Evening Star Newspaper, April 15, 1923, Page 74

2 " THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., APRIL 15, 1923 SPORTS SECTION. \ Work on Golf Courses Here Continues : Climate A ids Californians to Net Fame WILL CLOSELY APPROACH | HIGH MARK OF LAST YEAR Congressional and Indian Spring Intending to Add Full Layouts and Others Are Building More Holes or Making Improvements. OLF.COURSE construction about Washington. which reached its peak last year, will be continued, but in a slightly diminishing way. Though construction work this year will not be as large as that of 1922, however, upward of $125,000 will have been spent on courses im- mediately adjacent to Washington by the end of 1923. Some of this work is a lap-over from last year. Three entircly new eighteen-hole courses are either to be built or are in process of construction. Congressional Country Club proposes to add anther cighteen-hole course to its layout, which, by the way, now is in use. Indian Spring. which now has a splendid eighteen-hole course, | will soon start work on another, it is promised. Out at Norbeck, Md., | work has begun for an eighteen-hole course under the supervision of Toomey & Flynn, who have done a good deal of course construction work hereabouts. and the Beaver Dam Club, near Landover, Md., has | under way nine holes, which Out in Virginla Toomey and Flynn are | finishing up their work of recondition- | ing and rearranging the course of the Washington Golf and Country Club ut a cost of nearly $40,000. Part | of this work was done last year and | the course will probubly be ready | for play in its entirety by July. All| the greens have been built, and all. that remains to be done is the finish- ng up of sodding the tees, filling and | sodding bunkers, and conditioning the putting surfaces. Has “Ideal” Courne. Burning Tree, the “ideal” course out near the Congressional Club, be tween Cabin John and Bethesda, Md., | 1s practically completed and will be | ready for play by early summer. This course, it is predicted, immediately will take rank as one of the finest eighteen hole links in the country. Chevy Chase Club has finished the changes in its layout and new Kreens and tees have been built. However, some conditioning work remains to be done before the members will be allowed to play on the new greens. At Bannockburn the construction work, Involving even new holes, is completed and the fairways and greens will be conditioned for use as early as possible. This course should be in good shape by mid- summer, ? Town and Country Club, mot en- tirely satisfied with its present nine- | hole layout at Bethesda, Md., Is go- | ing ahead with construction of an- | other nine to make a layout that | promises to runk as one of the best tests of golf about the District of Columbia. Public Links to Halt. Public links construction work is due to be halted for the time being. With the completion and use of the | Rock Creek Park course, to be opened officially May 24, construction of public layouts about Washington may be expected to stop for a few ears. The Rock Creek plant is expected to relieve in great measure the congestion in Potomac Park, but probably within a few vears another course will be found necessary. Golf is growing so fast that no one can predict its future. Certainly one of the leading developments of the | game must he from the public courses and Washington should not lag in this matter. | and it is believed, will offer a fine test for golfers. | JACK RbSS, BRITISH PRO: IS COMING TO AMERIC Ward hay bheen rece Juck Res, forn at the 1o take United States. Ronx has not as yet made any afliation with Amurienn golf ci ., He alno qualified for the News of the World tournament several times and playcd on the Scottish alde aguinst the Englinh well in 1014 for the Red Croms FAIR SEX EVENT DATE The women's invitation golf tourna- | ment of the Indian Spring Club, an- | nounced several weeks ago for Ma 3,4 and 5, hag been postponed. It wiil be held May 16, 17, 18 and 19, Chair- man Burr of the golf committee of the club stated last night. The postponement was necessary, Burr declgred, because the severe weather of the past month has re- tarded development of the course to such an extent that It might not be in thé best of shape at the earlier date The men's invitation tournament of the club, announced for May 8. 