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Evening star., 1936-08-31
NET TEAM CROWN
HOTLyCONTESTED
Allison, Van Ryn Are Apt to
Retire if Defeated by
Bulge, Mako.
Bv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROOKLINE, Mass. August 81.
- Beaten back 10 times this
season, Wilmer Allison and
IL Johnny Van Ryn, once one OF
the greatest doubles teams in world
tennis. had high hopes Of successfully
defending their national championship
against Don Bulge and Gene Mako,
the United States Davis Cup forces,
in today's final at Longwood.
The champions, who have been In
five of the six previous championship
rounds and gained their first title back
in 1881, probably will pass out Of
major tennis if Bulge and Mako up
set them for the eleventh straight
time.
The last time Allison and Van Ryn
triumphed over Bulge and Mako was
in last years national doubles final,
60, 63, 2-6, 36, 81.
TWO other sets Of defending cham
pions appeared assured Of retain
ing their honors. Helen Jacobs. the
national and Wimbledon singles
queen, and Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan
of Brookline, the Wightman Cup star,
were favored to gain their third
straight woman's team title. They
meet Mrs. John Van Ryn, Philadel-
phia, and Carolin Babcock Of Los An
geleS.
Raymond Bidwen and Richard
Bishop of Boston appeared assured Of
retaining their veterans doubles hon.
ors against William ]. Clothier of Phil
adelphia, the 1906 national singles
champion, and Dwight F. Davis of
Washington, the donor Of the famous
Davis Cup.
Mrs. Fabyan and Bulge and Alice
Marble, Palm Springs, Calf, and
Mako yesterday advanced into the
mixed doubles final. Mrs. Fabyan and
Bulge defeated Mrs. Van Ryn and
John McDiarmid, Fort Worth, Tex,
6t3, 60. The other finalists won
by default from Miss Jacobs and Al
liSon.
Evening star., 1936-08-31
Want Only Firsts to Count.

"ONLY first places should count, "
another Of the committeeman
said. If point-scoring systems are
adopted such big teams as America
and Germany entered would swamp
the entire show. They could outclass
other nations with seconds, thirds
and fourths. One first in an Olympic
is worth many seconds and thirds.
It would be quite possible that such
performances as those by Owens.
Morris and Lovelock would be wiped
out by numerical mediocrity."
With this viewpoint established,
there should be set form Of scoring
along this line. The announcement
should be made that only first places
count. There should also be q selec-
ton Of events that make up an
Olympic scoring sheet. To Americans
only track and field, swimming, row.
ing and boxing are important. Track
and field is the standout sport. In
every Olympic it has attracted main
interest and by far the largest crowds.
The American team has won
every track and field Olympic
since 1896. It was far In front
in Berlin.
America has only slight interests
In gymnastics except for the matter
Of exercise. Germany and Switzer-
land and other Middle European
countries rank gymnastics among the
leading sports.
With q lead Of IL firsts to three
over Germany in track and field,
Americans were astonished to see
Germany take a big leap upward by
winning something like six firsts in
Evening star., 1936-08-31
M'Kenzie One of Youngest Walker Cuppers
Starred Abroad When l9-ne Never Win Series

A FEW sidelights on the
~ Walker Cup matches slated
~ for Wednesday and Thurs
q n day at Pine Valley. :. f.. Ro-
land Mackenzie, Congressional pro,
at the age of 10 was one of the
youngest players ever to play for
either side. He amazed the Brit
ish at st. Andrews in 1926 with the
length of his tee shots, lost in the
singles and with Bob Gardiner won
the deciding point in the foursomes,
sinking q 10-foot putt on the home
green to enable the United States to
win by 6 to S. The youngest
player this year is 18-year-old J.
D. Langley, q British schoolboy. :.
The Americans have q bunch Of
doddering veterans, of whom 23-
year-old Ed White of Texas is the
Junior. The others range up to
13-year -old Francis Ouimet Of Bos-
ton.
Britain never has won walker
Gun contest eight have been
played with the Yankees victorious
in all Of ''er1 but Britain Is
building for the future with .
group of youngsters Bobby
Jones won every singles match In
Evening star., 1936-08-31
Pittman Victor At Kenwood.

youngsters named Roberto Cavanagh
and Louis Duggan. players with dash,
fight and the ability to whale the tar
out of the ball. And on the sidelines,
in addition to Jack Nelson, were
Santiago CDiego) Cavanagh and En-
rique Alberdi, the latter supposed to
be the rising star Of the South. who
happened to be suffering from throat
infection.
The team showed only one fault
I could see, and that was its inaccuracy
in front Of goal. Heaven knows they
created enough opportunities for them
selves. They hit beautifully through
the field. They ran the poor British
ragged And I believe that after they
practice on dry fields against first
class American opposition, properly
mounted, they will find their scoring
eye, too"
Evening star., 1936-08-31
Brilliant Santa Paula Team.

