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The Washington times., 1938-08-25
HANKS RECORD
is THREATENED

Continued from 1st Sports Page)
He says that he will go up to the
plate and take his cuts without
pressing. If he hits the ball
solidly, it may clear the fences.
Greenberg is essentially a pull
hitter. He puts terrific wrist
power into the finish of his swing.
But he will hit pretty well where
they pitch to him.
He has hit the ball over the
right field fence here. Indeed, it
was his homer over the right field
fence that won Schoolboy RoWe'S
sixteenth consecutive game here
four years ago. Weaver pitched
that day for Washington.
I'm not going up there try
ing for a home run every time
I swing" Greenberg said today.
Naturally, I'd like to break
Ruth's record. It would be a ire
mendous achievement in base
ball. But the thing that is inn
portant is winning today's game.
NEEDS BREAKS
"If possible by home run,
but win regardless of the home
runs. And there's a lot of luck
connected with making record
of this sort. A lot of luck, and a
lot of good hitting. If I get the
breaks in the luck, I'll try to
supply the hitting"
Well, here's hoping the big guy
turns the trick. After he leaves
here he will go to Boston with that
made to order left field fence. He
next goes to Yankee Stadium, and
then returns to the West, where
all left field fences are within easy
range of his swing.
He'll have to drive in Septem.
ber, when Ruth hit II home runs,
a mark for a single month that
was beaten only by Rudy York
in all the history Of the major
leagues. York hit 18 homers in
August last year, which is just
10 home runs behind his total
production for this entire season.
Beyond the interest in the home
run hitting activities of York and
Greenberg, the series with the
Tigers is of major Importance to
The Washington times., 1938-08-25

IMPORTANT! Two days re-
main to make reservations ON
the DAPPER DAN SPECIAL.
This is the train that will carry
local grid fandOm to Chicago
to witness the mammoth foot.
ball classic between the Wash.
ingtOn Redskins and the Ma.
tiOn'S AlI-StarS. Deadline for
accommodations is Saturday.
Round trip coach fare is $3.50.
Round trip Pullman, $46.3O. Ar.
rangements may be made at the
Redskins ticket office, Ninth
and H Streets Northwest. Re
member, ladies are permitted on
the trip.
And interest in the DAPPER
DAMS first SKEET SHOOT to
be staged at Griffith Farms on
. date in September to be
selected, continues to rise.
GEORGE E. KING nOminates
a pair of SharpshOOters to the
royal order - RALPH MUIR
DOCK and PRESTON E. KING.
Welcome, gentlemen.
And now, right ON top of
these nominations comes the
word that DAPPER DAN MUIR
DOCK will donate q trophy for
the SHOOT. THIS is the second
prize registered. What . time
we'll have! Entry report to date
reads 13. Who's next?
Remember, we all have 8
chance for q prize in the shoot.
According to GEORGE E. ODD
HUSEMAN, chairman of the
SHOOT, there will be classes
for experts and all the way
down to punks. But don't dis
turb the neighbOrs with your
blunderbuSses, shooting out the
window for practice. That's the
report turned in on JOE (D-D)
TURNER,
The Washington times., 1938-08-25
81 TitIist Defeated
In Cleveland Open

