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26 FRED OFF IN HIS PUTTING:; GUY CRACKS NEAR FINISH Pro Is One Stroke. and Amateur Three Strokes Above Qualifying Mark—Joe Kirkwood Leads Field With a Par Card of 144. BY W. R. McCALLUM. NWOOD, Long Isiand, N. Y., July 11.—Three of the big Berthas of cotemporary professional golf and any number of lesser lights, many of whom will prove to be duds, faced the Inwood test today—the same test which yesterday broke the spirit of Fred McLeod, professional at the Columbia Country Club, and, in doing so, forced Fred out of the championship picture for the second successive year. Walter Hagen, MacDonald Smith and Mike Brady were the out- standing stars who went out bravely today to meet the frontal fire which ozen of the leading American professionals in the take its toll again today and tomorrow. I has mowed down a last two days and w Smith and Brady are sure bets to qualif irom the rest of today's section of the qualifiers in this greatest of open golf championships. And one man’s guess is as good as another’s. This Inwood test, where the bracing salt breeze, sweeping across Jamaica bay, carries the ball into places weird and wonderful, has put fear in the hearts of them all. Only the masters make the grade |on the green. He putted up dead and here, and the gents who crack par below the belt on other courses and then laugh behind its back repeat the performance here only at rare inter- vals. Inwood and its bunkered bat- tlefleld is taking its toll. Washington entrants have done with Inwood until Friday. One of them is in to play for the champlon- ship Friday and Saturday. The pass- ing of the other two was a tragedy to Washington's hopes, particularly that of Guy M. Standifer, who had & far_better chance than Fred McLeod 1o beat the Inwood test and qualify vesterday. Missed putts—ten of them “spelled the story of McLeod's fall- ure, while 2 miserable exhibition on the last three holes of the afternoon round put Columbla's star amateur out of the picture. John Black of Wichita, Kan,, sensa- tion of the champlonship at Skokle Jast year, hung on the ragged edge for several hectic moments after he had missed a putt of less than a foot at the last hole for a total of 168. But when Standifer missed his shot out of the water in the Sir Harry lLauder trap at the final hole vester- day afternoon, Black was in and Standifer was out. Washington's 7921 amateur champion had missed nis finest chance to qualify in the national open, giving his place to a finer golfer and one who has a chance to win the title. Fred Betters Guy's Showing. Fred McLeod at 180 missed by a stroke. Standifer with 162 missed by three strokes. But every one con- ceded tha Columbia amateur in at the end of the first round, while few gave McLeod a chance after he took a seven at the third hole in the after- noon. Yet Fred made a better show- ing than Guy and had a putt or two dropped in on the last nine holes Fred would stiil be in the running for the title he won in 1908. There was hardl Standifer. With a 75 in the morning he was cerfainly sitting pretty. His morning round was beaten by only one man—the Americanized Austra- lian, Joe Kirkwood, who shot a grand 144 to lead vesterday's sectlon of the qualifying round. Yet Guy wentout in the afternoon and even with an out nine of 4 stood an excellent ochance to beat the test. He shouldn't have faltered, but he did, and at the sixteenth he stood with three fives to qualify. Not hard fives, any of them, but all hard fours. He finished 6, 6, 7, for a card of 87 and a total of 162, three strokes too high A missed second shot and three putts at the sixteenth cost him a six, a hooked second shot at the seven- teenth, which found a trap, cost him another six, and he put his second shot in the water of Harry Lauder's favorite hazard, so