Evening star., 1935-07-28
Henson Would Horseshoe Idol Eager to
PREDICTED FRYE
WOULD RULE ALL
Final Is Carded Tomorrow
in Evening Star Event.
Look to Mel can.

LOOK 10 WCIedH.
~ UT for the young mans famed
- ability to raise his game in
the clutches, Clayton c. Hen
- son, Metropolitan District
horseshoe champion, would be under
dog tomorrow night, when, in the final
of the seventh annual Evening Star
tournament, he meets the sensational
Deadpan Raymond Frye Of Orkney
Springs, Va, on the Municipal Play
ground courts at Lincoln road and
r streets northeast.
The battle will start at 1880 O'Clock.
Thus far in the Metropolitan play
offs, which brought together the top
notchers of Virginia, Washington and
Maryland, Frye has turned in a
higher ringer percentage than the
champion and horseshoe pitchers
usually are rated almost solely on
their percentage of three-pointers.
But another equation enters into the
rating of Frye and Henson.
Ever since he won his first major
championship, the Virginia State title,
four years ago, Henson'S pitching has
been characterized by an ability to
turn Or. the most pressure when most
neeoeo. To heat George Thompson
for the Virginia :Els in 1882, the
husky youngster won four straisht
games after dropping three in a row
and trailing in the fourth.
Has Alibi for Victim.
TN ALL sincerity, last year before the
Metropolitan play-offs, he declared
Ray Frye to be the best horseshoe
pitcher he ever had seen, conceded
himself little chance to stop the Ork-
ney Springs wizard, then proceeded
to beat him with the greatest Of ease.
IT won," explained Henson, be
cause Frye wasn't used to pitching
before a big gallery. He'll get over
the crowd-scare and when he does
there isn't anybody in this part of
the country, if anywhere else, who
can beat him. Next years metropoli-
Ian title is his right now, honestly
believe. There remains only the for
mality of playing tournament for it."
A magnanimous pronouncement this
may have been, but Henson'S estimate
of Frye's potentialities has changed
not a whit in year.
"All he needs" said the champion
yesterday, sis little more tourna-
ment experience"
But Frye might be the worlds best
beyond question and that wouldn't
affect Henson's play. He'd be in
there trying his darndest to win and
sticking on double-headers in the
pinches.
Henson Needed Competition.
r USTY from lack of serious COM
~ petition this season-he remained
out of The Evening Star preliminaries
Henson was unable to shoot his
regular percentage in the early rounds
OF the metropolitan event and the
road to the championship round was
bumpy. But always there was that
inspired ability to crowd the stake
when defeat semed imminent. With
a couple of trying battles behind him,
he should be in top fettle tomorrow
night.
In the seven games he pitched In
three matches, Henson averaged Sc
per cent ringers, with a high game of
II and low of As. Frye not only
averaged nearly 10 per cent better,
but was consistent. His best game
was "a and his low, Sc. Three of
his six games were 65.
Frye, too, proved capable of bearing
down in the tight spots. When it
seemed Bill Moore, Washington cham
pion, would make 1t hot for him, Dead
pan fired on 13 consecutive ringers.
It's cinch he won't be the crowd
bewildered performer he was last year
against Henson. He has acquired at
least some of the poise that his
young admirer and rival predicted for
him, and it's bottle to beer-tops that
tomorrow nights battle will be a
battle in every hoss-shoe -heaving sense.
viii Present Prizes.
FOLLOWING the match The Eve
ming Star Trophy will be pre-
sented.
The feud among the leading pitch |
ers of the Metropolitan area will be
renewed Wednesday night when
when eight invited performers en-
gage in the annual Mclean, Va, car
nival tournament This will bring
together Henson, Frye, Saunders, Ray
mond Brown, Temple farrell, Lee
Fleshman, Bill Moore and Roy Will
son, all of whom have DISTINGUISHED
themselves in The Star tournament.
In the meantime, the buffers of
Washington have a scrap on-in fact,
q flock of 'em. With the players who
took part in the Washington cham
pionship event barred, tournaments
will be conducted on all Fairgrounds
starting tomorrow with two weeks al |
lowed to finish them. Then will come |
a play-off Of playground winners.
ANY pitcher desiring to enter should
present himself to the director of the
playground nearest his home.