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Evening star., 1937-02-23

TINE doors OF the driving range
are closed and the spot where
lots of Washingtonians thump
i out golf balls during eight
months of the year is relapsing into
open field, but the boss Is getting along
with his studies in the university Of
golf.
Leo Walper, head man Of the driving
range in Bethesda, now is in Florida,
seeking some of the coin that goes to
the lads who can sock 'em into the
cup, some more of the coin that has
come his way in meager amounts since
he started the Winter tournament tour
at Pinehurst last November.
Several Washington pros have taken
the tournament trail over the years,
but Leo has stuck to it longer than
most. He's of Dutch ancestry and
tradition says the Dutch stick to any
job.
Out on the Pacific Coast, where the
cash was fairly heavy, Leo didn't do
SO well. He failed to get in the money
in any of the tournaments in Califor-
mia, but that didn't keep him from
plugging away. It's rather discourage
ing to play in tournament after tour
nament, score fairly well and see the
dough go to the other guys.
But Leo kept on grinnins and
kept on hitting the ball and
learning.
He'll come back to Washington
early in April, broke in pocket but
with some new wrinkles in golf that
may put him smack on top on all the
local pros. They learn fast in the uni
versity of golf, the school where Leo
now is enrolled and where he's about
to get his degree, cum laude.
r EO started the campaign by win
- ming $3.50 in the p. G.. A. cham
pionship at Pinehurst. It was good
beginning, but from that time until
the recent tourney at Thomasville. Ga,
he didn't get in the dough. Back in
the East his game revived and he won
fifth money at Thomasville, amount
ing to around another $3.50. But the
main point is that he's learning.
I'm going on these trips until I
finally find out something about this
game. 1t may bust me on the money
side. but I'm determined to learn
whether can make the grade in the
better circles of golf" Leo told me
earlv in the campaign.
Il probably won't win much
money this Winter, but I'll pick
up enough knowledge Of golf to
improve my game for the
future"
That's a sound way of looking at
it, for Leo is no kid with youths
resilient muscles. He admits 81 years
and he didn't seriously take up golf
until five or six years ago.
II played at it for IS years." he
grins, ''but didn't go at it seriously
until about five years ago."
For a guy who's been playing such
a short time the Walpe1: man hasn't
done SO badly.
Just to glance 1t the record. he was
the only washington pro who qualified
last year both for the national open
and the P. G. A. championship. He
also qualified for the open Of 1885.
He didn't do much in the open, but
Evening star., 1937-02-23
Heavies Take Stage.

HEAVYWEIGHTS take over the
local fight scene next when Gun
mar Barlund. the promising young
heavy from Finland, meets Nathan
Mann of New Haven, Conn.,, in the
10-round feature at the Hippodrome
tomorrow
The lightweights are due to return
Friday however when Pedro Monta-
nez of Puerto Rico and Enrico Ven-
turi of Italy. two of the leading seek
ers after Ambers' title, clash over the
15-round route at Madison Square
Garden.
Barlund has made an impressive
showing in this country, hanging up
four straight victories. Mann, although
not top-fight fighter, has terrific
right-hand punch.
The Montanez-Venturi scrap may
lead to a title shot for the winner.
Ventura held Ambers to a draw in a
non-title bout, while the Puerto Rican
has been coming along steadily for
the past year or so.
Evening star., 1937-02-23
READY FOR TERP GAME
st. Johns to Be at Full Strength
in Contest TONIGHT.

st. Johns to Be at Full Strength
in Contest Tonight.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
ANNAPOLIS, February 23-With
Johnny Lambros and Bill Ross. fast
scoring forwards, again in shape. st.
Johns will be in trim for the Mary
land game at College Park tonight.
1t will be the last game away from
home for the Johnnies. The team will
be completed by Jimmy Rowe at CEN
ter, Ed De Lisio and Alan Pike, guards.
Both Lambros and Ross we're out of
the game with American University.
st. Johns has five more games, all
to be played at home Mount St.
Mary's will be its opponent Thursday
night and Western Maryland on Sat-
urdsy. Washington College. Swarth-
more and Hopkins next week will
bring the schedule to close.
Evening star., 1937-02-23
Sports Mirror
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Today a year ago-Japanese A.
A. F. denied any proposal to yield
bid for 1910 Olympic Winter
sports in Norway's favor.
Three years ago-Charles D.
Casey Stengel signed two-year
contract to manage Brooklyn
Dodgers.
Five years ago-Dazzy Vance
signed 1882 Brooklyn contract for
sl5,500, q cut Of $500 below 1891
salary.
Evening star., 1937-02-23