named because Sir Harry couldn't’ get over some years ago. Guy walked down the near bank of the hazard and played the shot. The water rose, but the ball dldn’t and Guy’s silk shirt was ruined. Then he showed a touch of tempera- ment worthy of Bobby Jones or Gl Nicholg in their palmiest days. He grabbed his niblick and threw it across the green, taking a chunk out of one of Inwood's treasures. Of course, he played another ball, but the pardon came too late. He fin- ished with a seven and an §7, far too high to qualify. Fred's Putter on a Strike. Fred McLeod's twin rounds were both tragedies of missed putts. The popular played a better long game, nor was he ever more accurate with mashle. He missed a few shots, but they all miss them. Fred's Waterloo came on the putting greens. There he resembled a plumber, rather than a golfer. He might have holed them with a monkey-wrench, but he couldn’t do it with his putter. Ten putts of less than four feet failed to drop. Many of them hit the cup, but some were wide of the hole. The put- ting greens kept Fred McLeod out of the champlonship vesterday. Had he been in his customary joyful putting mood he would have qualified with strokes to spare. Fred came to the sixteenth hole yepterday with three 4s to qualify. His second shot found ome of the gruesome bunkers that have wrecked 1he hopes of many an aspiring young yro at Inwood, and he chipped out and took three putts. From then on Fred was through. He holed a ten- footer for a 4 at the seventeenth and Jaid a niblick shot dead for a 4 at the elghteenth, but again the pardon came too late. Fred was out by a shot. Leo Diegel of Friendship is Wash- an excuse for ington’s only remaining hope in the! <championship, and Leo probably is the capital’s best standard bearer in 1his title chase. He is long from the tee, where M 'od is comparatively short, and given Fred's short game he would be a favorite to win the champlonship. He may win, but his short game is hardly good enough. Black Has Narrow Squeak. Grandfather John Black had a nar- row squeak. John played last year at Skokie, with an old black dudeen be- tween his tight-set lips and in a pair of long white pants. The last day he wore a fancy brown sweater as a con- cession to vanity. But John came down to Inwood With knickers and in place of the black dudeen he smoked cigars, expensive ones, for John has fallen upon better days in a financial way since his Skokle experience. Perhaps these fic- kle concessions to golfing fame have taken some of the sting out of John's oid-fashioned game. John was seventy- five yesterday morning and might have easily been seventy-one. He found 1ragedy in the shape of a 41 on the first nine in the afternoon, but John was plowing serenely along in his dour, Scot- iish way, never dreaming of the near catastrophe that was about to over- take him. He holed a 3 at the tenth, where he had holed a chip shot in the morning, had a 5 at the eleventh and holed the short'twelfth in 3.% Then dire misfortune aided by a bit of carelessness crept into John's serene path. He hooked his tee shot into an orchard at the thirteenth, carelessly hit his second shot, missed his third, was bunkered on his fourth, was in another bunker In b, failed to get out in 6 and was out in 7. The net result, a neat § on 4 par hole. John Stages a Comeback. The situation changed in an insta Francis Oulmet, with whom John. wa playing, tried to cheer him up and the forty-five-year-old Scot came back with a splendid birdle 4 at the four- teenth. He got his 3 at the fifteenth, and took a 6 at the sixteenth. StHl John was fairly safe. But he hooked his second shot to the seventeenth and took 5. Now John stood on the elghteenth tee with.a 4 for 158 to. b Zoly in. John's high'iron second w. little Columbia pro never | | | | | | | o the |Ou i | fashion with the