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Horse Shoes

Growing of new and popular
champion in Northern Virginia-Ed
Baranowski of Lincolnia-and a rad
ical change in the set-up of the
annual Evening Star tournament,
climax of the season, featured horse
shoe pitching.
In round robin of Is stars, in
stead of the usual elimination con-
test, Clayton c. Henson of Arlington
chung to the Metropolitan Washing
ton title with a clean slate, but was
forced to give one of the hottest
performances of his career to down
the runner-up, Irwin Carlberg who
regained the District title. Carl
berg lost only to Henson, who fired
Is straight ringers to clinch the
game.
BaranoWski took several beatings
but finished highest of any Vir-
ginian, aside from Henson, who was
not eligible for State honors.
Clair E. Lacey, former District
champion, won the Southern Mary
land championship
For his IS games Henson aver
aged nearly 80 per cent ringers, a
world championship pace.
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Amateur BOXING

Amateur boxing continued to
thrive, despite lack of new faces in
the ranks The Golden Gloves
moved into Uline Arena with a
record-breaking field that on one
night, at least, required the use of
two rings to dispose of the lengthy
program. The District AAU Tour
nament was held at Turner's Arena.
The years biggest upset was Pete
Celinski's decision over Danny Petro
for the 118-pound Golden Gloves
championship. Petro came back to
win the AAU crown at the same
weight and then turned professional.
A general exodus of amateurs
from simon-pure to pro ranks &C
Cured after the tournaments. with
Celinski, Lew Hamburg, jr.; Bernie
Cady, Walter Thomas and Charley
Petro among those making the leap.
The AAU's year around program,
inaugurated in 194l by Billy Blake,
suffered from this mass movement,
and when the armed services took
another large batch of fighters
through induction and enlistments
the AAU was obliged to abandon its
idea of promoting amateur boxing
on a year. around basis.
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Doq Trials

Honors were divided equally be-
tween settlers and pointers in the
two successful field trials held by
the National Capital Field Trials
Club. Synhart, a setter, took the
shooting dog stake and the Thomas
P. Baldwin Memorial Trophy in the
spring trial, while Alfalfa Bills
Dusty, a pointer, won this event
and the trophy in the fall trials
Bronco Pilot Jake, a pointer, won
the all-age stake in both the spring
and fall trials, while Equity Snow
ball and No Delay, both settlers,
were the spring and fall puppy
winners, respectively.
Successful spring and fall trials
also were held by the Marlboro
and Northern Virginia Clubs
Singo's Arts and Robersons Prince
both settlers, were the spring and
fall winners, respectively, of the
shooting dog stakes at Marlboro
Symhart, winner of the Baldwin
Trophy, also won the Walter O'Hara
Cup in taking the spring shooting
dog stake in the Northern Virginia
trials. Du Points Gravel, pointer
won in the fall.
Among the other high lights of
the season were the two appear
ances in this area by Craddock, a
pointer bitch puppy that won more
than dozen puppy events through
out the East this year, She won
with ease in the fall trials at MARI
boro and Northern Virginia.
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Dogs

Dog activities in this area ex-
banded in 1912. A new kennel club,
the Arlington County. made its de-
but with show on July 4. This was
followed by midsummer show by
the National Capital Kennel Club on
July S. In addition, there were the
regular, licensed shows of the Ma
tional Capital Club in October and
the Old Dominion Club in April, all
of which had surprisingly good en-
tries for war year and were profit
able to their sponsors. There also
was the usual number of all breed
and speciality sanction matches.
Obedience trial activities also
made strides during the year, with
training degrees being won by Mar
garet Kubel's cookers Jetta's Tawni-
gold and Jetta's Black Shadow,
Peggy Coyle's Inkabod, Mary Edith
Gregory's toy poodle, Bo Peep; Bill
Compton's shepherd, Mark of Clar-
andall, and Mrs. Cornelius Doremus'
collie, Tazewell Southern Gem. The
outstanding achievement of the
obedience test-minded was the
training of a company of eight dogs
of different breeds for the use of
the Canine Corps of the Army.
There were many championships
made in this area during the year.
Among them were r. w. Lyons bull
dog. Lonarch TUCSON; r. R. Tayn-
tons Shetland sheepdog, Michael of
Beech Tree; Margaret Perkins min
iature schnauzer, Siegenhund Won
Stortzborg: Helen Samuel's Peking-
csc, Little Boy Blues Ace; Harry
Lustines cocker spaniel, Sir Bono
seen II; Mrs. j. K. Porter's Boston
terrier, American Ace; Dowell Mans
fields st. Bernard, Darwin Esbocia
of Dalakay; Al GARDENERS airedale,
Kay's Princess of Renidrag: Louis
Comets dachshund, Janet of Ten
roc; Arthur Scharfeld's wire hair,
Lucart Noel Serenader. and M.
Welsh's setter, Blakeen Saegryte and
H. Browns schipperke, Wissig's
Smoky Joe.
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CoIored Sports

