Evening Star Newspaper, February 6, 1923, Page 25

SPORTS.” High Cost of Golf Becoming Acute Issue : Play Is Accurate in Indoor Tennis YOUNG MEMBERS FORCED TO RESIGN FROM CLUBS Sentiment Veering Away From Seeking to Stage Big i Tourneys and Having Pros Absent Themselves I to Compete in Title Events. BY WALTER CAMP. N EW YORK, February 6.—The subject of “The Deflation of Golf” might well be taken up by most of the country’s golf clubs with great benefit to the game, to the players and to the clubs them- selves. The question of the high cost of club golf is becoming very press- ing indeed. Already many young men have been forced to resign from clubs all over the country, and do their club swinging on municipal links. Undoubtedly many more will follow rising cxpenses attached to member unless there is a halt called on the ship in a golf club. .. The writer receives many letters on this subject, settlement of which is important not only from the standpoint of development of skill of ayers, but also as a question of social economics. 1 excerpt from one of the that every ttee in the country will cent article of yours on ough it is doubtful if a committee member would get any real good out of It. Greens com- mittee members seem to feel that they are inspired, that all their ideas about remaking mssessme weak-kn vote ‘Arc. Forced to Resign. Another writer names a particular club and tells how several young members had to resign because of ad- vaneing costs and continual assess- ments. d T soon will have to do the same.” this golfer continued, “and for the same reason, although I'am a charter member.” In still another let- ter Is the statement: “But, as one of the principal plutocrats of our club . *We don't want anybody well enough off to own golf courses, and paving ts are wonderful, while we members sit quletly and course is, indeed, a fine re of them the better, cipal course fails to fill ; young men of twen- v five, just married. with mode »me, who, with his wife, ought to be 2 member of a good private club. To be compelled to do his golfing on a municipal course means to leave his wife at home, if she doesn’t play, on the one or two days a week that he gets a chance to be out of doors. In most of our pri- vate country clubs today this man is Some of these young men have the moral courage to realibe that the rising cxpense of private club golf is too big an item in thelr budgets and resign, but a good many of them mre temptid to stay and run in debt to th e baker and the candle-stick Ther: has been much debate as to wheth. r the iolf Club will Jet Ge:e Sarazen go over to play in the British open. A short time ago it geemed very positive that they would not grant consent to their newiy ac- quired professional, but now there are fndications that they might recon- sider. The truth of the matter is that times have changed quite & bit for us, and although the golf professional holds a most enviable position, the club members are not so sure that the object of their paying him a large salary is to have him competing in tournaments, especially if It takes him away a large portion of the time from at the club. s when satisfaction of hav- club’s professional “in the Y in the big tournaments was enough to satisfy the members, with- out demanding too much of him from the harder and more onerous and less exciting duties at the club. But now there is an increasing demand that he attend more ‘strictly to busi- ness and the glamour of his victories away from home has somewhat worn off. ue that there is quite a pirit in many golf clubs as rability of holding rtant tournaments on ) rse. Formerly, aimost all clubs had a vision that' if they developsd what they called a “cham- plonshiy course” considerable money, and to the ex- asper::tion of th ub” players, they ure a big tournament. To- ge proportion of the clubs ¢ opinion that they would t give up their course for a 1ve the greens and general- o in_“apple-pie order” ent. This is not to say « will not be plenty of clubs to hold big tournaments, but « sober second thought is ong the general rank e clul at the outlay of willin: 3 in the s of zolf so-called * " it will be Indeed worth (Copsright, 1923.) GOLF EVENT CANCELED. NEW ORLEANS, February 6.—The en golf tournament scheduled to e held here February 15, 16 and 17 has Leen called off. The action was taken when it learned that many of the stars, | ding Gene Sarazen, Walter H. Hutchison, Barnes, kwood and Johnny Farrell d be unable to be here on the ¢ elected. PLAN BENEFIT FOR HAGER. Managers of sandlot base ball teams= have been invited to attend a meeting tonight at 8 o'clock at Friend<hip House, 326 Virginia a theast, to plan a benefit Joe W tes cher. for his health, I, manager of will be in charge. ‘YANKS GET OPTION ON MAY. February 6—The New | 2 one-year op- tion on 3 loft-hand ftcher of the Vernon, Calif. club. ad been negotiating for s for several months. he club May's & GIANTS RELEASE FULLER. NEW YORK, February 6.