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Evening star., 1936-08-15
THE SPORTICHT
Washington Oarsmen Get Great Tribute
From German Throng for Sparkling Vim.

catching the ringing applause of t.
German crowds, and the Germal.
band not only played the United
States national anthem but also the
STARS and Stripes Forever" as trib-
ute to Washington's fast and gritty
finish. The United States was the
only Nation. except Germany, to get
a double anthem.
Rewards Cause Criticism.
THE fourth winning German has
been promoted to a better job,
causing a f1utter in the International
Olympic Committee, which is now in
vestigating the situation. His name
is Gustman, and he was promoted
from police sergeant to lieutenant 80
minutes after the race. 1t is the
same trouble that the Olympic Greeks
faced 1000 years ago. 1t may lead to
a spicy international squabble. Olympic
athletes are not supposed to profit
financially from their victories.
Meanwhile, Adolf Kiefer of the
United States broke the back stroke
record for 100 meters, but there is
no chance now to catch Germany in
gold medals.
Germany's all-around strength
Is far greater than expected.
The attendance has now passed the
1000. .000-mark. with the big climax
on ahead.
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Olympic Games
Schedule Today

QERLIN, August Is R.-Today's
program in the llth Olympics
1Subtract six hours for Eastern stand
ard time:
Olympic Stadium.
4 p.m.-Soccer finals, Italy VS..
Austria.
Olympic Swimming Stadium.
10 a.m.-Finals fancy high diving.
pm-200-mete breast stroke fln-
ais: 400-meter women's free style
finals: 1,500-meter free style finals.
Water polo finals: Germany VS. Bel
GUM, Hungary VS. France.
DOeberitz Army Grounds.
sam.-Cross country test for three
day event.
Olympic Gymnasium.
3 pm-Individua saber fencing
finals.
Deutschland Hall.
$50 pm.-Boxing finals.
Hockey Stadium.
II am.-Field hockey finals: ] lila
VS.. Germany.
Evening star., 1936-08-15
Americans Go Wild.
WASHINGTON drew the outside

WASHINGTON drew the outside
w lane, bucking q strong head
wind. Don Hume, although ailing,
took his vital position in the crew.
Coach Al Ulbrickson was worried,
facing q possible defeat. The Wash
ington crew, unbeaten in every form
of race for 4-mile sprints, was away
last. The Swiss, Italians and Ger
mans set the early pace. Washington
was well behind In fifth place at
the end of the first 1000 meters.
With 5000 meters left, Washing
ton, 5000 miles from home, started
q sprint that lifted every American
to his feet. On and on they came,
faster and faster in a terrific sprint.
I never have seen American partisans
more excited.
As Washington caught and
passed Italy and Germany, both
fast. and powerful crews, the
American demonstration became
almost hysteria.
Italy challenged again, as at Los
Angeles, but the game kids from
Washington won by half . length,
Evening star., 1936-08-15
NASH POST REACHES
FOR LEGION H0NORS
Washington Youngsters Battling
Clarksburg Today in Final
Game of Legion Series.

L ENNETH NASH POST of Wash
ington and Clarksburg. w. Va.
diamonders squared off today at
Clarksburg in the third and deciding
game of the American Legion junior
base ball regional play, the winner to
represent this sector at the Southeast
ern sectional tournament at Charlotte,
N. c., next week.
Behind the five-hit pitching of Ben
Lingle, cousin OF Van Lingle Mungo
OF the Brooklyn Dodgers. Charlotte de-
feated Battlefield Park. Va, 80, to win
the North Carolina Virginia cham
pionship.
Carrollton and Spartanburg clashed
at Spartanburg, S. c., for the Georgia
South Carolina title today after the
Georgians forced the series to a third
game yesterday. trimming Spartan
burg, 10.
Jim Wright. Clarksburg scholastic
twirler, yesterday throttled the Wash
ington batting attack. granting only
five scattered hits as his mates pound
ed out a 10-1 victory off Alexander
and Jones in the second game of the
series.
Evening star., 1936-08-15

