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2 ! THE SUNDAY._ STAR, WASHINGTON, D. U, MARCH 4, 1923—SPORTS SECTION. Barnett Named Golf Pro at Chevy Chase : Women’s Tennis League First to Acti ONE OF LEADING PLAYERS IN PHILADELPHIA CIRCLES! Comes From Tredyffrin Club, Where He Has Served " for Five Years—Selection Is Made From List of More Than 100 Applicants. BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. BARNETT, one of the leading pros about Philadelphia, | appointed professional at Chevy Chase, the goli! 1 committee of the club announced last night. | Barnett. an American-born professional and one of the best known goliers in the cast, will take up his new duties about April 1. He will| he in Washington tomorrow to discuss his new job with members of the committee. Barnett comes to the Chevy Chase from the Tredyffrin Country | Club of Paoli, near Bryn Mawr, a few miles outside of Philadelphia. He | has held the post of pro at the Tredyfirin for five vears. Previous to going there he was assistant professional at the Bala Country Club of Philadelphia. He is about twenty-eight years of age ! The new professional comes hizhiy | Thompson. professional at the Wash- | recommended as a player. teacher | Ington Golf and Country Club. who and a club maker He < ranked | made a trip to Montro: his home, fourth in the list of professional | during the winter. The pros in this wolfers about Philadelphia .Ilnnnll(‘n\xnlr\ are far better off than are such fine players as Charlie Hoffner. | the paid players in the home of the | Ren Sayvers and many others who game, Thompson suys. Very little e attached fto clubs about the | golf is being played and fees are| Quaker City He is president of the | lower than they have been for man | Thiladelphia Golf Association. vears, The Tom Stewart factory,| Barnett was selected to i} manufacturers of golf clubhends ! Post at Chevy Chase from a list known the world over, would have | applicants pumhezing more than had to shut down indefinitely but for hundred includin several of American orgders, Thompson Was in- prominent fessionals in the | formed country The club. according to miembers of the greens committee, in selecting Barneti has picked a man who will give his entire attention to his dutiex at the ciub, and will not vel about the country playing OBERT has been the of one the Harding, who leaves Washington tomorrow for a rest in Florida, will meet several Washing- ton golfers in the south, among them the District champion, C. J. Dunphy, with whom the [President probably ill play on a few occaslons. Dunphy | s in Florida with E. B. McLean nnd‘ Wwill not be back until after the north | and routh amateur at Pinehurst. Fred McLeod will take in the north and south open at Pinehurst. which the popular Columbla professional | won (Wo years ago, resident he job “hase nation, of professional was left vacant by last December. of who had b ttached to the ub’ for three vears. Barnett's ap- pointment leaves but one vacancy in the professional ranks about Wash- ston. the job at the new Burning e Club. at the Washington Golf and Country Club, which was discontinued because of the severe weather, will begin agaln shortly The course at present fis badly cut up, but by May should be in shape for play Some of the new greens will not be In condition h,\'l that time, but probably the gresater part of the course will be in use. Yesterdny's fine weather drew hun dreds of golf to the country clubs ra JIe on the first real- the season. More than were on hand at Wash- brobably twice _that the course at Chevy witor course. opened ursday after being closed on account of the wet condi- tion the tur wax crowded all afie Columbia also was with golfers one hundred nzton, and imber used se. The oniy dast New teex are heing constructed at! the nine-hole course in West Poto- z mac Park and the holes are being e golf profesxionals in'lengthened This course perhaps making thun a the only one in the country posses- ace » el sing concrete greens Frow of tand hare Tliving SARAZEN’S POOR PLAYING LAID TO TOO MUCH GOLF S8 dispatches from the south indicate in no uncertain manner "gam national open goli champion of ited States. is not by any means on as high a plane as it when he that title, the professional match play that the of Gene Saraz the U was last summer W championship, and wound up the campaign by a sensational victory over |intercolleglate golf title, 1920 and the | where Walter Hagan, the British open titlcholder. Sever