—The New York Natlonals have released In- flelder Frank Fuller to the San An- tonlo team of the Texas League. Fuller recently sent In his contract unsigued, asking an increase in sal- ary —_— Mansnchusetts Golf Assoclation has ®ighty clubs enrolled, including 7,464 members. Radiators and Fenders KIND MADE OR REPAIRED, ANY 10 DIFFERENT MAKES BADIATORS. WITTSTATT'S R. and F. WORKS $19 18th. F. 6410. 1485 P. M. 7443 Match Your Odd Coats With Our Special TROUSERS $4.65 Save the price of am enmtire mew suit. All eolors, sizes, pat terns. EISEMAN’S 605-607 7th St. N.W. INSIDE GOLF By George O'Neil. It is not wo rally known as it whould be t the driver In golf ix an Ameri 1% Charife Hall, profeasiona! Country Club,” Birmingham, A Hall has n most remarkable swin and he sends out a terrific ball, nveraging very clowe to 300 yards from every tee where %o much dixtance in gettable and free from penalty when got. Hall iy rather heavy wet and is &en t about thirty-five years old. holds weveral course records, in. cluding a card of 65 for the aif- cult Roebuck Club links at Bir- mingham. His rhythm fs perfect and his tremendous follow-through Droves the theory that there be no great distance without full follow-through. Hall, I derstand, intends to take part in more national tournaments hence- | forth. 'His drives have been credited” officlally as the longest ever accomplished. America's greatest trick hole fa 1he “mountainside chip” at the St. Andrews courwe near New York. ery stranger at this course is led on thix tee his firat time The tee has a tremendous elevation, with u sheer drop of weveral hundred feet below. The Kreen, away below, is hardly vis- ible down the mountainside. The player who first approaches it wonders what to use—mashie, niblick, jigger or what. No ever tells him, so invariably ::tku a mashie. Then he . s companions put eve th they have Into & drive with wood. Thix green calls for a drive of 325 yards straight out from the high tee. One would never suspect it. (Copyright by John F. Dille Co.) MARYLAND UNIVERSITY T0 HAVE GOLF COURSE COLLEGE PARK, Md., February 6. —In keeping with its progressive attitude in athletics, University of Maryland is branching out in another sport this year or in 1924. It will begin a golf course—a nine-hole af- fair—for the faculty and students in the epring. Just how long will be needed to get the ground in shape 18 problematical, but it seems a safe bet that the university will have use of the course next year at least. Decision to build a nine-hole course was made only recently. It is not intended to construct the most sporty or expensive course in the state, but it will be adequate for the needs of S|the members of the faculty and all t the students who wish to take up the game. Quite a number are devotees of the game at present on courses about Washington, but the announce- ment that they are to have their own ilinks was halldd with delight. Maryland will be the third school in the state to boast of a course, there being a nine-hole course for the officers at the Naval Academy and another at Tome, where seve: fine players have been developed. A Baltimore professional will look over the 50-acre campus some time this month, and work will be started as soon as possible. The athletic fleld has been shifted to another part of the 300-acre farm, and this territory will be available ffor the goifers. YANKEES ATHLETES WIN IN GAMES AT OXFORD OXFORD, England, February 6.—In the Oxford University intercoliege cup | competition yesterday, Tevis Huhn of Princeton and University College won the 220-yard low hurdles in 27 sec- onds, the 120-vard high hurdles {171-5 seconds and the broad jump {with'a leap of 20 fect 10 inches. The running track was heavy. W. E. Stevenson of Princeton and Balliol Collegs, won the quarter mile race in 524-5 seconds, and the 100- yard dash in 104-5 seconds. ALOYSIAN RUNS WELL. Aloysius Club is counting upon |James Montague to score in road races planned hereabouts during the spring. Competing in a six-and-one- half mile handicap race in New York last Sunday, Montague covered the distance in 39 minutes, 5 seconds and finished nineteenth in a field of 160 starters. Sam Welss of the New York Mohawk Athletic Club won in 38 minutes. 14 seconds. { i i 1 SEMI-SOFT COLLARS ‘Will not wilt, crease, cusl or fray. Appesr stiff, are soft. Launder Madebyshemakersof ArrowCollars l easily. 35¢ each, 3 for $1 THE EVENING 'WARHINGTON, U. U, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1923. AMEREANTTLEGIES TOCANADIN SATER BINGHAMTON, N. Y., February 6.