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PAGE SIX iCANVAS— Boats in tha Hears! regatta on San Francisco bay spread canvas as they start race for trophies. JES’ ROLLIN’ ALONG! (WWH SPORTS OBSERVERS) LRtte Bibay Gram was handled the ran test, rawest deal that ever befell the lot of the hapless victim of the drawings for the United States Davis Cup team. Utterly ignored in the se lections in the past three years, Bltsy finally through public pressure brought to bear upon the drawing com mi tee by his blasting m e thods used so effectively on the highly touted darhngs of the courts, Allison and Budge, got ian invitation to come up to the Germantown Crickrt club there to workout for tba benefit of the powers that be. Well, he did, and in the short time tha. ''e was there he played Allison off the court and ehowed up well enough t obe named on anybody’s team, but those flannel-clad, blue-striped coat figure heads who go to make up the Davis Oup committee, had to have someone whose clothes fit them nicely and who had the necessary temp?rment for “crowd-play.’’ They decided that Bitay wore pants which were dirty after the first two days' play, and his slapping the bail back and back and back from baseline to baseline •oon got on the payin nerves and after all, they were the ones to favor. I’ve seen the “mighty atom” play and I'm here to tell you that he can lick anyone on the present Davis olub team every day in the week and twice on Sunday. Although his meth ods are such as are not employed in the flashy style of tennis wars, still, he has had Bulge, Allison, Mako and Shields, and anyother topnotcher for that matter hanging on the ropes wondering what they could do to stop the unmerciful trouncing that he was dishing out. And this has not happened once but all through the winter circuit! Tough luck Bitsy! * * * Sally League “Umping”—Not So Good Your wribar deplores the actual umpiring apparent in the Sally STUBBS OUTFIT PRESSING ICEMEN FOR LEAGUE LEAD The leaders in the various loops in the city's softall leagues are be ginning to become Seriously threat ened with the tailenders putting on “steam” in a belated effort .to regain some of the lost ground suffered by prior defeats. The Georgia Ice has the Stubbs outfit hard on them with three games separating the aggregations. Meanwhile in the Commercial league the high and mighty American Can Co., was nailed in the last week to slip a little. Stil with a comfortable lead, they are watching the Savan nah Gas Co., out of the corner of their eyes. Nothing has happened in the Railroad league, with the ex ception of the Central Express team still “pushing the middle valve down" with their perfect average. The law yers still are the class of the Civic league with their entrenchment on the mighty seat of banner position. The court practitioners are using every means for injunctions to hard fought games to put their efforts in the winning column. PLAYGROUND LEAGUE STANDINGS City League Georgia Ice Co 9 2 .819 Stubbs Hdw. Co 7 3 .700 The Jones Co 5 8 .500 WPA 6 5 500 So. States Iron Ruf .. 5 6 .455 Sables JColleglans ... 0 10 .000 C oanmerctol League American Can Co ... 9 1 .900 Savannah Oas Co. ... 8 3 .728 So Bell Tel Co 6 5 M 6 Sav. Electric 4 8 .400 Certain teed Prod ... 4 . 8 .333 Colonial Oil Co 2 10 .187 Railroad League Cent. Dixie Exp 13 0 1.000 Central Shops 9 4 593 Sav A Atlanta 7 5 ’5Bl Central Flamingos ... 5 7 .415 Seavoard Air Line ... 4 9 [3OB Atlantic oCast Line .0 13 .000 Civic CUb League Lawyers 5 a 715 Ga. State Savings ... 3 3 500 Broadcasters 3 4 428 Exchange Club 2 3 400 Klwanls Club 2 3 .400 Municipal League East Coast Paint Co .11 3 782 Bicker.. 9 5 639 Lindaner Jewelers ... 9 5 639 John O. Butler 8 5 'gig Fulenwider Box Co .. 8 7 462 Solomons Drug Co ... 77 500 Bethusda Alumni ... 5 9 355 Bourne Lumber Co .. 