Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1922, Page 23

»'r} sI Sy G v an —_—— GOBERT LEADS WILLIAMS “ IN FIRST SET DUEL, 14-13 . J.. August 2—An international flavor was again im- EABRIGHT parted to Seabright's greatest 5 sen's singles, three matches were ¢ others were brought to a sudden stop by rain. Gobert of the French Pavis cup team figured in the out- standing contest. His opponent was Richara Norris Williams, 2d, a prob- able member of America’s Davis cup team. These two battied for more fhan an hour in the rain in one of the greatest court duels of the year, and. when what clogely resembled a oudburst madef urther play impos- sible, the Frenchman was leading by a score of 14-13. Willlams was serving the twenty-eighth game, and Andre H. The points were 15-30 when they | Hunter's swift stopped | sively over the wet turf and Wash- R. Kinsey Leads Shimizu. | burn made error after error off them., It was America against Japan in| Summary: Women's Singles—Second Round—Mrs. Mol another unfinished match. Robert | Biurstedt ~Mallory defested Miss Margarst Thuisey was leadirg Zenzo Shimizu, . in the third set of their encoun- when the downpour came. vimizu won the first set, 6—2, and nsey the second, 6—4. Still another national match was captured by | ner, 6—3, Miss Leslis Bancroft defeat ld L. Patterson, Australian Davis | ed Mrs. Willlam Henry, 60, 6—1: M i piaver, who defeated Philip Neer | Kelon Hooker defoated Misa Cores Baker, 3—, | of Leland Stanforq University in two | S5 o= ) > © | " Women's Doubles—First Round—Miss Lesli Betiliant sets, 6. 6—0. Pattersows | gNomen | ROuer FInt Tonnd i, Tt | work was magnificently impressive, George M. Bodman snd Mrs. H. 8. Davis wspecially in the second set, and Neer +6—0; Miss Marguerite Davis and Miss played so strongly, even in the love | Labaume defeated Mrs. E. Crane and Miss s to i Sara Aths, &0, 6—3; Mrs, May Sutton Bundy | S o Eive the Australian the | 8 i Wilidm Honry defeated Mrs. 8. A. | 1 i Young and Mrs. 8. P. Townsend, 6—1. 6—0; M. Johnston. King pin of the | sys % B. Huff and Mrs. John 8. Teylor d Californians, took things in his | feared Mrv. H. F. Hanseil aud Mrs. H. Van mateh with Hugh (. M. Kelleher of [ Tie, 8. 6-2. the West Side Tennis Club. John Men's Singles—Third Round—William M. drmpped the second set, 6—4, 1 the first and third handil fin with a love set. Kelleher play tennis at the net in the s sion, while nston staved in back court all the way. The Californian did not care to take! chances of a twisted ankle on the wet and slippery . and did as little running conveniently could. His foreh aliop was his main reliance in piling up the points in the first and third sets. Johnston is working up his game gradually and ought to be at his t when he meets James O. Ande noon, and later in th son this after- when he will probably oppose Patterson in the final. Washburn's Defeat an Upset. The day furnished one upset. Wat- KNICK jUNIORS GO AHEAD IN SANDLOT SERIES PLAY/ NE club was knock tage for that position O nters . respective 17 to-7 and 2 PROTEST OF YANK GAME IS FILED BY WHITE SOX CHICAGO, August Z.—The Chi- engo White Sox today filed a pro- president B-n Johnson n League over yes- e with the New York h was cAlled on ac- count of rain after four nnd one- third inuings, with the Sox lead- The protest of the % to the & terms the conduct kee players a disgrace e, pointing out that they evide were stalling when rain appeared likely.. Scott re- fused to fleld a b1l hit by Faber, and the White Sox pitcher resched third haxe at a dog trot before any cffort wos made to put him out on a weakly hit ball. Out- fielders threw the ball around to each other on other hitx instead of returning it to the infield, and the Yankces each change uxcd three pitchers, causing a delay. LOUIS CLUBS BOTH ST. GAIN IN FLAG RACES Behind Ray Kolp's steady hurling the St. Louis Browns won their fourth straight game from the Red | Sox and increased .their lead over the Yankees, whose game with Chi- cago was halted in the fourth frame by rain. to two full games. The St. Louis Nationals, idle be- cause of the rain. profited by the Pirates' fourth consecutive victory , over the Giants and are within a few percentage points of first place. Cobb’s men. with Cobb himself leading in the batting attack, made e O e urgame [serfes with the Athletics and went {into a tie with the White Sox for }third place in the league race. Cobb's , two hits increased his record of hit- 4 ¢ing in consecutive games to sixteen. ~ The Browns' victory was marked [by Ken Williams' twenty-seventh home run, placing him in a tie with® Hornsby of the Cardinals for major league circuit blows. The Braves came out of their slump 1o defeat the Reds, 3 to 2. THE HOME-RUN RACE American. ‘Williams, St. Louls, C.' Walker, Philadel Ruth, New York, 18 Hellman, Detroit, 16. Miller, Philadelphin, 14. Fulk, Chicago. 