includiug Chick Evans, and others equally down in Sarazen's game to his peculiar grip—the so-called interlocking kind in which the first finger of the left hand is locked with the little inger of the right hand ancis Ouimet of Boston golfer of national prominence who uses such a grip. All the other great golfers of this playing great golf. Gene may change country and abroad use the so-called | his grip at somee later date if he A erip. in which the little fing- | is sure In his own mind that all is the right hand rides on top | not working out as it should, but for of the first finger of the left hand. | the present he will stick to the in- The interlocking grip promotes | terlocking. strength and fullness of hitting by | Golfers generally are inclined to malking possibie a full palm grip of | the view that the open champlon the club, while the other grip pro- | seeming lack of form is due more to motes finger grip g and has the | too much golf than to any fault of tendency to better direction at the | grip or style, same tine cutting down the possibil- : ity of hitting with full strength, al.| _ (®mpnixning Since July. though possibly as hard a blow can Gene has been campaigning pretty be struck with one grip as with the | steadily since he won the title last | other July and has played probably more Rolf In eight months than he played in two vears previously. This steady | play, 1o doubt more than any other factor. accounts for his apparent in- consisteney. Too much golf causes any player loxi. Gene | to lose his sense of rythm and to bes | yoved his | come careless. Lagging of the the national wrists, swaying of the shoulders | and’ by | and inuccuracy in hittng come about p on edge | as a result of over-golf. To all of & of balance | these evils the champlon has prob- \ecessary | ably fallen heir, but his comeback is @ vounsster. | cannot be denied. A player with the und notwithetand- | natural ability of this American born fip which may or | lad of Itallan descent can't bs kept not be kept from | back. CHEVY CHASE AWARDED || ivsipE coLr The second fundamental in tim- ing (he golf atroke in thin: Keep sll engerncas out of it. The great The individual championship of \h"‘ FRER (STiEalters IS UNNG ihey ate Middle Atlantic Golf Assoclation was| O¥Cfcome with an unmanageable e e ol el enkernean to get at the ball and hit it. This causes the atroke to the annual meeting of the association | ¢ M. Chis cannes g held last night at the New Willara [ "¢ rothed. ER 11 10 Tanked e Hotel. The tournament will be hela | "Toke is started ‘down with e e | Jerk and the clubhead, because of Morsen’ Thompson, u) member of, Ly Ul be fuERd Ehen s Raiysis ot commitiee of the chevy] 1© have eome down lstde the i i N“” " - < ) ‘l“‘~f ath it followed going up. It loses ub, was elected president o association, succeeding C. M. Sheward of Wilmington, Del. Other tn sweep. The rushed stroke ul xetn the whole detal the shot | officers elected were as follows: E. L. ingluff. Maryland Country Club, is disastrous, first vice president; F. J. D. Mackay Richmond, Va., second vice presiden W. R. McCallum, Washington Coun- try Club, executiv etar; Yates Tenniman, Baltimo Club, treasurer. The association playing of the during_ 1523, but al prominent golfers, well known, ascribe the let What the Experts Say. autaorities contend that constant practi golf with the inter- Tie assertion is made the club, the sense must play ekin that by paiming of direction and t has n that swi arerully before open at playing just,en aintained Gene keep in to first-cluss Brip azen, however ast maturity ing that he has a @ may not be bad, ca 1o the Chevy th Chas the ‘When Abe Mitch- ell hits a ball yo voted to suspend team championship probably will re- vive this event next ve G. H. Chasmar of the Columbia Country Club was named delegate from the association to the annual meeting of the United States Golf Association, Delegates present included the fol- lowing: Bannockburn Country Club, Carl F. Kellerman and T. J._ W. Brown; Columbia Country Club, G. H. Chasmar and George P. James: Chevy Chase Club, John H. Clapp and Mo: ven Thompson; Wilmington Country Club, . M, Sheward: Washington Country Club, J. . McClenahan and G. . Truett; Heérmitage Countr Club. Richmond, Va, F. J. D. Macka) Indian Spring Golf ‘Club. Tom Moo; and A. D. V. Burr; Maryland Coun-} try Club, Thomag C. Sasscer and E. L. Slingluff. scious of any effort whatever om his part., If you have ever seen Rudy Knepper make a drive you