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SPORTS. MULDOON WISE IN BANNING THE LODGE-FIRPO CONTEST The Farmer Can Hit, But Is Terribly Slow and Prob- ably Would Be Slaughtered in Ring With Rough Argentinian, BY FAIR PLAY. 1f they don't stop “building up” would-be putting them against fighters who have no chance, cbody ing to get kiled one of these days. Then the old and cry wiil ¢t aised again against boxing, There was Floyd Johnson's battle against Ray Thompson, in which the man who is to meet Wiliard scored a knockout in twenty seconds. Now Ray is a nice, clean young boy, a soldicr who got shot up in the war—where so few of our leading fighters went—but he long ago demon- strated that he is not gu- " %ed to stand up against the big ‘uns,’ yet he up aga d lohnson, who, as every one knows or e known, ssed Thompson. e N YORK WILL FORCE CHAMPIONS TO FCHT 3 The Didactic Duke of Mul- | . more has stepped in with v proper ruling when he says i. Ludge can’t be the human piing €tone on which Mr. Firpo climb another step toward the | ¢ match_ Incidentally | of these occa- on which Chairman Muldoon Shows that his heart and mind arel in the proper Lot it Umes to] NEW YORK, March 28—Holders of R he best Inter- | pugilistic champlonships will be in- ‘he writer saw Lodge In Madison | terested today the rule of the boxing commission nponent. | governing the defense of titles. The S walst | new regulation goes Into immediate was giving the | ealin't - step | effect and is as follows: sver his own feet, | “Whenever a boxer holding a cham- For a time it looked been clLallenged and v_much in- i ned by the re- Rut_egged with this commis- 1ly through |sion, such holder of & championsh 1 lasso or a|Wiil not be allowed to take part acendentally caught other boxer 5 s EW YORK, March champions 1 son more big boomeran Paul arden a S0 ago son wpponent. hovet vet s accepted said late set for rstood just what And Lodge was iship match of the of a t a ta the accordane state boxing law, tae boxing rules, which provide the holder of a championship m defend his title in a championship bout within six months trom the time of winn title. ith any holder of s e 3 wrn challenger A champicust ip t In Slow. ‘.~nm.r‘-u: y & can hit, but he is slow, | , the commission belleves. the effect of preventing from dodging bona fide cs through various ses storming in decisionle tricts. BROOKLAND NINE FIGURES ON BEING IN TITLE HUNT e base ball has been staged since the days of the there is a team planning to achieve great things this year. L ies the name of the suburb, and it is one of the city. A heavy schedule has s of that neighborhood expect a chai ger John J. McCann, 518 Rhode ue northeast, is now booking games. ndidates for the Central Presby-|ans will open the season at Arlingten inn Church are requested to| April 15. for pra Diamond No. 3 Monun i 1 aver Plana for the seawom of the War wick Atkletle Club will be discutsed at a meeting in the liome of Ralph Bennie, 1236 C street northeast, Fri- day night. Saturday the Warwlicks will meet the Liberty A. C. at the laza at 3:30 pm. Games have been scheduled wita Waverly Juniors, Mar- feldt Juniors, Park View Juniors, Mack!in A C., Shamrock Juniors, Vie- tdgets| tory A. C. Riggs A. C ‘e‘;\'t | Chevy Chase Bearcats and the Roya o) present. ster holidays Members of the Co < with te Tesms in the thirteen-year-old class wanting games with the Smithficld nine should write to Louls Rose, 905 suard of George | 5th street northwest. iaskei ball team, has { the Herzl Al Goldsteln, ‘Washington" —_— ele Department Leagwe has reor- ganized for the season and is ready for business, wih th- lone excap ! out the circuit, fiv D ¥ ary of A v_president of the leugue, N Walt C. Johnson as the active d. L. G. Schmidt was chosen sec- retary-treasurer. Quartermasters, Ordnance, Finance, Director of Sales and All-Service are the teams granted franchises. Any other, team. that .would like a barth may get in_touch with Secretary | Schmidt, at 3807 Munitions bullding or by calling Maln 2620, Branch 1252. . of Seat