TN THE meantime, new group OF
young players. mostly of Spanish
antecedents, began to come to the top.
In 1881 brilliant team named Santa
Paula came to Meadowbrook and won
our open championship. Manuel An
drada was the hero of this outfit and
he had with him an exceptional pair
of brothers in Juan and Jose Reynal
and what appeared at the time to be
a polo natural, a wild man named
Andres Gazzotti, who feared neither
man nor beast.
"Andrada was the back on the team
that gave the British such an unmerci-
full lacing. Gazzotti, now much more
restrained, more polished. more stylish.
the ranking player Of Argentina, was
the No. 3. The forwards were two
Evening star., 1936-08-31
MAY Shift Convention.


IT REMAINS to be seen whether
Brundage, since being under the
Olympic guns, will exercise his infiu-
ence to prevent another conflict. His
probable successor in the A. A. U.
drivers seat, Maj. Patrick ]. Walsh
: of New York, undoubtedly will be NOM
{ mated on platform calling for con-
: tinuation of Brundage policies. Incl
dentally the A. A. U. now Is conduct
ing mail vote on the proposal to
: shift the 1885 convention to Chicago,
, Brundage's home town, from Houston,
Il, Tex.
, Seeking a leader around whom to
, rally their forces, If and when bigger
voice in Olympic affairs is sought, the
g.. colleges may pick Harvard's William
j. Bingham. AS manager of the sue
cessful American Olympic track and
field team. Bingham has been praised
for an outstanding job by officials and
coaches, as well as the athletes.
. Few college men have been as criti-
cally outspoken as Stanford's AL Mas
ters, who charged the A. A. U. with
mismanagement, but there will likely
be demands % for a new deal in
Olympic coaching assignments, with
the head coaching appointments ro-
tated; (2) more liberal expense allow
ances for the athletes; 90 less official
junketing in connection with the
Olynpics. and (4) more f1exibility In
: the tryout system for team selections.
Evening star., 1936-08-31
Homer Standings
2y tho ASSOCIATED Press.

Yesterdays homers-Cavarretta,
Cubs, 2; OFT, Moore and Lieber,
Giants; Brubaker, Pirates: Thomp-
son, Bees; Camilli, Phillies: j.
Martin, Cardinals; Dickey and
Selkirk, Yankees, Johnson, Ath-
letics; Kress, Senators, and Cliff,
Browns, one each.
The leaders-Gehrig, Yankees,
a; Trosky. Indians, SO; Foxx, Red
6ox, IS; OFT, Giants, 20.
League totals-American, 653;
National, 518. Total, LII.
Evening star., 1936-08-31
Harrison's Crown Threatened.
Texas.

Texas.
Galveston, Az; Oklahoma City, 2 g.
Tulsa. 1872; Houston, IA.
San Antonio, z; Fort Worth, 2.
Beaumont, 4: Dallas, I.
Western.
Cedar Rapids, 8; Waterloo, 2.
Davenport. S; Rock Island, 0.
Evening star., 1936-08-31
One of the Best.

II BELIEVE" said Vischer, that
this Argentine team will rank
with some Of the best Of the past No
team can beat another Of equal rank.
that Is on paper, and shut them out
IL to o. without having something
very unusual on the ball. As a mat
ter Of fact, they might have won
easily by q score Of rs or 80 to 0. I
kept track of the shots at goal that
Evening star., 1936-08-31

> American Association.
louisville. 8-3; Toledo, 7-5.
Indianapolis, 14-3; Columbus, SO.
st. Paul, TT; Milwaukee, 5-6.
Minneapolis, I'll; Kansas City, 80
Evening star., 1936-08-31