- lected in the local fistlc pat
N tern heretofore, now is antici-
pating a smoother road to
recognition after disposing Of the
coffee-colored Christobal Jaramillo.
Puerto Rican lightweight, In a speed
ily-paced eight-round bout last night
at Turner'S Arena.
Stunned as a featured fighter, the
fidgety featherweight now looms as
crack opponent for Lou Gevinson In a
strictly local match to determine the
rather quaint District 126-pound
championship. 1t is probable Ray will
be pitted against Johnny Pena, con-
queror of Gevinson, with the winner
of that scrap slated to face Lou for
the title
Many fans are anxious to see Just
what effect if any, Rays incessant
body attack would have on Gevinson.
Admittedly no great exponent OF
knockout blows, Ingram nevertheless
has forged to the front here rapidly
in recent weeks by concentrating on
the midsection and it was that style
Of fight which pena employed In
whipping Gevinson.
Rays fights nearly always are
stereotyped. but rarely dull or, on the
other hand. seldom exciting. When
you pay to watch Ingram you pay to
see inflghting and if that's your idea
of a fight you leave with a feeling
of satisfaction His style probably
would blend we'll with Gevinsons more
open method of tossing his fists in
making good match.
Ingram Captures Six Rounds.
A THOUGH Jaramillo maintained
Rays rapid pace. Ingram gained
a slight margin in six of the eight
rounds, with every frame nearly q
duplicate Of the previous one. The
only really solid smack on the jaw
was absorbed by Ingram in the third
Rican slammed a right to Rays
bobbing noggin.
The preliminaries we're brief, con.
suming only l41a minutes Of the Gus.
toners time. In the opening six
rounoer. frankie Tymosko, Richmond
heavyweight, established the tempo
by chilling blubbery Stanley Ket-
chell Of New York after / minute and
35 seconds of the second round
through the medium of a right to
fatty's jutting jaw.
The comeback campaign Of Sid
Silas struck snag in the form Of
Werther Arcelli, Boston welterweight,
who captured a technical knockout
victory over the Jewish lad after 2
minutes and 5 seconds of the third
round. Silas was hoored three times
for nine counts in the second session
and Referee Denny Hughes stopped
the fight when Sid again hit the deck
in the third.
Hobo Williams. Alexandria middle
weight, twice dropped Eric Lawson Of
Norfolk for eight counts before polish.
ing him of after / minute and so
seconds of the first round.
Slightly more than 1000 spectators
paid sl,317.75 to witness the action.
Evening star., 1937-02-23
Mat Matches
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WILMINGTON. Del.-Joe Cox. o?1.
Cleveland. defeated Henri Piers. 22O,
Holland toLe faln.
LANCASTER Pa.-Joe Dusek. 2l9.
Omaha. Nebr.. threw Hank Barber. 222,
Cambridge Mass lone falD.
YORK Pa-Bobby Burns. OF. Mu-
Mich. Germany threw Irving Haipern.
23O New York lone falD.
PORTLAND Me.-Curly Donchin.
1913. Milwaukee, Wis. defeated Chuck
Montana. 1876. Detroit 0wo out of
three falls)
ATLANTIC CITY. N. George Kov-
erly. 21S. HOLLYWOOD Calf threw Nick
Compofreda. 900. Baltimore zone fall .
SIDNEY. Nebr.-Bobby Chick. ia.
Sidney. National Wrestling Association
light heavyweight CHAMPION. defeated
Count Won Bromberg. ia. Tucson two
falls)
Evening star., 1937-02-23
NAVY BUSY IN MARCH
Will Take Part in Three Title
Collegiate Events.

Collegiate Events.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
ANNAPOLIS, February 23.-Navy
will be represented n three general
collegiate competitions during March.
On the Goth its team will compete in
the finals of the intercollegiate Gym
nastic League, to which Dartmouth
will be host, and at the same time
will engage in dual match with the
Army.
On the same day a sectional match
Of the finals of the intercollegiate
Rifle Association will take place here
and at other points. The Navy Is
defending champion.
On the 26th and 9th the fencing
team, which has won three matches
and lost one, will compete in the in
tercollegiates which will be held in
New York. The fencing team also
will engage in a five-cornered match
ct New Haven on March 6.
Evening star., 1937-02-23

around IL feet,
1t would have
Q sounded crazy;
20 years ago,
with the "ceil-
ing" nearing 13
feet, 1t would
have brought a
laugh.
Today, with the
world outdoor
record IA feet 6la
inches and the
new indoor stand
ard IA feet AS
inches. my pre-
diction of a l5-
Evening star., 1937-02-23
Ouimet Sharpens Game.

