Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1923, Page 68

THE SUNDAY v C, SEPTEMBER 30, 1923—SPORTS_SECTIO! U. S. Leads in Tennis Stars : Griffs Are Blanked: Modern Golf Ball Upsets Par LENGTH OF COURSES CUT GREATLY BY NEW SPHERE HAS TWO BEST, AND FOUR AMONG THE LEADING FIVE Tilden, Johnston, Anderson of Australia, Williams and Richards Choice Quintet—All Others in First Ten Are Foreigners. BY SAMUEL HARDY. HE task of ranking tennis players requires almost as much courage as it takes'to win a Carnegie medal. A member of the ranking committee of the national gssociation said to me the other day: “I suppose that after we issue our ranking HSt this year we sh_nll have ten friends and a hundred enemies.” If this be true, the following attempt to rank the world’s ten best players ought.to make me as popular as a man with the smallpox, and, no dyoubt, some one from Czechoslovakia or *Chile will write and ask why he was.not included in the list. In ranking the players at the close of the 1923 season I have been guided chiefly by the towrnament records of the current year. This method does not always indicate the true ability of some particular player, since many a sensational victory has been due either to some trivial cause that has handicapped the loser for the moment, or to early season tournaments, when the best players are likely to drop matches hecause of lack of practice. I have therefore given more weight to the late season meetings than to the tournaments held early in the season. Tn studying the tournament records, one is faced by the fact that while A beats B, and B beats C, very often C may beat A, while D, a rank outsider, may for a week play way above his torm and defeat any or all of them. Yet, since no two people will ever agree upon the relative merits of even the first five players, there Is no other way of judging them ‘except by their tourna- ment records, modified by a& knowlmlg» of the conditions that obtained at the time of each match. Having watched every match of importance played in Amerlea this year, and discussed the victories and defeats with the piayers themselves, I should rank as tha fivst ten players in the world the following men, in the order of their merit: Tilden, Johnston, Anderson of Australia; Wil- liams, Richards, Alonso, the Spanish ace; Norton, the British South African; Patterson and O'Hara Wood, Aussies, and Washer of Belgium. * Tilden Easily Best. Tildén 80 unquestionably comes first that no one denies his right this year to first place. After Johnston had ‘won the world championship on grass and hard courts, Tilden defeated him in straight sets in the American cham- pionships. Furthermore, Tilden has not lost a single match on grass throughout the entire season. and he has played almost continuousiy during the year. Johnston deserves second place, de- epite- his defeat by Anderson in the Davis cup matches. His victories abroad over Richards and Hunter and his fine play at Seabright, where he defeated Williams handlly in the final, when the latter was at the top of his form, clearly indicates his right to be runnér up. Against Anderson, Johnston Dlayed ‘the ‘worst tennis that he has ever displayed in a Davis cup contest, and T am_positive that he would have reversed the result at Germantown had not_Anderson defaulted in this tourna- ment because of an indisposition. Anderson has third place. He must be given credit for playing fine forceful tennis against Johnston, even if the latter was below par; indéed, one reason for Johnston's downfall was Anderson's aggressiyeness. Against Tilden, too, he ayed fine tennis after the champion ad “cased the pace of his strokes at the conclusion of the second set. It is @ pity that Australia’s Davls ‘cup pre- liminary ties prevented Anderson from participating in some of our tourna- ments, as I would have been interest- ing to see what he could do against Williams, Richards and Hunter. Anderson Is Improved. Anderson undoubtedly played better tennis this year than he did in 1922, when _Richards disposed of him in stralght sets. He has beaten Patterson twice in Australia, and we know that Patterson went through Williams with the utmost ease last year. 1 believe 1hat next year, when Anderson expects his heaith to be greatly improved, he will be a far more formidable player than he was during this seacon. Ander- #on has the one great requisite neces. sary for success in modern tennis— speed. Look out for him next year. Willlams has shown greatly improved form throughout this season, in both eingles and doubles. Only in his first tournament, at Palm Beach, and in his last match, against Norton at Ger- mantown, has he lapsed into the hap- hazard, unreliable game that has char- acterized his tennis during the past fow seasons. He attributes his success to the fact that he now plays only in alternate weeks, thus never growing stale. Whatever the cause of his im- provement, it is certain that he has maintained a high level of excellence throughout the season. Willlams has tempered the brilllance of his play, by adding a certaln amount of caution that he formerly lacked, and I believe that it is this new quality that he has in- ectéd into his former reckless game that {s responsible for his improvement {1 this season. i Richards can_ almost be bracketed with Wiiliams, but must give way to him largely becauss of .a defeat Sus- tained at Newport. It s quite con- celvable, however, that the result might have beén reversed had these two play- ers met a second time. Richards was the only man capable of extending Johnston at Wimbledon, where he made a much better showing against the world champion than did Hunter in ths finals. 