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Local Telegraph Featarea LAYTON, FORMER p CUE CHAMPION f EXHIBITS HERE EUven Hoidtr World’a Title Playa In City Tomorrow r Johnny Layton, former 11 thaw -holder of the worlds three cushion Lbilliards championship and g®ner ' ally recognized as the greatest £ three-cushion expert of all time, will s appear at Sullivans Recreatioa pap. klor at 19 W. Congress street to ♦ morrow night at 8 o’clock under the J auspices of the National Billiard t Association of America in connec tion wit* their third annual Na . tifonal “Better Billiards” program- During Ms two hour appearance 1 Layton will demonstrate the dia. t mond system; play three-cushions ! against the best local stars; display his repertoire of fancy shots; and devote on full horr to instruction j on the fundamentals ot the ivory i eport to both women and men. The ' fair sex are especially invited to < take advantage of this opportunity I to learn how to play billiards cor -1 rectly. Layton, rugged-faced and red haired, looks anything but a bil liard player. He is known the county over as "the down of bil liards”; not only because he close ly resembles in appearance the late John Bunny of stage and early film i fame, but mainly because he acts 1 like the late comedian. Layton is ' always jovial; noted for his great ' eense of humor. f The red-haired angle expert has | held the three-cushion title more [ times than any other cue star. He ! also held the world’s pocket bil : Hards crown in 1916; turning his I attention to billiards the next see j son when he found it more attract • ive and lucrative held. ' Layton was apparently off form J during the 1935 world’s champion t ship tournament held on the new j streamlined tab!/ with its new twi- C light purple cloth and yellow ball ! instead of the traditional red ob i ject in the Hotel Sherman in Chi • cago last November. Defending bis crown agal st nine ot the greatest players in the world: Willie Hoppe, Welker Cochran, Augie Kieckhefer, Arthur Thurnblad, Otto Reiselt, Kinrey Matsuyama. Jay Boseman. ; Allen Hall and Tiff Denton; Lay ton finished seventh in the final i standings, after a four-handed tie 1 for fourth place between Matsuy ama. Hall Bozeman and himself had been completed. ARNOLD HIGH READY FOR SOFTBALL PLAY The Richard Arnold, Jr., High has its softball league under way, playing a series of six games with two games going on every Monday. So far the Green team is leading with two wins in as many starts while the Blacks and Red team are tied for second place with one win and one defeat. The Blue team with no wins in two starts are holding down last place. The schedule of play as follows: April 13—Blacks vs Green; Reds vs Blues. April 20—Blacks vs Reds; Blues VS GrFCODS. April 27 —Blacks vs Blues; Reds vs Greens. May 4—Blacks vs Greens; Reds vs Blues. (A A? 4»i 1 (Ti t&HvU 1 > X \ \ X I u ; i4o^TOr* A, /7'' r 1 AIM-a/ If J' J I*** "■•■iO. Number MS. ’ ALEX'MORRISON«Ty«V First you place your bands on * the dub, then place your feet and take your matter of taking aim bothers many a player. Seldom does he feel that he is in position to ball in the desired line.{ The best way to line .up for a shot is as.followed „, I—Stand behind the 1 ball and ! jook over it toward the hole.; . 2—Place Hie clubhead on the ground just behind the ball with. ; the * clubface? atlright angles to > the desired line.