Evening Star Newspaper, December 3, 1922, Page 84

American Boys Are Poor Caddies, Herd Says : Marvin May Takes Stake Race “BEST OF THEM USELESS,” BRITISH PRO STAR OPINES and Shirk Looking for Lost Balls Held to Be an Unjustified Indictment. i BY W. R. McCALLUM. . | €6 HE American caddic is useless. He takes no interest in the game. He never cleans your goli ball or your clubs and the latter have to be dealt with on a cleaning machine or in the professional's room. They find it a great effort to look for a lost ball Sandy Herd is speaking. Herd of St. Andrews, Scotland. one of | the really humorous characters in golf, who has just completed a tour of the United States with J. H. Taylor. several times British open cham- | pion. He was quoted to this effect in a London newspaper, and the | quotation has been widely circulated in this country, along with Sandy’s ; remarks on the aridity or non-aridity of American golf clubs, since thcx cighteenth amendment became efféctive. THE .SUNDAY STAR, The Mighty Hunters. Herd malkes a severe indictment of 7~ GOLF TOURNEY SCRIBES ! clubs. The assertion that “they | i a great effort to hunt for a e s & = ‘ i LAt s olfers throughout the nation all” is the crowning touch 10| pey Now imear they camie An attack on the American golf-bag! te being deprived of adequate news ' toter than ne. werine. | comcerning the progress of the erd and plaved for two! amatenr champlonship nt Brook- menths over Amer L i Ine laxt September. exhibitions in n At the cloxe of th~ xecond dny of citics and in m match play; while fifty correspon )if has taken o footho'd ents were rushing “eopy” to the nral to 5 telexraph denk of the Western es Unlon, it wan discovered that near- 1y ail the weat wires were dead. A check-up mhowed that n squir- rel had gnawed through a mnfor [ “the hest of the Americs Put if hic aa-| rortion of the wires, which had sertion thut thev are ‘“useless” he| he~n earried over the hole in n 1 whit the ordinwry ho hollow tree where he made his Tia mnst e worse tion useless. Yeil home. Americ Jifers, perhans more tol- The RBrookiine tournament et erant of a bov's chortcomines, mat! yecord for the number of words aleng quite well with the bomegrown | sent out over the wires, ! caddie. and al'hongh <ometimes n hoy is forad at fanlt. it on'v infra- encntly that a “useles<” caddfe. from ! game his life work. he will be quali- the Amer, ewpoint. is found. | fied to fill a particular post. i Caddie training is regurded at all high-class clubx in this country as a part of the club work, and caddie masters have found this work to be Charge Only Partly True. ] Tet Herd's assertion is true in part. Amsricans returning f-om go'f in| Britain mention with enthus- + fine caddie sorvice thev re-| ¢ road. Caddies in Great ' in_are n:ore ant than not to he | n men. or miture boyvs, whereas | average American bag-toter 1 .robably not more than 14 or 15 years of age. or still in tha p stae, | where nothing appeirs serious to him. ' not to mention the game of gelf. Sometimes he doesn't regard _his Auties seriouslv. but mere often; he tries his level best to please his emplover and kebp his ranking! as a class A caddie unauestionable. The matter of caddies is enzaging more and more the attention of greens committees and governing boards of | #olf clubs. who gradually are coming to the view that the golf course. in addition to being a place where the | Young Americans can earn a few pen- nies, is a definite school for sports- and character building. So|obligated to the man whose sticks he | far has this movement wone in recent j carries around the course for the vears that the new Burning Tree Club | compensation he gets by so doing. will inaugurate a regular curriculum! _“Above all, don't forget the boy is| at a senarate science in itself, with the result that. contrary to Sandy Herd's Gxpressed opinion. the American ¢ die a hard- who of today s an enermetic. 