assurance of a taxl In. Out... 4 In.. Arthur Roid, Joe Bylvester, St. Albans. Has bagy'd Jack Fo D. McKay, Pittsburgh.. John Black, Wichita, Ken, " SPORTS. Hagen, You can take your choice hit his ten-inch putt for a 4. In and cut the ball went and instead of 158 John had 159 and instead of being in) he was on the ragged edge. Standi-| fer's fatlure left him safe. Joe Kirkwood plowed along in even driver. Nothing disturbed him and the putts were dropping for Joe. The muscular golfing marvel of the age had 70 in the morning and 74 In the afternoon for 144 to lead Dan Wil- liams of Shackamaxon by ten shots. “Quite easy, don't you know." say Joe. “and T hope I repeat Friday Quite so. Francls Ouimet looked bad in the morning. Francls was getting into his shots too fast and soaking them) all over the lot. Hooks don't go at Inwood, even by such a star per- former ‘as Ouimet. Bunkers are the most democratic things in the world. Class means nothing to them. But Francls plowed along In the after- noon worrying about nothing and got a 75 as easy as rolling off a log. He was in with four strokes to spare. Jesse Sweetser, the natlonal ama- teur champion, was in much the same boat as Ouimet. He had 78 in the morning and missed a few in the afterncon but finished with another 78 easily in. Cards of Local Entrants. The ‘cards of Standifer and McLeod follow : Standifer—Morning : Out . 455 534 355—i1 In . 343 443 445—34—75 Afternoon: 645 53 45544 ¥ ceee.. 458 G67—43—87—162 | MeLeod—Morning: i . 555 552 554—41 . 53 304 544—38—T0 Afternoon: Out In .. 55T 444 444—41 . 403 544 G44—30—S1—160 Tled with McLeod at 160 were J Snook, Pat Doyle, L. Campbell and Clarence Hackney T} were " all out, as were Rudy Knepper, Jack Dowling, Alex Cunningham and Jimmie Donaldson. RESULTS OF SECOND DAY’S PLAY IN OPEN INWOOD, L. I.. July 11.—Qualifying cards of some of the leading players in yesterday's round of national open golt championship follow: JOE KIRKWOCD. round— 445 Morni ng out... 4 Morning round— 5565 5 4 55 JESS SWEETSER. Morning round— 545 4—37 6—38—75—155 OTHERS WHO QUALIFIED, Tom Stevens, Minikehha. T W. E. Wood, Woodbury. : Dane Spittal, Toronto. ... 4. Beedo, Long Branch sley. .. Bteve Gagan, Port Chester Emmet_French, Youngs: Hampton, Detroit. Armour,’ Westchester Bilt- Harold Sampson, Sea’ Francisco. ester, ‘Hollywood. H. Cuic® unattached. . DID NOT QUALIFY. Lindsay Campbell, New Cana, Pat Doyle, Lake Champlain. Olarence Hackney, Atlantic G Fred McLeod, Columbia. . Jess Srook, Hydewood. . Charles Clari, Pittsbu G. Heron, Meadowbrook....... ... F. C. Gilman, Augusta Zi Guy Standifer, Columbia. .. W. C. Olanoy, Morristow’. G."C. Underwood, Butler, B G. P. Park, Maidstone RERELTE . W. Clarke, Asheviile sok Dowling, Engineers. . 0. Skelly, Riohmond . Koarney, ‘Boston. . o0 Ford, Scottish-American - Myers, East Providence. .. ‘augh, unattached. . . Chinery, unattached. . 3. Hartman, Gedney Farms. " E Knepper. Sioux Oity - . Oampbell, Wallingford . Covixgton, Wethersfleld. . 8. Maisack, Ellis. rdon Smith, Morris Gounty J. Goldman, Oak Ridgs. race Brand, Little Wassington. oS SHKEPRE EoF b33 3 4443444 2322382283222233! H A. A Bird, New Britain; Willis Hoare, | Chicago: B. A. Co Baldwin; B. H. Cooburn, % East, Asbeville: G. Ely, Melba; J. man, Bt. Louis: G. W. Peters. Gulph Ml D. Thomson, Roslyn: & E Vea, Vieok, | . 