^.While the club head rests on the ground arrange » .your feet so that the left heel is 'about opposite the bail. _ 3—Waggle the club beck and 1 iorth slowly, feeling out your bal ance, and point your chin and fix 'your attention on a spot just back ~~ ’ ’ These items ssw the more ’important jfln, this routine because they enable you' to land on the ball at exactly the angle you plan when you first place the clubhead behind the ball./ Repeat I y ■NextiJ LIVE NEWS IN THE Will O F SPORTS Billy Evans Suspects “Old Fox” of April Fooling When He Picks First Division Snot for Senators By VOLT EVANS Copyright, W 4, by Central CLARK GRIfFIIH. owner of the Washington club, has teen called the “Old B»x” for more than 40 years as a result of his pitching trickery. It may surprise you to know that Clark Qrfifith was the first pitcher to “sail** a fast ball through the me dium of a roughtened spot. Thia was long before the emery tell and other similar deliveries. Griffith produced the rough spot by nonchalantly hitting toe ball against the sole of *is shoe. Presumably it was a mannerism but he made it a point to see that the ball came into contact with his sharo sotkee. pro ducing a rough spot that caused the ball to do acrobatics as it neared the tetaman Griffith richly deserves the title of •Old Ifox.” He has carried into the executive end of the game the tricks of the trade that made him famous ss a pitcher. He is the David Harum of tessball When he makes a trade, the rest of the league immediately offers sympathy to his victim. •waps Way to Flag About ftw years ago, Griffith de cided Washington should have an other pMKwri. Major league dubs to get anywhere financially must every so often aria a pennant <w boa clcee contender to the very test wook of play. Not haring a lot of money at his dtaposal, Griffith began the ex periment of tradinr himself into a pennate by taking veteran players of ability, who seemed to have passed their peak as well as usefulness else where. In two •ho* * ■’ears. through trades, he had obtained Crowder and Heine Manusk from Bt Louis for Outfielder Goose Goslin. Then a year later he got Goslin back, also Fred Schulte and Pitcher Walter Stewart from St. louis for Outfielders Weest and Reynolds and Pitcher Lloyd Brown. The veteran w, Earl Whitehill, came to him from Detroit in exchange for Pitchers Marberry and Fischer. From Cleveland came Catcher Luke Sewell and Pitcher Jrxk Russell for Catcher Spencer and First Baseman Boas Thus, to two years Griffith, ac cording to hie set pennant plans, had corralled sight veteran players, four pitchers in Crowder. Stewart. White hill and Russell; a brainy backstop in Luke Sewell* two great batsmen in Goslin and Manush, and a better than average bitter in Fred Schulte. This combination of veteran experi ence added to the more youthful Myer, Cronin. Kuhel, Weaver and a few others, did the very thing Grif fith hoped it would do, won a pen nant for Washington and thereby fat tened his exchequer. OM Club Fades However, it was an old team that lacked the resrve to repeat. It failed In 1934, largely due to injuries that visited practically every star on the ball dub. Last year it had nothing left of its 1933 championship form and sank deep into the second di vision. The only bright spot was tte hitting of Buddy Myer, which won for him the league batting crown. One year ago, seeing his veteran club fast fading, the “Old Fox’’ be- 8. H. 8. GOLFERS READY The Savannah High School golf team is now complete. Final play co determine the man for third place gave the position to Clarence Smith. He took John Jenkins by a 4-3 de cision. Members of the team are: Jack Budreau, Heyward Lynah, Clarence Smith and John Jenkins. Sally's Sallies' conscience trio to speak it gener ally finds the Kneengegel ftWISE 15 <SOOD I’U- Hrrx Tcmn QUO. VLL [ te£’V' i Z to W. ' ! < ■ —i 7 • - wMWMir" ’ ED LINKE 1 BUDDY LEWIS t, h Fat Boy J Tries for Third ; < :;hi— *2s* f ? '''' ''' ® ■, I $ t -• If- z (Jr i .Hr Iwk 20 ■ / uzr : L ■ £ 9 Wwj a ¥ f Ummw* ■ IJ S ' A wMf** ZOX_' . 'Vi* 11 I wMBHMSIPW / w I - , i ' W \ w % / / " \ WS - * IKk \ \ - / wf mN. X jr/ AL POWELL . -EE' ‘ v.