7 stralghtforward lad best at all times. Consideration for Beys Essential. ddies are human, however. They | are but bovs, and some are mischiev- ous. Kindness and consideration al- ways will win the affection of a boy. where gruff words and harsh injunc. tions ofttimes will breed contempt. ank J. Brady of Chicago, graduated to the job of profi the caddie ranks, puts i i who ! fonal | it this| i man | a caddie as he would ] of thinking, a ‘To my way ould treat treat his own son. The boy is vounger | and needs an elevating example. If| this were done the caddie would feel | of trade 1 for its caddies, train- | human and that his young mind is| ing every in some particular | like a piece of putty. Your examples trade connected with the game of | and the impressions a boy gets from golf. =o that if he elects to make the ' you help to shape his destiny.” i i HILE it has not been discovered at any length, the recent action of the United States Go!f Association urging clubs to cut down i ‘ on money prizes to professionals may cause cancellation of the spring professional tournament at Columbia next year. The U. S. G. A. has asked members to reduce the size of the prize money list for professional tournaments, and has hinted that the large “plums” held out for pros are working toward commercialism in the game, to the | detriment of the amateur sport and away from the ideals of the associa- tion. What effcct this will have upon|ent ninth. Each hole’will be a defi- the Columbia Club’s scheduled tourney | Dite problem in itself. requiring good lias not been definitely decided, nor | €Xecution. has the Indian Spring Club announc- ed what it will do in the matter of its spring pro tourney. The prob- ability is that both clubs will go ahead with their scheduled tourna- menis, with decreases in the money prizes. The 1923 ehamplonship of the Mid- | dle Atlantic Golf Association will be ! held at the Chevy Chase Club prob- {ably next Junme. = Morven Thompson of Chevy Chase, now first vice presi- | dent of the association. will become | | president at the annual -meeting to | be held in March. | Mrs. W. Ballard won the Mrs. ! Tom Moore trophy for woman golfers | at the Washington Golf and Country , Club. finishing_ with a net card for| the 72 holes of 351. Her gross was $03, with a total handicap of 152. LITTLE LESSONS FOR THE GOLFER By George O'Neil* ; Orrin A. Terry. unmtil recently pro- | fessional at the Chevy Chase Club, will leave Washington for the south | about December 15. He plans to re- main in the south during the winter end will probably go west In the spring. In the meantime the shop at T 'L HE injustice of excessive hand the automatic handicap system. In which has come to be accepted justed that the net score of any pl record for the course. The low handicap man. the best player in all cases. is at a serious disadvantage when competing in a net event against men with high handicaps. While the low handicap man must shoot right at the top of , his game—and it has certain limita- tions as to iowering his score—the high handicap man may go out and. with the aid of a few iucky putts or a couple of phenomenal shots. regis- ter a score so low that no oae can come within strokes of it. Some will say that in mak low score the high handi: P displayed his superior skill. He has. but only in inverse proportion to his handicap. Of course. his handicap will be cut at the end of th event. but it is then toc late. The low handicap men so very seldora win a net score event that it has come to is majority of cases, but there low net score has been demonstrated so many times around Ch cago that several clubs are looking forward to doing aw: man has | ROD AND STREAM By Perry Mille HE old saying “The early bird gets the worm,” holds good in ti:ei WiTH A FLIGHT oF STEPS 240 FEET HiGH tundreds of ammals were drwven up these slurs Tobe shat {rom thegaleries icaps in an event to be won by the the place of the automatic s the standard ifor handicapping through- out the country, the propesal has