Evening star., 1938-08-24
HORSESHOE STARS
READYF0R ACTION
Hottest Finals in History of
Evening Star Event Start
Tomorrow.

In what promises to be the hottest of
all the 10 annual Evening Star horse
shoe championships. flHng will start
tomorrow night on three fronts with
the titles of Southern Maryland.
Northern Virginia, and Washington as
the goals of the 4s best pitchers in this
sector. selected through a qualifying
round of 100 shoes completed last
night.
1t looks to be the best tournament
we've ever had" said Mayor w. N
Mahaffey of Brentwood. who, assist
ed by A. E. Brailer. is directing Mary
land play on the Brentwood town
courts.
The return of several stars of yore,
including three former State cham
pions. Boo Henson. George C. Thomp-
son, and Chic Darr, has popped inter-
est in the Virginia event, at Falls
Church. where the playoff will con-
sist Of Is players instead of eight, as
last year.
New Stars in ID. G..
A flock of new names appeared in
Washington's list of qualiflers when the
preliminary shooting ended late last
night with Harry Woodfield. secretary
OF the Washington-Subur Horse
shoe Pitchers in charge. Woodheld, in
his Cos, was among those who made
the grade, even as George Thompson.
president OF the association, who is
supervising the Virginia competition
Henson and Lee Fleshman, Mary
land champion, tied for top score in
the qualifying round at 2l9 points,
Henson shooting SO ringers and Flesh
man 81. Next came Bill Woodfield,
runnerup for the Washington title last
year. with 2l6. including 81 ringers,
and Temple FARRELL of Maryland with
56-2O4. Only these four beat 200.
Fleshman and E. Baranowski, a new
conner to the tournament. were seeded
in the upper half Of the Maryland draw
and FARRELL former State titleholder,
and P. Smith in the lower.
Henson and Darr Rivals.
The Virginians seeded were Henson
and Chic Darr in the upper bracket
and Bill Hunton and G. F. FELTON, in
the lower.
The Washington pairings produced
a novelty. Harry Saunders, defending
| champion. was seeded No. 2 behind
Bill Woodfleld. whom he defeated in
the 1887 final Woodfeld has had a
big season in league play and Saunders
has seen little competition this sum-
mer. They are in the same half
/ Seeded in the lower draw are Irwin
Carlberg and Paul Henyon new chal-
lengers for District honors.
The Washington flippers are COM
peting on the Mcmillan Reservoir
courts installed by the Municipal
Playground Department.
Play tomorrow night in all three sec
tors will start at 7:30 o'clock. The
matches will be two out of three
games for the first and second rounds.
three out of five in the semi-fnals
and four out of seven in the finals.
Pairings:
c. c. Henson. 63-219. VS.. g. Darr, 9-S7.
J; s: Petit, -47-1s2 VS.. Chas Darr. 17-112.
Ed Henry. 34,15l: vs.. c. Major, 26-l19;
Cnic Darr. 42.171. VS.. H: Choate. 1880.
Bill Hunton. 47-1S2. vs.. Bill Follin. cO-1O4.
'" crsxfqrd a3-1as' VS.. G. c. Thompson
@. c. Thompson. sr. 39-157. vs.. Bill
q. r. Felton. 5i-1s4. vs. s. Major. 1896.
Maryland.
Lee Feshman, 6a-21s vs.. B. Underwood.
J. Donahue. 4O-15s. VS.. Z. Lasne. os-f31.
A. Z. Brailer. 46-174. VS.. W. Rennard,
Z. Baranowski. 5o-1s7. vs.. D. Dotson.
p. Smith 43-17e. VS.. A. witner, 2r-1s5.
J. Mullinix. 43-16s. vs.. W. Donahue.
T. walsh 4O-14a, VS.. J. walsh. 3s.1e7.
+. farrell, 56-2O4, VS.. C. Smith. 27-139.
Washington.
Bill Woodfeld. 6l-216, VS.. P. Pope, 41-154.
b. Newcomb 45-179 vs. L. Mills, 4a-i95.
NJ. Beardsley. 46-176. VS.. Red Davis,
Harry Saunders, 42-1es. VS.. Elvin Shark,
1r!ln S;rlbsrs, bs-1ss' Vi. H. woodneld,
Francis Battiste. 44-172, vs.. Walter Haley,
47-16S
Roy wilson. b0-1s0. vs.. L, Larrick. 43-174.
Paul Henyon, b5-1e1. VS.. l.. Barcarola.
42-152.