0 14 000 Boys’ Baseball Live Oak 5 j Sav, Bulldogs 5 1 Troupe Square 3 1 32nd St. Tigers 1 3 Yatyiigans j 4 Warsaw Park 0 5 Mens* League Rinky Dinks 2 1 667 Live Oak 2 2 isoo Bolton St. Sluggers ..1 1 .500 Crawford Square ~, 0 l .000 league at the present time. Have covered every game played by the Indians in their home games. H has bene my unhappy observation that the "umping” is decidedly below aver age. Maybe It is because of the fact that the wage scale adopted by the league is below standard or maybe it is because of the fact that Presi dent Wilder, headman for the circuit has been a little too lax in his selec tion, but whatever it is, things should be remedied with either better umps or better dec iso ns. Noticed that there were two battles in one week, and this is a condition that should not be prevalent upon a ball field. Os course, it is o.k- in a game to have the usual arguments, but when it comes down to talcing time out for happenings which are even apparent to the “boys" in the bleachers, why, that is the time to take a tip, Mr. Wilder! * * * Boost for Bounds Been waiting a long time to write something about th? efficiency of H. S. Bounds, the genial superintendent of the playground epartment of the city, and now that I have a little time to play with the keys of the trusty “machine,” I’m gonna put a few things to the credit of the city’s head of the sports programs. Now, little as you know, H. S. is the cause for Savannah having the advanced type of softball leagues that we have. Everything in the present set-up, and every other set-up, for that matter, was put across by the artful directing of Bounds. Having what it takes to whip a league in shape, the quiet spoken director has inaugurated a system of playgrounds in Savannah that are second to none for actual efficiency. Hampered by the absence of sufficient funds to really do a playground Justice with his talent. H. S. has gone ahead and worked away with what little he has had and “has pushed the little valve down.” Our thanks to you, H. S., we’re for every thing that you sanction. SPORT EVENTS IN SAVANNAH TODAY Golf Weekly best ball foursome at Hotel General Oglethorpe Course. * Swimming Exhibition of the Savannah swimming tern at the Hotel DeSoto Pool, 3:00. Baseball Sugar Refinery vs. Beaufort at the Sugar Refinery Diamond, 3:30. WITH WAR YELLS INDIANS RETURN FROM ROAD TRIP NIGHT BASEBALL TO MAKE INAUGURAL BOW TOMORROW Breaking about even on their road trip, the Savannah Indians will be hosts again at the Municipal Stadium tomorrow when they take on the Augusta Tigers. Tentatively scheduled as a night game, all that Is lacking in the equipment needed is the re flectors which, according to latest re ports have been installed. Coming here with the added zest of winning their last three games, the Tigers will be in foroe with the hopes of increasing their win column at the expense of the slow marching Indians. It appears that the change of man agement for the Tigers has done much to add to the blank ink lead of the boys from North Georgia. Trouncing some of the leaders in the league race is showing the cities and on-lookers of the Sally League that the Augusta boys are to be rec koned With at the end of the season. Bobby LaMotte, whose first trip of the season had done wonders for the Tribe Is optimistic that the change of scenery for the Indians has done them good. Showing up Well in Mac on yesterday the Indians are holding on to fourth place, recruiting their strength for the final homestretch dash. SCOTSMAN TAKES BRITISH AMATEUR ST. ANDREWS. Scotland, May 30 (TP). —Hector Thomson of Scotland defeated Jim Ferrier of Australia to day for the British amateur golf championship. The smooth-stroking cotsman beat the young Australian giant, two up, in a 36-hole match. The play ers were al square at the end of the morning round. In the afternoon. Thomson kept on playing steady golf —despite a driving rain which swirl ed over the course. Thomson suc ceeds Lawson Little of California as