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Evening star., 1941-12-28
Ice Hockey

An infant in Washington's sports
set-up, ice hockey enjoyed a sue
cessful season at Riverside Stadium,
with the Washington Eagles cap
turing the Eastern Amateur League
championship as f1ashy Norman
Burns fractured the loops goal
scoring record with ST goals.
Under Coach Redvers Mackenzie
the Eagles won five straight games
at the start of the season and con-
tinued to hold the lead through
most of the campaign. Six times
the Eagles attracted crowds OF more
than 1000 to Riverside.
The Baltimore Orioles hung with
the Eagles most Of the way. but
wilted when Washington produced
a fine stretch drive. The Orioles
finished second, with Atlantic City,
River Vale, Boston and New YORK
following in that order.
War conditions stripped all ex-
cept three members of that crack
club from the Eagles 194l-42 club,
with Len Burrage, Paul Courteau
and Art Thompson the only hold
overs. The Eagles nevertheless
again are in the thick of the East
ern League race.
Competition for the Eagles in
the form of the Washington Lions
of the American Hockey League
was presented this season at Uline
Arena. Ching johnson, a hockey
immortal with the New York
Rangers, was imported to coach the
club, which has been holding Its
own in its first season.
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FISHING

Fresh-water fishing showed a
marked increase. The trout season
in nearby Maryland and Virginia
was the best in several years due to
extensive stocking programs by the
respective States. Bass fishing In
late summer and early fall was aided
by the lack Of rain. with clear water
all the time. Upper Potomac bass
angling was the best in over a dec
ade, with frequent limit catches. of
small-mouths being made. Largest
small-mouth caught was 6A pound
specimen taken above Harpers Ferry
by Frederick angler. while the best
plymouth was 81 pounds, caught
in Gunston Cove by George Nc
Quinn. first baseman for the st.
Louis Browns
Saltwater fishing In Chesapeake
Bay was average, with the usual runs
Of hardhead, spot and trout predom-
mating. There were several good
flurries OF rock fishing late In the
season, but no bluefish showed. Mar
lin fishing at Ocean City was a little
better than the $50 caught the pre-
vious year. but the total did not ap-
proach the record OF 1900 taken in
1899.
A successful tournament casting
season was ended by the National
Capital Casting Clubs annual tour
nament at the Lincoln Memorial
Pool in September. The all-around
title went to Clyde Marshall of East
Liverpool. Ohio, and, in fact, Ohio
and New Jersey anglers topped
Washingtonians in nearly every
event. Only title remaining in Wash
ington was the y s-ounce accuracy
plug, taken by Lou Gramlich.
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Skeet

George Deyoe of Washington was
named to the All-America skeet
team and proved his right to that
high ranking with consistently good
shooting all season. In the annual
North-South shoot, big event of the
season here, he won the overall
championship with a 295 total Of
a possible 300, also taking the .410
event with 97X100 and the 20-gauge
with 99x10O. He finished second in
the all-bore which was won by An
thony Zugates OF Indiana, Pa. The
Westbrook IN. j. Cardinals cap
tured the five-man team title.
Women's champion was Mrs. M. l..
Smythe of Akron, while the junior
title went to Lester Warn, jr, Of
Jacksonville, Fla.
A shoot was held in Deyoe's honor
at National Capital Skeet Club in
October and Deyoe promptly won
the two events, the .410 and all
bore. Other successful skeet events
were the Mac Hart Annual Testi-
monial Shoot and the Prince De
Ligne Trophy Shoot.
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Baseball