9. . Meusel, New York, 9. National. Hornsby, St. Louls, 27. Williams, Philadelphia, 17. Lee, Philadelphia, 13. Wheat, Brookiyn, 11. .\ Meusel, New York, 11. ! insmith, St. Louls, 10. —_— Peerless A. C. in scheduled to play ount Ranier Sunday at Mount Ra- nier. Those desiring games with the Peerless club may obtain them by =etting in touch with Manager Simp- & son, 21 K street. Peerless would like especially to have games with Capital Traction or Wreco nines. ‘The National Capital Post, Veter- ans of Forelgn Wars, is listed for a contest with the Naval Hospital nine Saturday at 3 o'clock on the latter’ competition abounded in thrills. There was an out-of-the-ordinary element in nearly every match contested. In the second day's play in the 1 out of fi tennis tourmament yesterday, and the ompleted in the third round and two son M. Washburn of last year's Davis cup team sustained a blow to his hopes of becoming a member of this season’s “big four” when he was elim- inated by Francis T. Hunter, national indoor champion. Hunter won by scores of 6—2, 6—4. The conditions were unfavorable to Washburn. The rain blurred his glasses, and he found it harder to handle Hunter's fast service and tre- mendously paced fore-hand drive than he would have on a dry court. shots skidded elu- Grove, 6—1, : Miss Edith Sigourney de- ! fated Miss Margurits Davis. 6—3. €—1; Mrs. May Sutton Bu ted Miss Edith Handy. €-5.761; Miss Martha Bagard dofoated Mrr. | M. B. Huff, 6—8, 6—1: Mri. Marion Zinder- stein J'uux dofeated Miss Katherina Gard- | Johrston defeated Huzh G. M. Kelchcr, 86— 1—6, €—9: Frangis T. Hunter di tod Wa son M. Washburn, 6—2. 6—4; ndre H. | Gobart vs. R. Norris Williams, 84, 14—13, | 1550 (unfinithed): Gerald L. Patterson de: feetod Philip Neer. 6—4. 6—0; Robert Kinsey vs. Zero Shimizu, 2—8, €—4, 3—2 (unfinished). | Men's Donbles—First Round—Arthur Yenc- | ken and Cedric Major defeated T. R. Pell | and Bernon 8. Prentice, 8—8. 6—A. i Big Matches On Today. Many big matches were listed toda: as follows: | Men's Singles—An’re Gobert vs. R. Nor- ris Williams, 2d (continued), Robert M. Kensey | | ve. Zenro Shimiza (continued), W. M. Johnston | vs. J. O. Andorson, L. B. Rice vs. winner) of, Kinsoy.Shimizy match, Howard Kinsey vs. | winner Gobert-Williams = match, Gerald L. | Pattcrson vs, F. T. Hunter. | Women's _Singles—Mrs. M vs. Miss | Sizourney, Mrs. Bundy vs. Miss Bayard, Mry. | Jeisup vs. Miss Helen Wills, Miss Leslis Ban- oroft ve. Miss Hooker | | st place and another lost its perfect | and was forced to accept a tie, as a | y in the independent base ball | ms, heretofore leading section B ted divisions with clean slates, erbocker Juniors and the Union The Knickerbocker Juniors knock- ed the Plaza nine out of first plac and now hold the position_with five «mes won and one lost. The Plaza |team aropred to third position and the Linworth Juniors now are second The Reberts nine had been top- {pine their scction in the unlimited i Aivision with three straight victories | ana i with the Union Printers were third two wins and one defeat. It was rather e 3 unusual game the | Knickerbocker Junlors won from | {Plaza. In the first inning the latter counted eeven times, but the Knicks {Junicrs came right along with scores in almost every inning, while the | Plaza club was kept from scoring in jany period after the first. A home | run and two singles by David of the | Knicks featured. Dame's work as a jrelief pitcher also was exceptional. 1 Webh pitched fine hall for |Pl_'l.’|lar! against the Roberts nine. ‘Warren had a perfect day at bat for the Typesetters and Feldman snag- ged five flies in center field. Birkle, jat third, and McCann, at short, fleld- ed brilliantly for the losing club. — Optometrists and Woodleys fought I to a brilliant nine-inning 6-6 tie yes- | terday, the latter tying the count by | getting four runs in the last three i sessions. Darkness called a halt. the Knickerbockers defented Sherwoods sterday, 4 to 2, to no avail, as the airman of the series refuses to re- consider his decision in the Knicks- + Shamrock controversy and the CGeorgetown team decided to dfop out. Auburna by fo & to Petworth vesterday automatically eliminated themselves from the series. It was their second offense. The Holy Name-Silver Spring game scheduled for today has been post- LyENNG STAR, WASHINGTON. TWO YANKEE STARS IN PARIS GAMES In upper picture Nancy Vorhees of New York is shown in spectacular leaj in practice for the high jump. Lower picture shows Anne Harwick of Mia Fla., in the act of putting the shot. Both are members of the American team that set sail yesterday for the international competition, which will take place in the French capital later this month. BLACK NEARS FAIRWA INFIGHT FOR HIS LIFE Ry the Asscclated Prees. JOSE. Calif., August 2.