the British amateur titleholder. Lit . tie, who recently turned professional. | was ineligible to defend the title he won in 1934 and 1935. SETS RECORD MANHATTAN BEACH, N. Y.. May 30 (TP) —The world’s premier back stroke swimmer. Mrs. Ehunor Holm Jarrett, s:t a new American record today in the first major A. A. U. nvimming meet at Manhattan Beach. Mrs. Jamifct set a new mark of two minutes 35.85 seconds for ths 200- • ard backstroke. Elizrbrth Kompa va * third ip the backstroke ev;nt, SPORTS TO ™ * ESCUI '■ ., IMI 1 , _ RJIMFAfLEP tbMAKS* * Copyright, 19*», by Central Press, ,AAJ 1/UPfiesSlCVO v ,, SjP) 1 ■ ' ~ I BASEBALL RESULTS NEW YORK, May 30 (TP)— Bril liant pitching gave the league-leading New York Yanks a double-victory to day over the Washington Senators. Monte Pearson held the Senators to six hits In beating them, 7 to 1, in the first game. In the nightcap, Red Ruffing allowed only two hits as New York downed the Washingtons, 6 to 1. The seoond-place Boston Red Sox split a twin-bill with the Philadelphia Athletics. Boston lost the first game, 6 to 4, but won the afterpleoe, 6 to 2. St. Louis beat Detroit, 5 to 3. The Brown* led, 4 to 0. at the end of the sixth in the second game. Cleveland took the first game from Chioago, 4 to 3. The Indians led, 7 to 1, at the end of the fifth. In the National leagu.e the Brook lyn Dodgers beat the New York Giants, 9 to 6 and 3 to 0. The Phillies took two from the Boston Bees, 5 to 4 and 9 to 8. Pittsburgh beat the Chicago Cubs, 7 to 5, in the first game of a twin bill but trailed in the second, 4 to 7, at the end of thestxth. Cincinnati took the opener from the St. Louis Cards, 10 to 1- The Cards led, 3 to 1, at the end of the second inning in the nightcap. Sally League The Savannah Indians came into their own yesterday when they hung a win on the Macon Peaches, 6-3. Three Savannah pitchers awe used to stop a last minute rally by the Peaches, but the situation wound up with Savannah in a commanding lewd for the game. Harris, Gould and Roy shared the spotlight for the Tribe in coming through with a win for the Savannahians. Augusta struck a tar ter yesterday when the Columbia Senators “resoluted” against them by the score of 4-2. Starting late the Sematons were luoky to win this game from the second division Tiger*. In the last game of the circuit, Jackson ville, continued their winning streak when they plastered the Red Birds with a load of buckshot 5-4. Featured by the pitching prowess of Braun, the Tans more than took the number of the (Hinds, in a game featured by tight hurling on both sides. Yesterday’s scores: NATIONAL LEAGUE R H E New York $ 8 3 Brooklyn 9 13 { New York 0 3 2 Brooklyn 3 9 0 Philadelphia 5 10 2 Boston 4 10 o Philadelphia 9 14 3 Boston « 9 ! Cincinnati ig 2 St. Louis 1 6 2 Cincinnati 4 0 St. Louis 7 2 2 Pittsburg 7 10 j Chicago ... 5 10 1 Chicago 10 ! AMERICAN LEAGUE ft H E Washington 1 6 1 New York 7 14 1 Washington 11 New York 8 -2 o' Boston 4 8 0 Philadelphia 6 8 0 | SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, SUNDAY, MAY 31, 1936 INDIANS VS. PEACHES AT MACON TODAY BOWYER TO TRY FOR RIVER RECORD IN TYBEE SWIM LOCAL SWIMMER TRAINS ARDOUSLY FOR GRUEL LING EVENT Luke Bowyer whose feats in the water circles of the city in the past few years has placed him the niche of the young swimmers who have made the grade in "big-time” swim ming, last night announced definitely that he would make the Savannah- Tybee swim in the latter part of July. Coached by Samuel Rhode, Jr., whose attempt in 1930 was balked at Fort Screven by adverse tides, Rhode is extremely confident that Bowyer will make the grade. Slim built, but with worlds of en durance, Bowyer, if successful, will enter the Biloxi marathon In the lat ter part of September in an attempt to wrest Southern swimming honors from mid-west swimmers who have captured the event for the last three years. A practice swim from the bridge at Port Wentworth