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Evening star., 1936-03-16

mid-season Western trip. Travis, with
his easy-to-handle disposition, his
penchant for never being late for
trains and his ability to wallop the
ball when hits meant runs, was
Eynon's fair haired boy. And MOTH
ing that was said or intimated could
persuade the popular secretary that
he was wrong. even in the face of
doubt by admittedly more astute base
ball men.
Bucky Harris, with typical frank
ness, is not at all backward in re-
telling Eynons convictions and his
own doubts. II didn't think Travis
would make any kind of a shortstop,"
relates Stanley Raymond. He was a
very passable third baseman, but ]
kinda thought Travis real position
should have been in the outfield. Out
side of a great arm, never noticed
any particular qualification in the kid
as Shortstop.
But Mr.. Eynon kept putting the
plug in. All during the last part Of
the 1885 season he kept linking Travis
with the shortstop job in 1886. When
the season closed and Mr.. Griffith and
myself went into a hdddle on rebuild
ing, Mr. Eynon redoubled his boosting
Of Travis.
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Soul ptor Is Athletically Bent
Mckenzie, One-Time Runner, Gets Grace, Line
i'm Statues of Famous Performers.

Unframed as Q sculptor, DR.. Nc
Kenzie, back in 1900, thought he
would like to buy a statuette of
some runner or other, but says
he couldn't find one correct in
detail. The crouching start had
just begun to be used widely, and
nobody had modelled it.
""So," says DR.. Mckenzie, 'T
thought I'd take a whack at it
myself. It took me three at
tempts to get the model made, and
then when it was accepted by the
first academy I sent it to, I was
as tickled as dog with two tails"
DR.. Mckenzie has been working
away at his sculpture ever since.
He guesses he has attended track
meets for 40 years and rarely, If
he can prevent it, misses an ath-
letic event.
Sometimes he makes penciled
sketches Of the athletes In action,
but generally just remembers how
they looked.
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VETERANS TO HOLD
! TABLE TENNIS MEET
Tourney for Players 35 or Over
on Program With District
Title Contests.

ONE week from today large group
~ of local table tennis players, IS
years or more old. may find themselves
being referred to as veterans" for the
first time in their lives. A competi-
ton to be held simultaneously with
the District championships at Ward
man Park Hotel. the veterans tourna-
ment will be open to all who have
passed their 35th birthday. The draw
will be limited to l6 players.
Four other tournaments will be
staged, however, the annual cham
pionShipS for men, women, mems dou-
bles and mixed doubles scheduled to
be decided next Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday evenings. All matches will
be played at night.
Entries for members of the District
T. T. A. are being taken at Spaldings
and the sporting goods department Of
Woodward & Lothrop. Fees are 81
for mems and veterans singles and
30 cents for each of the other three
events. Those not belonging to the
association should include $3.50 for
membership dues in addition to en-
trance fees.
Evening star., 1936-03-16

ORLANDO, Fla, March l6.-To the
average Washington base ball fan the
name of Edward B. Eynon. jr., may
not mean a great deal, for the reason
that few sports page headlines are de-
voted to secretaries of ball clubs.
Theirs Is a acknowledgements sort of
job, with only countless piles of yell
low, red and green tickets, and agate
railroad schedules, furnishing an un-
glamorous background.
But not even his own multiple duties
could keep Secretary Eynon from put
ting suggestive oar into the rebuild
ing plans of the 1896 .Griffmen, and If
the noblest experiment of all works
out in the Nationals training camp it
WI be high time the quiet. unsung
cog of Grifith & Co. stepped up and
took bow.
1t was Eynen who first seriously con-
ceived Cecil Travis as a shortstop.
Joe Cronin, at Biloxi in 1894. mur-
INJURED that short may be Travis real
position, but at the time JoSephuS was
playing for our side. So that was as
far as this talk went. 1t remained for
Eynon to furnish an influential spark
that has helped Travis to gain the
shortstop job. which he bids fair to
hold down in fashion at least ac-
ceptable.
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CHR|STy, {. DUSEK
WILL MEET AGAIN
Principals in Rough Mat
Bout to Headline Show
Here Thursday.