Big events of the season here were
the several occasions when Satchel-
loot Paige, the famous Negro base
pail pitcher, appeared here in ex-
hlbitions with the Kansas City Mon
archs against the Washington
Homestead GrayS Paige and the
Monarchs twice were beaten by the
Grays, once in an overtime game
before crowd of about 10000 at
Griffith Stadium.
Later, though, Paige and the Mon
archs had their revenge when they
won the Negro World Series over
the Grays after both teams had won
their respective American and Ma
tlonal League championship for the
fourth straight year.
Negroes were active in sports To-
cally despite many of them being in
the services. Howard University
and Miner Teachers College showed
well in collegiate basket ball circles
and Howard had a fair football
team, although it lost its annual
game against Lincoln.
Cardozo moved to the top In the
scholastic field with championships
in basket ball, track and football.
Armstrong won the baseball title for
the fourth straight year and also the
swimming crown. Dunbar dominate
ed tennis.
Professionally, the Washington
Bears basket ball team was tops
with a record of % successive VIC
tories. The U Street Lions won the
local pro football championship.
George Parks, heavyweight, and Os-
car Wright lightweight, were out
standing colored pro boxers. A num-
Der OF amateur battlers also turned
/ pro during the year. among them
! Stoney Lewis, Ken Stribling, Leon
Kennedy, George Terrell, Wyman
Steward and Kid Walker. Amateur
boxing standards were upheld by
Twelfth Street YMCA and Police
Boys Club No. 2.
! Holsey Ford repeated as metro
| politan horseshoe pitching champion
| in The Evening Star tournament,
and George Ellis retained his Dis
| trlct crown. In playground tourna-
ments, Tony Wallace won the senior
championship and Cornelius New
ton the Junior title.
Bill Brown was the golf champion.
while Ethel Terrell for the third
straight year won women's title. Ira
CraWley and Mildred Patterson re-
peated as badminton mems and
women's champion. respectively,
while Crawley paired with Flip Jack
son to take the doubles crown.
Navy Department team won the
Government League championship,
winning 10 of its 20 games and TAX
ing both the first and second half
titles. The softball title in the Gov
eminent League went to Navy De-
partment, while Logan Playground
took both the unlimited and senior
class crowns.
| Dorothy Morgan repeated as wom-
ems tennis champion, with the mems
crown going to Ernest McCampbell.
He and William Robinson won the
doubles, while Marion Pharrow and
Edward Davis were mixed doubles
champions.
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Pro Boxinu

| AS the year drew to close, the
! figures, s106224.08, became well
known to Washington boxing fans
| because that was the full amount
Goldie Ahearn sued to recover from
( the several members of the D. C.
! Boxing Commission for alleged dam
ages to a show at Uline Arena, pro-
noted by the Liberty Athletic Club.
which brought to a head prolonged
| chickering's between the two.
Ahearn, in his capacity as match
maker for the club, announced a
reduction in ringside seat prices
from SO to $180 for this particular
! show, The commission opposed the
move, but later sanctioned it, then
countered with an order prohibiting
the sale of seats placed on planks
covering the ice rink at the arena.
The night of the fight, several
hundred fans were prevented from
entering the arena until three rows
| of seats had been removed from the
| ice
! Both sides of the question were
heard by the Commissioners of the
District of Columbia in an attempt
to smooth out the difficulties, but
the case still was on the legal docket
as the old year wore out.
The year was marked by the Dis
trict's second boxing fatality in three
years as Preston Drew. 24-year-old
featherweight, succumbed following
an operation to remove blood clot
on his brain. He suffered the injury
in Ground preliminary match with
Lew Hamburg, crony from their
amateur days, who was absolved of
all blame.
A movement to pay two of the
three boxing commissioners salaries
of $4,000 a year for their services
was lost in the shuttle on Capitol
Hill.
The years outstanding attraction,
from box-offlce viewpoint, was the
Lee Savold-Lou Nova bout at Crit
fifth Stadium opening the outdoor
season. This attracted net gate
of $2206798 and ended in a tech
nical kayo victory for Nova. On the
same card George Abrams won the
rubber" match from Steve Ma
makos over a 10-round route.
Youthful Jimmy De Chard's retire.
ment from heavyweight ranks after
his loss to Joe Baksi, the hating of
the Ted Wint-Al Blake bout and
declaring it mo contest" and the
appearances of Willie Pep, New York
featherweight champion; AL Bum
N.Y. Davis embarked on a welter-
weight comeback, and Beau Jack,
new lightweight champion, were
features of the year.
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BOWLING

