Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1923, Page 30

S’PORT'S THE EVENING_S SPORTS. Tomorrow "AR, WASHING B. ¢, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1923. Willard and Firpo Ready for Ton 30 TON - Title Gofic lo Start LAST QUALIFYING ROUND IS ON AT INWOOD TODAY ight’s Battle GOAL OF EACH SCRAPPER IS A CRACK AT DEMPSEY' |Both Men Confident of Winning—More Than 70,000 Persons Expected to Witness Con- test in Big Jersey City Arena. PERTINENT FACTS ABOUT | HEAVYWEIGHT CONTEST Principals—Jess Willard, for- mer heavyweight champlon of the Luis Angel Firpo, American heavywelght champlon. (The winner virtuaily has been promised a meeting with Jack Dempsey for the world = K heavywelght title.) I A R Purse—352 per cent of the re- ceipts, IAC. iow 20 Swimmers Traine X 7o Becotte Champions Only De’fidly Accurate Putting Enables Hagen to Stay in Tourney—Macdonald Smith Leads Third Day Field With Mark of 150. Place—Boyle's Jersey City, L‘I'!Rh-".m Lewis of New- - ark. Promoter—aGeor; e i s we (Tex) Time of bout—10 o'clock to- night, (9 o'clock, Washington time). Thirty ®cres, L. XH] the Associated Press. ERSEY CITY, N. J.. July 12—Two modern gladiators, one from ti« BY W. R. McCALLUM. NWOOD, Long Island, N. Y., July 12—With but one more day of the qualifyi fiity-odd [ ing ahead to tomorrow ttle battle will be staged. They are safely out in front, a good de. tr tunates. around the round to be completed and that to be finished today, the aspirants for the national open golf championship are look- nd Saturday, the two days on which the real The qualifying barries is behind these for- more than hali way ck, for the pros consider the qualifying test the hardest O ect successfully, and once in they are pleased bevond expression. Ninety players were to meet th test today, inciuding at least a dozen «tars of the game, onc former open champion, one former amateur title holder and in the fie Tad who is conceded by all to be the equal of any shot maker Tomorrow the big show opens, but today the ninety who are bat- tling with par o cer this course covered with shattered hopes and heart- more to the choice group which will ARTICLE 1V. S EJOW long will it take me to | arn to swim?” That is one of the questions Fear of the -Water Is Natural Breath Control Is Means of Overcoming Dread. “How Long Will It Take Me to Learn to Swim”? Is Hard to Answer. | So you see, learning to swim is Time of first preliminary—=:15, prairies of Kansas and the other from the far stretches of the Arge Charley Nashert ve. George West, 6 roundw; mecond preliminary, Tiny Jim Herman vw. CHff Kra- mer, 8 rounds; semi-final, Floyd Johnzon vw. Jack MeAulifte, 2d, 2 rounds: third prelimfuary, to &6 on nofter Willard Firpo hout; Young Bob Fitzsimmons ve. Tom Roper. & rounds. xtimated recelpts—=s800,000. Estimate ndvance sale — $3: 000. . Prices of admission — $16.50 $11, §7.70, $5.50, $3.30, $2.20 and s 40,000 general admission at $1.10 and $2.20 will be J match in the picturesque setting of the arena at Boyle’s Thirty Acres For Jess Willard, the man mountain, who held the championship o1 the world from 1915 to 1919, it will be the acid test in the come k which he hopes to obtain a return match with his conquerer, Jack Demy- sey. careers of ring histor at Dempsey’s crown. A colorful crowd of probably more than 70,000 fans, including nota of society, business, public life and pugilism, men from all parts of | western hemisphere, is expected to witness the combat. Advance ticket sales had passed the | erities think. For Firpo, it will be the critical point in one of the most sensatior a stepping stone, if he is victorious, to a cha on xale at 5 o’clock this Dfternoon from wagons mear the | o He haw learnc rn 0 mark ond ndded thewe nswets o his grent last night and indi tine, will stake their pugilistic futures tonight in a twelve-rounis idis, aches, will add cighteen or twent he go out tomorrow to battle for Gene Sarazen's title. Today. as during the three otherl( IN OPEN GOLF PLAY by Inwood’s subtleties and the diffi- tions were that this figure would be | more than doubled by the time the| )H!tlc program begins at 8:15 o'cloc daylight time. WHO FIGHT TONIAGHT i % to be it for the reatest efforts of | Rochaster : i their unusual careers and experts who | Lucey and Freitag: Moore and McAvoy. cighed pro and con the rugged |Jersey Oity (second game). . 