also have beheld the perfectly timed delivery of the clubhesd. Knepper litts the club, smaps down quickly and has the whole stroke over with almont before you know it, and seemingly with- out effort. Again, take it easms. As the clubhend goex up and back let the body pivet, then hold it like a | mpring wound up—ecasily——start ' the clubhead down, let the body | ck of the stroke; dom’t | walt, wait; “feel® your body fairly “pushing” om the club whaft until it ben: der the pressure; keep you e on the ball, and snap it away. Above all, take it easy and in yonr home practice do mot try to apply teo much pressure at firat, Take it very essy until you begin to feel the ease of the whele thing. (Copyright, John F. Dille Co.) STARS FOR NOTRE DAME. Stanley Cofall, former Notre Dame aridiron star. who coached the Cath- olic High School eleven of Philadel- H | | —_— 'BARNES-FARRELL EASILY CONQUER SARAZEN-HUTCH MIAMI, Fla, March 3.—Jim Barnes, former ' national _champion, and Johnny Farrell of Quaker Ridge. pro. administered a severe drubbing to Gene Sarazen, national open golf champion, and Jock Hutchizon, for- mer British open titleholder, today. defeating them 8 up and 7 to play in their $1.000 match here today. The winners took the whole purse. | Phia toits first title in recent years, Barnes and Farrell finished the first 'has rnnounced that three of the eighteen holes 6 up with a Lest-b:ll i tean's cleverest playere will enter =core of §3 to Sarazen and Hutchi- [the Hoosler inatitution In the fall. son's 9. Barnes had a card of 69 |They are Joe Boland, Vinocent Me- -himeelf, which is 1 under par. Nally and Joe Maxwell, {justment of which they are capable.' ; For GREAT PERSONALITIES IN SPORTDOM Jesse Sweetser, King of Amateur Golf, Be- gan Early HEY say that an athlete should be at his best at the I age of twenty-seven. At this period, so the experts in physical development tell us, the mercurial ardor of youth has settled into a flame unvaryingly brilliant. Judg-, ment has ripened and solidjfied; endurance has attained its peak, while muscle and nerve and sinew have reached the nicest relative ad- All this is based upon demonstrated fact. However, perhaps, the best | reason the casual sport follower | might have for accepting the truth | of the foregoing Is the brilliant ex- ception which the amateur golf | tournament at Brookline last year | offered. It would seem that one of the essentlal facts concerning rules of life and living is that there shall be brilllant exceptions; the more ob- vious or imperative the rule the more | signal the deviation. Not Yet of Voting Ame. So with Jesse Sweetser. the cham- plon in amateur golf. Sweetser is a junior {n _the Sheffield School of Sclence at Yule. He was twenty vears old last April. Yet in steadiness, in poise, In sheer nerve and in all the clements of heavy driving power, deft touch and resourcefulness that mark an exhibitlon of almost perfect golf he was the undoubted peer of as luminous a galaxy of international amateur golfiug stars as was ever assembled in this country Golf Is a_curlous game. So extraor- dinary are its demands upon the human machine and so subtle are the conditions that make or mar a man's best play that only « rash prophet would attempt to forecast one sea- son’s play in terms of a preceding year in the case of whatever sta None the less, with Jesse Sweetser's form at Brookline fresh In mind, not forgetting the rapid strides he has made in the past few years, it is dif- flcult to refrain from speculation as to whit ensuing years hold for him. Have we here the coming superman of golf, a star who will shine in our | annals supreme and alone as Tilden has shone in tennis? Thmne will an- swer and to time may be left the answer. Attracted Attention Early. In the meantime it may be inter- esting to note that at the age of eleven Sweetser's game of golf had attracted the attention of critics in his home city, St Louis. Here Sweetser was horn. April 18. 