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Evening star., 1936-12-27
PIN BOY GETS TITLE
AT A. B. C. TOURNEY
Murphy of Indianapolis Heads
1896 Slate of National
Bowling Champs,

Johnny MURPHY. 2l-year-old In
- dianapolis pin boy. won the all
event championship in the thirty-sixth
annual American Bowling Congress
tenpin tournament held last Spring
in his home town. Murphy total was
zoos points.
indianapolis also won another title
when the Fall City Hi-Mru five-man
team finished first with 3,089. Charles
Warren, 20-year-old assistant foot ball
coach from Springfield, H., took indi-
vidual honors with 735. and the Chi
cago team of Tony Stamina and Mike
Straka won the doubles championship
with 1,347 points.
The United States scored three VIC
tories in the international tournament
in Berlin. The Heils Product squad
of Milwaukee won five-man team hon.
ors, while the Stroll Bohemian team
of Detroit finished first in both the
two-man and three-man events.
The 1887 A. B. c. tournament will
be held In New York next Spring.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
MERRICK five BUSY
IN SOUTHEAST LOOP
Two Games Scheduled This Week
for Leaders in Center's
National League.

.MERR1cK BOYS CLUB tossers,
leading the National League Of
the Southeast Community Center bas-
ket ball loop. will see action twice this
week, stacking up against the Clover
A. C. Tuesday night at 9:15 o'clock and
facing the Shamrocks Wednesday
night at Sis O'Clock.
Loans and Currency, leading the
American League, will idle this week,
but Clark's Service Station, in second
place, will battle y. C. Paper Co. drib-
blers Wednesday night at 7:15 o'clock.
Following is the schedule and the
club standing:
Tomorrow 7:15. Northeast Business Men
VS.. D. c. Paper Co; 9:15. Navy Yard vs.
Congress Heights: Tuesday. 7:15. Trojans
vs.. Shamrock Cleaners; S:15, Marvin
Methodists VS.. O'Donnelrs Restaurant;
9:15. Clovers VS.. Merrick Boys Club We'd
nesday. 7:15. Clarks Service Station vs.
D. c. Paper Co.: S:15. Merrick Boys Club
VS. Shamrocks: 9:15. Reads Pharmacy VS..
Troians.
Evening star., 1936-12-27

TvEN the base ball guys and the
~ tennis guys and the fishing
lazies can't laugh OF the fact
- that golf Is the biggest angle
Of the sport goods business in the face
of the latest sport goods sales report
from the Department Of Commerce.
Unfortunately they are for 1885 and
not for 1895, but If they'd been up to
date they'd probably show an even
greater discrepancy in favor Of golf.
America went sports conscious In
1885 to the tune Of spending more
than $35, ,000, 900 in good hard dollars.
Uncle Dan Roper's brave boys have
found out, and this didn't include
firearms and the paraphernalia that
goes with EN-.
Skeet shooting alone must
have accounted for another mill
lion or 90, and field shooting for
millions more.
Golf goods topped the sport parade
outside the firearms and ammunition
category, with total sales Of $10,233.-
500, or q little less than one-third Of
the total sport goods sales. OF this
10 million bucks, John J. Duffer spent
Evening star., 1936-12-27
MIDDIES' GYM, GOLF
OPPONENTS NAMED
Georgetown Down for Links Meet
With Sailors for May l
at ANNAPOLIS.

A NNAPOLIS, Md, December rs up.
Navy Varsity gymnasium and
golf schedules for 1887 have been an
nounced by Lieut.. Conndr. Andrew c.
McFall, graduate manager Of athletics.
He also said the Navy varsity fencing
team would participate in the intercol-
legiates at New York March 26 and ~.
The gymnasium team will meet the
following:
February IS. Penn State; 20. NJ. I. T.;
March 8. Dartmouth: 13 Princeton at
Princeton: 20. Intercollegiates at Hanover.
The golf team will participate in the
following six meets:
April II. Princeton: "A. virsinia.
May 1. Georgetown: 8, virGinia at Char
lottesville: Is. Washington and Jefferson:
22. Delaware.
The following plebe schedules have
been arranged:
Gymnasium.
February 8. Emerson of Union City, N. J.;
"a. Temple Freshmen; March o, Dickinson
High. Jersey CITY. N. ].
Boxing.
February 6, etaunton M. A.; Is. Augusta
n A., Fort Defiance. Va: 20, v. N. /
Freshmen,
Track.
May l.. Tech High: 9. Massanutten
Academy: ID. Mercersburs.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
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W. By WRMeCAllum -