1 discount his defeat by Hunter at Germantown because Richards has de- feated him repeatedly this year, and, confident that he could do so again whenever he put on a little pressure, allowed the match to get out of hand. re i no doubt that Hunter is a tly improved player this year, but STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE HEVY CHASE CLUB and the Columbia Country Club golfers are meeting today over the thirty-six-hole route in a pair of the final i matches of the interclub series. The two teams will play eighteen oles at Chevy Chase at 9 o'clock this mornin, ‘clock this afternoon at Columbia. st postponed from early in the sea in the regular schedule. atches in one day. - Columbia will be without the serv- ® of Chris J. Dunphy, the- Dis- ot amateur champion, and Guy M. ndifer, 1921 title-holder. Dunphy at Bar Harbor, Me., and Standifer on the Paciflc coast playing in the lifornia — championship. Chevy #6 Will be able to put its best Ream in the fleld. Golf In plenty is offered both men #nd women players about Washington #his week. Tomorrow the amateurs and professionals will get together at s Washington Golf and Country ub, while ‘women players of the Cplumbia Country Club will be com- nmn‘ in the ing_ round for the b championship. Match play rounds in the women's event will be held through Friday, when the final Wil be played. The winner will be swarded a replica of the Donald wsodv-.rd trophy. n Wednesday play for the Presi- @ent's cup will start at the Chevy Chaee Club, with the thirty-two low net scores made between September 16 and today to be paired for the mateh play founde The competition i ‘& ndicap affalr, with three- fourths of the difference in handicaps of the contestants to apply. The same fall ay, half the entrants in the invitation tournament of the Bannockburn * Golt Stubesthe firat opén tourney given by the club for méveral years—iwill 2lay in the quali- fying round of that event, with the g‘o f of the qunumt round e held the !ouowlnh” Matoh v tha ooty Aneis aad nmn::; with the semi-finals carded for d-o":c'! o'clock tomorrow aye- son, while the one at Columbia is one The team captains agreed to play off both I belleve that he would lose to Rich- ards four out of five times, Jvst as I belleve that Anderson would fall before Johnston should they have a series of matches. Richards “played below his normal form throughout the match with Hunter, while the latter was fully half- fifteen ahead of his game from the start. | Grass Bothers Alonso. Alonso does mot, perhaps, deserve &ixth place when one considers his sad | showlng on grass during August and | September, but players are ranked on ! their record through the year, and Til- den considers the Spanfard almost un- beatable on hard courts. Alonso learned the game on clay, and it {8 on this sur face that he has made such & remark- able record this season. He s the only man who has defeated Tilden this year in tournament play, and several times he has played him five-set | matches. T doubt whether Alonso ever | will wholly adapt.his game to a grass | surface, but he is unquestionably one | jof the finest liard court players in the world today, in spite of his volatile | temperament. orton said to me the other day that he hoped he would not be ranked in America this vear, as he had broken training after Wimbledon and felt that | he had not done himself justice in our | turnaments. How well he can play when he takes carc of himsell was shown at Germantown. when he beat Willlams by fine all-round play and made even Tilden exert himself. His showing there and his numerous wina abroad seem to me to entitle him to membership in the great flrst ten of the world. If Norton remains in th country, as he now expects to do, we &hall, perhaps, be able to form a more just estimate of his powers at the clos of next seafon. At the present time he is principally noted for the excellence of his back court game, especiaily on tho left court, but he has demonstrated that he can volley low balls well, his weak- ness being overhead shots and service Australians Dangerous. A year ago I should have ranked Pat terson higher on the list than eighth. One remembers his fine performances last year against Willlams at German- town, Alonso in their Davis cup tie, and especially the challenge round matches against Tilden and Johnston. Just be- fore he sailed home Patterson told me that most people did not realize that he was always fully fifteen better at the close of @ season than at its commence- | ment. This fact accounts for his d. feat ‘by Hunter the weck after he, landed in Anterica, and his close efcape | from defeat by Gobert in Boston soor after. Patters little oblige w8, He wils twice defeated by Anderson, thus settling, for this season, the que: tion of their supremacy at home, question that agitates Australia just a8, in former years, the followers of | Tilden and Johnston used to quarrel over the respective merits of these two players. 