" VIDENTLY confident that vir-
l. tue eventually will triumph, Vic
Christy, the Little Lord Faunt-
IL leroy of cauliflower circles,
again tackles matdom's meanest man,
Ernie Dusek, in the feature wrestling
match at Turner's Arena Thursday
night.
Principals in one Of the stormiest
sessions of the indoor season here last
week, Ernie and Vic Immediately were
rematched by Promoter Joe Turner
following Dusek's disputed victory.
Claiming but one shoulder was on
the mat when Referee Cyclone Burns
counted him out, Christy, the hero in
eycs of local wrestling fans, will strive
70 Iain revenge over Ernie, a villyan
IN any city.
Joey Dusek to Appear.
4 Asst weeks match instigated the
nearest approach to a riot since
Turner's Arena was opened. Follow
ing DuSek's victory some l,500 specta-
tors surrounded the ring and showered
Ernie with cigar and cigarette butts,
programs, newspapers and any other
throwable objects within reach.
Just by way Of assuring at least one
rough match. however, Turner has i'm
ported another Of the Dusek clan
joey. The 23-year-old Joe will trade
elbow punches with Jim Cofield in a
Commute preliminary.
In semi-final limited to IS min
utes. Dean Detton will clash with
Scotty MacDougall. while another 30
minute match lists Ivan Managof
graphing with Tom Jenkins.
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BREWERS GET M'AB0Y

Seeking young blood for defense Of
their Industrial Base Ball League
championship, Heurich Brewers have
signed Lyman McAboy, former Uni
versity of Maryland and Eastern dia-
mond star.
McAboy, third baseman, figures to
give the Brewers an added punch with
his big bat and strong throwing arm.
and is expected to fill acceptably the
gap left by the retirement of George
Ortel.
Louis Naples, who hurled against the
Brewers last year while pitching for
Southwest Market, will toll for them
this time.
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Feature Not a StandOut.

THE feature battle-which will be
recognized as such only because
It follows ntermiSSion-flndS John
"Swede" Anderson. light-heavyweight
champion of Europe, clashing with Bot
Turner of Norfolk. in an eight-rounder
That title which Anderson holds
would compare favorably with Dis
trict light ht-heavyweight champion-ii
we had one. He ranks twenty-eighth
among the l75-pounders in the United
States.
Anderson brought Mickey Walkers
comeback attempt to an abrupt ending
however, and has defeated Al MCCOY
Tony Cell and Al Gainor.
Turner. under the management Of
Chris Dundee, has trounced Ansor
Green. Henry Irving, Larry Wagner
Joe Lipps. Marty Simmons. Hooky
jackson, Carmen Bath and Jimmy
Walsh. He also holds knockout VIC
tory over Reds Burman. Jack Demp-
sey's current heavyweight protege
That was about 18 months ago, how
ever. when both boys were middle
weights and Burman fought under the
monnicker of K. o. Burns.
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Career Like an Alger Epic.

Asa YOUTH, Bucky worked in the
mines Of Pennsylvania. He was
good mine hand. but he had ideas
the sort Of ideas that Horatio Alger,
jr., that dangerous red agitator. used
to foment all over the country.
Bucky played ball, came to Washing
ton. married into politics, and got
pretty social, with capital IS" Mr..
Alger could have written fine tale
about it, called up From the Mines;
or, Stanley Harris Struggle"
But Mr.. Harris struggles are not
over. You might say that fresh
one is just beginning. He has a du-
bious ball club on his hands, and
it is his bounden duty to the citizens
of Washington to lift that club to the
upper regions of the league. Further
more, the task must be accomplished
with a minimum outlay of cash. Mr..
Harris employer, Clark Grifith, is
a canny fellow with strong and deep
rooted affection for every nickel and
dime in the Washington treasury.
The job might seem hopeless
II IL were not for certain latent
elements of power and promise
in the club.
Last year the Nationals, though
they finished deep in the ruck, were
one of the steadiest hitting teams in
the American League. They led in
total hits and had q club average
conopd Cnlv RI the TIGERS
Studying his men as they train In
Orlando, the town where Joe Tinker
skyed to a fortune of 100000 bucks
and subsequently went bankrupt, Mr..
Harris finds the outlook far from
bleak.
"we're young and strong" he OBJ
served, "and we're going to get
stronger. Believe it or not. I look
for this club to average 800 or better
in hitting this year. Potentially I've
got the best hitting club in the league.
Buck Parades His Hitters.
"QUDDY MYER was the champion
hitter of the business last season.
He may not repeat, but he belongs up
there in the .34Os. You won't find Q
smarter hitter anywhere. And If ne
doesn't win the league championship
again, I've got another candidate in
this young Cecil Travis, who plays
shortstop for me. There isn't better
prospect In baseball.
Travis hit 318 last year. He's still
learning. So is my centerfelder, Jake
Powell. Powell swung at all the bad
pitches IN the world last year and still
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BY the Associated Press.