—By ning in the qualifying round of is tournament with death yesterday, Tohn Black, nationally famous golfer, today was in what his physiclans be- lieved to be the semi-finals, and “one- up at the turn. Black still is “in the rough” as he lies in a hospital here, with his head injured and several of his ribbs broken as a result of an automobile accident near Irvington Monday night. Herbert Hamilton Brown, San Fran- cisco club man, broker, and friend of Black. was killed in the accident that injured the master golfer. ltkough “in the rough.” Black’s physicians are counting on his iron to get him out. His gallery was in- i creased last night by one physician, and consists today of Dr. Raymond Wayland, Dr. L. . Anderson, a nurse and his wife. They are backing him to win, and today expected him soon to be on the fair way to recovery. There was a marked improvement in Black's *‘play,” Dr. Raymqnd Way- land declared. But declared it was the hardest match the little Scotch of Cali- fornia ever had. The crisis was near, it was said. TONEY BALKS ON TRADE TO BRAVES; GOES HOME NASHVILE, Tenn, August 23— Fred Toney, former New York Giant pitcher, who was traded to Bost Inst week as part of the comsideration in the deal that sent pitcher McQuillan of the Braves to New York, arrived 1 Nashville last night, and accord. ing to friends has decided to guit base ball rather than play with Braves. to these friend “I have $50,000 and don't have to play ball with the Braves.” GREY LAG, IN STRETCH DRIVE, WINS BIG RACE SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., August 2—In a stirring stretch drive, Grey Lag, ridden by Laverne Fator, in the Rancocas stable silks, yesterday flashed under the wire a winner by a half length over Bon Homme, in the Sara- toga handicap, at a mile and a quarter. The time—two minutes, three sec- onds and a fifth—was within one and two-fifths seconds of the track record. Harry Payne Whitney's Prudery fin- ished third, a length and a half behind Bon Homme. Devastation was fourth and the aged campaigner, Extermina- tor, was last. Pennsylvania Ave. poned until August 9. and finish. i But these are aks Special Sale of Silv_er King Golf Balls 5c¢ Each $6.00 the Dozen We have five gross of the repaintéd Silver Kings— guaranteed absolutely perfect—and of standard weight Repainted Golf Balls are of many stages of quality. all “selects”—exactly as good ‘as the day they left the factory. ; (Tompan Seventh Street e field. Sunday a contest I».booked at Vienna, Va. A benefit game has been | booked for August 30 at Americani} League Park, the proceeds to go for the relief of needy ex-service men. It’s an opportunity Golfers will appreciate—and that the distribution may be as wide as possible—we are go- ing to put a limit of not more than one dozen to a customer. Expert instructi If you are taking up the game let our instructor coach you. Private lessons on our driving green. You can arrange convenient hours. PUBLIC COURSE TITLE IS ANNEXED BY AGNEW Playing steadier golf than his op- ponent and outputting him all th the match Charles Agnew, jr., won e champlonship of the East Potomac Park public conrse yesterday, defeating Wil- }:Alm T. ndable, jr., 1 up in twenty oles. ‘Agnew was in the lead practically all through the contest by virture of his steadiness, although neither his iron shots nor his wooden ones was as long as those of his rival. The match was virtually decided on the putting greens, Where ew's steadiness proved the decisive factor. One up at the turn, Agnew won the tenth, halved the eleventh and won the twelfth, Agnew took three putts on the thirteenth and lost the hole, but got half on the fourteenth after a topped tee_shot. Prendable missed a chance to annex the fifteenth hole when he blew a five foot putt, but won the sixteenth, when Agnew topped two shots on the way to_the hole and then pitched short. Both men got away good drives at the seventeenth, and Agnew played a fine spoon shot to the green, while