Peace came to the ranks Of sand
lot baseball after a season of dis
cord and the harmony was reflected
in one Of the best campaigns Of re-
cent years.
Heurich Brewers won the Indus
trial League pennant again and
went on to gain the city weekday
championship in series culminat-
ing in dispute with Naval Air Sta
ton concerning the eligibility of a
player. Heurich won its protest and
with 1t the right to represent WASH
ington in the national tournament
at Youngstown, Ohio. 1t was elimi-
mated In two games.
Miller Furniture, re-entering the
Sunday arena after an absence Of
several years. won the National City
League flag in section A. Ninth and
New York Avenue Lunch triumphed
In section B, but the teams did not
meet in a city title series.
Oxon Hill captured the Prince
Georges League pennant, while
Washington Flour made of with
junior division honors in the Ma
tional City League.
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the feature was the entrance of Bill
McAdoo, Fort Belvoir soldier, into
local competition where he also
proved a big winner.
Miss Palmer set no records in
doors, but she won three events at
the A. A. U. meet, the 100 and
220-yard free styles and the 150-
yard individual medley. She also
won the indoor and outdoor A. A. U.
diving titles. In outdoor meets, she
captured the A. A. U. free style
and backstroke titles and set
record in taking the 150-yard medley
relay crown. Another record was
made in winning the 220-yard free
style championship. She also won
the women's diving event in the
Airport open meet.
McAdoo won the A. A. U. 220 in
door and outdoor championships
and the outdoor 100 and 20O-yard
free style titles. Bill Wright was
another consistent winner. The
Y. M. c. A. team won the indoor
n. n. ". ICdll tIOplly, Will tIlo OuI-
door title going to the Washington
Golf and Country Club team.
Women's team honors were taken
by Shoreham.
Outstanding meets also were an
nual Presidents Cup Regatta swim,
held at East Potomac, and two meets
at the Airport Pool, all of which
attra tie d numerous nationally
known swimmers. This was the last
year for Airport Pool as the War
Department took over its site
shortly after it closed for the season.
The colored national A. A. U.
swimming championships were held
at Banneker Pool this season, with
Pittsburgh Y. M. C. A. winning
the title. Washington was second
Eastern Branch Boys dominated
junior events. while Y. M. c. A.
leaders were Harry Palmer and Bill
Bruce.
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Archery

Out-of-towners captured most
of the honors in shoots here. In
the Potomac Archers' opening
shoot, two Baltimore visitors. Floyd
Coleman and Pauline Clark, took
mems and womens championships.
c. L. Snyder, president of the Po-
tomac Club, took first place in
class A.
j. E. Edge Of the Brandywine
Archers made one of the highest
scores over turned in here when he
did 180-1,260 to win the Memorial
Day open tournament. Mrs. Weiss
of Wilmington won the women's
event, leaving the junior title. TAX
en- by Shelly Williams Of Potomac
Archers, the only one going to
Washington.
A high school archery tourna-
ment was held for the first time
with Central winning, followed by
Coolidge and Eastern. Individual
winners were Bruce Gist and Bar
bara Berberich of Central.
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A.A.U. Track, Field

Opening OF the Ullne Arena, scene
of the Washington A. AS first in
door meet and the annual Catholic
University games, the Maryland
Fifth Regiment games at Baltimore
and the annual District A. A. U.
outdoor meet afforded amateur
athletes an opportunity to display
their wares.
Jimmy Kehoe, former Terp star,
won national prominence in the ma
jor indoor meets throughout the
East. Greg Rice, Fred Wolcott, Joe
McCluskey, Walter Mehl, Don Lash
and Earl Meadows appeared in the
local indoor meets.
In the Washington A. A. games,
Mehl ran the fastest mile (4:11.D
in the Capitals history and Mead
ows, Kenny Dill and Dick Ganslen
hung up pole-vaulting mark of IA
feet. McCluskey shattered his own
record for the two mile steeplechase
with run of 9:34 fiat, but the mark
was not Off1cially recopnized
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Pigeon Racing

To Roy Mathews, veteran local
fancier, goes credit for the out
standing feat of the year-that of
producing birds to win the Ma
tional Capital Racing Pigeon Con-
courses three 500-mile races last
spring. Further, Mathews produced
the only bird of the year to fly 500
miles in single day. Riley Hunt,
another old timer. had the best
average in the old bird series. while
H. B. Polansky compiled the best
record in the young-bird group.
With war here. local fanciers
ended the year more with thoughts
of what their hobby could do for
their country than for the sport
they derive from it. And with the
value of pigeons in World War l
on record for all to see, it was not
surprising that so many fanciers
are preparing their birds to serve
in the present crisis.
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Net Contest Between
.WeIch, Leavens Tops
" Open House Card