1902. His aptitude for golf was made evi- | dent almost as soon as he was suffi- | clently strong to swing a golf club| At and before he was eighteen he was | D, sufficiently qualified to enter events in the Mound city with more than fuir prospects of winning many of them. In years alone was he lacking. With the Idea of entering Yale he sought an eastern preparatory school, in Exeter, and there he won the school | st championship three, vears in succes- | esion and was captain of the xclmnlw team in his graduating yvear. Besides, he found time to play foot ball and to run the quarter mile. | rec As a freshman at Yale he won the at following_year he was again a con- testant. But he had not been playing OF NEW YORK REFEREES BY SPARROW N has appeared where a winner legally pretty careiul about picking the man he was to mect This isn't doubt as to because Leonard has any ! his ability as a fighter. It fis because he is afraid of the| system under which new champions | are crowned and old ones uncrowned | in this national boxing center. In| fornmer times it was understood that in order to take a fighter's title away | from him, the contender had to beat the champion with his fists. It was the champlon’s prerogative to put up | as stalling a bout as he wished, or at least, make the challenger do the forcing. 1t 1s Different Now. | That doesn't go any more. Both Harry Greb and Pancho Villa were champlons who carried the fight to the contenders every minute and yet lost the decisions. Any boxing fol- lower knows that it is a sight easier to land counters than to score a point with a straight lead. Take a con- tender who knows a lot about the boxing game and he can stand back and make a very good showing in the way of a defensive battle. The {dea that prevailed of old was that a contender had to do more ‘than that in order to capture a crown. He had to show that he had initiative, fight in the heart and the ability ma- terially to outpoint if not knock out his opponent. No longer is this tie case. It is logical, therefore. to as- sume that in view of the brand of | decisions _that are being handed out in New York these days, all cham- | plons will eventually develop what used to be termed ring shyness. | Ring shyness never meant cow- | ardice. Most champlions, particularly heavyweights, have had it. No, it is not cowardice, merely an unwilling- noss to jeopardize the fat pank bal- ances they are bullding up. It would seem that never in ring history have champlons had greater cause to be ring shy than in New York at the present time. Godtrey Trailing Will Every fighter develops a jinx sooner or later in the course of his career. some time Harry Wills has served in that capacity for Jack Dempsey. Now, in turn, Wills is simi. larly pestered’ by George Godfrey, Jimmy Dougherty's big colored pro- tege. George s bigger than Harry and ‘a powerful hitter. The only line 4hat has been drawn as to the rela- tive merits of the two thus far has been their ability to stow away sSet- ups. So fur as this goes there lsn't any doubt that Godfrey packs the third and fourth raters aw with much greater celerity and convincing- ness thun Harry Wiils has ever done. The only thing that prevents God- trey from looming as a serious an- noyance to Wills is the fact that, Dboth men belng colored, no promoter will offer much money for the bout. 1f some one should promise a purse of impressive dimensions Wills would probably be forced to fight, although it looks as though he doesn’t es- pecially care about the idea. In the meantime Godfrey is eating Dough- erty out of house and home. (Copyright, 1923.) PITCHER FOR TARHEELS. Frank Coxe of Asheville, who was a pitcher on the Yale ‘varsity for three years, has registered for the spring term of the law school at North Carolina. He was in the uni- versity all last year, and will be eli- sible to play for the Tarheela than however won ried the Last | great s club to bestow membership. as much as he should, having been | the only other man <o honored in the tled up with the Yale track team.|histor: EW YORK. March 3—Benny Leonard to date has been the only champion fighter who has displayed fear oi the sort of decisions | that are being handed out in New York. Benny uses his head more than the other top-liners, king has had a decided preference for no-dec Y LAWRENCE PERRY- SSE SWEETSER all an eve <on better Later. money™ shingto Metropolitan championship at Lake- wood this year., defeating Ed Hale, and later he was named as one of the American golf squid which met tne British in play for the Walker cup. In this contest. although defeatea, he carried C. V. L. Hooman of Eng- land to the 37th hole and the maten, S0 far as sheer golf was concernea, was held by many to have been the | best in the Walker cup affair, e iranite | UP I2] The amateur title event found him L3te, Lrcaning Slally Lrilliane | serene, geared true to the test which Heonis espectally Loilliant fiyvolved the meeting and defeating ilino | anilie S Raales Willie Hunter, Bobby Jones, Jesse wreat