N ERL1N. August 15.-Germany
x has cleaned up enough gold
medals in the Olympics to
- start a gold mine. Claiming
the Olympics by wide margin, via
the gold medal route, Berlin is now
a Teutonic bedlam where "Deutsch-
land uber allies" rings out in packed
cafes and crowded streets as If in
celebration of a victory in the World
War. Twenty-seven gold medals for
Germany VS.. 81 for the United States,
is posted on Berlin bulletin boards in
front of cheering crowds.
The high spot for Americans
in all the Olympics was the
rowing regatta at Grunau.
In a steady rain, before 100000
spectators, Germany had just won
five straight races, including the four
Dared and single sculls. The British
had stopped the river sweep in the
double SOULS, as the eight-oared en-
try came on.
The German flag and German
songs had filled the air all afternoon.
In the stands were Chancellor Hitler,
Field Marshal Blomberg, Goering,
Goebels and Won Papen, all leaders
of the German dynasty. Then came
the eight-oar final, with the Univer-
sity of Washington carrying the Stars
and Stripes.
Evening star., 1936-08-15
LOUIS T0BE EASY
SHARKEY INSISTS
CoCky Ex-Champ Confident
He'll "BIast" Black Heavy
as He PIeaSes.
BY EDDIE BRIETZ,
Associated Press Sports Writer.


y RANGEBURG, N. Y, August
15.-That terrible Sharkey
~ man" is up to his old tricks
again. He's going around
here, popping off about how he's go
ing to annihilate Joe Louis in the
Yankee Stadium next Tuesday night.
He's the same old Jack Sharkey,
cocky, self-assured, garrulous and,
most important of all. supremely con-
fident. He has everybody IN Orange
burg and the outlying districts wager
ing everything, even the plough and
mule, On the outcome Of next weeks
flsticuffS.
LOUISE" he snorted today. What
about him? Did he ever lick anybody
who was worth tinker's dam?
"Baer was washed up, wasn't he?
Poor old Camera was joke. Pauline
was brought in just to get the sucker
money The only man capable OF
giving him a test was Schmeling, and
you see what happened there.
I'll just step out when the bell
rings, blast him with all I've got and
then finish him up pretty much as
please. He's still sucker for right
hand and will feed him plenty OF
them?"
IT started this comeback" he went
on, because I like to fight. I grew
restless tending bar up there in Boston
and living the easy life. My nature
Graves action and excitement. I get
both in the ring.
Il want to beat Louis because I am
sick and tired of hearing everybody
who comes into my tavern lecture me
on what a great fighter he is. Per-
sonally, I don't think ne is so hot.
saw him against Baer when he was
supposed to be at his best. He didn't
impress me. Then I saw Schmeling
murder him and said right away,
there is a bird can beat with one
hand I'll show you, too"
Evening star., 1936-08-15
BY JOHN LARDNER.

~ RANGEBURG, N. Y, August
4 15.-Don't bring the wife and
I kiddies when you visit Jack
~ Sharkey's training camp.
Women become hysterical with fear,
and little children suffer nervous indi-
gestion when exposed to the sight OF
the terrible sailors terrible scowl,
which he is practicing now Is minutes
daily in preparation for his fight with
Joe Louis.
1t is a spectacle for men only-and
those men must be stout of heart and
strong of nerve. One poor fellow was
crippled hopelessly the other day
when he intercepted an after-dinner
scowl from Sharkey at is PAGES. The
victims beard was scared from his
face, and he suffered burns and con-
tusions of the scalp.
Another guy. a manly lad OF
Is, had his hair turned white
overnight.
Incidents of this kind have forced
the management to confine the terrible
Sharkey man to an indoor shooting
range. where he sets three standard
targets on fire per evening at distances
ranging from 100 yards to 10 feet.
Sometimes Sc0wls While Prone.
THE fearful fellow can scowl from
almost any angle, standing. sitting
or lying fat on his back. Some of his
best scowls have been propelled with
an upward motion from the canvas,
and referees often turn their eyes aside
while counting Mr.. Sharkey out, to
avoid Inflammation.
1t is a known fact that the sailor
outstared Primo Carnera from a pros
trate position when the big Italian
knocked him cold Primo's teeth rat
tied like dice in a box. and his face
turned white as a sheet. The man
does not live who can scowl toe to
toe with Jack Sharkey.
Mr.. Sharkey bases his current
scowling campaign on psyche
logical grounds. Next to Prof.
Benny Leonard, the freud of
Broadway, the sailor is the most
shtcu PSycuOiOSiSs III tHc ring.
MY scowl," he explains. 'is de-
signed to play upon the shallow mind
and superstitious heart of my oppo-
nent. I fix the victim with my eye
and alternate a savage look with q
stern one. AS a rule, the unhappy
fellow willis visibly. His knees trem-
BILE, his heart palpitates and his pulse
f1utters. 1t Is question of the
stronger mind dominating the weaker
mind"
The awful COB expects to wreak
havoc in Joe Louis breast with a new
scowl he has been developing, a sort
of dignifled leer with a reverse twist
Louis is the easiest kind of type, q
man of very low scowl-resistance," MIR
Sharkey points out. I'VE met the
other day at the commission Office anc
practically won the fight right there
I played my scowl upon his primitive
mind like a hose.
The first time that I caught him
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GR|FFS AND MACKS.
ARSENIC TO YANKS.
Explosive Maces Are buds
When Leaders Take on
LoWIy Foemen.
BY SID FEEDER.
Associated Press Sports Writer.