Outstanding local tennis stars will
give exhibitions beginning at pm
Thursday in connection with the
annual New Year Day open house"
program to be staged by the Gen.
trail Y. M. c. A. at 1732-l736 G street,
NV.
A singles exhibition will include
Barney Welch and Don Leavens,
while in doubles Hugh Lynch and
David johnson will team against
Eddy Miller and Buddy Adair
There also will be championship
matches in sports.
Besides the tennis exhibitions. the
sports events listed for the various
departments during the afternoon
and evening include:
In the Mems Gymnasium:
1:3O p.m.-vollev bau exhibition by
young vonens teams OF the Bureau Of
Internal Revenue.
2:45 pm-Exhlbition in jiu-jitsu, fenc-
ing. weight lifting and wrestling.
3.15 pm-Indoor hockey matches be-
tween teams of the Baltimore Y. NJ. c. A.
pm.-Exhibition by the senior gym
nnastics and tumblins teams Of the
AS pm.-Basket ball game between
res fSe EbAary of ana team
6 p.m.-Senior badminton champion
| ship matches.
Mems pool:
pm.-Annual Junior Y. NJ. c. A.
| swimming championship matches,
8 to p.m.-Exhibitions by the Wash.
ington Aouacade.
On the handball courts:
$50 p.m.-Holiday tournament singles
handball Championship,
3:45 p.m-Holidav tournament doubles
| handball championship.
4:3O pm.-Handball singles and doubles
| third-place playof.
| Boys gymnasium:
| 2 p.m-Basket ball. Woodward School
vs. Woodward Alumni.
ward School Midgets, .'' e'
pm.-Model gym class. preps ana
juniors tumblins exhibition.
5 p.m.-Basket ball, Flashes vs..
Junior Alumni.
| ships. singles end doubles.
! In the boys building lobby, there
/ will be ping pong and other games
tournaments in the lobby in the
afternoon, an annual city-wide jun
ior chess and checker tournament
and other features.
Other events in the boys building
will include motion pictures at IL
am, an exhibition and judging OF
craft articles at pm, a band con-
cert by the Homer l.. Kilt Boys and
Girls Band at 2:30 pm.
Other "open house" day features
are to include spelling bee by the
Woodward School at pm. in the
afternoon, motion pictures in the
YIN. c. A. assembly hall at 5 p m. and
again at pm; musical programs,
including music by the Bruderer
String Trio at 5 pm; juvenile
concert, pm; an informal musi-
Gale, featuring Justin Lawrie, tenor,
and Gertrude Troutman. pianist,
4:30 pm and the annual Y NJ c. A.
concert, featuring several WELL
known artists at 8:l5 pm.
Also during the afternoon, South
eastern University will hold its an
nual reception and tea in its IL
brary. From to pm. refresh
ments will be served in the Y M.
c. A. lobby by the "Y" ladies, Mrs.
E. A. Drumm, chairman.
An additional sports feature will
include simultaneous checker
matches to be played against all
corners by A. j. Banks during the
afternoon.
A reception in connection with the
sports program and other features
| is scheduled to get under way in
the "Y" lobby at 30 pm.
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metropolitan horseshoe pitching
championship, while George Ellis
repeated as District champion.
Twelfth Street Y. M. @. A. team won
the annual transcity nun, with Rob-
bert EaSley Of Richmond the In
dividual winner. The ''Y" badmin-
ton and volley ball teams retained
their local titles and high Eastern
ranking. Stoney Lewis Of the "Y"
team was the best amateur boxer
by far, while Oscar Wright, Alvin
Franklin and Billy Banks enjoyed
good seasons In pro ranks.
Brown Bombers and Homestead
Grays stood out in baseball, while
Willow Tree and U Street Lions
were football leaders. The Bruins
had a good professional basket ball
season, while Y. M. c. A. and Ban
neker teams were outstanding In
amateur ranks. Freedmen's Nurses
took the women's crown.
Other local champions were
Julia Stratton, womens tennis;
Tommy Walker, mems tennis; CLYDE
Freeman, r., boys tennis; Ethe
Terrell, women's golf; Isaac Brown
mems golf, and James Davis, motor
cycle.
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dISANO uaCy al ol1C Wltl411LS pOoI
being filled by Hardy Pearce, foot
ball and track coach of Central High
and former football star at George
Washington. This move was taken
as an indication there may be a
more liberal policy toward athletics
In public high schools next year.
Jan Jankowski, onetime Catholic
q. player, took over football coach
ing duties at Central and sent the
Vikings to the championship with a
22-0 victory over Anacostia in the
playoff, the Indians having turned
in something of surprise by taking
the East Division crown.
Gonzaga, with another new coach,
Sam Richards, at the helm, topped
st. Johns. 1913, in their annal
classic. and George Washington
High turned in an upset by tying
favored Washington-Lee, 1919, in
the Old Oaken Bucket clash on
Thanksgiving. This probably was
the best game of the football season
here.
Central was the only undefeated
team IN or around Washington. al
though it was tied once. St. Albans
won the Interstate Academic Con-
ference football championship for
the second straight year.
Roosevelt again took the basket
ball title, defeating Eastern in the
final, 3623. Hymie Perlo and Frank
Ciango were stars Of the Rough
Riders outstanding team. The
Riders also captured the Duke-Dur-
ham tournament in North Carolina,
but they lost their Metropolitan
championship in The Star tourna-
ment when topped by GonZago, 35-
26, in the title game. Hyattsville,
with 25-l7 win over Mount Rainier,
won the girls title in the Star Met
ropiltan tourney. Bob Munvihil Of
Gonzaga was voted the outstanding
individual player on boys teams,
while Patricia Mullen took the girls
cup in that tournament. Perlo was
voted most valuable in the Duke
Durham tourney.
Washington-Lee took the North
ern Virginia basket ball title, Hyatts-
took the Hyattsville Gold Cup tour
ney and Landon for the third time
finished second in the Interstate
Academic Conference.
In baseball, Western took the title
by winning over Eastern in the
three-game playoff series. Landon
won the Interstate Academic Con-
ference crown.
Feature of the track season was
the performance of Techs Eddie
Barham in high jumping. He set
three records, feet inches at the
Maryland interscholastics; feet 8
inches in the interhigh meet and 6
feet 5 inches In the &c" Club meet.
Barham also competed In broad
lump, dash and hurdle events.
Central won the interhigh title
with Tech second and Eastern third
Episcopal captured the &C" Club
meet, followed by Woodberry Forest
and Tech, while Tech, Baltimore
Poly and Westinghouse finished
in that order in the Maryland inter-
scholastics. Westinghouse won
the Virginia Central District Glass
A title.
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the states of Maryland and Cahfor-