game caused the ilford and Chick Evans, a task, in upon him an honorary S eoBAbIity & - aphon Bim an honorary | ail probability, such as no previous lie finished 3 the onal open the victory cup cvent Chick Evans to a third round of the Louis. Enjoyed n Banner Year. year Sweetser opened ords, Slecpy his of this clu He won the (Copyright, 1923 ) {HAGEN SETS LINKS MARK WITH 68 AT NEW ORLEANS | | NEW ORLEANS, March 3—Wal- ter Hagen, British open golf cham- pion, broke the country club rec- ord here this afternoon in match play In covering eighteen holes | McGANN, The previous record of 68 was eatablished by WHllam Mehlhorn of Shreveport in the southern open tournament last year. Hagen and Joe Kirkwood of Australia defeated Mehlhorn and Wsllle Nelson of New Orleans, & and 7, in the 36-hole match. Maybe this is because | The lightweight ion bouts, and when he v be selected. he has been $100,000 MINOR LEAGUE PLAYER JOE BOLEY, Shortstop of the Baltimore Internationals. Boley is said to have the finest hands in base hall—that is, the finest hasc ball hands. They're large. They hang on a fine pair of arms. Joe's big hands stop grounders and line drives that other short- stops bungle. And after Joe’s huge paws fasten about the horsehide there’s another element in his make-up that produces the perfect p! afield. He hns a fine throwing arm. Nome better in minors or majors. Joe’s hands and arm are his best bets. He also has a keen eye and an alert brain. He is fast afoot. Altogether Jack Du owner of the Baltimore club, feels that Joe is worth an even $100,000, and %o he has insured Joe for that amount. .If anything happens to ome of those hands, his throwing arm, or a leg, Dunn wants to he protected, for he’s holding on to Boley 10 the delight of the Baltimore fans, and he isn’t running the risk 2 huge loss in event of Injury. Bolcy will remain with Baltimore another year, »ays Dunn. He hax heen offcred as much as $100,060 for him and thinks he’ll still be worth that much at the cnd of another sesson. And in the meantime, he expects te realise considerably from Joe as & drawing card. lfifio”tflvu&ol.-lhth-h-' today. J amateur champion ever had to face. | DISTRICT GOLF LEADERS MEET TOMORROW NIGHT The annual meeting. of the D! trict of Columbia Golf Assoclation will be held at the New Willard Hotel Monday might at 8 o’clock. ‘Woman champion golfers of mem- ber clubs are invited to attend. MISS RYAN IN FINAL IN FRENCH NET EVENT By_the Associated Press. MONTE CARLO, March 3.-—Miss Elizabeth Ryan, formerly of Cali- fornia, defeated Mrs, Satterthwaite of England in the semli-finals today of the lawn tennls tournament here, after a hard struggle. The score was By her victory, Miss Ryan qualified to meet Miss Kathleen McKane of | England, who triumphed today over Mrs. Beamish of England, 6—1, 6—4 Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, who waas eliminated from the singles here by Mrs. Satterthwaite, began prac- | tice before a large gailery today on the courts at Mentone, where she ix entered for the tournament begin- ring next Monday. HAWKEYES JUMP ROPE AS PART OF TRAINING There used to be a time when rope jumping was considered entirely too mild a pastime for the college ath- lete. lowa University has put an end to that idea. The Hawkeves have adopted rope jumping to keep their basket ball team in shape. Coach Jim Barry puts the Hawkeye quintet through ten minutes of skipping ex- ercise every day Wrestling in the western conference has been put under fire. Elmer E Jones, director of the Schpol of Educa- tion at Northwestern, In a statement has attacked the conference rules governing wrestling bouts, asserted | that “there is no chance now for a ‘dl!tpll) of skill” and charged ‘‘col- | lege wrestling has become effemi- ! nate.” | “Wrestling in the, conference is a dead sport.” he declared. “The man | who rides the other fellow longer is | the winner, no matter how poor a | wrestler he is.” Prof. Jones, for three vears wrest- ling coach at’ the University of Indi- |ana and a former Intercollegiate Wrestling Assoclation champion, at- | tacked rule 8. section five, in partic- ular. That rule provides a contestant | to win a decision at the end of a 12-minute_bout must have an ad- vantage of 1 minute in time behind his opponent. “All interest in wrestling by the adoption of that ridiculous | rule” Prof. Jones said. “College | wrestling has become effeminate.” | —_ Syracuse’s lacrosse team will play | eight games in England in June, Prof. Laurle