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golf balls, stripped them Of their
covers, remade them and put them
on the market. These are the balls
generally used late last year and
to be virtually the only good golf
balls available next year.
The manufacturers made no ex-
travagant claims for these remade
spheres. They admitted they would
average about 10 per cent shorter
IN distance than the balls made OF
fresh, new rubber. But John @. Duff
fer didn't Squawk He played the
remade sphere and liked it, and he
didn't notice any lessening OF dis
lance. And he played the ball longer.
until the paint wore off or the ball
was so knocked out OF shape it
wouldn't act right, in the air and on
the ground.
Pros All Optimistic.
I'm sure We will get all the golf
balls We need and can sell next
year" said Diffenbaugh.
Il don't see any real shortage OF
golf balls in 1943,' said Fred Nc
Leod. They are coming through now
and I believe there will be plenty In
the spring"
We've been able to keep our
members supplied this year and I
think we'll be able to get through
l943 without any real shortage"
said Witty Cox.
That's the way the pros all feel
about the golf ball situation. Unless
gasoline restrictions become too Sc
we're and the clubs cannot be reached,
the picture for 1943 isn't too drab.
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Swimming

Betty Jean Ort. I6-year-old Shore
ham Club ace, dominated swimming
meets here this year, establishing
three District AAU records as Patsy
Palmer, former queen Of water
sports here, saw her marks eclipsed.
Miss Ort, a former Penn Hall
swimmer, broke so. 100 and 22-yard
freestyle records during the sum-
mer. In the District AAU outdoor
meet at Takoma pool she swan so
yards in 293 seconds to better the
mark of 3o6 set by Ann Bono in
1896. Her 100-yard time of 1:068
in the same meet beat by five sec
onds the former record held by Miss
Palmer and two weeks later at
Washington Golf and Country Club
Miss Ort broke another record for
merlv held by Miss Palmer, cover
ing 900 yards in 2:446.
Miss Palmer's reign didn't appear
threatened in the earlier indoor
meets. In the District AAU indoor
meet Patsy won three events, break
ing her own records in two of them.
In that same meet Miss Ort won
two races and Howard McAdoo, Fort
BeIvoir soldier, won 100 and 200
freestyle events.
Betty Roland, 15-year-old Shore
ham lass, was another record
breaker. In the outdoor champion
ships she set a 150-yard individual
medley mark of 2:088 to wipe an
other record of Miss Pa1mer's off
the books. Miss Palmer failed to
win an event in that meet after
dominating local swimming circles
for two years Ambassador won the
team championship with As points
Still another record smasher was
15-year-old Leola Thomas of Am
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Boating

Washington witnessed in 1912 a
reSurgence Of sailing activity, which
was the biggest in several years.
Prevented from trailing to Chesa-
peake Bay for their summer regat-
tas, local shippers staged events
rlght here-a move which defied ira
dltlon, as Washington is considered
unsuitable for sailing in midsummer
doldrums. This fall in Potomac
River Sailing Associations series as
many as 40 boats appeared. MANY
newcomers were noted in the sailing
ranks, giving rise to the prediction
that the Capital would be seeing q
continuation of the sport for the du-
ration.
Gasoline restrictions played havoc.
TOO, with summer plans of local
power boatmen, the majority of
Whom were satisfied with a run
down to Hams Point or Alexandria
on Saturdays or Sundays. More
and more pleasure craft, and in
many cases their owners, continued
TO JOIN the Coast Guard Reserve for
patrol duty and other service.
Many local speedboat drivers.
POWER Squadron members and other
yachtsmen also were joining other
services, including the Army's new
Engineer Amphibian Command, and
tne Nays small-boat division.
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BY PETE ZURLINDEN.