the states of Maryland and Cahfor-
MIA which she previously had won.
An attack Of measles, however.
prevented Miss Wilson from playing
her flnal-round match in the District
tournament and that title returned
to Jane Stauffer. who had held 1t
in 1899.
Stan Fields was the No. man
player, locally, capturing the singles
championship OF the District, shar-
ing the doubles title with Lou CORN
and winning the mixed doubles title
with his wife, Virginia.
Bobby Bensinger captured the
boys championship and Bill Pierce
and Mrs. Fields proved themselves
the best paddlers in a tournament
for Government employees. Social
Security. Board had the best team in
the Federal Table Tennis League.
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Ice Skating

Failing to stir washington sports
fans, the National indoor speed
skating championships drew slim
crowds at Uline Arena last Febru-
arv to witness the exchange OF "
titles.
Roy Erickson of Brooklyn and
John Simmons of Stamford, Conn.,,
who won only one title between
them. shared the mems senior all
events crown by compiling 70 points
through the medium of finishing
second and third consistently.
Women's champion was Virginia
jain of Cresskill, N. j., who won
440 and 88O-yard races and finished
second in the mile.
Stanley Thompson of washington
and Cecilia Cunningham OF Balti-
more were outstanding in the f1rst
annual Southeastern speed skating
championships at Uline Arena IN
March as the Washington contln-
gent easily captured the team tro-
phy. Miss Cunningham won all three
women's events, while Thompson
took three of four mems races.
Serving to keep Washington ice
minded were the entertaining Ice
Follies at Riverside Stadium and
the Ice-Capades at Uline Arena,
plus the third annual ice carnival
Staged by the Washington Figure
Skating Club at Riverside.
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SoftbuII

Softball enjoyed another boom
year, with Senate Beer emerging
as city champion in the mems di-
vision and Census Bureau winning
the girls title.
To meet changing conditions
caused by a sizable expansion in
leagues, the District of Columbia
Softball Association revamped its
constitution and named Winfree
Johnson commissioner of the sport.
Charley Reynolds was elected
president of the association.
Opening of the Washington Soft
ball Stadium, equipped for night
play, and OF several new fields
helped the sport.
Senate Beer, eliminated in the
third round of the national tourna-
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Amateur BOXING

Amateur boxing doomed with the
Golden Gloves and District A. A. U.
tournaments headlining the activi-
ties. Billy Blake, chairman Of the
A. A. U. Boxing Committee, inau-
gurated a new policy Of year-around
activity with an-star shows sched-
uled every two and three weeks at
Turner'S Arena.
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CoIored Sports