1t is perhaps unfair to rank Patterson this year, when he has par- ticipated neither at’ Wimbledon nor in America, yet he is undoubtedly one of the great tennis figures of the world, a player who would, I believe, outstrip such men as the Kinseys, Hunter and Fischer had he been able to compete against them this vear. For the same reason 1 gi Wood a place above these men, though he must bow to Patterson, who de- feated him at home in a five-set match. Next year both Patterson and O'Hara Wood expect to come to this country again in quest of the cup. If the team includes Anderson and is captained by Norman Brookes, we shall have to look to our laurels, as the trophy will be in danger, particularly if Johnston should happen to have another bad year. At any rate, all these men will compete fn our tournaments, and we shall then see just how formidable they are when op- posed to any one except Tilden and Johnston. Johnston Praises Washer. According to Johnston, Washer is a | | very fine player, who is capable of giving any one a battle. The Belgian forced Johnston to five sets in France, and this is the second time he has challenged for the world hard court e Wallis Myers, too, thinks that Wash- er's speed will trouble any one if he is allowed to gain his best form. So, all things considered, 1 have no hesitancy in piacing him last on the list. Washer is trong as a bull, can last forever and is a great fighter. He will enter the Olympic contest in Paris next year, after which it is to be hoped \that he will spend the remainder of the season with us, O'Hara (Coprright, 1923.) The match at Chevy Chase is a con-| | Hits—0ff Sh L g and will clash again at 2 RED SOX TAKE PAIR FROM THE YANKEES BOSTON, Heptember 20. — Boston | Glosed_its home season today, defeating New York in a double-header, 5 to 4 N | &na 3 to 2, the second game going six- | teen Innings. . FIRST GAME. N. Y. ABM.0.A. 5101 omit e connbEmBre 3 0 o o 5 ° 4 3 [ ST Totals. .58 14 94 16 *Batted for Hoyt in ow York 00 oston 5 AL Runs—Dugan, Ruth, Geb mith, Don- oo, Burns, Monosky. (B, Ooliinn,- E Dugan (%), Two-base hib—Burns, Thre hit—Menosky, Saorifice—-Ooliins, ' Double p —McMillan to Mitohell to Burns, Left bases—New York, 7; Boston, 8, Hoyt, 1; by Quinn, 3. Wild pitch—Hoyt. Urpires—Mossrs, Dinesn, Rowiand and Con. nolly, Time of game—1 hour and 3 minute SECOND GAME, A (Do, ABEOA Mitohell, Picinioh, N. Y. Witk,of PRSI mouneles & ooomaua *One out when New York.0 0-0 1 Boston ....0000800 Runs—Hofmann (2), Mitohell (§), McMilla Ertor — ‘g’""& ‘'we-bass hits — Mitche) Picinieh, Hofmann. Three-base hits—Gebrig, MoMillan. Bacrifices—Shawkey, Gebrig, Mc- Murray, Plcinich, Double plays—Me- Millan to Mitchell to Burns (2), Ward to Soot! to Gehrig. Left on bases—New York, 11 ton Bases on balls—Off Shawkey, Pipy 3; [} Shawk y, 8 in'14 as, 2 in @ innings. Wild pitohes—Shawkey, pivgras. Loting picher—Pipgras, ~Umpires— e . Rowland, Connoll; d Dis . Time of game—3 hours and 33 minutes. T TYGER ROOKIE PUTS QUIETUS ON INDIANS DETROIT, Mich., September 29.—Ear] Whitehlll, a_recruit pitcher, formerly of the Birmingham club of th League, held the Cleveland Indlans to two hits today and won his game for Detroit, 3 to 0. in the first inning when Dauss walked Jamieson. He reth the slde and pitched well thereafter, Speaker and Uhle being the only Cléveland players to get @ hit off his delivery. Detroit. AB.H. 0.4 Blue,1b. 201 Tava Manush,if. v ot ° © %l cvononowmmosons o BOMmmBOOON cornLRNINO ®o Rl comunSronmnnon) ‘Runs—Heilmann (9), O'Neill, Jones, Manush, —Jones, Uhle. Sacrifice: o1 hill,” Biue, Ertorsm Double. piaye~ Prait, Bi a Blue; Heiimann &ad Rigney: Joges ind, 4; Blue. Teft on bases—Olevela s—Off Dauss, 1: off Uhls, Base on ball 2. “Struck out—By Whitenit, ' Dauss, none in ne on base; off Whitehill, Hit by pitoher—: ‘Phll.“cdvblll—ol "# L. —Whitenill, brand and ‘Owess. " Time of and 5 minuts PHILS ANNEX THEIR LAST HOME CONTEST PHILADELPHIA, Pa., —The Phillies home ap) cid tor to &, White. Y an £l ind 2 in 9 in- Whitehill (Jamie- Winning pitcher . Holmes, ‘Hild September 29. sy ce}e::—mnd their last eatance of the season and in- entally Cy Willlams® day with a vie Ty over the Hoston Braves today, 4 o 4 o L cocoNLNOmEREHE P L o L cooorMBNEMNOe cuneBBEaC Totals.. 371524 ® Totals.. 31 10 37 10 “Batted for Genewich in 7th inning. Ran for Melnnis in Oth inning. © Boston 00020000 Philadelphia.. 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 6 o3 Runs—Southworth, MclInnis, Les (2), @, o ilson. | Twecbane bt B worth (2), Boeckel, Holke. ~Throe-base Bisr Lee. Bacrifices—Wilson, Ford. Double plays— Motz to Parkinson to Holke; Woehrs to Park. inson to Holke. Left on bases—Boston, | Philadeiphia, 5. Base on balle—OF Genewic 1: off Betts, 2. _Struck out—By Genewich, 2. Hits—Of Gonewioh. 