~ ORE GRUVER Is tired OF los
ing golf balls. Today he has
an ample supply. enough to
- keep him going for q couple
more rounds Of golf at least.
He started out at Washington Golf
and Country Club by hooking his ini-
tial tee shot out of bounds. hitting
another ball and getting on the green
In three shots. He didn't like that
80 well and it didn't help his disposi-
ton when he got on the green and
found his putter missing. Tommy
Webb had borrowed 1t. he thought.
His caddie came up to the green after
looking for the ball which he had
whacked out Of bounds.
Did you find that ball. boy?" asked
Dorie.
"No, sir, I didn't" the boy replied.
"Well, here, you take this and go
UP to the club house and buy me all
the golf balls it will buy" Dorie said,
handing the boy q $40 bill.
So now Dorie isn't going to
rum out Of golf balls for . while.
Seemed to me every time I got In
the rough or in q ditch lost a golf
ball" Dorie said. so I decided to
buy enough to last me couple rounds
at least"
Joe Kirchner and Jack Warner won
their way to the third round in the
Washington Golf and Country Club
team tourney. along with L. H. Whit
ten and r. D. Potter.
At least four Washington golf pros
are starting for Hershey, Pa, today
and tomorrow, where Thursday will
begin the 5000 Hershey open. Ro-
land Mackenzie left today, while Leo
Walper and Cliff Spencer will go to-
morrow. Wiffey Cox will arrive at
Hershey Wednesday.
PittmAn Victor At Kenwood.
CENE PTTTMAN, the little man
from Dallas, Tex, who came to
Washington back in the Spring to
help Uncle Sam over the rough spots
and who has proven to be one Of the
better golfers of the city. holds the
Witty Cox Trophy at Kenwood. sue
ceeding Ted Rutley as the Cox cham
pion.
Pittman went to the nineteenth
Evening star., 1936-08-31
<&5$ts@lh@&>M3
w By WRMeGllu~ ~

hoe yesterday to win the mug, beat.
ing Bernie Hallock on the extra hole
by canning a 10-footer for a bird.
Both men scored 73 for the regulation
distance.
Lloyd Carey won the second
fight, licking X. 0kaEaki on
the. nineteenth. The third fight
went to DIR. M. N. Parks, who
beat C. Argersinger, 4 and 8.
A medal-play affair at Kenwood
went to Henderson Dunn with q card
Of 74-10-64. r. L. Harris was second
and Bernard Dennell was third.
At Indian Spring George Difen-
baugh and Louis Fuchs raped out q
best ball of 81 to beat Bob Barnett
and Frank P. Reside Of Chevy Chase
in little friendly golf joust.
Brownells Take Tourney.
MORE links titles for the Brownell
A'A family of Indian Spring and
Manor. Seventeen-year- Bobby.
who holds the District junior crown,
and his dad. James v. Brownell. today
hold the Maryland father-and-so
championship, won at the Five Farms
course Of Baltimore Country Club by
four stroke. The Brownell combina-
ton played the rugged layout in II.
the only pair to break 30 for the
round. With their handicap Of eight
strokes they had a net of SO.
In second place were Charles z.
McPhail and Don McPhal of the host
club, who had 82-9-73.
The red-hot favorites-Roger
Peacock and Harry Peacock fin
ished with 83-6-77.
r. D. Quinter. ST.. and Ralph
Quinter. jr., of Chevy Chase. scored
88-l1-77, while Russell T. Edwards
and Burke Edwards Of Manor had
90-11-79.
Bobby Brownell qualified a few days
ago for the national amateur cham
pionship and will be one Of the favor
ties to win the Middle Atlantic junior
title to be played at Congressional
on September 9.
Harris0n's Crown Threatened.
WITH qualifying to continue
w through the week Lou Harrison.
Argyle Country Club champion for
three years, is in danger of not quail
flying in the title fight in the tournev
to start next week. Harrison scored
SO yesterday in the medal round.
seven shots above the leading rs shot
by Sam Parks. Jack Olmstead had rs.
1t isn't likely that Babe Didrikson
will play in that exhibition match at
Congressional next Monday in which
Patty Berg Is listed to appear. The
Babe wants quite piece Of change fol-
her appearance-at the rate Of 81
per galleryite-and it isn't likely that
she will get 1t.
Evening star., 1936-08-31
DISPLAYS POWER
IN WIN AT BERLIN
Revival of Polo in Europe
Along With Other Games
Seen by Writer.
nv CRANTLANn RICE


TROM the fact that there Is only
~ one polo club in Germany today
and the further disheartenmg
4 news (that Is, for horsemen)
that the best grounds In Paris recently
were cut up into golf holes, one might
imagine that the galloping game is
somewhat on the wane in Europe.
Personally. after seeing some $4,000
people turn out to see the Argentines
beat Great Britain for the Olympic
championship, and whitewash them in
the bargain, II to 0, don't think so.
I believe polo will have q revival IL
Europe along with other sports. Ger
tainly no sport on the Olympic pro-
gram aroused greater interest among
the spectators.
Nor did public interest build up
quicker in any Of the Olympic sports
than in the horse events. Only few
thousand turned out for the opening
polo match between Great Britain and
Mexico. Few people in Germany knew
anything about polo and the great
stands facing the Maifeld, where the
polo matches were played on a per-
fectly miraculous new ground, seemed
quite empty. Each day more people
turned up for polo, until some 10000
came out to watch Hungary play Ger
many-which meant polo about half
as good as you can see at Bethpage OF
OK Ridge on Sunday afternoon.
Evening star., 1936-08-31
Polo Expert Interviewed.