8. Worthington. Siwano, to, Nisau: Alex Gunnin ha: Garden Gity: Gardi Y. A O.; 8. O G, irginia; Gil Nichollas, unet: tached; O, Btrand, Fairview; R, M. Thomson, Glen Ridge. Radiators and Fenders ANY KIND MADE O REPAIRED, ores installed iz any make. - 10 DIFFERENT MAKES RADIATORS. WITTSTATT'S R. and F. WORKS RLALLY ol U 1485 P M. 7443, ey TOR Installed While You Watt. Taranto & Wasman ° L1017 NEW YORK AVE. N.W. !Farrell had an incoming round’ of fof yes tord i s, Casey. | win vs. Mitchell, Painter va Cawthorne. | Ballenger and Fowler, 1(—8, °—g, ! Ball and Koster, 6—8. ! Walker, THE EVENING —_———— ! SCORES BEST CARD ON INWOOD LINKS JOSEPH H. KIR KWOOD, Who covered the Inwobd course in | two rounds of 70 and 74, beating Gene Serasen's mark of the duy before by four strokes. i FARRELL EIGHT UNDER PAR FOR NINE HOLES! WOODMERE, L. I, July 11 +—Johnny Farrell, young Quaker Ridge pro, playing at the Woodmere Country Club yesterday with Walter Hagen, A. Le 1d, a memb. and 1. J. Rob- ertson, the club president, brike the course record by bringing honw u 6 eight strokes under par. In Tids re turn journey he had 4 birdles and eagles. Incidentally, he had 3 twos, Hagen had a The best prifvious mark was made by Abe Mitchtll of England, who had a 65 in 1921, when the course was two strokes eas HAGEN IN CONDITION . T0 SHATTERWRECORD; ) BY LAWRENCE INWOOD, 1. L. July 11L—With Walter Hagen going into action the third qualifying round of the na- tional open tourn: the greatest gallery of the week assemlied to see the phenom drive off. Hagen is regarded as the greatest golfer we have produced thus far. Walter had a good practioe round at the Woodmere Country Clib vester- day. turning in_a 71, and today de- | clared that physically and mentally he felt up to the task of gaing after Joe Kirkwood's reword of 16 No one believed that Hagen would equal or | exceed Joe Kirkwwod's hlaging feat erday, for such things as a seventy at Inwood are as rare as pink hippotomii in the jungis What Kirkwood did served to place him In a new light before the Amer- ican public who had come to regard him as a stunt argist. Of course, casual study of Kirkwood's game would have afforded convincing evi- dence that he has unusual qualifica- tions in playing stralght golf. It is merely that his circus stuff has over- shadowed other aspecgs of his game. Kirkwood was serious enough ves- terday when he was making his rec- serfous. yet smiling. 1t is won- derful to see a man doing a big | thing and at the same time giving every indication .that he is enjoying the process. TO HOLD NET EVENT. A _tennie tourney. in whivh players of Mt. Rainler and adjacent points will nigure, will be started Saturday at_the suburban tonwn. Pairings have peen made as fol- lows: PERRY. in CLASS A—SINGLES. ! First round—MoDevitt vi, Webb, Weaser va. Reisinger, McLeish vs. Rabbitt, A. Bellman Second round—Sherwood ‘vs. Gaither, Bald- OLASS B—SIMGLES. First sound—F. Bauman vs. Harper, Venning vs. Clayton, D. Bellman vs. A. Bauman, 8econd round—Drummon vs. E. Bsuman, C.-I. RACKETERS WIN. Commerten-Interior retmen defcated the Treesury rackclers. 3 to 2, in a departmental league motch yester- day. Summaries: No. 1-Beale and Klopsch (T. L) defeated 6—4. ! No, 2—Oragoe and Davis (C. L) defeated Clark and Sheperd, T—0. 6—1. 0, 3—Cox and MoConnell (Treasury) de. feated Stewart and Clayton, €6—4, 6—2. 4—Graybill and Cols (C. I.) defeated 4—8, 6—2. ! 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EW YORK, July 11.—Two of the most widely divergent types the prize ring has ever known will swing into action with both fists flying tomorrow night at Boyle’s Thirty Acres, where Jess Willard and Luis Angel Firpo will seek the right to become a challenger for Jack Dempsey's title. Both are terrific punchers and possessors of remarkable stamina, but there the similarity between these two fistic mastodons ends. Firpo. a dark-browned, silent son of the Argentine, is a natural fighter, a rush- ing, savage battler who has known n him in a year to pugilisitic heights. 0 barrier to an attack that has swept _Willard, slower afoot and at times sluggish in his ring actions, fights deliberately and chiefly on the defensive, unless he is aroused to sudden action or sees a chance to whip over an uppercut that carries devastating force. Willard-Firpo Fight Thursday Night By Megaphone Eleventh Street Side The Star Building Main bout is scheduled to start at 9 p.m., Wash- ington time. DOUBLES ARE LISTED IN CLAY COURT PLAY INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Juiy 11.