10 in 7 #3; of Bachelder, nons In 1 inning piteherGenewich. . Umpires—Messr. « ormick. Time nd 43 minutes. i hour holes. The event ends November 30. Golfers at Columbia recently have been handicapped on the basis of scores made this summer, ‘with the average of the five best. C. J. Dun- phy, Guy M. Standifer, M. B. Stevin- son, Albert R. MacKenzie and Roland R, MacKenzie all are handicapped at four, while Ben R. Hart and George P. James have handicaps of five. The handicaps range up to twenty-four and will be used in assigning entrants in the club championship event. ning, and should be sent to the Ban- nockburn tournament . committee, apartment 103, 1801 K street, In the tap room Country Club is a sign which reads, “If business interferes with pleasure, glve up business.” And that is what | may be done during October, for the month i8 crammed full of golf hereabouts, and if a player is to fol- low the rounds of the different events he might as well give up business. Next week comes the District cham- plonship at seventy-two' holes medal play for the title now held by. Chris J. Dunphy. Coincident with the Dis- trict event will be played the cham- plonship of the Che Chase Club, now held by Samuel Dalzell. Chevy Chase entrants in the District cham- r‘l&n.hlp will compete for the club . The following week Columbia Country Club golfers will compete for the club chur!?lonahlp now held by Albert R. MacKenzie. The quali~ fying round will be held October 15, with four flights of olght to qualify, Semi-finals ‘and final will be played Wednesday, October 17. To the win- ner of the championship will go a replica of the McLean trophy. The second flight winner given the J. F. Baines trophy, while the third flight winner will receive the J. F. Shoe- maker award. The fourth flight win- ner will get the H. T. Shannon trophy. i members are in the middle of the Hnflar mugmwn. Miller B. 14 under aven 7". t:'u-'lml:l B8. “He has seven 3s on .the first mine yet.” described the match on Friday after- noon in which he and Eynon were de- feated by Clark Griffith, rreuldem of the Washington base ball club, and Outfielder S8am Rice. But Cy didn’t mean it literally, of course. What he meant was that Eynon was off his game that afternoon. The Eynon- Cummings combination was beaten on the last green, Griffith and Rice play- ing steady golf to win. Five greens at the Washington Golt and Country Club, built last spring, have been scraped and reseeded with bent. Crab grass grew into the greens in some unknown manner and totally destroyed the bent with which they were originally planted. It is the hope that the greens planted this fall will be devoid of crab grass next year. The greens so treated are the second, third, ninth, fourteenth and eighteenth. John H. Davidson, the youthful club champlon of the Washington Golf and ‘ountry Club, is progressing well in his defense of his championship. He has won two match play rounds. G. ¥P. Lynde and W. R. McCallum meet in a match next week that may settle the question of the man who is to meet Davidson in-the semi-final. A postponed mateh in the interclub series between the Washington Golf and Country Club and the Indian Spring Club wiil be played at Indian Spring October 14 by agreement be- tween the. captains of the two teams. The match was postponed because it came a few days after the death of President Harding. ‘ashington will glwevy Chase at Washington next us 3 n Btruck out— | he Southern | ball was the work afleld of Jak Whitehill took up the pitching burden | 'THREE MACKIAN BOXMEN HAVE EDGE ON ZAHINSER; PROTHRO SHINES IN FIELD BY DENMAN THOMPSON. IR division aspirations of the Nationals received a wallop on the F beezer yesterday in the form of a 2-0 coat of kalsomine from the so-called lowly Mackmen. Although they are nestling but one rung removed from the basement on the American League championship ladder the Athletics have consistently thumped the Bushmen since the start of the campaign now fading in‘o history and they were running true to their 1923 form in yesterday's engagement at the Clark Griffith stadium. If the men of Mack had only the Nationals to contend with a cham- pionship banner for Shibe Park would be in order right now, for of the eighteen tilts between them thus far the A’s have accounted for exactly a dozen. With the Browns again successful in Chicago the Griffmen now are three full games removed from the select upper bracket of the circuit. NO PUNCH HERE Philadelphia‘e victory yesterday was| a trjbute to the efficacy of C. McGilli- cuddy's justly famons trisnguiar pitching system. Connte is not blessed with a wealth of filngers who can toll through a regulation contest with any reasonable certainty of suc cess, but he proceeds on the théory that all his first-string men should hold thelr own over the three-in- ning route, and the strategy proved highly effective vesterday, with Bob Hasty, Kd Rommel and Bryan Harris &plitting the chorus between them. Zaknlser Does Hin Part, Opposad to this trio was Paul Ver- non Zahniser. The acquisitiin from Memphis gave another of the consist- ently good exhibitions he has flashed «ineo belng elevated to the position of regular on Bush’'s staff. hut with +5a flulls of his mates stymied by the triple-distilled brand of finging pre- sented by the opposition Z toiling In a hopelesg c: cked for a safety In every inning {6ave the third, but in no frame was {mote than one bingle obtained oft his elivery. A double following one of the quar- tet of passes issued by Paul accounted for the first and only earned run in Iround 8, while another two-ply swat in the final ultimately becams o tally when Joe Judge bobbed up with a bum chuck The Griffs got one or more athletes on the runways in all but two frames, Four different Bushmen reached the far corner only to perish for lack of a timely bing) Prothro un Agile Flelder, A bright ¥pot for the few more than 2,000 dyed-in-the-woole whe ) hand after a two-day fast from base & E ] ] ccssaromeoit s ~ocoocecemoos! cccom~oonmmE o B8 cnemsiiin " mumvssnuscel 8 munmsnsnnces connahooms, Zabniser, p. Gharrityd Totals. " #Batted for Rom: oncosnnccmod i noonosscoowad coscoscocao® | Philadsiphta. 