D. Cox, vice president of the | Intercoliegiate Lacrosse League and coach of the Orange twelve, has an- nounced. The squad will sail from Montreal June 1, arriving in London June 8. GENTRAL HIGH TANKERS TAKE S. A TTLE MEET BALTIMORE, March second time in as many tral High School of showed the way to local tankers in the twelfth annual inter-scholastic |swimming meet held at the Baltimore Athletic Club pool tonight Five school boys' teams competed. with the scores in points as follows. Central, 33; Polytechnic Institute, 2x: | Tome Institute, 9; City College, 6 | Friends School, 5. | Three records were broken. two of them being smashed by Central High swimmers. The first of these, the 100-vard breast stroke event, was broken by Satterfield. who 2 new record of 1.16 'in the prelimi- naries. The second, the 220-vard d}sn, was broken by stolley, also of Central, with a mark of 2.38 1-5. The third new mark was made by Loane of Polytechnic in the 100-yard back stroke, betterlng the record of Howenstine of Central High by 4 2-5 seconds in hangin, 8 Sy gIng up a mark of a | 3.—For the vears Cen- Washington Summaries. 160-YARD RELAY—Won by Central High (Stolley, Parsons, Bonnmet, N nd | Polyteohnio (Bailey. Jolenko, Loene, Veooars: third, Tome (Conover, | $hird. Tome (Conover, Atkinson, Ross, Coop): FANCY DIVE—Won by Hunter. Ceatral: second, Woods. Polytechnic: - thisd. Tapta. Tome. 50-TARD DASH—Won by Ral Polytechnic: ! h. city; | second, Bailey, third, 5 Polytechnic. Time, 0.27 1.5 — 100-YARD BREAST STROKE—Won by Sat. terfleld, Central: second, Ganns, Central; third, Skeens. City College. Time, 1.16 3.5, #20-YARD DASH~—Won by Stolley, ‘Central; second, Larco, Tome: third, Les, Polytechnic. Time, '2.38 15, PLUNGE FOR DISTANCE—Won by Miller. Friends: second, Stansfl Central: third, Marks. Polyteohnio, . 32 2.5 seconds. 100-YARD BACK STROKE—Won by Loane, Polytechnic; second. Wedge, Polytechnic third, Walsmith, Central. Time, 1.14 4.5. 100-YARD DASH—Won by Balley, Poly- technic; second, Atkinsen. Central; third, Par- sons, Central, 'Time, 1.0i. WOMAN TRAPSHOOTERS LED BY A CALIFORNIAN Mrs. C. E. Groat of Long Beach, Calif., once more heads the list of woman trapshooters in North Amer- ica, her average for the season of 1922 belng even better than the one she made when she led the ladles in 1921 Last year she shot at 1,475 regis- tered targets and broke 1,384, which gave her an average of .9383. In 1921 her average was .9221 on 1425 targets. Thiw is a great showing for & woman at the traps and is one of which Callfornia may be proud. Next to Mrs. Groat comes Mrs. E. L. King of Winona, Minn., who gave the crowd at the grand American tourna- ment at Atlantic City, N. J., last Sep- tember a real thrill by breaking 95 out of 100 in the preliminary handi- cap, although placed on the 22-yard mark. Her average for the year was Mrs. Robert Shaw of Long Beach, ., gained the unusual distinction ving shot at more targets than any other woman. Although it was only the second year at the traps for Mre. Shaw, she shot at 4,650 targets l!r;t’lzhroke 3,903 for an average of BILLIARDS IS POPULAR AMONG THE MEXICANS N. Y. of hi Silliards Is among the most popular | teams are in elghth place. Boston di: games In Mexico. Notwithstanding (hlol‘nu of his right | go to the island of Guam for all that Vatticacic, of Gelaye Fresi WRESTLING IN COLLEGES, EFFEMINATE, IS CHARGE hung up | n FAIR SEX AGAIN TO HAVE TEN-TEAM ORGANIZATION} Six Clubs Already Admitted to Circuit—Columbia, Last Year’s Champion, Is Uncertain—Mrs. Beatrice Smitl Chosen President. BY W. H. HOTTEL. MININE racketers are the first.among the District tennis colony to plan for the coming season. Blazing the 1923 trail for the devotees of the net game in the Capital city, one of the biggest tennis centers in the United States, is the Women’s League; which has elected its officers and admitted six of the ten teams that will make up the circuit. Not only do the fair sex players expect to have an intensive and extensive campaign, but they also intend to hold their own tournament this season, applying for a date_ that will not conflict with the District men's championship events, which caused the combination of the two tourneys in 1922 Mrs. Beatrice Smith has been chosen to head the organization this vear, with Miss Elizabeth as vice president |and Mrs. Winnifred Ellis as secre- tary-treasurer. Miss Pyle filled the last-mentioned positions last season |and established a record that will force Mrs. Ellis to keep strictly