Lou Jenkins, now cadet attend
ing the quartermaster school at
Camp Lee. Va, and Lucy Rose OF
Rosslyn were the Capitals standout
bowlers for 1912.
Making good boast Lou won the
mems No. ranking title to put to
an end the six-year reign of famous
Aston Clark, while Mrs. Rose was
second only to Ida Simmons of Nor
folk in the womens first 10 of the
country.
Indicted In the Army during the
summer after a brilliant season of
rolling. Jenkins. despite little prac-
tice, came back to win the 18th
annual Dixie Open from a field of
"a national stars. During the reg
ular season he won four major tour
naments and finished out of the
money only seven times in Is other
special events.
Winner of both the women's city
and national all-events titles, Mrs
Rose put on the finishing touches
to a spectacular year with two ma
tional mixed doubles records shared
by Billy Stalcup. Their marks were
1871 for five games and 1858 for six
games.
Aside from these two achieve
ments, Stalcup won several impor-
tant events to land 22nd among
the Nations first 30 ranked pinmen
Others to gain the charmed circle
were Fred Murphy, Cletus Pannell
Aston Clarke. Hokie Smith, Ed Bla-
keney and Karl Gochenour. Smiths
biggest feat was winning the Dis
trict League championship for the
second successive season.
Bill Gartrell, Northeast Temple
manager, fired ZIG in the Red Me-
gaw tournament for the biggest
game of the year, while league hon.
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ors went to Wally Burton of Hyatts-
vile, with 212 in the Prince Georges
County loop. AL Wright of Claren-
don gained the headlines with 203
as an all-time record for the Dis
trick League, and Russ Spargo Of
the Times-Herald League posted the
only 100 fat score.
The Brookland Recreation quint
in District League match at Chevy
Chase Ice Palace gained the lime
light with an all-time city-wide rec
ord game of 745, topping Arcadia's
former mark by eight pins. Mem
bers of the Brookland team were
Karl Gochenour, Howard Deputy,
Nick Rinaldi, Ray Watson and Joe
F'reschi.
Ranked fourth among the first 10
women bowlers of the country was
Lorraine GULL, while Lucille Young
placed ninth. Others in the first 80
were Ingomar Moen, Alma Mehler
and Jessie Sacrey.
With an entry of 500 teams, which
included 81 from the District, the
National Duckpin Bowling Congress
Tournament at Baltimore was the
biggest since its birth in 1927. And
speaking of record entries, the Old
Dominion Handicp at Rosslyn set
a city mark with 311 contestants.
Bill Krauss won the national
singles title at Baltimore with 456
while young Myles Quail. jr., of
Hyattsville triumphed in the boys
championship division. The ma
tional mixed doubles title went tc
Caroline Hiser and Perez Wolfe OF
Hyattsville
Still going strong was Catherine
Quigley after more than 20 years OF
league rolling. At the end of the
1912 season her consecutive game
record had reached an amazing
| total of 1908.
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of fishing because of the transport
tation problem. Difficulty also was
experienced az times in getting
guides and boats because of the
number of men engaged in war &C
tivities. Offshore fishing in the
Atlantic Ocean was prohibited.
The fresh water season was poor.
Drought of the previous year cut
into the trout and bass population,
particularly trout. Bass fishing in
the Potomac River showed a very
marked decrease from the records
made the previous year. Frequent
rains kept bass waters muddy or
cloudy and the unusual fall flood on
the Potomac River came at a time
when the fishing should have been
at its height and ruined the last
six weeks Of the season.
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ton game. Against the lowly Phila-
delphia Eagles a dramatic, last
second field goal by Bob Masterson
provided the winning points in a
1927 victory. Pittsburgh, with Bill
Dudley sparkling brilliantly, gave
the Tribe its two toughest games of
the season.
But when the chips were down the
Skins delivered magnificently. The
championship game was one of their
finest and possibly their greatest
game with the line stealing the
spotlight from Baugh. Farkas and
Wilbur Moore by its smashing style
The Redskins played their final
game against the league all-stars in
a benefit for the United Seamens
Service at PHILADELPHIA.
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ennis