by Ine ASSOCld1e0 Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Dec. Is. - If
Nays II varsity sports squads swing
through their schedules in 1943 any
where near the pace they main
tanned during the last year. rival
aggregations might as we'll fold up
their tents and stay at home.
The 1923 academic term, known
here as the "black year" in sports
finds almost every squad going
through a thorough rebuilding pro-
gram, with coaches attempting as
best they can to plug the gaps
caused by the December, 1941, and
June, 1912, graduations.
But although only a handful of
veterans are back for each team, the
Navy way of doing things in ath-
letic circles stands good chance of
hurdling whatever barriers gradu-
alton has imposed.
In 1912, the II squads competed in
IA varsity contests and finished on
the bottom only Al times for vic
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for these unlimited class teams this
year.
Numerous other amateur loops
were conducted in Washington The
District Recreation Leagues had 116
teams competing in a series that
wasn't finished until April. Delaware
and Hudson won the city-Wide
championship. Georgetown Aces won
the District Recreation women S
crown. Anacostia Naval Reserve
Aviation Base took the YMCA-Gov-
eminent League title.
Boys Club basket ball schedules
were heavy. In the Boys Club of
Washington City-Wide League, titles
were won by Central Branch Celtics,
80 pounds; Central Branch Senators,
los pounds; Central Branch Amer
leans, 100 pounds. and Alexandria
Boys Club, l35 pounds. In the
Police Boys Club League the No. 10
Club won the los, 100 and l35-po.nd
titles while the No. 5 Club took the
9O-pound crown.
Championships in the Bows Club
OF Washington Christmas Tourna.
ment went to Sacred Heart School,
80 pounds; Central Branch Senator's
los pounds; Central Branch Amer
leans, 100 pounds, and Alexandria
Boys Club, 135 pounds.
st. Martins won the Parochial
School title here, although it lost to
Baltimore's Corpus Christi School
for the intercity championship.
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set world indoor record of 3:17.2
at New York in March. Maryland
Duke Alexander, later killed in &C
ton with the Marines in the Sol
onions, won the Southern Confer
ence indoor high jump crown, and
Bob Condor, another Old Liner, won
the half-mile title Heckert Horn
established a University of Mary
land discus mark with a throw of
better than 148 feet.
George Washington had the best
basket ball record with IL victories
and 8 defeats, but was eliminated
in the first round of the Southern
Conference tourney by William and
Mary, 44-43. Georgetown won 9
and lost II, while Maryland won 7
and lost Is. Maryland cleaned
some solace, though, from the fact
that its Ernie Travis set a local
scoring record with 327 points in
% games. American University and
Catholic u reached the semifnals
of the Mason-Dixon Conference
tourney, but the Eagles then bowed
to Loyola. 61-24, and Western Mary
land eliminated the Cards, 1921.
Georgetown dominated the base
ball scene, capturing the District
Maryland Summer College League
championship by beating Maryland
FL, while Maryland's boxing team,
invited to the Eastern Intercolle-
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Archery

POTOMAC Archers opened the sea-
son with the annual Memorial Dav
tournament. feature of which was
the six-gold and 667 score shot bv
Gilbert Frey for local record The
June and July Journeys were I'M
eVentful.
In the National Mail match dur
ing August, local honors went to
Frey and Mrs, Maude Snyder.
The championship contest was
held. in October. The winners of
the previous season were unable to
defend and Frey, regarded as the
principal contender also did not
compete, he having joined the
| Marines. Senior men and women's
championships were won by Albert
Mumma and Thelma DeAtley, re-
spectively, while Arthur Cook took
the junior title with record score
of 533.
Officers elected for the 1943 sea-
son are: Ira Gullickson, president:
Hugh A. Scott, vice president. and
Mrs. Edna Bone, secretary-treas-
urer.
Central repeated as high school
champion, with Coolidge again
second. Individual high scorers
were Everett Yacker of Central and
Jeanne Haplin.
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rack and Field