CLEVELAND, Aug. 25.-The
field in the national public links
golf tournament narrowed down to
16 today as last years champion
Bruce Mccormick and the runner
up, Don Erickson, were eliminated
in extra hole battles.
The medalist this year, Walter
Burkemo, was also eliminated, but
in the second round. Summaries: {:
Mccormick fell before Lloyd Nord-
strum, Davenport, Iowa, l up. Wash
Hromyak, of Sharon, Pa, used hole
in-one pm the 196-yard eleventh to turn
back Erickson. Los Angeles Gas Com
pany clerk, 1 up on the nineteenth.
Alton Age, long-driving Louisville, KY.
youngster, eliminated Burkemo, 1 up, in
another nineteenth-hole finish. Andrew
Sawedko, husky Pittsburgh steel worker,
scored a 2-and-1 victory over Joseph
May, of Buffalo. in the first round and
a 3-and-2 win over Richard Habas. of
Rochester, N. Y, in the second stanza.
Matt Zadalis Omaha. Neb., defeated
Fred Hill. worcester. Mass, and 3.
Charles Lind, Denver defeated Pat
Mucci, Newark. N. J., and 8; Tommy
Bolt. Shreveport. La, defeated George
Lance, Los Angeles, and 8, and Al
Leach, Cleveland, defeated William
Birofka, Elizabeth, N. j., 2 and /.
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bothering me a little because for
a while I fought too often and
bruised my knuckles. I never
gave them a chance to heal
thoroughly before was back in
the ring, betting away again at
somebody else; but it is nothing
serious-nothing that a rest
won't cure and now that tho
Ambers match is over I expetS
to get that, unless I defend n,P
featherweight title right away.
And that's another thing d
like to clear up here and now.
I positively can still make the
featherweight limit of 1875
pounds although I did box and
beat Barney Ross for the welter-
weight championship. am so
constituted that I can take off
or put on weight almost at will
without affecting my fighting to
any appreciable extent.
EASY TASK
It would be especially easy for
me to make the featherweight
limit in California, where I prob
ably will defend that champion
ship. The air seems to be drier
out there, and it just naturally
is easier to make weight. How
ever, I really am at my very best
at about 1873 or 1874 pounds, and
that will be my fighting weight
from now on, except when I am
in there against featherweights.
I'll have to train off seven or
eight pounds for them and
against welterS I will always be
as much as 10 or IL pounds
light.
So I really am a legitimate
lightweight.
NEXT Good m a n agimR
makes q good fighter.
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inquirer with a hauteur that
would frappe a Tom & Jerry, if
he becomes so bold as to wish
to talk a little cold turkey about
their sport. But Mr.. Mike Jacobs,
grabbing in his very best form,
can't outgrab 'em any at the
gate. Amateurs they may be.
But they'll take your dough
and raise you, if it looks as
though they've got half a
chance.
Mrs. Moody is as amateur as
any important amateur can be
in this highly professional world.
Still, there was a check for a
siZeable sum involved as she left
'em moaning when she said
good-by. A check for expenses,
to be sure. But also check, to
be sure.
And amateur that she is, Mrs.
Moody owes the American public
and press something. There
weren't any rain checks at
Forest Hills the day she walked
off the court against Miss
Jacobs five years ago.
Now she takes another walk
on the eve of a tournament in
which she might well have met
Miss Jacobs in the final again,
and writes a letter with some
pretty words in it that say
nothing.
Is she quitting for good?
Well, the letter intimates as
much, but sticks to the best ira.
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ID. T.. CoIored Meet
To 0pen at Dunbar

The annual summer track and
field meet of the colored play
grounds will be held tomorrow at
Dunbar Stadium, starting at 10
q. m. The first event will be pre-
ceded by a parade Of the athletes.
Dashes, relays and jumps will be
provided for boys in the follow
ing classes:
70 lbs, IS lbs, 100 lbs, 115 lbs. and
unlimited weight classes. The track
committee comprises Richard S. Tenny-
son, Birch Bayh, E. B. Henderson, T. J..
Anderson. W. e. Temple and H. English.
The officials who will run the meet
include:
e. B. Henderson, T. J. Anderson, W.
e. Temple, H. D. Martin, R. e. Contee,
w. e. Jackson, H. H. Riley. A. e.
Greene, L. Williams C. Pendleton, ".
Harris, I. N. Cupid, H. English, e. John
son, H. Payne, ]. Young and p. l.
Jacobs,
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the tournament at Brookline ex-
planning that you couldn't play
IN the doubles because you
were too busy practicing for the
singles at Forest Hills?
You made no mention of neu-
ritis in that letter. Surely this
cant be galloping neuritis, dear.
Isn't it also true that you
were practicing at Forest Hills
over the past weekend and play
ing such bad tennis that the
few who saw you were amazed
that such great star, only re-
Gently victorious at Wimbledon,
could be so off form?
And is it, or isn't it, the fur.
ther truth that at that time,
just a few short days ago, you
gave no physical ailment as an
excuse for your poor playing,
but instead charged it to ner-
Vousness?
Not that nervousness is not a
serious ailment. 1t is. All of us
have known people who Suf-
fered from it, and felt sorry for
them.
Nerves would be a perfectly
good excuse for Mrs. Moody's S
failure to enter at Forest Hills.
Ladies have nerves. Or her
reason for not entering could
be purely personal. 1t could be
love. Ladies have also been
known to become involved in
that form of diversion.
Indeed. Mrs. Moody would not
need any excuse, or reason
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chair.
Thus the U. S. L. T. AS big
gest show on earth, the National
Championships at Forest Hills,
is suddenly bereft of one of its
brightest stars. In the forthcom-
ing exposition Red Bulge will
have to play Hamlet without the
Dame.
Sad. so sad.
There won't be a dry throat in
the house on the day that the
woman'S singles are played, be-
cause the customers will have to
keep slipping something to stay
awake.
Mrs. Moody explained her sud-
den withdrawal from the tourna-
ment and. incidentally, these
parts, in a letter to the commit
tee in which she said she was
suffering a severe attack of neu-
ritis, please find check enclosed.
This is not the first time that
Helen has developed crick in
the neck from bowling her way
out of a tough spot, though 1t
The Washington times., 1938-08-25
War Dept. Meters
Score Victories