to the Municipal Dock on June 7th is the next event in the swimmer’s catagory of training, and the ten mile jaunt is not expect ed to give him any trouble. To be paced by a number of local aquatic stars in alternation, Bowyer hopes to make this stretch of the river in record time. * The Savannah River from Savan nah to Tybee has always been a source of worry to renowned swim mers. Always appearing to make the strip of water between Fort Screven - and the city with little or no trouble, the best efforts are balked by the four mile run between Lovell’s Sta tion and Tybrisa. Sills in 1928 is the only swimmer who is known to have made the swim. Taking a little more than eleven hours for the grind. Sills’ record will be the boject of Bowyer’s race. Boston ..... 6 9 o Philadelphia 2 5 1 St. Louis 5 10 0 Detroit 3 g 7 St. Louis 5 11 0 Detroit 0 4 1 Chicago 3 9 j Cleveland 4 i 0 1 Chicago 3 6 0 Cleveland n 14 3 SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION R H E Knoxville 6 8 1 Nashville 1 g 2 New Orleans 4 g 2 Memphis 6 8 1 Atlanta 0 6 1 Chattanooga 5 g 0 SALLY LEAGUE * ft ft Jg Savannah 6 12 2 Macon 3 4 2 Jacksonville 5 10 0 Columbus 4 6 3 Jacksonville 3 9 0 1 Columbus 4 8 0 1— Columbia 4 6 1 1 Augusta 2 9 0 DIXIE CRYSTALS PLAY BEAUFORT AT SUGAR HILL LOCALS TO PITCH GREVEM BERG IN TODAY'S GAME The Dixie Crystals swing back into action today with the arrival of the Beaufort aggregation who will go to the diamond wars with the oddts-on favorite Savannahians. To display their wares at the Sugar Refinery dia mond, the two teams will vie for su premacy in their sreond battle of the season. Donnie Grevemberg will take care of ths mound duties today. Duggar and McGaugbey in the roles of re lief pitchers is the elongated first stringer gets into serious difficulties. Fuller, the right-header who lost the game for the Beaufort club last week in the gam? played on the South Carolina field, will again assume the roleof headman for the Carolinians in an effort to recapture seme of the lost prestige suffered when the Sa vannahians hammered the Beaufort club over the lost. The “coming back to the fold” re turn of Chuck Loncon, whose play ing with the Crystals in their taking on of the Savannah Indians et the beginning of the season was the talk of local baseball circles, has added new zest to the hitting prowess of the Sugar Hill team and Chuck is expeobed to carry oh wh:re he left off when resigning the team. The probable line-ups: Refinery Jackson, 3b; Loncon, rs. M. Grevem berg, cf.; Berotgcay, If.; Morgan, 2b; C. Grevemberg, s-.; Linderman, c.; Grevemberg, lb-ss.; Dugger, p.; D. Grevemberg, p.; Mobley, lb. Beaufort Bringle, ss.; Ford ham, c.; Smith, rs.; Fuller, p.; Morris, lb; Stewart, 3b; Caviler, cf.; Whisnant, If.; Bates, 2b; Miller, 2b. CORNELL’S TEAM TAKES HONORS TRACK SQUAD WINS FIRST NATIONAL EVENT IN DECADE FRANKLIN FIELD, Philadelphia, May 30 (TP) —Cornell’s big red track team won the National Intercollegiate 4-A track and field championships tocay for the first time since 1919. Harvard was second, and Dart mouth third. Cornell chalked up a total of 29 1-2 points. Harvard had 19 and 10-21sts. Dartmouth scored 19 and 9-21sts. Cornell got off to a good start when Walter Wood won the discus throw with a toss cf 158 feet 1 1-2 inches. Cornell of Cornell took the 3,000 meter run in a stirring finish with Rafferty of Fordham. Tony Geniawicz of Dartmouth cap tured first place in the shotput. Bon net of Pittsburgh took the high jump with a leap of six feet, three inches. Other winners today were' Gene Venzke of Pennsylvania in the 1500- meters. Eddie O’Brien cf Syracuse in the 400-meters and Edgar Mason of Pitts burgh. Mason flashed to victory in both the 100 and 200-meter dashes. Harvard’s Milt Green won the run ning broad jump and finished second in the 110-meter hurdles. I don’t like hot weather. I ran stand the cold better. I don’t iik? bullies. But I like