heen made that handicaps be so ad- | er shall not fall below the amateur be an axiom that some high handicap player will come ong with a phe- n enally iow net and win. Very seldom does the best golfer win In a net event. Par is the mythical figure below which no mnet score is intended to fal aécording to Thomas J. Morris, chairman of the handicap committec of Glen Oak Country Club. But net scores made in handicap competitions frequently fall away below par. | Stricter revision of handicaps of the high handicap golfers is the an- swer, Morris points out. This may give the low handica man an even | break. The fine player's game is cir- cumscribed within certain limits, be- low which it is humanly impossible to go. whereas the high handical man, who theoretically is improving {all the time, may come along with a freak score. are exceptions to all rules, and the late bird, if he can be so termed, otherwise called the late fall angler, has knocked into a cocked hat the above adage: Last week a member of the Anglers’ Club fishing in the upper Po- ‘tomac and using smelt as bait succeeded in landing thirty of the small | bass tribe. Elated with' his success, he ventured forth again on Thanks- This late Louls XYL AUTOMATIC HANDICAPRULE IN GOLF EVENTS DOOMED —By RIPLEY. DEER ANTLERS WITH 66 POINTS . — shet by King o} Prussia. 1696 JOHN GEORGE T GF SAXCNY - and i Son KILLED 225,761 HEAD OF GAME - INCLUDING. 110,530 ’5 FINAL ENTRY CONCERNZD HUNTING Shoulder armx! Forward, marcl ‘The arm3 of hunters Is advaneing on farext and mountain. unting is an instinctive sport of man, and before fhc cra of game Inwx the love for the xport reach- ed an extraordinary pitch for which there ix mo parallel in history. Today the limit on deer ix two bicks a neason in moxt sections. In ke old dayw the game of the > Kitled by the thou- rcat hunters of those days theught of ncthing elxe. It waw the | all-abrerbing thought in Europe uj 1o the time of the French revol tion. On the fatal day of the fall «I the Bastille the personni diary of Loulx XV 7 ¢ the lacomic: “Killed nothing.” noon after, on the day the ed mob attackcd Versal deer at th xate of Chatlllon, killed N1, inter- rupted by nts—" Thin is the Inre entry in hix diary. Sportsmen kept ea records of The fnve rium of nhows the xtupen- 795.403 hend of game. Thix included 54.200 il ars, 477 | bears, 6,067 wolves and 3 foxes. s happened during the time of thirty years’ war that ravaged I Europe, and jyvan achieved with the clumnay firedrmn of ti exhibitions, 2 Huge tcmples of chase were bullt with great fiights of steps, in one inatance 240 feet hizh. leading up to the galicries, and the deer and Cther animals would be driven by means of hundreds of hounds up the stairs {0 be slnughtered fro; the balcony by the invited reo: xuexts their lords and la a great fanfare of trumpets and hunting horns. The preparn- tions for such a chase woumld Ht- eraily occupy thowsnmds of men and horses for months, and mot- withstanding the fact that the peasants were compelled to give their nervices gratuitously, the cost wax cnorm Sometimes a of wsport was staged. Charles Albert of Bavari great fleet of galieys i u, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 3, 1922_SPORTS SECTION. GOVERNMENT OF ITALY WILL FOSTER ATHLETICS The new Jtalian governmeht has announced it will create shortly an undersecretary o wtate for mports and physical eulture wim- timr to the ofice held in’ Frenee by Gaston Vidal, it was learnea today. This umdersecretariat, which will form a part of the min- istry of the interior, will be direc: ed by Aldo ¥inzi, former nviato ckampion motor cyel e of (he bent mi of the period of hix act: track athletics, around 1904, The undersecretary will eol Inborate with the itallan Olym, committee in preparation for Italy’s participation in the next Olymple gumen, {MAY NOT HOLD RACING BECAUSE OF TAXATION TORONTO, December 2.