War Department tennis team.
of the Government League, won
two matches this week, defeating
Navy Yard, 4 to i, and Interstate
by the same margin.
WAR, 4; NAVY YARD, /.
Eugenio and Herbert IN. " defeated
Captain Sherburne and Foster, 60,
6-2; Vice and Anderson (W.) won
from Day and Yeomans by default;
Colonel Gillespie and Major Runbough
(W.) won from Robbins and Oliver by
default; Skaggs and S,nkov (W.) de-
feated johnson and Devaney, Is, 81
and Heller and Tarbay (W.) defeated
Turner and Moss, CO, So.
WAR, 4; INTERSTATE, 1.
Krellen and Reznek Qnt.) defeated
Captain Sherburne and Bitonti, 4-6,
6-4, 6-4; Thomas and Anderson (W.)
defeated Francyzk and Pierce, 6-2,
6-4 Colonel Gillespie and Major Rum
bough (W.) defeated Goldberg and Zepul,
81, 60; Vice and Foster (W.) won
from Prebelich and Silvcrstein by de-
fault, and sinkov and skaggs (W.) won
from Denniston and Darlington by de-
fault,
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RECORD MISSED
BY HIESTAND

VANDALIA, Ohio, Aug. Is.
Phil Miller, of French Lick, Ind,
won the National Glass AA cham
pionship Of the Grand American
trapShooting tournament when he
tied with Joe Hiestand in the ZOO
target event and then went on
to win the 100-clay extra shoot.
Meanwhile, Hiestand, whose
shooting has been the sensation
Of the tournament ran his un-
finished string to 966 targets with
out a miss. After going through
200 targets, both Miller and HE
stand moved down rs more each
from 16 yards and then moved
back to the extreme handicap dis
tance for the last Is. Hiestand
missed five here and Miller one.
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mat FEATURES
LADIES' Weller.
CHI CHAMPIONSHIP.

We haven't used our littlt
Strait-jacket with the winged
collar and tails since the Princes:
Baba was here with her wrestling
hubby, Bob Gregory. But g
glance at tonight's entree on Mr.
Joe Turner's mat menu at Grit
fifth Stadium reveals a couple oi
ladies who will pummel each other
for the world welterweight cham
pionship, and that means well
have to be very formal.
Frankly, we never knew ladies
could wreStle. eve we're raised
before the rumble seats.) Mr.
Turner informs us that not only
can Ruby Allen, the present lat
pound feminine champion, and
Teddy Moran wrestle, but they
know a thousand holds.
THE DIFFERENCE
The two ladies, again relying on
the superior knowledge of Mr..
Turner, are as tough as their
male colleagues. The only diff
ference, perhaps, is that the ladies
tie each other up with pink rib
bons and always keep their nails
manicured before popping each
other on the potato.
Miss Allen, they say, has been
wrestling half her life-She'S %
now and started at IA. Gosh,
we're brilliantly Since there aren't
many career women who become
muscle molls, the competition
must be very limited and 1t
wouldn't surprise us very much
if the ladies have met beforehand
not at a bridge game.
But the novelty, and several
other choice tidbits, will undoubt-
edly bring out goodly portion Of
the citizenry. For instance, there's
another battle royal on tap and
five of Mr.. Turner's roughest ath-
letes will take part.
ONE HERO
The cast includes Eddie New
man, Tor johnson. Ed Meske,
Mike Brennan and George Ryan.
The first three gentlemen have
appeared here before and the only
one eligible for a hero's card in
the wrestling union is MeSke, who
is a very handsome kid.
Ever one for originality, Mr..
Turner is putting on a villain
championship of Washington.
The two boys who'll compete are
Cliff Olson and Bibber Mccoy and
about the only way the customers
will be satisfied is for both to be
carried out with their toes curled
up.
Mccoy is more subtle about
arousing the antagonism in the
spectators. Bibber merely shakes
his fists and becomes very annoy
ing by always biting the hero.
Olson spurns such effete methods.
Cliff usually kicks the fans in the
chin or chases them around the
ring if they get too fresh.
But that isn't all. Joe DuSek
tackles Bobby Managoff in spe-
cial Commute bout. Come early
and bring your Sunday sneers,
folks,
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MOntQnez in
Ring Victory