10, 11 | and 12, will be held as planned. The woman entrants will play an eighteen-hole qualification round on May 16, and will qualify in flights of | elght each. Three match play rounds will follow. Prizes will be awarded for low gross | low net in the qualifying round | to the winners and runners-up in the flights and to the winners of the de- feated fours. Entries will close the evening of May 14, and should be sent | to A. D. V. Burr, 1647 Hobart street. The cup for first prize In the tour- | ney will remain the trophy of the | club, but the winner will be awarded | a replica. GUY STANDIFER TO PLAY IN BRITISH TOURNAMENT ASHINGTON will have at le: teur championship to be pl. \\% holder of the District title. family. On the Walker cup team, showing. Discusaing the method of playing the British amateur tourney, which is | distinguished by an extraordinary | number of cighteen-hcle match play rounds, it developed that Fred Me- | Leod, professional at Columbia, does | not hold the popular view in th country that the eighteen-hole meth- od is not a fair test for championship golf. McLeod believes the thirty-six-hole preliminary rounds to our national amateur championship are too severs on the players. Usually, he says, the Dest player wins out over either the eighteen-hole or the thirty-six-hole test. Chick Evans and other promi- of Guy M. Standifer of Columbia and Chevy Chase, a former | Standifer is going abroad on business and | plans to -play it? the British event, for which he already is entered. He will sail from New York on the Mauretania next Tuesday with his same vessel will be the members of the captained by Robert A. Gardner of Chicago, former national amateur title holder. ~Standifer merely hopes to make a good | ast one entrant in the British ama- | ayed in May at Deal, in the person American nue, believing that latitude was | ample. Last fall the club deeded to the state of Maryland a strip of land | along the entire Wisconsin avenue frontage, thirty feet in width, to llow for widening of the thorough- fare to Rockville. When the fence is placed back and the land is taken over for road bullding purposes the back end of the green will be only about twelve feet from the fence. Balls pitched for the green may carry over it out of bounds. On this account the club may be forced to construct an entirely new green north of the present one and about at the location of the present | sixth tee. | bers 4 ‘ there will soon arise a court tennis and United States players wh, . Scene of the international triur Norman E. Brookes and Anthony practical plant in the world for net play. MERICA is to have a permanent tennis amphitheater. historic turfi of the West Side Club at Forest Hills, Long Island, On the coliseum worthy of the traditions of G have made history in the game. nph of Maurice E. M:Loughlin over F. Wilding in 1914, the flash, to the fore of William T. Tilden, 2d, in 1920 and the victories of a host of other Before autumn arrives a reinforced horseshoe-shaped concrete stadium will have been erected to accommo- date the thousands of tennis devotees who will gather for the challenge round of the 1923 Davis cup matches. or a decade 1o come it will be the ene, annually. of court contests In h the leading players of the world will compete. It will cost $15! 000. A tennis stadium still is & novelty. This West Side Club structure will be the first permanent amphitheater constructed in America. With the exception of the concrete plant built at Wimbledon, England, last year, It is the first of its type in the world of tennis. 4 In some ‘respects it resembles the famous Yale foot ball bowl, although upon a much smaller scale, The size of the inclosure, approximately oval in shape, Wil be 145 feet in width and 195 feet in length. Turf sufclent to accommodate three courts with auiple ace between each one will form the infield. Around this playing surface will be constructed approximately two-thirds of a concrete bowl afford- |ing accommodations for some 13,000 spectators. From an architectural and engineering standpoint, the horseshoe will provide comfort and visualization for the spectator never heretofore achieved in the construc- tion of similar tennis stands. The playing inclosure will be sur- rounded b all 10 feet high, which will provide the proper background for the players. The first row of seats will be 9 feet above the ground. The last or thirty-ninth. row at the top of the structure will be 51 feet above the ground. The steps between the rows and seats wilk vary from 11% inches at the bottom to 14% inches at the top. This gives a slight- 1y cencave surface to the amphithea- ter, enabling those in the rear to see clearly over the heads of spectators in the lower seats. Arrangements for sections of the cholce seats for a pe- riod of years are being worked out. It is understood that first choice in such subscriptions will be tendered mem- of ious clubs forming the United States Tennis