-sp.-.z M gan a new line of resistance. If his veteran, high-sab ried club couldn’t win, why not eliminate the ancient stuff and go in for youth? With the exception of Whitehill, the eight vet eran stars who made a pennant pos sible in 1931 have passed out of the picture after three years or less of service. The Washington club of 1936, ac cording to the plans of the “Old Fox ” aided and abetted by Manager Bucky Harris, is going to be a young ball club. Griffith says his team Is going to finish fourth, which means te has dropped Cleveland to the sec ond division. He rates Detroit, first; Boston, second, and New York, third Reds To Make Foes See Red COLUMBIA. S. C., April 7 (TP) —Despite all reports to the con trary, the days of red flannels ap parently are not over. As a matter ot fact, they’re just what the well dressed young baseball player will wear in the evenings this summer. However, the flaming material won’t be used as “underbritches”. COCKY ALPERT, RECOVERED FROM FLU, ENTERS TRAINING PERIOD AND LOOMS AS THREAT TO ALLIANCE DOXERS . By “BEE” BERNSTEIN Blasting away, hammer and tongs, the pupils of Coach Leon ard’s Alliance boxing squad are rapidly ironing out the rough spots in their make-up as the date for their annual ear.scrambling jousts at the Auditorium draws near. Only eight days away from the eventful night that will see cham pions crowned in eight divisions, the Alliance pugsters are in the pink and anxiously await the bell that will send them into action. With a crop of newcomers showing last year’s title-holders are none too optimistic as to their laurels and improvement in their daily labors, the sceptre-bearers realize that it will take plenty to repulse the eag er and ambitious challengers to their positions. Showing the form that earned him title of Southeastern AAU fly weight champ, Cocky Alpert, one of the Alliance’s outstanding ring hopefuls, has recovered from a re cent attack of the flu sufficiently to make life miserable for any and all who donned the mittens with him. Several of 1935 squad have HAL MCCOY LEAVES ROSTER OF INDIANS La Motte Awaits New First Sacker Coming From Birmingham The Savannah Indians began their work-outs this morning minus Hal McCoy. The first base southpaw, who came down from St. Louis, was released yesterday by Bob La Motte, vice pres ident and general manager of the Savannah ball club. A successor is due Shortly from Birmingham. The Indians play two games this week. They are due to meet the Sa vannah Sugar Refinery nine tomor- I think the “Old Fox” is kidding t j himself when he states his club can j finish In the first division. The Wash- i ington club hasn’t first division pitch- i ing. One mi'-' rate Whitehill, Weav- i er, Russell, Newsom and De Shong as the veteran pitchers. Yet it would be hard to get four starting pitchers ; out of *hat gr , ''ip < | Os the newer pitchers, Peter Ap pleton was simply Pete Jablonowski i before he changed his name. Pete 1 is one of those pitchers who Is great 1 in the minors but has a big league complex. He lacks the competitive urge. He isn’t going to help Wash- • ington. j Dick Lanahan is a fine looking It will make It’s appearance In night uniforms for the Cincinnati Reds. Manager Charlie Dressen says his Athletes will cavort under the lights in their seven night games, attired in scarlet pants. He claims the bright color will make it easier for spectators to keep their eyes on the boys. been displaying their wares in the boxing room, among them Punch Aarons, Ray Schatz, Frankie Weil, Petey Grossman, Dave Rubnitz, Lou Cranman, Leo Center, and Nat Nathan. Henry Kaplan, Jay Shoob, Chubby Marcus. Dave Rosensweig, Butch Kanziper, Kehath Mopper. Al Hornstein, Walter Lowe, Babe Alpert, Sammy