a f'llow who won’t stand for any nonsense. SPEED DAREDEVIL GIVES INTERVIEW ON AUTO RACING 808 JENKINS. SOUTHERN DIRT TRACK STAR REMINISCENT Bob Jenkins, the quiet-spoken dirt track daredevil whose feats on the Eastern speed mills have won him the recognition of a membership in the AAA driving annuals, yesterday in an interview to a corespondent of The DMly Times, gave his interpreta tion of the grind which takes place at Indianapolis ev;ry year. Queried at length as to his nearest impression of the track with its whirling devrishes of mechanical death, Bob stated: “Those boys have but one rule that they follow religiously, and that is to put your foot in the gas ' tank, and don’t rest it at the ankles!” Recalls Memoirs Dropping back Into some of the memoirs which have foljpwed, him down in the last few years, Jenkins naturally was questioned as to his closest call from a serious accident, and with much prompting tha black wavy haired speed artist lit one of his brown stogies and prooeeded: “It was on the Tampa track in February, 1935. This track has the formal name of the Plant one-half mile dirt track, but we drivers call It Tampa’ and let »t go at that. I brought a driver named Johnny Stew art, who originally hailed from At lanta, but who was making his home in Savannah, with me to drive one of my cars. Johnny was wheeling a fast Miller-Schofield Sp cial which had thi enviable reputetion of the fastest car in the South on a half mile oval. Driving a Frontenac Spe cial myself, I figured that Johnny and myself would certainly break into one of the largest purses if we were lucky to survive the eliminating heats and get into the final feature which was a 10-mile race, or 20 laps. Well, we made the grace, with both cars qualifying and Johnny bring in the pole position. We started out and I Jumped into the lead on the open ing lap, but with Shorty Drexel, of Altoona fame, Stewart and a noted Mid-West driver, Crash Waller, hard cn the tail of my car. Johnny grabbed the lead at the five-mile marker and it was while he was going into the south turn com ing out of the back straightaway that it happened. Tells of Crash He must have dumped his car in the curve with a little too much Juice and the tall came around and hit a soft spot, causing him to spin out of control. I was on him before I knew what it was all about and hit his car as it was spinning in the center of the track. The force threw him out onto the track with my machine pass ing over his body, with Shorty Drexal and Waller running over him in turn. Needless to say, Stewart was killed instantly, which I found out after they had lifted the wreckage of my job off me. I wasn’t hurt, but the race was stopped at this point due to the condition of the track at the scene of the accident. Everything happened so quickly that I didn’t even have time to think, it w»3 there and A hen it was gone and that is all that I could se, or for that matter think of.” At this Juncture. Jenkins wiped the perspiration of his brow as the thoughts of the fatality came back to him in stronger force, and as if hi silent tribute to the mqn who died in the art of thrill-making for the customers, he said, “When your time comes, whether you are knocking them off at 125, or whether you are walking, your somber is up.” WEEKLY MATCHES TO BE RESUMED LEADING LOCAL GOLFERS TO VIE TODAY FOR PRIZES Tomorrow’s golf battles will be con fined strictly to the best-ball four some matches whic hhave turned out to be a weekly event at the General Oglethorpe hotel. Boasting some of the leading fairway talent in these matches as entrants. Savannah’s golfing addicts wil lbe treated to a dose of double-barrelled driving thrills, when the long hitters line up for their shot t Savannah’s honors. It appears that pros and amateurs alike have their fling at the weekly title, because a resume of the last Sunday’s match sohwed that Steven son, the genial professional