Prendable was over with _an iron. Prendable ran his ball up dead, half- stymieing Agnew and the hole was halved in four. On the eighteenth Pren- dable got away a fine tee shot straight down while Agnew badly hooked his ball to the rough. His second shot was on a cinderpath g@d he failed to get: on the green in three, conceding the hole to_Prendable and squaring the match. Prendable hooked his ball to the rough at the nineteenth, while Agnew sliced to the other side. Prendable| topped his second shot, but put his| third shot within eight feet of the pin, while Agnew’s second overran. The latter chipped up ten feet away and falled to hole his putt, laying; Prendable a dead stymie. which the latter failed to negotiate, although his ball almost rolled in the side of | the hole. At the twentieth hole. Prendable’s ball caught the top of the bunker inl front of the green and rolled back in ! the sand, while Agnew, with a spoon, ! put his ball hoie high to the right of the green. Prendable pitched out fif-] teen feet over the hole, while Agnew i ran up three feet away. Prendable tried to gobble his 3, but missed and then failed on a short putt for a four. conceding the match to Agnew, who was sure of getting down in twe putts. W. P. di Este won the second flight, defeating F. B. Oteli, 6 and 4, while W. H. Lines defeated J. W. Phelan, 2 and 1, in the third sixteen final. At the conclusion of the matches the prizes were presented by Lieut. Col. C. O. Sherrill, officer in charge of public bulldings and grounds. One pair has veached the zemi-final in the golf tournament for the John Henry-Hlva Williams cup at Bannock- burn, while the third round iIn the other half of the tournament will be concluded this week. Daniel L. Hazard : and H. Stonier, jr., are in the semi-| finals in the upper half. Survivors in| the lower half are E. R Tille Charles E. Felton, M. Tappy and J. A. White, Jjr. CHAMPION AGAIN WINS IN CHESS TOURNAMENT By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 2.—In the second round of the international chel tournament, E. D. Bogoljubow, Ru sia, defeated Dr. Davide Marottl, Italy; A. Alechine won from E. G. Watson, Australia; A. Reti, Czecho- slovakia, was victorious over R. O. Yates, England; A. Rubinsteln, Po- l1and, defeated J. F. Morrison, Canada; Dr. 8. Tartakover, Russia, won from M. Euwe, Holland; Dr. M. Vidma Jugoslovia, _defeated E. Svosk Borowsky, Russia; Jose R. Capa- blanca, Cuba, the champion, defeated M. Wahituch, England. The match between H. E. Atkins, England, and G. Maroczy, Hungary, resulted {n a draw. Clgar is made by Cigar Corporation, : 'Distributed by Capital Cigar and Tobacco Co., 602 Pa. Ave. N.W. Washington, D. C. New Yok D. 0, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1922, SPORTS. Tennis Play in' Seabright Tourney Is Thrilling : Leonard May LITTLE LESSONS FOR THE GOLFER By George O'Nc.fl N Fight Barrett BOUT HINGES ON YOUTH’S SHOWING AGAINST WHITE BY FAIR PLAY. EW YORK, August 2—And now they are talking of matching young Bobby Barrett of Philadelphia against Champion Benny Leonard. That is, of course, provided the Quaker city lightweight makes an adequate showing against Charley White when they battle Lere next Monday night. Whatever the showing Barrett makes, such a match would : FIGHTERS ARE PRIMING 1 play the midiron as I de the driver. If you are hooking too much, watch the position of the all off your left foot. Don't stand too opem, because you hit down fall away and around with ft. must hit the ball in the center Ing more uprightly. . You must roll the wrists, too, If you want suceess. Watch the chip of xod. Chick Evans takes up all his FOR SPORTLAND BOUTS be a bad match from the Philadelphian’s standpoint. it would be matching a youngster with comparatively little ring experi- ence against the craftiest ring gen- eral developed since Joe Gans. What- ever his natural ability. Barrett i not ripe for such a battle. Many a possible champion has been tossed on the dust heap by just such handling. Eddle Hanlon. the best lightweight prospect of twent ears ago, was a fair example of bad The fight card for tomorrow night | matchmaking on the part of his man- t the Berwyn Sportland arena bids fair to be about the best offered at the suburban town this year. Duarte tutelage of stellar bout the other fighte:s shape for the preliminary scraps. Danny is training hard under the “Kid” Sullivan for his with Joe Chaney, and are getting in Trainer Sullivan is working hard to correct Duarte’s fault of “throwing is punches” and says that his young