ERANCIS OUIMET, former amateur
= and open champion, is at Miami
tuning up his golf for the Jones tour
nament at Augusta five weeks hence.
He probably will be Joined by Bob
Jones himself In a few days. Bob
usually trots down to Miami for few
rounds Of golf . couple Of weeks In
advance of the Masters" tourney.
which will be played April l.. 2. 3
and f..
Evening star., 1937-02-23
LONE RING MATCH LEFT
c. U.-Miami Tilt Remains After
Columbus Foe Cancels.

Only one dual match remained on
the boxing schedules of local college
squads today as Columbus found its
season abruptly ended by Hampden-
Sydney's cancellation of the bout
which was to have been fought here
Friday night.
1t left the Catholic University
Miami scraps on Thursday as the one
remaining match. Miami is reported
to have the strongest team in its his
tory. and the bouts will bring two un-
defeated teams into action against
each other. Miami has trimmed Ten
nessee and Syracuse, among others.
1t will be the c. U. ring teams last
appearance of the season.
Evening star., 1937-02-23
BU|LTFOR STUNT,
ROBERTSON SAYS
Coach Sees FineSse, Due to
Come, Lifting Coast Boy
to Great Height.

BY LAWSON ROBERTSON.
r TAVING picked John woodruff,
University of Pittsburgh
Negro star and Olympic 300
l. L meter champion, to run the
supposedly impossible 4-minute mile
even though no human ever has
done it in minutes seconds-I1l
stick my neck out again.
Height this time. Thirty years ago,
when the world pole vault record was
Evening star., 1937-02-23
IDA SIMMONS COLLECTS
Gets 500, Trophy in Bowling
Win in Chesapeake Stakes.
Ry the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Md, February 23.-
Although she failed to repeat her vic.
tory of the past two years in the Lor-
raine GULL Sweepstakes in Washing.
ton. Ida Simmons, No. woman duck
pin bowler of the country. annexed
more laurels here yesterday, when she
won the fourth annual Chesapeake
Sweepstakes title in record breaking
style.
She rolled total score Of 1,129-
new high for the event-to defeat Alice
Lucas Of this city by 19 pins. 1t got
the Norfolk, Va, blond 500 and the
Howard w. Jackson Trophy.
Evening star., 1937-02-23
0RI0LE TRIO Baking
Puccinelli, Alternately, Vanden-
burg Hold Out Despite Boost.

burg Hold Out Despite Boost
BALTIMORE, February 23 R-
Outfielders George Puccinelh and
Woodley Abernathy and Pitcher Hy
Vandenburg were on the hold-out list
of the Baltimore Orioles International
League team today.
General Manager John Ogden said
Puccinelli had declined to accept a
contract for more money than he made
with the Philadelphia Athletics last
year. He was an Oriole in 1885.
Neither Abernathy nor Vandenburg
have signed their contracts yet. The
money involved was not disclosed.
Evening star., 1937-02-23
Fighters Are Scattered.
THE distribution of the other SUI
yiyors bv cities follows:

THE distribution Of the other sur
vivors by cities follows:
Philadelphia, nine semi -finalists and
one heavyweight quarter -finalist; Pat
ers5n, N. j., six semi-flnalists and
one quarter -hnalist; Trenton, N. j.,
and Boston. five quarter-finalistS each:
Rockville Center, N. Y. two semi
finaliSts and two quarter hnalists; !;
Buffalo, three semi-finalists; Bing-
hamton, one semi-flnalist and two
quarter- -finalists; Memphis. one semi
finalist and one quarter flnalist
Miami and Union City. N. j.. one semi
naliSt each.
Evening star., 1937-02-23
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he went to the fourth round Of the
p. G. A.
When they start passing out medals
for k-to-itiveneSs they'd better
get one shined up for Leo Walper.
And he isn't so bad as golfer either.
Any guy who can top Gene Sarazen
and Sam Snead and a flock of other
good ones in any tournament must
have something on the ball. Leo did
that at Thomasville. And he is well
on the way to becoming the leading
pro around Washington This con-
slant round of tournaments is great
stuff for any pro who is willing 70
learn" he writes.
p UDDY and tanned from four days
~ of golf some 30-odd Washing
tonians arrived in the Capital today
after a week end of play at Pinehurst,
where Lefty Harrell's gang played in
daily tournaments at the Carolina
Evening star., 1937-02-23
MEYERS WON'T CHANGE
Not Considering Pro Job. Says
LAFAYETTE Grid Coach.