—Several On- tario racing associations cancel their usual Spring racing meetings, be- | cause of the burden of new gove taxation, it was said today Hendrie, president of the Onta 1 Club. at the annual m ng of that | sociation. | He sid that no dates i {lotted by the Canadi tions and that nos next spring because certain clubs pressed doubt whether they would c duct the usual ra GYMNASTIC TOURNAMENT AWARDED TO ANNAPOLIS ANNAPOLIS. Md.. December 2.—The tournxment of the Int ecollegiate Gymnastic As ation will be held under the auspi of the Naval Acad- next sea emy on March 167, For three suc ous - the Naval Academy in this tourngme captain, Midshipman John B. Pearson, jr. has taken highest individual honors for two sue T - that the entries were distinguished themselves. ribbon. in H. Chil bitch, Lavender, was declured winner and_ won the unusual suck of potatoe: This 1 of the bull terriers in t. and show marks her third consecu- inner within _a With a tetal of cleven of the required fifteen points to her credi she may be counted on io go to he mpionship before the close of the on Child’s other i - noviee bitches, with Child's Mickes first novice bitches (over thirty-five pounds), with Chalistir Moon Mis first American-bred bitches, with Child's Mickey; third limit hitches with Inferno True Dlue, and firs cpen bitches. with Lads Lavender. Frank P. Leech’s SXaweoin Vexation the re- a Patricia, while Melody won first limit month, ! s Brigudier won first Americai-bred and second limit, and W. O. Engler’s Chalistir Billiken ! won second puppy dogs. Herzland Kennels' newly imported Alf v.d. Lindenluft won first limit in shepherd dogs. and narrowly missed rescrve winner to the Frolichlufft Kennels' Baldo v. Meisterreich, while Gisa v. Gutenberg placed second limit to Anita v. Sandhof, an exceedingly fast bitch. In'this class P. A. I Widener's newly imported Asta Haus-Paland was placed third. while the Frolichlufft Kennels' Hexe Schwinefurt, a daughter of the 1921 fourth. R. C. Birney, showing Aspin Hill Debutante, won second open bitches. and in the opinion of many should have been placed reserve winner. Herzland Kencels announce the | breeding of their shepherd stud dog. Alf v.d. Lindenluft. to bitch, Gisa v. Gutenberg. and to Dr. Benjamin F. Logie's Tess, who is a v. Hoheluft, out of Stonihurst Ferrs |a viteh bred by Miss Anne Tracy. | A rather amusing Incident came to light recently concerning the care used by one of our best known judges in placing the dogs which come be- fére him. At a recent show on the coast Mrs. Nina C. Untermeyer had entered two imported shepherd bitches Gilda v. v. Sandhof. Gilda, a black and tan Kennel and Field By George H. Kernodle HE third annual dog show given by the Harrisburg Society for Prevention of Cruclty to Animals, which closed Thursday, brought | out some unusually keen competition in most breeds, despite the | most . ery entry from this city brought back a! German grand champion, was placed | | their brood | daughter of Grand Champion Komet Dornerhof and Afra SCORES IN A HARD DRIVE IN SHREWSBURY HANDICAP |Outraces Fifty-Fifty in Stretch After Going Wide in [ Making Turn for Home—Event Is Run in Close to Record Time. | EW ORLEANS, La.,, December 2—Marvin May’s gallant accounting ‘; for the Shrew:Lury handicap, the monetary feature, and Buddy H Ensor’s brilliant jockeyship, which cnabled Winnewood to get [home by an eyelash in the Sarpy purse. were the bright outstanding 1fcal|{re> of 2 brilliant day’s sport at Jefferson Park today. The pro- { verbial million dollars’ worth of weather prevailed for the running of { the holiday program and_the attendance was in keeping with the good | character of sport resulting. i | Tia Juana Results | Cor Marvin May. who has been one of |.the heroes of southern racing for the Mlast three seasons, showed that he (had lost none of hiz vim with an v *tepping to the lead £ Anonymous they had go; FIRST RACE. five | ages—Nog. won: Boris. third. Tim R bright, Lenieve, Dots. Jack Ledi. Yorkshire, Meld, Anna Star and L. W. Harper also