protege is improving. Johnny Reno also is putting in some good licks for his bout with Tony Picarro of Baltimore. If he clubs in precisely the same man- |makes good tomorrow night Reno mer, a I good golfers should. |intends to remain in Washington, put Here we .see the driver golng wu) with Evans’ left arm straight, right elbow close ing. The straight left arm (':e plvot automatic, as it Charle: tling Woodman of the U. 8. S. May- himsel? under the direction of a good man and go into the fight game in earnest. The remainder of the card, the first bout of which s to begin at 8:30, is as follows: Goldie Ahearn of Washington vs. Barber of Baltimore, Bat- (Copright. John F. Dille Co.) flower vs. Fighting Phil Boland of Baltimore, Danny Ferguson of Jer- sey City vs. Eddie Bowen of Baltl- AWAIT CRICKET MATCH. Baltimore Cricket Club will play the Washington cricket team here on August 13, and the capitalitegare hop- ing to get revenge for their defeat in the Monumental city last Sunday.. Bal- timore won by 164 to 65. In the first inning, which was completed, the Balti- moreans scored 90 runs to Washing- ton's 43. In the uncompleted second ’fl"{"‘izm’ Monumental city clan led, 0 32. U. S. NETMEN BEATEN. LONDON, August 2. —The yesterday of the Harvard and Yale; tennis players by the Queen's Club was the first they have ruffered dur- ing their tour. Two of the three matches they won were taken by Jones and Ingraham, who defeated! F. G. Lowe and P. M. Davson, 5— 6—4, 6—4, and then won from A. V v and twenty-eight Worthy, !the matron stake for three-year-old trotters, value y Ederle of the New Swimming Association. won the 3%- mile international swimming race for women more, Billy Vincent of the navy yard s. Mattie McCleary of Philadelphia. The main bout is for ten rounds the preliminary events tofals TROTS FAST TO WIN. TOLEDO, Ohio, August 2.—Lee driven by Ben White, won .340, on the grand Peter Earl was ircuit yesterday. second and Helen Dillon third. The defeat | time for the three heats—2.05%, 05% and 2.06%—were the fastest eats trotted by three-year-olds this ear. —_— YORK, August 2—Gertrude York Women's NEW of Long Island yesterday, Asthaiter and W. E. Crawley, §—, |finishing in 61 minutes 34 3-5 seconds. 6—4. Duane and Pfaffman. D. M. Greig and M. Temple, 7—5, 6—4. The third match was taken by | Helen Wainwright of the same club who_defeated " was & second and Hilda James, British star, third. the outhful agers who looked for big purses for tough matches, rather than for the development of & coming champion. However, if such a match is offered Barrett, he probably will accept, for any match in which Leonard engages means big money at the gate and prize fighting nowadays is not a sport but a business. There was a time when a fast left jab and a right croes were a boxer's best assets, but now their business instincts get them further. If this tendency keeps on we may be reading accounts of future cham- plonship battles in which Lew Tend- ler led with a light Rolls-Ru the nose, which Leonard countered with a tire supply business on 199th street, how the champlon jabbed Lew with ‘three Bronx apartment houses and ghe Philadelphian retaliated lease on a Broad street office build and how Benny finally sent Lew o for the count with a well-placed ba: account in six figures. Instead of comparing punches. hox- Ing fans may take to discussing the relative punishing power of Johnny Kilbane's Cleveland store and Johnny Dundee's racing stable. Lven some ©f the present-day pork and beaners swing a wicked chattel mortgage. SWIMS TO TWO RECORDS. COLUMBUS, Ohlo, August 2—John- ny Weissmuller, world champlon swimmer, shattered two records in a swimming meet here yesterdavs He beat his own seventy-five-yard back- stroke record by 3 1-5 sec nego- | tiating the distance in 46 3-5 seconds He swam the 50-yard free style in 22 4-5 seconds, a second better than Duke Kahanamoka's best mark. - e U. S. YACHTS SCORE. WHITE BEAR, Minn., August American yachts finished first and second in the last of their three races with the Canadian Yachts on White Bear lake yesterday, retaining for another year at least the Duggar trophy. The count for the series is White Bear Yacht Club, 20: Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Club, Montreal, 9 That once yearly now. fabric, they Sale of Society Brand Hot-weather suits If you want hot-weather suits for the rest of this summer and all of next, buy Society two seasons—tho skeletonized to the bare are hand-tailored to stay. 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