—The national elay court doubles cham- plonship tennis matches are sched-! uled to start here tod: on the courts of a slocal country club. Play also will be continued in the second round of the men's singles and the boys' and junlor tournament The semi-final of the men's singles tournament will not be reached be- for Friday or Saturday and the final is to be played Sunday Willlam T. Tilden of Philadelphta, national singles champion, expe- ri d some difficulty yesterday in di. ing of his opponent. Albrecht Kipp. veteran He forced match. The score was b Manuel Alonso, Spanish player. had an easy time in disposing of his op- ponent. Robert and Howard Kinsley and Wallace Johnson also won handliyv. A L easily disposed Tilden during the entire 6—3, 6—: of Germantown. Pa.. of his opponent in the "boys' tournament.,’ and Don Strachan, also of Germantown, had little difficulty in disposing of his op- ponent in the junior contest. Ralph Burdick and Fritz Bastian of Indianapolis, last years' winners in the doubles contest, are scheduled to mect D. O'Laughlin of Pittsburgh and an unnamed partner in the first doubles match of the day. Alonso and Wallace Johnson of Merlon, Pa., are scheduled to meet.Frank Roth and il Foust, local players. SPANISH RACKETERS REACH ZONE FINAL By the Associated Press. EAST BOURNE, England, July 11.— Spain qualified for the final round in the European group of the Davis cup competition by defeating Holland yes- terday in the doubles in three straight sets There will be no necessity of play- ing the two remaining gles ar- ranged for today. The two vauthful players represent- ing Holland. H. Timmer and ° A. Bryan, tried their hardest but were outclassed by the masteriy play of their more experienced opponents, Count de Gomar and Eduardo Flaquer. De Gomar was especially trilliant on a half-valley stroke. Spain will now meet the winners of the France-Switzerland contest, Suzanne Lenglen's ability to hold har own against first-class male play- ers was demonstrated here when, after the Davis cun match, she figured in a winning mixed partnership agminst first strings of Spain and Holland. She and Flaquer defeated De Gomar and Van Lennep, 6—2. 7—3. WICONSIN U. STADIUM TO SEAT ABOUT 35,000 Unsversity of Wisconsin is con- struating its Camp Randall stadium at Madison from receipts of foot ball it wiil seat about 35,000, Wie Indianapolis player. | i Firpo has the advamage of youth. He s twenty-six and Willlard is around forty.” He Is fsster and can attack at more angles. ,But to offset this, the towering Kansyn will have twenty-five to thirty-five pounds ad- vantage In welght, nearly”five inches In helght and five Inches in reach Firpo, most critics agvee, must cgrry the fight to Willard - from the start. They belleve his maofin chance of victory is in the first fuw rounds for the reason that Willar has in- variably been slow In waitming up to his work. It was by a rhirlwind attack in the first round that Jack Dempsey battered Willard into a state of semi-helplessness. This type of battle is believed to be the plan of the South American’s veteran mentor and trainer. Jimmy De For- est, who was behind Dempsey at To- ledo and s fully acquainted with Willard's style. Willard has the lesson of the Dempsoy fight by whidh to profit, and if experts have “doped” the 'bout correctly it will be a battle be- tween Willard's early defensive pow- ers against Firpo's rushes, for the first few rounds, and if tive fight goes Tonger, & toss-up as to whether a Willard uppercut or one of Firpo's sledge hammer thrusts witlt his right turns the tide of battle. Today will be one of comparstive