4 | vouth, punch and aggressiveness of | Rochoster . oo B | Firpo against the generalship, power | Hanson and McCabe: Miljus and MoAvoy WILLARD. and gameness of Willard regarded | Newark (first game) | 1911—Kaockouts—Ed Burke. 3; Louis Fink, 13: Al Mandeno, 4; Joe Cavanaugh, 11; Bill Shiller, 4. Won from—Frank Lyan, Comiskey, 10. Lost—Joo Cox, b; Louis Fink. 10, (foul). 6 punching powers.” — e INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. a relative thing. Most people ECRE never are satisfied that they know enough about swimming because their horizon enlarges the more they learn Almost without exception, be- ginners are anxious to impress e with their fear of the water. They think that nobody ever was afraid of water before, at least not to the degree that they are. beginners most frequently ask me, so I believe T am safe in as- suming that most of the readers of this series who don’t know how to swim have the question uppermost in their minds In reply 1 usually state: “Tf you want an honest answer, T cannot give it to you in a few words Tt would require an ex- planation.” That is like walking up to a man and"k.\king him point blank, 4 ; I “Have you stopped beating your " wife If he answers, “Yes, No four-footed animal is afraid vou exclaim in triumph, “So, you At vivont it The ¥ 3 of the water as a human being g ) 4 . : 4 is simply because it has not the the man explains that he never f b hi i d besides, h reasoning power to calculate s wife, ar b beat his wife, an esides, he danger. never had a wife. Adults especially, dwell on their In the first place. what do you § f the wat M vho hav: rean by swimming? A majority S Pt L :fe;:npie who say they can swim maeta smccess inlite byithe use when you ask how far they can ofithcisbraing and eptiol Wit 3 3 good reason take pride in their intellectual power on land, find that the old brain cells don't function in the water. That'is because the elements of the abnormal—fear of a strange element — enters the situation. They cannot concentrate on what they are doing, and they think it is a mark of stupidit are sometimes downcast over it, but T tell them it is no sign they are dumbells. A teacher must handle such men in an elementary way, like ignorant infants. That goes as far as the water concerned, and while treating them in this fashion 1 can still have the ut- ‘most respect for them and take instruction from them on land. E ] W score card. , n the world the pencil, and well do in this championship know it i Bobby Jones. Jim Barnes, Johnuy, Farrell, Jesse Guilford and the others will heave @ long and sincere sigh of INWOOD, Long Tsland, July Cards of leaders in the third day's rellef when they find tliemselves) of the qualifying rounds in the; safely in tonight One or moro ;;f,n;umnal open golf tourney and those | them may go astrs but so far N who made the grade yesterday are of the real cracks of the game. \\'lt\|\ as follows: - The single exception of Fred McLeod, who were figured to come through, MACDONALD SMITH. iled in the qualifying test. Mortng ‘round— e e ieries at Tnwood, which have [out.. 4" 45 4 & steadily increased in size day by day,|In.....5 4 3 4 § had & real treat in store for them today. | Afternoon round— Tour stars of the game, men Who |Out... 44 55 5 may do anything in a par-shattering In -5 eE S way, were in the last section of the WILLIE qualifying round i oMorning rouni— They Are Paired. ut.... 55 639 o S ith Bob |10 243 4D 5—38—77 ‘Bobby Jones was playing wit R ckaims Afternoon round— | Cruickshank, the pro at Shackamax-|oue' -3 g 3¢ 5 = | on, and a real golfer; Jim Barnes,|In 4545 4 4—38—76—153 | ‘ho won at Columbia in 1921, Was:G. Sargent, Columbus, e ng shots with Tommy ~Har-| Al Watrous, Redford, Mich. ot Hudson River, o lad who is|Mike Brady, Detroit.... ... N omping up and some day soon will|G. Jacobus Ridgewood. N. 3 BLEDDY T O Y opnoteher. | S L. Motliersele, New York be ranked : eher | Walter Hagen, N Johnny Farrell of dge. | D70 Hare: Bari well known to and th % Noon, e Washington golfers, is playing with H. Wow, Weston, Mass.. Richard Walsh of New York, the artin, Los Angeles new public links champion. and Tom | F. Brand, Allegheny, Pa. MeXamara of Siwanoy was around £ L Ryall Maine ' ... cith George Dowden. 3 b S S etiot. vore inithe distjof| D (temossll SHollvwent . 1 Kerrigan, Bronxville, N. Y. starters today. Led by Bobby Jones B! Olarke, Bumson, . nd Jesse Guilford, some of these W. Dyer, Mont oon. hures may displace the Dros.|C. Hughes, Lancas Dexter Cummings of Chicago, the| Falled to Qualify. new intercollegiate champlon. ' -1y, Ayton, Evanston, Il die Held and Harry K. B. Davis. | ponn€po 2ot oyl former California champion. Were ®’'s Der’ Lutw Temple. | 12 play Fear of Water Natural. teil them that fear of the water is a sign of intelligence. 3 3 3 5 4—30 43874 i 4—38 J 5—"8—76—150 it | oGramph and Devine; Reinhart, Schessler and { 1913—Knockouts—Frank Bauer, eiseieiianen.. = 3 -Eh(— nas overcome the handicap of | CAr*s and Clark: Taylor and Vincent i Rodel, 6. Lost—Tom McMahon. 12. (for | ute, this' dark-skinned product of SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. R H E 3 2 U ee. Bowman and Eiffert; My uppereut or a Firpo right swing, both | _Ellis and’ Greenae: Parks and McKee. | Willard's forty years or so seemed | Nioborgail. Bowers, 3: John Young. 6: Sailor White, 1: & e 2 limbering-up exercises. The big Kan- | Mamaux and Lynn; Doyle and Vinoent. Leon, 4: Bull Youns, 11; Georgs D four yearh of ring idleness. | aeaen 30 Garl Mot 10 oty ounbost Bmith, |\ Yreaking camp at Long Beach. | ygpan, 1915—Knockout—Jack Johnson, ¢ 7 | the Pampas has been converted, chief- | hibition—Soeldier Koarns, 2. Q { primitive battler into a two-fisted| | 1818—Knockout by—Jack Dempsey. 3 (lost | 1BNING i ill\& outcome as a toss-up. A Willard | Syracuse s 13 {of which have landed before with (Newark (second game) e devastating effect, may decide the is- | Syracuse 5 1812—Knockonts—John _You Frank | to weigh but lightly on his huge | Reading (frst e r A A frame as he went through his final | Toponto -.. 8 Soldier Kearns, 8. No decision—Arthur Pel- key. 10; Luther McCarty, 10. san was the picture of confldenc l;MMnx (second game) Jack {and good condition. He belicves that | TOgome 2 P I?eo{tt‘nx?fl, 9. “Wo; (‘rn‘m-—Al VI\III";°d ll; Soin 1 o~ T o Gunsons Gmith, | Firpo passed last night in New York | ®0/l, * i0i"" Siyias: Mohatt, Goady - an o L i, 81 G IN. 3. He, too, is the personification of nockouts—Dan Daily, 9; George | N. J. He, too, > pers on of § confidence. Trained down to the min- 26 world’s championship) . | 1916—No decision—Frank Moran, Ex-|ly by expert handling, but also | Nashville . P ot *Gotden, rim | thTouEh natural aptitude, from a L Tepes 1> machine. Since he first| | championship). | sprang into prominence last year, no | Mobile . * 1 |~ 1923—Knockout—Floyd Johnson, 12. | opponent has lasted the limit unde | Atlanta ... aosneases . 5 13 Recapitulation—Matches, 37; knockouts, 19: | his smashing attack. He has never | Fuhr and Henry; Neihaus, Dumant knocked out by 1; no decisio draw, 1;!met a_boxer of Willard's caliber be- | Miller. i won, 4: lost. 4; exhibitions. 