Resumption of the feud between
Barney Welsh and Davey johnson,
with different result, high lighted
the District tennis season, but for
the first time in years the men we're
obliged to share the spotlight with a
woman, Mrs. David Gray.
Welsh and johnson broke even in
two tournaments. leaving the Rank
ing Committee in a quandary. Bar
ney, who had met defeat at john
sens racket only once before. cap
tured The Stars City of Washington
Trophy, but johnson squared &C
counts with interest in the Middle
Atle ntic. Both matches were hard
fought.
Mrs. Gray. the former Anne Camp
bell of New York. went into The
Stars City of Washington for women
unrecognized, but before she was
through her acclaim was widespread
In succession she captured the
women's District League and Rec
reation tournament crowns before
finally bowling to the more expe-
rienced Mrs. John Van Ryn in the
District women's open.
Willie O'Steen Herbert, Sara Moore
and Ena Dellinger, all top-ranking
District players, fell before her
potent strokes.
Bob Bensinger moved up into
senior ranks, but not before taking
the interscholastic and City of Wash
ington junior championships. He
lost to Frank Willet of Admission
Ala, in the Columbia Country Club S
invitational tournament, but some
impressive performances in senior
ranks indicated bright future for
him. John Bucknell carried off tor
honors in the City of Washington
boys competition.
The District Recreation Depart
ment successfully inaugurated q
novel "duffer" tournament for play
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Wars Heavy Demands Resd Sports Pace Hard Working Capital This Year

and three weeks later the mana
gerial post was handed to Ossie
Bluege, a great third baseman in
his era as player and later a
coach under Harris.
While the year was an artistic
failure for the Mats, the financial
angle was more heartening. War
iammed Washington increased Crit
fifth Stadium attendance los, 900 over
194l figures, with 81 night and twi-
Lightweight games proving popular.
Circumstances beyond the con-
troll of Griffith and Harris were in
strumental in the poor showing of
the Mats Cecil Travis and Buddy
Lewis, the Mats best batters, were
indicted into the Army, among
others, and since have been joined
in the armed forces by Pitchers Sid
Hudson and Walter Masterson,
Catcher Al Evans and Outfelder
Bruce Campbell.
Washington suffered severe
blow less than 10 days after the sea-
son opened when Pitcher Dutch
Leonard became the victim of a
broken leg and severely sprained
ankle that kept him inactive most
of the campaign. Frank Croucher,
slated to be the Mats regular second
baseman, came up with a sore arm,
played only few games and was
sold to Toledo.
Bob Repass. hailed as shortstop
who would solve some of the Mats
infield problems, failed miserably
after performing sensationally in
Washington's exhibition games
Jake Early and Mickey Vernon, ex-
pected to provide the Mats long
distance clouting, were other dis
appointments.
Enjoying successful seasons,
though, were Outfielders Stan
Spence and George Case. Spence. a
.232 hitter with the Red Sox in 1e41.
batted 1923, and Case came up with
his best year. batting .318.
Griffith cleaned house late in the
season, selling Pitcher Buck New
som to Brooklyn and Outfelder Roy
Cullenbine to the Yankees. He
previously had purchased Outfelder
Mike Chartak from the Yankees,
but later traded him to the st.
Louis Browns with Pitcher Steve
Sundra for Cullenbine and Pitcher
Bill Trotter. Trotter later went to
Sacramento as part Of a deal that
brought Pitcher Paul Dean to the
Mats from Houston.
Griffith also purchased Pitchers
Dewey Adkins from Wilkes-Barre
and Ewald Pyle from Toledo. At
the minor league draft meeting at
Chicago last month Griffith drafted
Catcher Angelo Giuliani from Min
neapolis, Infielder George Myatt
from Columbus and Pitcher Jim
Mertz from Atlanta,
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Pigeon Racing