Association. East End to Be Open. The horseshoe-shaped structure will consist of whatare to as the north, south and west stands, leaving the east end of the stadiu open where seats would be the least desirable, due to the rays of the after- noon sun. At the top of the stadium will be & promenade 4 feet wide and 715 feet Iong, which can also be used leasing the priority rights to certain | mmonly referred | | racket stars is to bear perpetual testimony to the popularity of tennis. ' INSIDE GOLF By George O'Neil Iren club play is exactly the aame ax for the woods whemn the full iron shot is to be negotiated. The &rip Ix the same and the stance is unchanged in the full shots. On shorter iron shots the grip in the same though the stance changes. A full fron shot has no meaning except that the player's intemtion is to get the complete distance the Some players s term with the grip, thinking that a full shot requires a “full” hold om the club, that is, 8 grip nt the extreme end of the shaft. Where the club {s: gripped in a matter of persomal choice, Most players hold the shaft a few “inches down on the leather. By the time the player gets down 1o his mashie or mashie-niblick the i ice to be megotiated may be short, Anything under 80 to 100 yards Is, short and calls for am opening up of the stance to some extent. Knowing to just what point the stance is 10 be opemed up is what distinguishes, to a comsider- able extent, the expert golfer from the lens finished player. Only ex- perience can teach this to the play- er. There are mo hard amd fast rules. 2 (Copyright. John F. Dille Company.) HERD'S GRANDSON SEES HIM WIN GOLF TOURNEY for standing room. Ten stairways with portals leading to the seats will LONDON, April 14.—Youth has the provide quick and convenient access | greatest difficulty in getting served and egress from the stadium. on British golf courses. In the face At Wimbledon but one court is pro- | of next month's invasion of England vided for within the inclosure, but a | by the youthful Americans, who hope larger playing surface was necessary | to take the open championship title This amphitheater which will be built at the West Side Club, Forest Hills, L. E, will be the handsomest and most Tt will cost $150,000, and will furnish unobstructed view for more than 13,000 to be ready for the Davis cup challenge round matches, which begin the last of August. AMERICA’S TENNIS PLANT WILL BE BEST IN WORLD GRIQUI, FRENCH BOXER, OF A FIGHTING FAMALY Eugene eriqui, European feather- weight champion, who now is in the Untted States to attempt to wrest the world title from Johnny Kilbane, can trace his lineage back to the tenth century am! numbers among his ancestors two marshals of France. Fighting has been a serious busi- ness with the Criqui family for the | last thousand years st to get his name in the records was Baudoin de Crequl (the name became Criqui later), who scored a knockeut against the Belglans under the walls of Vaf- enciennes in 1007, when he captured the city. Henry de Crequi was among the crusaders who followed Louis IX (St Louls) against the infidels in 8. Jacques de Crequi commanded troops from Guenne province in the French army that was defeated by the British at Agincourt in 1415. I had been named a marshal of France five years previous to the battle of Agincourt. After the advent of gunpowder the | Crequis® continued with musket and cannon the fighting they had begun with lance and saber. Francois de Crequi, another marshal of Frah won the battle of Fribourg in 16 and was at Nimeguen for Louis XIV in 1679, Eugene Criqul, last of the family, with only a stinging left and crush- ing right as his weapons—having verely wounded ,before continuing in ancestors. Though the family name changed from Crequi to Crigu ing the revolution, its spirit animates its modern representative. Criqui's friends say Johnny Kilbane had bet- ter beware, for the motto of the house remains the same: “Nul Ne Verdun—Iis the footsteps of his was dur- as “Let Nobody Pick On Me. VILLA'S JUNGLE FRIENDS ONTHERWAYTO U S. BY JUNIUS B, WOOD. By Wirelesa to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1923, MANILA, April 14.