and girls have taken advantage OF
1t too there's been more golf
played this Christmas season than
at Christmas for many years . it's
q great break for s. g. Leof1er, the
Santa Claus of the public links, after
q couple Of tough Winters.
Bobby Brownell, the District am
ateur champ, spent last Winter in
Florida, but he won't get South this
Winter "how can q guy shoot rs
one round and SO the next round?"
quizzes Elmer Jenkins at Washington
final details of the two plans for
club house reconstruction will be laid
before the Washington members on
January S.
Lawson Little, Horton Smith and
Harry Cooper already are in Cali
fornia awaiting the opening Of
the big-money season on the Pacific
Coast the Los Angeles open for
eight grand is the big one, starting
January 7 Roland Mackenzie won
q couple of massive silver bowls for
the amateur prize in this tourney q. {.
two more $4,000 open Journeys will be
played in California during January.
Harold Galloway, Pinehurst
pro, reeIed OF five straight
threes on the No. 3 course,
starting At the tenth hole.
One of them-the twelfth-is q par
five affair which obviously can be
reached in two whacks talk per-
sists Of an open tournament in which
first money will be 10 grand {.
they'd come from all over the world
for one like that, with prize cash
around $4,000.
Visit the public links any Sunday
and believe that Washington needs
more golf facilities :. it's crying for
another major public fee course. but
it'll have to be q good one as a
matter Of fact, there's q course all
laid out ready for use by some enter
prising promoter the old Strath-
meade project in Virginia, near Falls
Church, could be rehabilitated and
made into public fee layout without
any great amount Of spending, and II
run right would be q money maker.
Eddie Stevens, youthful assistant
pro AZ Manor, hopes to remain IN
Texas and blossom out as q full
Evening star., 1936-12-27

nedged pro auer
he takes over his
new berth ut the
Glenbrook Coun-
try Club Of Hous-
ton next week.
Eddie was ap-
pointed to the
Glenbrook post .
few days ago,
and will take over
his new duties On
January /.
Stevens u Q
former caddie at
Manor, and has
been Al Treder's
aide In the golf
Evening star., 1936-12-27
Helen's Ups and Downs.

MISS JACOBS win from Frau HiIda
Krahwinkel Sperling Of Germany
and Denmark In the all-England final
was universally cheered because 1t
capped the charming Californian's
most cherished ambition. Shed been
in the Wimbledon final before, but
there was always some one else, prin-
cipally Helen wills Moody, who beat
her for the title.
But the cheers turned into groans
for Miss Jacobs. During the early
stages of the American championship
she dislocated the thumb on her rae
quet hand and played through with
the injured digit tightly bandaged. It
didn't seem to bother her much.
Whether it did or not didn't make any
difference in the fnal. because on that
day, at least. she met her superior in
Alice Marble.
Miss Marble won an honor she
seemed headed for in the Spring of
1884 when illness forced her into re-
tirement. She arrived on her game to-
ward the close of the first set, which
she lost. Ga, and then. giving q bril-
liant display Of shotmaking, which
some expert observers said was the
finest they'd seen in years Ut Forest
Hills. captured the next two sets, 13.
GO.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
High Hat Is Off
AS Senators Bet

TACOMA, Wash. December 26
@.-Senator Homer T. Bone
Of Washington Is ready to cooper
ate with Senator James J. Davis
Of Pennsylvania.
Senator Bone read . news story
saying Davis had offered to eat
his hat II Pittsburgh fails to de-
feat washington in the Rose Bowl
foot ball game ct Pasadena New
Year day.
Senator Bone offered to provide
the hat-a 10-gallon sombrero.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
RAIN HALTs CUBAN TILT.

HAVANA, December 26 R.-The
basket bali game between Columbia
University and the vedado Club Of
Havana. a feature event on Cuba's in
ternational sports week program, was
postponed tonight because of rain. OF.
ficials said the game would be played
Monday ni9ht.
Evening star., 1936-12-27

shop for eight years. A good golfer.
he grew up with Bobby Brownell and
has been q partner Of the District
amateur champion in many Informal
matches. He goes to Texas to remain
for three months. but he says II he
likes the Job and the folks at Glen
brock like him b may remain.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
FROM TENNIS FAMILY.