ran. into submission a half mile. The Mrs. J. L. Holland representa- SECOND RACE. five and one-half furlongs: | Li¥€ found his maturc opposition all sges—Ollie Wood, won; Vers Rita, secosd; | GIfferent io the two-veir olas he has | A1 “Borter, third, Time. 1.11. Bookwerm. | heretofore met and went i trifte wide Review, Choirmaster, Handsweep, Dr. Steven- 'rounding the turn, so t Fifty-Fifty | sofi, Meteor and American Maid also ran. slipped through alonz rail and THIRD RACE, one mile: three-year-olds and | Set after Marvin © veteran ur—Torsida, won: Fireworth. second: Silex II | Carl Poole k. J. McPherson third. . _14615. Jerry, Dorothy, Laura horse .0 his task and took the honors Lola alzo ran. FOURTH RACE, five and one-half furlongs: a1l ages—Joella, won: Harry D., second: o mulus, third. Time, 1.081-. Loch Leven, Bittern and Tennillee also ran. EIFTH RACE, four and o ay sges—Tkoy T.. won: Dick Terpin. second: Cora Cutter, third, Time. 0.55 25, Col. Matt. | by daylight in a hard driv Three others. led Ly Jake Berger. finisiied behind the fast-tiriug Anon- ymous, was third was run over the fast four-fifths of record. and was season from = best of the ; three-year-olds and Yermack, won: Midia, second: Millers- | . Time, 145. Jay Mac, Wodan and | i New Orleans Results SEVENTH RACE. one mile and seventy | vards; three-year-olds and up—Cavalcadour II, i won; Buckhorn II, second: Poscher. third. Time, 1.45. Leta, Car and Double Van also Tim i FIRET RACE. two-vear-olds: | Contour, won; Wunta G {hird. Time, 10045, ¥ iand _Cotrompa also i SECOND RACE, 1 Sive furlongs— . sscond: Vennie, Milired Ruth, Zoons Fear-olds and up; stx | furlongs—Grayson, won: Gen. Cadomne. sec- ond: Flip. third. 'Time. 114 2.5. Scratched— Hindoostsn, Stamp. Ha: jorth, € Taylor: Ri D ;1' the North, Col, THIRD “BACE " three mile—Winnewoed, wo; ear-olds and up. onm Sway. second: Uncls i Velo, third. Time. 1.393.5. Citation. Viva Cuba. L'Echir cnd Pimlico also ran. FOURTH RACE. all ages: six furlongs— Marvia May. woa: Eifty Fiits. second: Anons- mous, third." Time, 1.13. Jake Borger, Spring- Vale ‘and James F. O'Hara aiso ran. FIFTH RACE. three-vear-olds end up: five and one-half iurlongs—Prirce Welles, wor Simplicity, second; Green Gold. third. T: 1.071-5. Pietrus, 'Elmer K.. Barry Shannon. Copyright, Hermis, Theno and The Perusiau ran. SIXTH RACE. three.yearlds and up: one cases small. Washington dogs | bitch of unusual quality. had won the mile and seventy yards—Our Birthday, won: specialty show at New York. while | Carnavon. second: Tom McTaggart. thitd. - Time. 1452-5. Sagamook. Ballot Ca-, Betts Afra had been placed very low. Afra} was entered in the open class at thei IN TURKEY DAY EVENT ners. and when speciais were baing judged Mrs. Untermeyer, who had two Litches in the ring together, had to some one to show one of them for, | Some zood scores we | Recreation { Thanksgiving day, | @8 ice cream dar. bowler won allen 3., Juno, Hickory and Wylie also ran. . Booth who recently purchx;eds of Joselle, black and tan, an| American-bred dog of unusual qualit: but poor in the hocks and pasterns, | saw his dog win the American-bred and limit classes, but thrown out in the open. At the close of the judging he asked the judge to fault the dog. whereupon the judge recounted in de- 1 A 2 - ch four «very hour fo tail the wins and failures of the dog Sy : {the h ore. F. M. ur |in t"*d €u st Boouli was Smuich Hm SR Taitw .\Fdf: bt e St oo with the memo: of theling at the Reereation, whoen ie turn.d judge. and with the interest shown in jin 151 for his Tommy Mayhe at the « three gat wen him a g The other winners At the Recreation— R. D. Glantz, 14%; W AL Shunden, 121; W A 1 Tlon som ar 11 W ¥ wiie P the a . _T'ntermeyer asked Booth to show Gilda in the special classes, and when the judge had looked over Gilda and Af) he handed the award to, Afra” by no means asx good a biteh The judge then turned to Mrs. Unter- meyer and asked to see her wonder- ful biteh, Gilda, and his embarras. . ment can be imagined when he was i shown that he had just put her down. Rt e ad |E M. Revnolds, 1 | Sotatine she was the dog Pedro of| AT B Beavers, 13%; H. L. Hoe | M. Rosenberg, 133 H. W Olive i | i | i H Weinbers g Martin, W. J. Brewer. 