—Several thou- sand former jungle Dplaymates of Pancho Villa, diminutive Tagalog fighter, who battles Jimmy Wilde for the flyweight champlonship of the world at the New York Polo grounds |in June, are aboard the United States Shipping Board ship Stockton, bound for Los Angeles. Out of deference to the nerves of the spectators, Villa, however, won't insist upon their presence and moral support at the ringside, the Stock- ton's passenger list being one of the TILDEN GLAD JOHNSTON CONCORD, Mass., April announcement that Willlam M. John- ston of San Francisco w going abroad this spring, communicated to William T. Tilden, 2d, of Philadelphia here today, met the response that he would like to go along, too. “But I'm all tied up with pledges to play in_important tournaments with Sandy Wiener and 1 doubt very much if I 'make the trip.” he added Tilden expressed himself as “de- lighted that Bill Johnston is_going.” When Johnston played in England before he was not at his best, the chlml’lon remarked. “All America wants England to see him at his best, and with the world championship in singles to be d cided for the last time at don this vear, it is fitting that our best should be there.” | Tilden ‘said he and Johnston had discussed a plan of going to Burope together next seaxon and that Vi cent Richards, national indoor cham pion, and young Wiener also were considering joining the invasion. All his plans this vear had been made with a visit to England next year in mind, he said, adding tion that will take some timel to 14.—The (IS TO PLAY IN EUROPE Wimble- | “it s 4 ques- | MAIN REASON OF THREE; FOR SUCCESS ON COURTS |Can Play All Year—Ability to Meet Ball on Rise, i Due to Use of Hard Surface, and Backing Given Youths Are Other Factors. I 1 BY SAMUEL HARDY. (Captain 1924 United Statex Davis cup team.) OFTEN have been asked why it is that California has produced many tennis players who have become world famous. Other Pac coast states have not done so; indeed, one must travel across continent to the Atlantic coast before encountering players of farp cqual to McLoughlin, Johnston, the Sutton sisters and Mary Bro These players are known all over the world where tennis is playe. ¥ other Californians, such as the Kinsey brothers and Helen Wills, ard rapidly gaining international recog It is true that the Atlantic coast can boast of many more champ | than can the Pacific, but it must be remembered that tennis was | played in America in the east, that a tournament schedule lasting a! summer existed there for years before the far west held more than | | the | discarded firearms since he was se- | Sy Frotte”” which may e rendered | answer, whether it can rearranged now. In any case 1 shall not leave | Sandy in the lurch. If he can't go across, 1 shall not, and even though | he can we may not be able to ad- just other matlers. HANDLEY A.C_ PLANNING TOBE ACTVEALLYEAR or two meetings annuall JOHNSON-WILLARD FIGHT IS ATTRACTING THE FANS| ank Coultry, general man- of Madison Square Garden, York, hns announced that ore than 10,000 applications for reservations have been recefved for the hoxing houts that are to be held in the Yankeew stadium on May 12 for the bemefit of the milk fu Jesn Willard and Floyd Johnon will clash in the final fifteen-round event, and ft in evident that boxing fans every- where are anxious to see whether willard ix n “hax been” and also 10 aize up Johnson as u prowpec. tive opponent for Jack Dempuey SODERSWILLSERI FOR DITRIT HONORS Soldier boxers of Fort Myer, Fort Washington, Washington Barracks, | Bolling Field, Fort Humphries and Walter Reed Hospital are to figure In & series of bouts for the District | of Washington championships Preliminaries will be held next Tuesday and Friday with the finals o Thursday. April 26, All of the bat- tles will be staged in the riding hall at_Fort Myer. Plenty of action is promised Among those who will contest are Ward, the Fort Myer middlewe! who defeated Mer champion last We bon and O'Connell, terweight champions, the District of Wa nes, in | the featherwelght class, Piscitelli in | the 130-pound division, and Morrison, lightweight Tickets will be available Monday at the same prices that have prevail- led in previous shows at Fort Myer. “Watch us grow,” is the slogan of the newly organized Handley Athletic Club of Petworth that plans to have | base ball, basket ball and track teams | to represent it in amateur circles lhl.\‘ YeRr. Dr. R. L. Eller, S formerly of George- | town University, Is coach of the track squad, while Ciareqice Pemsin of Car- roll Institute is in charge of the b ket ball playe Robert E. Greer, former manager of the Silver Spring nine, will coach the base ball team. Dr. Louis M. Cuvillier, president| and manager of the Handleys, is meeking games with unlimited teams in the city. He can be reached by calling Adams 244, or writing to 203 Taylor street northwest. J. Baggett is secretary and treasurer. i These are some of the men who will [be in thiz year's base ball line-up Pitchers, F. King. A. Pratt, G. Settle, A. Poizet; catchers, J. Lane, B. Mo inflelders.” Cupt te,’ first J. Bilthimer, se D, short stop: Joh third Lase outfield, J. Chapman Custer, D! Pratt and 'HARVARD TENNIS TEAM WILL VISIT THURSDAY Harvard's tennis te which will | meet the Chevy Chase Club racket- {ers here Thursday, should be well | tuned up' for the match with the| | Tocul players. | Before coming re the Crimson | | netmen have contests on two pre- | ceding davs. Tomorrow they play at | | Richmond (Va) Country Club “and | Tuesday at Norfolk Country Club. FLOYD JOHNSON SPEEDILY GAINS HIS RING PRESTIGE | antam and wel- respectively of BY SPARROW McGANN. EW YORK, April 14.