Bryan Grant. of tennis frame,
comes from a family Of net stars.
His father, in his day, was rated one
of the South's best doubles players.
A brother, Berry, won the Southern
intercollegiate title some years ago.
Evening star., 1936-12-27

nearly 4 million in golf balls to spray
It Just goes to show how the manu-
facturers pile it up when you consider
that 1t costs about two bits to manu-
facture a golf ball selling 1t six bits
retail.
Golf clubs were sold In 1885 for
a. 1853, ,957, while other golf goods such
as shafts, caddy bags and parts used
up the balance.
Fishing tackle ran next in Ameri-
cas- sports spending parade. with total
sales during 1895 Of $7,875,393, while
base ball ran q poor third, and tennis
bad fourth. Base ball may be the
national game" but America bought
only $4,867,178 worth Of goods TO
play its base ball, and tennis enthusi-
asts, who really are pikers compared
to the golfers, spent only $2,854 900
for equipment to play their favorite
game.
So golf remains, as 1t has been for
years, the biggest item In the Ameri-
can sports goods scene. When you
count the untold billions Of dollars
IN real estate owned by some 5000
golf clubs scattered throughout the
land and the investments In club
houses for private courses alone, not
to speak Of the public layouts, golf
makes base ball look TO Be q little
country cousin. Golf today is the big
rest game IN America. Let the base
BAN man answer that, In any money
way they can.
CHIP shots no reason why
Washingtoniars should have gone
South for the holidays -. IN ac-
count Of the flne golf weather we've
had for many dayy and tn hoYS
Evening star., 1936-12-27
By PAUL J. MILLER, Jr.,
Americas Authority On Seeial Chess.
- r. MILAN VIDMAR, European
chess master who visited
Washington last Summer,
kkN. IL A>S

~ r. MILAN vIDMAR, European
chess master who visited
Washington last Summer,
tells this story about his be.
loved friend, the late Aron Nimzo-
witsch. also q great chess player:
During the 1927 New York tourna-
ment Nimzowitsch, who hated smoking,
asked Vidmar not to smoke. Vidmar
agreed, but later during the game he
absent-mindedly took his cigar case
out Of his pocket and laid 1t on the
table. Nimzowitsch at once ran to
Maroczy, tournament director.
But vidmar is not smoking; his
case is unopened" said Maroczy.
II know" walled Nimzowitsch, but
as an old chess player you must know
that the threat Is stronger than the
execution. Chess Review.
An-School Title.
r OUND-UP time for the school
chess players has arrived. The Y.
M. c. A. is offering an attractive
trophy, cup or shield, to the best In.
dividual chess player among all local
schools, public and private, below coll
lege rating.
An individual medal will be awarded
to the school champion and the trophy
will be returned for annual competi-
ton after the champions name has
been engraved on the honor award.
&c. Ingram, director Of boys
work at the "Y," welcomes all
school boys and girls to partici-
pate In the first round Of match
play on New Year day ut . pm,
in the main lobby Of the Central
Y. M. C. A.
The school tourney Is sponsored by
the Metropolitan Chess Association,
and President E. v. Fineran has ap-
pointed the following committee In
charge: Executive chairman, Earl W.
Kunkle, National $500. branch 1928;
School chairman. David Margold, En-
erson. 7015, and Prof. Paul Miller, UNI
pire, North 6737.
Robert Knox, president Of the
Washington Interhigh Chess Asso-
citation, says the interhigh players
will cooperate 100 per cent.
Entrants will file their name, ad-
dress and school Immediately with
the chess editor of The Star, inclos-
ing tournament fee Of IS cents. A
complete schedule will be published
shortly. Details Of the tournament
may be obtained from any Of the
members Of the All-School Cham
Evening star., 1936-12-27
|MANC|N RANKING
NETMAN IN EAST
Veteran Indoor Champion
Picked Over HaIl-Wood
Out of Top 10.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
N YEW YORK, December 49,
nj Gregory Mangin, veteran ma
tional indoor champion, today
4 was selected by the Ranking
Committee of the Eastern Lawn Ten
mis- Association as the No. player
of this section in 1886.
The dynamic volley artist, ranked
third . year ago, was placed at the
head of the honor roll mainly because
he retained the indoor title, winning
it for the fourth time In five years,
and reached the finals Of the Nassau
and Southampton invitation tourna-
ments, although he was beaten by
Bobby Riggs and Frank Parker, re-
spectively.
Hall Rated Second.
7 GILBERT HALL, the South
Orange, N. j., veteran, was
graded a notch below Mangin, while
the others, completing the Eastern
first TO-" are Leonard Hartman, Frank
J. Bowden, Norcross s. Tilney. former
Princeton star; s. Ellsworth Daven-
port, Sd; Gerard Podesta, Melvin z.
Lapman. last years top-ranking jun
ior; Donald Hawley and George See
wagon.
Sidney B. Wood, jr, who was
awarded the No. 2 spot last year be-
hind Frank Shields, was not ranked
because of insufficient data" as were
the veteran former Spanish Davis Cup
player, Manuel Alfonso, and David
Jones, who spent most Of the year
campaigning abroad. Wood, laid low
by an attack of appendicitis, was un-
successful in his comeback attempt.
Helen Petersen at Top.
HELEN PEDERSEN of Stamford,
Conn, runner-up to Mime. Sylvia
Henrotin OF France In the Eastern
grass court finals, was placed at the
head of the woman's list, followed by
Mrs. Dorothy Andrus, Carolin Roberts,
Norma Taubele, Edith Moore. Florence
LIE Boutillier, Mrs. Penelope Anderson
Mcbride, Lillian Hester, Millicent
Hirsh and Grace Surber.
Joseph Fishback Of New York, No. l
boys player of 1885, was ranked first
among the juniors. while his successor
in the boys division is william Um-
staedter. Helen Bernhard was graded
No. among the girls.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
LAWSON'S LUCK VARIES
in FIRST YEAR AS PRO
Pam Becomes Second Woman to Win Two Big
Titles-Manero ''Steals'' U. S. Open Crown
From Cooper With Flashy Round.