NEW YORK, Aug. IS Q.N.SO &.
That the fistic qualities which
made Pedro Montanez the most
dangerous contender in the light
weight division a year ago are still
mis-, was indicated today by his
technical knockout over Orville
Drouillard of Windsor, Ont, in
2:14 Of the fifth round last night.
The Puerto Rican never gave
Drouillard a chance. He floored
him in the fourth and SO far out
classed the Canadian that a halt
was called by the referee In the
fifth. The victory was another
step forward for Montanez in his
quest for a titular meeting with
Champion Henry Armstrong.
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both teams and the fans of two
cities. The Nationals are in fourth
place, just the breadth of hair
ahead of the Tigers. If the Tigers
can sweep this series they'll GO
into the first division, and the
Nationals will drop out of the
first four, a position they've held.
rather miraculouSly, since the
start of the season.
The Browns bounce in and Out
of the cellar in the American
League. They're back there today
after their beating at the hands
of the Mats. Buddy Lewis whacked
a home run over. the scoreboard
and Monte Weaver was drummed
off the mound.
The Washington times., 1938-08-25
Grand Circuit Offers
$4,000 in Purses

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Aug. Is
QN.S0.-Featured by the heavi-
est concentration Of talent in men
and horses which the New York
State Fair has boaSted in many
years, the third and last Grand
Circuit meeting of 1898 In the
Empire State will be launched
here Monday to run six days for
q total Of $4,000 in purses.
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morrow will have . busy
schedule of local calls, being
arranged by John w. Carter.
The downtown ticket office is
at Fair Way Sports Shop and
reservations may be made also
at the Capital Pleasure Club.
General admission is IS cents
and reserved seats $1.1O.
The Washington times., 1938-08-25
Milwaukee Brewers
Play Winchester (9)

The Old Milwaukee Brewers
baseballerS will journey to Win
chester, Va, Sunday for their first
game of the season with the
Winchester Park Association nine.
Dick "Speed-ball' Murdock will
be on the mound for the Mil
waukeemen. DuVall is slated to
toe the rubber for the Virginians.
The Washington times., 1938-08-25

sS SOAAAOA = ~"
game at Grif-
fifth Stadium
in which Joe
Louis will ap-
pear with his
Brown Bomb
erS against
the DIR. Pep
per ten. The
game starts
at S:15.
LO u is is
booked to ar
rive in Wash
in & on to-
n ig h t and
right up until
game time to-
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JACK JOHNSON.
TO REFEREE z.
BOUTS MONDAY.
BY BOB ADDIE

~---~-
Jack johnson, the first colored
heavyweight champion Of the
world, lay sprawled on his back
under the glaring sun at Havana,
Cuba. No one will ever know but
johnson himself If the awkward
Jesse willard actually won the
championship in that twenty-sixth
round or if the giant colored man
took the easiest way out.
There's some doubt because Jack
was counted out with his hands
over his head-Shielding his eyes
from the white sun. But that's
ancient history now and the years
and successive heavyweight cham
pions have piled up too fast to
make the memory stand out
sharply.
STILL ACTIVE
But that was hardly the end of
Johnson's fighting career or his
association with the boxing game.
They say johnson is all Of 81 now
but he's still in action. "Lil Artha,"
as the boys labeled Jack, is a
referee now and he'll be on dis
play at Griffith Stadium next
Monday night in two Of the colored
bouts preceding the joey Archi.
bald Tony Dupre fight.
johnson is making a tour Of
the South lecturing on the art Of
self defense and if anyone ever
knew how to defend himself it
was Jack. Oldtimers say johnson
had the greatest defense Of all
time and an enemy punch vir-
tually had to get q letter Of in
production to pass the SentlnelS
that were Lii Artha's fists.
The proof of how great john
son really was is the incredible
realization that he outboxed a
man 30 years his junior only
three years ago in Paris! John
son, it is understood, has been as
signed the Kid Howie- -Slugger
White and Billy Banks-Johnny
Pitts bouts.
WE'LL POSTS BOND
Meanwhile, the featherweight
situation, which M a t chmaker
Goldie Ahearn allowed to rest un-
disturbed for a couple Of weeks,
is once again in the news. Reports
from New York indicated that
should Archibald beat Dupre here
Monday, the Patent Leather Kid
will be designated the No. ! con-
tender If not champion.
The New York dukes" have
given Henry Armstrong, the little
emperor who has q monopoly on
three titles, 80 days in which to
sign for a bout with Archibald.
This doesn't mean the fight must
take place in 80 days, merely the
signing. To seal the bargain. AL
WE'LL, Joey's official conniver, has
posted $1,000 bond.
There's whispering that Arm
strong doesn't intend to defend
his featherweight title at all be-
cause he can't make the weight,
But he wants to hold on to it for
the prestige, and cash, the title
will give him.
A peculiar angle on this bout
is that Archibald and Dupre tech
nically will be fighting for the New
England featherweight champion
ship. Tony holds the title now and
since both boys must scale 1875
pounds or under, the sectional
championship will be at stake.
That and a nickel will give you
bank balance of S cents.
Both Archibald and Dupre have
recovered from their eye injuries.
Joey was in a hospital for a short
time while Dupre was recovering
from the slice he got in the Pete
Scalzo fight. They're okay now
and both are training assiduously
or, at least, hard.
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Frankness Wanted