—For a fighter who really has done so little to establish a national reputation Floyd Johnson has certainly occupied the spotlight lately to the exclusion of every other | heavyweight with the possible exception of Fred Fulton curious situation. N It is rather a | opponents. It was a goodly list, as to length, but it was by no means so | long as the record made by Tommy Gibbons in 1921. Anyway, Johnson ' came east and was at once acclaimed by critics and fans who liked the cut of his jib and believed as a matter of sheer faith, that he had a great future, He proceeded to give a bit of war- ) face, he | rant to these views by knocking out|of chaps. Bob Martin of the A. E. he was matched to meet Bill nan, and it was generaliy agreed that it he got by Kneckout Bill he would be entitled to consideration as the possible heavyweight title holder of the future. Well, he won the de- cision over Bill and at once became interesting to Tex Rickard. who sign- ed_him to meet Jess Willard. Since the Brennan bout Johnson is one of the most likable Bright. too. His appear- Then ) ance indicates that his family orig- Bren- | inally breathed the salty airs of the Seandinavian peninsula. but that very long ago, and “Johnson” claims to be American on both sides for many generations_ba ‘The house in Des Moines in which he was born {s thé same one in which his father first saw the light of da: | and his mother is of old Missou: stock. He is in the full bloom of man- hood, is more than six feet tall and | from Johnson came east with a string of knockout records against cheap. Furthermore, after the inaugura: of the D: 5 cup contests in 140 eastern players gained the furtles advantage of international c mr!l tion, a privilege that the Californlan li\t-kml ag first. Such names as S Slocum, * Whitman, Wrenn, Wright, Ward and Davis familiar in international play befo:. the west had any chance to produce champions with such experienc I in Other Section Tennis is played extensively throug out the #outhern sfutes, where climate often permits play the around, and also in every n western state; yet not a single p these places, with the pos.ibie exception of Kreigh Collins of Chicg RO, ever attained international recog- nition. Why is it, then, that Cal fornians alone have been able to com pete with success against the finest players of the world when other west ern and middle western players tailed to do so? In the first plac in thei imate a over players The equable clima that prevai the San Francisco and Los A L] produced notable plavers—perniits play throughouy the year. or elght months there is’o rain whatever, and in the winter, the rainy se thie asphalt courts, commonly used instead of turf, make play possible during a large part of the time; the quickly dry after storms, and the temperature draws everyone ou doors. Californians y real ad from all other Methods. why California their exclusive sphalt, cement Perfect New A second rea: excel in tennis of the hard c clay being used in preference to sphalt the most popular = s bound higher on it tha do on graxe. The ct_of this | creased bound has been the develo: m of a faster game, one necessitated the taking of the 1 \e rise. and this has proved one of the most important dev ments of modern tennis, one whi characteristic _of such Califor champions as M ilin, Joh Murray, Miss Brow Bundy. This method of play ha been adopted by practically all best players of world, tncluding Tilden, Brook ns. Richards Parke. Kingscote, Patterson, Ander- son and Gobert. In taking the ing 1t half wa fornta playe and_unconventional r forehand drive, a grip which they eve gives them better control of sing ball than does the more clasgi grip used elscwhere. P. A. Vaile. noted author, believes that the Califor nia_grip is the grip of the future, but ilden, Williams, Richards and T ropean plavers disagree with t w. But, a from their peculia forehand grip, taking the ball on the rise already has become a part of the stroke equipment of every great plaver Youths Are Encouraged. A third, and, to my mind, a very im portant reason for the high grads of California tenuls, is the policy