3. {fore, but he has demonstrated his|New Osfeans - A possession of all the requisites of a |Birmingham . S ° Arat-class fighting man. Winn and Mitze; Stewart and Vann Though overshadowed by the main Memphis . ° bout. the semi-final contest of twelve | Chattanooga ....... .. i 7 rounds between Flovd Johnson of Des | MoGrew, Daily and Lapan; Morris and Moines. Towa, and Jack McAuliffe, 2d. [T of Detroit, has attracted considerable interest. These young heavyweights were knockout victims of Willard McAuliffe, 3: Joe White. 2: Jim Hibbard, 3, 1and Firpo, respectively, at the Yankee ’ A tadium two" months ago, but since | then they have shown marked im- | provement in form._ 1@ 5 E < go. tell you 5 “Oh, irom here over to there,” indicating a distance oi four to eight vards. That means that they can keep their arms and legs thrashing wildly about as can hold their 1 1 FIRPO. In his short ring career. since 1921, Firpo | has engaged in 22 fights. winning 18 of them | | by the knockout route. He is heavyweigit | | champion of South America. His record, since | he_began fighting in the United States, follows: | 1922—Knockoute—Sailor Maxsted, 7: Joe | McCann, 6; Jack Herman. 5: Jim Tracey, 4. | 1923—Knockouts—Bill Brennan, 12; Jack | = 5 8 Mor SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. Macon, 10: Spartanburg, 0. Augusta, 12: Greenvills, 7. Charlotte, 8; Columbia, 4. PIEDMONT LEAGUE. Durham, 4: High Point, 2. Raleigh. 11; Greensboro, 5. Danville, 3; Winston-Salem, 1. long as they breath. Obviously they do not know the art any more than a fish knows how to fly just because he can jump out of the water long enough to catch a bug. ADVANTAGES OF EACH. | in analysis of the measurements of Willard L St = and Firpo show the respective physical advan.| Three other bouts between heavy: | tages held by ench man to be | welghts are on card, the most Height—Willard, 31; inches interesting of is an eight- Weight—Willard, 24 pounds {rounder between Kramer of among the amateurs who started to-|0¢to Hackbarth, Cincinnaj 5 day. | A. 7. Sanderson, Sleepy Hollow. They the |3 Eimundson, North Hills, Pa.. marks mith. | T. Lally, San Antonio, Tex Walker and | Jack Stait, Hartford % 2 Yew of the others who qualified!J. R. Langland. Weequahu Park Vesterday, the best day for golf so|S: McLesn Grassy '!:“r::n ar. but the one in which the scores| - G. T. Sayers, Merion. Pa ere higher than Monday and Tues-|Fraak Gaitast, Philadelphia av when the wind whistled in off Charles H. Mayo, Westhampior. . Jamalea Bay with a viclousness that | Martin Sykes, Scarsdale....... .. ‘arried the ball into some tough |F. McNamara, Jacksonville. Fla. Slices { James Crasson, Wheatley Hills. . Mac Smith, red faced. awkward ‘;"? g:r:fln. ;‘ilh oo;n Pa. and typically Scotch in appearance |¥red oken, Knollwood......... and golfing ability. led the field of | krving T e aualifiers yesterday with a mark of |Eratk 3. Brady, dellet, 150, six strokes over Kirkwood's|pen yLord, Glens Falls leading total of Tuesday and two |Frank Murphy. Marine and Fieid <hots over Gene Sarazen pace-set- | R.Thompson, Westchester-Biltmore ting mark of Monday. .\[mf} w:h];W.!E. Doza‘!mu. Newark ‘ing s v, eclicking o ar |A. Brown. Lido..... 2 :‘l?lll'“b;\zr eag'fl% many birdies, lr:m.‘g’fl;:m; Lefiah» gver:§onk. Pa . y : rling, Brooklawn fym:’a'tflgm pars all the way along the|g AL “:‘mqh'd Out w spectacular Walter | I3 Matrlotto, Tide Tagen, Smith showed the way round | <Amateur. the course in both rounds to the| former American and British open| title holder. Hagen qualified all right hut there were times along the wayv when & bad bounder or roll of the ball g2t} "G TRVEE Gohamm: Tom 24 night have pushed the former title ! han Amesbuy, IMass.; Walter 0'Donnell, holder into outer darkness. He didn't | old’ Edgewood. Pa.; Jack Elphrick, Gross have much of an edge. and another ex- |Isle, Mich.; Thomss J. Kane. unattache hibition like that at thirteenth in (8. Nelson, Fort Ind.: Arthur_J.