00000001 12 Washington.. ..’ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0—0 pedodase, hite—vis ,4; off truck _out—By B. Harris, 3. off Rom: | 8t 1, 1 in 8 innings:'off B. Ha |#is," 1 in 3 innings. Wild pitch—Zahniser. | Passed ball—Brug wllllll’. | Harris. Umpiros—sessrs, Nal | Time of game—I hour and 80 minies, 0 |and_in the following frame safeties by Peck and Goslin went for naught lwhen Rice again failed to come | through, D. S. The Southern Asso- graduate gave a fine de- ensive exhibition at the hot station, veral difficult chanoes being listed |among the seven he handled clean With Hasty on the rubber for the | but on the attacking end of the busi- | : A's in the third, Stan Harris got| | ness Jacobus looked not &0 good. He |y lone single. Long Bob retired the | bounced a fat rollér to Dykes on his| | Bushmen in order in the fourth and | first appearance, against Hasty, and ‘although he issued passes to Rice and |then was victimized on strikes by |judge in the fifth, which, together | both Rommel and Harris before giv-|irith n pussed ball, put them on third | {ing way to a pinch hitter. i | rothro, and second, he got out of the hole | Prothro showed a mental lapse it | Spbr Rane” and ‘B Hoaris bt oo the second inning in swinging to A vided infleld deathe. tag Welch at third with a heave from | Bryan THarris was on the rubber Zahniser when he had merely to 8tep|for the A's when the Griffs came to jon the sack 1o effect a force play, ibat in the seventh, and outside of | ana he displays lack of polish in Tun- | franking Leibold, Who was fAagged jung back lo gecond allens trapped siealing. got through the frame un- etween bases, but on the whole made | o ; {n_(n\'nrlbll\ impression as w flelde I"“{"fi:‘lfdfick it 6f ‘the way i the I coming. forward tor Eow ones ayy |qhth Harris appeared to bo in wrave lined the ball across the diamond 11 a bullet. {danger when Gosiin mauled a mighty ke |wallop to center for three bases, but ihe was trapped when Rice bounded ey, Two-base hits | ' to pari of Zahniser pounced on | Welch at thira with a fily 1 McGowan's roller to Peck resulted in Time of game—g Hours | \was given ‘ A's Threaten in Second, Resorting to the bunting game, the | A’s_made menacing motions in the | 1#econd inning. Welch walked for a| !starter and moved up on Galloway's | [clever tap that Judge barely was able | Dykes bunted, too, but | it and flagged ' p to Prothro. reach. | Dykes being forced at the midw Jimmy interfered with Harris' at tempt for a double play. Judge re covered the short throw, but not in time to prevent McGowan from at- taining second. Galloway set safl for the plate when Judge tossed to Peck, but the latter's heave to Ruel nipped } Chick at the platter. 1. Mackmen got as far as second base lin the fourth and fifth innings, fol- ilowing singles by Hale and McGowan, Irefipacllv»l)' only to be left, and the { same fate befell Hale in the sixth when he got his third straight hit and moved up on a wild pitch. Hauser then whiffed and after Welch drew & walk Galloway bounded to Prothro. Again in the seventh MoGowan reached the keystone sack, getting a single to right after Dykes died and advancing when Peck fumbled Mat- thews' offering after Pinch Hitter French had fanned. He was left when Peck took care of Bruggy's offering. It was not until the eighth that the platter was dented and then Welch supplied the motivating power. *Hale had been set down when Hauser free transportation and aced aroufid the remainder of the circuit as Welch walloped to right center for two bases. ® W itrapped between sacks on Galloway's | roller to Prothro and the latter ended it by tossing out Dykes. Griffs Weak in Pinches. The Nationals several times were in a position to tally at the expense of the trio of flingers Mack used, but on each occasion the needed punch was lacking. | Leibold reached third base in the opening round on his Texas leaguer, | Peck’s “sacrifice and :Godlin's _death, | only to be left by Rice. In the| second Ruel's single was unsupported | o Galloway, Bruggy taking Chick’s heave and_ferrying to Hale for the put-out Rice took second on the play and Judge loomed so dangerous he was purposely “walked. Ruel also | drew a pass of unintentional arlety. Then the threat ended when tan Harris rolled weakly to the box. ON THE SIDE LINES Three o'clock is the time set for the start of today's game with the Mack- men, instead of 3:30. Owing to the shortness of the days now all remain- ing games here will get under way at the advanced hour. | hant Faggard Frederick Mar- bl-or‘r‘)‘. fate of Little Rock, probably | will get the nomination for mound duty today unless Walter Johnson is | picked. Both are ready, and which- ever Ildles this afternoon may be sent against the A’s tomorrow, when a| eries will be opened at Shibe Park. Lefty Heimach