~k TEN TIE llllal maLCQ OF the cnam-
W pionship came along. more Ger
mans turned out for polo than did
Englishmen for both the international
matches between England and Amer
lea at historic Hurlingham a month
previously. And they had q perfectly
marvellous afternoon, despite the one
sided victory scored by the Argentines
One morning at Ruhleben, a few
miles outside Of Berlin where there Is
big track for trotters, and where
they had the horses of % different
nations quartered, I ran into Peter
Vischer. editor Of the American
magazine, Horse and Horseman.
Vischer knows as much about the
polo situation as anybody. I asked
him about this Argentine team, be-
cause in September it meets the win
ner Of our open championship tour
nament at Meadow Brook for the cup
Of the Americas.
Evening star., 1936-08-31

Scoring Important Factor.
WHEN games are played. competi-
w tive games, one OF the most i'm
portant public factors IS the scoring.
Who won and who lost and by how
much? It would be simple enough
for the Olympic officials to settle on
some set form of scoring and also TO
limit the Olympic tests to games that
belong to many nations. These games
again could include track and field.
the pentathlon, boxing, swimming.
rowing, fencing and possibly one or
two more. But when a game such as
field hand ball is interpolated in the
program confusion springs up at once.
We might just as well insist on base
ball or American foot ball. Golf and
tennis certainly have a larger world
wide following than field hand ball or
field hockey. ..
II the Olympic games were
cut down to those sports played
all over the world-to a sporting
program at least fairly common
to many nations-and then
each day an official score were
issued, there would be far less
confusion and much greater In.
terest.
The public in this respect has been
given little consideration, and yet
1t Is the public that is asked to support
most of the teams.
At Berlin. while big crowds still
buzzed from spot to spot. many of
them bewildered, general interest
sagged badly after the track and field
show ended. The thrills provided by
Owens, Morris, Lovelock, Towns,
Woodruff and others overshadowed the
rest of the picture. which lost much
Of its glamour as the final week
dragged along.
Olympic High Spots.
THIS also was true at Los Angeles.
It will be true at Toxic unless
there Is q change. If the list Of sports
continues to increase, the Orient can
toss in jujutsu and other Far Eastern
turns that could win an Olympic with
little outside help from other athletes.
There is no telling what We might
have by 1910.
I finally got general summary
from leading coaches as to the rank
ing Olympic high spots. They came
in this order:
/. Jesse Owens-three hrsts, two
world records broken.
2. Glenn Notwithstanding decath-
lon record, starring in eight Of ten
events.
3. Jack Lovelock, New Tea
land-running away with fea-
tured 1,50o-meter race. eased
down, looking back. where he
might have run the mile In
4:03 or 4:04.
5. Gotthardt Handrick, Germany
winning of gruelling modern pen
misunderstanding, riding, running
fencing, shooting.
6. Kitel Son, Japan-winning the
marathon in fastest time ever made,
with final sprint, ready to run an
other mile.
Z. Jack Medica's rally, against Uto
the Jap flying fish, in 400-meter
swim, picking up 6 yards in the final
40 in big thrill Of swimming meet.
8. Forrest Towns. Georgia hurdler-
breaking and tying world record In
l10-meter high hurdles in successive
starts.
9. Earl Meadows-final pole vault
against two crack Japs after dark
through drizzling rain when GRADER
and Seton had fallen back-14 feet
3 inches under these conditions an
astonishing performance.
10. Gerhardt Stock, Germany
beating Firms in the javelin throw.
(copyright. 1885. by the North American
Neuxnaner Alliancel
Evening star., 1936-08-31
THE SPORTLICHT
Official Olympic Scoring Plan Needed
to Curb Importance of Freak Contests.
Scoring Important Factor.

individual and team events for the
gymnastic tests.
Evening star., 1936-08-31
Talk Olympic :Pdn,pas Formidable to u S.