| the afternoon or that even worse one ; Lacey, unattached: Charle C. Courtlo, Pip-| the fifteenth in the morning—would { {88 Rock; John J. Kane. Deal: Jack Kem-| 5 dy, Pittsburgh: Herry Demeo, North | have put him into the gallery tomor- | 3 . 1 R D e Inetond f peemiv. |Hompstead: M. J. Ford, unattached: Pete | Robertson, Yahnundasis: Jack Oke, Bsaver| ting him to play for the title. | Valley, Pa.: C. J. McMaster, Frederiok, Md. What a crash that would have been' (E. W. Nath, Rockaway Hunt; Beter Furve Put he would have had no one to | Essex Fal D 8. Mackie, hlame but himself, for Hagen was | Wiechman, unattached; Carl Ruilty of gross careiessness in the | Buffaio: J. E. Neineville. Huni morning on the fifteenth hole-—care- which Clic Jim to MacDon duplicate 1d rgent all hoped made bY Hagen, George - = VIRGINIA LEAGUE. Rocky Mount, 4: Norfolk, 3. Richmond, 5: Wilson. 2. Petersburg, 8; Portsmouth, 5. What a Swimmer Is. Some swimming pupils might satisfied with negotiating or a hundred feet in the water Others would not be pleased until they could swim like Johnny Weissmuller Their next question usually is. Ay idea of a person who has “How can I overcome my fear:" accomplished something in learn- T telld ihit tHer mus ing to swim is one who can go breath control. 200 feet with ease and comfort, 1 give them a lesson on land. ex- 'u‘nh mind and plaining how their breathing That is what I apparatus works on land and how mind it must work in the water in or ax:\\er A £ der to successfully combat the Some r;;'«;:l"“;m' l:::(‘“m ‘:“' water. This means that they will have to learn to breathe by a new or ten lessons, another might method. take forty. As a rule, thg older (Copyright. 18: 1he:\~ are the more tenacious is In the next article, which will their fear, and llx{ longer it takes appear in The Star next Sunday to work it out of them 1 will explain Breath Control. BT S S0 GREER CHOSEN HEAD — PRO GOLFERS MAY STAGE TWO JAP NET STARS OF SANDLOT LEAGUE [00hnamen. AT PELHAM BEATEN IN TOURNEY Montclair; James Donnack Hagerstown ] e At tra it P Rm 0Ut|Md: Edward Doran, unattached: Charles F. | bad golt for Sir Waiter—he came Ry the Assoclated Prass INWOOD, July 13.—The Profe. — i E. Greer ha of the newly organized MoKennon, Irondequoit. Y.: Erie Ed- Wilbur L. Loes, Mont- hack to earth early on the second Vilord, Snfern, nine and started back 4 5 3 3 5. H et viggonr il e ianied “xpected another 3 at the short e e fifteenth; but his tee shot went awry mounced today that the P. G. and found a trap to the left of this Siburban League, composed of six ChAmplonshlp probably would be clubs located in the northwest sec- Neld. at the Pelham, N. T. c"; tlon, ke Thompson is the vice pres- | 4uring fhe week of September 17. fdent, L. M. Cavilller secretary and treasurer and J. A. McCaleb official is be sixty’ FLORIDA STATE LEAGUE. { Tampa. 80: Lakeland, 3.1 | Daytona, 4: St. Petersburg, 3. = nyldlntowfi. Orlando, § (17 innings. dark- | ness). were “I ame mot overconfl-' —— I Pave APPALACHIAN LEAGUE. Johnson City. 7; Bristol, 1 (10 innings. dark- ness). Greeneville, 17: Knoxville, 6. Kingsport, 4; Morristown, 0. BLUE RIDGE LEAGUE. Frederick, 1. i1: Chambefsburg, 4. Hanover, 0. must learn muscle relaxed. would have in an intelligent h the is Withdrew. Stewart Maiden, Atlanta: Willia inson, Philadelphia: C. N. Bruns. : ! Henry Johnson, Inwood: Alex Smith. Shen in giving others. by the Beli Synd M World's SS SYBIL BAUER. greatest woman back- stroke swimmer. Jimmy De Forest, Firpo's veteran | iner and mentor, - upplom This stipulation | South American’s pre-battio remarks. | “1 ean't ee how any ome can Jick Firpo,” he sald. ~Wiliard has never heen n Azhte the renl aenxe of | the word. He's tough and he can hit, | but he mever met any one who ean | punch ax hard as Firpo, not except- ing Dempsey. And Firoo ix faster | zud a better ring gemeral than most Smokes So Good! 33 all and Deliver | Men’s Suits, 95¢ Silk Sults Exee, el Robert been elected outstanding faverite to win' president