is duo to take he slab for Philadelphia today. If he is used' young Carr Smith, the outflielder from | Raleigh, will supplant Nemo Leibold in center for the Griffs, Prothro’s first chance in a Washing- ton uniform was a liner from the bat ! of Matthews, which Jake aviated for and clutched in approved style. Hale beat out a slow roller to Prothro in the opener and stole sec- ond, but was left when Zahnlser vic- timized Hauser on strikes. Paul | whiffed five all told. Billy Evans' alertness gave Hale credit for a safety in the fourth. Peck's splendid heave of a slow roller beat the runner, but Judge was de- tected in the old trick of pulling his foot oft the bag before the ball actually was caught. Walter French got no chance to display his reputed marvelous speed | of foot when he batted for Rommel in the seventh. The former West Poigt gridiron star whiffed just like a big leaguer. SANDLOT BASE BALL DUE i TO THRILL BEFORE DYING S lots of action, while one tomor: ANDLOT base ball is due to terminate this week, but not without a thrilling finish. Two games are booked today that should uncover Tow gives promise of a sizzling con- test. In each engagement a title is at stake. In addition to these {rays, ithe Handley tossers today, at 2:30 o’clock, on the former’s diamond, for the title in the Suburban League. | Nace McCormick, or Jack Brinkman, iprobably will get the mound assign- iment for Petworth. is booked to hurl for Handley. 1 Virginia and Maryland fans are buzzing over the game between thelr jchampion clubs today. Arlington, winner of the Arlington county series will hoop up_with Mount Rainler, I champions of Prince Georges county, lin the first of a three-game series at 2:45 o'clock, on the latter’s diamond. Some clever hurling should result. , Ptell of A'"":,"n ;lll ln;n ”t thn imound opponent, Hoftman, one of the bxel‘t lllls ot slab artists in this vi- cinity. oys just old enough to play ball will have their innings tomorrow. The Elks will clash with ' the Co- rinthlans, at 4 o'clock, on the Union | station plaza, for the insect title of the District. ' There is every indica- tion that this fray should produce a hot battle, for both nines are bitter foes, and carry some first-class per formers. the Mohawk-Knick- erbocker clash, scheduled to get un- der way at 2 o'clock, at Unfon Park. Manager Vic Guazza had at first de- cided to use Walter Bell to hurl for the Mohawks, but at the last mintue he efi‘ nounced wl'i'l‘“ %l::y Kelly or negardner pet Ross Fisber probably will pitch for the Then there | Constste: d ILM ‘well Spring numerous teams will take the diamond in farewell battles. “And Eddie Eynon 8 w ¥ e e B w.hy"&,‘ L’!",En‘:;,f,"‘;: Petworth Athletic Club will oppose | lively doin, Tuesday. It will hook up in a twin bill, meeting the Elliotts in the opener, at 2 o'clock, at the American League Park. This will be followed by a series of field events. Earl Mattingly The nightcap will be played agalnst | the Shamrock Juniors. Members of the Liberty outfit will hold a meeting tomorrow night, at 8 p'clock, at 411 R street. Benning Athletie Club will close its base ball season today with a double- header, meeting the Rosslyn Athlstic Club and the Burk team of Virginia. Milan Athletic Club will play its last game of the season today against the Clinton Athletic Club of Mary. land. Manager Jack Harrington wants all Milan players to report, at 15th and C streets northeast, at 1 ©o'clock. Slamming “the of Artie for _sixteen stinging bingles, the Griffith_Insects turned in a victory of 14 to 3 over the C Street Midgets yesterday. Ashby, winning mounds- man, vielded six blows. He connect- ed for two homers, while Skinner got one. 'Saffell and Ferguson also batted well. slugging by the Silver Spring Tigers gave them the punch needed to” down Rockville. 7 o 5. ye lay on the s groun b ‘Barber and ‘Lemeric led’ the attack at_the stiok winners, Buflin ‘while batted 1 for will o | Frib to G {BROWNS AND CHISOX LUQUE ENDS SEASON BY TRIMMING CARDS| CINCINNATI, September 20.—Luque, the Red's Cuban star, closed his cam- paign In style by holding the Cardinals to four scattered singles and winning his last championship game of 1923, 11 to 1. He will leave for his homs in Ha- vana tomorrow. H.0.A. _Ofnotn, ] ] - P ] Toney,p. Btuart,p. Bherdel®, North,p. Douthitt, Totals.. 31 °Batted for Bteuas tBatted for N Bt. Louls Oinolnnati RN - cocoounNoB®me~ Totals.. 88 17 97 11 eventh inning. ik nniog. 00000 0—~1 . 1024310 2=11 une—8mith, Burns (4), Kimmiok (), oan, Pinelll, Fowler (2), Luaus. Errors— th, ' Toporoer, Roush. ' Two-base hite— urns, Duncen, Three-base Lits—Burns, Pi- elli, ' Fowler, Btelen bases—Burns, 'Dau- bert. Kimmick (8), Smith (2). Ssorifioss— | Kimmick, Luas Double plays—Fowler to | Danvert: Fowler to Kimmick; Teperosr to oll_to Bottomley. Left on t, Louls, Ofncinnati, 8. on balls—Off Luque, of Toney, 2/ off Stuart, 1, Btruck oute Luque, 4. ' Hits—O; nings; off 3 Horth, 8 {n 8 innings. MoOurdy. Losing pitcher—To Mosars, Moran, Hart and Wi game—1 hour and 37 minutes, DODGERS WIN FROM | GIANTS BY 5 TO 1| NEW YORK, September 29.—Brook- lyn1 defeated the New York Gfants, & to 1. Walter Huntzinger, former university star, sterted on the mound for the Glants and yielded only three hits and ona run in five innings. H - o3 flson. Time of B, of, REhy PIPP - «l coononeonossce: atted for Groh in the 9th. Brook! . 