Schatz, Joe Diner man, Sam Dinerman, Jake Ginsberg, and one or two others have been going through their paces under the watchful eyes of Coach* Leonard to round the list of those who do their chores for the Barnard street in stitution. Indications that a large crowd will be on hand at the elimination bouts April 16 is reported by Dave Finn, of the boxing cominittee, who also reports a brisk sale of paste boards The event this year is placed in the Auditorium as last year’s crowd taxed the seating ac comodations of the Alliance arena. Prizes for the winners in each di vision have been ordered and will probably be in the city before the early part of next week. DETROIT TIGERS LAYING PLANS FOR 1937 BALL SEASON LAKELAND, Fla., April 7—(TP)— The Detroit Tigers are already lay ing their plans for the 1937 baseball season. The management has signed a contract with Lakeland’s chamber of commerce to train in the Florida city next spring. The Tigers have every reason to be sold on Lakeland as a condition ing site. They copped two pennants and one world series in the two years thev’ve trained at Lakeland. What’s more, betting odds rate them the favorites in the 1936 race. row at the Municipal Stadium and will go to Columbia, S. C. the follow ing day to play Columbia, S. C. southpaw prospect but not quite reaxly to help a big l*~~ue club with consistent pitching. Henry Coppola, a youngster with a great fast ball tai?,™ i rea J chance - suffered an arm injury last season that puts him In the doubtful cl?:s. Ed Linke, the fat boy of the squad, nrtsi keep in C °in l A^ n P is h ,? L to have a chance. In Al Powell, tjte American league sensation of last year, Griffith has tne start cm a great outfield. This fleefc youngsters in Wilson Miles, from Chattanooga, and Jesse Hih- secured from New York, will 2? ♦Fu'T? 11 ’ with stone a nd Rey holds lighting to keep in the picture Next: The Bees. JOHN TYRE CAPTURES SHS TENNIS CROWN FOUR YEARS IN ROW John Tyre has gone and done it again! For the fourth success ive year he has corralled the Sa vanah High School tennis cham pionship. John put away Leon Longwater in three straight sets yesterday de spite the heads-up net play of the latter. The final tally stcod at 6-3, 6-0, 8-6. Day after tomorrow the Savan nah High team goes to Brunswick to begin their out-of-town engage ments. Lanier High is the next squad the Northsiders will con front. BASE CLEANER ■ ■ ■ By Jack Sor ds I / ( M*® Voo WAIO A } •- /r 1 Td °K ooe / 1 ’' 3 JoMEHm ■ iiSEITW)' ' '.'■ «*> ■ *wt ■ ■ -‘ ■ ■■■ wsSSr IT i K~- .jHL «***Sl - amaV'k A6oa,r k6gPlA}(? '■ I s ' : ' ' '■• Z/^c:<3\nvi' x <c’»?s /" ?( , ’ '"" \ i L . /■ ': 1 r * i K - J i /- O/ 7 ■' 1 i‘&*al •" / ? / i j/uKy \ ; r; r .^'9 / VJUOULOM'T KEEP / ' jfi »ff ( me sfA.sjp>M&- j .'' ssl. /| ■IIbJIr Zv'iZZZ Ji mm/ or. •?.- vepr-MAMDeo, _ Wff > A\IP?A9EP.3%O w Ir’*' *TZ C>C-O'A-Zl|\J I VUiTMIXe BATMST <* X VEARAMOkEPMiS ’ ~~Wg?S T Y’ " "VBLAtfD OOTViBU? tl LEA&UE With 105 RUMS f»«cM <i «>'<«“* ”**» 1 > CITY GOLF TITLE . AT STAKE SUNDAY Summerlin And Robinson Meet For Crown Play On Local Course Herb Summerlin meets Abro Rob inson on Sunday to decide the championship of the Municipal Golf course. Summerlin won his right to face Robinson when he downed Henry Linder in the semi-finals match yesterday. They swung away for four extra holes before Summer, lin finally won on the twenty-sec ond green. C. H. Pittman. In the second flight, has advanced to the last round following his 2-1 victory over A. H. Beery. Pittman will duel eith er Fred Langford or Bob White. In the third flight the final rounds will see a meeting metween John Simpson and either Bill Cunning ham or J. T. Burkhalter. J. A. Dun can turned back Lester Schuman to reach the finals of the fourth