and czar of the golf courses here in the city, was lined up on the winning quartet. Knocking the ball around the course in under 75, The Muny pro, had such elp as Lane Fluenwider and Billy McWilliams to help shoulder the day’s burdens. Little being known of the entrants in tomorrow’s games, local specta tors can more than expect their share of the thrills folowing a golf match. ' MILES OF SMILES IN GOOD USED TIRES COATS TIRE COMPANY Henry and West Broad St. JOE COOLS OFF—After slamming a few sparring partners, Joe Louis enjoys a cool drink at his Lakewood, N. J., training camp. MEYER TAKES CLASSIC I FROM SPEED ARTISTS TO WIN COVETED CROWN VETERAN, THREE TIMES RACE WINNER, HANGS UP TRACK RECORD AS CLIMAX TO THRILLING RACE WITH COUNTRY’S FOREMOST DRIVERS. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 30 (TP).—The California driver, Louis Meyer, won the 500-mile' Memorial Day auto race today with an aver age speed of a fraction over 109- miles-an-hour. Meyer slounched down into the driving seat at noon, Eastern Daylight time, and drove his Gilmore special like a bullet for four and a half hours. '' ''' \ *-■> - •. ' v " V t ' - 4b Louis Meyer ‘FIRETHORN' WINS SUBURRBAN RACE IN HARD FINISH BELMONT PARK, N. Y„ May 30 (TP). —Firethorn made up seven j lengths in the home stretch today to win the famous Suburban Handicap at Belmont Park. Granville was sec ond in the mile and a quarter test for three-year-olds, First prize was worth about $16,000. Granville led from the half mile but the long-shot Firethorn came from far back to nip him just at the finish. Whopper was third. Time for the race was 2:04 3-5. WHITEHEAD COPS MADISON, N. J., May 30 (TP) — Charles Whitehead of Forsgate won the New Jersey Amateur Golf Champ ionship today. Whitehead defeated J. Wolcott Brown, 5 and 3, In their 36- hole final match. . ' t”, compare the tastes! We could tell you a lot of technical tests |Hj| lip to make, but it won’t be neces- fljj « «ry. lust taste the difference! WSk IKP %|P IF YOUR DEALER CAN’T SUPPLY YOU, PHONE J. S. Pinkussohn Cigar Co. 325 EAST RAY ST, PHONE 2-113| His speed set a new record for the brick track. <Ten Horn of Glendale, Cal., brought his Hart# Special across the line in second place and Maurice Rcx-e came in third. Kelly Petillo and Chet Miller were fourth and fifth. Petillo set the previous record for the Indianapolis race at a little bet ter than 106-miles-an-hour, last year. Meyer is the first man to chalk up three wins in the annual classic. Only one major accident marred the race which was run off before 150,000 fans. The car driven by Al Miller plunged through a fence when a steering knuckle broker. Miller and his mechanic were thrown clear. The driver was taken to a hospital for an X-ray. The mechanic was not seriously hurt. Shorty Cantlon held onto third place until he reached the last few laps of the race. He was forced to roll his car to the pits when his al lotted gasoline supply gave out. Thirty-three low-slung cars roared away from the starting line, with Rex Mays of California in the lead. The oval track is two and a half miles long and the drivers who fin ished made 200 circuits of the bowl. Meyer’s face was a grinning smear of grease as he climbed from the cockpit of his car., He had reason to smile for he had won the $30,000 first prize. Second place was worth $15,000 and SIO,OOO was paid to the third*car. Mays held onto the first position for about 10 laps. Babe Stapp was leading at 50 miles, and Mays dropped steadily behind. Wilbur Shaw, Stap and Billy Winn were fighting for the lead as the cars roared past the 200-mile mark, then Ted Horn came up to challenge for the lead. Shorty Cantlon was among the challengers by the time the cars had reached half-way. Meyer forced himself in front at 250 miles and withstood all challeng ers from then on out. -SPECIAL TODAY \ Giant Ice Cream Sodas ALL FLAVUKS Sc VARSITY SODA SHOP BULL AT 338 D STS.