0000102 1 15 New York 90100000 0—1 Rune—Fournier (2), T, Grifith, Hargrave Olson, Ke Errors—Johnston.’ Hargraves, Wilson, ‘Kelly, Gaston. Home run—Fournier. Sycrifie—High, | “Deuble plays—Bancraft, Jackeon and Kelly (2); Ruetrer, Olson and Fournier. _Left bases—New York, 2. rooklyn, 7. Bases on balli—Off Barnes, 2 off Rusther, 1. Btruck out—By Rusther, 2. Hits—Of Huntzinger, 8 in 5 innings; off rm. lLin‘ 2 hr:{: ff Boott, 2 Eings. ' Losing Messrs, MoCormigk, Time of game—1 hour 18 minutes. CUBS’ TENTH-INNING RALLY NETS VICTORY CHICAGO, September three runs in the tenth inning after Pittsburgh had taken the lead in the first half of the inning, the Cubs won today, 5 tg 4. AB.H.0.A. _ Chicago, 51478 Btataof. 0 Adams,ss. . 5 Grant'm 85, 0 Grimes.Ib.. 0 Friberg.3b, L H.0.A . AB. 432 Srel 5 4 4 H 3 3 4 4 Meadows.p. %l oomcosonrras 8l comonmnnn! Totals.. 36 7°20 22 Totals.. Pittsburgh .. 0 0 0 0 0 0 O Chicago . 0100010 *Two out when winni; run scored. tBatted for ‘hlllflfll!l.ll t;. 10th. Ran for Harnott in the 10th. Vogel ran for O'Farrell in the 10th. Runs—Rawli; Grimm (2), Stats, Adams. Grimes, Callaghan, Ale E!‘r:!l—’: "Hulh‘ lch:l‘dtlvl lllglh:, zrt nett. - Twobase hitemBawiings. Bta run—Grimm. BStolen hu—o?. o === on &l omwonrmsnonn, oo 5l orooormmnmn: )i erg (2), Rawli rimm: ‘Grimm, Struck out 1. Umpires nd Quigley. of game, 1 hour 29 minutes. i DIVIDE DOUBLE BILL ST. LOUIS, September 2 divided a twin bill with Chicago today, taking the first game, 6 to 5, and losing the second by the same score. FIRST GAME. St. Louis Chi. A Arch'n,cf.. Hooper.rf. Collins,gb, Sheely. 1b, Barrett,If, cooooMmmunE B s acatnuns B > » Blssehiununst | PSPPI wsl ok |owonrwonass 8| SeRherniian Bl sencennann® Bluvwavswane - kenship in 9th inning, 0103010 0 e L0 T uns—, . H Exeoll, Tobin. " Williams 3}, MoMina por ereld. ra—Bagett, Molellan, MoManus, Jacobson, Schleibner, 'Two-base hits—Jacod, son. Barrett, Collins. ~Home runs—Iooper, ‘Williams. 3 nus. il . Doul Diaye—Sheols to. MeOloliun to. Shosiy; Jotie son to McManus to Bohleibner. - feft on Duses—Ohioago, 7 8t. Touls, 7. Base on Bl -Of_Blanksnabip.. 1w 1 Struck out—By Xolp, 1; by Wright, 3. ° Hiter: Wright, 2 In | Off Kolp. 8 in 43. o Baik — Blangonshiy 0 ning — Blankenship, s pitcher— Wright, Umpires—Mesers, Orm 5 :4;":& Time of gamei Newr ahd 36 e SECOND GAME. h — Blankenship, > 1 " 9. i Hooper, { Colilna. Sheely. 1b. | Barrett,1f. Flossmoor Event Proves Heavy Rough Bordering Wide, Open Fairways Does Not Stop Long Hitters—Severe Trapping Needed. BY W. R, McCALLUM. i) HE twenty-eighth renewal of the amateur golf championship of the United States—won by Maxwell R. Marston at Flossmoor a wecl ago yesterday—brought out several pertinent facts relating to the modern trend of the game, among them these: The modern ball—a new and improved ball, which most of the co testants used and which is not yet on the market—has so reduced the length of caurses as to make the old par standards more or less a joke. value of puttin; the rest of the game. Wide, open fairwa after several afmazingly low scores. Shallow traps and bunkers mean nothing adays, as they did years ago, when the ball w And again it was proved, as it has been proved many times in the past, that the man with the punch—the ys, bordered by heavy days of play, stop the modern By the .same token, the modern ball again has over emphasized the g in the game of golf, already overbalancing in importanc rough, do not, particularly long hitters from makir in fast competition now s not so lively. Is required, a distance of 461 yards. President Byers of the = United States Goif Assoclation, in presenting 3! liancy of an opponent untll he fades, | example. | counted, . For Ouimet, lentirely and was beated on the six- | |a joke out of Flossmoor, wet though ability to hang on against the bril- | the prizes to the finallsts and the two semi-finalists, directed dttention to the distances obtained with the new ball. He said the association would have to take some action more com- pletely to standardize the ball, and asked the co-operation of golfers to pass up the longer ball in favor of a ball which would not go 8o Courses were _tremendously &h ened, he sald, by the distance of th. new ba But on the putting green the ne ball didn’t go in the hole bett than the old ball. And when it considered that a two-foot putt costs as much as a 300-yard drive, the overemphasis placed on putting = readily seen. 1t may mean that the green can bs reached in fewer strokes, but once on the green, the relation remains the same. President Thompson of the Floss moor Club, before the tournament gave specific orders that the rougl should be allowed to grow high. Ho didn’t went any man playing a spoon or brassie from the high grass, he~ sald. Yet before the week was over they were doing that very thing and getting 200 yards and more from the g7ass, which' ho declared was unplay- able. Severe Trapping Is Solution. The solution appears to be in more trapping around the greens at all the holes; not shallow traps, out of whicl or, with the match all square, to come through with several birdies in a Tow—is & winner. Max _Marston proved this as he has never proved it before and probably