so con- sistently followed by the Califotnda Tenni Associ. n of encouraging and developing voung pldyvers. The officers of the association take a personal Inter- est in every junior tournament. and are constantly on the lookout for boy girls who show any .unusual ability. Dr. Marvin of San Fra keen eye discovered McLoughlin w he was still an_unknown public par player, 1s their most valued scout. A< soon as a likely candidate is found he is given & free membership in som vate club where he has the advantage of regular practice with good p! who help him in every possible wa: TWhen he has proved himself the asso ciation sends him to play in other citie and in eastern tournaments, whero he ball on the rise—meet- us it were—the Ca have acquired a pecul et grip fo) be-| has fought but once, a ten-round bout against Joe Lehmann in Grand Rapids, which reflected no credit at all .upon Floyd. Some of the news- paper critics gave him the decision, but others thought the lowan should be well satisfled with a draw. Just what was the matter out there has fights at about 193 pounds He has | Wil gain a wider experience. & The 4 been in the ring as an amateur and | professional less than three years. He does not bear a mark of his trade, which would indicate a nat- urally good defense. while his hands, [ despite his list of knockouts, are in perfect condition. He himself feels fluence of California tennis, which the California_association has exerted. he cause of this wise and generous polic annot be overestimated, and it is on= that should be copied by all other sec tions of the country nent American amateurs have sald This would neutralize the |at Forest Hills. This is due to the|to the United States for the thirs not been explained, but most of the |the need of experience in real fights, largest selections of snakes, birds repeatedly they did not belleve the eighteen-hole match play round was a fair test of golf. He claims that If a really fine player starts off in an unsteady manner, and allows an in- | ferior opponent to gain a lead, he has | practically lost the match. Chick | polnts to his experience in 1913 in England, where Bruce Pearce of | Tasménia shot the first nine holes in | thirty-two against him, and even| vans' brilliance on the last nine ‘could not overtake the lead piled up by his_opponent, admittedly not as fine a player as the Chicago marvel McLeod does not lean to this view atall. He points out that in our ama- teur championship the best players, who realize their superiority over op- ponents, are prone to ease up for the first eighteen holes, believing they can concede their opponent a- start and yet win. He believes that at the eighteen-hole test they would all start out at top speed, and that by this means the championship could be played In a shorter time. He points out that the British amateur seldom is won twice by the same player on account of this fact and that Britlsh linksmen in the aggregate are better, than ours. How about John Ball, who has won the British amateur eight times? Does Ball stand out among British golfers 10 such an extent, or is the eighteen- hole match a true test of golf as op- posed to our thirty-six-hole test? Columbia han heen favored the past three week ends with a trio of amateur golfers who rank among the best in the country. Three weeks ago Jack Neville of California was here. Last week Woodie Platt of Philadelphia, a member of the 1921 effect of the traps lald out for the fifth hole, and would make necessary construction of a new sixth tee. Mra. Walter F. Ballard has been appointed a member of the golf com- mittee of the Washingten Golf Club to represent the women of the club, Martin R. West is chairman of the committee, and the other members are Col. LS. Morey and Fred Paxton. | A large committee, headed by Stan- ley H. Fischer, is working on plans for the playing of the annual com: tition for The Evening Star cup for women, to be held at thw Town and Country Club, May 10 and 11. Albert E. Steinem, Dr. Harry Kaufman and Phillip King also are members of the committee in charge of the event. Formal transfer of forty-elght acres of land to the club was made in Rockville last week, when a tract | owned by Agnes Peter was turned over. On the land will be constructed an additional nine holes, rounding out a full course. The tract joins the present property on the north and west, and the club hopes to have a course, when completed, that will be the equal of any in this section, Putting contests for women will be arted at Chevy Chase on May b and will be held each Saturday thereafter. Opening of the four mew h, East Potomac Park, announced: by Manager