flight, while H. C. McKee outbat. tled Frank Eady to reach the last round. In the fifth flight John S. Nixon defeated Dr. J. S. Bolton to become finalist and C. M. Hale took W. Zeigler, KOLLEGIAN FIGHTERS REFUSED ‘SWEET STUFFS’ BY TRAINER SABLE Boxers of the Kollegians Athletic Club who are working out in prepa ration for their entrance in the city wide amateur bouts to be held April 28-29 have had their training pro gram tightened up another notch. Meyer Sable, under whose leader ship the boys have been holding workouts, has decreed “no more sweet stuff” in the fighters daily diet. What’s more Sable has likewise put his foot down on the sluggers’ private recreational program. Sable has forbidden his charges any more “dates" until the championship events at the Municipal Auditorium are over. Carl Moss, one time local top notch fighter, is coaching the Kolle gians. Some old time reliables such as Tony Kent, Herndon Pittman and Tommy Keene were busy working out yesterday. Other boys making a bid for the team include: Morrisey, Pleasants, Counihan, Pittman, Ho e gan, Weil, Spillers, J. McKenna. I Tucker Carrick, old time trainer, is i, keeping the boys in good shape. II a high school mermen e i IN EXHIBIT TO RAISE FUND FOR TRAVELING ® The SHS tanksters will put on an exhibition of various methods of * swimming at 8 o’clock Thursday night r at the DeSoto pool. The purpose of this exhibition is to raise funds for the team so that they may attend __ the annual G. I. A. A. swimming meet. John McKenna G. I. A. A. . breast swimming champion, and Son ny Bragg G. I. a. A. diving cham pion, will perform along with Capt. IJ. Richards, C. Brushwood, E. Weeks B. Neuberger, F. Durkin, P. Barnes’, Bythewood. W. Ellis, T. Jesup, M. Dillard, Joe Meades, a. J. Cohn H °T W h? G^ lt . and James ' Whittington. The exhioition will consist of such as ’ , back and stroke, arm m Style < swimmin ß- medley races, s^ rimmln S. fancy diving and KJph P °£ Coach Williams has nego- Bov? Sh S^Atea^ ms 85 Tech Hi»h anri S Lanier, and Riverside, and is exnected tn compete with them later. t 0 CLEVFT , av™' A ( PA WO RKER fuSnfy ELAND ’ April 7 (TP)— Gas [«mes from an unlighted burer cost ent M a ° I 'J PA '™ rker X nital in C T panions t 0 a h°B - ' In critical condition The S D tht SeePed OUt of a stove burner In their room over a garage. AMATEUR? r t i 5 w w MM ■ I % '* TOMMY KBENE Keene’s standing as an amateur is being probed by the local boxing commission. PROBE CHARGES KEEME IS PRO City Tourney Commission Looks Into Battler’s Standing Shall Tommy Keene fight under the banner of th® Kollegiana* Athlet ic Club in the city wide amateur championship boxing tournament April 28-29? That is th® question now before I the city tournament Boxing Commto . sion which is to officiate. Rumors • that the slugger has fought as a pro- • fessional has reached the ears of s the commission. They are now busy sifting the reports to determin® if there is any basis for them. Tommy has been training haid in preparation of his intention to enter the bouts late this month. He has put on several creditable performances in the ring at Savannah and ha* al- I- so been seen in action in Charleston. Keene’s manager, Carl Moss, when asked about the charges that his man f had received money for fighting, said t they were groundless. Mobs declared . emphatically: “There’s nothing tc these accusations.” - Hmmm” says . the boxing commission. r Interest mounts daily in th® aim. ’ teur championship boubs. B®sida® the • Jewish Alliance and Kollegiana Club representatives, it is expeced Benedic tine and Savannah High School will send battlers to the foray. Then too 1 there will probably be a number of > boxers not connected with any school or athletic association. OMAHONEY-T0 MEET