as It mever has been so definitely proved in any champlonship. Take the Jones-Marston match, for Bobby was flawless for the first sixteen holes In the morning. where he had two 43 left for a 68. He got careless on the seventsenth and eighteenth, ehding with two 5s against Mefston's pair of birdle 43, and turned 2 up. 1In the afternoon it was Marston, after hanging on grimly to the great golf of the open cham- pion, who came through with a burst of brilllance to win. Almost parallel ing his performance againat Jerry Trav- ers at Garden City, ten years ago, where he had five under-par holes in & row Marston played the sixth, seventh and elghth at Flossmoor In 3, 2, 3—all birdies—and from 1 down became 2 up. ~And Bob Jones could not cope with this streak of golf. Brilliant as he is, and particularly under fire. he couldn’t pull down Marston's lead. The punch had won, Again, at that astounding turn of the Ouimet-Marston match the puncit With the match all square. Marstor's ball was fifty feet from the hole, with Ouimet’s ball iying two and a half feet from the pin. e oretElow trags e run, but real, man- P Douih Ou Mas te W Cov ths [ SN teah, Which. il pessiies the e RS N T i, Wl Sleyer 16 T getn I Shem Wit i wan the Mtarning potnt 1 fhe oot result that greater accuracy and mot - 80 much long hitting will be called test, and again the punch went for. At the fourteenth, seventh. [Aroushy Some will say REwad IHORY | s1ein ‘and alentatnth (kb laysrs to get the putt down. Undoubtedly (#IXth and eighteenth the players he was, for fifty-foot putts are not|iSed putter's out of the shallow o o | e bt Cher SReL {316 2 at the eiahisenth from = trap: st he aeveIhe DRIE & |y nd countless Sho(s were pIyAl fron chance after a careful survey of the |$nd countless shots were played fran lige 8d In doing =0 woh the matoh | 4 “shailow trap in whioh the sand 14 affied by the turn o fate which lost him the hole when he [Packed hard by rain means nothing y to a first-class goife seemed sure to win it, lost his game; ' QritelAss EOler, o ved th unless the ball is more highly stand- ardized as to distance the day of the short but accurate driver is past. For the long hitter is too powerful out of the rough, too good out of traps, while Ouimet got a half agaimst Mar- ston at the fourteenth from a_trap. to worry about trouble, for he alway has the shorter man playing the odd Witness the quick exit of Chick Evans and W Fownes from the tournament—men who do not hit the ball 8o far as the Guliford, Sweetser, Marston type. Their a mean so much against tremen dous distances the others got, and they usually played the odd shot teenth. But the coming champlon had played three out of flve holes in under par to-erase the Boston master from the picture. And at the seventeenth, when he was 1 down to Jess Sweetser with 2 to go, he played a brassie shot to the green on a pat 5 hole that gave him a putt for a 3. He was fortunate enough to lay Sweetser a stymie, but he had the punch Jjust the same, and Sweetser might not have holed the 12-foot putt that would have given him a half. Mars- ton didn’t play a phenomenal shot to the second extra hole—the thir! eighth of the match—to win. He! played a good iron shot. ending with- | in fifteen feet of the pin, but it was | not spectacular. Yet heé was there in the pinch, for Sweetser pushed his _spoon shot far to the right. The new champion had the punch, while the old champion didn” New Ball Cut Distance. The new ball made more or less of For Monday and Tuesday Only Just received a half car- load of standard make tiles to be sold at Ridiculous Prices Every Tire a First 1923 Manufacture 30:3F S $10%5 30x3% it was. The.long hitters were get- ting on all the six heles which are classed as par § holes in two shots. And Guilford reached the first green three times with a midiron second. The distance is 512 yards. He and Sweetser had putts for 3s in thelr match, both playing an iron on the second shot. And Guilford easily reached the elghteenth—430 vards— with an iron and holed a putt for a 8. Few of them reached the third— 550 yards—in two shots, but it is of record that Guilford hit a booming brassie that found the edge of the reen. The fifth—447 yards—was a rive and mashie hole, while the stars played midiron seconds to the tenth, 483 vards, and spoon seconds to the seventeenth, where a oarrying ball GRIFFS’ STICKWORK G. e 140 ‘108 187 Firestone Cord Sebring Cora Larger Sizes at Proportionate Low Prices Cord Tire Sales Co. 14th and V Sts. N.W. SnoobBBu-BE coorobnmn Golfers and Beginners WHILE THEY LAST Kamm, 8b, McC'l'n, 38, Schalk,c. .o-......... W TR B Rl ecocurunbarcs ains s aste S TR e e conmonscome” 81 sl Runs—Arehdeacon, Collins, Sheely, McClel- lan, Elsh, Essell, Tebin, Williams (), Ser- ereid. _ Errors—Archdescin. (3), Hooper, ol Subion, Bokalk, Eaaeity Heme soer il o o Tobin,” Stolen bases—Barrett, R T T HoOlelian to Eamm to MeClellen oo Faveidor, 3 Favetidor'3; off Root, 1. Robertson, 2 by Vangilder, ts—Off Robertson, 11 in 8 innings; off Leverette. 1 in 1 inning: off 7 in 6 innings; off Root, 2 in 3 Wi Robertson, Los- Umpires—Messrs. Mori. " Time of game—1 hour and 0% Off " ON ALL off Clubs and Bags Largest stock and assortment of clubs and makes of clubs in the city. East and West Potomac Park Golf Courses