118; W. H. Robinson. J._Cooney. 111: Charles Swanun, F. Stork. 124; H. | Kessier, Williams. { Mackin. 115 } Ribnitzki D. E. Bove: Havana Resulis FIRST RACE, three-year-olds and up; i it e Mot TR 11,0715, All started. S T | 5 SPSOND RACE, two-roar.slds: e 1ad one- half £ Wiwosa won: Margarat Ware | second; Gonwithim, third. Time, 1. Tiadell. | started. N e, 10735, All; Nemple. 136; G. Suttay THIRD RACE, threeyearolds and up; five | 177: P. | and -l;;.-fl-l!“l‘;r.l;%liflu‘m won: | J. A. Hummer, 1 lmgonrfuflgfd . third. Time, | R. Bakersmith. 11 . three. five and one-half FurlonprCHet Sponser o Discussion. second: Colonel Kronman, Time. 1.06 25, S G W. Muir. | Gratian also ran. ic. E FIFTH RACE. three: : | mile and 8fty yard : | second; King B.. third. Time, 1.44 3.5. | ington, American Legion and Guardsman lso | | ™SixTR e | Most of Notre Dame's 1922 By Lane won: Bhortatop, ceoond. et | Players are sophomores, wii leen K.. third. Time, 1411-5, Artice X, |they will be available for play twa Wakefield and Walter Turnbow also ran, more At the Grand Central—T. May iving day and returned with a catch of twelve gamesters. %2“ angler reports that the fishing was better last week than at any time during the summer and early fall. He said he had tried it at all times, in the early spring; at the opening of the bass season; during the summet months, and in the fall, but that he had had bétter success lately than Chevy Chase will be in charge of the assistant professional. Ralph Beach, a former caddie at the Washington Golf and Country Club. The profes- sional berth at Chevy Chase may not on Starbeg Lake and filled them with wine, women, hunters, a song. Thousands of deer were driv- en by hom into the water toward for Economical be filled until next spring. The new third green at the Colum- | bia Country Club has been completed ! and is being played on by the club members. The green is built some- what along the lines of the fifteenth, | A trap has been placed at the right | edge of the green, and the trap short | of the green and to the right is-re- tained. The old third green was al- ways unsatisfactory. both in regard to turf and to the shot required. The‘ new green was sodded with turf from | the vegetative beds near the sixth tee. ‘ The “kickers’” handieap tourna-! ment for members of the Argyle| Country Club will be completed to- morrow night, with .a.¢onsiderable |- - number of cards already in. Each entrant is plaving 36 holés ‘and has picked a handicap to bring his. net total for each nine to a figure be- tween 35 and 45, selected ‘sctretly by the tournament committee. The com- petitor whose net score is nearest the - mythical figure is the winner. 1 Determination of the board of gov- ernors to complete the improvement of the course of the Washington Golf and Country Club has met with hearty approval from the member- ship of the Virginia organization. Toomey and Flynn, the course archi- tects in charge of the work, which began yesterday, .state that the course will have a variety seldom equaled in this vicinity, and promise a course of infinite interest alike to the fine player and the 90 golfer. All that is nécessary to fully com- plete the course is rebuilding of five holes which were not finished last summer, when the major part of re- construction of the course was un- dertaken. In addition, seven new tees will be built and nearly a score of bunkers constructed. - The- course when completed will have many holes in the four par clas betweern 290 and 415 yards—holes which. require wwu well played shoty and well nlated to reach the green and.is ex- pected ‘to be on a par in difficulty with any around Washington. In additien, there will be at least two lons rwles. one