rest for the two boxers. ‘Rheir ar- duous training over, both msen plan only enough exercise to keap them in fighting trim. Early today Promoter Tex Ri-kard had prospects of a sell-out af all reserved ~seats, numbering i ound 50.000, if the rate of demapd! creases In the proportion it hns dur- ing the past few days. The $80.000 mark In recelpts was In sight ‘when the sale opened this morning at Mad- {san Square Garden. KILBANE GLAD RING TITLE HAS VANISHED s the Associated Press After a good rest on his farm ywar Vermillion, Ohio, close to Clevelgtd Johnny Kilbane, world feather- weigh boxing champion until he met Eugene Criqui in New York, Is ready to settle down to the life of a busi- ness man. His friends have esti- mated his financial assets at a quar- ter of a million dollars. Johnny will become a business man hout any regrets at having loat the title, although, he says now. he felt chagrined when he staggered to his feet immediately following his knockout “No more fighting for me,” Johnny has sald. “I can't fight any mord anyway. The old pep was gone fn the Criqui fight, my hands were bad. I had nothing. And to meet a little fighter of Criqui's type you needed everything. “T have appreciated the way my friends rallied about me after I had been beaten. When I returned to Cleveland eleven vears ago after beating Abe Attell for the champion- ship 100,000 people met me at the de- pot. A'few hundred of my friends met me when I returned from the Criqui fight. They were downcast, but I want them to know that T am not at all blue: that I'm glad I'm no longer champlon.” Johnny says his only interest in boxing in the future will ba centered in Al Ziemer. his sparring partner | for ‘years, whom he wants to send { after Criqui. {ARNOLD JONES TO LEAD OLD ELI’S TENNIS TEAM | Arnold Jones of Providence has { been elected captain of Yale's tennis team. He is ona of the most promis- ing players in this country. ARMY-MARINE GRID GAME SOUGHT FOR WASHINGTON The annual gridiron clash between the picked Army team and_the Ma- rines is being tought for Washing- ton. A subcommittee of the Cham- ber of Commerce, composed of Jo- seph B. Dreyfus. chairman; J. B. Lioyd and A. E. Seymour. is in the Monumental city today to confer with Gen. Mulr. Baitimore staged the 1 contest. The game. if obtained Washington. would be played at | American League park, where ac- { commodations for about 35,000 could be provided The Label Talks Safer than Words The“B.V.D.” Red Woven Label proves that you are getting the Unvarying Quality, Long ‘Wear and Fameus Fi Don't justaskfor”B.V. it of “B.V.D.”Underwear. D.”Underwear. Look for the“B.V.D.” Label on the underwear you buy. There is only one“‘B.V.D.”’ Underivear It is always identified by this Red Woven Label The B.V.D. Company, Inc., New Yotk Sele Makets of "B.V.D.” Usderwear 0., WEDNESDAY, tn- | JULY 11, fo2s. FACTS ABOUT BIG FIGHT; FIGURES ON PRINCIPALS | Place—Boylets Thirty Acres, Jer- mey City. | Time—First pracliminary, 8115 oclocks main bow, 10 (7:15 and 9 Washington tim¢’.) Principals—Jems \Villard of Kan- aas, former vy welght « - plon of wonld, wa. Luis kngel Firpo of Argentina; twelve romnds, uo deciaton. Purse—32 per cent of rece’pis. Preliminaries — Floyd Johuso Culifornla, Jaclk WMcAuliff ¢, 3d, Detrolt, twelve rounds; Bob Fitz- slsumons, Nutley, N. J. va. Tom Raper, Chicage, eight rounds; Tiny Jiw: Henm Oniaha, va. :CUT Krumer, Californis, eight rounds. fereen—Harry = Lewis, main boul; John Healey, Eddie 1jugan and Joe Jeannette, preliminaries. FIRPO. i § Helght .. 6 ft. B% in. Weight. . 214 péunds Neck 7 in. Chent Nonmal. .. Chest Ecyunded. ‘DEMPSEY IS IREADY TO FIGHT ANY ONE LOS ANGELES, Cal, d'uly 11.