Sports News □ Features and Classifiedj C m| ~ WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1937. ■ PAGE C—1 U. S. Youth Fortunate in Sports : Perry Ranks World Tennis Stars ■I.ll.l — « f z -I Ace Trio of North Carolina’s Team Ring I -------—-»■------•------—---•------~---ji 'POPPING | ALL IN FACILITIES OPPWaaJ WIN AT HAND BALL Germany and Russia Making Fred Sees Title Struggle Be- It’s “Farmer” Yawkey Now. Schwartz and Cowley Move Great Strides—American tween Budge, Rated 2, VER since he bought his last big with the Bees, are all who remain in for shipment of gold bricks from from the apathetic club bequeathed Up Competition Attitude and German Ace. the Athletics a little over a to Yawkey in 1933. National Crown. Adopted. year ago, Tom Yawkey has A ranking of the leading ama- been Haste Made Waste. (This is one of a series dealing quoted at periodic intervals as Washingtonians still were teur tennis the is with sports interests throughout players of year saying that his days of laying heavy 'T'HAT original club, which lort 111 in the running for Sam Atche- given here by the British and the world.) sugar on the line for ball players are of 154 games in 1932, also em- son's national hand ball cham- American amateur champion who ended. Up till now nobody took him ployed such players as Dale Alexander, TWOpionship as quarter-final recently turned professional. The BY DILLON GRAHAM, very seriously but, without the fan- Marvin Olson. Urbane Pickering. Hal matches in the singles competition list carries added weight as the Associated Press Sports Writer. fare and trumpeting of other years, Rhyne, George Stumpf, Tom Oliver, were scheduled today at the Y. M. C. writer has played against all of the Smead The American youngster, from a Red Sox have been a busy base Jolley. Johnny Watwood, A. First round of doubles play also them in actual competition during ball Ed Gordon sports standpoint, Is the most fortu- firm during the last dozen months Benny Tate, Connolly, was on today’s program. the season. and, Rhodes, John Welch, Ed Durham. Bob nate in the world. presto. Yawkey is discovered to Jack Schwartz, local champion, and own the fastest Kline, Hod Lisenbee, John Michaels, No other nation furnishes its youth, BY FRED FERRY. probably growing Joe Cowley, another District star, de- “farm system” in the Pete Donohue and a few others of as well as adults, with such oppor- game. feated George Wendlandt of Duluth, or later, every writer It even less in and comes as no great surprise, of ability. of Brook- tunities for participation games decides that the time i3 ripe Minn., and E. W. Wilson athletics. course, because when Billy Evans ab- “Is it any wonder that a rabid N. in first-round matches for him to make a ranking of lyn. Y., yes- coaches and dicated at Cleveland he was hired by fan like me could not stand by The system of paid SOONERthe leading tennis players of terday as only one upset marked the for has Yawkey for the express purpose of without making efforts to im- A1 of supervisors sports developed the year. And each time such a opening day's play. Anfenson building a chain-store system. prove that misfit organization?” much farther here than abroad. ranking is’made, it is rally natural Minneapolis, seeded No. 2, was the less than Still, not until Yawkey held a asked the Red Sox owner. Sporting equipment costs that there should be many readers lone casualty, falling before Jack public reading of the books this “Perhaps we acted too hastily in In virtually any other country. Many who disagree entirely with his ideas. Emas of Germantown. Winter, has the expansion of some deals. That was because of ne- nations import sporting goods, and In of this I to make spite fact, plan At the time we had to act are so the wealthy Evans’ end of the Red Sox’s cessity. prices high only a list of those players whom I con- Semi-Finals Tomorrow. * business been known hastily. We could not stand with can afford to play. Land for athletic sider earned generally pat have the right to be In- V scarce outside of Boston. a team that lost 111 games. OFFICIALS announced today fields is plentiful in America, cluded In such a list, and, as I have A from the “We had no farms. No minor league that semi-finals in both singles and expensive in many other nations. played against them all In actual Headquartering away Hub, Evans has gone diligently about his clubs were affiliated with us. Conse- and doubles would be played tomorrow The United States Government, 175. competition during the season, I hope JULE MEDWIN, 155. LANNY ALDERMAN, heavy. MAX