The National Capital Concourse
Association of IS members, racing
1000 pigeons, staged a series of SOC
and 900 mile races, and DR.. T. w
Sproesser's loft had the best all-bird
average at 1,01730 yards, with the
Dismer and McGann loft taking
second with an average of otto.
George Gattau's loft won the 600
mile race of the East Potomac Club
and for the second time in so years
the winner reached home on the day
of liberation.
Carl G. Sterzer won the Copen-
haver Cup and Paul Goods loft had
the best average in series of eight
young bird races.
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SoftbuII

Enlistments and the draft cut
deep into softball ranks this season,
Some teams failed to finish the sea-
son and others at the end of the
season had line-ups entirely differ
ent from those with which they
started
There were several good teams,
though. particularly Standard Linen,
winner of the District championship,
and Kavakos Grill, winner the year
before and runnerup this time.
Jackie Walsh of the Surf Club team
was voted the outstanding player
and led the Night League, the city's
top loop, in batting, home runs,
triples and doubles. Benny Rubin
of Standard Linen and Cannon
Ball" Smith Of Kavakos Grill were
regarded as the outstanding pitchers.
Buckingham Tigers won the Dis
trict Recreation mems title, with the
girls crown taken by the All-stars.
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Table Tennis

Table tennis made good gain dur
ing a season highlighted by the
play of Tibot Hazi and his wife,
Magda Gal Hazi, nationally ranked
stars, who dominated the field
locally and won new honors in more
expansive fields.
Mrs. Hazi twice defeated Carolyn
Wilson, capturing first the Eastern
Womens singles title and later the
District crown, and her husband was
only slightly less successful He won
the city championship, but was de-
feated by Lou Pagliaro. national sim
giles champion, in the Eastern finals.
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Pro Football

ERrasfootball enjoyed It's most sue
cessfM year in the District with the
Redskins hanging up their best rec
ord in history and climaxing the
season with 1916 victory over the
previously unbeaten Chicago Bears
for the National Football League
championship.
The club escaped with the least
Qumber of injuries in years, although
Vic Carroll was out five weeks with
1 fractured ankle and Andy Farkas
vas on the sidelines for the curtain
yaisef with Pittsburgh because Of a
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Ice Hockey

Washingtons ice hockey teams
the Lions of the American League
and the Eagles of the Eastern League
both made the playoffs in their
respective loops after mediocre sea-
sons, but were stymied in their bid
for honors.
The Eagles won six games and lost
two in the United States Hockey
Association playoffs, in which only
Eastern League teams competed.
That record matched the perform
ance of the New York Rovers. but
the latter team was handed the title
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Fishing

High light Of the fishing season
was the big run of rockfish late in
the year. Record catches both as
to size and number were made in
Chesapeake Bay and in the lower
Potomac River. 1t was regarded as
an even better season than 1887,
the previous high In recent years.
Other than for rockfish, the Ches-
apeake was average. There were
the usual runs of hardhead and
trout. with some spot. Again blue
fish, absent for several years, failed
to appear.
There was a big drop in all types
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SundIot Football

Organized sandlot football was
restricted to teams playing in the
Metropolitan Police Boys Club
League and the Boys Club of Wash
ington League, with other teams
operating independently and book
ing games on a week o-week basis.
In the Metropolitan Police Boys
Club League No. 5 won both 14O
and l25 pound CHAMPIONSHIPS, with
No. 4 taking the l05-pound title.
In Boys Club of Washington League
competition, Georgetown won both
los and l40 pound titles, with Gen.
trail Branch capturing the 9O-pound
crown
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ers not good enough to hold their
own in fast company, and found the
idea popular.
A diminishing supply of balls
slowed up play. but the players took
this handicap in stride, and with an
excellent spirit helped put over the
season.
National names helped usher in
the year at Edgemoor, where Mrs
Dorothy Round Little, Mary Ruth
Hardwick, Wayne Sabin and Bobby
Riggs played an exhibition match for
the benefit of the Red Cross.
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Nationals

For the sixth successive season,
the Nationals finished in the second
division in the American League
race, this time with the worst rec
ord of any Washington baseball
team since 1919.
Bucky Harris, for eight straight
years the Mats manager, and Prexy
Clark Grifiith agreed to part COM
pany after the disastrous season
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Title Winning Redskins Provide
Lone High Spot Here in 1912
World Conflict Eroses Several Postimes,
Brings Many Coaching Personnel Shifts

AS the Nation struggled through its first year war Wash
ngton looked back period that sackenng
Its sports pace under the conflicts heavy burden the only
casuals In 1912 midget racing
attempt to continue nearby Lanham hockey
which the Eagles fold their wings
League because of transportation difficulties