"HIS American League penpsnt
chase would be much more of
a pushover for murderers' row
than 1t has been If the Yam
KEGS could only cut their second
division cousins" from Philadelphia
and Washington off their schedule.
Whether the New York homicide
squad, by losing three of its last four
games, Is finally in a slump remains
to be seen, but there's no getting
around the fact that the otherwise
exploding Yankee bats largely have
turned out to be duds against the
Athletics and Senators.
While the second-place Cleveland
Indians have been more or less a
cinch to Gehrig and company. losing
13 times to the Yanks so iar this
season. and the White Sox and Tigers
have been nearly as easy, the Mats
and AS, who should have been easy
pickings, have been giving the most
trouble.
Evening star., 1936-08-15

away. Laughing? No, he wasn't
laughing. Far from it. The man was
unable to meet my gaze because he
realized that I was his master. The
same device is used widely by animal
trainers, or so they tell me.
Insists He Outscowled Dempsey.
"nEMPSEY had very fair scowl in
his day, but outscowled him by
something like three to one. 1 also
outfought him, you remember. and if
it hadn't been-well, anyway, Louis is
practically licked right now. I'll bet
he is enjoying very little sleep these
nights"
That is one bet Mr.. Sharkey loses.
because Joe is grinding out his normal
IA or Is hours Of coma per diem. 1t
may be, however, that the scowl treat
ment will have some other effect on his
particular type of mind. MIR. Sharkey
admits that scientific Scowling still is
in the experimental stage.
Though the terrible mans regular
scowling practice is limited to sessions
of Is minutes day. behind asbestos
walls, he often works out on the spur
of the moment when some pleasing
twist or innovation occurs to him. At
the dog track near his camp the sailor
will select a spectator at random and
administer the cut direct--the ogre's
ogle, the blank stare. the herring's
eye or some other mild variety OF
dirty look suitable for mixed company.
Once in a while the infra-red glare
gets out of control. Several grass fires
have been started around Orangeburg
in this way. Just a couple of days
ago, q man watching the sailor go
through his Sparring routine was
thoughtless enough to heckle Mr..
Sharkey from the ringside. Mr.. Shar-
key suspended operations for a mo-
ment, meaning simply to lash the
varlet with the fiat side Of his tongue.
"If you want to come up here
and put on the gloves, you big
monkey" said MIR. Sharkey
coldIy, Il will show you whether
or not am a bum, you big
monkey.
Unconsciously, he accompanied this
dignified reproof with an ultraviolet
scowl generating 500 watts a minute
under its own steam. The heckler
melted like ice in the sun, and was
laughing a shrill, hysterical laugh
when they carried him away. One
more episode like that, and Mr.. Shar-
key will be compelled 80 wear a cowl
in public, or to gallop with the blinkers
on.
Well, there are a certain number of
casualties in every big experiment.
The important thing is to watch
Louis reaction to the treatment next
Tuesday night. Will Mr.. Sharkey
scowl up at him or down at him?
Science awaits the answer and science
| is in no hurry.
Copyright 1886 by the Norm American
Newspaper Alliance incJ
Evening star., 1936-08-15
Grove Great in 80 Win.

APPLEIoN was quite a let-down
yesterday in the opener of the
current four-game series with Boston.
One week ago Pete, facing Lefty Grove,
shut out the Sox with five hits and
won, to to !. Yesterday, when Grove
started again, Harris threw Appleton
at him. Grove and the Bostons threw
him right back.
When the smoke had cleared after
Boston's first inning, Appleton faced
4-to-0 deficit and, with Lefty pitch
ing, it meant the ball game. The
first six men to face Appleton reached
base by hits or walks.
Weaver entered the box in the
second inning and was slapped for five
more runs and 10 hits during the re-
manning seven innings. He got better
as the game went on, but that was like
locking the garage after the car had
been swiped. With Grove as he was
yesterday, he didn't matter.
Lefty gave up only four hits in
registering his fourteenth win of the
season and his sixth shut-out ALI
of his whitewashing jobs, incidentally,
were done at the expense of different
clubs. He now needs only to blank
the Browns to make a clean sweep.
All of Washington's four hits were
made in the first three innings, Kuhel
singing in the first, Kress and Bluege
singing in the second and Chapman
doubling in the third. After that,
Grove pitched not only runless, but
hitiess ball. He pitched to only 10
batters in the last six innings and the
only National who reached base was
Buddy Lewis, who got there on q walk.
Bluege's hit, incidentally, was a gift
from the official scorer. Johnny
Kroner, who played Ossie's ball like
shoemaker, should have been charged
with an error.
Evening star., 1936-08-15
GAMENESS TELLS
|NU. s. CREW WIN
Handicapped Huskies Make
"0Id College Try" With
Dramatic Reality.
BY ALAN GOULD.
Associated Press Sports Writer.