Wars increasingly heavy demands
on the youth of the Nation dealt a
Knockout blow to the District AAU's
annual outdoor track and field
championship games, which were
postponed for at least a year and
possibly the duration. There were
no indoor meets.
Athletes of No. 10 Club won the
Metropolitan Police Boys Club meet,
but the absence of the larger meets
left void in the sports program.
The annual Takoma Citizens As
ISOLATION District Recreation De-
rartment race proved a dramatic.
but sad, chapter in the years history
when Walter Schultz of Baltimore
collapsed from the heat and died
after finishing most of the lO-mile
grind. Staged under a broiling sun,
the race took an unusually heavy
toll of casuals requiring hospitaliza-
ton or first aid.
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1AclC WcIe IlullleTOuS new COdCl-
Ing assignments in the schools, both
because Of the number of men en-
terlng the service and of additional
posts created to take care of the new
emphasized physical education pro-
gram.
For the football championship,
Central defeated Tech, its tradi-
tional rival, 1910, in the Thanksgiv-
ing Day playoff. Eight thousand
persons, biggest crowd to witness a
series game in years, attended.
Gonzaga took the Catholic school
title by defeating st. Johns, 1876,
and Westinghouse won its annual
clash over George Washington High,
1876, to finish nine-game season
undefeated.
Also undefested was st. Adams,
but 1t was tied in its last game and
lost the Interstate Academic Confer
ence championship it had won the
two previous seasons.
Woodrow Wilson won the basket
ball title over Central in the playof
Westinghouse won the Metro
politan championship in The Star
tournament and was eliminated in
the first round of the Glen Falls IN.
" tourney. Bethesda Chevy Chase,
runnerup in The Star tourney, also
lost in the first round of the Duke
Durham tournament at Durham,
N. C.
The girls championship in The
Star tournament went to Bethesda
Chevy Chase over Fairfax in the
final. The Hyattsville Gold Cup
tourney was won by Hyattsville boys
and Bowie High girls. Episcopal
High won the Virginia State nom
military prep school championship.
Aaron Weisenberg pitched Central
to two victories over Wilson in the
three-game baseball playoff series,
that otherwise was marked by the
hitting of Mike Denikos and Pete
Chipouras of Central.
Bob Landmark of Tech was the
outstanding performer in the annual
interhigh track championship meet.
He won two events, setting a record
Of II feet 10 inches in the pole vault,
and finished second in two others.
Another record was by Jim Kurz Of
Central who did so feet inches in
the shotput. Frank Nelson of East
ern tied the high hurdles mark of
is seconds.
Baltimore Poly won the annual
&C" Club track meet, while Mercers-
burg took the Maryland interscho-
lastics.
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Rising Petro 10 Face
Stiff Test in Bout
With Vet Torres
Lewis, Miller Co-stor
On Bongup Program
At Turner'S Arena

Charley Petro, the reformed
amateur lightweight, steps out into
fast company tomorrow night DIT
Turner's Arena, where he meets Joe
Torres in an eight-round match
The scrap is co-featured with the
Stoney Lewis-Taylor Miller middle
weight argument atop we'll
balanced program of club fights. The
first bout is scheduled for $3.50.
Charley and his brother, Danny
have supplied badly needed splash
OF color on the local fistic scenery
and while Dan1 has held the spot
light since their conversion to the
punch-for-pa ranks Charley has
been digging deeper into the Gus
toners appreciation and has a
goodly following in his own right
A win over Torres would make him
solid for even better engagements
for reward.
Torres Slight Favorite.
torres isn't championship timber
isn't even rated in the first 10 for
tnat matter, but his wide experience
ana crafty generalship make him a
worthy foe for the local boy and if
Charley hurdles the New Yorker he s
entitled to a bright red feather in
MS cap. Torres will be a slight
1aVorlte because of his experience
out Petro can knock the odds into
cooked hat with one solid smash
OF his trusty right.
Miller and Lewis are pretty mucb
OF tossup but the action virtually
is guaranteed. Miller stoned Lee
Walker the last time out in a mild
upset while Lewis, after losing a
close nod to frankie Wills, has come
pack to win his last two starts.
Supporting Card Strong.
A bangup supporting card has
been arranged by Promoter Joe
Turner as a holiday offering for
the patrons with the Kid Alexan-
Durability Reed bout standing high
on the list. Alexander gradually
regainlng his sharp edge after q
lengthy layoff and Reed is out to
regain prestige lost by his knockout
at Danny Petro's hands.
NICK Latsios, pride of Alexandria
meets repeatedly tough hombre
In Jimmy Willis of Wilmington
Del, and for a heavyweight effect
Iurner has matched Buddy Komar
the McKeesport pa mastodon
with Leon Ford of Baltimore.
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District Finds Entertainment Variety Of Athletic me During 1912

bassador. She established 100
yard backstroke record of 1:2l.5 to
fracture the former mark of 1:24.4
made by Betty Strohecker in 1888
In that outdoor meet McAdoo again
won his specialties, the 100 and 200
yard freestyle races, and finished
third in 50-yard freestyle event.
Phoebe Hudson, 15-year-old Wash
ington Golf and Country Club
swimmer, set 50-yard record for
a 25-yard pool at Washington,
swimming the distance in 29.4.
Mckinley pool won the play
ground meet with 81 points, with
Georgetown taking second and Ia
koma third. Eastern Branch won
the Boys Club of Washington
championship easily, scoring 102
points as Leo Jarboe broke two pool
records.
Don Boyer, local boy formerly
with Massanutten Military Acad-
emy's team, won the national
junior 50-yard freestyle champion
ship and in the District Junior in
door championships Don Bradley of
Ambassador won two titles as Am
bassador took the team crown.
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Pro Basket Ball