of which can hardly De reached in two shots, while the other requires two of the very finest shots of any player to get home. Difficulty iv expected to be encoun- tered in rebuilding the present sec- ond hole on account of the character of ‘the present green, and there is a possibility that the h may be elimi- nated entirely for a few months and another hole of the old course put in use while the changes are being made. There will be an entire ab- sence on the new course of holes which . are neither one-shotters nor et twe-shotters, such as the pres- » 'y Do mot hold the left arm stiff . whem you take the club wp, but t the same time be careful that 1t does mot break toe mumch. There .is @ happy medium that must be attained. If youw keep it rigidly atift you will sweep the ball away, ecoming down, -and lose: distamce, inntead of ng it away fe: fall distanee.: ‘Hold the body on Miae with the ball until the arms pull it. - Then let the body pivot to the right, and let the left arm curve just a little-at the el bow. Dow’t let the right elbow go up In the air, but at the same time dow’t hold it rigidly against your . _Strive for ease and com- fort all the way. Remember that the ciubhead must swing like a pendulum, like a rock on a string. it inging a pendulym 1'-' w a¥ae it easily, comfort- ahiz. Same thing with the ' golf eln ‘When all is sald the golfer should revert back te the first principle—hold the head still, keep Your eye on the ball. Nothing else matteys if you vielate these twe fundamentals, or either of them. ‘When yeu observe them the elub- head will always Sy true—how truwe iz fllustrated -in- this which rested on 2 man's forchead for u tee. 5 (00 UQ °& BOF “3uBH£40D) PENN SHORTSTOP DIES. PHILADELPHIA, December Elvin Harold Liebegott. shortstop on the University of Pennsylvania ball team last seagon, died in the uni- versity hospital today of pneumonia. He was_a junior in_the Wharton School of Finance at the university. B 1Vlrg(nll creeks, nor have any reports i 2 s -home was In" Roaring Springs,’ will ever before. = The first of December, theoretical- 1y, is the close of the bass season—at least, that is the time set by local sporting goods stores ty award prizes |for the largest catches of the small bass season does not close in the District of Columbia until April 1. and in Maryland April 15. Therefore, | with the continued mild weather, jmany dyed-in-the-wool anglers re- fuse to pack away their tackle until spring, as the large percentage have done, and are untiring in their ef- forts to entice either large or small mouth bass to take their lure. Only a few bass have been report- ed caught in- the Tidal Basin_ and from the seawall, but tempting baits 1of different kinds are daily being offered. Several parties who fisk regularly in Plscataway creek report that the creek is very muddy. There have been no rains lately that would war- 'rln( this condition of the water, but |these anglers say that the heavy northwest winds drive the water along at a rapid rate and stir up the mud settled on the bottom much the {same as in the case of a heavy rhin. No reports have reached this col- umn concerning bass fishing ‘in the reached the usual places where such information can be obtained. Noth- {ing has been reported from the near- iby salt water fishing grounds, al- though in the vicinity of Amnnapolis, especially. in the Severn river, the angler continues his efforts until ice revents him from dropping a line nto the water. Tkere has been much written about the scarcity of bass in the creeks and rivers throughout the country owing to pollution and violations of the fish laws. Now comes the same cry from the sea anglers, bemoaning the fact that the glory of the past, “when a feller could go down to the beach ‘most any time, and with a hand line catch a mess of fish in an hour or 80" is ‘l t:tlllg re:l;:ed by only a comparatively few today. The decp-sea anglers wail s di- rected mainly t the scareity of the bluefish ‘and the striped bass or rockfish. They point out that it is “thcse darned pound nets, the trawl- ers, ate.” that are robbing” them of their sport. = During the past:five years various organisations, riodicals and indi- viduals have attempted to have laws ssed with the object of bettering rn‘nhnr- fishing conditions, but the at- tempts-did’ not meet with any suc- cess. As in the case of the conserva- tion o:‘ i‘u‘:‘!