Pleasant,| 11 open the season Sunday with | o with the Atlas A C, For to Ralph Chaney, Land- Fruit Growers’ Express Company .hag organized a team and would like to arrange games with teams in the gnlimited class. G. Chaconas, at Main 5330, will schedule games, Mannger Frank Athey of the West- . C. would like to arrange games He y wants a game this Sun- eorgetown at 1 p.m. Century A. C. will meet the Lin- prorth Juniors next Sunday at Rose- dale. The new men, Sheffe’l and Tulick have been added to the Manhattan squad. For gumes call C T. Hutch- nson, at 1505 Rosedale street north- east all nino is prac- s ficld. The Virgint- ! Cherrydale b, on Clark 35 Ceach 3 for$1.00 MONTHURST Matchless, sagless, faultless, Ideflex Collass pattern theie style upon the skill of 1de’s starched craftsmanship. IDEFLEX CCLLARS bave bt lda siarched k. The story has been n an amendment to| s | game of 117. that it needs a sixth team to round ton’s “twenty years” the ring won high fame Jack Britton is now 37 twenty years of professional THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1923. BRITISH TO CHALLENGE YANKEES FOR POLO CUP LONDON, March 28.—Sgorting Life =ays the Hurlingham €olo commitiee has decided to challenye the American Polo Association for the Hurlingham-America cup. Viscount Wimborne is chairman of the committee. MISS QUAITES BOWLS 142 GAME, LEAGUE MARK Bronson Qualtes, rolling for the Billle's team in the Washington La- dles' League, made a seuson’s record | ! for the circuit last night when she turned in & game of 142 Lorraine Guill had been leader, with 131. Miss Quaites’ other two games were not 5o good, as she finished with a set \of 319, Billle's team took two out of three games from the Reglstry quint with scores of 515, 414 ard 450 | Internal Revenue giris swept the | boards with the War Department | quint with the scores 417, 411 and 423. | Miss Bywaters of the winners had a “hll\‘ of 102. Hilitoppers, league leaders, refuse | to be stopped. They won all three games from the Columblans last I night, thelr scores being 476, 445 and 14 Miss Gulll of the winners had Iboth the top game and set of 114 Jand 300. ‘Western Union captured the odd | game from the Sales Tax girls with the scores of 494, 417 and 485. Miss | Bitting of the winners had the fest |set of 318 and shared honors with Miss Bradt for the high gume of 121 Sales Tax of the Internal Revenue League captured the odd game from | the Mateon Unit last night with the scores 492, 475 and 472. Redmond of the winners had top set of §1i and 1 nex No. 2 won twoe out | from Spectal” Audit with 484, 436 and 470, | ners had the best set i Byrne of the losers the Ligh game of | 1%6. € Audit rolled 543 in win- | i ning second game. | Lorns ama Curremcy captured two | ames out of three from the Liberty | Loan quint in the Bureau of Engra [ d Printing last night on the . thelr scores being &s of the losers ¢—and Relft of In a wpecial match 4t the Recreation | rast nt Herzog's quint won two out of three from | tew h the scores The ¢ | North 9875. | Kenawha nine will meet the Rialto club on the Washington barracks dlamond Sunday at 12:30 o'clock. M 'MILANS BOWLS TO FRONT | . IN TWO MASONIC CLASSES| ANY good bowlers are scheduled to roll tonight in League tournament at the King Pin alleys, but they will have to { bowl some if they are to oust the leaders. i I man in the singles was swept out of the way and in the doubles new | pairs went into the second and third places. There were no changes in d. "NoMeeR ONE PIECEE WiFe " THE CHINA SEA. January 15— China is an immense country, with at least 500.000.000 people. No- body knows the real population of China, an a census has never been taken. Nearly fifty different xuages are spoken and a bative of one section camnot understand the mative of anofher. “Pldgin” English is a necessary acquirement for any white man who expects to wpemd any time there. The langunge consints of several hundred English words adapted to Chinese pronuncintion. and used without regard to Eng- lish grammar, but as they would De in ® Chinese phrase. It ineven used by the Chinese themnelves when two from difterent provinces Le Dorothy Bond, o s five years, was asked to explain it Masonic Last night the first ,the team positions. A large crowd was on ha of St. Johns | siashed '353 and st place. a handicap of three pins. Heinzman, with a handicap of 15, scored 237, and Welch, conceded 21, knocked over 1339 pins. Milans also went Into first place 'In the all-events with scores of 393, | 342 and 293 for a total of 1.029. In the doubles, Abbott and Con-| carrying handicap of 27. 