—Jack Dempsey, heavyweight lboxing cham- plon, arived in Los Angeles vester- day for a two-week visit. He sald he was “fecling fine” andl that he was ready to meet any one his manager, Jack Kearns, picked for him. Dempsey refused to tr’ to pick the winner of the Willaxd-Firpo bout. However, he said he pelieved Firpo would have to beat Willzrd inside of five or six rounds if He expected to win. “I understand the ej}stern experts are picking Firpo,” said the cham- plon. “Well, to my miind, the South Amertean will have to ‘in in a hurry if he beats that huge! Kansan. If{ Firpo does not beat Willard in five or ix rounds, I do not thinik he will win at all. Willard is a pratty smart old fighter amd the longer a man goes with him the better the man-moun- tain gets. “Of course, from my standpoint, it would be better for Fifpo to win. 1 have already beaten Wlllard, and the public would look for Firpo to heat me If he succeeds in getting past Willard. 1 am not pulling for either man and if Willard is the bctter man, I would like to see him win. “My bout with Tommy Glibbons taught me one thing and that is that I must keep fighting. No more long lay-offs for me. Tt makes no_ dif- ference whether Kearns signs Harry Wills, Willard or Firpo to box me. They all_look alike to me—but I wapt to fight one of them on Labor day.” BERNSTEIN IS FLOORED, RUT WINS ON DECISION ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 11.—Jack Bern- stein of New York. junior lightweight champiot;, was awarded the decision over H: Kabakoff of St. Louis in a ten-round bout here last night Bernstein was floored for the count ) 3 jthan one of Firpo's SPORT —_— MeLeod and Stanclz'fer Fail in Open Test : Willard in F'ine Trim to Battle F irP; 'HEFTY PUGILISTIC RIVALS TO ABSORB S. JESS UNDOUBTEDLY ABLE PUNISHMENT Offers to Present Stomach to Be Kicked—Kansan Also Two-Handed Hitter, While Argentinian Effective Only With Right. BY FAIR PLAY. N actions were carefully scrutinized an tion to make this report. there. face Jack Johnson. It required a man like the late of Pennsylvania trainer, to tap the Jeff was naught but an empty shell. We could wish that there was some one like Mike Murphy today to go over the Pottowatomie giant and paes opinion as to his fitness. Dut there was only one Mike Murphy. So one can but base judgment upon what he sees. The reader must accept it merely as the sincere judg ment of one whe is under no obli tlon of any sort to any prize fighter and never has been. Thus appraising Willard, the writer feels that he is fit to take the punching which sure- Ly is coming to him. Certainly he koks as though it would take more most distin- gulshed wallops to send the big man 1o the floor. Wiiling to Be Test. Jess offered to present his stomach to the writer's foot. In other words, he offered to be kicked in the stom- ach. He was not put to the test but he was serfious in his offe very one assoclated with Jess says that Firpo will never hurt him with his famous body punches—that he must shoot to the jaw to do damage. Frobably Firpa will reach the jaw— if_the fight continues long enou But before this happens what wiit Jess be doing'? The Kansan is no sazelle and never has been. But he | won't have to be to land on the ag- | ageressive Amgentinian. Don't think | that Willard can't hit. He is al brulsing hitte with both hands, whereas Firpo's left is something to wave, not to do damage. Willard <an be hurt, Jack Dempsey showed that. tory recoirds that Jess went and came up for more upon seven wceasions in that first round at | ‘Toledo. What did this mean? Noth- | ing other than that he is as game | as they o ) | Firpo Can Be Haurt. | Firpo can be hurt. too. Remember whemn Joe McCann t#pped him on the | jaw and sent him down for a six count in Newark about a vear ago? | The writer studled. Firpo curiously | as he reacted to the blow. He wasn't frightened or cowed. As he pulled | himsalf together his eves glowed with the ferocious glare of a mad | bull. That knotkdown infuriated | him. 1f Willard stings Firpo Thurs- day night an exHibition of ferocious, man-killing age may be expected from the Pampas piledriver. Which wiil win? All the insiders are giving odds on Luls because of His- down fof two in: the first round. Kabakoff failed to fallow up his advantage, and the junior ghampion grew stronger as | the bout wdnt on. BIG BC'UT IS DELAYED. LONDON, 1@y 11.