‘ h‘:n"zhmltlly. laws whfllfih nate. pollution from ofl- 5 . steamers- and’ from. rivers and big mouth bass. In reality, the | that dump their’ waste into® tidal waters must be put squarely before the legislative bodies of the coast states. Again federal control seems to be the only answer. The Battle of the Stream. BY ORRIN ALDEN DEMASS. Far from ‘the grinding world of plod, There lies a land of reel and rod; A paradise where sunbeams play’ On_silver A o leaping trout aad winding eiveam; ying fly and drying lin | And a cast to the shades be: A _sudden snap and bty fe From beneath the jam where the A viclous tug and a spraying splash, A sudden sulk and another dash, Around the bend where the aiders cool Dip their lips in the shadowy pool And out on the riffies beneath the sun— Careful—the battle is nearly won, A shortened line and a waiting net, A left arm raised and a right arm wet, A side that gleams in the current's trough, A final spl: d—hell, he’s off. WANTS ITALY TO RAISE COIN FOR OLYMPIC TEAM ROME, December 2.—In the hope that Italy may be worthily repre- sented in the Olympic games of 1924, Undersecretary of the Interior Finzl has suggested the formation of a com- mittee to raise the necessary funds, inasmuch as the government can give little financial assistance to the team because of its need to economize. He added that the committee might include Premier Mussolini, who would be sure to accept, thus insuring the success of the plan. i V. M. I. SCORES AT POLO. LEXINGTON. Va., December 2.—Thé V. 3 I polo team defeated the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania quartet here today by the score of 9 to %.. The Pennsylvanians made only one® goal, losing” half of the single point by a ul. SPEAKER NEAR RECORD IN ROPING, TYING CALF HILLSBORO, Tex., December 2— Tris Speaker, manager of" the Cleveland Americans, came within seconds of & world record in as; ones lurk. | wide memi-circle of beflagged and ‘decorated galleys, where they were shot amid great rejoicing of the august assemblage. Mighty hunters! Indced! —_— SARAZEN MAY NOT GET | I According to advices from the south, where he has gone to play himself back from convalescence to cham- pionship form, Gene Sarazen will go to Troon for the British open cham- plonship in June, and return to de- fend his American title the follow- ing month. But it is not without the bounds of possibility that Gene's plans_will miscarry. g At Miami the champion has lost touch with the north, and. of course, cannot know that if the United States Golf Associalon agrees to the rec- ommendation of the P. G. A. to ad- vance the national open to June and the British authorities at the same time again select a June date, there will be no trip for him unless he is more concefned about winning a foreign title than defending the one ‘which he annéxed this year at Skokie. This, of course, is unlikely, although it is to be a tremendous disappoint- ment to Gene if that trip to Troon Jdoes not materialize, Some time ago the P. G. A. of America made overtures to the Brit- 1sh P. G. A. looking to mutual action jon the matter of champlonship date: iJt has beeh customary fof the Brit {ish to hold their tourney in June, but Ias the season starts much -earller abroad than it does here, it occurred to the professional body in this coun- try_that it would work no hardship on %he players if the British event were advanced to May. This is the month in. which the amateur cham- alonship is decided abroad. TIED FOR GRID TITLE. 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