Pro basket ball limped through a
dull season that ended with the
Washington Brewers and Philadel-
phia Sphas tied for last place in
the 4-club American League. The
Brewers did not reorganize for the
1923 campaign.
Nat Frankel of the Brewers led
the loop in total points scored 1873,
and compiled the high average of
"a per game. Moe Dubilier was lost
early in the season to the Army and
his departure undoubtedly hurt.
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his pail Is called the Flyer" and
Diffenbaugh says he firmly believes
it is a better ball, although made
from reclaimed material, than the
ball turned out in quantity for the
last time during the winter of 1912.
The ball is amazingly long" said
George, land has all the good quail
ties of the best ball made in pre-
war years. 1 believe it is better
ball than the old one. And the best
part Of it is that this is the ball of
only one manufacturer. The others
Will come out with something new,
too"
Tribute to Manufacturers.
New golf balls of the top grade are
not easy to get nowadays. One
manufacturers representative Of
fered Diffenbaugh SIS for dozen of
the preWar grade, if George had
them. He happened to have a cou-
pie of dozen, but he wouldn't part
with them. The ball sold at retail
before Pearl Harbor for So a dozen,
or three for two bucks.
The pros do not anticipate any
real trouble getting golf balls for
1913. The whole thing is a tribute
to the ingenuity and timing of the
golf ball manufacturers. They knew
they were up against possible COM
plete stoppage of production when
new rubber no longer was available.
They knew that golf was on the spot,
and that some form of golf ball must
be kept in production to insure con-
tinuance Of the game played by
100000 people in this country.
Their reply was magnificent. They
gathered millions of dozens of used
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Clubs Urged 10 Keep
Their Memberships
In Links Bodies
Come Has Definite War
VoIue, Declares Prexy
OF U. S. Association
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

With competitive golf due to go
into tailspin for the duration, the
golf associations in this territory
face the prospect of designations of
clubs from their rolls Most of the
clubs around Washington belong to
the associations operating in this
area.
The Chicago District Golf Asso-
citation is planning a campaign to
encourage an attitude of loyalty on
the part of member clubs. Backed
by statements of many prominent
golf officials and players, the Chi
cago outfit insists that golf will
60 on and that the nucleus of
competition the associations -
should be supported.
Right now, says energetic Tom
Mcmahon. president of the CDGA,
"a well-groomed courses in Glas-
gov, Scotland, are jammed with
soldiers and civilians.
Has Definite War Value.
Golf is participation sport that
has definite Value to the war
effort" says George w. Blossom,
jr.. president Of the United States
Golf Association. ut is a means
to the kind of physical power and
moral force that fosters and pro-
tects our liberty and peace. 1t
should be promoted and fully geared
to the war effort. 1t adds an extra
zest to the worthiness of that free
way OF living which we all are fight
ing for"
Golfers should retain their men,
berships in golf clubs and play the
game as much as possible during
the emergency" said President Ed
Dudley of the PGA. Now more
than ever before it is of vital i'm
portance that we on the home front
are kept healthy and physically ft
and by playing golf which is an
activity Of recreation as we'll as re-
Taxation we will be getting the ex-
erclse which is so essential to the
was effort" Other association and
club heads have aided the CDGA
with similar statements.
Two Associations to- Meet.
Early next month two of the major
associations operating in the middle
Atlantic territory will hold their
annual meetings. The MARYLAND as
ISOLATION has set it's meeting for the
Ambassador Hotel January IS. The
Middle Atlantic Association meeting
will be held earlier, although there
has been talk Of staging both meet
ings on the same day. The District
Association will meet early in Febru-
airy.
All these organiza tons NAV be
faced with designations of clubs on
the basis of lessened competition in
l943, and possible abandonment of
championships. They we'll could
take a leaf from the book of the
Chicago District Association. If the
associations fold up, revival after
the war won't be easy They should
be supported now when they need
support as never before.
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Horses