YVON ROBERT ON MAT 1 BOSTON, April 7 (TP)—Wrestler Danno O'Mahoney signed a contract today to grapple- with the powerful French-Canadian, Yvon Robert of Montreal. The match is scheduled for April 17. It will be a return bout. Robert lost a long, grueling bout to Danno about three weeks ago Promoters will bill the O’Mahon ey.Robert match as a world ebam pionship affair. O'Mahoney lost his title to Dick Shikat, but Danno says he’s still the world’s mat king. 4. a*** Telephone 7900 Early PMm* TENNISHOLDS J FULL SWAY FOR ’ LOCAL SPORTS Girl Champ Finals And Proa Perform Tomorrow On City Course Th* tennis ball holds absolute sw*y tomorrow to the world of Ssvamaah SP Anj*tch to determine the champion girl racqueteer of the Savannah High school wIU bring many out to Daffin Park tomorrow afternoon. In the final play of the anual elimination. ■ tournament Misses Margaret Dutton and Evelyn Nathan will clash for i the coveted honor. The stands of Daffin Park doubt- j Ism will he crammed tomorrow night J when four of the greatest tennis 1 pro* step out for action. This last! match is scheduled for 8 o’clock and mark night play at the Daffin Park ' courts for the firrt time in the ctty’a ( history. George M Lrtt, Jr. probably the top-notch stellar double* player of aH time; Lester Stoeffen. Pacific co*** i bright light; the noted Berkeley Beit and Ellsworth Vines, Jr., most fam on* of the quartet, compose the list of the celebrities coming. Evelyn Nathan is the winner of last year’s 8. X. 8. tournament and Is regard ed as a slight favorite. The serve is the top card of both players and Margaret possibly has the inside track in this section. Miss Lucy Loflin is coach and train er of the SHS girls* tennis team. The members are: Mary Ellen George, Catherine Woodruff. Edna Richard son. Margaret Dutton and Evelyn Nathan. The girl racqueteers are planning to make a jaunt to Bruns wick Thursday with the boys tennis , team to play Glynn Academy. KAGURSKI OF BBARS PLANS TO QUIT GRID MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. April 7 (TP) One of professional football’s most famous players says 1936 will be his last year on the gridiron. Bronko Naguraki of the Chicago Bears says the professional game is I too strenuous for a player who hay passed his peak. Said the former Minnesota fullback “Thia will! probably be the last year r I can play in top form. Pm going to 5 quit before I get too old for the game. 1 r - x*. MMUV . ” IUJJ j IPR-s. ** Go S 3 \ HOW TO 1 START U f BACK * SWING 1 rxxrtl i 7 ’. r fk'VQ I r I 6 / x aTl r'l I s f Ty I Jr A \ ?; L * LJ J zL>A I f i Z JLkjrX r » " I > A good start is more than half j the battle when it comes to mah*|| > ing a successful swing. Most play-* f ers have sensed this but few have?! « been able to do much about it. i The first important thing about starting theebackawing is co-ordi«‘ * nation between body and hands.! The dub, hands, arm* and th* . * body should be started together as . j t though all of one piece. When I they are not started away from’ j 1 the ball in this fashion, anything l I and everything about th* whole ! • swing can and generally doos go 1 wrong. The speed of th*' backswing is' I likewise determined by th* pre*J 1 ’ ence or absence ot this 1 tion. Th* best way to bring itfi i about is to stand up straight I enough to enable your arm* to| rest snug against your body,* and J start your arms, hands and the ] club moving away from the baUL j by the motion of your Reoxifk ,S ■(['- *- JI ' Anty Mollison. famous British avia- j sent, who once made a non-stop { hght to America and cracked up,Ji a W l th* air in an effort to break jhe London-Capetown record of 3 ! lays, IT hour*, 38 minute* held hyl Flight Lieutenant Rose of the Royall y.Air Ftgo* Bngte^tuaw.. 3