf talent and sending 'em on
tour of the golf spots along the
Atlantic side Of the State.
Fair Show Expected.
THE Punta Gorda tourney will be
held from tomorrow until Fri
day and 1t should be quite q
show.
And early next month George p.
James and Donald Woodward, both of
Columbia, are slated to play in the
tourney of the Winter Golf League
OF Advertising Interests at Palm
Beach.
Leave it to the fertile minds OF the
Florida promoters to devise new ways
OF getting golfers to 80 there in the
Winter. As If anything but sunshine
and climate were needed to get any
man away from the North.
.NN THE pro side of the picture
~ Florida isn't going to be quite
the gold spot it has been. Tampa
is going to stage the Gasparilla open
again and the international four ball
will be held at Miami. but the many
smaller tournaments which have been
held at such spots as Lakeland. st.
Petersburg and Orlando are not listed
this Winter.
Evening star., 1935-01-27
BIG MEET AT CAROLINA

Totals. 20 ) 81 Totals. II . 3
Evening star., 1935-01-27
FURR OUT OF TROUBLE

Totals. 90 . 81 Totals.
Evening star., 1935-03-05
Hands Off CUBAN
ELECTION PLEDGED
State Department Claims It
Favors or Opposes
No Group.

~ the Associated Press.
The United States sought last night
TO set at rest rumors that 1t t-or
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in Cuban
political affairs, by issuing q formal
statement that it would not intervene
In the forthcoming election.
Reports have been circulated in
Cuba recently, the State Department
announcement said, that the United
States favors certain political groups
and parties to the exclusion of others
in the election to be held next August
to mark the transition from q pro-
visional to a constitutional govern
ment.
THE United States" the depart
ment said, neither favors nor opposes
the participation in the Cuban ma
tional election of any particular party
or group. 1t does hope sincerely, how
ever, because Of the peculiarly close
friendship existing between our two
peoples, that when elections are held
the result may represent the effective
will Of the Cuban people, freely ex-
pressed"
The benefits Cuba has received from
the recently concluded trade agree
ment and other economic policies, the
statement said, have given practical
and convincing proof of the sincerity
of the desire of this administration to
assist Cuba to regain national pros
perity."