2 ith, | handicap of 8, scored 645. 1 None of the team scores approach- ed the opening night leaders. St Johng, No. 2, did the best with 1,618, having & handicap of 189. Stansbury, No. 1,.awarded, 14, crashed the ma- ples for 1,699. Armenius, given 87, had 1,695. Tonight program carries twenty four in the singles, eighteen doubles and elght in the te tests as follows: New Jerusalem, 1 and No. ¢; King David No. No. 2: Mount Pleasant, Naval and Potomac. INDOOR NET TITLE EVENT DRAWS FIELD OF STARS YORK., March i 1 conduct today or national {ndoor cha: ship tournament, which w here Saturday, with about slity c: tries. Francis T. Hunter, the present champion: Vincent Richards, cham plon of 1919; S. Howard Voshell. title- holder in 1917-18; Frank T. Andorson, 1921 champlon, and Herbert L. Bow- man, New York state titleholder, are entrants. Jack Britton Former Welterweight Champion of the World Has Written the Story of “My Twenty Years in the Ring” > —and it will be printed in Washington ex- clusively in Britton will go into the intimate incidents covering his successful career in the ring— telling of the accident that started him on his career as a pugilist—and of his experi- ence with his opponents, written with much human interest in it—for during Brit- {ears of a; boxing. fists—and gained through his experience an insight into the fighting species in particular. The story sparkles with dry Irish wit that you'll enjoy. Begin with the reserve a copy of The Star, Daily and Sunday, for first instaliment—next Friday. Carrier deliver it direct to your home. ° and favor in athletic circles. worth half a million dollars—earned in ut Britton fought with his head as well as his mankind generally—and Have your newsdealer you—or let the Star R‘ Po— @ Shangha “Can de.” xhe said, which means “yexs* un the Chinenc langunge kv no word for “yea” or “no. “Any man talkee my mo fushion homeside ' Then ahe expinined. aignifies ownersbip. means all right. equivalent ta one” means shaw” i 4 means he does not nd. “Chie” is a letter. “Walke acd for all forms of locomation. one piecee wife “He hos mar- atchee” “Vankee™ under- Sounds rather ~illy, teiy ~ 4 of a dignified friend wh disdained the use of pidgin Eng- livh. maintaining that if he spoke plain English he would do ax well. Dorothy put him to the teat. ¢ boy 1o go upstairs and u perfumed handker- she anid. Her friend {n- the boy in perfect Eng- d purzled and chlef,” atructe lish. I topside, catchee one fowhanh. stink bring downside. d he did. STATUE OF BULLDOG AT YALE IS OPPOSED NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 28—~ Prospects of Yale's traditional bulidog appearing on the campus in bronze disappemred today with the announcement by the Yalo Daily News that tweaty-three of twenty-five clase secretaries can- vassed were opposed to the pros- pect. Camstic commeat om the esthetic effoct of placiag the bull- dow's statue om the campus with that of Nathan Hale and other famous Yale men accompanied | most of the letters. It had beem | proposed that alumai raise §5,000 j Seaanter of the balldog. i BARNET, P, ON 0B T CHEY CHSE 0B Robert T. Barnett, the new golf professional at the Chevy Chase Club, has taken charge. He will at once rearrange the shop and install his racks and club-cleaning apparatus. Barnett came from the Tredyffrin Club near Philadelphia, where he was ranked as one of the leading golfers. He also was president of the Phila- delphia Professional Golfers’ Associ- ation. Barnett was not due to formally e