- RUNAU, Germany, August IS.
There have been many bright
chapters written in Ameri-
can rowing annals by the
collegiate crews which have kept the
United States supreme in eight-oared
rowing since the war, but none ever
had more courageous background
than that marking the Washington
Huskies' triumph over Europe's best
crews in the climax OF the 1885 Olym-
pic naval battle.
There has been many story writ
ten about 1.-The old college try" but
the youthful oarsmen from the Pacific
Northwest gave 1t dramatic reality
by the fashion in which they sur
mounted discouraging obstacles to
capture Olympic honors second only
to track and field triumphs from the
viewpoint OF American sporting pride
and interest.
Though there was no secret before
hand that the Huskies were not with
in several lengths of their best speed.
1t might as we'll be disclosed now that
nearly half the crew. particularly the
stroke, Don Hume. and the No. man.
Gordon Adam, were only one jump
away from a sickbed, due 10 the effects
of heavy colds.
They were all SO happy last night
after gaining their big objective in
coming from behind to win the way
they did against the strongest kind
Of opposition, they already are feeling
lots better" said their coach, Al Ul-
Erickson, after turning the boys loose
for the first time since they began
training last October.
Evening star., 1936-08-15
MackS Maui Leaders.

THE Senators invaded Yankee Sta
dium last week end and took two
out Of three from the pace settlers.
Yesterday the Athletics continued
where the Mats left of, giving the
Yanks a lesson in heavy hitting with
17-hit attack for a 1915 victory.
Charley Rufing was belted out for
the second straight time as the AS
fired three homers. half dozen dou-
bles and eight singles.
The Indians took advantage of the
New York defeat to pick up a full
game on the pace with a 1910 tri-
umph over the Browns in as wild a
slugfest as the league has seen this
season. Thirty-five hits were smashed
out. and IL pitchers were called into
action before it was over.
Evening star., 1936-08-15
NEW yoRK.PENNSYLvANIA.

promoter The match Is sched-
uled at Dyckman Oval here August
81 Several Pennsylvania boys
who were headed for Villanova
changed their minds in favor OF
Wisconsin after Harry Stuhl-
dreher signed up at Madison.
Young Gibson White, owner OF
Rosalind, the Hambletonian win
ner, plans to make q brood mare
out of the crack Swear -old trot-
ter The Quepe twins Of Mar
quette foot ball fame have made
identical grades in the same sub
jects throughout their stay at
Milwaukee.
Evening star., 1936-08-15
BY EDDIE BRIETZ,

n YEW YORK, August 15.-Un.
nj oficial reports say Eleanor
Holm Jarrett will turn pro
a on her return from Berlin
and that her first professional ap-
pearance will be at the New Jersey
State Fair opening in Trenton
September ~ Pop Warner
has invited 40 candidates-the
largest group in Temple foot ball
history-to start. practice Septem-
Der /.
Why doesn't some Southern or
Eastern school 60 after young
Evening star., 1936-08-15
Chase Cardinals.

THE Cubs and Giants, second and
third place holders in the Ma
tional League, continued hot after the
leading Cardinals, with victories over
the Reds and Phillies, respectively.
The Cubs cashed in on 10 hits for
Us victory to pull up to half-game
back of the Cards, while the Giants,
with Jim Ripple doing the heaviest
hitting, came through 80 behind
Clyde Castleman's nine-hit pitching
The Cards and Pirates were idle.
Lefty Grove returned to form and
posted the best pitching performance
of the day, a four-hit job with which
the Red Sox shut out the Senators,
80. 1t was the lean portsider's four
teenth win of the campaign. The
White Sox and Tigers were rained
out.
Evening star., 1936-08-15
MCGOWAN DROPS WEIGHT
Players Favorite Ump Has Lost
35 Pounds This Season.