title. Fred McLeod says he can't be stopped Inwood again took its toll yesterday. { Alex Smith. thrice champion; Stewart Maiden, mentor of Alexa Stirling, and Bobby Jones, George Sparling and many others jolned Fred McLeod in the gal- lerfes, which watched the last qualifiers piay thelr ehots today. George Sargent, formerly pro ut th Chevy Chase Club, now located at Sciot Ohio, w ely in with 154, Sargent won the title back tn 1909 and Is hitting his ehots well at Inwood He bhad a brace of s yesterday. Mike Brady of Detroit, the wester open champlon, had a hard time ye | terday, With a 74 In the morning, tied with A] Watrous and Mac Smith for second place, Mike looked very safe. Everything went slong swim- mingly for Mike until he came to the seventh hole—a 223-yard affalr, to a hig green tucked away in a grove of trees. Out-of-hound stakes line the i+ narrow fairw Mike's normal tee shot is a hooked ball, and at this hole he get in too fast and hooked his first ball out »f bounds. Then he pui one over he fence on the other side. Pentla: again of stroke and distance, and | Mike plaved five from the t e He was short and wound up with ‘an 8. He was out in 47, but Mike | had some consolation, for a few mo- iments before Willle Leach of Phila- delphia put five balls out of bounds jand took 11 to the hole. Coming in Mike burned up Swimmers of the olub have been ‘courts, finishing with a fast | fnvited to compete at the Wardman ‘and & total for the round of 81 to| Pavk meet to be held Saturday at { make & grand total of 156 2:30 o'olock. Reach—Willard, 5 _inches. attie and “Tiny Herman of Neck—Each man, 17 inches. Omaha. Chest, normal—Willard, 5 inches Weather predictions contain a pos- e et e nines: Clement weather forca a postpone- PorearmWillard, 1 inch. ment, Promoter Tex Rickard will hold the show tomorrow night, when fair | Thigh—Willsrd,' 144 inches TR ma. $52 snches Statements of Rivals. The following # statements made by Willard and Firpo dent, but I think I can win. never seen Firpo fight, hut | ON BIG RING CLASH iy nin Slrme dmers e L Eaee 1 {don’t think there's anybody in the ring | % 8 3 ! who can take my measure today. T'm | NEW YORK, July 12-—The flood of | in better condition then at any other | Toose ‘oh the Willard Xfebo: be . Firpos it 1 do I'll be ready for n re-! Hugerstown, prooac-2 fe Willard-Firpo bout has yurn macch with Dempses the next| Martinsburg, failed o materialize. All t0ld, there day or any other day he sixus. Waynesboro, imay have been $100.000 placed in the | he title 1 lust to him four years! expected ; 1! > HE. |that close to a quarter of a million| "% TIP FOR FISHERMEN. | i e 5 | FIRPO: I kmow 1 can beat Wil- ARPERS FERRY, W. Va.. Ju dollars would be at stake. Onegthing' lnrd. 1 tehed him fight Flo¥d | _The Potomac and Shenandgah. that has militated against the betting xhow fn which I knocked out Jack | - McAuliffe, 2d, and 1 know hix stsle. | = no official decision will be rendered St = T The fear of a foul being committed | i Rxoy et Wil ke | also has caused some of the largest | However, I'm in the best condition of | .o { L L | my life and can outlaxt Willara ig| ~Wonder, What Mertz Will Say Today: money on the outcome. - | At the Sign of the Moon, in Dosle said that Firpo was ! necessary. [ have all (he confldence | p 3to & favorite, but he declared that’m fa= worte (t LU e the wietar) in small amounts. He added that a | great many were making the stipula- | tion that if both men were on their bets would noi go. was being_made because of no official | !decision. There hias not been as much PROVIDENCE, K. 1. July 12 e T Davls cup |been expected. but what little there memberstof panese Davls cub |y g peen has been recorded at 2 to 1 team were put out of the running in!that Willard will not knock out Firpo | at the Agawam Hunt Club yesterday. | 04t Willard ~ | M. Fukada fell before Carl Fischer | ] I I tricky hole, which may later decide Established 1893 s . j sibility of rain today. Should in- Wrist—Firpo, 4 inch. H i | weather is promised. | B IN v | WILLARD: ! | ! hitter. 