Lafayette Grid Coach.
EASTON, Pa, February % CP-
Ernie Nevers. Lafayette foot ball
coach, said he had not received an
offer to coach the Cleveland pro-
fessional Rams, was not considering
such an offer, wouldn't consider one
If received.
I'm still coach at Lafayette, and
my contract there has one more year
to rum" he declared.
Evening star., 1937-02-23
Late Rally Fails.

Only in the last seven minutes Of
play did the Colonials look the team
that has won all its home games since
the Winter of 1934-5. Four set shots
by O'Brien and single field goals by
Kiesel, Butterworth and Berg all but
tied the score with 10 seconds to play.
Novak got the final center jump, how
ever, and his mates held the ball to the
ond
Evening star., 1937-02-23

resort. They came back to soggy golf
courses from which the snow had
melted in their absence. When they
left the city last Thursday snow COW
cred all the local layouts.
Evening star., 1937-02-23
Golf Notes

II HED MCIEOO y playmate mas gone
South. William w. Hinshaw. the
former opera star, who has been
playing q round of golf a day with
the Columbia pro since last Novem-
ber, finally decided that golf around
the Capital wasn't so hot with snow
on the ground and showed of for
Augusta, Ga Fred and his star
pupil will rejoin at Augusta at the
time of the Jones tournament, and
Hirshaw will come back for his Spring
training with Freddie at Columbia.
This Winter they've set record for
consecutive days of play, until the
snow came along and Hinshaw de-
cided to get away to a warmer climate.
Ard now Freddie will begin to put on
weight. He gained plenty last year
when he couldn't play for month and
a half
Likes to Play With Witty.
SECRETARY BILL BARR Of the
- District Golf Association pc t.
cards a greeting from Coral Gables,
Fla, where he has been since early in
the month, announcing that he has
played with Witty Cox and telling the
world that Wifi is all he should be as
golfer.
1.-THE guy only had g." says B -.
"He was little of his stick, and that
Biltmore course Is tough. But he's
great guy and it's a lot of fun to play
with him"
Bill probably will be back in the
land of snow in a week or SO. Bruce
L. Taylor, a former member of the
Executive Committee of the District
association, is with Bill.
Mrs. Roland Mackenzie of Con-
gressional and Mrs. Lucille G. Pray Of
Manor have been named members OF
the Maryland State Golf Association
Women's Committee.
Mrs. Theodore Schleuderberg
Of the Baltimore Country Club,
heads the committee, which will
handle women's golf affairs in
Maryland this year.
The Maryland State title tourney,
for the crown now held by Mrs. Betty
P. Meckley, probably will be staged at
Washington club this year. although
the season schedule Of the State asso-
citation is not yet out.
Putting Game Revived.
OUT in Dave Thomson's golf shop
at Washington the boys have
revived the little putting game that
whiled away so many hours last Win
ter. They kept Calvert Dickey from
winning hole for four hours one day
last week but finally he crashed
through, after DR.. Calvert e Buck for
bade him using the surname Calvert"
mo man can use my name il
he's - bad as you are" said
Buck. "Henceforth your name
is Vivian"
But how about my $15?" said
Dickey. do I get that back7"
Evening star., 1937-02-23

Final steps in the Columbia Clubs
fairway irrigation system now are
being taken. Greenkeeper o. B. Fits
is laying water pipe in the eighteenth
fairway and soon will get to the job
of piping the first fairway, which will
wind up the pipe-laying job. The
entire system will be ready for opera
ton by April Is.
Evening star., 1937-02-23
COlonials on Form.

Yesterday u. w. was larlner away
from appearing on even terms with the
crack Loyola five of Chicago than any
local fan had deemed possible. All
because the 6-foot 9-inch Mike Novak
kept them of their stride. giving the
Chicagoans a 36-34 victory, which the
last 10 seconds nearly checked. The
defeat snapped home winning streak
of the G. WIS which had EXTENDED
to 26 games over a two-year period.
For 80 minutes the Colonials re-
sembled a bunch of grammar-school
toSsers. This probably because they
had altered their airhs in an effort to
circumvent the altitudinous Novak,
who stationed himself at his basket
and used his long arms to bat down
one Colonial shot after the other. The
attempts to arch the ball away from
Novak made the usually accurate aims
of Kiesel, O'Brien & Co. seem puerile.
Those futile efforts, coupled with the
scoring proclivities of Marvin Colen,
who fully lived up to his all-America
touting, kept G. w. on the short end
Of the count after they lost their early,
and only, lead Of 80. Colen. smooth
all-around performer, dropped five OF
his seven field goals in from a spot
near the center of the floor, nullifying
all efforts of Schonfeld, the Colonials'
midget guard, to stop him.
Evening star., 1937-02-23