Loeffler for yesterday, was ostponed on account of the weathe, he holes will be opened for play as fact that & one-court turf would not stand the severe wear and tear of a week’s continuous play, under Ameri- can ther conditions. Construction of the championship courts has been started. Former ciay courts have been plowed up and a subsurface drainage system installed. Twenty-four inches of top soil mixed with compost has been laid over this and carefully rolled and finished to uniform surface. Upon this will be placed sod to be taken from the pres- ent grass courts adjoining. At New Orlean: Cleveland (A.) ew Orleans (S.). s Batteries—Coveleskie and O'Neill; ‘Whitaker, Matteson and Bowie. BOSTON Bats, Throws, L L Pitchers. Black, Davi Ekmke, Howard J. Ferguson, Alex .. Fowlkes, Daniel R.. Fullerton, Curtis H. so0n 88 the course drles out and they re pronounced playable by Green- keeper Vistor.~ © oyable by Green New greena at the Washington Golf w-lkorloup tug:. plnyeg at golumbln. an and Friday and yesterday Dr. O. F.|the largest porti Willing of Portland, Ore., has been |been completed, will_ve aawr hs Tos doing a bit over the fine course on |vegetative method shortly Connacticut avenue. Dr. Willing ex-| Four of the greens planted last pressed himaelf as very well pleased |fall were to have been put in play with the Columbla course and pro-'| yesterday, but the rain softened tgem nounced it & fine test of golt. Ha Is}too much. They will 'be placed in A member of s year's alker cup | use ay soon a team, which sails_Tuesday, and also O e OB will play in the British amateur. L. F. MacFarland been ap- pointed caddie master at Columbi: and Willlam F. Molloy, a former ddie, has been made an assistant in Fred McLeod's shop. Chevy Chase Club is im a pecuyliar quandary, which may necessitate con- struction of an entire new green for the fifth hole. A new green was bullt at s cxpense last summer, under plans drawn up by Capt. C. H. ‘Aligon,” the architect, who arranged| . COLUMBIA NETMEN -WIN, the course. BETHUEHEM, Pa., April 14—Co- Capt. Alison plotted the green about | lumbla University's tennis team won fifty feet from the west fence of the |a meet with the Lehigh University wlub property, along Wisconsin ave- ) team bhare today, four d Country Club, on which by far WILL RENEW BIG STAKE. LEXINGTON, Ky., April 14.—Ed A. Tipton, president of the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders’' Assoclar tion, announced today that the May day stake for-two-vear old trotters iinsugurated at the grand circult meeting here last year, was to be renewed this fall. “Th e is to carry & guaranteed value of $10,000, BEEELERERE ] Wiltsey, Harold Catchers. Albreeht, Harvey . Chaplin, Bert . De Vormer, Al . Pieinich, Val Walters, Al Inflelders Burns, George . Fewster, Wi Herman, Floyd C. LEEEL G . Harris, Joseph . Lelbold, Harry ..... Menoskey, Michael Miller, Elmer Relchie, Richard 'W. L Skinner, Camp ......... L Harry H. Frazee, Preaident. Larry Graver, Secret, Jamés Burke and John Ryam, Coach ' Games played at Fepwa; L L n EEEEE EEE I EL LR Red Sox Red Sox Omaha (Western) Yankees Red Sox Red Sox Nationals Red Sox Nationals Red Sox Red Sox Red Sox Red Sox = muville (Three-I) | successive year, the British golt. | traditional " reverence for sge w | maintained in the opéning tourna- | ment of the professional season | terday by the fifty-five-year-old vet- eran, Alex Herd. who won the Roe hampton challenge cup. Herd's finalist oppbnent, F: | Jewell, is a stripling, as striplings go here—he is only thirty-five years old. Herd was playing in the open championships before Jewell was born. Jewell is stockily bullt, like Gene Sarazen, American open cham- plon. whom he expects to/meet this spring. He has something of the American’s natural golfing form and Breat things are expected of him when he matures. 5 |, Herd's grandson, aged seven, wit- lessed yesterday’'s match. MAJOR LEAGUE ROSTERS RED SOX. Played with in 1923. Semi-pro. Tygers Red Sox Memphis (8. A.) Rock Island (Miss, V Semi-pro. . Fldg. Semi-pro. Red Sox Yankees Nationals Red Sox 980 D68 984 087 978 4 931 920 919 951 1.000 053 o7 70 keen Frank L. Chance, M Het Springs, Ark,, es. y Park. Capacity, 35,000, _ (Copyright, 1928.) and wild animals ever taken across the Pacific. Edwin Tait of Chicago. a business | partner of Francis A. Churchill, now in New York managing Villa's af- fairs. is in charge of the menagerie. Stockton's cargo ranges from ele- phants to humming birds, including black panthers, leopards, lions, tigers, tailless monkeys, java bears and wingless cassowarles. On account of legal prohibitions, no part of the car- g0 was landed here. One cinnamon bear, however, de- clared his independence and swa ashore from the Stockton, terrif: ing several Manila residents before he was recaptured. et {DE FOE AND BERNSTEIN FIGHT 12-ROUND DRAW NEW YORK, April 14.