the job to match Teams which so far have been ad- mitted to the league, with their lead- ers, are as follows: War Department—Mi Poston. ey Branch—Mrs. Beatrice Smith. Alumni—Miss Marjorie Wooden. Mid-City—Mrs. Austin Stone. Mount Pleasant—Miss Ma Sewall. Racqueters—Mias Macila de Sou War Department is the only new omer, the other five having bee members of the circuit a year ago Other teams in the league last vear| were C‘olumbia, which won the cham- pionship: Chevy Chase, Liberty, Na- tionals and Marjorie Webster School. It is not considered likely that either Columbia or Chevy Chase will be in the circuit this season, but it is prob- able that the other three will be. on ININDOOR NET FINAL PHILADELPHIA liam T. Tilden, 2d, national tennis champion. won ‘the middle states in- door singles championship here night, winning three of four s played with R. Lindley Murray Buffalo, 6i— 6—4, 1—6, 0—0. Dean Mathey and Watson M. Wash- burn of New York won the middle {states indoor tennis doubles cham- Ipionship by defeating Tilden and Sandy Weine Tilden det w 7—5. in the semi-finals J. Lindley, Buffalo, defeated Harold | Throckmorton, New York. 6—1, B Fischer, Philadelphia, March 3.—Wil- Florence de {6—2, and Carl | 8—6, . to reach the final. Washburn and Mathey defeated Wallace F. Johnson, Philadelphia, land Harold Throckmorton, New York in the doubles semi-finals, 6—4, 6—3 However, it is definitely planned to i have ten teams, with each match of ! the series consisting of eight singles t TITLE SWIM DATES SET. as ha been the case for the past 3 couple of seasons. Players are rank | Indoor swimming championships of | ed and the racketers of like rating | the South Atlantic A. A. U. are to be | on each team face. Each team will | held in Baltimore pools this year. The | meet the other one during the sched | interscholastics will compete March 3, | ule, which will start the latter part jand the men March 17 at Baltimore | of April | Athletic Club. while the women will | Another meeting, at which it is ex- | strive for titles April 14 at the Y. | pected the circuit will be completed IW. C. A, will be held in the near future, IHOPE OF WINNING FLAG BRINGS TYGERS IN LIN major league team to get | BY JOHN B. FOSTER. Good business management may i N EW YORK. March 3.—Detroit is the fi have had something to do with obtaining that result, but there all its players under contract is something more in it thai that. Detroit players today think they have a chance to draw the pennant ace when the final cards are dealt this year Whenever a team which has not been a pennant winner the 'y before or even runner-up jumps at the fly when the contract cast made in early spring, you may be sure the players are thinking they have “gct together” and that they have a better than even chance to win the pennant and get into the big series at the finish of the season i The ‘r,\uz»-r-r made a luren 4 hohluhid e = xe summor for something more it | MACKS® $100,000 INFIELD 5 e NOW IS WELL SCATTERED season Pille'te was carrying them along in splenid style. His pitching { was good enough to bowl over all | opposition and he could handle the| _ 'The hig four of the Athletica’ close games as well as any pitcher | $100,000 infield now is well shuffied. in the American League. i .(i-l-«)lm;lnn ;;‘m. been let go by : 5 e eveland, e Collins_is with o .. Heil.| the Whife Sox” ¥rank Baker is hile this was VY“C?(’“"KT_“ ready for retirement and Jack mann was hurt and the other Tygel'| parry will continue to teach Holy Cross young men how to wear the base ball uniform to advantage. | pitchers failed to hit the pace which was being set by Pillette. 1f John- son had come through about four weeks earlier than he did there| | av a three-cornered | A g“;;fi:"ri’;"‘l" glcen a three-cornerel lthis hut it is a task the magnitude 1923.) =5 P 2 lof which is apparent to Chance, who | which would have turned the Amer-|j.¢e" the restful cultivation of grapes jcan race any one of three ways. De-} s I ol troit's let-down after going L AP “"‘:{ Syt ,\".