N YEw YORK, March 16.-Dr.
M TAFT Mckenzie, who used
VI to be q runner himself,
a Y has opened an exhibit In
the Grand Central Galleries Of his
sculptured athletes.
Exactitude as to detail, as well
as grace and line, he believes,
should be the sculptor's desire
when dealing with athletic SUBJ
jects.
Many famous athletes, including
such contemporary runners as w.
A. Carr and Gene Venzke, posed
for some of his models, although
many of them were done from
DR.. McKenzie's memory of sporting
events.
Although track and field sports
are his true love, DR.. Mckenzie
also has found time to model box
ers In various poses, and spent
three years executing an immense
bronze Of . crew lifting Q shell
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THUMBS DOWN ON BURNS

The caulif1ower cuties who merely
scowl at Cyclone Burns when that
rotund wrestling referee asks, What
did tell you about that knee, huh?"
won't be bothered by their inSistent
interrogation this week.
Several hundred local grapple fans
have forwarded a petition to Pro-
moter Joe Turner to eliminate Burns
as the third man in the ring Thursday
when Ernie Dusek and Vic Christy
repeat last weeks rumpus. Conse-
quently Turner probably will send
Benny Bortnick in to have his shirt
ripped.
Burns, claSsed by Turner as the
best referee in the game, awarded
Dusek the verdict over Christy when
Vic apparently was resting on one
shoulder.
Evening star., 1936-03-16
Change of Boston Club Tag
Brings to Notice Ho,c Other
Teams Picked Up Nicknames
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
n YEW YORK, March 16.-Hav-
nj ing changed most everything
" else under the stress of
q financial and competitive diff
culties. the Boston National League
base ball club has defied precedent in
changing its nickname from the
Braves to the Bees.
The Braves go back only about a
quarter of a century, which makes
that particular monicker a mere
STRIPPING on the list. 1t arose from
the fact that Jim Gaffney, who bought
the club in 1912, had connections with
Tammany's famous wigwam. 1t stuck
after the Braves scalped the famous
Philadelphia Athletics in four straight
games in the 1914 world series.
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Aside from its power, the club
has one strong asset-youth.

mistaken for a forward urchin Just
learning to spell
How does he do it?
II don't worry too much" explained
the first of the boy wonders. "The
best thing manager can do when he's
collected a ball club he likes is to sit
back and enjoy himself watching it
grow"
This Is obviously impossible for any
manager, but Mr.. Harris looks pretty
young, just the same.
(Copyright. 1895. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1936-03-16
American Division.

International League.
Syracuse, 5: London, 2.
Canadian American League.
Springfield, /; New Haven, 0.
American Association.
st. Louis, 8; Kansas City, 2.
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Zinkham a Hard Hitter.

TWO other eight-r0und scraps Isl
- Leroy zinkham facing Frankie
Mills and Irish Johnny Dean squaring
of with Pete Galiano. A hard-hittine
Baltimore lightweight, zinkham meets
in Mills a rugged Italian who recently
scored over Bob Wilson here.
Should Dean and Galiano duplicate
their thrilling draw battle of last week
the fight should steal the show.
Eddie Burl pairs off with Bobby Dean
in scheduled six-round encounter
while Joe Doty and Lou De Mario
clash in a scheduled four-round bout
The first punch will be thrown at $50
o'clock.
Evening star., 1936-03-16
BOUTS MARK YEAR
OF PARTNERSHIP
Promoters Turner, Ahearn
Credited With Saving
Game for D. C.
BY BURTON HAWKINS.

TIME combination of Joe Turner
and Goldie Ahearn. one yeal
old tonight, presents Washing
u tons ring colony with one Of
the most mediocre flstic cards OF the
season in celebration Of the anni-
versary.
Joining forces last year after Ahearn
had lost practically all of his shirts al
the Riding and Hunt Club and Turner
had found financial shedding extremely
hazardous at the Auditorium, this ring
wise pair virtually saved the local box
Ing game.
But tonight at Turner's Arena
Ahearn climaxes year of rather
notable matchmaking achievements
with a small town" card that fails to
feature even one noteworthy noggin-
knocker.
But while none of the fighters prob
ably ever will reach the top rung Of
the fistic ladder, they may provide
some fiery, If not classy, action.
Evening star., 1936-03-16

He was the most talked-of guy in base
bali, excepting only Babe Ruth. Every
school kid named Harris was auto
matically nicknamed Bucky in those
days.
Mr.. Harris looked so young
that he used to have trouble
buying cigarettes over the
counter.
This annoyed him somewhat. but
precociouSnesS had its compensations.
There always was a big league job
for Mr.. Harris somewhere. He
managed in Detroit, and in Boston,
and then, when Tom Yawkey shook
up the Red Sox and imported really
high-priced manager, Mr.. Harris
found his old berth in Washington
made up and ready for him again.
This was nice. because Mr. Harris has
always liked Washington and Wash
ington has always liked Mr.. Harris.
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Sticks by His Guns.