they missed and they reached the in
credible total Of %. That gives you
some idea Of the whirlwind these fel-
lows can raise
"They have q beautifully balanced
team, half fresh and keen. the other
half experienced and seasoned. They
have q string Of ponies that will flll
the eye even In America. And they
have one of the great leaders Of the
game in charge Of their expedition In
Jack D. Nelson, president Of the Ar
gentine Polo Association and . player
of no mean repute himself.
The advance made by the Argen-
tines in international polo during the
last few years Is something quite ex-
traordinary in the history OF sport.
It extends back only to 1922. That
was the year that o small group OF
Argentine polo players Of English
antecedents decided to go to England
to see II they could get few games.
There was no fanfare Of embarkation.
them on, no flashlights, no cameras,
few friends. There Just happened to
be five gentlemen shyly setting out
for London. Just bit perturbed that
they might not be successful when
they landed on the other side Of the
Atlantic, for q team from the Pampas
never had played abroad before.
Won Olympics In 1924.
THE rest is history. The four play
ers-Jack Nelson. Lewis Lacey,
Johnny and David Miles-swept Lon
don. The paragraph that told OF
their arrival blossomed into columns
that still are being written. They
became the toast Of polo. They made
Argentina a factor In world su-
premacy.
When the Argentines won the
champion cup at birmingham they
promptly were invited to America, and
they came, adding another great
trophy to their collection. In 1924
they won the Olympic championship
at Paris. beating an American team
that included Tommy Hitchcock and
Elmer Boeseke in q match that these
two still recall as one Of the toughest
on record. In 1926 they again came
to America and this time reached the
final of our open at Meadow Brook.
I'm 1928 the first matches for the
cup of the Americas were played at
Meadow Brook and the Argentines
would not yield until three terrific
games had been played. Another
series, at Buenos Aires, again went
through three hard games before a
decision could be reached-and this
time, If I remember rightly, they had
to get the police out to escort the
umpires home.
Evening star., 1936-08-31

South Atlantic.
Macon, z; Jacksonville, 6.
Augusta, 8; Savannah, 0.
Columbus, 9-3; Columbia, "a.
Piedmont.
Rocky Mount, g.; Portsmouth, /.
Richmond, 1913; Norfolk; 7-3.
Asheville, 6; Durham, 5.
Evening star., 1936-08-31
Kiphuth Shares View.

ITO A GREATER extent that ever
before, college men shared in the
councils and management of the
games just finished. There is no rea-
son, as see it. why the problems that
have arisen cannot be solved by work
ing together
Sharing DR.. Raycroft's view Is Rob-
ert H. Kiphuth, Yale's Olympic SWIM
ming coach, who has worked closely
with the A. A. U. for years in the
development of aquatic sports.
There is no sound reason why the
A. A. U. and the colleges cannot work
harmoniously together" says Kiphuth.
1T is true that the colleges now pro-
duce a big majority of the Olympic
athletes, upward of rs per cent. The
A. A. u, however, furnishes the neces-
sary link with international authori-
ties, besides supplying on the domestic
front an organization that functions
effectively the year around
Unquestionably a factor in the po-
litical situation Is the impending
retirement of Avery Brundage as
president of the A. A. u. an Office he
has held seven times in the last eight
years. Brundage, newly named to the
International Olympic Committee and
twice head Of the American Olympic
organization. is credited with a domi-
nant part In sealing the old breach
between the colleges and the A. A. u.
That breach was widest exactly 10
years ago.
Evening star., 1936-08-31
A.A. j. COULD USE
COLLEG|ANS' HELP
Brundage May Be Key Man
Again in Closing Rift
Between Factions.
BY ALAN GOULD,

oSSA S-N-N--
"A yEW YORK, August 3l.-Wheth-
M er, as sundry Olympic de-
VI velopmentS forecast, A. A. U.
L domination over this country's
simon-pure athletics will be chal-
lenged, it will require more than the
scattered verbal gunfire loosed thus
far by returning Olympians to bring
about anything resembling an up
heaval
Current signs point to an effort by
college leaders to obtain stronger rep
resentation in, and perhaps definite
control Of, the American Olympic AS
sociation, before the invasion of Japan
in 1910.
It will be two years. however, before
there can be a showdown. Meanwhile
the A. A. u, not only has time to
put its own household in order, but
opportunity, If not actual incentive,
to effect more harmonious working
relations with the collegiate chief
tainS.
1T is we'll to keep in mind that
since 1924 the trend has been con-
sistently toward more equitable bal
ance of power between the A. A. U.
and college groups in guiding the
affairs of the Olympic Association" I"
points out DR.. Joseph E. Raycroft of
Princeton, vice president of the Amer
ican Olympic Committee, and advo-
cate of middle f-the-road" policy.
Evening star., 1936-08-31

Joe Kirchner and Jack Warner won
their way to the third round in the
Washington Golf and Country Club
team tourney, along with L. H. Whit
ten and r. D. Potter.