Though scores of horsemen, ex-
hlbltors and top riders entered the
! armed services during the year,
equestrian activities fourished here.
The splendid horse shows, for which
the Virginia, Maryland and District
sector is noted, attracted their usual
large entries of crack performers
and the attendance was unusually
large, swelling the Golfers of war
charities which have been the bene-
flciarieS of all shows The hunt
meetings, point-to-point races and
hunter trials also were up to their
pre-war standard.
The high spot, which transcend
ed any feat by any other horses in
the country, was the history making
occasion when three great thorough
bred jumpers, U. S. Randle's Sport
Marvel, David Martins Cateer and
Mickey Magill's Gratchino, all top
ped feet at the Columbus Horse
Show last June, at Meadowbrook,
for a local record. 1t was the first
time anywhere that three horses
negotiated such a height in the
same arena. Notable also was the
performance of the other entries
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Good Year in Sports for Navy
Looms Despite Groduotions
Use Of Frosh Likely to Hold Up STANDARD;
Middies Win 144, Lose al Contests in AZ

tory average OF I'D per cent. ADDED
to this were Is triumphs. against six
setbacks, in a summer league de-
yeloped last July and August, which
practically maintained the aver
age over an extra % matches. With
these included in Nays overall
calculations. the 1912 winning aver
age was TIA.
Shuffles Athletic Directors.
During the year the Navy Ath-
letic Association setup was thrice
changed, although the third shift,
announced only recently, doesn't
become effective until January II.
Capt. T. Starr King, acting SUI
perintendent after Vice Admiral
Russell c. Wilson went to WASH
ington as chief of staff to Admiral
Ernest J. King, was athletic direc-
tor until April when he was de-
tached for sea duty.
He was succeeded by Capt. Har-
vey E. Overesch, Navy gridiron
great in 1914, who held the Office
for a month in May and June, only
to be elevated to the post of mid
shipman commandant during "June
week"
Capt. L. s. Perry, graduate man
ager for two years, succeeded
Overesch and now has been fol-
lowed by Capt. John E. Whelchel,
who took over the head football
coaching chores for the first time
last fall
Whelchel kept Nays gridiron VIC
tory streak over Army intact for
the fourth day by furnishing one Of
footballs prime upsets at the sea-
sons end with 40 triumph.
IT Whelchel continues as football
coach. and unofficial sources here
assert that he will he would be the
first athletic director coach in MANY
years. Numerous colleges have con-
solidated the two positions for econ
omy purpose, but Navy seldom has
combined the jobs
Only Nays sailing team, which
captured the Middle Atlantic States
championship, managed to 20
through undefeated. However, five
others-crew, cross country, fencing,
golf and pistol-lost only one COM
petition, while the gym. lacrosse,
tennis, soccer and track aggregations
dropped two each. z
Max Bishops baseball squad. with
13 triumphs in the regular season
and five during the summer league,
won the most Navy decisions during
the year. Art Hendricks tennis
team, winning II matchs in the
spring and five in summer, was next
best.
The Navy grid team copied five
against four defeats, finishing with
three wins in succession. and the
basket ballers won eight while losing
SIX, the finale 1-point setback at.
Army's hands.
Freshman Rule Helps.
Adoption of the freshman rule.s
making plebes here eligible for all
varsity athletics. leads observers Ia
predict that Navy teams for the
duration will be as strong as any in
the East.
The class of 1916, entering the
academy last June, totaled 1926 and,
raised the number of midshipmen,
now housed in Bancroft Hall to over
5000 all eligible for competition. s.,
This manpower probably will be
tapped often by future squads since
the recent football season, producing
stars like Hal Hamberg, Ben Martin.
Dave Barksdale and other plebes. has.
proved what an asset the frosh.
can be.
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Amateur Busketers

Senate Beer and Jacobsen Florist
shared major amateur basket ball
honors. Senate won the champion
ship IN the Heurich League, top
amateur cage loop here, by defeating
jacobsen two straight games in the
playon series. jacobsen, however,
took the Middle Atlantic tournament
held here by defeating Senate in the
final. Among the good players on
these two teams were Bill Noonan
and George Knepley for Senate and
Bob Custer, Lenny. Mills and. Don
Cross for Jacobsen.
There was no AAU tournament
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Amateur Wrestling

washington was represented in
the National AAU wrestling tourna-
ment at New Orleans by two District
champions as the amateur sport
reached a new peak, but the city
tailed to gain any national honors.
Gallaudet and Maryland again
sponsored mat teams with the Old
Liners capturing three individual
championships and a runnerup for
the District AAU crown. Cham
plons crowned were-121 pounds.
norman GLASGOW Md: 1913, James
Doyle Y; 1876, Louis Soronson
luno; 145, Robert Seals Md; l55.
Edward Wood (un); 165, Ted Crom
!uno; IT'S, Paul Mcneil CMdD +;
heavyweight, Jim Petro GA. u