WHEN Manager Bucky Harris vain
ly was trying seven different
shortstops during 1885 in an effort to
plug the gap left by Cronin's sale to
Boston, Eynon began to envision new
possibilities in the 22-year-old Georgia
lad. The idea really was born on a
Evening star., 1936-03-16
FROM THE PRESS BOX
Nationals Outlook Is Far From Bleak
With Club Having Youth, Power at Bat
BY JOHN LARDNER

hit .312. We're teaching him now to
pick his pitch.
"I've got two more fine hitters work
ing for the rightfeld job, Carl Rey-
noldS and Johnny Stone. Stone hit
.315 in 1885. That's pretty good, hey?
My catcher, Cliff Bolton, is a cinch to
hit over 800. So is Joe Kuhel with
any breaks at ALL Jess Hill that we
got from the Yankees, is a potential
300 hitter, and Buddy Lewis. the kid
third baSeman, won't be far under
that.
That being the case" concluded
Mr.. Harris, with a spacious gesture.
its going to be hard for us to keep
from hitting 800 or more, don't you
Think"
Aside from its power, the club
has one strong asset-yOuth.
Myer. Reynolds and Kuhel are veter-
ans, but the rest of the Nationals look
almost as young as their manager, who
could play the title role in II Am a
Fugitive From Georgia Kinder
garten."
If it weren't for his powerful shock
Of black beard, Mr.. Harris might be
Evening star., 1936-03-16
(Copyright. 1895. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)


~ RLANDO, Fla, March l6.-
The first of the famous boy
wonders of Washington,
~ Stanley Bucky Harris, IS
carrying his years very well. I do not
wish to offend Joe Cronin, the second
and last Of the boy wonders. but I
must say that Mr. Harris looks almost
as young as Mr.. Cronin does, and both
Of them look much too green and
salloW to be allowed in the streets
after dark.
The records say that Bucky Harris
is nearing the age of 40. 1t was in
1924, his freshman year as manager.
that he steered the Nationals to their
first and only world championship.
Evening star., 1936-03-16
RossIyn Girls NYhitewashed.

p OSSLYN's girl team, which had
been leading the South Atlantic
Women's League, finds itself tied at
the top by Baltimore following a 80
defeat by Norfolk on the Rosslyn
drives. Norfolk and Richmond are
tied for second place.
Ida Simmons, with 1854, including a
high game of ISL. led in Norfolk's
brilliant victory,
Evening star., 1936-03-16

Five years ago: Bill Terry signed
contract with Giants after holding out
for s25,000. i.
Evening star., 1936-03-16
OCC|DENTALSG GAIN
IN PENNANT RACE
Get Past Tough Spot With
Win From BaItimoreans.
Clarke Falls Back.
~ AFELY over a formidable hump

- AFELY over a formidable hump
with 3-to-2 victory over Balti-
more Recreation, the Occidental
~ Restaurant bowling team today
was a prohibitive favorite to win the
Southern Intercity League pennant.
With three weeks to go, Fred Buch-
holz's all-star lineup is four games
ahead of the nearest enemy, Baltimore
Plaza.
Meyer Jacobson of Baltimore Recre-
alton, battling Astor Clarke of the
Occidentals for the league individual
title, picked up handsomely yesterday
when he rolled 674 against Clarke's
625. The Baltimorean tossed in the
two biggest games Of the ,match-170
and 158-and led both teams in scor-
ing with STA.
Joe Harrison, Occidental anchor,
came within an ace of tying the fourth
game, won by Baltimore by one stick
when he pulled a split spare in the
final frame and counted nine.
Eddie Espey was high for the Occi-
dentalS with 658.
Evening star., 1936-03-16
Rod and Stream