For however politely they may
gloss over it in public, Mrs.
Moody and Miss Jacobs are not
fooling anybody about their af-
fection for each other. I have
heard on the best of authority
that there was at least one
verbal row at a Wightman Cup
conference abroad that was a
pin-wheel, with rockets and can
non-crackers for trimmings.
I hope I haven't been too
testy about this. Or rude. I
haven't meant to be. But Mrs.
Moody's letter didn't strike me
as either frank or really explain
atory, and just a little franknesS
among the tennis folks would
be a greatly appreciated boon.
Amateurs who play in privacy
are entitled to privacy. ANA.
teurs who play to big crowds for
big gate receipts are another
kind of geranium.
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whatever, further than to say,
boys and girls, 1 don't want to
play this time.
l take note that the majority
of our American players manage
to pull themselves up on their
aching pins and to be around
and about at the time there is
a nice trip abroad in the offing,
which provides for a perform
ance at Wimbledon.
But what this column and, I
believe, the public takes extrem-
est exception to is tie fact there
is always an air of huSh-huSh
about virtually everything that
the tennis people do. You never
have feeling, at least I don't,
that what they are saying for
public consumption rings true.
Debt to Public
The tennis folks can become
frigidly amateuriSh and chill an
The Washington times., 1938-08-25
Last Nights Fights

By International News Service
AT NEW YORK-Pedro Montane1,
1873, Puerto Rico. scored technical
knockout over Orville Drouillard, 1917
Windsor, Ontario (5). AL Davis, 1884,
New York, won on technical knockout
over Young Chappie, 139. Albany.
N. Y. (3). Baby Louis, 1875, Cuba, de"
cisioned Jimmy Lancaster. 131, Will
mington, Del (6).
The Washington times., 1938-08-25
Play in Baltimore

The Junior All-Stars of the Col.
umbian A. C. play the Maryland
State Junior Au-Stars at Balti-
more Sunday. Both teams are un.
defeated.
The Washington times., 1938-08-25

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ditions of the net game by fail
ing to say so.
Is she going to turn profes-
Sional?
Well, she might even do that.
And Miss Jacobs might follow
suit this fall. And then what a
tour the MeSSrS. Hunter and
OBrien would have to offer
their customers from coast to
coast!
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punch at; he is clever, he hits
with some power and he seems
to be absolutely impervious to
a punch.
I learned plenty from him in
our fights, part of this education
being that it is virtually impos-
Sible to knock him out. For one
thing, he has q 1712-inch neck
which is so short that his head
sits almost on his shoulders.
About the only way you could
drop him would be with a ham
mer.
STILL LEARNING
From him I received my first
lesson in the importance Of
keeping your chin tucked in
close, and against him began
effectively to feint and bob and
punch from all angles. So
while, officially, the best I have
been able to do with the little
Mexican baby is two victories in
our two most recent starts
against two previous defeats,
meeting him has become of
some educational value.
In fact, you learn something
from every fight. I'm still
learning and, I hope, getting bet
ter all the time. 1 seem to be
punching harder than ever be-
fore and boxing more smoothly
and that's all I can ask. AS
said before, I seldom or never
feel a punch, even slightly.
have unlimited stamina and I
believe I could fight so rounds
almost at top speed. Also,
have very tough skin that sell
dom is bruised or cut, and
have a good. strong pair of
hands.
Lately my right has been
The Washington times., 1938-08-25
Wants Sunday Tilt

Terrapin Athletic Club is seek
ing a Sunday opponent. Call
North 6672-J between S and 6 p. m.
The Washington times., 1938-08-25
Brook|and Seeks

Brookland Merchants want un-
limited opponents. Call Dupont
6670.
The Washington times., 1938-08-25
Battle
1000 To See Pepper,
Louis Tens Clash

Seven thousand spectators
was the estimated attendance
at tomorrow nights SOftbalI