Totals 13 S34 Totals 16 20
Enright.
Evening star., 1937-02-23
VICTIM
|NF|GHT WRANGLE
Champ Must Scrap Plenty
if Law Means Anything
to Jacobs, Garden.
BY the Associated Press.

by the ASSOclateo fTesS.
N IEW YORK, February 23.-
nj Latest developments in the
" war of promoters over the
4 Y services of Jim Braddock for a
June bout indicate the heavyweight
champion will have to do lot of
scrapping to keep up with the men
who make the matches.
Statements from Mike Jacobs, the
middle" man, who has an interest in
Max Schmeling-slated to fight Brad
dock here June for Madison Square
Garden-and in Joe Louis, matched
with Braddock for Chicago June %,
were answered yesterday by his rival,
Col. John Reed Fitzpatrick, president
of Madison Square Garden. Both
said they intended to stand by their
legal guns and do plenty of shooting.
Jacobs, confident there can be no
hitch in the Chicago plans, made q
tentative compromise offer which also
would enable him to get his "cut" on a
Schmeling bout
Garden Won't Compromise.
IF ON account Of conditions beyond
my control, the Braddock-Schme-
ling fight fails to materialize," said
Jacobs, II am confident can persuade
the winner of the Braddock- Louis
match to meet Schmeling within so
days"
To this Fitzpatrick, fighting for the
principle that contracts must be bind
ing as well as for the Gardens
finances. replied:
Il see no chance OF a compromise
along that or any other line
The Gardens contract with Brad
dock was supposed to be as tight as
a battery of legal experts could make
it However, the champions manager,
Joe Gould, has announced he will
ignore it and concentrate OF. the Louis
bout.
No Legal Bar, Says Jacobs.
JACOBS position IS tina: the con-
tracts for the Chicago fight do not
in any way interfere with the New
York bout. They don't specify that the
title is to be at stake and the date set
is later than that for the Schmeling-
Braddock affair
II stand ready and willing to pro-
duce Schmeling. 1t is up to Madison
Spare Garden to produce Braddock, "
he announced.
Il could not in all fairness to Joe
Louis prevent him from making the
match with Braddock I am
advised that nothing can lawfully stop
this match"
Evening star., 1937-02-23

n YEW YORK, February 23.-The
nj 1887 Golden Gloves amateur
" boxing tournament Of the New
York Daily News A. A. will
see new champions crowned in all
weight classes in the finals March 8.
The reason is Ray Medlock, 22-
year-old Little Rock, Ark, boxer, who
is a sophomore at the University Of
Mississippi and fights under the spon-
sorship Of the Memphis, Tenn, Com
mercial Appeal He left-jabbed his
way to a close upset decision over
George Coyle, 19-year-old New York
usher, in 126-pound open class quar-
ter-finals bout last night in Madison
Square Garden before 1900 spec
tators.
Beaten Boy Square Shooter.
THE Tri-State scrapper stole the
spotlight in the three-ring cauli-
flower circus by eliminating the only
defending champion in the tou1ha-
ment. All told 56 open and subnovice
class fighters from II Eastern cities
reached the semi-finals. in all weight
divisions except the heavies. The
heavies stopped at the quarter-finals
and will catch up with the field when
the seni-finals are fought March IL.
Coyle said Medlock, who runs the
quarter and half mile on the Ole Miss
track team, earned the victory. The
blond Southerner won the Western
Amateur Athletic Union featherweight
championship in 1884 and last year
reached the quarter-finals of the Ma
tional A. A. U. tourney. 1t was Coyle's
twelfth defeat In l64 fights.
New York, with a preponderantly
larger entry list than any other city.
qualified 81 of the 70 punchers left
in the tournament including nine
heavyweight quarter -finalists.
Evening star., 1937-02-23
LANDON FIVE NOSED OUT
Montgomery Blair Wins First Tilt
of Busy Week, 3O-27.

Montgomery -Blair's basket ball team,
which plays two more games at the
Takoma FIRE house this week, got on
to a good start yesterday when it
nosed out the Landon School five,
1927.
The winners had to come from be-
hind to bag the verdict. Landon hold.
ing 1914 lead at half time. A third
quarter rally. during which Montgom-
ery-Blair outcounted its rivals, IL to
4, proved the turning point Of the
game.
Landon. GF.Pts. Blair GIFTS.
Hughesf 3 z Robertson,f- 0 4
Dorian,f O Johnson.f- 3 z
Eaton.c---- 4 10 Hunter.c
Perkins,g o o Fpatrick,c- Q q
Berkeley,g 3 0 9 Masonic 3 0 3
SillS.g u U
Wilmuth.g O 0 0
Ffncham
Totals s----12 327 Totals----14 30