— Harry Kasky, Chicago, Canadlan ice- skating champion, won the American title on Ideal Park rink, Endlcott, yesterday by taking first place in the half-mile and third in the 440-yard events. Joe Moore, New York, for- mer international champlon, placed second for the national title. Kasky scored 110 points and Moore had 80. Miss Gladys Robinson, Toronto, wrested the women’s national cham- plonship title from Miss Elsle Muller, New York, scoring 105 points for four | events. i { Richard Donovan, the world record In winning the | three-mile race, clipping one and three-fifths seconds from the mark of | 8:45 established by Roy McWhirter, | Chicago. at Lake Placid in 1921 Donald Baker, professional ing against time, broke th. | Endicott, broke | professional record in the 130-: dash, skating the distance in 141 GOLF, IS By the Associated Press. < has been proved a success by recently jnstalled an indoor HICAGO, February 5~Golf with meals instead of a jazz orchestra a popular Chicago restaurant, which links in connection with its dining room. Patrons even pay extra for their golf and flock to the cafe where they can spend from fifteen minutes to an hour driving into a net or putt- ing over a miniature links before gathering around the tables for food. Regular customers hold tournaments After a few days operation of the golt course, many diners, who never had seen the game played began to take Interest, and from the numer- ous spectators scores of embryo golf- ers vontured to take up the Scotch game. The course is busy from mid- day until midnight, with players waiting in line to get on the first tee. Finding that they could play golf during their lunch hour, or before dinner after office hours, numerous golfers boldy followed the English style of wearing knicker golf suits to business, so that they would be more comfortably clothed for the sport. As the cafe is in the center of each week. Chicago's rialto, the theatrical center of the city already is becoming ac- customed to seeing men clad in golf whereas only & few months o European golfers in America for the open championship were annoyed in New York and other cities by the stares and comments of Americans who derided the wearing of golf clothes in the business quarter. —_— Monroe's district public school soc- cer champlon team will be feted to- night at St. Stephen’s Church. The entertainment will be given under the auspices of the Columbia Helghts Citizens’ Assoclation. BOSTON, February 6.—The profes- sional coach in college athletic should be abolished, President Alexander Meik! dress last night before the Women's City Club here. The conduct of foot ball and other college gumes should be given into the control of the players, he added. Admission fees to college athletic contests should be limited to & suf- ficlent sum to pay for the upkeep of the playing fleld, President Meikle- John declared. The students, not the spectators, should meet the expenses of the com- peting teams. SOUTHPAW FOR YANKEES. NEW YORK, February 6.—The New York Americans have signed Pitcher Pat McKinstry, f ent, from Akron, Ohlo. McKinstry is s left- hander and is being tried out on the strength of a twenty-inning victory over Jim Vaughn, former Chicago southpaw, last season. BYORTS, INSTEAD OF JAZZ, |WOULD LET STUDENTS |BOUND OF BALL IS TRUER SERVED WITH MEALS| puN COLLEGE SPORTS| THAN ON OUTDOOR COURTS BY LAWRENCE PERRY. N EW YORK, February 6—Talking to the expert woman tennis play- ers engaged in the recent tourney in the Brooklyn Heights Casino the writer got the impression that they felt they played better on wood than upon either turf or clay. Of course, the indoor game has man; drawbacks, so far an enjoyment of play is concerned, but there is the feeling that it makes for increased proficiency. For one thing the players find that, whereas on dirt or grass the ball hangs for a moment, on & wooden floor there is a palpable skid. In other words a hit ball comes right at the striker; he—or she—doesn't have to go to it as is likely to be necessary outdoors. Does this ball that rises from the surface without hang or hesitation of whatever sort make for more ac- curate hitting? Probably, because, as you studled these women players you noted that they swung at the pitch of the ball, perfectly confident that the surface would play them no tricks and that the ball would rise pre- cisely to the spot where in their sub- conscious minds they had decided to strike it A Proposition—What’s Your Answer ,000 Suits--*23°° @, *3 Fortunately men’s fashions have none of the elaborate frivolity of wom- en’s. 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Two alternatives confronted us—pack them away and hold on for dear prices next Septem- ber—-higher prices being a prac- tical certainty long before Sep- tember, or—enlist the common sense, thrift and economy of the men of Washington by offering them now at head-long reduc- picked the latter, and we will play with you in a running game against risi costs—0ld Father Timel holding the stop- watch. is perhaps unprecedented in the his- tory of The Hecht Co. { I 3 it At least the above may be accepted as a logical explanation of the state- ment of players that they feel great certainty in their indoor stroking. There is testimony to the effect that the ball feels heavier under a roof, and affords an agreeable impression of striking somewhat tangible. Miss Leslie Bancroft of Boston still ds using her steel racquet. But Mrs. Malta Mallory clings to the wood and gut bat. 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