—The meeting Le- tween Joe Betkett and Georges Car- pentier has been definitely postponed Wntil Septembar. says Sporting Life, | \vhich gfves thel promoters of the bout v its authority for the statement. TIP FOR FISHERMEN. | HARPERS FERRY, W. Va, July —'%he Potomac and Shenandoah iverss bath were clear this morning. I T MEN’'S All 3 and 4 piece { | good selection in med ! Dress and Tropica ! ¥‘ $35 Suits Il $40 Suits | $45 Suits it $50 Suits $55 Saits l $60 Suits $65 Suits | H (Alterations SIDNEY 3 | | ! Sole Washington of Dunlap Hats and | size and better defense. Semi-Ann'ual ) Sale of Men’s Suits | From Regular Stock Involving Reductions but no Explanations! BLOCH Suits, all Golf Suits included. Sale of Palm Beach Trousers (Mostly Large Sizes) $3.45 (INCORPORATED) 14th and G Streets his vouth, aggrussiveness and hitting power. They 8gure these qualities will triumph over Jess' expericn Maybe th will. Just the same the writer gives Jess something better than an outside chance on the ground that as Firpo omes ¥ throwing his wild punches here and there. he is apt to run into | gome very hard socks: (Copyright, 10 HERMAN TURNED BACK. ATLANTA, Ga. July 11.—*Babe" Herman, hard-hitting inflelder of the Atlanta base ball club, has bean turned back to the Boston Amerlcan League club because of indifferent playing. WEAR Suits; all STEIN- A ium weights (includ- ing plain blues) suitable for Fall wear. | Suits Excepted ... Now $23.33 .. Now $26.67 Now $30.00 .. Now $33.33 ... Now $36.67 .Now $40.00 .. Now $43.33 WEST 3 Representatives Stein-Bloch Clothes EW YORK, July 11.—Jess Willard will enter the ring against Luis Firpo in Jersey City on Thursday night in splendid condition. visit to Jess at Yonkers, in which the big fellow’s appearance and A d studied, places the writer in posi- But, mind you, no man can look inside of a fighter and tell what is It will be recalled that outwardly Jim Jeffries fooled even the shrewdest boxing critics when he was preparing to enter the ring 1 Mike Murphy, the great University big Californian and to make other tests which Mike’s genius suggested in the process of discovering that INSIDE GOLF By George O'Neil. After the player has put himself on balance for the drive, and at the instant when he starts the club up, he must watch not to take it upward too abruptly. The club should follow a straight line back from the ball as far as the arms will conveniently reach. The body, alxo, should be held squarely fa ing the ball until the point has WATCH MY FACE. AN YOU'LI been reached with the backward motion of the club. Do not let the body turn ahead of the club. Put it bebind the club at the very be- glening, and It will be pretty sure 10 be in behind the clubhead, where you want it, when the club comex down. In lifting the clubhead and bringing it down try to imagine you are dexcribing two circles, one with the clubhead, the other with the hands. The two should trace a line, as a giant pencil would. and the clubhead, coming down, should follow the same line it traced go- ing up. (Copyright, Jobn F. Dille Co.) 'BIG HARDHEAD CAUGHT AT SOUTH RIVER PARK They catch big ones at Shelter bay opposite C. H. Neeley's place at South River Park, Md. A hardhead welg ing nine and t fourths poun was hooked there by A. F. Green Michigan City, Ind. The fish is reputed to be the la; of its kina caught ot ever north of {Cape Henry. 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