Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-06
SPoRTScopE
Some Facts Not Shown
in Box Scores and
Summaries.
BY BILL DISMER, JR.
OTPOURRI of local sports not
y revealed by the record:

u revealed by the record:
Cut half Of the distance be-
L tween the heart of the city
and College Park and you'd find Byrd
Stadium packed with thousands OF
sports lovers every Spring Saturday
afternoon No other site in the
vicinity provides the natural set-up
for all sports offered by the University
Of Maryland's spacious field, where
you may watch base ball, lacrosse,
track and tennis without moving from
your stadium seat The nominal
admission fee always is a bargain,
but somehow the 6i2 miles seem just
little too far to travel.
Two Georges. both of them winning
pitchers for local colleges. provided an
interesting contrast on the Maryland
diamond last Saturday when
George Wood, 125-pound, 5-foot 6-inch
Terp, was opposed by George
Nicketakis. 20o-pound. 6-foot 3-inch
Hoya Although Wood has won
four games and lost two this Spring,
his record is topped by Nicketakis,
who. in recording three straight VIC
tories without losing a game, has al
lowed but Is hits in 81 innings-the
best average of any local hurler
Bob Woytych, George Washington
pitching find from Annapolis, also
is undefeated with the same number
of victories as the Georgetown ace.
Keller Ace Batsman.
NO LOCAL stickman is likely to ap-
. proach the batting average of
Charley Keller. Maryland's natural"
who Is hitting for a mark of .480 in Is
games Charleys IS hits in So
times at bat, including three doubles,
two triples and two grand-slammers,
give him an average of nearly 100
points better than his nearest COM
petitors, Harry Basin of G. U. and
Steve Walker of G. w.
Two ambassadors to the press
Rome Schwagel of Georgetown and
Jack Espey of George Washington
are finding that voluminous publicity
work can even be exceeded in labor
these days as long as they keep
the box scores of their ball teams .
But not so Henry Stack nor Lou Frank
who press agent for Gallaudet and
American University. who can stick to
the handouts on track and tennis.
their schools not sponsoring the
diamond game.
The Clayton H. Turneys of lower
Sixteenth street are likely to be found
in the sports pages during almost any
season .. at present, they form the
crew of the Brangler II. comet of
the Potomac River Sailing Associa-
ton .. but in the near future Bob
sey," the Missus. once more will be
found among the tennis news .
and in the Fall. she keeps her hus-
bands name before the public with
her activities on the hockey field.
incidentally, that D. Werner Smythe,
regional vice president of the Potomac
Sailing Association. is the same Smythe
who was Central High Schools cadet
colonel back in the early 20's.
Black in Pigeon Racing.
.API. GARLAND G. BLACK, whose
wife Florence is a leader in the
Women's District Tennis League. re-
Gently became an enthusiast of the
sport of pigeon racing a captain
in the Signal Corps of the Army. Capt.
Black got big kick out of the annual
banquet of the Washington Racing
Pigeon Union held in March.
Trying to ask Bitsy Grant what his
chances were in playing on the Davis
Cup team would have been like asking
Max Schmeling what his chances were
against Joe Louis with the latter
standing at Something's side .
Johnny Van Ryn. the man Grant
would be most likely to replace, stuck
closer than adhesive to Grant when
ever reporters were around.