NOVICH, task and this the Red Sox, as a quently, we had to buy experienced night, starting at 7:30 o'clock. Title through the Works Progress Admin- to be able to submit a list which Will year Tarheel letter men who will appear against Maryland mittmen at College Park Saturday will have players and not quibble over the prices matches are scheduled for Saturday, istration and other agencies, has spent not cause too much dissension. result, working agreements in the final of a double .bill. Terp and Virginia basketers will open the program. Novich asked. Possibly we a few who with the final at millions of dollars in recent years pro- night with possibly 10 minor league clubs, bought singles being played the division last but moved a notch when were on toon the Southern Conference title in 165-pound year, up one of which will be owned outright. their way out of fast company, 2:15 o'clock and the doubles at 4:15. viding sports fields and playgrounds. in its Upsets Good For Game. Carolina beat Virginia Tech last Saturday opening match. Two others will be built entirely on but even they lasted a year or so, and Henry Strand, the Pacific North- 'T'HE season of 1936 showed us that and the after finishing in seventh in 1933 who came 3,000 miles Take to American Attitude. players supplied by Boston place west champion of the world's best we ran any ranking other seven, including Minneapolis of fourth the next two seasons.” from Seattle in quest of the national /"\THER countries are adopting the a players would be hazardous affair, the American Association, San Diego championship, loomed as more of a attitude toward Is little to choose between May Be Year to Watch. American sports, Sports Program for there of the Pacific Coast League, Little threat than ever as a result of his of those whose names In however. Some, including Germany. TERPS TO BATTLE SWAP HIIS any appear Rock of the Southern Association and YaWKEY, in some respects, has sweeping conquest of Eddie Sloan of have bureaus For Local Fans TRIBE, and Russia, the latter half of the list. de- Italy sport They Syracuse of the International League been the victim of rank ingrati- Charlotte. N. C„ by scores of 21-7, and are funds feat each other so often that spending government TODAY. any- will be marked in the base ball direc- tude. During his spending spree he 21-3. Those scores were the most and well- on athletic fields, equipment thing may happen, and many a heard critics, fans and even recorded Hand Ball. tory as “friends" of the Sox. people decisive of any yesterday. tutors. Long having frowned on sport known writer has been known to make closer to base ball than these belittle Atcheson of sur- Branded as “Soft Touch." Champion Memphis also now National Y. M. C. A. champion- that have the Chinese government predictions "gone wrong" his ability to run his own business. rendering three more games in elim- ships, Y. M. C. A. gym, 8. TT WAS a bitter and costly lesson wishes to make its youth sport-con- when least expected. Perhaps such Instead of his Tuschor of New York, TOMORROW. when he admiring willingness inating George acious. Five One a a situation is a good thing, because, that was given to Yawkey Seniors, Champ, to buy Cronin, Grove, the two Fer- 21-6, 21-7. Basket Ball. such of the broke into the American League as a In Germany and Russia, particu- Browns Get Better of without upheavals form, rels, Marcum, Walberg, Foxx, McNair, Shenandoah vs. Catholic Unlver- It, club owner in 1933. That, at are a of a vast phy- Will Be Tarheels game would lack much of Its present early larly, sports part Among Mellllo, Cramer, Manush and others Pairs in Action. sity, Brookland gym, 8:15. Interest far as the least, is the popular conception of the D. C. sical culture program. * Buc Contends, as general public for fabulous prices they scoffed and of George Washington High vs. Manager is concerned. picture, but Yawkey, branded as a /"'*OWL,EY and C. S. Walker form First Secretary Herbert Schols in Meet. “laid for” the Saturday Eastern 3:30. touch” because of his mentally Red Sox. '“4 Ger- Eastern, High gym, So then, here goes for my ranking: “soft willingness one. of Washington's doubles the German Embassy here, says Players. A year ago, in the wake of seniors, one of them a Western vs. Gonzaga, Gonzaga Checking 1. Gottfried von Cramm to dig deep into his pockets for players, Schwartz and Paul many has made greater strides in (Ger- Mar- teams today, while 3:30. see he had. Yawkey’s purchases of three than in Southern Conference champion gym, By the Associated Press.