DETROIT, August IS R.-If Um-
pire Bill MCGOWAN gets around faster
now in calling 'em in the American
League the reason is obvious.
MCGOWAN Is IS pounds lighter than
when the season opened-down to
1876. He said he lost some of the ex-
cess while he was i'll "but I worked OF
the rest"
MCGOWAN, whom players last year
voted the most efficient umpire in the
American League, admits pride in the
fact that he has missed only one
games work in II years,
Evening star., 1936-08-15
Eleanor's Pro Debut Is Reported for September II


Scudday Horner, who trimmed all
the pros to win the Southeastern
p. G. A. Scudday, just 81.
wants to 60 to college, but can't
afford it But he can shoot
golf He stepped up to the
No. tee on his final round need
ing a 81 to tie Ernie Ball, Birming-
ham pro That's just what
he did--shooting eight brides over
the 6,550-yard course At
one time he was 6 under par
Then he beat BAH in the playod.
All but seven members of the
Chicago White sox are cast ofis
Evening star., 1936-08-15

:. Ray Pepper, of the Browns, is
the third American League pinch.
hitter to make two hits in an
inning this season President
Gerry Nugent promises drastic
shake-up in the Phillies this VIM
ter :. Nugent, along with many
others, Is disappointed that the
Phils have failed to bid for q first
division berth.
Johnny Attell, Broadway match.
maker, has turned down an offer
to sell the Sixto Escobar- -Tox Ma.
rino featherweight championship
bout to Jules Beack, Pittsburgh
Evening star., 1936-08-15
All on Ragged Edge.
THEY all were on the ragged edge

THEY all were on the ragged edge
because Of conditions which we
couldn't control. Hume was so sick
for the better part of a week before
the Olympic regatta didn't think he
could row at all. but he just couldn't
stay on his back.
The entire crew was under weight,
but when Don came back they simply
decided nothing could stop them. And
nothing did stop them"
The Huskies lost no time celebrat-
ing the triumph which marked the
end of an unbeaten competitive cam
paign begun on the West Coast last
Spring.
They carried on through victories
in the American intercollegiate
championship regatta at Pough-
keepsie, the Olympic tryouts and,
finally. on the now historic waters
Of die lange see," where not even
the dripping skies, Germany's other
wise dominant Olympic Navy and the
presence of Adolf Hitler could over
shadow the Americans crowning per-
formance.
The Huskies proved themselves as
unbeatable at 2,e0O meters as over 4
miles. They broke the Olympic rec
ord under favorable conditions in the
trials against Great Britain's for
midable challenge.
They had the wind and rough water
as well as the least favorable racing
lane to combat in the final, but they
beat five robust European boatloads
with an equally convincing though
slower performance in the final.
Evening star., 1936-08-15
U. s. Not Highly Rated.

WITH only one women's final event
scheduled, the 40o-meter free
style, Rita Mastenbroek of Holland
favored to win it, Americas chance of
holding its 5l2 point lead over the
Dutch was not good.
The United States main contender
in the event was Lenore Kight Win
gard of Homestead, Pa, who finished
second to Miss Mastenbroek yesterday
in the semi-finalS.
In the boxing competition, only tall.
slender Jackie White, Cleveland, Negro
bantamweight, remained. His victory
yesterday over Ortiz of Mexico quail
fieo him for try for the gold medal,
as Lou Laurie, Whites fellow towns
man. was eliminated from the fly
weight class by Malta of Italy.
In addition to the victories in the
eight-oared rowing event and in the
backstroke, America could boast of
the first Olympic basket ball title
with 1873 victory over Canada.
No adjectives were spared for the
Washington crew. however.
Yesterday, trailing Italy by length
with 600 meters to go, the Huskies
came up with a magnificent squirt and
crossed the mark quarter Of length
ahead.
Perhaps the most consistently bril-
liant competitor on the United States
swimming team this week has been
Adolf Kiefer. the blond back-stroke
star from Chicago.
Cracks Mark Three Times.
In the last two days. he has smashed
George Kojac's eight-year- r-old Olympic
record and Vande Weghe's listed
world record three times.
Kojac's listed record is 1902, the
world mark, 1:074. His first time
out, Kiefer was clocked in 1869, the
second time in 1908, and yesterday
in the finals he bettered them all with
1858.
Evening star., 1936-08-15
GAMES TOMORROW.
GAMES TODAY.
GEORGETOWN A. C. DATING.

The Georgetown A. C. wants a
game for tomorrow with a crack un-
limited base ball team. Call West
2so8-W after pm.
Evening star., 1936-08-15
GOLF AT MIDNIGHT.

Midnight golf is played in the Shet-
lands, short sail from Glasgow,
Scotland. Visibility is good in the
Shetlands between and IL pm.
Evening star., 1936-08-15
WOMEN DON'T VAULT.

Pole vaulting is one track sport that
woman athletes have net yet adopted.