( streak protably helped St. Lou I e >4 than It did New. York. ~Anyhow, it |}!as bordered on success so often th : i 1o expects some diy to fall on the took out Detroit as a championship | [f SN¥RECS S0M factor for the remainder of the year. 5 E Granting that such was the case. | (Copyright the spurt they made introduced the | Detroit players to the fact that if | they got away in 1923 with as much | RO AR s, it | MOST OF SQUAD FEELING iddle of 1922 they had a chance to! Win' Sometnimg veuer tman ira, EFFECT OF DAILY GRIND money. | It is a safe bet of a cooky to a| - | eracker that one of the reasons which | P ontinued from First Page.) has animated them to sign contracts 7 without much fussing is their knowl- | Wallace Westinghouse Warmoth | edge of what they can do. gave an edifying exhibition of his | - | artistry in the matter of control dur- | Cobb Handles "Em Right. ing the session today. With Gibson It might be well to add to that]receiving, the Southern Association | eredit for a liberal application of | southpaw demonstrated the faculty | salve on the part of Ty Cobb. Since|of accurately locating the big mitt. | the Georgian agreed to manage alno mattey where it was held—high. | team as well as try to win a cham- |low, inside or outside, Ability to pionship as a plaver among other|place his deiiveries is one of War- players he has become quite a diplo- , moth's greatest assets. Really good mat. He can smile his prettiest to|control is a rare trait for a left- his fellow men and more than half | hander, and in this case is expected | convince some of them that he has!to go a long way toward earning a | mot the biggest scare cooked up for|berth for him on a staft already well his rival managers that has been on | stocked with southpaws. the fire in the American League since the 1922 season closed. Eis players are moving along with | him, and if Ty can get out of Geor- gia after a liberal application of sun- | shine and without a creaky arm on his_pitching_staff there will be no muffler on the cutout when his old Tyger gas cart starts digging up | Woodward avenue in the City of the | iS(railEv If n loose, eany motion was all a pitcher needed to make good in fast company, Hezekiah Kronkheir Beach already would be assured of a job in Washington this summer. The voung righthander from Paducah, K the poetry of motion when heaving a base ball. although an angular lad devold of a surplus ounce of Tesh. Beach impresses one as capable of generating a world of stuff. There are many requisites as important for a pitcher, but power is. not the least of them, and in that respect the in- dications are that Beach will meas- ure up. He tinkered considerably with a spitball in the Katy League from which he hails, but he is not dependent on it, and hopes to demon strate his fitness for big league con sideration with entirely legal pitch- ing methods. If_the pitchers of the American League could only catch Babe Ruth in the same frame of mind he was in when he played the world series of last vear and the year before they | might stop him as successfully as | the pitchers of the Giants stopped him in those vears. TIncldentally, if they could do’ this, they would ruin one of the most valuable pieces of ! base ball attraction that any club in | either circuit owns. - Ruth was annoved, and then again and more. That he dared the Giants to meet him individuaily. choosing | any representative of their team that they might desire, and that no one volunteered or even seconded the mo- tion, has been intimated now and then, and is none the worst for repe- tition. “Getting the goat” of a player in! a world series is not a_new social custom. It has frequently overstep- ped the bounds of decency, but as the mikado and the members of the base ball crbinet cannot run around at the heels of the players listening to their monologues and dialogues-it has not been possible to place all .the blame when the airy persifiage ran into the vulgar rather than the rococo. 1t would be a hard task, though.! for_ the pitchers of the American League to catch Ruth’s goat and keep \t tied all of the season. Sometimes Boaton is referred to an American League city. When the Braves won the championship way from New York in 1914, entirel surrounded by huge crowds whicl concealed Fenway Park from the naked eye, everybody in the Hub said that Boston was a Natlonal League city after all. If both Boston clubs should happen to win, the city Would probably be divided a5 to popu- lation, one race againat another. Now that neither club can win, and both The three moxt anclent members of the Washington contingent, in point of diamond service, at lea Bush, Russell and Zachary—are bear- ing the rigors of training in fine shape. Zach Is drilling along in his staid, methodical way, apparently en- joying himself. Russell is being careful to make haste slowly and re- ports that his arm feels fine. 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