$500 for his shotmaking in these
events Averaging 71.63 for 65
rounds Of medal play, Guldahl was
awarded the Radix Cup as the best
stroke player of 1886.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
Eager to Watch Little.

yOLF rams were eager to see what
Little would do against those cal
lousod campaigners, the barn-storm-
ing pros. He made his debut in the
Augusta tournament and finished
among the first 10. And then he met
. startling reverse, failing to make
the grade in the sectional qualifying
tests for the national open, and was
left standing on the sidelines when
Manero blazed over the final I8-hole
stretch in 81 to nip Cooper by two
strokes. A short time later, however,
Little won the Canadian open with
an aggregate of 271.
Manero. the Greensboro, N. c.,
sharpshooter who, before the tourna-
ment, told the writer it would be
"the field against Manero," went stark.
faving mad on that final round over
the staid and storied Baltusrol links.
Out In 80, 8 under par, he was 2
strokes behind Cooper through the
sixty-third. Cooper,s total up to that
point was 246; Manero's, 24s.
About the time Cooper finished with
73 for 284 as the result Of 3-putting
the sixty-eighth and seventy-second
greens and was being hailed as the
champion, Manero was starting his
nnal nine, accompanied by stocky
Gene Sarazen. Birdie IS at the sixty
sixth and sixty-seventh holes pulled
Tony up even with Cooper. He shared
another birdie 3 at the seventieth to
gain stroke and pared the seventy
second with q 4, where Cooper took
. bogey 5.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
ONLY ONE NET UPSET
MacCall Bows to Moore in Junior
Indoor Tourney.


NEW YORK, December 26 R-
The twentieth annual boys national
indoor tennis championship and the
twenty-second junior indoor tourney
got under way jointly today in the
chilly 7th Regiment Armory with only
one mid upset found IN the days play.
All but . few frst-round matches
IN both divisions were completed, re-
ducing the fields from 56 boys to 81
and o5 juniors to 81.
George MacCaIl Of Arlington, N. j..
was the lone upset victim. MacCall
was ranked twelfth among the juniors,
but fell, 6-3, SIS, 60. before an
unseeded player, Philip w. Moore Of
oEeat Neck. \ Z
Evening star., 1936-12-27
SHINE IN GYMNASTICS
Frank Cumiskey, Jennie Caputo
Take All-Around Titles


Frank Cumiskey of woodcliff, N. j.,
and Jennie Caputo of Newark were the
dominant figures in American gymnas-
tic competition during 1896. Cumiskey
won the mems an-around title and
Miss Caputo the women's.
The United States was represented
by q team Of 16 gymnasts In the
Olympics. and although no medal was
awarded for individual exercises In the
women's competition, Miss Caputo's
parallel bars work led all the rest.
Chester w. Phillips Of Temple won
the Eastern intercollegiate all-around
title for the second successive year
and was . member Of the Olympic
squad.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
UTAH AGa1Es DEFEND.

Utah State Aggies are defending
basket ball champions Of the Rocky
Mountain Conference.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
3o Focus Little and Barton Perys Feats Dominate
pionship Tournament Committee
mentioned above.
Fine "Zukertorts" Scheltinxa.

Fine "Zukertorts" Scheltinga.
p EUBEN FINE, youthful American
~ chess star, q former champion of
the Western Chess Association, has
been coping on the first prizes In
most Of the 1896 European interna-
tional masters parleys.
The brilliant grandmother displayed
his skill in end-game strategy when
he essayed q defense to the Zukertort
opening barrage laid down by the
Dutchman. z. Scheltinga, in the
jubilee tournament Of the Amsterdam
Chess Association.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
SCHOOL GAME ATTRACTS.