dAVE Dee0 undDle 10 TeQuce
the cost of the Virginia fish,
ing license to Washington
u anglers, but have been able to
secure 5000 adult brook trout all legal
size and over, which will be planted in
Wheelers Mill Run on March IT,"
Judge William S. Snow Of Alexandria
informs us. "Of course, we do not
plant these fish with the expectation
that any of them will reproduce. They
will be placed in this stream solely for
one purpose-to be caught by the
anglers when the Virginia season opens
on April Is. This, am sure, is the
first time any brook trout have been
released in any stream so close to
Washington. Permission has been
granted by the landowners to allow
anglers to fish on their property, and
all that is necessary will be to have
your Virginia license" he added.
THESE trout were raised at the
Marian, Va, fish hatchery and all
are good specimens. BY the time the
season opens they will have become
acclimated and ready to put up a
game fight when hooked.
Wheeler's Mill Run is z miles from
Tysons Corners and is reached by TAX
ing the Leesburg highway. This
stream, also known as Colvin Run, Is
approximately Is miles from Wash.
ington. Joe Wheeler, who owns the
mill, said if the anglers will come to
his place he will give them directions
necessary to enjoy their sport until
the trout have been all caught. There
is plenty Of water in this stream and.
needless to say, it is very cold at this
time of the year. but will not main
tain trout life during the Summer
months.
CHANNEL BASS are reported being
caught off the North Carolina
coast below Morehead City by Milton
Gordon, who has Just returned from
trip to Miami. Fla. Last year the
first of this species were caught at
Oregon Inlet on March %. Gordon
and Charlie Cohen motored South
about 10 days ago, but when they
reached Miami they encountered high
northeast winds and very rough water.
They engaged a boat for a four-day
trip to Bimini, but their captain re-
ported no fish were being caught at
this place owing to weather condi-
tions, so they contented themselves
with fishing of Miami. Among many
assorted fish they landed two sharks,
each weighing more than $50 pounds.
COHEN got one and Gordon the
other. You can talk all you
want about the fighting qualities Of
the sails. but those two babies put up
harder fights than any sail I ever
landed, and when we reached our
wharf everybody flocked around us to
see the two big fish, even those who
were fortunate enough to land SAIL
fish," Gordon said. =
With the Potomac free Of Ice, cat-
fish anglers have started after this
fish in the waters of Fletcher's boat
house. Many have been fishing the
last several days, and from reports
have been landing their quota Of
cats"
Evening star., 1936-03-16
Pro Hockey

BY the Associated Press.
National League.
Toronto, 2; Detroit, (overtime)
New York Rangers, 2; New York
Americans, /.
Boston, /; Chicago, 0.
Montreal Maroons, 3; Montreal
Canadiens, l.
The standing:
American niviSi0n.
Evening star., 1936-03-16
Meets Every Test.

"NTAYBE we would have tried him
AA at short, anyway. ! don't know.
Evening star., 1936-03-16

at the turn Of the century, not only
fought the National League for a
foothold in the big cities but seized
many Of the Oldest club nicknames in
base ball. Philadelphia revived the
Athletics, under Connie Mack. St.
Louis took title of the Browns, since
that city's National League entry
meanwhile had adopted the "Cardi-
mails" in keeping with a change in
adopted Red Sox' without making
any apology to the Reds.
Chicago's White Stockings original
ly was one of the most powerful
National League clubs. but the Ameri-
cans shortened it to white Sox" and
make it stick under Charley Comis-
keys direction. Subsequently the Ma
tionals regained prestige as Cubs"
under Frank Chances leadership.
Giants a Venerable Name.
ORIGINALLY the Metropolitans,
~ New York's National League team
became the Giants" In the late '80s.
They were not only big men physically.
but as champions in 1888 and 1889
established themselves as true giants
of the games history. Across the
river Brooklyn acquired the sobriquet
of Trolley Dodgers" Subsequent at
tempts to change this to "Superbas"
and, under Wilbert Robinson's benev-
olent leadership. to the Robins" 1"
failed to shake of the original idea
and they still are the Dodgers"
Detroit was known as the "Wolver-
ines" in National League company.
but shifted to Tigers" after entering
the American League. Cleveland was
labeled the Indians" as far back as
the '90s, when Pat Tebeau owned the
club and Cy Young was the pitching
ace. Some years after entering the
American League. local scribes applied
the nickname Maps" in honor of Ma
poleon Lajoie, the great infielder, but
its been the Tribe" ever since.
Pittsburgh has had the Pirates"
with such variations as "Corsairs" or
"Bucs" ever since the '80s
Evening star., 1936-03-16
Pin Standings
SATURDAY NIGHT.

Season Records.
High team set-De Molay Alumni. 1853,
High team game-De Molay Alumni. 61O.
High individual Set-D. George, All.
High individual game-B. 500. 15S.
High strikes-Brown. Al
High averages-D. George. 1854;
Singer. 114-21: Smith. 1888 Edinger.
113; Burley. 111-26; He'll. 111-13; Brown.
11O-51
Evening star., 1936-03-16
CoHEN got one and Gordon the

With the Potomac free Of Ice, cat-
fish anglers have started after this
fish in the waters of Fletcher's boat
house. Many have been fishing the
last several days, and from reports
have been landing their quota Of
cats"