—Billy, De Foe of St. Paul 'and Jack Berstein of Yonkers, N. Y., battled twelve rounds to @ draw tonight. De Foe weighed 129, and Bernstein' 131 pounds. Harry Arens of England won his first bout in America by outpointing Al Moore of Philadelphia in twelve |rounds. Each weighed 114 pounds. RUBE BRESSLER WEDS. CINCINNATI April 14 —Raymond D. (Rube) Bressier, general atinty man of the Cincinnati Nationals, and Miss Helen F. Kopf, sister of William L. (Larry) Kopf of the Boston Braves, were marrled here today. CHESS GAME IS DRAWN. MILWAUKEE, April 14—The eight game for the national chess title between Frank Marshal, cham- 967 | plon, and Edward Lasker, challenger, | petitora to finance an played here was declared a draw. PENN STATE 12 WINS. STATE COLLEGE, Pa. April 14. Pennsylvania State College defeat- ed Pennsylvania at Lacrosse here to- day, 4 to 2. The game was played in three inthes of snow. GIRL ATHLETES CALLED. Girl track candidates of the Capi- tal A. C. are requested to report for practice in the Central High stadium tomorrow at 5 o’clock. REDS RETURN PITCHER. CINCINNATI, Ohio, April 14.—Jim Roberts, pitcher, who was given a (;)‘mut ‘Al'l h ;Ihu Cl{ne nn:uwN:;lonlln this spring. has returne e San Antonlo efibe pois > | 4 fans aver that every fighter has a bad day once in a while and that oftentimes a good man is at hi | worst_against a tough slugging du who doesn't know when he is licked. So that is the way the thing stands now. Personality, big factor in Johnson's case. haired, blue-eved, with a pink and white ‘complexjon_and a_fine square 1932 OLYPICS TO BE SECOND HELDINC. . it_would seem is the Award of the Olympic games 1932 to Los Angeles by the interna- tional olympic committee marks the final chapter of a_vigorous campaign by American athletic authorities, par- ticularly those in California, to bring the International meet to this country. Completing a great new stadium and offering attractive inducements, 11,08 Angeley interests made a bid for the 1924 games about a year ago, when it appeared Paris might relin. quish its award because of difficult in obtaining needed governmental ap. propriations. Shortly afterward, however, France smoothed out its difficulties, and Los Angeles then sought the games for 1928, The international committee, meeting last June, decided to accept, instead, the Yld of Amsterdam, Hol- (land, explaining that a majority of ations felt economic conditions would {make it impossible for European com- Invasion of America. At the same time the .committee {sanctioned an international meet in 1September, 1924, to dedicate the Cali- fornia city's new stadium. The 1933 Olympics will mark the second time they have been held in this country. The third meet after the Olympic revival in 1896 was held in St. Louis in 1904, when American competitors, with the advantage of contesting on their own soil, swept the fleld. 7 PLAY BALL IN SNOWSTORM. CHICAGO. April 14. snowstorm the Universiy of Chicago base ball team decfated Northwest- ern 3 to 1. Northwes! ‘Batteries—Arn! a3, Bergstea and Fair- | ot laying In a jand so_does his pleasant- |ager, Charley Cook. That was the | reason he signed to meet Fult { about which match so much fuss has | been made. The financial side of that | battle was not the compelling motive |in making it. Johnson and his man- | ager ‘see big money ahead. and all their plans have been laid with ref- |erence to grabbing it in good time. | (Copyright, 1928.) oken T FORMER BOXER KILLED. MIAML Fla., April 14.—Nels iie son. ex-prize fighter, died at Boot Hospital in Fort Pierce today fro. the effects of wounds received yes terday. He was shot by Sheriff R. Merritt of St. Lucie county. wh declared that Danielson was tempting to draw a gun while arrested on a liquor charge. FREE BASE BALL TICKETS To the Opening Game APRIL 26th Washington ws. Philadelphia i i ] | We have exactly 200 reserved seats for the Open-' ing Game to be given away to the first 200 people who open new regular 3% Savings accounts of $10.00 or more. Hustling, energetic boys can see many games dur- ing the season at our expense by getting Dad and Mother and Sister and others to open Savings ac- counts with us. It will be up to you, of course, to get them to give you their tickets. Our Savings -Department will be open until 5:00 p.m. Monday, and from 8:30 to 3.00 p.m. other days. Fudiisbnmiion: Nutiond Besk | 1315 F Street W. T. GALLIHER hairman of the Board JOHN POOLE President