A high school foot ball game in New
Orleans drew 5000 fans.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
BY BOB CAvAGNARO.

n YEW YORK HP.-Amateur golf
M lost q world champion when
VI Lawson Little, with the stroke
a Y of a pen. joined the salaried
ranks, but gained another when
chunky, titian-haired Pamela (Pam)
Barton Of England became the Sec
ond woman in history to win two ma
jor titles in the same year.
They provided the high spots of the
year which saw moustachioed Tony
Manero, who looks every bit the old
fashioned villain Of silent-screen days,
steal the United States open cham
pionship from hard-luck Harry Coo
per with q world record-smashing 72-
hole total of 282; red-haired Patty Berg
fell OF just when she appeared to be
riding the rocket to fame; Uncle Sans
Walker Cup boys wallop England in
the biennial series, and Great Britain's
struggling bid for international recog-
milton just fall short Of achievement
in the United States amateur cham
pionship.
From an international aspect, Brit
ish golfers shaded Americans. As a
matter Of fact England's ladies of the
links almost mopped up. Nineteen
year-old Miss Barton. brimful Of char
acteristic British determination, won
her own championship after being
runner-up in 1934-35; helped Great
Britain halve with the United States
in the Curtis Cup series, Al to AZ,
and then staged thrilling comeback
to defeat Maureen Orcott Crews, 4 and
3, in the final Of the American cham
pionship.
Evening star., 1936-12-27

FLASH! Many thanks for the
umpteen Christmas cards that Santa
brought ye cheese editor In the stock
ing is a beautiful Bird set of Angel
Chess contributed by Louis Paul d'Au-
fremont of Duluth, Mimi, inventor
Of the game, likewise inventor of
Fourth Dimensional Chess, electric
typewriters and wooden puzzles that
battle even a cross-eyed Chinaman.
Query: Who is going to win the
Angel Chess prize?
Evening star., 1936-12-27

Padgham Takes British Open.
RRITAINS knights of the niblick re-
tanned their open title, rugged ALI
Padgham succeeding ambidexterous
ALI Perry, and they regained the anna
teur crown with Hector Thomson,
who bears striking physical and IA
cial resemblance to Omaha's Johnny
Goodman, winning and succeeding the
two-time former winner, Lawson Little
There were Americans in both cham
pionships, but generally they weren't
OF the same caliber Of former years
particularly In the amateur. And then
John Bulls simon-pures came over
here for the Walker Cup contests and
were whitewashed. 80, over the Pine
Valley course
The year started of ominously for
Little with stern warning from
the United States Golf Association
that he would have to refrain from
giving instruction in his syndicated
newspaper articles. Having won both
British and American amateur crowns
two years In q row, Little was known
to be considering seriously a pro
career. The U. s. G. AS edict helped
him decide, and in April he signed q
contract with a national sporting goods
concern.
Evening star., 1936-12-27
ASCENDS THRONE, /
THEN ABD|CATES'
Alice Marbles Triumph in
U. S. Tourney High Spot
of Women's Play.

BY BOB CAvAGNARO.
YEW YORK R.-Fred Perry
\ regained the world tennis
" crown this year, then abdi-
Evening star., 1936-12-27

Listen, folks, the ace fea-
ture on chess appears In the
sports section Of The Sunday
Star, but chess items invariably
appear on Monday. Thursday
and Saturday. OF course, these
are not definite, as chess items
may be published any time dur
ing the week.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-19
All At Fault

An unconcerned visitor from another planet might find amusement in the present confusion of European statesmen. They are~all greatly exercised, and with reason, at Hitler's defiant sending of troops into the forbidden region along the Rhine which was supposedly "demili- tarized" by both the Treaty of Versailles and that of Locarno. After all, the visitor might say, it is German territory, isn't it?
 In the earlier of the two treaties the Allied Powers forbade Germanys ever keeping soldiers there, and in the second treaty Germany herself voluntarily agreed. Yet France and other indignant nations forget that the same treaty that disarmed Germany promised partial dis armament on the French side of the bor- der. Instead, there has been increased armament and the construction of such Qualifications as the world never has seen before. Treaty-breaking, the visitors ob- serves, is not an exclusively German practice.
 There is Russia, which has been saying at one conference after another for years thatsshe would gladly disarm at once - if everybody else did the same Russia today has the biggest standing army in Europe and the most reserve troops and airplanes. There are inconsistencies and trickery and blundering to be found in the diplomacy of every European capital. What silence would settle over them all if the visitor could get their attention long enough to say, Let the government which is without guile among you move the first troops and fire the first gun."