up his duties until April 1. Work om the comrse of the Wash gton Golf and Country Club to fin- ish up what was left undone last fall will start this week. Three greens are yet unbullt and several tees have {to be constructed. The greens will { be planted by the vegetative process {and it 1s hoped they may be In use by July 1. FIGHTS AT FORT MYER APPEALTOD. . FANS | When Fort Myer stages its five six- round boxing bouts with Fort Eustls e Capltal city will be va- several hundred fistic fol- !lowers. The bouts have proved so| | popular that the offictals of the post {ure considering the advisibility of alloting -more parking space for otor! Ward of Fort Myer, and Ballr of Fort Eustis, middleweights, are to in what is expected to be the ction. - uts listed are: und class—Carbon, Fort Myer, | | it Jone |HAGEN DOES LAST NINE AT PINEHURST IN 32 PINEHURST, N. C. March 28— Walter Hagen. Britlsh open cham- pion, played the last nine holes of the champlonship course here in a sensational 32, in a matok in which | Hagen and his amateur partner, A 3 Drown, jr, of Sulem, Mass, were 3 and 2, by Joe Kirkwood, the Grantland Rice, the n had a score of 27-—32—69 | for the eighteen lLoles, and Kirkwood had a round of 34—36—89. SPORTS. Practice of “Building Up” Boxers Hurts Sport : Western to Have Formidable Nine WORLD pLe COACH GREEN’S GLUMNESS DISCOUNTED BY MATERIAI Four Regulars Lost From Last Year, But Talen Available Encourages Supporters to Hope for Another Championship Outfit. ‘ is glum. A disconcerting report filtered i t one to the effect that Central High will b geason since the days of Ross White, Ernic stars of a bygone day. It hasn’t been all roses for the Western capped by a late start for spring practice and wi year’s men to aid in the interscholastic race this opinion that “things look right bad.” air, all-high pitcher; Nelson Jefiress. ce base, were graduated last year, leaving ifou: season. INSIDE GOLF By George O'Neil It is generally regarded the best golf style to use the square stance for all full shots. A great majrity of the tiptop players stick te the square stance be- cause it seems to give the greatest leverage om the ball, and it also permits the player to assume a stance position toward the ball that {s of cemsiderable impor- tance. When you stund at the ball your awing, your hould be mome- than your left—not exaggerated at all. But it should mot be abead of the left shonlder— that is, it akould not be forward OACH GEORGE GREEN of Weste n 1922 b s camp vesterday ve the best tear d Sam Gotliet hout o eason, Green is of . shortstop of 1 . and “Bo” Lan now the coach wj glumnees, for the will prowent Midget Shows Up Well a pleasan m_makes It - George Washingto! his Saturday. Ever hea hing ninety-five poun i helght in itcher's mound arles Ha probabl of any imaginary line pamsing through your shoulders and to the fiagpole on the green ahcad. It you get the right shoulder ahend you will develop a tendency alice, because your club face be cat across the ball if you do watch ft most carefully. Gene Sarazen ham a great fault of play in that respect. Unless he adopts a better position for his right oulder in the atance I predict that he will mot be a champion very lon: I trying to arrive mt the best stanee for your use dow't forget the toes. They should be furned ulightly outward, especially the 2 S'”GOLFERS INVITED. left one. The foot in that position > 3 m enablea the leg to take up the U7 e @ C passing of the body's weight in the down-stroke pivot and holds the body in line. The slight turn- fng of the toes outward has = mreat deal to do with the comfort of the awing. t0opy LEADS INDIANA NATATORS. | XCOU-fGi BASE BALL. BLOOMINGTON, Mar A O ST & John Moore of lenapo . 5 Nul: %:f;”‘z;”“ v V:”h":m" il Zise, ¥ been elected captain o a At Quaatico, Unive Vaiversity, 4. Marines, 13; Srmwcus Just two reasons why White Owl is America’s most pular cigar— White Owl value — White Owl price. Bononat CGon <. -~ NATIONAL BRANDS Wm. Deiches & Co., Inc. Diatribators 414 Temh St. N.W., Washington rjmugolzavea White Owl