1 believe that (o be so. but 1] ! money that was expected to be turned | time in my career. 1 hope 10 whip| one and only object In to win b = |balance. but it had been Johnson two months ago at the wame | hoty were clear this morning on this fight has been the fact that| me to win, but I hope it will b~ enrly Open Daily Until 6 P.M culators to hesitate to risk their in the world that Il he the vietor inost ‘of the bétting was being done, T ¢! feet at the end of the last round the Two ; betting on a knockout as might have the championship. the state tennis champlonship matches |and § to 5 that Firpo does not knock LEAN SWEEP IS MADE of Phiiadelphia, colleglate champion Hagen Pulls Boner. Ssorer. , §—10, 6—4. and Arnold Jones General Reductions 1/3 : OFF opportunity to select from the choicest stock of woolens and cure a suit at a greatly re duced price. and then rolled slowly back into the trap. As it was rolling back Walter took & practfca swing and touched the sand with his niblick. e chipped out and was down in two putts for a 5 at par 3 hole. Astound- ing, but true, and it might have meant the downfall of *“Hage.” He came back as & champlon should, however, sinking a 3B-foot putt for a 4 at the sixteenth, and finishing with a brace of birdia 3s for a total of 79 He holed a 4-footer at the seventecnth and a 20-footer at the last hole, Out {n the afternoon Walter knew he had to shoot real golf to get in and he came hack with u vengeance. He was out in 36, playing beautiful golf, never missing a shot and hit- ting with all the wizardrg of the Hagen of Deal or Braeburn. Somathing happened at the turn. Walter's tee shot at the tenth struck A spectator, and he took 5. Three putts at tha eleventh cost him an- other 5. He got a 3 at the short twalfth and was all right, but another plece of carslessness at the thir- teenth looked bad. Walter sliced his 4rive to a trap right alongside Mac Smith's ball. Smith played out to the green edge, but Walter harely got out and into another trap, From this he played into a trap at the right of the green and missed a shot there, final- Iy holing a twelve-foot-r for a 6, It} might just as easily been 7 or 8, | Then Walter started breezing along ! again in good shape. He got a 5 at| | z Invincible the seventeenth, where he reached a trap over the green and finishad b : ) ? Size e : To Order ohipping dead to the eighteenth phxl / 3 L ' : : v As Low As for a 4. Waltr was in with stroks to spare, but hs was a worried man | along_the major portion of the route. | Mac Smith, on the other hand, was | like a machine. Brilliant out of trou- | ble, the man who came back went | along like a well ofled watch, click- | ing off par after par with regularity. | He had no trouble leading the fleld. H MISS SKADD!NG TO SWIM IN CHAMPIONSHIP MEET iss Florence Skadding will repre- . aemt"the Caditol Athletla Club at the | hational and iniddle Atlantlo swim- | ming champlonghips to be held at| Peach Haven, N. J., Saturday, July Y ocal mquatio followers expeot Mise Skadding to place in the 220- yard breast stroke junior nationel swim, ihe only event in which she is entered. She recently won two medals and a silver cup at Baltimore. lean and Pres: This is your Walter stepped down into the sand crest of the green. spun a moment pact View, Telghtwood, Tetworth.| BY SPANISH RACKETERS | beat Zenso Shimizu, 6—d, 26, 6—1. Tex.; Louls White. Texas; §. Howard S vattaville gama {omorrow i % players continued thelr form @ schedule. Doublo-headers | Vander Feen, 4—6, 4—3, 6—3, 6—0. P l N D L E The Spanish team had previously | R July 22 beaten the and Rebullt Motooyeles Sold -Repairing 424 Ot ‘Street N.W. se- with his customary assurance and hit the ball. 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