Howard University, with a light
schedule, exhibited marked i'm
provement in football, while basket
ball and soccer teams there were
among the best Miner Teachers
football team started poorly, but
finished with several good victories.
Armstrong again reigned in the
scholastic field. capturing top honors
in football, baseball, track, golf and
swimming and tying Dunbar for the
tennis championship. Cardozo ruled
in basket ball.
Holsey Ford again won The Star
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Georgetown. eliminating its three
greatest football seasons in history,
launched the Districts 1941 col
legiate sports campaign under
summer-tinted skies in the distant
Orange Bowl at Miami on New
Year Day and dropped a 14-7 de-
cision to Mississippi State.
Atoning for this, the l941 eleven,
shorn Of 18 lettermen, upset the
University Of Mississippi at Grimth
Stadium in the opening game OF the
regular season. The game featured
one of the most disastrous seasons,
collectively, ever experienced by
teams in the Metropolitan area.
The Hoyas won five games and
lost four for the best record IN the
area. Among their victims were
George Washington and Maryland.
Maryland's record was next best,
showing three victories, q tie and
five defeats. George Washington,
hit hard by the draft, suffered its
poorest season in a decade, losing
every game after defeating Mount
st. Mary's in its debut. American
University also had a poor season
Several changes in sports direct
ing personnel marked the year,
beginning at Catholic University
where Arthur j. Outch) Bergman
resigned as director Of athletics
and head football coach. Forrest
(FodD Cotton, his right-hand man
and basket ball coach, also resigned
Eddie La Fond, director Of intra-
mural sports, boxing coach and
freshman football coach, assumed
Bergman's duties, appointing Car
men pirro as Cotton's successor.
A change in policy governing
sports at the Brookland school
forced the Cardinals to abandon
football and cancel an eight-game
schedule because Of a lack OF ma
terial.
At Georgetown, Graduate Mana
ger H. Gabriel Murphy resigned
and was succeeded by Rome F
Schwagel, sometime director o.
sports publicity at the Hilltop.
At George Washington, Grad
uate Manager Max harrington an
nounced he would fill that posi-
ton in only a part-time capacity te
accept position as director of the
Metropolitan Police Boys Clubs. AL
though 1t was not officially an
nounced, Bill Reinhart, head foot
ball and basket ball coach, sue.
ceeded to most Of the desk work ir
addition to retaining his field
chores. The Colonials added Johnny
Baker, an alumnus, to the varsity
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Soccer

Marlboro won the Washington
Suburban Soccer League title in reg
ular season play with Regal Cloth
iers second. Regal won some measure
of revenge, however, by topping
Marlboro, 20, in an exciting post
season game for the Washington
Suburban League Trophy. An earlier
game between the two ended when
a fight among players and specta-
tors resulted in the tussle being
called a draw.
Landon School won the Interstate
Athletic Conference championship
and also took the District private
school title,
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Dog Trials

The year was marked by two sue
cessful trials by the National Capital
Field Trials Club on Mount Pleas
ant Farm near Rockville and by the
addition of the Marlboro Field
Trials Club to the list Of nearby
dog organizations. This new club
held its first meeting in September.
Settlers started out strong this
season, making . clean sweep Of
three firsts IN the spring trials Of
the National Capital Club. Grass-
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College Wrestling

The annual Southern Conference
wrestling championship was held at
the University of Maryland this
year with Washington and Lee tax
ing four individual championships
and the team title.
Team scores were Washington and
Lee, 80; Virginia Military, 20; North
Carolina. 27; Maryland, II, Duke,
Z; Davidson. Z, and North Carolina
State, 4. Feature match Of this tour
nament proved to be the 175-pound
final in which Paul Mcneil Of Mary.
land defeated Steve Swift Of v. M. I.
for hts 41st Stxaasht victory.
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Table Tennis

Through both the Improvement OF
its own players and the class Of tour
naments it proved capable OF staging.
Washington gained prestige in table
tennis. The Capital was the scene Of
two major sectional tourneys-the
Eastern, held at Heurich gym in Feb
ruary and the Southern States Open,
held at Chevy Chase Ice Palace in
March.
Much to the qualification of local
officials. Carolyn Wilson, local lass,
won the women's singles champion
ship of the Eastern, thus adding the
Atlantic seaboard title to those Of
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Tropshootinq

Walter S. Wilson won the Metro
politan District all-around trap
shooting title in the May shoot with
a 356x400 total In three events. He
won first place in the 200-target
shoot, top event on the program.
Roswell D. Morgan won the doubles
title and Parker Cook took the 100
target handicap crown.
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DOGS

Two successful shows were held
by the National Capital Kennel
Club and the Old Dominion Kennel
Club. as well as number of smaller
sanctioned shows and puppy
matches. A District Doberman Pin
scher Club was organized and joined
the list of clubs holding successful
shows.
A split in the dog training club re-
suited in two local obedience training
clubs. One of the best obedience
records was made by Claire Craw-
ford's great Dane, Rajah of Vakeck.
Others with good showings were
Jack Mullock's Welsh terrier, Peter
Pans Rebel; and Margaret Kubers
cocker spaniels, Jetta's Dream Cloud,
Jetta's Tawney Gold and Shadow.
Bench show champions were led
by the boxers. Keith Merrill had
two, De Barry of Hernia and Quest
of Tulgey Wood. Mrs. Jouett Shouse
had one, Iller Won Zwettlerheim, and
Elizabeth Lennon had Sumbula's
Gunard. Representatives Of several
other breeds also finished their
championships, and point winners
who undoubtedly will be on next
years list were numerous.